03rd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120013632 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In order to make visible the image in a region which is hidden by an image sensor provided on a display unit when performing color calibration, | 2012-01-19 |
20120013633 | POSITIONING METHOD AND DISPLAY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A positioning method for obtaining position where a light pen is in contact with a display device at a to-be-positioned spot is provided. The display device includes display areas, corresponding with positioning coding patterns of a built-in positioning frame. The positioning method includes the following steps. Firstly, a positive positioning frame and a negative positioning frame are obtained according to the built-in positioning frame. Next, the positive and the negative positioning frames are respectively added on first original video frames to respectively generate first frame displayed in first frame time and second frame displayed in second frame time. Then the light pen obtains first selected image and second selected image from the first and the second frames respectively. After that, a to-be-positioned pattern is obtained by subtracting the second selected image from the first selected image and a coordinate position of the to-be-positioned spot is obtained. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013634 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus includes an imager that modulates light emitted from a light source and a projection unit that projects light emitted from the imager on a projection surface. The projection display apparatus includes: an imager controller that controls the imager to display a test pattern image in which a characteristic point is defined by at least three adjacent regions; an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of the test pattern image from an imaging element configured to capture the test pattern image projected on the projection surface; and an adjustment unit that identifies the characteristic point included in the captured image on the basis of the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit and adjusts an image to be projected on the projection surface on the basis of the identified characteristic point. The at least three adjacent regions surround the characteristic point and are adjacent to the characteristic point. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013635 | Accurate Color Display Device - A color accurate display device is configured to receive an encoded first color space having a first gamut from a set of encoded primaries {R, G, B} and a first white point. The device includes a display panel having an active area configured for an encoded second color space having a second white point and a set of native primaries each with a characterized tone response with respect to the second color space and a measured tone response from the display panel, the primaries having a second gamut larger than and including the first gamut. Also included is a color space conversion circuit configured to convert the set of encoded primaries {R, G, B} and first white point of the first color space to the set of native primaries and second white point compensating for each characterized tone response of the second color space. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013636 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - For each of a plurality of drawing objects, whether the drawing object is laid out on the rear side of one or more other drawing objects is determined based on an overlapped state of the plurality of drawing objects. The drawing object to be selected is decided based on the determination result. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013637 | AUTOMATIC COLOR ADJUSTMENT OF A TEMPLATE DESIGN - The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of source images that are separate from the plurality of template designs are provided on the visual display. A selection of a color from one of the plurality of source images is received from the user. Colors of the selected template design are automatically adjusted to contrast with the selected the color from the source image. The selected template design may include framing, mat, background, and foreground portions, at least one of which is adjusted. After automatically adjusting the colors, the selected template design may be displayed and/or stored for use as a template. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013638 | Method To Display Microsoft's Windows Desktop On A Large Multi-Projector Display - The display of a Windows Desktop is modified using one or more processors (e.g. CPUs and/or GPUs) that re-direct drawing of the Desktop to mirrored swap chain buffers; modify the contents of the a front buffer of the mirrored swap chain buffers; and draw the Desktop using the modified contents of the front buffer of the mirrored swap chain buffers. To modify the displayed Desktop, Windows needs to draw into these mirrored swap chains instead of its own. To accomplish this, all Direct3D functions that use a swap chain are hooked so that they return the mirrored swap chain, and any function that uses the contents of the swap chain are hooked. Basically any function that takes a Direct3D surface or texture is hooked and the respective item from the mirrored swap chains is returned if it is in the mirrored swap chain data structures. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013639 | Computer for restricted spaces - A laptop computer has a reflective transparent plate between the keyboard and the screen. Users viewing the keyboard through the plate sees a virtual image of the screen, reflected by the plate. This virtual image may include labels apparently superimposed on the keyboard; the keys themselves may be blank. Hands resting on the keyboard block the user's view of some keys, but do not block the view of the virtual image. This allows any key to be identified without moving the hands out of the way. The application (task) also exists within the virtual image, apparently in a pane just beyond the keyboard. This pane may extend over the keyboard, in lieu of the default virtual image labels for the keys. The task scrolls to maintain the active region of the task pane beyond the keyboard. Pressing control keys causes virtual image labels to indicate the newly enabled key functionality. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013640 | GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF EVENTS - Some general aspects of the invention relate to approaches for generating a graphical representation of scenes related to an event. Information representing an event is first obtained. The information includes, for example, a set of images of physical scenes related to an event, and additional data associated with the images (for example, geo coordinates and audio files). Images are assigned a degree of significance determined from at least the obtained information representing the event. Based on the degree of significance, a set of images is selected for use in the graphical representation, and partitioned into subsets of images each subset to be presented in a respective one of one or more successive presentation units of the graphical representation. In some examples, the graphical representation can be enhanced by introducing textual annotations to the images. A user can then refine the generated graphical representation by modifying the layout and content of the images and annotations | 2012-01-19 |
20120013641 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that compares content to stored information identifying a plurality of words, identifies words from the content that match words included in the stored information, retrieves information based on the identifying, and generates an image to be displayed based on the retrieved information. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013642 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When combining a plurality of images, deterioration has occurred at a contour part. A feature amount of a partial region in a first image included in a plurality of images for image composition is calculated, and a weight for composition of the region in the first image or a weight of a region in a second image included in the plurality of images is determined based on the calculated feature amount. Then, by weighting based on the composition weight determined for the region of the first image or the region of the second image, the first image and the second image are combined. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013643 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus which displays an image and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: a display unit; a storage unit which stores therein at least one of preset image pattern information of patterning contents of a plurality of images to retrieve such images and matching information related to the images matching each of the pattern information; a pattern receiver which receives predetermined information of a first pattern that is input from the outside; and an image processor which selects pattern information relating to the first pattern from the preset image pattern information and selects the first image matching the selected pattern information based on the matching information to display the image on the display unit, and selects the second image matching the first pattern by retrieving contents of the images from the plurality of images to display the image on the display unit. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013644 | METHOD OF DETERMINING IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, IMAGE SUPPLYING SYSTEM, IMAGE SUPPLYING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a method of transmitting image data from an image supplying device to an image display device includes transmitting information indicating a resolution of the image display device from the image display device to the image supplying device; scaling the image data, by the image supplying device, to decrease an amount of the image data by reducing an image based on the information indicating the resolution of the image display device; and transmitting the scaled image data from the image supplying device to the image display device. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013645 | DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING ICON IMAGE - A display system and a method of displaying icon image for the display system are disclosed. The method is to display an icon image on a background image on a screen of the display system, to sense a distance between an object and the icon image, and to adjust the size of the icon image on the screen and display the adjusted icon image on the background image, when the distance is shorter than a predetermined value. Byway of adjusting the size of the icon image, the invention can re-display the icon image in a proper size for a user to conveniently point the adjusted icon image, so as to reduce the probability of operation failure, especially for operation on tiny icon images relative to a finger. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013646 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD - A television receiver according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a display section capable of displaying a TV image and a harmonious image being in harmony with a wall surface against which the image display device is provided. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013647 | BACKLIGHT MODULE - A backlight module capable of dynamically adjusting brightness is proposed. According to the present invention, a backlight module comprises a light guide plate for guiding light, a first light source unit, and a second light source unit. A ridge-shaped groove is disposed on the middle of the bottom surface of the light guide plate. The first light source unit and the second light source unit are respectively disposed at the opposite sides of the light guide plate. Both of the first light source unit and the second light source unit comprises at least one light source. Each of the light sources of the first light source unit is symmetrically arranged with each of the light sources of the second light source unit on a one-on-one basis. The ridge-shaped groove divides the backlight module into two independent luminance domains, each dividing into multiple subdomains. Actual luminance of each subdomain is adjustable based on its predetermined brightness and distributions, reducing power consumption and enhance an image contrast. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013648 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A planar illumination device ( | 2012-01-19 |
20120013649 | Driving method of image display device - An image display device includes an image display panel configured of pixels made up of first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels being arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix shape, and a signal processing unit into which an input signal is input and from which an output signal based on an extension coefficient is output, and causes the signal processing unit to obtain a maximum value of luminosity with saturation S in the HSV color space enlarged by adding a fourth color, as a variable, and to obtain a reference extension coefficient based on the maximum value, and further to determine an extension coefficient at each pixel from the reference extension coefficient, an input signal correction coefficient based on the sub-pixel input signal values at each pixel, and an external light intensity correction coefficient based on external light intensity. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013650 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device with a simple structure is provided where the number of electrical lines connected to the active matrix substrate can be reduced even when the number of pixels in the display module is increased. A liquid crystal display device includes a superimposing circuit (superimposing module) that superimposes a lighting signal for a light-emitting diode (light source) on a drive signal for a data line drive circuit (drive circuit) and a scan line drive circuit (drive circuit) to generate a superimposed signal. On the active matrix substrate are provided a photosensor unit (light-electricity transducer) that receives light from the light-emitting diode and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the received light, and a decoding circuit (decoding module) that decodes the electrical signal from the photosensor unit to the drive signal for the data line drive circuit and the scan line drive circuit. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013651 | Autostereoscopic Display Device - Multi-user stereoscopic display system, providing different stereoscopic or 2D images to different viewers, by combining spatial and temporal multiplexing techniques for providing stereo effect and multi-viewer effect: one group of embodiments defines multi-user autostereoscopic display system comprising controllable light source array/s, holographic optical element/s (HOE) and a transmissive display panel such as an LCD, each light source being associated to a viewing zone; an other group of embodiments defines multi-user stereoscopic display system using glasses with polarizers and shutters. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013652 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a backlight device wherein when the drive duty and the drive current are controlled according to a motion, the image quality is improved by preventing flicker caused by the change of the drive waveform. A light-emitting unit ( | 2012-01-19 |
20120013653 | SMART DISPLAY PIXEL - Construction of a pixel-based display using a set of pixel assemblies poured or placed into a display area or volume. Each pixel assembly has a means to produce a visible display output at its position and identify its own position within a 2-D or 3-D display space continuously or when needed. One or more image signals are distributed to the pixel assemblies collectively. Each pixel assembly uses its own self-detected position and other criteria to autonomously decide to which part of the signal(s) it will respond and what value to display as an output. Optionally each pixel assembly may also be able to: decode pixel identity encoded in the input signal(s) to implement a stroke/random access display; communicate with adjacent display elements in order to engage in collective action in local regions of the display; detect faults and remove itself from the display; and reprogram itself using an external signal. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013654 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display panel ( | 2012-01-19 |
