23rd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090141906 | Communication Headset Processing Multiple Audio Inputs - A communication headset includes first and second domes. The first and second domes include the speaker assembly having a first speaker coil and a second speaker coil. One speaker coil is for receiving a first audio signal, and the second speaker coil is for receiving a second audio signal and an active noise cancellation signal. Each of the speaker coils co-acts with a magnetic field to cause a diaphragm to move responsive to the first and second audio signals and the active noise cancellation signal individually or simultaneously. When the first audio signal is detected, a controller disconnects the second audio signal from the first dome of the headset. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141907 | Method and apparatus for canceling noise from sound input through microphone - Provided is a method and apparatus for canceling noise from a sound signal input through a microphone. The method includes filtering a high-frequency signal having a frequency that is higher than a reference frequency and a low-frequency signal having a frequency that is lower than the reference frequency from input signals obtained through a microphone array, obtaining a high-frequency target signal by canceling a noise signal from the filtered high-frequency signal using a beamforming method, obtaining a low-frequency target signal by canceling a noise signal having a phase difference that is different from a phase difference of a target signal from the filtered low-frequency signal, and obtaining a sound source signal from which noise is cancelled, by synthesizing the obtained high-frequency target signal with the obtained low-frequency target signal. Thus, it is possible to accurately obtain a target sound source signal by minimizing signal distortion occurring in a low-frequency band in a digital sound obtaining apparatus having a small-size microphone array and accurately canceling or attenuating unnecessary noise. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141908 | Distance based sound source signal filtering method and apparatus - Provided is a sound source signal filtering method and apparatus. The sound source signal filtering method includes: generating two or more microphone output signals by combining sound source signals input through a plurality of microphones; calculating distances between the microphones and a sound source from which the sound source signals are emitted by using distance relationships according to frequencies of the sound source signals extracted from the generated microphone output signals; and filtering the sound source signals to obtain one or more sound source signals corresponding to a predetermined distance by using the calculated distances. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain only sound source signals emitted from a sound source at a particular distance from the microphone array among a plurality of sound source signals input through the microphone array. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141909 | Microphone Circuit - Microphones are used in acoustically insulated masks, headsets, phones and personal digital assistants. Frequently, the microphone provides an input to speech recognition software. The working environment is often humid and the speaker's mouth is in close proximity to the microphone. Frequently the signal suffers from clipping and distortion caused by the large signals and nonlinear response of the microphone circuitry. The claimed invention uses a resistor connected in parallel with the signal source to reduce its sensitivity and to produce a signal suitable for use with speech recognition software. The resistor can be varied for different speakers. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141910 | MULTI-MODE LED INDICATORS FOR RECORDING DEVICES - A method and apparatus for indicating the status of a track in a multi-track recorder is described. An indicator light capable of outputting different colored lights is used to indicate the status of a track in the multi-track recorder. The color and the blinking sequence of the indicator light indicates the status of the track. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141911 | ACOUSTIC PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC PROCESSING METHOD - An acoustic processing device, includes an inputting section which receives a first audio signal and a second audio signal, a first input signal amplifying section which amplifies the first audio signal at an amplification factor, a second input signal amplifying section which amplifies the second audio signal at an amplification factor, a first initial delayed amplifying section, a first adding section which adds the first audio signal amplified by the first amplifying portion and the first audio signal amplified by the first input signal amplifying section, a second adding section which adds the first audio signal amplified by the second amplifying portion and the second audio signal amplified by the second input signal amplifying section, a first supplying section which supplies an audio signal output from the first adding section to a first sound emitting section, and a second supplying section which supplies an audio signal output from the second adding section to a second sound emitting section different from the first sound emitting section. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141912 | Object sound extraction apparatus and object sound extraction method - In an object sound extraction apparatus, one or more reference sound separation signals corresponding to one or more reference sounds other than an object sound are separated and generated on the basis of a main acoustic signal and one or more sub acoustic signals. A signal level of the reference sound separation signal is detected. When the detected signal level is within a predetermined range, a frequency spectrum of a reference sound corresponding signal is compressed and corrected at a large compression ratio as the detected signal level becomes small, and the frequency spectrum of the reference sound corresponding signal obtained by the compression and correction is subtracted from a frequency spectrum of an object sound corresponding signal corresponding to the main acoustic signal. The acoustic signal corresponding to the object sound is extracted from the object sound corresponding signal and the acoustic signal is outputted. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141913 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM - A microelectromechanical system comprises a carrier substrate. A semiconductor chip is fitted in the carrier substrate or on the carrier substrate. In addition, a microelectromechanical component is fitted to the carrier substrate. The microelectromechanical component is arranged at least partly above the semiconductor chip. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141914 | RIBBON MICROPHONE AND RIBBON MICROPHONE UNIT - A ribbon microphone unit includes: an electrode lead portion for conducting an electric signal which a ribbon diaphragm generates cooperating with a magnet; a tightening member for securing the ribbon diaphragm; and a screw for crimping the tightening member, wherein the tightening member is crimped via the ribbon diaphragm and the electrode lead portion by the screw, and wherein the ribbon diaphragm includes a portion sandwiched by the tightening member, and the portion is formed in an irregular shape in the thickness direction. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141915 | Method and apparatus for focusing sound using array speaker - Provided is a method and apparatus for focusing sound using an array speaker system. The method includes generating a plurality of delayed signals to be focused to a predetermined position from an input signal, filtering a low-frequency signal having a frequency that is lower than a reference frequency from the delayed signals, generating low-frequency focusing signals divided into 2 groups by adjusting a gain of the filtered low-frequency signal, and applying the low-frequency focusing signals divided into the 2 groups to speaker units of the array speaker system at both sides with respect to a center portion of the array speaker system and outputting the low-frequency focusing signals through the speaker units. In this way, the performance of sound focusing for the low-frequency signal can be improved and thus a listener located a predetermined distance from and in a predetermined direction relative to the array speaker system can clearly listen to the low-frequency focusing signals. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141916 | Loudspeaker-Transducer Array - Loudspeakers optimized for use in array environments are described herein. In one embodiment, a system includes a transducer-array module having a plurality of piston-based transducers. Each transducer is configured to drive a particular one of a plurality of discrete non-concentric acoustic-radiating diaphragms. A frame is positioned around an outermost boundary of a plurality of the discrete non-concentric acoustic-radiating diaphragms, which are adjacent to the outermost boundary. The transducer-array module may be used in array configurations, including, but not necessarily limited to: line, planar, and phased arrays. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141917 | Speaker cone protection arrangement - An arrangement used in a speaker designed to restrict movement of at least a portion of the speaker cone, to inhibit the speaker cone from deforming, completely flipping inside out and/or to inhibit sticking of the speaker cone to a frame of the speaker. In one arrangement, there is provided a speaker insert that is designed to be inserted at least partially between the frame and the cone of a speaker. The speaker insert includes a body having a front face and a rear face, a frame opening positioned at least closely adjacent to a center region of the body, and a plurality of gas openings spaced from the primary opening and spaced from a periphery edge of the body. In another and/or additional arrangement, the speaker includes a modified speaker frame. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141918 | Wireless listening system - A wireless listening system includes a base operable to receive an electrical signal corresponding to an audio signal, including the ring of an incoming telephone call, up-convert the audio signal to an infrared signal, and transmit the infrared audio signal wirelessly therefrom, and a wireless headset operable to selectably receive either the infrared audio signal transmitted by the base, or an infrared signal corresponding to an audio signal transmitted by a public address system, down-convert the received signal back into the audio signal, and audibly reproduce the audio signal to a wearer of the headset. The system enables a hearing impaired listeners to enjoy their favorite audio programs without disturbing nearby persons with normal hearing and without missing an incoming telephone call, and is also compatible with public IR PA systems currently used to assist the hearing impaired community. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141919 | COMBINED SET COMPRISING A VIBRATOR ACTUATOR AND AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE - A combined set including a vibration actuator and an implantable device provided to be implanted in an inner ear part is disclosed. The implantable device has a surface in contact with an inner ear fluid when inserted in said inner ear part. The implantable device includes a frame having an inner wall and a slidably movable member having an outer wall which is connected to the vibration actuator. The slidably movable member is provided for transferring energy supplied by the vibration actuator from and towards the inner ear fluid by means of a translational movement. The slidably movable member is at least partially mounted inside the frame in such a manner that a gap extending between the inner wall of the frame and the outer wall of the member is less than or equal to 0.1 mm. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141920 | Ear Mold - [Technical Problem] In regard to an ear mold for a hearing aid, there are provided the ear mold which a metal bush is settled in a tube for joint of the hearing aid, said metal bush has been used on account of settlement of said tube for joint of the hearing aid, and which a tube is adhered by an adhesive, the adhesive has been used on account of settlement of said tube. However, said ear mold has disadvantages that said tube is easily moved for the reason of instability, said tube drops out from the ear mold, and the ear mold occurred the problem of a phenomenon of a howling by sound leak-out. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141921 | NON-OCCLUDING EAR MODULE FOR A PERSONAL SOUND SYSTEM - An ear module with an interior lobe ( | 2009-06-04 |
20090141922 | IMPLANTABLE MICROPHONE WITH SHAPED CHAMBER - An implantable microphone is disclosed having an external diaphragm and housing that forming chamber capable of being pressurized by deformational movement of the diaphragm induced by pressure waves (e.g., acoustic signals) propagating through overlying tissue. The chamber is shaped such that the volume of the chamber upon deflection of the diaphragm is reduced compared to a static volume of the chamber (i.e., volume of the chamber with no diaphragm deflection). As a result, the change in pressure within the chamber for a given diaphragm displacement is greater than it would be within a chamber having a cylindrical volume, leading to greater microphone sensitivity. In one arrangement, the chamber is shaped such that it is deeper at its center than at its edges, for example, to form a conical or paraboloidal volume. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141923 | EARPIECE WITH ATTACHED SPEAKER - An earpiece assembly for use with two-way radios and the like is disclosed. The earpiece assembly can include an earpiece and a speaker attached to the earpiece. Optionally, an insert such as a flanged insert can extend from the earpiece. The insert can be configured to be disposed within the ear canal. The earpiece and flange can be formed of a flexible and resilient material such as silicon rubber. Optionally, a microphone can also be attached to the earpiece. A housing can contain the microphone and/or speaker. By attaching the microphone and/or speaker to the earpiece, the use of acoustic tubing can be avoided. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141924 | Earpiece Device with Microphone - An earpiece device includes a housing having a sound output portion, a speaker and a microphone. The speaker disposed in the housing includes a diaphragm and a sound transmitting hole. The diaphragm is located between the sound output portion and the sound transmitting hole. The microphone is disposed in the housing and covers the sound transmitting hole. A sound wave generated within an ear canal would be received by the speaker and delivered through the sound transmitting hole to the microphone for pickup. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141925 | Electro-dynamic transducer with a slim form factor - In one embodiment of the present invention, an electro-dynamic transducer is disclosed including a diaphragm, a first suspension suspending the diaphragm, a coil former attached to the diaphragm, the coil former having a first, inner portion, and a second, outer portion, arranged coaxially in relation to each other, a coil arranged around the outer coil former portion, a magnetic system, operable to magnetically cooperate with the coil, and a second suspension mounted between the inner coil former portion and the magnetic system. The new and improved way of placing the second suspension allows for a slim form factor, while stabilizing the system more than prior art designs. The transducer according to one embodiment of the present invention is less sensitive to rocking modes, and the gap in the magnet system can thus be made smaller. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141926 | Optimized Moving-Coil Loudspeaker - An optimized moving-coil loudspeaker is described herein. The loudspeaker includes an acoustic-radiating diaphragm that is non-cylindrical shape. The diaphragm is a substantially-planar substrate having uniform density. A moving-coil assembly is coupled to the acoustic-radiating diaphragm. The assembly is configured to move back and forth in a linear fashion. As the assembly is connected to the diaphragm it causes acoustic waves to be emitted from a front surface the acoustic-radiating diaphragm. The acoustic-radiating diaphragm is not supported by a conventional basket, among other differences. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141927 | WATERMARK GENERATING CIRCUIT AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF - A watermark generating circuit includes: a first computing circuit, for generating a second reference signal according to a computing parameter, an input data and a first reference signal; a second computing circuit, coupled to the first computing circuit, for generating at least one selecting signal to determine an embedding location for a watermark according to the second reference signal; and a register, coupled to the first computing circuit, for registering the second reference signal to transmit the registered second reference signal to the first computing circuit for updating the first reference signal, and for generating the watermark according to the second reference signal. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141928 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WITNESS CARD ANALYSIS - A system for and method of assessing fluid spray using image processing techniques of a calibration and one or more as-sprayed witness cards. Calibration and as-sprayed witness cards are exposed to a backlight sufficient to make a plurality of stains thereon electronically visible. At the same time an image of the stains is captured by, e.g., a digital camera. Resulting image data is processed to assess characteristics of the stains of the fluid on the as-sprayed witness card(s) and thereby assess characteristics of the spray, e.g., volume of fluid delivered. In one embodiment, the witness card is a chemically coated semiopaque plate. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141929 | SELECTING BIT POSITIONS FOR STORING A DIGITAL WATERMARK - A method comprises selecting bit positions for storing a digital watermark in digital audio data in time domain by choosing a spread function characterising the plurality of the selected bit positions, wherein the spread function comprises at least one Gaussian curve. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141930 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COUNT CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus which copies on a recording sheet an original document carrying a watermark, where a watermark comprising a specific character or a pattern is embedded inconspicuously into an image of the original document, the image forming apparatus including: a discrimination section which discriminates a color mode of the original document and a color of the watermark; and a counting section which counts a number of copied sheets as monochrome printing in cases where the discrimination section has discriminated the color mode of the original document as monochrome and has discriminated the color of the watermark as colored. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141931 | Digital Watermarking CMOS Sensor - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, an imaging system including an active pixel sensor imaging array configured to capture an image, said imaging array being in electronic communication with a watermark embedder. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141932 | METHOD FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT USING QUALITY VECTORS - A method for assessing the image quality of image data acquires image data, segments the image data into at least one spatial region, obtains a plurality of image quality measures for the at least one spatial region, and forms at least one quality vector that has two or more quality measures for the at least one spatial region. The at least one quality vector is classified into one of a plurality of predefined quality classes. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141933 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method of matching a pose of a synthesised representation of a human or animal body to a captured image of that human or animal body is provided, which can be used to generate a graphical model of the body when disposed on a plane, such as a synthesised model of a football player on a field of play. The method includes receiving the captured image data, determining from the captured image data a plurality of limb position estimates, each position estimate corresponding to an amount by which limbs of the body are separated with respect to each other and deriving from the plurality of limb positions an estimated gait phase of the body. The estimated gait phase is then applied to a basis gait model in order to provide an estimated pose of the body, the basis gait model comprising data which defines a displacement of the limbs or parts thereof with respect to a gait cycle period. The estimated pose is then matched to that of the synthesised representation of the body. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141934 | Method of Processing Postal Items Using a Separator Representing a Region of Interest (ROI) - The method of processing postal items comprises the following steps: causing the postal items to advance in series past a camera ( | 2009-06-04 |
20090141935 | MOTION COMPENSATED CT RECONSTRUCTION OF HIGH CONTRAST OBJECTS - Cardiac CT imaging using gated reconstruction is currently limited in its temporal and spatial resolution. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an examination apparatus is provided in which an identification of a high contrast object is performed. This high contrast object is then followed through the phases, resulting in a motion vector field of the high contrast object, on the basis of which a motion compensated reconstruction is then performed. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141936 | Object-Tracking Computer Program Product, Object-Tracking Device, and Camera - A computer performs following steps according to a program for tracking an object. Template matching of each frame of an input image to a plurality of template images is performed, a template image having a highest similarity with an image within a predetermined region of the input image is selected as a selected template among the plurality of template images and the predetermined region of the input image is extracted as a matched region. With reference to an image within the matched region thus extracted, by tracking motion between frames, motion of an object is tracked between the images of the plurality of frames. It is determined as to whether or not a result of template matching satisfies an update condition for updating the plurality of template images. In a case that the update condition is determined to be satisfied, at least one of the plurality of template images. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141937 | Subject Extracting Method, Subject Tracking Method, Image Synthesizing Method, Computer Program for Extracting Subject, Computer Program for Tracking Subject, Computer Program for Synthesizing Images, Subject Extracting Device, Subject Tracking Device, and Image Synthesizing Device - A binary mask image for extracting subject is generated by binarizing an image after image-processing (processed image) with a predefined threshold value. Based on an image before image-processing (pre-processing image) and the binary mask image for extracting image, a subject image in which only a subject included in the pre-processing image is extracted is generated by eliminating a background region from the pre-processing image. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141938 | ROBOT VISION SYSTEM AND DETECTION METHOD - A robot vision system for outputting a disparity map includes a stereo camera for receiving left and right images and outputting a disparity map between the two images; an encoder for encoding either the left image or the right image into a motion compensation-based video bit-stream; and a decoder for extracting an encoding type of an image block, a motion vector, and a DCT coefficient from the video bit-stream. Further, the system includes a person detector for detecting and labeling person blocks in the image using the disparity map between the left image and the right image, the block encoding type, and the motion vector, and detecting a distance from the labeled person to the camera; and an obstacle detector for detecting a closer obstacle than the person using the block encoding type, the motion vector, and the DCT coefficient extracted from the video bit-stream, and the disparity map. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141939 | Systems and Methods for Analysis of Video Content, Event Notification, and Video Content Provision - A method for remote event notification over a data network is disclosed. The method includes receiving video data from any source, analyzing the video data with reference to a profile to select a segment of interest associated with an event of significance, encoding the segment of interest, and sending to a user a representation of the segment of interest for display at a user display device. A further method for sharing video data based on content according to a user-defined profile over a data network is disclosed. The method includes receiving the video data, analyzing the video data for relevant content according to the profile, consulting a profile to determine a treatment of the relevant content, and sending data representative of the relevant content according to the treatment. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141940 | Integrated Systems and Methods For Video-Based Object Modeling, Recognition, and Tracking - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for modeling, recognizing, and tracking object images in video files. In one embodiment, a video file, which includes a plurality of frames, is received. An image of an object is extracted from a particular frame in the video file, and a subsequent image is also extracted from a subsequent frame. A similarity value is then calculated between the extracted images from the particular frame and subsequent frame. If the calculated similarity value exceeds a predetermined similarity threshold, the extracted object images are assigned to an object group. The object group is used to generate an object model associated with images in the group, wherein the model is comprised of image features extracted from optimal object images in the object group. Optimal images from the group are also used for comparison to other object models for purposes of identifying images. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141941 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ORIENTATION - A method of estimating an orientation of one or more of a plurality of objects disposed on a plane, from one or more video images of a scene, which includes the objects on the plane produced from a view of the scene by a video camera. The method comprises receiving for each of the one or more objects, object tracking data, which provides a position of the object on the plane in the video images with respect to time, determining from the object tracking data a plurality of basis vectors associated with at least one of the objects, each basis vector corresponding to a factor, which can influence the orientation of the object and each basis vector being related to the movement or location of the one or more objects, and combining the basis vectors in accordance with a blending function to calculate an estimate of the orientation of the object on the plane, the blending function including blending coefficients which determine a relative magnitude of each basis vector used in the blending function. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141942 | Non-contact passive ranging system - A non-contact passive ranging system wherein a first imager on a platform is focused on a first object and a second imager on the platform is also focused on the first object. The optical path from the first object to the first imager is configured to be shorter than the optical path from the object to the second imager. Processing circuitry is responsive to an output of the first imager and an output of the second imager as relative motion is provided between the platform and the first object and is configured to calculate the distance from the platform to the object. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141943 | ANALYZING BOREHOLE BY AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING PREDICTED BOREHOLE FAILURE IMAGE - A method, system and computer program product for analyzing a borehole drilled in a reservoir are disclosed. A method may include: providing a real borehole image; providing a predicted borehole failure image generated based on an earth formation model; edge detecting the real borehole image to generate an edge detected real borehole image; extracting sub-images from the edge detected real borehole image, each sub-image including an image feature of the edge detected real borehole image oriented in a spatial direction different than that of at least one other sub-image; matching each sub-image to the predicted borehole failure image to determine a matching sub-image; and comparing the predicted borehole failure image with the matching sub-image to determine an accuracy of the predicted borehole failure image. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141944 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An authentication apparatus includes: a first determination section that determines whether a condition for determining that there is a possibility of an erroneous determination is satisfied based on information indicating the similarity between the shape of a biological part included in a biological image to be authenticated and the shape of a biological part included in a registration biological image; a change section that changes an aspect ratio of the biological image to be authenticated and registration biological image in the case where the above condition is satisfied; and a second determination section that determines whether a person to be authenticated is a registrant based on the similarity between the shape of a biological part included in a biological image to be authenticated whose aspect ratio has been changed and the shape of a biological part included in a registration biological image whose aspect ratio has been changed. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141945 | Integrated Portable Identification and Verification Device - An portable integrated identification and verification system is disclosed. The station includes multiple devices integrated for identifying or verifying the identity of a person. The multiple devices, which may include a camera, a document scanner, and a fingerprint scanner, are mounted in a housing along with a computing device. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141946 | Image Processing Method, Image Processor, Photographic Apparatus, Image Output Unit and Iris Verify Unit - An iris region of an eye is detected from an original image (S | 2009-06-04 |
20090141947 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PERSON IDENTIFICATION BY FACIAL IMAGE - A method to recognize a facial image is described. An input facial image is normalized by scaling and rotation angle using methods of eye pupil centers detection. The input facial image is further normalized by lighting intensity. Template images are obtained either by the processing of certain images taken from different face positions, or by a preliminary reconstruction of a 3D face model based on stereo-pair images. Using the 3D model template, facial images are generated at different rotation angles. Distances between the input facial image and the template image are calculated from the Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) features, defined by overlapped blocks of these images. The facial image is recognized based on these distances. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141948 | PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE - An objective of the present invention is to provide a portable information terminal device capable of exclusively storing information which is useful to identify an illegal user. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141949 | Method and apparatus for recognizing a plural number of faces, and method and apparatus for registering face, and an image capturing method and system - Provided are a method and apparatus for recognizing a plurality of faces. In the method, a plurality of faces are detected from received video frames, the detected faces are sequentially recognized in predetermined frames that fall within a predetermined recognition period from among the detected frames, and then, the recognized faces are sequentially displayed. Accordingly, the amount of calculation is less than when simultaneously performing face detection and recognition on each frame. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141950 | Method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for recognizing face of person included in digital data by using feature data - A face recognition method includes the step of: receiving feature data acquired by detecting each part of a face of a person included in digital data from a terminal at a server; comparing the feature data received from the terminal with those of persons determined as accessible among all feature data recorded in a feature data database based on face recognition technology, and deciding top n persons with top n degree of similarities among all persons recorded in the feature data database at the server, wherein the feature data recorded in the feature data database include feature data of each part of faces of the persons; and providing the information on the top n persons to the terminal. It may reduce work capacity and processing time by extracting and transmitting to the server feature data of each part of the face such as eyes, nose, mouth, ears and jaws. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141951 | PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH TOUCH PANEL - When a user operates a processing apparatus through a touch panel, a fingerprint processing unit reads fingerprint information of the user's finger. Each time when the fingerprint processing unit reads fingerprint information, a CPU judges whether the read fingerprint information is identical to a fingerprint information of authenticated user. If being identical, the processing apparatus executes a process in accordance with an operation accepted through the touch panel. These two fingerprint information are identical each other if the operating user through the operation accepting panel is the authenticated user. It means that the processing apparatus judges whether the operating user is the authenticated user, each time when the user operates. If the user is the authenticated user, the process in accordance with the operation by this user is then executed. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141952 | Electronic seal apparatus, electronic seal system, and method for controlling the electronic seal apparatus - An electronic seal apparatus causes an image displaying/reading apparatus to display an electronic document. The electronic seal apparatus includes (i) a storage section for storing first identification information to be used for identifying a first digit of a user of the image displaying/reading apparatus and a first seal image of the user in association with each other, (ii) a digit identifying section for determining based on the first identification information whether or not a digit indicated on a subject image that is read by the image displaying/reading apparatus while the electronic document is displayed by the image displaying/reading apparatus is the first digit, and (iii) a sealing section for sealing onto the electronic document, in a case where the digit indicated on the subject image is determined to be the first digit, a seal image associated with the first identification information. This makes it possible to develop a system in which a seal image can be electronically sealed after finger authentication is performed even if a finger authentication scanner solely dedicated for reading an image from a digit is not provided. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141953 | IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an imaging system for displaying image data representative of a structure. The imaging system comprises display rendering means for processing data representative of the configuration of the structure and rendering a display representative of the configuration of the structure. The display comprises image view panes displaying different image views. The rendering means are responsive to user interaction to display synchronously a predetermined sequence run of images at the view panes, in response to a user input stimulus. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141954 | Peak Reassembly - In differential and non-differential analyses, composite images derived from replicates of liquid-chromatography/mass-spectrometry processes can provide scientists with a better signal-to-noise ratio in discovering biological features of interest. Certain distinct peaks in composite images point to distinct biological features but some distinct peaks in composite images may also point to biological features that have common chemical species ancestry. A peak reassembly process is used to indicate whether two adjacent peaks should point to a biological feature using complementation analysis and collision analysis. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141955 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - Improving diagnosis performance by matching the appearances of images while maintaining difference arising from the difference in tissue structure without being influenced by a non-interest region. Two medical images are divided into a plurality of tissue regions, each with each tissue imaged therein, and a similarity level is calculated for each corresponding pair of the plurality of tissue regions between the two medical images based on the form of each tissue region. An interest level is set for each corresponding pair and a weigh is obtained for each corresponding pair according to the similarity level and interest level. An image processing condition is set such that the matching level of an image characteristic of each corresponding pair is varied according to the weight, and image processing is performed on at lest either one of the two medical images according to the set image processing condition. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141956 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing Skin Conditions of People Using Digital Images - Systems and methods are provided for analyzing skin conditions using digital images. The method comprises acquiring a white-light image and an ultraviolet (“UV”) image of at least a portion of a body surface, such as a person's face, each of the white-light and UV images including a plurality of pixels and each pixel in the UV image corresponding to a respective pixel in the white-light image. The method further comprises identifying skin-pixels in the white-light and UV images, and obtaining results associated with at least one skin condition using information in the skin pixels in the first white light and UV images. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141957 | SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING USING DUAL APODIZATION WITH CROSS-CORRELATION - Sidelobe and clutter suppression techniques in ultrasound imaging are described and referred to as Dual Apodization with Cross-correlation or “DAX”. DAX dramatically improves the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) allowing for easier visualization of anechoic cysts and blood vessels. These techniques use dual apodization or weighting strategies that are effective in removing or minimizing clutter and efficient in terms of computational load and hardware/software needs. This dual apodization allows for determination of the amount of mainlobe versus clutter contribution in a signal by cross-correlating RF data acquired from two apodization functions. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141958 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING X-RAY IMAGES AND OPTICAL IMAGES - In an imaging system and method for preparing x-ray images and optical images, at least two x-ray images of an examination subject are acquired by emitting x-rays from at least two different x-ray image acquisition points in space. At least two optical exposures are acquired from the examination subject at respective optical exposure origination points that respectively optically correspond to the x-ray image acquisition points. The optical exposures and the x-ray images are superimposed so that each optical image is superimposed with the x-ray image that originated from an x-ray image origination point corresponding to the optical exposure origination point of that optical exposure. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141959 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REMOVING AUTOFLUORESCENCE FROM IMAGES - Method and systems for removing any inherent autofluorescence associated with a biological material, comprising: acquiring a first reference image of the biological material; acquiring a first set of one or more images of the biological material using one or more filters corresponding to one or more information dyes; applying the one or more additional dyes to the biological material and then acquiring a second set of one or more images comprising a separate image of the biological material with each of the filters corresponding to the information dyes and a second reference image of the biological material; coregistering the first and second reference images; and then removing any inherent autofluorescence exhibited in the informational images acquired. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141960 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that recognizes each cell area corresponding to a living cell from a series of observation images captured at observation time points; a measurement unit that measures cell characteristic amounts of each cell; a tracking unit that determines whether a cell area captured at a processing target time point and a cell area captured earlier than the processing target time point has an identity with each other, and associates the cell areas which have an identity with each other; and a cell division detection processing unit that measures relative position information between a target cell area to be processed and a peripheral cell area positioned around the target cell area, determines whether cell division has occurred in a living cell based on at least the relative position information, and detects a target cell area on which cell division has occurred. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141961 | AUTHENTICATABLE MARK, SYSTEMS FOR PREPARING AND AUTHENTICATING THE MARK - Systems for preparation of a mark and authentication of a mark vis-a-vis a counterfeit mark. Emission spectra comprising intensity versus wavelength distributions are collected from a series of taggants. One or more taggants is selected from the collected emission data such that the spectra of the selected taggants are distinguishable. The selection is also based on a consideration of the emitted radiation of a substrate and a dispersive medium. The authentication system uses multivariate statistical analysis to calculate at least one measurement statistic of a mark to be authenticated and at least one statistical limit based on a series of training marks prepared by the preparation system. Authenticity of the mark is determined based on a comparison of the measurement statistic and the statistical limit. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141962 | REMOTE DEPOSIT CAPTURE FOR THE GAMING INDUSTRY - A remote deposit capture system for distributed processing of check presentation can sense, or be instructed to differentiate, between deposit document types, including checks, cash withdrawals, and casino markets. Thereby, automated recognition and correction features can be selectively applied to an imaged deposit document. Thereby deposit documents that tend to use identical transaction codes, such as the same routing/transit numbers in magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) code line data, can be effectively processed without a high failure rate due to duplicate detection. Yet the advantages of duplicate detection are still leveraged against other deposit types. Alternatively or in addition, duplicate detection can be selected to not depend upon uniqueness of MICR code line data. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING DEPOSITION OF PARTICULATE CONTAMINANTS IN PULP AND PAPER SLURRIES - A method and an apparatus for measuring the depositability of particulate contaminants present in a pulp or paper mill fluid stream and evaluating interactions of such particulate contaminants with other contaminants collects the particulate contaminants on a suitable substrate, such as a plastic film coated with an adhesive or coated with organic contaminate, placed in contact with the pulp or paper mill fluid stream for at least five minutes up to several hours. The amount of contaminants collected on the substrate is quantified and evaluated by taking one or more scanned images of the substrate with a resolution of at least 2,000 dots per inch (DPI) and analyzing the scanned images with image analysis technique. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141964 | APPEARANCE INSPECTION APPARATUS, APPEARANCE INSPECTION SYSTEM, AND APPEARANCE INSPECTION APPEARANCE - An appearance inspection apparatus, wherein an image inspection result based on a result of image-taking and image-analyzing a product to be inspected can be displayed with superposed on a visual field of an inspector inspecting the product to be inspected with an eye and in a position corresponding to an image in which the inspector is observing the product to be inspected is provided. An appearance inspection method includes: performing image inspection of a product to be inspected by image-taking the product to be inspected and image-analyzing the product to be inspected in an image-treating section. An inspector is capable of inspecting the product to be inspected with an eye in the state that a result of the image inspection is displayed with superposed on a visual field of an inspector inspecting the product to be inspected with an eye and in a position corresponding to an image in which the inspector is observing the product to be inspected. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141965 | Method and Device for Displaying and Monitoring the Profile of a Weld Bead Inside a Groove Provided Between Two Metal Workpieces - The invention relates to a method of displaying and monitoring the profile of a weld bead ( | 2009-06-04 |
