04th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090022314 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, READ TERMINAL, NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION READ SYSTEM, NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION READ METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION READ PROGRAM - In a personal information access system | 2009-01-22 |
20090022315 | SECURITY MODULE FOR SECURING AN ENCRYPTED SIGNAL WITH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH - A security module includes a signal interface for receiving an encrypted signal and a host interface that is coupleable to a host. A processing module is operable to receive encrypted decryption code from the host via the host interface, decrypt the encrypted decryption code to form decrypted decryption code that is operable to decrypt the encrypted signal, send the decrypted decryption code to the host via the host interface, monitor the security of the decrypted decryption code via security signaling sent between the host and the security module via the host interface to detect potential tampering with the decrypted decryption code, transfer the encrypted signal to the host via the host interface, and discontinue transfer of the encrypted signal when the security signaling indicates the potential tampering with the decrypted decryption code. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022316 | Methods And Apparatus For Reducing Airlink Congestion And Processing Time Associated With Ciphering Information In A Wireless Network - One illustrative method involves the steps of receiving a ciphering mode information message from a wireless network; identifying and processing valid radio bearer downlink ciphering activation time information in the ciphering mode information message when it is part of a security mode command message; and refraining from processing any valid radio bearer downlink ciphering activation time information in the ciphering mode information message when it is part of a message that is different from the security mode command message (i.e. when it is part of a radio network subsystem relocation procedure). The method may include the additional steps of producing valid radio bearer uplink ciphering activation time information for inclusion within a response message when the ciphering mode information message is part of the security mode command message; refraining from producing any valid radio bearer uplink ciphering activation time information when the ciphering mode information message is part of a message that is different from the security mode command message; and causing the response message to be sent to the wireless network. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022317 | VEHICLE SECURITY SYSTEM - A vehicle security system includes a reception device that is mounted on a vehicle, and a transmission device that remotely operates the vehicle. The transmission device includes an encryption section that encrypts identification information that identifies the transmission device with a first encryption key, and a transmission section that transmits to the reception device instruction information that includes the identification information encrypted and gives an operation instruction to the reception device. The reception device includes a FeRAM that stores a second encryption key to pair with the first encryption key, wherein the second encryption key is erased from the FeRAM when the second encryption key is read out from the FeRAM, a reception section that receives the instruction information transmitted from the transmission device, a decoding section that decodes the identification information received, which is encrypted with the first encryption key and included in the received instruction information, with the second encryption key that is supposed to be stored in the FeRAM, and a judgment section that judges based on the decoded identification information as to whether the transmission device matches with the reception device. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022318 | CONTENT DATA DISTRIBUTION TERMINAL AND CONTENT DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A content distribution terminal includes a user key data generation unit generating new user key data representing a new version of the user key data; a user key update unit capturing, from the recordable medium, already-recorded user key data that has already been recorded on the recordable medium, and ordering the user key data generation unit to generate the new user key data when a predetermined situation is identified in the already-recorded user key data to execute an update procedure for the user key data; an erase control unit erasing, when a predetermined situation is identified in the already-recorded user key data, the first encrypted content key data that is encrypted with the already-recorded user key data and stored in the recordable medium; an encryption/decryption unit decrypting, with terminal-unique key, second encrypted content key data resulting from encryption of the content key data with different terminal-unique keys for different terminals, encrypting again content key data resulting from decryption of the second encrypted content key data with the new user key data to generate the first encrypted content key data, and encrypting the content data with the content key data to generate the encrypted content data; a write control unit writing the data to the recordable medium. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING DATA AND COMMUNICATION - A method and apparatus for securing digital data, and applications for securing multiple data items such as multiple files or messages exchanged between two communicating parties. The methods use a randomly created non-repetitive codec, with which the information to be encrypted is XORed. The codec is XORed with a user initial key, and the two results are concatenated. For securing multiple items, a master file is created comprising a number of keys, while the master file itself is encrypted with the initial key. A communication application enables a login-free communication between a client and a server, thus blocking intrusion attempts on the client side, and pishing attempts on the server side. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022320 | CONTENT COPYING DEVICE AND CONTENT COPYING METHOD - A content copying device has a mutual authentication section that performs a mutual authentication with a copy source recording medium and a copy destination recording medium respectively and generates a first medium unique key and a second medium unique key, a content key decrypting section that reads an encrypted content key from the copy source recording medium, and decrypts the encrypted content key using information based on the first medium unique key, a content key encrypting section that encrypts the decrypted content key using information based on the second medium unique key and writes the encrypted content key onto the copy destination recording medium, and a content copying section that reads an encrypted content from the copy source recording medium and writes the content onto the copy destination recording medium without performing decryption. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022321 | Personal information management system, personal information management program, and personal information protecting method - The present invention provides a personal information management system, a personal information management program and a personal information protecting method capable of storing personal information in consideration of security protection and facilitating utilization of the stored information. A personal information management system for handling personal information has a function of connection to a personal information dispersion management server that provides functions of encrypting personal information by the secret sharing scheme and decrypting the encrypted personal information with an index key for decrypting. The system has a search keyword management database storing the index key for decrypting and a personal information managing apparatus. When a request for storing personal information requiring security protection is generated, the personal information is divided and stored in the personal information dispersion management server, and the personal information is stored so as to be associated with the index key for decrypting into the search keyword management database. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022322 | Entanglement-Based Qkd System With Active Phase Tracking - Entanglement-based QKD systems and methods with active phase tracking and stabilization are disclosed. The method includes generating in an initial state-preparation stage (Charlie) pairs of coherent photons (P | 2009-01-22 |
