Magnetically Movable Objects Over a Display of an Electronic Device
Granted: November 21, 2013
Application Number:
20130308243
In one implementation, the present disclosure provides a method for imparting motion to a magnetically movable object. The method includes disposing the magnetically movable object over a display of an electronic device. The method further includes imparting motion to the magnetically movable object by adjusting a magnetic field that is produced by a magnetic field source, the magnetic field being applied to the magnetically movable object through the display of the electronic device.…
INFRARED VIDEO TRACKING FOR USE IN PROJECTING ONTO DYNAMIC WATER FEATURES
Granted: November 21, 2013
Application Number:
20130308064
A projection system for projecting a still or video image onto a liquid surface. The system includes an agitation mechanism selectively operable to generate gas bubbles on the liquid surface. The system includes a tracking system tracking a location, size, and shape of the gas bubbles on the liquid surface. The system also includes a projector projecting a video stream onto the gas bubbles based on the location, shape, and size of the area of the liquid surface containing the gas…
TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING RECONSTRUCTED THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA
Granted: November 21, 2013
Application Number:
20130307848
Techniques are disclosed for creating digital assets that can be used to personalize themed products. For example, a workflow and pipeline used to generate a 3D model from digital images of a person's face and to manufacture a personalized, physical figurine customized with the 3D model are disclosed. The 3D model of the person's face may be simplified to match a topology of a desired figurine. While the topology is deformed to match that of the figurine, the 3D model retains the…
Method and System for Transmission and Display of Rich-Media Alerts
Granted: November 14, 2013
Application Number:
20130303210
There is provided a method and system of generating a rich-media message using a short message service (SMS) message. In one aspect, the method comprises encoding data and rich-media content information to generate an encoded rich-media message, and formatting the encoded rich-media message into a rich-media SMS message. In one aspect, the method includes transmitting the rich-media SMS over a network. In another aspect, the method includes receiving the rich-media SMS by a mobile…
REFRACTIVE STEGANOGRAPHY LENS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MILLING PLAN FOR SAME
Granted: November 14, 2013
Application Number:
20130301139
Techniques are described for designing and manufacturing a refractive surface that produces a desired image when placed over a target image. The refractive lens surface may include a set of lens patches, each of which indexes a region on the source image to refract light from the indexed region to recreate a patch of the target image. And together, the lenses reproduce the target image. In one embodiment, the refractive geometry of the lens surface (i.e., the shape of each lens) is…
MULTIPLANAR IMAGE DISPLAYS AND MEDIA FORMATTED TO PROVIDE 3D IMAGERY WITHOUT 3D GLASSES
Granted: November 14, 2013
Application Number:
20130300728
An apparatus for providing a dimensional display such as a 3D effect without special-purpose glasses. The apparatus includes a foreground display assembly including a first planar display element with a front surface and an opposite back surface. Additionally, the apparatus includes a background display assembly including: (a) a second planar display element spaced apart from and parallel to the first planar display element; and (b) a light source backlighting a back surface of the…
TWO-WAY ZIPPER IN INFANT GARMENT
Granted: November 14, 2013
Application Number:
20130298304
An infant garment includes a two-way zipper having a first, open end at the neckline of the garment and a second, closed end at one of the foot/ankle regions of the garment. A first and second zipper pull are configured to close the zipper when they are moved to the top and bottom, respectively, of the zipper track. A protective cover is positioned at the closed end of the zipper to cover the second zipper pull when it is located there. The cover is stitched to the garment on three of…
Method and System for Producing a Rich Multimedia Interaction
Granted: November 7, 2013
Application Number:
20130293562
There is provided a method of producing a rich multimedia interaction comprising identifying a theme of the rich multimedia interaction, determining its dynamic display attributes based on the theme, determining a cooperation protocol governing interplay amongst the dynamic display attributes, and designating a background. The method further comprises selecting a display motif of the rich multimedia interaction, and generating the rich multimedia interaction for display, using one or…
DATA DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION VIA AN AUCTION SYSTEM
Granted: October 31, 2013
Application Number:
20130290124
An auction set of publisher parameters is composed. In addition, the auction set of publisher parameters is sent to an auction engine that provides a subset of the auction set of publisher parameters to one or more of a plurality of content network delivery providers. A selected bid based upon a bid selection process that evaluates a bid from each of the one or more of the plurality of content delivery network providers based upon the auction set of publisher parameters is received from…
ITERATIVE PACKING OPTIMIZATION
Granted: October 31, 2013
Application Number:
20130290220
An iterative method and system for performing the method are described that implement a technique to fit irregularly shaped items into a defined space. In particular, one example may take the form of a method including predetermining one or more layouts for a defined space. Each layout has a plurality of shapes. The method also includes receiving a set having a plurality of items and determining one or more configurations formed by assigning to each shape in the layout an item from the…