20090141966 | INTERACTIVE GEO-POSITIONING OF IMAGERY - An interactive user-friendly incremental calibration technique that provides immediate feedback to the user when aligning a point on a 3D model to a point on a 2D image. A can drag-and-drop points on a 3D model to points on a 2D image. As the user drags the correspondences, the application updates current estimates of where the camera would need to be to match the correspondences. The 2D and 3D images can be overlayed on each other and are sufficiently transparent for visual alignment. The user can fade between the 2D/3D views providing immediate feedback as to the improvements in alignment. The user can begin with a rough estimate of camera orientation and then progress to more granular parameters such as estimates for focal length, etc., to arrive at the desired alignment. While one parameter is adjustable, other parameters are fixed allowing for user adjustment of one parameter at a time. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141967 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A disparity function setting unit configured to set a plurality of disparity relationships expressing disparities as functions of an image position; a data term calculating unit configured to calculate the similarity of corresponding areas between images specified by the preset disparity functions; a smoothing term calculating unit configured to calculate the consistency between the disparity functions and the pixels located in the vicinity; and a disparity function selecting unit configured to select the disparity function for each point of the image from the plurality of preset disparity functions are provided. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141968 | CORONARY RECONSTRUCTION FROM ROTATIONAL X-RAY PROJECTION SEQUENCE - A method for three-dimensional reconstruction of a branched object from a rotational sequence of images of the branched object includes segmenting the branched object from each image of the sequence, extracting centerlines of the branched object, performing symbolic reconstruction via a stereo correspondence matching between the centerlines from different views of the sequence of images using a graph cut-based optimization, and creating a three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction of the branched object compensated for motion of the branched object between the images of the sequence. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141969 | Transfer Learning Methods and systems for Feed-Forward Visual Recognition Systems - A method and system for training a neural network of a visual recognition computer system, extracts at least one feature of an image or video frame with a feature extractor; approximates the at least one feature of the image or video frame with an auxiliary output provided in the neural network; and measures a feature difference between the extracted at least one feature of the image or video frame and the approximated at least one feature of the image or video frame with an auxiliary error calculator. A joint learner of the method and system adjusts at least one parameter of the neural network to minimize the measured feature difference. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141970 | GENERATING A TRANSFORMED INTERIM CONNECTION SPACE FOR SPECTRAL DATA - Generation of a transformed Interim Connection Space for spectral data is provided. A first Interim Connection Space for spectral data in a full spectral space is accessed. A first map, which characterizes a linear transformation from the full spectral space to a first color space, is accessed. A second map, which characterizes a linear transformation from the first Interim Connection Space to the first color space, is determined. The first Interim Connection Space is decomposed into orthogonal subspaces, the orthogonal subspaces including a first subspace that is a null space of the second map and a second subspace that is an orthogonal complement of the null space in the first Interim Connection Space. The transformed Interim Connection Space is generated based on the first subspace and the second subspace. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141971 | Systems and Methods for Skin-Color-Cognizant Color Mapping - Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for adjusting image color values to accommodate a different color gamut. In some embodiments, colors within a skin-color region are preserved while colors outside the skin-color region are stretched to fill the new color gamut. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141972 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER AND PRINTING SYSTEM FOR TRAPPING IMAGE DATA - In a method or computer program product for trapping of image data, the image data in an output image per image point is prepared as color separation data, and the image data is processed. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141973 | Method of pattern location using color image data - Machine vision tools are applied to color images using methods that that utilize an optimized spectrum of the color information. Such methods include full color normalized correlation techniques and methods to convert color images to greyscale using weighting factors that maximize color contrast in a corresponding greyscale image. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141974 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a feature extracting unit configured to extract a feature in each local area from an image including a plurality of colors in bands of visible radiation and non-visible radiation, the feature having elements representing ratios between a reference color and individual colors; and a discriminating unit configured to discriminate an object in each local area by using the feature extracted for the local area by the feature extracting unit. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141975 | IMAGE SENSOR APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCENE ILLUMINANT ESTIMATION - An image sensor apparatus is disclosed. The image sensor apparatus includes an image sensor for generating pixel data corresponding to a scene under a scene illuminant and a processor. The processor includes an illuminant estimation module for receiving a subset of the pixel data associated with a subset of a color space and finding a chromaticity trend in the pixel data subset to estimate the scene illuminant. A white balance and color correction module in the processor applies white balance and color correction coefficients to the pixel data according to the estimated scene illuminant. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141976 | Color Correction Method and Color Correction Apparatus - A color correction method in which an input image is corrected to generate an output image with an illumination condition different from that in the input image includes: detecting a region of a particular subject from the input image to extract color information on the region; restoring a spectral distribution of illumination in the input image by using the extracted color information and a surface reflectance of the particular subject designated in advance, calculating a spectral distribution of illumination in the output image by using the restored spectral distribution of illumination in the input image and the spectral distribution of designated target illumination, and calculating color information on each pixel of the output image on the basis of color information on each pixel of the input image, the restored spectral distribution of illumination in the input image and the calculated spectral distribution of illumination in the output image. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141977 | TEXTURE REPRODUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD AND CHROMA CORRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENCE ENHANCEMENT - A texture reproduction system and method and a chroma correction system and method for presence enhancement are provided. The texture reproduction system including: a texture analysis unit to classify a pixel included in an input image using Red Green Blue (RGB) values of the pixel; a chroma correction unit to correct a chroma based on at least one of an average chroma value of the input image and a hue value of the pixel according to a classification of the pixel; and a spatial filter unit to output a final output value of the pixel via a high frequency component extracted using the RGB values for each pixel. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141978 | IMAGE NOISE CORRECTION - An image noise correction method is provided. For at least one target pixel having a determined pixel value, for each pixel in a window of pixels surrounding the target pixel, a weighting factor for the pixel is estimated based on the value of the target pixel and at least one pixel value in the window. An average of pixel values for the pixels in the window is calculated, with each pixel value being weighted by the weighting factor corresponding to the pixel. A new value is assigned to the target pixel based on the average of pixel values that is calculated. Also provided is an image noise correction device. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141979 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An inspection apparatus includes an imaging device and an image processing device. The imaging device photographs a specimen and outputs a color image of the specimen to the image processing device. The image processing device subjects the color image of the specimen to negative-positive reversal. After detecting a mode value of the hue the color image having been subjected to negative-positive reversal, the image processing device changes the hue of the color image in accordance with a difference between a boundary value of two predefined hues and the detected mode value. In accordance with the change of the hue, a plurality of target pixels different in the saturation is extracted and the saturation and the intensity of each pixel are changed, or the gradation of each pixel is converted so that the plurality of target pixels becomes most distant from one another in a color space. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141980 | System and Method for Reducing Motion Artifacts by Displaying Partial-Resolution Images - A method for reducing motion artifacts and the systems for implementing the same are provided. The method includes receiving a full-resolution image at a first time point; extracting a first partial-resolution image from the full-resolution image; and calculating a second partial-resolution image for a second time point after the first time point. The first and the second partial-resolution images are complementary. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE CAPTURING - An image capturing method is provided, especially adaptable in a camera. First, a composition profile for a picture to be taken, is configured. The composition profile defines the number of objects to be included in the picture, and positions and sizes of each object. Thereafter, a sensor in the camera is enabled to receive an image, and simultaneously, it is determined whether the image satisfies the composition profile. If the image satisfies the composition profile, the image is stored to be the picture. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141982 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores information concerning model feature points and model feature quantities at the model feature points, a first acquiring unit that acquires an input moving image, a first feature-point extracting unit that extracts input feature points for recognizing an action from the input moving image, a first feature-quantity extracting unit that extracts input feature quantities at the input feature points, a feature-quantity comparing unit that compares the input feature quantities and the model feature quantities and generates candidate corresponding feature point pairs, a posture estimating unit that removes outliers from the candidate corresponding feature point pairs, estimates postures of models on the input moving image, and obtains a recognition corresponding feature point pair group corresponding to the postures, and a recognition-result generating unit that generates a recognition result on the basis of the recognition corresponding feature point pair group. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141983 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING AUTOMATIC EMOTION DETECTION - An image enhancement system and method using automatic emotion detection, the image enhancement system including: an emotional scale detection unit to analyze a pixel value of one or more frames of an input image in order to automatically detect an emotional scale of the input image; and an image enhancement unit to enhance a quality of the input image based on an image mode selected according to the emotional scale. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141984 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Image Identifying Apparatus, Image Identifying Method, and Program - An information processing apparatus includes a model image obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of model images; a model image feature quantity extracting unit configured to extract feature quantities of the model images obtained by the model image obtaining unit; a matching unit configured to perform matching on the feature quantities of the model images extracted by the model image feature quantity extracting unit; and an identifying feature point extracting unit configured to extract, as a result of the matching performed by the matching unit, feature points having a low correlation with a predetermined model image in similar model images that are the model images having a predetermined number or more of the feature quantities that match feature quantities of the predetermined model image, the extracted feature points being regarded as identifying feature points used for identification of the respective similar model images. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141985 | Detection of spam images - A method, system, and computer program product for analyzing image attachments to email messages and reliably determines whether the image includes spam, so that the message can be blocked. A method for processing email messages comprises processing an image included in or attached to an email message to determine whether the image includes features that indicate whether the image is spam and determining whether the image is spam based on the included features that indicate whether the image is spam. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141986 | Image Capture and Identification System and Process - A digital image of the object ( | 2009-06-04 |
20090141987 | VISION SENSORS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - A single chip vision sensor of an embodiment includes a pixel array and one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to search an image for one or more features using a model of the one or more features. A method of an embodiment in a single chip vision sensor includes obtaining an image based at least partially on sensed light, and searching the image for one or more features using a model of the one or more features. A system of an embodiment includes the single chip vision sensor and a device. The device is configured to receive one or more signals from the single chip vision sensor and to control an operation based at least partially on the one or more signals. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBJECT RECOGNITION AND DATABASE POPULATION FOR VIDEO INDEXING - A method for processing digital media is described. The method, in one example embodiment, includes identification of objects in a video stream by detecting, for each video frame, an object in the video frame and selectively associating the object with an object cluster. The method may further include comparing the object in the object cluster to a reference object and selectively associating object data of the reference object with all objects within the object cluster based on the comparing. The method may further include manually associating the object data of the reference object with all objects within the object cluster having no associated reference object and populating a reference database with the reference object for the object cluster. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141989 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - In this image processing device, an image processing portion | 2009-06-04 |
20090141990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUALITY-AWARE SELECTION OF PARAMETERS IN TRANSCODING OF DIGITAL IMAGES - Several quality-aware transcoding systems and methods are described, in which the impact of both quality factor (QF) and scaling parameter choices on the quality of transcoded images are considered in combination. A basic transcoding system is enhanced by the addition of a quality prediction look-up table, and a method of generating such a table is also shown. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141991 | System and article of manufacture for using a reentry data stet to decode compressed data - Provided are a method, system, and program for decoding compressed data. Compressed data is received and decoded. An error is detected while decoding a first location in the compressed data. A reentry data set is accessed having a pointer to a second location in the compressed data following the first location and decoding information that enables decoding to start from the second location. The second location in the compressed data is accessed and the decoding information in the accessed reentry data set is used to continue decoding the compressed data from the second location. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141992 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A QUALITY PREDICTION TABLE FOR QUALITY-AWARE TRANSCODING OF DIGITAL IMAGES - Several quality-aware transcoding systems and methods are described, in which the impact of both quality factor (QF) and scaling parameter choices on the quality of transcoded images are considered in combination. A basic transcoding system is enhanced by the addition of a quality prediction look-up table, and a method of generating such a table is also shown. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141993 | SYSTEM FOR FINDING ARCHIVED OBJECTS IN VIDEO DATA - A system includes a motion detection processor, a motion tracking processor, a people detection processor, a controller, a fusion processor, an appearance model generator processor, a database, a fast search processor, and a matching processor. The motion detection processor, the motion tracking processor, the controller, the people detection processor, the fusion processor, and the appearance model generator processor comprise an analytics pipeline, and the database and the fast search processor comprise a data index pipeline. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE DATA ENCODING AND DECODING - Image processing systems and methods are presented for encoding 8-bit color image data to 4-bit data using an encoding table by assigning a pixel type value to each 8-bit pixel according to a 9×3 tiling pattern with 9 unique pixel type values in each 3×3 window of the 9×3 tiling pattern, and for decoding the 4-bit image data based on the pixel type value and the encoded data values for neighboring pixels. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141995 | System and Method for Fixed Point Continuation for Total Variation Based Compressed Sensing Imaging - A method of compressed sensing imaging includes acquiring a sparse digital image b, said image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to an I-dimensional grid of points, initializing points (x | 2009-06-04 |
