08th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110043528 | CACHE MANAGEMENT FOR GLYPH DISPLAY - This is directed to managing a cache size for glyphs used to display text or other information in an electronic device. In particular, this is directed to defining a variable hit rate for retrieving glyphs loaded in cache to limit the number of times the device is required to read glyphs from storage. The hit rate can vary based on any suitable number or type of factors, including for example the characters previously displayed or to be displayed in the future, the system requirements for system memory, or any other suitable factor. In some embodiments, the hit rate can vary when characters in a second alphabet are displayed among or after characters in a first alphabet (e.g., Japanese characters in a listing of Latin characters). | 2011-02-24 |
20110043529 | INTERACTIVE ANIMATION - An interactive animation environment. The interactive animation environment includes at least one user-controlled object, and the animation method for providing this environment includes determining a position of the user-controlled object, defining a plurality of regions about the position, detecting a user input to move the position of the user-controlled object, associating the detected user input to move the position of the user-controlled object with a region in the direction of movement, and providing an animation of the user-controlled object associated with the mapped region. A system and controller for implementing the method is also disclosed. A computer program and computer program product for implementing the invention is further disclosed. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043530 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY - An electric apparatus includes a plurality of function units including a display unit causing a panel display a screen, a central processing unit that executes a first processing of commanding the plurality of function units to start up and executes a second processing of commanding the plurality of function units to operate in accordance with an operation being performed, and a detection unit that detects a state in which a restart operation to be performed during the second processing. The central processing unit executes a third processing for commanding the function units other than the display unit to start up in accordance with a detection result from the detection unit, and the display unit maintains displaying of the screen on the panel until the display unit receives a command to operate from the central processing unit in the second processing after the third processing has been performed. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043531 | Image transfer using drawing command hooking - A hook processing module hooks and preempts to a specific drawing command issued by an application program, and draws an image in an image data storage area within the RAM according to the acquired drawing command. VNC server acquires the image from the image data storage area, and transfers the acquired image to a projector via a network. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043532 | PSEUDO-RANDOM INTERVAL ARITHMETIC SAMPLING TECHNIQUES IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS - An improved branch-and-bound process of interval arithmetic subdivision in furtherance of computation of rigorous error bounds on integrated digital scene information for two dimensional display is provided. More particularly, a first aspect of the subject process includes pseudo-randomly subdividing an interval domain comprising a set of interval variables in furtherance of ascertaining a characteristic contribution of the interval variables of said set of interval variables to an image space comprising at least a sub-pixel area. A further aspect, either alone or in combination with the first aspect contemplates pseudo-randomly discarding a select partitioning of interval variables of a set of interval variables of a geometric function from a computed solution of an interval arithmetic branch-and-bound process. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043533 | SUPBIXEL RENDERING SUITABLE FOR UPDATING AN IMAGE WITH A NEW PORTION - In an image update, a display apparatus receives only a new portion ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043534 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus and related method determine an ambient luminance value. Ambient luminance value is analyzed under three conditions: static, dynamic and backed-lighted. Image(s) are received in an image stream and different parts of pixel luminance values corresponding to the image(s) selected by different ways are averaged to generate several luminance averaging values, to therefore determine the ambient luminance value from several luminance averaging values. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043535 | COLORIZATION OF BITMAPS - A bitmap may be transformed from one color scheme to another. In one example, the bitmap is used as part of a user interface (UI), and the colorization is performed to reflect a user's (or some other entity's) choice of color scheme. To perform the colorization, a bitmap may be converted from the red-green-blue (RGB) color space to the hue-saturation-lightness (HSL) color space. The hue may then be rotated toward the selected color scheme. Lightness and alpha (opacity) may be gamma-adjusted toward the selected color scheme. Saturation may be linearly adjusted upward or downward in the direction of the selected color scheme. The transformed HSL representation of the image may then be converted from the HSL space back to the RGB space. The new RGB bitmap may then be used to render one or more UI elements. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043536 | VISUALIZING AND UPDATING SEQUENCES AND SEGMENTS IN A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for visually conveying a sequence storing an ordered string of symbols generated from kinematic data derived from analyzing an input stream of video frames depicting one or more foreground objects. The sequence may represent information learned by a video surveillance system. A request may be received to view the sequence or a segment partitioned form the sequence. A visual representation of the segment may be generated and superimposed over a background image associated with the scene. A user interface may be configured to display the visual representation of the sequence or segment and to allow a user to view and/or modify properties associated with the sequence or segment. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043537 | VISUAL DISTORTION IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT TO ALTER OR GUIDE PATH MOVEMENT - A safe, purely dissipative, robotic device and method for rehabilitation of large whole body movements, for example, in stroke victims. Shifting to passive actuation fundamentally changes common control strategies that work well for active devices. The novel approach distorts visual feedback to the subjects as a first step to achieve the desired controllability hereto limited by passivity constraints. With visual distortion, a subject's arm trajectory can be altered in a way that passive actuation alone cannot. Results show that subjects involuntarily changed their path motion up to 30% with distortion applied. This ability to steer user's movements can be harnessed to offset controllability issues. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043538 | Method and Arrangement for Zooming on a Display - The present invention relates to an improved method for enlarging or reducing scale of a displayed digital content within a display, said display having a touch sensitive portion reactive to a pointing means, the method including identifying a time specific touch on a point with said pointing means. It is determined that the identified time specific touch corresponds to an enlarging operation or a reducing operation of said displayed portion of said digital content within said display screen. The enlarging operation or the reducing operation are performed. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043539 | Map Display Device - A map display device includes: a display control unit that displays, at a display monitor, meshes partitioning a map into equal parts assuming a predetermined areal size and a map for which one of a plurality of scaling factors can be selected, by superimposing the meshes on the map; a storage unit in which map data constituted with mesh data corresponding to the map partitioned into the meshes are stored; an input accepting unit that accepts an input; a detection unit that detects a specific mesh selected through input at the input accepting unit among the meshes displayed via the display control unit; a reception unit that receives from an external source mesh data corresponding to the mesh detected by the detection unit and; and an update unit that updates map data stored in the storage unit by using the mesh data received via the reception unit. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGION CLASSIFICATION OF 2D IMAGES FOR 2D-TO-3D CONVERSION - A system and method for region classification of two-dimensional images for 2D-to-3D conversion of images to create stereoscopic images are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure provides for acquiring a two-dimensional image, identifying a region of the 2D image, extracting features from the region, classifying the extracted features of the region, selecting a conversion mode based on the classification of the identified region, converting the region into a 3D model based on the selected conversion mode, and creating a complementary image by projecting the 3D model onto an image plane different than an image plane of the 2D image. A learning component optimizes the classification parameters to achieve minimum classification error of the region using a set of training images and corresponding user annotations. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043541 | FAULT DETECTION IN ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAYS - Detecting faults in driving circuits within a display device is disclosed. The display device has an array of pixels formed over a substrate in a display area, each pixel having a driving circuit and an associated communication circuit, the communication circuits together forming a multi-pixel serial shift register. The multi-pixel serial shift register is used to shift desired pixel luminance values from a display controller through the multi-pixel serial shift register to corresponding driving circuits for driving the pixels with driven electrical signals to emit light corresponding to the desired pixel luminance values, and sensing electrical signals corresponding to the driven electrical signals with a sensing circuit. Further the sensed electrical signals are shifted by the multi-pixel serial shift register to the display controller and faults are detected in the driving circuits by analyzing the sensed electrical signals. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043542 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a display device which can attain higher contrast than that of the conventional display device. The display device ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043543 | COLOR TUNING FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY - The present invention is directed to a color tuning composition and a method for adjusting the color temperature of an electrophoretic display. A display device comprising a color tuning layer of the present invention has several advantages. For example, the colors of the images displayed may be modified according to different needs without affecting the performance of the display device; the level of whiteness may be improved; and in some cases, the need for a UV barrier layer may also be eliminated. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043544 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an image display device, in which light emission period control signals are applied to a plurality of pixels holding voltages based on grayscale values, to emit from light emitting elements. During a horizontal synchronizing period, an active period of each of the light emission period control signals is divided into two periods. A start of one of the divisional periods coincides with a start of the horizontal synchronizing signal. An end of the other divisional period coincides with an end of the horizontal synchronizing signal. The active periods of the light emission period control signals (G) and (B) are equal to or larger than 80% of the active period of the light emission period control signal (R). An active period of a light emission control signal is synchronized with the light emission period control signal (R). | 2011-02-24 |
20110043545 | LED DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DATA-TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD OF SAME - A LED display system includes a display controller includes an output/input port; a plurality of driving circuits coupled in series, wherein a first one of the driving circuits is coupled to the output/input port; and a plurality of LED sets respectively coupled to the plurality of driving circuits. A plurality of image data, outputted from the display controller, are shifted to the plurality of driving circuits, respectively, in a first direction through the first one of the driving circuits when the display controller is in a displaying mode; and a plurality of status data, respectively generated by the plurality of driving circuits, are shifted to the display controller in a second direction through the first one of the driving circuits when the display controller is in a detecting mode. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043546 | CONVERSION CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DRIVE CIRCUIT, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A display drive circuit that performs digital driving for displaying an image of each one frame based on luminance data of a plurality of subframes is disclosed. The display drive circuit includes a conversion section that converts the luminance data having a plurality of bits indicating a luminance level of each of the plurality of subframes into data indicating the luminance level for pixels in a number greater than the number of the plurality of subframes, and a storage section that stores the data converted by the conversion section. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043547 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel configured to display a video on a display area and light sources, each configured to be controlled respectively and to light in an illumination area into which the display area is virtually divided according as arrangement of the light sources. The apparatus includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate a second emission intensity corresponding to a small-area based on a video signal in a small-area, wherein the small-area is segmented area of the display area and smaller than the illumination area. The apparatus includes a second calculation unit configured to calculate a first emission intensity to control the light source from the second emission intensities and a control unit configured to light the light sources at the first emission intensities. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043548 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE - In an active matrix electroluminescent display device, an overall brightness level of an image to be displayed in a frame period is determined. A drive transistor of each pixel is controlled in dependence on an input drive signal for the pixel and on the overall brightness level, for example using a signal processor ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043549 | HIGH CONTRAST LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH ADJUSTABLE WHITE COLOR POINT - A display ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043550 | Liquid Crystal Display Device With Influences of Offset Voltages Reduced - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first register, a second register, a gray scale voltage generator which outputs a plurality of gray scale voltages, a decoder which selects a gray scale voltage, and an amplifier including a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor and a first terminal of the second transistors are connected to a first voltage line, a first terminal of the third transistor and a first terminal of the fourth transistor are connected to a second voltage line, a second terminal of the first transistor is connected to a second terminal of the third transistor, and a second terminal of the second transistor is connected to a second terminal of the fourth transistor. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043551 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus that performs display control of an image displayed on a display unit, includes a first control circuit for controlling image data of a frame in question or a display timing control signal corresponding to the image data so as to display each pixel forming the image with different brightness at given intervals, and a second control circuit for controlling the image data or the display timing control signal by different control from that by the first control circuit so as to display each pixel forming the image with different brightness at given intervals, wherein the first control circuit and the second control circuit control image data of an identical frame or a display timing control signal corresponding to the image data. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043552 | SUBPIXEL RENDERING WITH COLOR COORDINATES' WEIGHTS DEPENDING ON TESTS PERFORMED ON PIXELS - If a pixel ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043553 | GAMUT MAPPING WHICH TAKES INTO ACCOUNT PIXELS IN ADJACENT AREAS OF A DISPLAY UNIT - A gamut mapping operation ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043554 | CONTINUOUS WEB PRINTER FOR PRINTING NON-IDENTICAL COPIES WITHIN A PRINT RUN - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, a media feed path extending from the inlet to the outlet, a plurality of pagewidth inkjet printhead assemblies positioned adjacent the media feed path for printing on both sides of the web and a central processor for inputting print data to the pagewidth inkjet printhead assemblies such that during a print run, the pagewidth inkjet printhead assemblies print many copies of a document The central processor is configured to selectively alter one or more of the copies to be non-identical to the remainder of the copies without interruption to the print run. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043555 | DROP EJECTION METHOD THROUGH MULTI-LOBED NOZZLE - A method of ejecting a drop of liquid through a nozzle having a plurality of lobes. Liquid or ink is ejected through a plurality of lobes such that the liquid or ink passing through the lobes collapses into a single drop before the liquid or ink reaches a receiving substrate. A central region of the ejected drop is pinched by the lobes of the nozzle. The method is preferably implemented in an inkjet printer by providing a plurality of multi-lobed nozzles formed in a printhead of the printer. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043556 | LANGUAGE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE VISCOSITY OF PRINTING INK DURING THE PRINTING AND INK CORRECTION PROCESS - A System and method for measuring the viscosity of printing ink during the printing and ink correction process is presented. A Printing press comprises at least one ink supply system, with which ink can be transferred from an inlet point to the printing substrate, at least one optical measuring device for measuring actual optical values of light, in which the actual optical values are from light of selected wavelength ranges and in which the light has interacted with at least parts of the printing picture, whereby the printing press further comprises an ink mass determination device for determining the weight of at least parts of the ink which is located within an ink supply system a control and evaluation device which can be provided with measured values from the optical measuring device and with measured values from the ink mass determination device and which can be used to determine the optical deviation, that is the deviation of the actual optical values from the optical reference values, which are available as light intensity values of selected wavelength ranges, and which control and evaluation device can be used to determine on the basis of the optical deviation and the values from the weighing devices, how much corrective ink having a determined composition is fed to the printing press in order to approximate the actual optical values to the optical reference values. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043557 | STABILIZATION OF INK CONCENTRATION IN A SOLID INK ADD SYSTEM - Apparatus for maintenance of ink concentration stability in a reservoir ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043558 | DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE - There is provided a droplet ejection device including: a droplet ejection unit that successively ejects plural droplets within a pre-specified driving cycle and is capable of causing the plural droplets to aggregate and impact; and a control section that controls application to the droplet ejection unit of driving waveforms among plural driving waveforms that are each capable of ejecting a droplet from the droplet ejection unit, which are generated within the pre-specified driving cycle, such that the driving waveforms that are applied include at least one driving waveform generated at a pre-specified later period in the driving cycle. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043559 | LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT, LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A load driving circuit includes first storage elements charged by a power supply and a series storage element group constituting unit that switches the connection state between the first storage elements to constitute a series storage element group in which the first storage elements are connected in series. A second storage element charging unit charges a second storage element using the series storage element group. Switching is performed between first and second connection states to apply voltage to the load. In the first connection state, the charged second storage element and the series storage element group are connected to the load while the second storage element and the series storage element group are connected in series. In the second connection state, the series storage element group is connected to the load while the series connection between the second storage element and the series storage element group is broken. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043560 | Fluid Ejecting Apparatus and Fluid Ejecting Method - A fluid ejecting apparatus includes: a first nozzle line that includes a plurality of first nozzles that are aligned in a predetermined direction, first fluid being ejected from the first nozzles; a second nozzle line that includes a plurality of second nozzles that are aligned in the predetermined direction, second fluid being ejected from the second nozzles; a movement mechanism that moves the first nozzle line and the second nozzle line relative to a target medium in a movement direction, the movement direction being orthogonal to the predetermined direction; a transportation mechanism that transports the target medium relative to the first nozzle line and the second nozzle line in the predetermined direction; a controlling section that performs control for repeating image formation operation and transportation operation, the image formation operation being operation for ejecting the first fluid from the first nozzles and ejecting the second fluid from the second nozzles while moving the first nozzle line and the second nozzle line in the movement direction by means of the movement mechanism, the transportation operation being operation for transporting the target medium relative to the first nozzle line and the second nozzle line in the predetermined direction by predetermined transportation amount by means of the transportation mechanism; and a group of nozzles that are not the first nozzles nor the second nozzles, wherein the image formation operation includes a certain image formation operation and another image formation operation, the controlling section performs control for forming a first image by using the first fluid and the second fluid in the certain image formation operation, the controlling section performs control for forming a second image on the first image by using at least the second fluid in the another image formation operation after lapse of time for drying the first image, the first nozzles and the second nozzles that are used for forming the first image are located upstream of the second nozzles that are used for forming the second image in the predetermined direction, the group of nozzles that are not the first nozzles nor the second nozzles are located downstream of the first nozzles and the second nozzles that are used for forming the first image in the predetermined direction, the group of nozzles that are not the first nozzles nor the second nozzles are located upstream of the second nozzles that are used for forming the second image in the predetermined direction, length of an area where the group of nozzles that are not the first nozzles nor the second nozzles are located in the predetermined direction is an integral multiple of the predetermined transportation amount, and the group of nozzles that are not the first nozzles nor the second nozzles do not eject any fluid. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043561 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus is provided for a recording apparatus that records an image on a recording medium using a recording head. The recording head includes recording element arrays arranged in parallel, and in which recording elements that discharge recording material are aligned. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a setting unit. The acquisition unit acquires displacement information of an impact position of the recording material recorded by at least one of the recording element arrays. The setting unit sets a distribution rate of the recording material for each recording element array according to the displacement information. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043562 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an inkjet recording apparatus includes a sensor, a first controller and a second controller. The sensor is provided upstream of an inkjet head in a paper transport direction and detects a state of an image forming surface of a paper. The first controller determines whether the image forming surface subjected to the state detected by the sensor is printed with a coloring material other than inkjet inks. The second controller controls to discharge the paper without image formation on the image forming surface with the inkjet head if the image forming surface is printed with the coloring material other than the inkjet inks. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043563 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a conveyance device having a conveyance device surface with which a rear surface side of a recording medium comes into contact and which includes a plurality of suction holes for suctioning the recording medium with a negative pressure, and conveying the recording medium while changing suction locations of the recording medium suctioned via the suction holes; an inkjet head for ejecting ink onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance device in such a manner that an image is formed on the recording medium; and a control device which changes the suction locations of the recording medium suctioned via the suction holes, at a prescribed interval. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043564 | Inkjet head and method of manufacturing the same - An inkjet head according to an aspect of the invention may include: a flow path plate having a plurality of ink chambers; a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles connected to the ink chambers in order to eject ink in the ink chambers to the outside; and a temperature control unit having a heat exchange passage in at least one of the flow path plate and the nozzle plate in order to control temperature of the ink. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043565 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head includes heating the surface portion of power line that is to be in contact with a member made of resin, thereby forming, from a precious metal layer and a nickel layer, an adhesion layer made of an alloy containing precious metal and nickel as major components. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043566 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - An ink composition includes a wetting agent and water-insoluble polymer particles including a colorant and a water-insoluble polymer, wherein the content of free polymer derived from the water-insoluble polymer is 1.0% by mass or less with respect to the total mass of the ink composition, and the wetting agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of urea, a urea derivative, a pyrrolidone derivative, an alkyl glycine represented by the following Formula 1, glycyl betaine and a sugar: (Formula 1) R | 2011-02-24 |
20110043567 | WIPING ASSEMBLY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An inkjet image forming apparatus includes a main body frame, a medium supplying unit which is coupled to the main body frame and supplying a print medium, an image forming cartridge which is coupled to the main body frame, forms an image on the supplied print medium, and including a nozzle to eject ink, and a wiping assembly which wipes the nozzle. The wiping assembly includes a wiping sheet storage unit in which the wiping sheet is stored as being wound, a transfer shuttle which moves along arrangement of the nozzle by a driving force of a driving source, a pressing member which is provided in the transfer shuttle and presses a region of the wiping sheet against the nozzle to perform wiping using the wiping sheet, and a wiping sheet support unit which is provided in the transfer shuttle and restricts move of the wiping sheet while the nozzle is wiped. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043568 | SCRAPPING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME, AND CLEANING METHODS THEREOF - A scrapping unit and an image forming apparatus having the same, and cleaning methods thereof to improve a maintenance performance. The scrapping unit cleans a polluted member disposed in an image forming apparatus and stained by a polluting material. The scrapping unit may include an endless belt to circulate between an exposed position where a surface of the endless belt is exposed toward the polluted member, and a non-exposed position where the surface of the endless belt is not exposed with respect to the polluted member, and a belt support frame which includes a belt support surface to support the endless belt so that the endless belt can be unfolded in the exposed position, and a storing space to store the endless belt so that the endless belt can be folded in the non-exposed position. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043569 | DROP EJECTOR HAVING MULTI-LOBED NOZZLE - A nozzle for a drop ejector is shaped as a plurality of lobes adjoining a central opening region and extending along a radial direction away from the central region. Each lobe increases in width as distance from the central region increases. The nozzles include sidewalls that converge toward the central opening region of the nozzle, giving the lobe a teardrop shape. Because the central part of the nozzle opening is constricted the ink that is ejected pinches off in the center and provides several advantages such as straighter trajectory, shorter tails, better accuracy, smaller ink volume, and less satellite effects. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043570 | PAIRED DROP EJECTOR - A paired drop ejector includes a chamber having a first wall and a second wall opposite the first wall and a dividing wall disposed between the first and second wall; wherein the first and second wall include a first length and the dividing wall includes a second length less than the first length in which the dividing wall forms first and second portions of the chamber; a first heater disposed in the first portion of the chamber in fluid relation with a first nozzle in which the first heater provides thermal energy to eject a droplet of ink through the first nozzle; and a second heater disposed in the second portion of the chamber in fluid relation with a second nozzle in which the second heater provides thermal energy to eject a droplet of ink through the second nozzle. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043571 | INKJET PRINTHEAD SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LASER-BASED HEATING - An inkjet nozzle array includes a plurality of nozzles. Each nozzle includes a chamber having an input aperture adapted to receive ink into the chamber and an output aperture through which ink is ejected from the chamber. Each chamber further includes a window adapted to receive electromagnetic radiation and operable to heat ink in the chamber responsive to the electromagnetic radiation and eject an ink droplet through the output aperture. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043572 | PAIRED DROP EJECTOR METHOD OF OPERATION - A method of ejecting droplets of liquid from a paired drop ejector, the method includes the steps of providing a chamber having a dividing wall that forms a first and second portion and the first portion includes a first nozzle mated with a first heater and the second portion includes a second nozzle mated with a second heater; providing liquid to the first portion and second portions of the chamber through an open end of the enclosure; providing a first electrical pulse to the first heater to provide thermal energy for ejecting a droplet of liquid from the first nozzle; and providing a second electrical pulse to the second heater to provide thermal energy for ejecting a droplet of liquid from the second nozzle; wherein the second electrical pulse is delayed relative to the first electrical pulse by a first predetermined delay time. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043573 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, LIQUID-EJECTING HEAD, AND LIQUID-EJECTING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric actuator includes a substrate; a diaphragm overlying the substrate; a lower electrode overlying the diaphragm; a piezoelectric body overlying the lower electrode; an upper electrode that includes a first upper sub-electrode which overlies the piezoelectric body and which has a first sputtering rate and also includes a second upper sub-electrode which overlies the first upper sub-electrode, which has a second sputtering rate less than the first sputtering rate, and which is the uppermost layer; and a protective film extending over side surfaces of the piezoelectric body and the second upper sub-electrode, a portion of the protective film that overlies the second upper sub-electrode being removed by sputtering. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043574 | DROPLET EJECTING HEAD, DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS, PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, AND CERAMIC - A droplet ejecting head including: a pressure chamber connected to a nozzle hole; and a piezoelectric device having ceramic member provided with an electrode. The ceramic member is made from a solid solution containing bismuth ferrate, bismuth potassium titanate, and bismuth manganate. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043575 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A piezoelectric element includes a substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on or above the substrate; a piezoelectric layer covering a top and a side of the first conductive layer; a relaxing layer disposed on or above the piezoelectric layer and along an edge of a top surface of the piezoelectric layer; and a second conductive layer covering at least the relaxing layer and the piezoelectric layer. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043576 | LIQUID CARTRIDGE, LOADING/UNLOADING DEVICE OF LIQUID CARTRIDGE, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A cartridge loading/unloading device includes a cartridge holding mechanism | 2011-02-24 |
20110043577 | Black Ink-jet Inks With Reduced Lightness And Haze - A method of decreasing L*min and reducing stacked haze in a black region of an ink-jet printed image is disclosed which comprises providing an ink-jet ink receptive medium and ink-jetting at least one ink-jet ink onto the medium to form a printed medium comprising an image having at least one black region. At least one of the ink-jet inks includes a black ink-jet ink comprising a liquid vehicle and a certain black azo dye having the Formula 1. The method includes stacking the printed medium, to obtain a printed medium having decreased L*min and reduced stacked haze in the black region(s). | 2011-02-24 |