20090022323 | SECRET KEY PREDISTRIBUTION METHOD - A secret key predistribution method is provided. The secret key predistribution method includes the steps of: performing a tree structure establishment process by causing a center to release a tree structure and causing sensor nodes to store the released tree structure; performing a seed key and hashed key generation process by causing the center to select a seed key and extract hashed keys by applying a hash function according to the tree structure; and performing a key predistribution process by causing the center to select key id sequences and causing the sensor nodes to store the selected sequences and corresponding hashed keys. Accordingly, the secret key distribution method can provide excellent resiliency and efficiency in terms of hash computational complexity. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022324 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that serves as a server that performs data transmission in response to receipt of media information from a user device. The information processing apparatus includes: an encrypted transmission data storage database that stores a transmission data identifier and encrypted transmission data such that the transmission data identifier and the encrypted transmission data are associated with each other; and a control section configured to acquire, from a key management server, an encrypted unit key obtained by encrypting a unit key that is used to encrypt the transmission data, and transmit the acquired encrypted unit key and the encrypted transmission data to the user device. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022325 | ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL FOR EMBEDDED DEVICES - The client requests from the authentication and authorization server a capability for accessing the target server. The authentication and authorization server sends client a capability (cap | 2009-01-22 |
20090022326 | QKD system with common-mode dithering - A QKD system ( | 2009-01-22 |
20090022327 | SYSTEM HAVING A PULSE WIDTH MODULATION DEVICE - A system, a device and a method for pulse width modulation is disclosed. One embodiment includes a pulse width modulation device, a first pulse width modulation mapper for pulse width modulation of a data signal, or a signal derived therefrom, and a second pulse width modulation mapper for pulse width modulation of a reference signal, or a signal derived therefrom. In one or more embodiments, the data signal e.g., can be a signal for a mono audio channel, or a signal for a stereo audio channel. The reference signal can be a signal including a constant signal level or a signal including a non-constant signal level an offset signal. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022328 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A STEREO SIGNAL WITH ENHANCED PERCEPTUAL QUALITY - A stereo signal with enhanced perceptual quality using a mid-signal and a side-signal, can be generated, when a enhanced side signal is created prior to the upmix of the stereo signal. A decorrelated representation of at least a portion of the sum signal and/or a decorrelated representation of at least a portion of the side-signal is generated. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022329 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A SOUND SENSOR TO ADJUST THE AUDIO OUTPUT FOR A DEVICE - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses a sound sensor to adjust the audio output of a device. During operation, the system uses the sound sensor to determine an ambient sound level for the environment in the proximity of the device. The system then adjusts a volume setting for the device adaptively based on the determined ambient sound level. Adaptively adjusting the volume setting allows the device to adapt to its audio environment and ameliorates potentially-disruptive audio outputs. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022330 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING SOUND SIGNALS IN A VEHICLE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for processing sound signals in a vehicle multimedia system. A sound signal is recorded by a microphone. A voice signal component resulting from reproducing a voice signal and an audio signal component resulting from reproducing an audio signal are compensated in the recorded sound signal. The invention further relates to a system for processing sound signals and a vehicle multimedia system. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022331 | Systems and Methods for Inducing Effects In A Signal - A system for inducing an effect in a raw audio signal comprises a computing device for receiving a first audio signal and a second audio signal from a signal source, and the second audio signal comprises the first audio signal induced with an effect. The system further comprises logic that parameterizes the effect in the second audio signal into an artificial neural network (ANN). | 2009-01-22 |
20090022332 | Enhanced Audio Recording For Smart Pen Computing Systems - In a pen-based computing system, a pair of microphones captures audio concurrently with a smart pen device capturing handwriting gestures. The audio captured by the pair of microphones is processed to produce an enhanced audio recording. Noise cancellation techniques may be applied to reduce noise generated by the smart pen device interacting with the writing surface to produce a higher quality audio recording. In addition, beam steering techniques may be applied to adjust the gain of portions of the audio signal from different directions and allow the user to focus between multiple audio sources. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022333 | IN-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An in-vehicle communication system includes a control unit which locates coupling points of each one of active speaker units to in-vehicle network. The plurality of the active speaker units includes a plurality of acoustic characteristics set data and programs for determining their own addresses. The respective active speaker units thus can be coupled to in-vehicle network without changing their software, and acoustic characteristics values in response to their coupling points in the vehicle can be established. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022334 | Wire-Free Headset, Portable Media Player - There are proposed wireless headphones which have at least one electroacoustic transducer for the reproduction of audio signals, a receiver for receiving wirelessly transmitted audio data, an intermediate memory for putting the received audio data into intermediate storage, an audio decoding unit and a control unit. The audio data wirelessly received by the receiver are firstly buffered or put into intermediate storage in the intermediate memory. The control unit controls reading of the compressed audio data stored in the intermediate memory so that said data are passed to the audio decoding unit where the compressed audio data are decoded and then outputted by means of the electroacoustic transducers. Wireless transmission is effected at a higher speed than the reproduction of the stored audio signals. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022335 | Dual Adaptive Structure for Speech Enhancement - A clear, high quality voice signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio is achieved by use of an adaptive noise reduction scheme with two microphones in close proximity. The method includes the use of two omini directional microphones in a highly directional mode, and then applying an adaptive noise cancellation algorithm to reduce the noise. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022336 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL SEPARATION - Methods, apparatus, and systems for source separation include a converged plurality of coefficient values that is based on each of a plurality of M-channel signals. Each of the plurality of M-channel signals is based on signals produced by M transducers in response to at least one information source and at least one interference source. In some examples, the converged plurality of coefficient values is used to filter an M-channel signal to produce an information output signal and an interference output signal. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022337 | SIGNAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT - A plurality of main amplifiers amplifies input audio signals with an adjustable gain. A first selector selects any of the input audio signals. An auxiliary amplifier receives an output of the first selector and amplifies this output with an adjustable gain. A second selector receives n outputs from the main amplifiers and selects any of the outputs. A soft switching circuit receives an output of the second selector at a first input terminal, receives an output of the auxiliary amplifier at a second input terminal, and makes the output transition gradually from one of the input terminals to the other of the input terminals. Output switches are respectively provided for the main amplifiers, an output of a corresponding main amplifier is received at a first input terminal, an output of the soft switching circuit is received at a second input terminal, and one of the outputs is selected to be outputted. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022338 | APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SWITCHING VOLUME ADJUSTMENT MODE AUTOMATICALLY AND VOLUME ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF - A method for automatically switching volume adjustment mode of an electronic device is provided. The method includes: storing a first predetermined volume and a second predetermined volume; when receiving a signal for volume adjustments, judging a current adjustment mode of the electronic device; if the current adjustment mode is the heavy adjustment mode, adjusting the volume with larger increment/decrement; if a value of the volume is larger than or equal to the first predetermined volume, switching to the light adjustment mode automatically; if the adjustment mode is the light adjustment mode, adjusting the volume with smaller increment/decrement; if the volume is less than or equal to the second predetermined volume, switching to the heavy adjustment mode automatically. The present invention also provides an electronic device capable of switching volume adjustment mode automatically. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022339 | AMPLIFIER - An amplifier includes an amplifying block ( | 2009-01-22 |
