05th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 38 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100027792 | Virtually Increasing the Number of Content Broadcast Channels - The invention mostly uses conventional procedures with regard to enabling specific end-user to decrypt encrypted content information, but supplies the decryption keys, which are identical for all end-users, only after the end-user has received the encrypted content information and after the end-user has received the subscription information comprised in the specific entitlement management data that specifies the individual rights to access the content information. This approach provides additional control over the conditions under which the content information is played-out by the end-user, and enables to temporally better manage the communication bandwidth available to the service provider. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027793 | FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FACSIMILE APPARATUS, FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, TRANSMISSION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECEPTION PROCESSING METHOD - A facsimile communication system which is capable of selectively performing encrypted communication or non-encrypt communication according to the intention of a user. A transmitting-side digital multifunction machine inputs the port address of a receiving-side digital multifunction machine according to a user operation, and designates encrypted communication for transmitting IFP packets of image information, via an IP network, after encrypting the IFP packets, or non-encrypt communication for transmitting IFP packets of image information, via the IP network, without encrypting the IFP packets. The receiving-side digital multifunction machine determines whether the input port address is for an encrypted communication port or a non-encrypt communication port, and sends a response containing an associated port number to the transmitting-side digital multifunction machine. The transmitting-side digital facsimile apparatus establishes connection to the port with the port number, and performs the designated communication. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027794 | QUANTUM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for transmitting quantum information comprising a sending unit and a receiving unit,
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20100027795 | DIGITAL CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - A method comprising distributing digital data encoding content and arranged into messages from a server to one or more client terminals through a network, each message being decodable by a decoder application on a client terminal, said method including transmitting a plurality of data packets from the server through a network through a network interface of the server, each packet including at least one header and a payload, each payload including at least part of a message, and providing each message to a first of a series of at least one service interface between two layers in a protocol stack, installed on the server, each service interface configured to add at least one packet header to the packet encoding information enabling the client to process the remainder of the packet. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027796 | MULTI-ENCRYPTION - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems associated with multi-encryption are disclosed. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027797 | Playing Apparatus and Management Method - According to one embodiment, a playing apparatus reading a encrypted content and a content key configured to decrypt the encrypted content with use conditions set therein from a storage medium with the encrypted content and the content key for decrypting the encrypted content stored therein, decrypting the encrypted content by using the content key, and playing decrypted content, the apparatus includes a deletion module configured to delete the content key and the encrypted content from the storage medium with reference to the use conditions of the content key when the encrypted content is unable to be decrypted by using the content key. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027798 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORAGE OF SECURE INFORMATION, WHICH IS REQUIRED FOR SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION, ON A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method of storing secure information that is required for a near-field communication on a communication terminal includes transmitting a request to store information and a key required for securing the information on the communication terminal from an issuer of the information to a central facility, transmitting the information and the key required for securing the information from the issuer via the central facility to the communication terminal when the central facility has confirmed the request to store the information and the key required for securing the information on the communication terminal, storing the information and the key required for securing the information in the communication terminal, and transmitting a notification relating to storing of the information and of the key required for securing the information from the communication terminal via the central facility to the issuer of the information, wherein the key required for securing the information is furnished by a central facility while being uniquely allocated to the secure information. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027799 | ASYMMETRICAL DELAY AUDIO CROSSTALK CANCELLATION SYSTEMS, METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME - Crosstalk cancellation systems for left and right channel stereo audio signals that are played over left and right stereo loudspeakers include circuitry that is configured to apply more crosstalk cancellation delay to a difference signal between the left and right stereo audio signals, than to a sum signal of the left and right channel stereo signals. The circuitry may be configured to apply no crosstalk cancellation delay to the sum signal. Related crosstalk cancellation methods and electronic devices incorporating same are also disclosed. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027800 | Automatic Performance Optimization for Perceptual Devices - Systems and methods may be used to modify a controllable stimulus generated by a digital audio device in communication with a human user. An input signal is provided to the digital audio device. In turn, the digital audio device sends a stimulus based on that input signal to the human user, who takes an action, usually in the form of an output signal, to characterize the stimulus that the user receives, based on the user's perception. An algorithm, lookup table, or other procedure then determines a difference between the input signal and the output signal, and a perceptual model is constructed based at least in part on the difference. Thereafter, a new value for the parameter of the digital audio device is suggested based at least in part on the perceptual model. This process continues iteratively until the user's optimal device parameters are determined. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027801 | Impulse Response Processing Device, Reverberation Applying Device and Program - In an impulse response processing device, a waveform dividing part divides a waveform of an original impulse response into a plurality of blocks on a time axis. A time adjusting part performs a time adjustment to reduce a time difference between successive ones of the blocks. A waveform synthesizing part generates a waveform of a new impulse response by adding the blocks on the time axis after the time adjustment by the time adjusting part. Further, a windowing part performs a windowing process to multiply each block by a window function having a window width corresponding to a width of the block, a function value of the window function decreasing from a center to both ends of the block. The waveform synthesizing part generates the new impulse response using the blocks after the windowing process by the windowing part. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027802 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN ADAPTIVE GAIN CONTROL UNIT - A method and apparatus of an adaptive gain control (AGC) unit. The method includes receiving a noisy input signal and determining to utilize a stethoscope in at least one of a noise suppression mode or in amplification mode depending if the noise level is at least one of above or below a threshold, wherein the stethoscope is in noise suppression mode when K is less than the threshold and is amplification mode when K is above the threshold. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027803 | SUPRA-AURAL HEADPHONE NOISE REDUCING - An earphone for a supra-aural noise reducing headphone, with a front cavity that includes a foam portion and an open passageway. The foam portion supplements the volumetric dimension of the passageway to improve passive attenuation. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027804 | NOISE CONTROL DEVICE - To provide a noise control device capable of eliminating a possibility that a noise arriving at a control point is increased as compared to a case where the noise control is not performed and capable of reducing the circuit scale thereof. The noise control device according to the present invention includes: a controlling noise detector for detecting a given arriving noise to output a controlling noise signal; a controlling filter section for signal-processing the controlling noise signal outputted from the controlling noise detector, by using a fixed filter coefficient which is preset, to output a control signal; a control speaker for reducing the given noise arriving at the control point, by emitting toward the control point a control sound based on the control signal outputted from the controlling filter section; a noise determination section for determining whether or not the given noise arriving at the control point is a noise corresponding to the fixed filter coefficient; and an output control section for stopping output of the control signal from the controlling filter section when the noise determination section determines that the given noise is not a noise corresponding to the fixed filter coefficient. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027805 | Transfer function estimating device, noise suppressing apparatus and transfer function estimating method - A transfer function estimating device for estimating a transfer function of a sound, includes: a sound receiving module receiving a sound from a given sound source and converting the sound into a tone signal; a storage module storing first transfer functions of the sound propagating from the given sound source to the sound receiving module and transformation coefficients for converting the first transfer functions into given second transfer functions so as to associate with each other; a reference tone signal acquiring module acquiring a reference tone signal of the sound source; an acquiring module acquiring a transfer function of the sound received by the sound receiving module on the basis of the tone signal and the reference tone signal; a specifying module acquiring a cross-correlation value between the transfer function acquired by the acquiring module and each of the first transfer functions stored in the storage module. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027806 | DISTRIBUTED EMITTER VOICE LIFT SYSTEM - A system and method of providing sound reinforcement in a classroom, an office, a conference room, an auditorium, or any other suitable venue. The system includes at least one microphone, a receiver, a sound masking signal generator, a system controller, and a plurality of spatially distributed loudspeakers. The microphone detects the speech of a talker, generates at least one voice signal corresponding to the detected speech, and provides the generated voice signal to the receiver. The sound masking signal generator generates at least one sound masking signal having a specified sound masking spectrum. The system controller receives the voice signal and the sound masking signal from the receiver and the sound masking signal generator, respectively, and provides the voice and sound masking signals to the loudspeakers over respective channels. The loudspeakers emit acoustic voice and sound masking signals simultaneously and directly into the venue to obtain a more uniform sound field coverage for the acoustic voice signals and more uniform levels of the acoustic sound masking signals throughout the venue. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027807 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING AUDIO VOLUME TO PREVENT HEARING LOSS OR DAMAGE - Techniques and apparatus for limiting a sound pressure level produced by an audio output device driven by an audio player. During play, the audio player monitors the current sound pressure level of the audio output device, and in response thereto limits the sound pressure level by controlling an output level of audio signals it generates so as to reduce hearing loss caused by excess volume. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027808 | SOUND COLLECTION/REPRODUCTION METHOD AND DEVICE - To provide a sound collection system using a plurality of microphones arranged in the proximity to one another and having an excellent directivity for an arbitrary position in the sound field space. A plurality of control points are set around a plurality of sound collecting microphones. A desired response function matrix A(ω) and a transfer function matrix C(ω) between the control points and the respective microphones are measured. A control filter H arranged in a digital signal processing unit ( | 2010-02-04 |
20100027809 | METHOD FOR DIRECTING OPERATION OF MICROPHONE SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS COMPRISING MICROPHONE SYSTEM - The invention provides a method for directing operation of a microphone system. In one embodiment, the microphone system comprises a plurality of component modules. First, a diagnostic test is performed to determine a diagnostic result indicating whether the component modules have failed the diagnostic test. Whether a plurality of required component modules corresponding to a current application mode for operating the microphone system have failed the diagnostic test is then determined according to the diagnostic result, wherein the application mode requires cooperation of the required component modules selected from the component modules of the microphone system. When some of the required component modules have failed the diagnostic test, the current application mode is changed to an altered application mode and the microphone system is directed to operate according to the altered application mode, wherein a plurality of second required component modules corresponding to the altered application mode are in good condition. When the required component modules are all in good condition, the microphone system is directed to operate according to the current application mode. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027810 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TYPING NOISE REMOVAL - A method for reducing keyboard noise in conferencing equipment which includes a microphone and a keyboard, the method including: providing, at a noise reduction apparatus, an audio signal originating from the microphone; detecting, at the noise reduction apparatus, an operation of the keyboard; providing, at the noise reduction apparatus, a pre-stored estimate of a keyboard audio noise resulting from the operation of the keyboard upon detection of the operation of the keyboard; and calculating, at the noise reduction apparatus, a noise reduced output signal based on the estimate of the keyboard audio noise and the audio signal. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027811 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for controlling a volume of an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which a volume of an input signal can be controlled by using a non-linear gain curve and a target volume of the input signal. The present invention includes receiving an input signal and reference information controlling a volume of the input signal; and adjusting a volume of the input signal with the reference information, wherein the reference information comprises at least one of metadata indicating characteristics of the input signal, output environment information indicating characteristics of an environment in proximity to the apparatus and stored reference information being transmitted from memory. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027812 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for controlling a volume of an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which a volume of an input signal can be controlled by using a non-linear gain curve and a target volume of the input signal. The present invention includes storing a non-linear gain curve indicating relations between volumes of an input signal and an output signal; receiving an input signal and target volume information; determining a first gain by using the volume of the input signal and the target volume information; determining a second gain from one of a) the volume of the input signal and the target volume information or b) the first gain, by using the non-linear gain curve; and adjusting the volume of the input signal by applying the second gain to the input signal, wherein the non-linear gain curve is generated by using non-linearity information. A volume of an input signal of this invention is controlled using a non-linear gain curve indicating a relation between a volume of an input signal and a volume of an output signal. Therefore, the present invention is able to reduce or expand a dynamic range of an output volume. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027813 | SWITCHING AUDIO AMPLIFIER, DIGITAL SPEAKING DEVICE AND AUDIO AMPLIFICATION METHOD - A switching audio amplifier adapted in a digital speaking device for driving a speaker is provided. An audio amplification method implemented for the switching audio amplifier is also provided. In the switching audio amplifier, a comparison stage compares an audio input signal with a saw-tooth signal to generate a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal. A driver stage buffers the PWM signal to drive the speaker. A detector detects amplitude of the input signal to generate a control signal, and a saw-tooth generator adjusts a transition rate of the saw-tooth signal based on the control signal. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027814 | SPEAKER DEVICES - A speaker device may include a substrate, a membrane above the substrate, and an electrode above the membrane, a plurality of first supporting members, and a plurality of second supporting members. The second chamber is enclosed between the membrane and the substrate, and the first chamber is enclosed between the electrode and the membrane. The first supporting members are provided in the first chamber space and may space the membrane apart from the electrode. The second supporting members are provided in the second chamber space and may space the membrane apart from the substrate. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027815 | Acoustic-Mechanical Vibrating - Acoustic devices that include passive radiators. The passive radiators may include an acoustic drivers. The acoustic device may be hand-held or pocket sized. The passive radiators may provide perceptible mechanical vibration. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027816 | System and Method for Reducing Baffle Vibration - Adjustments to an electro-acoustic transducer may be made to match the performance of a second electro-acoustic transducer such that a net inertial force generated by movement of the electro-acoustic transducers' diaphragms are substantially zero. Adjustments may include adjusting a moving mass of one of the elector-acoustic transducers. Adjustments may include applying an equalization to one of the electro-acoustic transducers. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027817 | Controlled leakage omnidirectional electret condenser microphone element - An omnidirectional electret condenser microphone element with improved low frequency background ambient acoustical noise rejection is provided. The omnidirectional electret condenser microphone element includes a plurality of passageways in acoustic series that couple at least one acoustic aperture of the microphone element to an acoustic cavity formed within the microphone element. At least one of said plurality of passageways is of a predefined size that is determined to provide the desired response roll-off within a predefined frequency range. In at least one preferred configuration, the roll-off resulting from the plurality of passageways is greater than 2.0 dB between 300 and 100 Hz. In at least one alternate preferred configuration, the roll-off resulting from the plurality of passageways is greater than 3.0 dB between 300 and 100 Hz. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027818 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER THEREOF - The invention provides an electronic device and an electro-acoustic transducer thereof. The electronic device includes a main body and an electro-acoustic transducer carried by the main body. The electro-acoustic transducer includes a first electret diaphragm, a second electret diaphragm and a plate. The first electret diaphragm generates vibrations according to a first electrical signal and the second electret diaphragm generates vibrations according to a second electrical signal. The plate includes a plurality of holes formed thereon and is disposed between the first electret diaphragm and the second electret diaphragm. Additionally, the electronic device further includes a decorative layer formed on the first or the second electret diaphragm. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027819 | METHOD AND ENCODER FOR COMBINING DIGITAL DATA SETS, A DECODING METHOD AND DECODER FOR SUCH COMBINED DIGITAL DATA SETS AND A RECORD CARRIER FOR STORING SUCH COMBINED DIGITAL DATA SET - Two digital data sets are combined by equating a first subset of samples to neighboring samples from a second subset which is interleaved with the first subset of samples where the equated samples of the two digital data sets do not correspond in time, and by subsequently adding corresponding samples from both digital data sets. This results in a third digital data set that allows the unraveling of the two digital data sets. The third digital data set, when combining two digital audio streams into a single digital audio stream, is still a good mono representation of the two combined digital audio streams and can thus be reproduced on regular reproduction equipment, yet the use of a decoder according to the invention allows the unraveling of the two digital data sets from the third digital data set | 2010-02-04 |
20100027820 | HEARING AID WITH HISTOGRAM BASED SOUND ENVIRONMENT CLASSIFICATION - The present invention relates to an alternative method of classifying the sound environment into a number of environmental classes, such as speech, babble speech, restaurant clatter music, traffic noise, etc., based on signal level histogram values in a number of frequency bands. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027821 | Hearing aid and method for operating a hearing aid - The invention relates to a method for a hearing aid wearer to actively operate a hearing aid. A signal processing section of the hearing aid has a demixing module for separating audio signals and a postprocessor module which sets up a hold mode of operation for the hearing aid. An audio signal, which is preferred by the hearing aid wearer, from an ambient sound, is tracked and selected by virtue of the hearing aid wearer transmitting to the hearing aid a command which sets up the hold mode of operation in the signal processing section of the hearing aid for a certain period. The signal processing section tracks the preferred audio signal and selectively takes account of it in an output sound from the hearing aid such that it is audibly highlighted for the hearing aid wearer in comparison with another audio signal and is thereby perceived better. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027822 | Loss protection system for hearing aid devices - The miniaturization and wearing comfort of hearing aid devices increasingly runs the risks of a hearing aid device worn on or in the ear of a user getting lost without user realizing. The invention relates to a hearing aid device system comprising a first and a second hearing aid device which is worn on the head or body of a user to provide an electronic loss protection system which is reliable and easily manageable for a user. The first hearing aid device controls a presence of a radio link and/or a signal level of a signal sent from the second hearing aid device and received in the first hearing aid device. If the radio link breaks or the signal level drops below a threshold value, an information signal is generated by the first hearing aid device to inform the user of the loss of the second hearing aid device. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027823 | Hearing aid having an occlusion reduction unit and method for occlusion reduction - A method is described for reduction of occlusion effects in an acoustic appliance which closes an auditory channel, wherein an audio signal in the transmission path of the acoustic appliance is processed by a signal processing unit and is emitted via an output transducer, which is arranged in the auditory channel, as an acoustic signal. A resultant sound signal is then detected by an auditory channel microphone and is supplied to a variable loop filter which is arranged in a feedback loop of an occlusion reduction unit for the acoustic appliance, whose output signal is injected into the transmission path of the audio signal. In this case, the loop filter is readjusted as a function of information from the signal processing unit. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027824 | EAR MODULE FOR A PERSONAL SOUND SYSTEM - An ear module, which can be selectively worn on either left or right ear, comprises an interior lobe, adapted to fit within the concha, comprising a speaker and a compressive member/cover assembly. The compressive member/cover assembly is positionable, typically rotatable, relative to the remainder of the inner lobe between left and right ear orientations to permit the ear module to be worn on either the left or the right ear. A method for improving the quality of sound emanating from an ear module includes selecting the sound bore within the ear module to help improve the frequency response of the ear module so that the ear module has a resonant peak near 2.7 kHz and a maximum 20 dB decrease in high frequency response as measured at 5 kHz from the average frequency response as measured at 500 Hz, 800 Hz, and 1600 Hz. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027825 | Ear mold for a hearing device - In one aspect an ear mold for a hearing device is provided. The ear mol includes an opening for accommodating a snap-on element arranged on a receiver or a sound tube, with the opening being lined with a hard layer. A device having a receiver or a sound tube and a snap-on element are likewise specified. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027826 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PAPER MAKING PART FOR LOUDSPEAKER, PAPER MAKING PART FOR LOUDSPEAKER, DIAPHRAGM FOR LOUDSPEAKER, SUB CONE FOR LOUDSPEAKER, DUST CAP FOR LOUDSPEAKER AND LOUDSPEAKER - A manufacturing method of a paper making part for a loudspeaker has freedom of adjusting a characteristic and a sound quality, and has a higher productivity. Accordingly, a fibrillating step of a paper making material is achieved by an explosive crushing step. Alternatively, the step is achieved by a mixing step of a paper making material and a liquid, a material micro-fabricating step of applying a pressure to a mixed solution obtained by the mixing step so as to pass through an orifice and thereafter run into a device wall, and a paper making step including the micro-fabricated material. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027827 | SPEAKER SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide a speaker system in which a woofer and a group of tweeters are substantially coaxially arranged, and sound waves emitted from the woofer and sound waves emitted from the tweeter are less likely to interfere with each other in at least one direction, and whose sound pressure frequency characteristics easily stabilize. A speaker system | 2010-02-04 |
