12th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 18 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100074468 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention relate to an image generating apparatus for generating an image from a viewpoint specified by a user. According to the invention, the apparatus has a storage unit that stores data of a plurality of images, and a disparity map generating unit that generates a disparity map. The disparity map is associated with a pair of images including a first image and a second image, and indicates corresponding pixels in the first and second images. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074469 | Vehicle and road sign recognition device - The present invention includes: image capturing means ( | 2010-03-25 |
20100074470 | Combination detector and object detection method using the same - Provided are a detector and a method of detecting an object using the detector. The method includes combining a first detector and a second detector in a combination scheme to form a multi-layer combination detector, the second detector being of a type different from that of the first detector, processing a binary classification detection with respect to an inputted sample starting from an uppermost layer detector, allowing a sample of an object detected from a current layer to approach a lower layer, while rejecting a sample of a non-object detected from the current layer whereby the rejected non-object may not approach the lower layer, and outputting a sample passing through all layers as a detected object. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074471 | Gesture Processing with Low Resolution Images with High Resolution Processing for Optical Character Recognition for a Reading Machine - A portable reading machine that operates in several modes and performs image preprocessing to prior to optical character recognition. The portable reading machine receives a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene and processing the low resolution image to recognize a user-initiated gesture using a gesturing item that indicates a command from the user to the reading machine and the high resolution image to recognize text in the image of the scene, according to the command from the user to the machine. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074472 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SCREENING OF SECURITY CAMERAS - The present invention involves a system for automatically screening closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras for large and small scale security systems, as used for example in parking garages. The system includes six primary software elements, each of which performs a unique function within the operation of the security system to provide intelligent camera selection for operators, resulting in a marked decrease of operator fatigue in a CCTV system. Real-time image analysis of video data is performed wherein a single pass of a video frame produces a terrain map which contains parameters indicating the content of the video. Based on the parameters of the terrain map, the system is able to make decisions about which camera an operator should view based on the presence and activity of vehicles and pedestrians, furthermore, discriminating vehicle traffic from pedestrian traffic. The system is compatible with existing CCTV (closed circuit television) systems and is comprised of modular elements to facilitate integration and upgrades. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EXTRACTING PLANE FEATURES - A navigation system comprises an image sensor operable to obtain range data for a first scene, and a processing unit coupled to the image sensor. The processing unit is operable to identify one or more plane features, based on the range data, using each of a plurality of scales. The processing unit is further operable to combine each of the one or more plane features with a corresponding plane feature from each of the plurality of scales and to project the one or more combined plane features to a reference orientation. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074474 | Device and Method for Analyzing an Organic Sample - A device and method for analyzing an organic sample provide high spatial resolution. A focused ion beam is directed onto the organic sample. Fragments detached from the sample are examined using mass spectroscopy. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074475 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus is provided that is capable of accurately tracking motions of a moving organ that moves periodically over a plurality of periods. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074476 | IMAGE TAKING DEVICE, IMAGE TAKING METHOD, AND IMAGE TAKING PROGRAM - An image taking device includes: a subject detection section that determines whether a biometric portion that can be used for biometric authentication of a subject is included in the image taking range of the camera; and a controller that handles the taken image as the authentication image when receiving an authentication image acquisition instruction and performs processing, in the case where there has not issued the authentication image acquisition instruction, such that when it is determined by the subject detection section that a biometric portion is not included in the image taking range of the camera, the controller uses the taken image as the monitoring image and when it is determined by the subject detection section that a biometric portion is included in the image taking range of the camera, the controller stops image taking operation of the camera. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074477 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A personal authentication system comprises an imaging section for capturing an image of a user's eye including the iris; pupil/iris region extraction section for extracting a pupil region and an iris region from the captured image; a three-dimensional polar coordinate image creation section for estimating the three-dimensional center position of the eyeball based on the extracted pupil region and iris region and for creating a three-dimensional polar coordinate image by converting the iris region into three-dimensional coordinates with reference to the center position of the eyeball; and a three-dimensional polar coordinate image coding section for creating a three-dimensional polar coordinate image code formed by extracting and coding a characteristic of the created three-dimensional polar coordinate image. The personal authentication system can create iris information highly accurately representing characteristics of a user's iris independent of the direction of line of sight of the user. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074478 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IRIS BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS FOR USE IN AN ENTRYWAY - A method and apparatus for designing an iris biometrics system that operates in minimally constrained settings. The image acquisition system has fewer constraints on subjects than traditional methods by extending standoff distance and capture volume. The method receives design parameters and provides derived quantities that are useful in designing an image acquisition system having a specific set of performance requirements. Exemplary scenarios of minimally constrained settings are provided, such as a high volume security checkpoint, an office, an aircraft boarding bridge, a wide corridor, and an automobile. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074479 | HIERARCHICAL FACE RECOGNITION TRAINING METHOD AND HIERARCHICAL FACE RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF - A hierarchical face recognition training method and a hierarchical face recognition method thereof for performing a face feature recognition on an image under detection. The method includes a training process and a recognition process. The recognition method includes the steps. A plurality of training samples is obtained. The training samples are subdivided into a plurality of sub-image categories according to a plurality of angle intervals, and the training of a plurality of face features performs on a corresponding sub-image detector of each of the sub-image categories. The training measures performed repeatedly to generate sub-image categories at a sub-level of the sub-image categories. The training method includes the steps. An image under detection is loaded. A similarity of each of sub-image detectors compares according to the image under detection, and the sub-image detector having the highest similarity is selected. The face recognition measures performed repeatedly on the selected sub-image detector. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074480 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING ALTERNATIVE OF NORMAL BRAIN DATABASE | 2010-03-25 |