20110043578 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method including: at least recording an image by ejecting, by an ink jet method, an ink composition containing, at least one pigment as a coloring material, particles of at least one resin, at least one water-soluble organic solvent, and water, the ink composition having a surface tension of from 30 mN/m to 40 mN/m, to a recording medium having a single-layered or multi-layered pigment layer on or above at least one side of a support containing cellulose pulp as a main ingredient and a transferring amount of pure water to the recording medium, when measured by a dynamic scanning liquid absorptometer, of from 1 ml/m | 2011-02-24 |
20110043579 | Combination laptop computer and printer - A combination laptop computer and printer that is convenient, easy to use and easy to carry for printing materials from the laptop computer. In a preferred embodiment, the invention comprises a laptop computer having a lid pivotally attached to a base with a printer integrally formed with the laptop computer below the base. Alternatively, the printer may be fixedly attached or made integral with an upper surface of the lid or a bottom surface of the base to fixedly join the laptop and printer. In one embodiment, the printer has an intake slot to receive a sheet of paper, a discharge slot to discharge paper and a pull/feed mechanism that pulls the paper in, feeds the paper across the printer head of a printing apparatus and ejects the paper out the discharge slot. Preferably, the printer has a scanning mechanism to scan documents and a replaceable ink cartridge. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043580 | Continuous web printer with short media feed path - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, a media feed path extending from the inlet to the outlet and pagewidth inkjet printhead assemblies positioned adjacent the media feed path for printing on both sides of the web. The media feed path extends less than 10 meters from a point where during use, the web is blank, to a point where both sides of the web are printed. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043581 | WEB PRINTER WITH DUAL PRINT ZONES HAVING OPPOSING FEED DIRECTIONS - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, a media feed path extending from the inlet to the outlet and pagewidth inkjet printhead assemblies positioned adjacent the media feed path for printing on both sides of the web. The media feed path has a first print zone positioned adjacent a second print zone. The first print zone is a section of the media feed path in which one side of the web is printed. The second print zone is a section of the media feed path in which the other side of the web is printed. During use the web is fed along the media feed path in a feed direction, the feed direction in the first print zone is opposed to the feed direction in the second print zone. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043582 | CONTINUOUS WEB PRINTER WITH AUTOMATED WEB THREADING MECHANISM - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, a media feed path extending from the inlet to the outlet and pagewidth inkjet printhead assemblies positioned adjacent the media feed path for printing on both sides of the web. The printer also having a web threading mechanism for engaging one end of the web and threading the web along the media feed path in response to user activation. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043583 | CONTINUOUS WEB PRINTER WITH AIR PLATEN - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, an air platen frame for generating an air cushion at least partially defining a media feed path and a plurality of pagewidth inkjet printheads positioned adjacent the media feed path for printing on both sides of the web. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043584 | CONTINUOUS WEB PRINTER WITH PAGEWIDTH PRINTHEAD IN A PRINTHEAD DRAWER - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, a media feed path extending from the inlet to the outlet, a plurality of pagewidth printhead assemblies for printing on both sides of the web and a printhead drawer for mounting at least one of the pagewidth printhead assemblies adjacent the media feed path. The printhead drawer is configured to move transverse to the media feed path such that the at least one pagewidth printhead assembly is exposed for servicing. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043585 | CONTINUOUS WEB PRINTER WITH UPPER AND LOWER PRINT ZONES FOR OPPOSING SIDES OF WEB - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, a media feed path extending from the inlet to the outlet and a plurality of pagewidth printhead assemblies for printing on both sides of the web. The media feed path has an upper print zone positioned above a lower print zone. The upper print zone is a section of the media feed path in which one side of the web is printed and the lower print zone being a section of the media feed path in which the other side of the web is printed. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043586 | CONTINUOUS WEB PRINTER WITH FLAT PRINT ZONES FOR PRINTING OPPOSING SIDES OF THE WEB - A continuous web printer that has an inlet for receiving a web of media from a media web roll unwinder, an outlet for delivery to a media web roll winder, a plurality of pagewidth inkjet printhead assemblies for printing on both sides of the web; and a media feed path extending from the inlet to the outlet. The media feed path has a first print zone where one side of the web is printed and a second print zone where the other side of the web is printed. The first print zone and the second print zone are flat, and the first print zone is upstream from the second print zone with respect to a media feed direction. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043587 | CARD PRINTER AND CARD PRINTING/STACKING DEVICE - Based on information recorded on and read out from a card, a card printer erasably writes information on the card or erases information recorded on the card. The card printer comprises transport means T for transporting card | 2011-02-24 |
20110043588 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method - An image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of achieving both high-speed printing of less-than-full-color images and high quality printing of multicolor images. The apparatus includes a color shift pattern output unit, a correction amount acquisition unit, and a correction unit to correct at least one or more positions of an image in a sub-scanning direction on a recording medium when a first transfer member transfers an unfixed image and a second transfer member transfers an unfixed image. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043589 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming device, including a toner bearer including plural linear electrodes located at a first regular pitch in a crosswise direction thereof, flying a toner on the surface thereof between the plural linear electrodes with a pulse voltage thereto to form a floating toner layer; and a substrate including plural hole-electrode combinations arranged in a longitudinal direction of the linear electrodes, each formed of a through-hole and a hole-adjacent electrode located close to the through-hole, wherein the floating toner layer is formed in an area facing the through-hole, and a toner passes through only the through-holes facing a desired image from the floating toner layer with a record on or off voltage, and the plural hole-electrode combinations are lined at a second regular pitch in a crosswise direction of the toner bearer, and the second regular pitch is an integral multiple of the first regular pitch. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043590 | HEAT TRANSFER PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - Constant tension in the thermal printing ribbon is maintained in a loading drum placed after the thermal print head that directs the ribbon by means of a planetary pivotable support lever arm to define a loop, thereby maintaining constant tension throughout the printing stage to ensure operational quality. The printing method includes threading the thermal printing ribbon between the pivotable support lever arm and the cylindrical drum, and the mechanism retains the printing ribbon against the loading drum by a biasing force on the lever arm, the lever arm being kept in biasing mode during the printing operation. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043591 | Printer with ink ribbon - A printer using a thermal head to sublime ink on an ink ribbon includes a cylindrical ribbon core around which the ink ribbon is wound, a rotating shaft to rotate the ribbon core, first and second magnets to generate magnetic force lines in a space surrounded by an inner peripheral face of the ribbon core, and a magnet sensor located in the space to detect the magnetic force lines generated by the first and second magnets only when the magnetic force lines are set in prescribed directions by rotation of the ribbon core. The ribbon core includes a cylindrical outer core with an outside peripheral surface around which the ink ribbon is wound and a cylindrical inner core with an outside peripheral surface to which the first and second magnets are fixed. The inner core with the first and second magnets fixed thereto is installed inside the outer core. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043592 | OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An optical writing device includes: a light source including arrays arranged in a main scanning direction, each array including light-emitting elements arranged in the main scanning direction; a correction-value holding unit to hold, correspondingly with a light-emitting element, a correction value for changing timing to read out pixel data stored in an image storage unit; and a light-source drive unit to drive the light source by reading out the stored pixel data stored, according to the correction value. The correction-value holding unit includes a first area for holding a first correction value corresponding to a first light-emitting element located at an end of an array and a second area for holding a second correction value corresponding to a second light-emitting element other than the first light-emitting element, the first holding area being larger than the second holding area. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043593 | Lens Array, An Exposure Head and an Image Forming Apparatus - An exposure head, includes: a lens array that includes lenses that are arranged in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a light emitting element substrate that is provided with light emitting elements that emit lights to be imaged by the lenses, wherein a relationship defined by a following formula: 12011-02-24 | |
