06th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 35 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150036887 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A GROUND PLANE ON THE BASIS OF A DEPTH IMAGE - A method of determining a triplet of parameters defining a ground plane based on a depth image includes determining a plurality of triplets of parameters, each defining a ground plane, spatial filtering of the parameters, and temporal filtering of the parameters. The temporal filtering is dependent on an indicator of quality of depth image data available for determination of the ground plane. The temporal filtering is dependent on an indicator of quality of the ground plane determined after spatial filtering. Similarly, the spatial filtering can be parameterized as a function of the two indicators. Globally, the more the estimated plane for a depth image can “explain” the points in this image, the more accurately planes of the subsequent images are determined. For the spatial filtering, the ground plane is searched in a more limited space, and, for the temporal filtering, the previously estimated ground planes considered to a lesser degree. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036888 | SEQUENTIAL ROLLING BUNDLE ADJUSTMENT - A method for estimating position and orientation of an image-capturing device is proposed. The method comprises the step of obtaining a preceding set of frames by using the image-capturing device. Each frame includes a set of image data. The method of the present technology further comprises the step of estimating a previous position and orientation of the image-capturing device by using the set of image data included in at least one preceding frame, and the step of estimating a current position and orientation of the image-capturing device by replacing a set of image data included in at least one preceding frame by a set of image data included in at least one subsequent frame. At least one subsequent frame is obtained by using the image-capturing device. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036889 | Method and System for Predicting Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Therapeutic Substance Carriers - A method and system for predicting spatial and temporal distributions of therapeutic substance carriers within a body of a user, comprising: at a computing system, receiving an image dataset and a spectra dataset of a therapeutic substance carrier generated from at least one of an imaging model and a spectra-generating module; transforming the image dataset and the spectra dataset into a set of characteristics, wherein the set of characteristics comprises electrotopological characteristics and geometrical characteristics; generating a set of pharmacokinetic parameters and a set of pharmacodynamic parameters for the therapeutic substance carrier based upon the set of characteristics and a transformation model; and transforming the set of pharmacokinetic parameters and the set of pharmacodynamic parameters into a spatial distribution and a temporal profile of the therapeutic substance carrier, based upon a predictive model incorporating physiological parameters of the body, thereby predicting distributions of the therapeutic substance carrier within the body. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036890 | Security Element and Method to Inspect Authenticity of a Print - The invention relates to a security element applied onto printing substrates (bank-notes, securities, product packagings, identity cards/labels or other similar documents) by printing, comprising a unique identifier as primary information visible to the naked eye and secondary information protecting against copying non-visible to the naked eye. The unique identifier is typically a point code. Said secondary information is represented by a structure with the largest dimension of 2 to 40 microns, and due to printing distortions arising when the security element is applied onto a printing substrate, said secondary information is non-reconstructable from the print of the security element and a statistically analyzable inherent feature is associated to it. The invention also relates to a printed matter with such an inventive security element and to a method to check authenticity of a printed matter with the inventive security element in visible light (380-750 nm). | 2015-02-05 |
20150036891 | OBJECT VERIFICATION DEVICE, OBJECT VERIFICATION PROGRAM, AND OBJECT VERIFICATION METHOD - There is provided an object verification device capable of detecting a fraudulent entry in an arbitrary area of an object without requiring a certification mark applied by a special material. An object verification device that verifies authenticity of an object includes: an image acquisition section that acquires an image of the object; a verification area identification section that identifies a verification area of the object for which authenticity is verified; an entry part detection section that detects a plurality of entry parts within the verification area in the image; and a verification section that verifies authenticity of the object by mutually comparing the plurality of entry parts in the image. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036892 | TRAVEL CHECK-IN METHOD - A travel check-in method with improved travel document information capture and handling. An example method includes connecting to a travel check-in website by the computer, operating an image capture device by the computer to capture an image of an identification document of a passenger checking in, obtaining machine readable information from the image by the computer, and sending the machine readable information and the image to the travel check-in website by the computer. The method may be in lieu of the passenger providing the identification document to an agent at an airport or other departure point. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036893 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND METHOD - An authentication device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire a plurality of images with regard to a certain living body, extract first biometric information from each of the plurality of images, perform an alignment between the plurality of images, based on the first biometric information, calculate a coefficient based on feature of the certain living body, the feature being identified by a result of the alignment, and generate a normalized image by normalizing at least one image from among the plurality of images based on the coefficient. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036894 | DEVICE TO EXTRACT BIOMETRIC FEATURE VECTOR, METHOD TO EXTRACT BIOMETRIC FEATURE VECTOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE, NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM - A device to extract a biometric feature vector includes: a memory; and a circuitry, wherein the circuitry is configured: to obtain a biometric image; to generate a plurality of small region images from the biometric image so that variability of biometric information amounts among the plurality of small region images is equal to or less than a predetermined value; to extract biometric local feature amounts from the small region images; and to generate a biometric feature vector by combining the biometric local feature amounts in accordance with a predetermined rule, the biometric feature vector indicating a feature for identifying the biometric image. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036895 | BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION - In real biometric systems, false match rates and false non-match rates of 0% do not exist. There is always some probability that a purported match is false, and that a genuine match is not identified. The performance of biometric systems is often expressed in part in terms of their false match rate and false non-match rate, with the equal error rate being when the two are equal. There is a tradeoff between the FMR and FNMR in biometric systems which can be adjusted by changing a matching threshold. This matching threshold can be automatically, dynamically and/or user adjusted so that a biometric system of interest can achieve a desired FMR and FNMR. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036896 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING FINGERPRINT IMAGE - A method for registering a fingerprint image is provided. The method comprises steps of: establishing an orientation field template base according to M training fingerprints, wherein M is a positive integer larger than one; receiving a fingerprint image to be registered; obtaining an initial orientation field of the fingerprint image; obtaining an estimated position and an estimated direction of the fingerprint image according to the initial orientation field and the orientation field template base; and registering the fingerprint image according to a preset position, a preset direction, the estimated position and the estimated direction. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036897 | FINGERPRINT SENSING ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF MAKING - A fingerprint sensing module includes a sensor substrate having a sensing side and a circuit side, an image sensor including conductive traces on the circuit side of the sensor substrate, and a sensor circuit including at least one integrated circuit mounted on the circuit side of the sensor substrate and electrically connected to the image sensor. The sensor substrate may be a flexible substrate. The module may include a velocity sensor on the sensor substrate or on a separate substrate. The module may further include a rigid substrate, and the sensor substrate may be affixed to the rigid substrate. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036898 | STATION FOR ACQUIRING BIOMETRIC AND BIOGRAPHIC DATA - A system allowing the acquisition of biometric and biographical data of an individual includes a station into which at least one of the following elements are integrated: a sensor of biometric prints, a camera for taking a picture of said individual, a feedback screen and a gantry including lighting means adapted for ensuring lighting complying with given conditions of acquisition of the biometric data. The lighting means include a curved metallic reflector fixed to the rear and to the apex of the framework of a first upper light tube placed substantially horizontally, furnished with a protection which is lowered and oriented toward said reflector, and a second light tube disposed substantially horizontally in the lower part of the framework, where the power P | 2015-02-05 |
