Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Xerox Corporation

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

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Patrick Chiu

Qiong Liu

Lynn D Wilcox

Thomas P Moran

Andreas Girgensohn

William J Van Melle

Laurent Denoue

Chelhwon Kim

Francine R Chen

Donald G Kimber

John Steven Boreczky

Jonathan T Foote

Tohru Fuse

Sven Kratz

Jian Zhao

Hao Tang

Scott Carter

Surapong Lertsithichai

Gordon P Kurtenbach

Maribeth Joy Back

Shingo Uchihashi

Chunyuan Liao

Wolfgang Polak

Shang Ma

William Noah Schilit

Gene Golovchinsky

Giovanni Lorenzo Thione

Martin Henk Van Den Berg

Frank M Shipman, Iii

Anthony Dunnigan

Polle Trescott Zellweger

Eleanor Rieffel

Hideto Oda

Surendar Chandra

Michael Patrick Cutter

Yanxia Zhang

Hajime Ueno

John J Doherty

Bee Yian Liew

Yulius Tjahjadi

Steven R Harrison

Elizabeth F Churchill

David L Hecht

Kei Tanaka

Jonathan James Trevor

Jun Shingu

Todd A Cass

James V Mahoney

Livia Polanyi

David Michael Hilbert

Matthew L Lee

Morgan N Price

L Noah Flores

Kazumasa Murai

Catherine Claire Marshall

Hai Tao

Miteshkumar Patel

Forrest H Bennett, Iii

Jeffrey Huang

Jun Miyazaki

Hanning Zhou

Koichi Fujii

Nami Tokunaga

Chidansh Amitkumar Bhatt

Christine Marie Dierk

Joseph W Sullivan

Don Kimber

Khai N Truong

Trista Chen

Jacek S Gwizdka

Les Nelson

Maryam Kamvar

Sandeep Casi

Hangjin Zhang

Kyuman Song

Wolf Polak

Ashutosh Kapuskar

David W McDonald

Mingming Fan

Bee-Yian Liew

William J vanMelle

Joseph Andrew Alkuino De La Pena

Lynn R Wilcox

Joseph Andrew Alkuino De La Peña

Shingu Jun

Jack Yang

Nicholas A Diakopoulos

Makoto Sasaoka

Xiaohua Sun

A computer-implemented method, comprising detecting a first audio output in a first room, and detecting a portion of the first audio output in a second room, determining whether the portion of the first audio output in the second room meets a trigger requirement, and for the determining that the portion meets the trigger requirement, providing an action to reduce the portion of the first audio input in the second room.

System and method for dynamically adjusting settings of audio output devices to reduce noise in adjacent spaces

Example implementations described herein are directed to the transmission of hand information from a user hand or other object to a remote device via browser-to-browser connections, such that the hand or other object is oriented correctly on the remote device based on orientation measurements received from the remote device. Such example implementations can facilitate remote assistance in which the user of the remote device needs to view the hand or object movement as provided by an expert for guidance.

Web-based remote assistance system with context and content-aware 3D hand gesture visualization

Example implementations described herein involve an interface for calculating and displaying missing links for data represented as a bipartite network, along with novel methods for improving link prediction algorithms in the related art. Through example implementations described herein, the accuracy of link prediction algorithms can be improved upon, thereby providing the user with a more accurate understanding of the data in the bipartite network.

Visual analysis framework for understanding missing links in bipartite networks

Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for skill assessment, such as hand washing compliance in hospitals, or assembling products in factories. Example implementations involve body part tracking (e.g., hands), skeleton tracking and deep neural networks to detect and recognize sub-tasks and to assess the skill on each sub-task. Furthermore, the order of the sub-tasks is checked for correctness. Beyond monitoring individual users, example implementations can be used for analyzing and improving workflow designs with multiple sub-tasks.

Methods for real-time skill assessment of multi-step tasks performed by hand movements using a video camera

A method of visualizing relationship data in a network connecting an entity of a first type with an entity of a second type is provided. The method includes detecting, within the network, a subnetwork pattern representing at least one relationship satisfying a condition, generating a visualization based on the detected subnetwork pattern. The visualization includes a first region representative of the first type of entity, a second region representative of the second type of entity, and a linking region connecting the first region to the second region and providing information about the at least one relationship satisfying the condition.

System and method for visual exploration of subnetwork patterns in two-mode networks

A method of visualizing search results is provided. The method includes receiving a content feature, detecting, within a network, a subnetwork pattern representing a relationship satisfying a condition and associated with an entity of a first or a second type, the entity being associated with the content feature, and generating a visualization based on the detected subnetwork pattern. The visualization includes a first region representative of the first type of entity, a second region representative of the second type of entity, and a linking region connecting the first region to the second region and providing information about the represented relationship.

System and method for visual exploration of search results in two-mode networks

A real-time end-to-end system for capturing ink strokes written with ordinary pen and paper using a commodity video camera is described. Compare to traditional camera-based approaches, which typically separate out the pen tip localization and pen up/down motion detection, described is a unified approach that integrates these two steps using a deep neural network. Furthermore, the described system does not require manual initialization to locate the pen tip. A preliminary evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of the described system on handwriting recognition for English and Japanese phrases.

