11th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 35 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100067806 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLEOGRAPHIC RECOGNITION, MATCHING, AND IDENTIFICATION OF IMAGES AND OBJECTS - The inventive data processing system and method enable recognition, matching, and/or identification of images and/or of objects, utilizing at least one novel pleographic data processing technique. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFICATING ELECTRIC DOCUMENT AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ELECTRIC DOCUMENT SERVICE - A method and system for verifying an electronic document and a system for providing an electronic document service are provided. The system for verifying the electronic document includes: an image data acquisition unit acquiring an image of the electronic document by scanning the electronic document; a barcode detection unit detecting a barcode inserted into a predetermined position in the acquired image of the electronic document and acquiring first electronic document data; an image data conversion unit generating second electronic document data by converting a format of the acquired image of the electronic document into a format that can be compared with the first electronic document data; a falsification determination unit de | 2010-03-18 |
20100067808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE EXTRACTION - The image extracting apparatus includes the scene-change-image extracting unit that extracts a scene change image located at a position at which a scene is changed from an image sequence acquired in time series by using a predetermined extraction condition, a comparing unit that compares the scene change image with an adjacent image that is acquired at a time adjacent to the time at which the scene change image is acquired within a predetermined time-series range, and a summary image extracting unit that extracts one of the scene change image and the adjacent image corresponding to the scene change image as a summary image by using the result compared by the comparing unit. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067809 | STRUCTURE DETERMINATION SYSTEM, STRUCTURE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Resolution of structural analysis using image data is improved. A method is provided including the steps of: acquiring data representing measured images and data representing a predetermined number of reference images (S | 2010-03-18 |
20100067810 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention enables the suppression of block noise even at an intermediate resolution equal to or lower than the original resolution and further increases the number of directly decodable resolutions for higher convenience. For this purpose, a memory stores original image data photographed by an image sensing unit. A resizing unit generates resized image data by reducing the numbers of horizontal and vertical pixels of the original image data stored in the memory to ½ and stores the image data in the memory again. An image compression unit encodes the original image data and the resized image data by HD Photo®. A CPU puts the two encoded data into one file and stores it in a nonvolatile memory card connected to an output unit. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067811 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image decoding apparatus is provided, including a parser and an AC decoder. The parser is provided for parsing a bit stream to acquire a first unit. The first unit includes a DC code and a plurality of AC codes respectively corresponding to a DC coefficient and AC coefficients for a first block of the image. The AC decoder generates a plurality of first AC coefficients for the first block by decoding the plurality of AC codes of the first unit, and determines whether the number of the plurality of first AC coefficients exceeds a predetermined parameter. If so, the AC decoder obtains a second unit of the bit stream corresponding to a second block following the first block by performing an AC bypassing process on the first unit. Each AC code comprises a Huffman code and a VLI code. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067812 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD USING BLOCK TRUNCATION CODING - An image compression method is provided. First, an image including a plurality of blocks is received and each block includes a plurality of pixels. Next, an order dithering array within a preset range is generated, which includes a plurality of elements. Then, values of the elements in the order dithering array are respectively mapped to a plurality of mapping values according to a gray scale range of each block. In each block, each pixel value is quantized to a first digital value or a second digital value according to a result of comparing each pixel value with the corresponding mapping value. Hence, a bit rate of the image is efficiently compressed, and features of the original image are preserved inside the compressed image. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067813 | Method, computer program product, and hardware product for implementing lossless image compression by minimizing complex structures using intelligent pixel crawling - Lossless image compression is performed by receiving and opening an original image file representing an image. A pixel path is determined in the image by analyzing one or more complex structures in the image. The one or more complex structures are represented using a mathematical expression. Each of the pixels along the determined pixel path is replaced to minimize the complex structure, thus providing a compressed image file having a smaller file size than the original image file. A comment is inserted in the compressed image file specifying the determined pixel path. The compressed image file is stored on a computer-readable storage medium. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067814 | VARIABLE LENGTH CODING FOR CLUSTERED TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS IN VIDEO COMPRESSION - Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events in the clusters of non-zero-valued coefficients, and a coding method to code the position events, amplitude events, and signs of the amplitudes in the clusters. The method is particularly applicable to a series of quantized transform coefficients where clusters are likely to occur. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067815 | METHOD FOR VIDEO ENHANCEMENT AND COMPUTER DEVICE USING THE METHOD - A video enhancement method is disclosed. An input image is retrieved and it is determined whether an enhancement mode is implemented to the input image. If so, motion detection is implemented to the input image that only enhancement coefficients of varied pixels of the input image are recalculated and the enhancement coefficients are updated to an enhancement coefficient table. Based on the enhancement coefficient table, pixel colors of the input image are adjusted and the adjusted image is output. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067816 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING MOTION BLUE IN A DISPLAYED IMAGE - A method for reducing motion blur in a displayed image, comprising utilising at least one first panel ( | 2010-03-18 |
20100067817 | SIGN CORING FOR CONTOUR REDUCTION - A method for contour reduction in a digital picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) buffering a plurality of luma samples in a current line of the digital picture, each of the luma samples having a respective input value, (B) calculating a plurality of horizontal sum-of-signs along the current line, wherein each of the horizontal sum-of-signs comprises a sum of a plurality of amplitude differences between pairs the luma samples from the current line and (C) generating a plurality of output value based on the horizontal sum-of-signs, one of the output values for each one of the luma samples. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067818 | System and method for high quality image and video upscaling - A low complexity upscaling method to generate higher resolution image and video with high quality is described herein. Natural edge smoothness and sharpness are preserved while overshooting artifacts and the “edge dilation” problem are eliminated. To obtain edge smoothness and remove jaggy artifacts along the edge, a bi-directional filtering which is based on two orthogonal directions is used to generate higher resolution pixels. The direction close to the edge direction is heavily weighted, and the direction far from the edge direction is lightly weighted. The weight of each direction is determined by the developed directional vector difference measurement method. To eliminate the overshooting artifacts and solving the thick edge problem, a dual-sided interpolation method is implemented. By using the dual-sided interpolation method, the interpolation result is pushed towards a dominant transition desired location which removes overshooting artifacts. A thin and sharp edge is obtained instead of a blurred, thick edge. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067819 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT METHOD USING LOCAL GAIN CORRECTION - The present invention relates to a method for image enhancement. The method includes the steps of: replacing a value of a pixel of a digital image with a maximum one of values of red, green and blue sub-pixels of the pixel; selecting a specific pixel from pixels of the digital image; selecting some of the pixels surrounding the specific pixel to constitute a specific block; calculating an average of values of the pixels of the specific block; providing multiple curve functions; obtaining a corresponding one of the curve functions according to the average, and substituting the value of the pixel of the image into the curve functions to obtain new output brightness values. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067820 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a registration unit for executing a registration process among a plurality of images; an image synthesis unit for superposing the plurality of images subjected to registration in the registration unit to synthesize the plurality of images and generate a synthetic image; a frequency characteristic measurement unit for measuring a frequency characteristic of the synthetic image; and a registration error detection unit for detecting an error of the registration process among the plurality of images based on the measured frequency characteristic of the synthetic image. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067821 | System and method for denoising using signal dependent adaptive weights - A system and method for denoising using signal dependent adaptive weights includes an imaging device that captures image data corresponding to a photographic target. A denoising manager identifies similar pixels from said image data that are located within a pre-defined processing window around the pixel to be denoised. The denoising manager computes signal-dependent weighting values that correspond to respective ones of the similar pixels. The denoising manager then calculates the denoised pixel value by utilizing the weighting values in conjunction with raw pixel values of the similar pixel set. In this manner all pixels in the image are denoised. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING FROM A SEQUENCE OF TRANSLATED AND ROTATED LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGES - A method and system for super-resolving images from low-resolution sequences comprising an image processor having an input for inputting multiple images of a scene with sub-pixel translations and rotations; one of the images of the scene being a reference image; and at least one memory comprising a gross translation estimation algorithm for estimating overall translations of at least one image with respect to the reference image on the image processor and aligning the inputted images according to the gross translation estimates on the image processor; a sub-pixel estimation algorithm for obtaining the sub-pixel shift and rotation of each image with respect to the reference image; and an error reduction algorithm for applying at least one spatial frequency domain constraint and at least one spatial domain constraint to the images to produce a high-resolution image. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067823 | Dehazing an Image Using a Three-Dimensional Reference Model - An image may be dehazed using a three-dimensional reference model. In an example embodiment, a device-implemented method for dehazing includes acts of registering, estimating, and producing. An image that includes haze is registered to a reference model. A haze curve is estimated for the image based on a relationship between colors in the image and colors and depths of the reference model. A dehazed image is produced by using the estimated haze curve to reduce the haze of the image. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067824 | IMAGE DECOMPOSTION - A computer-implemented method includes segmenting an input image into a plurality of image cues, each image cue representing a unique set of pixels of the input image. For each image cue, the method includes determining a set of image components, wherein each image component is associated with at least one adjustable factor to represent at least one characteristic of the image cue. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067825 | Digital Image Filters and Related Methods for Image Contrast Enhancement - Digital image filters and related methods for image contrast enhancement are disclosed. According to one aspect of the method, an invariant brightness level is initially determined. For each pixel of an input image, the invariant brightness level is subtracted from the input brightness of the pixel. The resulting value is multiplied with a contrast adjustment constant. After that, the invariant brightness level is added. Further aspects of the method can involve histogram equalization. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067826 | Method for Image Skew Detection - A method for calculating a skew angle of an original image, executed at least in part on a computer system stores image data for the original image in an electronic memory, then forms an energy-normalized image according to the relative contrast amplitude of image features over each of a plurality of local image regions within the stored image data. A partitioned image is formed by partitioning the energy-normalized image into a number of sub-regions. A summed region is formed as a combination of image pixel data from the sub-regions. A Fourier magnitude spectrum is obtained by performing a Fourier transform on the summed region. The skew angle is calculated according to the peak value of a radial line integration function that is formed by integrating the Fourier magnitude spectrum along each of a plurality of lines of constant radial angles. An output signal indicates the calculated skew angle. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067827 | OPTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING MINIMUM PHASE FUNCTIONS - A method utilizes an optical image processing system. The method includes providing a measured magnitude of the Fourier transform of a complex transmission function of an object or optical image. The method further includes providing an estimated phase term of the Fourier transform of the complex transmission function. The method further includes multiplying the measured magnitude and the estimated phase term to generate an estimated Fourier transform of the complex transmission function. The method further includes calculating an inverse Fourier transform of the estimated Fourier transform, wherein the inverse Fourier transform is a spatial function. The method further includes calculating an estimated complex transmission function by applying at least one constraint to the inverse Fourier transform. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067828 | Apparatus and Method for Combining Several Sub-Images for any Imaging Surface Areas - An apparatus provides an image on the basis of a plurality of input images. The apparatus includes a first stage having at least a first and a second combiner, each of the combiners including a first storer for storing image data of the input images, a first processor for processing the image data of the input images into an intermediate image, and a second storer for storing image data of the intermediate image. The apparatus further includes a second stage having at least one further combiner, the further combiner including a third storer for storing image data of those intermediate images which are stored in the second storer of the first stage, a second processor for processing the image data from the third storer, so as to combine the image data of the intermediate images into the image, and a fourth storer for storing image data of the image. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067829 | Multipurpose bag and method for making same - The multipurpose bag and method for making the same utilizes three pieces of substantially rectangular material that are cut, folded, and secured together to form a bag having an open top end and a closed bottom end. The bag is preferably formed from cotton, and includes cording material to form drawstrings. Handles for carrying the bag and are attached to the bag near the open top end. The bag is formed to be symmetric about central vertical planes, and a pair of flaps are provided to cover a pair of symmetrical outer pockets. A plurality of inner pockets are defined within the multipurpose bag, with the pockets being symmetrical and equally positioned therein. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067830 | FLEXIBLE CONTAINER WITH ADHESIVE HANDLE - A container suitable for being subjected to a filling and closing process, said container being formed from at least one flexible multi-layer laminated film and comprising at least one front panel and' at least one side panel sealed together, the length of said at least one side panel being shorter than the length of said at least one front panel, characterised in that said container comprises at least one device applied by means of adhesive to the outer surface of at least one of said side panels, said device being suitable for being partially raised to form a handle for the container itself. Said container is produced by means of an efficient and cost-effective method capable of being made with a limited number of steps, with no further step being necessary at the end of the production of the container to apply the handle to the container itself. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067831 | Packs of plastic bags and racks for supporting packs of plastic bags - A pack of bags with a sleeve that provides an envelope for the pack of bags is disclosed. In the plurality of bag units in the pack of plastic bags, each front sheet and back sheet is cut to form an opening and a grab tab for each bag. A tongue may be inserted in the opening to push forward the grab tab when the pack of plastic bags is suspended from a rack. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067832 | OPENABLE FOOD PACKAGING - A packaging for a food product that is configured to be easily openable includes a film substantially surrounding a food product and formed from a sheet having a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side, and a seam formed by the first longitudinal side overlapping and bonding to the second longitudinal side. The film may be formed to have directional tear properties generally perpendicular to the seam, the directional tear properties defining at least one tear path in the film. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067833 | MULTI-STAGE SLIDING STRUCTURE OF HANDHELD DEVICE - A multi-stage sliding structure of a handheld device includes a first sliding block, a second sliding block, and an engagement structure. The first sliding block has at least one first groove for containing a first magnetic strip. The second sliding block has at least one second groove. The second groove is for containing at least two second magnetic strips which are continually spaced apart in the second groove, and the directions of magnetic poles of the second magnetic strips correspond with directions of respective magnetic poles of the first magnetic strip. The engagement structure comprises two structures disposed near outer sides of the first and the second grooves respectively, and is for enabling the first and the second sliding blocks to engage with each other and slide with respect to each other. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067834 | HYDROSTATIC PROFILE RAIL GUIDE - A hydrostatic profile rail guide, which has a guide carriage mounted hydrostatically on a guide rail designed with a U-shaped cross-section, pressure pockets for building up hydrostatic pressure between the guide carriage and rail, gaps connected to the pressure pockets for hydraulic fluid, a drainage for hydraulic fluid emerging from the gaps, and a seal surrounding the drainage and arranged between the guide carriage and rail which has side and head portions. At least one of the side portions of the seal is arranged between each leg of the guide carriage and rail, and at least one of the head portions of the seal is arranged transversely to the guide rail on both head sides of the guide carriage. The side portions of the seal are formed by side seals arranged on the guide rail and the head portions are formed by head seals arranged on the guide carriage. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067835 | HYDROSTATIC MOUNTING - A hydrostatic mounting of longitudinally displaceably arranged machine parts, which have pressure pockets for hydraulic fluid for building up a hydrostatic pressure between two machine parts, gaps for the hydraulic fluid which are adjacent to the pressure pockets and are delimited by gap faces of the two machine parts, drainage for the reception of hydraulic fluid, and at least one seal, arranged between the machine parts and surrounding the drainage sealing against leakage of hydraulic fluid out of the hydrostatic mounting. At least one circumferential portion of the seal has an outer sealing lip and an inner sealing lip. The inner sealing lip is adjacent to the gaps, and a vacuum-loadable drainage portion of the drainage is arranged between the two sealing lips. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067836 | HYDROSTATIC MOUNTING - A hydrostatic mounting of longitudinally displaceably arranged machine parts, which have pressure pockets for hydraulic fluid for building up a hydrostatic pressure between two machine parts, gaps connected to the pressure pockets and delimited by gap faces of the two machine parts, a drainage for the reception of hydraulic fluid flowing out from the gaps, and a seal, arranged effectively between the machine parts and surrounding the gaps, sealing against the escape of hydraulic fluid. An environment-side portion of the seal is at the same time a portion of the drainage creating a double-acting portion. The double-acting portion of the seal is formed from a material permeable to the hydraulic fluid. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067837 | Thermally sprayed structures for foil bearings - The present invention provides a method of making a foil component of a foil bearing, where the foil component has an inner surface, an inner portion, and an outer portion. In one embodiment, and by way of example only, the method includes thermally spraying a first material onto an outer surface of a sacrificial substrate to form the foil component inner portion, where the first material includes a solid film lubricant, and the outer surface has a shape that is complementary to the inner surface of the foil component. A second material is then thermally sprayed over the inner portion to form the outer portion, and the second material includes a metal. The sacrificial substrate is then removed to expose the foil component. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067838 | ROLLING BEARING ARRANGEMENT - The invention is directed to a rolling bearing arrangement comprising two annular elements that are arranged mutually concentrically and at least regionally inside each other, for connection each to a respective one of two oppositely rotatable system components, and comprising a gap between said connecting elements, such that they are able to rotate in opposite directions about an imaginary axis located at the center of the annular connecting elements and extending approximately perpendicular to the ring plane, wherein at least two rows of rolling bodies are provided in the region of the gap between the connecting elements, wherein the annular connecting elements completely or partially overlap each other in the radial direction and one or more raceways for rolling bodies are arranged in radially overlapping regions of the annular connecting elements, in such a way that the contact angle which the connecting line between the centers of the points of contact of a rolling body with its two raceways makes with the ring plane is equal to or greater than 75°, and wherein the rolling bodies of at least one row have a contact angle of 15° or less. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067839 | ROLLER BEARING OF A WHEEL HUB WITH A VENTURI NOZZLE FOR A TIRE PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEM - The invention relates to a roller bearing of a wheel hub of a motor vehicle comprising a tire pressure control system. Said roller bearing comprises an air guiding channel that extends radially through an external ring and an air guiding channel that extends radially through an internal ring that leads into an intermediate chamber that is arranged between the rows of the bearing bodies and is sealed in relation to said bearing bodies. In order to seal the intermediate chamber in a more simple and effective manner, said intermediate chamber comprises a flow channel that is embodied as a Venturi nozzle. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067840 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device in which a signal electrode has a bent portion. Earth electrodes are formed with the signal electrode between. A width of a gap at the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode is narrower than a width of a gap at both ends of the bent portion between the signal electrode and each earth electrode. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067841 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - The optical device includes an outer Mach-Zehnder interferometer having two outer arm waveguides; and two multilevel modulators, each formed on one of the outer arm waveguides, which perform multilevel modulation on input light independently of each other, one of the multilevel modulators including an inner Mach-Zehnder interferometer having two inner arm waveguides, and two signal electrodes which provide electric fields that are to interact with light propagates through the inner Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the inner Mach-Zehnder interferometer or the signal electrodes cross an even number of times at crossing points so as to alternately interact with the electric fields provided by the signal electrodes, a part of a light propagation region of the inner arm waveguides which region has a boundary defined by at least one of the crossing points forms a polarization inversion region. The optical transmitter includes the above optical device. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067842 | Steerable, thin far-field electromagnetic beam - A method and apparatus for forming and controlling a microwave Bessel beam which may be utilized for examining microstructure including very early stage tumors. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067843 | TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER - Consistent with the present disclosure an optical filter is provided that preferably includes a plurality of looped or ring-shaped waveguides provided on a substrate which are coupled to one another by tunable couplers. Portions of each waveguide constitute part of each tunable coupler, which may include, for example, a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A heater may be thermally coupled to one or both arms of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, to thereby adjust an amount of optical coupling between adjacent looped waveguides. The filter bandwidth (i.e., the spectral width of the passband), which, as noted above, is related to such coupling, can thus also be tuned or varied. Additional heaters may be provided to tune the center wavelength of the passband so that a filter having both a variable passband spectral width and center wavelength can be obtained. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067844 | RADIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR OPTICAL SENSOR - Optical systems for sensing radiation emissions from radiological and nuclear matter. An example system includes a light source, a light sensor, a processing device in signal communication with the light source and the light sensor, and a fiber optic cable that receives light from the light source and delivers light to the light sensor. The fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber core region surrounded by a cladding region. The optical fiber is a single mode optical fiber having a mode field diameter greater than 25 μm. The optical fiber cladding region includes a plurality of lengthwise holes positioned to provide single mode light propagation properties. The plurality of lengthwise holes have a diameter between 0.1-5 μm. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067845 | INCLINOMETER SYSTEM - Disclosed is an inclinometer system capable of detecting the inclination of the ground using a fiber bragg grating sensor to precisely measure the deformation of the ground. The inclinometer system includes at least one measuring unit, and the measuring unit includes a body provided therein with a receiving part, a frame inserted into the body, a weight member inserted in to the frame and having one end hinged to the frame, the weight member rotating in cooperation to inclination of the body, an optical fiber | 2010-03-18 |
20100067846 | OPTICAL CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical converter comprises: a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and a tapered waveguide arranged between both the waveguides, wherein heights of a core of the first waveguide and a core of the second waveguide are different; both ends in a direction of wave guiding of a core of the tapered waveguide are respectively connected to the core of the first waveguide and the core of the second waveguide; cross-sectional shapes and refractive indexes of cores of two waveguides that are connected change continuously or in a stepwise manner at each connection part; and a cross-sectional shape and refractive index of the core of the tapered waveguide change continuously or in a stepwise manner along a direction of wave guiding. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067847 | TUNABLE OPTOFLUIDIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF ITS FABRICATION - An integrated structure and method of its fabrication are presented. The integrated structure comprises at least one waveguide; at least one fluid chamber; and an electrode assembly. The fluid chamber is associated with said at least one waveguide and configured and operable to selectively allow one or more droplets of said fluid from the fluid chamber to access at least a portion of the waveguide thereby selectively creating one or more fluid-waveguide interfaces and affecting the effective refractive index of the waveguide and light coupling at said one or more interface. The electrode assembly is configured and operable to induce an electric field within said at least one fluid chamber to affect the fluid-waveguide interface, thereby affecting light propagation in said waveguide and accordingly affecting optical properties of the integrated structure. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067848 | FABRICATION METHOD OF OPTICAL MODULE AND OPTICAL MODULE USING THE SAME METHOD - A fabrication method of an optical module comprises a mixed/hybrid optical alignment method, and an optical module uses the same fabrication method using an optical element chip such as a light source chip or a photodetector chip, etc. on an optical wiring substrate and making it possible to simultaneously secure mass productivity that is the advantage of the passive alignment method according to the related art and alignment accuracy that is the advantage of the active alignment method. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067849 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE OBTAINED THEREBY - A manufacturing method of an optical waveguide device and an optical waveguide device obtained thereby. An under cladding layer is formed on the front surface of a colored-layer-coated PET substrate including a PET substrate portion and a colored layer of a color that absorbs irradiation light and formed on the back surface of the PET substrate portion, and then a photosensitive resin layer for the formation of cores is formed thereon. In forming the cores, when the irradiation light reaches the bottom surface of the PET substrate portion, most of the irradiation light is absorbed by the colored layer, so that there is little irradiation light reflected from the bottom surface of the PET substrate portion. This significantly reduces the irradiation light reflected diffusely from the PET substrate portion and reaching the photosensitive resin layer to thereby effectively suppress the surface roughening of the side surfaces of the cores. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067850 | AUTOMATED OPTICAL SWITCH AND METHOD - An automated optical switch for use in a central office to increase coupling density including a frame having a mating plate defining a plurality of precision alignment holes formed therethrough. In one embodiment, the precision alignment holes are sized and configured to receive corresponding pairs of optical fibers with polished end faces disposed within ferrules free of connector housings. In another embodiment, the precision alignment holes are sized and configured to receive optical fibers with polished end faces free of ferrules and connector housings. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067851 | FILTER DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A filter device is provided, including a first and second conductor tube and an outside tube. The first light conductor tube includes a first end for light input, a second end including a first slanted assembled end surface coated with a filter, a first tube, and a first light conductor inserted into the first capillary. The second light conductor tube includes a third end for light output, a fourth end including a second slanted assembled end surface, a second capillary, and a second light conductor inserted into the second capillary. The second assembled end of the fourth end is disposed next to and parallel to the first slanted assembled end surface of the second end of the first light conductor tube to coaxially couple to the first light conductor tube. The outside tube is jacketed outside of the first and second light conductor tubes. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067852 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A FURRULE FOR AN OPTICAL WAVE GUIDE CONNECTOR, FERRULE, WAVE GUIDE RIBBON AND TOOL FOR ASSEMBLING THE FERRULE - A method for assembling a ferrule for an optical wave guide connector, a ferrule for an optical wave guide connector, a wave guide ribbon and a tool for assembling the ferrule. The method includes aligning a first body of the ferrule with respect to an alignment body. The first body includes a longitudinal recess adapted to receive at least one wave guide ribbon. Each wave guide ribbon includes at least one optical wave guide. The method further includes aligning at least one wave guide ribbon with respect to the alignment body and inserting the at least one wave guide ribbon into the longitudinal recess of the first body. Lastly, the method further includes closing the longitudinal recess of the first body with a second body of the ferrule. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067853 | COMPONENTS FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECT THROUGH PRINTED WIRING BOARDS - A component system and method is described that is made of components for transmitting, routing and receiving “in-air” optical signals for placement on printed wiring boards (PWBs). The transmitters are components including a light source attached to a transparent substrate and aligned to a coupling lens. The transparent substrate can contain circuitry for controlling the light source, or the circuitry could be attached to the transparent substrate. The receivers include a light detector attached to a transparent substrate with circuitry for converting optical signals to electrical circuitry (integrated onto the transparent substrate or separately attached). The routing components include a lens for coupling light into an optical waveguide, an optical waveguide and, optionally, a second lens for coupling light from the optical waveguide. The component system allows in-air optical communication between PWBs, without requiring traditional connections and harnesses between the PWBs, thus increasing their reliability and throughput. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067854 | PLUGGABLE SYSTEM BETWEEN OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER AND HOST SYSTEM - A mechanism to fix the new type of the pluggable optical transceiver to the host system is disclosed. The optical transceiver provides the screws, while, the host system has the face panel with a port and the rail system between which the optical transceiver is set through the port. In the present invention, the screw of the transceiver is fastened to the rail not the face panel, and the rail is precisely aligned with the electrical connector. Thus, the pluggable transceiver in the electrical plug thereof is exactly mated with the electrical connector of the host system. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067855 | Buffer Tubes for Mid-Span Storage - Disclosed is a buffer tube that possesses a higher buffer-tube filling coefficient. Optical fibers enclosed within the buffer tube demonstrate improved attenuation performance when subjected to temperature variations between about −40° C. and 70° C. The buffer tube is suitable for deployments requiring mid-span access. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067856 | Optical Cable with Stranded Micromodules and Apparatus to Manufacture the Optical Cable - An optical cable comprises a plurality of elongate members wherein at least one of the elongate members include at least one optical fiber surrounded by buffer tube. The buffer tube is made of a soft material having a tension at break of less than 7.5 MPa. The elongate members are disposed around a central element. A binder is wrapped around the plurality of elongate members. An outer jacket surrounds the plurality of elongate members. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067857 | High-Fiber-Density Optical Fiber Cable - Disclosed is a fiber-optic cable that possesses a high cable filling coefficient (and/or a high cable fiber density) yet ensures that its enclosed optical fibers demonstrate improved attenuation performance when subjected to temperature variations between about −40° C. and 70° C. The fiber-optic cable is suitable for efficient installation into ducts, such as via blowing. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067858 | Bandwidth-maintaining multimode optical fibers - The specification describes multimode optical fibers with specific design parameters, i.e., controlled refractive index design ratios and dimensions, which render the optical fibers largely immune to moderately severe bends. The modal structure in the optical fibers is also largely unaffected by bending, thus leaving the optical fiber bandwidth essentially unimpaired. Bend performance results were established by DMD measurements of fibers wound on mandrels vs. measurements of fibers with no severe bends. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067859 | Single Mode Optical Fiber - An optical transmission fiber comprises a central core having an index difference Δn | 2010-03-18 |
20100067860 | RARE EARTH-DOPED CORE OPTICAL FIBER - A rare earth-doped core optical fiber includes a core comprising a silica glass containing at least aluminum and ytterbium, a clad provided around the core and comprising a silica glass having a lower refraction index than that of the core, and a polymer layer provided on the outer circumference of the clad and having a lower refractive index than that of the clad, wherein aluminum and ytterbium are doped into the core such that a loss increase by photodarkening, T | 2010-03-18 |
20100067861 | LIGHT GUIDE AND LIGHT GUIDE STRUCTURE - An optical waveguide structure has excellent heat resistance and a low water absorbing property and can be manufactured with a low material cost. Such an optical waveguide structure includes: an optical waveguide having two surfaces, a core layer including core portions and cladding portions each having a refractive index lower than that of each of the core portions, the core layer having two surfaces, and cladding layers provided so as to make contact with the two surfaces of the core layer and having a refractive index lower than that of each of the core portions; and conductor layers provided on the two surfaces of the optical waveguide. In the optical waveguide structure, each of the cladding layers is formed of a norbornene-based polymer as a major component thereof. Further, it is preferred that the norbornene-based polymer is composed of molecules each represented by the following formula 1 as a major component thereof: | 2010-03-18 |
20100067862 | THERMALLY STABLE IR TRANSMITTING CHALCOGENIDE GLASS - A thermally stable chalcogenide glass, a process for making the same, and an optical fiber drawn therefrom are provided. A chalcogenide glass having the composition Ge | 2010-03-18 |
20100067863 | VIDEO EDITING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Video editing methods and systems, including methods and systems to identify video clips having similar visual characteristics. Video clips may correspond to first and second videos, which may include a professional music video and a personal video, respectively. Identified video clips of the personal video may be combined into a new video clip, and music corresponding to visually similar video clips of the music video may be associated with the corresponding video clips of the new video. Video frames of the video clips may be characterized with respect to one or more visual features, which may include one or more of facial and/or body features, salient objects, camera motion, and image quality. Characterizations may be compared between video clips on an incremental basis. Characterization of a music video may implicitly model an underlying correlation between music rhythm and changes in visual appearance. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067864 | VIDEO DEPTH MAP ALIGNMENT | 2010-03-18 |
