Empire Technology Development LLC

Beijing Whyhow Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Shaanxi Whyhow Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Jun Fang

Daqi Li

Xiaodong Wang

Yue Xiao

Jiangliang Li

Xuheng Niu

Ping Yang

Zongfei Yang

Aimin Su

Dehai Zhang

Yue Niu

Lixia Xiao

Degang Zhang

Jian Zhang

Qian Tang

The present disclosure provides an optical tag-based information apparatus interaction method and system. The method includes: using a terminal device to perform image acquisition on an optical tag at a relative fixed position to an information apparatus so as to determine a position and an attitude of the terminal device relative to the optical tag; determining, in conjunction with a predetermined position of each information apparatus relative to the optical tag, the position of the terminal device relative to each information apparatus; acquiring an imaging position of each information apparatus on a display screen of the terminal device, and displaying an interactive interface of each information apparatus at the imaging position thereof on the display screen, such that an interactive operation can be performed on each information apparatus. The disclosure allows a user to control an information apparatus in a field of view anytime and anywhere, and interact with the device as What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG).

Optical tag based information apparatus interaction method and system

A method for guiding an autonomously movable machine by means of an optical communication device having associated identification, location and orientation information. The method includes: receiving location information of a destination to which the autonomously movable machine travels, where the location information of the destination is determined by scanning and identifying, at the destination, at least one optical communication device around the destination; scanning and identifying the at least one optical communication device around the autonomously movable machine by means of the camera mounted on the autonomously movable machine, so as to determine location information of the autonomously movable machine; and on the basis of the location information of the destination and the location information of the autonomously movable machine, determining the relative location relationship between the autonomously movable machine and the destination, and controlling the autonomously movable machine or a part thereof to travel to the destination.

Method for guiding autonomously movable machine by means of optical communication device

Disclosed are an optical communication device and a method for transmitting and receiving information. The optical communication device includes at least two light sources including a first light source and a second light source, and a controller configured to drive the first light source and the second light source in one or more driving modes. The first light source and the second light source are driven in a same driving mode for transmitting first information, and the first light source and the second light source are driven in different driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode which have the same or different frequencies for transmitting other information different from the first information.

Optical communication device and method for transmitting and receiving information

An optical communication device is provided. The optical communication device includes at least one light source and a controller configured to continuously control, by a light source control signal, each of the at least one light source to operate in at least two modes. The at least two modes include a first mode and a second mode. The first mode is used to transfer a first information, and the second mode is used to transfer a second information different from the first information. For any one of the at least one light source, in the first mode, the light source control signal has a first frequency so that a stripe presents in a first image of the light source obtained when the light source is photographed by a CMOS image sensor, and in the second mode, a second image of the light source obtained when the light source is photographed by the CMOS image sensor is substantially free from any stripe.

Optical communication device and system, and corresponding information transmitting and receiving methods

Technologies are generally described for methods and systems effective to generate a composite image. The methods may include receiving first image data that includes object data corresponding to an object and receiving second image data that includes obscuring data. The obscuring data, if displayed on a display, may obscure at least a portion of the. The methods may also include identifying a first region that may include the object data, in the first image data, The methods may also include identifying a second region, that may include the obscuring data, in the second image data. The methods may also include replacing at least part of the second region with at least part of the first region to generate the composite image data that may include at least some of the object data. The methods may also include displaying the composite image on a display.

Composite image generation to remove obscuring objects

In at least some examples, a control center, which provides remote driving assistance service, may be configured to receive traffic data from sensors and to identify an area of congested traffic, based on the received traffic data, within a predetermined range of the sensors. When the control center receives a request for the remote driving assistance service, from a vehicle within the predetermined range of the sensor, the control center may generate and transmit remote driving commands to the vehicle.

Remote driving assistance

A proxy requestor, who is expected to participate in events hosted on a computing network, may hope to find a proxy to handle the events for the proxy requestor. The proxy requestor, using a requestor device, may submit a request for such proxy to a proxy service provider during or prior to the event. In some examples, the proxy service provider may transmit one or more candidate proxies to the requestor device. Once the proxy requestor device selects a proxy from among the one or more candidate proxies, the requestor device may either facilitate or schedule a connection between the selected proxy and other participants of the events.

Proxy service facilitation

In a large presentation or lecture, multiple questions submitted by the audience may be classified into one or more common questions based on the semantic relatedness of the submitted questions. Further, the common questions may be sorted and presented to a host or lecturer so that the host or lecturer may efficiently answer the common questions.

Automatic question sorting

In some examples, a computing device may be configured to simulate the deduction process of human mind by generating new data based on existing data and newly received data that is semantically relevant to the existing data.

Semantic data generation

Technologies and implementations for providing web tracking protection are generally disclosed.

Web tracking protection

Technologies to provide a secure data storage service in a cloud computing environment are generally disclosed. In some examples, a method comprises: partitioning a data resource into data particles, assigning logic groups to the data particles, assigning physical storage groups to the data particles, and/or storing each physical storage group at corresponding storage resource, receiving a request for the data resource, determining whether the request for the data resource is valid, and if the request is valid, transmitting the data particles of the data resource to the client. The method enables improved security for accessing data, and also improves the user experience in cloud computing environments.

Cloud computing secure data storage

Technologies are generally described to dynamically alter a game while a gamer is playing the game so as to affect the gaming experience experienced by the gamer. According to some examples, one or more physiological signals may be collected from a gamer as the gamer is playing a game. Based on the collected physiological signals, a Quality of Experience (QoE) vector that indicates the gaming experience of the gamer may be generated. The QoE vector may then be compared with a corresponding value of a predetermined QoE function, and the game may be altered based on the comparison.

Dynamic gaming experience adjustments

Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to process a composite task to be applied to an ontology. In some examples, the methods may include a processor receiving a composite task. The methods may include the processor transforming the composite task into a set of atomic tasks. The set of atomic tasks may include at least a first atomic task, a second atomic task, and a third atomic task. The methods may include the processor determining that the first atomic task is equivalent to the second atomic task based on the ontology. The methods may include the processor removing the second atomic task from the set of atomic tasks to generate a list of atomic tasks. The methods may include the processor applying the list of atomic tasks to the ontology.

Processing a composite task based on a semantic relation graph

In some examples, a mobile device includes a radiation sensor configured to measure an amount of radiation surrounding a corresponding device that is communicatively connected to a second device and/or a third device, a comparator configured to compare the measured amount of radiation to a predetermined radiation threshold, a wireless communication manager configured to report to the second device and/or the third device a result output from the comparison module, and a collaboration manager configured to collaborate with the second device.

Radiation alleviation

In a spatial modulation multiple-input-multiple-output (SM-MIMO) wireless communication system, multiple transmitting antennae and multiple receiving antennae may be utilized to respectively transmit and receive wireless signals for the communication. A selection of a combination of the multiple transmitting antennae may be configured to represent one or more binary digits in a signal sequence. The signal sequence may be produced at the receiving end without the knowledge of the selection of the combination of the multiple transmitting antennae.

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Jun Fang