20110043594 | OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE AND OPTICAL WRITING METHOD - An optical writing device includes a light source that emits multiple laser beams; a separating unit that separates each of the multiple laser beams into a monitor beam and a scanning beam; a photoelectric converting element | 2011-02-24 |
20110043595 | IMAGE WRITING DEVICE USING DIGITAL LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENTS - An image-data transfer controller divides one line of image data for each of the light-emitting-element array units, transfers the divided image data to respective light-emitting-element array units, to drive each of the light-emitting elements in the light-emitting-element array units for an exposure in a main-scanning direction. The image-data transfer controller divides the one line of image data for each of the light-emitting-element array units and transfers the divided image data during one-line interval in the main-scanning direction, performs a plurality of data transfers in the one-line interval for driving each of the light-emitting elements by controlling a lighting time, and includes a plurality of lines of storing units. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043596 | INTEGRATION OF HOME ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES WITH A SOFTWARE CLIENT FOR TELEPHONY - A communication system including a communication network, an entertainment device connected to the communication network, and an application server connected to the communication network. The entertainment device has a software client adapted to provide real time two-way communication between the entertainment device and a telephony device connected to the communication network. The application server is adapted to communicate with the software client and facilitate the real time two-way communication between the entertainment device and the telephony device. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043597 | CONFERENCE ANNOTATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for annotating a media stream from a live voice conversation, such as a conference call. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043598 | Remote communication apparatus and method of estimating a distance between an imaging device and a user image-captured - A remote communication apparatus for receiving the image of a remote user captured by an imaging device to show the image to another user includes a zoom controller for controlling a zoom ratio defining the angle of view of the imaging device, and an estimator for estimating a distance between the imaging device and the remote user on the basis of the zoom ratio of the imaging device. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043599 | Methods and Systems for Audio and Video Communication - Systems for audio and video communication used in a mobile electronic device are provided. An embodiment of a system comprises a display object generation unit, an acoustic object generation unit and a transport unit. The display object generation unit repeatedly generates display objects corresponding to intensity of light sensed by an image sensor module of the mobile electronic device. The acoustic object generation unit repeatedly generates acoustic objects corresponding to sound signals detected by a microphone of the mobile electronic device. The transport unit simultaneously transports the generated display and acoustic objects to a computer host when the mobile electronic device operates as a webcam. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043600 | Flexible Decomposition and Recomposition of Multimedia Conferencing Streams Using Real-Time Control Information - A multimedia conferencing system is presented that can modify the composite multimedia stream into separate multimedia streams. Two or more video conference participants send multimedia streams, capturing and encoding the conference at the participant's location, to a multimedia server. The multimedia server includes a multipoint control unit that creates a composite multimedia display, which includes video regions corresponding to at least two of the multimedia streams from the participants. A composite multimedia stream describes the composite multimedia display. The ancillary server receives the composite multimedia stream from the multipoint control unit together with static and dynamic control information, which describes the format and layout of the composite multimedia display and the composite multimedia stream. Using the dynamic and static control information, the ancillary server decomposes the composite multimedia stream into two or more constituent streams. The two or more constituent streams may then be separately processed. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043601 | Media Based Collaboration Using Mixed-Mode PSTN and Internet Networks - A method which allows standard telephone users to audio conference with video conferencing participants over IP networks in a private secure environment. A dial-out is performed from one or more conference client terminals bridging audio between the Internet and the PSTN networks. The process uses a mixed mode hybrid network architecture for call set-up, initialization and teardown including the method to mix audio at the desktop terminal instead of in a general purpose server as in the prior art. The method conferences video and audio between multiple clients and include audio from a standard telephone network within the conference. A virtual private network connects all of the IP clients together including the voice over IP server used to transcode the proprietary audio into the H.323 standard for transport into the telephony network. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043602 | CAMERA-BASED FACIAL RECOGNITION OR OTHER SINGLE/MULTIPARTY PRESENCE DETECTION AS A METHOD OF EFFECTING TELECOM DEVICE ALERTING - A camera can be associated with each conference participant endpoint. The camera, either frame or video-based, can monitor and detect one or more of gestures, facial recognition, emotions, and movements of the conference participant. Based on the detection of one or more of these triggering events, a correlation to an action corresponding the triggering event can be evoked. For example, if a participant raises their hand, e.g., a triggering event, the system can recognize that this is a request to speak. The participant can then be queued in the system based, for example, relative to other participants' requests. When the other participants have finished speaking, and it is the time for the user who raised their hand to speak, the system can optionally queue the user by modifying the endpoint with which they are associated. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043603 | System And Method For Dehazing - Outdoor imaging is plagued by poor visibility conditions due to atmospheric scattering, particularly in haze. A major problem is spatially-varying reduction of contrast by stray radiance (airlight), which is scattered by the haze particles towards the camera. The images can be compensated for haze by subtraction of the airlight and correcting for atmospheric attenuation. Airlight and attenuation parameters are computed by analyzing polarization-filtered images. These parameters were estimated in past studies by measuring pixels in sky areas. However, the sky is often unseen in the field of view. The invention provides methods for automatically estimating these parameters, when the sky is not in view. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043604 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING A PANORAMIC IMAGE OF A SCENE HAVING MINIMAL ASPECT DISTORTION - A panoramic image is generated from a sequence of input frames captured by a camera that translates relative to a scene having at least two points at different distances from the camera. A processor ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043605 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - Provided is a digital photographing apparatus and method for panoramic photographing. The digital photographing apparatus includes an image pickup device that generates data from incident light, an acceleration sensor that detects motion of the digital photographing apparatus in a first direction, and a time interval determiner that determines a continuous photographing time interval for panoramic photographing, according to the motion detected by the acceleration sensor. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043606 | OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VIDEO CAMERA DEVICE - An omni-directional video camera device includes a base portion ( | 2011-02-24 |