20150036899 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR DETERMINING FOCUS DEPTH OF A REFRACTIVE LASER - The present invention relates to a laser apparatus, system, and method for determining a depth of a focus point of a laser beam. An interface device is coupleable to the laser apparatus and has an applanation element comprising a front surface and a back surface. A laser beam having a predefined shape is focussed through the applanation element at a focus point. A superimposed image of a spurious reflection, which is reflected from the front surface of the applanation element, with a standard reflection, which is reflected from the back surface of the applanation element, is detected. The spurious reflection is then filtered out of the superimposed image. Based on the remaining standard reflection, the depth of the focus point of the laser beam can be determined. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036900 | OBJECT IMAGE LABELING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The invention relates to a labeling apparatus ( | 2015-02-05 |
20150036901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN SURFACES - Methods and systems are disclosed for correcting segmentation errors in pre-existing contours and surfaces. Techniques are disclosed for receiving one or more edit contours from a user, identifying pre-existing data points that should be eliminated, and generating a new corrected surface. Embodiments disclosed herein relate to using received edit contours to generate a set of points on a pre-existing surface, and applying a proximity test to eliminate pre-existing constraint points that are undesirable. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036902 | HIGH DENSITY FORWARD PROJECTOR FOR SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT FOR MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS INCLUDING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY - A medical imaging apparatus, processing device or specialized circuit can include an input interface to input scan data of a medical image scan of a target object, a processor to generate an output image from the input scan data, and an output interface to output the output image to, e.g., a display. The processor can execute a first reconstruction of the scan data to obtain an intermediate image of the target object, a high-density forward projection of the intermediate object to obtain generated data, a sinogram updating using both of the generated data and the scan data to obtain a high-resolution sinogram, and a second reconstruction based on the high-resolution sinogram to obtain an output image. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036903 | LESION-TYPE SPECIFIC RECONSTRUCTION AND DISPLAY OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS VOLUMES - A method, a control unit and a system for image reconstruction and visualization of a tomosynthesis volume. Different region of interests are detected in the volume and specific types of lesions are determined. Based on the type of lesion, different reconstruction parameters and different reconstruction algorithms are applied in order to reconstruct a sub-volume or a region in a projection. After displaying the digital breast tomosynthesis volume, a user selection signal is received, in order to identify a selection area. The selection area identifies a region in the volume which should be reconstructed differently from the remaining volume and typically with higher resolution, because it refers to a region of specific interest. After having received the user selection signal the selection area is defined and a pre-computed or online-computed reconstruction of the selection area is visualized. The reconstruction is executed according to the determined lesion type specific reconstruction parameters. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036904 | METHOD, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR COMPRESSION OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS DATA - A method for compressing digital breast tomosynthesis data, a system and a control unit for image reconstruction of three-dimensional digital breast tomosynthesis volumes (DBT). The volume to be reconstructed is analyzed in order to identify clusters of regions in the volume with a low and high degree of diagnostically relevant information. Depending on the affiliation or belonging to a certain cluster, a specific reconstruction algorithm and a specific slab thickness are determined in order to be used for reconstruction of the cluster. Thus, different clusters are reconstructed differently. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036905 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL X-RAY IMAGING - A 3D result image of an object is reconstructed from a set of X-ray two-dimensional projections of the object. A 3D reference image of the object is reconstructed by employing a compressed sensing technique based on at least some of the 2D projections at a reference motion state of the object. By employing an algebraic and/or analytic reconstruction technique, 3D intermediate images are reconstructed for various motion states of the object. The 3D intermediate images are registered with the 3D reference image to obtain spatial transformations for the various motion states of the object. Based on the spatial transformations, the 3D intermediate images are transformed to a joint phase and combined to obtain the 3D result image. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036906 | AUTOMATED MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY ESTIMATION AND DISPLAY METHOD USING PRIOR PROBABILITY INFORMATION, SYSTEM FOR THE SAME, AND MEDIA STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - Disclosed is an automated mammographic density estimation method using statistical image information, the method including a preprocessing step of reading the mammogram, segmenting a breast area and shifting pixel values; a step of constructing a tissue probability map in which population-based probability information is extracted, and a probability map for glandular and adipose tissues is constructed; and a density estimation step in which a breast area is segmented based on the constructed tissue probability map and a mammographic density is calculated. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036907 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING IMAGES BY SELECTING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION MODE - Provided are a medical imaging apparatus and a method of reconstructing an image capable of selecting an image reconstruction mode. The method of reconstructing an image using a medical imaging apparatus may include displaying a user interface indicating at least one of a first mode for reducing time required for reconstruction of the image and a second mode for acquiring the image with high resolution, receiving an input selecting one of the first mode and the second mode as a selected mode, displaying at least one reconstruction option corresponding to the selected mode, receiving another input selecting at least one reconstruction option among the at least one displayed reconstruction option, and reconstructing the image according to the at least one selected reconstruction option and selected mode. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036908 | EXTRACTING BULLOUS EMPHYSEMA AND DIFFUSE EMPHYSEMA IN E.G. CT VOLUME IMAGES OF THE LUNGS - An processor ( | 2015-02-05 |
20150036909 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR LOCALIZING A SPINE - A method and a corresponding apparatus and system localizes a spine in an image, in particular a computed tomography (CT) image, of a human or animal body, allowing for a reduced need for computational power and/or memory on the one hand and assuring a reliable localization of the spine on the other hand. The method includes a) acquiring a plurality of slice images of at least a part of a human or animal body, and b) automatically selecting slice images and/or parts of slice images from the acquired plurality of slice images by considering at least one parameter (μ | 2015-02-05 |
