| 13th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
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| 20100080329 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processor, including: a receiving section configured to receive an OFDM signal transmitted in accordance with an OFDM system; a FFT arithmetically operating section configured to carry out FFT for a signal within a predetermined interval of the OFDM signal; a delay profile estimating section configured to estimate delay profiles from the OFDM signal received by the receiving section; an inter-symbol interference amount estimating section configured to estimate inter-symbol interference amounts for a plurality of candidates for the predetermined interval, respectively, by using the delay profiles estimated by the delay profile estimating section; and a searching section configured to search for the candidate having the minimum inter-symbol interference amount estimated by the inter-symbol interference amount estimating section from among the plurality of candidates in the predetermined interval, and supply data on the candidate thus searched for as the predetermined interval to the FFT arithmetically operating section. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080330 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: first to third position determination sections configured to determine the start position of an FFT interval which serves as a signal interval targeted for FFT by an FFT section; a selection section configured to select one of those start positions of the FFT interval which are determined by the first through the third position determination section; and the FFT section configured to perform FFT on the OFDM time domain signal by regarding the start position selected by the selection section as the start position of the FFT interval in order to generate the first OFDM frequency domain signal. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED CLOCK MISMATCH COMPENSATION AND PACKET LOSS CONCEALMENT - An apparatus and method for processing data are disclosed. The apparatus may include a receiver clock, and a processing system configured to use the receiver clock to receive data from a transmitter, the data being generated with a transmitter clock in the transmitter, wherein the processing system is further configured to estimate a mismatch between the transmitter and receiver clocks, and to determine whether to modify the data based on the estimated mismatch. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080332 | CLOCK-SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a clock-synchronous communication system, a clock pulse as a communication clock is outputted from a master device to a slave device so as to synchronize the master device and slave device. The transmitting side transmits a data to a data line with a first edge timing of the clock pulse, and the receiving side receives the data from the data line with a second edge timing of the clock pulse. A microcomputer as the master device is configured to enable separate setting of high-level duration and low-level duration of a clock pulse to be outputted, using a program. High-level duration and low-level duration are each set to a minimum value that satisfies the requirements for constituting communication with a communication destination. Uprating not only the cycle of a clock pulse but also the communication baud rate, efficient clock-synchronous communication can be performed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080333 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS - A method and apparatus for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal is provided. The method includes generating a periodic square wave local oscillator (LO) signal of a first phase, a periodic square wave LO signal of a second phase, and a chopping signal. The method further includes coding the periodic square wave LO signal of the first phase and the periodic square wave LO signal of the second phase synchronously with the chopping signal to generate a first set of synchronized signals ( | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080334 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERIFYING PERFORMANCE OF CONTROL SYSTEM OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - Provided are a method and apparatus for validating dynamic performance of a control system of a nuclear power plant in operation, without performing a power ascension test. According to the present invention, when the performance of the control system requires to be validated in order to change a control logic or its setpoint of or to replace hardware of the control system, the dynamic performance of the control system may be validated without performing the power ascension test which can be performed only in a trial operation and requires large expenses. In the present invention, a design computer code capable of simulating a transient state of the nuclear power plant is connected to the hardware of the control system, and tests to be performed at the power ascension test or in the transient state of the nuclear power plant are simulated by directly using the hardware of the control system instead of a control system model of the design computer code, in an on-line state. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080335 | Boiling water reactor nuclear power plant with alcohol injection - A nuclear power plant is provided including a BWR, a reactor cooling system cooling the BWR, an HWC hydrogen injection system connected to the reactor cooling system and an alcohol injection system connected to the reactor cooling system. Methods for providing methanol and hydrogen are also provided. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080336 | CIRCUIT DEVICE TO GENERATE A HIGH PRECISION CONTROL SIGNAL - In an embodiment, a circuit device includes a first counter responsive to a clock signal and to a first control word having a first precision. The counter produces a first control signal related to the first control word at a first output. The circuit device farther includes a second counter responsive to the clock signal and to a second control word having the first precision. The second counter produces a second control signal related to the second control word at a second output. The circuit device also includes a filtering circuit responsive to the first output and the second output to receive the first and second control words. The filtering circuit is adapted to produce an output control signal related to the first and second control words, where the output control signal has a second precision that is greater than the first precision. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080337 | Methods, Systems, and Computer-Program Products to Correct Degradation in Tomographic Images Caused by Extraneous Radiation - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer program products that generate estimates of errors caused by extraneous radiation in tomographic systems, such as cone-beam computerized tomography (CBCT) systems, fluoroscopic tomography systems, radiographic tomography systems, laminar tomography imaging systems, and the like. In one group of inventions, spatial errors are estimated from projection data collected where a known spatial perturbation has been introduced into radiation intensity of the source. In another group of inventions, temporal errors are estimated from a sequence of projections where a known perturbation in the radiation intensity of the source for different projections has been introduced. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080338 | MEDICAL X-RAY CT APPARATUS - In a medical X-ray CT apparatus, a rotary portion is rotated, and a wind is produced inside the apparatus by the rotation of the rotary portion. An expanded cover portion is forced to vibrate by the wind, and noise is produced. The expanded cover portion is provided with at least one curved member including both ends. The curved member is arranged to extend along a virtual projection line obtained by geometrically projecting a virtual straight line connecting, to each other, the two ends fixed to an outer peripheral edge of an opening of the expanded cover portion onto a surface of the expanded cover portion, and the vibration of the expanded cover portion is reduced. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080339 | MODELING OF THE POINT-SPREAD-FUNCTION IN SINGLE-PINHOLE AND MULTI-PINHOLE SPECT RECONSTRUCTION - A system and method for reconstructing single photon emission computed tomography data acquired with a pinhole collimator includes sub-dividing each voxel in the imaging target object space into sub-voxels and sub-dividing each of the detector bins in the gamma camera detector into sub-bins, connecting the centers of each of the sub-voxels to each of the detector sub-bins through a pinhole provided in the pinhole collimator by ray tracing and for each ray connecting the centers of each of the sub-voxels to each of the detector sub-bins, the transmission probability is calculated by analytically solving the intersections between the ray and the pinhole surfaces. Then, a geometric-response-function of the pinhole collimator is computed which is then convolved with the intrinsic-response-function of the detector to obtain the PSF. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080340 | AIR BEARING TO SUPPORT A BODY - An air bearing has a rotor having a circularly curved radial rotor bearing surface along its circumferential direction. The air bearing also has a stator having at least one radial stator bearing surface partially enclosing the rotor in the circumferential direction. The radial stator bearing surface is curved according to a profile following the circumferential direction of the rotor and is fashioned to generate an air gap between it and the radial rotor bearing surface so that, upon operation, the rotor is borne, supported by an air current in the air gap. The profile shapes the air gap such that, at a starting temperature that deviates from an operating temperature, the air gap has a smaller thickness (measured in the radial direction) in a second region of the radial stator bearing surface in comparison to a first region of the radial stator bearing surface along the circumferential direction. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080341 | X-RAY CT SYSTEM TO GENERATE TOMOGRAPHIC PHASE CONTRAST OR DARK FIELD EXPOSURES - An x-ray CT system that generates tomographic phase contrast or dark field exposures, has at least one grating interferometer with three grating structures arranged in series in the radiation direction, with a modular design of the second and third grating structures. The distance between the first grating structure of the x-ray source and the second grating structure (fashioned as a phase grating) of the respective grating/detector modules is adapted, depending on the fan angle, corresponding to a period of the grating structure of the x-ray source projected onto the grating detector module at a respective fan angle (φ | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080342 | Tomosynthesis radiographing apparatus - Providing a radiation emission unit having multiple radiation sources for emitting radiation onto a subject, in which the multiple radiation sources are distributed such that the radiation emitted from each radiation source and transmitted through the subject forms a part of a projected image of the subject. Each radiation source is a source that emits fan beam radiation and is disposed such that a plane of the fan beam having a wider spread angle intersects with an arrangement direction of the multiple radiation sources and is arranged parallel to each other. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080343 | X-Ray Machine for Breast Examination in a Standing Position - An X-ray machine for imaging a female breast has a support with an attached continuously rotatable gantry. An X-ray tube with an oppositely located X-ray detector is mounted on the gantry. A locating means for accommodating a breast is disposed coaxially with a rotation axis of the gantry. The gantry is adapted to be moved relative to the locating means by an advancing means. In order to achieve a high throughput of patients, a locating means having an opening for accommodating a breast is provided relative to both sides of the gantry. The X-ray machine may be incorporated between two separating walls which have cut-out portions for the locating means. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080344 | X-Ray Machine for Breast Examination Having a Gantry Incorporated in a Patient Table - An X-ray machine for imaging a breast of a female patient comprises a gantry with an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector, and a horizontally disposed patient table with a cut-out portion for accommodating a breast of the patient. The gantry is rigidly mechanically suspended from the patient table. The gantry is adapted to rotate about an approximately vertical rotational axis in continuous rotational movement for imaging the breast. The gantry is also adapted to be moved in a vertical direction during said the rotational movement. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080345 | Breast Locating Means for a Diagnostic Instrument for Examining a Female Breast - A device is provided herein for locating a breast of a female patient. In one embodiment, the locating device is adapted to be inserted into an opening within a patient table. The locating device is further adapted with different sizes and shapes, and thus, can be adapted to various breast shapes. In one embodiment, the device is provided with an RFID transponder for identifying the particular locating device being used. The RFID transponder enables data about the locating device to be automatically recorded along with the image data. This enables the shape of the locating device to be taken into account when evaluating an image. Furthermore, the RFID transponder ensures that a locating device of the same shape is used for subsequent exposures of a patient's breast, so that the exposures remain comparable. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080346 | Breast Locating Means with Sample Container for an Instrument for Examining a Female Breast - An X-ray machine, which in one embodiment is based on a spiral CT scanner, is used for examining a breast of a female patient. The X-ray machine has a gantry, which is adapted for rotation about a rotational axis, and simultaneously, for movement in a direction parallel to the rotational axis. A cylindrical imaging region is scanned along a spiraling path provided by the gantry. The patient is positioned so that a breast to be examined projects into the imaging region. A sample receptacle located in the imaging region is adapted to accommodate a tissue sample and/or a reference material. A range of movement of the gantry is dimensioned, so that the breast and/or the contents of the sample receptacle can be imaged with the gantry. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080347 | Method for Defining an Individual Coordination System for a Breast of a Female Patient - A method is provided for determining a position of an object within a breast of a female patient in a simple manner from a three-dimensional exposure taken of the breast. A simplified model is made of an internal structure of a breast having glandular bodies leading via lactiferous ducts to an outlet at a nipple. A particularly advantageous model is a tree-type structure in which branches correspond to lactiferous ducts and leaves correspond to glandular bodies. Furthermore, a determination is made of whether the object has contact with an element of the tree-type structure. Alternatively, a distance to an element of the tree-type structure is established. By correlating tree-type structures derived from various exposures taken on the same breast, the location of the object can be unequivocally established. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080348 | X-Ray Machine for Breast Examination Having a Beam Configuration for High Resolution Images - An X-ray machine for imaging a breast of a female patient includes a patient table for accommodating the patient, an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector. In one embodiment, the X-ray machine may be designed as a spiral CT scanner having a rotatable gantry on which the X-ray tube and detector are mounted. The X-ray detector is inclined with respect to the X-ray tube, so that a central ray of a beam of rays emitted from the X-ray tube is perpendicularly incident on an active face of the detector. In one embodiment, the detector may be designed with a curvature, which reduces image artifacts by reducing path length differences between the central ray and the outer rays of the beam. This configuration provides particularly space saving X-ray machines, which at the same time, are of particularly high resolution. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080349 | Modular System for Diagnosis and Surgical Operation on a Breast - An X-ray machine for examining a breast of a female patient has a CT scanner attached to a patient's table. An instrument holder that is adapted to be moved to be located underneath a gantry of the CT scanner is provided with a positioning unit for positioning an instrument for examining or operating close to the breast. An exact position of the instrument holder relative to the gantry or the breast to be examined can be determined with a measuring system. Thereby, it is possible to position an examining or surgical intervention instrument extremely precisely. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080350 | Method and Device for Thermal Breast Tumor Treatment with 3D Monitoring Function - An X-ray machine for monitoring thermal treatment of human tissue produces a reference exposure of the tissue to be treated prior to commencement of the treatment. Thermal treatment is performed subsequently. Check exposures are made with the X-ray machine during the treatment or also during treatment intervals. The check exposures are performed as partial volume exposures at a lower radiation load than the reference exposures. From a comparison of check exposures with the reference exposures, conclusions can be drawn concerning changes of tissue temperature and also tissue properties. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080351 | HANDHELD SPECTROMETER - A handheld X-ray fluorescence spectrometer includes a pyroelectric radiation source for directing X-rays toward a sample to be analyzed and a detector for receiving secondary X-rays emitted from the sample and converting the secondary X-rays into one or more electrical signals representative of the received secondary X-rays. A module is configured to receive the one or more electrical signals and send a representation of the one or more signals over a communication channel to a computing device without performing any spectral analysis on the one or more electrical signals to characterize the sample. The computing device is configured to perform spectral analysis on the one or more electrical signals and send the spectral analysis to the spectrometer over the communications channel. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080352 | Single Well Nuclear Density Gauge - A nuclear density gauge has an elongated transmission chamber adjacent to an elongated source chamber so that they can both be installed through a single nozzle on a high pressure vessel, making an airtight seal with the nozzle. The shape and position of the source chamber allows the positioning of a radiant energy source inside the vessel, a distance from one end of the transmission chamber. The radiation emitted by the radiant energy source travels through contents of the high pressure vessel and then through the elongated transmission chamber to a detector. The method of use of the gauge or multiple gauges, and the adaptation of vessels for such gauges, are also disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080353 | Imaging System and Method For Tuning Same - A method of tuning an imaging system can include the steps of receiving photons at photo-multiplier units that are part of an array, determining an energy level for each of the photo-multiplier units based on events over a specific photo-multiplier unit and determining a sum energy level for the array of photo-multiplier units based on the events over the specific photo-multiplier unit. The method can also include the step of comparing the energy level for each of the photo-multiplier units with the sum energy level for the array of photo-multiplier units to assist in determining a contribution matrix for the array of photo-multiplier units. The energy level determination steps and the comparison step can be repeated for each photo-multiplier unit in the array to determine the contribution matrix. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080354 | SUBTRACTION OF A SEGMENTED ANATOMICAL FEATURE FROM AN ACQUIRED IMAGE - A system, method and apparatus for subtracting a synthetically-generated image, including a segmented anatomical feature, from an acquired image. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080355 | ACQUISITION OF HIGH SPEED DUAL-ENERGY IMAGES USING A SINGLE PIXILATED DIGITAL DETECTOR - A method is disclosed for acquiring a high speed dual-energy image pair using a pixilated digital detector. A single pixilated digital detector acquires and encodes two separate images in effectively one image, eliminating the need to read out a first image prior to acquiring a second image. The encoded information is then utilized to obtain two distinct dual-energy images which may be decomposed to form bone and soft-tissue only images. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080356 | CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM DECELERATING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND X-RAY GENERATING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A charged particle beam decelerating device includes a high-frequency cavity | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080357 | WIDE COVERAGE X-RAY TUBE AND CT SYSTEM - An x-ray tube is disclosed herein. The x-ray tube includes an anode assembly adapted to rotate generally about a rotational axis. The anode assembly includes a first target surface at least partially disposed at a first angle greater than 70 degrees with respect to the rotational axis and a second target surface at least partially disposed at a second angle greater than 70 degrees with respect to the rotational axis. The first target surface is adapted to emit a first x-ray beam and the second target surface is adapted to emit a second x-ray beam. A CT system is also disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080358 | X-Ray Target With High Strength Bond - In one example, an x-ray target comprises a substrate, a target core, and a target track. The substrate and target core are attached together utilizing a carbide layer and a braze layer. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080359 | X-ray generating method, and x-ray generating apparatus - An energy beam is irradiated onto a rotating anticathode so as to heat a portion irradiated by the energy beam under the condition that a vapor pressure at equilibrium state of the portion is set to 0.1 Torr or more, thereby generating an X-ray. The portion irradiated by the energy beam is kept at the rotating anticathode by a centrifugal force to the portion it a direction outward from a surface of the portion. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080360 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING TABLE - There is provided a radiographic imaging table including: a test object mounting plate capable of allowing radiation to penetrate therethrough, on which a test object is mounted; a detector mounting plate which is disposed under the test object mounting plate to movably mount a radiographic image detector which detects radiation penetrating the test object and the test object mounting plate, and which generates an image according to the detected radiation; and a connection device which is disposed on the detector mounting plate such that it is connectable to the radiographic image detector in order to perform at least one of charging the radiographic image detector mounted on the detector mounting plate or facilitating communication between the radiographic image detector and an external device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080361 | Method for Sharing Audio-only content, Audio-Visual content, and Visual-only content between Subscribers on a Telephone call - A method for controlling the sharing of Audio-only content, Audio-Visual content, and Visual-only content between Subscribers on a Telephone call after it is in a talking state. The Content Sharing service could be offered to telephony subscribers where it becomes another vertical telephony feature like Ring-Back Tone service. The Subscriber to this Content Sharing service will be given the ability to access and select content that will be played while on an active telephone call. All the subscribers connected on the telephone call will be given the ability to control the playing of the content. The content itself will be managed by a centralized Content Server allowing control by the Content Providers of the content provided to subscribers. The content being shared can be stored centrally on a server or be content stored directly by the user on their terminal devices. Additionally, a method of control over content playback, similar to that offered in Content Sharing service, is defined to enhance Ring-Back Tone service and Video Ring-Back Tone service. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080362 | Unified Greeting Service for Telecommunications Events - A technique is disclosed that enables a telecommunications user to initially enter a greeting message in a single media format such as either voice or text. Subsequently, this greeting message is used by a server in response to any communication event that arrives for the user, such as a voice call or an email message, regardless of the media format of the arriving communication event. When the server receives arrival notifications of various communication events, it generates a customized greeting message in response to that event and in the same media format as the event itself. In other words, the server represents a previously-prepared outgoing voice or text message i) as a voice message in response to an incoming voice call and ii) as a textual message in response to an email, SMS text message, or instant message. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080363 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACKNOWLEDGING AN INCOMING PHONE CALL - An embodiment of a method, system, and apparatus for acknowledging an incoming call includes receiving an incoming call request addressed to a first communication device from a second communication device, and forwarding the incoming call request to the first communication device. The method further includes receiving an acknowledgment indication from the first communication device that the incoming call request has been received by a user of the first communication device. The method still further includes connecting a call between the second communication device and a media server in response to receiving the acknowledgment indication. In at least one embodiment, the media server is configured to play an acknowledgment voice message to the second communication device. A further embodiment includes sending a reminder message to the first communication device if the user of the first communication device has not initiated a return call to the second communication device within a predetermined time period. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080364 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ACTIVE COPRESENCE OF USERS DURING INTERACTIONS - A system is described for determining the active copresence of users during interactions. The system may include a processor, a memory, and an interface. The memory may store a degree of active copresence. The interface may communicate with a user. The processor may identify a primary interaction of the user. The processor may determine whether the user engages in a secondary interaction while the user is engaged in the primary interaction. The processor may determine the degree of active copresence of the user during the primary interaction based on a quality score of the primary interaction and a quality score of the secondary interaction. The degree of active copresence may represent the level of engagement of the user during the primary interaction. The processor may provide the degree of active copresence to the user via the interface. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080365 | OFFLINE VOICEMAIL - A method for accessing offline voicemail messages within a mobile messaging application may be provided. First, a voice mail message may be received and the voicemail message may be transcribed to text. Next, the voicemail message and the text transcription may be stored. The recipient may then be presented with a list of voicemail messages and the voicemail message may be retrieved in response to the recipient. The recipient may read or listen to the voicemail message or both. The recipient may also annotate the voicemail message. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080366 | CALL PROCESSING BASED ON CALL PATTERNS AND OTHER CRITERIA - The patent application describes techniques for managing calls. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises detecting a call to a target phone; determining a source of the call; determining one or more patterns of talk time for calls between the source and the target phone, wherein the patterns indicate one or more call durations for the calls between the source and the target phone; determining an amount of talk time a battery in the target phone can sustain; determining that at least one of the call durations for the calls between the source and target phone is greater than the amount of talk time the battery in the target phone can sustain; and sending the call to a voice mail associated with the target phone. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080367 | PHONE-LINE POWERED LIGHTING DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING SAME - A telephone service provider or alarm company, supplies phone-line-power for auxiliary, backup, and/or emergency lighting in residential, commercial and/or industrial facilities at a reasonable charge in exchange for providing, maintaining and ensuring that lighting service and power will be available when needed such as under power failure situations. A phone-line-driven lighting device includes a sensor capable of detecting a primary power source. Once the sensor senses that the primary power source is not present, circuitry connects the device's phone line terminal to a light producing element, in turn powering the light producing element via a telephone line's DC or AC power. Such a device may include a control circuit which responds to a predetermined phone line signal, thereby controlling the operational state of the device. Such a signal could be broadcast in emergency or other informative situation by the provider of the phone line service. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080368 | Determining a use context for a telecommunications terminal user - A technique is disclosed that addresses a problem in managing the correct context in which a telecommunications terminal is utilized by its user—that is, a work use context, a personal use context, and so forth. The disclosed technique enables the automated management of use contexts by a terminal on behalf of its user, across the possibly multiple terminals that are utilized by the user. Each terminal manages the use contexts by utilizing temporal-, schedule-, spatial-, and proximity-related information, in combination with the terminal's current and/or anticipated usage by the user, in order to establish a use context that is currently appropriate for that user at that terminal. As part of establishing a use context, the terminal makes available to its user a predetermined set of user interface properties and a predetermined set of user profile properties. Such properties can include contact lists, applications, server links, logins, and so forth. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080369 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR SUBSCRIBER ACTIVITY - Methods and apparatus to respond to monitor subscriber activity are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first set of client telephone number (TN) data associated with a client and a current time period, and receiving a second set of client TN data associated with a prior time period. The example method also includes receiving a first set of subscriber activity data associated with the current time period, identifying a TN that is in the first set of subscriber activity data and is absent from at least one of the first or second sets of client TN data, and identifying the TN with at least one of a new inroad for a competitor or a new inroad for the client based on at least one activity code from the first set of subscriber activity data. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080370 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CREDIT-DEBIT OPERATIONS IN ACCOUNTS RELATED TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES - A method and a system for the management of telecommunication services provided by an operator to users and of telecommunication services, the method comprising: assigning a subscriber network identifier (IS) to each subscribed user; monitoring inbound communications toward the subscriber network identifiers (IS) assigned to subscribed users; creating, by virtue of means for creating and managing virtual accounts, a virtual account (CV) registered to each network identifier originating communications (IC); informing, by virtue of information means, at least the user or of telecommunication services who originates the communication toward the subscriber network identifier (IS) and/or the registrant of the network identifier originating communications (IC) of the existence and/or balance of the virtual account (CV). The telecommunication service management system comprises means for implementing the method. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080371 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING-SUPPORTED CALL SERVICE - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for advertising-supported call service are disclosed. According to one method, a SIP call setup message associated with a first call from a calling subscriber to a called subscriber is received. It is then determined whether the calling subscriber subscribes to a play advertisement pay less (PAPL) service. In response to determining that the calling subscriber subscribes to the PAPL service, an advertisement is presented to the calling subscriber via the subscriber's telephone, the call is connected to the called subscriber, and a reduced charge is effected for the call based on the PAPL service. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080372 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FRAUD DETECTION USING HOT OR COLD ORIGINATING ATTRIBUTES - An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A list of single-event attributes (e.g., hot or cold attributes) is generated and includes a network address of an end user host originating a data call or a calling party identification (e.g., Automatic Number Identification (ANI) or an originating Calling Line Identification (CLI)) for network access, wherein entries of the list specify values of the hot attributes. An attribute value associated with the data call is compared with the entries. A fraud alert is generated if the attribute value matches one of the entries. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080373 | Voice Over IP Method Of Determining Caller Identification - Before completing a call initiated at a calling telephony device for a called telephony device; caller identification information for the calling telephony device is obtained for the call. If standard caller identification information is not available, the caller is prompted to provide spoken caller identification information. The caller identification information is communicated to the called telephony device via a connectionless protocol such as VoIP where a continuing connection does not exist between communicating end points. The called party is given call disposition options. The process which controls this operation may be located anywhere in the network, including at switching equipment and at the called telephony device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080374 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND ELIMINATING THE SOURCE OF BACKGROUND NOISE IN MULTI-PARTY TELECONFERENCES - A mechanism is provided that allows participants on the conference call to identify, and then mute or filter, a participant(s) responsible for introducing the noise, regardless of whether the noise is caused by transmission impairments or by the participant(s) being in a noisy location. For example, individual users could be able to press a “test” button that could block each of the participants one at a time. This would allow the source of the noise to be identified. This “test button” could be one or more of provided at the endpoint(s), be enabled through a web interface or, for example, through a dedicated conference call interface at the endpoint(s) or at the conference bridge. The blocking of each participant could occur through interaction with the main PBX using, for example, in-band signaling to the PBX. Once the source(s) of the noise is identified, noise mitigation can be applied as needed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080375 | System and Method of Managing Conference Calls Through The Use of Filtered Lists of Participants - The system and method establish a conference call between a plurality of communication devices. Each communication device may have one or more participants. The number of participants on each communication device is determined. The system and method get a profile for each participant in the conference call. The profile contains at least one parameter. A filtered list of participants in the conference call is generated based on at least one parameter in the profiles. The filtered list of participants is then presented to various participants in the conference call. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING CALLS - A method and system of routing telephone calls from a calling party to a called party including placing a call to a called party, accessing context information associated with the called party, permitting the calling party to opt to continue with the call or terminate the call based on the accessed context information, wherein continuing with the call comprises connecting the call to the called party or selecting a redirection option with the call. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080377 | METHOD FOR REDUCING NON-VALUE ADDED TIME BETWEEN CALLS SERVICED AT A CALL CENTER - A method for reducing non-value added time between calls serviced at a call center includes selectively enabling an after-call-work state that is configured to be activated during a call from a subscriber vehicle when an advisor at the call center indicates a need for the after-call-work state. If the advisor does not activate the after-call-work state during the call, then upon completion of the call, automatically setting an operator station of the advisor to a call ready state. If, however, the advisor activates the after-call-work state during the call, then upon completion of the call, the method includes activating the after-call-work state. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080378 | Accommodating telecommunications call-center - A call center is described in which a caller to a call center is given a choice of which specific call-center agent the caller prefers to speak with. To assist the caller in making an informed decision, the call center provides the caller with: an indicium of two or more call-center agents, an indicium of an estimate of the amount of time before the caller can communicate with each of the call-center agents, an indicium of a satisfaction rating of each call-center agent, and other factors. The caller can then convey his or her preference to the call center, which will attempt to honor the preference by connecting the caller with the preferred call-center agent. This increases the likelihood that the caller will be connected with a call-center agent who is well-suited to dealing with the caller, which is beneficial to both the caller and the call center. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080379 | INTELLIGIBILITY BOOST - A user of a communications device is given the ability to conveniently control the quality of the sound he is hearing during a call. An acoustic transducer interface circuit of the device has volume settings that are set by the user actuating a volume adjustment button or switch. In addition, the device has one or more intelligibility boost settings that are also selected by actuating the volume adjust button. Once the device has been signaled into the highest volume setting in response to actuation of the button in a given direction, and the next actuation of the button is also in the given direction, a downlink voice signal processor of the device responds to the next actuation by changing its audio frequency response to boost intelligibility of the far end user's speech being heard by the near end user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080380 | Method and Apparatus for Supplying DC Feed to a Subscriber Line - A subscriber line apparatus including linefeed driver circuitry for providing a DC feed for a tip line and a ring line of the subscriber line from a power supply in accordance with linefeed driver control signals. Bypass circuitry couples the tip and ring lines to the power supply in accordance with a power mode control. The tip and ring lines are coupled to the power supply through the linefeed driver circuitry in a first power mode. The linefeed driver circuitry is bypassed to couple the tip and ring lines to the power supply in a second power mode. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080381 | Method and Apparatus for Supplying DC Feed to a Subscriber Line - A subscriber line apparatus including linefeed driver circuitry for providing a DC feed for a tip line and a ring line of the subscriber line from a power supply in accordance with linefeed driver control signals. Bypass circuitry couples the tip and ring lines to the power supply in accordance with a power mode control. The tip and ring lines are coupled to the power supply through the linefeed driver circuitry in a first power mode. The linefeed driver circuitry is bypassed to couple the tip and ring lines to the power supply in a second power mode. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080382 | Telecommunications-Terminal Mute Detection - The subject matter provides a method that enable detecting if a party engaged into a tele-conference call is attempting to engage into conversation while a microphone is in a mute mode. The method provides receiving of a signal. The signal is then analyzed to determining if a party is attempting to engage into conversation. If it is determined that the party is attempting to engage in the conversation then an alarm is transmitted indicating the mode of operation of the microphone. The transmitted alarm may be an audio alert or a visual alert. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080383 | SECURE PROVISIONING OF A PORTABLE DEVICE USING A REPRESENTATION OF A KEY - A portable device initially accesses a secure server and requests a certificate. The secure server generates a random key and encodes the generated key to generate a representation of the key, such as a two-dimensional bar code or an audio signal, and communicated to a local device, such as a laptop or desktop computer, using a web interface. The local device is used to present the representation of the key to a mobile device. The mobile device then captures the representation of the key from the local device, for example using an image capture device or audio capture device, and extracts the key by decoding the representation of the key. The key is then stored by the mobile device and used to securely communicate with the secure server without manually entering the key. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080384 | Systems and Methods for Integrating Interactive Features Into Multiple Media Content Sources - One embodiment, among others, includes a method for editing video. The method comprises receiving a plurality of media files and receiving specified special effects corresponding to each of the plurality of media files. Based on the received plurality of media files and the specified special effects for each of the plurality of media files, a single output is generated whereby the special effects are incorporated and where the plurality of media files are unmodified. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080385 | ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION FOR SELECTIVELY DELIVERING A MESSAGE TO MULTIPLE DECRYPTING DEVICES - Reduces message length of encrypted message to be transmitted selectively to plurality of decrypting devices. An encrypting device includes a generating unit for generating node associating information configured to associate respective terminal nodes in a tree structure with each decrypting device in relation to a group of decrypting devices enabled for decryption, an extracting unit for extracting a decryption enabled node containing decrypting devices in descendant terminal nodes and not containing a decrypting device with decryption disabled in any of the descendant terminal nodes, and a unit for encrypting the message by use of a node encryption key for the decryption enabled node. Decrypting devices include specifying unit for specifying terminal node associated with decrypting device based on node associating information, and a decrypting unit for decrypting encrypted message using a node decryption key for any decryption enabled nodes ranging from terminal node to root node thereof. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080386 | Generating Identical Numerical Sequences Utilizing a Physical Property and Secure Communication Using Such Sequences - Substantially identical numerical sequences known only to stations A and B are generated in a manner not subject to duplication by an eavesdropper and not subject to cryptanalytic attack because they are not derived using a mathematical function (such, as for example, factoring). The sequences are independently derived utilizing a physical phenomena that can only be “measured” precisely the same at stations A and B. Signals are simultaneously transmitted from each station toward the other through a communication channel having a characteristic physical property capable of modifying the signals in a non-deterministic way, such as causing a phase shift. Each signal is “reflected” by the opposite station back toward its station of origin. The effect of the communication channel is “measured” by comparing original and reflected signals. Measured differences are quantized and expressed as numbers. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080387 | PORTABLE MEMORY AND A METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING THE SAME - The present invention provides a portable memory, comprising: a key storage unit for storing a register key for the portable memory; a key receiving unit for receiving a first key entered by a user and generating a second key based on the first key; an identification unit for comparing the second key with the register key to obtain a comparison result; a key generation unit for generating an encryption/decryption key if the comparison result indicates that the second key matches the register key; a chip for encrypting/decrypting a data stream exchanged between a computer and the portable memory by using the encryption/decryption key. The portable memory constitutes a system itself, and thus can perform encryption/decryption operations independent of external systems, resulting in a reduced cost. The present invention also provides a method of encrypting a portable memory. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080388 | Apparatus and method for improving in-game communications during a game - The present invention is directed to an apparatus for improving communications between players and coaches during a sporting event, more specifically allowing players to dynamically receive real-time communications from their coaches concerning intended game plays to be effected on the field or court. Said game apparatus comprises of a transparent, protective top cover having the same contour as a middle portion, wherein said middle portion is provided with a display element, and wherein said top cover, middle portion and the display element are all enclosed by a rear cover forming a housing for a receiving means for receiving an encrypted signal of an intended game play from a portable remote terminal, and wherein said top cover, middle portion, display element and housing are positioned on an upper portion of an elasticized band, which has an extended flap, wherein said extended flap includes a closing means used to secure the game apparatus and to conceal the display element from public view. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080389 | System and method for improving in-game communications during a game - The present invention is directed to a system and method for improving communications between players and coaches during a sporting event, more specifically allowing coaches to dynamically transmit secure real-time communications of an intended game plays in text, visual, sketch and/or verbal format to their players or other coaches on/off the field to be effected on the field during a game. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING GAME PLAY INSTRUCTIONS TO PLAYERS DURING A GAME - The present invention is directed to a system and method of distributing game play instructions to players during a game, more specifically a system and method for allowing a portable remote terminal and/or a game apparatus to dynamically transmit and/or receive in game instructions in real-time concerning game play instructions to be effected on the field or court, and to be distributed to one, a plurality, or all team players wearing a headgear configured to receive audio transmissions of the game play instructions from a game play apparatus, another headgear and/or the portable remote terminal. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080391 | Auditing Data Integrity - Various approaches are described for auditing integrity of stored data. In one approach, a data set is provided from a client to a storage provider, and the data set is stored at a first storage arrangement by the storage provider. An auditor determines whether the data set stored at the first storage arrangement is corrupt without reliance on any part of the data set and any derivative of any part of the data set stored by the client. While the auditor is determining whether the data set stored at the first storage arrangement is corrupt, the auditor is prevented from being exposed to information specified by the data set. The auditor outputs data indicative of data corruption in response to determining that the data set stored at the first storage arrangement is corrupt. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080392 | Key Management In Storage Libraries - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for managing encryption keys in a storage library. One method includes using a tape library to determine which key manager is selected for data encryption operations to a tape drive when multiple different key managers exist in a storage system. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080393 | Cryptographic Key Management In Storage Libraries - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for managing encryption keys in a storage library. One method includes receiving a request to read or write data to a tape drive; initiating, by the tape drive, a request for an encryption key to encrypt or decrypt the data; and transmitting the encryption to key to the tape drive through an out-of-band path. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080394 | QKD transmitter and transmission method - In order to facilitate alignment of a QKD transmitter and QKD receiver, the transmitter is provided with a retro-reflector for returning to the receiver a photon beam originating at the latter. The transmitter is arranged to polarization modulate the retro-reflected beam. The transmitter is provided both with an intensity detector for generating an indication of retro-reflected photon intensity, and an intensity-dependent controller for controlling the QKD transmitter in dependence on the detected photon intensity. In one embodiment, this control involves aborting operation of the QKD transmitter upon an unexpectedly high photon intensity being detected; in another embodiment, the intensity indication is used to control the attenuation of the retro-reflected beam so as stabilize the average retro-reflected photon count per unit time. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080395 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC METHOD FOR A WHITE-BOX IMPLEMENTATION - A cryptographic method is implemented in a white-box implementation thereof. The method comprises applying a plurality of transformations ( | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080396 | Sound image localization processor, Method, and program - There are provided: a means ( | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080397 | AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A decoded sound analysis unit ( | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080398 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEARING DEVICE FITTING - The method for manufacturing an adjusted hearing device ( | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080399 | Method For Reducing Vehicle Noise - A method for reducing noise in a vehicle by reducing under certain conditions the rotational speed of certain rotational components. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080400 | EAR-WORN SPEAKER-CARRYING DEVICES - An ear-worn speaker carrying device (“ESD”) incorporating active ambient noise reduction circuitry is provided with a seal intended to contact or surround the ear of a user; the seal being intended to present a substantial impedance to inward or outward transmission of sound to or from the ear. At least one acoustic channel of predetermined dimensions bypasses the seal to providing an acoustic leakage path of known characteristics, thereby permitting predetermined levels of sound to enter and exit by way of the channel, such that minor variations in leakage, dependent, for example, upon precise mounting of the seal to the ear as used from time to time, are rendered relatively unimportant. In a preferred embodiment, the device further comprise conduit connected to vent the speaker's rear surface to the external ambient, and respective exit apertures for the acoustic channel and the acoustic conduit are so relatively located that sounds exiting from them tend to cancel each other, reducing sound emissions from the device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080401 | Vehicle Audio System Surround Modes - A signal processor for use in a vehicle audio system provides multiple operating modes. A first mode provides substantially equal total sound pressure levels at each seating location. A first equalization pattern provides a substantially similar frequency response at each of the seating locations, and a first balance configuration provides substantially similar balance patterns at each of the seating locations. A second mode provides greater sound pressure levels at a first seating location than at other seating locations. A second equalization pattern results in a frequency response at the first seating location that is substantially smoother than the frequency responses at other seating locations, and a second balance configuration results in the balance pattern at the first seating location being substantially more balanced than the balance patterns at other seating locations. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080402 | System and Method for Volume Control Based on Location - A system and method control a volume based on location. The system comprises a switch and an asset. The switch is for a network including an operating area for a region. The region is divided into a plurality of zones. The asset is disposed in one of the zones. The asset includes an audio output device. The audio output device is set to a predetermined volume level as a function of one of the plurality of the zones in which the asset is disposed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080403 | Post phase-inverter volume control - A post phase-inverter master volume regulator for use in combination with a tube-type musical amplifier having a phase-inverter tube. The signals at both sides of the phase-inverter tube's DC voltage plate are extracted from the amplifier for processing by the master volume regulator. In one embodiment, such signals are extracted by inserting a male/female tube base between the amplifier's phase-inverter tube and its socket. The two voltage plate signals are then transmitted through a multiconductor umbilical to an exterior enclosure. Each signal is connected to ground through its respective user adjustable rheostat, permitting the user to simultaneously change the inverter-tube's two voltage signals (and vary the amplifier's volume). The regulator may also include circuitry adapted to provide a bass-boost, and/or a high frequency cutoff. Sometimes, first and second volume controls may be provided to permit a user to quickly change between two volume settings. In another embodiment, a dual-ganged pot, for controlling the volume, would be mounted directly in the tube base, thereby eliminating the need for an umbilical and an exterior enclosure. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080404 | DRIVE UNIT MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DRIVE UNIT - The present invention provides a drive unit manufacturing method including the steps of: preparing a conducting wire which contains at least copper and forms a voice coil for conversion between sound and electric signals and arranging the conducting wire on a land which is formed on a board that the voice coil is arranged on and is provided for transmitting the electric signals; and connecting the conducting wire and the land by resistance welding. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080405 | SILICON CONDENSER MICROPHONE PACKAGE - A silicon condenser microphone package includes a printed circuit board, a cover mounted on the printed circuit board, and a transducer unit and a controlling circuit both attached to the printed circuit board. An inner board is located in the cover. The sensitivity and frequency response of the silicon condenser microphone package is desirable. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080406 | PUSH-PULL TYPE SPEAKER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A push-pull type speaker device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The speaker device includes a frame, a permanent magnet installed within the frame using a fixing device, a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm installed in opposite end portions of the frame, a pair of electromagnets, respectively corresponding to the first and second diaphragm, each installed at a distance from the permanent magnet,; and a power source driver for supplying current to the pair of electromagnets, wherein a winding direction of each electromagnet is formed such that, when current is provided from the power source driver to each of the electromagnets, the pair of electromagnets have an opposite magnetic flux direction. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080407 | Hearing aid device with a directional microphone system as well as method of operating such a hearing aid device - In a hearing aid device with a directional microphone system it is always to be possible to set the highest possible level of both directional effect and also amplification. To this end it is proposed that the directional effect be set as a function of the amplification set at the time. In particular a maximum directional effect that cannot be exceeded is defined depending on the amplification and stored in the hearing aid device. This makes it possible for the user to always have the greatest possible degree of directional effect with his hearing aid device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080408 | Method for operating a hearing aid and hearing aid - The invention relates to a method for operating a hearing aid as well as a hearing aid which is operated with the method. An original acoustic signal is detected. At least one original signal amplitude of the original signal is determined in the frequency domains. At least one discrete transposition signal amplitude is shifted from its original frequency to a transposition frequency. A signal change which can be perceived by the human ear is impressed onto the transposition signal amplitude. The hearing aid includes a microphone, a receiver and a signal processing apparatus. The signal processing apparatus executes the method according to the invention. The invention enables a hearing aid wearer to render distinguishable the frequency transposed signal parts in a superimposition region and the non-transposed signal parts which are available there from the outset. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080409 | Dual-mode loudspeaker - An apparatus uses a transducer to produce vibration in the ultrasonic frequency range and in the audible frequency range. A membrane or cantilever structure is coupled to the transducer to produce acoustic waves. When the vibration is in the audible frequency range, the membrane structure works like a conventional loudspeaker. When the vibration is in the ultrasonic frequency range, the ultrasonic signal is modulated by audio signal for creating better directivity. The acoustic waves in the ultrasonic frequency range can reproduce directional audible sound due to the nonlinear interaction of ultrasonic waves in air. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080410 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING USE OF A PHOTOGRAPH IN DIGITAL SYSTEMS - A photograph processing system that prevents the unpermitted use of photographic media containing a depiction of a protected person, view or item. A permission object is located in physical proximity to the person, view or object being protected. A photograph including the permission object will contain a depiction of the permission object. When the photograph is processed, the photograph processing system scans the photograph for a permission object. If a permission object is found, the system further processes the photograph according to the permission associated with the permission object. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080411 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATICALLY CRAWL THE INTERNET USING IMAGE ANALYSIS - Methods and apparatus to automatically crawl the Internet using image analysis are disclosed. An example method to visually identify components of a web page includes rendering a web page in a web browser to generate an image, and visually analyzing at least a portion of the image with a machine to detect a region containing a possible web page component. The example method further includes automatically determining a type of the detected web page component and storing the web page component type and a location of the portion of the web page. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080412 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF GRAPHICALLY CONVEYING A STRENGTH OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS - An exemplary method includes generating a graphic configured to represent a strength of communication between a user and another user and modifying the graphic based on at least one factor associated with one or more communications between the users. An exemplary system includes a storage facility configured to maintain data associated with a strength of communication between a user and another user and a strength of communication facility configured to generate a graphic configured to graphically represent the strength of communication in accordance with the data. The strength of communication facility is further configured to modify the graphic based on a change in at least one factor associated with one or more communications between the users. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080413 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO TRANSMISSION AND PROCESSING WITH CUSTOMIZED WATERMARKING DELIVERY - Methods and systems for video transmission and processing with customized watermarking delivery are disclosed and may include watermarking data at a communication device utilizing received global positioning (GPS) data and communicating the watermarked video data to a receiving communication device. The receiving communication device may verify the watermarked data, and may determine whether to render the received watermarked data based on the verification. The communication device may include an edge device, and may receive a feedback signal communicated from the receiving communication device. The watermarking of subsequently processed data may be adjusted based on the received feedback signal, which may include GPS data and/or device parameters corresponding to the receiving communication device. The watermarked video data communicated to the receiving communication device may be adjusted based on one or more device parameters corresponding to the receiving communication device and/or GPS information. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080414 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ATTACHING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - An image analyzing section acquires information on a type of a subject as an image attribute using an image analysis technique, and if the subject is a human, information on clothes of the human as the image attribute. In an additional information DB, there are provided plural pieces of candidate additional information which possibly become additional information, plural reference attributes for each piece of the candidate additional information, and individual compatibility degrees for the respective reference attributes. For every piece of the candidate additional information, a sum of the individual compatibility degrees of the reference attributes which are correlated with the image attributes acquired from the image are calculated as a total compatibility degree. The candidate additional information having the total compatibility degree equal to or higher than a certain value is selected as additional information. A tag having this additional information is attached to an image file. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080415 | OBJECT-TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system and method for tracking, identifying, and labeling objects or features of interest is provided. In some embodiments, tracking is accomplished using unique signature of the feature of interest and image stabilization techniques. According to some aspects a frame of reference using predetermined markers is defined and updated based on a change in location of the markers and/or specific signature information. Individual objects or features within the frame may also be tracked and identified. Objects may be tracked by comparing two still images, determining a change in position of an object between the still images, calculating a movement vector of the object, and using the movement vector to update the location of an image device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080416 | EYE DETECTION SYSTEM USING A SINGLE CAMERA - A system and a method for detecting the eyes of a driver of a vehicle using a single camera. The method includes determining a set of positional parameters corresponding to a driving seat of the vehicle. The camera is positioned at a pre-determined location inside the vehicle, and a set of parameters corresponding to the camera is determined. The location of the driver's eyes is detected using the set of positional parameters, an image of the driver's face and the set of parameters corresponding to the camera. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080417 | Object-Tracking Systems and Methods - A system and method for tracking, identifying, and labeling objects or features of interest is provided. In some embodiments, tracking is accomplished using unique signature of the feature of interest and image stabilization techniques. According to some aspects a frame of reference using predetermined markers is defined and updated based on a change in location of the markers and/or specific signature information. Individual objects or features within the frame may also be tracked and identified. Objects may be tracked by comparing two still images, determining a change in position of an object between the still images, calculating a movement vector of the object, and using the movement vector to update the location of an image device. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080418 | PORTABLE SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUAL DETECTION APPARATUS, SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUAL DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Cameras provided to glasses successively take subject images around a wearer of the glasses. The subject images are searched to detect human face regions, and if human face regions are detected, feature quantities of each face are calculated to detect the face direction and the eye direction, and an eye-gaze direction is detected based on them. Whether or not each person with the detected human face region is looking at the cameras is determined from the eye-gaze direction, and if there is a human face looking at the cameras for a given period of time or more, a person with the human face is determined as being a suspicious individual, and a warning message indicating the detection of the suspicious individual is output to the wearer. Furthermore, the detection information and images can be provided to a device in a remote location. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080419 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An image processing device comprising a camera to pick up frame images at the times, a basic template creating portion to create a basic template of a picked-up object in the first image, an image transformation parameter calculating portion to calculate a transformation matrix to execute an image transformation of an object of the first image to an object of the second image, a template transforming portion to create a transformation template by transforming the basic template with the transformation matrix, and a template matching processing portion to execute a template matching processing to the second image with the transformation template to detect the object and to determine that the picked-up object in the second image is identical to the basic template when a matching degree by the matching means is higher than a specified degree. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080420 | Image classification program, image classification device, and electronic camera - An image classification program that is executed by a computer includes a first processing step of calculating feature values on the basis of the pixel densities of images, a second processing step of performing calculating in a space defined by the feature values, and a third processing step of grouping images that correspond to feature values that have been divided by the clustering. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080421 | Apparatus and method for eye margin calculating, and computer-readable recording medium recording program therefof - A center location of an eye pattern generated by superimposing waveform signal pieces cut out from a waveform signal generated by a simulator is calculated, and an arrangement of a mask as a quality evaluation criterion of the eye pattern on the center location is envisaged to calculate time coordinate values and voltage coordinate values of feature points included in the mask. First feature points not on a time axis is set as processing objects, and a margin in the voltage axis direction is calculated based on the voltage coordinate values of the first feature points and the voltage coordinate values of waveform signal piece parts associated with the first feature points. Second feature points on the time axis is set as processing objects, and a margin in the time axis direction is calculated based on the time coordinate values of the second feature points and the time coordinate values of waveform signal piece parts associated with the second feature points. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080422 | Finger Vein Authentication Apparatus and Finger Vein Authentication Method - A finger vein authentication apparatus includes an image pickup device that creates two kinds of picked-up images by performing line scanning in both of a direction along a lengthwise direction of a finger and a direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of the finger, and an imaging range detection unit that detects a relative position of an imaging range of the finger by using at least one of a crease pattern near a first joint and a crease pattern near a second joint of the finger existing in at least one of two kinds of vein patterns. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080423 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The image processing apparatus displays a list of individual information from which individual information selected by the individual information selecting unit and individual information lapped over the individual information included in the retrieved individual groups are excluded from individual information included in individual groups retrieved by the individual group retrieval unit, and the individual group retrieval unit narrows down individual groups to be retrieved by adding on individual information designated from the individual information displayed in the list. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080424 | FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD - A fingerprint authentication system with a slide sensor provides guidance to help the user swipe his or her fingertip across the slide sensor at the ideal speed by modulating a pulse signal according to the swipe speed and converting the modulated pulse signal to an audible tone with a pitch that varies with the swipe speed, or to an equivalent visible display. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080425 | Minutiae-based template synthesis and matching - A method of determining a match between a candidate template and a super-template involves using the super-template to identify i) spatial coordinates for a plurality of minutiae that define an object, and ii) a quality associated with each minutiae. For sets of the super-template minutiae having at least two defined minutiae qualities, at least one Delaunay triangle is computed for each set. A match between the candidate template and the super-template is determined by determining a correspondence of Delaunay triangles in the candidate and super-templates, which correspondence results in an alignment of at least some minutiae of the candidate template with at least some minutiae of the super-template. Related methods, articles and apparatus are also disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080426 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING IMPLANTED RECONSTRUCTIVE PROSTHETIC DEVICES - A method for identifying implanted reconstructive prosthetic devices comprising obtaining a digital radiographic image of a prosthetic implant that has been implanted in a person or animal for which the manufacturer and/or model is unknown; allowing a user to enter into a computer metadata relating to the implant for use as metadata feature values; cleaning up the unknown implant image; rotating, flipping and/or scaling the unknown implant image; extracting features from the unknown implant image according to one or more feature extraction algorithms; and comparing the metadata and extracted feature values for the unknown implant image to feature values for other implant images according to a comparison algorithm to create an overall likelihood score for each of the other implant images. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080427 | Systems and Methods for Machine Learning Based Hanging Protocols - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for determining a hanging protocol for display of clinical images in a study. Certain embodiments provide a method for determining a hanging protocol for clinical image display. The method includes capturing one or more high level characteristics for an image study based on relationships between images in the study. The method also includes identifying one or more low level characteristics for individual images in the image study. The method further includes classifying the image study based on a combination of the high level characteristics and the low level characteristics. The method additionally includes determining a hanging protocol for the image study based on the classifying. The method includes providing the hanging protocol for display of images in the image study. | 2010-04-01 |
| 20100080428 | Method for evaluating at least one image data record - A method is disclosed for evaluating at least one image data record, in particular a magnetic resonance image data record, of a region of a patient including at least one joint. In at least one embodiment of the method, at least one image data record of the region is first of all recorded, the image data record is segmented with respect to at least one mechanically relevant component of the joint in order to determine segmentation information, a patient movement model is generated on the basis of the segmentation information and/or the patient movement model is selected from a database of movement models, and joint information relating to the motions of the joint is determined from the patient movement model. | 2010-04-01 |
