06th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 38 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140037096 | SEAL-QUALITY ESTIMATION FOR A SEAL FOR AN EAR CANAL - Measurements of body sounds in the ear canal may be used for many applications. However, reliability is dependent on the ear canal being properly sealed to allow the body sounds to achieve a detectable level. An apparatus is therefore provided for determining a seal quality indication for a seal of an ear canal. An ear canal microphone ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037097 | Loudspeaker Calibration Using Multiple Wireless Microphones - An illustrative embodiment includes a method for use in performing acoustic calibration of at least one audio output device for a plurality of listening locations. An audio input device generates a data signal based on a series of one or more tones output by the at least one audio output device. The audio input device wirelessly transmits the data signal to a calibration device. The audio input device is one of a plurality of audio input devices deployed at respective ones of the plurality of listening locations. The data signal is one of a plurality of data signals generated by respective ones of the plurality of audio input devices based on the series of one or more tones output by the at least one audio output device. The plurality of data signals are wirelessly transmitted by the respective ones of the plurality of audio input devices to the calibration device. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037098 | DETERMINING STIMULATION SIGNAL STRENGTH IN AN AUDITORY PROSTHESIS - A method for determining the level of stimulation signals generated by an auditory prosthesis as a result of processing an electrical audio signal representative of sound is disclosed, the method comprising: converting the audio signal into a plurality of frequency-based signal components; analyzing one or more of the signal components to determine a quantity associated with the presence of a target signal in the analyzed signal component; and calculating the signal level based on the determined quantity when the determined quantity indicates a target signal is sufficiently present in the audio signal. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037099 | HEARING AID WITH MEANS FOR ESTIMATING THE EAR PLUG FITTING - A hearing aid ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037100 | MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION USING ENHANCED REFERENCE NOISE SIGNAL - Systems and methods of improved noise reduction include the steps of: receiving an audio signal from two or more acoustic sensors; applying a beamformer to employ a first noise cancellation algorithm; applying a noise reduction post-filter module to the audio signal including: estimating a current noise spectrum of the received audio signal after the application of the first noise cancellation algorithm, wherein the current noise spectrum is estimated using the audio signal received by the second acoustic sensor; determining a punished noise spectrum using the time-average level difference between the audio signal received by the first acoustic sensor and the current noise spectrum; determining a final noise estimate by subtracting the punished noise spectrum from the current noise spectrum; and applying a second noise reduction algorithm to the audio signal received by the first acoustic sensor using the final noise estimate; and outputting an audio stream with reduced background noise. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037101 | HEADPHONE DEVICE, WEARING STATE DETECTION DEVICE, AND WEARING STATE DETECTION METHOD - Provided is a headphone device including an outside microphone attached to a position at which an extraneous sound is picked up without passing through a shield in a state in which a user is wearing the headphone device, an inside microphone attached to a position at which the extraneous sound is picked up via the shield in the state in which the user is wearing the headphone device, a driver unit which performs an acoustic output, and a wearing state detection unit which detects a wearing or non-wearing state using a signal comparison result between sound signals obtained by the outside and inside microphones, respectively, a pre-stored non-wearing state reference value which is a signal comparison result when the extraneous sound arrives in the non-wearing state, and a pre-stored wearing state reference value which is a signal comparison result when the extraneous sound arrives in the wearing state. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037102 | HEADPHONE, EARPHONE OR EAR BUD SYSTEM - A headphone, earphone or ear bud system features headphones, earphones or ear buds attached to retractable cords in combination with a retractable cord with a jack for connection to a sound generating device. A device for retracting the cords attached to the headphones, earphones or ear buds, and a device for retracting the retractable cord with a jack are both fixed to a lanyard or necklace that can be worn around the neck of a user of the device. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037103 | IDENTIFYING A CHANGE TO ADJUST AUDIO DATA - Examples disclose a method of transmitting audio data to a wireless device and receiving frequency coefficients associated with the audio data from the device. Further, examples disclose analyzing the frequency coefficients to identify a change between the transmitted audio data and the received frequency coefficients. Additionally, examples also disclose adjusting a second audio data based on the identified change. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037104 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Exemplary embodiments disclose a display apparatus, a display system, and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: an image processing device configured to process an image signal; an audio processing device configured to process an audio signal; a communication device configured to conduct wireless communication with a peripheral and configured to transmit the audio signal processed by the audio processing device to an audio output device; and a controller configured to operate in a discoverable mode for wireless communication access of the communication device, and configured to control the communication device to conduct pairing of the audio output device configured to transmit a preset message and the display apparatus for the wireless communication, when the preset message is received from the audio output device. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037105 | DIGITAL AUDIO COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL IN A LIVE PERFORMANCE VENUE - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for digitally transmitting audio that is converted from analog audio received from analog media pickup devices in a live performance venue by a stage box to a base unit over off-the-shelf twisted pair cable while sending pre-amplification control signals and power over the cable to the stage box. Audio for the performance venue is remotely managed from a virtual audio engineering mixing board that wirelessly communicates audio control commands to the stage box from a handheld computing device. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037106 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION CENTER, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING METHOD - The invention relates to an information distributing system for distributing data to at least one information processing terminal device from an information center storing data. The information distributing system of the invention is structured such that character data, audio data, and both the character data and the audio data are selectively downloaded from the information center to the information processing terminal device on the basis of request information from the information processing terminal device, so that a user makes selection according to a congested state of communication, and effective information collection becomes possible. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037107 | Volume Interactions for Connected Playback Devices - Methods and systems are provided for, volume interactions for connected playback device. In one example, a plurality of playback devices may be rendering audio in synchrony, when a volume adjustment is made for the plurality of playback devices as a group. In one case, a first playback device in the plurality of playback devices may have a volume limit, as indicated by a state variable associated with the first playback device. In this case, the resulting volume adjustment for the first playback device may be made according to both the group volume adjustment and the volume limit of the first playback device. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037108 | AUTOMATIC LOUDNESS CONTROL - An improved automatic loudness control system and method comprise controlling gain/attenuation applied to an input audio signal and providing an output audio signal that is the amplified/attenuated input audio signal; evaluating an actual loudness of the input audio signal from the input audio signal and a desired loudness of the input audio signal from a volume control input; and evaluating the gain/attenuation applied to the input audio signal from the actual loudness and the desired loudness of the input audio signal. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALARM SERVICE USING CONTEXT AWARENESS IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for an alarm service using context awareness in a portable terminal are provided. A control method for preventing the disruption of sleep includes sensing if a user is in a sleep state and, when the user is in the sleep state, adjusting a volume level to a preset volume level, and adjusting screen brightness to a preset screen brightness when the user is in the sleep state. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037110 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING A DIGITAL AUDIO MIXED SIGNAL, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEPARATING SIGNALS, AND CORRESPONDING SIGNAL - The invention relates to a method of forming one or more digital audio mixed signals (S | 2014-02-06 |