20100027828 | LOUDSPEAKER SLOTTED DUCT PORT - Provided herein is a loudspeaker system utilizing one or more ducted slot ports. In various embodiments, a ducted slot port may incorporate an acoustic low pass filter, such as a bend in the airflow path, to control midrange leakage. A ducted slot port may also minimize standing waves within the port duct and control turbulent port noise, such as by varying its cross-sectional area substantially continuously and symmetrically along the port duct's entrance-exit axis. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027829 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR A SOUND REPRODUCER WITH LINEARIZED SOUND TRANSMISSION - Circuit arrangement for a sound reproducer with linearized sound transmission comprising a loudspeaker ( | 2010-02-04 |
20100027830 | CHIP-SCALED MEMS MICROPHONE PACKAGE - An MEMS microphone package includes a circuit board and an MEMS microphone chip. The MEMS microphone chip, mounted on the circuit board, includes a substrate, an MEMS transducer formed on the substrate, and a readout circuit also formed on the substrate. The MEMS transducer generates a sound signal according to sound pressure variations. The readout circuit reads the sound signal from the MEMS transducer. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027831 | HEADPHONE CABLE SPLITTER - A flat, ribbon-like headphone cable having a unitary cable section, a splitter, and two split cable sections for connection to earpieces. The unitary and split cable sections each have substantially flat cross-sections wherein the width is substantially greater than the thickness. The split cable sections are oriented such that their widths are substantially perpendicular to the width of the unitary cable section. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027832 | AUDIO OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Attention can be effectively called to an advertisement, and the effect of calling attention can be known. A control device 10 is connected to a super-directional speaker | 2010-02-04 |
20100027833 | SPEAKER UNIT - In the speaker device, a casing and a magnetic circuit are arranged to confront each other, and a vibration body is arranged between them. The outer circumferential part of the vibration body is supported by the casing. A supporting member passes through the inside of the vibrating body and extends from the casing to the magnetic circuit. Since the supporting member for supporting the magnetic circuit passes the inside of the vibration body, it is not necessary to provide a member such as a frame for supporting the magnetic circuit from outside of the vibration body. Therefore, there is no obstacle such as a frame in a propagating direction of the sound wave generated by the vibration body, and hence the non-directivity can be ensured. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027834 | Apparatus, method and programmable product for identification of a document with feature analysis - The present application relates to a method, apparatus and programmable product for uniquely identifying a document. More specifically, the application allows for the identification of the document through collection of minutiae data at various points throughout the document's lifecycle without reliance upon or requirement for any unique identification characters, barcodes and/or objects that were added to the document specifically for the purpose of identification. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027835 | RECOGNIZING ACTIONS OF ANIMATE OBJECTS IN VIDEO - A system that facilitates automatically determining an action of an animate object is described herein. The system includes a receiver component that receives video data that includes images of an animate object. The system additionally includes a determiner component that accesses a data store that includes an action graph and automatically determines an action undertaken by the animate object in the received video data based at least in part upon the action graph. The action graph comprises a plurality of nodes that are representative of multiple possible postures of the animate object. At least one node in the action graph is shared amongst multiple actions represented in the action graph. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027836 | Image processing system and viewership effect measuring method - There is provided an information processing system, comprising: a viewing apparatus equipped with a content reproduction unit that reproduces content containing video data or audio data; a radio communication apparatus equipped with a storage unit in which user data correlated to a user to whom said radio communication apparatus belongs are stored and a data transmitting unit that transmits viewer data that include part of or all of said user data stored in said storage unit; and an information processing apparatus equipped with an analyzing unit that analyzes, based upon the user data, a viewership effect of the content reproduced by said viewing apparatus and a content distribution unit that distributes content data to be used to reproduce the content to said viewing apparatus. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027837 | Extracting Multiple Identifiers from Audio and Video Content - The presently claimed invention relates generally to content identification, such as extracting identifying information from content itself. One claim recites a method including: extracting first identifying information from data representing audio elements of an audio signal, said act of extracting first identifying information from data representing audio elements of the audio signal utilizes a programmed electronic processor; extracting second identifying information from data representing picture elements of a video signal that is associated with the audio signal, said act of extracting second identifying information from data representing picture elements of the video signal utilizes a programmed electronic processor; and utilizing the first identifying information or the second identifying information in a synchronization process, said synchronization process controls content synchronization during rendering of the audio signal or the video signal. Of course, other combinations and claims are provided as well. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027838 | Image-Based Visibility Measurement - The invention provides an image-based visibility measurement solution in which an image is used to calculate a visibility (visual range). In one embodiment, a lighting condition for the image is determined and the visibility calculation is adjusted based on the lighting condition. Further, the invention can obtain image data for a set of portions of the image and estimate a visual range based on each portion. The estimated visual ranges can be combined to calculate the visibility for the image. Still further, multiple metrics can be calculated, each of which is used to estimate a visual range. Subsequently, the visual ranges can be used to calculate the visibility for the image. Even further, configuration data that is based on a set of training images can be used to calculate the visibility for a new image. To this extent, the invention can incorporate the lighting condition, portions of the image having differing features, multiple metrics, and/or feedback through training images to accurately measure visibility based on an image. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING MOVEMENT OF JOINTS - A first image is obtained. At least one moving object indicated by the at least one image is selected. At least one joint that is associated with the at least one moving object is identified. At least one second image including the at least one moving object with the at least one joint is obtained and the movement of the at least one joint is tracked in a three-dimensional space. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027840 | System and method for bullet tracking and shooter localization - A system and method of processing infrared imagery to determine projectile trajectories and the locations of shooters with a high degree of accuracy. The method includes image processing infrared image data to reduce noise and identify streak-shaped image features, using a Kalman filter to estimate optimal projectile trajectories, updating the Kalman filter with new image data, determining projectile source locations by solving a combinatorial least-squares solution for all optimal projectile trajectories, and displaying all of the projectile source locations. Such a shooter-localization system is of great interest for military and law enforcement applications to determine sniper locations, especially in urban combat scenarios. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027841 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A SIGNAL STRUCTURE FROM A MOVING VIDEO PLATFORM - The present invention aims at providing a method for detecting a signal structure from a moving vehicle. The method for detecting signal structure includes capturing an image from a camera mounted on the moving vehicle. The method further includes restricting a search space by predefining candidate regions in the image, extracting a set of features of the image within each candidate region and detecting the signal structure accordingly. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027842 | OBJECT DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - An object detection method and an apparatus thereof are provided. In the object detection method, a plurality of images in an image sequence is sequentially received. When a current image is received, a latest background image is established by referring to the current image and the M images previous to the current image, so as to update one of N background images, wherein M and N are positive integers. Next, color models of the current image and the background images are analyzed to determine whether a pixel in the current image belongs to a foreground object. Accordingly, the accuracy in object detection is increased by instantly updating the background images. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027843 | SURFACE UI FOR GESTURE-BASED INTERACTION - Disclosed is a unique system and method that facilitates gesture-based interaction with a user interface. The system involves an object sensing configured to include a sensing plane vertically or horizontally located between at least two imaging components on one side and a user on the other. The imaging components can acquire input images taken of a view of and through the sensing plane. The images can include objects which are on the sensing plane and/or in the background scene as well as the user as he interacts with the sensing plane. By processing the input images, one output image can be returned which shows the user objects that are in contact with the plane. Thus, objects located at a particular depth can be readily determined. Any other objects located beyond can be “removed” and not seen in the output image. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027844 | MOVING OBJECT RECOGNIZING APPARATUS - Provided is a moving object recognizing apparatus capable of effectively showing reliability of result of image processing involved in moving object recognition and issuing alarms in an appropriate manner when needed. The moving object recognizing apparatus includes a data acquisition unit ( | 2010-02-04 |
20100027845 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTION DETECTION BASED ON OBJECT TRAJECTORY - A system and method for controlling a device via gesture recognition is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a video capture device configured to capture video of an object, a tracking module configured to track the position of the object, thereby defining a trajectory, a trajectory analysis module configured to determine whether or not a portion of the trajectory defines a recognized gesture, and a control module configured to change a parameter of the device when it is determined that the trajectory of the object defines a recognized gesture. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WAVING DETECTION BASED ON OBJECT TRAJECTORY - A system and method for detecting a waving motion from a sequence of ordered points is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprising receiving a sequence of ordered points, selecting a subset of the sequence of ordered points, determining if the subset defines a circular shape, and storing an indication of whether or not the subset defines a waving motion. Various metrics for determining if the subset defines a waving motion, which allow for a trade-off between accuracy and complexity, are disclosed. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027847 | MOTION ESTIMATING DEVICE - A motion estimating device first detects mobile objects Oi and Oi′ in continuous image frames T and T′, and acquires image areas Ri and Ri′ corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi′. Then, the motion estimating device removes the image areas Ri and Ri′ corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi′ in the image frames T and T′, extracts corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points between the image frames T and T′ from the image areas having removed the image areas Ri and Ri′, and carries out the motion estimation of the autonomous mobile machine between the image frames T and T′ on the basis of the positional relationship of the corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027848 | Structure-independent analysis of 3-D seismic random noise - A system and method identify and display random noise in three dimensional (3-D) seismic data utilizing a 3-D operator to reduce the effects of seismic structure on noise identification. The 3-D operator is derived using statements of required performance in 3-D. The 3-D operator is applied on a pixel-by-pixel basis to each of the pixels in the 3-D post-stacked data to display images in a 3-D display or to output an estimate of noise that is substantially independent of the image structure. The resulting display is generated in colors to indicate noise amplitude to facilitate location of noisy regions in the original display. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027849 | Methods and Systems for Administering a Drug Program - Systems and methods are described that provide a fast and simple way of administering a drug program related to an animal. Specifically, systems are provided that can receive, compile and analyze information regarding the condition of an organ in a form that is readily readable, transferable to others, and associated with, or linked to, other information such as the presence or absence of an administered drug, combination of drugs, or drug program. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027850 | SELF-ALIGNING MICR LINE TREATMENT APPLICATOR - A magnetic character recognition (MICR) encoding device has a treatment station that applies a chemical treatment to the blank region as the sheets pass along the sheet path that compensates for a fuser release agent that a marking station uses. If blank region was not treated, the fuser release agent might detrimentally affect the printing of the additional magnetic ink markings. In order to properly align the blank region with the treatment station, the embodiments herein include at least one read head that is positioned before the treatment station along the sheet path. A controller analyzes the signals from the read head to determine whether the magnetic ink markings are aligned with the treatment station. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027851 | Apparatus, method and process for the stochastic marking and tracking of printed products - A system and method records and identifies certain attributes of printed products for verifying their authentication and for tracking individual printed products or copies of printed products. In embodiment of the invention, a static code with redundant information and with high spatial resolution is applied on the printed product and the optoelectronic detection of the printed image on the printed product is carried out by means of a line-scan or area-scan camera or a laser scanner within a printing machine or an additional processing machine. The data are decoded after their acquisition by means of the optoelectronic detection device and the decoded data are used for characterizing an individual printed image and/or the printing process. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027852 | System and Method for Fast Biometric Pattern Matching - A method and system for matching two biometric images including receiving an input biometric image; generating an index table for the input biometric image, wherein the index table includes a quality quantity for each minutia of the input biometric image; receiving a second biometric image; generating a number of patterns for a first minutia of the second biometric image; associatively accessing the index table by the generated number of patterns; accumulating quality quantities accessed from the index table for each minutia of the input biometric image for the number of patterns of the first minutia of the second biometric image; and selecting a minutia candidate of the input biometric image responsive to the accumulated quality quantities. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027853 | IMAGE ENCRYPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ENCRYPTING IMAGE OF AT LEAST PARTIALLY NUDE PERSON AND DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE HAVING SAME - An encryption method includes: recognizing any face included in an image; analyzing color(s) of the recognized face(s) and thereby determining skin-color(s) of person(s) included in the image; determining a skin-area using the determined skin-color(s); calculating a ratio of the area of the recognized face(s) to the determined skin-area, and determining whether the image required to be encrypted based upon the calculated ratio; and encrypting the image in response to the inputs of a user if the image is required to be encrypted. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027854 | MULTI-PURPOSE DETECTOR-BASED INPUT FEATURE FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE - An input feature is provided for a computing device. The input feature is multi-dimensional in ability to detect position information, applied pressure and/biometric characteristics about the user or finger. The input feature may also include a haptic feedback mechanism. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027855 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE TAKING OF FINGERPRINTS | 2010-02-04 |
