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US-8,180,178 |
Autocropping and autolayout method for digital images The present invention is a method for manipulating acquired digital images in a computer system, comprising creating a crop cost array for each of a set of... |
US-8,180,168 |
One-pass filtering and infrared-visible light decorrelation to reduce
noise and distortions A scanning device includes a scanning mechanism and a processing mechanism. The scanning mechanism scans an image fixed on a medium to generate a digital... |
US-8,180,163 |
Encoder and decoder and methods of encoding and decoding sequence
information with inserted monitor flags The present disclosure describes encoding sequence information into a sequence of display frames for display on a display device. An example of encoding... |
US-8,180,157 |
Image processing method, image processing system and computer program
product Provided is an image processing method for cropping at least first and second images for presentation in a template, the first image having a first feature and... |
US-8,179,935 |
Tunable optical resonator An optical apparatus includes a substrate comprising a layer of thermally insulating material disposed thereon; an optical resonator disposed on the layer of... |
US-8,179,784 |
Method and apparatus for recovering a communications connection A method and apparatus for recovering a communications connection by storing a state variable that pertains to the status of a connection. When there is a need... |
US-8,179,590 |
Electro-optical display An electro-optical display includes colorant particles that are suspended in a carrier fluid. The colorant particles are controlled by three different types of... |
US-8,179,573 |
Scanning two images of media In one implementation, a method scans a media to provide a first image and a second image. The method further subtracts the first image from the second image. |
US-8,179,555 |
Printing and finishing capability for customized document production
system and method A method of producing a customized document with a printing and finishing system includes registering a capability of the printing and finishing system,... |
US-8,179,531 |
Shuttering and sealing device A shuttering and sealing device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes an aperture through which light may pass to an optical sensor, a seal... |
US-8,179,417 |
Video collaboration A video collaboration method includes examining a video image to locate therein a strip segment containing desired facial features of a second collaborator. The... |
US-8,179,258 |
Method for reading a tag In a method for reading a tag, the tag is interrogated with a reader device having an antenna. A waveform of the signal received from the tag in response to the... |
US-8,179,071 |
System and method for cooling using counter-rotating fans A system includes two counter-rotating electric fans. A cooling controller is configured to run the fans at first and second operating points responsive to a... |
US-8,178,842 |
Nanowire bolometer photodetector A photodetector for the detection of radiated electromagnetic energy includes at least one bolometer nanowire disposed at least partially within a photon trap.... |
US-8,177,887 |
Aerosol particle collection In one embodiment, an aerosol particle collector includes a duct defining a flow path configured to remove larger particles from aerosol flowing through the... |
US-8,177,445 |
Over-center mechanism An over-center mechanism includes a pivoting member, rotatable about a pivot point between first and second positions, a drive gear, having a first radius,... |
US-8,177,346 |
Additives to eliminate bronzing of ink-jet inks printed on photo media Anti-bronzing agents are added to ink-jet inks to prevent bronzing of the inks when printed on various types of photographic media. The additive can include one... |
US-8,177,318 |
Orifice health detection device An orifice health detection device includes a fixed array of ink ejecting orifices, the ink ejecting orifices configured to eject at least one ink drop, a light... |
US-D659,734 |
Webcam |
US-8,176,543 |
Enabling network communication from role based authentication Network communications are secured on clients that do not have a user properly logged in and authenticated. The clients have transmit and/or receive... |
US-8,176,536 |
Network systems and methods for providing guest access The present disclosure generally pertains to routers for providing guest access to networks. An integrated router in one exemplary embodiment comprises at least... |
US-8,176,527 |
Correlation engine with support for time-based rules A rules engine with support for time-based rules is disclosed. A method performed by the rules engine, comprises receiving security events generated by a number... |
US-8,176,503 |
Device driver selection Methods, systems, and devices are provided for device driver selection. One embodiment of a management station includes a processor, memory in communication... |
US-8,176,498 |
Power setting adjustments by mission operating system in response to
requests from platform manager A computer system includes software running on a hardware platform. The hardware platform provides a platform manager having an user interface that is... |
US-8,176,349 |
Look-ahead processor for signaling suitable non-idle performance state for
main processor A look-ahead processor identifies instructions that are at least likely to be executed by a main processor. The look-ahead processor determines a power state... |
US-8,176,306 |