20090141996 | Comparator based acceleration for media quantization - A method for comparator based quantization acceleration for an encoding process. The method includes computing coefficients for a discrete cosine transform encoding operation and determining a quantization step for use with a quantization operation for each of the coefficients. The method further includes determining each of the coefficients that are less than or equal to one half the quantization step by using a comparator configured in accordance with the quantization step. For the coefficients that are less than or equal to one half the quantization step, a quantized output value is transmitted to the encoding process. For the coefficients that are greater than one half the quantization step, the quantized output value is determined by executing multiplication logic to compute the quantized output value and transmit the computed quantized output value to the encoding process. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141997 | Reducing noise in images acquired with a scanning beam device - Methods and apparatus for reducing noise in images acquired with a scanning beam device are disclosed. A representative method may include scanning a beam of light over a surface in a scan with a variable velocity. Light backscattered from the surface may be detected at different points in time during the scan at a substantially constant rate. Reduced-noise representations of groups of the detected light that each correspond to a different position in an image of the surface may be generated. The reduced-noise representations may be generated for groups having multiple different sizes. The image of the surface may be generated by representing the different positions in the image with the reduced-noise representations of the corresponding groups. Other methods and apparatus are disclosed. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141998 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - It is an object to provide an image processing device, an image display device, and an image processing method therefor that are capable of curbing generation of a pseudo edge in a digital image. | 2009-06-04 |
20090141999 | Method of Image Edge Enhancement - A method of image edge enhancement comprises: determining the edge trend for an image in accordance with the second order gradient value of a center pixel in different directions; performing interpolation operation with the center pixel; calculating absent color component of pixels; performing edge enhancement for the image in the interpolation module in accordance with original color component of the center pixel and the image edge trend based on the Bayer data. The image edge enhancement process takes into account the influence of the green component values of different pixels surrounding the center pixel, and adopts a noise-resistant, self-adaptive edge enhancement algorithm, to suppress noise on the image edge. Thus, the resulting image has a clear image edge. In addition, the fact that the process performs image edge enhancement in the interpolation module based on the Bayer data can significantly reduce the consumption of memory space. | 2009-06-04 |
20090142000 | Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium - An image processing apparatus includes a computation unit that determines an interpolation process starting point and gradient on the basis of a change point at which a difference between pixel values of adjacent pixels of an image signal is greater than zero and is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, wherein a position of a pixel scanned earlier or later than the change point by substantially one-half a continuous width of pixels having an identical grayscale value is set as the starting point and the gradient is determined based on a difference between pixel values before and after the change point and the continuous width, and a conversion unit that converts pixel values of the image signal on the basis of the determined starting point and gradient so that a grayscale change from the interpolation process starting point in the image signal corresponds to the gradient. | 2009-06-04 |
20090142001 | IMAGE COMPOSING APPARATUS - An image composing apparatus includes a flash memory and an I/F for accessing a recording medium. A plurality of template images are contained in the flash memory, and a photographed image is contained in the recording medium via the I/F. An attribute (attribute: center coordinates and a size) of a transparent area frame provided in each of the plurality of template images is detected by a CPU. An attribute of a face frame provided in the photographed image is also detected by the CPU. The CPU calculates each of composition matching levels of the plurality of template images based on the detected attributes of the transparent area frame and the face frame, and designates each of the plurality of template images in order of decreasing calculated composition matching level. Further, the CPU composes the designated template image and photographed image in such a manner tot the composition matching level increases. | 2009-06-04 |
20090142002 | POLYGON AND POLYLINE MEASURING TOOL FOR GIS APPLICATIONS - Methods and systems for aggregating points into segments to facilitate measurements relating to GIS polylines and/or polygons are provided. According to one embodiment, a request for information is received regarding a shape representing a geographic feature displayed within a geographic information system (GIS) application. One or more measurement segments are programmatically identified by selecting multiple measurement vertices from a set of points associated with the shape based on one or more predetermined selection criteria. The remaining intervening points of the set of points not selected as measurement vertices define sub-segments of the measurement segments. A length of each of the measurement segments is then calculated and displayed by summing corresponding sub-segments. | 2009-06-04 |
20090142003 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A plurality of images are input, specific regions are set for each of the inputted plurality of images, a typical size of the specific regions of each of the plurality of images is determined, and the ratio of the typical size to the size of the entire image is calculated as a typical size ratio. A typical size ratio used as a reference is selected from the typical size ratios calculated for the respective images as a reference ratio, and a candidate region upon trimming that image is determined based on the specific regions of each of the plurality of images. A trimming region for each of the plurality of images is determined based on the reference ratio, and the typical size ratio and candidate region of each image, and each of the plurality of images is trimmed according to the trimming region. | 2009-06-04 |
20090142004 | Sub-raster registration using non-redundant overwriting - Sub-raster registration errors are compensated for through non-redundant overwriting. Data from adjacent rasters is written to a particular output raster so that the adjacent rasters share an influence at a point actually written to by a rendering device, thereby compensating for a sub-raster component of a registration error associated with writing to the particular point. If two writing passes per raster are used and the writing passes have equal influence (e.g., are written with equal power), then writing data from a first raster during a first pass and writing data from a second raster adjacent to the first raster during a second pass compensates for a sub-raster registration error of half a raster spacing. If two writing passes are associated with different influence (e.g., are written with ⅓ and ⅔ power respectively) and/or if additional writing passes are used, then addition sub-raster positions can be compensated for or emulated. | 2009-06-04 |
20090142005 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A table is allocated indexes corresponding to display positions on a monitor screen, respectively, and data indicating an unexposed part at each of the display positions is stored in each index of the table. Focal position information is acquired from Exif header information on image data of an image, and a location of one of the indexes in the table at which no image data is registered is searched in an ascending order of the indexes. According to the table, the images are arranged so that the focal position of each image differs from the unexposed part at the display position of the image. | 2009-06-04 |