27th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150187008 | CUSTOMIZING BASKETS FOR EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS - A fund management system permits an investor to transmit a custom creation basket of securities to the fund management system in exchange for shares of a fund. The fund management system receives an available basket of securities from the investor and a fund designated for share creation. The fund management system filters the available securities to determine securities eligible for inclusion in the fund management system. An optimization algorithm determines a quantity of securities that maximizes the utility of adding the securities to the fund, which generates a custom creation basket. The fund management system may receive available baskets from multiple investors and a designation of multiple funds. The fund management system thus may generate a multi-party and multi-fund optimized custom creation basket. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187009 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN EARNINGS PORTION OF A DISTRIBUTION FROM A 529 PLAN - A method for determining an earnings portion of a distribution from a 529 plan. The method includes receiving information associated with a plurality of 529 plan accounts, identifying related 529 plan accounts, aggregating the information for related 529 plan accounts, and determining an earnings portion of a distribution from at least one of the 529 plan accounts. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187010 | DATA AGGREGATION FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING 529 PLAN DATA - Enhanced tools and techniques are provided for collecting, processing, and analyzing 529 plan data. In one embodiment, the process includes a computer-based method for identifying related 529 plan accounts from a plurality of 529 plan accounts, including identifying 529 plan accounts having a common beneficiary or identifying 529 plan accounts having a common owner/beneficiary combination; and, aggregating the information for related 529 plan accounts in a computer implemented aggregation database. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187011 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EVALUATING INSURANCE PRODUCT UNDERWRITING AND RATING DATA - A systems, method, and computer program product for evaluating an insurance policy underwriting and rating instance is disclosed. The system may include a lexer module on a computer, a parser module on a computer, and a generator module on a computer. The lexer module may be configured to tokenize the insurance policy instance. The parser module may be configured to parse the tokenized insurance policy instance. The generator module may be configured to receive a profile associated with an insured person; and evaluate the insurance policy instance by applying the profile to the insurance policy instance. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187012 | AUDIT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION - Audit performance systems and methods can be used to provide objective assessment of the performance of claim administrators. Data from audits performed by one or more insurance broker consultants can be input into the audit performance system, and analyzed, to generate reports that compare the performance of a selected claim administrator to an industry standard level of performance or to one or more other claim administrators. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DRIVER SIGNATURES - A system configured to determine an insurance premium associated with an account that covers at least one vehicle and at least one driver comprising a computer memory that stores biographical information; a processor that receives information associated with telematics data associated with at least one of the vehicle(s), concerning use of the at least one vehicle(s); the processor further configured to determine discrete segments of use by at least one vehicle(s), and to determine a driver signature associated with each of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to generate a driver risk assessment responsive to the at least one of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to calculate pricing information based at least in part on the at least one risk assessment and the biographical information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the pricing information to a user device or user transmission device. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187014 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPECTATION BASED PROCESSING - A system for determining insurance pricing information based on telematics data, the system comprising, a processor configured to generate a driver proxy score (DPS) based on a combination of rating variables in a conventional class plan; the processor, configured to receive information associated with telematics data received from a telematics device, wherein the telematics data includes a plurality of risk factors; the processor further configured to determine a driver telematics score (DTS) based on the information associated with the telematics data; the processor further configured to generate an expectation based rating, based on the DPS and the DTS, which measures a variance of the telematics data from the expected value; the processor further configured to update pricing information based on the determined expectation based rating; and a transmitter configured to transmit the updated pricing information to a user device. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESTINATION BASED UNDERWRITING - A system for determining risk associated with a driver, the system comprising a receiver, configured to receive information associated with telematics data; a processor further configured to determine, based at least in part on the telematics data, that a vehicle has reached a destination, a length of time spent at the destination and a times of day during which the vehicle is at the destination; the processor configured to determine a direct exposure rating based on at least the determined destination, the length of time spent at the destination, and the times of day during which the vehicle is at the location; the processor further configured to adjust an insurance pricing information based on the direct exposure rating; and a transmitter configured to transmit the adjusted pricing information to a user device. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEMATICS BASED UNDERWRITING - A system for determining insurance pricing information comprising a computer memory for storing biographical information, including an expected total mileage driven by a vehicle and an initial risk assessment based on at least the expected total mileage driven; the processor further configured to determine, based on telematics data, a plurality of relativity factors, wherein relativity factors are numerical values generated based on a comparison of the information associated with the received telematics data with other drivers; the processor configured to calculate the product of the plurality of relativity factors with a starting discount and compare the product with a predetermined threshold; the processor further configured to adjust insurance pricing information based on the comparison of the product of the relativity factors with the predetermined threshold. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187017 | VISUAL ASSIST FOR INSURANCE FACILITATION PROCESSES - A wearable communication device that is selectively configured to assist in the implementation of insurance claims processing. The device is capable of voice-activated or touch-activated insurance claim processing instructions and assisting the user in implementing insurance processing function such as damage appraisals and the like. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187018 | PATIENT DATA TRIGGERED POOLING-SYSTEM FOR RISK SHARING OF CRONIC CRITICAL ILLNESS RISKS OF COHORTS OF ELDERLY PERSONS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF - Proposed are a parametric, event-driven critical illness insurance system based on a resource-pooling system ( | 2015-07-02 |
20150187019 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DATA PROCESSING - A system configured to determine an insurance premium associated with an account that covers a vehicle including an autonomous feature and a driver comprising a computer memory that stores biographical information including information regarding the autonomous feature; a processor that receives information associated with telematics data associated with the vehicle, concerning use of the vehicle and the autonomous feature; the processor further configured to determine discrete segments of use by the vehicle, and to determine a driver signature associated with each of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to generate a driver risk assessment responsive to the one of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to calculate pricing information based on the risk assessment and the biographical information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the pricing information to a user device. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187020 | Method of Brokering Tax Liens - A method is presented for brokering tax liens in a way that calculates, in a loan agreement, an amount of an advance on new tax liens by subtracting a note balance from the product of an amount of total eligible tax liens and an advance rate. One signatory party can guarantee the re-purchase of unredeemed tax liens upon expiration of an agreed-upon deadline. The loan agreement can be periodically renewed by replacing the oldest tax liens with new tax liens for a recomputed purchase price on a new basis. The signatures of all parties to the loan agreement are then secured. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187021 | AUTOMATIC TRIGGERING OF RECEIPT DELIVERY - Disclosed herein is a technology for automatically triggering delivery of a digital receipt for a financial transaction based on a previously stored electronic address for receiving digital receipts. In at least some embodiments, the technology includes a digital receipt system working in coordination with one or more merchants' POS device to deliver receipts for current transactions based on a previously stored electronic address from past transactions. The first time a user utilizes a payment card in a transaction, the system associates and stores a user-provided electronic address with the card. The next time the user utilizes the card in a new transaction, the system identifies the card has been used in a past transaction, determines the electronic address associated with the card, and automatically triggers receipt delivery to the electronic address, regardless of the new transaction being with a same or different merchant than the one in the past transaction. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187022 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing system comprises: an accepting unit that accepts identification information for identifying a user of an apparatus; a reading unit that reads an image on a document to output image data; an extracting unit that extracts character string information including a character string in the image and first position information on the character string in the image from the image data; a storage unit that stores therein allocation information in which an item relating to settlement is associated with second position information on the item on the document; an allocating unit that compares the allocation information with the character string information to allocate the item to the character string; and a transmitting unit that transmits settlement information including the character string, the item allocated to the character string, and the identification information. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187023 | System Containing An Integration Of Cost Savings Tracker And Spend Analyzer For Calculating Actual Effective Savings - A system containing an integration of a cost savings tracker and spend analyzer for calculating actual effective savings of a spend category in a procurement cycle is described. The system includes a cost savings tracker module and spend analyzer module. The cost savings tracker module facilitates computation of actual effective cost savings of a spend category and thus facilitates tracking of the cost savings of a spend category, while a cost component model of the spend analyzer module is intended for spend analysis that facilitates analysis of the procurement cost in relation to market indices of the underlying commodities. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187024 | System and Method for Socially Aware Recommendations Based on Implicit User Feedback - A content recommender based on collaborative filtering and implicit user feedbacks comprising retrieving a social graph split into a user and the user's relationship network in order to obtain a social aware model of the user's preferences based on preferences of the users belonging to the user's relationship network, minimizing the objective function for all the response values of the whole user-item matrix, the response values meaning implicit and explicit feedback data, providing a list of content recommendations obtained by a score function computed using the social aware model. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187025 | OPTIMIZATION PLATFORM FOR WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS - A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving a hydraulic model of a water distribution network; selecting a headloss model from a headloss models library; mapping components of said hydraulic model to components in a components library; selecting at least one objective from an objectives library; and executing an algorithm for optimization of the water distribution network, to output an optimized algebraic description of the water distribution network, wherein said executing is based on the headloss model, on mapped ones of the components in the components library, and on the at least one objective. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187026 | DIRECTING ONE OR MORE USERS TO ONE OR MORE AUTOMATED CUSTOMIZED FOOD GENERATION MACHINES - Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user preference information of a user that indicates one or more customized food preferences of the user including at least one or more preferences related to integrity of one or more ingredients for use in generating one or more customized food items; identifying one or more capable automated customized food generation machines that have one or more ingredients in one or more sufficient quantities to be able to currently generate at least one customized food item in accordance with the one or more customized food preferences of the user; and presenting, in response at least in part to the identification, one or more indicators that direct the user to at least one automated customized food generation machine. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187027 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING PRODUCTION OF FOOD PRODUCTS - A method of controlling ordering and production of food products in a restaurant, constructing a composite queue from time slots associated with customers standing physical lines to place their orders at manual registers, and time slots associated with customers placing their orders electronically over a communications network, determining, in regard to a current order load states of at least some cooking areas in a kitchen, determining whether one of the load states varies from a pre-determined load state by a first threshold amount, and if so determining an increment to the service delay for the current order, and communicating information about the increment to the customer being served. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187028 | RESTAURANT SERVICE INDICATOR SYSTEM METHOD AND KIT - A restaurant service indicator system and kit includes a table unit having a processor, memory, a request sent indicator and transmitter that are communicatively linked to server unit having a processor, memory, table status indicator, timer, receiver and vibration unit; a method is disclosed for receiving, transmitting and displaying service request messages utilizing at least one table unit and server unit, and a kit is provided that includes a plurality of table units communicatively linked to a single server unit, a charger and instructions. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187029 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PARCEL BUILDING SIZE - A system for determining the maximum building size that may be constructed on a real property parcel includes at least a first database including applicable governmental regulations that affect building size within a specific locality, a second database including information concerning real property parcel size and location with the locality, a means for comparing information from the second database with information from the first database and a means for generating a report for a specific parcel of real property, the report including at least a calculation of the maximum size of a building that may be constructed on a parcel of real property, the calculation being based on information contained in the first and second databases. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION REGARDING REAL PROPERTY TRANSFERS - A computerized system includes a real property database having a plurality of entries, each entry representing a geographic location and comprising at least a geographic location field containing information regarding the geographic location, and a communication and editing system in communication with the database and a remote computer. The communication and editing system is programmed to display information relating to an entry at the first remote computer, receive from the first remote computer a selection of the entry, confirm that the selection from the first remote computer originated with a right holder associated with the geographic location, display information relating to the entry at the second remote computer, receive from the second remote computer a selection of the entry, receive communication channel and/or transfer price information from the second remote computer, and provide the communication channel and/or transfer price information to the right holder. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187031 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING COMPLETION OF REAL PROPERTY TRANSFERS - A computerized system includes a real property database having a plurality of entries, each entry representing a geographic location and including at least a geographic location field containing information regarding the geographic location. The system also includes a communication system programmed to display information relating to an entry at a first remote computer, receive a selection of the entry, confirm that the selection originated with a right holder associated with the geographic location, display information relating to the entry at a second remote computer, receive a selection of the entry, confirm that the selection originated with an interested party, and, for example, provide at least one document to the right holder or interested party for the transfer of a real property right associated with the geographic location, the document selected according to the geographic location information of the entry and containing information regarding the right holder and interested party. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187032 | System and Method for Tracking Payment Agreements - A system and method for associating a patient with professional services, such as attorney and physician, that are required due to injury or other calamities, such as auto accidents or home fire. The patient data is compared to criteria entered by the professional service providers. Upon agreement between the parties, an LOP is generated. The patient's claim is tracked until it is finalized. The service provider is then notified that the case is ended and contingency fees, if any, are due. In an alternative embodiment, an insurance company is a party. The insurance company may use the system to verify that services are rendered and appointments kept. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187033 | Intellectual Property Information Retrieval - According to aspects of the present invention, methods, systems, and media are provided for creating, storing, and using an interactive hierarchical arrangement of technical elements useful for conducting efficient patent infringement and similar analysis. The hierarchical arrangement of technical elements is adapted to be displayed on a user-engageable computer display in a manner that allows a user to select and de-select particular technical elements. Methods and systems include storing records of technical elements in hierarchical relationships, which elements are correlated to specific patent claims during an annotation process. The hierarchical arrangement of technical elements is displayed so as to indicate genus-species relationships among the technical elements, while the stored correlations are used as a basis to perform highly efficient claims-based patent analysis. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK-ISOLATED DATA TRANSFER - A computerized medical system includes a non-transient computer-readable memory, a display screen, and a controller in communication with the non-transient computer-readable memory and the display screen. The controller is configured to display an optically machine-readable code on the display screen, where the optically machine-readable code corresponds to a request for data that is unavailable within the computerized medical system. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187035 | SUPPLY MANAGEMENT IN A CLINICAL SETTING - Aspects of the present invention provide a supply chain system to get to a just-in-time inventory. Aspects of the invention generate a suggested reorder quantity by comparing the item's reorder point (quantity at which to reorder the item from the vendor) to the dynamic inventory level for the item. The dynamic inventory level=(Quantity in inventory+Quantity on Order−(Forecast Usage)). The forecast usage comprises anticipated consumption of the item derived from one or more presently scheduled clinical events. Presently scheduled events have not yet taken place and are scheduled to take place in the future. The event takes place when a clinician provides a clinical service to a patient. For example, a surgery may be scheduled to occur three days from the present time. The items scheduled for use in the surgery form part of the forecast usage for the item. The forecast usage may comprise items from multiple scheduled clinical events. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187036 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING HEALTHCARE DATA - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for analyzing healthcare-related entity performance. In one implementation, a method is implemented with one or more processors and includes receiving a request that includes one or more filter selections and accessing a data structure including information that specifies a plurality of categories of healthcare-related interactions associated with multiple healthcare-related entities. The method also includes identifying a set of categories from the plurality of categories based on the one or more filter selections and processing the information of the identified categories to provide performance information of one or more entities of the multiple healthcare-related entities in accordance with the one or more filter selections. The method further includes generating a user interface that includes the performance information indicating a performance of the one or more entities. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187037 | DYNAMIC PATIENT ENGAGEMENT - Methods and systems are provided for providers on a health care team to engage with a patient before, during and after an acute care event. The methods include providing an interactive checklist of action items to the patient to be completed by the user before, during or after the acute care event and providing an interface for communication and notification among the plurality of providers and the patient about one or more of the action items on the interactive checklist. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187038 | SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED PROTOCOL AND DECISION SUPPORT - Embodiments of the system support hospital operations, delivery of health care, and improve patient satisfaction. The interactive hospital information system utilizes inputs from a mobile device, eliminating the cost of fixed cameras and sensor systems in the hospital facility. Aspects of the invention facilitate real-time patient care and patient room updates by care providers, validating that prescribed devices, services, and setups are in place per protocol. The system communicates with rounding persons as to specific care management. Network devices, such as an iPad® or smartphone, are utilized to monitor and record ongoing activities in the healthcare setting. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187039 | FULL-COLOR VISIBILITY MODEL USING CSF WHICH VARIES SPATIALLY WITH LOCAL LUMINANCE - The present disclosure relate generally to color science and digital watermarking. A full color visibility model has been developed which has good correlation to subjective visibility tests for color patches degraded with a watermark. A relatively better correlation can be achieved with a model that applies a luminance correction to the contrast sensitivity functions (CSF). The model can be applied during the watermark embed process, using a pyramid based method, to obtain equal visibility. Better robustness and visibility can be obtained with equal visibility embed than uniform strength embed. Of course, other features, combinations and claims are disclosed as well. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187040 | SCHEDULING AND DISPATCH OF GPGPU WORKLOADS - A method and system are described herein for an optimization technique on two aspects of thread scheduling and dispatch when the driver is allowed to pick the scheduling attributes. The present techniques rely on an enhanced GPGPU Walker hardware command and one dimensional local identification generation to maximize thread residency. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187041 | GPU AND GPU COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL MACHINE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a GPU for improved multitasking by a user, a GPU computing system including the GPU and a method of manufacturing a GPU system. In one embodiment, the GPU includes: (1) a video overlayer configured to create an operating area over a portion of a video image generated by the graphical processing unit and (2) an overlay interface configured to provide a virtual space input to the video overlayer to operate a virtual machine within the operating area. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187042 | USING A GLOBAL BARRIER TO SYNCHRONIZE ACROSS LOCAL THREAD GROUPS IN GENERAL PURPOSE PROGRAMMING ON GPU - Methods and systems may synchronize workloads across local thread groups. The methods and systems may provide for receiving, at a graphics processor, a workload from a host processor and receiving, at a plurality of processing elements, a plurality of threads that from one or more local thread groups. Additionally, the processing of the workload may be synchronized across the one or more thread groups. In one example, the global barrier determines that all threads across the thread groups have been completed without polling. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187043 | VIRTUALIZING STORAGE STRUCTURES WITH UNIFIED HEAP ARCHITECTURE - A method for storage allocation for a graphical processing unit includes maintaining a unified storage structure for the graphical processing unit. Multiple physical storage structures are virtualized in the unified storage structure by dynamically forming multiple logical storage structures from the unified storage structure for the multiple physical storage structures. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187044 | GRAPHICS RENDERING DEVICE - Graphic form data of a rendering graphic form and a rendering list for defining the specifics of rendering out of an external memory, where the graphic form data and the rendering list are stored in advance, to generate intermediate data and store the intermediate data in the external memory with the use of intermediate data generation means. Intermediate data scanning means detects a graphic form from the intermediate data stored in the external memory. Graphic form rendering means generates pixels of the detected graphic form from the graphic form data stored in the external memory to render an image. The rendering image is written and held in a buffer that has a multi-buffer configuration. Display output means reads the rendering image stored in the buffer and outputs the read rendering image to a display device. The writing in the buffer and the reading out of the buffer are executed alternatingly. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187045 | Methods of Multiple-Slice Coding for Frame Buffer Compression - Method is disclosed for reducing frame buffer, stream buffer, reconstruction buffer, or latency associated with frame buffer compression in an encoder or decoder with multiple slices of an image frame. The image frame is divided into multiple slices vertically, horizontally or both. One core compressor or decompressor can be used to process two or more slices. The encoding and decoding of two or more slices may be performed in parallel. Instead of encoding an entire slice, the encoder compresses only partial data of one slice before encoding another slice. According to one embodiment, each slice is divided into two or more partitions. The encoder is switched to another slice after encoding one partition of one slice. In another embodiment, the encoder is switched to another slice based the information related to the coding status. The decoding order may be same as the encoding order. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187046 | STILL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND SYSTEM, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A mixture ratio determiner chooses a first mixture ratio set in a case where a blur evaluation value is a reference value or more, and chooses a second mixture ratio set in a case where the blur evaluation value is less than the reference value. The second mixture ratio set has a higher mixture ratio of an in-focus image and a lower mixture ratio of an out-of-focus image than the first mixture ratio set. A mixed image generator produces a plurality of mixed images having a gradually varying mixture ratio, from the in-focus image and the out-of-focus image. A display controller sequentially displays the plurality of mixed images on a monitor in the manner of a moving image. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187047 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR PLENOPTIC IMAGES - One embodiment is a method of operating a plenoptic image processing system. The method includes storing plenoptic image data in a non-transitory computer readable memory of the system. The plenoptic image data includes data of a plurality of microimages. The method includes applying a frequency domain transform to the stored plenoptic image data to provide a frequency domain plenoptic image data structure stored in the memory, and processing the data structure using an extended slice technique to select a focal plane from the data structure. The extended slice technique comprises taking multiple slices of the frequency domain transformed plenoptic image data structure and configuring the multiple slices to provide extended slice data. The method further includes applying an inverse frequency domain transform to the extended slice data to provide inverse transform extended slice data, and providing an image output based upon the inverse transformed extended slice data. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187048 | IMAGE ENLARGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present application discloses an image enlargement method and apparatus. The method includes: inputting a low-resolution image, where the low-resolution image includes at least one matching areas; searching one of the matching areas for an optimal contour template, where the optimal contour template is a contour template with a minimum total variation value in the matching area and the contour template set; finding a second pixel point according to a zoom ratio and a first pixel point in the matching area; performing local interpolation for the second pixel point according to the optimal contour template, so as to obtain an intermediate pixel value; repeating the foregoing steps until processing for all the matching areas is complete, and obtaining an initial high-resolution image according to all of the intermediate pixel values; and performing global interpolation for the initial high-resolution image to obtain a high-resolution image. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187049 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ZOOM OUT PROCESSING - A method for image zoom out processing includes: determining whether a predetermined zoom out ratio is smaller than a first predetermined threshold; when the predetermined zoom out ratio is smaller than the first predetermined threshold, performing a zoom out process on an image according to the first predetermined threshold by a bilinear interpolation algorithm to obtain a zoomed out image; determining whether a product of a resolution of the zoomed out image and the first predetermined threshold is greater than or equal to a target resolution; when the product is greater than the target resolution, repeating the step of performing the zoom out process; when the product is smaller than the target resolution, performing the zoom out process on the image according to a second predetermined threshold by the bilinear interpolation algorithm so that the resolution of the zoomed out image reaches the target resolution. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187050 | HVAC Controls or Controllers Including Alphanumeric Displays - Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of controls for heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning systems. In an exemplary embodiment, a control for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system includes an alphanumeric display and one or more input device. A processor of the control is configured to receive a user input through the input device(s), and in response to the user input, reorient a display of a message relative to the alphanumeric display. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING IMAGE NOISE - In a method for estimating image noise, plural sample blocks of an image are determined; a mean of at least one color component of each of the sample blocks and a standard deviation of at least one color component of each of the sample blocks are calculated; the sample blocks are distributed into plural segments according to the means of the sample blocks; a weighted average of the standard deviations of all of the sample blocks of each of the segments is calculated according to at least one threshold value that is determined according to the minimum standard deviation among the standard deviations of all of the sample blocks of the segment. The weighted average may be applied to noise reduction, edge detection, or motion detection of the image. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSED SENSING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION - A Compressed Sensing (CS) based image reconstruction method and system is described herein which may be used to reduce the X-ray dose radiation in Computed Tomography (CT) or to decrease the scan duration in MR imaging (MRI). Methods and systems described herein may address problems that have hindered the clinical usage of CS, i.e. computation complexity and modeling problems. Using the described algorithm, high quality images may be recovered from undersampled data which may help to reduce the scan time and the exposed invasive radiations. Using the same set of data in conventional image reconstruction algorithms (e.g. Filtered Back Projection (FBP) in CT) may cause severe streak artifacts and may take significantly more time using Graphics Processing Units (GPU) and parallel clusters with the conventional CS-based methods. This method can be used other imaging modalities using Radon transform (such as C-Arm and electron tomography, for example). | 2015-07-02 |
20150187053 | Method and Apparatus for Image Denoising with Three-Dimensional Block-Matching - A method for denoising images by block-matching three-dimensional (BM3D) method is disclosed in the present invention. Embodiments of the present invention are used to improve the quality of captured images. Instead of using the same noise variance to denoise all patches of an image, each patch is processed based on a particular assessed noise variance. The assessed noise variance of one reference patch is determined based on noise variance associated with the patch set or based on content characteristics associated with the patch set. The patch set is obtained by block-matching to find similar patches of the reference patch. Noise reduction in frequency domain is applied to the patch set according to the assessed noise variance of the reference patch. The determining of the assessed noise variance can be performed in spatial domain or in frequency domain. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187054 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Image Processing Program - An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input image represented with a plurality of color components including at least first and second color components, a correlation calculation unit configured to calculate a grayscale direction correlation indicating whether grayscale directions of the first color component and the second color component are identical or opposite for a region of interest in the input image, a high frequency component calculation unit configured to calculate a high frequency component of the first color component for the region of interest, and a correction unit configured to correct the second color component for the region of interest using the high frequency component of the first color component calculated by the high frequency component calculation unit in accordance with a method depending on the grayscale direction correlation calculated by the correlation calculation unit. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187055 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A contour direction estimating unit estimates a contour direction in which signal values of pixels are constant values for each pixel, a low pass filter unit smooths a signal value of the pixel based on a signal value of each reference pixel that is a pixel of a reference region corresponding to the pixel and arranged in the contour direction of the pixel estimated by the contour direction estimating unit for each pixel, and a high frequency expanding unit generates a high frequency component of the signal value of the pixel and expands a frequency band for the signal value of the pixel. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187056 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor and an extraneous object processor. The processor generates a first image from a camera and generates a second image corresponding to the first image by the camera based on setting data related to the first image. The extraneous object processor generates a corrected image by replacing a first area comprising an extraneous object in the first image with a second area in the second image, the second area corresponding to the first area. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187057 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE - There is provided an image processing method including detecting a distorted image before correction projected on a screen by a projection-type image display device, searching for a same shape as an input image having a maximum area inside the distorted image, and correcting the input image in a manner that the distorted image becomes the searched-for shape having the maximum area. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187058 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing method in an observation system | 2015-07-02 |
