International Business Machines Corporation

Google Inc.

Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Munehiko Sato

Ivan Poupyrev

Tomoka Mochizuki

Tomonori Sugiura

Shiho Fukuhara

Mustafa Emre Karagozler

David Scott Allmon

Antonio Xavier Cerruto

Susan Jane Wilhite

Wen Lianzi

Lianzi Wen

Shozo Harada

Tong Wu

Hirokazu Nishimura

Shiho Tremmel

Philipp Schoessler

Joseph Martin Rohde

Kathryn Joy Klatt

Jeanette Lomboy

Jason Hintz Llopis

An interactive cord system can include sensing circuitry coupled to a system ground and an interactive cord. The interactive cord can include a plurality of non-conductive lines a plurality of conductive sensing lines at least partially woven with one or more of the plurality of non-conductive lines to form at least one touch-sensitive area along the interactive cord and one or more conductive grounding lines electrically connected with the system ground and extending at least partially along an outer portion of the interactive cord.

Interactive cord with improved capacitive touch sensing

An interactive cord includes one or more touch-sensitive areas configured to detect user input and one or more non-touch-sensitive areas. An outer cover of the interactive cord includes a set of conductive lines braided together with one or more of a plurality of non-conductive lines at the touch-sensitive area. The set of conductive lines defines a plurality of intersections that each form a capacitive touchpoint at the touch-sensitive area. An inner core of the interactive cord includes at least the set of conductive lines and at least one of the plurality of non-conductive lines at the non-touch-sensitive area.

Touch-sensitive braided cord

Systems and methods for interactive textiles including conductive fibers are provided. An interactive textile may comprise a flexible substrate, an embroidered thread-pattern defining an ornamental feature on a first surface of the flexible substrate, and a touch input sensor comprising a set of conductive threads coupled to a second surface of the flexible substrate at a corresponding area of at least a portion of the embroidered thread pattern. The set of conductive threads form a conductive thread-pattern on the second surface that is conformal to the ornamental feature on the first surface at the portion of the embroidered thread pattern.

Conductive fibers with custom placement conformal to embroidered patterns

Methods for presenting an image indicating a position for a person are disclosed. A method includes: determining, by a computing device, at least one free space in a location using at least one camera; determining, using the computing device, a new position for a first person in the location based upon the determined at least one free space in the location; and presenting an image to indicate the determined new position for the first person in the location.

Presenting an image indicating a position for a person in a location the person is waiting to enter

Group chat communication can include receiving, using a processor, a first message in a group chat having members, wherein the first message is from a first member of the group chat and specifies a second member of the group chat, distributing, using the processor, the first message to the members of the group chat, and, in response to receiving the first message and using the processor, causing a group chat window of the second member to display a first callout. The group chat window of the second member is configured to display a plurality of chronologically ordered messages posted by the members of the group chat. The first callout identifies the first member and indicates a position of the first message within the plurality of chronologically ordered messages.

Displaying context in group chats using member tagging

Systems and methods of determining an ergonomic assessment for a user are provided. For instance, sensor data can be received from one or more sensors implemented with an ergonomic assessment garment worn by a user. Corporeal data associated with at least one body segment of the user can be determined based at least in part on the sensor data. The corporeal data is associated with a bend angle associated with the at least one body segment. An ergonomic assessment associated with the user can be determined based at least in part on the corporeal data. The ergonomic assessment can include an indication of one or more ergonomic zones associated with the user, the one or more ergonomic zones being determined based at least in part on the bend angle associated with the at least one body segment.

Ergonomic assessment garment

Presenting an image indicating a position for a person

A computer-implemented method for analyzing content written on a board, on which a text and/or a drawing are made, is disclosed. The method includes obtaining content data including a series of images, which captures content being written on the board. The method also includes obtaining utterance data representing a series of utterances, which is associated with the series of the images. The method further includes extracting a section from the series of the utterances based on a change in topics and recognizing a content block for the section from the content data. The content block includes one or more content parts written during the section. The method includes further calculating evaluation value for the content block by using one or more utterances included in the section.

Analysis of content written on a board

Systems for presenting an image indicating a position for a person are disclosed. A system includes: a hardware processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computer device; at least one camera; program instructions of a free space determiner configured to determine at least one free space in a location using the at least one camera; program instructions of a new position determiner configured to determine, for a first person in the location, a new position based upon the at least one free space in the location determined by the free space determiner; and program instructions of an image presenter configured to present an image in the location to indicate the new position for the first person in the location determined by the new position determiner.

Information on a cursor or pointer position is obtained, indicating a first content on a document displayed on a screen. A plurality of second contents are retrieved from a history information, each of the second contents comprising the first content. The history information comprises sets of contents, each of the sets comprising a content in the document which was copied by one or more users, and position information of this content. The sets are ranked in a predetermined order. A copy area is proposed based on one or more second contents in the predetermined order among the retrieved second contents.

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Tokyo, Japan

Munehiko Sato