Systems and methods for real-time end-to-end capturing of ink strokes from video

In example implementations described herein, there is a smart hat that is configured to receive gesture inputs through an accelerometer or through touch events on the hat, with light emitting diodes providing feedback to the wearer. The smart hat can be configured to be connected wirelessly to an external apparatus to control the apparatus by transmitting and receiving messages (e.g., commands) between the hat and the apparatus wirelessly. Further, a network of smart hats may be managed by an external device depending on the desired implementation.

Smart hat device for interacting with remote devices and displays

A computer-implemented method is provided for coordinating sensed poses associated with real-time movement of a first object in a live video feed, and pre-recorded poses associated with movement of a second object in a video. The computer-implemented method comprises applying a matching function to determine a match between a point of one of the sensed poses and a corresponding point of the pre-recorded poses, and based on the match, determining a playtime and outputting at least one frame of the video associated with the second object for the playtime.

Method and system for real time synchronization of video playback with user motion

Systems and methods directed to utilizing a first camera system to capture first images of one or more people in proximity to a tabletop; utilizing a second camera system to capture second images of one or more documents in proximity to the tabletop; generating a query for a database derived from people recognition conducted on the first images and text extraction on the second images; determining a first ranked list of people and a second ranked list of documents based on results of the query, the results based on a calculated ranked list of two-mode networks; and providing an interface on a display to access information about one or more people from the first ranked list of people and one or more documents from the second ranked list of documents.

System for searching documents and people based on detecting documents and people around a table

Systems and methods for generating high resolution dewarped images for an image of a document captured by a 3D stereo digital camera system, or a mobile phone camera capturing a sequence of images, which may improve OCR performance. Example embodiments include a compact stereo camera with two sensors mounted at fixed locations, and a multi-resolution pipeline to process and to dewarp the images using a three dimensional surface model based on curve profiles of the computed depth map. Example embodiments also include a mobile phone including a camera which captures a sequence of images, and a processor which computes a disparity map using the captured sequence of image frames, computes a model of the at least one document page by generating a cylindrical three dimensional geometric surface using the computed disparity map, and renders a dewarped image from the computed model.

Generating hi-res dewarped book images

In a telepresence scenario with remote users discussing a document or a slide, it can be difficult to follow which parts of the document are being discussed. One way to address this problem is to provide feedback by showing where the user's hand is pointing at on the document, which also enables more expressive gestural communication than a simple remote cursor. An important practical problem is how to transmit this remote feedback efficiently with high resolution document images. This is not possible with standard videoconferencing systems which have insufficient resolution. We propose a method based on using hand skeletons to provide the feedback. The skeleton can be captured using a depth camera or a webcam (with a deep network algorithm), and the small data can be transmitted at a high frame rate (without a video codec).

Systems and methods for capturing and rendering hand skeletons over documents images for telepresence

A method at a computer system includes obtaining an electronic document comprising document elements, and injecting into the document in association with one of the document elements one or more hotspot attributes, the hotspot attributes defining attributes of a hotspot that is displayable in conjunction with the document element when the document is displayed, the hotspot attributes being associated with predefined physical gestures and respective document actions; such that the hotspot, when displayed as part of a displayed document, indicates that a viewer of the displayed document can interact with the displayed document using the predefined physical gestures (i) performed at a position that overlap a displayed version of the document in a field of view of a camera system and (ii) captured by the camera system, wherein a physical gesture results in a respective document action being performed on the displayed document.

Methods and systems for providing a camera-based graphical user interface

A computer-implemented system and method for using certain simulated sensors constructed with an accurate localization sensor and a mobile phone to replace/enhance many existing real-life sensors. By using 'simulated sensor' to convert localization sensor measurement to real signal outputs that are similar to real distance-sensor outputs, real direction sensor outputs, or real line following sensor outputs, one or more embodiments of the invention may be used to upgrade traditional robots by plugging these simulated outputs to robots' corresponding sensor inputs without the need to rewire or add customized hardware.

Systems and methods for using an external sensor and a mobile device to simulate real sensors for a robot

Systems and methods disclosed herein present topic-centric visualizations of collaboration data. An example method includes: obtaining a set of topics based on an analysis of collaboration data and displaying an interactive visualization that includes first UI elements that correspond to each topic (first UI elements corresponding to similar topics are positioned close together). In response to receiving a specified time period for the interactive visualization, the method includes: identifying a subset of the plurality of persons that are associated with the specified time period. The method additionally includes: obtaining a first set of connections between the set of topics and the subset and a second set of connections between related persons in the subset. The method further includes: updating the interactive visualization to include second UI elements corresponding to each respective person of the subset and visual representations of each connection in the first and second sets.

Systems and methods for presenting a topic-centric visualization of collaboration data

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Patrick Chiu