20090022340 | Method of Acoustic Wave Generation - A method of converting an audio signal into vibratory modulation of a fluid includes converting a series of pulses representative of the audio signal into a plurality of signals having an intermediate peak-to-peak voltage; summing said signals having said intermediate voltage to provide a driver signal having a high peak-to-peak voltage; supplying said driver signal to an electrostatic fluid accelerator; and generating a corona discharge inducing said vibratory modulation of said fluid. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022341 | Extreme Low Frequency Acoustic Measurement System - The present invention is an extremely low frequency (ELF) microphone and acoustic measurement system capable of infrasound detection in a portable and easily deployable form factor. In one embodiment of the invention, an extremely low frequency electret microphone comprises a membrane, a backplate, and a backchamber. The backchamber is sealed to allow substantially no air exchange between the backchamber and outside the microphone. Compliance of the membrane may be less than ambient air compliance. The backplate may define a plurality of holes and a slot may be defined between an outer diameter of the backplate and an inner wall of the microphone. The locations and sizes of the holes, the size of the slot, and the volume of the backchamber may be selected such that membrane motion is substantially critically damped. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022342 | DIGITAL DECODER BOX WITH MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SOURCE FORMAT INDENTIFICATION FUNCTION - A digital decoder box is introduced for processing multiple-channel digital audio sources. The digital decoder box can detect formats of audio sources and perform different decoding processes, and output the audio sources to an earphone with 5.1 channel speakers. When a 5.1 channel audio source is received, the digital decoder box decodes the audio source and outputs the audio source to the 5.1-channel earphone. Three sets of audio signals are outputs including front stereo signals, rear stereo signals, center channel signal, and sub woofer signal. When a two channel audio source is received, the amplified audio signals from the digital decoder box are output to at least two sets of speakers within the 5.1-channel earphone. By the various speaker combinations within the 5.1-channel earphone, sound effects of separated sound fields may be generated. A two channel stereo audio source may then have different sound effects. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022343 | Binaural Recording For Smart Pen Computing Systems - A pen based computing system concurrently captures handwriting gestures and records audio using binaural recording. A binaural headset communicatively coupled to the smart pen device uses at least two microphones. A left microphone is placed in or near the left ear and the right microphone is placed in or near the right ear, each facing outward. Speakers are integrated into a shared housing with the microphones facing inward towards the ear canal to play back the audio recordings. By recording audio with microphones placed close to the ears, the system provides realistic sounding playback and allows users to more easily differentiate between multiple sources of audio. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022344 | Method for signal processing in a hearing aid - Processing two input signals in a hearing aid with a first source separation and a second source separation is provided. A comparison of a first correlation with a second correlation and with a change in the first coefficient set as a function of a second coefficient set when the second correlation is smaller than the first correlation, with the second coefficient set being changed as a function of the first coefficient set when the second source separation is reset. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022345 | Hearing device employing signal processing based on design-related parameters and corresponding method - For enabling fast, customer-specific and precise matching of a hearing device's directional characteristic, a hearing device having a signal processing unit for performing a processing algorithm is provided, with at least one design-related parameter of the hearing device having been made available to the signal processing unit and with the signal processing unit performing the processing algorithm based on the design-related parameter of the hearing device. It should be considered as especially advantageous in the case of the inventive hearing device that a processing algorithm can be performed particularly precisely and customer-specifically based on the provided design-related parameters of the hearing device. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022346 | A HEARING AID ADJUSTER - [Problems] To easily associate the parameters representing the acoustic characteristic of a hearing aid with the audibility of the hearing aid user, shorten the time for adjusting the hearing aid, and improve the accuracy of the adjustment of the parameter. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022347 | Hearing Apparatus with a Linear Switch - A hearing apparatus allowing a user to reliably switch the apparatus on and/or off includes a battery compartment for a battery and an actuation element disposed at the battery compartment for switching the apparatus on and/or off. A contact element has a contact point and taps an electric potential on the battery with the contact point when the actuation element is in a first position. The actuation element, in a second position linearly displaced from the first position, lifts the contact element at a lifting section of the contact element being different from the contact point, to remove the contact point of the contact element from the battery. Thus, the contact point of the contact element only contacts the battery and no additional material, preventing materials from being scratched and an electric circuit from being interrupted and ensures that an even, grippable surface of the actuation element is always available. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022348 | Hearing apparatus with a fastening facility for attaching an audio shoe and corresponding audio shoe - A hearing apparatus with a housing, which has a receiving surface for attaching an audio shoe is provided. The receiving surface has at least one first fastening facility, to which a corresponding second fastening facility of the audio shoe can be fastened such that the audio shoe can be attached to the hearing apparatus in a linear and essentially perpendicular fashion in respect of the receiving surface. An electrical and mechanical connection between the hearing apparatus and the audio shoe can thus be established in a simple fashion. According to a further aspect of the invention, a corresponding audio shoe is provided which can be attached to a hearing apparatus. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022349 | Configuration with a Wearing Hook for Hearing Devices and Associated Method - A wearing hook for hearing devices has at least one device disposed in a sound channel of the wearing hook. The device is able to influence interfering sound-induced oscillations of the wearing hook. The device is for instance a tube made of metal. An associated method is likewise described for influencing the oscillations. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022350 | Acoustic Vibration Sensor - An acoustic vibration sensor, also referred to as a speech sensing device, is provided. The acoustic vibration sensor receives speech signals of a human talker and, in response, generates electrical signals representative of human speech. The acoustic vibration sensor includes at least one diaphragm positioned adjacent to a front port and at least one coupler. The coupler couples a first set of signals to the diaphragm while isolating the diaphragm from the second set of signals. The coupler includes at least one material with acoustic impedance matched to the acoustic impedance of human skin. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022351 | TOOTH-MAGNET MICROPHONE FOR HIGH NOISE ENVIRONMENTS - A microphone structure and method of operation that senses a user's speech as represented by vibrations of the jaw sensed by an electrically passive component mounted on a user's tooth. A permanent magnet is attached to the user's tooth and vibrates as the user's tooth and jaw vibrate in response to the user's speech (or other sounds). A coil senses changes in the magnetic flux in proportion to the vibration of the magnet and thus senses the user's speech. No wired connection is required to sense the vibrations of the tooth/jaw as compared to prior techniques and no electrical power is required within the user's mouth as compared to prior techniques. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022352 | EARBUD KEEPER - An ear-mounted audio device keeper includes a retainer, having has first and second ends, and a clip assembly at the first end, the clip assembly securable to an ear-mounted audio device. Each clip assembly can at least partially encircle and be secured to the ear-mounted audio device. The retainer can include a flexible but not stiff leash or a flexible, resilient headband. Some examples comprise a clip assembly at both the first and second ends, each clip assembly securable to an ear-mounted audio device, such as an earbud earphone. The audio device keeper can be used to maintain control over earbud earphones with the leash placed on one side of the user's neck and audio wires are placed on the other side of the user's neck. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022353 | EXPANDABLE EARPIECE SEALING DEVICES AND METHODS - At least one exemplary embodiment is directed toward an earpiece with a sealing section for acoustically sealing the meatus of a human ear, which includes an inner ear canal speaker; an inner ear canal microphone; connected to a logic circuit which can include a digital signal processor (DSP), where the sealing section touches a portion of the ear canal to substantially acoustically seal the meatus of a human ear canal. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022354 | Articulated speaker rigging system and method - The invention involves a system and method for securing one or more loudspeakers to an overhead structure. The system includes up to six axes about which the speaker(s) can be rotated and/or traversed to provide the desired pan, tilt and rotational splay angle to the speaker. The system preferably includes a first gimbal that is securable to the structure, preferably overhead, and includes two axes of movement. A vertical member extends downwardly from the first gimbal to a swivel which provides rotation about a third axis. The swivel attaches to a tilt traveler assembly which provides two axes of rotation. The tilt traveler assembly is slidably mounted along a contoured axial track member that extends around the top and back of the speaker box to provide an axis along which the speaker can be traversed. The front portion of the axial track member includes a rotation assembly and screw link, slidably secured along a transverse track member, which provides an additional axis along which the speaker can be traversed for rotational splay adjustment of the speaker. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022355 | LOUDSPEAKER - A high efficiency loudspeaker without a damper is provided. The loudspeaker includes magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap and a voice coil member, which has movable coil, disposed in the magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit. The loudspeaker also includes a diaphragm, whose inner peripheral part is linked with the voice coil member, outside the magnetic gap and a frame linked with an outer peripheral part of the diaphragm via a first edge. An inner peripheral part of a suspension holder is linked with the voice coil member at a linked position which is closer to the magnetic circuit than a linked position of the diaphragm and the voice coil member. An outer peripheral part of the suspension holder is linked with a frame via a second edge. The first edge and the second edge are substantially symmetrical with each other about a median of a first edge and a second edge. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022356 | Electro-Acoustic Transducer - An electro-acoustic transducer comprises a front part having an acoustically radiating surface, a supporting part that supports the front part and that extends from a peripheral region of the front part in a direction away from the acoustically radiating surface, and a reinforcing part that provides rigidity to the transducer. The reinforcing part extends from the supporting part to the front part such that a portion of the reinforcing part is spaced from the front part and/or the supporting part. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022357 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING PRESENTATIONS OF IMAGES MORE ENJOYABLE - A method and a system for storing metadata with a digital image, wherein the metadata is associated with the condition at the moment of capturing the image. The metadata is then used by an image viewer for choosing the best image effect when the image is displayed. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022358 | Method of Digital Watermark and the Corresponding Device, and Digital Camera Which Can Append Watermark - A digital camera comprising a watermark-adding device, which comprises a device for obtaining the signal values of digital signals, a bits dividing device, an altered regions initializing device, an eigenvalue calculating device, an encrypting device and a watermark embedding device. The bits dividing device divides the data recording each pixel point of the digital image, on the basis of bit, into bits for calculating the eigenvalue of the image, bits for hiding the watermark and bits for locating altered regions. The altered regions initializing device can set all the data of the bits for locating altered regions to 0 or 1. The eigenvalue calculating device can calculate the eigenvalue of digital signals. The encryption device encrypts the calculated eigenvalue. The watermark embedding device embeds the eigenvalue information in the digital signals. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022359 | Vegetation index image generation methods and systems - Methods and systems for generating a vegetation index image of a geographic region are disclosed by the present invention. The vegetation index image is generated by identifying one or more obscured locations within the geographic region, determining a vegetation index value for each location within the geographic region, replacing the determined vegetation index value for each obscured location with a predetermined replacement value for that location, and generating a vegetation index image based on the predetermined replacement values for the obscured locations and the determined vegetation index values for the non-obscured locations. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022360 | Quantization-Based Data Embedding in Mapped Data - Novel methods and systems for quantization based data embedding and reading in host signals, such as image, audio and video signals. To embed auxiliary data in a host signal, an embedder maps the host signal from a first domain into a mapped signal in a second domain. The embedder performs quantization based embedding of auxiliary data into the host signal using quantizers. The quantizers are adapted such that the relationship between corresponding quantizers in the first and second domains satisfies a predetermined constraint. The mapping improves the robustness of the data embedding method by increasing the chances that the embedded data can be recovered by an auxiliary data reader after modifications. A related embedding method projects the mapped signal unto a vector, and specifically, a pseudorandom vector. It performs quantization based embedding on the projected signal. The use of this projection provides added robustness of the embedded data to noise and other forms of distortion. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022361 | Audio content digital watermark detection - Digital watermark detection apparatus including detection units which calculate detected values of watermark signals by use of keys for PCM data of channels of audio content, a plurality of units which add the detected values corresponding to each of the channels and each of the keys for each possible combination of the respective channels and the respective keys, and a unit which selects and outputs one adding result from the respective adding results by the plurality of detected value adding units. Moreover, it includes units which accumulate the detected values in accumulation cycles different from one another to restore messages embedded as digital watermarks from the accumulated detected values, and perform boundary detection of the audio contents to detect the audio contents in which the digital watermarks are embedded, and a detection result output unit which synthesizes and outputs respective processing results by the message restoration units. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022362 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO ALARM VERIFICATION - A method for verification of alarms is disclosed. The method involves receiving an alarm signal trigger associated with an alarm signal, receiving video data from a premise associated with the alarm signal, rapidly analyzing the video data to test for the existence a significant event, and when a significant event exists, sending a representation of a segment of interest of the video data, the segment of interest being associated with the significant event, to a user. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022363 | WATERMARKING AND TRANSFERRING MATERIAL - A client device for use in a system having a server, the client device including: a receiving device configured to receive information material from the server, the information material containing a reversible modification providing a perceptible disturbing effect to the information material, and to receive identifying information that distinguishes the information material from other information material available from the server and condition information which defines a predetermined condition that should be met in order for the reversible modification to be reversed; a transmission device which, in response to a user input providing enabling data which satisfies the predetermined condition, configured to transmit the identifying information and the enabling data to the server, wherein in response to the transmission of the enabling data and the identifying information, the receiving device is configured to receive a key and removing data defining an algorithm for removing the perceptible effect, the removing data being useable by a reversing device to reverse the perceptible effect; and a storage device configured to store the information material that has had the perceptible effect reversed. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022364 | MULTI-POSE FAC TRACKING USING MULTIPLE APPEARANCE MODELS - A system and method are provided for tracking a face moving through multiple frames of a video sequence. A predicted position of a face in a video frame is obtained. Similarity matching for both a color model and an edge model are performed to derive correlation values for each about the predicted position. The correlation values are then combined to determine a best position and scale match to track a face in the video. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING POSITION AND ORIENTATION OF AN OBJECT - An information processing method includes acquiring an image of an object captured by an imaging apparatus, acquiring an angle of inclination measured by an inclination sensor mounted on the object or the imaging apparatus, detecting a straight line from the captured image, and calculating a position and orientation of the object or the imaging apparatus, on which the inclination sensor is mounted, based on the angle of inclination, an equation of the detected straight line on the captured image, and an equation of a straight line in a virtual three-dimensional space that corresponds to the detected straight line. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING VIDEO FROM NON-STATIC CAMERA - A novel system and method of treating the output of moving cameras, in particular ones that enable the application of conventional “static camera” algorithms, e.g., to enable the continuous vigilance of computer surveillance technology to be applied to moving cameras that cover a wide area. According to the invention, a single camera is deployed to cover an area that might require many static cameras and a corresponding number of processing units. A novel system for processing the main video sufficiently enables long-term change detection, particularly the observation that a static object has been moved or has appeared, for instance detecting the parking and departure of vehicles in a parking lot, the arrival of trains in stations, delivery of goods, arrival and dispersal of people, or any other application. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022367 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE DETECTING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE DETECTING METHOD - A three-dimensional shape detection device which can detect a three-dimensional shape of an object to be picked up even in the case that an image pick-up part with a narrow dynamic range is used is disclosed. An image of an object to be picked up is picked up under a plurality of different exposure conditions in a state that each of a plurality of kinds of patterned lights alternatively disposing bright and dark portions is time-sequentially projected to the object to be picked up and a plurality of brightness images are generated on for respective exposure conditions. Further, based on such a plurality of the brightness images, a coded image is formed on each exposure condition and a code edge position for a space code is obtained for every exposure condition. Based on a plurality of code edge positions for every exposure condition obtained in this manner, one code edge position for calculating a three-dimensional shape of the object to be picked up is determined such that the three-dimensional shape of the object to be picked up is calculated. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022368 | MONITORING DEVICE, MONITORING METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a monitoring device, monitoring method, control device, control method, and program that use information on a face direction or gaze direction of a person to cause a device to perform processing in accordance with a movement or status of the person. A target detector | 2009-01-22 |
20090022369 | POSITION/ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - This invention relates to a position/orientation measurement apparatus which can measure a position and orientation while achieving both high stability and precision. An image including indices laid out on a space is captured, and the indices are detected from the captured image. When a plurality of indices are detected, their distribution range is calculated, and an algorithm to be applied in position/orientation calculations is selected according to the size of the range (S | 2009-01-22 |
20090022370 | Method and apparatus for detecting meaningful motion - A method and apparatus for detecting a meaningful motion. The method of detecting a meaningful motion includes generating a difference image including a plurality of regions each having a sign according to a motion of an input image from a plurality of input images, and by calculating the amount of motion in the difference image based on the sign of each of the regions of the difference image, detecting a meaningful motion of the input image. According to the method and apparatus, a high detection ratio can be maintained, while a false alarm ratio with regard to meaningless motion can be lowered. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022371 | MOVEMENT DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE DOUBLE FILTERING - Movement detection method comprising the following steps:
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20090022372 | MOVEMENT DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE WITH A THRESHOLDING ALGORITHM PER ENVELOPE - Movement detection method comprising at least the following steps:
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20090022373 | Dynamically Varying Classified Image Display System - A dynamically varying image display system including an electromagnetic radiation emitting display, a thematic based sorting algorithm processor, and a display processor. The electromagnetic radiation display is configured to sequentially display a plurality of thematically classified images and the thematic based sorting algorithm processor relies on various recognition systems. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022374 | Revocable biometrics with robust distance metrics - Techniques, systems and methods relating to cryptographically secure revocable biometric signatures and identification computed with robust distance metrics are described. Various biometric cryptographically secure revocable transformation approaches are described that support a robust pseudo-distance computation in encoded form, thereby supporting confidence in verification, and which can provide for verification without identification. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022375 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND PROCESSES FOR AUTOMATED MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION - A system and process for combining multiple datasets to provide a composite dataset is described. The system includes a data collection tool, a computation engine and a memory coupled to the data collection tool and computer-readable code embodied on a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable code is configured so that when the computer-readable code is executed by one or more processors associated with the computation engine the computer-readable code causes the one or more processors to: (i) accept two or more datasets corresponding to distinct measurements of a subject, (ii) initiate processing of the two or more datasets, (iii) contemporaneously segment and register a combination of the two or more datasets to achieve a combined dataset, (iv) test for convergence of the combined dataset and (v) provide the combined dataset for analysis when the test for convergence indicates that the combined dataset has been registered and segmented. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022376 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGES IN INTERVENTIONAL RADIOSCOPY TO DETECT GUIDING INSTRUMENTATION EQUIPMENT - A method for processing images in interventional radioscopy for detecting guiding instrumentation equipment. The method of the invention enables objects of longilinear or very curved shapes to be detected within the radioscopic image having very low contrast to noise ratios. In one embodiment, an algorithm enables the measured contrast to noise ratio of long or curved structures in the image to be considerably improved. To do this, an embodiment of the invention uses oriented, separable, recursive and rapid steerable detection filters. Said detection filters have a low calculation cost, even for long filters having several orientations | 2009-01-22 |
