| 10th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
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| 20120057738 | HEADPHONE - A headphone has a shell, a speaker received in the shell for making sound, a covering element fixed on the shell. A top of the shell is recessed to form a receiving cavity. A damping plate is received in the receiving cavity for separating the receiving cavity and the resonance cavity. The damping plate smoothes the frequency response of the sound pressure level in the resonance cavity while the speaker making sound, which adjusts the sound and achieves a better sound effect. It is convenient to change the damping plate. As the damping plates made of different materials have the different sound effects, users can change the damping plate for changing the sound effect. So, the user can enjoy different sound effects by only changing the damping plate. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057739 | ERGONOMIC EARPIECE AND ATTACHMENTS - An earpiece that substantially lacks a lower lobe is disclosed. In one example, the earpiece can have a generally arcuate rib having upper and lower ends. A lobe can be formed at the upper end of the arcuate rib. No lobe is formed at the lower end of the arcuate rib. An extension can extend from the earpiece and can be configured to extend into the ear canal. Eliminating the lower lobe mitigates discomfort during use and also reduces the likelihood of tissue damage and infection. The extension can enhance communication of desired sound, e.g., from a two-way radio, to an eardrum while mitigating communication of undesirable ambient noise to the eardrum. Other implementations and related methods are also disclosed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057740 | Security and protection device for an ear-mounted audio amplifier or telecommunication instrument - A security and protection device for an ear-mounted audio amplifier or telecommunication instrument. The device includes a resilient water-pervious hollow sleeve sized and shaped to snugly conform to the shape of an audio amplifier or telecommunication instrument having an earpiece insertable in to the ear of a user when the sleeve is slid over the instrument. The sleeve has a top opening at a top end of the sleeve and a bottom opening at an opposite bottom end of the sleeve. The bottom opening is sized to snugly receive the instrument into the hollow sleeve so as to substantially completely cover the instrument when journalled in the sleeve. The top opening is sized to snugly receive through the top opening a corresponding upper end of the instrument. The upper end of the instrument is connected to the instrument earpiece. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057741 | SECURITY POLYMER THREAT DETECTION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Embodiments disclosed enable the detection of the presence of chemical, biological, and/or explosive (CBE) substance or other items of interest on individuals handling tickets, fobs, passes, smartcards, or other media. Embodiments generally contemplate issuing media at a first location and analyzing the media at a second location. Material sensitive to CBE substance can be applied to the media at the first and/or second location. An adhesive also may be used to attract and/or retain particles to the media for analysis and/or adhere the detection material to the media. Such embodiments can be utilized in airports, transit stations, and other applications where security against threats posed by CBE substance may be a concern. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057742 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT PROCESSING BARCODES WITH LINK INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO OTHER BARCODES - In a copy generation management on paper, the present invention aims to detect a falsification in embedded information and increase the capacity of embedded information while maintaining security. The image processing device embeds second additional information into document image data embedded with first additional information. The image processing device deletes a part where the first additional information is embedded in the document image data, and embeds the second additional information into the part of the first additional information thus deleted. The image processing device further embeds third information different from the first and second additional information at a position different from position at which the second additional information is embedded. Further, the embedding means embeds the third information at a position indicated by the second additional information. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057743 | System and method for fluorescence guided ingredient specific particle sizing - The present disclosure provides for a system and method for rapid, accurate, and reliable targeting and interrogation of pharmaceutical samples. An autofluorescence image of a sample may be generated and analyzed to identify areas of interest that exhibit autofluorescence characteristic of APIs. These areas of interest may then be targeted for analysis using Raman chemical imaging. This Raman chemical image may be used to determine geometric properties of particles present in a sample such as size and particle distribution. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057744 | ARTICLE-PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE QUALITY OF IMAGES OF THE ARTICLES IN REAL TIME, A SORTING MACHINE, AND A METHOD - The invention relates to an article-processing device comprising a conveyor ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057745 | DETECTION OF OBJECTS USING RANGE INFORMATION - A system and method for detecting objects and background in digital images using range information includes receiving the digital image representing a scene; identifying range information associated with the digital image and including distances of pixels in the scene from a known reference location; generating a cluster map based at least upon an analysis of the range information and the digital image, the cluster map grouping pixels of the digital image by their distances from a viewpoint; identifying objects in the digital image based at least upon an analysis of the cluster map and the digital image; and storing an indication of the identified objects in a processor-accessible memory system. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057746 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processing device and method are provided. According to illustrative embodiments, the device and method are implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, processing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to determine whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and performing processing corresponding to the predetermined action when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057747 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system performs a position-matching operation on first and second images, which are obtained by photographing the same object a plurality of times. A plurality of shift points are detected in the second image. The shift points correspond to fixed points, which are dispersed throughout the whole of the first image. The second image is divided into a plurality of partial images, the vertices of which are positioned at the same coordinates as the fixed points in the first image. Each of the partial images are shifted to the shift points to transform the partial images so that corresponding transformed partial images are produced. The transformed partial images are combined to form a combined image. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057748 | APPARATUS WHICH DETECTS MOVING OBJECT FROM IMAGE AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a plurality of time-sequential still images, a setting unit configured to set, in a still image among the plurality of still images, a candidate region that is a candidate of a region in which an object exists, and to acquire a likelihood of the candidate region, a motion acquisition unit configured to acquire motion information indicating a motion of the object based on the still image and another still image that is time-sequential to the still image, a calculation unit configured to calculate a weight corresponding to an appropriateness of the motion indicated by the motion information as a motion of the object, a correction unit configured to correct the likelihood based on the weight, and a detection unit configured to detect the object from the still image based on the corrected likelihood. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057749 | INATTENTION DETERMINING DEVICE - An inattention determining device includes range changing unit and inattention determining unit. When a curve detection result is output from curve detector, the range changing unit changes a first predetermined range to a second predetermined range by the predetermined amount in the curve direction before a turning direction of an acquisition result is changed in the curve direction of the curve detection result. The inattention determining unit determines whether or not a driver is in an inattention state on the basis of the second predetermined range. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057750 | System And Method For Data Assisted Chrom-Keying - The invention illustrates a system and method of displaying a base image and an overlay image comprising: capturing a base image of a real event; receiving an instrumentation data based on the real event; identifying a visual segment within the base image based on the instrumentation data; and rendering an overlay image within the visual segment. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057751 | Particle Tracking Methods - A method for tracking an object in a video data, comprises the steps of determining a plurality of particles for estimating a location of the object in the video data, determining a weight for each of the plurality of the particles, wherein the weights of two or more particles are determined substantially in parallel, and estimating the location of the object in the video data based upon the determined particle weights. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057752 | METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR, IMPLEMENTING IMAGE ANALYSIS PROTOCOLS - A computer-based method for the development of an image analysis protocol for analyzing image data, the image data containing images including image objects, in particular biological image objects such as biological cells. The image analysis protocol, once developed, is operable in an image analysis software system to report on one or more measurements conducted on selected ones of the image objects. The development process includes defining target identification settings to identify at least two different target sets of image objects, defining target identification settings to identify at least two different target sets of image objects, and defining one or more measurements to be performed using said pair-wise linking relationship(s). | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057753 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING A MODEL - An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device. A grid of voxels may then be generated based on the depth image such that the depth image may be downsampled. A model may be adjusted based on a location or position of one or more extremities estimated or determined for a human target in the grid of voxels. The model may also be adjusted based on a default location or position of the model in a default pose such as a T-pose, a DaVinci pose, and/or a natural pose. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057754 | IMAGE SELECTION BASED ON IMAGE CONTENT - An image capture system comprises an image input and processing unit. The image input obtains image information which is then passed to the processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the image input for determining image metrics on the image information. The processing unit initiates a capture sequence when the image metrics meet a predetermined condition. The capture sequence may store one or more images, or it may indicate that one or more images have been detected. In one embodiment, the image input is a CMOS or CCD sensor. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057755 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING LIGHTING - A method is provided to control the lighting ambience in a space by means of a plurality of controllable light sources ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057756 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING IDENTIFIER OF VEHICLE - The present invention detects a candidate ROI group associated with character strings/figure strings on the basis of a result acquired through prior learning of various types of license plates, verifies the interested region candidate group detected by using at least one condition of five predetermined conditions, and determines an MBR region in the selected ROI region from the verified interested region candidate group by considering a ratio between the height and width of the ROI region to recognize the license plate for the automobile. According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically detect the location of the license plate regardless of various types of license plate specifications defined for each of countries. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057757 | LANE LINE ESTIMATING APPARATUS - A fixed data memory stores data of a normal lane width between lane lines and a narrow lane width between inner guide lines of double white lines. A lane-line candidate setting section detects lane-line detection points on both sides of a driving lane using a captured image, and sets lane-line candidate points on the opposite lane lines at spaces of the widths and therebetween, using the detection points as starting points. A curve approximation processing section sets virtual lines on both sides of the driving lane from a curve approximation equation obtained using the detection and candidate points. A lane-line position setting section obtains dispersions of the candidate points to the left and right virtual lines, and estimates the type of at least one of the left and right virtual lines. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057758 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIA - A distance measurement system provided by the present invention comprises a light source module, for projecting a light beam having a speckle pattern to a plurality of reference flat surfaces and an object which are located at different position points, so as to show an image of the speckle pattern on each of the reference flat surface and the object. The speckle pattern contains a plurality of speckles. The invention generates a plurality of reference image information through capturing the image of the speckle pattern on each of the plurality of reference flat surfaces and generates an object image information through capturing the image of the speckle pattern on the object. The Invention further generates a plurality of comparison results through comparing the plurality of reference image information, and computes the position of the object through performing an interpolation operation to generate the plurality of comparison results. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057759 | OBJECT ESTIMATION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Efficient and accurate estimation of the position and size of an object is achieved. Convolution of an image with a smoothing filter is repeated to generate a plurality of smoothed images L(x, y, σ | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057760 | MOTION VECTOR DETECTION DEVICE, APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MOTION VECTOR AND MOTION VECTOR DETECTION METHOD - A motion vector detection device includes: a matching error calculation part that calculates matching errors between a focus block and each of reference blocks; a least matching error calculation part calculating a least matching error from among the matching errors; a threshold calculation part calculating a threshold value; a correction vector calculation part calculating a correction vector from motion vectors detected in the reference blocks; and a motion vector determination part determining, as a motion vector for the focus block, a relative position vector in a block in which the relative position vector with respect to the focus block is the closest to the correction vector, the block being selected from among the reference blocks in which a difference between the plurality of matching errors and the least matching error is within the threshold value. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057761 | THREE DIMENSIONAL HUMAN POSE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a three dimensional human pose recognition method and apparatus, where the three dimensional human pose recognition method includes steps of: a three dimensional pose initial recognition step of performing three dimensional pose recognition on an input image containing a human image to obtain image-based three dimensional human pose information; a sensor information acquisition step of acquiring, by a motion sensor, motion information of human articulation points; and a three dimensional pose correction step of correcting, with the motion information acquired by the sensor information acquisition step, the image-based three dimensional human pose information recognized by the three dimensional pose initial recognition step. According to the technical solution of the invention, it is possible to improve accuracy of the three dimensional human pose recognition efficiently. Further, the present invention also discloses a three dimensional human pose recognition method and apparatus, in which three dimensional half-body pose recognition is proposed, thereby speed of three dimensional human pose recognition can be improved significantly while improving accuracy of three dimensional human pose recognition. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057762 | CONTACTLESS MULTISPECTRAL BIOMETRIC CAPTURE - A number of biometric systems and methods are disclosed. A system according to one embodiment includes an illumination subsystem, an imaging subsystem, and an analyzer. The illumination subsystem is disposed to illuminate a target space. The imaging subsystem is configured to image the target space under distinct optical conditions. The analyzer is provided in communication with the illumination subsystem, the imaging subsystem, and the three-dimensional subsystem. The analyzer also has instructions to operate the subsystems to collect substantially simultaneously a plurality of images of the object disposed at the predetermined spatial location under multispectral conditions. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057763 | METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING THE IDENTITY OF USER BY BIOMETRICS OF PALM VEIN - The present invention discloses an identity recognition method for recognizing the biometric features of a predetermined palm by biometric features stored in a database. The method of the invention includes the following steps of: (S1) forming an initial image; (S2) determining if the initial image matches the image of the palm, if yes, process step (S3); (S3) applying a convolution process to the initial image; (S4) capturing a plurality of biometric features by Scale Invariant Feature Transformation (SIFT); and (S6) comparing the plurality of the biometric features of the initial image to the biometric features stored in the database. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057764 | STRIPE PATTERN IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, STRIPE PATTERN IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is a stripe pattern image analysis device by which a burden of an appraiser regarding a new charting point searching designation operation can be reduced. The device includes a charting point modification element obtaining or modifying a first point located on a first stripe pattern image displayed in a first window, and a second point which is corresponding to the first point and located on a second stripe pattern image displayed in a second window; a nonlinear coordinate transformation element transforming the first stripe pattern image using a nonlinear coordinate transformation so that a first coordinate of the first point in the first window matches a second coordinate of the second point in the second window; and a charting figure edit and display element displaying the first stripe pattern image, transformed by the nonlinear coordinate transformation element by use of the nonlinear coordinate transformation, in the first window. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057765 | System and Method for Image Denoising Optimizing Object Curvature - A method for removing noise from an image includes receiving image data including a plurality of pixels. A graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges interconnecting the nodes is formulated. Each pixel of the image data is represented as a node of the graph and each edge of the graph is assigned a weight based on a penalty function applied to the nodes connected by the edge where the penalty function is less when a value of a given pixel of the plurality of pixels is between or equal to the values of two neighboring pixels than when the value of the given pixel is either greater than or less than the values of both of the two neighboring pixels. A total penalty of the graph is minimized. A denoised image is provided based on the total penalty-minimized graph. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057766 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF IN VIVO CONTRACTION VIDEO SEQUENCES - A system and method for comparing captured sequences of in-vivo images with (e.g., template or model) sequences, for example, for computer-automated recognition of contractions. The size of the opening of an in-vivo lumen passageway represented in each frame in a subset of frames of an image stream captured in vivo may be measured. Frames in the subset of frames of the image stream having a local minimum size of the lumen passageway may be identified. The subset of frames may be divided into segments of sequential frames at frames having local maximum lumen sizes before and after the identified frame having a local minimum size of the lumen passageway to generate contraction sequences. A plurality of the contraction sequences may be compared to template sequences. A plurality of the contraction sequences may be displayed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057767 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VARIABLE RESOLUTION MEDICAL IMAGES - A hand carried medical imaging device includes a probe configured to acquire raw medical image data, an integrated display, a data memory configured to store the acquired raw medical image data, a back end processor, and a user interface operably coupled to the back end processor configured to receive commands from a user and to instruct the back end processor to display the produced medical image on the integrated display at a first resolution, and to either produce and send either the medical image at the second, higher resolution, to send the acquired raw image data, or both, to the external device, in accordance with the commands from the user. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057768 | Method and Apparatus for Efficient Three-Dimensional Contouring of Medical Images - A technique is disclosed for generating a new contour and/or a 3D surface such as a variational implicit surface from contour data. In one embodiment, B-spline interpolation is used to efficiently generate a new contour (preferably a transverse contour), from a plurality of input contours (preferably, sagittal and/or coronal contours). In another embodiment, a point reduction operation is performed on data sets corresponding to any combination of transverse, sagittal, or coronal contour data prior to processing those data sets to generate a 3D surface such as a variational implicit surface. A new contour can also be generated by the intersection of this surface with an appropriately placed and oriented plane. In this manner, the computation of the variational implicit surface becomes sufficiently efficient to make its use for new contour generation practical. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057769 | Method and Apparatus for Efficient Three-Dimensional Contouring of Medical Images - A technique is disclosed for generating a new contour and/or a 3D surface such as a variational implicit surface from contour data. In one embodiment, a point reduction operation is performed on data sets corresponding to any combination of transverse, sagittal, or coronal contour data prior to processing those data sets to generate a 3D surface such as a variational implicit surface. A new contour can also be generated by the intersection of this surface with an appropriately placed and oriented plane. In this manner, the computation of the variational implicit surface becomes sufficiently efficient to make its use for new contour generation practical. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING IMAGE AND MEDICAL IMAGE SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE METHOD - A method and apparatus for reconstructing an image and a medical image system are provided. An image reconstruction processing method may include acquiring an initial value with respect to a tomographic image of an object to be inspected, initializing an auxiliary variable, acquiring one or both of a weighted value and an error value, based on a measured value, transforming a measured image signal, updating the auxiliary variable using a transform coefficient used to transform the measured image signal, and updating the measured value using the updated auxiliary variable, and one or both of the acquired weighted value and the error value. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057771 | X-RAY IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention is an image processing apparatus that reconstructs one frame of image data using block-level image data, including a unit that receives the block-level image data to which position information has been added, a unit that determines whether or not there was an error in the transmission of the received position information, a first storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error did not occur, a second storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error occurred, a unit that infers correct position information for the block-level image data stored in the second storage area based on the first storage area and the second storage area, and a unit that reconstructs the one frame of image data using the inferred position information. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057772 | COMPUTER-AIDED TUBING DETECTION - A method for detecting tubing in a radiographic image of a patient, executed at least in part by a control logic processor, obtains a radiographic image data for a patient and detects one or more possible tube segments in the image. At least one tubing candidate is formed by growing at least one detected tube segment or merging two or more detected tube segments. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057773 | INSPECTION RECIPE GENERATION AND INSPECTION BASED ON AN INSPECTION RECIPE - System, computer readable medium and method. The system includes (i) a data obtaining module arranged to obtain data about at least one portion of an inspected article; and (ii) a processor arranged to perform at least one processing operation of the data out of: (a) processing the data to provide the inspection recipe; and (b) processing the data, while utilizing the inspection recipe, to detect defects; wherein the inspection recipe comprises multiple zones of multiple types of zones; wherein a zone of a first type of zones differs from a zone of a second type of zone. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057774 | PATTERN GENERATING APPARATUS AND PATTERN SHAPE EVALUATING APPARATUS - Although there has been a method for evaluating pattern shapes of electronic devices by using, as a reference pattern, design data or a non-defective pattern, the conventional method has a problem that the pattern shape cannot be evaluated with high accuracy because of the difficulty in defining an exact shape suitable for the manufacturing conditions of the electronic devices. The present invention provides a shape evaluation method for circuit patterns of electronic devices, the method including a means for generating contour distribution data of at least two circuit patterns from contour data sets on the circuit patterns; a means for generating a reference pattern used for the pattern shape evaluation, from the contour distribution data; and a means for evaluating the pattern shape by comparing each evaluation target pattern with the reference pattern. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057775 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a feature amount extracting unit configured to extract the feature amount of each frame of an image of a content for detector learning of interest that is a content to be used for learning of a highlight detector which is a model for detecting a scene in which the user is interested as a highlight scene; a clustering unit configured to use cluster information that is the information of the cluster obtained by performing cluster learning; a highlight label generating unit configured to generate a highlight label sequence; and a highlight detector learning unit configured to perform learning of the highlight detector. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057776 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH DEPTH MAP MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a three-dimensional display system includes: calculating an edge pixel image from a source image; generating a line histogram from the edge pixel image by applying a transform; calculating a candidate line from the line histogram meeting or exceeding a line category threshold for a horizontal line category, a vertical line category, a diagonal line category, or a combination thereof; calculating a vanishing point on the candidate line; and generating a depth map for the vanishing point for displaying the source image on a first device. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057777 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a two-dimensional orthogonal transform unit configured to perform two-dimensional orthogonal transform on a plurality of images, an one-dimensional orthogonal transform unit configured to perform one-dimensional orthogonal transform in a direction in which the images are arranged on two-dimensional orthogonal transform coefficient data obtained by performing the two-dimensional orthogonal transform on the images using the two-dimensional orthogonal transform unit, and a three-dimensional orthogonal transform coefficient data encoder configured to encode three-dimensional orthogonal transform coefficient data obtained by performing the one-dimensional orthogonal transform on the two-dimensional orthogonal transform coefficient data using the one-dimensional orthogonal transform unit. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057778 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including an operation recognition unit for recognizing an operation signal for identifying a focused image among images displayed on a screen of an image display unit and an image drawing unit for drawing an image on the screen so as to display the image as a stereoscopic image or a planar image on the screen, on the basis of a recognition result provided by the operation recognition unit. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057779 | Method and Apparatus for Confusion Learning - 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. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057780 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - When crosstalk is cancelled without considering the contents of an image signal, the effect of the crosstalk cancellation is sometimes obtained effectively, and sometimes not. In order to solve this problem, an image signal processing unit which cancels crosstalk in a three-dimensional image signal includes image adaptation control units ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057781 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN IMAGE INCLUDES SPATIAL ADJUSTMENTS - The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of identifying spatial image modifications. The method includes receiving a original image and a adjusted image. The method also includes identifying a first subset of pixels comprising pixels in the original image that have a same first color value. The method also includes determining whether a second subset of pixels in the adjusted image all have a same second color value, wherein the second subset of pixels spatially correspond with the first subset of pixels. A spatial adjustment is identified if the second subset of pixels do not all have the same second color value. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057782 | Method and apparatus for testing water quality using a cell-phone application, mirror and plastic bag - The present disclosure teaches a practical method and apparatus for providing accurate, economic drinking water testing using materials available worldwide: a mirror | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057783 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a feature vector extraction unit that extracts feature vectors of sample pixels, for each local region including the sample pixels, in an input image; a weight calculation unit that calculates weights for the local regions on the basis of the positional relationship with the local regions, for divided regions that divide the input image; a feature distribution model calculation unit that calculates an average with weights as a feature distribution model in a local region obtained by adding the weights calculated from the local regions to the feature vectors of the local regions, for each of the divided regions; and a pixel likelihood calculation unit that calculates pixel likelihood for each pixel in the input image on the basis of the feature distribution model. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057784 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: an orthogonal transforming section which performs an orthogonal transform for image data to generate a transform coefficient; and a quantization factor detecting section which detects a quantization factor used in a previous encoding process, using the transform coefficient, wherein the quantization factor detecting section independently performs a process of detecting the quantization factor from the transform coefficient generated by orthogonally transforming a luminance component of the image data and a process of detecting the quantization factor from the transform coefficient generated by orthogonally transforming a color difference component of the image data. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057785 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MODIFY A COLOR LOOKUP TABLE - The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of generating a modified color lookup table (CLUT) based on an original image, a profile connection space (PCS) image, and an adjusted image. The method includes, for each PCS pixel of the PCS image, identifying a subset of CLUT nodes corresponding to the PCS pixel. The method also includes identifying a color shift between an original pixel of the original image and an adjusted pixel of the adjusted image, wherein the original pixel and the adjusted pixel are co-located with the PCS pixel. The identified the color shift is associated with each one of the subset of CLUT nodes. For each CLUT node, a combined color shift is determined based on the color shifts associated with the CLUT node. A modified CLUT can be generated based on the combined color shifts computed for each of the CLUT nodes. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057786 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus determines an importance of subject in an image. The image processing apparatus comprises an image input unit that inputs a series of multiple frames of images captured in temporal sequence, a determination target region extraction unit that extracts determination target regions to be subjected to an importance determination from the images on the multiple frames input into the image input unit, and a determination unit that determines an importance of the determination target regions on the basis of an appearance frequency of the determination target regions in the images on the multiple frames. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057787 | CALCULATION APPARATUS FOR AMOUNT OF CHARACTERISTIC AND DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS - A calculation apparatus for amount of characteristic that calculates an amount of characteristic based on a histogram of an amount of characteristic of input data includes: a buffer for holding a portion of the input data; a memory, having a plurality of banks, for holding calculation results of the histogram; a generation unit for generating a table in which a position of a target data on the buffer of which the amount of characteristic is to be calculated corresponds to a position on the memory to which a category of the calculated amount of characteristic is voted; and a vote unit that determines a category of the amount of characteristic of the target data and that performs a vote to the position on the memory shown on the table. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057788 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus which includes a division unit dividing an image into a plurality of images in a bit depth direction, and an encoding unit encoding respectively some or all of the plurality of images acquired by dividing the image in the bit depth direction by the division unit. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057789 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a noise position information obtaining unit that obtains noise position information regarding positions of noise in an image read by a reading unit that optically reads a surface of a medium, an image generating unit that generates a noise eliminated image that is obtained by eliminating a noise from the image, a pattern information obtaining unit that obtains pattern information indicating a pattern appearing on the surface of the medium from the noise eliminated image, and a pattern information registering unit that registers the pattern information obtained from areas set on the basis of the noise position information in the noise eliminated image. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057790 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a registration image generating section configured to generate a plurality of registration images assuming a plurality of different lighting conditions at a time of imaging from a registration original image in which a subject to be registered is imaged on a basis of an imaging characteristic of an imaging section; a feature quantity extracting section configured to extract respective feature quantities of an identifying object image in which a subject as an identifying object is imaged and the plurality of registration images; and an identifying section configured to identify the subject of the identifying object image on a basis of degrees of similarity between the feature quantity of the identifying object image and the feature quantities of the plurality of registration images. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057791 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus comprises: a registration unit adapted to register information required to determine at least one specific pattern in an image; an input unit adapted to input image data; a first generation unit adapted to extract a predetermined feature distribution from the input image data, and to generate a first feature distribution map indicating the feature distribution; a second generation unit adapted to generate a second feature distribution map by applying a conversion required to relax localities of the first feature distribution map to the first feature distribution map; and a determination unit adapted to determine, using sampling data on the second feature distribution map and the registered information, which of the specific patterns the image data matches. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057792 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processing device and method is provided. According to an illustrative embodiment, the device and method is implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to the detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and generating a notification when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057793 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image so that a designated setting item can be changed among the setting items; and a recording unit configured to associate the setting information with a feature quantity of the image and record them. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057794 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESING METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users being present in an input image captured by an imaging device, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed in association with each user recognized by the recognition unit, and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by overlaying the display information acquired by the information acquisition unit on the input image. The output image generation unit may determine which of first display information associated with a first user and second display information associated with a second user is to be overlaid on a front side on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a distance of each user from the imaging device. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057795 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image area extracting section for identifying and extracting, on the basis of inputted image data, an image area within the document where an image is present. The image area extracting section includes an image area detecting section for comparing a pixel value of each part of an image of the inputted image data with a threshold value so as to detect, as the image area, an area where a pixel value is larger than the threshold value. The image area extracting section further includes a judging section for judging a type of the inputted image data, and a threshold value changing section for changing the threshold value used in the image area detecting section to one suitable for the type of the inputted image data in accordance with the type judged by the judging section. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057796 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REDUCING NOISE - There are provided an apparatus and a method of reducing noise. The apparatus of reducing noise includes: an edge determining module determining whether each pixel of an image corresponds to an edge; a low pass filter module performing low pass filtering of the image in two directions, i.e., vertical and horizontal directions and performing low pass filtering only for the pixel determined not to be the edge; a filter selecting module selecting a filter having a flexible size to be applied to a mask region for each of the images low pass filtered in the two directions based on the average brightness of the entire region and the average brightness of the mask region having a predetermined size; a sigma filter module sigma filtering the mask region using the selected filter for each of the images low pass filtered in the two directions; and an averaging module averaging the image sigma filtered in the two directions, thereby making it possible to adaptively reduce noise and prevent loss of the edge due to blurring of the image. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057797 | PATTERN NOISE REMOVAL DEVICE, PATTERN NOISE REMOVAL METHOD, AND PATTERN NOISE REMOVAL PROGRAM - Disclosed is a pattern noise removal device for removing background pattern noise having periodicity from a digital image, which includes a candidate pixel extracting module for extracting candidate pixels that constitute the background pattern noise from the pixels in the image on the bases of the concentration of each of the pixels, a dot pattern feature extracting module for extracting the feature of a dot pattern formed by each of the candidate pixels and the peripheral neighborhood pixels among the extracted candidate pixels, a dot pattern area extracting module for extracting a dot pattern area including the candidate pixels of the periodicity and the neighborhood pixels, which have the feature of the dot pattern, and a periodic pattern noise removal module for removing the candidate pixels of the periodicity and the neighborhood pixels, which are included in the dot pattern area, as the background pattern noise. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057798 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a generation unit. The generation unit generates a texture image by searching for a similar pixel area to a processed pixel area near a processing target pixel in the texture image from a neighboring area at a position corresponding to the processing target pixel in a sample texture image and assigning the processing target pixel a pixel value near the similar pixel area in accordance with a positional relationship between the processed pixel area and the processing target pixel. The generation unit searches for the similar pixel area based on a similarity between a pixel value in a pixel area in the neighboring area and a pixel value in the processed pixel area and a determination result indicating whether each pixel in the neighboring area expresses a same object as that expressed by the processing target pixel. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057799 | RUN LENGTH CODING WITH CONTEXT MODEL FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION USING SPARSE DICTIONARIES - Apparatus and methods for coding images geometric vector quantization (GVQ) having an over-complete dictionary which produces a sparse vector of coefficients as it contains large runs of zeros. The sparse encoding is particularly well suited for use with run-length entropy coding techniques. Image blocks are sparse coded using GVQ, with the vector of coefficients converted to RUN-LENGTH symbols, and binarized into a set of binary symbols. At least a portion of the binary symbols are used as contexts which can be selected when performing binary arithmetic coding of the binary coded RUN and LENGTH data to generate a bit stream containing the encoded image that provides enhanced compression. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057800 | GEOMETRICAL IMAGE REPRESENTATION AND COMPRESSION - A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for geometrical image representation and/or compression. In one embodiment, the method comprises creating a representation for image data that includes determining a geometric flow for image data and performing an image processing operation on data in the representation using the geometric flow. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057801 | Residual Addition for Video Software Techniques - According to some embodiments, a technique provides for the execution of an instruction that includes receiving residual data of a first image and decoded pixels of a second image, zero-extending a plurality of unsigned data operands of the decoded pixels producing a plurality of unpacked data operands, adding a plurality of signed data operands of the residual data to the plurality of unpacked data operands producing a plurality of signed results; and saturating the plurality of signed results producing a plurality of unsigned results. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057802 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing device ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057803 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a frequency value calculation section that allocates each pixel of an input image to any of respective partial regions obtained by dividing the entirety of a possible range of a luminance value into units in a luminance direction on the basis of the luminance value thereof, and allocates one pixel of the input image to partial regions when calculating frequency values representing the number of pixels allocated to the partial regions with respect to the respective partial regions, to update the frequency values of the partial regions; a characteristic value calculation section that calculates a characteristic value representing a characteristic of the partial region; and a weighted product-sum section that performs edge-preserving smoothing on the input image by weighting and averaging the characteristic values in accordance with a distance in the luminance direction, using the calculated frequency value and the calculated characteristic value. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057804 | QUALITY ADJUSTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE QUALITY ADJUSTING METHOD - An image quality adjusting apparatus includes: an output module configured to alternately output, in time division, first and second frame-rate-converted frame images that are obtained by converting first and second input frame images to increase a frame rate, respectively; a detecting module configured to detect features of each of the first and second input frame images; and an image quality adjusting module configured to perform an image quality adjustment on the first frame-rate-converted frame image based on the detected features of the first input frame image and performing an image quality adjustment on the second frame-rate-converted frame image based on the detected features of the second input frame image. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057805 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE - In an image pickup apparatus | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057806 | USER INTERFACE WITH THREE DIMENSIONAL USER INPUT - A device and method for image manipulation is provided. The image manipulation may be performed as a function of a three dimensional user input and image or application specific data regarding the displayed image to be manipulated. The three dimensional input may be in the form of a two dimensional position on a touch screen and a measured force in the third dimension. The image or application specific data may be in the form of a maximum depth value indicating the maximum depth of the displayed image. The system may be configured to adjust the image based on a percentage of the measured user input force and a threshold force. The image may be adjusted based on the percentage and the maximum depth. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057807 | Hybrid system for multi-projector geometry calibration - A method of calibrating a multi-projector image display system is provided. According to the method, non-parametric calibration data for the display system is recovered and used to generate a non-parametric model of the display system. Local parametric models relating to the display surface of the projection screen are generated and are compared with data points defined by the non-parametric calibration data to identify one or more local errors in the non-parametric calibration data. The local errors in the non-parametric calibration data are converted to data points defined at least in part by the local parametric models and the projectors are operated to project an image on the image projection screen by utilizing a hybrid calibration model comprising data points taken from the non-parametric model and data points taken from one or more local parametric models. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057808 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for applying film grain effects on an image of received image data includes a generating unit configured to generate, on the basis of pixel values randomly read from grain data including a plurality of pixel values, a basic grain image having a certain size larger than the grain data; a resizing unit configured to resize the basic grain image generated by the generating unit to have the same size as the received image data; and a combining unit configured to combine the basic grain image resized by the resizing unit with the received image data. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057809 | FOLDABLE BAG WITH RETAINING STRAPS - A foldable bag comprising a compartment for holding articles including first and second opposing body panels constructed of a foldable material and connected to each other along a pair of sides and a bottom bridging the pair of sides to define an open mouth formed opposite the bottom. The sides and the bottom of the compartment are foldable to collapse the compartment, and the compartment is maintained in the collapsed configuration in a variety of ways. In one embodiment, fastening straps can be provided proximate the mouth and extend outward beyond the sides to releasably engage fastening members on the first panel proximate the bottom. Alternatively, a reclosable flap member can be coupled to a panel and include a strap defining a retention loop, wherein the compartment is maintained in the collapsed configuration when the sides are disposed within the retention loop. Alternatively, a strap can be coupled to the compartment proximate the bottom to define a retention loop, and a carrying handle can be coupled proximate to the mouth wherein the compartment is maintained in the collapsed configuration when the carrying handle is advanced through the retention loop. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057810 | STERILISATION BAG - The present invention relates to a puncture resistant sealable vapour barrier sterilisation bag capable of withstanding a steam sterilisation process whilst providing an effective microbiological barrier having a first sealable opening suitable for receiving items to be sterilised and a second sealable opening adapted to couple to a sterilisation conduit. A third sealable opening may be provided in the bag to facilitate circulation within the bag via the second and third openings when the first opening is sealed. The bag forms the means for sterilising an article(s) solely within the plastic bag in conjunction with a sterilisation services supply device. The bag is preferably formed of plastics. Preferably a multilayer construction including a puncture resistant outer layer and a heat-sealable inner layer. The bag may include a covert marking technology and/or a readable unique identification code such as a tamper-resistant label applied to the bag to facilitate uniformity and traceability. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057811 | Bag With Reinforcing Features - A plastic bag with flexible sidewalls defining an interior volume for holding contents includes a reinforcing feature to resist puncture and/or rupture of the bag. The reinforcing feature may include reinforcing the portion of the bag proximate the bottom edge with additional or thicker thermoplastic material. In various embodiments, the reinforcing feature may be a multilayer strip of plastic material attached along a bottom edge of the bag, either internally or externally, to provide additional material resistant to puncture. The reinforcing feature may be adhesively bonded, heat bonded, or cold bonded to the bag sidewalls. In other embodiments, the sheet material used to produce the bag may be made with varying thicknesses. In addition, methods of manufacturing a bag with such reinforcing features in a high speed automated process are disclosed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057812 | COMPACT SLIDE ASSEMBLIES - Slide assemblies that include at least an inner slide segment and an outer slide segment. Many of the slide assemblies also include an intermediate slide segment interposed between the inner slide segment and the outer slide segment. One or more of the segments can be constructed of an aluminum material, which is extruded into a final cross-sectional shape. A slide assembly can include a combination drop-and-lock and disconnectable inner slide segment. A slide assembly can include a lock closed arrangement having a lock arm that passes through an opening of a mounting rail of the server rack. A slide assembly can also include a self-resetting hands-free disconnect arrangement. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057813 | FLUID BEARING TO SUPPORT STENT TUBING DURING LASER CUTTING - A fluid bearing assembly provides support to stent tubing while the stent tubing is undergoing laser cutting to form a stent pattern. The fluid bearing assembly supports the stent tubing and provides a fluid barrier between the bearing and the stent tubing thereby providing nearly frictionless movement between the support bearing and the stent tubing. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057814 | BEARING ELEMENTS, BEARING ASSEMBLIES AND RELATED METHODS - Bearing elements, assemblies and apparatuses are provided as well as a method of manufacturing such components. In one embodiment, a bearing element comprises a superhard table forming a convex bearing surface and a radiused edge formed on the superhard table adjacent to the convex bearing surface. In another embodiment, a bearing element comprises a superhard table forming a concave bearing surface and a radiused edge formed on the superhard table adjacent to the concave bearing surface. In one embodiment, a bearing apparatus includes an inner bearing race assembly and an outer bearing race assembly. Each of the bearing race assemblies include a plurality of bearing elements. At least one of the inner and outer bearing race assemblies include a bearing element having an arcuate bearing surface and a radiused edge formed adjacent the arcuate bearing surface. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057815 | OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE - An optical modulation device of an embodiment includes: a first p-type semiconductor region; a first n-type semiconductor region; a first low-impurity-density semiconductor region formed between the first p-type semiconductor region and the first n-type semiconductor region; a second n-type semiconductor region formed on an outer side of the first p-type semiconductor region via a second low-impurity-density semiconductor region; and a second p-type semiconductor region formed on an outer side of the first n-type semiconductor region via a third low-impurity-density semiconductor region. The carrier density in the first low-impurity-density semiconductor region is changed by current injection. The phase of light propagated through an optical waveguide structure that includes at least part of the first low-impurity-density semiconductor region is modulated. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057816 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HETEROGENEOUS SUBSTRATE BONDING OF WAVEGUIDE RECEIVERS - A composite integrated optical device includes a substrate including a silicon layer and a waveguide disposed in the silicon layer. The composite integrated optical device also includes an optical detector bonded to the silicon layer and a bonding region disposed between the silicon layer and the optical detector. The bonding region includes a metal-assisted bond at a first portion of the bonding region. The metal-assisted bond includes an interface layer positioned between the silicon layer and the optical detector. The bonding region also includes a direct semiconductor-semiconductor bond at a second portion of the bonding region. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057817 | LIGHT WAVE GUIDE WITH LOW REFLECTIVITY - An optical light splitter includes or is connected to at least two input waveguides ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057818 | APPARATUS WITH TWO HOUSINGS INCLUDING A ROTATABLE OPTICAL DATA COMMUNICATION COUPLING - The present disclosure provides an apparatus ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057819 | PHOTONIC DEVICES HAVING DEGENERATE OR SPLIT SPECTRAL BAND EDGES AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME - Provided herein are photonic devices configured to display photonic band gap structure with a degenerate or a split band edge. Electromagnetic radiation incident upon these photonic devices can be converted into a frozen mode characterized by a significantly increased amplitude, as compared to that of the incident wave. The device can also be configured as a resonance cavity with a giant transmission band edge resonance. In an exemplary embodiment, the photonic device is a periodic layered structure with each unit cell comprising at least two anisotropic layers with misaligned anisotropy. The degenerate or split band edge at a given frequency can be achieved by proper choice of the layers' thicknesses and the misalignment angle. In another embodiment, the photonic device is configured as a waveguide periodically modulated along its axis. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057820 | WAVEGUIDE SHEET CONTAINING IN-COUPLING, PROPAGATION, AND OUT-COUPLING REGIONS - In one aspect, an illumination structure includes a substantially non-fiber waveguide, which itself includes a discrete in-coupling region for receiving light, a discrete propagation region for propagating light, and a discrete out-coupling region for emitting light. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057821 | ACTIVE OPTICAL CABLE - Integrated cables are disclosed that can include a first optical fiber for optical communication over the length of the integrated cables from a first connector at a first end to a second connector at a second end. The integrated cable can further include a second electrical connector configured to connect with a second electrical port external to the integrated cable. The integrated cable can further include an electrical conductor extending from the first electrical connector to the second electrical connector and configured to supply operating power to an electronic device connected to the second electrical connector but external to the integrated cable. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057822 | OPTICAL COUPLER MODULE HAVING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE - An optical coupler module includes a semiconductor substrate disposed on the print circuit board; a reflecting trench structure formed on the semiconductor substrate; a reflector formed on a slant surface of the reflecting trench structure; a strip trench structure formed on the semiconductor substrate and connecting with the reflecting trench structure; a thin film disposed on the above-mentioned structure. The optical coupler module further includes a signal conversion unit disposed on the semiconductor substrate and the position of the signal conversion unit corresponds to the reflector; and an optical waveguide structure formed in the trench structures. The optical signal from the signal conversion unit is reflected by the reflector and then transmitted in the optical waveguide structure, or in a reverse direction to reach the signal conversion unit. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057823 | Plastic fiber coupler and method of manufacturing thereof - Embodiments of the present invention provide a plastic fiber coupler. The plastic fiber coupler includes a bundle of plastic optical fibers (POFs) arranged in a ring-shape; and an optical mixing tube attached to a cross-section of the bundle of POFs. In one embodiment, a cross-section of the optical mixing tube may be coated with a reflective film forming a reflective type plastic fiber coupler; in another embodiment, the optical mixing tube is attached to a second bundle of plastic optical fibers forming a transmissive type plastic fiber coupler. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057824 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An optical connector that is optically connected to another optical connector inside a connector adapter includes: a housing that receives a ferrule; and plural first keys that protrude from an outer surface of the housing and that extends in a coupling direction. Here, at least one of the plural first keys is disposed outside two points corresponding to both ends in the width direction of a key groove of a standardized connector adapter. At least one groove formed between the plural first keys is disposed inside two points corresponding to both ends in the width direction of a key of a standardized optical connector. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057825 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR AND ADAPTER CAPABLE OF PREVENTING DUST - An optical fiber adapter includes a housing, a hook member and an elastic body. The housing has an axial cavity defined by a first wall, a second wall, a third wall and a fourth wall. The hook member is positioned in the axial cavity which comprises a flange, a hollow cylinder and a pair of hooks. The hollow cylinder and hooks extends from one end of the flange and the hollow cylinder is positioned between the hooks. The elastic body is positioned on and around the hollow cylinder. When the optical fiber connector is inserted into the axial cavity of the optical fiber adapter, the ferrule will be inserted into the hollow cylinder and the elastic body will be in contact with inner walls of the inner housing of the optical fiber connector. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057826 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR AND INSERTION AND REMOVAL METHOD OF OPTICAL CONNECTOR - Provided is an optical connector including: a ferrule housing; a coupling, wherein the housing is insertable into the coupling; a coupling engagement member provided at a rear of the housing; and a boot formed to accommodate ant optical fiber therethrough and extending rearward from the coupling engagement member. The optical connector is moveable into a first position by pressing the boot in a forward direction, thus exerting a forward pressure on the coupling engagement member and into a second position by pulling the boot in a rearward direction, thus exerting a rearward pressure on the coupling engagement member. In the first position, the coupling engagement member abuts the housing, such that the forward pressure on the coupling engagement member is exerted on the housing. In the second position, the coupling engagement member engages the coupling such that the rearward pressure on the coupling engagement member is exerted on the coupling. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057827 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR AND ADAPTER CAPABLE OF PREVENTING DUST - An optical fiber connector configured to be inserted into an optical fiber adapter according to the present invention is provided. The optical fiber connector includes a housing and an elastic body. The housing has a front end with an opening formed thereon. The elastic body is positioned on the housing and around the opening. When the optical fiber connector is inserted into an axial cavity of the optical fiber adapter, a hollow cylinder of the optical fiber adapter will be inserted into the optical fiber connector through the opening on the front end of the housing and the elastic body on the housing will be in contact with inner walls of the axial cavity of the optical fiber adapter. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057828 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE - An optical transmission module includes a stem, a semiconductor laser element mounted over the stem, a cap fixed to the stem and hermetically sealing the semiconductor laser element, and an optical isolator arranged on an optical path of light emitted from the semiconductor laser element. The cap includes a tubular body, one end side of which is fixed to the stem, and a light transmitting section located on the optical path while closing an opening on the other end side of the body, and fixed to the body so as to keep hermeticity with the body. The optical isolator is arranged inside an area hermetically sealed by the cap. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057829 | Fiber Optic Connectors and Ferrules and Methods for Using the Same - According to at least one exemplary embodiment a ferrule, comprises: (i) a bore extending from a rear of the ferrule to a front of the ferrule, wherein the bore is sized to receive an optical fiber and a buffer layer at one end face of the ferrule; and (ii) an end stop sized to engage the buffer layer and to contain the optical fiber within said ferrule. In some embodiments the ferrule includes an optical fiber situated within the bore. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057830 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR PLUG - Disclosed is an optical connector plug that can be securely attached to or detached from a shutter member without damage, regardless of a state of a coupling claw of an optical connector adaptor or existence or non-existence of the coupling claw. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057831 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR PLUG - An optical connector plug incorporates a coil spring to bias a shutter holding member to the front side of an axial direction with respect to a plug frame and minimizes the entire length. The plug has a housing that includes a grip member and a shutter holding member that move relatively in the axial direction and the plug frame has an extension state in which the grip member moves to the rear side of the axial direction of the shutter holding member and a reduction state in which the grip member moves to the front side of the axial direction of the shutter holding member. A biasing member that biases the shutter holding member to the front side of the axial direction with respect to the plug frame and a biasing member receiving member that is connected to the plug frame are provided. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057832 | INTEGRATED OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR COMPONENT - An integrated optical fiber connector component includes a light transmitting-side circuit unit, a signal input pin, a light emitting unit, a light receiving-side circuit unit, a signal output pin, a light detecting unit, an integrated positive power pin, and an integrated negative power pin. The integrated positive power pin and the integrated negative power pin are electrically connected to the light transmitting-side circuit unit and the light receiving-side circuit unit. The light transmitting-side circuit unit, the light receiving-side circuit unit and the light detecting unit are integrated in an integrated circuit (IC). The light transmitting-side circuit unit, the light receiving-side circuit unit, the light emitting unit, and the light detecting unit are assembled in a package. The integrated optical fiber connector component of the present invention has reduced space when it is installed on a notebook computer, and has reduced manufacturing complexity and cost. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057833 | Optical-Fiber Module Having Improved Accessibility - The present invention relates to optical-fiber modules having improved accessibility. In a typical embodiment, the optical-fiber module includes one or more optical fibers surrounded by an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer typically includes a polymeric medium with a liquid lubricant dispersed therein. A buffer tube encloses the optical fibers and the intermediate layer. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057834 | Optical Fiber, Optical Fiber Preform and Method of Fabricating Same - An optical fiber capable of suppressing an increase of a transmission loss after exposure of the optical fiber to hydrogen or deuterium is provided. The optical fiber has a core region, an inner cladding region surrounding the core region, a trench region surrounding the inner cladding region, an outer cladding region surrounding the trench region, and a refractive index varying region arranged between the inner cladding region and the trench region, the refractive index varying region having a refractive index gradually increasing from the trench region to the inner cladding region. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057835 | HOUSING FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER ASSEMBLY - The present invention relates to a housing for an optical fiber assembly allowing compact storage of optical fiber elements while still providing possibility to efficiently splice individual optical fiber elements. The housing of the invention is adapted to receive a first and a second loop (L | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057836 | FIBER OPTIC FURCATION MODULE - The invention relates to a fiber optic furcation module, comprising: at least one planar wave guide card; a first adapter assigned to the or each planar wave guide card, the or each first adapter comprising a plurality of adapter ports for optical fibers terminated in an optical fiber ribbon connector; a plurality of second adapters assigned to the or each planar wave guide card, each of said second adapters comprising one adapter port or two adapter ports, the one or two adapter ports being operative to receive respective single optical fiber connectors terminated with single optical fibers; a plurality of fiber optic transmission channels provided by the or each planar wave guide card, the fiber optic transmission channels providing optical traces being operative to transmit and/or receive optical wavelength signals and connecting each adapter port of a first adapter with an adapter port of one of said second adapters. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057837 | END-PIECE ADAPTOR FOR A COATED OPTICAL FIBER AND PROTECTIVE HOUSING - A multipart end-piece adaptor that holds a fiber for stripping, cleaning and splicing that converts into a protective housing for the spliced fiber includes a first adaptor part having a guide sleeve and a second adaptor part that cooperates with the first adaptor part, the second adaptor part having a stripping apparatus. The second adaptor part can be a consumable that, once actuated and removed to strip the fiber, cut the fiber and clean the fiber in one action may be discarded. A further adaptor part engages two first adaptor parts with a guide opening for a coated optical fiber to form a protective housing around the spliced optical fiber. | 2012-03-08 |
