| 09th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
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| 20160063627 | TREND TRACKING METHOD - A method of establishing a cumulative sum (CUSUM) tracking strategy that limits large positions is disclosed. The method monitors the price of an asset over time and classifies changes as an upward or downward trend. An upward cumulative and downward cumulative sum are compared to thresholds. An alarm is fired when a threshold is exceeded. A buy action is performed during the upward trend or a sell action is performed during the downward trend. The method is restarted with newly-initialized upward cumulative sum and downward cumulative sum when the alarm is triggered. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063628 | DATA PACKET PROCESSING METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS - The technology detects undesirable data packets. Data packets are received from multiple sources at one or more packet switches in a data communications network. The one or more packet switches route the data packets to one or more intended destination computing nodes and also transmit a copy of all the data packets received in the data communications network to a network capture device. The network capture device processes the data packets, detects financial data packets, and transmits the detected financial data packets for analysis by a risk exposure computer system that performs automatic financial risk analysis based on the detected financial data packets. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063629 | Processing Decomposing Financial Instruments - Systems and methods are provided for processing financial instruments. An original financial instrument may be a futures contract that is a combination of financial instruments or is based on a combination of financial instruments. The original financial instrument includes a provision identifying one or more decomposition events. When a decomposition event occurs, a futures contract composition computer or other device decomposes the original financial instrument into two or more financial instruments. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063630 | DYNAMICALLY UPDATING PREDICTION SYSTEM - Methods and systems are provided for dynamically updating a projected cash flow for an investment using a gesture-based graphical user interface. The method comprises displaying in the graphical user interface a graphical representation of the projected cash flow for an investment and performance metrics for the investment based on the projected cash flow; receiving gesture input from a user via the graphical user interface; updating the projected cash flow based on the gesture input; updating the performance metrics based on the updated projected cash flow; updating the graphical user interface to reflect the updates to the projected cash flow and the performance metrics. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC RISK MANAGEMENT - A network interface receives portfolio data related to an investment plan portfolio of a participant. A processor identifies a first plurality of risk factors associated with market conditions, wherein the first plurality of risk factors comprises a future data and risk strength. The processor further identifies a second plurality of risk factors associated with the participant. The processor then generates glide path data based at least partially on the first plurality of risk factors and the second plurality of risk factors. The processor also generates a glide path map based at least partially on the generated glide path data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063632 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING AN OPTIMAL RETIREMENT PLAN BASED ON INCOME NEEDS, INCOME SOURCES AND FEDERAL INCOME TAX IMPACTS - Methods and apparatuses for calculating an optimal retirement plan based on income needs, incomes sources and federal income tax impacts for individuals and married couples is disclosed. Financial information of the user(s) is used to create a user profile(s) which comprises retirement income requirements, available income sources and investment risk tolerance of the user. The user profile is used to calculate a suggested strategy which balances the income requirements of the user impacted by taxes to the available income sources and accounting for investment risks of the user and a set of all possible life and death variables. A life plan is created using the suggested strategy, the set of all possible life and death variables and the user profile, and presented as output to show the optimal retirement plan. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063633 | USER INTERFACE FOR REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM - In some embodiments, a method to generate a visualization of real estate development data may include receiving, at a communications module, source data from third party servers; inferring, at a data module, inferred location attributes from the source data; analyzing, at an analytics module, development opportunities and building potential of a selected property based on the inferred location attributes; analyzing, at the analytics module, zoning regulations and tax records of the selected property based on inferences made by the data module; calculating, at the analytics module, economic and tax potential of development capacity of a specified property; and/or creating, at a visualization module, a 3D representation of the development opportunities and building potential to display on a 3D map, based on the inferences made by the data module, as well as the calculations made by the analytics module. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAY AND INTERACTION ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A computer system configured to generate data to provide an interactive graphical interface for display on a remote user device is configured to provide an interactive graphical interface including first and second screen areas, and icons for user manipulation, each icon corresponding to a user goal. Icons corresponding to user goals of a first set are displayed within the first screen area, and icons corresponding to user goals of the second set are displayed in the second screen area. A gap is calculated and displayed based on data associated with icons and stored data. Responsive to receipt of data indicative of drag and drop movement of an icon between the first and second screen areas, the gap is recalculated and a resized gap is displayed. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063635 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Flood Risk Analysis - A method, system, apparatus and computer readable storage medium is provided for taking information related to a specific real property structure, including customer information; information regarding uses of real property (residential, industrial, commercial, living spaces, crawl spaces, etc.); elevation, slope, and grade information; base flood elevation data; flood depth; use of flood mitigation devices (e.g., breakaway walls, flood vents); survey information; the use of design professionals in mitigation of risk; and other matters; and using this information to identify means of reducing risk, including use of, or repositioning of, flood mitigation devices; reinforcement of structures, use of design professionals, and other matters, in order to assess and mitigate risk. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063636 | PREDICTIVE INSURANCE TRANSACTION ERROR SYSTEM - Computerized systems and methods facilitate electronic medical insurance transactions by using a predictive model to predict errors prior to transmitting submissions to clearinghouses and/or insurance companies. A predictive model may be built using historical electronic medical insurance transaction data, which may include information from previous submissions and the responses (i.e., successful or error). The predictive model may be used to check submissions for electronic medical insurance transactions prior to transmitting the submissions to clearinghouses and/or insurance companies. As such, if an error response is predicted for a submission, an indication may be provided to a user entering the submission such that the user may make corrections and improve the likelihood of receiving a successful response for the electronic medical insurance transaction. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063637 | Method for Gathering Employee Data for Insurance Quote Including Submission and/or Enrollment - A method for gathering employee data for insurance quote including submission and/or enrollment is provided. The method comprising steps for a user providing a website for a specific group in a group insurance comprising a plurality of employees or group of individual employees, the user specifying selected information to be gathered from a group of employees, the user sending a hyperlink information of the website to at least one of the plurality of employees, at least one employee using the hyperlink information to access the website, at least one employee entering the specified information, and a server storing and polling the information, and an administrator of the specific group notifying the user of the completion of information entered by the employees. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063638 | OPERATIONAL DATA CORRESPONDING TO A PRODUCT MODEL - A system for presenting operational data is disclosed. The system includes a storage element to store a plurality of insurance policies and a product designer module to: maintain an insurance product model that specifies possible configurations of insurance policy products associated with the plurality of insurance policies; obtain operational data pertaining to a set of existing insurance transactional data associated with the insurance policies; and present to be displayed: at least a portion of the insurance product model comprising a set of insurance product model elements and at least some of the operational data corresponding to the set of insurance product model elements. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063639 | System and Method to Assist Crop Loss Adjusting of Variable Impacts Across Agricultural Fields Using Remotely-Sensed Data - Crop insurance is a crucial support for United States (US) farmers that will benefit from technology, especially for adjusting crop losses. Earth observation satellite (EOS) data are sufficient in resolution and repeat coverage to assess variable crop loss across fields from a variety of causes including hail, drought, and insect pests and disease and permits highly accurate estimation of impacts. Combined with spatial data that define the outline of each field, an application of the present invention can be automated to assist in crop loss adjusting, to speed the process of loss adjusting and payment, and to document the loss adjustment analysis and results. These functions enhance efficiency and lower crop loss adjusting costs for the insurance provider. Through automation and use of EOS data, this technology can be applied across many thousands of square miles at a time. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063640 | Systems And Methods For Verification Of Vehicle Mileage Readings - Systems and methods for verifying an odometer reading of a vehicle are described. Images of an odometer can be obtained and analyzed to verify authenticity of the images or assign a confidence value to each image representing a likelihood of authenticity of the odometer value. An insurance quotation can be provided based on the odometer reading and optionally the confidence value, such that a user can received discounted insurance for lower than average driving habits. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063641 | COMPUTERISED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLACING REINSURANCE - A computerised auction system for enabling auctions of reinsurance placements. A server computer system comprises a processor, memory, auctions database, received bids database, adjusted bids database and administration database. The system communicates on line, or via a private network, with a cedent computer and a plurality of reinsurer computers. Selected reinsurers are invited to participate as bidders in an auction and, when the auction commences, can submit one or more bids in an attempt to secure participation at a price that is the same as or lower than a reserve price. The auction runs in real time and bids are ranked in ascending order of price and, within price, in ascending order of time of receipt. A bidder can enter new bids in an attempt to maintain participation in response to competitive bids from other bidders or in an attempt to increase participation. Each bidder can see the price, participation and rank for their own bids and for competitors' bids. However, a bidder cannot see the identity the owners of competing bids in the auction. A new bid is validated and may be signed down to a lower participation or zero if the total participation of bids for a given bidder exceeds that bidder's maximum permitted participation for the auction, or if the total participation of all bids exceeds the reserve participation for the auction. Progress of the auction is transparent to bidders who can see their bids being signed down and who can submit fresh bids at prices lower than the reserve price. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063642 | USE OF DRONES TO ASSIST WITH INSURANCE, FINANCIAL AND UNDERWRITING RELATED ACTIVITIES - An unmanned insurance drone can include a drone body and a sensor unit disposed on the drone body to collect sensor data. An on-board data processor converts the sensor data into insurance related information, and a wireless communication unit in communication with the data processor to transmit the insurance related information. In another example, the data processor may not be on the drone but remotely located. The location can be with the pilot or a control collection location. If the insurance related information is separate from the drone, than the wireless communication unit can transmit the raw sensor data to the processor. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063643 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TAXPAYER'S INCOME TAX WITHHOLDINGS BASED ON A SPECIFIED GOAL OF THE TAXPAYER - A method, a system, and a computer program for enabling a taxpayer to achieve a specified goal realized by the taxpayer's income tax withholdings by providing a suggested income tax withholdings so that the taxpayer can satisfy their tax liability while knowing how much they will owe or receive back from a taxing authority. The specified goal may be a monetary value, a percentage, or a sliding scale. In embodiments of the invention, the suggested income tax withholdings includes a monetary amount and instructs the taxpayer on how to populate an income tax form to achieve the specified goal. Further embodiments use known tax information to predict the taxpayer's tax liability for a tax period. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063644 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUDULENTLY FILED TAX RETURNS - Embodiments of the invention detect fraudulently filed tax returns when a subject taxpayer submits a subject tax return for filing with a taxing authority. Embodiments analyze tax information associated with the subject tax return and compare the information against tax information of previously filed tax returns for a plurality of taxpayers. These embodiments search for confidence indicators among the tax returns indicative or suggestive of at least one fraudulent tax return. These confidence indicators are then analyzed to determine if the subject tax return for the subject taxpayer, any of the previously filed tax returns, or some combination thereof, is a fraudulent tax return. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063645 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUDULENTLY FILED TAX RETURNS - Embodiments of the invention detect fraudulently filed tax returns when a user prepares or submits a subject tax return that relates to a subject taxpayer for filing with a government taxing authority. Embodiments analyze tax information of various sources to determine whether the subject tax return is genuine (i.e., not fraudulent). The invention determines confidence indicators based upon some or all of a source location, a source type, data entry characteristics, refund vehicle characteristics, internal consistencies, external historical consistencies, external lateral consistencies, user authentication methods, and a taxpayer risk level. Based upon these analyses the invention calculates a taxpayer identity confidence score, which may be utilized to allow or deny the filing of the subject tax return. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063646 | System and Method for Controlling Access to Member Content in a Dating Website - The dating website disclosed can comprise a server memory and a server processor. The server memory can store a dating website and a plurality of profiles. The profiles can comprise standard profile data, premium profile data having purchasable content and non-purchasable content, and a permission status. The server processor can, according to instructions from the dating website provide access to the standard profile data within the profiles of the dating website. The server processor can further offer for sale access to each of the purchasable content, each of the purchasable content comprising a content identifier. The processor can store the content identifier on the permission status of a purchaser's profile when the member buys the purchasable content of a second member. The server processor can provide access to the purchasable content associated with the content identifier within the permission status to the member associated with the permission status. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063647 | System and Method for Providing Access to Member Content of a Dating Website to a Third Party Dating Website Provider - The disclosure teaches a system and method for providing access to member content of a dating website to a third party dating website provider. The dating website content host system can comprise a server memory and a server processor. The server memory can store a dating website and one or more service provider accounts. Each of the service provider accounts can comprise one or more purchasable content packages, and an account permission status. The purchasable content packages can comprise one or more purchasable contents. Each of the purchasable content can comprise a content identifier. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063648 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES TO PROFESSIONALS - Systems and methods are presented for recommending volunteer opportunities to users in an online network. In some embodiments, a method is presented. The method may include accessing, in a device, at least one member profile attribute of a user in an online network, the at least one member profile attribute associated with a plurality of volunteer opportunities. The method may also include accessing information associated with the plurality of volunteer opportunities, generating a relevance score for each of the plurality of volunteer opportunities based on the at least one member profile attribute and the information associated with the plurality of volunteer opportunities, ranking the plurality of volunteer opportunities based on the relevance scores, and displaying at least some of the plurality of volunteer opportunities to the user based on the ranking. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063649 | FAVOR DETECTION AND REPAYMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for favor detection and repayment include storing an ownership association between a first user and a first user item. A second user is detected making a purchase that is associated with the first user item. The purchase by the second user that is associated with the first user item is detected as being a favor for the first user by the second user. Favor repayment information is then retrieved. A favor detection message is provided for display to the first user, and at least one favor repayment option is provided for display to the first user using the favor repayment information. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063650 | AUGMENTING CORPORATE IDENTITY WITH DATA FROM PUBLIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for augmenting a corporate profile of a user on a private social network with profile information from at least one public social network. Once the profiles have been integrated groups associated with the private social network are analyzed to determine if there are groups that the user should belong to based on a similarity between their profile features and the membership features of each of the groups. The groups may be internal to the private social network or may be hosted by a public social network. Users may be removed from the groups as well based on changes in their profiles. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063651 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING SOCIAL POSITIONING AND IMPORTANCE THROUGH PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES - A system and method for generating a local group and enhancing a personal importance over a social networking platform is disclosed. The method comprises registering a user over the social networking platform comprising a personal information and a professional information of the user. During registration the user selects a registered mobile number, updates a timeline of the user, and uploads a plurality of status updates, images, audio files, video, blogs and weblinks on the timeline. A number for likes and dislikes over a registered user's blogs, images and weblinks is generated along with allocation of a positive credit for each like and a negative credit for each dislike over the registered user's blogs, images and weblinks and display of a highest credited user details over a homepage of a local group page and a global group of the social networking platform. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063652 | Infrared-Based Apparatus for Using Gestures to Place Food Orders and Method of Use - An infrared-based gesture ordering apparatus with an infrared sensing unit comprising at least four infrared (IR) sensors, each with an independent infrared emitter and receiver, the sensing unit having an output, a processing unit that receives the IR sensing unit outputs, and a microprocessor that receives the processing unit output, where the microprocessor has an output that connects by USB or wireless to an order server that has a display device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063653 | IN-VEHICLE CONTENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, and software for in-vehicle content systems and methods. One method embodiment includes retrieving passenger manifest data of a transportation service segment. The passenger manifest data may include a plurality of passenger profile identifiers and assigned seat numbers associated with at least some of the passenger profile identifiers. The method may then retrieve passenger profile data based on at least some of the passenger profile identifiers included in the passenger manifest data and provide the retrieved passenger profile data and the retrieved passenger manifest data to a data storage and processing system of a vehicle assigned to service the transportation service segment. Such methods may be performed during pre-segment preparation of the vehicle, during a prior segment, or during the segment. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063654 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUICK SQUARE ROOF REPORTING - Methods and systems for roof estimations are disclosed, including a method comprising receiving, by at least one computer processor, a roof report order including a geographic location of a roof; providing imagery of the roof based on the geographic location of the roof; receiving, from a user, identification of features of the roof; determining and providing an estimated roofing area based at least on a predominant pitch and a footprint of the roof by analyzing one or more image showing the roof, the footprint of the roof determined at least in part using at least one image of the roof and the identified features of the roof; and generating a roof report for determination of an amount of materials needed for a construction project, wherein the roof report includes at least one image showing the roof and the estimated roofing area of the roof. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063655 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING QUEUING WEB-BASED LIVE TUTORING - A method and system for optimizing queuing in web-based live tutoring is described. A request for live support is received from at least one first user and the first user is placed in a queue. A plurality of parameters are determined for the first user. The queue is then optimized by iteratively assigning and updating a queue priority level for the first user, wherein the queue priority level indicates a location in the queue at which the first user is currently placed. If the first user is at the front of the queue, at least one second user such as an available teacher or tutor is matched to the first user. Conversely, if the first user is not at the front of the queue, the queue priority level for the first user is updated accordingly. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063656 | SYLLABUS AUTHORING USING DATA INTEGRATION - Techniques are described for a syllabus authoring and publishing system that allows educators to create and customize syllabi using data integration to optimize for various criteria. A syllabus begins with one or more course objectives, wherein one or more data services are consulted for optimal selection of course activities to satisfy the course objectives. After the appropriate course activities are selected and customized, the syllabus may be saved as one of several syllabus versions and a particular version may be published downstream for further customization by other users. The syllabus is a dynamic document with rich metadata and may directly link to and launch interactive learning objects. The metadata may also specify user role based and workflow context based permissions for viewing, editing, and interacting with the syllabus. All changes and interactions with the syllabus may be tracked in the metadata for analytics and other uses. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063657 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEROPERABLE IDENTITY AND INTEROPERABLE CREDENTIALS - The present teaching relates to managing identity information of a person at an identity center. In one example, the person is associated with a first set of identity attributes that are verified to be associated with the person. Upon the person being associated with the first set of identity attributes, the person is linked with a first user account at a source entity. A consent is received from the person to share one or more attributes of the first user account at the source entity with a receiving entity. The sharing of the one or more attributes of the first user account from the source entity to the receiving entity is facilitated in accordance with the received consent. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063658 | Computer Confirmation of Emergent and Non-Emergent Transportation Services - A computer-implemented method includes receiving at a location verification system a pre-authorization for transportation services that includes a transaction identifier and data identifying (a) locations at which medical transportation services are to be provided for a patient, and (b) a transportation service provider to perform the services; monitoring location reports from one or more vehicles determined to be operated by the transportation service provider to obtain location information that describes where the one or more vehicles have been located; comparing the data generated from the location reports to the locations at which medical transportation services are to be provided for the patient; determining, from the comparison, whether pre-authorized transportation services were provided for the patient; and providing electronic data for an organization of a third party payer that indicates to the third party payer whether the pre-authorized transportation services were provided. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063659 | Electronic Device Display With Electrostatic Discharge Recovery Capabilities - An electronic device may be provided with a housing such as a metal housing in which a display is mounted. Control circuitry in the electronic device such as a system-on-chip integrated circuit may produce image data. A display driver integrated circuit may receive the image data from the system-on-chip integrated circuit and may display the image data on the display. In the absence of electrostatic discharge, the display driver integrated circuit may operate normally and may generate a heartbeat signal. When disrupted due to electrostatic discharge, the display driver circuitry may cease production of the heartbeat signal. The system-on-chip integrated circuit can implement a watchdog timer. If the watchdog timer times out because the heartbeat signal is not received within a timeout period, the system-on-chip integrated circuit may reset the display. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063660 | PROTECTING CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE FROM MINING - Systems and methods prevent or restrict the mining of content on a mobile device. For example, a method may include determining that content to be displayed on a screen includes content that matches a mining-restriction trigger, inserting a mining-restriction mark in the content that protects at least a portion of the content, and displaying the content with the mining-restriction mark on the screen. As another example, a method may include identifying, by a first application running on a mobile device, a mining-restriction mark in frame buffer data, the mining-restriction mark having been inserted by a second application, and determining whether the mining-restriction mark prevents mining of content. The method may also include preventing mining when the mining-restriction mark prevents mining and, when the mining-restriction mark does not prevent mining, determining a restriction for the data based on the mining-restriction mark and providing the restriction with the data for further processing. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063661 | METHOD FOR WATERMARKING A THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECT AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING A PAYLOAD FROM A THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECT - A method for watermarking a three-dimensional object is disclosed. The watermarking method comprises computing shape descriptor of a local neighborhood of a current vertex among the plurality of vertices of the three-dimensional object; obtaining a target shape descriptor from the shape descriptor using a quantization grid associated with a watermark payload; and modifying said local neighborhood wherein a position of at least one vertex of said local neighborhood is modified such that a shape descriptor of said modified local neighborhood is close to said target shape descriptor and wherein said current vertex is not modified. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063662 | PIPELINE DEPENDENCY RESOLUTION - Techniques are disclosed relating to dependency resolution among processor pipelines. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first special-purpose pipeline configured to execute, in parallel, a first type of graphics instruction for a group of graphics elements and a second special-purpose pipeline configured to execute, in parallel, a second type of graphics instruction for the group of graphics elements. In this embodiment, the apparatus is configured, in response to dispatch of an instruction of the second type, to mark a particular instruction of the first type with information indicative of the dispatched instruction. In this embodiment, the particular instruction and the dispatched instruction correspond to the same group of graphics elements. In this embodiment, the apparatus is configured to stall performance of the dispatched instruction until the first special-purpose pipeline has completed execution of the marked particular instruction. Exemplary instruction types include interpolate and sample instructions. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063663 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING GRAPHICS PROCESSING OF A GRAPHICS SYSTEM IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AID OF CONFIGURABLE HARDWARE, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method for performing graphics processing of a graphics system in an electronic device and an associated apparatus are provided, where the method includes the steps of: configuring a configurable hardware of the graphics system to be a vertex processing (VP) path in a specific processing phase; utilizing the VP path to perform VP-related tile-based rendering (TBR) operations; configuring the configurable hardware of the graphics system to be a pixel processing (PP) path in another processing phase; and utilizing the PP path to perform PP-related TBR operations. For example, after performing VP-related TBR operations of a specific frame of a plurality of frames is completed, PP-related TBR operations of the specific frame are performed, where after performing the PP-related TBR operations of the specific frame is completed, VP-related TBR operations of another frame of the plurality of frames are performed. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063664 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH MULTI-PROCESSOR, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING CONTROL PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A display device including a first processor, a second processor, a frame memory which is overwritten by and stores first image data generated by the first processor and second image data generated by the second processor, and a display on which a predetermined image is displayed based on the first image data and the second image data stored in the frame memory, in which the first processor or the second processor sets the first processor in a power saving state when the first processor is not overwriting the first image data in the frame memory. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063665 | Processor, System, and Method for Efficient, High-Throughput Processing of Two-Dimensional, Interrelated Data Sets - Systems, processors and methods are disclosed for organizing processing datapaths to perform operations in parallel while executing a single program. Each datapath executes the same sequence of instructions, using a novel instruction sequencing method. Each datapath is implemented through a processor having a data memory partitioned into identical regions. A master processor fetches instructions and conveys them to the datapath processors. All processors are connected serially by an instruction pipeline, such that instructions are executed in parallel datapaths, with execution in each datapath offset in time by one clock cycle from execution in adjacent datapaths. The system includes an interconnection network that enables full sharing of data in both horizontal and vertical dimensions, with the effect of coupling any datapath to the memory of any other datapath without adding processing cycles in common usage. This approach enables programmable visual computing with throughput approaching that of hardwired solutions. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT STORAGE OF FREQUENCY VALUES FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE - A device and corresponding operational method for storing frequency values to a memory of the device, comprising an internal memory and an external memory, are provided. A frequency value in a memory cell of the internal memory is actualized by an increment or a decrement. After a specific number of increments and decrements in the memory cells of the internal memory, a maximum frequency value of the frequency values stored in the memory cells of the internal memory is determined, and the maximum frequency value is transferred to a corresponding memory cell of the external memory. The memory cell of the internal memory that contains the transferred maximum frequency value is reset. After a period, content of each memory cell of the internal and external memory is read, and each memory cell of the internal and external memory is reset. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063667 | Graphic Remoting System With Masked DMA And Graphic Processing Method - An embodiment of a graphic remoting system of the present invention includes a network, a server and a client device. The network is applied to a RDP protocol. The server transfers display rendering commands which indicates a destination region through the network. The client device receives the display rendering commands. The client device of the present invention includes at least a graphic render engine, at least a surface, at least a mask generator, a plurality of mask buffer, at least a direct memory access with masks, and a plurality of display buffers. The surface is used for storing an image. The graphic render engine generates the image and stores the image into the surface according to the destination region. The mask buffers is used for storing bit masks; wherein the content values of the mask buffers are indicating updated areas of the image stored in the surface. The mask generator generates the bit masks according to the destination region, and stores the bit masks into the mask buffers. The direct memory access with masks reads the content values of a current mask buffer and a previous mask buffer of the plurality of mask buffers, and copies the image stored in the surface to output a copied image to the display buffer according to the content values of the current mask buffer and the previous mask buffer. The plurality of display buffers receive the copied image from the direct memory access with masks and reconstruct a complete image according to the copied image to output the complete image to a display device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063668 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes; a first memory that stores first and second layer image data portions used to generate first and second frame images on a display device, a second memory that stores a change map, a display controller that generates positional information associated with an image data portion in response to the change map, and an interface that receives image data and positional information and generates a command for updating the image data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063669 | Dynamic Motion Path Blur User Interface - Dynamic motion path blur techniques are described. In one or more implementations, paths may be specified to constrain a motion blur effect to be applied to a single image. A variety of different techniques may be employed as part of the motion blur effects, including use of curved blur kernel shapes, use of a mesh representation of blur kernel parameter fields to support real time output of the motion blur effect to an image, use of flash effects, blur kernel positioning to support centered or directional blurring, tapered exposure modeling, and null paths. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063670 | Dynamic Motion Path Blur Kernel - Dynamic motion path blur techniques are described. In one or more implementations, paths may be specified to constrain a motion blur effect to be applied to a single image. A variety of different techniques may be employed as part of the motion blur effects, including use of curved blur kernel shapes, use of a mesh representation of blur kernel parameter fields to support real time output of the motion blur effect to an image, use of flash effects, blur kernel positioning to support centered or directional blurring, tapered exposure modeling, and null paths. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063671 | A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING A FIELD OF VIEW IN A USER INTERFACE - There is inter alia a method comprising: determining an image of at least one object in a perspective view of a user interface which corresponds to at least one object in a field of view, wherein the at least one object obscures at least part of an area of the field of view; rendering a graphical representation of the field of view in the user interface to represent the at least part of the area of the field of view which is at least in part obscured by the at least one object; and overlaying the rendered graphical representation of the field of view on a plan view of the user interface, wherein the plan view corresponds to a map of the perspective view of the user interface. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063672 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING THUMBNAIL PICTURE - An electronic device obtains resolutions of original pictures prestored in the electronic device. The electronic device zooms out the original pictures according to relationships between the obtained resolutions and predefined resolutions, generates thumbnails association with the original pictures according to the zoomed pictures; and displays the generated thumbnails according to a predefined order. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063673 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus including: a display; and a controller configured to detect an object in an input image, divide the image into a first region of the image corresponding to a location of the detected object and a second region of the image corresponding to a region of the input image excluding the first region, adjust the first region and the second region using different scale factors, and control the display to display the image having the adjusted first and second regions. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063674 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A graph display apparatus includes a display unit and a processor. The display unit includes a touch panel. The processor performs the following processes: controlling the display unit to display a graph on a graph display area in a coordinate range, the graph corresponding to an expression; acquiring a position designated by a touch of a user on the graph display area; and when a drag operation is detected after the touch of the user ends, changing the coordinate range with the designated position fixed in response to the drag operation, thereby reducing or enlarging the graph, and controlling the display unit to display the reduced or enlarged graph. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063675 | DOWNSAMPLING BASED DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - Downsampling based display method and apparatus are provided. An input image including multiple pixels is obtained. At least two pixels neighboring with a to-be-calculated DS pixel on each of at least two directions from the pixels are obtained to get at least four first neighboring pixels. Theoretical values of each first neighboring pixel on the at least two directions are calculated. Errors of the theoretical values of each first neighboring pixel and a corresponding original value are obtained. Weight coefficients for calculating the DS pixel are determined according to the errors. An estimation value of the DS pixel is calculated according to the weight coefficients and the weighted cubic interpolation calculation model. As to the other DS pixels of target image, corresponding estimation values are calculated using the above steps, and then a downsampling processed image is obtained. The color aliasing is avoided and sharp image is obtained. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063676 | Image Scaling Techniques - Image scaling techniques, in accordance with embodiments of the present technology, include directionally interpolating blocks of pixel data of an image, sharpening the directional interpolated blocks of pixel data, and optionally clamping the sharpened, directional interpolated blocks of pixel data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063677 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SUPER-RESOLVED IMAGE FROM A SINGLE IMAGE - Known methods for generating super-resolved images from single input images have various disadvantages. An improved method for generating a super-resolved image from a single low-resolution input image comprises up-scaling the input image to generate an initial version of the super-resolved image, searching, for each patch of the low-resolution input image, similar low-resolution patches in first search windows within down-sampled versions of the input image, and determining, in less down-sampled versions of the input image, high-resolution patches that correspond to the similar low-resolution patches. The determined high-resolution patches are cropped, a second search window is determined in the initial version of the super-resolved image, and a best-matching position for each cropped high-resolution patch is searched within the second search window. Finally, each cropped high-resolution patch is added to the super-resolved image at its respective best-matching position. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063678 | Method of Processing Image and Electronic Device Thereof - Disclosed is an operation method of an electronic device. The operation method may include: acquiring a shared image from an image resource file; acquiring an auxiliary image by using a difference between the image resource file and the shared image; and generating a particular image based on the shared image and the auxiliary image. An operation method of an electronic device is not limited to the above method, and other embodiments are possible within the same or similar scope as the present disclosure. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063679 | IMAGE REGISTRATION SYSTEM - An image registration server which can communicate with a client device, includes an image data receiving device for receiving image data transmitted from the client device, an image data generation device for generating image data representing the same image as an image represented by the image data received by the image data receiving device and having a different form of representation therefrom, and an image data storage device for storing the image data generated by the image data generation device so as to be accessible. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063680 | Image Raster Rotation - A method allows changing an image raster direction from an application raster direction to a screen raster direction, in-flight while pixel values of an image are transferred successively from an application output memory to a display unit. A single buffer memory array is implemented between the application output memory and the display unit. Two writing orders for cells of the buffer memory array are used in turn, each being combined with a different reading order for the cells. The method can be hardware-implemented, and is adapted for burst-handling of the pixel values. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063681 | NOISE-REDUCTION PROCESSING DEVICE - A noise-reduction processing device including: a part that calculates an edge strength indicating the edge amount at the pixel of interest based on the pixel of interest and surrounding pixels that surround the pixel of interest; a part that discriminates the edge direction at the pixel of interest; a first filter-processing part that subjects the pixel of interest to smoothing processing along a direction that is based on a direction-discrimination result and outputs a first filter-processing result; a second filter-processing part that subjects the pixel of interest to smoothing processing producing a lower low-pass effect than that of the first filter-processing part and outputs a second filter-processing result; and a part that synthesizes the first and second filter-processing results, with the ratio of the first filter-processing result increased as the edge strength becomes higher and the ratio of the second filter-processing result increased as the edge strength becomes lower. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063682 | IMAGE COMPENSATION METHOD AND DISPLAY WITH IMAGE COMPENSATION - An image compensation method is disclosed. The method comprising: detecting a realistic display mode of a display; generating an image compensation data based on the realistic display mode of the display and a preset compensation data; using the image compensation data to execute an image compensation operation to a display image signal; using the realistic display mode of a display to execute a display operation to the display image signal after the image compensation operation. The present invention is able to execute the image compensation operation to the display images of all display modes of the display. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063683 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WHICH PERFORM IMAGE RESTORATION PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus ( | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063684 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REMOVING HAZE IN SINGLE IMAGE - The present invention provides a method for removing a haze in a single image. In the present invention, a transmission is estimated by using a dark channel prior obtained from a hazy input image. The estimated transmission includes a block artifact. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, in order to preserve an edge and remove the block artifact, a refined transmission value is obtained by performing WLS filtering by using an estimated transmission value and a morphologically-processed input image, the image is restored based on the refined transmission value, and then multi-scale tone manipulation image processing is performed. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063685 | Image Denoising Using a Library of Functions - A method denoises a noisy image by, for each pixel in the noisy image, first constructing a key from a patch, wherein the patch includes locally neighboring pixels around the pixel. A function is selected from a function library using the key. Then, the function is applied to the patch to generate a corresponding noise free pixel for the pixel. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063686 | DOSE MODULATED X-RAY SCANNING - A method and a device for dose modulated X-ray scanning, comprising: setting a target image quality standard for a scanning region, determining a reference data level for the scanning region, calculating a theoretical X-ray scanning dose for the scanning region according to the target image quality standard and the reference data level, calculating the X-ray attenuation difference between each data level corresponding to the scanning region and the reference data level according to the theoretical X-ray scanning dose, determining any one of the data levels corresponding to the scanning region, which X-ray attenuation difference with the reference data level is higher than a threshold as a target to be de-noised, and performing a noise reduction for the target to be de-noised. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063687 | DEBLURRING IMAGES HAVING SPATIALLY VARYING BLUR - A computer-implemented method and system are described for deblurring an image. The method may include accessing an image having a first blurred region and a second blurred region, and generating a first blur kernel for the first blurred region and a second blur kernel for the second blurred region. Thereafter, the first blur kernel is positioned with respect to the first blurred region, and the second blur kernel is positioned with respect to the second blurred region based on the position of the first blur kernel. The image is then deblurred by deconvolving the first blurred region with the first blur kernel, and deconvolving the second blurred region with the second blur kernel. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063688 | Backlight Source Control Method Of Display Device, Display Device And Storage Medium - One or more embodiments of the present application disclose a backlight source control method of a display device, the display device and a storage medium. The method includes: determining a display subregion corresponding to a backlight source to be turned off; determining a first backlight source brightness value of an adjacent display subregion of the display subregion corresponding to the backlight source to be turned off; lowering the first backlight source brightness value to obtain a second backlight source brightness value; and setting the backlight source brightness value corresponding to the adjacent display subregion to be the second backlight source brightness value. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063689 | Virtual spatial overlap modulation microscopy for resolution improvement - A method and non-transitory computer readable medium for processing an oversampled image is disclosed. Filters are applied to an oversampled image to obtain a filtered image. The image filters are Gabor filter, cosine filter, laplacian of Gaussian filter, and radial filter. The filtered image can be turned into a displayed image that is displayed. The displayed image can be can be a 3D image. The displayed image can be refreshed at a rate of about one frame per second. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063690 | Pattern Evaluation Device and Visual Inspection Device Comprising Pattern Evaluation Device - A pattern evaluation device of the present invention includes a model estimation unit that estimates a model caused by a manufacturing method on the basis of an inspection image, a deformation amount estimation unit that estimates a deformation amount of the inspection image by using the estimated model, a reference data deformation unit that deforms reference data by using the estimated deformation amount, and an evaluation unit that performs an evaluation process by comparing the reference data which is deformed by the reference data deformation unit with the inspection image. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063691 | PLENOPTIC CAMERAS IN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS - The disclosed embodiments relate to using a plenoptic camera in a manufacturing system for various imaging operations. The embodiments include calculating a distance of a manufactured part from a light source or plenoptic camera for further use by a robotic device in the manufacturing system. The embodiments further include compiling a composite two-dimensional or three-dimensional image of a manufactured part in order to derive dimensions of the manufactured part for use by the manufacturing system. Additionally, the embodiments include performing a profile analysis of a surface of a manufactured part based on image data captured by the plenoptic camera. Furthermore, the embodiments discussed herein can be performed on a still or moving manufactured part in order to optimize one or more manufacturing processes. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063692 | Automated Food Recognition and Nutritional Estimation With a Personal Mobile Electronic Device - A food recognition assistant system includes technologies to recognize foods and combinations of foods depicted in a digital picture of food. Some embodiments include technologies to estimate portion size and calories, and to estimate nutritional value of the foods. In some embodiments, data identifying recognized foods and related information are generated in an automated fashion without relying on human assistance to identify the foods. In some embodiments, the system includes technologies for achieving automatic food detection and recognition in a real-life setting with a cluttered background, without the images being taken in a controlled lab setting, and without requiring additional user input (such as user-defined bounding boxes). Some embodiments of the system include technologies for personalizing the food classification based on user-specific habits, location and/or other criteria. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063693 | APPARATUS FOR QUALITY INSPECTION OF SHAFTS - An apparatus for quality inspection of shafts includes a rotary table having cutout grooves at the outer periphery thereof. The rotary table includes an upper disk and a lower disk stacked in the vertical direction so as to be rotatable relative to each other; and plate members provided on the upper surface of the lower disk and inserted in respective first cutouts formed at the outer periphery of the upper disk. One of groove edges of each cutout groove is constituted by one side edge of each first cutout, and the other groove edge is constituted by one side edge of each plate member. Second cutout, corresponding to the first cutout and provided in the lower disk, are grooves including side edges, and an end edge perpendicular to the side edges. The distance between these side edges is larger than the maximum groove width of the cutout grooves. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063694 | ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME FOR PHASE CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY - A method of tomographic imaging the real part of the refractive index of the internal structure of an image volume and a corresponding apparatus for performing the method. The method includes a two-step process of first retrieving phase projections of an image volume from projective intensity measurements through the image volume. The second step of the method includes iterative image reconstruction of an image of the image volume using phase projections taken at multiple projection angles. The first step of intensity measurements and subsequent phase retrieval can use one of many possible phase retrieval methods including the Bronnikov phase retrieval method. The second step of iterative image reconstruction can be performed using the total variation minimization method, the algebraic reconstruction technique method, or any other iterative image reconstruction method. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063695 | ULTRASOUND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING ULTRASOUND IMAGE - An ultrasound image display apparatus includes an image processor which acquires respective pieces of ultrasound data for a plurality of time points that represent an object including at least one target at a plurality of different time points and acquires first information representing a change in the at least one target during the plurality of different time points, based on a correspondence between the respective pieces of ultrasound data for the plurality of time points; and a display which displays a screen image including a diagnosis image that shows the first information. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063696 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a divider that generates a plurality pieces of third image information on the basis of a plurality of pieces of first image information and a plurality of pieces of second image information, a determiner that determines, on the basis of information regarding a sample, a filter to be used for the plurality of pieces of third image information, and a processor that deconvolutes each of the plurality of pieces of third image information using the determined filter. An image sensor that has received first resulting light emitted from a sample that has received first light emitted from a first angle outputs the plurality of pieces of first image information. The image sensor that has received second resulting light emitted from the sample that has received second light emitted from a second angle outputs the plurality of pieces of second image information. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063697 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND A MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes input interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The input interface circuitry inputs at least three landmarks in a first and second slice image group. The processing circuitry determines, in each of the first and second slice image group, a first axis connecting two points in the landmarks and a second axis that passes through another point different from the two points and is orthogonal to the first axis. The processing circuitry performs a registration between first slice images belonging to the first slice image group and second slice images belonging to the second slice image group by using the first and second axes in the first slice image group and the first and second axes in the second slice image group. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063698 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING MENSTRUAL BLOOD LOSS - A computer application on a device for tracking menstrual blood loss by receiving an image of a used sanitary product, analyzing, or receiving analysis of, the amount of blood volume in the image, and aggregating the blood volume from more than one image to determine total blood loss volume for a menstrual cycle. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063699 | MAMMOGRAPHY INFORMATION SYSTEM - A method and system for analyzing and retrieving breast tissue abnormality tracking data, providing a tool for a radiologist that includes a report summarizing the statistical frequency of diagnosed patients, both locally and nationally, with breast tissue region-of-interest classifications similar to the breast tissue images taken of the anatomy of an individual patient. A computer aided diagnostic program can be tested or verified against the breast tissue images and the region-of-interest classifications that have been validated by definitive patient diagnosis. Methods and systems allow the efficient collection of all of the breast tissue abnormalities for a given medical facility in order to provide trending data or radiologist performance analysis. The region-of-interest abnormalities in a single location in a patient's tissue are correlated across a variety of imaging modalities including X-rays, mammogram, CT, ultrasound, MRI, or other imaging technologies. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063700 | MEDICAL IMAGE MEASURING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM - A medical image measuring apparatus includes a tissue information label assigning unit that assigns each point of a medical image with a tissue information label representing tissue information each point belongs, a measuring unit that performs measurement in the medical image, and a measurement subject label assigning unit that determines, based on a tissue information label assigned to a measurement point or a point within a region of interest used for the measurement, a measurement subject label representing a measurement subject and assigns the label to a result of the measurement. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063701 | REAL-TIME SUBJECT-DRIVEN FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS - A method and associated systems for real-time subject-driven functional connectivity analysis. One or more processors receive an fMRI time series of sequentially recorded, masked, parcellated images that each represent the state of a subject's brain at the image's recording time as voxels partitioned into a constant set of three-dimensional regions of interest. The processors derive an average intensity of each region's voxels in each image and organize these intensity values into a set of time courses, where each time course contains a chronologically ordered list of average intensity values of one region. The processors then identify time-based correlations between average intensities of each pair of regions and represent these correlations in a graphical format. As each subsequent fMRI image of the same subject's brain arrives, the processors repeat this process to update the time courses, correlations, and graphical representation in real time or near-real time. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063702 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MEDICAL IMAGE DEVICE - A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an estimation circuitry and a tracking circuitry. The estimation circuitry is configured to estimate the activity of the myocardium across a plurality of images at different time phases from a group of images where a plurality of images containing a myocardium are chronologically arranged. The tracking circuitry is configured to set a search range for tracking the myocardium in the group according to the activity of the myocardium and perform the tracking. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063703 | OPERATING DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Exterior orientation parameters of a camera are easily determined by, for example, a reference image being obtained by photographing a building | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063704 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - The position and the attitude of a device or a member are determined. A camera | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A SEAM - A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes determining overlapping areas from neighboring images. The method also includes determining a difference measure between the overlapping areas. The method further includes determining a constraint measure corresponding to at least one of the overlapping areas. The method additionally includes determining a seam based on a combination of the difference measure and the constraint measure. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063706 | Reduced Homography based on Structural Redundancy of Conditioned Motion - Efficient techniques of recovering the pose of an optical apparatus exploiting structural redundancies due the conditioned motion of an apparatus are disclosed. The techniques are based on determining a reduced homography consonant to the conditioned motion of the optical apparatus. The optical apparatus comprises an optical sensor on which space points are imaged as measured image points. The reduced homography is based on a reduced representation of the space points, obtained by exploiting the structural redundancy in the measured image points due to the conditioned motion. The reduced representation consonant with the conditioned motion is defined by rays in homogeneous coordinates and contained in a projective plane of the optical sensor. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063707 | IMAGE REGISTRATION DEVICE, IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD, AND IMAGE REGISTRATION PROGRAM - An initial registration unit performs initial registration between an intraoperative image and simulation information. A positional information obtaining unit obtains positional information indicating a relative positional difference between the intraoperative image after the initial registration and a newly obtained intraoperative image based on an unchanged position which is not changed during surgery included in the intraoperative images. A superimpose display unit registers the simulation information with the new intraoperative image based on the positional information and displays, on a display, the simulation information superimposed on the new intraoperative image. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063708 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING FIDUCIAL MARKER AND CAMERA POSITIONS/ORIENTATIONS - A method for optimizing fiducial marker and camera positions/orientations is realized to simulate camera and fiducial positions and pose estimation algorithm to find best possible marker/camera placement comprises the steps of: acquiring mesh data representing possible camera positions and feasible orientation boundaries of cameras on the environment of tracked object; acquiring mesh data representing possible active marker positions and feasible orientation placements of markers on a tracked object; pose data representing possible poses of tracked object under working conditions; initializing the control parameter for camera placement; create initial solution strings for camera placement; solving marker placement problem for the current camera placement; evaluating the quality of the current LED and camera placement taking pose coverage, pose accuracy, number of placed markers, number of placed camera etc. into account; determining if a stopping criterion is satisfied. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063709 | SPATIAL POSITIONING OF OFFSHORE STRUCTURES - A system is provided for determining the position of an offshore structure in a fixed reference frame by observations from a moving reference frame. The system comprises a plurality of markers located at defined positions on the structure and an imaging device, arranged to view the markers and generate image data representative of the relative positions of the markers in the moving reference frame. The imaging device may be mounted aboard a vessel. A local positioning system is arranged to determine a position of the imaging device in the fixed reference frame and generate position data. A processing unit is arranged to receive the image data from the imaging device and the position data from the local positioning system and compute the position of the structure based on the defined positions of the markers. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063710 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD, AND VEHICLE - A three-dimensional object recognition apparatus according to the invention includes: an omnidirectional sensor that measures surrounding objects in all directions, and generates positional information capable of specifying positions of the objects as a result of the measurement; a three-dimensional measurement device that measures an object within a certain measurement range among the surrounding objects, and generates three-dimensional shape information capable of specifying a three-dimensional shape of the object as a result of the measurement; and a control unit that updates a shape to be recognized as the three-dimensional shape of the object based on the three-dimensional shape information generated by the three-dimensional measurement device when the object is within the measurement range of the three-dimensional measurement device. The control unit tracks the object based on the positional information generated by the omnidirectional sensor, even after the object has moved out of the measurement range of the three-dimensional measurement device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063711 | NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH COMPUTER READABLE IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable image processing program is provided. The image processing program causes a computer to perform functionality including obtaining an infrared image of a subject and determining a position of the subject included in the infrared image based on brightness and a size of a prescribed region of the subject within the infrared image. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063712 | MONITORING APPARATUS, MONITORING SYSTEM AND MONITORING METHOD - A person is detected from a moving image of the monitoring area, and position information on the person is acquired. Temporal statistical processing is performed on the position information, statistical information relating to a staying situation of the person is acquired in accordance with setting of a target period of time for the statistical processing, and thus a heat map moving image is generated. Furthermore, a mask image corresponding to a person image area is generated at every predetermined point in time based on the position information on the person. A monitoring moving image that results from superimposing the heat map image and the mask image onto a background image is generated and is output at every predetermined point in time. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063713 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND SYSTEM - An apparatus includes an imaging unit for capturing a subject image; a setting unit setting initial posture of the imaging unit; a detector for detecting posture information indicating a change in posture from the initial posture of the imaging unit; a corrector for correcting a posture of a preset virtual object arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space depending on the posture information; a projector for generating, based on a conversion function for projecting the virtual object on a device coordinate in a display screen of the captured image, an object image on the device coordinate, of the virtual object whose posture is corrected; a synthesizer for generating a synthetic image of the object and the captured images; a display for displaying the synthetic image; an image recording unit for recording the captured image; and a posture recording unit for recording the posture information in synchronization with the captured image. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063714 | IMAGE LOCATION SELECTION FOR USE IN DEPTH PHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEM - Image location selection is described for use in a depth photography system. In one example, a method includes receiving a selection from a user of a position in a captured image, comparing the selected position to objects in the image, selecting whether the selected position is intended to be within an object or outside an object, refining the position based on the selection, and determining a depth for an object corresponding to the refined position. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063715 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING A HIGH RESOLUTION DEPTH MAP - An input depth map is received having less resolution than an image. From a window region about an image pixel of the image, pixels are selected having a substantially similar characteristic value as the image pixel. A reference depth value is determined for the image pixel from depth values in the input depth map which correspond to each of the selected pixels. Weights are determined for each pixel within the window region based on a difference between a depth value corresponding to each of the selected pixels and the determined reference depth value for the image pixel. A refined depth value is determined for the image pixel from a weighted sum of the depth values corresponding to each of the selected pixels. A high resolution depth map corresponding to the image is determined from the refined depth value. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063716 | LINE PARAMETRIC OBJECT ESTIMATION - A method may include projecting, onto a first projection plane of a first projection volume, first points from a point cloud of a setting that are within the first projection volume. Further, the method may include matching a plurality of the projected first points with a cross-section template that corresponds to a line parametric object (LPO) of the setting to determine a plurality of first element points of a first primary projected element. Additionally, the method may include projecting, onto a second projection plane of a second projection volume, second points from the point cloud that are within the second projection volume and matching a plurality of the projected second points with the cross-section template to determine a plurality of second element points of a second primary projected element. Moreover, the method may include generating a parameter function based on the first element points and the second element points. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063717 | POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A technique for performing calibration of a laser scanner efficiently is provided. Point cloud position data of a building | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063718 | LIGHT-MICROSCOPY METHOD FOR LOCATING POINT OBJECTS - A light-microscopy method for locating point objects in a sample arranged in an object space includes imaging the sample onto a detector by an imaging optical unit having a depth of field of predetermined axial extent along an optical axis in the object space, onto which the detector is imaged. The point objects in the sample are located within the depth of field. The first sample image generated by the imaging of the sample onto the detector is evaluated. For locating a respective first point object in a direction of the optical axis, a parameter of a first light spot of one or more light spots of the first sample image representing the first point object is determined, and a rough axial z position related to the first point object is assigned to the parameter based on predetermined association information. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063719 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISPARITY ESTIMATION OF FOREGROUND OBJECTS IN IMAGES - In an example embodiment, method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes facilitating receipt of first image (I | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063720 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTING MEDICAL IMAGES BASED ON ANATOMICAL LANDMARK-BASED FEATURES - The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for segmenting medical images. Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to a method for segmenting medical images. The method may be implemented by a processor device executing a plurality of computer executable instructions. The method may comprise receiving an image from a memory, and identifying at least one landmark point within the image. The method may further comprise selecting an image point in the image, and determining at least one feature for the image point relative to the at least one landmark point. The method may also comprise associating the image point with an anatomical structure by using a classification model based on the at least one determined feature. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063721 | Transformation of 3-D object for object segmentation in 3-D medical image - A method and apparatus for segmenting an object from a three-dimensional image are disclosed. According to the method, first, a surface of the object is estimated using scale estimation processes such as Laplacian-of-Gaussian filters in one, two or three dimensions. Second, the estimated surface is transformed by having a shrink function applied to it independently in each dimension to give a regularly shaped (preferably substantially spherical), non-isotropic shape. The object is segmented from the volume around it, and is inverse-transformed to obtain the original shape, which shape is then isolated from the image volume. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063722 | DETECTION OF A PERIMETER OF A REGION OF INTEREST IN A FLOOR PLAN DOCUMENT - A method of defining a region of interest in a floor plan document including identifying a point within the region of interest, identifying notations in the floor plan document potentially indicative of walls near the identified point, and identifying notations in the floor plan document potentially indicative of protrusions from the walls near the identified point. The method also includes determining whether the notations potentially indicative of protrusions from the walls are part of the perimeter of the region of interest based on at least one criteria selected from a group consisting of size, shape, and location of the notation potentially indicative of a protrusion, defining the perimeter of the region of interest based on the notations determined to be part of the perimeter of the region of interest, and calculating a quantity associated with the region of interest based on the defined perimeter of the region of interest. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PREVIEW IMAGE - A method of transmitting an image is performed by a first device and includes obtaining an image including an object, obtaining, based on a preset setting condition of the first device, contour information defining a contour of the object and color information about a color of the object, and transmitting the contour information and the color information to a second device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063724 | Apparatus And Method For Processing Images Of Tissue Samples - A computer implemented image processing method is provided for identifying a tissue boundary of a tumour region of a tissue sample, the tissue sample containing non-tumour regions and at least one tumour region. The method includes obtaining an image of a tissue section of the tissue sample, identifying at least one image property of the image, and comparing the image property with classification data. The method further includes, based on the comparison, classifying a region of the image as a tumour region representing a tumour region in the tissue sample or a non-tumour region representing a non-tumour region in the tissue sample. If the region of the image is classified as a tumour region, the method includes identifying a boundary of the region of the image, and using the boundary to identify a tissue boundary of the tumour region of the tissue sample represented by the region of the image. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063725 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - A semiconductor device in which components each serving as a basic constitutional unit are arranged in order to find a solution of an interaction model. The semiconductor device includes multiple units each of which has: a first memory cell for scoring a value indicating a state of one node of the interaction model; a second memory cell for storing an interaction coefficient indicating an interaction from another node connected to the one node; a third memory cell for storing a flag for fixing a value of the first memory cell; a first arithmetic circuit that decides a next state of the one node based on a value indicating a state of the other node and the interaction coefficient; and a second arithmetic circuit that decides whether or not to record a value indicating the next state in the first memory cell according to a value of the flag. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063726 | MODEL-BASED SEGMENTATION OF AN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | 2016-03-03 |