Robotic and Other Skins with a Subsurface Reinforcement Layer at a Selectable Depth
Granted: October 24, 2013
Application Number:
20130280493
A method for fabricating an artificial skin such as for use with a robotic assembly. The method includes providing a mold assembly with an exterior mold and an interior core. A cavity is defined between inner surfaces of the exterior mold and exterior surfaces of the interior core, thereby defining a shape and thickness of a skin. A surface of the interior core includes offsets or standoffs extending outward from the interior core surface. The method further includes positioning a sheet…
ADHERING FASTENING STRIP WITH GRIP AREA
Granted: October 24, 2013
Application Number:
20130276271
One aspect provides a fastening strip, including: a central portion comprised of a flexible material and having a first side and a second side, the first side including a first complementary material and the second side including a second complementary material, complementary to the complementary material of the first side; and a grip area disposed on at least the first side of the central portion; wherein the grip area extends substantially an entire length of fastening strip and…
MODELING HUMAN-HUMAN INTERACTIONS FOR MONOCULAR 3D POSE ESTIMATION
Granted: October 17, 2013
Application Number:
20130271458
Techniques are disclosed for the automatic recovery of two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) poses of multiple subjects interacting with one another, as depicted in a sequence of 2D images. As part of recovering 2D and 3D pose estimates, a pose recovery tool may account for constraints on positions of body parts of the first and second person resulting from the correlated activity. That is, individual subjects in the video are treated as mutual context for one another.
VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION WITH FLICKERING PREVENTION
Granted: October 10, 2013
Application Number:
20130266325
LEDs that transmit or receive data in a VLC may create a flickering effect which is observed when the human eye is able to perceive the fluctuations of the light intensity in a LED. To prevent flickering, the LEDs may emit light based on a pattern of data and energy intervals. During the data intervals, a LED transmitting a message sends one or more data symbols to receiving LEDs. The receiving LEDs, however, are reversed bias and do not emit light. During the energy intervals, any LED…
AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE WITH MULTIPLE VERTICAL ROTATION AXES COMBINED WITH VERTICAL TRANSLATION MOTION
Granted: October 3, 2013
Application Number:
20130255530
A ride combining two or more vertical rotation axes with vertical translation motion of passenger vehicles. The ride includes a primary turntable rotating about a central axis and includes one to three or more secondary turntables mounted on the primary turntable to rotate with the primary turntable. Each of the secondary turntables is driven to rotate about a secondary rotation axis (vertical axis passing through the center of the sub-turntable). Each of the sub-turntables includes a…
Relative Pose Estimation of Non-Overlapping Cameras Using the Motion of Subjects in the Camera Fields of View
Granted: September 26, 2013
Application Number:
20130251205
A relative pose between two cameras is determined by using input data obtained from the motion of subjects, such as pedestrians, between the fields of view of two cameras, determining trajectory information for the subjects, and computing homographies relating lines obtained from trajectories in the first image data to lines obtained from the trajectories in the second image data. The two fields of view need not overlap.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING BILINEAR SPATIOTEMPORAL BASIS MODELS
Granted: September 26, 2013
Application Number:
20130249905
Techniques are disclosed for generating a bilinear spatiotemporal basis model. A method includes the steps of predefining a trajectory basis for the bilinear spatiotemporal basis model, receiving three-dimensional spatiotemporal data for a training sequence, estimating a shape basis for the bilinear spatiotemporal basis model using the three-dimensional spatiotemporal data, and computing coefficients for the bilinear spatiotemporal basis model using the trajectory basis and the shape…
System And Method For Powering An RFID Module Using An Energy Harvesting Element
Granted: September 26, 2013
Application Number:
20130249301
A system and method for powering a radio frequency identification (RFID) module includes an energy harvesting system configured to passively generate a voltage, a voltage regulator configured to regulate the passively generated voltage and a controllable port through which the passively generated voltage is provided to the RFID module.
Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation
Granted: September 19, 2013
Application Number:
20130241934
A method is provided for sketch segmentation via smart scribbles, the results of which are especially suitable for interactive real-time graphics editing applications. A vector-based drawing may be segmented into labels based on input scribbles provided by a user. By organizing the labeling as an energy minimization problem, an approximate solution can be found using a sequence of binary graph cuts for an equivalent graph, providing an optimized implementation in a polynomial time…
KINETIC FLAME DEVICE
Granted: September 19, 2013
Application Number:
20130242579
An apparatus for creating flickering flame effects. The apparatus includes a housing with an interior space with first and second stages. A drive mechanism generates a time varying electromagnetic field extending into the first stage. A first pendulum member is pivotally mounted in the interior space of the first stage and includes first and second magnets on first and second ends, with the first end proximate to the drive mechanism such that the first magnet interacts with the varying…