20150036910 | MEASURING INTRAMUSCULAR FAT - Dual-energy absorptiometry is used to estimate intramuscular adipose tissue metrics and display results, preferably as related to normative data. The process involves deriving x-ray measurements for respective pixel positions related to a two-dimensional projection image of a body slice containing intramuscular adipose tissue as well as subcutaneous adipose tissue, at least some of the measurements being dual-energy x-ray measurements, processing the measurements to derive estimates of metrics related to the intramuscular adipose tissue in the slice, and using the resulting estimates. Processing the measurements includes an algorithm which places boundaries of regions, e.g., a large region and a smaller region. The regions are combined in an equation that is highly correlated with intramuscular adipose tissue measured by quantitative computed tomography in order to estimate intramuscular adipose tissue. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOLECULAR BREAST IMAGING - A method for motion correcting molecular breast imaging (MBI) images includes obtaining a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images of a breast using a MBI system, selecting a reference image from the plurality of 2D images, selecting a feature of interest in the reference image, determining a location of the feature of interest in the reference image, calculating a correction value based on a difference in the location of the feature of interest in the reference image and a location of the feature of interest in a plurality of non-reference images, and aligning the non-reference 2D images with the reference image based on the calculated correction value. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036912 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING THE MORPHOLOGICAL REGULARITY DEGREE OF THE PELLUCID ZONE IN EMBRYOS AND OOCYTES - The present invention refers to a method for calculating a shape factor indicative of the evenness of the pellucid zone thickness of a biological structure and to a method for evaluating the evenness of the pellucid zone thickness of a biological structure through said shape factor. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036913 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT OF INSPECTING QUALITY OF LCD - A method, an apparatus and an equipment of inspecting the quality of an LCD are provided, the method includes: obtaining optical parameters of the LCD; capturing images of the LCD; and determining that the LCD is defective after determining that the optical parameters are not in the range of the preset optical parameters and/or the captured images of the LCD are not consistent with the pre-stored images. Through the technical solution of the present invention, it can effectively differentiate the defect types of a product and record the defect position of the product, thereby it can effectively reduce misjudgment or miss test caused by the visual differences between operators to improve the quality and yield of manufactured LCD. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036914 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING SHAPE BEFORE SHRINK AND CD-SEM APPARATUS - In the present invention, at the time of measuring, using a CD-SEM, a length of a resist that shrinks when irradiated with an electron beam, in order to highly accurately estimate a shape and dimensions of the resist before shrink, a shrink database with respect to various patterns is previously prepared, said shrink database containing cross-sectional shape data obtained prior to electron beam irradiation, a cross-sectional shape data group and a CD-SEM image data group, which are obtained under various electron beam irradiation conditions, and models based on such data and data groups, and a CD-SEM image of a resist pattern to be measured is obtained (S | 2015-02-05 |
20150036915 | Inspection Method - The invention relates to a method for the inspection of flat objects, in particular wafers ( | 2015-02-05 |
20150036916 | STEREO-MOTION METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) STRUCTURE INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM A VIDEO FOR FUSION WITH 3-D POINT CLOUD DATA - According to an embodiment, a method for generating a 3-D stereo structure comprises registering and rectifying a first image frame and a second image frame by local correction matching, extracting a first scan line from the first image frame, extracting a second scan line from the second image frame corresponding to the first scan line, calculating a pixel distance between the first scan line and the second scan line for each pixel for a plurality of pixel shifts, calculating a smoothed pixel distance for each pixel for the pixel shifts by filtering the pixel distance for each pixel over the pixel shifts, and determining a scaled height for each pixel of the first scan line, the scaled height comprising a pixel shift from among the pixel shifts corresponding to a minimal distance of the smoothed pixel distance for the pixel. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036917 | STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a stereo image processing device, with which it is possible to compute disparity with high precision even for an object of a small image region size in a baseline length direction. With this device, an image matching unit ( | 2015-02-05 |
20150036918 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of comparing two object poses, wherein each object pose is expressed in terms of position, orientation and scale with respect to a common coordinate system, the method comprising:
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20150036919 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BY CORRELATING CONTEXTUAL CUES WITH IMAGES - A sample set of images is received. Each image in the sample set may be associated with one or more social cues. Correlation of each image in the sample set with an image class is scored based on the one or more social cues associated with the image. Based on the scoring, a training set of images to train a classifier is determined from the sample set. In an embodiment, an extent to which an evaluation set of images correlates with the image class is determined. The determination may comprise ranking a top scoring subset of the evaluation set of images. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036920 | CONVOLUTIONAL-NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED CLASSIFIER AND CLASSIFYING METHOD AND TRAINING METHODS FOR THE SAME - The present invention relates to a convolutional-neural-network-based classifier, a classifying method by using a convolutional-neural-network-based classifier and a method for training the convolutional-neural-network-based classifier. The convolutional-neural-network-based classifier comprises: a plurality of feature map layers, at least one feature map in at least one of the plurality of feature map layers being divided into a plurality of regions; and a plurality of convolutional templates corresponding to the plurality of regions respectively, each of the convolutional templates being used for obtaining a response value of a neuron in the corresponding region. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036921 | IMAGE COMPOSITION EVALUATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODS THEREOF - The present invention discloses an image composition evaluating apparatus, an information processing apparatus and methods thereof. The image composition evaluating apparatus comprises: a region segmentation unit configured to segment an image into a plurality of regions; a region attribution extraction unit configured to extract at least one attribution from each of the regions; a region relationship description unit configured to describe relationships among the regions based on the extracted attributions; and a composition evaluation unit configured to evaluate the composition of the image based on the extracted attributions, the described relationships and at least one preset criterion. The present invention can evaluate more kinds of images and/or more kinds of composition problems. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036922 | Method and Apparatus for Spawning Specialist Belief Propagation Networks For Adjusting Exposure Settings - A method and apparatus for processing image data is provided. The method includes the steps of employing a main processing network for classifying one or more features of the image data, employing a monitor processing network for determining one or more confusing classifications of the image data, and spawning a specialist processing network to process image data associated with the one or more confusing classifications. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036923 | COLOR PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON HG1C1 - The invention discloses a method for processing color data based on an HGlCl color space of with a color appearance attribute. The method comprises: acquiring color data in an HGlCl format in the HGlCl color space with a color appearance attribute; selecting two color data in the HGlCl format from the acquired color data in the HGlCl format; performing a color addition and/or color difference operation on the selected two color data in the HGlCl format to generate one color data in the HGlCl format. The method further comprises converting the color data in the HGlCl format generated by the operation into color data in a CIE XYZ format. By the method of the invention, color error judgment, and color prediction and matching and compensation can be conveniently performed. Besides, the conversion calculating process in the invention is accurate, simple and fast in the conversion speed. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036924 | METHOD, ARRANGEMENT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR RECOGNIZING VIDEOED OBJECTS - The pertinence of digital image material is analyzed in respect of matching a given reference. A color of the reference constitutes a reference record in a perceptual color space. Pixels of a piece of digital image material are converted into the perceptual color space, and labelled according to how their converted pixel values belong to environments of principal colors in the perceptual color space. A connected set of pixels is selected that have at least one common label. A subset of the connected set of pixels is determined, so that the pixel(s) of the subset are those for which a color similarity distance to the reference record is at an extremity. For the connected set of pixels, a representative color is selected among or derived from the color or colors of the pixels that belong to the subset. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036925 | METHOD, MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS ENCODING AND/OR DECODING AN IMAGE USING THE SAME CODING MODE ACROSS COMPONENTS - A method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding an image in order to increase encoding and decoding efficiency by performing binary-arithmetic coding/decoding on a binary value of a syntax element using a probability model having the same syntax element probability value for respective context index information of each of at least two image components. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036926 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING DEPTH IMAGE IN HIGH RESOLUTION - Provided are a method and an apparatus for image processing. A scene includes a low resolution depth image and a high resolution color image. A depth image up-scaler up-scales the depth image using an interpolation so as to improve the resolution of the depth image. A color-depth similarity based filter removes noise from the up-scaled depth image using the color image and the up-scaled depth image. A boundary sharpening filter converts a boundary between objects in the up-scaled depth image into a clearer boundary. The resolution of the depth image may increase to the level of the resolution of the color image by means of the depth image up-scaler, the color-depth similarity based filter and the boundary sharpening filter, and the depth of each pixel in the depth image may be adjusted. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036927 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COMPENSATING CHROMATIC ABERRATION OF IMAGE - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of correcting a chromatic aberration of an image, and in particular, to an apparatus and method of correcting a chromatic aberration of an image that can correct a general chromatic aberration of an edge or an extreme chromatic aberration, such as a purple fringe, in an image. An apparatus for correcting a chromatic aberration of an image according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an edge detection unit detecting an edge of an input image, a level calculation unit calculating a chromatic aberration level of the detected edge, and a correction unit correcting the edge using different weighted values according to the calculated chromatic aberration level. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036928 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INITIATING ACTIONS ACROSS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS USING HAND-WRITTEN COMMANDS - A method and system for providing hand-written command processing includes a network-connected application server receiving from a user device data storing hand-written information. The hand-written information is processed to identify one or more hand-written characters included in the data. A determination is made as to whether the identified characters include a command for initiating an action across the communication network. Upon determining that the characters include a command, the application server automatically performs the action identified by the command across the communication network. The action can include generating and sending a messaging service message or an e-mail, creating a scheduled reminder, creating and storing a checklist or note, or retrieving a previously stored checklist or note, based on information included in the hand-written characters. The user device may be a tablet-type user device. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036929 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an information recognition unit, an acquiring unit, and a recording unit. The information recognition unit recognizes a description written in each of one or more description areas. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information of the description area in which the description is written. The recording unit records the description written in the description area or a recognition result obtained through the recognition performed by the information recognition unit in accordance with the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036930 | DISCRIMINATING SYNONYMOUS EXPRESSIONS USING IMAGES - A method for identifying synonymous expressions includes determining synonymous expression candidates for a target expression. A plurality of target images related to the target expression and a plurality of candidate images related to each of the synonymous expression candidates are identified. Features extracted from the plurality of target images are compared with features extracted from the plurality of candidate images using a processor to identify a synonymous expression of the target expression. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036931 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING NAVIGABLE VIEWS - A method for creating navigable views includes receiving digital images, computing a set of feature points for each of the digital images, selecting one of the digital images as a reference image, identifying a salient region of interest in the reference image, identifying other digital images containing a region of interest similar to the salient region of interest in the reference image using the set of feature points computed for each of other digital images, designating a reference location for the salient region of interest in the reference image, aligning the other digital images to the image that contains the designated reference location, ordering the image that contains the designated reference location and the other digital images, and generating a navigable view. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036932 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an obtainer, a setter, a first calculator, a second calculator, and a third calculator. The obtainer obtains an image. The setter sets a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions on the image. Each of the first regions and the second regions includes two or more pixels, and at least one of the second regions is different in position or size from the first regions. The first calculator calculates first feature data representing an image feature of the first regions. The second calculator calculates second feature data which is a luminance gradient between the second regions. The third calculator calculates relative feature data representing a relative relationship between the first feature data and the second feature data. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036933 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING KEY PIXELS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING IMAGES - A method and apparatus for matching key pixels of images and a method and apparatus for matching images are disclosed. The method for matching key pixels of images includes: determining, for a key pixel to be matched of a first image, a first eigenvector, in a set of eigenvectors of a second image, matching an eigenvector of the key pixel to be matched; determining a second eigenvector, in a set of eigenvectors of the first image, matching the first eigenvector; and determining the key pixel to be matched and a key pixel corresponding to the first eigenvector as a pair of matching pixels when a coordinate vector of the key pixel to be matched is the same as a coordinate vector of a key pixel corresponding to the second eigenvector. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036934 | FILTER AND SHUTTER BASED ON IMAGE EMOTION CONTENT - A computer-implemented (including method implemented using laptop, desktop, mobile, and wearable devices) method for image filtering. The method includes analyzing each image to generate a content vector for the image; applying an interest operator to the content vector, the interest operator being based on a plurality of pictures with desirable characteristics, thereby obtaining an interest index for the image; comparing the interest index for the image to an interest threshold; and taking one or more actions or abstaining from one or more actions based on a result of the step of comparing. Also, related systems and articles of manufacture. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036935 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When there are a plurality of detection candidate objects, to detect a target object that is appropriately visible as a whole, an information processing apparatus calculates detection likelihoods in a plurality of local areas of each of the plurality of detection target candidates, and a detection reliability of each of the detection target candidates based on a distribution of the detection likelihoods. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036936 | IMAGE ANALYSIS - A method for processing an image including: identifying a first group of keypoints in the image; for each keypoint of the first group, identifying at least one corresponding keypoint local feature related to the each keypoint; for the at least one keypoint local feature, calculating a corresponding local feature relevance probability; calculating a keypoint relevance probability based on the local feature relevance probabilities of the at least one local feature; selecting keypoints, among the keypoints of the first group, having the highest keypoint relevance probabilities to form a second group of keypoints, and exploiting the keypoints of the second group for analyzing the image. The local feature relevance probability calculated for a local feature of a keypoint is obtained by comparing the value assumed by the local feature with a corresponding reference statistical distribution of values of the local feature. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036937 | IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING CREATION OF FEATURE POINTS - The present invention relates to an ‘image correction method using creation of feature points’, and the method includes the steps of: (a) mapping a plurality of feature points on an image; (b) mapping an additional feature point on the image; and (c) changing arrangement of the feature points according to mapping of the additional feature point, in which the plurality of feature points can be set as a feature point of forced position and a feature point of unforced position, respectively, and only feature points of unforced position are moved at step (c). | 2015-02-05 |
20150036938 | METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECT USING COVARIANCE DESCRIPTOR AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Disclosed are object recognizing method and apparatus. The method may comprise extracting a feature point of an object to be recognized in an input image; generating a plurality of feature images by extracting orientation information of a region adjacent to the feature point and normalizing the region based in the orientation information; deriving a covariance descriptor based on the feature images; and recognizing the object in the input image by comparing the covariance descriptor with a reference covariance descriptor stored in advance. Thus, the object can be recognized fast and robustly to changes on the size of the input image, rotations of the input image, and illumination, whereby the recognition performance can be enhanced. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036939 | Method for Processing an Image - The disclosure relates to a method for processing an image, the method comprising: providing a set of key points from the image; describing location information of the set of key points in form of a binary matrix; and scanning the binary matrix according to a pre-determined order, thereby creating a new representation of the location information of the set of key points. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A DIGITAL IMAGE ALBUM - The disclosed embodiments are related to a method and system for creating a digital image album implementable on a computing device. The method includes receiving a plurality of digital images. The method further includes creating a first signature corresponding to each of the plurality of digital images. The method further includes comparing the first signature corresponding to each of the plurality of digital images with one or more second signatures. Each of the second signatures corresponds to each of one or more prototype digital albums. The method further includes selecting one or more digital images from the plurality of digital images based on the comparison to create the digital image album. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036941 | POST COMPRESSION DETECTION (PoCoDe) - Provided are examples of a detecting engine for identifying detections in compressed scene pixels. For a given compressed scene pixel having a set of M basis vector coefficients, set of N basis vectors, and code linking the M basis vector coefficients to the N basis vectors, the detecting engine reduces a spectral reference (S) to an N-dimensional spectral reference (SN) based on the set of N basis vectors. The detecting engine computes an N-dimensional spectral reference detection filter (SN*) from SN and the inverse of an N-dimensional scene covariance (CN). The detecting engine forms an M-dimensional spectral reference detection filter (SM*) from SN* based on the compression code and computes a detection filter score based on SM*. The detecting engine compares the score to a threshold and determines, based on the comparison, whether the material of interest is present in the given compressed scene pixel and is a detection. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036942 | OBJECT RECOGNITION AND TRACKING USING A CLASSIFIER COMPRISING CASCADED STAGES OF MULTIPLE DECISION TREES - An image processor comprises first and second hardware accelerators and is configured to implement a classifier. The classifier in some embodiments comprises a cascaded classifier having a plurality of stages with each such stage implementing a plurality of decision trees. At least one of the first and second hardware accelerators of the image processor is configured to generate an integral image based on a given input image, and the second hardware accelerator is configured to process image patches of the integral image through one or more of a plurality of decision trees of the classifier implemented by the image processor. By way of example, the first and second hardware accelerators illustratively comprise respective front-end and back-end accelerators of the image processor, and an integral image calculator configured to generate the integral image based on the given input image is implemented in one of the front-end accelerator and the back-end accelerator. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036943 | Patch-Based, Locally Content-Adaptive Image and Video Sharpening - Techniques for sharpening an image using local spatial adaptation and/or patch-based image processing. An image can be sharpened by creating a high-frequency image and then combining that high frequency image with the image. This process can be applied iteratively by using the output of one iteration, i.e., the sharpened image, as the input to the next iteration. Using local spatial adaptation and/or patch-based techniques can provide various advantages. How to change the intensity at a given position in the image can be calculated from more than just information about that same position in the input image and the blurred image. By using information about neighboring positions an improved high frequency image can be determined that, when combined with the input image, reduces ringing and halo artifacts, suppresses noise boosting, and/or generates results with sharper and cleaner edges and details. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036944 | Systems and Methods for Transforming an Image - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media acquire an image captured with a mobile device. Motion sensor data of the mobile device at or near a time when the image was captured is acquired. An angle of rotation is computed based on the motion sensor data, and the image is transformed based on the angle of rotation. In another aspect, a user interface enables user control over image transformation. The user interface enables user control over rotating an image on a display at two or more granularities. A point of rotation may be user-defined. Rotated images may be scaled to fit within a viewing frame for displaying the transformed image. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036945 | Reconstruction of Missing Regions Of Images - Methods and systems for an image construction component capable of generating pixel information for certain regions of an image based on other, existing regions of the image. For example, the image construction component may identify a target block of pixels for which to generate pixel information and then use pixel information for pixels surrounding the target block of pixels in order to identify similar image information within pixels in another part of the image. These identified pixels may then be used in defining the pixel information of the target block of pixels and also used in blending the target block of pixels with the defined pixels surrounding the target block of pixels. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036946 | METRICS TO IDENTIFY IMAGE SMOOTHNESS - A system includes a structure module, graininess module, mottle module, and standard deviation (STD) module. The structure module is to identify a structure metric based on an input digital image, and remove a structured nonuniformity from the input digital image to produce a second input digital image. The graininess module is to identify a graininess metric based on the second input digital image. The mottle module is to identify a mottle metric based on the second input digital image. The STD module is to identify a STD metric that is to correspond to overall smoothness of the input digital image. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036947 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESIZING AN IMAGE - In some instances, an image may have dimensions that do not correspond to a slot to display the image. For example, an image content item may have dimensions that do not correspond to a content item slot. The image may be resized using seam carving to add or remove pixels of the image. A saliency map for the image may be used having saliency scores for each pixel of the image. Evaluation metrics may be used before, during, and after, seam carving to determine whether salient content is affected by the seam carving. In some instances, a seam cost threshold value may be used for adaptive step size during the seam carving. The resized image may then be outputted, such as for an image content item to be served with a resource. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036948 | INTERACTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF SCAN DATABASES FOR STATISTICAL TESTING - Generating a patient image collective ( | 2015-02-05 |