20100074481 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING GROWTH OF COMPUTER DETECTED PATTERNS ON DIGITAL MEDICAL IMAGES - Methods and systems are provided for displaying the change in size of a CAD identified pattern over time. Patterns on medical images stored in a medical imaging database are identified and measured using a CAD system. A user interface provides users with access to the medical images stored in imaging database via a network. A medical image belonging to a patient historical exam category and having at least one CAD identified pattern is displayed to a user via the user interface. The size of the CAD identified image pattern and the medical exam date associated with the medical image is compiled for each of the medical images belonging to the patient historical exam category. A graphic is then generated showing the sizes of the CAD identified image pattern and the medical exam dates associated with the medical image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074482 | Method for detecting bio signal features in the presence of noise - A computer-based method for detecting features in a digitally sampled biological (bio) signal includes the steps of applying a wavelet transform to the bio signal to generate a list of wavelet transform coefficients, ranking the coefficients according to value or frequency, and removing at least one low value or low frequency coefficient. The method further includes the steps of performing an inverse wavelet transform using the remaining coefficients to generate a reconstructed signal, and detecting feature locations using the reconstructed signal. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074483 | Imaging System for Compensating for Mask Frame Misalignment - An imaging system compensates for mask frame misalignment with non-mask frames in an image sequence of patient anatomy. The system includes an image data processor. The image data processor determines a compensation zoom factor for individual image frames of an image sequence of an object of interest in response to data indicating distance between the object and a radiation detector for the individual image frames. The processor then associates individual zoom factors with corresponding individual image frames of the image sequence. The individual zoom factors associated with corresponding individual image frames of the image sequence are stored in a repository. An individual determined zoom factor is applied to align an associated corresponding image frame with a mask frame to provide an aligned image frame. Data representing an image difference frame, comprising a difference between data representing the aligned image frame and a mask frame, is determined. A user interface generates data representing a display image presenting the image difference frame. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074484 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD, IMAGE COMPRESSION DEVICE, AND MEDICAL NETWORK SYSTEM - Volume data ( | 2010-03-25 |
20100074485 | CARDIAC PHASE DETERMINATION - For the reconstruction of the coronary arteries from rotational coronary angiography data, a crucial point is the selection of the optimal cardiac phase for data reconstruction. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automatic approach for deriving optimal reconstruction windows is provided by fully automatically selecting the optimal cardiac phase on the basis of a delayed acquisition protocol where at least one heart phase needs to be acquired in a static projection geometry. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074486 | RECONSTRUCTION AND VISUALIZATION OF NEURONAL CELL STRUCTURES WITH BRIGHT-FIELD MOSAIC MICROSCOPY - A method of reconstructing an image of a neuronal cell structure from a recorded image includes an image stack of image layers recorded with a bright field microscope, including forming a corrected image by deconvoluting the recorded image, wherein deconvoluting includes applying a linear deconvolution to the image stack on the basis of a point spread function of the bright field microscope, which point spread function is calculated on the basis of measured features of the bright field microscope, and extracting a cell structure image from the corrected image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074487 | CARDIAC FUNCTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Using first voxel data of a three-dimensional medical image obtained by photographing a subject, a functional image representing a function of a heart in at least one position is generated, and using a portion of second voxel data of a three-dimensional medical image obtained by photographing the subject corresponding to an area which includes a blood vessel along an outer myocardial wall of the heart, a morphological image depicting morphology of the blood vessel is generated. Then, the functional image and the morphological image are displayed in a superimposing manner such that at least one position of the heart in the functional image corresponds to at least one position of the heart in the morphological image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074488 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A plurality of sets each including part information representing a human body part and a schema image serving as the schematic view of the human body part are held. A captured image representing the interior of the body of a patient is acquired. Hierarchical structure information is acquired, which contains part information globally representing a part corresponding to a designated portion on the captured image and part information locally representing the part corresponding to the designated portion. A set including the part information contained in the hierarchical structure information is acquired. A schema image included in the acquired set is output. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074489 | FOCUSABLE VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A virtual microscope slide includes images of a specimen for a given level of optical magnification which are associated and stored in a data structure. The forming of the data structure having the multiple Z-plane images preferably includes automatically focusing at a principal reference focal plane and capturing and digitizing an optically magnified reference Z-image and then shifting the specimen relative to the lens system by a predetermined increment to capture and digitize another Z-plane image. Preferably, a multiple sequence of Z-plane images above and below the reference image and captured and digitized. For ease of retrieval and use, each reference image has its associated Z-plane images are formed in a stack that is sent over the Internet, or Intranet to a local computer storage for quick retrieval when a viewer wants to mimic a focusing up or down to better view a detail in an image. Thus, the resultant images are retrieved and displayed such that a virtual focusing capability is available to the user. The images can be formed with overlapping fields of depth, adjacent fields of depth, or wholly separated fields of depth. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074490 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit which stores the data of a plurality of images including an examination target organ of an object, a reference point determining unit which determines, from each of the images, a reference point which is located in or near a region of the examination target organ and undergoes a relatively small displacement accompanying respiratory motion or, heartbeat, and a moving amount calculation unit which determines the position of each of a plurality of points of interest included in the region of the examination target organ relative to the reference point for each of the images, and calculates, based on the determined positions, moving amounts that corresponding points of interest between the images move accompanying the respiratory motion or the heartbeat. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074491 | COMPUTER-AIDED CLASSIFICATION OF ANOMALIES IN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES - Candidate anomalies in an anatomical structure are processed for classification. For example, false positives can be reduced by techniques related to the anomaly's neck, wall thickness associated with the anomaly, template matching performed for the anomaly, or some combination thereof. The various techniques can be combined for use in a classifier, which can determine whether the anomaly is of interest. For example, a computed tomography scan of a colon can be analyzed to determine whether a candidate anomaly is a polyp. The technologies can be applied to a variety of other scenarios involving other anatomical structures. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074492 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED BASE-CALLING ON MULTIPLE DNA STRANDS - In some aspects, a method of automated base-calling using at least one image obtained from a chemical sequencing process performed simultaneously on a plurality of DNA strands, the at least one image including intensity information corresponding to locations of at least one base in the plurality of DNA strands is provided. The method comprises processing the at least image to obtain a function corresponding to the intensity information in the at least one image for the at least one base, the function incorporating intensity information corresponding to each of the plurality of DNA strands, identifying a plurality of peaks in the function, the plurality of peaks indicating possible locations for the at least one base in the plurality of DNA strands, assigning membership to each of the plurality of peaks by determining whether each of the plurality of peaks is believed to have resulted from none, one or multiple of the plurality of DNA strands, and computing a sequence for the at least one base for each of the plurality of DNA strands based, at least in part, on the membership assignment. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074493 | VISUALIZING A VASCULAR STRUCTURE | 2010-03-25 |