Boot block A machine including a processor, a boot block including an immutable segment and a mutable segment, one or more BIOS images stored on the mutable segment of the... |
US-8,176,293 |
Method and system for moving active virtual partitions between computers Embodiments of the present invention are directed to enhancing VPAR monitors to allow an active VPAR to be moved from one machine to another, as well as to... |
US-8,176,259 |
System and method for resolving transactions in a cache coherency protocol A system comprises a first node that employs a source broadcast protocol to initiate a transaction. The first node employs a forward progress protocol to... |
US-8,176,255 |
Allocating space in dedicated cache ways A system comprises a processor core and a cache coupled to the core and comprising at least one cache way dedicated to the core, where the cache way comprises... |
US-8,176,250 |
System and method for testing a memory A computer system comprising a processor, a memory, and a memory controller coupled to the processor and the memory is provided. The memory controller comprises... |
US-8,176,204 |
System and method for multi-host sharing of a single-host device The present disclosure describes a system and method for multi-host extension of a single-host device comprising a network switch fabric that comprises a rooted... |
US-8,176,080 |
Desensitizing character strings A method for desensitizing character strings comprises ordering an original set of character strings and generating a tree structure that has nodes... |
US-8,176,000 |
Methods and apparatus for discovering traffic on a network Discovering communication traffic in a computer network is useful to administrators of computer networks. Communication packets from a communication transaction... |
US-8,175,852 |
Method of, and system for, process-driven analysis of operations A method of process-driven analysis of operations includes defining an abstract process, defining at least one metric over the abstract process using a metric... |
US-8,175,644 |
Task switching between two computing devices A method is provided to enable a user to operate a computing device to share data with another device. An event may be detected, where the event indicates the... |
US-8,175,643 |
Switching states between two computing devices A method for switching use between a first computing device and a second computing device is provided. The method may be performed by the first computing... |
US-8,175,430 |
Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer systems configured with non-periodic
gratings Embodiments of the present invention are directed to multiplexer/demultiplexer systems. In one aspect, a multiplexer/demultiplexer system includes an... |
US-8,175,429 |
Microresonator systems and methods of fabricating the same Various embodiments of the present invention are related to microresonator systems that can be used as a laser, a modulator, and a photodetector and to methods... |
US-8,175,107 |
Network routing based on MAC address subnetting A method for routing data on a fat-tree network using network switches includes assigning a customized MAC address to each host device in the network. The... |
US-8,175,086 |
Switching fabrics and control protocols for them A network unit for use in a switching fabric includes multiple units collectively constituting a single network entity, each having ports for the reception and... |
US-8,175,034 |
Configuration techniques for wireless communications devices Techniques for configuring wireless communications devices are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a storage medium to store one or more... |
US-8,174,977 |
End-to-end flow control in a network A network node within a network includes a first receive buffer, first buffer management, a second receive buffer and second buffer management. The first buffer... |
US-8,174,932 |
Multimodal object localization Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for multimodal object localization using one or more depth sensors and two or... |
US-8,174,837 |
Wireless enable/disable locking system A wireless enable/disable locking system comprises a locking element configured to physically cooperate with a switch, the switch for enabling/disabling a... |
US-8,174,829 |
Cooling electronic devices provided in rows of racks To cool racks of electronic devices, the racks are arranged in a plurality of rows to define at least a first aisle and a second aisle, where the second aisle... |
US-8,174,824 |
Enclosure with access panel Techniques for accessing an enclosure are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an enclosure is configured for rack mounting. The enclosure includes an access... |
US-8,174,769 |
Beamsplitters with offset compensation Embodiments of the present invention are directed to beamsplitters that include optical elements to correct for beam offset. In one embodiment, a beamsplitter... |
US-8,174,627 |
Selectively masking image data Apparatus and methods for selectively masking image data and inhibiting projection of light corresponding to the masked image data. Projection devices include a... |
US-8,174,558 |
Automatically calibrating a video conference system A method of automatically calibrating a video conference environment is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes initiating a calibration sequence in... |
US-8,174,482 |
Techniques to control brightness in a display A node to receive a first current and to couple a first or a second backlighting medium to the node. The first backlighting medium is to conduct the first... |