71 results about "Tangible computing" patented technology

System and method in tangible computer-readable media are disclosed for facilitating community interaction with a playlist. A host system communicates with a plurality of portable devices to transmit information about the items in the playlist. Users of the portable device queue additional selections or vote on media items in the playlist. Based on user voting the playlist is rearranged to accommodate the preferences of the community. Both registered and guest users participate in managing the playlist. Such a system and method can be particularly useful in a variety of social gathering situations.

Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods to enhance and more effectively manage media content are provided. An embodiment of a program product stored in a tangible computer medium, for example, can include instructions to perform the operation of providing an industry generic framework to thereby provide a content management program product adapted to define metadata related to media content and to manage content relationships. The instructions can also include those to perform the operations of providing a code generator adapted to generate program code for the industry generic framework, and providing a plurality of media industry specific core reusable modules adapted to provide a plurality of media industry specific functions to enhance digital file management and allow a plurality of media content management services to be performed.

A new robust human authentication system, device, and instructions, embeddable in a physical and tangible computer readable medium, for determining if at least one test image obtained using an imaging device matches at least one training image in an enrollment database, are disclosed. This invention applies the concepts of appearance (PCA or PCA+LDA) and holistic anthropometrics that include head, face, neck, and shoulder linear and non-linear geometric measurements. The appearance (“eigen”) coefficients and holistic anthropometric measurements selected may be used as feature vectors. A boosting algorithm ranks features as “weak learners” and combines their outputs for “strong” recognition.

A system, method, and tangible computing apparatus is disclosed for the detection of anomalies in an integrated data network. Said system, method and apparatus comprises the creation and construction of a mathematical model that utilizes multi-dimensional mutual information to detect interactions and interrelationships between pairs of data streams and among pluralities of data streams. Real-time analysis of the operations of an integrated data network is enhanced and expedited via use of locality sensitive hashing that relies on density determinations of clusters of data.

A tangible computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable program instructions that generate a user interface for displaying workflow information associated with a tissue specimen in a pathology laboratory. The program instructions may be configured to perform a method including displaying a virtual laboratory component representing a physical pathology laboratory having one or more laboratory stations for processing the tissue specimen, wherein the tissue specimen is processed by the one or more laboratory stations according to a workflow, and displaying a specimen indicator that indicates a current specimen state based on a current relationship of the tissue specimen to the workflow. The method may further include enabling a first active component associated with the virtual laboratory component, wherein the first active component is configured to receive a user selection of a laboratory station and generating a supplemental view component of the selected laboratory station in response to the user selection, wherein the supplemental view provides supplemental information on processing by the selected laboratory station of the tissue specimen.

A system stores file system metadata in a manner that scales to a large number of entries per “capture,” where a capture is metadata of all of the files and their associated directories contained in a logical file system at a given time. The file system metadata is stored, in tangible computer readable media, in data structures that are optimized to the unique characteristics of file system metadata and, particularly, how it is desired to access and process file system metadata. Thus, the technical effect is that processing storing and processing of the file system metadata is highly optimized, such that time, storage and processing power to process the file system metadata is drastically reduced.

The present disclosure relates to system, method and apparatuses for identifying load volatility of a power customary and a tangible computer readable medium therefor. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the system comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer executable instructions. The at least one memory and the computer executable instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to determine boundary points for splitting a load curve of a power customer automatically, through performing density-based spatial clustering on data points of the load curve of the power customer; and detect tendency turning points of the load curve by means of the determined boundary points, so as to identify the load volatility of the power customer. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the boundary points for splitting the load curve may be determined automatically based on load data of each power customer instead of using a predetermined threshold and thus the load volatility of the load curve, which could provide a solution of self-adapted auto-identification for load volatility.

A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of facial emotion nulling of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene, comprising a single facial expressions and a background, to a subject on a display; (2) adjusting the facial expression on the scene; (3) receiving feedback from the subject via at least one input device; (4) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (5) modulating the adjusted facial expression relative to the accuracy of the quantitatively refined feedback; (6) transforming the modulated facial expression; (7) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (8) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. An apparatus for quantitative assessment of facial emotion nulling of a subject comprising a display device, an input device, a control device, and a tangible computer readable medium. In its simplest sense, a quantitative assessment profile of facial emotion nulling by psychophysical responses is generated on a tangible computer readable medium.

Programs for creating a set of behaviors for lip sync movements and nonverbal communication may include analyzing a character's speaking behavior through the use of acoustic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and rhetorical analyses of the utterance. For example, a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium may contain a program of instructions that cause a computer system running the program of instructions to: receive a text specifying words to be spoken by a virtual character; extract metaphoric elements, discourse elements, or both from the text; generate one or more mental state indicators based on the metaphoric elements, the discourse elements, or both; map each of the one or more mental state indicators to a behavior that the virtual character should display with nonverbal movements that convey the mental state indicators; and generate a set of instructions for the nonverbal movements based on the behaviors.