20090022377 | MEDICAL IMAGE OBSERVATION SYSTEM - The report storage stores an interpretation report that includes patient-identifying information, examination-specifying information, and medical image-specifying information that specifies medical image data. The image data storage stores the medical image data that includes image data and additional information for the image data that includes the patient-identifying information, the examination-specifying information, and the medical image-specifying information. The key image-searching part specifies an interpretation report that includes patient-identifying information specified by a display request for the medical image data and specifies the medical image data using the medical image-specifying information included in the specified interpretation report. The image data-searching part reads the medical image data from the image data storage based on the additional information of the specified medical image data and the display request. The displaying part displays a medical image based on the read medical image data. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022378 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an image display device capable of easily checking an enormous number of tomograms. Display synthesis means ( | 2009-01-22 |
20090022379 | Method for Quantifying Organ Motion, Apparatus Therefor, Method for Estimating Organ Position, Apparatus Therefor, Method for Irradiating Radiation, Apparatus Therefor, and Apparatus for Detecting Abnormal Organ - A plurality of CT images of an organ ( | 2009-01-22 |
20090022380 | SUB-VOXEL MOTION CORRECTION FOR PHASE-CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - A method and system are described for image registration using an information theoretic approach that can be used for correcting motion in blood flow studies as well as other applications. The joint probability distribution between two MRI (or other modality) images is estimated where the interpolation method is referred to as a continuous histogram. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022381 | METHOD TO CORRECT THE REGISTRATION OF RADIOGRAPHY IMAGES - A method for the correction of registration of radiography images comprises means to determine a residual rigid transformation in comparing the pre-operation 3D image with a fluoroscopic image. This residual transformation is determined according to a registration based on the content of the image. Once the residual transformation is computed, it is combined with a geometrical registration. The use of the geometrical registration in this combination enables the making of a real-time registration comprising the motion of the C-arm without any additional registration. And the use of the registration based on the content of the image enables the precision of said geometrical registration to be refined. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022382 | IMAGING METHOD FOR MOTION ANALYSIS - The invention concerns a system and method for generating a 3D imaging data set of an object or of at least two elements, including: obtaining a 3D image data set of the object or the at least two elements in a first shape, first absolute position, or first relative position, moving at least one of the elements and/or deforming the object to have a second shape, second absolute position, or second relative position, different from the first shape, first absolute position, or first relative position; obtaining a 2D data set of the object or the at least two elements while in the second shape, second absolute position, or second relative position; and calculating a 3D image data set of the object or the at least two elements in the second shape, absolute, or relative position using said 2D image data set and said 3D image data set. The method also may be performed by obtaining the 2D image data set in the first position and obtaining the 3D image data set in the second position. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022383 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPENSATING FOR CHANGES IN ANATOMY OF RADIOTHERAPY PATIENTS - Portal images are combined with 3D ultrasound to determine adjustments to patient treatment parameters. The images are acquired while the patient is in an initial position, and the images are registered to a treatment coordinate system. The images are combined and outlines of anatomical structures are superimposed on the portal images, resulting in new portal images that incorporate the anatomy extracted from the ultrasound. The enhanced portal images are used to identify modifications to the treatment parameters. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022384 | Method for correction of distortion in image data records recorded by means of a magnetic resonance scanner, as well as a computer program, image processing unit and magnetic resonance scanner for carrying out the method - A method is disclosed which calculates local shifts of image elements in a loaded image data record which has been recorded by a magnetic resonance scanner using known recording parameters. In at least one embodiment, the known recording parameters and known local discrepancies of a basic magnetic field of the magnetic resonance scanner in a measurement volume of the magnetic resonance scanner are used to calculate the local shifts. A corrected image data record is created on the basis of the calculated shifts and the loaded image data record. This corrected image data record is finally displayed and/or stored. Furthermore, a computer program, an image processing unit and a magnetic resonance scanner for carrying out the method are disclosed. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022385 | Method for correction of distortion in image data records recorded by means of a magnetic resonance scanner, as well as a computer program, image processing unit and magnetic resonance scanner for carrying out the method - A method is disclosed for correction of distortion, which is created by way of discrepancies in a basic magnetic field of a magnetic resonance scanner, in image data records which are recorded via the magnetic resonance scanner. In at least one embodiment, the method includes loading a first image data record, recorded via the magnetic resonance scanner with a first frequency coding gradient, of an examination region; loading a second image data record, recorded via the magnetic resonance scanner but using a second frequency coding gradient, of the same examination region, with the first and the second frequency coding gradient being different; receiving a transformation shift field as final result of a registration process of the first and the second image data record; calculating a correction shift field for the first and/or the second image data record on the basis of the calculated transformation shift field; correcting the distortion of the first and/or second image data record on the basis of the calculated correction shift field; and displaying and/or storing the corrected image data record or the corrected image data records. A computer program, an image processing unit and a magnetic resonance scanner for carrying out the method are also disclosed. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022386 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTER AIDED TARGETING - A method for acquiring an image on an imaging system includes accessing at least first image data from a first imaging system, processing the first image data in accordance with a CAD algorithm, acquiring at least second image data based upon results of the CAD algorithm and processing the second image data in accordance with the CAD algorithm to confirm the results of the CAD algorithm regarding the first image data. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022387 | Medical image display system and medical image display program - A medical image display apparatus of the present invention is used in a medical image display system having a function of preparing three-dimensional image data on a subject including a plurality of luminal organs and displaying the prepared three-dimensional image data on a display ( | 2009-01-22 |
20090022388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING CLUSTERS OF OBJECTS - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing and metrically quantifying images of objects containing clusters of points/spots, such as biological specimens comprising cluster of cells, in particular of human or animal origin, or images thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for processing images of irregularly shaped objects in the form of at least one cluster of punctiform or spot-shaped objects, comprising a stage of acquisition of a digital image of said objects, a stage of image elaboration (IMA-EL) for quantizing said digital image to 1 bit and a stage of metrical processing of said 1-bit quantized image, wherein said stage of metrical processing comprises a stage of object's metrical quantification (QUANT) that on its turn comprises:
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20090022389 | Method of sorting documents of value - A method of sorting documents of value comprises:
