International Business Machines Corporation

Petrochina Company Limited

Infineon Technologies Ag

Lenovo (beijing) Limited

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (shanghai) Corporation

National Institute of Metrology, China

Shi Kun Li

Su Liu

Wei Shan Dong

Ka Lin

Jun Zhou

Dan Zhang

Jeffrey Alan Calcaterra

Xinglong Chen

Di Li Hu

Lin Fu

Haishui Han

Hongwei Yu

Fang Lu

Howard Neil Anglin

Ying Nan Li

Jiazhong Wu

Wei Zuo

Zemin Ji

Junqian Zhou

Wei Li

Cheng Xu

Zhen-Dong Zhu

He Huang

Yin Qian

Xiao Feng Ji

Jin Hong Fu

Shi Chong Ma

Si-Tian Gao

Jing-Tao Xu

Chien Chun Shao

Embodiments of the invention are directed to automatically capturing user interface screenshots for use in documentation of a software product. Aspects include identifying a user interface window of the software product and creating a degree-of-completion graph for the user interface window. Aspects also include capturing a plurality of screenshots of the user interface window during use of the software product and calculating a degree-of-completion percentage for each of the plurality of screenshots. Aspects further include identifying a subset of the plurality of screenshots to be included in the software product documentation based on the degree-of-completion percentage.

Automatic capture of user interface screenshots for software product documentation

The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasonic microbubble generation method, apparatus and system. The apparatus comprises a horn-shaped conductor including an upper horn-shaped body and a lower cylindrical body; the horn-shaped body is provided with a cavity having an upper opening, an upper end of the cavity is fixedly connected with a micropore vibration thin sheet, a micropore array of the micropore vibration thin sheet is corresponding to the upper opening of the cavity, and a side wall of the cavity is provided with a through hole for external gas to enter the cavity; the cylindrical body is provided with a transducing ring and an electrode sheet, an outer side of the cylindrical body is insulated and sealed, and a connection wire of the electrode sheet is led out by a steel pipe and connected with an external ultrasonic oscillation controller.

Ultrasonic microbubble generation method, apparatus and system

A computer-implemented method includes determining that a first time point in a video has been reached during playback of the video. A dynamic relationship graph is displayed in association with the first time point, where the dynamic relationship graph illustrates one or more relationships among two or more characters in the video, responsive to the first time point being reached. The relationship graph includes two or more nodes and one or more edges. The nodes include a respective node representing each character of the two or more characters in the video, and the edges include a respective edge representing each relationship of the one or more relationships among the characters. It is determined that a second time point is reached in the video. The dynamic relationship graph is updated to represent a change in the one or more relationships between the first time point and the second time point.

Visualization of dynamic relationships in a storyline

The present disclosure provides a tip-enhanced Raman spectroscope system. The system includes a laser emitting unit, a laser excitation unit, a first dichroic beam splitter, a first Raman spectrometer, and a confocal detecting unit. The laser excitation unit includes a sample stage and a first scanning probe. The sample stage is configured to have a sample disposed thereon such that a first incident laser beam emitted from the laser emitting unit is transmitted to the sample to excite first scattered light. The first dichroic beam splitter is configured to split a first Raman scattered light from the first Rayleigh scattered light. The first Raman spectrometer is disposed on a first Raman optical path of the first Raman scattered light. The confocal detecting unit is disposed on a first Rayleigh optical path of the first Rayleigh scattered light to image the sample.

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscope system

The present disclosure provides a microbubble generation device and equipment, wherein the microbubble generation device comprises: a microbubble generation mechanism having a housing and a core tube provided to pass therethrough, wherein at least one filter plate is provided on a peripheral sidewall of the housing, and an annular space is formed between the housing and the core tube; a flow rate control mechanism provided in the annular space, and connected to the core tube that is communicated with the annular space through the flow rate control mechanism, wherein a blocking ball is provided in the flow rate control mechanism and capable of blocking the flow rate control mechanism in a state that a pressure of gas injected into the flow rate control mechanism decreases; and a pressure balancing mechanism provided outside the housing and having a pressure balancing tube and a fluid check valve connected thereto. The present disclosure can withstand a huge pressure difference during a movement within a wellbore from a ground surface to an oil reservoir and take preventive measures for the failure. The gas injection process of the present disclosure not only meets the microbubble volume requirement, but also provides safe control measures.