20100074494 | Automated wall motion quantification in aortic dissections - A method of processing MRI images to determine one or more attributes of an anatomical feature. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074495 | AC-PC SEGMENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented system and method of determining anterior commissure (AC) and posterior commissure (PC) points in a volumetric neuroradiological image. The method includes determining, by a computer, a mid-sagittal plane estimate to extract a mid-sagittal plane image from the volumetric neuroradiological image, and AC and PC point estimates in the mid-sagittal plane image. The method further includes determining, by the computer, a refined mid-sagittal plane estimate from the AC and PC point estimates to extract a refined mid-sagittal plane image, the AC point from the refined mid-sagittal plane image, and the PC point from the refined mid-sagittal plane image and the AC point. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074496 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION (EMD) METHOD FOR IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS - A multi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition method is provided. The method can be applied in image texture analysis, such as medical image analysis. The method can adaptively decompose a three-dimensional image into a number of characteristic image layers and extract characteristic images showing more noticeable textures from the layers. The method uses the physical concept of field to perform the data mode decomposition to obtain envelope and tendency estimation of multi-dimensional data. The method can also be applied in time and frequency analysis of two-dimensional data or multi-channel data. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074497 | STABILIZATION OF IMAGING METHODS IN MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS - A method is provided for stabilizing imaging methods in medical diagnostics, in which a three-dimensional surface contour of a patient is acquired and is correlated with at least one imaging method. In addition, the present invention provides a corresponding medical diagnostic device. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074498 | ON-LINE TOF-PET MASHED REBINNING FOR CONTINUOUS BED MOTION ACQUISITIONS - A patient bed drive mechanism, under control of a processor, is capable of continuously moving a patient bed through the a TOF-PET detector array having a stationary field of view (FOV) for a distance in excess of the physical extent of an axis of the array FOV. A direct memory access (DMA) rebinner card is coupled to the detector array to receive therefrom a stream of TOF-PET coincidence event data during the extent of movement of the bed. Image projection data are generated in real time from the acquired stream of TOF-PET coincidence event data via the DMA card. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074499 | Method and System for Segmentation of Brain Structures in 3D Magnetic Resonance Images - A method and system for segmenting multiple brain structures in 3D magnetic resonance (MR) images is disclosed. After intensity standardization of a 3D MR image, a meta-structure including center positions of multiple brain structures is detected in the 3D MR image. The brain structures are then individually segmented using marginal space learning (MSL) constrained by the detected meta-structure. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D TIME OF FLIGHT PET FORWARD PROJECTION BASED ON AN EXACT AXIAL INVERSE REBINNING RELATION IN FOURIER SPACE - Methods and systems for reconstructing a nuclear medical image from time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging data are disclosed. Measured three-dimensional (3D) TOF-PET data, including direct two-dimensional (2D) projections and oblique 3D projection data, are acquired from a PET scanner. A model 3D image is preset, a modeled 2D TOF sinogram is generated from the model 3D image, and a modeled 3D TOF sinogram is generated from the 2D TOF sinogram based on an exact inverse rebinning relation in Fourier space. The model 3D image is corrected based on the 3D TOF sinogram and is provided as the reconstructed nuclear medical image. Techniques disclosed herein are useful for facilitating efficient medical imaging, e.g., for diagnosis of various bodily conditions. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074501 | Co-Registering Attenuation Data and Emission Data in Combined Magnetic Resonance/Positron Emission Tomography (MR/PET) Imaging Apparatus - A method for co-registering attenuation data of MR coils in a MR/PET imaging system with PET emission data includes computing a likelihood of PET emission data on a grid in a parameter space based on an algorithm, wherein the algorithm defines L(λ, μbody, μcoils{p}) as a log-likelihood of measured PET data, where λ is an emitter distribution (image), μbody is a known linear attenuation coefficient (LAC) distribution of the body from MRI, μcoils is a linear attenuation coefficient map of MRI coils, and {p} is a set of parameters governing the position of each coil, wherein if μcoils is assumed, then λ can be reconstructed and forward projected and L can be computed. The method includes adjusting the estimated position of the MR coils to maximize the likelihood of emission data based on the computed L. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074502 | Retrospective reconstruction of magnetic resonance images - A method, a system, a computer program product and a memory module are disclosed for computing images on the basis of raw data from an MR unit. In at least one embodiment, the raw data captured by the MR unit are buffered in a memory. When the raw data have been read from the buffer store, the parameters are captured by a computation unit, which computes an image from the raw data. In at least one embodiment, one and the same set of raw data can be used a plurality of times for differently parameterized computations by the computation unit without the need for fresh capture of the raw data. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074503 | Method for generating computed tomography image data records of a patient in the heart CT scan during a perfusion control by applying contrast agent - A method is disclosed for generating computed tomography image data records of a patient in a heart CT scan during a perfusion control by applying contrast agent. In at least one embodiment, a plurality of temporally consecutive CT data records are recorded as an exposure series with a CT system and if necessary are reconstructed. These CT data records are improved for better visualization of the perfusion by way of electronic filtering and post-processing, with all projection and/or image data determined during a CT scan being used, however with the aid of frequency filtering only the data of a projection or of a reconstructed image for generating a final representation being used which does not fall within a predetermined local frequency range of a heart movement. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074504 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING FUSION X-RAY IMAGES - A method for acquiring fusion images of a periodically moving body organ and an apparatus adapted to implement such method is described. In a preferred embodiment of the method, X-rays are irradiated to the body organ and a multiplicity of mask images is acquired by X-ray detection at a high image acquisition rate of at least 60 frames per second. Then, contrast medium is injected into vessels of the body organ and subsequently at least one contrast image of the body organ with the contrast medium included in the vessels is acquired by X-ray detection. A matching image from the multiplicity of mask images is determined which has been acquired at substantially the same stage of the movement of the body organ as the contrast image. By calculating the difference between the matching mask image and the at least one contrast image a subtraction image of the body organ can be obtained and displayed. Using different image acquisition rates during mask image acquisition and contrast image acquisition high quality subtraction images can be achieved while at the same time reducing the overall X-ray exposure dose. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074505 | Radiographic image detection apparatus - In a radiographic image detection apparatus that can perform long-size radiography on a region of a patient that is larger than the detection range of a radiographic image detector, radiography is performed so that a collimator image is included in a radiographic image in such a manner that the collimator image is present in the vicinity of a side edge of the radiographic image. Further, the inclination of each radiographic image caused by inclination of the radiographic image detector at the time of radiography is corrected based on the collimator image. Further, a synthesis image is produced by combining the plurality of radiographic images the inclination of which has been corrected. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074506 | SAMPLE IMAGING APPARATUS - A sample imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section for imaging a stained sample including a stained cell to generate a cell image relating to the stained cell included in the stained sample; and a staining abnormality detector for detecting an abnormality relating to staining of the stained sample on the basis of the cell image generated by the imaging section, is disclosed. A sample imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section for imaging a stained sample to generate a cell image relating to a cell included in the stained sample; and an imaging abnormality detector for detecting an abnormality relating to the imaging section on the basis of the cell image generated by the imaging section, is also disclosed. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074507 | Colony Detection - The present invention provides in one aspect a method for determining a production level of a polypeptide of interest by a cell or cell colony, comprising obtaining an image of one or more cells or cell colonies; and analyzing the image to detect a signal associated with the polypeptide of interest; wherein a signal level is determined for each cell or cell colony based on signal values from a predefined area surrounding the cell or cell colony, the signal level being indicative of the production level of the polypeptide of interest by the cell or cell colony. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074508 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device can explicitly distinguish cells to be observed from cells other than those to be observed with a simple configuration. To this end, the image processing device includes a color information obtaining part obtaining at least hue from color information of each pixel of a color image, a detecting part detecting a mode value of the hue on a color space, a range setting part setting a predetermined range on the color space including the mode value of the hue detected by the detecting part as a target range, a changing part changing hue of a pixel included in the target range by virtually performing extension on the target range, and an information converting part converting color information of a pixel having hue not included in the target range into color information indicative of an achromatic color. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074509 | TECHNIQUE FOR CORRECTING CHARACTER-RECOGNITION ERRORS - Embodiments of a computer system, a method, and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for use with the computer system are described. These embodiments may be used to identify and correct errors in financial information that was extracted using character-recognition software, such as optical character recognition software and/or intelligent character recognition software. In particular, potential errors may be identified by comparing the financial information for a current financial transaction of a user with expected financial information from one or more previous financial transactions of the user. Error metrics for these potential errors may be determined and used to correct at least some of the potential errors. For example, values of the Levenshtein edit distance may be determined based on the comparison, and one or more potential errors associated with one or more minimum values of the Levenshtein edit distance may be corrected. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074510 | Cheque Recognition Device and Method - A cheque recognition device includes a magnetic ink character recognition unit disposed on a cheque moving path along which an introduced cheque is transferred such that it can recognize a magnetic ink character printed on the cheque headed for one side of the cheque moving path; and a control unit for analyzing the magnetic ink character recognized in the magnetic ink character recognition unit to verify whether or not the cheque is normal. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074511 | MASK INSPECTION APPARATUS, AND EXPOSURE METHOD AND MASK INSPECTION METHOD USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a mask inspection apparatus and method capable of inspecting masks used in double patterning with satisfactory accuracy. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074512 | PHOTOMASK INSPECTION METHOD - A photomask inspection method that identifies a foreign particle such as dirt on a photomask with high sensitivity by suppressing erroneous identification due to an influence of noise is provided. The photomask inspection method includes acquiring image data of a photomask having regions with different layer structures on a surface thereof, creating inverted image data by subtracting the image data from pixel value data of the regions, creating offset inverted image data by raising pixel values of the inverted image data by a fixed amount, creating normalized correlation image data by computing a normalized correlation of the offset inverted image data and an offset Gaussian distribution-type kernel, and identifying foreign particles by comparing the normalized correlation image data and a predetermined threshold. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074513 | MASK INSPECTION APPARATUS AND MASK INSPECTION METHOD - The present invention provides a mask inspection apparatus and method capable of eliminating distortion of each optical image, which is caused by distortions of mirrors and flexure of a mask, and performing a mask inspection with satisfactory accuracy. A stage with the mask held thereon is moved in X and Y directions and an optical image of each pattern written onto the mask is acquired while using the results of measurement by laser interferometers (Step S | 2010-03-25 |
20100074514 | WAFER CONTAINING CASSETTE INSPECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - To provide a wafer containing cassette inspection device capable of expressing external view attributes such as shapes of respective inspection object portions of water containing cassettes of different types under the same condition without changing imaging conditions for each of the types. A wafer containing cassette inspection device includes an imaging device ( | 2010-03-25 |
20100074515 | Defect Detection and Response - To increase inspection throughput, the field of view of an infrared camera can be moved over the sample at a constant velocity. Throughout this moving, a modulation (such as optical or electrical) can be provided to the sample and infrared images can be captured using the infrared camera. Moving the field of view, providing the modulation, and capturing the infrared images can be synchronized. The infrared images can be filtered to generate the time delay lock-in thermography, thereby providing defect identification. In one embodiment, this filtering accounts for the number of pixels of the infrared camera in a scanning direction. For the case of optical modulation, a dark field region can be provided for the field of view throughout the moving, thereby providing an improved signal-to-noise ratio during filtering. Localized defects can be repaired by a laser integrated into the detection system or marked by ink for later repair in the production line. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074516 | DEFECT DETECTING APPARATUS, DEFECT DETECTING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A defect detecting apparatus captures an image of a protein chip formed on each die of a wafer with a low magnification for every first division region obtained by dividing each die in plurality; stores each obtained image as an inspection target image together with an ID for identifying each first division region; creates a model image for every first division region by calculating an average luminance value of pixels of each inspection target image; extracts a difference between the model image and each inspection target image as a difference image; determines presence of a defect by extracting a Blob having an area larger than a preset value from the difference image; captures a high-magnification image of every second division region; creates a model image again and extracts a Blob; and determines the kind of the defect based on a feature point of the defect. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074517 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an image dividing unit; a corresponding divided image extract unit; a difference extract unit; a first change unit; a second change unit; and an image output unit. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074518 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING IMAGE - A value of a selection parameter is sequentially set from among a plurality of parameters included in a modeling equation to derive a quantization matrix. A value of each of the parameters is sequentially derived based on a code amount and an encoding distortion obtained from an encoding using a quantization matrix generated from an updated parameter set. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074519 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING IMAGE COLOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device of the present application includes a color drift correcting section, a saturation reduction calculating section, and a color correcting section. The color drift correcting section corrects a color drift of an input image and generates a color drift correction image. The saturation reduction calculating section calculates a degree of saturation reduction caused by the color drift correction by comparing the input image with the color drift correction image. The color correcting section performs a color correction depending on the degree of saturation reduction with respect to a processed image of either one of the input image and the color drift correction image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074520 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device and an image processing method can simply reduce, at pixel level, generation of a color that should not appear in a subject image due to the influence of a PSF. The image processing device includes: a filter processing portion that applies a filter having tap coefficients corresponding to the number of pixels in a pixel signal array formed of pixel signals of pixels located in an image height direction to the pixel signal array, and generates a correction signal array; and a signal array addition portion that adds the correction signal array to the pixel signal array, and generates a processed signal array. The tap coefficients include one reference tap coefficient having a maximum value, and negative tap coefficients having negative values. In a tap coefficient array, the reference tap coefficient is positioned off center at a position other than the center of the tap coefficients. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074521 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes: means for extracting, for each pixel of an image, a high-frequency component as focus information from a brightness signal for a neighboring pixel; means for integrating, for each pixel, the focus information on the neighboring pixel; means for replacing the focus information on each pixel with a value obtained using the focus information on the neighboring pixel greater than the focus information on that pixel to generate dark area focus information; means for integrating the brightness signals of each pixel and the neighboring pixel to extract an illumination component; means for calculating a depth value of each pixel using a coefficient based on the illumination component; means for normalizing the depth value of each pixel; means for controlling the normalized depth value using a tone curve; means for detecting a saturation of each pixel; and means for controlling the controlled depth value using the saturation. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074522 | Method and Apparatus of False Color Suppression - A false-color suppression method for correcting a pixel value of a target position of an output frame corresponding to a target field is disclosed. The false-color suppression method includes determining whether the target position has motion; determining whether image corresponding to the target position meets a predetermined condition; and if the target position is determined to have motion and the image corresponding to the target position meets the predetermined condition, performing at least one false-color suppression operation to correct the pixel value of the target position of the output frame. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074523 | Image classification apparatus - An image classification apparatus that classifies images based upon image data includes: a multiresolution representation unit that sequentially generates high-frequency band images assuming a plurality of resolution levels by filtering an original image; an image synthesis unit that synthesizes a single high-frequency band image by sequentially integrating the high-frequency band images starting with a high-frequency band image at the lowest resolution; a histogram generation unit that generates a histogram of synthesized high-frequency band image signal; and an image classification unit that classifies the original image into one of at least two image categories based upon a distribution pattern of the histogram having been generated. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074524 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO DOCUMENT PROCESSING BASED ON A DOCUMENT TYPE - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a portion of text from a document. A document type is associated with the document based on at least one of the portion of text or an identifier associated with the document. The method also includes selecting, based on the document type, a document template having a plurality of sections. Each section from the plurality of sections being associated with a document category. At least one section from the plurality of sections including at least one policy preference. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074525 | Manipulating an Image by Applying a De-Identification Process - A method for manipulating an image, the method includes: capturing image information representative of an image that includes images of textual characters; recognizing the textual characters by applying Optical Character Recognition; identifying the layout of the image; and applying at least one de-identification process on textual characters of interest to provide de-identification process results. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074526 | Methods and Systems for Locating Text in a Digital Image - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for locating text in a digital image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074527 | EDITING 2D STRUCTURES USING NATURAL INPUT - A natural input system is described for creating and editing complex structures in a typeset application. The natural input system receives a typeset representation of an object and converts the typeset format to generate a standard digital ink representation. The natural input system provides the generated ink representation to a natural input application where can be manipulated by the user with a rich set of correction and editing features provided by the natural input application. Once the end user is satisfied with the recognition result in the natural input application, the natural input system receives the recognition result based on the modified digital ink representation. The natural input system may convert the received recognition result to the typeset application format and provides the modified typeset representation to the typeset application for merging into the document the user is editing. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074528 | COHERENT PHRASE MODEL FOR EFFICIENT IMAGE NEAR-DUPLICATE RETRIEVAL - A coherent phrase model for near-duplicate image retrieval enforces coherency across multiple descriptors for every local region. Two types of visual phrase (FCP and SCP) are employed to represent feature and spatial coherency and can be utilized without increasing the computational complexity. The FCP utilizes the information of different features by enforcing the feature coherency across multiple types of descriptors for every local region, and the SCP utilizes spatial information by enforcing the spatial coherency across the spatial neighborhoods of different sizes around every local region. Moreover, the disclosed model improves the matching accuracy by reducing the number of false matches and preserves the matching efficiency because of the sparsity of the representation. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074529 | Image recognition apparatus - An image recognition apparatus includes an objective image data acquisition unit to acquire objective image data containing a face image portion, a feature area detection unit to detect an eye area corresponding to left and right eyes contained in the objective image data, an inclination estimation unit to estimate inclination of the face image portion in a depth direction thereof based on the relative position of the detected eye area, an area-to-be-extracted determination unit to determine a shape of an area to be extracted in response to the inclination estimated by the inclination estimation unit, and an area-to-be-extracted extraction unit to extract the area to be extracted of the shape determined from the objective image data. Preferably, the area to be extracted is subjected to predetermined processing. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074530 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing method performs reduction processing on an input image to acquire a reduced image, extracts a feature point from a group of images including the input image and one or more of the reduced images, determines as a matched feature point the feature point extracted from a matching position in each of two or more images in the group of images, calculates a local feature quantity of the matched feature point determined by the determination unit, and registers the calculated local feature quantity as a local feature quantity of the input image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074531 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes: an image transformation parameter calculation device which calculates an image transformation parameter for matching an acquired first image and a second image with each other among detected plurality of corresponding points; an image transformation device which transforms the second image using the calculated image transformation parameter and acquires the transformed image as a third image; and a feature point existing region determination device which determines whether or not the feature point extracted from the first image is positioned in an invalid image region at an edge of the image, the invalid image region being generated by execution of a predetermined filtering process on the first image, wherein the corresponding point detection device