International Business Machines Corporation

Thomas Li

Feng Li

Juhnyoung Lee

Shun Jiang

Rong Zeng Cao

Grace Jansen

Alexander John Naylor

Fraser Iain MacIntosh

Rosanna M Lickorish

Feng Chun Wang

Mark Longland

Klajd Karaj

Techniques for localized reduction of screen glare, the techniques including receiving data from a first camera and a second camera on a perimeter of a display, triangulating a first location of a first light source and a second location of a first user based on the data from the first camera and the second camera. The techniques can further include determining, based on the first location and the second location, that the first user experiences glare from the first light source when viewing the display, and generating a modified screen buffer by modifying pixel values in a glare area of the display. The techniques can further include providing the modified screen buffer to the display.

Localized glare reduction on user interfaces

A method for monitoring cursor motion between multiple monitors that together form an extended display. The cursor's location and speed are tracked. When it is detected that the cursor has intersected a display edge, the cursor is permitted to transit to the next display only if the cursor speed is above a threshold value. Otherwise the cursor is constrained within the monitor where it is located. This makes it easier for a user to actuate buttons and icons that are located near screen edges. Moreover, if the cursor is predicted to be transiting into a display area where there is no additional monitor, then the stored physical location of the additional monitor's display area is displaced so that it lies in the predicted path of the cursor. Manual configuration of the relative physical locations of monitors is therefore unnecessary as the computer learns this automatically from user-driven cursor movements.

Automatic configuration of screen settings with multiple monitors

A method and system for finding a source failure node in a traceable network. The method includes: determining a possible source failure node according to a leaf node that has an exception, wherein the possible source failure node is a node that is most likely to cause the exception; selecting a target node to receive an investigation result corresponding to the target node, wherein the investigation result indicates whether the target node has the same exception; receiving the investigation result corresponding to the target node and updating the traceable network according to the investigation result; and returning to the step of determining a possible source failure node, if it can not be verified according to the updated traceable network that the possible source failure node is the source failure node causing the exception.

Method and system for finding

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