20110043607 | TRACKING AND CHARACTERIZING PARTICLES WITH HOLOGRAPHIC VIDEO MICROSCOPY - In-line holography to create images of a specimen, such as one or more particles dispersed in a transparent medium. Analyzing these images with results from light scattering theory yields the particles' sizes with nanometer resolution, their refractive indexes to within one part in a thousand, and their three dimensional positions with nanometer resolution. This procedure can rapidly and directly characterize mechanical, optical and chemical properties of the specimen and its medium. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043608 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASYMMETRICAL RATE CONTROL FOR 3D VIDEO COMPRESSION - A video transmitter compresses an uncompressed 3D video into a base view video and an enhancement view video using MPEG-4 MVC standard. The video transmitter allocates bits to compressed pictures of the uncompressed 3D video based on corresponding picture type. More bits are allocated to I-pictures than P-pictures, and more bits are allocated to P-pictures than B-pictures in a given coding view. More bits are allocated to a compressed picture of the base view video than a same type compressed picture of the enhancement view video. The correlation level between the base view video and the enhancement view video is utilized for bit-allocation in video compression. More bits are allocated to a picture in a lower coding layer than to the same type picture in a higher coding layer in a given coding view. Pictures with the same cording order are identified from different view videos for a joint bit-allocation. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043609 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A 3D IMAGE - Provided are an apparatus and a method for processing a three dimensional image. The apparatus for processing the three dimensional image includes a lattice pattern projection unit configured to project a reference lattice pattern onto a photographic object; a photographing unit configured to generate an image information by photographing the photographic object onto which the reference lattice pattern is projected; a depth information extraction unit configured to extract a depth information of the photographic object based on comparison between the reference lattice pattern projected onto the photographic object and a modified lattice pattern included in the image information; and a left and right eye information generation unit configured to generate a left and right eye information in correspondence with the depth information, the left and right eye information containing a three dimensional information of the photographic object. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043610 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FACE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - Disclosed is a 3D face capturing apparatus, method and computer-readable medium. As an example, the 3D face capturing method includes obtaining a face color image, obtaining a face depth image, aligning, by a computer, the face color image and the face depth image, obtaining, by the computer, a 3D face model by 2D modeling of the face color image and covering a modeled 2D face area on an image output by an image alignment module, removing by the computer, depth noise of the 3D face model, and obtaining, by the computer, an accurate 3D face model by aligning the 3D face model and a 3D face template, and removing residual noise based on a registration between the 3D face model and the 3D face template. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043611 | DEPTH AND LATERAL SIZE CONTROL OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES IN PROJECTION INTEGRAL IMAGING - A method disclosed herein relates to displaying three-dimensional images. The method comprising, projecting integral images to a display device, and displaying three-dimensional images with the display device. Further disclosed herein is an apparatus for displaying orthoscopic 3-D images. The apparatus comprising, a projector for projecting integral images, and a micro-convex-mirror array for displaying the projected images. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043612 | DUAL-TUBE STEREOSCOPE - Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for dual-tube stereoscopes. Embodiments may include an elongated body comprising a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having at least one proximal opening, the distal end having first and second distal openings; a first waveguide coupled to the first distal opening; and a second waveguide coupled to the second distal opening. There may also be optics situated near the proximal end of the elongated body and configured to receive light from the first and second waveguides and to transmit the received light through the at least one proximal opening onto a single light-receiving device. Some embodiments include processing a single received digital image, comprising two sub-images, to produce two images viewable stereoscopically, for example. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043613 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL REFINEMENT - A three-dimensional measurement is refined by warping two-dimensional images of an object from offset camera positions according to a three-dimensional model of the object, and applying any resulting discrepancies to refine the three-dimensional model, or to refine one of a number of three-dimensional measurements used to create the three-dimensional model. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043614 | Content transmission method and display device - There is provided a video content transmission method that includes the steps of: transmitting normal video content to at least one stream respectively transmitted on at least one broadcast channel; transmitting stereoscopic video content that corresponds to the normal video content to at least one stream respectively transmitted on at least one broadcast channel; transmitting, along with the broadcast channel, system information relating to a transmission system of the stereoscopic video content; and transmitting, along with the broadcast channel, source location information relating to a source location of the stereoscopic video content. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043615 | Stereoscopic display device and display method - It is made possible to satisfy such a condition that moire or color moire is suppressed and a fast image processing is made easy and such a condition that sufficient image quality can be obtained both at a flat image display time and at a stereoscopic image display time simultaneously. A vertical period of pixel rows having the pixels arranged in one row in a lateral direction is three times a lateral period of the pixels, the pixels developing red, green and blue are alternately arranged in a lateral direction in the same row, the pixels in one row of two rows adjacent in a vertical direction are arranged such that lateral positions thereof are shifted to the pixels in the other row by 1/2 of the lateral period of the pixels, the pixels in rows adjacent in the same column through one row interposed therebetween are the pixels developing different colors of red, green and blue, and a pitch of the elemental images is equal to a width of 18n (n=1, 2, 3 . . . ) pieces of the pixels, and a lateral pitch of the beam control element is smaller than the width of the 18n pieces of the pixels. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ENHANCING DEPTH PERCEPTION IN HEAD BORNE VIDEO SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for viewing image data. The system includes a head borne image source, a controller, an eyepiece lens assembly and a display device. The head borne image source images an object and provides the image data. The controller determines a focus adjustment from a focus position of the head borne image source. The display device receives and displays the image data to a user's eye via the eyepiece lens assembly. A distance between the eyepiece lens assembly and the display device is adjusted based on the focus adjustment responsive to the focus position. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043617 | Method and Apparatus for Communication Between Humans and Devices - This invention relates to methods and apparatus for improving communications between humans and devices. The invention provides a method of modulating operation of a device, comprising: providing an attentive user interface for obtaining information about an attentive state of a user; and modulating operation of a device on the basis of the obtained information, wherein the operation that is modulated is initiated by the device. Preferably, the information about the user's attentive state is eye contact of the user with the device that is sensed by the attentive user interface. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043618 | INTEGRATED CALIBRATION SAMPLE BAY FOR FLUORESCENCE READERS - A stage assembly, an imaging system that uses the stage assembly, and methods for using the stage assembly in a high content screening system. The stage assembly includes a stage having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface and an opening extending between the top and bottom surfaces to receive a specimen plate. The stage assembly also includes a calibration sample bay formed in the stage. A calibration sample can also be secured within the calibration sample bay. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043619 | Resolution-Enhanced Luminescence Microscopy - Described is a method for the high spatial resolution luminescence microscopy of a sample which is marked with marking molecules which can be activated by way of a switch-over signal such that only then can they be stimulated to emit luminescent radiation, wherein the method has the following steps a) introducing the switch-over signal onto the sample such that only a partial amount of the marking molecules present in the sample are activated, wherein, partial regions exist in the sample, in which partial regions only exactly one molecule, which is activated by the switch-over signal, is located inside a volume which is delimited by a diffraction-limited maximum resolution of a detection of luminescent radiation, b) stimulating the activated molecules to emit luminescent radiation, c) detecting the luminescent radiation with diffraction-limited resolution and d) generating image data from the luminescent radiation recorded in step c), wherein the marking molecules, which emit the geometric locations of the luminescent radiation, indicate with a spatial resolution which is increased to above the diffraction limit, wherein e) the detection of the luminescent radiation in step c) or the generation of the image data in step d) comprises a non-linear increase, which prefers higher intensities, of recorded luminescent radiation in order to enhance the spatial resolution to above the diffraction-limited resolution. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043620 | DETERMINING COORDINATES OF A TARGET IN RELATION TO A SURVEY INSTRUMENT HAVING AT LEAST TWO CAMERAS - A method is disclosed for determining coordinates of a target in relation to a surveying instrument wherein a first image is captured using a first camera in a first camera position and orientation, a target is selected by identifying at least one object point in the first image, and first image coordinates of the object point in the first image are measured. In at least one embodiment, a second image is captured using a second camera in a second camera position and orientation, the object point identified in the first image is identified in the second image, and second image coordinates of the object point in the second image are measured. Target coordinates of the target in relation to the rotation center of the surveying instrument are then determined based on the first camera position and orientation, the first image coordinates, the second camera position and orientation, the second image coordinates, and first and second camera calibration data. Furthermore, a surveying instrument for performing the method is disclosed. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043621 | Image Processing Device And Image Processing Method - The invention aims to execute image processing in synchronization with predetermined procedures with a single controller and eliminate an image pickup inhibit period for preventing incomplete image pickup. Pickup completing conditions of a plurality of types that are established when the image data is obtained from a predetermined image pickup unit (one of a camera | 2011-02-24 |
20110043622 | MOUNTING APPARATUS AND MOUNTING METHOD - A mounting apparatus which mounts on a substrate, a component having an inclined surface which intersects with a contact surface of the substrate and the component, at an acute angle, includes a first light source having an optical path orthogonal to the contact surface, and a camera which picks up an image of the component and an image of the substrate, a second light source which irradiates light on the inclined surface, and a moving means which moves at least one of the component and the substrate relatively, in a plane parallel to the surface of contact, and reflected light which is irradiated from the second light source, and reflected by the inclined surface is incident on the image pickup section. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043623 | IMAGING DEVICE - A mode control section controls an image generation section to operate in a normal mode or a polarized light component reduction mode on the basis of a mode signal from a mode signal generation section to cause the image generation section to form a normal image or a polarized light component reduced image. When the possibility of occurrence of stray light is high, the imaging device automatically switches to the polarized light component reduction mode and when the possibility of occurrence of the stray light is low, the imaging device automatically switches to the normal mode. The polarized light component reduced image is obtained by reducing or eliminating stray light having a polarized light component, and the normal image is formed without reducing the stray light. Thus, the imaging device is capable of automatically switching between the two modes. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043624 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING RECORDED IMAGE INFORMATION FROM A VEHICLE - A method for improving the driver assistance function, in particular of driver assistance systems based on video images recorded from a vehicle, and a corresponding device for that purpose made up of a camera and processing unit. To improve the function during rain, the passing of a windshield wiper through the camera image be used to classify individual images and/or portions of images as being of higher or lower quality, in order to improve the quality of the images from the camera. The images from camera are intended to be used for automatic driver assistance systems. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043625 | SCENE PRESET IDENTIFICATION USING QUADTREE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS - Techniques are disclosed for matching a current background scene of an image received by a surveillance system with a gallery of scene presets that each represent a previously captured background scene. A quadtree decomposition analysis is used to improve the robustness of the matching operation when the scene lighting changes (including portions containing over-saturation/under-saturation) or a portion of the content changes. The current background scene is processed to generate a quadtree decomposition including a plurality of window portions. Each of the window portions is processed to generate a plurality of phase spectra. The phase spectra are then projected onto a corresponding plurality of scene preset image matrices of one or more scene preset. When a match between the current background scene and one of the scene presets is identified, the matched scene preset is updated. Otherwise a new scene preset is created based on the current background scene. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043626 | INTRA-TRAJECTORY ANOMALY DETECTION USING ADAPTIVE VOTING EXPERTS IN A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - A sequence layer in a machine-learning engine configured to learn from the observations of a computer vision engine. In one embodiment, the machine-learning engine uses the voting experts to segment adaptive resonance theory (ART) network label sequences for different objects observed in a scene. The sequence layer may be configured to observe the ART label sequences and incrementally build, update, and trim, and reorganize an ngram trie for those label sequences. The sequence layer computes the entropies for the nodes in the ngram trie and determines a sliding window length and vote count parameters. Once determined, the sequence layer may segment newly observed sequences to estimate the primitive events observed in the scene as well as issue alerts for inter-sequence and intra-sequence anomalies. | 2011-02-24 |
20110043627 | Locative Video for Situation Awareness - An exemplary system and method are disclosed for providing a combined video stream with geospatial information. Embodiments use a visualization tool to synchronize information in a virtual camera with attributes, such as video frames, from a physical camera. Once the camera position information is supplied to the visualization tool, the visualization tool retrieves geospatial data, such as terrain features, man made features, and time sensitive event data, and transforms the camera position information into a coordinate system of the virtual camera. The visualization tool uses the coordinate system of the virtual camera to generate geospatial snapshots. Embodiments use locative video software to combine the video frames from the physical camera with the geospatial snapshots from the virtual camera to generate a combined video stream, which provides a single view of multiple types of data to enhance an operator's ability to conduct surveillance and analysis missions. | 2011-02-24 |