CODE FOR REAL-TIME STREAM PROCESSING

Issued Apr 17th, 2018

Patent US number 9946522

A computer-implemented method for generating code for real-time stream processing, where data is streamed in tuples, and where each tuple has a timestamp and a value. One or more processors receive source code. The source code includes: code to be applied in a sequential series to one or more tuples; a definition of a size of a sequence of tuples to be processed as a processing window; and a size of a sequence of earlier tuples that a current tuple depends upon as a dependence window. Processor(s) generate the code for real-time stream processing by: buffering received time sequence tuples in a buffer in accordance with the processing window and the dependence window; and converting the code to be sequentially applied to the one or more tuples into code for buffered tuples with a loop construct.

EMERGENCY DETECTION MECHANISM

Issued Jan 29th, 2018

Patent US number 9881487

An embodiment of the invention may include a method, a computer program product and a computer system for assessing interactions towards an electronic device. The embodiment may include a computing device that monitors a pattern of actions of a first user, where the first user is associated with a first electronic device. The embodiment may include a computing device that determines that at least one action from the first user indicates the first user is undergoing an aggressive act. The embodiment may include a computing device that responds to the aggressive act by: communicating results of the determination that the first pattern matches the data pattern to a second electronic device; and/or sending information detailing a command to activate a device component of one or both of the first electronic device and a third electronic device.

MANAGEMENT OF VEHICLE BRAKING

Issued Sep 18th, 2017

Patent US number 9764718

A method, and associated system and computer program product, for managing braking of a moving vehicle. A speed and deceleration of the moving vehicle are monitored. External and/or internal conditions relating to the moving vehicle and/or the vehicle's driver are detected. A hardware processor: calculates a braking distance for the moving vehicle for the detected external and/or internal conditions from the monitored speed and deceleration of the moving vehicle; determines a spacing distance between the moving vehicle and a second vehicle ahead of the moving vehicle; adds a cascading response distance to the calculated braking distance for a third vehicle ahead of the second vehicle; and determines that the calculated braking distance is greater than the determined spacing distance. An output is generated in response to the determination that the calculated braking distance is greater than the obtained spacing distance.

LIGHTING CONTROL FOR LOCATION FINDING

Issued Jul 24th, 2017

Patent US number 9715800

Lighting control for location finding is disclosed. According to embodiments, lighting control can include determining, using a group of location detectors, a first location of a computing device of a user, and obtaining, from the computing device, a target location for the user. Lighting control can include determining a path from the first location to the target location, the path determined at least based on a lighting system including a group of light emitting diode (LED) arrays, and indicating, using a first LED array of the group of LED arrays, a first portion of the path to the target location. The first portion of the path can be indicated by determining, for the plurality of LEDs of the first LED array, at least one LED that is visible at the first location, and outputting light from the at least one LED that is visible at the first location.

OPTIMIZING RESOURCE USAGE IN SYSTEMS WHICH INCLUDE HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES, INCLUDING SENSORS AND SMARTPHONES

Issued Mar 21st, 2016

Patent US number 9294356

Managing devices in a system may comprise receiving information associated with a first device in the system and a first set of capabilities provided in the first device; receiving information associated with a second device in the system and a second set of capabilities provided in the second device; determining one or more required capabilities that need to be activated for the system, the system comprising at least the first device and the second device; for each of the one or more required capabilities, selecting automatically by a processor based on the information received and one or more criteria, which capability in the first device and the second device to activate to satisfy the one or more required capabilities; and activating said selected capability in the first device or the second device.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTICIPANTS DATA RETRIEVAL POST ACCIDENT OR EVENT

Issued Nov 17th, 2015

Patent US number 9191992

A device and method for post event data retrieval uses an electronic communications system, wherein the method and system can utilize a detection device for detecting the event and facilitating the post event data retrieval. The system and method include detecting an event using a detection device. The detection device includes a location tool configured to determine a position of the detection device. The detection device defines a specified vicinity with respect to itself. A location is determined of the detection device using the location tool, after the event has occurred. Data including an identification (ID) is automatically requested of a communications device in the specified vicinity, using the detection device. A reply is received by the detection device which includes the ID from the communications device for identifying the communications device.

SPARSE REPRESENTATION FOR DYNAMIC SENSOR NETWORKS

Issued Nov 3rd, 2015

Patent US number 9177215

A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for evaluating data from a network of sensors. The method includes analyzing data received from at least one sensor using exemplar-based sparse representation processing to create a sparse representation of the data, determining at least one discrete sparse characteristic of an event in the data received from the at least one sensor based on the sparse representation of the data, and evaluating the at least one discrete sparse characteristic of an event in the data to perform at least one task associated with the representation of the event in the data.

FORMING A CONVEX POLYGON OF MOBILE SENSORS

Issued Dec 2nd, 2014

Patent US number 8902792

Forming a convex polygon of a plurality of mobile sensors in an area is provided. Sensor output data received from the plurality of mobile sensors in the area is analyzed using an optimization problem. It is determined whether the plurality of mobile sensors forms the convex polygon in the area. In response to determining that the plurality of mobile sensors does form the convex polygon in the area, an objective function and a set of constraints corresponding to the optimization problem are generated. Then, a sparse solution of the optimization problem is calculated using the objective function and the set of constraints to determine vector weight values for each of the plurality of mobile sensors.

PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY INFORMATION

Issued Oct 20th, 2014

Patent US number 866847

A system, method and computer program product for providing augmented reality information is disclosed. The method includes capturing an image of a set of items with an image capturing component coupled to a network-enabled computing device associated with a user identifier. The captured image is processed to identify each item of the set of items while a predefined list of user's preferences is retrieved using the user identifier. For each identified item, checking is made if the item matches a condition related to the predefined list of user's preferences. And based on the matching result, item information is conveyed to the network-enabled computing device and overlaid on the image.

PAIRED CARRIER AND PIVOT STEGANOGRAPHIC OBJECTS FOR STATEFUL DATA LAYERING

Issued Feb 4th, 2014

Patent US number 8644501

A system, method and program product for utilizing a steganographic process to hide data element in a carrier object. A system is disclosed that includes: a pivot object generator that generates a pivot object having a key hidden therein, wherein the key is hidden in the pivot object based on an inputted salt; and a carrier object generator that generates a carrier object having a data element hidden therein using a steganographic hiding system, wherein the steganographic hiding system requires utilization of the key to extract the data element from the carrier object.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING FROM MULTIPLE PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

Issued Jan 11th, 2011

Patent US number 7869999B2

A system and method for generating synthetic speech, which operates in a computer implemented Text-To-Speech system. The system comprises at least a speaker database that has been previously created from user recordings, a Front-End system to receive an input text and a Text-To-Speech engine. The Front-End system generates multiple phonetic transcriptions for each word of the input text, and the TTS engine uses a cost function to select which phonetic transcription is the more appropriate for searching the speech segments within the speaker database to be concatenated and synthesized.

A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM AND METHOD

Issued Oct 3rd, 2007

Patent EP number 1638080B1

Accordingly, the main object of the invention is to provide a Text-To-Speech system and to achieve a method which highly improves the quality of the synthesized speech generated, by reducing the number of artefacts between speech segments, thereby saving a lot of time processing.