39 results about "System methodology" patented technology

A digital image processing device is provided that improves operability when performing a scaling up/scaling down operation. Based on a single trajectory when a touch position on a display screen of a display portion moves, a center point and ratio used to scale up or scale down the image are set. In this way, for example, it is possible to scale up and scale down the image by an easy touch operation of simply tracing the trajectory with a single finger (namely, by a single-touch operation).

A display device includes a touch screen having a display surface that displays images. The touch screen outputs a signal indicating a position on the display surface that has been touched. The display device also includes a first sensor that senses a position of an object relative to the display surface. The display device further includes a controller that generates a virtual keyboard image including a plurality of virtual keys for display on the display surface. The controller generates a left side portion and a right side portion of the virtual keyboard image, and chooses, as a display portion, one of the left side portion and the right side portion of the virtual keyboard image corresponding to the position of the object relative to the display surface as sensed by the first sensor. The controller controls the touch screen to display the display portion on the display surface.

A rideshare system and associated methodology for recommending rideshares to prospective riders and drivers uses itineraries and personal affinities to make the recommendations. The rideshare system computes a cost value by comparing the search criteria submitted by a user to stored user profiles. Results of the comparison are displayed in order of highest match to lowest match, according to the cost values computed. Further, the system also adaptively updates the stored profiles according to rideshare history. Lastly, the system includes a real-time user localization unit to locate prospective riders and drivers in real time, making just in time or unplanned rideshares possible.

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an effective way to reduce energy and power consumption in microprocessor units. Current implementations of DVFS suffer from inaccurate modeling of power requirements and usage, and from inaccurate characterization of the relationships between the applicable variables. A system and method is proposed that adjusts CPU frequency and voltage based on run-time calculations of the workload processing time, as well as a calculation of performance sensitivity with respect to CPU frequency. The system and method are processor independent, and can be applied to either an entire system as a unit, or individually to each process running on a system.

A system and methodology is provided herein employing automated search, filtering, and automated document layout technologies conjoined with various delivery options to provide an end-to-end information push service. As such, it enables complete personalized custom report documents to be automatically created, thereby reducing cost in existing personalized document workflows, as well as enabling documents to be created that increase consumer satisfaction and knowledge worker productivity. The user satisfaction and productivity is enhanced by tracking the user's actual usage of the report document and feeding that usage back into the user profile. One example deployment manifestation of the teachings provided yields a personal newspaper embodiment which monitors the user usage and provides feedback of that usage to the system methodology thus dynamically altering any subsequently delivered custom report documents.

A system makes it possible to use services offered by a plurality of servers different from one another is realized with the use of a common API. The system includes a plurality of service-offering servers, a client that uses services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers, and an interchange server that performs intermediary processing when the client uses a service. The client performs communication with the interchange server while using a common API when using any service among a plurality of services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers. The interchange server uses a unique API, which is unique to the service-offering server that offers the service selected by the client, to execute a processing sequence that is unique to the service-offering server. The client may use any service among services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers with the use of a common API without any need to use a unique API, which is unique to each of the plurality of service-offering servers.

A system, apparatus and associated methodology for interactively monitoring and reducing driver drowsiness use a plurality of drowsiness detection exercises to precisely detect driver drowsiness levels, and a plurality of drowsiness reduction exercises to reduce the detected drowsiness level. A plurality of sensors detect driver motion and position in order to measure driver performance of the drowsiness detection exercises and/or the drowsiness reduction exercises. The driver performance is used to compute a drowsiness level, which is then compared to a threshold. The system provides the driver with drowsiness reduction exercises at predetermined intervals when the drowsiness level is above the threshold.

Disclosed is an Radio Frequency (RF) receiving system methodology, utilizing an Luneberg Lens having a spherically shaped outer surface and a semi-spherical shaped focal surface composed of near-equally spaced frequency-independent antenna elements disposed uniformly to cover the semi-spherical focal surface of the Luneberg Lens; and radio frequency (RF) power splitters and combiners for combining the RF energy received by the antenna elements; forming rows and columns; thereby reducing the number of required RF receiver channels for subsequent processing, where the maximum row/column and differential amplitude comparison is used for deriving volumetric direction finding (DF) of intercepted signals; as part of a robust signal detection and direction-finding (DF) system; for detecting and processing a plurality of signals emanating from surface and airborne platforms within the hemisphere, where each surface and airborne platform include transmitters for transmitting navigation, communication and radar signals.

An electronic, handheld transaction register device for indicating an account balance of a bank, or other, account that permits two or more parties to make transactions in the account independent of one another. When a transaction is made, a synchronization signal is generated and sent to the electronic, handheld transaction register device. Responsive to detection of the synchronization signal, a local transaction register is adjusted to reconcile the account. A display is generated, providing a user of the device with an up-to-date and accurate indication of the account balance.

When various content is broadcasted via the Internet, a user is free from restriction of time and space and user's desired content is provided. The content is controllably recorded and read to a random-access recording medium via a network, and at least the content read from the recording medium is transmitted to the network.

A method of invoking a set of services corresponding to a plug-in application installed on an image handling device. The method including launching a host application of the image handling device, accessing a configuration file of the image handling device, the configuration file including an identification of at least one plug-in and a corresponding set of services, launching the identified at least one plug-in, the plug-in providing the corresponding set of service in an integral fashion to the host application and presenting a unified graphical interface including host application services and the corresponding set of service of the plug-in.

A video analytics system and associated methodology for performing low-level video analytics processing divides the processing into three phases in order to efficiently use SIMD instructions of many modern data processors. In the first phase, pixels of interest are gathered using a predetermined mask and placed into a pixel matrix. In the second phase, video analytics processing is performed on the pixel matrix, and in the third phase the pixels are scattered using the same predetermined mask. This allows many pixels to be processed simultaneously, increasing overall performance. A DMA unit may also be used to offload the processor during the gathering and scattering of pixels, further increasing performance. A network camera integrates the video analytics system to reduce network traffic.