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 mobile terminal including a body; a touchscreen provided to a front and extending to side of the body and configured to display content; and a controller configured to detect one side of the body comes into contact with one side of an external terminal, display a first area on the touchscreen corresponding to a contact area of the body and the external terminal and a second area including the content, receive an input of moving the content displayed in the second area to the first area, display the content in the first area, and share the content in the first area with the external terminal.

Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same

but the threat they bring to artistic culture. From his opening mockery of the literary establishment’s tendency to theorize the world in terms of desire or gender to his disapproval of those who venerate art while denying its validity in the same breath, Jonathan Dollimore has created an easily understood, albeit at times too theoretical, synthesis of the literary and the experiential in Sex, Literature and Censorship. His arguments on critical theory do not necessarily reject the concept of theory; rather, he argues that critical theorists should strive to understand the contradictions within our lives and our literature and explore the daemonic power of the subjects that offend our sense of tradition.

Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication:

To provide methods and systems for creating virtual and augmented reality.SOLUTION: Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. The systems may comprise an image capturing device to capture one or more images, the one or more images corresponding to a field of view of a user of a head-mounted augmented reality device, and a processor communicatively coupled to the image capturing device to extract a set of map points from the set of images, to identify a set of sparse points and a set of dense points from the extracted set of map points, and to perform normalization on the set of map points.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Methods and systems for creating virtual and augmented reality

A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.

Using context information to facilitate processing of commands in a virtual assistant

In some embodiments, the disclosed subject matter involves a system for mapping projection of content to surfaces in an environment. Groups of users in the environment are identified and surfaces in the environment are selected/assigned for projection and/or touch input based on user preferences, ranking of surfaces for projectability or touchability, content to be displayed, proximity of user groups to one another and surfaces, and user feedback and control. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Context aware projection

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor tasks performed in an environment of interest are disclosed. One such apparatus is a task monitor that includes a signature comparator to compare a first signature to a second signature. The first signature is generated based on first audio collected in an environment of interest and the second signature is generated based on second audio collected during performance of a task in the environment of interest. The task monitor also includes an object identifier to identify an object corresponding to a location determined based on an angle of arrival of the first audio at a sensor. A task identifier is to identify the task as a cause of the first audio when the signature comparator determines the first signature matches the second signature and the object identifier identifies the object as a same object used to perform the task.

Methods and apparatus to detect the performance of an activity by detecting the performance of tasks

Technologies for synchronizing physiological functions of people include a wearable compute device. The wearable compute device is to determine physiological rate data of a user of the wearable device based on sensor data produced by at least one physiological sensor included in the wearable compute device, determine a difference between the determined physiological rate data of the user and reference physiological rate data, generate a perceptible signal that is representative of the determined difference, and convey the perceptible signal to the user with at least one signal conveyor device included in the wearable compute device, to facilitate synchronization of the physiological functions of the user with the reference physiological rate data. Other embodiments are described.

Technologies for synchronizing physiological functions

A Smart Museum installation in the Stadsmuseum in Stockholm -From Visitor Guides to Museum Management

Methods and apparatus to operate closed-lid portable computers are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a camera input analyzer to analyze image data captured by a world facing camera on a portable computer when a lid of the portable computer is in a closed position. The world facing camera is on a first side of the lid. The portable computer includes a primary display on a second side of the lid opposite the first side. The example apparatus further includes a secondary display controller to render content via a secondary display of the portable computer in response to the analysis of the image data. The secondary display controller is to render the content on the secondary display while the lid of the portable computer is in the closed position and the primary display is turned off.

Giuseppe Raffa

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Context aware projection

Methods and apparatus to detect the performance of an activity by detecting the performance of tasks

Technologies for synchronizing physiological functions

A Smart Museum installation in the Stadsmuseum in Stockholm -From Visitor Guides to Museum Management

Methods and apparatus to operate closed-lid portable computers