An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.

Intelligent Automated Assistant

A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as a human voice. The method includes, upon a determination that at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to the predetermined type, determining whether the sound input includes predetermined content, such as a predetermined trigger word or phrase. The method also includes, upon a determination that the sound input includes the predetermined content, initiating a speech-based service, such as a voice-based digital assistant.

Voice trigger for a digital assistant

The Challenge and Promise of Glycomics

In this review, we wish to show that in the recent years a
significant progress was done in the EC analysis of practically
all proteins, based on electroactivity of amino acid (aa)
residues in proteins. Also electrochemistry of polysaccharides,
oligosaccharides and glycoproteins greatly advanced in creating
important steps for its larger application in the glycoprotein
research. In recent decades, a great effort was devoted to the
discovery and application of biomarkers for analysis of
different diseases, including cancer. In the following
paragraphs, special attention will be paid (i) to intrinsic
electroactivity of peptides and proteins, including the
sensitivity to changes in protein 3D structures, as well as to
recent advances in EC investigations of DNA-protein
interactions, (ii) to intrinsic electroactivity of glycans and
polysaccharides, advances in EC detection of
lectin-glycoprotein interactions and to introduction of
electroactive labels to polysaccharides and glycans and finally
(iii) to EC detection of protein biomarkers, based
predominantly on application of antibodies in immunoassays,
nucleic acid and peptide aptamers for construction of
aptasensors, and lectin biosensors for detection of
glycoprotein biomarkers.

Electrochemistry of Nonconjugated Proteins and Glycoproteins. Toward Sensors for Biomedicine and Glycomics

A method and system detects and highlights changes in documents and displays those documents in a side-by-side aligned view. Aspects of a source document and a revised document are detected and compared. Similarities and/or differences between the source document and the revised document are identified and visual identifiers are introduced to maintain consistent and accurate alignment between content in the source document and content in the revised document. A merged single file is output containing the aligned side-by-side view of the source document and the revised document, with all differences between the source document and the revised document visually identified.

Effective system and method for visual document comparison using localized two-dimensional visual fingerprints

An image management method and system provides for storing, indexing, searching and/or retrieving image data. The content of an image collection is pre-processed to identify stable and repeatable keypoints for each image in the collection. Fingerprint information is computed from local groups of keypoints, and the resulting fingerprint information is stored in a compact fingerprint database. The computing of the fingerprint information is based on combinations of a subgroup of the strongest keypoints in an image, called anchor keypoints, in addition to a number of non-anchor keypoints. For each fingerprint in the compact fingerprint database, a sequence of candidate fingerprint combinations is generated and stored in a Fan Tree and/or hashtable and a corresponding fingerprint data structure. The sequence of fingerprint combinations allows several non-anchor keypoints to be missing, while still allowing the system and method to correctly detect fingerprints with high accuracy. A realtime image query is performed by identifying keypoints and computing fingerprints from the query image and matching the query fingerprints to the existing Fan Tree and/or hashtable fingerprint data to determine the best matching image or set of images within the collection. At least one target image is retrieved based on the determining operation, and the retrieved target image is displayed, printed, stored and/or transmitted.

System and method for finding a picture image in an image collection using localized two-dimensional visual fingerprints

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for sharing annotated videos. During operation, the system establishes a real-time video-sharing session between a remote field computer and a local computer. During the established real-time video-sharing session, the system receives a real-time video stream from a remote field computer, forwards the real-time video stream to a local computer to allow an expert to provide an annotation to the real-time video stream, receives the annotation from the local computer, and forwards the annotation to the remote field computer, which associates the annotation with a corresponding portion of the real-time video stream and displays the annotation on top of the corresponding portion of the real-time video stream.

Collaborative video application for remote servicing

Charge deconvolution infers the mass from mass over charge (m/z) measurements in electrospray ionization mass spectra. When applied over a wide input m/z or broad target mass range, charge-deconvolution algorithms can produce artifacts, such as false masses at one-half or one-third of the correct mass. Indeed, a maximum entropy term in the objective function of MaxEnt, the most commonly used charge deconvolution algorithm, favors a deconvolved spectrum with many peaks over one with fewer peaks. Here we describe a new “parsimonious” charge deconvolution algorithm that produces fewer artifacts. The algorithm is especially well-suited to high-resolution native mass spectrometry of intact glycoproteins and protein complexes. Deconvolution of native mass spectra poses special challenges due to salt and small molecule adducts, multimers, wide mass ranges, and fewer and lower charge states. We demonstrate the performance of the new deconvolution algorithm on a range of samples. On the heavily glycosylated plasma...

Parsimonious Charge Deconvolution for Native Mass Spectrometry.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates interaction between two entities located away from each other. The system includes a virtual reality system (114), an augmented reality system (120), and an object-state-maintaining mechanism. During operation, the virtual reality system (114) displays an object associated with a real-world object. The augmented reality system (120) displays the object based on a change to the state of the object. The object-state-maintaining mechanism determines the state of the object and communicates a state change to the virtual reality system, the augmented reality system, or both. A respective state change of the object can be based on one or more of: a state change of the real-world object; a user input to the virtual reality system or the augmented reality system; and an analysis of an image of the real-world object.

Doron Kletter

Papers

Effective system and method for visual document comparison using localized two-dimensional visual fingerprints

System and method for finding a picture image in an image collection using localized two-dimensional visual fingerprints

Collaborative video application for remote servicing

Parsimonious Charge Deconvolution for Native Mass Spectrometry.

Spatial association between virtual and augmented reality