CPC Class H04W

A recommendation server provides product or service suggestions to a user based on transaction and location data. The recommendation server receives transaction data from a merchant device operated by a merchant affiliate. The transaction data contains information that is used to identify a suggested product or service. A search vicinity is determined based on the location of the merchant affiliate and the suggested product or service. A suggested merchant is determined that is located within the search vicinity, and that sells the suggested product or service. Information about the suggested merchant and the suggested product or service is sent to a user device operated by the user in order to encourage them to make a purchase from the suggested merchant.

The techniques, methods, systems, and other mechanisms described herein include processes for determining if customized content should be generated, what information to include in the customized content, and when to provide the customized content. In general, a computing system determines that a user intends to travel to a physical venue. The computing system can determine if an entity associated with the physical venue has a web page. The computing system can determine various aspects of a predicted route of travel from the user's present location to the physical venue. The computing system can use location information indicating the user's current location and determine one or more routes of travel to the physical venue. The computing system can compare one or more determined aspects of the predicted route to threshold values to determine if customized content should be generated and presented to the user.

Three-dimensional models (or avatars) may be defined based on imaging data captured from a customer. The avatars may be based on a virtual mannequin having one or more dimensions in common with the customer, a body template corresponding to the customer, or imaging data captured from the customer. The avatars are displayed on displays or in user interfaces and used for any purpose, such as to depict how clothing will appear or behave while being worn by a customer alone or with other clothing. Customers may drag-and-drop images of clothing onto the avatars. One or more of the avatars may be displayed on any display, such as a monitor or a virtual reality headset, which may depict the avatars in a static or dynamic mode. Images of avatars and clothing may be used to generate print catalogs depicting the appearance or behavior of the clothing while worn by the customer.

An augmented reality apparatus and system, an image processing method, and device are presented. The augmented reality system includes an augmented reality server and at least two augmented reality apparatuses. The augmented reality apparatuses includes first and second augmented reality apparatuses. The first augmented reality apparatus can acquire a facial image of a first user. The augmented reality server can receive the facial image of the first user, and conduct augmented reality processing on an image of a second user's surroundings sent by a second augmented reality apparatus, according to the facial image of the first user, thereby enriching the functions of the first augmented reality apparatus and enhancing the flexibility in augmented reality processing of images by the augmented reality server.

A method of controlling access to an enclosed area having a boundary includes generating a first inaudible audio signal inside the enclosed area, and generating a second signal, each configured to be sensed by a sensing device, wherein the first inaudible audio signal is not capable of penetrating the boundary; determining a state of the enclosed area, based on either the first inaudible audio signal, or the first inaudible audio signal and the second signal, being sensed by the sensing device; and based on the state, generating an instruction to perform access control for the enclosed area.

A system, apparatus and method utilize a micro electronic device implanted in a person or group of persons, or wearable thereby, to manage a variety of activities, including checking out a product or service from a market, such as a micro-market. The method includes the steps of providing a RF microdevice having an electronic identification code and attaching the microdevice to the user. A checkout system is provided including an RF reader and a processor. The user brings the microdevice near the reader, whereby the reader communicates with the microdevice via RF signals, and the RF reader signals the processor to corroborate the identification code. If the processor corroborates the identification code, the processor signals that a successful product or service checkout has occurred. If the processor does not corroborate the identification code, a checkout is not confirmed.

A system includes, but is not limited to, a hardware controller for adjusting a dynamically modifiable display on a garment; and an environmental dominant hue sensor that detects a real-time dominant hue of an environment in which the garment is located, where the hardware controller adjusts the dynamically modifiable display based on a real-time detected dominant hue of the environment in which the garment is located in order to increase a color contrast between the dynamically modifiable display and the real-time detected dominant hue of the environment in which the garment is located.

In a method for wireless communication between a vehicle, particularly a motor vehicle, and an external service facility, wherein at least one communication signal is sent to the vehicle by the service facility, it is provided as essential for the purposes of the invention that the communication signal is a sound signal, and that the communication signal is captured by at least one structure-borne sound sensor installed in the vehicle.