20150187059 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing method includes a step of acquiring a measured image G | 2015-07-02 |
20150187060 | WAFER DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING A WAFER DEFECT - It is judged whether or not an average gray level of an image of a wafer W that is an inspection target and that has been imaged by the light receiving part | 2015-07-02 |
20150187061 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REGISTRATION OF SURFACE MODELS - An apparatus includes: an input/output interface configured to have a reference surface model and a floating surface model inputted thereto; a memory having instructions for registration of the reference surface model and the floating surface model stored therein; and a processor configured for registration of the reference surface model and the floating surface model according to the instructions. The instructions perform: selecting initial transformation parameters corresponding to the floating surface model by comparing depth images of the reference surface model and the floating surface model; transforming the floating surface model according to the initial transformation parameters; calculating compensation transformation parameters through a matrix calculated by applying singular value decomposition to a cross covariance matrix between the reference surface model and the floating surface model; and transforming the floating surface model according to the compensation transformation parameters, and executing registration of the reference surface model and the floating surface model. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187062 | REPRESENTATIVE FRAME SELECTING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A representative frame selecting system includes: an importance obtaining unit that obtains importance of each frame from calculating on the basis of a length of a similar frame interval formed of consecutive frames each of which has a value according to a similarity between each of the frames included in video information that is equal to or more than a standard; an evaluation value obtaining unit that obtains an evaluation value of each frame from calculating on the basis of an evaluation standard from frames adjacent to each frame; and a representative frame selecting unit that selects at least one representative frame among the frames included in the video information, on the basis of the importance and the evaluation value of each frame. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187063 | MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A medical device for acquiring a series of images in time sequence includes: a display unit; a feature information calculation unit that calculates feature information representing a feature of each of the series of images; a classification unit that classifies the series of images into groups in time sequence according to similarity between the images; a display area calculation unit that calculates a display area for each group, where the feature information of images in each of the groups is displayed, in a specified area on a screen of the display unit, based on the number of the groups; and a feature information display generation unit that arranges the feature information of images in each of the groups on the display area for each group, and generates a feature information display in which the display area for each group is arranged in time sequence in the specified area. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187064 | DEFECT INSPECTION DEVICE FOR DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention provides a defect inspection method and device for a display panel. The defect inspection method comprises: A) obtaining an edge image of the display panel and obtaining a grayscale value of each pixel of the edge image; B) selecting a specific area in the edge image and obtaining a grayscale value of each pixel in the specific area; C) obtaining an average grayscale value of all pixels in the specific area; D) executing binarization for the grayscale value of each pixel in the specific area to obtain some boundary lines based on the average grayscale value, wherein the grayscale values of pixels on the boundary lines are different from grayscale values of the other pixels which are not on the boundary lines; E) filtering horizontal and vertical lines of the boundary lines to obtain some remaining boundary lines; and F) fitting a defect specification line for the remaining boundary lines, wherein, if widths of the remaining boundary lines are not smaller than a width of the defect specification line, confirming that the remaining boundary lines are defect lines. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187065 | METHOD OF DETERMINING QUALITY OF HEART & CUPID OPTICAL EFFECTS OF DIAMOND AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention includes the steps of: storing data such as the symmetry, the variation degree in the area, the displacement of a tip portion, the depth of a slit, the shoulder widths, and the like of eight heart marks and the symmetry, the variation degree in the area, the displacement or sharpness of an arrow tip, and the like of eight cupid marks into a computer database; and performing arithmetic processing of the data and ranking determination of the quality of the heart marks and the cupid marks. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and device capable of objectively determining the quality on the basis of the same determination criterion using determination software in both of a case where the diamond is directly imaged by a CCD camera. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187066 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY INSPECTING LENS ACTUATOR - Disclosed is a device for rapidly and comprehensively inspecting a lens actuator, the device comprising a bracket ( | 2015-07-02 |
20150187067 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OF A VIEWED OBJECT SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH AN IMAGE DEPICTING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY OF THE VIEWED OBJECT - A method and device for displaying a two-dimensional image of a viewed object simultaneously with an image depicting a three-dimensional geometry of the viewed object using a video inspection device is disclosed. The video inspection device displays a two-dimensional image of the object surface of a viewed object, and determines the three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of surface points. At least one rendered image of the three-dimensional geometry of the viewed object is displayed simultaneously with the two-dimensional image. As measurement cursors are placed and moved on the two-dimensional image, the rendered image of the three-dimensional geometry of the viewed object is automatically updated. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187068 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND DECISION MAKING FROM SERIES OF IMAGES - Apparatus and methods comprise examination of a subject using images of the subject. The images can provide a non-invasive analysis technique and can include a plurality of images of a portion of the subject at different times a temperature stimulus applied to the subject. An image of the portion of the subject can be aligned such that each pixel of the image corresponds to the same point on the subject over a sequence of images of the portion. The sequence of images can be processed after aligning the images such that data is extracted from the images. The extracted data can be used to make decisions regarding the health status of the subject. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187069 | SEGMENTATION OF SHEET OBJECTS FROM IMAGE GENERATED USING RADIATION IMAGING MODALITY - Among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques for segmenting a representation of a sheet object from an image are provided herein. To identify elements of an image (e.g., pixels and/or voxels) representative of sheet objects, a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) score and a topological score are computed for respective elements being analyzed. The CFAR score indicates a relationship between an element and a neighborhood of elements when viewed as a collective unit. The topological score indicates a relationship between the element and a neighborhood of elements when viewed neighbor-by-neighbor. When the CFAR score is within a specified range of CFAR scores and the topological score is within a specified range of topological scores, the element is labeled as being associated with a sheet object. A connected component labeling (CCL) approach may be used to group elements labeled as being associated with a sheet object. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187070 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC LOCATION OF OPTIC STRUCTURES IN AN IMAGE OF AN EYE, AND FOR AUTOMATIC RETINA CUP-TO-DISC RATIO COMPUTATION - A method is proposed for automatically locating the optic disc or the optic cup in an image of the rear of an eye. A portion of the image containing the optic disc or optic cup is divided into sub-regions using a clustering algorithm. Biologically inspired features, and optionally other features, are obtained for each of the sub-regions. An adaptive model uses the features to generate data indicative of whether each sub-region is within or outside the optic disc or optic cup. The result is then smoothed, to form an estimate of the position of the optic disc or optic cup. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187071 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MARKING REGION OF INTEREST - An apparatus and method thereof include an observation map generator configured to generate a three-dimensional (3D) observation map based on display frequency and/or display duration of a cross-sectional image of a 3D volume image, wherein the 3D observation map three-dimensionally represents degrees of interest for each voxel of the 3D volume image. The apparatus also includes a region of interest marker configured to mark a region of interest. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187072 | Method and Apparatus for Reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A method and an apparatus for reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging are provided. The method includes collecting data in each initial channel and filling the data in an initial K-space, the data including data in a calibration data area and data in an undersampled area; constructing a target virtual space, and mapping initial K-space data to the target virtual space; constructing, in the target virtual space, a target optimized virtual space by retaining channel data having a high signal-to-noise ratio; filling out the undersampled area in the target optimized virtual space, and acquiring complete data in the target optimized virtual space; converting the complete data in the target optimized virtual space to an image domain to obtain an image. The method advantageously increases the signal-to-noise ratio of the channel data and significantly improves the image quality. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187073 | METHOD, RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE, AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING MAGNETIC RESONANCE RAW DATA - In a method and a reconstruction device for reconstructing an image from MR raw data acquired with multiple coils and entered at sample points on a grid in k-space, the sample points are arranged on data entry trajectories, respectively, along one-dimensional edges in an equidistant grid dimension characteristic for the respective edge. If raw data were acquired at all sample points, k-space would be sufficiently scanned, but the raw data are entered only on a portion of the sample points so that sufficient scanning exists only in an internal region of k-space, with undersampling existing in an external region of k-space. Reconstruction of the missing raw data is performed by reconstructing raw data for a specific coil for the non-sampled sample points in the internal region using the raw data acquired with that coil for other sample points in the internal region, without using raw data acquired with other coils, and for the non-sampled sample points in the external region, using the raw data acquired for the internal region, as well as reconstructed raw data, and using raw data acquired with different coils. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187074 | Omnibus Resolution Assessment Target for Sensors - A method and system are provided to assess a resolution of an optical sensor. The method includes placing a target at a distance from a focal plane of the optical sensor. The target is oriented in a first orientation and includes a grid and a plurality of test objects having different sizes and orientations. An image of the target is acquired from the optical sensor. The target grid in the acquired image is identified. Each test object of the plurality of test objects is identified using the identified grid and an orientation of the identified test object is determined. The determined orientations of the identified test objects of the plurality of test objects are compared to a ground truth and presented. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187075 | Bleed-through Detection Method and Bleed-through Detection Apparatus - The present invention discloses a bleed-through detection method and a bleed-through detection device. The method includes: obtaining a recto image and a verso image, thereby obtaining pixel pairs including the first points and the corresponding second points; determining some foreground pixels and some background pixels; performing modeling for four types of pixel pairs, so as to form four models; calculating, for a pixel pair that hasn't been modeled, similarities of the pixel pair with respect to the four models respectively, so as to determine a type of the pixel pair; and judging, as bleed-through on the verso image, a second point determined as a background pixel which corresponds to a first point determined as a foreground pixel, and judging, as bleed-through on the recto image, a first point determined as a background pixel which corresponds to a second point determined as a foreground pixel. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187076 | System and Methods for Persona Identification Using Combined Probability Maps - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for extracting person image data comprising: obtaining at least one frame of pixel data and corresponding image depth data; processing the at least one frame of pixel data and the image depth data with a plurality of persona identification modules to generate a corresponding plurality of persona probability maps; combining the plurality of persona probability maps to obtain an aggregate persona probability map; and generating a persona image by extracting pixels from the at least one frame of pixel data based on the aggregate persona probability map. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187077 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing device | 2015-07-02 |
20150187078 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IRRADIATING FIELD RECOGNITION METHOD - According to one implementation, an image processing apparatus includes the following. A setting unit sets a point in an irradiating field region of a radiation image as a reference point. A candidate point extracting unit extracts irradiating field edge candidate points based on the set reference point. A straight line candidate extracting unit extracts straight line candidates of the irradiating field edge based on the extracted irradiating field edge candidate points. A judging unit performs correct/incorrect judgment of the extracted straight line candidates. A recognizing unit recognizes the irradiating field region based on the straight line candidates judged to be correct. The judging unit calculates an evaluating value of the straight line candidates as the irradiating field edge. The judging unit performs correct/incorrect judgment of the straight line candidates based on the calculated evaluating value. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187079 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device comprises a computing module and a storing module. The computing module receives a first image having a first region with two spots, determining whether a first interval between the spots of the first region is larger than a threshold, computing the first image with a parameter of a parameter set for obtaining a second image having a second region corresponding to the first region with two spots if the first interval is larger than the threshold, and determining whether a second interval between the spots of the second region is larger than the threshold. The storing module records the parameter, if the second interval is smaller than or equal to the threshold. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187080 | CART INSPECTION FOR SUSPICIOUS ITEMS - Methods and apparatus provide for a Cart Inspector to create a suspicion level for a transaction when a video image of the transaction portrays an item(s) left in a shopping cart. Specifically, the Cart Inspector obtains video data associated with a time(s) of interest. The video data originates from a video camera that monitors a transaction area. The Cart Inspector analyzes the video data with respect to target image(s) associated with a transaction in the transaction area during the time(s) of interest. The Cart Inspector creates an indication of a suspicion level for the transaction based on analysis of the target image(s). Creation of a high suspicion level for the transaction indicates that the transaction's corresponding video images most likely portray occurrences where the purchase price of an item transported through the transaction area was not included in the total amount paid by the customer. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187081 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A 3D measurement system and method therefor having improved precision can be provided by projecting a pattern using a grid pattern or a chessboard grid pattern and performing interpolation based on a method for measuring differences in illuminance. A 3D measurement system includes a coordinate value calculation unit for calculating 3D coordinate values from pattern image information captured using a predetermined pattern, and a depth value calculation unit for calculating a depth value at a first position from N pieces of illuminance image information captured using lighting devices installed at N different locations. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DEPTH MAP RECONSTRUCTION - What is disclosed is a system and method for adaptively reconstructing a depth map of a scene. In one embodiment, upon receiving a mask identifying a region of interest (ROI), a processor changes either a spatial attribute of a pattern of source light projected on the scene by a light modulator which projects an undistorted pattern of light with known spatio-temporal attributes on the scene, or changes an operative resolution of a depth map reconstruction module. A sensing device detects the reflected pattern of light. A depth map of the scene is generated by the depth map reconstruction module by establishing correspondences between spatial attributes in the detected pattern and spatial attributes of the projected undistorted pattern and triangulating the correspondences to characterize differences therebetween. The depth map is such that a spatial resolution in the ROI is higher relative to a spatial resolution of locations not within the ROI. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187083 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor including at least one phase detection pixel, and a control unit operatively coupled to the image sensor. The control unit is configured to obtain image information and phase difference information about at least one subject through the image sensor, to identify a plurality of pieces of distance information corresponding to a plurality of regions associated with the image information, based on the phase difference information, and to process the image information, based on the distance information. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187084 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR GENERATING THUMBNAIL OF IMAGE - A method for generating a thumbnail of an image, includes: filtering an image to obtain an edge intensity value for each pixel point in the image; sliding a preset rectangular box on the image to perform a search and, at each searched position, calculating a distribution value of information amount in the rectangular box according to the edge intensity values of the pixel points therein; and selecting the rectangular box with the largest distribution value of information amount, and intercepting content of the image corresponding to the selected rectangular box to obtain a thumbnail of the image. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187085 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A path detection-use graph structure is generated based on a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of linear structures, and a path that is included in the generated path detection-use graph structure and connects a plurality of root nodes representing points of origin of the plurality of linear structures to each other is detected. Then, based on a predetermined condition representing a feature of an erroneous connection edge erroneously connecting two nodes that are to belong to different graph structures to each other, a connection cost is set for each of edges forming the path so that the erroneous connection edge is hard to connect, and based on the set connection costs, the plurality of graph structures corresponding respectively to the plurality of linear structures are generated. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187086 | Wireless Display that Accesses Remote Resources for Display Data - Problems of bandwidth utilization and delay, with a computer having a wirelessly connected display, are addressed by having the computer instruct a display device to access content from remote resources and combine that content with content processed locally at the computer and sent to the display device. The display device includes a processor, or display computer, associated with a display. When the computer transmits data to the display device, the data includes information indicating the resource, such as a server accessible over a computer network, which stores the content to be displayed. The processor associated with the display uses this information to access the content directly from its resource. The processor associated with the display can be embedded in the housing for the display or can be housed in a separate housing that is electrically connected directly to the display. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187087 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - An electronic device and method for using an electronic device. The method includes extracting feature points from first image data and second image data, respectively, grouping the extracted feature points of the first image data and the second image data, respectively, tracing groupings of extracted feature points of the second image data to corresponding groupings of extracted feature points of the first image data, and calculating displacement information by using the tracings. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187088 | ACTIVITY MAP CREATING DEVICE, ACTIVITY MAP CREATING SYSTEM, AND ACTIVITY MAP CREATING METHOD - An activity map creating device creates an activity situation of a moving object, and outputs an activity map visualizing the activity situation of the moving object. The device includes a moving object detector that detects the moving object from a captured image, and a first activity value obtainer that obtains a moving object activity value for each of a plurality of detection elements. The device further includes a target area setter that sets a target area, a second activity value obtainer that aggregates, in the target area, moving object activity values of the respective detection elements, and a map generator that creates the activity map for the target area based on the aggregation. The device further includes an output information generator that creates output information on the activity map. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187089 | DYNAMIC PROGRAMMABLE TEXTURE SAMPLER FOR FLEXIBLE FILTERING OF GRAPHICAL TEXTURE DATA - For a given texture address, a multi-mode texture sampler fetches and reduces texture data with a multi-mode filter accumulator suitable for providing a weighted average over a variety of filter footprints. A multi-mode texture sampler is configurable to provide both a wide variety of footprints and allow for a filter footprint significantly wider than the bi-linear (2×2 texel) footprint. In embodiments, filter coefficients specifying a weighting for each texel in a flexible footprint are cached from coefficient tables stored in memory. Techniques and systems are provided for dynamic allocation, update and handling of weighting coefficient tables as resources independent of sampler state. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187090 | ANGLE- DEPENDENT ANISOTROPIC FILTERING - A method for anisotropic filtering is provided herein. The method includes computing an anisotropic filter with a major-axis and a minor-axis for a pixel to be displayed on screen-space, wherein the anisotropic filter is to be applied to corresponding MIPs on a texture map. The method includes varying the length of the major-axis of the anisotropic filter based on the angle of the major-axis of anisotropy with respect to the screen space. The method includes determining a number of texels from the texture map that are to be sampled in the anisotropic filter based on the length of the modified major-axis. The method includes determining the color of the pixel based on the texels sampled in the anisotropic filter. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187091 | SIZE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND SIZE MEASUREMENT METHOD - A size measurement device for measuring a size of an object from a captured image of the object includes: an imaging unit that captures an image of an object; a display unit that displays image data captured by the imaging unit; an input unit for inputting instructions of a user; a region setting unit that, when positions are designated with the input unit in the image data displayed on the display unit, sets surrounding regions including therein respective designated positions; and a feature point determination unit that determines, in the surrounding regions set by the region setting unit, feature points providing coordinates of the object to be measured. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187092 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT BASED IMAGE COMPRESSION - Techniques for compressing images based on context are provided. A first image and a second image may be identified for display on a client device. One or more contexts of the first image may be identified. One or more contexts of the second image may be identified. A first image quality for the first image may be determined based on the one or more contexts of the first image. A second image quality for the second image may be determined based on the one or more contexts of the second image. The first image may be compressed at the first image quality and the second image at the second image quality. The compressed first image and the compressed second image may be transmitted to the client device. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187093 | ILLUMINATING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT WITH CAMERA LIGHT DATA - A method for operating a list in a mobile terminal is disclosed. An example method includes receiving a scene to display corresponding to a user performing an operation on the mobile terminal, capturing an image of the current environment from a camera of the mobile terminal while the user is performing the operation, extracting information from the captured image, processing the extracted information, rendering a display screen according to the received scene and according to the extracted information, and displaying the rendered display screen during the operation. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187094 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A display device includes a light sensor, a controller, a data driver, and a scan driver. The controller is configured to correct an input image signal based on an electrical signal output by the light sensor and an input image signal, the controller includes: a first color coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate a color coordinate of reflected light; a second color coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate a color coordinate of dark room output light for at least two grayscale value sections; a combination unit configured to combine the reflected light color coordinate and the dark room output light color coordinate together; and a gamma value setting unit configured to set a gamma value based on a deviation between the combination light color coordinate output by the combination unit and a reference color coordinate. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187095 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING PAGE MASK - The method comprises: acquiring page information about a page of which a mask needs to be displayed; the page information comprising: the height and width of the page of which the mask needs to be displayed, and a location area in the page of at least one page element which needs to be hollowly displayed by the mask; and according to the page information, drawing a corresponding hollow mask on the page, so as to display the page element by means of the hollow location on the mask. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187096 | PHASE RETRIEVAL FROM DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING - Embodiments of methods and apparatus are disclosed for obtaining differential phase contrast imaging system and methods for same. Method and apparatus embodiments can provide regularized phase contrast retrieval that can address noise reduction and/or edge enhancement. Certain exemplary embodiments can suppress stripe artifacts occurring in the process of integration of noisy differential phase data. Further, certain exemplary embodiments can use transmission images and/or dark-field images to improve or restore phase contrast images affected by noise edges. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187097 | COMPUTING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINISTICALLY PLACING GEOMETRIC SHAPES WITHIN GEOGRAPHIC MAPS - The present disclosure is related to geographic maps including a plurality of map tiles having various geometric shapes. A determination is made for each map tile as to whether road segment geometry for a road corresponding to the geometric shape is available. The geometric shape is positioned using an actual road width when it is determined that the road segment geometry is available. The geometric shape is positioned using a default road width when it is determined that the road segment geometry is unavailable. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNOBTRUSIVELY CHANGING IMAGERY SUPPLEMENTING A MAP DISPLAY - In a computing device, images being displayed in connection with a digital map are unobtrusively updated. To this end, a digital map of a first geographic area and first images related to the first geographic area are displayed. A selection of a second geographic area is received. In response to the selection of the second geographic area, a digital map of the second geographic area and second images related to the second geographic area are displayed. One of the first images is temporarily, for a perceivable amount of time, displayed with the digital map of the second geographic area, where the displayed image is unrelated to the second geographic area. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187099 | COMPUTING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING GEOGRAPHIC AREAS THAT SATISFY A SET OF MULTIPLE DIFFERENT CRITERIA - The present disclosure relates to identifying geographic areas that satisfy a set of multiple different criteria. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a user interface that allows a user, or a collaborating group of users to specify a set of multiple different criteria associated with various features of a geographic map. In response to a user, or a collaborating group of users entering a set of multiple different criteria, a geographic map display is generated that includes identified areas that satisfy the multiple different criteria. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187100 | PRESENTING MULTIPLE MAP RESULTS WITH ON-MAP LABELS - Client-side and server-side methods for displaying points of interest (POIs) within a map displayed on a client computing device are presented. In an example, the method includes transmitting a request for map data and receiving, in response, map data and POI data related to the request. The method further includes filtering POIs in the POI data to determine one or more sets of POIs wherein each POI in any set of POIs is within a predetermined distance from the other POIs in the set. The method includes creating a merged icon for the set of POIs, the merged icon comprising a collection of layered icons and creating a merged, multi-line label for the set of POIs, wherein each label is associated with a corresponding one POI in the set. The method also includes displaying, for each set of POIs, the merged icon adjacent to the merged, multi-line label. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187101 | DEVICE AND METHOD WITH ORIENTATION INDICATION - An electronic device and a corresponding method are presented. The device comprises: an imager unit having a certain field of view and configured to collect image data, an orientation detection unit configured to provide orientation data of the imager unit with respect to a predetermined plane, a processing unit, and a display unit. The processing unit is configured and operable for: receiving orientation data collected by the orientation detection unit; accessing pre-stored reference orientation data and analyzing said received orientation data with respect to said reference orientation data to determine orientation variation data of the imaging unit; and transmitting data indicative of said orientation variation data to the display unit to thereby initiate displaying of a predetermined geometrical shape indicative of said orientation variation. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187102 | HEATMAP PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is a heatmap providing apparatus and method in which a heatmap is generated and displayed for an area of interest set in a full region. The heatmap providing method includes: obtaining motion occurrence frequencies in a captured region; setting at least one area of interest in the captured region; and displaying the motion occurrence frequencies in different indications in the area of interest. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187103 | OBSCURED RELATIONSHIP DATA WITHIN A GRAPH - Techniques for generating a visual representation of a graph are described herein. The techniques may include determining a metamodel indicating relationships between objects, and determining rules for obscuring data about the objects of the metamodel. A visual representation of a graph is generated, which visual representation illustrates at least some of the data about the objects and their relationships without illustrating the obscured data. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187104 | OBSCURED RELATIONSHIP DATA WITHIN A GRAPH - Techniques for generating a visual representation of a graph are described herein. The techniques may include determining a metamodel indicating relationships between objects, and determining rules for obscuring data about the objects of the metamodel. A visual representation of a graph is generated, which visual representation illustrates at least some of the data about the objects and their relationships without illustrating the obscured data. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187105 | GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL PROCESSING PROGRAM - A graph display control device includes a formula display control unit, a graph display control unit and an operation-display-element display control unit. The formula display control unit displays a plurality of function formulas containing parameters on a display unit. The graph display control unit displays a graph image corresponding to one of the plurality of function formulas displayed by the formula display control unit, on the display unit so as to be discriminable according to the plurality of function formulas. The operation-display-element display control unit discriminately displays an operation display element for designating a numerical value of a parameter contained in at least one of the plurality of function formulas, on the display unit in correspondence to the graph images respectively displayed discriminately in relation to the function formulas by the graph display control unit. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187106 | GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL PROCESS PROGRAM - A graph display control apparatus displays a first operation display element for varying, within a preset range, a value of a coefficient included in a function expression; displays a graph image corresponding to the function expression based on the value of the coefficient which is varied in accordance with a user operation of the first operation display element; designates, in accordance with a user operation, a partial variation range of the set variation range of the value of the coefficient; displays a second operation display element for varying the value of the coefficient within the designated partial variation range of the value of the coefficient; and re-displays the graph image displayed based on the value of the coefficient which is varied in accordance with a user operation of the second operation display element. | 2015-07-02 |
20150187107 | HIGHLIGHTING RELATED POINTS OF INTEREST IN A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION - A mapping system determines points of interest that are related to a selected point of interest within a digital map displayed at a client computing device. The system receives a request for mapping system data from a client computing device. The request indicates a selected point of interest (POI) that is displayed at a geographic location within the digital map. The selected POI corresponds to a list of words describing characteristics of the selected POI, and each word corresponding to the selected POI word includes a base score describing an importance of the word compared to a list of all words corresponding to displayable POIs. The system determines POIs that are related to the selected POI by comparing base scores of the selected POI words to base scores of related POI words, where the related POIs each include at least one word in common with the selected POI. | 2015-07-02 |