20120013655 | METHOD FOR MODULATING DISPLAY DATA OF FLAT DISPLAY AND FLAT DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A method for modulating display data of a flat display, comprises receiving a display datum with a digital count between a maximum digital count and a minimum digital count; modulating the display datum to correspondingly generate a modulated display datum, wherein the modulated display datum has a digital count same as that of the corresponding display datum when the digital count of the corresponding display datum is the same as the maximum digital count, and the modulated display datum has the digital count less than that of the corresponding display datum when the digital count of the corresponding display datum is less than the maximum digital count, wherein at least one modulated display datum has the digital count less than that of the corresponding display datum; and outputting the modulated display datum. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013656 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - An image display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The image display device includes a display panel, which includes a plurality of red, green, and blue subpixels to selectively implement a 2D image and a 3D image, and a patterned retarder dividing light from the display panel, on which the 3D image is implemented, into a first polarization component and a second polarization component. When the 3D image is implemented, a black image is displayed on (4j)th subpixels of the display panel disposed along a column direction, j is a positive integer. When the 2D image is implemented, one of red, green, and blue 2D images is displayed on the (4j)th subpixels. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013657 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL WITH CANCELING OUT OF OPPOSITE POLARITIES OF COLOR SUB-PIXEL UNITS - An exemplary method for driving a display panel with plural dithering units formed by plural pixels arranged in a matrix form, includes steps as follows: driving sub-pixel units of the pixels according to a sequence of frames to enable each sub-pixel unit selectively having a positive polarity or a negative polarity; and providing a series of predetermined dithering patterns with a cyclical change period for the dithering units. For each color of the sub-pixels in a same row of the pixels of each dithering unit, summations of the polarities of same color sub-pixels cancel each other out. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013658 | FLUID CARTRIDGE FOR A PRINTING DEVICE - A fluid cartridge for a printing device includes a housing including a floor, a chamber defined in the housing and configured to store an ink therein, a capillary medium disposed in the housing and in operative communication with the chamber, and a wick disposed at least partially in an opening of the floor, the wick including a portion extending a predetermined distance into the housing such that the wick portion contacts the capillary medium. The fluid cartridge further includes an enriched pigment-confining member established inside the housing such that the confining member physically contacts the floor and surrounds at least a portion of a periphery of the wick. The confining member is configured to i) block enriched ink from the wick, and/or ii) dilute the enriched ink prior to flowing through the wick. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013659 | INK JET PRINTER HAVING INK MAINTENANCE SYSTEM - An ink jet printer performs a print process by ejecting ink for each of a plurality of ink colors. When a predetermined first circulation time elapses after starting the ink circulation, an ink agitating operation drive signal generation unit applies an ink agitating operation drive signal to an ink ejecting unit set operable to eject an ink, which has a predetermined nature, for a first ink agitating operation time in a first period, and applies the ink agitating operation drive signal to an ink ejecting unit set operable to eject an ink, which has not the predetermined nature, for a second ink agitating operation time in a second period which is shorter than the first period. It is therefore possible to perform maintenance effectively in advance of starting the print process in accordance with the nature of ink. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013660 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The controller of the printing device sets the printing width in the secondary scanning direction of the region of the printing medium onto which ink is deposited by a single driving of the a printing unit, on the basis of the length in the secondary scanning direction of the printing region that is specified based on the printing data, and controls the printing unit on the basis of the set printing width. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013661 | AUTOMATED BEAM MARKER - A beam marking system is disclosed for marking on beams with a marking device. The beam marking system includes a beam marking device configured to mark on the surface of a beam. A movable arm is coupled to the marking device. The movable arm has at least three movable components that collectively move the beam marking device along or about at least three axes. A controller is in electronic communication with the movable arm and the marking device. The controller controlling the movement of the at least three movable components of the movable arm and controlling the operation of the marking device. In some instances, the beam marking system can automatically mark beams, such as metal beams used in heavy construction projects in a rapid and accurate manner. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013662 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus according to the present invention includes a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of a recording head and a control unit to control a pulse waveform, a pulse width forming a drive pulse, and a voltage. The drive pulse supplied to an electrothermal transducer is selected according to information about thermal conduction characteristics of the recording head and the temperature of the recording head detected by the temperature sensor. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013663 | System And Method For Modifying Operation Of An Inkjet Printer To Accommodate Changing Environmental Conditions - An inkjet printer operates to produce a print with at least one component operating at less than a normal operating parameter. The printer identifies an image density for an image to be printed and operates the printer with operational parameters different than normal operational parameters to enable printing operations before all of the components in the printer reach their operational parameters. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013664 | INKJET PRINTER AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - The present invention relates to an inkjet printer that prints an image by a forward scan and a backward scan of printing heads. In the present invention, it is determined whether or not a color unevenness occurrence value set on the basis of values of unit image data constituting image data is more than a predetermined threshold value. If the color unevenness occurrence value is less than the threshold value, data that enable a dot to be formed in a unit area corresponding to the unit image data by the forward scan and the backward scan of the printing heads are generated. If the color unevenness occurrence value is more than the threshold value, data that enable a dot to be formed in the unit area only by any one of the forward scan and the backward scan by the printing heads are generated. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013665 | FLUID EJECTION PRINTING WITH AUTOMATIC PRINT MODE SWITCHING - A method of printing a document using a fluid-ejection printing device includes receiving gray scale image data for the document, and identifying at least one area fill feature of the image data. It is determined whether the at least one area fill feature will be printed with a combination of different black inks and is likely to produce a visible image defect if printed in an N-pass bidirectional print mode, where N is an integer. Non-fill regions of the image data are printed using the N-pass bidirectional print mode. The method further includes automatically switching to an M-pass bidirectional print mode for printing the at least one area fill feature when it is determined that the at least one area fill feature will be printed with a combination of different black inks and is likely to produce a visible image defect, where M is an integer greater than N. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013666 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND DATA GENERATION APPARATUS - A printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method are provided that can a high-quality image without uneven glossiness and the like, without increasing the consumption of treatment liquid. The number of times of scans for applying treatment liquid to an image formed by a group of pigment inks with a large contact angle relative to treatment liquid is made to be smaller than the number of time of scans for applying treatment liquid to an image formed by a group of pigment inks with a small contact angle relative to treatment liquid. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013667 | Quiet Operating Mode Management System for A Printing Device - An imaging device includes a quiet mode management system in which a control system of an imaging device selectively reduces print speed based on print job attributes such as job size, repetitions and media in use. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013668 | Vacuum Source Control Using Virtual Pulse-Width Modulation Levels - An indication is received of a vacuum source level measured by a vacuum sensor in a printing device. The vacuum level is associated with a pulse-width modulation (PWM) level for a PWM controller. The measured vacuum level is compared to an expected vacuum level. The PWM level of the PWM controller is adjusted in view of the comparison to achieve a virtual PWM level. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013669 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RECORDING DEVICE - A recording device includes a conveying part that conveys roll paper, a support part that supports the roll paper, a suction part that holds the roll paper to the support part by suction, a recording part that ejects liquid and records an image on the roll paper, a heating part that heats the support part to dry the liquid, a cleaning part that cleans the recording part, and a controller that causes the suction part to use a first suction force to hold the roll paper to the support part by suction when the recording part performs a recording action for recording the image, and causes the suction part to use a second suction force, which is weaker than the first suction force, to hold the roll paper to the support part by suction when the cleaning part performs a cleaning action for cleaning the recording part. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013670 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RECORDING DEVICE - A recording device includes a conveying part that conveys roll paper, a support part that supports the roll paper, a recording part that that ejects liquid and records an image on the roll paper; a heating part that heats the support part to dry the liquid discharged on the roll paper, a cleaning part that cleans the recording part, and a controller that causes the conveying part to convey the roll paper at a first speed when the recording part performs a recording action for recording the image, and causes the conveying part to convey the roll paper at a second speed, which is slower than the first speed, after the cleaning part performs a cleaning action for cleaning the recording part. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013671 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: an image formation unit which deposits aqueous ink onto a recording surface of a recording sheet to form an image on the recording surface; a drying unit which dries the recording surface on which the image has been formed, the drying unit including a double-side heat application device which performs drying of the recording surface by applying heat to both the recording surface and a rear surface of the recording sheet opposite to the recording surface; and a drying control unit which controls a first intensity of heat applied to the recording surface and a second intensity of heat applied to the rear surface independently from each other, in accordance with a thickness of the recording sheet. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013672 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An inkjet printing apparatus includes a media transport unit to transport a print media along a print media transport path, at least one printhead assembly including an inkjet printhead having a plurality of nozzles to print on a select portion of the print media, the inkjet printhead forming a print region adjacent to the nozzles in an area between the printhead assembly and a print portion of the print media transport path, and at least one of an electrostatic discharge unit to neutralize a resulting electrical charge on at least the select portion of the print media before the at least select portion of the print media enters the print region and a neutralization unit to neutralize an electric field in the print region. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013673 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RECORDING HEAD TEMPERATURE - An ink jet recording apparatus for effecting recording using a recording head for ejecting ink, the ink jet recording apparatus including a heating section for heating the recording head, a detecting unit for detecting a temperature of the recording head, a setting unit for setting a target temperature of the recording head, and a controller for controlling the target temperature of the recording head at or above the target temperature. The controller controls the temperature by heating control for heating the recording head and by diffusing control for diffusing the heat supplied by the heating control. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013674 | Virtual Pen Calibration - A method for pen drop weight calibration includes altering an image prior to printing based on the difference in printing performance of a first pen and a second pen to produce altered image data, the first pen and the second pen being disposed in the same printer. The altered image data is then printed with the printer. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013675 | MULTILAYER INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The present invention provides an apparatus for fabricating a multi-layer information recording medium including a substrate, plural information recording layers placed on the aforementioned substrate, resin intermediate layers placed between adjacent information recording layers and a resin protective layer placed on all the information recording layers at the side opposite from the aforementioned substrate, the apparatus including an ejecting unit including ink jet nozzles operable to drip minute resin liquid drops onto the aforementioned substrate or the aforementioned information recording layers; and a control unit operable to control the aforementioned ejecting unit, whereby resin layers which form said resin intermediate layers or said resin protective layer are formed on the aforementioned substrate or the aforementioned information recording layers. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013676 | AQUEOUS INKJET INK - According to one embodiment, an aqueous inkjet ink includes a pigment in an amount of 2 to 20% by mass of the total amount of the aqueous inkjet ink, and a dispersion medium in which the pigment is dispersed. The dispersion medium contains water in the amount of 53 to 94% by mass, with the remainder of the dispersion medium being a compound represented by the following general formula 1. The water accounts for 50 to 80% by mass of the total amount of the aqueous inkjet ink. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013677 | Thermal ink jet ink composition - An inkjet ink includes an organic solvent, a resin, a surfactant, and a colorant. The ink has a decap time of at least about 1 minute. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013678 | Porphyrazine Coloring Matter, Ink Composition Containing The Same And Colored Product - The present invention relates to a porphyrazine coloring matter or a salt thereof represented by the following formula (1) [wherein, the rings of A to D are each independently a benzene ring or a 6-membered nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic ring, E is alkylene, X is a sulfo-substituted anilino group or the like which may further have a substituent, R | 2012-01-19 |
20120013679 | APPARATUS FOR CLEARING AN INK DROP STALAGMITE IN AN INKJET PRINTER - An apparatus for use as part of an inkjet printer to clear an ink drop stalagmite in the printer. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a clearing device coupled to an access door of the inkjet printer, wherein upon operation of the access door the clearing device at least partially clears the ink drop stalagmite. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013680 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - At a front-end side opposite to a head-fixing-member-attachment side, a protection member has an inclined plane sloped up from a head side toward the opposite outer side in a direction in which liquid ejecting heads are arranged in a row. The surface of the front end is located at a position that is not closer to a head-fixing member in comparison with the nozzle surface of each of the liquid ejecting heads attached to the head-fixing member or level therewith. A recess is formed at a part of the inclined plane. In a state in which one of the caps faces the protection member and, in addition, each of the remaining caps is in contact with the nozzle surface of the liquid ejecting head, a part of the cap facing the protection member is in the recess, which ensures that the cap is not in contact with the protection member. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013681 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus including: (a) a head assembly including (a- | 2012-01-19 |