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20090022390 | CURRENCY BILL SENSOR ARRANGEMENT - A currency processing device for receiving a stack of U.S. currency bills and rapidly processing all the bills in the stack, the device comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of U.S. currency bills of a plurality of denominations, the currency bills having a wide dimension and a narrow dimension; a transport mechanism positioned to transport the bills, one at a time, in a transport direction from the input receptacle along a transport path at a rate of at least about 1000 bills per minute with the narrow dimension of the bills parallel to the transport direction; a currency bill sensor arrangement positioned along the transport path, the currency bill sensor comprising: i) a multi-wavelength light source configured to emit a first wavelength of light and a second wavelength of light; ii) a cylindrical lens positioned to receive the first and second wavelengths of light from the multi-wavelength light source, the cylindrical lens illuminating an elongated strip of light on a surface of one of the plurality of currency bills, the cylindrical lens being configured to receive light reflected from the surface of the one of the plurality of currency bills; iii) a photodetector positioned to receive the reflected light, the photodetector generating an electrical signal in response to the received reflected light; iv) a processor configured to receive the electrical signal generated by the photodetector; wherein, the processor is configured to determine whether the surface of the one of the plurality of currency bills is a primary surface or a secondary surface based on the electrical signal. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022391 | Method and Product for Detecting Abnormalities - A new method for processing image data in order to detect abnormalities in a web is provided. The web is monitored by at least one camera, whereby an image comprising of plurality of pixels is generated. The data of the image is stored in a memory. Image data is filtered by a processor by creating a filtered image data by weighting the image data and at least one of earlier image data and earlier filtered image data; and combining the weighted image data and at least one of the weighted earlier image data and the weighted earlier filtered image data; and controlling filtering by at least one nonlinear algorithm; and thresholding the created filtered image data. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022392 | Method and Apparatus for Utilizing Representational Images in Commercial and Other Activities - In a method and apparatus for an object using a representational image, positioning the object at a predetermined position relative to the representational image, illuminating the representational image, presenting information from the representational image to an operator, at least one of controlling the illuminating of the representational image and presenting of information from the representational image to an operator, using a processing arrangement, and processing the object using the information obtained from the representational image. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022393 | Method for reconstructing a three-dimensional surface of an object - Method for determining a disparity value of a disparity of each of a plurality of points on an object, the method including the procedures of detecting by a single image detector, a first image of the object through a first aperture, and a second image of the object through a second aperture, correcting the distortion of the first image, and the distortion of the second image, by applying an image distortion correction model to the first image and to the second image, respectively, thereby producing a first distortion-corrected image and a second distortion-corrected image, respectively, for each of a plurality of pixels in at least a portion of the first distortion-corrected image representing a selected one of the points, identifying a matching pixel in the second distortion-corrected image, and determining the disparity value according to the coordinates of each of the pixels and of the respective matching pixel. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022394 | Method For Manipulating Regions Of A Digital Image - A method for dividing a digital image into regions comprises identifying potential region borders based on edge content in the digital image. The digital image is divided into regions based on user-selected ones of the potential region borders. A method of processing a region of a digital image comprises receiving gesture data for characterizing the region. A processing tool associated with the gesture data is automatically launched, and the region is processed using the processing tool. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022395 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENHANCING COLOR OF IMAGE - An apparatus and method of enhancing color of image is provided. The apparatus for enhancing color of image including: a saturation enhancement unit to enhance a saturation of an input image using a saturation variation according to a brightness feature of the input image; a gray scale area protection unit to determine a final saturation variation depending on a saturation value of the input image and the saturation variation, and to prevent a saturation enhancement of a gray scale area; a color control unit to control a color of the input image using a color variation according to the brightness feature of the input image; and a brightness value correction unit to correct a difference between a resultant brightness value and an input brightness value of the input image, the resultant brightness value being generated by applying the final saturation variation and the color variation to the input image. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022396 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The present invention executes color correction that improves the feeling of depth of a 2D image with ease and by using a preexisting device. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022397 | Method and apparatus for removing noise from a digital image - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that removes noise from an image. During operation, the system first identifies blobs in the image, wherein a blob is a set of contiguous pixels which possibly represents a character or a portion of a character in the image. Next, the system analyzes the blobs to dynamically determine a “noise threshold” for the blobs. The system then removes blobs from the image which are below the noise threshold. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022398 | HEAD DETECTING APPARATUS, HEAD DETECTING METHOD, AND HEAD DETECTING PROGRAM - A head detecting apparatus, including a foreground extraction section for extracting a foreground region in which a person is captured from an input image; a first main axis computing section which includes a first moment computing section for computing a moment around a center of gravity of the foreground region and calculating a main axis of the foreground region based on the moment around the center of gravity of the foreground region; a head computing section for computing a head region included in the foreground region as a part thereof based on the main axis of the foreground region and a shape of the foreground region; and an ellipse determining section for determining an ellipse to be applied to a person's head based on a shape of the head region. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022399 | PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A STRING FORMED FROM A NUMBER OF HAND-WRITTEN CHARACTERS - The present invention is a processing system for identifying a string formed from a number of hand-written characters. The system includes a processor and memory, an input device and an output device, a bus connecting the processor, memory, input and output devices, as well as an external interface for connecting the bus to an external database. The processor is configured to perform the steps of determining character probabilities for each character in the string, each character probability representing the likelihood of the respective character being a respective one of a number of predetermined characters; and determining template probabilities for the string, each template probability representing the likelihood of the string corresponding to a respective one of a number of templates, each template representing a respective combination of character types. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022400 | IMAGE EXTRACTING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND IMAGE EXTRACTING METHOD - Provided are a scene-transition-image extraction unit that extracts a scene transition image from a sequence of successive images using a predetermined extraction condition, a display unit that displays a near image of the scene transition image, an operation history acquiring unit that acquires image information of an image, for which a predetermined viewing operation is performed, among the near image(s) and history information of the operation, an extraction condition changing unit that changes the extraction condition using the image information and the history information of the operation acquired by the operation history acquiring unit. The scene-transition-image extraction unit re-extracts a scene transition image using the extraction condition changed by the extraction condition changing unit. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022401 | Image Processing, Image Feature Extraction and Image Matching Apparatuses, Methods and Programs, and Image Matching System - An object of the present invention is to eliminate instability in processing results of either one of image restoration processing, image feature extraction processing, and image matching processing, which is caused depending on an image division method, to enhance identification accuracy in image matching. An image processing apparatus includes an image input section, a data processing section, and a result output section. The data processing section includes a controller, an image-dividing-method dictionary, an image division section, an image processing section and an image integration section. The image division section divides image data into a plurality of regions according to a plurality of image dividing methods set in advance in the image-dividing-method dictionary. The image processing section processes the image data divided according to the image dividing methods by the image division section and generates a plurality of restored image data. The image integration section generates integrated image data of the entire image by using the plurality of the restored image data obtained from the processing that the image division section and image processing section perform according to the plurality of the image division methods. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022402 | Image-resolution-improvement apparatus and method - Provided is an image-resolution-improvement apparatus and method which can increase the resolution of an input image at a high magnification to thereby obtain a high-quality final image. The apparatus includes a textured-region-detection unit to detect a texture region in an input image; and a final-image-generation unit to synthesize a first intermediate image and a second intermediate image, which are obtained by applying different interpolation techniques to the texture region and a non-texture region excluding the texture region and generating a final image. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022403 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus for processing a moving image including a plurality of moving-image-component images. The image processing apparatus includes a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region in one or more of the plurality of moving-image-component images, and a characteristic region identifying section that identifies a position of the characteristic region in a non-selected image with reference to a position of the characteristic region in a selected image. Here, the selected image is selected from the plurality of moving-image-component images of the moving image, and the non-selected image is a different one of the plurality of moving-image-component images than the selected image. The characteristic region identifying section identifies the position of the characteristic region in the non-selected image with reference to a position of the characteristic region in a selected image preceding the non-selected image and a position of the characteristic region in a selected image following the non-selected image. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022404 | Efficient detection of constant regions of a region - A technique that improves image analysis efficiency by reducing the number of computations needed to detect constant regions. Constant region detection according to the present techniques includes determining whether an image analysis window at a current position contains a constant region by analyzing a new line of pixels in the image analysis window if a pixel at a predetermined location in the image analysis window in the current position has a value equal to a pixel at the predetermined location from a previous position of the image analysis window. Analyzing only the new line of pixels saves the computational time that would otherwise go into analyzing all of the pixels in the image analysis window. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO OBJECT IDENTIFICATION - A video object identification system used to identify an object, to locate its position in the view, and to determine its angular orientation. It digitizes a field of image view and subdivides the viewed area into a grid pattern of small cells. It then encodes the angle of a tangent line segment within each cell (when present) at the boundary of objects in the view. It determines rate-of-curvature of the boundary to develop a linear signature for the object. The system breaks the linear signature into segments that can be normalized to be constant regardless of the scale of the image. It then generates identification numbers to identify the object through a mathematics process. The system utilizes pipeline processing to the point where the results are applied to a microprocessor. The microprocessor analyzes a stored image field of view in encoded format to determine object perimeter cell locations (a chaining process). It then traces this perimeter addressing the stored image field to recover processed differential angles and to control the development of a linear signature sequence. The mathematics process performed creates a first number representing the length of straight segments and creates a second number representing the degree of curvature of curved segments. The combination of the two numbers provides a high probability of unique identification of an object. The numbers are compared with established numbers of a template for identification of an object. A unique feature number of an object is established for the template. This feature is located on the chained object by segment comparison and the relative angular orientation, compared to the template orientation, is then determined. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022406 | Method for finding specific pattern and method for compensating image offset - A method for finding a specific pattern is used to find a specific pattern in an image to be tested. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring an image to be tested; performing a binary thresholding process on the image to be tested, thereby transforming the image to be tested into a binary image; performing a mosaic process on the binary image, thereby transforming the binary image into a mosaic image; utilizing a correlation coefficient method to find the specific pattern most similar to an image template from the mosaic image, wherein the image template is a desired mosaic pattern of the specific pattern; and transforming the mosaic image back into the binary image so as to find the coordinate of the specific pattern accurately. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022407 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION - In an image classification method, dividing an input image into blocks; obtaining block features of each block of the image; performing an evaluation of each block based on the block features thereof; obtaining image features based on the evaluations of the blocks of the image; and classifying the image based on the image features into pre-defined categories. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022408 | IMIAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - It is an object to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing program in which motion information detected from an image is used for a different image processing corresponding to image information so that the detected motion information capable of easily synchronizing the image with the motion information to reduce a circuit scale is shared in a signal processing requiring a plurality of motion information. Motion information is detected by a motion detecting portion ( | 2009-01-22 |
20090022409 | Motion encoding of still images - The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for encoding a series of still images. The first image is captured and stored, then for each subsequent image of the series, that image is captured and compared to the first image or the previous image and difference information between the first or previous image and each subsequent image of the series is stored, resulting in one output file that contains the base image and difference information for each subsequent image, thereby reducing the amount of storage needed to store a series of images. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODED APERTURE IMAGING - Methods for coded aperture imaging, and processing the data from coded aperture imaging are taught. Several snapshots of an image are acquired, each using a different coded aperture array. The several snapshots are combined together with appropriate weightings to form a single equivalent frame as are the aperture functions for the coded aperture arrays used. Combining several frames of data can improve the signal to noise ratio of the decode image and increase the resolution of the image. Preferably a balanced weighting system is used and image reconstruction is performed by inverting the covariance matrix formed by the covariance of the signals from a number of estimated trial points. Using a balanced weighting system reduces the covariance matrix to a diagonal or near diagonal matrix with a corresponding reduction in computational load. The techniques also reduces additive noise. Various technique for compensating for camera motion and identifying motion in the scene are also taught along with suitable apparatus for performing the invention. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022411 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus | 2009-01-22 |
20090022412 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A hierarchical coding unit hierarchically codes picked-up moving images. A storage stores moving image coded data which have been coded by the hierarchical coding unit. A hierarchical decoding unit decodes part of the moving image coded data so as to generate a moving image whose image quality is lower than the moving images. A recoding unit codes the moving image decoded by the hierarchical decoding unit. The hierarchical decoding unit decodes the moving image coded data starting from a lowest hierarchy up to a hierarchy corresponding to a specified resolution. | 2009-01-22 |
20090022413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREMENTAL AND CONTINUOUS DATA COMPRESSION - A data compression system and method for that is capable of detecting and eliminating repeated phrases of variable length within a window of virtually unlimited size. | 2009-01-22 |