21st week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
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20160148317 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR MANAGING HEALTHCARE TRANSACTION DATA, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - A mobile device for managing healthcare transaction data is provided. The mobile device includes an I/O interface unit, an image capture unit, a network unit configured to communicate with a financial institution having financial data of the user and to transmit a claim request documentation for a qualifying expense to at least one of a health savings account custodian and a health insurance provider, and a computing unit coupled to the I/O interface unit. The computing unit is configured to receive a first healthcare transaction data from at least one of the image capture unit in the mobile device, a payment unit in the mobile device, and the input from the user, and a second healthcare transaction data from the financial institution. The computing unit is configured to determine whether the first healthcare transaction data and the second healthcare transaction data include a qualifying expense for reimbursement. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148318 | Policy System - A policy system may collect employment-related information and form a predictive model. In response to a request for a policy, the predictive model may determine an input for the policy. The predictive model may be automatically updated based on feedback received on the policy. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148319 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING TRUSTWORTHINESS - Disclosed are a method and system for evaluating the trustworthiness of a target person by a user. The method and system include providing a network comprising a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of directed links, wherein each node in the plurality of nodes is associated with a person and each link in the plurality of links connects from a first node to a second node. The link is associated with a trusting relationship from a first person associated with the first node to a second person associated with the second node, and wherein the user is associated with at least one node in the plurality of nodes. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148320 | RESOLVING PAIRWISE LINKS TO GROUPS - In some embodiments, a method can comprise accessing one or more neighborhood data structures, at least a portion of the one or more neighborhood data structures are active. In many embodiments, the one or more neighborhood data structures each comprise a label comprising a record identifier, the record identifier corresponding to a specified record of the one or more records, a neighborhood comprising a list of record identifiers for other records linked to the specified record of the one or more records by a pairwise link, and a message for each of the other records linked to the specified record of the one or more records, the message comprising the label and an activity state indicator, the activity state indicator indicating if the neighborhood data structure is active. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also provided. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148321 | SIMPLIFIED SCREENING FOR PREDICTING ERRORS IN TAX RETURNS - Embodiments of the invention generally relate to predicting the likelihood of an error in a previously filed tax return. In particular, a set of screening questions is presented to a user that correlate to set of risk factors for an erroneous return. Based on the responses to the screening questions, a likelihood of error and an expected magnitude of error are calculated. Based on the likelihood of error and the expected magnitude of error, an error score and a recommendation of whether to re-prepare and refile an amended tax return is presented. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148322 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING INTERCHANGEABLE ANALYTICS MODULES TO PROVIDE CUSTOMIZED TAX RETURN PREPARATION INTERVIEWS - A method and system selects one or more interchangeable analytics modules for use in a tax return preparation system to provide a customized electronic tax return preparation interview to a user, according to one embodiment. The method and system receive user data associated with a user, according to one embodiment. The method and system apply one of a number of selection techniques to determine which of one or more analytics modules to use within the tax return preparation system, according to one embodiment. The method and system apply the one or more analytics modules to the user data to determine the relevance of tax return preparation interview questions to the user, according to one embodiment. The method and system deliver tax return preparation interview questions to the user, based on the determined relevance of the number of tax return preparation interview questions to the user, according to one embodiment. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREDITING USERS RESPECTIVE OF A VALUE-ADDED TAX RECLAIM - A system and method for crediting users respective of a VAT reclaim are provided. The method includes receiving a notification of at least a partially successful VAT reclaim respective of a user request for a VAT reclaim; analyzing at least a VAT receipt respective of the at least partially successful VAT reclaim; determining a number of newly accumulated credit points respective of the at least VAT receipt; and adding the number of newly accumulated credit points to a number of previously credit points to yield a new total number of credit points. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148324 | SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING AND DISTRIBUING USER-GENERATED CONTENT FOR ARTISTS TO RETAIN 100% OF THE REVENUE FROM SALES OF CONTENT - A system embodying a method of organizing artists in a supportive network to facilitate the promotion of the artists' creative works and the retention of revenue of the sale of said creative works is provided. The system may provide an online platform providing a social network comprising a plurality of user-artists accounts each comprising at least one upload, each corresponding to a creative work, wherein the social network is configured so that user-artists engage in supportive activities so as to promote said creative work. The online platform may provide a predetermined amount of supportive credit to each user-artist to download desired uploads from a second user-artist account. The online platform may also provide a rating system to determine a supportive value of the use of the supportive credit used and the supportive activities by each user-artist, wherein the online platform rewards supportive points to at least one user-artist based at least in part on a determined supportive value. The online platform also allows non-user artists to purchase the promoted uploads whereby 100 percent of the revenue of sales of the at least one upload is retained by each associated user-artist account. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148325 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A RESPONSE TO AN INPUT POST ON A SOCIAL PAGE OF A BRAND - A method for providing a response to an input post on a social page of a brand is provided. The input post is detected upon posting of the input post on the social page of the brand. The social page is present on a social channel. An inquiry regarding the brand is identified from content of the input post. At least one social post is determined from already posted posts on one or more social channels based on the inquiry. The at least one social post is associated with the brand. A response post is created using the at least one social post. The response post addresses the inquiry. The response post is then posted on the social page of the social channel as a reply to the input post. An apparatus for performing the method as described herein is also provided. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148326 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE COMPRISING MULTIPLE, INTERRELATED COMPONENTS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO A DATA REQUEST - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting graphical user interfaces comprising multiple interrelated components. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a user request for hotel booking condition information for a particular hotel for a particular date range and displaying the hotel data on the graphical user interface. The method includes determining a collection of candidate hotel suggestions for the particular date range, where the candidate hotel suggestions are located within a specified distance from the hotel, and where the candidate hotel suggestions are selected based at least in part on a specified condition; ranking the collection of candidate hotel suggestions based at least in part on a calculated value; and displaying, on a second section of the graphical user interface, the candidate hotel suggestions having a rank exceeding a specified threshold. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148327 | INTELLIGENT ENGINE FOR ANALYSIS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - An intelligent intellectual property (IP) engine (IIPE) retrieves IP-related data from public or proprietary IP databases. Public IP databases include, for example, Espacenet, USPTO, EPO and other websites. IP-related data may be, for example, patents, non-patent literature, R&D information. The retrieved IP-related data is processed to structure, visualize, analyze and interpret the data in an individual context, thereby enabling users to make operational and strategic business decisions. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148328 | ASCERTAINING THE LEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF INTESTATE PROPERTY - An estate distribution system is described herein for ascertaining the legal distribution of an individual's intestate property through the use of variables created to define single points of data that are described by the appropriate body of laws as being necessary to the determination of the said legal distribution. The system determines and solicits a reduced quantity of said data through the use of a hierarchical arrangement of the created variables, which hierarchical arrangement is ordered upon the basis of priority each variable has in relation to all remaining variables used by the appropriate body of laws. A report is created and delivered to a user that details the legal distribution of the subject intestate property. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148329 | MULTI-LOCATION LEARNING-ACTIVITY STATE MANAGEMENT FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION - A method for delivering distance education for real clients, each either a teacher client or a student client, at multiple teaching sites and a system using the method are provided. A multi-layer arrangement is used to arrange computing servers to be one first-level server and one or more second-level servers each communicable with the first-level server. Each server serves real clients located in a pre-determined site. Furthermore, each server sets up a virtual client to execute the teacher client's activity command so as to locally generate application-specific data, which are then stored in this server. When a communication link to a student client is re-established after an activity interruption, resynchronization of the student client's learning-activity state with the teacher client's is regained based on the locally-generated application-specific data stored in the server that serves the student client without a need to burden other servers. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148330 | Providing Mentor Assistance in an Embedded Marketplace - A system and method that provides mentor assistance in an embedded marketplace is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for assistance from a user, identifying a plurality of keywords associated with the request, identifying a plurality of tags associated with the plurality of keywords, matching a plurality of tags associated with the plurality of keywords, and routing the request to the mentor based on the match. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148331 | CUSTOMER IDENTITY VERIFICATION - Customer identity verification. Receiving a request for verification of a customer's identity. The request includes fields of customer identity data. Requesting, from a first verification resource, verification of the customer's identity using the customer identity data. Receiving from the first verification resource, first verification results including at least one new field of customer identity data. The first verification results being insufficient to verify the customer's identity. Requesting, from a second verification resource, verification of the customer's identity using the at least one new field of customer identity data. Receiving, from the second verification resource, second verification results. For second verification results sufficient to verify the customer's identity, communicating to the customer a successful verification of the customer's identity. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148332 | Identity Protection - Some embodiments provide holistic and comprehensive identity protection solutions. The solutions protect user identity by screening the information trail that a user leaves behind online in order to suppress or neutralize information crumbs that can subsequently be used to harm the user. The solutions audit user privacy settings, established online friends and contacts, and friend and contact activity online to limit the exposure and disclosure of user information online. The solutions perform white-hat penetration tests. The solutions report on user risk based on available online information. The solutions validate completed transactions based on monitored user movements and site visits. The solutions provide a crowd-sourced approach to identify risk based on common transactions and visits of others. The solutions prevent identity theft by verifying that disbursements are made to the correct entity. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148333 | Business Advertising Method - Disclosed is a method, which consists of advertising on consumer goods packaging, whereas said advertisement is unrelated to the content of said packaging, and whereas the advertiser pays for the advertisement placement on said packaging, at the extent which, as a minimum, covers the cost of said packaging. Packaged merchandise carried by shippers or customers are seen by many in public for sufficient time and extent to validate renting visible surfaces of packages, advertising one thing and containing another, without confusing anyone. To a store keeper, at least the packaging can be free this way. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148334 | WATERMARK DETECTION AND METADATA DELIVERY ASSOCIATED WITH A PRIMARY CONTENT - Methods, devices, systems and computer program products enable enhances delivery and use of metadata that is associated a primary multimedia content. Watermarks that are detected by a watermark extractor produce an indication as to astute of the watermark detector as being in one of a an unmarked content state, a marked content state or a gap state, and cause the watermark extractor to transition from one state to another state based on event that are recognized based a failure or a success in detecting watermarks, an indication of low content activity and a previous state of the watermark extractor. The events and states associated with the watermark extractor further allows retrieval of new metadata associated with the primary content, use of an existing metadata in a modified manner or a change in presentation of a secondary content that is associated with the primary content. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148335 | DATA-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A data-processing apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The data-processing apparatus includes a tiling circuit and a post-stage processing circuit. The tiling circuit is configured to receive input data. The tiling circuit divides a current frame of the input data into at least one tile and checks a motion state of the current tile in the at least one tile. The post-stage processing circuit is coupled to the tiling circuit to receive the current tile. The post-stage processing circuit performs post processing on the current tile to generate a processed current tile of the current frame or to obtain a processed corresponding tile of a previous frame and serves it as the processed current tile of the current frame, according to the motion state of the current tile. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148336 | DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, terminals includes a first terminal to which a serial clock is input, a second terminal through which first data is received in synchronism with the serial clock, and a third terminal which outputs data to an external device. A decoder receives and analyzes the first data. The register stores the above received first data. A memory temporarily stores the first data, and outputs the temporarily stored first data in synchronism with second data. A switch selects one of transmission of the first data output from the memory to the third terminal and transmission of the data read from the register to the third terminal for checking. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148337 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A graphics processing core of a tile-based graphics processing system when processing a tile of a graphics output reads a primitive to be processed off a tile list for the tile being processed, along with an identifier for that primitive. The graphics processing core then checks whether or not the identifier matches the identifier stored for any entry stored in a primitive data cache. A match indicates that primitive-specific data (including line equations, depth equations and barycentric equations) for the primitive to be processed is stored in the cache. If a match is found then the stored primitive-specific data is retrieved and used to process (rasterise and render) the primitive. If no match is found, primitive-specific data is calculated from scratch, stored in the primitive data cache, and used to process the primitive. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148338 | OPTIMIZED MULTI-PASS RENDERING ON TILED BASE ARCHITECTURES - The present disclosure provides systems and methods for multi-path rendering on tile based architectures including executing, with a graphics processing unit (GPU), a query pass, executing, with the GPU, a condition true pass based on the query pass without executing a flush operation, executing, with the GPU, a condition false pass based on the query pass without executing a flush operation, and responsive to executing the condition true pass and the condition false pass, executing, with the GPU, a flush operation. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148339 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT FRAME-TO-FRAME COHERENCY EXPLOITATION FOR SORT-LAST ARCHITECTURES - An apparatus and method are described for the frame-to-frame coherency algorithm for sort-last architecture. In one embodiment of the invention, if a tile of pixels is covered completely by one triangle from a static draw call in one frame, then that tile is marked with that draw call's identifier. For the next frame, if the same static draw call is drawn, the same tile will be visited, and if the draw call's fragment passes for all pixels, it indicates that tile will contain exactly the same pixel color values as the previous frame. Hence, there is no requirement to run the pixel shader for the tile of pixels, and the color values of the tile can instead be reused from the previous frame. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148340 | IMAGE PERSPECTIVE PROCESSING - Methods, systems, and apparatus for adjusting a perspective of an image are described. Pixels from each of a plurality of rows of the image are removed, where the count of pixels removed is based on a location of the corresponding row in the image. In one example embodiment, the image is rotated prior to and after removal of the pixels based on the type of perspective alteration. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148341 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING USING SYMBOLIZED IMAGE, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DESIGN TARGET TO WHICH SYMBOLIZED IMAGE IS APPLIED - A first method for mapping out a design by using a symbolized image and a second method for analyzing an object of design to which a symbolized image is applied is provided. The first method includes the steps of: mapping out an object of design to display the symbolized image including a symbolic sign created at a position in the symbolized image corresponding to a blank space of a character image; and outputting an image of the object of design. Further, the second method includes the steps of: receiving information on an appearance of the object of design implemented by using a symbolized image including a symbolic sign created at a position in the symbolized image corresponding to a blank space of the character image; extracting the symbolized image implemented on the object of design; and (c) displaying the extracted symbolized image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148342 | MOVEMENT OF DISPLAYED ELEMENT FROM ONE DISPLAY TO ANOTHER - In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a first display accessible to the processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to, in response to movement to the first display of a lateral segment of an element presented a second display, present a portion of the lateral segment on the first display at a first scaling factor and at the same height as the entirety of the lateral segment was presented on the second display. The instructions are also executable to identify a second scaling factor based on a difference in display characteristics between the first display and the second display, and in response to movement of at least a threshold amount of the element onto the first display, present at least the threshold amount of the element on the first display using the second scaling factor. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148343 | Information Processing Method and Electronic Device - An information processing method is described that includes obtaining a first operation that is used to select a foreground image from a first picture; determining the foreground image in the first picture based on the first operation; obtaining status information of the foreground image; obtaining a second operation that is used to place the foreground image into a second picture; determining the second picture which serves as a background based on the second operation; obtaining status information of the second picture; determining a target size occupied by the foreground image in the second picture based on the status information of the foreground image and the second picture; scaling the foreground image into the target size; and displaying the foreground image in the second picture with the target size. An electronic device is also described. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148344 | IMAGE-PICKUP UNIT, IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image-pickup unit includes an image sensor and a color filter. Each filter segment of the color filter corresponds to one of a plurality of pixels of the image sensor, and the plurality of filter segments include first to Z-th (2 | 2016-05-26 |
20160148345 | METHODS OF PROCESSING MOSAICKED IMAGES - An embodiment of the invention provides a method of processing a mosaicked image. First, the mosaicked image is up-sampled along a first direction to generate a first intermediate image. Then, the first intermediate image is resized along the first direction to generate a second intermediate image. Next, the second intermediate image is up-sampled along a second direction to generate a third intermediate image. Afterward, the third intermediate image is resized along the second direction to generate a resized and partly demosaicked image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148346 | Multi-Level Spatial-Temporal Resolution Increase Of Video - This invention relates to a method of increasing spatial/temporal resolution including the steps of (a) providing a current video having an initial temporal/spatial resolution; (b) repeatedly reducing the temporal/spatial resolution of the current video to produce a lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (c) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (d) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the next higher temporal/spatial resolution current video; and (e) repeating step (d) up to the initial temporal/spatial resolution. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148347 | BRIGHTNESS-COMPENSATING SAFE PIXEL ART UPSCALER - Low spatial frequencies of an original image and an upscaled filtered image are analyzed. Differences will be observed in the low frequency components of the two images in the general case since the pixel art upscaler filter as a side effect introduces low frequency changes. A modification to images produced by the PAU is applied to attempt to match the brightness of the original images in the low frequency spectrum. From a viewer perspective (e.g., based on typical blurring visual effects), the original image and the modified filtered image will look the same—demonstrating that there is no low frequency brightness creep or resulting increased photosensitivity concerns. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148348 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF DISPLAY ELEMENTS - The present disclosure relates to arranging the orientation of a display on device based on motion of the device. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting movement of the device, and detecting motion data for the device. The motion data includes data associated with rotational movement of the device. The method includes analyzing, by a controller, the data associated with rotational movement of the device to determine an orientation for presenting a display of the device. The method may also include controlling the device to rotate the display to the determined orientation. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148349 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method includes acquiring a feature defining a distribution of similar forms in a first image; and restoring a hole included in a second image based on the feature. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148350 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM USING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - An image processing system includes an a noise detection unit that extracts a local statistical characteristic of a predicted original image according to a local statistical characteristic of an observed image and a local statistical characteristic of a predicted noise image, sets a flag level indicating a distortion state for each of pixels of the observed image according to the local statistical characteristic of the predicted original image, zones the observed image through a filter window, determines distortion states of adjacent pixels, corrects the flag level, and detects noise, and a noise removal unit that adaptively sets a filter size according to the corrected flag level and removes the noise, when the corrected flag level is determined through the noise detection unit, and therefore it is possible to implement adaptive noise detection and removal techniques of a distorted image damaged by noise, and detect a contour to the corresponding pixels into undistorted pixels. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148351 | METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND MRI APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PHASE-ENCODE GHOSTING DETECTION AND MITIGATION IN MRI - A method detects phase-encoding ghosting in a MR image of an object to be imaged and mitigates the corresponding artifact in the MR image. The method includes acquiring MRI raw data of the object by a MRI apparatus. The MRI apparatus has multiple receiver channels for acquiring the MRI raw data. An artifact map of at least one part of the object to be imaged is calculated from the MRI raw data, the artifact map is configured for highlighting artifact appearing in the MR image. An outlier mask representing detected phase-encoding artifact is created in the artifact map. The phase-encode ghosting in the MR image is mitigated by using the previously obtained artifact map and the outlier mask for obtaining an improved MR image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148352 | Area-Dependent Image Enhancement - This document describes techniques and apparatuses for area-dependent image enhancement. These techniques are capable of enabling selection, through a touch-enabled mobile-device display, of an area of a photographic image through movement of a spatially-variable implement, such as brush icon moved over the image. Selected areas can be enhanced differently than other areas, such as to apply sharpening to the selected area and blurring to a non-selected area. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148353 | Systems And Methods For Compensating For Visual Distortion Caused By Surface Features On A Display - Systems and methods for compensating for visual distortion caused by surface features on a display are disclosed. For example, one disclosed system includes: a display including one ore more surface features; a processor configured to: receive a display signal including graphical data; determine a location of the surface feature; transform the display signal based at least in part on the location of the surface feature; and cause the transformed display signal to be displayed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148354 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - An image processing method, system and device are disclosed. In the method, sensor responses for an input image are estimated, the sensor responses including sensor responses for cone sensors including a first cone sensor set and a second, different, cone sensor set. In dependence on the sensor responses, a transform mapping for application to a source image is determined to generate a modified image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148355 | RADIATION-IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - Feature amount calculation unit determines that the diagnosis target is a bone portion of a subject, and calculates a feature amount of a density of the radiation image based on a soft region in a radiation image acquired by irradiating a photographic subject with radiation. An image processing unit performs image processing including gradation processing on the radiation image, such that the feature amount becomes the target density, to acquire a processed radiation image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148356 | Efficient Methodology To Process Wide Dynamic Range Images - An image processor capable of processing wide-dynamic-range (WDR) image data using a native 12-bit image pipe. In one embodiment, the processor receives compressed wide-dynamic-range image data from a WDR image sensor. The compressed wide-dynamic-range image data is decompanded. Long-exposure image data is then extracted from the decompanded image data, and pre-processing is performed on the long-exposure image data. Short-exposure image data is also extracted from the decompanded image data, and pre-processing is performed on the short-exposure image data. The pre-processed long-exposure image data is merged with the pre-processed short-exposure image data. Tone mapping is performed on the merged image data. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148357 | Image Compensation Value Computation - Image compensation value computation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an image key value is calculated, by a computing device, for image data based on values of pixels of the image data. A tuning value is computed by the computing device using the image key value. The tuning value is configured to adjust how the image data is to be measured to compute an image compensation value. The image compensation value is then computed by the computing device such that a statistic computed in accordance with the tuning value approaches a target value. The image compensation value is applied by the computing device to adjust the image data. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148358 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GAUSSIAN FILTERING - An apparatus for Gaussian filtering includes an image buffer for generating mask region data which includes pixel values of pixels located on a mask in an input image, and a Gaussian filter core for arranging the mask region data to generate pixel array values referring to an index array corresponding to a size of the mask, and applying Gaussian filtering to the pixel array values to generate Gaussian filtering values. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148359 | Fast Computation of a Laplacian Pyramid in a Parallel Computing Environment - A computer-implemented method for calculating a Laplacian pyramid in an image processing system comprising a parallel computing platform includes constructing a first layer of a Gaussian pyramid based on an original image. A plurality of Laplacian pyramid layers are constructed using a plurality of device kernels executing on a graphical processing device included in the parallel computing platform. Each respective Laplacian pyramid layer is constructed by a process which includes using one or more first device kernels to calculate a Gaussian pyramid layer based on a immediately preceding Gaussian pyramid layer and using one or more second device kernels to calculate the respective Laplacian pyramid layer based on the immediately preceding Gaussian pyramid layer in parallel with calculation of the Gaussian pyramid layer. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148360 | FILTER PREPROCESSING CIRCUIT, OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZER, AND METHOD OF PERFORMING OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION - A filter preprocessing circuit includes: a determiner configured to determine, depending on a level of an offset included in a detection signal from a gyro sensor, whether or not a preprocessing operation is to be performed before the detection signal is transferred to a filter; and a remover configured to remove a portion of the offset from the detection signal during the preprocessing operation. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148361 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING AN ARRAY OF PIXELS - A method and an apparatus for filtering an array of pixels. A Domain Transforming unit applies a Domain Transform to the array of pixels to obtain a Domain Transform signal. A weight determining unit determines weights associated with samples of the Domain Transform signal. A filter then filters the Domain Transform signal. The filter takes the determined weights into account during filtering. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148362 | CONTENT AWARE FILL BASED ON SIMILAR IMAGES - A user identifies an unwanted object in a source image. Related images are identified on the basis of timestamp and/or geolocation metadata. Matching masks are identified in the source image, wherein each of the matching masks is adjacent to the selection mask. Features in the selection and matching masks which also appear in one of the related images are identified. The related image having a maximum of features which are tracked to a source image matching mask, but also a minimum of features which are tracked to the source image selection mask, is identified as a best-match related image. By mapping the source image matching masks onto the best-match related image, a seed region can be located in the best-match related image. This seed region is used for filling in the source image. This allows the unwanted object to be replaced with a visually plausible background having a reasonable appearance. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148363 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS - The present disclosure provides systems and methods for analyzing a structure. A method for analyzing a structure comprises capturing a at least one set of images of the structure in at least one range of wavelengths of light with an image capture device mounted on a vehicle. The at least one set of images can be processed to provided at least one set of image data. The at least one set of image data can be combined with separate data to form a combined data set. The combined set of data can be analyzed to determine one or more properties of the structure. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148364 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a rigid region from predetermined medical image data among a plurality of items of medical image data. Further, between first medical image data and second medical image data among the plurality of items of medical image data, the processing circuitry performs rigid registration on the rigid region and performs non-rigid registration on a region other than the rigid region. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148365 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD AND BLAST FURNACE OPERATION METHOD - An abnormality detection method of detecting abnormality of a blast furnace from tuyere images shot by cameras installed in vicinities of a plurality of tuyeres of the blast furnace includes: collecting, in a time-series manner, representative brightness vectors defined by representative brightnesses determined based on brightness values of respective pixels for each of the tuyeres image previously shot by the cameras at a same time; extracting a principal component vector by performing principal component analysis on the representative brightness vectors collected in the time-series manner; calculating, as an evaluation value, a length of a normal line drawn in a direction of the principal component vector from the representative brightness vector collected from the tuyere images shot by the cameras at the same time during an operation; and detecting the abnormality of the blast furnace by comparing the evaluation value with a predetermined threshold. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148366 | MEASUREMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEASUREMENT JIG, MEASUREMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is a measurement processing device including: a processing unit configured to control an imaging device to image a substrate, on which a processing film is removed from the peripheral edge portion, and an enclosure member that surrounds the substrate. A captured image obtained by the imaging device is processed to measure a cut width in which the processing film is absent in the peripheral edge portion of the substrate, and a gap width between a peripheral edge end of the substrate and the enclosure member. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148367 | OPERATING A COMPUTING DEVICE BY DETECTING ROUNDED OBJECTS IN AN IMAGE - A method is disclosed for operating a computing device. One or more images of a scene captured by an image capturing device of the computing device is processed. The scene includes an object of interest that is in motion and that has a rounded shape. The one or more images are processed by detecting a rounded object that corresponds to the object of interest. Position information is determined based on a relative position of the rounded object in the one or more images. One or more processes are implemented that utilize the position information determined from the relative position of the rounded object. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148368 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED SELECTION OF REGIONS OF AN IMAGE FOR SECONDARY FINISHING AND GENERATION OF MASK IMAGE OF SAME - Automated systems, methods and tools that automatically extract and select portions of an image to automatically generate a premium finish mask specific to the image which require little or no human intervention are presented. Graphical user interface tools allowing a user to provide an image and to indicate regions of the image for application of premium finish are also presented. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148369 | METHOD OF ANALYZING GROWTH OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL - A method of analyzing growth of a two-dimensional material includes forming a two-dimensional material layer includes defects on a substrate, depositing detection material layers on the defects, and one of (i) capturing an image of the two-dimensional material layer on which the detection material layers are deposited and processing the captured image, or (ii) obtaining map coordinates of the detection material layers and processing the obtained map coordinates. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148370 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TEETH SURFACE FROM X-RAY SCAN OF A NEGATIVE IMPRESSION - A method or computer program for forming a digital model of a patient's teeth. The method includes the steps of: obtaining a plurality of projection images acquired by scanning a negative impression of the patient's teeth using a computed tomographic imaging apparatus; generating, from the plurality of projection images, an air volume model of the air that surrounds the negative impression; defining a transition surface along edges of the air volume model that touch the negative impression; forming the digital model of the patient's teeth according to the defined transition surface; and displaying, storing, or transmitting at least a portion of the digital model of the teeth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148371 | SYNTHETIC DATA-DRIVEN HEMODYNAMIC DETERMINATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING - In hemodynamic determination in medical imaging, the classifier is trained from synthetic data rather than relying on training data from other patients. A computer model (in silico) may be perturbed in many different ways to generate many different examples. The flow is calculated for each resulting example. A bench model (in vitro) may similarly be altered in many different ways. The flow is measured for each resulting example. The machine-learnt classifier uses features from medical scan data for a particular patient to estimate the blood flow based on mapping of features to flow learned from the synthetic data. Perturbations or alterations may account for therapy so that the machine-trained classifier may estimate the results of therapeutically altering a patient-specific input feature. Uncertainty may be handled by training the classifier to predict a distribution of possibilities given uncertain input distribution. Combinations of one or more of uncertainty, use of synthetic training data, and therapy prediction may be provided. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148372 | SYNTHETIC DATA-DRIVEN HEMODYNAMIC DETERMINATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING - In hemodynamic determination in medical imaging, the classifier is trained from synthetic data rather than relying on training data from other patients. A computer model (in silico) may be perturbed in many different ways to generate many different examples. The flow is calculated for each resulting example. A bench model (in vitro) may similarly be altered in many different ways. The flow is measured for each resulting example. The machine-learnt classifier uses features from medical scan data for a particular patient to estimate the blood flow based on mapping of features to flow learned from the synthetic data. Perturbations or alterations may account for therapy so that the machine-trained classifier may estimate the results of therapeutically altering a patient-specific input feature. Uncertainty may be handled by training the classifier to predict a distribution of possibilities given uncertain input distribution. Combinations of one or more of uncertainty, use of synthetic training data, and therapy prediction may be provided. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148373 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM - Image recording devices and systems are disclosed along with methods for image recording. The systems can be in communication with a manual imaging device having an imaging probe configured to scan a volume of tissue and output scan images. The systems can be further configured to electronically receive first and second images and to calculate an image-to-image spacing between the first and second images. The systems can further perform an image quality analysis on the scan images and record the scan images if movement of the imaging probe is detected and the scan images satisfy the image quality analysis. The systems can also include a position tracking system. Position sensors and/or orientation sensors can be coupled to the imaging probe to determine the position and orientation of the imaging probe. The systems can be configured to associate the position and orientation data with the scanned images. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148374 | REPORTING TOOL WITH INTEGRATED LESION STAGER - A device and method integrates a lesion stager in a reporting tool. The method includes receiving a user input. The user input is image data including at least one variable value. The variable value is indicative of a variable parameter of the image data. The method includes associating each of the at least one variable value with a corresponding variable parameter to generate at least one variable-value pair. The method includes determining a computed output value as a function of select ones of the at least one variable-value pair. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148375 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Medical Image - Provided is a medical image processing apparatus including: a data acquisition unit configured to respectively acquire a plurality of medical images representing an object including at least one target at a plurality of different time points; and an image processor configured to generate, based on the acquired plurality of medical images, a diagnostic image showing a degree of change that has occurred in the at least one target over the plurality of different time points. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148376 | COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS (CAD) APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed are Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) apparatus and method to combine information on sequential image frames and to provide a superior classification result for the ROI in the image frame. The CAD apparatus may include a Region of Interest (ROI) detector configured to detect an ROI from image frames, a categorizer configured to create groups of image frames having successive ROI sections from among the image frames based on a result of the detection, a classifier configured to classify an ROI detected from each of the image frames belonging to the groups, and a result combiner configured to combine classification results for the image frames belonging to each group from the groups and to calculate a group result for the each group. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148377 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes setting circuitry, calculation circuitry, and recognition circuitry. The setting circuitry is configured to set a region of interest (ROI) of each of a plurality of sagittal plane images of medical images resulting from scanning an examinee. The calculation circuitry is configured to calculate an evaluation index based on a bipolarity feature of each block in the ROI related to change of pixel values and a similarity feature among the blocks. The recognition circuitry is configured to select the ROI according to the calculation result of the calculation circuitry and recognize a sagittal plane image in which the selected ROI is located as a target sagittal plane image of a median sagittal plane passing through a spine. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148378 | Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Spiral Perfusion Imaging - Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for three-dimensional spiral perfusion imaging. In one embodiment, a method for perfusion imaging of a subject includes acquiring perfusion imaging data associated with the heart of a subject. The acquiring includes applying an imaging pulse sequence with a three-dimensional stack-of-spirals trajectory. The method also includes reconstructing perfusion images from the acquired perfusion imaging data. The reconstructing includes parallel imaging and motion-guided compressed sensing. The method also includes determining, from the reconstructed perfusion images, absolute perfusion values based on time-intensity relationships to quantify myocardial blood flow of the heart of the subject, and generating a quantitative volumetric perfusion flow map based on the determined absolute perfusion values. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148379 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A RESULTANT IMAGE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, MACHINE-READABLE DATA CARRIER AND IMAGING DEVICE - In an embodiment of the invention, a plurality of images of a region under examination are recorded at different times. Anatomical information and flow information are derived from the images. The anatomical information may relate to the course of vessels or the structure of perfused tissue. The temporal component of the flow information can advantageously be combined with the anatomical information in a resultant image. An intensity-dependent fenestration assigns a gray-scale value to pixels of the resultant image in accordance with the anatomical information. A time-dependent fenestration assigns a chromaticity to the pixels of the resultant image in accordance with the flow information and the gray-scale values and the chromaticities are assigned independently of one another. Intensity-dependent fenestration is combined with time-dependent fenestration so that chromaticities and gray-scale values are independent of one another and the anatomical information and the flow information are depicted undistorted in the resultant image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148380 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain corresponding points group information for associating a position in an image captured in a first deformation state with a position in an image captured in a second deformation state; a calculation unit configured to calculate deformation from the image captured in the first deformation state to the image captured in the second deformation state based on the corresponding points group information; a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, deformation progress information of an image based on the deformation calculated by the calculation unit; and a correction unit configured to correct the corresponding points group information. The calculation unit calculates the deformation based on the corresponding points group information corrected by the correction unit. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148381 | OBJECT RECOGNITION DEVICE AND OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD - A category selection portion selects a face orientation based on an error between the positions of feature points (the eyes and the mouth) on the faces of each face orientation and the positions of feature points, corresponding to the feature points on the faces of each category, on the face of a collation face image. A collation portion collates the registered face images of the face orientation selected by the category selection portion and the collation face image with each other, and the face orientations are determined so that face orientation ranges where the error with respect to each individual face orientation is within a predetermined value are in contact with each other or overlap each other. The collation face image and the registered face images can be more accurately collated with each other. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148382 | ESTIMATING RAINFALL PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS BY APPLYING COMPUTER VISION IN CAMERAS - A method and system are provided. The method includes storing a set of references images without rain and spanning a plurality of different light conditions. The method further includes capturing, using a camera, an image of a scene with rain. The method also includes selecting a reference image from the set of reference images based on the light condition of the captured image. The method additionally includes performing an arithmetic subtraction image processing operation between the captured image and the reference image to generate a subtraction image. The method further includes estimating an amount of rain in the subtraction image based on previously calibrated values. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148383 | ESTIMATING RAINFALL PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS BY APPLYING COMPUTER VISION IN CAMERAS - A method and system are provided. The method includes storing a set of references images without rain and spanning a plurality of different light conditions. The method further includes capturing, using a camera, an image of a scene with rain. The method also includes selecting a reference image from the set of reference images based on the light condition of the captured image. The method additionally includes performing an arithmetic subtraction image processing operation between the captured image and the reference image to generate a subtraction image. The method further includes estimating an amount of rain in the subtraction image based on previously calibrated values. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148384 | Real-time Visual Feedback for User Positioning with Respect to a Camera and a Display - Systems, methods, and computer program products provide near real-time feedback to a user of a camera-enabled device to guide the user to capture self-imagery when the user is in a desired position with respect the camera and/or the display of the device. The desired position optimizes aspects of self-imagery that is captured for applications in which the imagery is not primarily intended for the user's consumption. One class of such applications includes applications that rely on illuminating the user's face with light from the device's display screen. The feedback is abstracted to avoid biasing the user with aesthetic considerations. The abstracted imagery may include real-time cartoon-like line drawings of edges detected in imagery of the user's head or face. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148385 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A similarity calculation unit calculates a similarity between pixel values of a target pixel and a reference pixel and a similarity between the pixel value of the target pixel and an average value of pixel values of reference pixels, in an input image. A weighting factor calculation unit calculates weighting factors based on the calculated similarities. A weighted average value calculation unit calculates weighted average values of the pixel value of the reference pixel and the average value of the pixel values of the reference pixels by use of the calculated weighting factors. A subtraction unit calculates a difference value between the pixel values of the target pixel and the reference pixel. An isolation degree calculation unit calculates an isolation degree based on the calculated deference value. A correction unit corrects the target pixel based on the calculated isolation degree. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148386 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING DEPTH OF FOCUSED PLENOPTIC DATA - Method and apparatus for estimating the depth of focused plenoptic data are suggested. The method includes: estimating the inherent shift of in-focus pixels of the focused plenoptic data; calculating a level of homogeneity of the pixels of the focused plenoptic data; determining the pixels of the focused plenoptic data which either have disparities equal to the inherent shift or belong to homogeneous areas, as a function of the level of homogeneity of the pixels of the focused plenoptic data; and estimating the depth of the focused plenoptic data by a disparity estimation without considering the determined pixels. According to the disclosure, the pixels of the focused plenoptic data which either have a disparity equal to the inherent shift or belong to a homogeneous area will not be considered for the estimation of the depth, which can reduce computational costs and at the same time increase accuracy of estimations for in-focus parts of the scene. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148387 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An information processing apparatus that acquires distance information from image data includes an input unit | 2016-05-26 |
20160148388 | METHOD OF DEFINING A REGION OF INTEREST - A method for defining a region of interest for segmenting a feature in an image includes successively applying a region growing algorithm with a variable, increasing threshold, whereby explosive growth of the region of interest is avoided. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148389 | Static Image Segmentation - Methods, systems, and computer program products for static image segmentation are provided herein. A method includes segmenting an image containing a target object into multiple regions; analyzing video content containing the target object to determine a similarity metric across the multiple segmented regions based on information associated with the multiple segmented regions; and applying the similarity metric to the image to identify two or more of the multiple segmented regions as being portions of the target object. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148390 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES TO IDENTIFY, TRACK, AND/OR TARGET AN OBJECT ON A BODY OF WATER - Airborne tracking systems use sensors to track objects of interest. In order to track the objects of interests, the sensors need to be steered such that the object is kept, ideally, in the center of the sensors field of view. Automatic steering of optical sensors requires the generation of a track on an object of interest. When tracking boats on the water, current approaches to image processing may generate multiple detections on the object of interest. Embodiments of the present disclosure solve the track multiplicity problem by grouping tracks associated with the object of interest into a cluster and by estimating a most likely location of the object within the cluster of tracks. Based on the estimated location, embodiments of the present disclosure outputs a single track for the object. The single track is used by an automatic steering system to maintain a sensor aimed at the object of interest. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148391 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HUMAN MOTION RECOGNITION - A system and method for human motion recognition are provided. The system includes a video sequence decomposer, a feature extractor, and a motion recognition module. The video sequence decomposer decomposes a video sequence into a plurality of atomic actions. The feature extractor extracts features from each of the plurality of atomic actions, the features including at least a motion feature and a shape feature. And the motion recognition module performs motion recognition for each of the plurality of atomic actions in response to the features. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148392 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING THE MOTION OF IMAGE CONTENT IN A VIDEO FRAMES SEQUENCE USING SUB-PIXEL RESOLUTION MOTION ESTIMATION - The motion of image content such as a point of interest in a video frames sequence is tracked using sub-pixel resolution motion estimation in forward and/or backward direction. The motion of image content or a point of interest between a reference frame and a following frame is estimated, starting from an integer pixel position in the reference frame. If the motion vector has a position between integer pixel positions, the coordinates of that motion vector are replaced by an adjacent integer pixel position in the following or previous frame, and the error value between these coordinates and the replacement coordinates is stored. Thereafter the following or previous frame is defined as the current frame, the motion of the object is estimated between the replacement coordinates in the current frame and a following frame, and the stored error value is added in opposite direction to the corresponding motion vector, so as to get a corresponding precise motion vector. If the precise motion vector has a position between integer pixel positions in the following or previous frame, its coordinates are replaced by an adjacent integer pixel position in the following or previous frame, and the corresponding error value is stored, and so on. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148393 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING A MEASURE OF SIMILARITY - A method of calculating a similarity measure between first and second image patches, which include respective first and second intensity values associated with respective elements of the first and second image patches, and which have a corresponding size and shape such that each element of the first image patch corresponds to an element on the second image patch. The method: determines a set of sub-regions on the second image patch corresponding to elements of the first image patch and having first intensity values within a range defined for that sub-region; calculates variance, for each sub-region of the set over all of the elements of that sub-region, of a function of the second intensity value associated with that element and the first intensity value associated with the corresponding element of the first image patch; and calculates similarity measure as the sum over all sub-regions of the calculated variances. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148394 | Motion Blur Using Cached Texture Space Blur - The techniques discussed herein facilitate realistic real-time motion blur of a primitive. The techniques discussed herein can calculate a first movement of a primitive, blur texture space data based on the first movement, cache the blurred texture space data, and re-use the blurred texture space data when later movement of the primitive calculated at a later time is found to be similar to the first movement. The techniques discussed herein can re-blur the texture space data to generate second blurred texture space data, store second blurred texture space data, and use the second blurred texture space data to generate blurred primitives if the later movement differs by a threshold amount from the first movement. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148395 | Paintbrush and Liquid Simulation - Paintbrush and liquid simulation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, input is received to perform brush strokes with a virtual paintbrush on a virtual canvas. For virtual paint on the virtual canvas, lifelike paint qualities are simulated. However, the lifelike paint qualities are simulated solely for the virtual paint that is within a region of the canvas. The lifelike paint qualities are not simulated for virtual paint located outside the region. As part of simulating the interaction between the virtual paint, the virtual paintbrush, and the virtual canvas, various parts of the simulation may be performed by different processing units. For example, bristles of the virtual paintbrush may be simulated utilizing a first processing device such as a central processing unit (CPU). A second processing unit, such as a graphics processing unit (GPU), may be employed to simulate the lifelike effects of the virtual paint. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148396 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Display of Mobile Communication Device - A method and computing device are provided for improving readability of a graphical user interface as provided on the display of a computing device. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148397 | MITIGATION OF DISOCCLUSION ARTIFACTS - Image based imposters suffer from common errors called disocclusion artifacts where portions of the scene that should be occluded by real geometry are visible when using image based imposters. These artifacts are the result of parallax error created by camera motion where regions of a mesh that were not visible at the time of imposter generation have become visible. A computationally inexpensive on-line technique to resolve these disocclusions stretches existing imposter texture information over new geometry bridging the gap between imposters. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148398 | X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An X ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X ray tube generating X rays, a first detector detecting the X rays, at least one second detector arranged in front of a first detection surface of the first detector and including a second detection surface narrower than the first detection surface and indicator points provided on a rear surface of the second detection surface, a projection data generation unit generating first projection data based on an output from the first detector, and a positional shift detection unit detecting a positional shift of the second detector relative to the first detector in accordance with an imaging direction by using the first projection data and a predetermined positional relationship between the points and detection elements in the second detector. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148399 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING MEDICAL IMAGE - The preset invention relates to an apparatus and a method for reconstructing a medical image for obtaining a 2D medical image (for example, a Cephalo image) from a 3D medical image (for example, a CT image), and a computer-readable recording medium keeping a program for implementing the method. In detail, the present invention provides an apparatus for reconstructing a medical image that includes: a 3D medical image obtaining unit obtaining 3D medical image information for making a 3D medical image of an object; a medical image overlapping unit overlapping the 3D medical image information in accordance with a radial beam path in a projection direction of a 2D medical image; and a 2D medical image obtaining unit obtaining and displaying the 2D medical image based on the overlapping result, and a method of reconstructing a medical image. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148400 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ARBITRARY-RESOLUTION TRANSFORMS OF FREQUENCY-SPACE AND INVERSE FREQUENCY-SPACE DATA - A method and system for arbitrary-resolution and parallelizable data processing, reconstruction, and deconstruction, uses arbitrary frequency-space (FS) or inverse frequency-space (IFS, such as image, audio, or video space) sample points in N dimensions. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a subset of optionally pre-processed and/or pre-conditioned N-dimensional FS data (or IFS data) is acquired ( | 2016-05-26 |
20160148401 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND TREATMENT SYSTEM - According to some embodiments, an image processor includes an image generator, a region acquirer, and a label applicator. The region acquirer acquires at least one two-dimensional region designated on at least one first perspective image generated from three-dimensional volume data of a target. The label applicator applies a label on at least one first three-dimensional region. The at least one first three-dimensional region is a part of a second three-dimensional region. The second three-dimensional region is defined by the at least one two-dimensional region, a point and a surface which is defined by a set of straight lines between the point and the boundary of the two-dimensional region. The first three-dimensional region is defined to be a first overlapping region where the three-dimensional volume data and the second three-dimensional region overlap. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148402 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRANEOUS OBJECT NOTIFICATION INTERFACE IN MOBILE DEVICE OPERATION - A method and system for notifying an observer of the presence of one or more extraneous objects on a touchscreen display of a mobile computing device. The method is executed in a processor of the mobile computing device, the device including a memory storing instructions, a display screen including a set of touch sensors, the processor being capable of inferring a presence of an extraneous object on the display screen based on an interaction with the set of touch sensors, the method comprising determining a spatial area around an interaction in response to an inference that an extraneous object is present on the display screen; rendering a perimeter of the spatial area, the perimeter being superposed over an underlying text content portion shown on the display screen; and displaying a notification indicator configured to include the boundary and the underlying text content portion. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148403 | REDRAWING RECENT CURVE SECTIONS FOR REAL-TIME SMOOTHING - A recently rendered section of a curve is redrawn to smooth the curve on-the-fly while a user moves a stylus or other input device. On receiving data points for the curve, an old rendered section for prior data points is deleted by curve redrawing code, and a new spline that's visually smooth through the new data points and at least one prior data point is added. “Visually smooth” is defined using tangents. The rendered spline is a cardinal or other cubic Hermite spline. The curve is redrawn for display by overwriting frame buffer data. A single instruction multiple data processing architecture simultaneously calculates multiple data points for the new section of the curve rendering. A digital ink rendering uses a pen-tip shape or an arc shape, based on data point locations. The pen-tip shape simulates a square-tip pen, highlighter, pencil, charcoal, paintbrush, or liquid ink pen. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148404 | Methods of Displaying Expense Allocated to Employees for a Plurality of Projects - A method of generating and displaying an animation of an organization's employees allocated to one or more of a plurality of projects is disclosed. The method includes generating a series of organization maps of the organization showing the organization over a period of time. The series includes a historic organization map and a projected organization map. The organization maps include nodes representing individual employees. For each node in each organization map, the color of the node is set to a first color if the node's employee is allocated to a first project, a second color if the node's employee is allocated to a second project, and to a third color if the node's employee is allocated to both the first project and the second project. The series of organization maps is displayed on a color monitor as an animation. Other methods are disclosed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148405 | DISPLAY OF GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF LEGENDS IN VIRTUALIZED DATA FORMATS - A computer-implemented method for displaying graphical representation of legends in a data visualization engine is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving input to configure a plurality of swatches of the legends of graphical charts, the input comprises at least one of a threshold number of swatches, an identification of graphical area for displaying the swatches, and a size or a data of the swatches for display in the graphical charts of the data visualization engine. The computer-implemented method further includes modifying the legend swatches, based on the received input. The computer-implemented method further includes generating a plurality of graphical charts of the data visualization engine for displaying the swatches, based on the modification, wherein the display is generated randomly, based on at least one user preference for displaying the swatches. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148406 | DETECTING REAL ESTATE VACANCIES USING SATELLITE IMAGERY - A computer-implemented method for detecting real estate vacancies using satellite imagery is described. The method is implemented using a computing device in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving, by the computing device, a first location identifier that identifies a first real property location. The method additionally includes retrieving, by the computing device, a first satellite image of the first real property location. Additionally, the method includes retrieving, by the computing device, a second satellite image of the first real property location. The method additionally includes generating, by the computing device, a compound image of the first real property location by overlaying the second satellite image over the first satellite image. Additionally, the method includes providing the compound image to a user interface, wherein the compound image provides an indication of one or more vacant portions of the first real property location. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148407 | IMPLEMENTATION ORDER OF IMAGE EDITS - Systems and methods for editing an image file include a server and at least one client device of the server including a display. An imaging module accesses from the server an image file including image content and a header, wherein the header provides information regarding the image file. An editing module receives user edits to the image content and insert information regarding the user edits into the header. The imaging module applies the user edits in an order that is determined based on a weight assigned to each user edit. The imaging module may also access, from the server, an image file including image content and a header thereof, wherein the header provides information regarding the image file and an edit decision list reflecting historical user edits to the image content. The editing module then identifies the edit decision list in the header for application by the imaging module. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148408 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An extraction unit determines whether, in a display area of a display unit in which content data obtained from an acquisition unit are displayed, there is a character area in which an area occupied by a character has a proportion greater than a predetermined value. Based on color information of the character in an area which is determined to be the character area by the extraction unit, a setting unit sets a target color temperature when the content data is displayed. A converter changes an original color temperature of the content data to the target color temperature, based on the target color temperature set by the setting unit. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148409 | ACCESSIBILITY TECHNIQUES FOR PRESENTATION OF SYMBOLIC EXPRESSIONS - Methods for presenting symbolic expressions such as mathematical, scientific, or chemical expressions, formulas, or equations are performed by a computing device. One method includes: displaying a first portion of a symbolic expression within a first area of a display screen; while in a first state in which the first area is selected for aural presentation, aurally presenting first information related to the first portion of the symbolic expression; while in the first state, detecting particular user input; in response to detecting the particular user input, performing the steps of: transitioning from the first state to a second state in which a second area, of the display, is selected for aural presentation; determining second information associated with a second portion, of the symbolic expression, that is displayed within the second area; in response to determining the second information, aurally presenting the second information. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148410 | TEXT RESIZING WITHIN AN EMBEDDED IMAGE - A computer receives user preferences. The computer receives a document, wherein the document includes an image. The computer determines that the image contains embedded text. The computer determines that the embedded text does not satisfy the received user preferences. The computer modifies the embedded text to satisfy user preferences. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148411 | METHOD OF MAKING A PERSONALIZED ANIMATABLE MESH - A method for automatically identifying the required inputs for software for generating a personalized animatable face mesh generally includes computer processing a two-dimensional image of the subject's face to automatically identify at least one facial landmark on the 2-D image. The at least one identified facial landmark is projected onto at least one feature point on a photogrammetric three-dimensional model of the face. The photogrammetric three-dimensional model of the face is processed by a computer to automatically identify frontal and profile feature points on the photogrammetric three-dimensional model so that all of the required inputs are identified automatically without operator intervention. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148412 | TIME-DEPENDENT CLIENT INACTIVITY INDICIA IN A MULTI-USER ANIMATION ENVIRONMENT - A method for managing a multi-user animation platform is disclosed. A three-dimensional space within a computer memory is modeled. An avatar of a client is located within the three-dimensional space, the avatar being graphically represented by a three-dimensional figure within the three-dimensional space. The avatar is responsive to client input commands, and the three-dimensional figure includes a graphical representation of client activity. The client input commands are monitored to determine client activity. The graphical representation of client activity is then altered according to an inactivity scheme when client input commands are not detected. Following a predetermined period of client inactivity, the inactivity scheme varies non-repetitively with time. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148413 | Method for Inter-Scene Transitions - A method and system for creating a transition between a first scene and a second scene on a computer system display, simulating motion. The method includes determining a transformation that maps the first scene into the second scene. Motion between the scenes is simulated by displaying transitional images that include a transitional scene based on a transitional object in the first scene and in the second scene. The rendering of the transitional object evolves according to specified transitional parameters as the transitional images are displayed. A viewer receives a sense of the connectedness of the scenes from the transitional images. Virtual tours of broad areas, such as cityscapes, can be created using inter-scene transitions among a complex network of pairs of scenes. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING AND CONTROLLING MULTI-FEED DATA - Left and right visual feeds are configured to form contiguous non-stereo left, stereo central, and non-stereo right display regions. Viewed together, an appearance of full-width stereo three-dimensionality may be achieved. The left and right display regions have the brightness of the left or right feeds respectively, while the central display region has the combined brightness of the left and right feeds. The parts of the left and right feeds that cooperate to form the stereo central display region may be scaled in brightness, so that the central display area is of uniform brightness with the left and right display areas, or smoothly varying, continuous, varying in a controlled manner, etc., rather than appearing as a sharply-defined area twice as bright as the left and right display areas. Scaling profiles may be uniform step-downs, linearly decreasing, quadratically decreasing, otherwise curved, some combination thereof, etc. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148415 | DEPTH OF FIELD SYNTHESIS USING RAY TRACING APPROXIMATION - Techniques are disclosed for synthesizing depth of field effects in a digital image using ray tracing approximation. For each target pixel in the image, an aperture-shaped kernel is centered about a reference pixel. A cone of rays is traced through the aperture toward the image scene. The trajectory of the rays and the intersections between the rays and objects in the scene are approximated for a given scene depth, focal depth and aperture shape. The color of the pixel lying at the intersection, which may be offset from the target pixel, is sampled. This sampling process is repeated for several apertures bounding the target pixel, where each aperture is centered about a different reference pixel. The resulting color of the target pixel is acquired by integrating the colors of the pixels at each of the resulting intersections. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148416 | Content-Adaptive Multi-Focal Display - A multi-focal display represents a 3-dimensional scene by a series of 2-dimensional images located at different focal planes. The locations of the focal planes are selected based on an analysis of the three-dimensional scene to be rendered by the multi-focal display. | 2016-05-26 |