Microbubble generation device and equipment

A method of estimating an indoor lighting condition includes acquiring an image from a camera at a location within an indoor space at a selected time, determining the location from which the image is taken, and estimating an outdoor sunlight density based on the location and the selected time. The method also includes collecting a plurality of daylight factors, each daylight factor of the plurality of daylight factors corresponding to a characteristic of the indoor space, calculating an indoor daylight index for the indoor space in real time based on the outdoor sunlight density and the plurality of daylight factors, and presenting the indoor daylight index to a user in real time.

Real time estimation of indoor lighting conditions

A system and method of performing oil displacement by a water-gas dispersion system includes a micro-bubble generation apparatus, a gas source, an ultrasonic oscillation controller, a protective barrel and a support. A first opening is provided in a top end of the protective barrel, into which an internal apparatus enters and is extracted, the first opening is sealed by an end cover. A second opening communicating with a water flooding pipeline is provided in a side wall of the protective barrel, into which fluid flows and from which the fluid exits. The micro-bubble generation apparatus is fixed within the protective barrel by the support. The gas source is connected with the micro-bubble generation apparatus through a gas pipeline, for transporting gas to the micro-bubble generation apparatus. The ultrasonic oscillation controller is connected to the micro-bubble generation apparatus through a signal line, for controlling the micro-bubble generation apparatus to generate micro-bubbles.

System and method of performing oil displacement by water-gas dispersion system

Implementations of the present disclosure relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for multimedia object management. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is disclosed and the method may be implemented by one or more processors in a computer. In the method, a graphic pattern indicating a request for searching in a repository for at least one target object may be received. A search condition may be obtained from the received graphic pattern by a graphical analysis. Based on an association model indicating associations between the search condition and at least one feature of one or more objects in the repository, at least one target object may be found according to the obtained search condition. In other implementations, a computer-implemented system and a computer program product for searching for at least one target object is disclosed.

Multimedia object search

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for cataloging images based on a gridded color histogram analysis. The computer accesses an image gallery specified by a user, wherein the image gallery is at least one of an image gallery stored on a user computing device, an image gallery stored on a user account at a third-party image storage, or an image gallery searched on the web. The computer receives a request to search the image gallery specified by the user. The computer performs a search of the image gallery, wherein the search is using a color based histogram algorithm based on a user input. The computer transmits a cataloged and sorted image gallery to the user computing device to be displayed.

Image cataloger based on gridded color histogram analysis

An image of a building may be received from a client device, and the building in the image may be geo-located and identified. Based on the geo-location, a set of attributes for the building may be determined. A user query may be received from the client device, and based on a property of the user query, a unit in the building may be identified. A daylight livability index (DLLI) for the unit may be determined, based on the identified unit and the set of attributes for the building, and the user may be notified of the DLLI.

Daylight livability index from images

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method, computer system and computer program product for user authentication. According to the method, identity information can be received from a user, and a plurality of questions can be presented to the user, the plurality of questions comprising one or more valid questions generated based on a password related to the identity information and one or more invalid questions. Then, an input can be received from the user, and in response to the input corresponding to the one or more valid questions, the user can be authenticated based on the input.

Authentication without inputting passwords

A control method applied in an electronic device preset with at least two applications is provided. In the case of switching an interface of a first application to an interface of a second application, first, if sense information received meets a preset switching condition, the interface of the first application is switched to a navigation interface including identification information of various applications, and the user may determine rapidly the relative position between the identification information of the first application and the second application as a target application based on the arrangement of the various identification information, and then the user performs a rotating operation in a preset operating region, and when the rotating operation finishes, based on the relative relationship between the positions where the rotating operation finishes and starts, the electronic device positions the target application rapidly, and displays the display interface of the target application.

Method for switching user interface based upon a rotation gesture and electronic device using the same

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for cataloging images based on a gridded color histogram analysis. The computer accesses an image gallery specified by a user, wherein the image gallery is at least one of an image gallery stored on a user computing device, an image gallery stored on a user account at a third-party image storage, or an image gallery searched on the web. The computer receives a request to search the image gallery. The computer performs a search of the image gallery, wherein the search is using a color based histogram algorithm based on a user input. The computer transmits a cataloged and sorted image gallery to the user computing device to be displayed.

Summarizing and visualizing information relating to a topic of discussion in a group instant messaging session is provided. A message from a client device of a plurality of client devices is received. One or more keywords from the message are extracted based, at least in part, on at least one of (i) one or more natural-language processing algorithms and (ii) one or more text mining algorithms. The one or more keywords are incorporated into a model that includes a plurality of keywords and describes, at least in part, a topic of a group instant messaging session among the plurality of client devices. At least one of (i) the model and (ii) instructions describing how to update the model are distributed to the plurality of client devices.

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