International Business Machines Corporation

Hidemasa Muta

Alan Edward Rosenbluth

Tadanobu Inoue

Kehan Tian

David Osmond Melville

Jorge Andres Moros Ortiz

Hironobu Takagi

Junji Maeda

Kentaro Fukuda

Masaharu Sakamoto

Chieko Asakawa

Ermyas Abebe

Mahathir Bin Ahmad Almashor

Adam Harley Eugene Eberbach

Masahura Sakamoto

Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger

Tetsuro Morimura

Takashi Sakairi

Saeed Reza Bagheri

Suman Sedai

Satoshi Hara

Rudy Raymond Harry Putra

Tatsuya Sobue

Bruno De Assis Marques

Andrea L Snow-Weaver

Aya Mori

Noel Garry Faux

Jefferson Tan

Takuya Ohko

Sengor Kusturica

Charles J King

A support method, system, and computer program product, include identifying a repair or a maintenance task, determining an expertise level of the local engineer, receiving a procedure for performing the repair or the maintenance task, the procedure including a series of steps, instructional information associated with each step, and technical information associated with the repair or the maintenance task, based on the expertise level of each engineer, filtering the instructional information, and the technical information in the procedure to exclude information already known by the engineer, presenting, via an augmented reality device, a first step of the series of steps and the associated filtered information.

Intelligent augmented reality for technical support engineers

A cognitive assisting method, system, and computer program product, includes building a first cognitive profile of a first user by determining content with identifiable attributes that may be incorporated into the cognitive profile and detecting a current activity of the first user and continually finding a match to a second cognitive profile of a second user in a repository of cognitive profiles belonging to others.

System, method and computer program product for a cognitive monitor and assistant

Aspects of the invention include obtaining data regarding a plurality of devices in a viewing environment and analyzing a content item to be displayed in the viewing environment. Aspects also include identifying an interaction between a scene of the content item and at least one of the plurality of devices based at least in part upon the analyzing and identifying a viewer in the viewing environment and obtaining a user profile for the viewer. Based upon the interaction and the user profile, aspect include activating the at least one of the plurality of devices during playback of the scene. Aspects further include monitoring one or more characteristics of the viewer during playback of the scene and updating the user profile for the viewer based on the one or more characteristics.

Identifying and calibrating internet of things (IOT) devices to enhance content consumption experience

To identify a scenario that will bear a good simulation result from among a plurality of scenarios used in an agent-based simulation with a reduced amount of computation, there is provided an information processing apparatus comprising a counting part configured to count the number of agents in each of a plurality of states at a middle of a simulation that involves a plurality of agents, and a generation part configured to generate characteristic data used for prediction of a result of the simulation based on the number of agents in each of the plurality of states.

Information processing apparatus, program and information processing method

A cognitive assisting method, system, and computer program product, includes determining an intent of a first user from an identifiable attribute of content associated with an activity of the first user, building a first cognitive profile of the first user based on the intent of the first user and the identifiable attribute of the content, and detecting a similarity between the intent of the first user in the first cognitive profile and a characteristic of a second cognitive profile of a second user stored in a database including a plurality of cognitive profiles.

Provides ability to analyze the readability of an image to be displayed on a screen as a web page, etc., and appropriately modify the image. It includes a rendering section for generating an image by rendering an HTML document; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image generated by the rendering section to simulate and evaluate how the image is viewed under a certain visual characteristic; and a result presentation section for locating an HTML element that needs to be modified in the HTML document to be processed based on the evaluation result of the image processing section and for presenting the HTML element to a web page creator. The result presentation section also retrieves a modification method for the HTML element that needs to be modified from a symptom model storage section. A document modification processing section actually modifies the HTML document.

Data editing for improving readability of a display

The present invention adds new value to the Web, such as to improve accessibility, while maintaining changes to existing web sites to a minimum. An example system includes a first Web server and at least one other Web server, wherein a Web page can be displayed on a Web browser in a client device connected with the first Web server and the other Web server via a network, wherein the first Web server registers URLs of files providing added value for each of the first Web server and the other Web server that are defined as a set of Web servers to be provided with the same added value, and wherein the first Web server and the other Web server display an existing Web page in the Web browser, and provide the added value to the Web page by manipulating a DOM from another frame or another window.

