09th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130051561 | SOUND REPRODUCTION DEVICE - There is provided a sound reproduction device including a left channel housing unit that accommodates at least a left channel driver unit outputting a left channel sound, a left channel microphone recording an external sound, and a left channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the left channel microphone; and a right channel housing unit that accommodates at least a right channel driver unit outputting a right channel sound, a right channel microphone recording an external sound, and a right channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the right channel microphone. The left channel micro-computer and the right channel micro-computer are configured to communicate data with each other. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051562 | SOUND REPRODUCING DEVICE - A sound reproducing device includes: a plug section configured to receive input of L-channel and R-channel audio signals; an L-channel housing section including at least an L-channel driver unit configured to produce sound on the basis of the L-channel audio signal, an L-channel microphone configured to collect external sound, and an L-channel microcomputer configured to perform setting control on noise-canceling processing on the basis of a collected sound signal of the microphone; an R-channel housing section including a same corresponding configuration as those of the L-channel housing section; and an in-cord housing section formed so as to be inserted in a wiring cord for supplying the signals inputted from the plug section to the L-channel and the R-channel housing sections, wherein the in-cord housing section is provided with a communication terminal for allowing data communication between the L-channel microcomputer and the R-channel microcomputer, and an external apparatus. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING PATCH BORDER ALIGNMENT - Apparatus for processing an audio signal to generate a bandwidth extended signal having a high frequency part and a low frequency part using parametric data for the high frequency part, the parametric data relating to frequency bands of the high frequency part includes a patch border calculator for calculating a patch border such that the patch border coincides with a frequency band border of the frequency bands. The apparatus further includes a patcher for generating a patched signal using the audio signal and the patch border. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051572 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING REPRODUCTION OF AUDIO SIGNALS FROM AN APPARATUS FOR AUDIO REPRODUCTION - There is provided a calibration method for calibrating a variable number of speakers. The method includes determining physical features around a location of each of the variable number of speakers and calibrating at least one of the variable number of speakers. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051573 | METHOD FOR FITTING A HEARING AID, AND HEARING AID - This method for fitting a hearing aid involves displaying the coordinate positions of parameters produced on the basis of a plurality of fitting theories, and the evaluation results for these parameters, on a display section | 2013-02-28 |
20130051574 | METHOD OF REMOVING MICROPHONE NOISE AND PORTABLE TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method of removing a microphone noise and a portable terminal supporting the same are provided. The portable terminal supporting removal of a microphone noise includes a microphone for collecting an audio signal, a controller for processing the audio signal collected by the microphone, a microphone signal line for transferring a microphone signal collected by the microphone to the controller, and a noise collecting circuit disposed at a neighboring region of the microphone signal line for collecting and providing a noise signal similar to a noise induced in the microphone signal line to the controller, wherein the controller controls such that the noise induced in the microphone signal line is removed based on the noise signal collected by the noise collecting circuit. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051575 | WIRELESS HEADSET WITH TOUCH PEN - A wireless headset with touch pen includes a housing, a controlling circuit unit, an ear piece, and a touch pen. The controlling circuit unit is disposed within the housing, and the ear piece is arranged on the housing and connected electrically to the controlling circuit unit. The touch pen is arranged on the housing and has a tip portion. By combining the touch pen with the wireless headset, the wireless headset with touch pen has both wireless communication and touch input functionalities. The user can also find the touch pen more easily. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051576 | TOUCH PEN WITH WIRELESS VOICE CAPABILITY - The invention provides a touch pen with wireless voice capability which comprises a body, an audio receiving unit, a wireless communication module, and a micro-processing unit. The body has a touch portion and a first signal connector. The wireless communication module is disposed in the body, and the wireless communication module is for wirelessly transmitting audio data generated by the sound receiving unit and for wirelessly receiving audio data. The micro-processing unit is disposed in the body and is electrically coupled to the audio receiving unit and the wireless communication module. The micro-processing unit transmits the audio data received by the wireless communication module to the first signal connector. Accordingly, the touch pen with wireless voice capability provides the personal wireless voice communication for the user, or cooperates with a speaker device adapted to the conference call for multi-users. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051577 | ARRAY MICROPHONE APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A BEAM FORMING SIGNAL AND BEAM FORMING METHOD THEREOF - Embodiments described in the present disclosure relate to an array microphone apparatus for generating a beam forming signal. The apparatus includes first, second, and third omni-directional microphones, each converting an audible signal into a corresponding electrical signal. The second omni-directional microphone is disposed between the other two omni-directional microphones. The apparatus includes a first directional microphone forming device to jointly output a first directional microphone signal with a first bi-directional pattern, and a magnitude and phase response handler device to output a second directional microphone signal with an omni-directional pattern shifted by a prefixed value with respect to first directional microphone signal. The apparatus further includes a combining device receiving the first and second directional microphone signals and outputting a combined directional microphone signal with a combined beam pattern correlated to the first bi-directional and second omni-directional patterns, the combined directional microphone signal being in a broadside configuration. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051578 | NETWORK SIGNAL RECEIVING SYSTEM AND NETWORK SIGNAL RECEIVING METHOD - The disclosure provides a network signal receiving system and a network signal receiving method. The network signal receiving system comprises: a high pass filter, a canceller, and an adder. The high pass filter is utilized for performing a high pass filtering operation for an audio data signal to output at least a signal corresponding to transitions of the audio data signal, wherein the audio data signal is synchronized with a network data signal. The canceller is coupled to the high pass filter, and utilized for generating a noise cancelling signal according to the at least a signal output by the high pass filter. The adder is coupled to the canceller, utilized for receiving the network data signal and the noise cancelling signal, so as to use the noise cancelling signal to cancel at least a noise in the network data signal, which is corresponding to the at least a signal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051581 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - An audio signal processing circuit includes: a first low-pass filter configured to pass a component whose frequency is in a band lower than a lowest reproducible frequency of a speaker out of an audio signal inputted for reproduction by the speaker; a first high-pass filter substantially similar in phase characteristics to the first low-pass filter configured to pass a component whose frequency is in a band higher than the lowest reproducible frequency of the speaker out of the audio signal inputted for reproduction by the speaker; a harmonic generation unit configured to generate a harmonic from the audio signal having passed through the first low-pass filter; and a first addition unit configured to add the audio signal according to an output of the harmonic generation unit to the audio signal according to an output of the first high-pass filter. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051582 | System and Method for Low Distortion Capacitive Signal Source Amplifier - According to an embodiment, a method includes amplifying a signal provided by a capacitive signal source to form an amplified signal, detecting a peak voltage of the amplified signal, and adjusting a controllable impedance coupled to an output of the capacitive signal source in response to detecting the peak voltage. The controllable impedance is adjusted to a value inversely proportional to the detected peak voltage. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051583 | High Voltage Multiplier For A Microphone And Method Of Manufacture - A microphone circuit includes a condenser microphone and a charge pump. The condenser microphone is configured to receive sound energy and responsively convert the sound energy into a microphone output voltage. The charge pump is implemented in a low voltage CMOS process. It is coupled to the microphone and is configured to supply a bias voltage to the microphone allowing the microphone to operate. By using a proper circuit topology, whose maximum output voltage is limited by the breakdown voltage between the NWELL and the substrate, and by blocking the formation of the PWELL around the NWELL at a predetermined distance so that the NWELL is surrounded by a very lightly doped substrate from all sides, the maximum output voltage of the charge pump is increased significantly. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051584 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a device control apparatus including a wearing information detection section which detects wearing information of a sound output apparatus, and an output control section which switches an output destination of an input sound between the sound output apparatus and another sound output apparatus in accordance with a detection result obtained by the wearing information detection section. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051587 | PIEZOELECTRIC MICROPHONE FABRICATED ON GLASS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for sense elements in an electromechanical microphone device. In one aspect, a piezoelectric sense element may include a glass substrate, electrode layers, piezoelectric layers, and elastic layers. The elastic layers may serve to modify the neutral plane of the piezoelectric sense element. Including an elastic layer or layers to modify the neutral plane of the piezoelectric sense element may serve to configure the sense element such that the piezoelectric layer generates a voltage in response to a sound wave or may serve to increase the sensitivity of the sense element. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051588 | Electroacoustic Transducer having Reduced Losses due to Transverse Emission and Improved Performance due to Suppression of Transverse Modes - An electroacoustic transducer has reduced loss due to acoustic waves emitted in the transverse direction. For this purpose, a transducer comprises a central excitation area, inner edge areas flanking the central excitation area, outer edge areas flanking the inner edge areas, and areas of the busbar flanking the outer edge areas. The longitudinal speed of the areas can be set so that the excitation profile of a piston mode is obtained. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051589 | EARPHONE DEVICE - There is provided an earphone device of an ear-hole insertion type having a noise cancelling function, the earphone device including a left channel housing unit that accommodates a left channel driver unit outputting a left channel sound; and a right channel housing unit that accommodates a right channel driver unit outputting a right channel sound. A microphone for noise cancelling and a battery are accommodated in each of the left and right channel housing units. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051590 | Hearing Enhancement and Protective Device - A hearing aid is provided which includes (a) a receiver section equipped with a receiver; (b) a lateral section equipped with a microphone and a battery; (c) a sealing retainer concentrically positioned over said receiver section which conforms to the walls at the bony region of the ear canal, thereby seating the hearing device in the ear canal and providing acoustical sealing against feedback within the ear canal; and (d) a circuit which dampens or suppresses at least a portion of the acoustical footprint of a threshold event, or which deactivates the hearing aid for a time interval in response to a threshold event. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051593 | TECHNOLOGY DELIVERY, POSITIONING AND SOUND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN THE EAR CANAL - An in-the-ear technology delivery, positioning and sound management system comprises a body portion that provides support for a conformable fitting element adapted to be positioned in the user's ear canal and which is structured and arranged to anchor sound management technologies and medical instrumentalities at selected positions in the canal for the delivery and control of sound or for the performance of medical procedures therein. In an embodiment, a sound tube is provided which is adapted to deliver sound in close proximity to the ear drum and a method for selectively fitting the system in accordance with the wearer's personal comfort level is provided. In another embodiment, an apparatus and a method for a fitting pressure to be automatically applied along the device or aided by a fitting element that will facilitate placement and a secure fit in the ear canal is presented. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051594 | TECHNOLOGY DELIVERY, POSITIONING AND SOUND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN THE EAR CANAL - An in-the-ear technology delivery, positioning and sound management system includes a body portion that provides support for a conformable fitting element to be positioned in the user's ear canal and is structured and arranged to anchor sound management technologies and medical instrumentalities at selected positions in the canal for the delivery and control of sound or for the performance of medical procedures. A sound tube is provided to deliver sound in close proximity to the ear drum and a method for selectively fitting the system to the wearer's personal comfort level is provided. An apparatus and a method for a fitting pressure to be automatically applied along the device or aided by a fitting element that facilitates placement and a secure fit in the ear canal are presented. A coating element manages, acoustically alters, or occludes sound properties and sound at selected depths within the ear canal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051595 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH SOUND CHAMBER - An electronic device includes an enclosure, a speaker fixed in the enclosure, and a rubber element. The enclosure defines an exposed slot, and a speaker receiving chamber communicating with the slot. The speaker includes a first surface and a opposite second surface. The speaker is configured for radiating sound at the first surface. The rubber element includes a main body a recess and a through hole penetrating through a bottom of the recess. The speaker is inserted in the recess with the first surface facing the bottom of the recess. The combined the speaker and the rubber element are engagingly received in the speaker receiving chamber. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051596 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a base; a stand which extends from the base; and a display body which comprises a cover frame detachably mounted on one end portion of the stand, a display unit accommodated in the cover frame and configured to display images, and a plurality of speakers installed on the cover frame and configured to output sounds corresponding to a plurality of audio channels. A first speaker of the plurality of speakers is disposed at a central position of a lower side of the cover frame facing the base among four sides of the cover frame and perpendicular to an image display side of the display unit, projecting toward the base. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051601 | ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A mobile electronic device including a processor, a first electrical component including at least one contact area, and a second electrical component including at least one contact arm extending over a top surface of the second electrical component and secured in at least two locations, the at least one contact arm configured to be in electrical communication with the at least one contact area. In another embodiment, the electronic device further includes a microphone operably connected to an enclosure. A first resilient member coupled to the enclosure and a first side of the microphone and a second resilient member coupled to a second side of the microphone and a support structure within the enclosure. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051602 | AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE - An audio output device includes: a housing; a speaker provided in the housing; and a support part which is provided in a floating state in the housing and supports an electronic apparatus. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051603 | SPEAKER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SPEAKER - A speaker ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051604 | SPEAKER - A speaker includes: a plurality of voice coil bobbins, each of which includes a voice coil; a diaphragm, which provided with the plurality of voice coil bobbins; and a wiring material fixed to the diaphragm, wherein each of the plurality of the voice coil bobbins is disposed next to an next voice coil bobbin, wherein the wiring material is fixed to a portion of the diaphragm between the next voice coil bobbin, wherein a one-side conductive line of voice coil bobbins is extended in a direction toward the next voice coil bobbin and is connected to the wiring material that is disposed between the voice coil bobbins, wherein the other-side conductive line is extended in another direction different from the direction of the one-side conductive line, and wherein the each of the plurality of voice coils is connected in series. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051611 | IMAGE OVERLAYING AND COMPARISON FOR INVENTORY DISPLAY AUDITING - Image overlaying and comparison for inventory display auditing is disclosed herein. An example method to perform inventory display auditing disclosed herein comprises overlaying a reference image over a current image displayed on a camera display, the reference image corresponding to an inventory display to be audited, comparing the reference image and the current image to determine whether the current image and the reference image correspond to a same scene and when the reference image and the current image are determined to correspond to the same scene, indicating a difference region in the current image displayed on the camera display, the difference region being a first region of the current image that differs from a corresponding first region of the reference image. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051612 | SEGMENTING SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA BASED ON USER GAZE DATA - A segmentation task is specified to a user, and gaze data generated by monitoring eye movements of the user viewing spatiotemporal data as a plurality of frames is received. The gaze data includes fixation locations based on the user's gaze throughout the frames. A first frame and a second frame of the frames are selected based on the fixation locations. Segmentation is performed on the first and second frames to segment first and second objects, respectively, from the first and second frames based on a region of interest associated with the first and second frames, the region of interest corresponding to a location of one of the fixation locations. A determination is made as to whether the first and second objects are relevant to the segmentation task, and if so, association data to associate the first object with the second object when the first and second objects is generated. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051613 | MODELING OF TEMPORARILY STATIC OBJECTS IN SURVEILLANCE VIDEO DATA - A foreground object blob having a bounding box detected in frame image data is classified by a finite state machine as a background, moving foreground, or temporally static object, namely as the temporally static object when the detected bounding box is distinguished from a background model of a scene image of the video data input and remains static in the scene image for a threshold period. The bounding box is tracked through matching masks in subsequent frame data of the video data input, and the object sub-classified within a visible sub-state, an occluded sub-state, or another sub-state that is not visible and not occluded as a function of a static value ratio. The ratio is a number of pixels determined to be static by tracking in a foreground region of the background model corresponding to the tracked object bounding box over a total number of pixels of the foreground region. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051614 | SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A sign language recognition method includes a depth-sensing camera capturing an image of a gesture of a signer and gathering data about distances between a number of points on the signer and the depth-sensing camera, building a three dimension (3D) model of the gesture, comparing the 3D model of the gesture with a number of 3D models of different gestures to find out the representations of the 3D model of the gesture, and displaying or vocalizing the representations of the 3D model of the gesture. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051617 | METHOD FOR SENSING MOTION AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A method for sensing a motion of an object is to be implemented by a motion recognition device that includes an image acquiring unit and a processor. In the method, the image acquiring unit is configured to acquire a series of image frames by detecting intensity of light received thereby. The processor is configured to receive at least one of the image frames and to determine whether an object is detected in the at least one of the image frames. When an object is detected, the processor is further configured to receive the image frames from the image acquiring unit, and to determine a motion of the object with respect to a three-dimensional coordinate system according to the image frames thus received. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051618 | Method for controlling a light emission of a headlight of a vehicle - A method for controlling a light emission of at least one headlight of a vehicle, which has a traffic sign recognition device. The method includes receiving at least one traffic sign recognition signal from an interface to the traffic sign recognition device. In this instance, the at least one traffic sign recognition signal represents a traffic sign recognized in a course of the road currently being traveled by the vehicle. The method also includes setting a debounce time and/or a debounce stretch for a change in the light emission of the at least one headlight between first and second radiation characteristics as a function of the at least one traffic sign recognition signal. Finally, the method includes delaying the change in the light emission of the at least one headlight by the debounce time set and/or the debounce stretch set, to control light emission of the at least one headlight. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051621 | ADAPTIVE IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING WITH IMAGE ANALYSIS FEEDBACK - Described are systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces for image location, acquisition, analysis, and data correlation that uses human-in-the-loop processing, Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT), and/or or automated image processing. Results obtained using image analysis are correlated to non-spatial information useful for commerce and trade. For example, images of regions of interest of the earth are used to count items (e.g., cars in a store parking lot to predict store revenues), detect events (e.g., unloading of a container ship, or evaluating the completion of a construction project), or quantify items (e.g., the water level in a reservoir, the area of a farming plot). | 2013-02-28 |
20130051622 | Method For Calculating Weight Ratio By Quality Grade In Grain Appearance Quality Grade Discrimination Device - A method is provided for calculating a weight ratio by quality grade using a grain appearance quality grade discrimination device. The method involves the steps of imaging a plurality of grains; discriminating the quality grade of the grains on the basis of data of the imaged grains; tallying, by quality grade, the number of pixels in said data of the imaged grains with regards to the grains whose quality grade has been discriminated; multiplying the number of pixels tallied by quality grade by a weight conversion coefficient per pixel predetermined by quality grade, and thereby converting said number of pixels into a weight by quality grade; and calculating the weight ratio by quality grade of the grains on the basis of the weight by quality grade. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051625 | FRONT SEAT VEHICLE OCCUPANCY DETECTION VIA SEAT PATTERN RECOGNITION - What is disclosed is a system and method for determining whether a front seat in a motor vehicle is occupied based on seat pattern recognition. The present invention takes advantage of the observation that an unoccupied seat of a motor vehicle exhibits features which are distinguishable from an occupied seat. An unoccupied motor vehicle seat typically features long contiguous horizontal line segments and curve segments, and substantially uniform areas encompassed by these segments which are not present in an occupied seat. The present method provides a long horizontal edge test which uses location information within a defined window of the image, edge linking, softness of the edge, number of lines, line/curve fitting, and other techniques to locate horizontal edges in the image which define a seat, and a uniformity step which determines whether the area bounded by the horizontal edges is relatively uniform indicating an unoccupied seat. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051626 | Method And Apparatus For Object Pose Estimation - A pose of an object is estimated from an from an input image and an object pose estimation is then stored by: inputting an image containing an object; creating a binary mask of the input image; extracting a set of singlets from the binary mask of the input image, each singlet representing points in an inner and outer contour of the object in the input image; connecting the set of singlets into a mesh represented as a duplex matrix; comparing two duplex matrices to produce a set of candidate poses; and producing an object pose estimate, and storing the object pose estimate. The estimated pose of the object is refined by: inputting an image of an object in an estimated pose, a model of the object, and parameters of a camera used to take the image of the object in the estimated pose; projecting the model of the object into a virtual image of the object using the parameters of the camera and initial pose parameters to obtain a binary mask image and image depth information; and updating the initial pose parameters to new pose parameters using the binary mask image and image depth information and updating the new pose parameters iteratively to minimize an energy function or until a maximum number of iterations is reached. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051627 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EARLY NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSE OF FRUIT TREE DISEASE - The present invention relates to a non-invasive early diagnostic method and device that allows an early diagnosis of | 2013-02-28 |
20130051628 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A biometric authentication device includes, an acquisition unit configured to repeatedly image a biological part of an authenticated person while changing a relative position with respect to the biological part so as to acquire time-series biological images; a detection unit configured to detect a pixel corresponding among the biological images from the time-series biological images; an extraction unit configured to extract a pixel of which a pixel value includes a surface reflection component from the biological part, from each of the time-series biological images, on the basis of a degree of divergence of temporal variation of a pixel value of the detected pixel in the time-series biological images from an estimation result of temporal variation; a generation unit configured to correct the pixel value of the extracted pixel on the basis of a pixel value; and an authentication unit configured to perform personal authentication of the authenticated person. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051633 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a searcher. A searcher searches for a face image representing a face portion of a target person from a designated image, in response to an operation of an operator. A definer defines an expression of the face image detected by the searcher in a manner different depending on a race of the target person and/or a race of the operator. A processor performs on the designated image an output process different depending on the expression defined by the definer. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051634 | NATURAL MEDIA IN DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS - According to embodiments of the invention, there is provided a computer program product, a method, and a system to clean an image produced by the system. A digital canvas representation of an initial condition is produced. A set of real-time digital information is captured to form an unconstrained digital representation of the set of real-time digital information. A constraining digital mask based on the digital canvas representation of the initial condition is applied to the unconstrained digital representation of the set of real-time digital information to form a constrained digital representation of the set of real-time digital information. The constrained digital representation of the set of real-time data is stored, allowing an application program to use the constrained representation of the real-time data. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051643 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES - A system and method for distributed and coordinated image processing of tomographic images utilizing processors on a medical imaging device and a separate workstation is disclosed. The system includes an image acquisition device to acquire image data of a subject and an image processor to receive the image data therefrom. The image processor is programmed to reconstruct initial images of a region-of-interest (ROI) from the image data, identify initial images on which to perform image correction, and generate an image correction request for the images identified for image correction, with the image correction request specifying a processing operation to be performed on the respective images. The image processor is further programmed to transfer the reconstructed initial images to a separate workstation that automatically initiates the image correction upon verifying a presence of an image correction request on the initial images so as to generate corrected images. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051644 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MOTION ARTIFACT REDUCTION - A method for reconstructing an image of an object having reduced motion artifacts includes reconstructing a set of initial images using acquired data, performing a thresholding operation on the set of initial images to generate a set of contrast images that identify areas of contrast from which motion artifacts originate, transforming the thresholded images into a conjugate domain, combining the conjugate domain representations of the contrast images, transforming the combined conjugate domain representations to an image domain to generate a residual image, and using the residual image to generate a final image of the object. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051649 | MEDICAL VIEWING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ANGULATED VIEW OF AN OBJECT OF INTEREST - In a medical viewing system having an X-ray image acquisition device a data processing unit is adapted for generating two different views on a three-dimensional image set, wherein a first view is corresponding to the viewing direction of the X-ray image acquisition device and a second view has a rotational offset to the first viewing direction. The first view may include live X-ray images, e.g. for monitoring a stent placement. The second view | 2013-02-28 |
20130051650 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE CLASSIFICATION - Methods and systems for tissue classification of a tissue sample are provided. The methods and systems transform the tissue image data to a biomarker enhanced tissue network (BETN) such that an individual cell or a sub-cellular structure in the tissue image data corresponds to a node in the BETN, define a feature vector based on a feature set representative of a tissue type of interest, cluster nodes of the BETN based on a similarity criterion of one or features of the feature vector, and classify the nodes in the tissue image data based on the grouping of the nodes of the BETN. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051651 | QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR WOUND HEALING ASSAY - Illustrative embodiments of a method are disclosed, which comprise applying a texture filter to a bright field image of a wound healing assay, generating a wound mask image in response to an output of the texture filter, and determining a wound area of the wound healing assay by counting a number of pixels in the wound mask image corresponding to the wound area. Illustrative embodiments of apparatus are also disclosed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051652 | Method and Device for the Automatic Inspection of a Cable Spool - Method for detecting and evaluating the protrusions that appear on cords coming from a twisting/rubberizing process, by the digital processing of the image of a layer of cord formed by a number of turns wound around the core of a spool ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051657 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A SIMILARITY OR DISSIMILARITY MEASURE - A solution for determining a similarity or dissimilarity measure for a selected pixel of a first image relative to another selected pixel in a second image is described. The first image and the second image form a stereoscopic image pair or part of a multi-view image group. In a first step a first support window containing the selected pixel in the first image is determining. Then a second support window containing the selected pixel in the second image is determining. Subsequently one or more statistical properties of the selected pixel in the first image are calculated to define a probability distribution for the selected pixel in the first image. Finally, pixel similarity or dissimilarity between the first support window and the second support window is aggregated using only those pixels belonging to the probability distribution for the selected pixel in the first image with a probability above a defined minimum. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051658 | METHOD OF SEPARATING OBJECT IN THREE DIMENSION POINT CLOUD - A method of separating an object in a three dimension point cloud including acquiring a three dimension point cloud image on an object using an image acquirer, eliminating an outlier from the three dimension point cloud image using a controller, eliminating a plane surface area from the three dimension point cloud image, of which the outlier has been eliminated using the controller, and clustering points of an individual object from the three dimension point cloud image, of which the plane surface area has been eliminated using the controller. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051659 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A stereoscopic image processing device that converts a two-dimensional (2D) image into a three-dimensional (3D) image includes: a detector detecting a value indicating a variation degree of an image feature quantity within a current frame to be processed of the 2D image; a normalizer (a) normalizing the image feature quantity to approximate the value detected by the detector to a threshold of the variation degree and outputting the normalized image feature quantity when the value is smaller than the threshold of the variation degree; and (b) not normalizing the image feature quantity and outputting the image feature quantity when the value is larger than or equal to the threshold of the variation degree; and a depth information generator generating depth information for converting the 2D image into the 3D image, based on the image feature quantity output by the normalizer. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051660 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image processor generating a three-dimensional image easily three-dimensionally viewed by, and hardly causing fatigue of, an observer, and easily adjusting a three-dimensional effect of an arbitrary portion in the three-dimensional image. The disparity correction portion | 2013-02-28 |
20130051661 | Using Human Intelligence Tasks for Precise Image Analysis - Described are systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces for image location, acquisition, analysis, and data correlation that uses human-in-the-loop processing, Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT), and/or or automated image processing. Results obtained using image analysis are correlated to non-spatial information useful for commerce and trade. For example, images of regions of interest of the earth are used to count items (e.g., cars in a store parking lot to predict store revenues), detect events (e.g., unloading of a container ship, or evaluating the completion of a construction project), or quantify items (e.g., the water level in a reservoir, the area of a farming plot). | 2013-02-28 |
20130051662 | LEARNING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LEARNING APPARATUS, DETECTION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DETECTION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A learning apparatus comprises a plurality of detection units configured to detect a part or whole of a target object in an image and output a plurality of detection results; an estimation unit configured to estimate a state of the target object based on at least one of the plurality of detection results; a classification unit configured to classify the image into a plurality of groups based on the state of the target object; and a weight calculation unit configured to calculate weight information on each of the plurality of detection units for each of the groups based on the detection results. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051663 | Fast Adaptive Edge-Aware Matting - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for fast adaptive edge-aware matting in which a matting technique adaptively feathers selections, provides smooth color correspondence matting, and performs well in textured regions. The matting technique may require fewer strokes and less parameter tuning than conventional matting techniques. The matting technique may have two components implemented in a matting pipeline. A color similarity component implements a color similarity constraint technique based on a radial basis function (RBF) technique to generate a color-constrained mask, and a locality constraint component implements a locality constraint technique based on a fast flood fill technique to generate a locality-constrained mask. The final mask (or matte) output may be an element multiply of the masks generated by the two components. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051664 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A pattern matching processing unit | 2013-02-28 |
20130051665 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image signal correction section that performs an image correction process. The image signal correction section performs a direction determination process of detecting a direction having a minimum pixel value gradient as a pixel value gradient direction in a pixel area including a target pixel; a defect detection process of calculating a Laplacian based on a pixel value of a reference pixel in a minimum gradient direction detected in the direction determination process with respect to the target pixel, and determining presence or absence of a defect of the target pixel; and a defect correction process of performing calculation of a corrected pixel value, which is obtained by applying the pixel value of the reference pixel in the direction detected in the direction determination process, with respect to a target pixel from which a defect has been detected in the defect detection process. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051666 | Method and System for Color-Grading Multi-View Content - Methods and apparatus for color grading stereoscopic and autostereoscopic (multi-view) view video content are provided. Video content for one view is adjusted so that a histogram of the adjusted video data is more similar to a target histogram than the original, unadjusted video content for the one view. The adjusted video content is automatically color graded based on a color grading of video content for another view. The target histogram may be calculated for the video content for the other view. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051667 | IMAGE RECOGNITION TO SUPPORT SHELF AUDITING FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH - Image recognition methods, apparatus and articles or manufacture to support shelf auditing for consumer research are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein comprises comparing an input image depicting a shelf to be audited with a set of reference images depicting reference shelves displaying respective sets of reference items, identifying a first reference image from the set of reference images that has been determined to match the input image, and determining an initial audit result for the shelf depicted in the input image based on a first set of reference items associated with the first reference image. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051668 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ENHANCED IMAGES - A method of generating an image enhancement function for enhancing an input image comprising a plurality of pixels to form an enhanced output image. The method includes receiving a reference image comprising a plurality of pixels; receiving an enhanced image derived from the reference image comprising a corresponding plurality of pixels; calculating a plurality of lookup tables, each of which maps a first plurality of pixel values to a second plurality of pixel values; and generating the image enhancement function comprising a spatially varying function of the lookup tables which when applied to the reference image generates an approximation to the enhanced image. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051677 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COUNT PEOPLE IN IMAGES - Methods, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to count people in an image are disclosed. An example method includes capturing an image of a body region in a first frame; and when a second frame different from the first frame includes the image of the body region, incrementing a first count of persons in the second frame. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051678 | Systems and Methods for Performing Facial Detection - Various embodiments are disclosed for detecting facial regions in a plurality of images. In one embodiment, a method comprises assigning at least one of the possible facial regions an assurance factor, forming clusters of possible facial regions based on a connection factor between the facial regions, and determining facial regions from the possible facial regions based on the assurance factor and the clusters of possible facial regions. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051679 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a correction process portion which corrects a correction target region in an input image using an image signal in a region for correction, a detecting portion which detects a specified object region in which a specified type of object exists in the input image, and a setting portion which sets the region for correction based on positions of the correction target region and the specified object region. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051680 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING DEVICE - An image processing device includes: a non-target region detecting unit that detects a region that is not to be examined as a non-target region from an image; a pixel-of-interest region setting unit that sets a pixel-of-interest region in a predetermined area including a pixel-of-interest position in the image; a surrounding region determining unit that determines a surrounding region, which is an area for acquiring information for use in forming a reference plane with respect to the pixel-of-interest position, based on the non-target region; a reference plane forming unit that forms the reference plane based on the information in the surrounding region; and an outlier pixel detecting unit that detects an outlier pixel having a pixel value numerically distant from circumferential values based on a difference between corresponding quantities of the reference plane at each pixel position and of the original image. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051683 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a recognition unit that performs character recognition on an image including at least one character and that obtains a score indicating a recognition accuracy of at least one character region extracted through the character recognition; a local blurring-degree computation unit that computes a first degree of blurring of the at least one character region; and a blurring-degree computation unit that computes a second degree of blurring of the image by using the score and the first degree of blurring of the at least one character region. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051684 | SMART CREATION OF PHOTOBOOKS - A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051689 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image encoding apparatus including an encoding part performing encoding processing on each image processing unit including a plurality of encoding units and generating encoded data, and a sorting/marker-inserting part sorting the encoding units in the encoded data in encoding processing order for one screen and inserting a marker as a delimiter for encoding processing using a correlation with an immediately preceding encoding unit. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051690 | System and Method of Compressing Data in Font Files - A compressed font file including compressed data is received. The compressed data is decompressed to generate decompressed data. An attempt to validate the decompressed data is made. Within the decompressed data, a predetermined pattern of invalid data corresponding to an element of a font file is detected. The font file is reconstructed by replacing at least some of the invalid data with the element. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051691 | Method for Distributed Source Coding of Wavelet Coefficients in Zerotrees - A method for encoding a source image, wherein the source image includes a set of bitplanes of pixels, is disclosed. For each bitplane in a most to least significant order, the method include obtaining a list of significant pixels (LSP), a list of insignificant pixels (LIP), and a list of insignificant sets (LIS) according to a hierarchical ordering of the source image pixels; synchronizing the LSP, LIP and LIS of the source image with the LSP, LIP and LIS of a key image; constructing a temporary list of insignificant sets (TLIS) for the source image; and applying syndrome encoding to the LSP, LIP, and TLIS of the source image to obtain syndromes corresponding to magnitudes and signs of pixels in the source image, wherein the steps are performed in a processor. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051692 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - When embedded information having a data format version that is not supported by an image processing apparatus currently being employed is extracted, the image processing apparatus can not determine whether the embedded information should be output, even though the embedded information is available to be displayed. Ina case wherein embedded information having a data format for a next generation, which is not supported by the image processing apparatus currently being employed, is extracted, output of the embedded information is halted to prevent the unintentional output of data. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051693 | ACM-BASED SIMULCAST TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided are an adaptive coding modulation (ACM)-based simulcast transmission and reception apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a transmitter configured to analyze whether or not it is raining in a region where a receiver is present on the basis of channel state information (CSI) provided by the receiver, encode and/or modulate an image signal according to the analysis result, and provide the encoded and/or modulated image signal through a single band or multiple bands. On the basis of a result of analyzing whether or not it is raining in a region where a receiver is present, it is possible to effectively prevent signal attenuation caused by rain by providing image signals having different resolutions through multiple bands when the region is in a rainfall state. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051694 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHIFT DCT-BASED SHARPENING OF A VIDEO IMAGE - A method of processing a digital image includes applying a discrete cosine transform (DCT) to a plurality of shifted digital images to produce a plurality of DCT coefficients, amplifying at least some of the DCT coefficients by a variable gain, applying an inverse DCT to the amplified DCT coefficients, and averaging the results to produce a visually sharper image. The variable gain may be a function of the amplitude of the DCT coefficients. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051703 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DIRECTIONS OF REGULARITY IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - When analyzing an image signal having pixel values defined on a sampling grid, the method detects at least one direction of regularity of the image signal in relation to a pixel of the sampling grid. This detection comprises computing a respective loss value associated with at least one direction in a set of directions, and selecting at least one direction of regularity by minimizing the loss value. The loss value associated with a direction (u, v), where u is a horizontal coordinate and v a vertical coordinate, has an axial loss component measuring variations of the pixel values in at least one linear array of pixels. This linear array is a horizontal array |u/v|>1 and a vertical array |u/v|<1. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051704 | EXPOSURE CONDITION DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A console of an X-ray imaging system functions as a query receiver and a retrieval section to support decision on an exposure condition. The query receiver receives a retrieval query such as an exposed body portion and an exposure direction. The retrieval section refers to an exposure date of image files having the same patient ID number, and calculates an exposure interval between a pair of prior and subsequent image files the exposure dates of which are the nearest to each other. The exposure interval is compared with a threshold value. If the exposure interval is less than the threshold value, neither image file is assigned as a model image file. If the exposure interval is the threshold value or more, the subsequent image file is assigned as the model image file. The retrieval section retrieves the image file matching the retrieval query out of the model image files. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051705 | CONVERTIBLE GIFT BAG TO GIFT BOX - A gift bag that is convertible to a gift box comprises a decorative bag that is foldable flat and openable to a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and an insert for the bag that also folds flat but opens to a generally open-ended box inserted into to the bag to reinforce and stiffen the bag. The bag has an integral top flap that opens to cooperate with the insert to form a closed box, and has carry handles connected to the interior of the bag that are either removable or can be located within the bag when it is converted into a box. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051706 | Woven Textile Organizer For Bags - Woven textile structures constructed using dual-loom technology are provided. Filaments are woven in such a way as to create a first set of different discrete layers of the same fabric in some regions of the textile and a second set of discrete layers of the same fabric at other regions of the same textile. The different layers are used to construct various textile structures such as a woven bag with woven channels containing at least one drawstring. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051709 | Woven Textile Accessories - Woven textile structures constructed using dual-loom technology are provided. Filaments are woven in such a way as to create a first set of different discrete layers of the same fabric in some regions of the textile and a second set of discrete layers of the same fabric at other regions of the same textile. The different layers are used to construct various textile structures such as a woven bag with woven channels containing at least one drawstring. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051710 | Stretched Films with Maintained Tear Resistance and Methods for Making the Same - Methods of stretching thermoplastic films in the machine direction include elongating the films in the machine direction without significantly reducing the films' machine-direction tear resistance. In one or more implementations, methods of stretching thermoplastic films include reducing the gauge of the films while substantially maintaining the films' machine-direction tear resistance. The methods can involve uniformly cold stretching the films by stretching the films to a draw of about one hundred and eighty percent, or less, of the films' original length. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051711 | PACKING BAG FOR LAUNDERING AND DRYING OF GARMENTS - A packing bag adapted for use in the laundering and drying of garments includes a packing bag body of permeable structure so that fluid can flow through the said body defined by at least one pair of opposite edges, one of them closed the other one open with closing means which define an internal space for placing the garment, and damping sections arranged on a wall portion of the referred packing bag body and auxiliary elements for washing and drying. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051712 | Woven Textile Bag - Woven textile structures constructed using dual-loom technology are provided. Filaments are woven in such a way as to create a first set of different discrete layers of the same fabric in some regions of the textile and a second set of discrete layers of the same fabric at other regions of the same textile. The different layers are used to construct various textile structures such as a woven bag. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051713 | SLIDE RAIL STRUCTURE OF RELATIVE SLIDE ASSEMBLY - A slide rail structure of relative slide assembly includes two slide guide members disposed on a slide member. Each slide guide member has a locating section connected with the slide member. The locating section has a slide guide section disposed on one side of the locating section, which side is distal from an edge of the slide member. The slide guide section is bent toward the edge of the slide member. Two pivot seats are pivotally disposed on two sides of a relative slide member. A main support is connected on each pivot seat. The main support has a relative slide guide section disposed on the main support and slidable along the slide guide section. The slide guide section is bent over the locating section in an overlapping state. Therefore, the width and volume of the slide guide member are minified to enlarge internal utility space of the slide member. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051714 | HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There are provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly and a method of manufacturing the same. The hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes: a lubricating oil filled so as to form a liquid-vapor interface between stationary members and rotating members; and a lipophilic coating formed on the liquid-vapor interface of the lubricating oil so as to prevent lubricating oil leakage. Therefore, the lipophilic coating is formed on the interface of the lubricating oil and an oil repellent material is formed on a surface of at least one of the stationary members and the rotating members, whereby the scattering and the leakage of the lubricating oil may be effectively prevented. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051715 | ANTI-FRETTING LAYER - The invention relates to an anti-fretting layer ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051716 | BENT BEARING ASSEMBLY FOR DOWNHOLE MUD MOTOR - A downhole drilling assembly which includes a drill bit assembly, and a mud motor, and a bearing assembly disposed between the drill bit assembly and the mud motor, wherein the bearing assembly includes an offset portion. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051719 | Double-Row Angular Ball Bearing - A double-row angular contact ball bearing is provided with inner and outer rings, balls in two rows, a cage for holding the balls, and non-contact sealing devices made of a substantially disc-like member. Radial outer end portions of a metallic sealing device are respectively fit and swaged into grooves arranged at both axial end portions of the outer ring's inner circumferential surface. The ratio Ts/Tr is equal to or lower than 0.07, where Ts is the sealing device thickness and Tr is the outer ring thickness at the bottom portion of the groove. In addition, the ball diameter is equal to or greater than 75% of a half a bearing width to equal to or greater than 83% thereof. Furthermore, an axial width Tc of the radial outer end portion having a substantially U-shape is equal to or smaller than 2.7 mm. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051720 | Wheel Bearing Apparatus - A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member, and double row rolling elements are contained between the outer raceway surfaces. Seals are mounted in openings formed between the outer member and the inner member. A shoulder height H of the inner raceway surface of the inner ring is set with a range of 0.4-0.8 times a diameter “d” of the ball (H/d=0.4-0.8). A shoulder height δ of a smaller diameter portion formed on the outermost circumference of the inner ring is set to a value δ/d≧0.35. A corner, formed by the tapered surface and the inner raceway surface, is rounded to have a circular arc cross-section. A shoulder height H | 2013-02-28 |
20130051723 | OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATING DEVICE AND OPTICAL PULSE GENERATING DEVICE USING SAME, AND OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATING METHOD AND OPTICAL PULSE GENERATING METHOD USING SAME - The optical frequency comb generating device having two optical modulation parts 41 and 42 independently modulating optical waves propagating in two branch waveguides and a phase regulator | 2013-02-28 |
