05th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 34 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150030166 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATION OF MICROPHONES - The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods provide a calibration technique for calibrating a set of microphones. The disclosed calibration technique is configured to calibrate the microphones with respect to a reference microphone and can be used in actual operation rather than a testing environment. The disclosed calibration technique can estimate both the magnitude calibration factor for compensating magnitude sensitivity variations and the relative phase error for compensating phase delay variations. In addition, the disclosed calibration technique can be used even when multiple acoustic sources are present. The disclosed technique is particularly well suited to calibrating a set of microphones that are omnidirectional and sufficiently close to one another. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030167 | Method of Detecting Enclosure Leakage of Enclosure Mounted Loudspeakers - A method of detecting enclosure leakage of an electrodynamic loudspeaker mounted in an enclosure or box may include applying an audio signal to a voice coil of the electrodynamic loudspeaker through an output amplifier and detecting a voice coil current flowing into the voice coil. A voltage across the voice coil may be detected and an impedance or admittance of the loudspeaker across a predetermined audio frequency range may be detected based on the detected voice coil current and voice coil voltage. A fundamental resonance frequency of the loudspeaker may be determined based on the detected impedance or admittance and compared with a nominal fundamental resonance frequency of the loudspeaker representing a sealed state of the enclosure. Acoustic leakage of the enclosure may be detected based on a deviation between the determined the fundamental resonance frequency and the nominal fundamental resonance frequency of the electrodynamic loudspeaker. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030168 | Dynamic Characterization of a Communication Device - Technology for dynamic characterization of a communication device is disclosed. One method comprises sending an acoustic characterization excitation signal to be output by an acoustic transducer in the communication device. A received acoustic coupling signal that is received by a microphone of the communication device in response to the output of the acoustic transducer is measured. An acoustic signal conditioning algorithm is applied to at least one of the microphone or the acoustic transducer to reduce an amplitude of the acoustic signal or the received acoustic coupling signal to a level below a selected threshold. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030169 | Method of Controlling Sound Reproduction of Enclosure Mounted Loudspeakers - A method of controlling sound reproduction may include applying an audio signal to a voice coil of the electrodynamic loudspeaker to produce sound, detecting one of an impedance and admittance of the loudspeaker across a predetermined audio frequency range based on a detected voice coil current and voice coil voltage and determining a fundamental resonance frequency of the loudspeaker based on the detected impedance or admittance. The fundamental resonance frequency of the loudspeaker may be compared with a nominal fundamental resonance frequency of the loudspeaker representing a nominal acoustic operating condition of the loudspeaker. A change of operating condition of the loudspeaker may be detected based on a frequency deviation between the determined fundamental resonance frequency and a nominal fundamental resonance frequency of the loudspeaker. The level of the audio signal may be attenuated in response to the frequency deviation meets a predetermined frequency error criterion. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030170 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROGRAMMING HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE USING PERCEPTUAL MODEL - A hearing assistance system for delivering sounds to a listener provides for subjective, listener-driven programming of a hearing assistance device, such as a hearing aid, using a perceptual model. The system produces a distribution of presets using a perceptual model selected for the listener and allows the listener to navigate through the distribution to adjust parameters of a signal processing algorithm for processing the sounds. The use of the perceptual model increases the potential of fine tuning of the hearing assistance device available to the listener. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030171 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an acoustic signal processing device for producing an output sound meeting listener's preferences by adjusting attack sound, reverberation, and noise component. The device includes: an FFT section for transforming an input audio signal from a time-domain to a frequency-domain to calculate a frequency spectrum signal and for generating a first amplitude spectrum signal and a phase spectrum signal; an attack component controller ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150030172 | Inter-Channel Coherence Reduction for Stereophonic and Multichannel Acoustic Echo Cancellation - In an audio system having acoustic echo, incoming audio signals are decorrelated by applying both phase modulation and amplitude modulation. The resulting decorrelated signals are rendered by loudspeakers, and co-located microphones generate outgoing audio signals that include echo signals caused by the existence of acoustic echo paths from the loudspeakers to the microphones. Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is applied to the outgoing audio signals to reduce the amount of echo in those signals. Decorrelating the incoming audios signals using amplitude modulation in addition to phase modulation can increase the effectiveness of the AEC processing. In a frequency-domain implementation, the amount of amplitude modulation can be different for different frequency bands (e.g., greater amplitude modulation for lower frequencies corresponding to human speech and/or no amplitude modulation for higher frequencies). | 2015-01-29 |
20150030173 | Headphone and Headset - A headphone or earphone is provided which includes a housing with an open end and at least one defined dominant acoustic opening, an acoustically sealing earpad arranged at the open end of the housing, and at least one microphone arranged adjacent to common ear or in the vicinity of the dominant acoustical opening for detecting noise. The dominant acoustic opening is arranged within a radius of 2 cm around a midpoint of the at least one microphone. The headphone or earphone also includes an active-noise-compensation unit for performing an active noise compensation based on the output of the microphone and for generating a compensation signal. The headphone or earphone also includes an electro-acoustical transducer inside the housing for reproducing the compensation signal. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030174 | MICROPHONE ARRAY DEVICE - A microphone array device includes a first sound reception unit configured to obtain a first sound signal that is input from a first microphone, a second sound reception unit configured to obtain a second sound signal that is input from a second microphone, a noise state evaluation unit configured to compare the first sound signal and the second sound signal and to obtain an evaluation parameter to evaluate an influence of a non-target sound included in the second sound signal on a target sound included in the first sound signal according to a result of the comparison, a subtraction adjustment unit configured to set a suppression amount for the second sound signal based on the evaluation parameter and to generate a third sound signal; and a subtraction unit configured to generate a signal to be output based on the third sound signal and the first sound signal. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030175 | ROAD NOISE MASKING IN A VEHICLE - Road noise masking for a vehicle includes determining, by a computer processor, an expected interior sound associated with the vehicle. The expected interior sound is defined by a design of the vehicle in conjunction with road conditions encountered by the vehicle. The road noise masking also includes monitoring, via the computer processor, information sources of the vehicle during a driving event. Upon determining a current road surface from the monitoring, the road noise masking includes calculating a masking noise shape commensurate with the expected interior sound, and transmitting instructions including the masking noise shape to an audio system in the vehicle. The audio system produces masking noise from a tuner of the audio system that approximates the masking noise shape. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030176 | EARPHONE - An earphone including an earphone body, a photosensitive switch, a power supplier and a light emitter is provided. The photosensitive switch, the power supplier and the light emitter are disposed on the earphone body. The light emitter is electrically connected to power supplier through the photosensitive switch. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030177 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND AUDIO OUTPUT CIRCUIT THEREIN - An audio output circuit applied in an electronic device includes a filter capacitor and a transistor. A base of the transistor is connected to an audio processing unit, an emitter of the transistor is connected to a voltage port, a processor and an earphone detecting unit of the electronic device is electrically connected to a collector of the transistor. The filter capacitor is connected between the base of the transistor and the ground. The filter capacitor filters the audio signals generated by the audio processing unit, to ensure that and the transistor is always turned on. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030178 | LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A loudspeaker system for a motor vehicle has a loudspeaker, which is arranged adjacent to at least one wall of the motor vehicle. At least one pipeline originates from the loudspeaker and runs through the wall. A shut-off device for the at least approximately sound-tight closure of the pipeline is arranged in the pipeline. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030179 | PRESERVING PHASE SHIFT IN SPATIAL FILTERING - For preserving phase shift in spatial filtering is disclosed, an electronic device includes a microphone array. A filtering module spatially filters a plurality of received audio signals from the microphone array to increase the signal-to-noise ratio in one or more corresponding output audio signals. A phase module preserves a phase shift of at least one received audio signal in the corresponding output audio signal. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030180 | POST-PROCESSING GAINS FOR SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT - A method, an apparatus, and logic to post-process raw gains determined by input processing to generate post-processed gains, comprising using one or both of delta gain smoothing and decision-directed gain smoothing. The delta gain smoothing comprises applying a smoothing filter to the raw gain with a smoothing factor that depends on the gain delta: the absolute value of the difference between the raw gain for the current frame and the post-processed gain for a previous frame. The decision-directed gain smoothing comprises converting the raw gain to a signal-to-noise ratio, applying a smoothing filter with a smoothing factor to the signal-to-noise ratio to calculate a smoothed signal-to-noise ratio, and converting the smoothed signal-to-noise ratio to determine the second smoothed gain, with smoothing factor possibly dependent on the gain delta. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030181 | FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC MODIFICATION DEVICE - A device includes a HPF | 2015-01-29 |
20150030182 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MIXING AT LEAST TWO AUDIO SIGNALS - In order to realize a correction for changes in the reproduction loudness at low frequencies in a downmix-arrangement, a mixing arrangement is proposed for mixing at least two audio signals, which mixing arrangement is provided with a first unit ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150030183 | BOOST CONVERTER VOLTAGE CONTROLLED BASED ON AUDIO SIGNAL - Audio amplification may be improved by controlling an audio amplifier based on the audio signal being amplified. For example, when the audio signal level increases or decreases, a boost voltage provided to an audio amplifier by a boost converter may also be increased or decreased. In another example, when the audio signal level decrease below a certain level, the audio amplifier may be switched from amplifying the audio signal with a boost converter input to amplifying the audio signal with a low voltage input. Control of the audio amplifier may be implemented in a digital boost converter controller coupled to the boost converter and/or the audio amplifier. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030184 | Audio Amplifier and Power Supply Voltage Switching Method - An audio amplifier is provided with: an amplifier circuit; a power supply circuit that generates a plurality of power supply voltages; a power supply relay that selects one of the power supply voltages as the power supply voltage supplied to the amplifier circuit; a switching condition determiner that determines whether the switching condition of the power supply relay is satisfied; a silent section detector that detects a silent section of the audio signal which is equal to or greater than the operation time of the power supply relay; and a switching instruction unit for providing the power supply relay with an instruction for switching the power supply voltage during the silent section when the switching condition is satisfied and the silent section is detected. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030185 | MULTISENSORY CONTROL OF A PATIENT-LIFTING-DEVICE - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some multisensory implementations, a patient-lifting-device is controlled by voice recognition, keyboard text input, synaptic control and/or tongue tactile input commands. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030186 | BONE CONDUCTION SPEAKER AND COMPOUND VIBRATION DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030187 | ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER INCLUDING AIRFOIL FOR GENERATING SOUND - Systems, apparatus, devices, and methods for converting electrical signals into sound using an acoustic transducer. The inventive acoustic transducer utilizes the motion of an airfoil shaped element to generate a sound wave, with the airfoil element being driven in response to an electrical signal input to a suitable driving element. In some embodiments, the airfoil element or elements act to mechanically couple the motion of an armature attached to the driver to the surrounding air, producing sound waves in a more efficient manner than typical acoustic transducer devices. Embodiments of the invention may be used in the design of loudspeakers, earpieces, headphones, and other devices for which a high efficiency transducer is desired. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030188 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is an electronic device including: a piezoelectric element; a vibration plate to which the piezoelectric element is joined for vibration; and a housing to which the vibration plate is joined. Vibration sound, which is transmitted by vibrating a part of a human body, is generated by the vibration plate. The vibration plate includes, in a plan view thereof, a first area including a joining portion with the piezoelectric element and a second area located further away from the joining portion than the first area is, and rigidity in a first area is lower than rigidity in the second area. With the above configuration, sound leakage or the like is reduced, and usability of the electronic device is improved. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030189 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The content of sound leakage from a vibrating plate that vibrates due to a piezoelectric element is made difficult to recognize. An electronic device ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150030190 | HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE WITH ANTENNA OPTIMIZED TO REDUCE HEAD LOADING - A hearing assistance device, such as a hearing aid, includes an antenna for wireless communication. The antenna has one or more conductor dimensions that are approximately optimized for minimizing effects of head loading, which vary among users. In one embodiment, a conductor dimension of the antenna is identified for substantially affecting an effect of head loading on the antenna when the hearing assistance device is worn by a user. Performance of the wireless communication using the antenna is evaluated based on one or more performance criteria. The conductor dimension is approximately minimized while the performance of the wireless communication satisfies the one or more performance criteria. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030191 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE AS WELL AS A HEARING DEVICE - A method for operating a hearing device worn by a hearing device user. The method includes picking up an audio signal (a) by an input transducer of the hearing device. The audio signal (a) includes a source signal (s) of a sound source (SS) and a disturbing signal (d) of a disturbing source (DS). The method also includes receiving a transmission signal (d_AIS) via an interface unit of the hearing device. The transmission signal (d_AIS) includes the disturbing signal (d) or at least characteristic features of the disturbing signal (d). The method also includes at least partially eliminating the disturbing signal (d) from the audio signal (a) by using the disturbing signal (d) transmitted by the transmission signal (d_AIS) or by using the characteristic features of the disturbing signal (d) transmitted by the transmission signal (d_AIS) for obtaining an adjusted audio signal (a*), and processing the adjusted audio signal (a*). | 2015-01-29 |