tracks the feature point determined that the feature point extracted from the first image is positioned in the invalid image region, using the first image and the third image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074532 | 3D GEOMETRIC MODELING AND 3D VIDEO CONTENT CREATION - A system, apparatus and method of obtaining data from a 2D image in order to determine the 3D shape of objects appearing in said 2D image, said 2D image having distinguishable epipolar lines, said method comprising: (a) providing a predefined set of types of features, giving rise to feature types, each feature type being distinguishable according to a unique bi-dimensional formation; (b) providing a coded light pattern comprising multiple appearances of said feature types; (c) projecting said coded light pattern on said objects such that the distance between epipolar lines associated with substantially identical features is less than the distance between corresponding locations of two neighboring features; (d) capturing a 2D image of said objects having said projected coded light pattern projected thereupon, said 2D image comprising reflected said feature types; and (e) extracting: (i) said reflected feature types according to the unique bi-dimensional formations; and (ii) locations of said reflected feature types on respective said epipolar lines in said 2D image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074533 | FEATURE ADAPTED BEAMLET TRANSFORM APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY OF DETECTING CURVILINEAR OBJECTS OF AN IMAGE - A method of detecting a curvilinear object of a noisy image. The method includes filtering the noisy image in accordance with a two dimensional line profile. The line profile is selected within a class of steerable filters. A beamlet coefficient is calculated in accordance with the filtering, wherein a coefficient above a predetermined threshold identifies a local feature | 2010-03-25 |
20100074534 | METHODS FOR MATCHING IMAGE-BASED TEXUAL INFORMATION WITH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS - A method for matching an image-form textual string in an image to a regular expression is disclosed. The method includes constructing a representation of the regular expression and generating a candidate string of characters from the image-form textual string. The method further includes ascertaining whether there exists a match between the image-form textual string and the regular expression, the match is deemed achieved if a probability value associated with the match is above a predetermined matching threshold. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074535 | VIDEO QUALITY ADAPTATION BASED UPON SCENERY - Operating on video frames includes determining a frame set backdrop of a set of video frames that is a characterization of the relative difference in content of the set of video frames. Decreasing video quality of the set of video frames when the frame set backdrop is relatively higher indicating relatively greater content difference among video frames of the set of video frames and increasing/leaving quality of the set of video frames when the frame set backdrop is relatively lower indicating relatively lesser content difference among video frames of the set of video frames. Alteration of video quality of the set of video frames includes altering a frame rate, altering a pixel resolution, and/or altering color resolution of the set of video frames and/or altering a ratio of independent frames to predictive frames of the set of frames. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074536 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - To perform an image processing for high resolution more suitably on even an image signal having images with different resolutions mixed therein. An image signal processing method of the present invention includes the steps of: performing a spatial low pass filter processing on a first image signal that is an input image; generating a second image signal by performing an image processing for high resolution on an image after the low pass filter processing; comparing corresponding regions in the first image signal and the second image signal; and selecting either of the first image signal and the second image signal with respect to the region based on this comparison result. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074537 | KERNELIZED SPATIAL-CONTEXTUAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION - Kernelized spatial-contextual image classification is disclosed. One embodiment comprises generating a first spatial-contextual model to represent a first image, the first spatial-contextual model having a plurality of interconnected nodes arranged in a first pattern of connections with each node connected to at least one other node, generating a second spatial-contextual model to represent a second image using the first pattern of connections, and estimating the distance between corresponding nodes in the first spatial-contextual model and the second spatial-contextual model based on a relationship with adjacent connected nodes to determine a distance between the first image and the second image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074538 | VALIDATION AND CORRECTION OF MAP DATA USING OBLIQUE IMAGES - Technologies are described herein for validating and correcting map data using oblique images or aerial photographs taken at oblique angles to the earth's surface. Pixels within oblique images can be analyzed to detect, validate, and correct other sources of data used in generating maps such as vector data, elevation maps, projection parameters, and three-dimensional model data. Visibility and occlusion information in oblique views may be analyzed to reduce errors in either occluding or occluded entities. Occlusion of road segments due to foliage, z-ordering of freeways, tunnels, bridges, buildings, and other geospatial entities may be determined, validated, and corrected. A learning algorithm can be trained with image-based descriptors that encode visible data consistencies. After training, the algorithm can classify errors and inconsistencies using combinations of different descriptors such as color, texture, image-gradients, and filter responses. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074539 | Differentiation of illumination and reflection boundaries - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing in which brightness boundaries of an image are identified and analyzed in at least two, and more preferably three or more, spectral bands to distinguish illumination boundaries from reflectance boundaries. For example, in one embodiment of the invention, a brightness boundary of the image can be identified as an illumination boundary if at least two wavelength bands of the image exhibit a substantially common shift in brightness across the boundary. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING IMAGE CLUSTERING - One embodiment, among others, is a method for clustering a plurality of images, wherein the plurality of images comprises faces of a plurality of individuals. The method comprises arranging the plurality of images associated with a plurality of individuals into a plurality of subgroups for each individual based on time stamps associated with the plurality of images, wherein the plurality of images are arranged according to increments of a time interval. The method further comprises determining whether adjacent subgroups are correlated and forming groups comprising correlated subgroups. Based on correlations between adjacent groups, the groups are associated with a particular individual. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074541 | CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING PLURAL SCANNING PATTERNS - Provided is a coding and decoding method and apparatus using a plurality of scanning patterns. The method for coding image data includes: (a) obtaining N×M data by firstly source-coding the image data; (b) scanning the N×M data using a predetermined scan pattern selected from a plurality of scan patterns in response to the obtained N×M data; and (c) firstly source-coding the scanned data. Accordingly, coding and decoding image data having various characteristics can be implemented efficiently. Particularly, even for the image data having an interlaced scanned frame format, more efficient coding and decoding can be achieved. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074542 | APPARATUS FOR DECODING CONTEXT ADAPTIVE VARIABLE LENGTH CODE AND TABLE SEARCH METHOD FOR DECODING CONTEXT ADAPTIVE VARIABLE LENGTH CODE - Provided are an apparatus for decoding a minimum memory access-based context adaptive variable length code (CAVLC) of the moving picture compression standard, H.264, and a table search method for decoding a context adaptive variable length code using the same. The apparatus for decoding a context adaptive variable length code may be useful to improve an overall decoding speed since the repeated memory accesses may be reduced to 2 cycles of memory accesses by reconstructing a context adaptive variable length code table of first decoding information (TrailingOnes) and second decoding information (TotalCoefficient) into 2-step tables and storing the reconstructed 2-step tables in advance and performing a table search to decode the first decoding information and the second decoding information, by using the information stored in the 2-step tables, depending on whether the remaining bits except for the number of leading zero are present in the inputted bit stream. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074543 | Image Compression Apparatus and Image Expansion Apparatus - An image compression apparatus comprising, a dividing section for dividing image data to be compressed into a plurality of blocks, a compression section for compressing in order each block of the plurality of blocks which have been obtained by divided in the dividing section, wherein the compression section converts the continuing blocks of the same image contents, into basic data and continuous compressed data, wherein the basic data is a compressed date from any one of the continuing blocks of the same image contents, and the count data indicates a number of the continuing blocks. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074544 | TRANSCODING METHOD - A method for transcoding a first codeword to a second codeword, wherein both comprise escape codes and escape levels is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a bitstream to determine the first codeword therefrom, determining whether the first codeword belongs to a long escape mode or a short escape mode, and truncating the escape level of the first codeword to generate the second codeword when the first codeword belongs to the long escape mode. An embodiment of the first codeword is a Sorenson H.263 codeword and the second codeword is an H.263 codeword. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074545 | IMAGE COMPRESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE COMPRESSING METHOD, IMAGE DECOMPRESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, a first pixel data group of several pixels existing in block into which an image is divided is divided, thereby generating several second pixel data groups. In the second pixel data group, an orthogonal transformation is performed in several layers using only the predetermined number of coefficients from the lowest frequency side from among the coefficients obtained by the orthogonal transformation. The predetermined number of coefficients from the lowest frequency side from among the coefficients obtained by the orthogonal transformation in the highest layer, and the coefficients that are obtained in a layer other than the highest layer not used for the orthogonal transformation are encoded, thereby generation the compressed data. Accordingly, encoding is performed while separating lower frequency components from higher frequency components. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074546 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A reflectance image that represents a reflectance distribution, and an illuminance component image that represents an illuminance distribution are generated from an input image. A plurality of small regions, which are divided based on illuminance components of the generated illuminance component image, are specified. A quantized image is generated from the reflectance image for respective specified small regions. Regions having equal quantized pixel values are acquired in the quantized image. Representative pixel values for the respective acquired regions are acquired based on the illuminance component image. Quantized pixel values of the respective acquired regions are corrected using the acquired representative pixel values. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074547 | METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING FOCUS QUALITY OF IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - A focus-quality judging method includes the following steps. Firstly, a comparing object including a target area is provided. A reference image pickup device is provided to shoot the comparing object to obtain a standard image including a standard target area image. Then, a first pixel number contained in the standard target area image is counted. The comparing object is shot by a test image pickup device to obtain a test image including a test target area image, wherein the test image has the same resolution as the standard image. Then, a second pixel number contained in the test target area image is counted. The first pixel number contained in the standard target area image is compared with the second pixel number contained in the test target area image. According to the comparing results, it is discriminated whether the test image pickup device performs an accurate focusing operation. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074548 | Image sharpening technique - A sharpening technique for digital images for presentation on a display. The technique may include an upscaling process, a noise reduction process, and a sharpening process. The technique may further use a single buffer for the upscaling, noise reduction, and sharpening. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074549 | IMAGE UPSAMPLING WITH TRAINING IMAGES - Images are upsampled using a knowledge base derived from a plurality of high-quality training images. The knowledge base is used to refine a high-frequency component including high-frequency aspects of a high-resolution, low-frequency image, interpolated from a low-resolution full-frequency image, into a high-frequency component. An enhancement step is performed without using a knowledge base to construct a high-compatibility component from the low-resolution, full-frequency image. The low-resolution, full-frequency image is combined with the coarse high-frequency component to yield an enhanced high-frequency component. A second knowledge base step is performed to construct an improved high-frequency component from the enhanced high-frequency component. The improved high-frequency component is blended with a high-resolution, low-frequency image to yield a high-resolution image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074550 | Multi Format Video Filter Design - Current generation digital media processors support multi-format video resolutions, SDTV, Progressive Scan and HDTV. Built-in video encoders directly support NTSC and progressive 480 P video outputs. These two video formats have different image bandwidth and output gain requirements, but are normally filtered by fixed bandwidth filters. This invention provides adjustable filter bandwidth for improved video filtering and solves the dilemma on filter bandwidth design for multi-format video applications. The invention is applicable to video reconstruction filter applications requiring bandwidth adjustable filters. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074551 | LEARNING-BASED PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR COMPUTER VISION - Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used in the invention for various problems in computer the vision space. The present invention provides a framework for learning a system of PDEs from real data to accomplish a specific vision task. In one embodiment, the system consists of two PDEs. One controls the evolution of the output. The other is for an indicator function that helps collect global information. Both PDEs are coupled equations between the output image and the indicator function, up to their second order partial derivatives. The way they are coupled is suggested by the shift and rotational invariance that the PDEs should hold. The coupling coefficients are learnt from real data via an optimal control technique. The invention provides learning-based PDEs that make a unified framework for handling different vision tasks, such as edge detection, denoising, segementation, and object detection. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074552 | REMOVING BLUR FROM AN IMAGE - Embodiments related to the removal of blur from an image are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a method of performing an iterative non-blind deconvolution of a blurred image to form an updated image. The method comprises downsampling the blurred image to form a blurred image pyramid comprising images of two or more different resolution scales, downsampling a blur kernel to form a blur kernel pyramid comprising kernels of two or more different sizes, and deconvoluting a selected image in the blurred image pyramid according to a Richardson-Lucy deconvolution process in which a bilateral range/spatial filter is employed. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF LOCAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT - Methods and apparatuses of contrast enhancement on an image are disclosed. The method performs local shading of fine contrast variations in an image, with particular advantage in tone mapping applications. The amounts of shading are determined by the preferred degree of increased image contrast | 2010-03-25 |