20150036949 | FLOOD PROTECTION DEVICE FOR PREMISES - The invention relates to a device for protecting shops, workshops, cellars, basements and similar premises, that can be exposed to the flooding risk in case of floods or particularly severe atmospheric events. The device, made in the form of a kit, comprises a waterproof enclosure or wall which acts as a barrier against water and that can be quickly installed in case of need, due to a structure to be applied to the walls of the premises to be protected. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036950 | FLEXIBLE CONTAINERS HAVING IMPROVED SEAM AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - A non-durable flexible container can include a first film wall including a first portion comprising at least one first structural support member defined in the first film wall, and a second portion that is free of a structural support member. The container can further include a second film wall including at least one second structural support member defined in the second film wall, wherein at least a portion of the first structural support member is adjacent to at least a portion of the second structural support member to define a seam region, and a side of the seam region defines an edge of the non-durable flexible container. The container can also include a closed produce volume defined between first and second film walls; and a seam projecting outwardly from the seam region at an intersection of the first and second film walls. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036951 | NON-CONTINUOUSLY LAMINATED MULTI-LAYERED BAGS - Multi-layer bags may be formed to include first and second sidewalls joined along a first side edge, an opposite second side edge, and a closed bottom edge. The first and second layers may be non-continuously laminated together to include bonded regions in which the layers are bonded and unbonded regions in which the layers are not bonded. Such a bag may be described as a “bag-in-a-bag” type configuration in which the inner bag is non-continuously bonded to the outer bag. The inventors have surprisingly found that such configurations of non-continuous bonding provides increased and unexpected strength properties to the multi-layer films and bags. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036952 | Bulk Materials Bag Having Anti-Skid Treatment and Method of Applying Treatment - An anti-skid treatment is applied to one or both major surfaces of bulk materials bags. The treatment may be applied to any bulk material bag, but is detailed in respect of films that tend to be relatively slippery, such as oriented polypropylene (“OPP”) and biaxially oriented polypropylene (“BOPP”). In one preferred embodiment, an elastomeric polymer having a coefficient of friction higher than that of the bag material is applied in strips to one or both surfaces of the bag. A method of manufacturing the bags is also described. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036953 | MOTION DEVICE - A motion device includes a track rail, a moving body, rolling elements, fixing members each fixed to an end surface of the moving body, and rolling element circulation members arranged between the moving body and the fixing members. The rolling element circulation members each have a connection section connected to the moving body so as to be rotatable about a Y direction, and a pair of first outside surfaces. The fixing members each have accommodation sections to accommodate the rolling element circulation members, and a pair of first inside surfaces closely contact with the pair of first outside surfaces. The respective rolling element circulation members and the accommodation sections are provided at both sides of the track rail interposed there between. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036954 | RAILWAY AXLEBOX ASSEMBLY AND RAILWAY AXLEBOX INCLUDING THE SAME - A railway axlebox assembly including a bearing including an inner ring adapted to be mounted on a shaft with an axial preload and an outer ring adapted to be mounted in a housing, a backing ring delivering axial support of the inner ring on an inner end portion of the shaft is provided. The assembly includes a seal that is disposed between the backing ring and the inner end portion of the housing. The sealing includes an elastomeric sealing lip bearing with a frictional contact on a sealing surface provided on the backing ring. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036955 | SLIDING MEMBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A thrust bearing is equipped with a resin coating applied to the surface of a base material. Lattice-shaped discharge grooves are formed in the surface of the thrust bearing, and planer protrusions having a square shape or the like are formed at the adjacent positions thereof. Each corner part of each planer protrusion form a sliding surface that slides with respect to a counterpart member. Contaminants such as wear particles that have infiltrated between the counterpart member and the sliding surface fail into the discharge grooves and then are discharged outside of the sliding surface. The chamfering of each corner part to a rounded shape prevents the contaminants from accumulating in the discharge grooves, thus preventing the contaminants from biting into the planer protrusions. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036956 | BEARING ASSEMBLY AND BEARING SEAL HAVING RFID FUNCTION - A bearing assembly having an RFID (radio frequency identification) function, which can be compactized and contributes to reduction in labor and cost and which can also implements a favorable communication and has a capability of accomplishing information communication on a non-contact basis. This bearing assembly includes an inlet ( | 2015-02-05 |
20150036957 | SEALING DEVICE FOR A HUB-WHEEL ASSEMBLY - A sealing device for a hub-wheel assembly that includes a rolling bearing is provided. The sealing device being has a screen assembled on an outer ring of the bearing and has an annular cylindrical wall, having an internal lateral surface press fit along an external lateral surface of a collar of the outer ring. The internal surface has a respective inner diameter (Di) and the external lateral surface has a respective outer diameter (De). A static sealing element is constrained to the screen; the ratio of the interference between inner diameter (Di) and outer diameter (De) over a screen thickness ranging between 0.22 and 0.5; a coupling length (L, L′) between the internal lateral surface and the external lateral surface is equal or greater than 5 mm; and a ratio between outer diameter (De) of the external lateral surface and coupling length (L, L′) ranging between 1 and 1.19. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036958 | Wheel Bearing Apparatus And Its Manufacturing Method - A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member and double row rolling elements freely rollably contained between double row inner raceway surfaces and outer raceway surfaces of the inner member and the outer member. A plurality of bolt insertion bores, that fastening bolts pass through to fasten to the knuckle, are formed on the body mounting flange at plurality of positions circumferentially along the body mounting flange. The outer member is previously formed by hot forging. A seating surface for the fastening bolts is formed on an outboard-side surface of the body mounting flange by cold forging. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036959 | ROLLING BEARING HAVING A BEARING RING WITH A HARDENED SURFACE ZONE - A rolling bearing ( | 2015-02-05 |