20120013682 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a liquid ejection head, including: a flow path forming member including: an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid therefrom; and a liquid flow path communicated with the ejection orifice; a silicon substrate including a supply port for supplying the liquid to the liquid flow path; and a protective film which is formed on a wall surface of the supply port and which is formed of an organic resin which is the same as a material of a member forming the flow path forming member. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013683 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A connector connected to an external wiring is fixed on the circuit board by opening a connection port toward the channel member side, the external wiring is inserted into or released from the connection port, and the channel member has a deformation restricting portion protruding from a region, which is opposite the circuit board, toward the circuit board, and substantially abuts against a surface of the circuit board to restrict deformation of the circuit board to the channel member side. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013684 | Thermal ink jet ink compostion - A solvent-based ink composition for a thermal inkjet printhead includes (a) 55-90 wt. % of an organic solvent including a ketone and a C | 2012-01-19 |
20120013685 | THERMAL INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH HEATING ELEMENT IN RECESSED SUBSTRATE CAVITY - An inkjet printhead includes a substrate having a recessed cavity formed therein. The cavity has a continuous sidewall around the perimeter of the cavity. The printhead includes a heating element formed onto the sidewall of the cavity. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013686 | LIQUID-JET HEAD AND LIQUID-JET APPARATUS HAVING SAME - A liquid-jet head comprising a pressure generating chamber, which is supplied with a liquid via a liquid supply path and in which a nozzle orifice for jetting the liquid is formed, and a pressure generator for causing a pressure change within the pressure generating chamber, wherein when an inertance and a passage resistance of the liquid supply path are designated as M | 2012-01-19 |
20120013687 | LIQUID ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER, TANK UNIT, AND LIQUID EJECTING SYSTEM - A liquid accommodating container in which in a use position, a port opened to the air is provided at a position that is closer to an air chamber uppermost surface and is included in a first corner portion, an air-side opening is provided at a position that is closer to an air chamber lowermost surface and is included in a second corner portion which is at a diagonal position to the first corner portion, and a liquid-side opening is provided at a position satisfying the following conditions (a) and (b), (a) a position closer to a liquid chamber lowermost surface with respect to the vertical direction in the use position and (b) a position which is included in the second corner portion that is at a position equivalent to a diagonal position to the first corner portion. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013688 | INK CONTAINER TO SEPARATE UNWANTED PARTICLES FROM INK - An ink container usable with an image forming apparatus having a carriage to transport the ink container in a reciprocating motion across a substrate and an ink ejector to eject the ink onto the substrate is included. The ink container includes a chamber configured to supply ink to the ink ejector of the image forming apparatus. The ink container also includes a separation member disposed within the chamber configured to separate unwanted particles from the ink in response to the reciprocating motion of the carriage and gravity, and to direct the ink downstream to the ink ejector. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013689 | Solid Ink Stick with Motion Control Inset - A solid ink stick for use in solid ink printers is provided that enables adjacent ink sticks to be separated and retained at a predetermined location in the feed channel. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013690 | RADIATION CURABLE SOLID INK COMPOSITIONS SUITABLE FOR TRANSFUSE PRINTING APPLICATIONS - This disclosure is generally directed to curable solid inks, such as radiation-curable solid inks, and their use in forming images, such as through transfuse printing. More specifically, this disclosure is directed to radiation-curable solid inks, such as ultraviolet-light-curable phase-change inks, that comprise curable and non-curable waxes. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013691 | MATERIALS AND METHODS TO PRODUCE DESIRED IMAGE DRUM SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY FOR SOLID INK JET - Exemplary embodiments provide an aluminum image drum and method of its formation such that the aluminum image drum can have a surface texture to provide desirable surface oil consumption and high print quality for solid ink jet marking systems. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013692 | APPARATUS FOR PRINTING ON A MEDIUM - A roller assembly for use in a printer includes a shaft with two ends and a pair of conical rollers. Each of the conical rollers is disposed on the shaft near each of the ends. The roller assembly guides a medium within the printer without damaging a freshly-printed surface of the medium. A printer including the roller assembly and a belt in contact with the roller assembly is also described and claimed. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013693 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, SHEET-FED PRINTING PRESS, AND ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A printing device includes a rotatable printing cylinder, a blanket cylinder configured to make a synchronous rotation with the printing cylinder in contact with each other and to convey a printing medium by nipping the printing medium with the printing cylinder, an inkjet head that forms an image on a surface of the blanket cylinder by squirting heatset ink onto the surface of the blanket cylinder, and a first heating unit that heats up either the printing medium conveyed into a contact portion of the printing cylinder and the blanket cylinder or the blanket cylinder. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013694 | TRANSFER INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a transfer ink jet recording apparatus equipped with a substrate; an intermediate transfer member that is arranged on the substrate and has a surface containing at least one material of fluorine-containing rubber and silicone rubber, said surface being subjected to a modification treatment by a plasma treatment and an application treatment with a compound represented by the general formula (1) defined in the specification; an application unit for applying a component that causes ink viscosity increase to the modification-treatment-subjected surface of the intermediate transfer member; an ink jet recording unit for ejecting an ink on the intermediate transfer member to which the component has been applied to form an intermediate image; and a transfer unit for transferring the intermediate image formed on the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013695 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REWRITABLE OR ERASABLE PRINTING OR COPYING WITH NANOPARTICLES - An apparatus and method for providing rewritable or erasable printing or copying that utilizes nanoparticle ink or toner is disclosed. A paper-like material is described using nanoparticles that are selectively controlled to show a substantially dark, gray, or white dot depending on an emitted signal or field in a printer or copier device. Also disclosed is a printer or copier device that erases and writes nanoparticles to a paper-like material depending on an emitted magnetic signal in a printer or copier device. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013696 | FIXING UNIT CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A fixing unit controlling apparatus that includes a switching unit of a power supplier to supply power to a fixing unit according to a power supply controlling signal to control a temperature of the fixing unit, and a switching unit of a power shutter to shut off power supplied to the fixing unit when the fixing unit controlling apparatus operates abnormally, wherein the switching units of the power supplier and the power shutter are both connected to a snubber circuit of the power shutter. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013697 | APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FORMATION - To provide a thermal recording medium, which can realize easy maintenance, does not produce wastes such as cartridges, and can realize easy control of recording sheets, and an apparatus and method for image formation. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A high-temperature color development capsule ( | 2012-01-19 |