20100027856 | Method for Pre-focus of Digital Slides - Methods and apparatus are provided for computing focus information prior to scanning digital microscope slides with a line scan camera. The methods include a point-focus procedure that works by moving the slide to the desired measurement location, moving the objective lens through a predefined set of height values, acquiring imagery data at each height, and determining the height of maximum contrast. The methods also include a ribbon-focus procedure whereby imagery data are acquired continuously, while the slide and objective lens are in motion. Both methods may be applied with either a static or a dynamic implementation. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027857 | IN VIVO STRUCTURAL AND FLOW IMAGING - Embodiments of the present invention include but are not limited to methods and systems for optical coherence imaging. A method for optical coherence imaging may comprise scanning a sample with an incident beam from a light source; detecting one or more spectral interference signals from the sample; modulating the one or more spectral interference signals by a linear translation of a reference mirror while scanning the sample in a cross-sectional direction; and obtaining at least one image of the sample from the modulated one or more spectral interference signals, the at least one image including a selected one of a full range structural image of the sample and a separated structure/flow image of the sample. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027858 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IN-VIVO VARIX DETECTION - Devices, systems and methods of in-vivo varix detection. For example, a system may include a processor to automatically detect a varix in an in-vivo image. The processor may automatically identify a protrusion into a lumen of a gastro-intestinal tract. The processor may automatically identify substantially blue areas of the protrusion. The processor may generate an indication to a user that a varix was detected in an in-vivo image. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027859 | Method for Processing Findings Entered in a Mammogram - A method for processing findings entered in a mammogram. A digital mammogram is displayed via an evaluation device. Via an input device the findings are entered directly into the displayed mammogram and are automatically transferred from the mammogram into a findings input mask. To transfer the findings from the mammogram into the findings input mask, a contour line of an object area surrounding an object of the mammogram is determined. An object area of the mammogram is divided into two partial areas. Each partial area is imaged onto an allocated mask region of the findings input mask. The entered findings are allocated to one of the partial areas and are transferred into the findings input mask with reference to the allocated partial area. In this manner, a location of findings entered in a mammogram relative to the nipple can reliably be determined and transferred into a findings input mask. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027860 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PHASE-CORRECTED AMPLITUDES IN NMR RELAXOMETRIC IMAGING - A method for determining phase-corrected amplitudes in a multiple echoes imaging experiment, wherein a Fast Fourier Transform reconstruction is applied to the echo signals generated by a CPMG sequence; for each pixel, the pixel being the same through the echo images, the method including the steps of: plotting the amplitudes of at least two echo images in a complex plane, defining a linear fit from the plot; determining a rotation angle α which is the angle between the linear fit and the real axis of the complex plane; determining the rotation angle α | 2010-02-04 |
20100027861 | SEGMENTATION OF REGIONS IN MEASUREMENTS OF A BODY BASED ON A DEFORMABLE MODEL - Techniques for segmenting data include receiving reference segmentation data and target data. The reference segmentation data defines a mesh indicating a boundary of a physical component in a reference body. The target data includes measured values at coordinates within a target body. Coordinates for vertices of the mesh are moved toward nearby edges in values of the target data. The adjustment also may be based on deviations from adjacent vertices or from a three dimensional generalized gradient vector field. The mesh may be initially transformed by a particular transformation that automatically maximizes a similarity measure between the target data and reference data. The reference data includes measured values within the reference body. The reference segmentation also may define a second mesh that indicates a second boundary in the reference body, and the adjustment is also based on an adjusted distance between the mesh and the second mesh. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - The present invention relates to a system and a method for processing an initial image of coronary arteries. In accordance with the proposed method, a healthy region and a stenosed region of said arteries are first demarcated in the initial image. A first intermediate image is obtained by generating a contour of said healthy region of said arteries by segmentation of said healthy region using a level set function. A second intermediate image obtained by performing edge detection on said stenosed region. The first and second intermediate images are then combined to obtain a composite image of a single connected component represented by a plane curve on said composite image. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027863 | Methods for detection and characterization of atypical vessels in cervical imagery - The present invention discloses a method for the detection of atypical vessels in digital cervical imagery. A pre-processing stage is applied to enhance the contrast of blood vessel features compared to the surrounding tissue. Next, a segmentation stage is applied to identify regions of interest for atypical vessels using texture and gradient information. Finally, a post-processing stage (1) identifies other clinically relevant features in the cervical imager, and removes these features from the region of interest; and (2) uses color, size, and shape information to further refine the region of interest to eliminate false positives and determine a final region of interest. This automated method of atypical vessel detection is especially useful for diagnostic purposes such as cervical cancer detection. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027864 | Systems and Methods for Assessing Pulmonary Gas Transfer using Hyperpolarized 129XE MRI - Methods and systems for assessing pulmonary gas exchange and/or alveolar-capillary barrier status include using spin echo pulse techniques to generate at least one 3-D MRI image of | 2010-02-04 |