20150030192 | MIXING OF IN-THE-EAR MICROPHONE AND OUTSIDE-THE-EAR MICROPHONE SIGNALS TO ENHANCE SPATIAL PERCEPTION - This document provides a hearing assistance device for playing processed sound inside a wearer's ear canal, the hearing assistance device comprising a first housing, signal processing electronics disposed at least partially within the first housing, a first microphone connected to the first housing, the first microphone adapted for reception of sound, a second microphone configured to receive sound from inside the wearer's ear canal when the hearing assistance device is worn and in use and microphone mixing electronics in communication with the signal processing electronics and in communication with the first microphone and the second microphone, the microphone mixing electronics adapted to combine low frequency information from the first microphone and high frequency information from the second microphone to produce a composite audio signal. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030193 | CIRCUMAURAL EARPHONE AND DECORATING STRAP THEREOF - A circumaural earphone and a decorating strap thereof are provided. The circumaural earphone includes two earphone cups, a main strap, a decorating strap, a photosensitive switch, a power supplier and a light emitter. Two ends of the main strap are connected with the two earphone cups. Two ends of the decorating strap are detachably connected with the two earphone cups or the main strap. The photosensitive switch is disposed in one of the two earphone cups, the main strap or the decorating strap. The power supplier is disposed in one of the two earphone cups, the main strap or the decorating strap. The light emitter is disposed in the decorating strap and electrically connected with the power supplier through the photosensitive switch. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030194 | EARPIECE SYSTEM - An earbud adapter or in-ear monitor includes an Ear Interface that fits the human ear and further permits the wearer of these devices to adjust parameters of the fit. In additional aspects, the Ear Interface portion of these devices permits the user to adjust the transmission of ambient sound. The Ear Interface portion also allows the user to change ornamentation. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030195 | IN-EAR HEADPHONE WITH SOUND PICK-UP CAPABILITY - An in-ear headphone with sound pick-up capability is disclosed. The in-ear headphone includes a pair of ear pieces. Each of the ear pieces includes an ear tip, an audio receiver and an acoustic-to-electric transducer. The ear tip is capable of being inserted into an ear canal. The audio receiver is configured for recovering sound signals from audio electrical signals and transmitting the sounds signals to the ear canal via the ear tip. The acoustic-to-electric transducer is disposed on the ear tip, and configured for sensing vibration of an inner wall of the ear canal and generating an electrical signal in accordance with the vibration. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030196 | Custom Earphone with Dome in the Canal - An in-ear earphone featuring a housing, an audio output device carried in the housing, a hollow elongated stem formed integral with the housing and a toroidal-shaped ear dome. The stem having a first output end extending therefrom and being audibly coupled at a second input end to the output device. The ear dome integrally formed on the output end of the stem. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030197 | Audio Accessory with Improved Ear Hook and Low Frequency Acoustic Performance | 2015-01-29 |
20150030198 | VIBRATION SOUNDER - A vibration sounder includes an enclosure having a receiving space, a stator received in the receiving space and a conductive terminal. The stator includes a magnetic yoke formed with a through hole. The mover locates above the stator. The conductive terminal includes an insulative portion received in the through hole and a conductive portion connecting with the insulative portion. The vibration sounder of the present disclosure has a small volume and a simple structure. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030199 | Transducer Motor Structure with Enhanced Flux - An electro-dynamic loudspeaker transducer's motor structure includes a magnetic circuit having a pole with minimal reluctance that allows the use of larger magnets and thicker front plates, thus generating higher flux density in the voice coil gap. The lower reluctance is achieved by increasing the pole piece's outside diameter at all points outside of the voice coil gap and the area swept out by the voice coil at maximal inward excursion. Increasing the pole's diameter over a substantial amount of the pole's distally projecting length (but not extending into the magnetic gap), provides an increased cross sectional area and a reduced magnetic circuit reluctance. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030200 | WATERMARK EXTRACTOR ENHANCEMENTS BASED ON PAYLOAD RANKING - Methods, devices, systems and computer program products improve the detection of watermarks that are embedded in a host content by providing information indicative of a ranking of watermark payloads to watermark extractors. A watermark extractor device obtains information indicative of a ranking of a plurality of watermark payload values, where such information designates each watermark payload value within a first subset of the plurality of watermark payload values as having an associated rank value. Based at least in-part on the information indicative of the ranking, the watermark extractor device is configured to prioritize resource allocation for extraction of payload values that are designated as belonging to the first subset over payload values that are not designated as belonging to the first subset. The watermark extractor then extracts a payload value, designated as belonging to the first subset, from one or more watermarks embedded in the host content. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030201 | FEATURE-BASED WATERMARK LOCALIZATION IN DIGITAL CAPTURE SYSTEMS - The present disclosures relates generally to digital watermarking and data hiding. One claim recites a method comprising: obtaining data representing captured imagery, the captured imagery depicting packaging including digital watermarking, the digital watermarking including an orientation signal that is detectable in a transform domain; generating a n-dimensional feature set of the data representing captured imagery, the n-dimensional feature set representing the captured imagery in a spatial domain, where n is an integer great than 13; using a trained classifier to predict the presence of the orientation signal in a transform domain from the feature set in the spatial domain. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided too. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOVING OBJECT DETECTION AND PROCESSING - A method is provided for an intelligent video processing system based on object detection. The method includes receiving an input video sequence corresponding to a video program, obtaining a plurality of frames of the input video sequence, and obtaining a computational constraint and a temporal rate constraint. The method also includes determining one or more regions of interest (ROIs) of the plurality of frames based on the computational constraint and temporal rate constraint, and selecting a desired set of frames from the plurality of frames based on the ROIs such that the desired set of frames substantially represent a view path of the plurality of frames. Further, the method includes detecting object occurrences from the desired set of frames based on the selected desired set of frames such that a computational cost and a number of frames for detecting the object occurrences are under the computational constraint and temporal rate constraint. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030203 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SMOKE FROM IMAGE - Provided are a fire detecting apparatus and a method thereof for detecting a fire, the method includes operations of extracting a feature of at least one object in an input image by using a value of a brightness difference between pixels of the input image or by using an RGB value of the input image; converting the extracted feature of the at least one object into an N dimensional feature; and performing Support Vector Machine (SVM) machine learning on the N dimensional feature of the at least one object. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030204 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING IMAGE INCLUDING EVENT INFORMATION - An apparatus and method for analyzing an image including event information for determining a pattern of at least one pixel group corresponding to event information included in an input image, and analyzes at least one of an appearance of an object and a motion of the object, based on the at least one pattern. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030205 | HUMAN BODY SECURITY INSPECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention provides a human body security inspection method and system. The method comprises: retrieving in real-time scanning row or column image data of a personal to be inspected; transmitting in real-time the image data to an algorithm processing module and processing these image data by the module; automatically recognizing a suspicious matter by a suspicious matter automatic target recognition technique, after retrieving an image data of an entire scanning image of the personal; any of the following three inspection modes is selected, so as to perform a further processing on basis of the recognition result of the suspicious matter, (1) in a manner of automatic target recognition technique, (2) in a combination manner of the automatic target recognition technique and a privacy protection image; and (3) a combination manner of the automatic target recognition technique, a privacy protection image and human intervention. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030206 | Detecting and Tracking Point Features with Primary Colors - A feature tracking technique for detecting and tracking feature points with primary colors. An energy value may be computed for each color channel of a feature. If the energy of all the channels is above a threshold, then the feature may be tracked according to a feature tracking method using all channels. Otherwise, if the energy of all of the channels is below the threshold, then the feature is not tracked. If the energy of at least one (but not all) of the channels is below the threshold, then the feature is considered to have primary color, and the feature may be tracked according to the feature tracking method using only the one or more channels with energy above the threshold. The feature tracking techniques may, for example, be used to establish point trajectories in an image sequence for various Structure from Motion (SFM) techniques. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030207 | AUTOMATED VEHICLE MIRROR ADJUSTMENT - Technologies are generally described for methods and systems effective to adjust a position of a mirror in a vehicle. In an example, a method for adjusting a position of a mirror in a vehicle may include a processor effective to receive an image of an operator of a vehicle. The processor may identify a reference point in the image and depth data. The processor may generate a mirror adjustment signal based on the depth data and the reference point. The processor may further send the mirror adjustment signal to the mirror to adjust a position of the mirror. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030208 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MOTION ESTIMATION BASED ON A SERIES OF 2D IMAGES - By collecting, analyzing and processing a series of images captured by a camera one can estimate the motion that a device containing the camera has experienced. Exemplary techniques disclosed herein at least enable device motion estimation based on any selection of images from a camera related to the device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030209 | METHODS OF ANALYZING SEISMIC DATA - A method of analysing seismic data from a geological volume is provided. The geological volume is divided into a plurality of voxels. For each voxel a respective neighbourhood is defined which includes that voxel and a predetermined arrangement of neighbouring voxels. For each voxel, the respective normal vectors of a seismic attribute vector field derived from the seismic data are calculated. For each voxel, a respective local structure tensor based on the normal vectors of the voxels of the respective neighbourhood is calculated. For each voxel, the value of an expression which includes one or more of the eigenvalues (λ | 2015-01-29 |
20150030210 | SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT USING DIVERSITY SHOT STACKING FOR REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS (DeSSeRT) - A method of processing seismic data so as to provide an image of a sub-surface region, comprises providing plurality of migrated shot gathers that contain information about the region, summing portions of the migrated shot gathers to provide a pilot stack, partitioning the plurality of gathers into a plurality of groups and summing the gathers in each group to provide a substack, wherein each group includes at least two migrated shots and wherein a substack is generated from each group, applying an amplitude normalization algorithm to the pilot stack so as to generate an amplitude-normalized pilot stack, calculating a weight function by comparing each substack to the normalized pilot stack, weighting each substack using the weight function so as to generate a plurality of weighted substacks, summing overlapping portions of the weighted substacks so as to generate a output stack, and using the output stack to generate an image. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030211 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING A PERSON - The Invention involves a person being able to quickly access the electronic profile of another person. When a person wants someone to receive his profile (or a portion of the profile), he obtains the electronic address of that person. Then the pertinent information from the profile is sent in real time to that electronic address. Another embodiment involves a person providing an electronic identifier to a second person, and that electronic identifier is then used by him to access the profile. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING COMMERCIAL WEB SEARCH TECHNOLOGIES TO BIOMETRIC MATCHING AND IDENTIFICATION - A system and method are provided for implementing a scheme to apply commercial web search technologies to biometric matching and identification based on converting biometric identification data to one or more text strings. Collected biometric identification information regarding particular physical traits is converted to a form that facilitates application of commercial Web search technologies to implement biometric matching and identification. A scalability of multi-modal biometric identification systems is maintained while substantially eliminating reliance on proprietary matchers and templates in support of interoperability and customer satisfaction. Separate biometric templates are converted into strings of searchable text in any combination of alpha-numerics during a standard biometric data enrollment process in order to limit the data storage requirements and streamline the later undertaken comparison process. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030213 | System and Method for Creating a Virtual Backdrop - Some implementations may provide a method for generating a portrait of a subject for an identification document, the method including: receiving, at a mobile device, a photo image of the subject, the photo image including a foreground and a background, wherein the foreground includes the subject's face and the background does not include the subject's face; determining the background of the photo image based on the photo image alone and without user intervention; masking the determined background from the photo image; and subsequently generating the portrait of the subject based on the photo image with the background masked. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030214 | PROGRAMMABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a programmable display apparatus that enables post-hoc identification of a user who has been permitted to access an application through facial authentication. The programmable display apparatus stores feature data of a face of a user and identification information of the user in association with each other. The programmable display apparatus performs facial authentication based on image data of a user obtained through image capture and on the feature data. The programmable display apparatus permits a user to access the application if the user has been authenticated. The programmable display apparatus stores identification information of the authenticated user and a history indicating a state in which the access has been permitted in association with each other. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AN IMAGE OF UNDILUTED WHOLE BLOOD SAMPLE HAVING WRIGHT STAIN COLORATION - An apparatus and method for imaging a sample of substantially undiluted whole blood is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a substantially undiluted whole blood sample admixed with at least one non-Wright stain colorant, which colorant is operable to differentially identify constituents containing cytoplasmic material; providing an analysis device having an analyzer with at least one processor, at least one sample illuminator, and at least one image sensor; creating an image of the sample using the analysis device; and using the analysis device to transform the image to a transformed image having a coloration recognizable as a Wright stained sample. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030216 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A processor configured to execute a process includes receiving image information including biometric information, extracting, from the image information, a first phase component image representing a phase component included in the image information, converting the image information into first frequency information and converts the first phase component image into second frequency information, extracting a first feature vector and a second feature vector respectively on the basis of amplitude information of the first frequency information and the second frequency information determined in advance, and combining the first feature vector and the second feature vector on the basis of a prescribed rule. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030217 | SIGNAL STRENGTH ENHANCEMENT IN A BIOMETRIC SENSOR ARRAY - A biometric imager may comprise a plurality of sensor element traces formed in or on a sensor substrate which may comprise at least a portion of a display screen defining a biometric sensing area and forming in-active pixel locations; an auxiliary active circuit formed in or on the sensor substrate on the periphery of the biometric sensing area and in direct or indirect electrical contact with the sensor element traces; and providing a signal processing interface to a remotely located controller integrated circuit. The sensor element traces may form a portion of one dimensional linear sensor array or pixel locations in a two dimensional grid array capacitive gap biometric imaging sensor. The auxiliary circuit may provide pixel location selection or pixel signal amplification. The auxiliary circuit may be mounted on a surface of the display screen. The auxiliary circuit further comprising a separate pixel location selection controller circuit. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030218 | Methods and Systems for Navigating Image Series - A method and system are provided for navigating an image series that, includes at least one image. The method and system involve receiving an input corresponding to a reference location; operating at least one processor for determining a target position in the image series based on the reference location, the at least one processor being configured to receive initial series data corresponding to an initial location in the image series and a separation distance corresponding to a distance between two sequential images in the image series; determine a target distance for the image series, the target distance corresponding to a distance from the reference location to the initial location; and determine the target position based on the separation distance and the target distance. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHAPE BASED DEFORMABLE SEGMENTATION OF MULTIPLE OVERLAPPING OBJECTS - The present invention provides a system and method for simultaneous variational and adaptive segmentation of single non-overlapping and multiple overlapping/occluded-objects in an image scene. The method according to the present invention synergistically combines shape priors with boundary and region-based active contours in a level set formulation with a watershed scheme for model initialization for identifying and resolving multiple object overlaps in an image scene. The method according to the present invention comprises learning a shape prior for a target object of interest and applying the shape prior into a hybrid active contour model to segment overlapping and non-overlapping objects simultaneously. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030220 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGE SIGNAL - A method of processing a medical image signal includes estimating first time courses and first spatial patterns for a group of objects from first brain function data for the group, and estimating second time courses and second spatial patterns for a target object from second brain function data obtained from the target object by using the first time courses and the first spatial patterns. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030221 | IMAGE COMPENSATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus of image compensation are provided. The method may include: calculating an overlapping position between two adjacent scannings; obtaining two images at the overlapping position of the two adjacent scannings, and calculating mutual information of the two images by using a three dimensional non-rigid registration method; and acquiring a corresponding transformational matrix when the mutual information reaches a threshold, and compensating one of the two scans which needs to be compensated by using the transformational matrix. Images at the overlapping position of two neighboring scannings can be used to find a motion law at an identical z position of the two adjacent scannings and to obtain a corresponding match factor. Thus inconsistence of images caused by a patient's movement can be compensated. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030222 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA COMPRESSION - A method and a system for data compression are provided. The method may include: obtaining scanning data to be compressed; compressing the scanning data using a first compression method and a second compression method to obtain a first compressed data and a second compressed data respectively, where a compression ratio of the first compressed data is lower than a compression ratio of the second compressed data; and determining whether the compression ratio of the first compressed data meets a predetermined compression ratio requirement, if yes, determining the first compressed data as a compression result data corresponding to the scanning data, if no, determining the second compressed data as a compression result data corresponding to the scanning data. Scanning data compressed by the method or the system can meet target compression requirements. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030223 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING SPATIAL DISTORTION IN 3D IMAGING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for characterizing spatial distortions in location data determined by an imaging system, for example as employed in imaged guided therapy. A three dimensional phantom is custom formed for a desired imaging space of a given imaging system. The phantom includes a large plurality of control points fixed rigidly in space to a high degree of known accuracy. The phantom is fixed to a stereotactic frame defining a known calibrated reference or zero and imaged. An algorithm customized for the phantom determines the spatial locations of the control points. A comparison is made between the known and the determined spatial locations for at least a subset of the control points. The comparison results in indicia for any determined spatial distortions observed. The raw image data can be manipulated to compensate for any spatial distortion. The control points can have fixed locations known to an accuracy of 100 μm or better. The algorithm can determine an initial estimate for the detected location of a control point accurate to .±.0.5 pixel or better. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030224 | IMPLANT DESIGN ANALYSIS SUITE - A method for anatomical analysis and joint implant design. Embodiments provide users with the ability to anatomically analyze a single bone or a series of bones that exist in a database, evaluate surgical landmarks and axes, identify differences among specific characteristics of a given population, and modify existing implants or create new implant designs based on anatomical analyses. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030225 | X-RAY DUAL-ENERGY CT RECONSTRUCTION METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a self-prior information based X-ray dual-energy CT reconstruction method, which can utilize information inherent in data to provide a prior model, thereby obtaining a reconstructed image with a high quality. The X-ray dual-energy CT reconstruction method according to the present disclosure comprises: (a) rating an energy spectrum and establishing a dual-energy lookup table; (b) collecting high-energy data p | 2015-01-29 |
20150030226 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A first-image and a second-image representing the same organ of the same subject imaged at the same time are obtained, and an organ-region is extracted from the first-image. The extracted organ-region is displayed on a display screen. An input of an air-region included in the first-image and an input of exceeding or lacking portion information representing that the air-region is a lacking portion or an exceeding portion of the organ are received, and the received air-region and the received exceeding or lacking portion information corresponding to the air-region are obtained, as correction information. Corresponding positions are matched with other between the first-image and the second-image. The organ-region extracted from the first-image is corrected based on the correction information. At least an air-region in the second-image located at a position corresponding to the air-region corresponding to the correction information is extracted, as a part of the organ-region in the second-image. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030227 | COMPUTERIZED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided herein is a computerized image reconstruction apparatus and method that includes recording projection path information and energy loss information of a plurality of particles traversing an object being imaged and determining an estimated image of the object based on the projection path information and the energy loss information sampled into a projection format. The estimated image includes an active volume defined by an enclosure border. Cost function minimization uses an Adaptive-weighted Total Variation cost function, a Penalized Weighted Least-Squares cost function, or an Alpha-Divergence cost function to update the estimated image. An iterative updating algorithm corresponding to the cost function updates the estimated image and produces a final image based on the estimated image according to a predetermined threshold. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030228 | METHOD FOR THE REDUCTION OF ARTIFACTS IN IMAGE DATA SETS AND COMPUTING FACILITY - A method for the reduction of artifacts based on an unequal representation of the same material classes in various locations, in particular of cupping artifacts, in a three-dimensional image data set, reconstructed from two-dimensional x-ray projection images is provided. An image datum, describing an attenuation value, is allocated respectively to a voxel, wherein at least two material class regions are located in a post-processing step, which receive, in particular, image data, which is homogeneously distributed and lies in an expected material class interval of the attenuation values, and, considering at least one characteristic of the material class regions, calculates a smooth homogenization function, which is to be applied to the image data of the entire image data set and is applied to the image data of the image data set. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030229 | Methods for Updating 2D/3D Registration on Movement and Computing Device - Methods for updating a 2D/3D registration between a three-dimensional image data set corresponding to a target area subjected to a movement and a plurality of two-dimensional projection images of the target area include: selecting a plurality of contour points along a contour, the contour being visible in a first projection image and a three-dimensional image data set registered therewith, the plurality of contour points being associated with a rigid object in the target area; determining a displacement of each contour point of the plurality of contour points between the first projection image and a successively captured second projection image; obtaining movement information for each contour point of the plurality of contour points based on the determined displacement, the movement information describing a movement of the rigid object; and updating the registration based on the obtained movement information. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030230 | SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD, SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE INSPECTION DEVICE - A method for inspecting a substrate having a plurality of holes formed on a plate-shaped material so as to extend over front and rear surfaces thereof. The method comprises picking-up an image of a plurality of holes formed on the substrate by imaging from one surface side of the substrate and obtaining a hole image of each hole (S | 2015-01-29 |
20150030231 | Method for Data Segmentation using Laplacian Graphs - A method segments n-dimensional by first determining prior information from the data. A fidelity term is determined from the prior information, and the data are represented as a graph. A graph Laplacian is determined from the graph from the graph, and a Laplacian spectrum constraint is determined from the graph Laplacian. Then, an objective function is minimized according to the fidelity term and the Laplacian spectrum constraint to identify a segment of target points in the data. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030232 | IMAGE PROCESSOR CONFIGURED FOR EFFICIENT ESTIMATION AND ELIMINATION OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION IN IMAGES - An image processing system comprises an image processor implemented using at least one processing device and adapted for coupling to an image source, such as a depth imager. The image processor is configured to compute a convergence matrix and a noise threshold matrix, to estimate background information of an image utilizing the convergence matrix, and to eliminate at least a portion of the background information from the image utilizing the noise threshold matrix. The background estimation and elimination may involve the generation of static and dynamic background masks that include elements indicating which pixels of the image are part of respective static and dynamic background information. The computing, estimating and eliminating operations may be performed over a sequence of depth images, such as frames of a 3D video signal, with the convergence and noise threshold matrices being recomputed for each of at least a subset of the depth images. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030233 | System and Method for Determining a Depth Map Sequence for a Two-Dimensional Video Sequence - A system and method of determining a depth map sequence for a subject two-dimensional video sequence by: determining a plurality of monocular depth cues for each frame of the subject two-dimensional video sequence; and determining a depth map for each frame of the subject two-dimensional video sequence based on the application of the plurality of monocular depth cues determined for the frame to a depth map model. The depth map model determined by: determining a plurality of monocular depth cues for one or more training two-dimensional video sequences; and determining a depth map model based the plurality of monocular depth cues of the one or more training two-dimensional video sequences and corresponding known depth maps for each of the one or more training two-dimensional video sequences. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030234 | ADAPTIVE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECOMPOSITION - A method of decomposing an image or video into a plurality of components. The method comprises: obtaining ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150030235 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing device including a disparity detector configured to receive a plurality of 3D images and detect disparity of each of the 3D images, a disparity analyzer configured to generate statistical information about disparity of each 3D image using the disparity of each 3D image detected by the disparity detector, and a disparity controller configured to convert the disparity using the statistical information about disparity of each 3D image generated by the disparity analyzer in such a manner that the 3D images are not overlapped so that a range of the disparity is within a predetermined range. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030236 | INFERRING SPATIAL OBJECT DESCRIPTIONS FROM SPATIAL GESTURES - Three-dimensional (3-D) spatial image data may be received that is associated with at least one arm motion of an actor based on free-form movements of at least one hand of the actor, based on natural gesture motions of the at least one hand. A plurality of sequential 3-D spatial representations that each include 3-D spatial map data corresponding to a 3-D posture and position of the hand at sequential instances of time during the free-form movements may be determined, based on the received 3-D spatial image data. An integrated 3-D model may be generated, via a spatial object processor, based on incrementally integrating the 3-D spatial map data included in the determined sequential 3-D spatial representations and comparing a threshold time value with model time values indicating numbers of instances of time spent by the hand occupying a plurality of 3-D spatial regions during the free-form movements. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030237 | IMAGE RESTORATION CASCADE - Image restoration cascades are described, for example, where digital photographs containing noise are restored using a cascade formed from a plurality of layers of trained machine learning predictors connected in series. For example, noise may be from sensor noise, motion blur, dust, optical low pass filtering, chromatic aberration, compression and quantization artifacts, down sampling or other sources. For example, given a noisy image, each trained machine learning predictor produces an output image which is a restored version of the noisy input image; each trained machine learning predictor in a given internal layer of the cascade also takes input from the previous layer in the cascade. In various examples, a loss function expressing dissimilarity between input and output images of each trained machine learning predictor is directly minimized during training. In various examples, data partitioning is used to partition a training data set to facilitate generalization. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030238 | VISUAL PATTERN RECOGNITION IN AN IMAGE - A system may be configured as an image recognition machine that utilizes an image feature representation called local feature embedding (LFE). LFE enables generation of a feature vector that captures salient visual properties of an image to address both the fine-grained aspects and the coarse-grained aspects of recognizing a visual pattern depicted in the image. Configured to utilize image feature vectors with LFE, the system may implement a nearest class mean (NCM) classifier, as well as a scalable recognition algorithm with metric learning and max margin template selection. Accordingly, the system may be updated to accommodate new classes with very little added computational cost. This may have the effect of enabling the system to readily handle open-ended image classification problems. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030239 | TRAINING CLASSIFIERS FOR DEBLURRING IMAGES - A classifier training system trains a classifier for evaluating image deblurring quality using a set of scored deblurred images. In some embodiments, the classifier training system trains the classifier based on a number of sub-images extracted from the scored deblurred images. An image deblurring system applies a number of different deblurring transformations to a given blurry reference image and uses the classifier trained by the classifier training system to evaluate deblurring quality, thereby finding a highest-quality deblurred image. In some embodiments, the classifier training system trains the classifier in the frequency domain, and the image deblurring system uses the classifier trained by the classifier training system to evaluate deblurring quality in the frequency domain. In some embodiments, the image deblurring system applies the different deblurring transformations iteratively. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE LEGIBILITY OF IMAGES - Disclosed are embodiments for a system, method, and computer program product for performing a process on an original image, the process being implemented by a computer system comprising at least one computer: performing a process on at least one image that renders the processed image more legible than then the original image. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030241 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA IDENTIFICATION AND EXTRACTION USING PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN A SOURCE DOCUMENT - Data extraction templates are created and associated with source documents from a specific source document source. One or more known pictorial representations associated with one or more source document sources are then identified and key data is generated for the known pictorial representations. Source document data is then obtained and analyzed to identify potential pictorial representation data. Key data associated with the potential pictorial representation data is then generated and compared with the key data associated with one or more known pictorial representations and if the key data matches, the data extraction template associated with the matched known pictorial representations is obtained and used for identifying and extracting data from the source document data. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030242 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FUSING MULTIPLE IMAGES - A method and system is provided for combining information from a plurality of source images to form a fused image. The fused image is generated by the combination of the source images based on both local features and global features computed from the source images. Local features are computed for local regions in each source image. For each source image, the computed local features are further processed to form a local weight matrix. Global features are computed for the source images. For each source image, the computed global features are further processed to form a global weight vector. For each source image, its corresponding local weight matrix and its corresponding global weight vector are combined to form a final weight matrix. The source images are then weighted by the final weight matrices to generate the fused image. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030243 | CHART FOR EVALUATING SKIN COLOR AND ITS APPLICATION TO EFFICACY EVALUATION OF ANTI-AGING AND SKIN LIGHTENING PRODUCTS - The present invention relates to charts, stacks and methods for evaluating skin color of a mammalian subject. The chart may include a substrate and an indicia visible from a first side of the substrate that includes a plurality of images of mammalian skin tones having varying degrees of yellowness, wherein each indicia is correlated with an index value. Also, the present invention relates to packaged topical cosmetic products that include a skin chart as well as to methods for evaluating anti-aging and skin lightening products. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030244 | DETERMINING COLOUR VALUES IN HYPERSPECTRAL OR MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES - The disclosure concerns processing of electronic images, such as hyperspectral or multispectral images ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150030245 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MEMORY EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR DECODING PROGRESSIVE JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP (JPEG) IMAGES - A computer implemented method and apparatus for a memory efficient approach for decoding progressive JPEG images. The method comprises (a) accessing a progressive JPEG image, wherein the progressive JPEG image comprises a plurality of compressed scans and wherein each scan in the plurality of scans comprises a plurality of compressed rows of image data; (b) decompressing not more than half of the compressed rows of each scan in the plurality of scans into a memory buffer; (c) copying a remaining plurality of compressed rows of each scan in the plurality of scans into a plurality of small memory buffers; (d) decoding, in place, the decompressed rows in the memory buffer; and (e) repeating steps (b)—(d) until a predefined number of rows are remaining in the plurality of small memory buffers, at which time the remaining rows are decompressed and decoded. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030246 | Simulating Strobe Effects with Digital Image Content - Systems and methods are provided for simulating strobe effects with digital image content. In one embodiment, an image manipulation application can receive image content. The image manipulation application can generate blurred image content by applying a blurring operation to a portion of the received image content along a blur trajectory. The image manipulation application can sample pixels from multiple positions in the received image content along the blur trajectory. The image manipulation application can generate a simulated strobe images based on the sampled pixels and at least some of the blurred image content. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030247 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CORRECTING IMAGE ARTIFACTS - Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for correction of color artifacts including both color aberration and color spot artifacts using a unified framework. For example, both color aberration and color spot artifacts can be corrected using a post-processing method implementing directional median filtering on chroma channels. A pixel-by-pixel correction ratio map can be built by analyzing the luma and chroma components of the image to indicate a type of color artifact associated with each pixel in the image, and a directional median filter can be selected for each pixel based on the corresponding correction ratio map value. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030248 | ADAPTIVE NOISE FILTER - A method for applying a filter to data to improve data quality and/or reduce file size. In one example, a region of interest of an image is identified. A histogram is generated of pixel intensity values in the region of interest. The histogram is iteratively updated to focus (zoom) in on the highest peak in the histogram. A Gaussian curve is fitted to the updated histogram. A bilateral filter is applied to the images, where parameters of the bilateral filter are based on the parameters of the Gaussian curve. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030249 | OVERLAPPED HANDWRITING INPUT METHOD - An overlapped handwriting input method, which includes: moving a touch unit on a touch screen, recording and displaying the track of a stroke on a handwriting area of the screen; determining whether the stroke currently being written and all previously input strokes having a color A belong to the same character; if yes, keeping the current stroke color unchanged; otherwise, determining whether an inactive visual layer character is present on the screen; if yes, clearing an image of the inactive character and related stroke information; otherwise, defining as the inactive character all strokes having the color A, excluding the current stroke; submitting data of the current inactive character to a recognition engine, and outputting a recognition result. Thus, the interface friendliness for users to continuously input handwriting according to their natural writing practice is ensured, and multiple handwritten characters can be written continuously without pause, thereby improving handwriting input efficiency. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030250 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR IMAGE OBJECT AND CONTOUR FEATURE EXTRACTION - A method includes determining a position and length of a non-zero run in a row of a pixel map. The method also includes determining a number of neighbors for the non-zero run in a preceding row, based at least in part on the position and the length. In addition, the method includes updating a correspondence map of the non-zero run and a correspondence map of a first neighbor of the non-zero run, based at least in part on a correspondence map of a second neighbor of the non-zero run, in response to a determination that the non-zero run has at least two neighbors in the preceding row. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030251 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Important information about an object is detected using less arithmetic processing. An object detection unit generates an edge image from a color image. The object detection unit evaluates symmetry of an image included in the edge image by performing processing in accordance with the position of a target pixel. The object detection unit identifies a symmetry center pixel forming an object having symmetry. The object detection unit detects an object width for each symmetry center pixel. The object detection unit identifies the width of the object in the vertical direction based on the width of the symmetry center pixels in the vertical direction, and identifies the width of the object in the horizontal direction based on the object width identified for each symmetry center pixel. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030252 | METHODS OF RECOGNIZING ACTIVITY IN VIDEO - The present invention is a method for carrying out high-level activity recognition on a wide variety of videos. In one embodiment, the invention leverages the fact that a large number of smaller action detectors, when pooled appropriately, can provide high-level semantically rich features that are superior to low-level features in discriminating videos. Another embodiment recognizes activity using a bank of template objects corresponding to actions and having template sub-vectors. The video is processed to obtain a featurized video and a corresponding vector is calculated. The vector is correlated with each template object sub-vector to obtain a correlation vector. The correlation vectors are computed into a volume, and maximum values are determined corresponding to one or more actions. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030253 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING POINT CLOUD OF AN OBJECT - Method of measuring a point cloud of an object includes obtaining the point cloud of the object from a storage device of the electronic device. Based on the point cloud, a triangular mesh surface is constructed and triangles of the triangular mesh surface are determined. According to the triangles, a reference plane is determined. According to the reference plane, a three dimensional (3D) object coordinate system is established. 3D object coordinates of points in the point cloud are calculated in the 3D object coordinate system. Measurement elements of a profile of the point cloud are determined and points in the point cloud corresponding to each of the measurement elements are determined. According to the 3D object coordinates of the determined points corresponding to each of the measurement elements, each of the measurement elements are fit. A distance and an angle of two fit measurement elements are calculated. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030254 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes an image sequence acquisition section that acquires an image sequence that includes a plurality of images, and a processing section that performs an image summarization process that deletes some of the plurality of images included in the image sequence acquired by the image sequence acquisition section to acquire a summary image sequence, the processing section selecting a reference image and a determination target image from the plurality of images, and determining whether or not the determination target image can be deleted based on the results of a process that utilizes deformation information about the reference image and the determination target image, and a process that utilizes a structural element that corresponds to an attention area. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030255 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING PIXELS IN AN INPUT IMAGE AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for classifying pixels in an input image and image processing system. The apparatus includes a first confidence determination unit configured for determining a first confidence of each of the pixels in the input image belonging to each of a plurality of predetermined classes; a detection unit configured for acquiring, by using a detector for detecting a particular class among the plurality of predetermined classes, detection results used to indicate pixels which belong to the particular class; an updating unit configured for updating the first confidences according to the detection results; and a class determination unit configured for determining the class to which each of the pixels in the input image belongs among the plurality of predetermined classes, according to the updated first confidences. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030256 | MULTI-SENSOR COMPRESSIVE IMAGING - Multi-sensor compressive imaging systems can include an imaging component (such an an RF, microwave, or mmW metamaterial surface antenna) and an auxialiary sensing component (such as an EO/IR sensor). In some approaches, the auxiliary sensing component includes a structured light sensor configured to identify the location or posture of an imaging target within a field of view of the imaging component. In some approaches, a reconstructed RF, microwave, or mmW image may be combined with a visual image of a region of interest to provide a multi-spectral representation of the region of interest. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030257 | LOW-COMPLEXITY BILATERAL FILTER (BF) IMPLEMENTATION IN A DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A method includes implementing, through a processor communicatively coupled to a memory and/or a hardware block, a Bilateral Filter (BF) including a spatial filter component and a range filter component, and implementing the spatial filter component with a low-complexity function to allow for focus on the range filter component. The method also includes determining, through the processor, filter tap value(s) related to the range filter component as a function of radiometric distance between a pixel of a video frame and/or an image and other pixels thereof based on a pre-computed corpus of data related to execution of an application in accordance with a filtering requirement of the pixel by the application. Further, the method includes constraining, through the processor, the filter tap value(s) to a form i×base based on the BF implementation. i is an integer and base is a floating point base. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030258 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CORNER NOISE REDUCTION IN AN IMAGE - Systems and methods for reducing noise artifacts in an image are disclosed. A radial distance-based look up table may be used to calibrate a noise property change due to the vignette effect. Based on the look up table, a spatial varying noise reduction level is computed to correct the noise property distortion due to the image vignetting. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030259 | IMAGE DIRECTION DETERMINATION - In one example embodiment, a device includes an object detector configured to: rotate an image multiple times in increments of a predetermined number of degrees, detect upright occurrences of at least one object from the image at each incremental rotation of the image, and divide the detected occurrences of the at least one detected object, at each incremental rotation of the image, into a corresponding classification; and a direction manager configured to: determine a normal direction of the image, based on a number of detected occurrences of the at least one detected object, at each incremental rotation of the image, for each corresponding classification. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030260 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM - An analysis system of the present invention includes: an analysis process executing means for controlling operation of the analysis system configured by a plurality of analysis engines to execute an analysis process; and an input quality regulating means for determining quality characteristics of processing target data inputted into the respective analysis engines so as to satisfy a preset requirement for accuracy of an analysis result, and regulating the quality characteristic of the processing target data inputted into a given analysis engine configuring the analysis system based on the determined quality characteristics. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030261 | Laundry Bag Assembly - A laundry bag assembly comprises a means for attaching to a dryer opening. Said assembly can comprise a bag, a body attached to said bag, and a mechanism for engaging a dryer opening. One or more telescoping arm members, hingeably movable arm members, or arm members comprising a hook portion, or flexible arm members may facilitate attachment to a dryer opening. Further, a portion of the bag may comprise a rigid or semi-rigid material. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030262 | BAG WITH PRE-APPLIED STRAP HANDLE - A method for forming a bag with a carrying handle from a continuous web of flexible material is described. The handle has an inactivated position, in which it extends substantially in a cross machine direction of the web, and an activated or in-use position, substantially perpendicular to the inactivated position. The method permits attachment of the handles to the web before the bag is formed, without a risk of inadvertently cutting the handle. The activated position of the handle provides optimum force distribution among the materials of the bag, thus minimizing or eliminating the need for using reinforcement materials. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030263 | BAG WITH REINFORCED WALLS - A bag with reinforced walls has four walls formed into a rectangular prismatic shape with a closed bottom. Each wall has a flap opposite the bottom of a rectangular shape. A flap has less width than a wall. Upon each flap is a first strip and upon each wall is a second strip where the first and second strips mutually align. During use, each flap is folded over a frame and the strips mutually engage. Each wall merges with two adjacent walls upon a fold line. Where the flaps of adjacent walls adjoin, each wall and each flap has a reinforcing layer. The reinforcing layer extends partially along the flap and partially down the wall. The reinforcing layer has a generally narrow and elongated shape. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030264 | POUCH WITH SMOOTH SIDES - The present invention relates to a container having consumer friendly sides. The container has a front panel and a back panel, each having an exterior surface. A side sealed portion of the container is folded over and secured to the exterior surface of container. Securing the side sealed portion to the exterior surface of the container forms a smooth side with the portion of the container that is folded over, or flexed, to allow the side sealed portion to be secured to the front or back panel. A method for forming the container assembly, and a machine for manufacturing the container assembly are also disclosed. | 2015-01-29 |
20150030265 | SIDE-GUSSET BAG MADE OF A PLASTIC FABRIC COMPOSITE, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention relates to a flat-lying side-gusset bag made of a plastic fabric composite ( | 2015-01-29 |