20120013698 | THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET, TRANSFERRED IMAGE RECEIVING SHEET, AND THERMAL TRANSFER METHOD - Disclosed herein is a thermal transfer sheet including: a dye layer which is provided on one side of a substrate and which contains an indoaniline dye; and a transferred image coating layer provided on that side of the substrate on which the dye layer is formed, the transferred image coating layer being operable to coat an image thermally transferred onto a transferred image receiving sheet, wherein the transferred image coating layer contains a compound having a predetermined structure and a binder resin, and the content of the compound having the predetermined structure is 0.5 to 8 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the binder resin. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013699 | LASER MARKING METHOD - This invention provides a laser marking method that can form a very minute mark of a predetermined shape, such as a letter or pattern, with clarity and high solidity, on the surface of a substrate. The laser marking method of the invention comprises the steps of (1) depositing a coloring material on the surface of a substrate of thermoplastic material to form a thin film of the coloring material, and (2) applying a laser beam to the thin film of the coloring material in conformity with a predetermined marking shape to cause the portions of the substrate irradiated with the laser beam to soften and to cause the thus softened portions to mix with the coloring material, thereby developing the predetermined marking shape on the surface of the substrate. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013700 | NOVEL FUSED POLYCYCLIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a fused polycyclic compound represented by general formula 1: | 2012-01-19 |
20120013701 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method including calculating a density of a character to be recorded based on information of a type, size and line width of the character; adjusting an irradiation energy of a laser beam for recording the character based on the density of the character; and irradiating a recording medium with the laser beam whose irradiation energy is adjusted so as to record the character thereon. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013702 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATING A VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP) DEVICE CONNECTED TO A NETWORK - A method and system for locating a device connected to a network by determining a current network address for the device and comparing the current network address to a network address in a user profile. If the network addresses match, the device is located based on a physical address associated with the network address in the user profile. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013703 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEO TELEPHONY BETWEEN COMPUTER DEVICES - An apparatus for configuring a high-definition (HD) call connection between computer devices includes a Short Messaging Service (SMS) transceiving module for receiving a message for requesting home network telephony device list information of a first device, discovering a device in the home network to generate the telephony device list information, transmitting response message comprising the generated telephony device list information to the first device, receiving an SMS call connection request message from the first device, and transmitting an SMS call connection response message to the first device, and a Control Point (CP) for selecting a telephony device for receiving and initiating the call. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013704 | TELECONFERENCE SYSTEM - A teleconference system for connecting a plurality of conference bases via a network, each of the conference bases having: a display device for displaying an image on a screen; a video camera that is capable of measuring a depth; a person identifying section for identifying a participant who has made a specified gesture as a speaker, from a video picture taken by the video camera; an image input/display control section that usually keeps the display device displaying predetermined conference material on the screen and that turns the screen blank triggered by the person identifying section's identifying a speaker; a motion identifying section for identifying and digitalizing a motion of the speaker's hand to make motion data; and an image generating section for making a line drawing in accordance with the motion data made by the motion identifying section; wherein the image input/display control section controls the display device to display the line drawing made by the image generating section on the screen. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013705 | SWITCHED MULTIPOINT CONFERENCE USING LAYERED CODECS - In one implementation, a conference bridge connects endpoints in a media conference. The various endpoints may have a wide range of video capabilities and audio capabilities. The video conference bridge learns the video capabilities of the endpoints and formulates a media plan based on these capabilities. The media plan instructs the endpoints on the types of media streams to produce. The video conference bridge may shape a media stream received from one of the endpoints by removing one or more layers. Accordingly, each endpoint decodes only the media streams that can be encoded by another endpoint and receives the best possible media stream from each endpoint. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013706 | INFRARED WIDE FIELD IMAGING SYSTEM INTEGRATED IN A VACUUM HOUSING - The present disclosure relates to a compact wide field imaging system for the infrared spectrum range, the system including a vacuum housing with a porthole, a cooled dark room arranged inside the vacuum housing and provided with an opening referred to as a cold diaphragm, an infrared detector arranged inside the cooled dark room, and a device for the optical conjugation of the field rays with the detector. In the system, the optical conjugation device does not include any element located outside the vacuum housing, and includes at least one cold lens located inside the cooled dark room, the pupil of the optical conjugation device coinciding with the cold diaphragm. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013707 | Method and System for Processing and Displaying Video in Three Dimensions Using a Liquid Crystal Display - Herein described are at least a method and a system for generating three dimensional stereoscopic video. The system and method may be used to drive pixels in a liquid crystal display (LCD) to generate such 3-D video. The method comprises processing received video by way of inserting black data into the video wherein the black data is displayed by main pixels and/or sub-pixels of a liquid crystal display (LCD). The method further comprises sequentially transmitting the processed frames to a display for viewing the video in three dimensions. An exemplary system comprises one or more circuits for performing the aforementioned method. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013708 | CONTROL APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - Finger coverage in an image for making a viewer sense a stereoscopic image is quickly detected with low load. A central controller includes a difference determiner which determines existence of a difference based on a predetermined determination standard by comparing left eye image data and right eye image data for making a viewer to sense a stereoscopic image based on the predetermined determination standard, and an execution controller which, when it is determined by the difference determiner that there is a difference, enables a controlled unit to execute a process different from when it is determined that there is no difference. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013709 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - In a video signal processing circuit, when a 2D video signal is transferred in a 3D transfer format from a video signal source, a one side mute control section provided in an input video control section determines whether the 2D video signal is on the L side or on the R side of the 3D transfer format. During a period of the one side (e.g., the L side) that is not used by the 2D video signal, the one side mute control section replaces data loaded on the one side in the video signal source with fixed data, and sends it through an input video control section, a color space changing section and a packet loading section in this order. This stops these three circuit sections from operating unnecessarily, thereby reducing the power consumption. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013710 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOMETRIC MODELING USING MULTIPLE DATA ACQUISITION MEANS - A system and a method for modeling a predefined space including at least one three-dimensional physical surface, referred to hereinafter as a “measuring space”. The system and method use a scanning system enabling to acquire three-dimensional (3D) data of the measuring space and at least one two-dimensional (2D) sensor enabling to acquire 2D data of the measuring space. The system and method may enable generating a combined compound reconstructed data (CRD), which is a 3D geometrical model of the measuring space, by combining the acquired 2D data with the acquired 3D data, by reconstructing additional 3D points, from the combined 3D and 2D data thereby generating the CRD model. The generated CRD model includes a point cloud including a substantially higher density of points than that of its corresponding acquired 3D data point cloud from which the CRD was generated. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013711 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIEWABLE VIDEO FROM A SINGLE VIDEO STREAM - It is provided a method for generating a 3D representation of a scene, initially represented by a first video stream captured by a certain camera at a first set of viewing configurations. The method includes providing video streams compatible with capturing the scene by cameras, and generating an integrated video stream enabling three-dimensional display of the scene by integration of two video streams. The method includes calculating parameters characterizing a viewing configuration by analysis of elements having known geometrical parameters. The scene may be a sport scene which a playing field, a group of on-field objects and a group of background objects. The method includes segmenting a frame to those portions, separately associating each portion to the different viewing configuration, and merging them into a single frame. Also, the method may include calculating of on-field footing locations of on-field objects, computing new locations in a new frame, and transforming the on-field objects to the respective frame as a 2D object. Furthermore, the method may include synthesizing at on-field objects by segmenting portions of the object from respective frames of the first video stream, stitching the portions together and rendering the stitched object within a synthesized frame. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013712 | SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF CALIBRATION AND USE FOR AN INTERATIVE IMAGING ENVIRONMENT - In various embodiments, the present invention provides a system and associated methods of calibration and use for an interactive imaging environment based on the optimization of parameters used in various segmentation algorithm techniques. These methods address the challenge of automatically calibrating an interactive imaging system, so that it is capable of aligning human body motion, or the like, to a visual display. As such the present invention provides a system and method of automatically and rapidly aligning the motion of an object to a visual display. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013713 | IMAGE INTEGRATION UNIT AND IMAGE INTEGRATION METHOD - An image integration unit includes: an imaging section which is installed in a moving body and which images a plurality of time-series images at different times; a three-dimensional image information calculating section which calculates three-dimensional image information in each of the time-series images based on the time-series images imaged by the imaging section; a stationary body area extracting section which extracts stationary body areas in each of the time-series images based on the three-dimensional image information; and an integrating section which calculates the corresponding stationary body areas between the time-series images from each of the stationary body areas extracted in each of the time-series images, and matches the corresponding stationary body areas to integrate the time-series images. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013714 | DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD AND DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS - Large errors are prevented from being generated in a distance measuring method that employs two imaging means. The distance measuring method includes the steps of: photographing a subject using two imaging means, which are provided with a predetermined baseline length therebetween; and obtaining distance data regarding corresponding points within the photographed pairs of images. A first photography operation is performed with the baseline length at a desired value. Then, n photography operations are performed, while varying the baseline length by L(m+1/n), L(m+2/n) . . . L(m+(n−1)/n) at each photography operation, wherein L is a pixel pitch of the imaging means, m is an arbitrary natural number, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 2. Amounts of parallax within a predetermined range common to each photography operation are extracted by a record judging section, from among the amounts of parallax which are obtained by a parallax calculating section for the n photography operations. The distance data is obtained based on the extracted amounts of parallax. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013715 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE - A stereoscopic imaging device includes two lens modules, two light guiding tubes, a reflection element, a motor, an image sensor, and a controller. Each light guiding tube includes a light incident end connected to a corresponding lens module and a light emitting end. The two light emitting ends of the light guiding tubes face to each other. The reflection element is positioned between the two light emitting ends. The image sensor faces the reflection element. The motor is connected to the reflection element. The controller is electrically connected to the image sensor and the motor. The controller is used for controlling the motor to drive the reflection element to rotate, thus to make the reflection element reflect the light from the two first guiding tubes to the image sensor in turn. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013716 | Personal 3D Video Device - The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a personal 3D video device, composed of a mount with two lens windows in the front side, a display board having a dual screen to simultaneously display visions which can be seen respectively from each lens, two lens holders contained convex lens and each attached to a lens window; and the distance between convex lens and display screen is the focal distance of the lens. This invention provides the user a spatial vision through the parallax between two focus visions from the lenses towards to the screen. Other advantages and novel features of the invention are easy-to-make, low cost for material and manufacture, and less bulky. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013717 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM, MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS - A moving picture decoding method of an embodiment according to the present invention is a moving picture decoding method for decoding encoded data of an interlaced scanned picture including Top field and Bottom field, and the method includes a stereo information acquisition step for acquiring stereo information indicating whether Top field and Bottom field are two pictures forming a stereo picture from the encoded data, a decoding step for decoding two fields corresponding to each other from the encoded data and generating two decoded fields, and an output step for outputting the two decoded fields. In the output step, the stereo information is referred to and the two decoded fields are outputted simultaneously. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013718 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus configured to reproduce video data and additional data for displaying a sub-image, includes a first generator, an arrangement control module, a second generator, and a display control module. The first generator estimates depths of pixels in an image frame of the video data, and generates first left-eye image data and first right-eye image data which correspond to the image frame and have a parallax based on the depths. The arrangement control module sets a depth at which the sub-image is to be displayed, based on a foremost depth of the depths. The second generator generates second left-eye image data and second right-eye image data which correspond to the additional data and have a parallax based on the set depth of the sub-image. The display control module displays an image frame generated by using the generated image data. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013719 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING USING THE SAME - A display apparatus, display method, image processing apparatus, and image processing method which are capable of allowing a stereoscopic image to be recognized exactly by a left eye and a right eye. The display apparatus includes: an image signal receiving unit which receives an image signal; an image signal processing unit which generates a scanning signal for scanning a left eye image signal and a right eye image signal of the image signal alternately and for scanning a part of the left eye image signal or a part of the right eye image signal between a section for scanning the left eye image signal and a section for scanning the right eye image signal; and an image output unit which displays the image signal according to the scanning signal. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013720 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device is provided with an image display portion for temporally switching a left frame image to be viewed by a left eye, and a right frame image to be viewed by a right eye to emit video light so that a video is stereoscopically perceived; a light deflector for deflecting the video light emitted from the image display portion; and a controller for controlling the light deflector to adjust a deflection direction of the video light output from the light deflector. The image display portion changes polarization characteristics of the video light area by area, and the light deflector deflects the video light in response to the polarization characteristics so that the video light of the left frame image is incident to the left eye and the video light of the right frame image is incident to the right eye. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013721 | AUDIO/VIDEO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, HEARING AID, AND AUDIO/VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE - An audio/video processing device includes a signal processing circuit and a video reproduction circuit. The signal processing circuit supplies an audio signal to a hearing aid, and delays a video signal from the audio signal by a delay time of the hearing aid and supplies the delayed video signal to a video reproduction circuit. The hearing aid performs a hearing aid process on the audio signal supplied from the signal processing circuit to reproduce a sound. The video reproduction circuit reproduces an image from the video signal supplied from the signal processing circuit. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013722 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CARIES DETECTION - An apparatus for imaging a tooth has at least one illumination source for providing an incident light having a first spectral range for obtaining a reflectance image of the tooth and a second spectral range for exciting a fluorescence image of the tooth. A first polarizer having a first polarization axis and a compensator in the path of the incident light of the first spectral range are disposed to direct light toward the tooth. A second polarizer is disposed to direct light obtained from the tooth toward a sensor and has a second polarization axis that is orthogonal to the first polarization axis. A lens is positioned in the return path to direct image-bearing light from the tooth toward the sensor for obtaining image data. A filter in the path of the image-bearing light from the tooth is treated to attenuate light in the second spectral range. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013723 | Support System and Method for Viewer-Dependent Positioning and Alignment of a Display Unit - A support system ( | 2012-01-19 |
20120013724 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING BIOMETRIC INFORMATION - An apparatus, method and system are provided for sensing at least one biometric measure of an individual. A low voltage pulsed electrical charge is applied to a transparent electrode plate, which is dimensioned to receive a portion of an individual's dermal surface having molecules associated therewith. The pulsed electrical charge stimulates and excites the molecules and causes molecular compounds to fluoresce. An image of the fluoresced dermal surface is obtained and a biometric function is performed with data derived from the image. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013725 | PORTABLE PAN-TILT CAMERA AND LIGHTING UNIT FOR VIDEOIMAGING, VIDEOCONFERENCING, PRODUCTION AND RECORDING - The present invention is a portable camera and lighting unit for standalone use in videography to create a high-resolution well-illuminated video feed from a vast array of camera angles and positions, the illumination source always inherently tracking with the camera. The unit may also be used as a satellite in combination with a primary video conferencing and production station (VVPR) for multi-camera production and teleconferencing capabilities. The portable camera and lighting unit includes a portable base, a mast extending upward from the base, and an articulating boom that is fully-pivotable and extendable. A remote control Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera is mounted at the end of the boom for overhead images of healthcare procedures, and an adjustable beam light source is mounted directly on the camera for lighting. The mast is equipped with a color monitor coupled to the camera for operator previewing at the portable unit, and the remote control camera provides a single video feed that can be teleconferenced, recorded, and even mixed with other cameras when used as a satellite adjunct to the primary VVPR, thereby allow full production capabilities for live interactive broadcasts, all in real time by a single operator from a single point of control. The portable unit is mobile and offers more diverse lighting and camera angles than previously possible. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013726 | Microscope Illumination Source - A microscope illumination system for photographing in color a specimen as seen through a microscope's eyepieces, using either a black-and-white digital camera or a color digital camera, with the color of the specimen in the resulting photograph matching the color of the specimen as seen through the microscope's eyepieces. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013727 | CELL CHARACTERIZATION USING MULTIPLE FOCUS PLANES - A system for characterizing cells takes a series of digital images of a sample containing the cells. Each of the images is taken at a different plane of focus. One of the images is determined to have been taken at a plane of best focus. The system analyzes the digital image taken at the plane of best focus and at least one other of the digital images to classify cells in the sample as either live or dead. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013728 | CELL OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND OBSERVATION METHOD - Provided is a cell observation apparatus and an observation method with which only an observation target cell in an region of interest is illuminated with illuminating light to prevent photobleaching of cells that are not the observation target. The invention employs a cell observation apparatus including an objective lens that illuminates a specimen with illuminating light, a scanner that adjusts an area illuminated with illuminating light by the objective lens, an image generating portion | 2012-01-19 |
20120013729 | RADIATION TOLERANT CAMERA - A Radiation tolerant camera, including a camera module and having an electronic image sensor. The camera module is arranged in a radiation shielding enclosure, the enclosure having an opening for allowing passage of light into the image sensor. Furthermore, the camera module is connected to a heat absorbing cooling element dissipating heat from the camera module. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013730 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - A substrate processing apparatus includes: a holding unit holding a substrate; a rotation driving unit rotating the substrate held on the holding unit; a moving mechanism moving the holding unit between a delivery position and an edge exposure position; an exposure unit provided on the edge exposure position side and exposing an edge portion of a coating film above the substrate held on the holding unit; an image capturing unit provided on the edge exposure position side and above the exposure unit and capturing an image of the substrate held on the holding unit; and a direction change unit changing a direction of an optical path formed between the substrate held on the holding unit and the image capturing unit. The direction change unit includes a first reflecting mirror, a second reflecting mirror, and a third reflecting mirror. | 2012-01-19 |
20120013731 | COMPONENT PRESENCE/ABSENCE JUDGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A component presence/absence judging apparatus judges the presence/absence of a component through a registration step and an inspection step. The registration step comprises an ante-mounting color information acquisition step, a post-mounting color information acquisition step and an inspection area determination step. Ante-mounting color information is acquired from an ante-mounting image taken at a predetermined portion on an ante-mounting board. Post-mounting color information is acquired from a post-mounting image taken at the predetermined portion on a post-mounting board. Then, a section having a large difference between both color information of the ante-mounting image and the post-mounting image is identified and is determined as an inspection area. At the inspection step, the presence/absence of the component at a predetermined place on each inspection board to be inspected is judged in dependence on the color information on the determined inspection area. | 2012-01-19 |