20100067865 | Systems, Methods and Devices for Augmenting Video Content - Methods, systems, products and devices are implemented for editing video image frames. According to one such method, image content is embedded into video. A selection input is received for a candidate location in a video frame of the video. The candidate location is traced in subsequent video frames of the video by approximating three-dimensional camera motion between two frames using a model that compensates for camera rotations, camera translations and zooming, and by optimizing the approximation using statistical modeling of three-dimensional camera motion between video frames. Image content is embedded in the candidate location in the subsequent video frames of the video based upon the tracking thereof. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067866 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND EDITING IMAGE USING THE SAME - An image displaying apparatus, an image editing apparatus, an image editing system, an image displaying method and an image editing method are disclosed. The image displaying apparatus includes an image processing unit which captures a still image, a communication module which communicates with an external device, and a control unit which controls an edited image to be displayed. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067867 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING VIDEO SCENES - A system and method for searching video scenes stored in an electronic device includes acquiring video captions of the video and dividing the video captions into a plurality of caption segments, creating a plurality of caption files to contain the plurality of caption segments, and dividing the video into a plurality of video clips according to the plurality of caption segments. The system and method further includes searching the plurality of caption files for caption segments comprising keywords, and determining the video clips corresponding to searched caption files. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067868 | RECORDING INTERACTIVE SERVICES - A digital television recorder to record television programs, having a recording section to record data onto a storage medium, a filter to identify from a received transport stream, data of a television program for recording, a timer to be set with a time and, at that time, to start the recording onto the storage medium, data of the television program received from the filter, and a cache to store data of the interactive services associated with the television programs and provided in the respective transport streams. The filter identifies data of interactive services associated with the television programs, the timer starts, at a predetermined interval before the time, acquisition of the data of interactive services and storing acquired data of interactive services in the cache, and the recording section records, immediately prior to starting recording the data of the television program, the content of the cache to the storage medium. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A first demodulation unit of a digital broadcast reproduction system extracts signals for a plurality of channels from broadcast waves input to a radio receiver, subjects the signals to analog-to-digital conversion, and temporarily stores the data in a multichannel buffer. A second demodulation unit reads, from the multichannel buffer, digital data for a selected channel corresponding to a channel selection signal input from a controller operated by a user to a channel selection acknowledging unit. The unit subjects the data thus read to the remainder of the demodulation process so as to generate a data stream. A decoding unit | 2010-03-18 |
20100067870 | VIDEO DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, VIDEO SERVER, GATEWAY SERVER, AND VIDEO DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A system includes a reading unit reading first management information including a first item specifying video data and the video data from a storage medium, a storage unit recording second management information including the first item obtained from the first management information and the video data transferred from the reading unit, a memory storing third management information including the first item and a second item specifying a transfer or no transfer of the video data, and a controller transferring the first management information to the memory from the reading unit, updating the second item of the third management information in response to the transfer of the video data, and controlling the transfer of the video data in the video content which is designated by a read request from one of the reading unit and the storage unit to the outside based on the second item of the third management information. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067871 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORD MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD - An apparatus and a method, which make it possible to collect a plurality of the contents authored for DVD to record easily them on a large-capacity information record medium and to increase a data rate in reproducing the recorded contents, perform the processes of: creating source packets from a disk image file; collecting them to form arrangement units | 2010-03-18 |
20100067872 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING BACK SCENE USING UPnP - A method and apparatus for playing back a scene using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). A control point sends a request for a scene to be played back to a media server that stores Audio/Video (AV) content and receives the scene to be played back from the media server in response to the request. The control point receives information about supportable protocol and file format from a media renderer that will play back content, and determines a content resource, a protocol and a file format to be used for playback based on the information. The control point composes a scene to be played back based on the received scenes. The media renderer plays back the composed scene. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067873 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - On a recording medium, stereoscopic and monoscopic specific areas are located one after another next to a stereoscopic/monoscopic shared area. The stereoscopic/monoscopic shared area is a contiguous area to be accessed both in stereoscopic video playback and monoscopic video playback. The stereoscopic specific area is a contiguous area to be accessed immediately before a long jump occurring in stereoscopic video playback. In both the stereoscopic/monoscopic shared area and the stereoscopic specific area, extents of base-view and dependent-view stream files are arranged in an interleaved manner. The extents on the stereoscopic specific area are next in order after the extents on the stereoscopic/monoscopic shared area. The monoscopic specific area is a contiguous area to be accessed immediately before a long jump occurring in monoscopic video playback. The monoscopic specific area has a copy of the entirety of the extents of the base-view stream file recorded on the stereoscopic specific area. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067874 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM - There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA | 2010-03-18 |
20100067875 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM - There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA | 2010-03-18 |
20100067876 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING METHOD, PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A recording medium storing an AVClip structured by multiplexing video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents a moving picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the graphics stream includes graphics data representing graphics to be combined with the pictures. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067877 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A transport signal transmitted from a television receiver apparatus | 2010-03-18 |