Adding personalized value to web sites

Optical wave data for a semiconductor device design is divided into regions. First wavefront engineering is performed on the wave data of each region, accounting for just the wave data of each region and not accounting for the wave data of neighboring regions of each region. The optical wave data of each region is normalized based on results of the first wavefront engineering. Second wavefront engineering is performed on the wave data of each region, based at least on the wave data of each region as has been normalized. The second wavefront engineering takes into account the wave data of each region and a guard band around each region that includes the wave data of the neighboring regions of each region. The second wavefront engineering can be sequentially performed by organizing the regions into groups, and sequentially performing the second wavefront engineering on the regions of each group in parallel.

Wavefront engineering of mask data for semiconductor device design

Provides ability to analyze the readability of an image to be displayed on a screen as a web page, etc., and appropriately modify the image. It includes a rendering section for generating an image by rendering an HTML document; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image generated by the rendering section to simulate and evaluate how the image is viewed under a certain visual characteristic; and a result presentation section for locating an HTML element that needs to be modified in the HTML document to be processed based on the evaluation result of the image processing sectionand for presenting the HTML element to a web page creator. The result presentation section also retrieves a modification method for the HTML element that needs to be modified from a symptom model storage section. A document modification processing section actually modifies the HTML document.

The manufacturability of a lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device is determined. Target edge pairs are selected from mask layout data of the lithographic mask to determine a manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask. The mask layout data includes polygons, where each polygon has edges, and where each target edge pair is defined by two of the edges of one or more of the polygons. The number of the target edge pairs is reduced to decrease computational volume in determining the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask, including the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, is determined based on the target edge pairs as reduced in number. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is output. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is dependent on the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask.

Determining manufacturability of lithographic mask by reducing target edge pairs used in determining a manufacturing penalty of the lithographic mask

The manufacturability of a lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device is determined. Target edges are selected from mask layout data of the lithographic mask. The mask layout data includes polygons distributed over cells, where each polygon has edges. The cells include a center cell, two vertical cells above and below the center cell, and two horizontal cells to the left and right of the center cell. Target edge pairs are selected for determining a manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, in a manner that decreases the computational volume in determining the manufacturing penalty. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask, including the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, is determined based on the target edge pairs selected. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is output. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is dependent on the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask.

Determining manufacturability of lithographic mask by selecting target edge pairs used in determining a manufacturing penalty of the lithographic mask

The manufacturability of a lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device is determined. Target edge pairs are selected from mask layout data of the lithographic mask, for determining a manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask. The mask layout data includes polygons, where each polygon has a number of edges. Each target edge pair is defined by two of the edges of one or more of the polygons. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask, including the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, is determined. Determining the manufacturing penalty is based on the target edge pairs as selected. Determining the manufacturability of the lithographic mask uses continuous derivatives characterizing the manufacturability of the lithographic mask on a continuous scale. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is output. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is dependent on the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask.

Determining manufacturability of lithographic mask using continuous derivatives characterizing the manufacturability on a continuous scale

A described computer network includes a first computer system and a second computer system. The first computer system transmits screen image information and corresponding speech information to the second computer system. The screen image information includes information corresponding to a screen image intended for display within the first computer system. The speech information conveys a verbal description of the screen image. When the screen image includes one or more objects (e.g., menus, dialog boxes, icons, and the like) having corresponding semantic information, the speech information includes the corresponding semantic information. The second computer system responds to the speech information by producing an output (e.g., human speech via an audio output device, a tactile output via a Braille output device, and the like). The semantic information conveyed by the output allows a visually-impaired user of the second computer system to know intended purposes of the objects. The second computer system may also receive user input, generate an input signal corresponding to the user input, and transmit the input signal to the first computer system. The first computer system may respond to the input signal by updating the screen image. The semantic information conveyed by the output enables the visually-impaired user to properly interact with the first computer system.

Computer network including a computer system transmitting screen image information and corresponding speech information to another computer system

To make window systems which are widely used in personal computers and applications for personal computers operable in a portable information terminal which does not have a sufficient processing capability, input information such as a key input from operator generated in a portable information terminal is sent to a remote supporting server where it executes or simulates an arbitrary window system which is free from restriction of functions to generate a rendering image. The supporting server then converts the rendering image to an image suitable to the portable information terminal and sends it back to the portable information terminal as a rendering instruction. The portable information terminal receives the rendering instruction of this optimized image for display.

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Hidemasa Muta