20100074554 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which corrects input image data based on the image data and foreign substance information containing information on the position and size of a foreign substance includes a correction unit which corrects the influence of the shadow of the foreign substance contained in the image data, based on the image data and the foreign substance information, a still image uniformity determination unit which determines the uniformity of an image in a region around the foreign substance, a moving image uniformity determination unit which determines the uniformity of the image in the region around the foreign substance based on a determination criterion different from one applied to a still image, and a control unit which inhibits correction of the image data when the still image uniformity determination unit or moving image uniformity determination unit determines that the uniformity is less than or equal to a predetermined value. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074555 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SATELLITE IMAGE AND/OR AN AERIAL IMAGE - In a method for processing a satellite image and/or aerial image, unwanted objects are able to be removed from the satellite image and/or aerial image. Geographical positions of objects pictured in the satellite and/or aerial image are determined, at least one photo is taken at ground level at each and/or in the respective immediate vicinity of the geographical positions determined, and these photos taken at ground level are superimposed on the satellite image and/or aerial image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074556 | METHOD OF DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A DRILL HOLE TO BE DRILLED ON AN OPHTHALMIC LENS - Method of determining the position of a target drill hole to be drilled in a target corrective lens having an expected target outline after shaping, the position being determined from a reference lens having a reference outline and at least one reference drill hole, the method includes: acquiring an image and at least one characteristic of the curvature of the reference lens; determining, in the acquisition plane, the reference distance in projection between the projection of a reference anchor point of the associated reference lens and the reference lens and the projection of a reference drilling point of the reference drill hole calculating the three-dimensional reference distance between the reference anchor point and the reference drilling point as a function of the characteristic of the curvature of the reference lens ( | 2010-03-25 |
20100074557 | Image Processing Device And Electronic Appliance - An image processing device has: a main subject detector that detects the position of a main subject in an input image; a clipping region setter that determines a clipping region including the position of the main subject detected by the main subject detector; and a clipper that generates a clipped image by cutting out the clipping region from the input image. The clipping region setter determines the clipping region such that the position of the main subject detected by the main subject detector coincides with a predetermined position in the clipping region. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074558 | Apparatus and method of interpolating image using region segmentation - An apparatus and a method of interpolating an image via a region division are provided. To improve an image quality artifact around an edge, the apparatus to interpolate the image may determine whether an inputted image corresponds to an edge after performing a thinning process with respect to a gradient value of the inputted image, and convert a resolution of the image using optimal location information via a region division and a pixel replacement according to an interpolation direction of the image. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074559 | DEVICE FOR INTERPOLATING IMAGE - An image interpolation device, which can perform image interpolation at low cost and with low power consumption. The image interpolation device includes a pixel data storage which temporarily and sequentially holds, in the form of a plurality of unit pixel data groups, data of adjacent pixels in the vertical direction of input image data. The image interpolation device also includes an image memory which can store at least three of the unit pixel data groups. Unit pixel data groups held in the pixel data storage are sequentially written to the image memory. At least two unit pixel data groups stored in the image memory are read simultaneously. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074560 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT TOOL WITH CALENDAR INTERFACE - Techniques are provided for automatically organizing and presenting photographs based on the date information associated with photographs. In one embodiment, a calendar-like user interface is provided. By interacting with the user-interface, the user can select specific dates. In response to the user's selections of the specific dates, the image organization tool displays all photographs that are associated with date information that falls within the specific dates. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074561 | Resealable Flexible Nonporous Bag - A resealable flexible nonporous bag includes inner and outer film pockets having tops that are open or separable. The bag includes a plurality of malleable fibers, some of the fibers being sandwiched between first faces of the inner and outer film pockets and some fibers being sandwiched between second faces of the inner and outer film pockets. There is a first fold line in the inner and outer film pocket first faces, the malleable fibers being weakened adjacent the first fold line so as to predispose the inner and outer film pockets to fold along the first fold line. A second fold line is in the inner and outer film pocket second faces, the malleable fibers being weakened in the second fold line to predispose the inner and outer film pockets to fold along the second fold line. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074562 | EASILY TEARABLE FASTENER TAPE, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE FASTENER TAPE, PACKAGING BAG WITH EASILY TEARABLE FASTENER TAPE, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE PACKAGING BAG - A belt-shaped base of a male member of a zipper tape attached to an inner surface of a bag body includes: a main body on which an engagement portion is provided; a first projecting portion provided on an opening-side of the main body; a thin portion connected to an opening-side of the first projecting portion; and a second projecting portion connected to an opening-side of the thin portion. A belt-shaped base of a female member includes: a main body; a first projecting portion; a thin portion; and a second projecting portion. When the zipper tape is fused onto the bag body, a space is provided between the thin portions and a film of the bag body. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074563 | Side-guard for inside of a flexible bag - The present invention includes a side-guard for inside of a flexible bag, including a substantially cylindrical rigid member able to fit inside a flexible bag, the substantially cylindrical rigid member including an open top side and an open bottom side and a peripheral side wall, wherein the peripheral side wall is inclined toward the central axis of the substantially cylindrical rigid member; and one or more handle means that are integral to or attached toward the top open top side of the substantially cylindrical member. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074564 | LINEAR MOTION GUIDE SYSTEM WITH WIPER SEAL - A wiper seal is less in sliding resistance that is encountered when the seal slides over a raceway surface of a guide rail, better in wear-proof quality, rich in durability, and further easy to steadily install it to a slider. The wiper seal is installed on one end of the slider in a linear motion guide system to wipe away foreign materials adhered on the guide rail. The wiper seal is made of polyester polyurethane foam having a reticular skeleton texture of three-dimensional construction including open-cells therein, the polyester polyurethane foam being squeezed or compressed into from ¼ to 1/20 in thickness to form a compact blank of three-dimensional construction having porosity therein. The wiper seal is set to come into sliding contact with the guide rail | 2010-03-25 |
20100074565 | Ball bearing device for motion guide device - A motion guide device includes a rolling passage formed between two movable members, a umber of bearing members disposed between the movable members, and a umber of spacers disposed between the bearing members for spacing the bearing members from each other, the spacers each include a spherical structure having three pairs of opposite sides, and the spacers each include a depression formed in each of the six sides for suitably receiving or engaging with the bearing members and for allowing the spacers to be suitably engaged between the bearing members and for allowing the bearing members to be to be suitably engaged between the spacers relatively. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074566 | Leakproof Structure of Shaft Tube - A leakproof structure of shaft tube comprises a shaft tube, a bearing, a shaft and a leakproof plate. The shaft tube includes a center hole, an upper section adjacent to an open end of the shaft tube and a lower section having an inner diameter smaller than that of the upper section. The bearing received in the lower section includes a longitudinal hole. The shaft rotatably mounted into the bearing includes an annular groove formed in an outer periphery thereof to form a neck of the shaft. The neck has an outer diameter smaller than that of two sections of the shaft, with said two sections being adjacent to two end edges of the annular groove. The leakproof plate fixed in the upper section includes a through-hole with a diameter smaller than the outer diameters of the two sections of the shaft, with an inner edge of the leakproof plate being in the annular groove. | 2010-03-25 |
20100074567 | SENSORIZED BEARING UNIT - In a bearing unit ( | 2010-03-25 |