41st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
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20150287128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF COMMODITIES - According to one embodiment, a commodity-image generating system includes a reception unit receiver, an acquisition unit, and synthesis unit synthesizer. The reception unit receiver receives selection information able to specify at least one commodity selected by a user, the quantity in which to purchase the commodity and the unit of the quantity. The acquisition unit acquires at least one commodity image associated with the commodity selected in accordance with the selection information, and quantity information representing the quantity of the commodity included in the commodity image. The synthesis unit synthesizer generates, on the basis of the quantity information, a synthesized image included in composed of the commodity image. The synthesized image reflects the quantity and the unit of the quantity. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287129 | NORMALIZED IMAGES FOR ITEM LISTINGS - Disclosed in some examples is a method including receiving a selection of an outline template; displaying the outline template in an image preview screen of a digital image capture device; responsive to a capture of an image of the digital image capture device, cropping the image to an outline of the outline template; positioning the cropped image over a second image and sending a combined image formed from the image positioned over the second image to a commerce server, the combined image for use as a product image. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING DAMAGE OF RENTAL VEHICLE - The present teachings generally relate to systems and methods for capturing and storing images that relate to the condition of a motor vehicle at two different times, e.g., the condition of a rental motor vehicle before it is removed from a rental agency and after it is returned to the agency. In some aspects, the systems and methods described herein can allow a rental agent to quickly capture the condition of a car with a time and location stamp to ensure that mileage, fuel level, and/or damage is recorded and stored for review and/or comparison with previous or later acquired images and review the images for charges to be assessed to the customer in an efficient and reliable manner. Although various aspects of the invention are discussed herein with reference to rental motor vehicles, the invention can have broader applicability, e.g., for use in valet services, rental of boats, motorcycles, etc. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287131 | AUCTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATION OF MOBILE CLOUD RESOURCES - A method and a system for an online electronic auction are provided. The method includes following steps. A first bid price is obtained from a client. A second bid price is obtained from a cloud service provider. The client and the cloud service provider that win the auction and a transaction price thereof are obtained according to the first bid price and the second bid price, and identification information of the client and the cloud service provider that win the auction is matched with each other such that the client and the cloud service provider can complete an online payment according to the matched identification information. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287132 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRUCTURING AN ONLINE AUCTION WHEN RESERVE PRICE IS NOT MET - A system and method for structuring an online auction when a reserve price is not met are described. In an online auction, bidding activity is analyzed over a duration to determine whether there are multiple active bidders for the auction and whether the reserve price for the auction is met after a designated period of time. In response to making that determination, the bidder interface for a sole active bidder on the auction can be automatically updated to include a notification that the bid has not met the reserve price and an option to place a new bid on the item so that the auction is successful and does not end with no bids meeting the reserve. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287133 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING THE RISK OF ROBBERY/THEFT OF BANKNOTES - A method reduces the risk of robbery/theft, for example during transportation of banknotes or storage of banknotes. The method is performed before or during a transport from, or storage at the sender. A banknote that is intended to be locked is registered, read and/or imaged. The banknote identity is stored as a Banknote-ID. Auxiliary information is registered and/or generated at the sender. A locking/blocking request includes at least one banknote identity and auxiliary local memory, whereby the banknote is indicated as locked in the central server, after receiving the transport/storage at the receiver. An unlocking/relocking request can be sent to a central server and/or to a local memory; and the auxiliary information from the receiver is checked to determine if it fulfills the conditions set in the auxiliary information from the sender and/or the predetermined conditions stored in the central server. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287134 | Social Banking Information Presentation Methods and Supporting Technical Architecture - A system for displaying social banking information, searching banking information using partial textual inputs with supportive keywords, and a supporting technical architecture that enables real-time smart association of social data with the banking information. The system comprises at least one computer for storing user transactions, a computer program for organizing these transactions according to various categories, a user interface, and a program product including machine-readable program code. The code, when executed, causes the at least one computer to perform the following process steps: (a) receiving a monetary transaction by a user; (b) capturing an image related to the monetary transaction; (c) associating the image with the monetary transaction; (d) presenting the monetary transaction and the image to the user; and (e) presenting search result options based on a text search by the user. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287135 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING CREDIT - A communication system enabling a first wireless subscriber that is need of an instant credit line to use a creditee module on a portable wireless communication device to request for credit from a second subscriber that has available credit held in a financial institution. The second subscriber uses a creditor module on their device to generate rules that should be executed within the system before the requested credit line that is guaranteed by the financial institution of the second subscriber is extended to the first wireless subscriber. Upon successful execution of the rules, a credit authorization code is generated by the system and forwarded to the creditee module of the first subscriber's device such that the code can be subsequently used after a purchase transaction is initiated by the first subscriber to pay for purchases at the site of the vendor. The vendor then employs a vendor's module to apply the issued credit as prescribed by the creditor module. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287136 | Method for Increasing Geographic Retention of Graduates by Reducing Student Loan Interest Rates Through Private Investment and a Secondary Bond Market - The method of the present invention attracts two groups of direct customers; grad students and investors and two passive groups of customers who will also benefit from these trades and investments; society and school institutions. The method provides cheaper interest rate student loans than offered by government sources and variable rates by private corporations; and provides the investors with relatively low risk investments that allow the investor to help address a community need. Preferably, the invention includes formation of a secondary tuition bond market to provide a means to liquidate the investor's investments in the tuition fund by trading/selling their student tuition bonds. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287137 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A FINANCIAL HEALTH INDICATOR - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for providing a financial health indicator based on the user's credit report score and the user's budget indicator. Implemented in conjunction with a budget tracking system, the invention may provide financial health indicators indicating both short-term budget impact and long-term budget impact. In addition, certain embodiments provide for recognizing recurring expenditures and automatically providing the user with the budget impact of such recurring expenditures as a financial health indicator. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287138 | EXTENDING TEMPORARY CREDIT BASED ON RISK FACTORS - Systems and methods are provided for extending short term credit to a user when a user enters a location or checks in to a location. The credit may be extended based on a risk score determined based on risk factors associated with the user. The risk factors used to determine the risk score may include a purchase history, a payment history, past amounts paid, a first number of credit cards associated with the user, and past credit extended to the user. Credit information from a credit server may also be used to determine the risk score. The determined risk score may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine if credit should be extended to the user and, if credit is to be extended, the amount of credit to be extended. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287139 | FINANCIAL PRODUCT TRADE MANAGING APPARATUS, FINANCIAL PRODUCT TRADE MANAGING SYSTEM, FINANCIAL PRODUCT TRADE MANAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a financial product trade managing apparatus to contain occurrence of a loss with fluctuation in a market price and to facilitate gaining a large profit. The financial product trade managing apparatus includes an order information generating section to generate order information to place a first order and a second order. The first order is set so as to be contracted after the market price passes through a first order price and thereafter reverses the direction of the fluctuation and matches again with the first order price. The second order is set so as to be contracted after the market price passes through a second order price and thereafter reverses the direction of the fluctuation and matches again with the second order price. The second order price is set so as to rise or fall trailing the fluctuation in the market price. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287140 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT - Computer-based systems and methods have been developed wherein at least one embodiment is capable of automatically determining the optimal collateral holdings in compliance with Credit Support Annex (CSA) agreements, and dynamically reallocating the collateral holdings as time progresses, in order to maintain the optimality of the portfolio of holdings through Customer Service Representatives' (CSR) operations. The optimal allocation may be defined as one that minimizes the operational cost of satisfying CSA agreements via collateral postings. Data may be stored concerning attributes of the components of the holdings of the counterparties, available inventory of assets (securities and cash), current market factors (e.g., interest rates, LIBOR), which are constantly updated. A discrete optimization routine may be used to generate feasible global optimal solutions to allocate and/or reallocate the collateral postings satisfying the operational constraints. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287141 | Portfolio optimization by the detection and control of the predictive horizon of included investments. - An investment portfolio management method for creating or rebalancing an investor's securities portfolio based on the predictive horizon of included investments. Individual investments are chosen for inclusion, exclusion, or rebalancing based on the predictive time horizon of the individual investments and the portfolio. Existing portfolios can be optimized using this technique individually or in conjunction with other techniques such as Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). Additionally this technique can be utilized to completely and independently construct a minimally or mixed chaotic portfolio without also using other techniques. Additionally the individual investments and/or the portfolio as a whole are tested to determine the predictive time horizon in the individual investments and the portfolio. Individual investments are chosen for inclusion, exclusion, or rebalancing based on the predictive time horizon of the individual investments and the portfolio. Existing portfolios can be optimized using this technique individually or in conjunction with other techniques such as Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). | 2015-10-08 |
20150287142 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF CROWD SOURCED DATA FOR PREEMPTIVE LOSS CONTROL - This invention relates to a crowd sourced based predictive system for detecting and analyzing actuarially significant activity including high risk activities that may result in damage to an insured property. The system alerts users of the potential conditions and activities in order to assist with loss control and provide users with the ability to purchase insurance coverages relates to the conditions and activities. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287143 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING UNDERWRITING USING A RISK ORDER APPROACH - The disclosed technology relates generally to a method and system for assessing the eligibility of a customer to receive insurance from a provider. In certain embodiments, the disclosed technology uses a risk order approach to rank applicants based on mortality. Applicants are evaluated based on the impact a variety of metrics have on mortality and the system determines a recommended risk class and policy terms for each applicant. The system, in certain embodiments, provides a modular underwriting platform that is expandable and able to incorporate several underwriting tools (e.g., lab scores, market view data). The modular structure of the platform enables the system to be adjusted such that the approach may be modified for use in new insurance markets. In certain implementations, the system provides the ability to make slight adjustments to allow for preferred class distinctions in a simplified issue context. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287144 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING CLOSED ACCOUNT RECORDS TO ACTIVE ACCOUNTS FOR HISTORICAL DATA PURPOSES - A system and method that can match closed account records to active account records for use in analyzing multi-account customer locations across several time periods is provided. The output contains the best possible groupings of the active and inactive customer accounts. The process begins with the most recent view of the customer and goes back in the history of the match results generated using the known four part process. The process generates new groupings of the active and inactive entities of the same customer locations using different rules for historical groups to determine in which new groupings each old group should be placed. The new groupings group together not only the current accounts of a business location but also the accounts that used to belong to that location earlier during the period being analyzed to allow for a complete analysis of the customer location. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287145 | ASSESSING MERCHANT AFFINITY - There is provided a method that includes (a) accessing a database that contains records of payment card transactions, (b) filtering the records based on a filtering criterion and a period of time, thus yielding filtered transactions that occurred during the period of time, (c) identifying from the filtered transactions, customers of a first merchant, (d) identifying from the filtered transactions, a second merchant with which the customers engaged in transactions, and (e) calculating, from the filtered transactions, an index that indicates an affinity between the first merchant and the second merchant. There is also provided a system that employs the method, and a storage device that contains instructions for controlling a processor to perform the method. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287146 | Profile Critique System For Online Dating And Social Networking Websites - A method for allowing users on social networking websites, online dating websites, business networking websites, or other profile-based websites to request critiques for their profile, that they can use to improve their profile. In its main embodiment, a user submits a request to the server for profile feedback, further specifying the characteristics of the users that he wishes to get feedback from. For example, on an online dating website, a male user might want profile critiques to be done by female users within his age range, whereas on a business networking website, a user might want critiques from people with more work experience. The targeted users are then notified that a user wants to have their profile reviewed, and given the opportunity to submit either textual or numeric feedback about how to improve the profile. The reviews submitted by those users are then shown to the requesting users, though they can be restricted to be anonymous and private, and can even be restricted to be obtained from reviewers who are located a great distance away from the requesting user. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287147 | Apparatus and Method for Measuring Social Impact - A method and apparatus for providing the full spread social impact score of individual users on defined issues beyond their direct adherents via a novel social media website is described. A social impact score may be compared with that of other individuals to provide a social impact rating. For this it employs the novel means of an affiliation tree, which may include its negative counterpart, the razzy tree. The same method and apparatus can be used for determining the market impact score and rating for individual message placements. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287148 | MOBILE APPLICATION FOR VOLUNTEER SERVICE TRACKING, PROMOTION, AND PARTICIPATION - Computer implemented systems and methods for volunteer service tracking, promotion and participation are described herein. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of user devices with user interfaces, a mobile telephone network server, a mobile telephone user database, a web application server, a participant database, and a project database coupled via a network. In operation, the mobile telephone network server transmits user information from the mobile telephone user database to the web application server, and facilitates communication among users of the client devices with the web application server, and the social network server transmits user profile data from the social network database to the web application server. In turn, the web application server communicates with the user devices via the network to transmit and receive information referable to a volunteer service project, including parameters associated therewith. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287149 | CROP YIELD PER LOCATION MEASURER - A crop yield per location measurer is disclosed. In general, the crop yield measurer includes a crop collector for a field of crops. The crop collector includes a navigation satellite system location determiner to determine location information at periodic times during a crop collection process. The crop collector also includes an optical mechanism to optically determine a volume of collected crops at the periodic times during the crop collection process. In addition, a database is used for storing the location information and the volume at the periodic times during the crop collection process. A crop yield overview generator is then utilized to provide a user accessible crop yield per location overview for the field of crops based on the information stored at the database. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287150 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EARTH-BORING ROTARY DRILL BIT SELECTION - Systems and methods may be used to select a drill bit design for an earth-boring rotary drill bit for use in a particular drilling application. The systems may include a computer server, and a remote device configured to communicate with the computer server through a network. The computer server may include a database including information relating to normalized scores for a plurality of drill bit responses for a plurality of differing drill bit designs. The computer server may receive information from the at least one remote device, to select one or more potential drill bit designs from the at least one database based on the information, and to transmit information relating to the selected one or more potential drill bit designs to the remote device. Such systems may be used in methods of selecting drill bit designs for earth-boring rotary drill bits for use in respective drilling applications. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287151 | Digital Menu Board System with Cash Register and Kitchen Interface - A product management and sales system for managing product preparation and sales. The system includes a kitchen display and input device displaying a plurality of perishable food items to be produced and receiving a production indication signal indicating production of at least one of the plurality of perishable food items. The system further includes a digital menu board displaying the plurality of perishable food items available for sale, a sales counter terminal for completing a sale of at least one of the plurality of perishable food items and outputting a sold indication signal; and a controller receiving the sold indication signal. The controller compares the sold indication signal to a predetermined inventory level for the at least one perishable food item and outputs an item-to-be-produced signal to the kitchen display and input. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287152 | System and Method for Facilitating Property Management - The present invention relates to a system and method for facilitating property management and in particular to a system and method for facilitating maintenance of property. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287153 | Management of rights and royalties associated with a media - Management of rights and royalties associated with a media. Embodiments herein disclose a method and system for managing rights associated with a media among at least one contributor to the media Embodiments herein disclose a method and system for managing rights associated with a media by an entity that controls the rights to the media Embodiments herein disclose a method and system for managing royalty for a media, based on the contributors and their designated share of the royalty. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287154 | MEDICAL AND PERSONAL DATA RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A system for confidentially retrieving data from a person, such as by authorized personnel. One embodiment provides a data carrier item such as jewelry, having encrypted data imparted upon the item in manner that is only intelligible after being unencrypted. Such data can be encrypted and/or invisibly disposed such that the data is not identifiable by the public, but can be quickly and accurately retrieved by authorized personnel. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287155 | Marketing Device - A marketing device that provides promotional or attention-grabbing signage, including but not limited to, flags, banners, balloons, electronic signs and/or flyers. The marketing device may comprise a ring and includes appendages on which attention-grabbing items may be mounted. The ring preferably fits on a post, pole, side of a house or other support structure. The flags or other attention-grabbing items may be mounted at an angle to draw increased attention. An optional lid may be mounted to the ring and may be customized with graphics. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287156 | Methods and Apparatuses for Robust Watermarking in Multimedia Content - Methods and apparatuses for embedding watermark information into multimedia contents like audio, imagery or video, and for detection of such watermarks from embedded multimedia content. A two step embedding approach is proposed wherein the watermark bits are first used to construct a modulation signal. Said modulation signal is used to modify certain selected characteristics of the media content. A detector is then used to first extract the modulation signal from embedded media content, and then to extract watermark information from the modulation signal extracted. This current invention enhances watermark robustness against classes of attacks that prior arts are vulnerable to resist. Current invention is novel and useful in any multimedia application fields, including but not limited to the identification, distribution tracking and copyright protection of audio, imagery and video contents. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287157 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE AND GRAPHICAL INTERFACE COMPRISING SUCH A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A data processing system for a graphical interface includes at least one graphics processing unit (GPU) and at least one central processing unit (CPU) which communicates with the graphics processing unit, said processing unit and said central processing unit each including a group of data processing cores (C | 2015-10-08 |
20150287158 | METHOD FOR EFFICIENT RE-RENDERING OBJECTS TO VARY VIEWPORTS AND UNDER VARYING RENDERING AND RASTERIZATION PARAMETERS - Graphics processing renders a scene with a plurality of different rendering parameters for different locations on a screen area. A rendering parameter context is set up for each of a plurality of zones and each zone is assigned a zone index. An object covering at least two zones of the screen area is set up in memory. These zones are assigned to corresponding zone indices as part of setting up the object. A draw is issued for the object. Alternatively, graphics depicting one or more objects mapped to a screen area are processed. The screen area includes a plurality of zones, each having a different set of rendering parameters. Primitives belonging to one of the objects that covers at least two of the zones are received. Each primitive is assembled to screen space by iterating each primitive over each zone it covers using the rendering parameters of the respective zone with each iteration. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287159 | PROCESS SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN ENGINES USING DATA IN A MEMORY LOCATION - Memory-based semaphores are described that are useful for synchronizing processes between different processing engines. In one example, operations include executing a first process at a first processing engine, the executing including updating a memory register, sending a signal from the first processing engine to a second processing engine that the memory register has been updated, the signal including a memory register address to identify the updated memory register inline data and a dataword, fetching data from the memory register by the second processing engine, comparing the fetched data to the received dataword, and conditionally executing a next command of a second process at the second processing engine based on the comparison. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287160 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND FEATURE DETECTION METHOD - An image processing apparatus is disclosed. A processor performs a process that arranges multiple image filters in a tree structure and acquires features of multiple input images captured in different environments. A storage part stores a filter table that maintains information concerning the multiple image filters. In the process, an image filter having a different type for each of layers, in which multiple image processes are hierarchized, is selected from the filter table. A population, which includes the multiple image filters in the tree structure, is generated. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287161 | Systems and Methods for Cloud Processing and Overlaying of Content on Streaming Video Frames of Remotely Processed Applications - A first application executes on one or more computing systems to generate a series of original frame pixel data sets for rendering of graphical images associated with the first application execution. A second application executes on one or more computing systems to detect one or more key graphical images present in the series of original frame pixel data sets. Upon detection of the one or more key graphical images, the second application directs replacement of a portion of pixel data in the series of original frame pixel data sets with substitute pixel data so as to generate a series of modified frame pixel data sets for encoding in lieu of the series of original frame pixel data sets. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287162 | Image Curation - Image curation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, one or more modules are launched for execution on a computing device. Responsive to the launch, criteria are generated automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules by a computing device. Images are curated using the generated criteria automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules, the curated images identified from a plurality of different image sources that are associated with a user. The curated images are caused to be displayed by a display device of the computing device automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287163 | DRIVER, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A driver includes a display memory that stores display data, and a control unit that writes the display data in the display memory. The control unit accepts image region information for designating an image region in which an image corresponding to the display data is to be displayed within a display region of a display panel, and instruction information for giving an instruction to display of a frame region which surrounds the image region in the display region, and performs frame write processing for writing given tone data at an address of the display memory corresponding to the frame region, based on the image region information. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287164 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE DISPLAY PRIVACY - An electronic device and associated method is provided. The electronic device comprises a processor; a display coupled to the processor, the display for displaying an image; a memory coupled to the processor; and a security module saved in the memory. The security module configures the processor to apply obfuscation to the image displayed on the display when a privacy mode is engaged on the electronic device. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287165 | VARYING EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION BY SCREEN LOCATION BY CHANGING ACTIVE COLOR SAMPLE COUNT WITHIN MULTIPLE RENDER TARGETS - A graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to receive metadata specifying an active sample configuration for a particular region of a display device among a plurality of regions of the display device and receive pixel data for one or more pixels in the particular region. The pixel data specifies the same number of color samples for each pixel. For each pixel in the particular region, the GPU invokes a pixel shader only for color samples specified to be active samples by the configuration. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287166 | VARYING EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION BY SCREEN LOCATION BY ALTERING RASTERIZATION PARAMETERS - In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a virtual space. Primitive assembly is performed on the vertices to compute projections of the vertices from virtual space onto a viewport of the scene in a screen space of a display device containing a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being subdivided into a plurality of subsections. Scan conversion determines which pixels of the plurality of pixels are part of each primitive that has been converted to screen space coordinates. Coarse rasterization for each primitive determines which subsection or subsections the primitive overlaps. Metadata associated with the subsection a primitive overlaps determines a pixel resolution for the subsection. The metadata is used in processing pixels for the subsection to generate final pixel values for the viewport of the scene that is displayed on the display device in such a way that parts of the scene in two different subsections have different pixel resolution. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287167 | VARYING EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION BY SCREEN LOCATION IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING BY APPROXIMATING PROJECTION OF VERTICES ONTO CURVED VIEWPORT - In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a virtual space. A projection of the vertices onto a screen space of a display device is performed. The projection approximates a projection of the vertices onto a curved viewport. Primitive assembly is performed on the vertices to generate a one or more primitives in screen space from the projection of the vertices onto the screen space. Scan conversion is performed on the one or more primitives to determine which pixel or pixels of the plurality of pixels are part of corresponding primitives of the one or more primitives. A finished frame is then generated by performing pixel processing to assign pixel values to the pixel or pixels that are part of the corresponding primitives. In some implementations, the finished frame can be stored in the memory or displayed on the display device. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287168 | DUPLICATE CHECK IMAGE RESOLUTION - A system and method for comparing digital images, such as checks images used by banks, includes receiving and processing the images to be compared, including scaling the images to a common resolution, as well as filtering them to remove spot noise, background pels, and other non-information carrying elements. One or more regions of each image are selected for comparison. The selected regions are compared to one another by subtracting the pels of one image from the other's pels. A determination is made of whether the two or more images are duplicates of one another, or depict a substantially identical subject, based on the results of the subtractions. Furthermore, the amount of filtering and scaling may be adjusted to enhance the effects of the system to take advantage of common characteristics that may be known or detected in a particular set of images to be compared. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287169 | IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD - An image projection system includes a second transform matrix calculator that calculates a second projection transform matrix usable to projection-transform first intersection coordinates into intersection coordinates uniformly or substantially uniformly distributed in a first area and calculates a third projection transform matrix usable to projection-transform second intersection coordinates into intersection coordinates uniformly or substantially uniformly distributed in a second area; and an image corrector that transforms image data on a first divided image by use of the second projection transform matrix, transforms image data on a second divided image by use of the third projection transform matrix, and translates at least one of the first divided image and the second divided image toward a borderline between the first divided image and the second divided image to delete a gap between the first divided image and the second divided image. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287170 | APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING FOGGED IMAGE USING USER-CONTROLLABLE ROOT OPERATOR - The present invention relates to an apparatus for improving fogged image using user-controllable root operator, and the purpose of the present invention is to provide an apparatus which can provide a clean image by removing the effect that color sharpness and brightness contrast of an image taken by a camera are decreased by scattering and absorption by particles such as fog, smoke, cloud, and etc. in the air and mixture with other reflected light such as the sky and the earth. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287171 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDIUM - The present invention is directed to an image processing device including: a unit configured to extract, as target data, a set of signal values of pixels included in a target region including a target pixel in an input image; a unit configured to obtain reference data for each of a plurality of reference pixels corresponding to the target pixel; a unit configured to generate transformation reference data by transforming the reference data; a unit configured to determine a weight for each of a plurality of transformation reference pixels based on the target data and the reference data; and a unit configured to generate an output pixel corresponding to the target pixel by using a signal value calculated based on the transformation reference pixels and the weights. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287172 | Methods and Systems for Detection and Estimation of Mosquito Noise - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for detection and estimation of mosquito noise in an image or in a video sequence. A mosquito-noise estimate, at a pixel location, may be computed based on an image ring parameter, a statistical value of noise estimates in a first region associated with the pixel location, a maximum activity value in a second region associated with the pixel location and a noise estimate at the pixel location. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287173 | PERIODIC PATTERN HANDLING BY DISPLACEMENT VECTORS COMPARISON - Provided are a method and an apparatus for correcting an erroneous displacement vector in an image. The apparatus includes: an image divider configured to divide an image into a plurality of segments according to displacement vectors of pixels of the image, each of the plurality of segments corresponding to a representative displacement vector; an erroneous displacement vector detector configured to determine whether a representative displacement vector of a current comparing segment, from among the plurality of segments, is erroneous due to periodicity by comparing the representative displacement vector of the current comparing segment with a representative displacement vector of a reference segment, from among the plurality of segments; and a displacement vector corrector configured to correct the representative displacement vector of the current comparing segment in response to the erroneous displacement vector detector determining that the representative displacement vector of the current comparing segment is erroneous. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287174 | System and Method for Improving an Image Characteristic of Image Frames in a Video Stream - A system and method for improving a video characteristic of a video stream is described. According to various implementations of the invention, a changed region between a later-in-time image frame and an earlier-in-time image frame and an unchanged region between such two image frames are determined. A new improvement to the video characteristic is determined and applied to the changed region of the later-in-time image frame. A prior improvement to the video characteristic that was determined for the earlier-in-time image frame is applied to the unchanged region of the later-in-time image frame. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287175 | REMOVABLE DIFFRACTION ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In various embodiments, a system and method for manufacturing and using an optical enhancement assembly in combination with an image-capturing device are presented. In example embodiments, the optical enhancement assembly is affixed over an aperture on the image-capturing device using a securing agent. Light is allowed to travel through the optical enhancement assembly and into the aperture of the image-capturing device such that the light can be recorded as a still image or video. The optical enhancement assembly includes at least a unique fractalized diffraction pattern that impacts light traveling into the aperture and causes a unique diffraction effect on the image or video recorded by the image-capturing device. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287176 | METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR HYBRID TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR OPC MODEL CALIBRATION - A method and apparatus for hybrid test pattern generation for optical proximity correction (OPC) model calibration is disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving a mask pattern of a chip layout, extracting one or more patterns from the mask pattern, determining one or more parametric data sets for the one or more patterns, retrieving one or more calibration parametric data sets based on one or more other mask patterns, determining a difference between the one or more parametric data sets and the one or more calibration parametric data sets, and adding the one or more parametric data sets to the one or more calibration parametric data sets if the difference satisfies a threshold value. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287177 | IMAGE MEASURING DEVICE - An image measuring device having an XY stage capable of moving along orthogonal XY axes includes an imaging capturer that takes an image of a plurality of same shape measured objects placed onto the XY stage, a specifier that specifies a location and a rotation angle of each measured object by using preregistered image patterns and through pattern matching, and a detector that measures a dimension of each measured object using at least one of the specified location and rotation angle and detects coordinate data of each measured object on the XY stage. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287178 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETECTION OF DEFECTS BASED ON MULTIPLE REFERENCES - A system includes a memory and a processor device operatively coupled to the memory to obtain an inspected noise-indicative value representative of an analyzed pixel of an inspected image of an inspected object, and a reference noise-indicative value representative for each of multiple reference pixels of the inspected image. The processor device computes a representative noise-indicative value based on the inspected noise-indicative value and multiple reference noise-indicative values, calculates a defect-indicative value based on an inspected value representative of the analyzed pixel and determines a presence of a defect in the analyzed pixel based on the representative noise-indicative value and the defect-indicative value. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287179 | UNEVENNESS DETECTING DEVICE - An unevenness detecting device includes: a pulsed illuminating light source emitting light having a predetermined wavelength range; a first condensing lens condensing return light reflected by a workpiece held on a chuck table and passed through a chromatic aberration lens and a half-silvered mirror; a mask disposed at the position of a focal point of the first condensing lens, the mask passing only the condensed return light; a diffraction grating performing light separation so as to correspond to the wavelengths of the return light; a second condensing lens condensing the return light resulting from the light separation by the diffraction grating; and an imaging element disposed at the position of a focal point of the second condensing lens. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287180 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING OR ALIGNING THE ANGULAR POSITION OF INDIVIDUAL WIRES WITHIN A SHEATHED CABLE CONTAINING TWISTED WIRES - A method is disclosed for determining an angular position of individual wires at a predetermined cross-sectional position in a multi-wire sheathed cable, which has, inside a sheath, a plurality of individual wires twisted around one another with a predetermined lay length. The angular position of the individual wires is determined relative to a reference direction, which extends through the central longitudinal axis of the sheathed cable. The method includes: determining an end angle position of the ends of the individual wires relative to the reference direction at an end of the sheathed cable, determining the distance between the end of the sheathed cable and the predetermined cross-sectional position in the longitudinal direction of the sheathed cable, and determining the angular position of the individual wires relative to the reference direction at the predetermined cross-sectional position based upon the end angle position, the lay length, the twist direction, and the distance. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287181 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING OPTIMIZED OWNSHIP POSITION ON A NAVIGATION DISPLAY - A display system and method for graphically representing a host aircraft comprises a display, a first source host aircraft position data and a second source of data representative of airspace in the vicinity of the host aircraft. A processor is coupled to the display, the first source, and the second source and is configured to (1) determine a position of the host aircraft that expands the visualization of an intended trajectory of the host aircraft, and (2) display the host aircraft at the position on the display. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287182 | HEAD MOUNTED VIDEO AND TOUCH DETECTION FOR HEALTHCARE FACILITY HYGIENE - A system and method tracks touches in a healthcare environment in order to analyze paths of transmission and contamination for the purpose of eliminating and containing transmission of colonizing, drug-resistant pathogens. Touches are identified and tracked with the use of recording devices. Each touch is logged and a touch graph is generated to identify transmission paths. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287183 | METHODS OF OBTAINING GEOMETRY FROM IMAGES - In one aspect, a method of detecting at least on feature associated with a blood vessel in at least one image of at least one blood vessel using a matched filter adapted to respond to the at least one feature is provided. The method comprises applying a scale detection filter to selected voxels in the at least one image to determine a scale for the matched filter at each of the selected voxels, determining an orientation for the matched filter at each of the selected voxels, wherein determining the orientation is assisted by using the scale determined at each of the selected voxels, applying the matched filter at each of the selected voxels at the scale and the orientation determined at each of the selected voxels to obtain a filter response at each of the selected voxels, and analyzing the filter response at each of the selected voxels to determine if the respective voxel corresponds to the at least one feature. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING SCOLIOSIS PROGRESSION - There is described a system, method, and computer-readable medium having stored thereon executable program code for generating a final Cobb angle prediction for idiopathic scoliosis, the method comprising: receiving patient-specific 3D morphological spine parameters, a selected curve type, and a selected skeletal maturity; applying the patient-specific 3D morphological spine parameters, a selected curve type, and a selected skeletal maturity to a predictive model based on 3D morphological spine parameters, curve type, and skeletal maturity, and generating the final Cobb angle prediction by modeling a progression curve of the idiopathic scoliosis. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287185 | TISSUE SURFACE ROUGHNESS QUANTIFICATION BASED ON IMAGE DATA AND DETERMINATION OF A PRESENCE OF DISEASE BASED THEREON - Described herein is an approach to identify a presence (or absence) of a tissue disease based on a quantification of a roughness of a surface of the tissue represented in imaging data. The approach includes an image data processor ( | 2015-10-08 |
20150287186 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIMPLIFYING INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY - A METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SIMPLIFY INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY, said method comprising the steps of data collection through electrical impedance tomography and the respective processing thereof; the application of at least one algorithm to detect conditions, trends and specific events, so as to allow the identification of at least one region of interest as well as the production of an image including at least such region, which can be pre-defined or defined by the user. The graphical representation of the region of interest can be obtained through the use of a color, texture, figure, contour, etc. The data processed can consist of the impedance values or data derived thereof. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287187 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING VITAL PARAMETERS - The Invention relates to a method for determining vital parameters of a human body by means of a device ( | 2015-10-08 |
20150287188 | ORGAN-SPECIFIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A method and system which displays a single image after a plurality of windows have been applied to image data according to one or more organ masks. The method is accomplished by collecting a radiological scan from an imaging device to form image data; obtaining an anatomically significant mask for said image data; determining a portion of said image data as background; applying a plurality of windows to said image data determined according to said anatomically significant mask and according to said background to determine display values of said image data; and generating a generated display image from said display values. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287189 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to some embodiments, an image processor includes an image acquirer, a first image generator, a point acquirer, a detector, a calculator and a determiner. The detector detects a second plurality of points in the first perspective images or the second perspective images corresponding to the first plurality of points. The calculator calculates, based on at least the first plurality of points and the second plurality of points, a difference in position of the target between when the first perspective images were captured and when the second perspective images were generated. The determiner determines whether or not the difference is in a range. If the difference is not in the range, then the first image generator generates updated ones of the second perspective images from an updated one of the volume data, which is different by the difference from a previous one of the volume data. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287190 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING LASER TREATMENT - Provided is a system and method for evaluating laser treatment, for converting the attribute of a laser beam and numerically evaluating proficiency of a laser treatment operator by processing data obtained by photographing the converted laser beam so as to use the evaluated data as training data. The laser treatment evaluating system includes an attenuation unit for attenuating intensity of a laser beam transmitted through a transmissive plate, a camera for photographing the laser beam transmitted through the attenuation unit, and an image data processing apparatus connected to the camera, for processing an image captured by the camera, tracking a trajectory of a laser beam on the transmissive plate, and calculating a distribution state of spots on which the laser beam on the transmissive plate is emitted. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287191 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION BASED ON SPECTRAL CONVOLUTION - In embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods of a method and algorithm for creating a unique spectral fingerprint are based on the convolution of RGB color channel spectral plots generated from digital images that have captured single and/or multi-wavelength light-matter interaction. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287192 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image that includes an image of an object, the captured image being an image captured by an imaging section, a distance information acquisition section that acquires distance information based on the distance from the imaging section to the object when the imaging section captured the captured image, a known characteristic information acquisition section that acquires known characteristic information, the known characteristic information being information that represents known characteristics relating to the structure of the object, and a concavity-convexity determination section that performs a concavity-convexity determination process that specifies a concavity-convexity part of the object that agrees with the characteristics specified by the known characteristic information, from the object captured within the captured image, based on the distance information and the known characteristic information. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287193 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes acquiring circuitry and processing circuitry. The acquiring circuitry is configured to count photons derived from X-rays that have passed through a subject and to acquire a result obtained by discriminating energy levels of the counted photons as a counting result. The processing circuitry is configured to notify the acquiring circuitry of an energy dividing set that is set in accordance with an X-ray absorption characteristic of a substance designated by an operator, to receive the counting result acquired by the acquiring circuitry by allocating a counted value to each of a plurality of energy discrimination regions that are set in the energy dividing set, and to reconstruct image data by using the received counting result. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287194 | Updating Landmarks to Improve Coregistration as Regions of Interest are Corrected - The coregistration of digital images of tissue slices is improved by updating landmarks based on the manual outlining of regions of interest on the images. A first image of a first slice is coarsely coregistered with a second image of a second slice using a first landmark on the first image and a second landmark on the second image. A user manually outlines a first region of interest on the first image. The outline is positioned over a second region of interest on the second image using the second landmark. The user manually moves a contour point of the outline on the second image to form a corrected outline. The second landmark is moved based on how the contour point was manually moved so that the first and second images are more finely coregistered after the second landmark is moved. Each state of corrected contour points and landmarks is saved. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287195 | Determining an Anatomical Atlas - A data processing method for determining data which are referred to as atlas data and comprise information on a description of an image of a general anatomical structure, wherein this image is referred to as the atlas image, the method comprising the following steps performed by a computer: acquiring patient data which comprise a description of a set of images of an anatomical structure of a set of patients, wherein the images are referred to as patient images and each patient image is associated with a parameter set which comprises one or more parameters which obtain when the patient images are generated, wherein the parameters influence representations of anatomical elements as expressed by image values in the patient images; acquiring model data which comprise information on a description of an image of a model of an anatomical structure of a (single or average or generic) patient which is referred to as the model image and is associated with the parameter set; determining matching transformations which are referred to as PM transformations and which are constituted to respectively match the set of patient images of the set of patients to the model image by matching images associated with the same parameter set; determining an inverse average transformation by applying an inverting and averaging operation to the determined PM transformations; and a) determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the model data; or b) respectively applying the determined PM transformations to the respective patient images in order to determine matched patient images, averaging the matched patient images in order to determine an average matched patient image, and determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the average matched patient image. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287196 | METHOD OF CALIBRATING A CAMERA AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR - A system and method for calibrating a camera includes an energy source and a camera to be calibrated, with at least one of the energy source and the camera being mounted on a mechanical actuator so that it is movable relative to the other. A processor is connected to the energy source, the mechanical actuator and the camera and is programmed to control the mechanical actuator to move at least one of the energy source and the camera relative to the other through a plurality of discrete points on a calibration target pattern. The processor further, at each of the discrete points, controls the camera to take a digital image and perform a lens distortion characterisation on each image. A focal length of the camera is determined including any lens connected to the camera and an extrinsic camera position for each image is then determined. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287197 | CALIBRATION APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD - There is provided a calibration apparatus for calculating a camera installation parameter with respect to a flat surface without preparing two sets of parallel lines on the flat surface, with respect to which the camera installation parameter is to be obtained. An acquirer acquires a photographed image of two linearly-extending lines substantially perpendicular to a flat surface. An extractor extracts the two linearly-extending lines from the acquired image through image processing. A calculator calculates a vanishing point from the extracted two linearly-extending lines and calculates a camera installation parameter with respect to the flat surface on the basis of coordinates of the vanishing point and given coordinates different from the coordinates of the vanishing point. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287198 | DETERMINING AN ANATOMICAL ATLAS - A data processing method for determining data which are referred to as atlas data and comprise information on a description of an image of a general anatomical structure, wherein this image is referred to as the atlas image, the method comprising the following steps performed by a computer: • acquiring patient data which comprise a description of a set of images of an anatomical structure of a set of patients, wherein the images are referred to as patient images and each patient image is associated with a parameter set which comprises one or more parameters which obtain when the patient images are generated, wherein the parameters influence representations of anatomical elements as expressed by image values in the patient images; • acquiring model data which comprise information on a description of an image of a model of an anatomical structure of a (single or average or generic) patient which is referred to as the model image and is associated with the parameter set; • determining matching transformations which are referred to as PM transformations and which are constituted to respectively match the set of patient images of the set of patients to the model image by matching images associated with the same parameter set; • determining an inverse average transformation by applying an inverting and averaging operation to the determined PM transformations; and a) determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the model data; or b) respectively applying the determined PM transformations to the respective patient images in order to determine matched patient images, averaging the matched patient images in order to determine an average matched patient image, and determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the average matched patient image. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287199 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING MODULATION STRENGTH MAP AND MODULATION KERNEL - An image enhancement system may generate a net signed fractional modulation value at each location in an image using a modulation strength map (MSM) in combination with a modulation kernel F(θ). The system may scale an image value at each location using the net signed fractional modulation value at each location. Application of the algorithm may not result in systematic clipping of peri-edge locations to maximum or minimum brightness values, or any other form of systematic homogenization of values at peri-edge locations. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287200 | SAFETY CONTROL DEVICE AND SAFETY CONTROL SYSTEM - A safety control device causes an appropriate safety function to operate based on the positional relationship between an operator and a hazard source, the positions of which vary from moment to moment. A hazard source detection section and an operator detection section detect an image of the hazard source and an image of the operator, respectively, from an image of a monitoring area taken by an imaging instrument. A shortest distance search section searches for a shortest distance between the image of the hazard source and the image of the operator. A safety function allocation section selects a safety function based on the shortest distance found by the shortest distance search section. A safety signal generation section transmits a safety signal, which indicates the selected safety function, to an external safety-related instrument using an external communication unit. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287201 | IMAGE EVALUATION APPARATUS AND PATTERN SHAPE EVALUATION APPARATUS - Provided are an image evaluation method and an image evaluation apparatus to evaluate a two-dimensional shape and a change in shape of a pattern side wall of a semiconductor pattern based on a SEM image, thus estimating an exposure condition. To this end, a method and a device include a storage unit that stores a model indicating a relationship between a feature amount that is obtained by creating a plurality of outlines from a SEM image and an exposure condition, and outline creation parameter information corresponding to the model; an outline creation unit that creates a plurality of outlines from a SEM image using the outline creation parameter information; and an estimation unit that uses a feature amount that is found based on the plurality of outlines created by the outline creation unit and the model to find an exposure condition. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287202 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING THERMAL IMAGES - This invention provides a device and method for analyzing thermal images, which relates to a thermal imaging device and an applied field of infrared detection. The conventional thermal imaging device is excessively dependent on subjective experience of users to set an analysis area of a thermal image during photographing, causing complicated operation and a discrete analysis result. In the invention, a reference image reflecting predetermined morphological characters of a photographed body is superimposed and displayed in an infrared thermal image, and is as a visual reference of the photographed thermal image, thereby allowing the set analysis area to be convenient for photographing the next similar body, to reduce setting operation of the users. The body thermal image may be analyzed via the analysis area corresponding to the reference image according to a specified analysis mode, to acquire an analysis result. Thereby, the common users can achieve the better photographing level. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287203 | Method Of Estimating Imaging Device Parameters - A method is provided for estimating parameters of an imaging device with respect to an image of a scene said method comprising the steps of locating a target coordinate system in a scene, using an imaging device to capture an image of the scene, and processing the image using the target coordination system as a reference to estimate the parameters of the imaging device with respect to the image, wherein the target coordinate system comprises at least one planer target and wherein the at least one planar target contains a set of identifiable features with known relative positions. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287204 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LOCATING A CONTROL OBJECT APPENDAGE IN THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) SPACE - Methods and systems for capturing motion and/or determining the shapes and positions of one or more objects in 3D space utilize cross-sections thereof. In various embodiments, images of the cross-sections are captured using a camera based on reflections therefrom or shadows cast thereby. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287205 | Method and system for object reconstruction - A system and method are presented for use in the object reconstruction. The system comprises an illuminating unit, and an imaging unit (see FIG. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287206 | PUPIL DETECTION METHOD, CORNEAL REFLEX DETECTION METHOD, FACIAL POSTURE DETECTION METHOD, AND PUPIL TRACKING METHOD - A pupil detection method includes a step of acquiring images by taking a facial image of a subject using each of a left camera and a right camera, a step of extracting one or more image candidate points serving as candidates for pupils from the images, a step of extracting points corresponding to a combination of image candidate points corresponding to the same point in a three-dimensional space as space candidate points, a step of selecting a pair of two space candidate points from the extracted space candidate points and calculating a distance between the selected pair, a step of excluding a pair of space candidate points where the calculated distance is not within a specified range, and a step of determining one or more pairs of space candidate points from the pairs not excluded and determining that a pair of pupils of the subject exist at the positions. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287207 | REGISTERING OF A SCENE DISINTEGRATING INTO CLUSTERS WITH PAIRS OF SCANS - A method for optically scanning and measuring a scene by a three-dimensional (3D) measurement device in which multiple scans are generated to then be registered in a joint coordinate system of the scene. At first at least one cluster is generated from at least one scan, further scans are registered for test purposes in the coordinate system of the cluster, and registering is then confirmed if specified quality criteria are fulfilled and the generated clusters are then joined, for which purpose pairs are formed of selected scans and/or clusters to form pairs, the pairs are registered for test purposes and registering is confirmed if appropriate. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287208 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus ( | 2015-10-08 |
20150287209 | Image Segmentation Using Blur And Color - A method including segmenting an image into different segments, where the segmenting is based at least partially upon an estimate of blur of areas of the image; and changing the segmenting of two or more of the sections based, at least partially, upon color in the image. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287210 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - An image processing system and method of operation includes: a source image having source pixels; a homogeneity image module for forming a homogeneity image having homogeneity pixels each with a homogeneity value indicating the local homogeneity of source pixels of the source image; a watershed image module, coupled to the homogeneity image module, for forming a watershed image having watershed segments with a segment weight, the watershed image formed by segmenting the homogeneity image, and for merging one of the watershed segments with another of the watershed segments both having the segment weight less than or equal to a segment threshold; a contour map module, coupled to the watershed image module, for forming a segmentation contour map having boundaries of the watershed segments formed by merging the watershed segments; and a composite image module for forming a composite image with the segmentation contour map for display on a device. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287211 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION AND SEGMENTATION AND FORMING 3D MODELS FROM IMAGES - A method of classification and segmentation of an image using modules on a computer system includes receiving a plurality of models having features suitable for classifying each pixel of the image into a respective one of a plurality of categories, using a classifier to provide a score for each pixel in the image for each category and using a segmenter to segment the image into image segments, wherein each image segment is a contiguous set of pixels having at least one common feature. For each image segment a set of average probabilities for each category is determined, and for each image segment, a most likely category to which the image segment belongs is determined by the maximum average probability resulting in a labeled segment image, which is used to identify any empty areas as incorrect holes. Then any empty areas that are identified as incorrect holes are filled. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287212 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE DATA PROCESSING - Embodiments of the computer-implemented methods, storage mediums, and systems may be configured to determine locations of particles within a first image of the particles. The particles may have fluorescence-material associated therewith. The embodiments may include calculating a transform parameter, and the transform parameter may define an estimated movement in the locations of the particles between the first image of the particles and a second image of the particles. The embodiments may further including applying the transform parameter to the locations of the particles within the first image to determine movement locations of the particles within the second image. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287213 | REAL TIME PROCESSING OF VIDEO FRAMES - A method and system for real time processing of a sequence of video frames. A current frame in the sequence and at least one frame in the sequence occurring prior to the current frame is analyzed. Each frame includes a two-dimensional array of pixels. The sequence of video frames is received in synchronization with a recording of the video frames in real time. The analyzing includes performing a background subtraction on the at least one frame, which determines a background image and a static region mask associated with a static region consisting of a contiguous distribution of pixels in the current frame. The static region mask identifies each pixel in the static region upon the static region mask being superimposed on the current frame. A determination is made that a persistence requirement, both a non-persistence duration requirement and a persistence duration requirement, or a combination thereof have been satisfied. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287214 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MONITORING OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AREA WITH ACTIVITY MAPS - An apparatus for monitoring movement of objects of interest in an area includes an activity map generation circuit and a unified activity map generation circuit. The activity map generation circuit is configured to: generate a plurality of activity maps based on video content from a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of activity maps being indicative of relative activity of the objects of interest over time within a field of view of a camera among the plurality of cameras, and each of the plurality of cameras having a different corresponding field of view in the area; and standardize the plurality of activity maps with regard to a single common point of view. The unified spatial activity map generation circuit is configured to combine the plurality of standardized activity maps into a unified activity map. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287215 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image acquisition section of an information processor acquires stereo images from an imaging device. An input information acquisition section acquires an instruction input from a user. A depth image acquisition portion of a position information generation section generates a depth image representing a position distribution of subjects existing in the field of view of the imaging device in the depth direction using stereo images. A matching portion adjusts the size of a reference template image in accordance with the position of each of the subjects in the depth direction represented by the depth image first, then performs template matching on the depth image, thus identifying the position of a target having a given shape and size in the three-dimensional space. An output information generation section generates output information by performing necessary processes based on the target position. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287216 | F-STOP WEIGHTED WAVEFORM WITH PICTURE MONITOR MARKERS - A waveform monitor for generating a modified image from an original image includes a brightness measuring system to generate brightness values that are then converted to f-stop equivalents. A selector is used to create a range of f-stop values and a modifier changes the original image for selected pixels that fall within the range of f-stop values. The original image may be modified by replacing or blending certain pixels with colorized pixels, i.e., by falsely coloring the original image. Methods of modifying images in this manner are also described. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOSSLESS IMAGE COMPRESSION - The present disclosure discloses method and apparatus for lossless image compression, and relates to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: removing ancillary information and redundant information from a picture having a predefined format in a preset manner; decompressing the picture to restore original picture data of the picture; and setting a compression parameter for the original picture data of the picture and compressing the original picture data of the picture into a picture having the same format before the picture decompression using the compression parameter. According to the present disclosure, ancillary data and redundant data in a picture are removed, and after decompression is performed on the picture, the picture is compressed again according to a preset compression parameter, so that based on lossless compression, a compression rate of the picture is increased, and storage space is saved. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287218 | System and Method of Streaming 3-D Wireframe Animations - Optimal resilience to errors in packetized streaming 3-D wireframe animation is achieved by partitioning the stream into layers and applying unequal error correction coding to each layer independently to maintain the same overall bitrate. The unequal error protection scheme for each of the layers combined with error concealment at the receiver achieves graceful degradation of streamed animation at higher packet loss rates than approaches that do not account for subjective parameters such as visual smoothness. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287219 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY INDICATING TRANSMISSION PROGRESS OF DATA - In a method for dynamically indicating data transmission progress using an electronic device, the method includes rendering in a first gray scale a background image corresponding to target data to be transmitted, acquiring a transmission completion percentage of the target data during a transmission process of the target data, and rendering in a second gray scale a portion of the background image having the transmission completion percentage. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287220 | RENDERING TEXT USING ANTI-ALIASING TECHNIQUES, CACHED COVERAGE VALUES, AND/OR REUSE OF FONT COLOR VALUES - Techniques for calculating sub-pixel coverage values for text to be displayed, so as to enable caching of the sub-pixel coverage values. The sub-pixel coverage values may enable a linear combination of color information for the text with color information for one or more other, overlapping display elements for calculating composite color values to be used in controlling a display. Such composite color values to be used in controlling sub-pixels of a display may be calculated, in some embodiments, without performing a gamma correction process. Also described are techniques for retrieving cached sub-pixel coverage values and combining the values with color information for text and for other, overlapping display elements to calculate composite color values for sub-pixels of a display. Further described are techniques for cached font color values for the text in a shared memory location, and use of the cached font color values to composite color values for each of multiple pixels. At least one graphics processing unit (GPU) may be configured to perform operations using the sub-pixel coverage information and to calculate the composite color values for the sub-pixels. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287221 | X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An X-ray computed tomography (CT) apparatus includes a detector, and processing circuitry. The detector is configured to output, at each incidence of an X-ray photon, a signal enabling measurement of an energy value of the X-ray photon. Processing circuitry is configured to estimate an energy range to be used for imaging based on an imaging condition and to reconstruct X-ray CT image data using counting information to which an energy value within the energy range is associated among pieces of counting information that are collected from individual signals output by the detector at each incidence of an X-ray photon that has been irradiated from an X-ray tube and has passed through a subject, and in which a counting value and an energy value of X-ray photons incident to the detector are associated with each other. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287222 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED PARAMETER MAPPING - Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to tissue parameter mapping. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes receiving undersampled k-space data corresponding to a dynamic physiological process in an area of interest of a subject. The method also includes estimating, from the undersampled k-space data, one or more respective tissue parameter values representing a respective state of the dynamic process at each point in time of a predetermined plurality of points in time during the acquisition. The estimation includes unscented Kalman filtering. The method also includes generating one or more tissue parameter maps using the respective plurality of estimated tissue parameter values. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287223 | HIGHLY ACCELERATED IMAGING AND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING ADAPTIVE SPARSIFYING TRANSFORMS - A system executes efficient computational methods for high quality image reconstructions from a relatively small number of noisy (or degraded) sensor imaging measurements or scans. The system includes a processing device and instructions. The processing device executes the instructions to employ transform learning as a regularizer for solving inverse problems when reconstructing an image from the imaging measurements, the instructions executable to: adapt a transform model to a first set of image patches of a first set of images containing at least a first image, to model the first set of image patches as sparse in a transform domain while allowing deviation from perfect sparsity; reconstruct a second image by minimizing an optimization objective comprising a transform-based regularizer that employs the transform model, and a data fidelity term formed using the imaging measurements; and store the second image in the computer-readable medium, the second image displayable on a display device. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287224 | VIRTUAL TRACER METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A virtual tracer system and methods for operating the system to track a moving object are disclosed. The virtual tracer system may transmit a continuous waveform signal to a plurality of projectiles traveling in an outbound direction with respect to a carrier of the system. The virtual tracer system may further receive a signal reflected from the projectiles in response to the transmitted continuous waveform signal, and may determine a track of the projectiles based on the reflected signal. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287225 | Universal Actor Correlator - Precorrelation of data applied to use cases by a module intermediate to the data and use cases provides normalized data across multiple sources for more effective analysis. For example, network sensors provide network telemetry to a precorrelation core, which extracts and normalizes the data to correlate actors to events. Universal actor correlation improves visualizations by creating a mesh of events tied to each other through a common actor. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287226 | GENERATING A TREE MAP - A method for generating a tree map for tree map visualization includes obtaining node information of a plurality of nodes to be processed, the plurality of nodes to be processed being sub-nodes sharing a same parent node and the node information comprising at least sizes of the nodes; determining from the plurality of nodes a plurality of candidate nodes whose sizes are less than a threshold size; determining at least one super node including the plurality of candidate nodes based on the node information of the determined plurality of candidate nodes, a screen size, and the threshold size, such that when displaying in a zooming-in mode the super node on the screen, all candidate nodes in the super node are displayed at display sizes not less than the threshold size; and determining data required for displaying the tree map based on the determined super node. | 2015-10-08 |
20150287227 | DYNAMIC FILLING OF SHAPES FOR GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF DATA - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for visualizing data. In particular, the present disclosure creates infographics for any complex shape. Thus, a user can provide a logo, symbol, photograph, drawing, etc. and this disclosure provides a way to turn the provided image into an infographic—or chart, where a shape or outline of the image is filled proportionally to data. Importantly, the fill level can vary with changing data and is thus not limited to data points known at a time when the infographic is created. Further, while simple shapes such as circles, donuts, and rectangles are fillable with dynamic data using existing scripts, there are so many additional and more complex shapes in existence that scripts cannot be written to account for all of these shapes. The present disclosure enables dynamic filling of shapes that cannot be filled using existing scripts. | 2015-10-08 |