20140037111 | SEMANTIC AUDIO TRACK MIXER - An audio mixer for mixing a plurality of audio tracks to a mixture signal has a semantic command interpreter for receiving a semantic mixing command and for deriving a plurality of mixing parameters for the plurality of audio tracks from the semantic mixing command; an audio track processor for processing the plurality of audio tracks in accordance with the plurality of mixing parameters; and an audio track combiner for combining the plurality of audio tracks processed by the audio track processor into the mixture signal. A corresponding method has: receiving a semantic mixing command; deriving a plurality of mixing parameters for the plurality of audio tracks from the semantic mixing command; processing the plurality of audio tracks in accordance with the plurality of mixing parameters; and combining the plurality of audio tracks resulting from the processing of the plurality of audio tracks to form the mixture signal. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037112 | DIGITAL CONDENSER MICROPHONE HAVING PREAMPLIFIER WITH VARIABLE INPUT IMPEDANCE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING VARIABLE INPUT IMPEDANCE OF PREAMPLIFIER - The present invention provides a digital condenser microphone having a preamplifier with variable input impedance and a method of controlling the variable input impedance of the preamplifier. The preamplifier includes a bias terminal (Bias) for applying a bias voltage to an input signal when the input signal is output from a microphone condenser. An impedance unit (Z) includes at least one variable input impedance element which is connected to the bias terminal and to which the bias voltage is applied via the bias terminal. An operational amplifier receives the input signal, converts the input signal into an output signal, and outputs the output signal. A control block ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037113 | PREAMPLIFIER CIRCUIT FOR A MICROELECTROMECHANICAL CAPACITIVE ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER - Described herein is a preamplifier circuit for a capacitive acoustic transducer provided with a MEMS detection structure that generates a capacitive variation as a function of an acoustic signal to be detected, starting from a capacitance at rest; the preamplifier circuit is provided with an amplification stage that generates a differential output signal correlated to the capacitive variation. In particular, the amplification stage is an input stage of the preamplifier circuit and has a fully differential amplifier having a first differential input (INP) directly connected to the MEMS detection structure and a second differential input (INN) connected to a reference capacitive element, which has a value of capacitance equal to the capacitance at rest of the MEMS detection structure and fixed with respect to the acoustic signal to be detected; the fully differential amplifier amplifies the capacitive variation and generates the differential output signal. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037114 | FLAT TYPE SPEAKER HAVING VIBRATION-LEAD PLATE ATTACHED ON TOP OF VIBRATION PLATE - The present invention relates to a flat type speaker, and more particularly, to a flat type speaker of a vibration-lead plate of a voice coil plate, improving the quality deterioration due to the reduction of production process and the disconnection of a lead wire, by being attached to the top of a voice coil plate, increasing vibration efficiency, and eliminating the lead wire connection of the voice coil. The flat type speaker of a vibration-lead plate of a voice coil plate according to the present invention comprises: a pair of magnetic bodies having a magnet and a yoke formed side by side, separated at a predetermined interval; a voice coil plate inserted in the space between the magnetic bodies, and having formed thereon a voice coil with a spiral pattern printed thereon; a vibration-lead plate having a first vibration-lead plate and a second vibration-lead plate, which are physically separated, each having +, − terminals formed on the front ends thereof, wherein the first and the second vibration-lead plates are each equipped with a coil plate spline, which adheres to the upper end of the voice coil plate, and at least one wing spline having one end thereof connected to the coil plate spline and the other end connected to the + or − terminals; and a vibration plate, which vibrates from the vibration received from the voice coil plate, while being contacted to the upper end portion of the vibration-lead plate. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037115 | MEMS Apparatus Disposed On Assembly Lid - A Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) assembly includes a substrate, lid, MEMS device, and at least one wall. The substrate has electrical connection pads and the electrical connection pads are coupled to electrical conductors extending through the substrate. The MEMS device is attached to the lid. The at least one wall is coupled to the lid and the substrate and is formed separately from the lid and has an electrical conduit disposed therein. The electrical conduit is electrically coupled to the electrical conductors on the substrate. The electrical conduit and electrical conductors form an electrical path between the MEMS device and the electrical connection pads. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037116 | Method for Fabricating a Cavity Structure, for Fabricating a Cavity Structure for a Semiconductor Structure and a Semiconductor Microphone Fabricated by the Same - Embodiments show a method for fabricating a cavity structure, a semiconductor structure, a cavity structure for a semiconductor device and a semiconductor microphone fabricated by the same. In some embodiments the method for fabricating a cavity structure comprises providing a first layer, depositing a carbon layer on the first layer, covering at least partially the carbon layer with a second layer to define the cavity structure, removing by means of dry etching the carbon layer between the first and second layer so that the cavity structure is formed. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037117 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPMIXING AUDIO TO GENERATE 3D AUDIO - In some embodiments, a method for upmixing input audio comprising N full range channels to generate | 2014-02-06 |
20140037118 | PRENATAL SOUND DELIVERY SYSTEM - A flexible and washable band is worn around the abdomen of an expectant woman. The band has waterproof speakers safely and comfortably integrated into an interior pocket of the band it to provide sound to prenatal babies. The speakers connect to an audio device that may be stored in an outer pocket of the band. A wire path is defined from the inner pocket to the outer pocket, the inner pocket completely containing the speakers except for a wire opening and the outer pocket comprising a wire opening and a device opening. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037119 | ACOUSTIC SPEAKER DEVICE - An acoustic speaker device ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037120 | Microphone Assembly - A Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) assembly includes a cover, a substrate, at least one wall disposed and between and attached to the cover and the substrate, a MEMS device disposed at the cover and an integrated circuit disposed at the substrate. The integrated circuit and the MEMS device are disposed one over the other and electrically connected together at least in part by conduits that extend through the walls. Alternatively, the MEMS device may be disposed on the substrate and the integrated circuit disposed on the base. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037121 | Microphone and Method to Position a Membrane Between Two Backplates - A microphone includes two backplates. A membrane is located between the two backplates. A voltage source applies a first bias voltage to the membrane and the first backplate and applies a second bias voltage to the membrane and the second backplate. A control unit adjusts the first and the second bias voltage. A method to center the membrane in a final electro-mechanic equilibrium position between the two backplates in a microphone is also disclosed. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037122 | Hands-free device - A hands-free device includes upper and lower earphones; a hands-free main body having opened top and bottom surfaces; a control unit mounted in the hands-free main body and configured to apply an operation signal; and an earphone protruding unit formed in the hands-free main body and configured to protrude the upper earphone through a rear surface of the hands-free main body in response to a protrusion operation signal of the control unit; and an earphone drawing unit formed in the hands-free main body and configured to draw one or more of the upper and lower earphones through one or more of the top and bottom surfaces of the hands-free main body in response to a draw operation signal of the control unit. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037123 | Seal Assembly for an in-ear and in-ear - An in-ear earphone including a housing having a first end for receiving a cable, and a second end which is placed in a concha of a user. Provided at the second end is a sealing unit which seals off an outer end of the ear canal in the region of the concha. The sealing unit has a first and a second end. The sealing unit further has a portion between the first and second ends, wherein both the inside diameter and also the outside diameter of the second end increase in the direction of the second end. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037124 | Housing And Method To Control Solder Creep On Housing - An acoustic device includes a substrate, a substrate cover, and a plurality of electrical and acoustic components. The substrate cover is disposed on the substrate and the plurality of electrical and acoustic components are disposed on the substrate and under the substrate cover. The substrate cover is constructed of a base metal and the substrate cover comprises a partially plating. The partial plating is arranged so as to prevent solder creep along a surface of the substrate cover. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037125 | LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM - A loudspeaker module includes a housing having a plurality of side walls and a cover plate positioned over a top surface of the plurality of side walls, a bottom of the housing remaining open. A driver mounting plate is secured to the plurality of side walls and divides the housing into an upper compartment and a lower compartment. At least one of the plurality of side walls includes an aperture linking the lower compartment to the external environment surrounding the housing. A driver is mounted to the driver mounting plate, the driver being positioned to fire into the lower compartment of the housing. A mounting bracket is secured to the at least one of the plurality of side walls including an aperture. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037126 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE PUMP/TRANSDUCER AND METHODS TO MAKE AND USE SAME - An improved electrically conductive membrane pump/transducer, such as a graphene membrane transducer. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037127 | MAGNETIC MOTOR SYSTEM - A magnetic motor system for driving a loudspeaker voice coil. The system has first and second parts that define a volume for receiving a voice coil. The first and second parts each have a respective permanent magnet with first and second sidewalls that extend in a direction away from the volume. The first sidewall slopes in a direction towards the second sidewall as the sidewalls extend away from the volume. The first and second parts further have respective guide members for channelling lines of magnetic flux in a return path between the permanent magnets. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037128 | DEVICE FOR EMITTING AN ACOUSTIC WAVE - A device for emitting an acoustic wave includes a flared structural piece bearing at its base an electromechanical transducer and defining at its flared end an output surface. A mechano-acoustic coupler made of one piece is a solid piece and exhibits: a first portion for mounting on the transducer, a second portion extending from the first portion up to the level of the output surface, the coupler being suspended on the structural piece at the level of the second portion and the second portion having a cross-sectional area at the level of the output surface which is strictly greater than its cross-sectional area at the level of the first portion, and a third portion extending from the second portion, where the third portion has a cross-sectional area which is smaller than the output surface, the third portion including a cross-section of greater area than the output surface. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037129 | REDUCING WATERMARK PERCEPTIBILITY AND EXTENDING DETECTION DISTORTION TOLERANCES - The present disclosures relates generally to digital watermarking and data hiding. One claim recites a smartphone comprising: a camera to capture video of a display that is rendering video, in which the video comprises a first watermark signal embedded in a first portion of the data, a second watermark signal embedded in a second portion of the data, and a third watermark signal embedded in a third portion of the data, in which at least two of the first watermark signal, second watermark signal and third watermark signal are inversely related to one another; electronic memory for buffering data representing captured video; one or more electronic processors programmed for: applying a first perspective distortion to the data representing the captured video to yield first perspective distorted video; and analyzing the first perspective distorted video to detect digital watermarking, in which a second perspective distortion is applied to the data representing the captured video to yield second perspective distorted video when the analyzing does not detect digital watermarking, and then performing analyzing the second perspective distorted video to detect digital watermarking. Of course, other claims are provided too. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037130 | REDUCING WATERMARK PERCEPTIBILITY AND EXTENDING DETECTION DISTORTION TOLERANCES - The present disclosures relates generally to digital watermarking and data hiding. One claim recites an apparatus comprising: memory for storing data representing video; one or more electronic processors programmed for: embedding a first watermark signal in a first portion of the data, the first watermark signal comprising a first signal polarity and corresponding to first detection preconditioning; embedding a second watermark signal in a second portion of the data, the second watermark signal comprising a second signal polarity that is inversely related to the first signal polarity and corresponding to seconding detection preconditioning; controlling provision of the watermarked video for display in real time, in which temporal averaging of the first watermark signal and second watermark signal over time conceals the first watermark signal and the second watermark signal from a human observer of the video. Of course, other claims are provided too. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037131 | STEGANOGRAPHIC ENCODING AND DECODING - This patent document relates generally to steganography and digital watermarking. One claim recites, in a watermark encoder, a method of encoding auxiliary information in an image or video comprising: using a programmed electronic processor, computing a change in an attribute of an image or video sample to encode auxiliary information in the image or video; and changing color values of the image or video sample to effect the change in the attribute, in which changes to color values are determined based at least in part on both: i) visibility of the changes, and ii) anticipated watermark detection. Of course, other claims are provided too. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037132 | USER DEVICE, A SECOND SCREEN SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR RENDERING SECOND SCREEN INFORMATION ON A SECOND SCREEN - Rendering second screen information on a second screen device. A user device receives information characterizing the source of a content data stream and the content data stream; generates a watermark payload using a plurality of parameters comprising the information and a time of the user device; and inserts a watermark comprising the watermark payload into the content data stream that is rendered. The second screen device captures the watermark and extracts the watermark payload and then at least one of the plurality of parameters; generates, using the at least one extracted parameter, a request that is sent the request to a server; receives information from the server in response to the request; and displays the received information on a screen of the second screen. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037133 | SYSTEM, METHOD & COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VIDEO FINGERPRINTING - A method for fingerprinting a video involving identifying motion within the video and using a measure of the identified motion as a fingerprint. Once videos are fingerprinted, these fingerprints can be used in a method for identifying video. This involves creating a motion fingerprint for unidentified videos; comparing the fingerprints of the known and unknown videos, and identifying whether the unknown video is a copy of the known video based on the step of comparing. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037134 | GESTURE RECOGNITION USING DEPTH IMAGES - Methods, apparatuses, and articles associated with gesture recognition using depth images are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, an apparatus may include a face detection engine configured to determine whether a face is present in one or more gray images of respective image frames generated by a depth camera, and a hand tracking engine configured to track a hand in one or more depth images generated by the depth camera. The apparatus may further include a feature extraction and gesture inference engine configured to extract features based on results of the tracking by the hand tracking engine, and infer a hand gesture based at least in part on the extracted features. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037135 | CONTEXT-DRIVEN ADJUSTMENT OF CAMERA PARAMETERS - A system and method for adjusting the parameters of a camera based upon the elements in an imaged scene are described. The frame rate at which the camera captures images can be adjusted based upon whether the object of interest appears in the camera's field of view to improve the camera's power consumption. The exposure time can be set based on the distance of an object form the camera to improve the quality of the acquired camera data. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037136 | Method and System for Determining Poses of Vehicle-Mounted Cameras for In-Road Obstacle Detection - Poses of a movable camera relative to an environment are obtained by determining point correspondences from a set of initial images and then applying 2-point motion estimation to the point correspondences to determine a set of initial poses of the camera. A point cloud is generated from the set of initial poses and the point correspondences. Then, for each next image, the point correspondences and corresponding poses are determined, while updating the point cloud. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037137 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT 3D TRACKING OF WEAKLY TEXTURED PLANAR SURFACES FOR AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS - The present system provides an on the fly simple to complex 6DOF registration approach using the direct method. On the fly means it does not require training time, a user points a phone/camera to a planar surface and can start tracking it instantly. Simple to complex means the system performs registration in multiple levels of complexity from 2DOF to 6DOF. By increasing the complexity model the system enables more surfaces to be tracked and for surfaces that are tracked the system can avoid local minima solution providing a more robust and accurate 6DOF tracking. Even surfaces that are very weak in features can be tracked in 6DOF and virtual content can be registered to them. The system enables playing Augmented Reality games on low-end devices such as mobile phones on almost any surface in the real world. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037138 | MOVING OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEMS, MOVING OBJECT RECOGNITION PROGRAMS, AND MOVING OBJECT RECOGNITION METHODS - The moving object recognition system includes: a camera that is installed in a vehicle and captures continuous single-view images; a moving object detecting unit that detects a moving object from the images captured by the camera; a relative approach angle estimating unit that estimates the relative approach angle of the moving object detected by the moving object detecting unit with respect to the camera; a collision risk calculating unit that calculates the risk of the moving object colliding with the vehicle, based on the relationship between the relative approach angle and the moving object direction from the camera toward the moving object; and a reporting unit that reports a danger to the driver of the vehicle in accordance with the risk calculated by the collision risk calculating unit. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037139 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING GESTURE BASED ON DIRECTION OF GESTURE - A device and method for recognizing a gesture according to movement directions of an object. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037140 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN A FIRST AND A SECOND IMAGE, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSE OF A CAMERA - A method for determining correspondences between a first and a second image, comprising the steps providing a first image and a second image of the real environment, defining a warping function between the first and second image, determining the parameters of the warping function between the first image and the second image by means of an image registration method, determining a third image by applying the warping function with the determined parameters to the first image, determining a matching result by matching the third image and the second image, and determining correspondences between the first and the second image using the matching result and the warping function with the determined parameters. The method may be used in a keyframe based method for determining the pose of a camera based on the determined correspondences. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037141 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING A PLURALITY OF TIME-OFFSET PICTURES, DEVICE FOR EVALUATING PICTURES, AND MONITORING SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for evaluating a plurality of chronologically staggered images, said method comprising the following steps:
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20140037142 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION - A method and system of vehicle classification, and more particularly to a method and system called hierarchical vehicle classification system using a video and/or video image, a method and system of vehicle classification using a vehicle ground clearance measurement system, and method and system for classification of passenger vehicles and measuring their properties, and more particularly to capturing a vehicle traveling along a road from a single camera and classifying the vehicle into a vehicle class. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037143 | AUDITING VIDEO ANALYTICS THROUGH ESSENCE GENERATION - Video analytics data is audited through review of selective subsets of visual images from a visual image stream as a function of a temporal relationship of the images to a triggering alert event. The subset comprehends an image contemporaneous with the triggering alert event and one or more other images occurring before or after the contemporaneous image. The generated subset may be presented for review to determine whether the triggering alert event is a true or false alert, or whether additional data from the visual image stream is required to make such a determination. If determined from the presented visual essence that the additional data is required make the true or false determination, then additional data is presented from the visual image stream for review. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037144 | EYELID-DETECTION DEVICE, EYELID-DETECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A lower eyelid search window (W | 2014-02-06 |
