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General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals

Shipeng Li

Feng Wu

Xian-Sheng Hua

Ya-Qin Zhang

Yan Lu

Bin Benjamin Zhu

Tao Mei

Jiang Tao Li

Xiaoyan Sun

Jizheng Xu

Alexandros Tourapis

Keman Yu

Jingdong Wang

Huifeng Shen

Wen Sun

Guobin Shen

Rong Yan

Yang Yang

Guo Bin Shen

Zhaotai Pan

Alexandros Michael Tourapis

Gary Joseph Sullivan

Jianfeng Wang

Ying-Qing Xu

Linjun Yang

Ruiqin Xiong

Jingjing Fu

Jing Wang

Zheng Chen

Dong Hui Liu

Lin Luo

Hua Cai

Jian-Tao Sun

Min Feng

Zhiwei Xiong

Zixiang Xiong

Guangping Gao

Wei-Ying Ma

Bo Zhang

Hong-Jiang Zhang

Jia Liu

Yong Rui

Kun Tan

Peng Xu

Rui Guo

Hongwei Li

Xun Guo

Mei Guo

Haitao Wu

Chong Luo

Ning Xu

Yang Luo

Ning Zhang

Chun Liang Yuan

Dunbo Yu

Hao Xu

Jian Wang

Yuwen He

Hao Wang

Heung-Yeung Shum

Xuedong D Huang

Peng Wang

Fei Wang

Min Wang

Yan Wang

John Allen Tardif

Lihua Zhu

Richard F Rashid

Abhishek Abhishek

Regis J Crinon

Ye-Yi Wang

Bo Feng

Qi Chen

Qifa Ke

Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Mark D Schwesinger

Zihua Guo

Li Jiang

Yuan Liu

Richard Yuqi Yao

Iraj Sodagar

Xiaolong Li

Yidong Wang

Waiman Lam

Debing Liu

Yang Wang

Xiaochuan Ni

Zhimin Zhang

Hung-Ju Lee

Wenjun Zeng

Fan Yang

Xiaoming Wang

Zhong Wu

Aaron DeYonker

Matt Bronder

Lei Wu

Wu Liu

Wenlong Yan

Dinei Afonso Ferreira Florencio

Aimin Pan

A proxy-based thin-client web browsing framework enables cooperative web browsing of multiple devices. The multiple devices may include devices that are not intended for web browsing and have limited or no web browsers and/or user input capabilities. The proxy-based thin client web browsing framework employs a virtual browser at a proxy server to perform all browser-engine logics, and retrieve, render and encode web pages on behalf of the multiple devices. The multiple devices therefore only need to have limited decoding and display capabilities to perform web browsing. The proxy-based thin client web browsing framework further includes a touch controller as a remote controller for a device that has no or limited user texting or manipulating capabilities.

Cooperative web browsing using multiple devices

A computer-implemented method for displaying at least a portion of content being displayed on a first device to also be displayed on a second device. The method includes causing content to be displayed on a first device. The method then includes detecting a second device to concurrently display at least a portion of the content being displayed on the first device. A capability of the first device is compared with a capability of the second device. Based on the comparing, the at least the portion of the content is automatically provided to be displayed on the second device.

Several improvements for use with Bidirectionally Predictive (B) pictures within a video sequence are provided. In certain improvements Direct Mode encoding and/or Motion Vector Prediction are enhanced using spatial prediction techniques. In other improvements Motion Vector prediction includes temporal distance and subblock information, for example, for more accurate prediction. Such improvements and other presented herein significantly improve the performance of any applicable video coding system/logic.

Spatiotemporal prediction for bidirectionally predictive (B) pictures and motion vector prediction for multi-picture reference motion compensation

Spatiotemporal prediction for bidirectionally predictive (b) pictures and motion vector prediction for multi-picture reference motion compensation

Improved video coding is described to encode video data within a sequence of video frames. To this end, at least a portion of a reference frame is encoded to include motion information associated with the portion of the reference frame. At least a portion of a predictable frame that includes video data predictively correlated to said portion of said reference frame is defined based on the motion information. At least said portion of the predictable frame is encoded without including corresponding motion information and including mode identifying data. The mode identifying data indicate that the encoded portion of the predictable frame can be directly derived using at least the motion information associated with the portion of the reference frame.

Video coding

A facility for using a mobile device to search video content takes advantage of computing capacity on the mobile device to capture input through a camera and/or a microphone, extract an audio-video signature of the input in real time, and to perform progressive search. By extracting a joint audio-video signature from the input in real time as the input is received and sending the signature to the cloud to search similar video content through the layered audio-video indexing, the facility can provide progressive results of candidate videos for progressive signature captures.

Mobile video search

This document describes tools associated with symbol entry control functions. In some implementations, the tools identify a first finger that is in tactile contact with a touch screen. The first finger can select a subset of symbols from a plurality of symbols that can be entered via the touch screen. The tools can also identify whether one or more other fingers are in concurrent tactile contact with the first finger on the touch screen. The tools can select an individual symbol from the subset based on whether the one or more other fingers are in concurrent tactile contact with the first finger on the touch screen.

Multi-touch text input

A rare-earth permanent magnetic powder, a bonded magnet containing thereof and a device using the bonded magnet are provided of the present disclosure. The rare-earth permanent magnetic powder comprises: 70 vol % to 99 vol % of a hard magnetic phase and 1 vol % to 30 vol % of a soft magnetic phase, the hard magnetic phase has a TbCustructure, and the grain size of the hard magnetic phase is 5 nm to 100 nm; the soft magnetic phase is a Fe phase having a bcc structure, the average grain size of the soft magnetic phase is 1 nm to 30 nm, and the standard deviation of the grain size is below 0.5&#x3c3;.

Rare-earth permanent magnetic powder, bonded magnet containing thereof and device using the bonded magnet

Techniques for setting depth values for invalid measurement regions of depth images are described herein. A computing device may set the depth values based on evaluations of depth values of neighboring pixels and of corresponding pixels from time-adjacent depth images. Alternately or additionally, the computing device may utilize a texture image corresponding to the depth image to identify objects and may set depth values for pixels based on depth values of other pixels belonging to the same object. After setting the depth values, the computing device may normalize the depth values of the pixels. Further, the computing device may generate reduced representations of the depth images based on a depth reference model or a depth error model and may provide the reduced representations to an encoder.

Depth data processing and compression

Improved video coding is described to encode video data within a sequence of video frames. To this end, at least a portion of a reference frame is encoded to include motion information associated with the portion of the reference frame. At least a portion of a predictable frame that includes video data predictively correlated to s portion of said reference frame is defined based on the motion information. At least said portion of the predictable frame is encoded without including corresponding motion information and including mode identifying data. The mode identifying data indicate that the encoded portion of the predictable frame can be directly derived using at least the motion information associated with the portion of the reference frame.

Systems and methods for automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods communicate a source video content playback stream to a video player to present source video to a user. During playback of the source video, and in response to receipt of a request from the user to navigate portions of the source video (e.g., a user command to fast forward the source video, rewind the source video, or other action), the systems and methods dynamically define a video advertisement clip insertion point (e.g., and insertion point based on a current playback position). The systems and methods then insert a contextually relevant and/or targeted video advertisement clip into the playback stream for presentation to the user.

Automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams

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