20100027865 | Method and System for Brain Tumor Segmentation in 3D Magnetic Resonance Images - A method and system for brain tumor segmentation in multi-spectral 3D MRI images is disclosed. A trained probabilistic boosting tree (PBT) classifier is used to determine, for each voxel in a multi-spectral 3D MR image sequence, a probability that the voxel is part of a brain tumor. The brain tumor is then segmented in the multi-spectral 3D MRI image sequence using graph cuts segmentation based on the probabilities determined using the trained PBT classifier and intensities of the voxels in the multi-spectral 3D MR image sequence. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027866 | POSITRON CT APPARATUS - A positron CT apparatus of this invention includes a first detecting device and a first image processing device for acquiring a 3D image of a first site of interest. Further, a second detecting device and a second image processing device are provided for acquiring a real planar image of the first site of interest and a second site of interest. A calculated planar image calculating device calculates, based on the 3D image, data corresponding only to the first site of interest projected to the real planar image. A correcting device provides a corrected planar image corresponding only to the second site of interest by subtracting the calculated planar image from the real planar image. Thus, the 3D image corresponding to the first site of interest and the corrected planar image with a projection of the second site of interest can be acquired at the same time through one diagnosis. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027867 | Method for creating mass density images on the basis of attenuation images captured at different energy levels - The invention relates to a method for creating scatter-corrected mass density image in dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. The mass density image is created using additional information provided by attenuation images at different energy levels in an inhomogeneous correction image area. A multi-dimensional mass density is found that is consistent for a plurality of the attenuation images by inverting a primary radiation function. A scatter fraction is determined on the basis of the multi-dimensional mass density. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027868 | Blood sample analyzing apparatus, blood sample coagulation determining apparatus, blood sample coagulation determining method and computer program product - The present invention is to present a blood sample analyzing apparatus, comprising: an aspirator for aspirating a blood sample to be used for measurement; a coagulation determiner for determining whether the blood sample is coagulated or not; and an aspirating controller for controlling an operation of the aspirator based on a determination result by the coagulation determiner. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027869 | Optical Carriage Structure of Inspection Apparatus and its Inspection Method - An optical carriage structure of the inspection apparatus and its inspection method are disclosed herein. A plurality of CCD arrays configured at different heights in the optical carriage are utilized, so as a plurality of individual images can be simultaneously captured in one scanning step to obtain a preferred inspection image for image comparison; therefore, precise inspection can be effectively achieved. Furthermore, those CCD arrays are configured at different heights and have enlarged focusing ranges, and the depth of field is thus enhanced. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027870 | METHOD FOR MEASURING COATING APPEARANCE AND THE USE THEREOF - The present invention is directed to a method for obtaining appearance characteristics of a target coating containing effect pigments. The present invention is also directed to a method for comparing appearances of two or more coatings by comparing the appearance characteristics. The present invention is further directed to a system for obtaining appearance characteristics of one or more coatings and comparing said coating appearances. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027871 | Method and system for inspection of tube width of heat exchanger - An appearance inspection method and system of a core of a heat exchanger provided with fins and tubes including identifying a region in which an image of a single tube is captured, performing averaging and dynamic binarization of the image data in this region to extract only the image of the tube, dividing this region into a plurality of blocks, finding the smallest rectangle surrounding a tube at each divided block to find a width dimension of the tube, comparing the tube width dimension at each block found with a predetermined threshold value, and judging a part as good when all of the tube width dimensions at the blocks are the predetermined threshold value or less. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027872 | Method and system for inspection of tube width of heat exchanger - A method and system for appearance inspection of a core of a heat exchanger provided with fins and tubes, performing averaging and dynamic binarization on the imaging data to extract an image of only a tube, then calculating, with respect to the extracted tube image, a center axis across a long direction of the tube comprised of the center coordinates of the tube width direction, comparing the discovered center axis with a reference value to find the maximum displacement across the long direction of the tube, and judging the tube is a defect when the maximum displacement is greater than a predetermined threshold. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027873 | BOARD APPEARANCE INSPECTION METHOD AND DEVICE - Problem to be Solved To efficiently perform a board appearance inspection with a simple structure. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027874 | Stereo image matching method and system using image multiple lines - Disclosed is a stereo image matching method for re-creating 3-dimensional spatial information from a pair of 2-dimensional images. The conventional stereo image matching method generates much noise from a disparity value in the vertical direction, but the present invention uses disparity information of adjacent image lines as a constraint condition to eliminate the noise in the vertical direction, and compress the disparity by using a differential coding method to thereby increase a compression rate. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027875 | AUTOMATED LEARNING FOR PEOPLE COUNTING SYSTEMS - A system, method and program product for providing automated learning for a people counting system. A system is disclosed that includes a grid system for dividing a field of view (FOV) of a captured image data into a set of blocks; an object detection and tracking system for tracking a blob passing through the FOV; and a learning system that maintains person size parameters for each block and updates person size parameters for a selected block when a blob appears in the selected block. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027876 | Seam-Based Reduction and Expansion of Images With Color-Weighted Priority - A system and method for expansion and reduction of images uses an absolute value associated with each pixel of an input image (e.g., a color and/or intensity value) to determine a respective energy value for each pixel. For example, a given color or range of colors (e.g., skin tones, or other high-priority colors) may be assigned higher energy values than other colors and/or color ranges, and may be protected during image reduction and/or expansion. These energy values may be used to determine a cost associated with various seams of the image, which may represent the priority of the seams in the image. One or more low-cost seams may be identified for removal or replication to produce a resized image. The methods may be used in conjunction with an automated skin tone detector or a user interface that allows selection of one or more high priority colors or color ranges. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTIVE SCALING OF COLOUR MAPPED IMAGES - A method for scaling an original colour mapped image are disclosed. The method performs steps of: transforming the original colour map into the scaled colour map based on the original colour map and the original image independently of the scaled image; scaling the original image into the scaled image; for each pixel of the scaled image: determining a set of contributing pixels in the original image, which define a colour of the pixel; determining the colour of the pixel based on colours of the contributing pixels and geometric proximity of the pixel to the contributing pixels; establishing correspondence between the colour of the pixel and a colour in the scaled colour map; and determining a corresponding colour map index thereof; and setting the determined colour map index in the scaled pixel map. A corresponding system for scaling digital images is also provided. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027878 | CONTENT DETECTION OF AN IMAGE COMPRISING PIXELS - Methods for image content detection check ( | 2010-02-04 |
20100027879 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The process captures a plurality of images under a light source whose luminance varies over time, such as a fluorescent lamp, under such an imaging condition that a plurality of images that are different from one another in terms of light source conditions can be captured (S | 2010-02-04 |