20150036960 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TRACK ELEMENT OF A BEARING ASSEMBLY, AND A TRACK ELEMENT - A method for manufacturing a raceway element of a bearing assembly includes hardening a raceway element having a raceway surface by at least partially heating the raceway element, deep rolling the raceway surface using a first rolling element, and then deep rolling the raceway surface using a second rolling element. The first rolling element has at least one different dimension than the second rolling element. In the resulting raceway element, compressive residual stresses of at least 400 MPa are present at a depth from the raceway surface of 200 μm or less, and between the raceway surface and a depth of 100 μmm from the raceway surface, the amount of the compressive residual stresses changes by 500 MPa or less. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036961 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HOLDER AND HOLDER - A method for producing a holder in which sagging is suppressed in a bent part to be formed into a flange portion, without using bulge forming and a split mold that restrains the inside of a working target article; and a holder. An upper punch presses and bends one end portion of a working target article inward, whereby a flange portion is formed in the one end portion. A smaller-diameter portion of the working target article is restrained from the inside and outside by a lower punch and split mold portions. Then, a peripheral surface portion of a convex portion of the upper punch receives the end portion of the working target article and applies an outward pressure to the end portion. A bent part is pushed toward a larger-diameter portion restraining part of a split die, so that sagging is prevented from occurring in the bent part. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036962 | LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION, AND SLIDING MECHANISM USING LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION - Disclosed is a lubricating oil composition for low-friction sliding materials, which is used in a sliding mechanism where a DLC film containing hydrogen in an amount of from 5 atom % to 50 atom % is formed on at least one sliding surface. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036963 | ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR AND OPTIC TRANSMISSION MODULATOR INCLUDING THE SAME - An electro-optic modulator includes a semiconductor substrate, a core region and slab regions. The core region is formed on the semiconductor substrate and includes a first low concentration doping region, a second low concentration doping region and a high concentration doping region formed between the first low concentration doping region and the second low concentration doping region. Slab regions are formed on the semiconductor substrate. The slab regions are in contact with the core region. A width of a depletion region included in the core region may be controlled based on a reverse bias voltage applied between the first low concentration doping region and the second low concentration doping region. If the width of a depletion region is controlled, an optical signal transmitted through the depletion region may be controlled. The electro-optic modulator according to example embodiments may increase an operation speed and decrease a power consumption of a system. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036964 | LIGHT SOURCE CIRCUIT AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH SAME - A light source circuit transmits light incident from a semiconductor laser source to a plurality of optical devices. At least one optical branch section is formed to branch one input-side optical waveguide at least into a first output-side optical waveguide terminal and a second output-side optical waveguide terminal. A light path length (L1) between the optical branch section and a next-stage optical branch section or the optical device is connected to the first output-side optical waveguide extending from the optical branch section and a light path length (L2) between the optical branch section and the next-stage optical branch section selected such that the absolute value of a difference between (L1) and (L2) is (¼+i/2) times (i is zero or a positive integer) the wavelength of the light transmitted through the light source circuit. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036965 | MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL MODULATOR WITH EMBEDDED ACTIVE ELEMENTS - A Mach-Zehnder optical modulator is provide and has a travelling wave electrode extending over two optical waveguide branches and modulating the relative phase of the optical beam components propagating in those branches. The travelling wave electrode has transmission line conductors and pairs of waveguide electrodes, the waveguide electrodes of each pair being coupled to one of the optical waveguide branches, respectively. The travelling wave electrode further includes active devices having a high impedance input electrically connected to one of the transmission line conductors and a low impedance output electrically connected to one of the waveguide electrodes. Each active device transfers the electrical modulation signal from the associated transmission line conductor onto the associated waveguide electrode according to a voltage transfer function. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036966 | TUNABLE RF FILTER DEVICE USING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES WITH DISPERSION SLOPES OF OPPOSITE SIGNS AND RELATED METHODS - A tunable Radio Frequency (RF) filter device includes a tunable optical source configured to generate an optical carrier signal, and a modulator coupled to the tunable optical source and configured to modulate the optical carrier signal with an RF input signal. The tunable RF filter device may also include first and second optical waveguides coupled to the modulator and having first and second dispersion slopes of opposite sign, and an optical-to-electrical converter coupled to the first and second optical waveguides and configured to generate an RF output signal with a frequency notch therein based upon the tunable optical source. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036967 | Periodic Probabilistic Two-Dimensional cluster State Generator with Arbitrary Interconnections - A Periodic Cluster State Generator (PCSG) consisting of a monolithic integrated waveguide device that employs four wave mixing, an array of probabilistic Photon Guns, single mode Sequential Entanglers and an array of controllable entangling gates between modes to create arbitrary size and shape cluster states with several constraints. The cluster state is assumed linear or square lattice. Only nearest neighbor qubits are entangled. Such a cluster state resource has been proven to be able to perform universal quantum computing if the initial state is large enough. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036968 | IMPROVED OPTICAL FIBER FEEDTHROUGH INCORPORATING FIBER BRAGG GRATING - Methods and systems for effectively sealing a fiber optic line to a pressure gauge device are disclosed. A pressure gauge device has an outer body, a reference volume within the outer body and a pressure sensor having a first side and a second side. The first side of the pressure sensor is exposed to a pressure inlet and the second side of the pressure sensor is exposed to the reference volume. A fiber optic line is coupled to the pressure gauge device using a feedthrough device. The fiber optic line comprises a first fiber optic line portion located within the feedthrough device, a second fiber optic line portion located within the reference volume and a third fiber optic line portion located within a cable located outside the pressure gauge device and coupled to the feed through device. The first fiber optic line portion comprises a first Fiber Bragg Grating (“FBG”). | 2015-02-05 |
20150036969 | DISPERSION PLATE FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESSES TO FORM DOPED FILMS - An apparatus comprising a dispersion plate, a dispersion plate, the dispersion plate including input side openings connected to holes therein, the holes following a torturous path through the dispersion plate and configured to deliver dopants through output side openings of the dispersion plate. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036970 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING - A semiconductor device includes a first chip, a dielectric layer over the first chip, and a second chip over the dielectric layer. A conductive layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and is electrically coupled to the first chip and the second chip. The second chip includes an optical component. The first chip and the second chip are arranged on opposite sides of the dielectric layer in a thickness direction of the dielectric layer. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036971 | SCALABLE OPTICAL SWITCHES AND SWITCHING MODULES - Telecommunications switches are presented, including expandable optical switches that allow for a switch of N inputs×M outputs to be expanded arbitrarily to a new number of N inputs and/or a new number of M outputs. Switches having internal switch blocks controlling signal bypass lines are also provided, with these switches being useful for the expandable switches. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036972 | MAKING LIGHTLESS CONNECTIONS IN AN OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCH - Methods of operating an optical circuit switch and optical circuit switches are disclosed. A command to make an optical connection between a first port and a second port may be received. A determination whether or not input signal light is present at the first port may be made. When light is present at the first port, an optical connection may be made between the first port and the second port. When light is not present at the first port, the optical circuit switch may wait until light is present at the first port before making the connection. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036973 | MIRROR DRIFT COMPENSATION IN AN OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCH - Methods of operating an optical circuit switch and optical circuit switches are disclosed. To make a connection between a first port and a second port, baseline voltages may be determined, baseline voltages being voltages that, if respectively applied to one or more electrode coupled to a first mirror element uniquely associated with the first port and one or more electrode coupled to a second mirror element uniquely associated with the second port, cause the first and second mirror elements to rotate to make the connection in the absence of accumulated mirror element drift. Accumulated drift data associated with one or both of the first mirror element and the second mirror element may be retrieved from a memory. One or more of the baseline voltages may be modified based on the accumulated drift data to provide corrected voltages, and the corrected voltages may be applied to the electrodes. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036974 | PLASTIC AND GLASS OPTICAL FIBER BUS NETWORK - An optical network architecture can include a first pair of tapered mixing rods and a second pair of tapered mixing rods. A first plurality of plastic optical fibers is communicatively coupled from the first pair of tapered mixing rods to a first plurality of line replaceable components, and a second plurality of plastic optical fibers is communicatively coupled from the second pair of tapered mixing rods to a second plurality of line replaceable components. At least one optical fiber communicatively coupled from the first pair of tapered mixing rods to the second pair of tapered mixing rods, the at least one optical transmission line comprising a hard clad silica optical fiber. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036975 | DEVICE SUPPORT STRUCTURES FROM BULK SUBSTRATES - A substrate is composed of a first material. A photonic structure is composed of the first material connected to one or more support structures composed of the first material between the photonic structure and a surface of the substrate, with at least one of the support structures supporting a first section of a strip of the photonic structure. The first section has a width that is wider than a width of a second section of the strip and has a length that is at least about twice the width of the second section of the strip. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036976 | SOLAR CONCENTRATOR - The invention relates to a solar concentrator made of a transparent material, wherein the solar concentrator comprises a light incoupling surface that may be spherical or non-spherical, a light outcoupling surface, and a light guide component arranged between the light incoupling surface and the light outcoupling surface, the light guide component being delimited between the light incoupling surface and the light outcoupling surface by a light guide component surface. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036977 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Image Displays - Methods, systems, and products illuminate display devices. An image is injected into a waveguide. The image propagates at total internal reflectance within the waveguide. A frustrator withdraws a frustrated image from the waveguide, and the frustrated image may be displayed to a viewer. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036978 | BLAZED GRATING SPECTRAL PURITY FILTER AND METHODS OF MAKING SUCH A FILTER - A novel blazed grating spectral filter disclosed herein includes a multilayer stack of materials that is formed on a wedge-shaped substrate wherein the upper surface of the substrate is oriented at an angle relative the bottom surface of the substrate and wherein the angle corresponds to the blaze angle of the blazed grating filter. Various methods of forming such a filter are also disclosed such as, for example, performing a planarization process in a CMP tool to define the wedge-shaped substrate, thereafter forming the multilayer stack of materials above the upper planarized surface of the substrate and etching recesses into the multilayer stack. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036979 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR AND MOLD AND METHOD FOR MOLDING SAME - Optical fiber connector includes a main body and at least one protrusion. The main body includes a first surface, a second surface, and at least one receiving hole defined therein. Each protrusion is positioned on the first surface and surrounds an opening of the corresponding receiving hole. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036980 | FOLDOVER OPTICAL FIBER FERRULE ASSEMBLY - A ferrule assembly for an optical fiber connector has a first ferrule component having a structured surface defining features for aligning a section of an optical fiber, and a second ferrule component that is coupled to the first ferrule component by a web, wherein the web is flexible to allow folding the web to fold the second ferrule component over the groove in the first ferrule component. The optical alignment features includes one or more open grooves for receiving a bare section of an optical fiber. The section of the optical fiber is retained in the groove between the two ferrule components. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036981 | POLISHING JIG, FERRULE, AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR - A polishing jig includes a holding member for holding a ferrule when polishing a front end face of the ferrule. The holding member is formed by a holding member body having a through hole through which the ferrule is inserted, and protrusions which are provided on an upper surface of the holding member body, for supporting a flange of the ferrule when the ferrule is inserted into the through hole. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036982 | TAPER STRAIN RELIEF BOOT FOR FERRULE FLEX CONNECTORS - A fiber optic connector including a connector body including a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end forming a plug end of the connector body and an optical fiber routed through the connector body. The optical fiber having an end face accessible at the plug end of the connector body and a strain relief boot that mounts at the proximal end of the connector body. The strain relief boot defines a longitudinal axis that extends through the strain relief boot between distal and proximal ends of the strain relief boot. The strain relief boot includes an interior surface that defines a fiber passage through which the optical fiber is routed; the fiber passage extends along the longitudinal axis of the boot. The strain relief boot includes an exterior surface that defines a tapered exterior shape that tapers inwardly toward the longitudinal axis as the tapered exterior shape extends in a proximal direction along the longitudinal axis. The interior surface of the strain relief boot defines a flared interior shape co-extensive along the longitudinal axis with at least a portion of the tapered exterior shape. The flared interior shape of the fiber passage flaring outwardly from the longitudinal axis as the flared interior shape extends in the proximal direction along the longitudinal axis. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036983 | OPTOELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION MODULE - An optoelectronic transmission module is applied in an optoelectronic connector for data transmission. In the present invention, one flexible circuit board and two hard circuit boards are in electrical connection, among which the first circuit board is electrically connected with an optoelectronic module for connecting with an optical fiber. With this structure, the second and the third circuit boards can transmit or receive data through the optical fiber of the first circuit board. In this manner, this invention can conduct bidirectional data transmission so as to save significantly the consumption of manufacturing cost of the optoelectronic module. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036984 | OPTICS SYSTEM MODULE FOR USE IN AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS MODULE, AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, AND A METHOD - An optics system module for use in an optical communications module is provided that can be more easily aligned with the module during the mounting process, that reduces the possibility of the fiber ends being damaged when they are connected to the respective optical ports of the optics system, and that eliminates or reduces the occurrence of Fresnel losses at the interfaces between the fiber end faces and the optical ports. The optical ports have non-round shapes that are symmetrical to the shapes of the fibers in the transverse direction, i.e., in the direction that is transverse to the optical axes of the fibers. The non-round, symmetrical shape of the optical ports reduces the amount of force that the optical ports exert on the respective optical fibers. | 2015-02-05 |
20150036985 | LENS ARRAY AND OPTICAL MODULE INCLUDING THE SAME - In an exemplary configuration, a lens array and a light module using the same include a first lens surface | 2015-02-05 |
20150036986 | Harsh Environment Connector With Seal Closure Assisting Device - An underwater rolling seal connector assembly has releasably mateable plug and receptacle units with one or more rolling seals mounted in front faces of receptacle and plug units. The rolling seals are rotatable back and forth between a closed position sealing one or more chambers within the respective units which contain one or more contacts and an open position in which bores through the seals are open to allow contacts in one unit to pass through the seal openings and engage contact in the other unit. Actuators automatically rotate the rolling seals into the open position during mating and back into the closed position on de-mating. At least one actuator assisting device is located in at least one of the units and associated with the rolling seal in that unit to bias the seal back to the closed position during de-mating. | 2015-02-05 |