20140037145 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT IN A VISUAL SCENE - A profile of an object is extracted from an image of a visual scene and a center of the profile is then determined. A measurement vector is determined comprising a plurality of distances to the profile from the center, at a plurality of angles relative to and through the center. The measurement vector is filtered with a central moving average filter, and then compared with at least one stored vector representative of at least one type of reference object, wherein the central moving average filter is responsive to the type of the at least one type of reference object, responsive to which a determination is made as to whether or not the object corresponds to at least one reference object, so as to provide for identifying the object in the visual scene. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037146 | Method and System for Generating Structured Light with Spatio-Temporal Patterns for 3D Scene Reconstruction - A structured light pattern including a set of patterns in a sequence is generated by initializing a base pattern. The base pattern includes a sequence of colored stripes such that each subsequence of the colored stripes is unique for a particular size of the subsequence. The base pattern is shifted hierarchically, spatially and temporally a predetermined number of times to generate the set of patterns, wherein each pattern is different spatially and temporally. A unique location of each pixel in a set of images acquired of a scene is determined, while projecting the set of patterns onto the scene, wherein there is one image for each pattern. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037147 | NUMBER OF PERSONS MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A person extraction unit extracts a person from an image input into an image input unit. An attribute extraction unit obtains an attribute of the person extracted by the person extraction unit. A motion path creation unit creates a motion path of the person from positional information within the image of the person extracted by the person extraction unit. A measurement reference coordinate setting unit sets a measurement line (a first measurement line to a third measurement line) for the motion path corresponding to the person according to the attribute of the person extracted by the attribute extraction unit. A people number counting unit counts the number of people based on positional relation between the motion path of the person created by the motion path creation unit and the measurement line set within the image. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037148 | DETERMINING DOCUMENT FITNESS USING ILLUMINATION - According to an illustrative embodiment, a method for detecting a document includes capturing a first plurality of images of a document at a first wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, capturing a second plurality of images of the document at a second wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, and assembling the first and second pluralities of images to form one or more images of the document. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037149 | Navigation Using Portable Reading Machine - Navigation techniques including map based and object recognition based and especially adapted for use in a portable reading machine are described. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037150 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device | 2014-02-06 |
20140037151 | BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION - In real biometric systems, false match rates and false non-match rates of 0% do not exist. There is always some probability that a purported match is false, and that a genuine match is not identified. The performance of biometric systems is often expressed in part in terms of their false match rate and false non-match rate, with the equal error rate being when the two are equal. There is a tradeoff between the FMR and FNMR in biometric systems which can be adjusted by changing a matching threshold. This matching threshold can be automatically, dynamically and/or user adjusted so that a biometric system of interest can achieve a desired FMR and FNMR. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037152 | IDENTITY RECOGNITION BASED ON MULTIPLE FEATURE FUSION FOR AN EYE IMAGE - A method for identity recognition based on multiple feature fusion for an eye image, which comprises steps of registering and recognizing, wherein the step of registering comprises: obtaining a normalized eye image and a normalized iris image, for a given registered eye image, and extracting a multimode feature of an eye image of a user to be registered, and storing the obtained multimode feature of the eye image as registration information in a registration database; and the step of recognizing comprises:obtaining a normalized eye image and a normalized iris image, for a given recognized eye image,extracting a multimode feature of an eye image of a user to be recognized,comparing the extracted multimode feature with the multimode feature stored in the database to obtain a matching score, and obtaining a fusion score by fusing matching scores at score level, and performing the multiple feature fusion identity recognition on the eye image by a classifier. The present invention recognizes identity by fusing multiple features of eye regions on a human face, and thus achieves high recognition accuracy and is suitable for applications of high security level. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037153 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A plurality of pieces of information related to the iris pattern of an eye can be checked against each other in a short time. Characteristic curves (S( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037154 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING A NAME OF A PERSON APPEARING IN AN IMAGE - A computer-implemented method of automatically determining a name of a person appearing in an image includes receiving a collection of web pages containing a plurality of images. For each of the images, a set of names associated with the image is identified based on a text analysis of at least one of the web pages. Face detection and clustering is performed on the plurality of images to generate a plurality of face clusters. For each of the face clusters, a label for the face cluster is identified based on the set of names associated with each image in the face cluster. A name of a first person appearing in at least one of the images is determined based on the identified label for one of the face clusters associated with the first person. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037155 | VALIDATION SYSTEM FOR REGISTER CONFIRMATION AND/OR ACCESS AUTHORIZATION FOR NATURAL PERSONS USING BIOMETRIC FACIAL RECOGNITIONVALIDATION SYSTEM FOR REGISTER CONFIRMATION AND/OR ACCESS AUTHORIZATION FOR NATURAL PERSONS USING BIOMETRIC FACIAL RECOGNITION - Validation system for register confirmation and/or access authorization for natural persons using biometric facial recognition, a people authentication system complementary to conventional fraud prevention systems, made through the biometric facial image capture and his/her registration in single database associated with the natural persons register document, which will be validated or not after the parameterization, also used to control the access of persons in industrial, commercial and residential environments via biometric facial recognition, since the due registration is performed. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037156 | LIVENESS DETECTION - The present disclosure concerns a method of verifying the presence of a living face in front of a camera ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037157 | ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING APPARATUS, ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING METHOD, ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING PROGRAM, AND ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus that obtains content data and first position information corresponding to the content data; obtains second position information corresponding to a second person having a predetermined relationship with a first person associated with creating the content data; and associates identification corresponding to the second person with the content data based on a predetermined relationship between the first position information and the second position information. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037158 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF BIOMETRIC INFORMATION - An apparatus, method and system are provided for sensing at least one biometric measure of an individual. An electrical current flows through an electrode to induce an electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field stimulates and excites the molecules associated with the sweat gland pores 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. Alternatively, sweat gland pore biometric information may be derived from variations, fluctuations or disturbances to the electromagnetic field induced by the electrical current. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037159 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING LESIONS IN MEDICAL IMAGE - Provided are apparatuses and methods for analyzing a lesion in an image. A Threshold Adjacency Statistics (TAS) feature may be extracted from a medical image, and a pattern of the lesion may be classified using the extracted TAS feature. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037160 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes a process flow building unit, a process flow execution unit, a display unit, a selection unit, a process flow evaluation unit, and a storage unit including a process flow database. In addition, an image processing apparatus includes an image processing parameter adjusting unit, a process flow execution unit, a display unit, a selection unit, a parameter evaluation unit, and a storage unit including a parameter database. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037161 | ENHANCED METHOD FOR CORRECTING DATA FOR DEFORMATIONS DURING IMAGE GUIDED PROCEDURES - Systems and methods are provided for collecting and processing physical space data for use while performing an image-guided surgical (IGS) procedure. A method includes performing a rigid alignment of a computer model of a non-rigid structure of interest in a patient and surface data in a patient space associated with at least a portion of said non-rigid structure, and computing a deformation of the computer model that provides a non-rigid alignment of said computer model and an organ geometric representation of data, said deformation computed using a set of boundary conditions and field variables defined for said computer model based on said rigid alignment and a parameterization function. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037162 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AID DIAGNOSES USING CROSS-REFERENCED KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGE DATABASES - The present invention is a method and apparatus for increasing the usefulness of visual knowledge in a number of applications. It distills the relationships between characteristics and hypotheses into database form, thereby organizing visual information in a manner suitable to aid the user in the investigation of the various hypotheses (medical diagnosis, pill identification, plant/animal identification, cause of death, cause of accident, etc.). The invention sidesteps unresolved issues around knowledge engineering by not automating a decision making process. Rather, the present invention utilizes a relational database to dynamically respond to textual and visual findings as an aid to assist a user reaching a reasoned conclusion based upon information available by direct observation and comparison with stored image and textual data. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037163 | FORMATION OF A TIME-VARYING SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF AT LEAST VARIATIONS IN A VALUE BASED ON PIXEL VALUES - A method of forming a time-varying signal representative of at test variations in a value based on pixel values from a sequence of images, the signal corresponding in length to the sequence of images, includes obtaining the sequence of images. A plurality of groups of sub-sets of pixel values are formed by selecting a sub-set of at least one pixel value from each of at least two images defining an interval to form a group of associated sub-sets using at least one of a different aperture and a different interval length for groups defined on different intervals of the sequence. Groups of sub-sets are selected to form the signal to cover different intervals of the sequence of images by obtaining spatio-temporal volumes of pixel values from a sequence of images at least based on the received sequence of images. Each volume includes pixel values within a spatial aperture from each image within an interval of the sequence. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037164 | OUTPUT DEVICE, AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An output device that outputs a schematic view showing a position of a diseased part of a human body, comprises: a read-out unit adapted to read out a plurality of schematic views output from a storage unit adapted to store the schematic views, and a control unit adapted to output the plurality of schematic views read out by the read-out unit to an output unit, wherein the read-out unit selects a schematic view to be read out based on an output format that has been set by a user. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037165 | Multi-Source Medical Display - A system for indicating an area of interest on an image, including a source of image data, an image processing unit, a user interface, and a destination, which may be a display. The image data may be ultrasound, X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance tomography, computed tomography or surgical image data. The image processing unit may be configured to receive the image data from the source and combine it with a desired overlay pattern selected from a plurality of overlay patterns for indicating an area of interest on the image, which is then displayed on the display. The overlay pattern may include a key with coordinates or labels. Properties of the overlay pattern and the image data may be adjusted independently or automatically. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037166 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM CHARACTERISTIC SIGNALS - The present invention relates to a device and a method for extracting information from detected characteristic signals. A data stream ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037167 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS - An image display device such as a medical image display device is provided for supporting that information necessary for diagnosis is sufficiently displayed and the diagnosis without any error is conducted in a short period of time. The medical image display device | 2014-02-06 |
20140037168 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: shape obtaining means for obtaining information indicating a surface shape of a target object; discrimination means for discriminating a contact portion and a noncontact portion between the target object and an imaging surface of an ultrasonic probe which captures an ultrasonic image of the target object; position and orientation obtaining means for obtaining information indicating a position and orientation of the ultrasonic probe at the time of imaging; and alignment means for estimating deformation of the target object based on information indicating the surface shape, a discrimination result obtained by the discrimination means, and information indicating the position and orientation, and aligning the surface shape with the ultrasonic image. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037169 | METHOD FOR MOVEMENT-AVERAGED ATTENUATION CORRECTION AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM - Various embodiments relate to a method for the movement-averaged attenuation correction of positron emission tomography data based on magnetic resonance tomography data. In at least one embodiment, the method includes capturing of multiple MRT data respectively in different phases of a cycle of an anatomical disposition of an investigation subject. The method furthermore includes respectively for each of the plurality of MRT data: determination of a value of an attenuation parameter via segmentation and averaging of the determined values of the attenuation parameter in order to obtain an averaged value of the attenuation parameter. The method furthermore includes the execution of attenuation correction of the PET data based on the averaged value of the attenuation parameter. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037170 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which extracts a lesion having a ground glass opacity from an image includes a change unit which changes a pixel value corresponding to a candidate region for the ground glass opacity to a predetermined pixel value range, a first feature amount extraction unit which obtains a first feature amount from the image, the pixel value of which is changed, and an extraction unit which extracts the lesion from the image based on the first feature amount. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037171 | System for Accelerated Segmented MR Image Data Acquisition - A system for accelerated segmented magnetic resonance (MR) image data acquisition includes an RF (Radio Frequency) signal generator and a magnetic field gradient generator. The RF signal generator generates RF excitation pulses in anatomy and enabling subsequent acquisition of associated RF echo data. The magnetic field gradient generator generates magnetic field gradients for anatomical volume selection, phase encoding, and readout RF data acquisition in a three dimensional (3D) anatomical volume. The RF signal generator and the magnetic field gradient generator acquire consecutive segments of k-space line data representative of an individual image slice in a gradient echo method by adaptively varying RF excitation pulse flip angle between acquisition of the consecutive segments. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037172 | ENHANCED MULTI-PROTOCOL ANALYSIS VIA INTELLIGENT SUPERVISED EMBEDDING (EMPRAVISE) FOR MULTIMODAL DATA FUSION - The present invention provides a system and method for analysis of multimodal imaging and non-imaging biomedical data, using a multi-parametric data representation and integration framework. The present invention makes use of (1) dimensionality reduction to account for differing dimensionalities and scale in multimodal biomedical data, and (2) a supervised ensemble of embeddings to accurately capture maximum available class information from the data. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037173 | DETERMINATION OF A CHANGE OF POSITION OF A BONY STRUCTURE IN RADIATION THERAPY - The present invention refers to a data processing method for use in the field of radiation therapy and for determining a relative position between the position of the bony structure and a reference position at a monitoring time, the relative position being referred to as monitoring bone position, wherein an anatomical structure of a patient includes the bony structure and a treatment body part to be treated by at least one treatment beam of a treatment device, the reference position having a defined relative position with respect to an actual arrangement of at least one position of the at least one treatment beam; the data processing method being constituted to be performed by a computer and comprising the following steps: •providing CBCT image data describing a three-dimensional CBCT image of the bony structure, the CBCT image representing the bony structure at a pre-alignment time; •providing x-ray image data describing at least one two-dimensional x-ray image of the anatomical structure, the at least one two-dimensional x-ray image representing the bony structure ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037174 | MOTION TRACKING SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME ADAPTIVE IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY - This invention relates to a system that adaptively compensates for subject motion in real-time in an imaging system. An object orientation marker ( | 2014-02-06 |
20140037175 | AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHODS AND ANALYSIS - The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037176 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a correlating unit configured to acquire correlation information that correlates a first three-dimensional image of a target object with a second three-dimensional image of the target object, and a corresponding cross-sectional image generation unit configured to generate a corresponding cross-sectional image of one of the first three-dimensional image and the second three-dimensional image, if a cross section is set on the other of the first three-dimensional image and the second three-dimensional image, based on the correlation information. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037177 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention is configured to project a given region (e.g., region of interest or lesion of interest) in a three-dimensional image (e.g., MRI image or X-ray CT image) onto a plane including a two-dimensional image (e.g., ultrasonic image) of an object, and cause a display unit to display an error range caused by projection (range where a corresponding region of the region of interest in the two-dimensional image may exist, also referred to as a search range) including the projected region in such a manner that the error range is overlaid on top of the two-dimensional image. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037178 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A radiographic image photographing method using a radiographic image photographing apparatus. The radiation image photographing method includes: displaying a parameter value of the radiographic image photographing apparatus for a predetermined part of a target object and a preview image corresponding to the parameter value; changing the parameter value or the preview image based on a user's input; and changing the preview image according to the changed parameter value, or the parameter value according to the changed preview image. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037179 | FLUOROSCOPY APPARATUS AND FLUOROSCOPY SYSTEM - Provided is a fluoroscopy apparatus including a light source that irradiates an observation target with reference light and excitation light; a fluorescence-image generating unit that captures fluorescence emitted from the observation target X irradiated with the excitation light to generate a fluorescence image; a reference-image generating unit that captures return light returning from the observation target irradiated with the reference light to generate a reference image; an image-combining unit that superimposes the fluorescence image on the reference image to generate a combined image; a determining unit that determines whether there is a position with a luminance at or below a predetermined threshold in the reference image; and a notifying unit that, if the determining unit determines that there is a position with a luminance at or below the predetermined threshold, provides notification thereof. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037180 | METHOD FOR TOOTH SURFACE CLASSIFICATION - A method for intraoral imaging obtains a digital image of one or more teeth and detects first and second boundaries. At each of the first and second boundaries, there is calculated a boundary ratio of mean gray-scale values for the tooth area on one side of the boundary to mean gray-scale values for background areas on the other side. The calculated boundary ratios are stored. A third ratio of the mean gray-scale values for the tooth area near the first boundary to the mean gray-scale values for the tooth area near the second boundary is calculated and stored. A vector is formed and stored that contains at least the calculated boundary ratios and the third ratio. The tooth surface is classified as either smooth or occlusal according to the stored vector. The image data is processed according to the classification and processing results are reported. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037181 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD, CHARACTER RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND FINANCIAL APPARATUS - A character recognition method for recognizing a character of a medium is provided. A character image of an individual character from a medium is acquired and the character image is read out step by step to determine the character according to a hierarchical structure in which a set of predetermined characters are hierarchically classified into a plurality of groups configured of main groups and sub groups. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037182 | IMAGE CHECK CONTENT ESTIMATION AND USE - Apparatus, methods and media for deriving a transaction record based on handwritten check content. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve, a receiver device that is configured to receive a check image. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve, a processor device. The processor device may be configured to define a check segment within the check image; translate content from the segment from handwriting to estimated block text; and store the block text in a transaction record in machine readable memory. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve, a transmitter that is configured to transmit the block text to a financial institution product engine. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037183 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING INFORMATION IN FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - The systems and methods of the present disclosure use a mobile device equipped with a camera to capture and preprocess images of financial documents, and to recognize information in the images of financial documents. The methods include detecting quadrangles in images of a financial document in an image data stream generated by the camera, capturing a first image, transforming the first image, binarizing the transformed image, recognizing information in the binarized image, and determining the validity of the recognized information. The method also includes communicating with a server of the financial institution to determine the validity of the recognized information. The mobile device may include a camera, a display to display an image data stream and captured images, a memory to store a configuration file including parameters for the preprocessing and recognition functions, captured images, and software, and a communication unit to communicate with a server of the financial institution. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037184 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING INFORMATION IN OBJECTS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - The systems and methods of the present disclosure use a mobile device equipped with a camera to capture and preprocess images of objects including financial documents, financial cards, and identification cards, and to recognize information in the images of the objects. The methods include detecting quadrangles in images of an object in an image data stream generated by the camera, capturing a first image, transforming the first image, binarizing the transformed image, recognizing information in the binarized image, and determining the validity of the recognized information. The method also includes communicating with a server of a financial institution or other organization to determine the validity of the recognized information. The mobile device may include a camera, a display to display an image data stream and captured images, a memory to store a configuration file including parameters for the preprocessing and recognition functions, captured images, and software, and a communication unit to communicate with a server of the financial institution or other organization. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037185 | Sequencer For Combining Automated And Manual-Assistance Jobs In A Charged Particle Beam Device - A device for imaging and processing a workpiece having nanometric features through the use of at least one charged particle beam, by both fully automated procedures and manual assistance procedures. The device includes a user interface, including a schedule input entry device and a human operator ready input that can be placed in a first state or a second state and a procedure scheduler, accepting a schedule of procedures, including fully automated procedures and manual assistance procedures, from the schedule input entry device. Additionally, a procedure sequencer that, when the human operator ready input is in the second state, sequences through fully automated procedures until the human operator ready input is placed into the first state, at which time the sequencer begins sequencing the manual assistance procedures, after reaching a safe termination point for the fully automated procedures being performed. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037186 | METHOD OF ANALYZING PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY PROCESSES - Methods of analyzing photolithography processes are provided. The methods may include obtaining an image from a pattern formed on a wafer and obtaining dimensions of the image. The methods may further include converting the dimensions into a profile graph and then dividing the profile graph into a low-frequency band profile graph and a high-frequency band profile graph. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037187 | Inspecting a Wafer and/or Predicting One or More Characteristics of a Device Being Formed on a Wafer - Methods for inspecting a wafer and/or predicting one or more characteristics of a device being formed on a wafer are provided. One method includes acquiring images for multiple die printed on a wafer, each of which is printed by performing a double patterning lithography process on the wafer and which include two or more die printed at nominal values of overlay for the double patterning lithography process and one or more die printed at modulated values of the overlay; comparing the images acquired for the multiple die printed at the nominal values to the images acquired for the multiple die printed at the modulated values; and detecting defects in the multiple die printed at the modulated values based on results of the comparing step. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037188 | DEFECT REVIEW METHOD AND APPARATUS - A candidate-defect classification method, including acquiring a scanning electron microscope image of a candidate defect detected on a sample including a pattern; computing a feature value of the candidate defect by processing the image; executing defect classification of the candidate defect as a pattern shape defect or another defect, by using the computed feature value; acquiring positional information contained in design data of the pattern regarding the candidate defect; and extracting a systematic defect from candidate defects classified as pattern shape defects, by comparing the positional information contained in the design data of the acquired candidate defect to positional information of a portion having a high probability of causing pattern formation failure, and that has been obtained from the design data of the pattern, or a systematic defect caused due to a layout shape of the pattern, or properties of a processor for forming the pattern. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037189 | Fast 3-D point cloud generation on mobile devices - A system, apparatus and method for determining a 3-D point cloud is presented. First a processor detects feature points in the first 2-D image and feature points in the second 2-D image and so on. This set of feature points is first matched across images using an efficient transitive matching scheme. These matches are pruned to remove outliers by a first pass of s using projection models, such as a planar homography model computed on a grid placed on the images, and a second pass using an epipolar line constraint to result in a set of matches across the images. These set of matches can be used to triangulate and form a 3-D point cloud of the 3-D object. The processor may recreate the 3-D object as a 3-D model from the 3-D point cloud. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037190 | GAMUT CONTROL METHOD FOR IMPROVING IMAGE PERFORMANCE OF PARALLAX BARRIER S3D DISPLAY - A method for enhancing a three-dimensional (3D) image comprising at least two depth layers wherein each depth layer comprising image objects. The method comprising the steps of determining a near field and a far field comprising at least one depth layer each, identifying the image objects in the near field and the far field respectively, applying a first correction curve to the image objects identified in the near field and applying a second correction curve to the image objects identified in the far field. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037191 | LEARNING-BASED POSE ESTIMATION FROM DEPTH MAPS - A method for processing data includes receiving a depth map of a scene containing a humanoid form. Respective descriptors are extracted from the depth map based on the depth values in a plurality of patches distributed in respective positions over the humanoid form. The extracted descriptors are matched to previously-stored descriptors in a database. A pose of the humanoid form is estimated based on stored information associated with the matched descriptors. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037192 | Apparatus and Method for Disparity Map Generation - A method and system for generating a disparity map. The method comprises the steps of generating a first disparity map based upon a first image and a second image acquired at a first time, acquiring at least a third image and a fourth image at a second time, and determining one or more portions comprising a difference between one of the first and second images and a corresponding one of the third and fourth images. A disparity map update is generated for the one or more determined portions, and a disparity map is generated based upon the third image and the fourth image by combining the disparity map update and the first disparity map. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037193 | Apparatus and Method for Performing Segment-Based Disparity Decomposition - A method and system for generating a disparity map. The method comprises the steps of generating a first disparity map based upon a first image and a second image acquired at a first time, acquiring at least a third image and a fourth image at a second time, and determining one or more portions comprising a difference between one of the first and second images and a corresponding one of the third and fourth images. A disparity map update is generated for the one or more determined portions, and a disparity map is generated based upon the third image and the fourth image by combining the disparity map update and the first disparity map. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037194 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A technique is provided for efficiently process three-dimensional point cloud position data that are obtained at different viewpoints. A projecting plane is set in a measurement space as a parameter for characterizing a target plane contained in plural planes that form an object. The target plane and other planes are projected on the projecting plane. Then, a distance between each plane and the projecting plane is calculated at each grid point on the projecting plane, and the calculated matrix data is used as a range image that characterizes the target plane. The range image is also formed with respect to the other planes and with respect to planes that are viewed from another viewpoint. The range images of the two viewpoints are compared, and a pair of the planes having the smallest difference between the range images thereof is identified as matching planes between the two viewpoints. | 2014-02-06 |
20140037195 | IMAGE TAG PAIR GRAPH FOR IMAGE ANNOTATION - An approach is described for automatically tagging a single image or multiple images. The approach, in one example embodiment, is based on a graph-based framework that exploits both visual similarity between images and tag correlation within individual images. The problem is formulated in the context of semi-supervised learning, where a graph modeled as a Gaussian Markov Random Field (MRF) is solved by minimizing an objective function (the image tag score function) using an iterative approach. The iterative approach, in one embodiment, comprises: (1) fixing tags and propagating image tag likelihood values from labeled images to unlabeled images, and (2) fixing images and propagating image tag likelihood based on tag correlation. | 2014-02-06 |