20130051724 | TERAHERTZ INTERACTION CIRCUIT - A terahertz interaction circuit includes a waveguide through which electromagnetic waves pass, the waveguide having a folded shape and including a narrow open cavity portion; and an electron beam tunnel through which an electron beam passes, the electron beam tunnel penetrating through the waveguide. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051725 | OPTICAL DEVICE, OPTICAL MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes a substrate and a first optical waveguide including a mesa. The mesa includes a first lower clad layer portion, a first core layer portion, and a first upper clad layer portion. The first lower clad layer portion, the first core layer portion, and the first upper clad layer portion are disposed in this order from the substrate side. The optical device also includes a first etch stop layer configured to stop etching when the first optical waveguide is formed. The first etch stop layer being laminated over the substrate. The first optical waveguide is laminated on the first etch stop layer. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051726 | ASYMMETRIC LENSLET ARRAY - An optical launch arrangement includes a fiber assembly for securing an array of optical fibers. The optical launch arrangement also includes an asymmetric lenslet array having a first surface with a pair of coupling lenses in registration with each optical fiber in the array of optical fibers and a second surface with a collimating lens in registration with each pair of coupling lenses. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051729 | MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBER COUPLER - An optical device comprising a multi-core optical fiber coupler. The multi-core optical fiber coupler includes a substrate having a planar surface and turning mirrors located along the planar surface, each of the turning mirrors having a reflective surface oriented to change a direction of light between a direction that is parallel to the planar surface and a direction that is substantially non-parallel to the planar surface. The turning mirrors form a lateral pattern along the planar surface, the lateral pattern being configured to approximately match a pattern of optical cores in a multi-core optical fiber whose end segment faces the pattern and is positioned substantially normal to the planar surface of the substrate. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051730 | DYNAMIC APERTURED WAVEGUIDE FOR NEAR-EYE DISPLAY - A near-eye display of a type having an image generator for generating a succession of angularly related beams and waveguide for propagating the angularly related beams to an eyebox within which a virtual image is visible includes a controllable output aperture for such purposes as reconstructing a better defined pupil within the eyebox while also preserving the possibility for viewing the ambient environment from the eyebox through the controllable output aperture. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051733 | Apparatus and Method for Ganged Multiple Optical Fiber Connector - An optical-fiber connection apparatus and method for connection of an optical-fiber cable having a plurality of optical fibers to a transmit/receive unit having a plurality of interface transceivers. Some embodiments include a housing having a base portion and a latch actuator, an optical-fiber cable connection that holds the optical-fiber cable to the housing, a plurality of optical-fiber termination interfaces coupled to the housing, and a lever mechanism that is coupled to the base portion and to the latch actuator, and that moves the latch actuator relative to the base portion, wherein the lever mechanism operates to latch the optical-fiber connection apparatus to the transmit/receive unit such that the plurality of the optical-fiber termination interfaces couples light signals between the plurality of optical fibers and the plurality of interface transceivers of the transmit/receive unit. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051734 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR - An optical fiber connector includes a housing, a fixing member, an optical fiber ferrule fixed at an end of the fixing member, and an elastic member sleeved on an end of the fixing member. The housing includes a latching protrusion, and the fixing member includes a latching portion. The fixing member is received in the housing with the latching portion engaging with the latching protrusion, and one end of the elastic member resists on the housing and the other end of the elastic member abuts against the fixing member. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051735 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR - An optical fiber connector includes an inner housing and a fixing module sleeved in the inner housing. The fixing module includes a fixing mechanism having a supporting member and a clamping member. The supporting member includes a first fixing portion axially defining a first restricting groove, a first fixing end and a second fixing end at two opposite ends of the first fixing portion, and the clamping member includes a second fixing portion axially defining two sliding grooves on two borders of the second fixing portion. The fixing module further includes a locking member sleeved on the fixing mechanism, a position member fixed at the first fixing end of the fixing mechanism, and an elastic member sleeved on the fixing mechanism with an end of the elastic member resisting with the position member and the other end of the elastic member resisting with the locking member. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051736 | CONNECTOR HAVING UNIVERSAL INSERTION SLOT - A connector having a universal insertion slot includes a body and an adapter. The body has an insertion port thereon, and has the insertion slot and an optical component in the body. The adapter has a connection port for connecting with an external transmission line. The adapter connects to the insertion port of the body through a universal end, which has a plurality of insertion terminals and a through hole, the insertion terminals electrically connects with the insertion slot of the body, and the through hole is arranged in a position according to that of the optical component. When the external transmission line connecting with the connection port of the adapter, conductive terminals of the insertion slot electrically connects to terminals of the line via the insertion terminals, and the optical component receives light signal from a fiber line in the line passing through the through hole. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051741 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLES HAVING MULTIPLE SUBUNIT CABLES - Micromodule cables include subunit, tether cables having both electrical conductors and optical fibers. The subunits can be stranded within the micromodule cable jacket so that the subunits can be accessed from the micromodule cable at various axial locations along the cable without using excessive force. Each subunit can include two electrical conductors so that more power can be provided to electrical devices connected to the subunit. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051742 | DROP CABLE ASSEMBLY - A drop cable assembly has a drop cable and an outer sheath formed around the drop cable that encloses and reinforces the drop cable. The drop cable is accommodated within a cavity of the outer sheath and includes strength members. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051743 | FIBER OPTIC CABLES WITH ACCESS FEATURES AND METHODS OF MAKING FIBER OPTIC CABLES - Cables are constructed with extruded discontinuities in the cable jacket that allow the jacket to be torn to provide access to the cable core. The discontinuities can be longitudinally extending strips of material in the cable jacket. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051744 | Graded-Index Multimode Optical Fiber - A method of classifying a graded-index multimode optical fiber includes taking a series of individual measurements at a single wavelength, and using the measurements to characterize the departure of the multimode optical fiber's actual index profile from the corresponding nominal index profile. The measurements, coupled with intermodal dispersion or EMB measurement, may be used to predict the approximate transmission properties of the optical fiber at wavelengths other than the measurement wavelength. It is desirable for a graded-index multimode optical fiber to possess, at a wavelength of 850 nanometers, a radial offset bandwidth of at least 6000 MHz·km for all radial offsets between 0 and about 70 percent of the radius of the optical fiber's core. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051745 | Plenum-Rated Optical Cables Utilizing Yarn Coated With Flame-Retarding and Smoke-Suppressing Coating - Certain embodiments of the invention may include a plenum-rated optical fiber cables utilizing yarn coated with a flame-retarding and smoke-suppressing. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a plenum-rated optical fiber cable is provided. The plenum-rated optical fiber cable includes an optical fiber, a jacket surrounding the optical fiber, and a layer of yarn positioned between the optical fiber and the jacket. The jacket is made from a low-smoke polymer, the yarn is coated with a sufficient amount of flame-retarding and smoke-suppressing material such that the cable passes the NFPA 262 “Steiner Tunnel” fire test, whereby its flame spread is less than 5 feet, peak optical density is less than 0.50, and average optical density is less than 0.15. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051746 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An optical waveguide has a clad, a core surrounded by the clad and having an index of refraction larger than an index of refraction of the clad, an incident end face that makes light enter the core; and an exiting end face that makes light exit from the core. Two side faces of the optical waveguide are formed so as to have an angle change. The two side faces are translationally symmetric with each other, or two side faces excluding a portion of the side faces are translationally symmetric with each other. | 2013-02-28 |