Systems, methods and non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage mediums encoded with processor readable instructions to scan files for malware are disclosed. An exemplary method includes writing, via a communication pathway, a first file to a storage medium that is utilized by the computer, requesting access to the first file so as to enable the first file to be scanned for malware, and delaying, when the first file resides on the storage medium, access to the first file while there is at least one I/O operation relative to the storage medium that has a higher priority level than a priority level of the request to access the first file. In addition, except to enable the first file to be scanned for malware, access to the first file is prevented until the first file has been scanned for malware.

A method is presented for partitioning a simulation model into a plurality of subdomains that may each be assigned to one of a plurality of processors. The method includes creating a representation of a topology graph of a simulation model in a tangible, computer readable medium. The topology graph includes a plurality of computational elements and a plurality of connections between those elements. Each of the plurality of connections is weighted to create a plurality of weights, and each of the plurality of weights is scaled. Optionally, the weights can be mapped to different interval of values. Based on the weights information the topology graph is partitioned into two or more subdomains, wherein a partition boundary follows a local topographical minimum in the topology graph. A subdomain is assigned to each of the plurality of processors.

Non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage media may contain a program of instructions that enhances the performance of a computing system running the program of instructions when segregating a set of data into subsets that each have at least one similar characteristic. The instructions may cause the computer system to perform operations comprising: receiving the set of data; applying an iterative clustering algorithm to the set of data that segregates the data into the subsets in iterative steps; during the iterative steps, injecting perturbations into the data that have an average magnitude that decreases during the iterative steps; and outputting information identifying the subsets.

A computer implemented method, a tangible computer storage medium, and a data processing system generate a non-real-time image snapshot in a virtual world. A backend rendering system receives a scene description from a virtual world server. The backend rendering system then retrieves a high fidelity graphics from a visual database. The visual database contains both the high fidelity graphics and a lightweight graphics. The lightweight graphics are utilized to render the virtual world at a virtual world client application. The backend rendering system then renders the non-real-time image snapshot, and processes the non-real-time image snapshot into the desired format. The non-real-time image snapshot can then be delivered to a client.

A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of verbal memory of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene to the subject on a display, the scene comprising a plurality of symbols and a background; (2) moving the plurality of symbols relative to the scene, the movement being tracked by the subject via at least one input device; (3) adjusting the saliency of the plurality of symbols relative to the tracked movement; (4) receiving feedback from the subject via said input device; (5) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (6) modulating the movement of the plurality of symbols relative to the accuracy of the quantitatively refined feedback; (7) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (8) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. An apparatus for quantitative assessment of verbal memory of a subject comprising a display device, an input device, a control device, and a tangible computer readable medium. In its simplest sense, a quantitative assessment profile of verbal memory by psychophysical responses is generated on a tangible computer readable medium.

A tangible computer readable medium of a vehicle includes object code referencing a plurality of variables, the object code for: identifying sets of possible target values based on air and exhaust setpoints for an engine; generating predicted parameters based on a model of the engine and the sets of possible target values, respectively; selecting one of the sets of possible target values based on the predicted parameters; setting target values based on the selected one of the sets of possible target values, respectively; and controlling opening of a throttle valve based on a first one of the target values. The tangible computer readable medium also includes calibration data stored separately and that includes predetermined values for the variables referenced in the object code, respectively. At least one processor executes the object code using the predetermined values to perform the identifying, the generating, the selecting, the setting, and the controlling.

Various embodiments provide solutions to assist in the classification of products in a procurement system. The tools provided by various embodiments include, without limitation, methods, systems, and/or software products. Merely by way of example, a method might comprise one or more procedures, any or all of which are executed by a computer system. Correspondingly, an embodiment might provide a computer system configured with instructions to perform one or more procedures in accordance with methods provided by various other embodiments. Similarly, a computer program might comprise a set of instructions that are executable by a computer system (and/or a processor therein) to perform such operations. In many cases, such software programs are encoded on physical and/or tangible computer readable media (such as, to name but a few examples, optical media, magnetic media, and/or the like).

A vehicle surroundings image display control device is provided with: a vehicle surroundings image acquisition device (110); an aerial view image creation device (115); a divided-saving device (120) saving in a memory area A (51a), an aerial image A that is farther from a vehicle, and saving in a memory area B (51b), an aerial image B that is closer to the vehicle; a shadow assessment device (125) that assesses whether there is a shadow on the aerial image B; vehicle movement quantity computation devices (135, 155); a first historical image configuration device (140) that if there is not a shadow on the aerial image B, so as to apply a current image, uses the aerial image B to update an out-of-photography-range aerial image C saved in a memory area C (52), and uses the aerial image A to update a historical aerial image B of the same range as the area B (51b); a second historical image configuration device (160) that if there is a shadow on the aerial image B, so as to apply the current image, uses the historical aerial image B to update the aerial image C, and uses the aerial image A to update the historical aerial image B; and display control devices (130, 150) that on an image display device (3), display the aerial images A-C and the historical aerial image B.