Xerox Corporation

Conduent Business Services, LLC

Corning Incorporated

Charles Donahue Rizzolo

Wencheng Wu

Barry Paul Mandel

Dennis Lee Venable

Thomas F Wade

Daniel S Hann

Adrien Pierre Cote

Richard A Van Dongen

Ethan Shen

Yi-Ting Shen

Riyad Twahir

Peter Paul

Howard A Mizes

John R Falvo

John D Hower, Jr

Ronald E Stokes

Charles M Gardiner

Anthony T DeSanctis

Lee Anne Williams

Louis F LaVallee

William R Smith

Kathy Cupo

Richard S Pagano

Joel S Cornell

Ralph E Simpson

John T Potter

Jeffrey J Folkins

Michael Jon Levy

Augusto E Barton

Joseph C Sheflin

Michael C Mongeon

John W Daughton

Joseph J Ferrara

William D Milillo

Frederick A Green

Gerald A Buddendeck

James F Smoak

Michele D Taber

Don S Walker

Kendolph A Thomas

Paula E Reid

Reiner Eschbach

David Allen Mantell

Anthony Salvatore Condello

Stuart Alan Schweid

R Victor Klassen

Paul Michael Fromm

Edul N Dalal

Dale Robert Mashtare

Gerald A Domoto

Elias Panides

Jorge Antonio Alvarez

Nancy Y Jia

Michael Robert Furst

Stephen C Morgana

Pascale Oram

Nicholas P Kladias

Gregory Scott Glaesemann

Graham Stephen Pennington

David R Kamprath

Nancy Beth Goodman

Dusan G Lysy

William Joseph Hannaway

William Kenneth Stumbo

Jeffrey W Ryan

Charles F Prevost

Francesca A Barrientos

Igor Podzorov

L James Rolph

Michael K Sabocheck

Peter A Mayfield

Donald Arthur Clark

William A Novak

Brian Whaites

Suzzette S Resto

Phillip A Billings

Charles E Prevost

Lee Anne S Williams

Oladapo Olalekan Bello

A system for acquiring multi-angle images of a product includes a workstation having a working surface for placing a product, a camera supporting member having a vertical axis, and an image capturing device movably attached to the camera supporting member so that it may move along the vertical axis of the camera supporting member. The system captures and analyzes a digital image of a product to detect the vertical center of the product, and adjusts the position of the image capturing device along the vertical axis so that the vertical center of the product is proximate to the vertical center of the image. The system may also have a turntable and additionally rotate the turntable at multiple capturing angles and capture one or more additional digital images of the product at various capturing angles and store the one or more additional images in a product database.

Method and system for acquiring images of a product from multiple angles

Method and system for acquiring multi-angle images of a product

Multi-angle product imaging device

Carriers for microelectronics fabrication may include a strengthened substrate formed from glass or glass-ceramic having an average thickness greater than 1.0 mm and less than or equal to 2.0 mm. The strengthened glass substrate may have a single-side surface area greater than or equal to 70,000 mm. The substrate may also have a compressive stress greater than or equal to 200 MPa and a depth of layer from about 50 &#x3bc;m to about 150 &#x3bc;m. The substrate may further include a tensile stress region having a stored elastic energy of less than 40 kJ/mproviding for a flat fragmentation factor of less than or equal to 5.

Carriers for microelectronics fabrication

A store profile generation system includes a mobile base and an image capture assembly mounted on the base. The assembly includes at least one image capture device for acquiring images of product display units in a retail environment. A control unit acquires the images captured by the at least one image capture device at a sequence of locations of the mobile base in the retail environment. The control unit extracts product-related data from the acquired images and generates a store profile indicating locations of products and their associated tags throughout the retail environment, based on the extracted product-related data. The store profile can be used for generating new product labels for a sale in an appropriate order for a person to match to the appropriate locations in a single pass through the store.

Store shelf imaging system and method

A system and a method for estimating readiness for passing an associated summative assessment includes, after receiving test results for at least one test, generating a score Cfor each concept tested on the test. Using the score, the system computes a probability of mastery p(M) of the at least one concept and associates the probability of mastery p(M) as a prior for updating the probability after receiving future test results. The system iteratively updates the probability of mastery p(M) of the at least one concept after each test using for the new test score and the prior.

Assessment performance prediction

This disclosure provides a retail environment robotic system including a vertically oriented/scanning LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) unit mounted to a mobile base which travels along the aisles of a retail environment such as a store. According to an exemplary embodiment, the LIDAR unit vertically scans product display units along the aisles to generate a depth map associated with detected objects which is further processed to detect missing products, product/shelving tags, shelves, etc.

Store shelf imaging system and method using a vertical LIDAR

A system to detect and maintain retail store promotional price tags (PPTs) includes a heuristic PPT description extractor module, a heuristic rule deriver module, a store shelf image acquisition system, a barcode locator and recognizer module, and a heuristic PPT classifier module. The heuristic PPT description extractor module extracts heuristic descriptions of PPTs. The heuristic rule deriver module derives a set of heuristic parameters for the PPTs. The barcode locator and recognizer module analyzes images acquired by the store shelf image acquisition system to localize and recognize barcodes. The heuristic PPT description classifier module extracts heuristic attributes from the images acquired by the store shelf image acquisition system using the set of PPT parameters supplied by the heuristic rule deriver module.

System and method for retail store promotional price tag detection

A method for profiling a location of an image capture device in a region of interest. The method comprises acquiring an image captured by an image capture device. The method comprises acquiring a reported position and pose of the image capture device. The method comprises processing the captured image to detect an object in the captured image. The method comprises identifying a set of interest points characterizing the captured object. The method comprises generating a relative position and pose of the interest points based on dimensional information associated with the captured object. The method comprises computing an estimated position and pose of the image capture device to the object using the reported position and pose of the image capture device and the relative position of the interest points. The method comprises computing the estimated position and pose of the mobile imaging device based on the estimated distance. The method comprises updating the reported position and pose of the image capture device to the estimated position.

High accuracy localization system and method for retail store profiling via product image recognition and its corresponding dimension database

A method and system for creating a customized package design. Package design and preference information related to a shape of the package design is received. The preference information includes user-specified information related to one or more levels of one or more structural attributes of the package design. A detailed design is generated that incorporates the user-specified information and a detailed design file is generated and output. Generation of the detailed design includes identifying functional elements associated with the package that correspond to the user-specified information and altering at least one physical characteristic of the identified functional elements based upon the preference information, and incorporating the altered physical characteristic into the detailed design. A determination can be made as to whether the altered detailed design satisfies any constraints associated with the package being design, and the detailed design file can be updated accordingly.

Dynamic optimization of detailed flat design based on desired final structural attributes

A method and systems to control the temperature of a Keyless inker for variable data lithography printing. Inker heating elements are adjustable to control ink feed to individual zones located across the width of an ink roller. Feedforward and feedback control loops adjust the ink supply dynamically based on a pixel count of the image content. The pixel count looks ahead in the video stream to allow time for the adjustment at the inker heating elements to propagate through the inker unit to affect ink output onto the imaging drum surface. Feedback of the achieved ink density on control patches on the imaging drum is also used to command the inker heating elements. Feedback is also used to update the inker propagation delay and dynamic model used to determine how much the inker keys need to be adjusted based on the pixel count stream.

Image data based temperature control of a keyless inker

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Charles Donahue Rizzolo