International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Sergio Borger

Carlos Henrique Cardonha

James R Kraemer

Robert R Friedlander

Arun Hampapur

Andrew William Senior

Robert Lee Angell

Chiao-Fe Shu

Julio Nogima

Fernando Luiz Koch

Ademir Ferreira Da Silva

Yashodhara M Patnaik

Marcia Ito

Christopher R Carlson

Lisa Maire Brown

Gopal Sarma Pingali

Lucas Correia Villa Real

Claudio Santos Pinhanez

Priscilla Barreira Avegliano

Renato Fontoura De Gusmao Cerqueira

Ulisses Mello

Lalit Agarwalla

Kiran Mantripragada

Ricardo Guimaraes Herrmann

Frederik C M Kjeldsen

Raymond A Cooke

Alexandre Pfeifer

Barry Gottlieb

Christopher A LoGiudice

Linda C Owen

Cesar Kawabata

Andrea Britto Mattos

Daniel Alves Da Silva

A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.

Mobile device based inventory management and sales trends analysis in a retail environment

A infrastructure sensitivity centric weather forecast system, method of forecasting weather and a computer program product therefor. A forecasting computer applies a grid to a forecast area, locates infrastructure, e.g. power grid infrastructure, in the area and determines weather effects on infrastructure in each grid cell. A targeted selection module iteratively identifies grid cells for refinement in response to the weather effects on cell infrastructure. In each iteration a refined grid is applied to each grid cell identified as containing infrastructure that may be sensitive, or vulnerable, to expected weather. The forecasting computer refines the area considered to focus on area infrastructure and sensitivities/vulnerabilities to expected weather.

System, method and program product for providing infrastructure centric weather forecasts

A system to measure effectiveness of displayed content includes a video processing service configured to receive and process a stream of video images captured by one or more video cameras, a display application service configured to produce display content to be displayed on one or more display monitors and to capture user interactions with the displayed content, and a display effectiveness service configured to correlate data received from the video processing service and the display application service and generate a display effectiveness measurement that is a measure of an effectiveness of the displayed content for specific periods of time.

Measuring display effectiveness with interactive asynchronous applications

A community information sharing system, method and program product therefore. A communications network with connected communications devices serves community communications device users. A communications network gateway is associated with a community communications server, e.g., on a cloud computer, and couples the communications network to a data network. The gateway interfaces communications devices connected to communications network with the communications server, providing communications devices access to an online message board, message board information and services.

Mobile device message enabled on-line community bulletin board

A mobile device is employed to be a gateway device to transmit messages between end-users and a shared message board running on a remote sever. The gateway device runs a gateway application to implement the gateway function.

Intermediated data entry in a shared message board through a mobile computing device

The present invention relates to the measurement of human activities through video, particularly in retail environments. A method for measuring retail display effectiveness in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: detecting a moving object in a field of view of an imaging device, the imaging device obtaining image data of a product display; tracking the object in the field of view of the imaging device to obtain a track; and obtaining statistics for the track with regard to the product display.

System and method for the measurement of retail display effectiveness

A computer system generates video based cohorts. Digital video data is processed to identify a set of color and texture based attributes associated with clothing worn by a set of objects. The digital video data comprises metadata describing the set of objects. The set of color and texture based attributes are analyzed using cohort criteria to form a result. The cohort criteria specify attributes that are associated with members of a given cohort. A set of cohorts is generated based on the result. Each cohort in the set of cohorts comprises a subset of objects from the set of objects that share at least one color and texture based attribute in common.

Identifying and generating color and texture video cohorts based on video input

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating video based cohorts. Digital video data is processed to identify a set of color and texture based attributes associated with the set of objects. The digital video data comprises metadata describing the set of objects. The set of color and texture based attributes are analyzed using cohort criteria to form a result. The cohort criteria specify attributes that are associated with members of a given cohort. A set of cohorts is generated based on the result. Each cohort in the set of cohorts comprises a subset of objects from the set of objects that share at least one color and texture based attribute in common.

Techniques for remotely calibrating an interactive system are provided. In one aspect, a three-dimensional model of the target environment is obtained, image and parameter data of the target environment are obtained, the image and parameter data are mapped onto the three-dimensional model, and calibration data of the target environment is developed based on the mapping. In another aspect, image and parameter data of the target environment is obtained, the image and parameter data is configured for transmission to a remote environment, calibration data is obtained from the remote environment, and display and sensor operation of the interactive system are updated based on the calibration data.

Remote set-up and calibration of an interactive system

The present invention includes a method, system, and program product for detecting an event that includes receiving at least one data input stream from one or more sensors, selecting a data input stream from one of the one or more sensors, recording the data input stream on a recordable medium, specifying a rule comprising an event in the data input stream, and detecting at least one event in the data input stream based upon the rule.

System and method for event detection utilizing sensor based surveillance

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Sergio Borger