International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Anthony Cappa Spielberg

Oliver Keren Ban

Timothy Alan Dietz

Mithkal M Smadi

William Bornstein

Eric Vance Kline

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Emmanuel Yashchin

Jeffrey George Komatsu

Paul Anthony Zulpa

Benjamin J Steele, Jr

John M Wargo

Donnie Haye

Michael K Gschwind

Valentina Salapura

Barry Alan Kritt

John S Maresca

Brian D Blacklock

Zhen Ning Hu

A computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of values of a data stream, where the plurality of values are generated by a monitored device and received in real time. One or more statistical moments of the data stream are updated, by a computer processing device, based on each value of the plurality of values. Each value of the plurality of values is discarded, after updating the one or more statistical moments of the data stream based on that value. A threshold is set for the data stream based on the one or more statistical moments. It is detected that the threshold has been passed by the data stream. A remedial action is performed on the monitored device, responsive to the threshold being passed, where the remedial action is associated with the threshold.

Real-time data analytics for streaming data

A method, system, and computer product for detecting a virtual object include transmitting a probe signal to objects, receiving an echo signal reflected by at least one object of the objects, generating scan data based on the echo signal, capturing one or more images of the objects, generating image data corresponding to the captured images, computing the scan data to identify each of the objects, computing the image data to identify each of the objects, and determining another object of the objects as a virtual object, responsive to determining that the another object is identified by the computation on the image data and is not identified by the computation on the scan data.

Method and system for tracking holographic object

An approach is provided to control digital imaging system. In the approach, camera bodies are configured to establish a camera group that includes each of the camera bodies. Each of the camera bodies in the camera group is controlled by a human operator in photographing an event. Shared camera settings that pertain to each of the cameras in the camera group are also configured. A wireless receiver included in one of the camera bodies receives an adjustment that was sent from another camera body included in the camera group. One of the settings of the receiving camera body is then adjusted based on the received adjustment.

Handling operational settings in a digital imaging system

An approach is provided to control digital imaging system. In the approach, isolated camera settings pertaining to a first camera body are configured. The first camera body is included in a camera group that includes two or more camera bodies. Each of the cameras in the camera group is controlled by a human operator. Shared camera settings that pertain to each of the cameras in the camera group are also configured. When an adjustment is received at the camera body from the human operator, the approach checks whether the adjustment is a shared group setting. If the adjustment is a shared setting, the system wirelessly transmits the adjustment over the wireless transmitter/receiver to the other camera bodies included in the camera group.

Transmitting settings in a digital imaging system

Provided are techniques for selecting an image for comparison with a plurality of images; specifying one or more visual criterion for searching the plurality of images, wherein the visual criteria are based upon a visual similarity between the image and the plurality of images; searching the plurality of images based upon the criteria to identify a subset of the plurality of images that meet a threshold with respect to the visual similarity; and displaying in a graphical user interface the subset of images.

Searching of images based upon visual similarity

A system comprises a digital imaging system for capturing digital images. The system includes a controller that captures at least one digital image, determines a brightness level of at least one bright region of the digital image, and generates brightness data representing the brightness level of the at least one bright region. The brightness data is compared with compositional information for determining a maximum brightness level of the at least one bright region of the digital image. The maximum brightness level comprises a level of brightness where information about the at least one bright region remains. The controller then determines an exposure value of a final digital image, where at least one region of the final digital image has a brightness level equal to or less than the maximum brightness level. At least one final digital image is then captured.

Digital imaging exposure metering system

An approach is provided to adjust a camera shutter lag. In the approach, data is collected that corresponds to an ambient light found in a physical environment with the ambient light being controlled using a pulse-width modulation (PWM). The pulse-width modulation corresponds to a PWM timing model. When an exposure request is received, the camera shutter lag is calculated using the PWM timing model. The calculated shutter lag is based on a future point in time at which the ambient light of the physical environment is predicted to be at a selected light output level, such as a power level selected by the user of a camera. When the calculated camera shutter lag has expired, a shutter of the camera is opened causing a camera lens to be exposed that results in a captured exposure.

Digital image capture under conditions of varying light intensity

A creator can specify one or more navigation paths through an album of pictures on a social networking web site. Each navigation path has a name and specifies a sequence in which a number of the pictures are to be viewed by a viewer. The viewer can select by name the desired navigation path through the album. A navigation path through the album can also be determined from content in which the viewer is interested from a profile of the viewer on the social networking web site. A navigation path can be determined from users on the social networking web site that are associated with the viewer on the web site. A navigation path can be determined from analysis of an interaction history of the viewer on the social networking web site, apart from the viewer's profile and the viewer's associated users on the web site.

Social networking web site picture album navigation path

Embodiments of the invention relates to cameras and flash photography, and to modulating intensity of light over time and space to subjects in an associated composition. As the composition of a photograph is created, subjects in the composition are metered and flash illumination is determined. A mask is created from an array of filters. The mask is a pattern of opacity of the filters, with the pattern modulating output of the flash. The mask pattern is applied to an associated flash head so that an exposure of the composition is made with the masked flash. Exposure of the subjects in the composition is balanced through a selective illumination of the subjects by the varied intensity created through the mask.

Flash photography

A system includes a display control module, a cursor control device, a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of graphical control elements such as sliders, and a human interface device with keys. A mapping of individual keys or simultaneously selected combinations of keys to sliders is stored by the display control module. A slider is adjustable by the cursor control device while the key mapped to the slider is activated and is disassociated from the cursor control device when the mapped key is deactivated. A computer program product embodiment includes a computer readable medium having computer usable program code for mapping a slider to a corresponding key, activating the slider for adjustment, adjusting the slider with a cursor control device while maintaining a key or combination of keys in the active state, and terminating adjustment of the slider by placing the key in an inactive state.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Anthony Cappa Spielberg