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Stephen D Williams

David Mandel

Ayla Mandel

Ashwin Raut

Shakti Shah

Guy Erb

Deepti Varshney

Jordan Ruderman

Victor Y Wang

D Michael Ott

Frederick Crowhurst

Victor Wang

William O Williams

A user may create an avatar and/or animated sequence illustrating a particular object or living being performing a certain activity, using images of portions of the object or living being extracted from a still image or set of still images of the object or living being.

System and method for generating an avatar that expresses a state of a user

Generating a background that allows a first avatar to take part in an activity with a second avatar

Methods and systems are provided for providing secure Ethernet transmissions. In some aspects, an autonomous vehicle system is provided and can include a first system-on-chip being configured to provide data to a second system-on-chip via an Ethernet harness, a first switch being configured to: receive the data from the first system-on-chip, and provide the data to a first transceiver for transmission to the second system-on-chip, the first switch being configured to provide first transmission data to the first transceiver and to prohibit receipt of retrieval data from the second system-on-chip, and the first transceiver configured to communicate with the second system-on-chip via the Ethernet harness.

Secure ethernet and transmission control protocol

System and method for creating avatars or animated sequences using human body features extracted from a still image

A transmission or actuator offering one or more rotational outputs proportionate in speed and direction to that of a common rotational input, each with its own ratio coupled with a controllable dynamic slip/compliance element and optionally either of a one-way bearing or brake preventing back driving. Ratios are continuously variable between positive and negative values, including infinity, varied by mechanical or electromechanical actuators under external or computer control. The transmission may intrinsically integrate multiple partial transmissions for increasing torque capability, rapidly changing between alternate settings, and/or to drive multiple outputs with customizable design. A communicating system of such distributed transmissions forming a hierarchy or network, each transmission driven directly by a motor, indirectly by the output of another transmission, or both, including indirect cumulative forward and back driving throughout the hierarchy or network. Such a network of actuators for complex robotic, manufacturing, movement, or transport applications.

Slip-modulated proprioceptive infinitely variable transmission and robotic power distribution system

A user may create an avatar and/or animated sequence illustrating a particular object or living being performing a certain activity, using images of portions of the object or living being extracted from a still image or set of still images of the object or living being. The resulting avatar and/or associated animated sequence may be created to include recognizable facial or other features of the individual(s)/objects, and may, for example, be suitable for exchange over the Internet, or as part of a game or other activity.

A user may create an avatar and/or animated sequence illustrating a particular object or living being performing a certain activity, using images of portions of the object or living being extracted from a still image or set of still images of the object or living being. A mathematical model used to represent the avatar may be animated according to user-selected motion information and may be modified according to various parameters including explicit end-user adjustments and information representative of a human emotion, mood, or feeling that may be derived from an image of the user or information from a news source or social network.

A method for improved readability of digitally captured document images that include printed or handwritten textual material overlaid on background graphics. Text in the document is generally composed at least in part of strokes characterized by pairs of edges in close proximity to one another. The digital image comprises an array of pixels representing at least a portion of the document. The edges in the pixel array are first identified and then grown by an effective amount so as to cause pairs of edges characterizing each stroke substantially to merge. The grown edges are then shrunk by an effective amount so as to cause non-stroke edges to be substantially eliminated without eliminating the merged stroke edges. A binarized representation of the merged stroke edges is then provided using an algorithm that is adapted to give a good representation of edge images, and a binarized representation of non-stroke regions of the pixel array is provided using a different algorithm especially adapted to represent the non-stroke regions. A document image with reconstructed textual matter may also be combined with a representation of the background graphics in which the overall contrast of the background graphics has been reduced. This may be achieved, for example, by scaling back the contrast of the captured digital image by a fixed percentage or by a variable amount prescribed by a formula, and then subjecting the scaled-back image data to a process such as a digital half-tone process providing a good binarized representation of the reduced-contrast image.

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