20100067878 | CUSTOMIZING SOUNDTRACKS - A system and method for replacing all or part of the original audio of a digital program with other audio enables a user to customize a digital program soundtrack. The method includes receiving the audio portion of the digital program as an audio data stream including multiplexed associated audio and data packets, selecting at least one of the audio packets to be replaced by a replacement audio packet, and replacing the at least one of the audio packets with a replacement audio packet thereby customizing the audio portion of the digital program during program playback. The method also enables customizing an audio portion of a transmitted analog program. The method includes receiving first and second audio signals, receiving information transmitted in a vertical blanking interval of the transmitted analog program, interpreting the information and removing a replaceable audio signal, and replacing the replaceable audio signal with a user-selected audio signal. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067879 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a recording apparatus, a succeeding chapter of a video stream is recorded by being connected to the preceding chapter of the video stream contained in a multiplexed stream. When transfer of the succeeding chapter of the video signal from a video encoder to a VBV buffer starts, a multiplexer is controlled in such a manner that the fullness of the VBV buffer will exceed a set threshold value. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067880 | MOVING-IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MOVING-IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD - A moving-image reproducing apparatus determines whether one frame of a movie has the same image as that of the previous frame on the basis of the analysis of the movie, inputs compressed frame data about a frame that is not determined to have the same image as that of the previous frame into a decompressing unit, causes the image in the frame data decompressed by the decompressing unit to be displayed as at least one frame, and causes the compressed frame data about a frame that is determined to have the same image as that of the previous frame not to be input into the decompressing unit. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067881 | AUDIO/VIDEO SIGNAL ACCESS CONTROLLING APPARATUS - An AV signal access controlling apparatus is provided and mainly comprises an exterior connector being connected to a controller, a voltage level generator, a S connector (independent video connector), a RCA (Radio Corporation of America) connector, and an USN connector. When the exterior connector is connected to an AV storage apparatus, the voltage level generator outputs a voltage level to the AV storage device and a voltage level comparison proceeds. Thus the AV storage apparatus permits to proceed signal transmission with the controller. When the controller is configured to transmit signals to the AV storage apparatus, a delay of 51μ second (51 μs) is required for simulating a transmission rate of 19200 bps, thus the AV storage apparatus permits to transmit the audio and video signals via the S connector, the RCA connector, or the USB connector. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067882 | Automatic generation of video from structured content - Apparatus for generation of playable media from structured data, comprises a structured data reading unit for reading in of content of a first structure, a transformation unit for transforming said content into a second structure, said transformation comprising incorporating media play instructions, and a rendering unit for rendering content from the second structure using said media play instructions to generate playable media from the content. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067883 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, DIGITAL BROADCAST RECORDING METHOD AND DIGITAL BROADCAST REPRODUCING METHOD - A digital broadcast receiving apparatus wherein even if a digital broadcast is received and recorded under a bad reception environment, good reproduction and display of the digital broadcast can be achieved with no feeling of unsatisfaction or unpleasantness occurring to the user. In this apparatus, an OFDM demodulating part ( | 2010-03-18 |
20100067884 | PORTABLE VIDEO SYSTEM - A video system attachable to a docking station includes a display capable of displaying video data received from the docking station, and a media player, wherein the video system is capable of operating when removed from the docking station. The video system is capable of connecting to at least one of a battery and an adapter for a power supply. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067885 | RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording device includes: a first irradiation unit that irradiates first light to an optical-recording-type display medium during a recording period on the basis of image data, the display medium being configured to display an image recorded in the display medium using light; and a second irradiation unit that irradiates second light having given energy to the display medium during the recording period. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067886 | IR LASER OPTICS SYSTEM FOR DIELECTRIC TREATMENT MODULE - A system for curing a low dielectric constant (low-k) dielectric film on a substrate is described, wherein the dielectric constant of the low-k dielectric film is less than a value of approximately 4. The system comprises one or more process modules configured for exposing the low-k dielectric film to electromagnetic (EM) radiation, such as infrared (IR) radiation and ultraviolet (UV) radiation. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067887 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC FOCUSING FUNCTION - In a digital camera, a focus lens is moved at a low speed between a timing at which a shutter key is half pressed and a timing at which the shutter key is fully pressed to detect a focused position. When the shutter key is fully pressed by a user before the focus lens reaches a focused position, the focus lens is moved at a higher speed than that of a case in which the shutter key is half pressed, and a focused position is detected. Thereby, even when the shutter key is fully pressed by a user before the focus lens reaches the focused position, the digital camera can realize focusing with less delay in capturing. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067888 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR IMAGE SHAKE OF IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - A control system for compensating for image shake of an image capture device is provided, including a shake compensating module, a shake compensating switch, a control unit, and a shutter control element operated between a first operating stage and a second operating stage. The shake compensating switch is switched between an active state to enable the shake compensating module and an inactive state to disable the shake compensating module. The control unit enables the shake compensating module when the shake compensating switch is in the active state. The control unit produces a reset signal to disable the shake compensating module when the shutter control element is in the second operating stage before the shake compensating switch is switched to the inactive state. The control unit enables the shake compensating module after a specific period of time from when the shake compensating module was disabled. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067889 | OPTICAL APPARATUS - An optical apparatus includes an anti-shake lens L | 2010-03-18 |
20100067890 | AUTOFOCUS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An autofocus apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an object image entered through a focus lens and output image data, a detection unit configured to detect a focus signal based on the image data, a focus adjustment unit configured to perform a focus adjusting operation for adjusting a position of the focus lens based on the detected focus signal, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information relating to a distance to an object, and a change unit configured to change at least one of a time interval, a movable range of the focus lens in acquiring the focus signal in the subsequent focus adjusting operation, and an amount of movement of the focus lens in acquiring the focus signal in the subsequent focus adjusting operation, according to the information relating to the distance to the object. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067891 | AUTOMATIC FOCUSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An automatic focusing apparatus detects presence or absence of change in a distance between an object and the automatic focusing apparatus while operating in an operation mode to continuously perform an adjustment of the position of a focus lens to focus on the object, and stops a movement of the focus lens if a change in the distance is not detected. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067892 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - In an imaging apparatus, wherein when performing auto focus control while continuously moving a focusing lens by using an image sensor that has a lag in timing of electric charge accumulation, a focusing accuracy can be improved. To this end, the imaging apparatus includes the rolling shutter function, an imaging unit configured to convert an object image into an image signal, and a setting unit. When a difference exceeds a predetermined amount in the barycentric position of the optical system between an upper line and an a lower line of the AF area due to the rolling shutter function, the setting unit imposes a limitation on the AF area to reduce the size of a desired AF area to an AF area where the difference in the barycentric position becomes a predetermined amount. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067893 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An imaging apparatus determines the appropriateness of a continuous focusing operation when performing shooting using autofocus. When the continuous focusing operation is determined to be appropriate, the imaging apparatus performs a display indicating that the imaging apparatus is in a continuous focusing operation state. The display indicating the continuous focusing operation state differs from a display indicating a focusing state determined by a focusing operation performed when the imaging apparatus is not in the continuous focusing operation state. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067894 | Hinged Camera Sled - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and apparatus for supporting and easily adjusting the position of a surveillance camera in an enclosure. Embodiments of the present invention also provide systems, methods and apparatus for keeping the front panel of a camera enclosure clear during cold temperature periods. Finally, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and apparatus for the efficient transfer of heat out of a camera enclosure during warm temperatures. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067895 | Fastener For Fixing A Sliding Cover Of A Camera - A fastener is adapted for fixing a sliding cover of a camera. The sliding cover is arranged slidably on the camera for selectively covering a lens of the camera. The fastener has a housing with a receiving cavity defined by a circular sidewall. An elastic component and a cover are received in the receiving cavity of the housing. One end of the cover is pressed against the elastic component, and the other end of the cover defines a resistive portion extending out of the receiving cavity for elastically and forcefully urging the sliding cover when the sliding cover is slid to cover the lens. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067896 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The image pickup apparatus includes a lens barrel, and two barrier blade groups each configured to include a first barrier blade, a second barrier blade and a third barrier blade, each barrier blade group being movable between a closing position for covering a front face of the lens barrel and an opening position for opening the front face of the lens barrel. In each of the barrier blade groups at the opening position, the first and second barrier blades overlap with each other in an optical axis direction of the lens barrel, and the third barrier blade overlaps with the first and second barrier blades in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction without overlapping therewith in the optical axis direction. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067897 | FOCAL-PLANE SHUTTER AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A focal-plane shutter | 2010-03-18 |
20100067898 | Environmentally Sealed Enclosure - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and apparatus for providing reliable sealed enclosures for surveillance cameras that are capable of protecting an internal surveillance camera and related electronics from harsh external environmental conditions without using adhesives using a unique a sealing gasket that is sandwiched between upper and lower housing parts of a camera enclosure. The unique sealing gasket includes a flexible portion corresponding to the surfaces of the housing parts to be engaged that is generally perpendicularly attached to a front panel. The front panel has a central viewing pane, and a peripheral flexible sealing surface. A unique aspect of the sealing member of embodiments of the present invention is the inclusion of the front panel, viewing pane and upper/lower housing seal in a single member. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067899 | Standby restoration signaling for optical networks - Systems and methods are described that provide a distributed restoration signaling protocol for shared mesh restoration with standbys for transparent optical networks. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067900 | Optical waveguide-type wavelength domain switch - An optical waveguide-type wavelength domain switch includes a waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate comprising three or more laminated waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing devices, a lens system positioned on a demultiplex side of the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate, and a reflective optical phase-modulating cell positioned on an opposite side of the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate to the lens system. The lens system includes a lens alignment composed of plural lenses in one-to-one correspondence with the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing devices and having a light-collecting or collimating function in the lens-aligning direction, an image-magnifying optical system having an N:1 (N>1) image-magnifying function arranged on the optical phase-modulating cell side of the lens alignment, an f-f lens (Y) arranged on the optical phase-modulating cell side of the image-magnifying optical system, and having a light-collecting or collimating function in the same direction as the lens-aligning direction of the lens alignment, and an f-f lens (X) having a light-collecting or collimating function in a perpendicular direction to the lens-aligning direction of the lens alignment. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067901 | Passive optical network system and fault determination method - In a passive optical network system, a parent station includes a reception circuit that receives an optical signal from each of child stations using a threshold used to identify if the optical signal is 0 or 1; a bandwidth setting unit that determines a time at which each child station sends an optical signal; a storage unit that stores thresholds and intensities of optical signals received from the child stations; and a control unit that sets a threshold, stored corresponding to a sending time, in,the reception circuit to control a reception of an optical signal. The control unit has a function that compares an intensity of a signal received from each child station at an optical signal reception time with information stored in the storage unit to detect and determine a fault in the child station or in the optical fiber connected to the child station. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067902 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER ERROR REDUCTION USING RECEIVER FEEDBACK - Described is a method of reducing transmitter error in an optical communications channel. An optical signal transmitted from an optical transmitter that has impairment due to transmitter error is processed to generate a digitally-equalized signal. A nonlinear characteristic of the digitally-equalized signal that relates to the transmitter error is determined. An optical control signal comprising data that are based on the nonlinear characteristic is transmitted to the optical transmitter. The optical transmitter modifies a transmitter parameter in response to the optical control signal to change the nonlinear characteristic and thereby reduce the impairment. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067903 | Interferometric optical signal-to-noise ratio measurement using a calibration factor - Systems and methods are described that measure the OSNR of an optical channel. Embodiments provide OSNR measurement methods that distinguish the intensities of the coherent modulated signal from the incoherent noise intensity occupying the same optical band using a calibration factor ζ. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067904 | Calibration factor for interferometric optical signal-to-noise ratio measurement - Systems and methods are described that measure the OSNR of an optical channel. Embodiments provide OSNR measurement methods that distinguish the intensities of the coherent modulated signal from the incoherent noise intensity occupying the same optical band using a calibration factor ζ. | 2010-03-18 |
20100067905 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR TRANSMITTING CLIENT SIGNALS IN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK - A method for transmitting client signals in an OTN includes: obtaining the client signals, and determining an OPUk TS in an OPUk according to the client signals; mapping the client signals to the OPUk TS in an agnostic CBR mapping mode; and adding an overhead into the OPUk, and sending the OPUk with the added overhead to the OTN. A device for transmitting client signals and a device for receiving client signals in an OTN are disclosed. | 2010-03-18 |