20100027880 | Image-data-distribution-model updating apparatus, image processing apparatus, image -data-distribution-model updating method, and computer program - An image-data-distribution-model updating apparatus includes: a determining unit that determines, concerning image data continuous in time series, to which of plural distribution models indicating an average of signal levels for each of plural color components, variance of a signal level distribution of all the plural color components, and reliability of all the plural color components the target image data belongs; and an updating unit that updates the average, the variance, and the reliability of a distribution model having the highest reliability among the distribution models to which it is determined that the target image data belongs and updates the reliability of the other distribution models. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027881 | LOCAL ILLUMINATION AND COLOR COMPENSATION WITHOUT EXPLICIT SIGNALING - There are provided method and apparatus for local illumination and color compensation without explicit signaling. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding a picture by enabling at least one of color compensation and illumination compensation of at least one color component of a prediction for an image block of the picture without using explicit signaling. The method comprises at least the step of enabling the encoding of a picture described above in the apparatus, again without use of explicit signaling. In the description of an specific embodiment, this enabling of the color compensation and the illumination compensation is based on at least one of a group of pixels and a local signal block corresponding to the picture. Similar descriptions are provided for a method and apparatus for decoding the signal the encoded signal. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027882 | IMAGE COMPRESSING METHOD, IMAGE COMPRESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When priority is placed on a small file size, the number N of kinds foreground identifiers used for identifying color information of respective pixels of a foreground of a color image is reduced to M, which is smaller than N. For this purpose, a foreground identifier corresponding to pixels in number not more than a prescribed number K of pixels is replaced with a background identifier. When M is not more than a prescribed number P, M binary images respectively corresponding to the M kinds of identifiers are generated on the basis of a foreground layer including the M kinds of foreground identifiers, the respective binary images are subjected to lossless compression, and a background layer generated on the basis of the foreground layer is subjected to lossy compression. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027883 | ADAPTIVE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING DIGITAL IMAGES FOR THE INTERNET - A system and method comprise defining a current rectangular region of the image bitmap, quantifying spectral characteristics of the current rectangular region, dividing the current rectangular region into four rectangular sub-regions in response to the spectral characteristics being greater than a predetermined threshold value, tagging the current rectangular sub-region as a terminal rectangular region in response to the spectral characteristics being less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, tagging each rectangular sub-region as a terminal rectangular region in response to a size of the rectangular sub-region being less than or equal to a predetermined threshold size, defining one of the non-terminal rectangular sub-regions as the current rectangular region and repeating the above until all rectangular regions are tagged terminal, and determining color characteristics for each of the terminal rectangular regions. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027884 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING COLOR AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for correcting colors and an apparatus using the same are provided. A method for correcting colors includes generating a luminance histogram using an image signal; determining a color matrix corresponding to luminance information of the luminance histogram; and converting the image signal from a color space to another color space using the determined color matrix, and outputting a Red, Green, Blue (RGB) signal. Accordingly, the advantage of a reduction in color noise is achieved. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027885 | COMPONENT EXTRACTION/CORRECTION DEVICE, COMPONENT EXTRACTION/CORRECTION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Provided is a component extraction/correction device, comprising: a decomposition unit that decomposes an original image signal into a plurality of frequency bands to generate a plurality of band signals; an extraction unit that extracts a skeleton component from among a plurality of components constituting the band signal; a first correction unit that corrects the extracted skeleton component by using the band signal and one component other than the skeleton component among the plurality of components; and a second correction unit that corrects the one component by using the corrected skeleton component and the band signal. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027886 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELIMINATING CHROMATIC ABERRATION - A method and apparatus for eliminating chromatic aberration; in an embodiment, only the chrominance signal is filtered in the luminance/chrominance coordinates so as to eliminate the chromatic aberration so that the chromatic aberration can be eliminated regardless of a property of a lens. In addition, there are advantages in not only eliminating the chromatic aberration but also preventing resolution of the original image from being damaged. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027887 | Image processing system and image processing method - A histogram preparer reads image data scanned from an original sheet by the line, preparing a histogram of pixel numbers of respective background densities of a read line, a background density estimator estimates a background density of the read line as a density at a local maximal value in view of a highlight end of the histogram, a background removal reference value setter sets up a background removal reference value as a reference margin based on a pixel number normalized on the estimated background density, a background removal threshold determiner increments the estimated background density by the background removal reference value to set a provisional background removal threshold of the read line, and determines a background removal threshold of the read line as a weighting combination of the provisional background removal threshold and a background removal threshold of a previous line, and a background remover removes a background of the read line based on the determined background removal threshold. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027888 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus configured to generate an MR image displayed on a display apparatus includes a segmentation unit configured to segment the generated MR image into a plurality of regions, a generation unit configured to generate a pattern image to be superimposed on one of the plurality of segmented regions or each of the plurality of segmented regions, a superimposition unit configured to superimpose the generated pattern image on one of the plurality of segmented regions or each of the plurality of segmented regions, and an output unit configured to output the MR image, including the pattern image superimposed thereon, to the display apparatus. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027889 | CURVISE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION WITH HIERARCHICAL PROTOTYPE SEARCH - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve cursive handwriting recognition. Cursive handwriting input is received from a user. The system performs a hierarchical prototype search as part of a recognition operation. A same space search is performed against a mixed database that has both print and cursive samples. A same space search is also performed against a cursive database that has only cursive samples. The results of these two same space searches are merged into a combined alternate list. The combined alternate list is then used as a constraint for the dynamic time warp searches that are performed against the mixed and cursive databases, respectively. The results of the dynamic time warp searches are also merged into a final combined alternate list, and the combined alternate list is used to make a recognition decision regarding the user's handwritten input. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027890 | IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An eye-gaze direction calculation unit calculates the eye-gaze direction in an input facial image of a person by carrying out prescribed operation processing based on iris shape data output from an iris detection unit and face-direction measurement data output from a face-direction measurement unit. The eye-gaze direction of the facial image of the person can be measured on the basis of accurate iris shape information obtained by an iris shape detection unit. The iris and sclera regions can be estimated on the basis of the detected eyelid contour information, thereby making it possible to accurately estimate the shape of the iris. | 2010-02-04 |
20100027891 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR REDUCED NOISE IMAGE PROCESSING - Provided are an image processing method and apparatus for effectively reducing noise in an image, and a recording medium storing a program for executing the method. The image processing apparatus includes a noise reduction unit configured to apply a noise reduction filter to first image data to obtain second image data; a first edge data obtaining unit configured to calculate edge data lost in the second image data compared with the first image data to obtain the first edge data; and a first synthesis unit configured to tune the first edge data and calculate third image data from the second image data and the tuned first edge data. | 2010-02-04 |