| 14th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
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| 20130083090 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTROL APPARATUS - An image display system includes a screen capable of switching a state thereof between a scatter state in which the screen scatters light and a transmission state in which the screen transmits light by changing the magnitude of a voltage applied to the screen, a projector that projects video image light modulated in accordance with an image signal on the screen to display an image on the screen, and a controller that controls operation of driving the screen and the projector, wherein the controller instructs the projector to project the video image light on the screen that operates in the scatter state and instructs the screen to change the degree of light scattering in the scatter state in accordance with a luminance level of the image displayed on the screen. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083091 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Liquid crystal display where grayscale inversion is reduced. The liquid crystal cell having pixel groups, each group comprising a red (R) pixel, a green (G) pixel, a blue (B) pixel, and a white (W) pixel, the liquid crystal display further comprising drive means that applies a voltage V | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083092 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus which improves uniformity in luminance of RGB pixels by asymmetrically designing RGB pixels, and to enhances display quality, the apparatus comprises a red pixel switching element that switches a driving signal of the red pixel; a green pixel for transmitting green-colored light; a green pixel switching element that switches a driving signal of the green pixel; a blue pixel for transmitting blue-colored light; and a blue pixel switching element that switches a driving signal of the blue pixel, wherein a switching element of at least one pixel having relatively low luminance among the red pixel, green pixel and blue pixel is formed in the pixel area having relatively high luminance. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083093 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including: plurality of data lines; a charging line formed in a direction crossing the plurality of data lines; and charging switches connected between the charging line and the data lines. The charging line inputs a charging voltage and the charging switches are individually controlled in data line. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083094 | FOUR COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONVERTING IMAGE SIGNAL THEREOF - One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to a four color image display device. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first pixel adapted to display a first color, a second pixel adapted to display a second color, a third pixel adapted to display a third color, and a white pixel adapted to display a first white. In one aspect, the first to third pixels are adapted to display a second white in combination, and a ratio of the first white and the second white varies according to a gray. Accordingly, a greenish phenomenon of a low-luminance white light in a four color display device may be reduced. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083095 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGES THEREOF - A method for displaying 3D images of a display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel and a backlight module. The method includes determining a first turn-on time length of the backlight module according to a gray level of at least a pixel of a first frame; when the display panel displays the first frame, turning on the backlight module for the first turn-on time length; determining a second turn-on time length of the backlight module according to a gray level of at least a pixel of a second frame; and when the display panel displays the second frame, turning on the backlight module for the second turn-on time length. The method for displaying 3D images can reduce crosstalk effect of the display device. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083096 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In an embodiment, an authentication system includes a base unit to receive a replaceable supply device, a controller integrated into the base unit, known characteristic data accessible by the controller, and an authentication algorithm executable on the controller to authenticate the supply device if a known characteristic measured on the supply device matches the known characteristic data. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083097 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND LIQUID CARTRIDGES - A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head that ejects liquid, a hollow needle that communicates with the liquid ejection head, a moving mechanism that moves the hollow needle or a liquid cartridge such that the hollow needle penetrates a sealing member of the liquid cartridge, a reader that reads a data stored in a memory, and a controller that controls a speed of the hollow needle relative to the sealing member based on the data read by the reader. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083098 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS INCLUDING DISPLAY CONTROL UNIT DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN FINGERNAIL UNDER PRINTING AND FINGERNAIL NOT UNDER PRINTING TO DISPLAY FINGERNAIL - A nail print apparatus includes a print head and a display control unit. The print head performs printing on a plurality of fingernails. The display control unit distinguishes between an under-printing fingernail and a not-under-printing fingernail to display the fingernails. The under-printing fingernail is a fingernail under printing performed by the print head. The not-under-printing fingernail is a fingernail not under printing performed by the print head. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083099 | DEGASSING APPARATUS ON A LIQUID FEED LINE, AND AN INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A degassing apparatus of a liquid feed line for removing gas present in a liquid before feeding the liquid includes a degassing module for receiving, and removing the gas present in, the liquid. The apparatus is constructed and operated for removing gas in deionized water in a semiconductor process or in ink used in printing. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083100 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID - A liquid ejection apparatus, including: a head; a main tank storing liquid; a sub-tank for temporarily storing the liquid stored in the main tank, before the liquid is supplied to the head; a liquid amount detector for detecting a liquid amount in the sub-tank; a supplier for supplying the liquid from the main tank to the sub-tank; a first housing; a second housing holding the sub-tank, pivotable with respect to the first housing, and positioned at a close position at which the head is close to the first housing or a distant position at which the head is far from the first housing; and a controller for, when the second housing is located at the close position, controlling the liquid supply based on the detected liquid amount. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083101 | CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR CAUSING PRINT PERFORMING UNIT TO PERFORM PRINT - In a case where N1 lines (N1 being less than N which is a number of nozzles included in one nozzle line) of target line image data represent N1 lines of target line images to be printed by only one specific color of ink, and (N−N1) lines of remaining line image data include line image data which represents a line image to be printed by two or more colors of ink, the controlling device may select only the N1 lines of target line image data, so as to determine the opposite direction of the direction of the main scanning of a previous time as the direction of the main scanning of a present time. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083102 | LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS - A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head in which nozzles for jetting the liquid are formed and which has an actuator for jetting the liquid from the nozzles; an interposer substrate which is provided to the liquid jetting head and on which a driver IC is mounted; a control substrate which controls the liquid jetting head; a wire member which connects the interposer substrate and the control substrate; and a flexible circuit board which connects the interposer substrate and the actuator, wherein the interposer substrate has a first connecting portion to which the wire member is to be connected, and a second connecting portion to which the flexible circuit board is to be connected, and the driver IC is arranged nearer to the first connecting portion than the second connecting portion of the interposer substrate. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083103 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus, including: a liquid ejecting head having an ejection surface; a platen; a capping mechanism including: a first member opposed to the ejection surface with the platen interposed therebetween when image recording is performed; and a second member disposed around the head so as to cooperate with the first member to hermetically close an ejection space; a distance adjusting mechanism for adjusting a distance between the ejection surface and the first member; a platen moving mechanism for moving the platen between the facing position and a non-facing position at which the platen does not face the ejection surface; and a controller configured to control the platen moving mechanism such that the platen is located at the non-facing position and controls the distance adjusting mechanism such that the distance is equal to a members-abuttable distance that allows the second and first members to abut on each other. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083104 | INKJET PRINTER AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - In an inkjet printer, for forming a large dot on a recording paper in the course of image recording, a second ejection pulse ( | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083105 | INKJET PRINTER AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - In an inkjet printer, an ejecting part for K color is previously selected as an ejecting part for outputting three values used for formation of a large dot, formation of a medium dot, and non-ejection (step S | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083106 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS, AND INK-JET APPARATUS - A basic driving waveform which includes a plurality of jet pulses and a non-jet pulse just before the last jet pulse in one recording period is generated. A part of the pulses is removed from the basic driving waveform by maintaining at least the last jet pulse, and a driving signal that is applied to a discharge energy generation element is generated. In the case of using only the last jet pulse among the plurality of jet pulses is used for the jet, a first driving signal that includes the non-jet pulse just before the last jet pulse is generated. In the case of joining the last jet pulse and at least another jet pulse among the plurality of jet pulses to use the pulses for the jet, a second driving signal that is configured to remove the non-jet pulse is generated. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083107 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND ABNORMAL NOZZLE DETERMINATION METHOD - According to the present invention, the occurrence of an ejection abnormality can be determined at an early stage by using a waveform for abnormal nozzle determination, before an image defect producing a visible density non-uniformity (stripe non-uniformity) occurs due to an ejection defect in an output image recorded by a drive signal having a recording waveform. Consequently, recording stability and throughput can both be achieved. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083108 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet head which has a nozzle and an ejection energy generating element configured to cause droplets to be ejected from an ejection port of the nozzle; a head movement device which is configured to reciprocally move the inkjet head to scan a recording medium onto which the droplets ejected from the inkjet head are deposited; a linear encoder which is configured to output signals to determine a position of the inkjet head; an ejection trigger signal generating device which is configured to generate ejection trigger signals in accordance with the output signals of the linear encoder, the ejection trigger signals specifying ejection timings of the inkjet head with a temporal resolution of 0.1 μs order; and an ejection control device which is configured to cause the inkjet head to eject the droplets in accordance with the ejection timings specified by the ejection trigger signals. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083109 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a passage unit, a piezoelectric actuator, a drive signal generator, a driver, a voltage value changing unit, and an interval setting unit. The piezoelectric actuator applies energy to liquid in the passage unit. The drive signal generator generates a drive signal to be supplied to the piezoelectric actuator, based on a reference voltage value. The driver supplies the drive signal generated by the drive signal generator to the piezoelectric actuator. The voltage value changing unit changes the reference voltage value to a larger voltage value every time an accumulated time during which a voltage is applied between electrodes of the piezoelectric actuator satisfies a predetermined condition. The interval setting unit determines a new time interval to a next change of the reference voltage so that the new time interval is shorter than before, every time the reference voltage value is changed. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083110 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head including first and second head modules, each of the first and second head modules having recording elements arranged to perform a recording operation onto a recording medium, the first head module being arranged in a first orientation on the recording head, the second head module being arranged in a second orientation on the recording head, the second orientation being rotated from the first orientation; a signal processing device configured to select, from print data for one page, print data to be used in one recording operation respectively for the recording elements, and to arrange the selected print data in a prescribed recording element sequence for each of the first and second head modules regardless of the first and second orientations; and a data transfer device configured to transfer the arranged print data for each of the first and second head modules. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083111 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - In a mask pattern used in effecting multi-path recording, (A) a recording permission ratio in each pixel row of a non-boundary area of a first pattern portion corresponding to a first nozzle block is substantially a first value, and a recording permission ratio in each pixel row of a non-boundary area of a second pattern portion corresponding to a second nozzle block adjacent the first nozzle block is substantially a second value, and (B) in a boundary area including a boundary between the first pattern portion and the second pattern portion, the recording permission ratio in each pixel row is between the first value and the second value, and the recording permission ratios in each pixel line are made different depending on a position with respect to a scanning direction. In-band and inter-band unevenness and a connecting stripe are reduced by (A) and (B), respectively. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083112 | RECORDING SYSTEMS AND ADDITIONAL OUTPUT STACKERS USED THEREWITH - An image recording apparatus includes an apparatus-side transport destination switching unit that may switch selectively the transport destination of paper on which an image has been recorded between an apparatus-side output tray and an additional output stacker. The additional output stacker includes an additional output tray that may be configured to receive paper; a stacker-side transport unit that is configured to transport paper, which has been transported from the image recording apparatus, to the additional output tray; and a stacker-side controller that controls the transport destination switching unit of the image recording apparatus. When a paper jam is detected on the stacker-side transport unit, the additional unit controller controls the apparatus-side transport destination switching unit, so that the transport destination of the paper may be switched from the additional output tray to the apparatus-side output tray. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083113 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a conveyor, a recording controller, and a flashing controller. The conveyor conveys a recording medium along a conveyance path. The recording controller causes the conveyor to convey a recording medium, and controls liquid ejection from the liquid ejection head to form an image on the recording medium based on image data. The flashing controller causes the conveyor to temporarily stop conveyance of the recording medium, and causes liquid injection from the liquid ejection head based on drive data which is unrelated to image formation. The flashing controller determines timing for executing a subsequent flashing control on that, within a print enforceable period between one flashing control and the subsequent flashing control, the number of pages subjected to image formation based on image data increases with a decrease in time interval between image formation on one page and on another page. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083114 | PRINTER ASSEMBLY - A printer assembly is configured to be arranged on a support surface and comprises: a medium delivery station and a printing station comprising a moveably arranged element. The printer assembly extends between a first end and a second end, wherein the printer is configured to be supported on the support surface at the first end. The medium delivery station and the printing station are arranged on a line extending between the first end and the second end. The printing station is arranged closer to the first end than the medium delivery station. A direction of movement of the moveably arranged element is not parallel to said line extending between the first end and the second end. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083115 | INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM WITH CONDENSATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Methods for operating a printing system are provided. In one method, an inkjet printhead that is positioned by a support structure is caused to emit droplets of an ink including vaporizable carrier fluid toward a target area to emit droplets according to image data and a shield is used to separate the support structure from the target area to form a first region between the support structure and the shield and a second region between the shield and the target area with the shield providing an opening between the first region and the second region to allow the inkjet printhead to jet droplets to the target area. The shield is heated to a temperature that is at least equal to a condensation temperature of the vaporized carrier fluid in the second region. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083116 | Water-Based Ink for Ink-Jet Recording, Ink Cartridge, and Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus - A water-based ink for inkjet recording includes a self-dispersible pigment modified by phosphate group; water; a water-soluble organic solvent; a N-hydroxy cyclic imide compound; and at least one selected from the group consisting of boric acids, a chelate agent, a reducing sugar and a sugar alcohol. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083117 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an image forming method including an ink applying process that applies a water-based ink containing at least polymer particles, wax particles having a ratio of from 0.5% by mass to less than 8% by mass with respect to the total amount of the ink, colorant, and water, by an inkjet method (inkjetting), onto a recording base material which is an assembly of a non-absorptive or low-absorptive fiber material. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083118 | METHOD FOR RECORDING GLITTER IMAGE - A method for recording a glitter image includes attaching an ink composition to a recording medium using an ink jet method, attaching an adhesive composition to the ink composition which is attached to the recording medium using an ink jet method, bringing a sheet where a glitter film is formed into contact with the recording medium so that a surface where the adhesive composition is attached and a surface where the glitter film is formed are opposed, heating the adhesive composition, and peeling off the recording medium and the sheet. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083119 | METALLIC INK JET PRINTING SYSTEM FOR GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS - A multi-phase system for creating a metallic effect on a substrate, comprising applying to the substrate a first ink jet ink comprising a dispersion of reflective metallic particles in a suitable carrier system, to form a reflective coating layer; and applying a second ink jet ink over the reflective coating layer to form a protective coating layer. Optionally, an undercoat layer is printed on the substrate prior to applying the first ink jet ink. The second ink jet comprises at least one crosslinkable polymer or is otherwise energy curable. The second ink jet ink optionally imparts a color to the metallic image. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083120 | WIDE-ARRAY INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH A SHROUD - A wide-array inkjet printhead assembly with a shroud includes a backbone, an array of die in which the die are mounted on die carriers. The die carriers are attached to the backbone and include support features. The shroud includes a capping surface, with a surface profile that deviates from a reference plane by more than a target deviation. The support features interface with and support an undersurface of shroud such that the capping surface of the shroud, when biased against the support features, deviates from the reference plane by no more than the target deviation. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083121 | LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS - A liquid jetting apparatus is provided including: a liquid jetting head having a nozzle formed therein through which the liquid is jetted; a driving unit which is configured to output energy to the liquid jetting head; an energy recovery mechanism which is configured to recover and supply a part of the energy supplied from the driving unit to the liquid jetting head; and a mist removing unit to which the part of the energy recovered by the energy recovery mechanism is supplied so that the supplied energy is used to remove a mist generated under a condition that the liquid jetting head jets the liquid. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083122 | OPERATING MECHANISM FOR AN INKJET PRINTER - A printer system includes a print head assembly that ejects a printing solution from a fixed position during a print period and a conveying mechanism operable to convey an operations assembly. The operations assembly executes servicing functions on the print head assembly during a non-print period. Furthermore, the print head assembly remains in the fixed position during the non-print period and the operations assembly provides support for a print medium during the print period. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083123 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND WIPING METHOD - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a head having an ejection face for ejecting liquid; a sealing mechanism which establishes a sealing state in which a sealed space is sealed; a humid-air supply/discharge mechanism which supplies a humid air into the sealed space via an air inlet and discharges the air from the sealed space via an air outlet; and a control device which controls an ejection-face wiper to wipe the liquid from the ejection face by causing its parallel movement with respect to the ejection face in a wiper moving direction directed from a first end area of the ejection face toward its second end area with the ejection-face wiper contacting the ejection face. The air inlet is provided at a position nearer to a downstream end of a moving path of the ejection-face wiper than to an upstream end thereof in the wiper moving direction. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083124 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - In an inkjet recording apparatus including an ink and solvent containers, they are coupled with each other through a first exhaust channel, an exhaust gas and ink mist within the ink container are supplied to the solvent container through the first exhaust channel, and the solvent container has an ink mist removal unit removing the ink mist supplied from the first exhaust channel. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083125 | RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet printer includes a carriage that includes a recording head which performs recording on a medium and is movable in a scanning direction of the recording head, a first sliding portion that is provided so as to be able to displace a relative position to a carriage main body in a direction in which a gap between the recording head and the medium changes and moves in the scanning direction together with the carriage, a guide member with which the first sliding portion makes contact and that is provided so as to extend in the scanning direction, and a gap adjusting unit that adjusts the gap by adjusting a position of the carriage main body relative to the first sliding portion. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083126 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE WITH PLANARIZED NOZZLE PLATE - A liquid ejection device includes: a plurality of feed holes, each feed hole including a feed opening on the device side of the substrate; a plurality of fluid passageways controlling the flow of liquid from the feed openings to the chamber; and a polymer forming the nozzle plate and the walls of the fluid passageways and chambers, the nozzle plate including a first side that forms the top of the chambers and fluid passageways and a second side opposite the first side that forms the top of the nozzle plate, wherein the first side of the nozzle plate defines a nominally planar surface in a region proximate the plurality of feed openings, and wherein the first side of the nozzle plate does not deviate from the nominally planar surface by more than three microns in a region proximate the plurality of feed openings. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083127 | MICRO-EJECTION DEVICE - There is provided a micro-ejection device including: an ejector ejecting a fluid; and a body having an installation space in which the ejector is installed, wherein the installation space is provided with a guide unit inducing a line-contact or a point-contact between the ejector and the body. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083128 | LIQUID JET HEAD AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid jet head in which a region of the liquid jet head on a side opposite to a liquid ejection side thereof is thinned to enhance efficiency of use of the region. A liquid jet head ( | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083129 | PRE-TREATMENT METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTACT LEVELING RADIATION CURABLE GEL INKS - A radiation curable gel ink printing system includes a radiation source that is configured to emit UV light having short wavelength components. The system is configured to transport a substrate having radiation curable gel ink deposited thereon to the radiation source to expose the ink to the radiation source; the exposure may be continuous or pulsed as appropriate. The radiation source may be configured a distance away from the ink on the substrate. The radiation source is configured to pre-treat the ink before spreading the ink at a contact-leveling nip wherein a contact member applies pressure to the ink against the substrate. The ink is preferentially cured to allow spreading of the ink by the contact member while limiting offset of the ink onto the contact member. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083130 | PLANAR HEATER STRUCTURES FOR EJECTION DEVICES - Disclosed is a method for fabricating a planar heater structure for an ejection device. The method includes providing a substrate wafer having a plurality of plugs configured therewithin. The method also includes depositing and patterning a layer of a second metallic material over the substrate wafer, providing a layer of a dielectric material of a predetermined thickness over the patterned layer of the second metallic material, and conducting chemical mechanical polishing of the layer of the dielectric material to form a planarized top surface while exposing the patterned layer of the second metallic material. The method further includes cleaning the planarized top surface, depositing and patterning a resistor film over the planarized top surface, depositing one or more blanket films over the patterned resistor film, and patterning and etching the one or more blanket films. Further disclosed are planar heater structures and additional methods for fabricating the planar heater structures. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083131 | THERMAL RESISTOR FLUID EJECTION ASSEMBLY - A thermal resistor fluid ejection assembly includes an insulating substrate and first and second electrodes formed on the substrate. A plurality of individual resistor elements of varying widths are arranged in parallel on the substrate and electrically coupled at a first end to the first electrode and at a second end to the second electrode. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083132 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, LIQUID-JETTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR - A piezoelectric actuator is provided, including a piezoelectric layer arranged on one surface of a base member; a plurality of driving electrodes arranged on one surface of the piezoelectric layer; a plurality of leading electrodes led from the driving electrodes to apply a voltage to the driving electrodes; and a low dielectric layer arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the leading electrode, and having a dielectric constant lower than that of the piezoelectric layer. Surroundings of driving areas of the piezoelectric layer including areas facing the plurality of driving electrodes are joined to the base member. The plurality of leading electrodes extend to outside of the driving areas, respectively, some of the plurality of leading electrodes being led in a predetermined first direction, and others of the plurality of leading electrodes being led in a second direction different from the first direction. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083133 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, ACTUATOR DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric element includes a lower electrode film disposed on a substrate, a piezoelectric layer | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083134 | Ink Jet Inks Containing Nanodiamond Black Colorants - A liquid ink including (a) a carrier and (b) a colorant comprising nanodiamond black. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083135 | CONDENSATION CONTROL IN AN INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM - Inkjet printing systems are provided. One inkjet printing system has a plurality of inkjet printheads, each having nozzles for jetting ink droplets having a vaporizable carrier fluid, a support structure to which the plurality of inkjet printheads are mounted, such that a face of each of the printheads of the plurality of printheads is positioned to jet the ink droplets toward a target area through which a receiver transport system moves a receiver during printing; and a shield between the support structure and the target area creating a first region between the shield and the target area with the shield having at least one opening through the shield through which the nozzles of the printhead can jet the ink droplets to the target area. An energy source supplies energy to cause the temperature of the shield to rise above a condensation temperature of vaporized carrier fluid in the second region. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083136 | FLUID EJECTION ASSEMBLY WITH CIRCULATION PUMP - A fluid ejection assembly includes a fluid slot formed in a first substrate and a channel formed in a chamber layer disposed on top of a second substrate. The bottom surface of the second substrate is adhered to the top surface of the first substrate and fluid feed holes are formed between the fluid slot and the channel. A fluid ejection element is at a first end of the channel and a pump element is at a second end of the channel to circulate fluid horizontally through the channel and vertically through the fluid feed holes. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083137 | INK SUPPLY RESERVOIR - An ink supply reservoir, and method of supplying ink, is described. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083138 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes a recording unit which ejects liquid to record an image, a tank having a storage chamber which stores liquid for the recording unit and a communication port which allows the liquid storage chamber to communicate with atmosphere, a first housing, and a second housing which holds the recording unit and the tank and is rotatable about an axis line relative to the first housing between a close position where the recording unit comes close to the first housing and a separate position where the recording unit is separated from the first housing. An upper surface of the storage chamber has two regions divided by an imaginary plane to have same area, which is parallel with the axis line and intersects with the upper surface, and the communication port is provided in a region of the two regions, which is away from the axis line. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083139 | CARTRIDGES - A cartridge including: an engagement portion disposed on a first surface facing a first direction, a first reservoir storing a first liquid including a colorant, a second reservoir storing a second liquid having a characteristic of coagulating the colorant, and a third reservoir storing a third liquid including water. Each of the first, the second, and the third reservoirs includes an outlet portion that directs liquid from an interior of the respective reservoirs to an exterior of the cartridge in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The outlet portions of the first, the second, and the third reservoirs do not overlap each other in the first direction. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083140 | Accumulator Bag and Carrier Sheet for Use in Manufacturing Printer Cartridges and Methods of Making Same - An apparatus useful in the assembly of printer cartridges includes a plurality of accumulator bags removeably secured to a carrier sheet. Each accumulator bag includes a first polymer film panel and a second polymer film panel welded together to form a pressurizable chamber with an aperture formed in the bag to provide access to the pressurizable chamber. An annular adhesive element is secured to each bag such that an aperture of the annular adhesive element is generally concentric with the aperture of the accumulator bag. The carrier sheet includes an upper adhesive stripe, a lower adhesive stripe, and a silicone stripe. The plurality of accumulator bags is removeably secured to the carrier sheet by adhering an upper portion of each bag to the upper adhesive stripe, adhering a lower portion of each bag to the lower adhesive stripe, and positioning the annular adhesive element in contact with the silicone stripe. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083141 | CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING APPARATUS - An ink cartridge has a label portion on a wall surface of one periphery of a case forming an ink accommodating unit. The label unit has a lamination structure in which a plurality of layers with different properties and states are laminated, and includes an optical functional layer that allows light (first wavelength of light) with a predetermined wavelength to pass and an optical reflective layer that reflects the first wavelength of light, and the optical reflective layer is a surface side of the case. When the optical reflective layer is heated from a thermal head of a heating unit directed to the label portion, the optical reflective layer irreversibly raises absorptivity of the first wavelength of light with respect to a received range. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083142 | CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING APPARATUS - An ink cartridge has a label portion on a wall surface of one periphery of a case forming an ink accommodating unit. The label unit has an optical functional layer that allows a predetermined wavelength of light to pass, an optical dispersion layer that includes hollow bodies, and an optical absorptive layer that absorbs the first wavelength of light, which are laminated in this order, and the optical absorptive layer is a surface side of the case. When the optical reflective layer is heated from a heating unit directed to the label portion at a temperature of damaging the hollow bodies, the dispersion of the light is suppressed by the damage to the hollow bodies, and the transmittance of the wavelength of light is irreversibly raised. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083143 | LIQUID JET HEAD AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - A head chip ( | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083144 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a platen provided with a suction-collection section which sucks in and collects ink discharged deviating from an end portion of recording medium. The ink-jet recording apparatus includes a suction force generation unit for collecting ink configured to enable the suction collection section to generate a suction force, a collection flow path connecting the suction collection section to the suction force generation unit for collection, and a flow path control unit configured to vary an sectional area of the collection flow path. The sectional area of the collection flow path is varied according to an image forming time or a type of the recording medium. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083145 | Water-Based Ink Set for Ink-Jet Recording, Water-Based Ink, and Ink-Jet Recording Method - A water-based ink set for ink-jet recording, includes two or more water-based inks each of which contains a colorant, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent; wherein at least one ink among the two or more water-based inks contains a dye represented by a general formula (1), and at least one ink among the two or more water-based inks contains a cationic polymer: | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083146 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a platen provided on a lower side of a first transporting path; a recording portion facing the platen; a contacting member contacts on the sheet; a transporting roller; a flap having a first surface defining the first transporting path and a second surface defining a second transporting path; a sandwiching member; and a biasing member biasing the flap toward the sandwiching member. The flap is turnable to be in a first position capable of guiding the sheet in the first transporting path and in a second position blocking the first transporting path. A lower end of the sandwiching member is positioned higher than a lower end of the contacting member. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083147 | TRACTOR UNIT AND PRINTER - A printer has a tractor unit with a simple configuration that can prevent the feed holes in continuous paper from disengaging the engagement pins of the tractor unit during conveyance. The tractor unit of the printer has a pair of tractors that hold the continuous paper with tractor pins (engagement pins) engaged in sprocket holes (feed holes), a drive shaft and a support shaft that support the pair of tractors, and a frame that supports the drive shaft and support shaft. The first tractor is fixed in position to the support shaft after engaging and holding one side of the continuous paper, but the support shaft is supported on the frame movably widthwise to the printer. If the continuous paper becomes skewed, the first tractor moves with the support shaft widthwise to the printer following the skew, and the sprocket holes therefore do not disengage the tractor pins. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083148 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device including multiple light sources to emit multiple light beams for scanning different scanning surfaces; a light deflector having multiple reflection/deflection surfaces rotating in the main scanning direction to reflect and deflect the light beams such that at least two light beams are deflected by same one of the reflection/deflection surfaces at different angles in a sub-scanning direction relative to the normal line of the reflection/deflection surface; and a scanning lens to focus the deflected light beams on the scanning surfaces. At least one surface of the scanning lens has multiple refracting surfaces arranged side by side in the sub-scanning direction, and each of the refracting surfaces has a positive refracting power in the sub-scanning direction, and vertices of the refracting surfaces are shifted in the sub-scanning direction from intersections of the light beams with the refracting surfaces toward the center of the scanning lens. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083149 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE PEER RESOURCE POOLING - An approach is provided for generating a composite signal. A plurality of media signals are received over a wireless communication network from a plurality of mobile devices. One or more of the received media signals are selected according to a criterion. A composite signal is generated from the selected media signals. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083150 | On-Screen Caller ID with Video Playback and Storage Capability - Novel tools and techniques to enable video enhancements identifying the calling party of an incoming telephone call. In an aspect of some such tools, a video message from the calling party is sent to the receiving party through a communication channel in the provider network. Upon receiving an incoming telephone call at the provider network, the video message can be associated with the incoming telephone call, and routed to a set-top unit (also referred to herein as a “set-top box”) associated with the receiving party. The set-top unit might communicate with a visual display screen (e.g., a television), and/or cause the visual display screen to show the video message for the receiving party as an indication of the incoming telephone call and identification of the calling party. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083151 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device is provided that includes a memory, a communication unit configured to receive a video image streamed from a first electronic device, a display unit configured to display the video image, and a control unit configured to identify a specific area included in the video image, to store a first image displayed on the specific area at a first time point in the memory, and to store in the memory a second image displayed on the specific area at a second time point when a variation of an image is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083152 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - An electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device are provided. The method includes obtaining a first image including an interesting object and at least one peripheral object, obtaining relevance of the at least one peripheral object with respect to the interesting object based on at least one of attributes including a state, a motion, and a location of the interesting object, and replacing an area of the whole area of the first image, which is occupied by the interesting object and the other remaining peripheral objects than a specific peripheral object determined based on the relevance, with a second image. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the electronic device and method may provide a vivid video conference. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083153 | Background Compression and Resolution Enhancement Technique for Video Telephony and Video Conferencing - An image processing system processes images such that a proportion of area of regions of interest within the image can be increased at the expense of regions of lesser interest. First, regions of interest, such as portions of the image including participants, are determined. Then compressible background regions are determined and compressed. This results in the proportion of the area of the regions of interest to increase. After the image is stored or transmitted, the regions of interest can be seen more clearly both because they are larger and because any loss of detail caused by down-sampling or lossy image compression needed to limit the amount of image information is reduced due to the smaller image size. The process also preserves more of the relative spatial relationship between various regions of interest than prior methods. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083154 | Electronic Device And Server, And Methods Of Controlling The Electronic Device And Server - An electronic device is provided including a communication unit configured to receive audio/video data (A/V data) streamed from a first electronic device, a display unit configured to display the video data of the A/V data, and a controller configured to obtain shape feature information of a first real object included in the video data, to determine whether there is first personal information of the first real object based on the shape feature information, and to display a first virtual object including the first personal information on the display unit in association with the first real object when there is the first personal information. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083155 | METHOD, ENDPOINT, AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A VIDEO CONFERENCE - In one embodiment, a method is provided for receiving, by a first endpoint, a request for a video conferencing session from a second endpoint, and determining whether the first endpoint is in a peek accepting mode, and when the first endpoint is in a peek accepting mode acknowledging the request, activating a first filter by the first endpoint, providing a first multimedia stream from one or more first media source associated with the first endpoint, modifying the first multimedia stream, by the first filter, to produce a first modified multimedia stream, and transmitting the first modified multimedia stream by the first endpoint to the second endpoint. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083156 | Videcoconferencing Method and System for Connecting a Host with a Plurality of Participants - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for selecting, by a first party device, a second party device from a queue of devices, transmitting, by the first party device, video of a first party device to the second party device, receiving, by the first party device, video of the second party device while the first party device does not receive video from a plurality of devices other than the second party device, and transmitting, by the first party device, combined video of the first and second devices to the plurality of devices other than the second party device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083157 | Imaging Device - An imaging device is provided with an imaging element. The imaging element has a sensitive wavelength region including an infrared wavelength region, and selectively including a visible wavelength region, and is composed of at least three types of pixels having spectral sensitivities different from each other. The imaging device generates a luminance signal including an infrared wavelength component, a color-difference signal including a visible wavelength component, and a visible luminance signal as a luminance signal in the visible wavelength region, from original image data including at least three types of original image components obtained by an imaging operation by the imaging element; and generates a color image based on a low frequency component in the luminance signal and in the color-difference signal, and based on a low frequency component in the visible luminance signal. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083158 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM CAPABLE OF GENERATING A WIDE-RANGE IMAGE - An image acquisition unit | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083159 | STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Multiple images are acquired by continuously capturing images at high speed while panning an image capturing device ( | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083160 | METHOD FOR DECODING 2D-COMPATIBLE STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO FLOWS - A method for processing a video stream of digital images includes: receiving the video stream which includes at least one composite frame containing a pair of stereoscopic digital images according to a predetermined packing format; receiving metadata which describes the format of the composite frame; generating an output video stream which can be reproduced on a visualization device, wherein the method further includes the steps of determining the area in the composite frame which is occupied by one image of the stereoscopic pair within the composite frame based on the metadata; extracting the image contained in the area from the composite frame, and generating an output frame containing the extracted image. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083161 | REAL-TIME VIDEO CODING USING GRAPHICS RENDERING CONTEXTS - A method for encoding video for streaming includes receiving a plurality of sequential image frames generated by a 3D graphics rendering engine. Graphics rendering contexts are obtained, including pixel depth map, rendering camera parameters, and camera motion from the 3D rendering engine. The method next entails selecting key frames among the plurality of sequential image frames, interpolating non-key frames via 3D image warping, and encoding all key frames and warping residues of non-key frames. The system is implementable on a server linked to a mobile user device for receiving the encoded frame data. The mobile user device is configured to decode the encoded frame data and display a corresponding image to a user of the mobile user device. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083162 | DEPTH FUSION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A depth fusion method adapted for a 2D-to-3D conversion image processing apparatus is provided. The depth fusion method includes the following steps. Respective motion-based depths of a plurality of blocks in an image frame are obtained. An original image-based depth of each of the blocks is obtained. The original image-based depth of each of the blocks is converted to obtain a converted image-based depth of each of the blocks. The motion-based depth and the converted image-based depth of each of the blocks are fused block by block to obtain a fusion depth of each of the blocks. Furthermore, a depth fusion apparatus is also provided. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083163 | Perceptual Three-Dimensional (3D) Video Coding Based on Depth Information - A method for encoding a multi-view frame in a video encoder is provided that includes computing a depth quality sensitivity measure for a multi-view coding block in the multi-view frame, computing a depth-based perceptual quantization scale for a 2D coding block of the multi-view coding block, wherein the depth-based perceptual quantization scale is based on the depth quality sensitive measure and a base quantization scale for the 2D frame including the 2D coding block, and encoding the 2D coding block using the depth-based perceptual quantization scale. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083164 | ACTIVE 3D TO PASSIVE 3D CONVERSION - Various arrangements for using an active 3D signal to create passive 3D images are presented. An active 3D frame may be received. The active 3D frame may comprise a first perspective image and a second perspective image. The first perspective image may be representative of a different perspective than the second perspective image. The first perspective image may be tinted with a first color. The second perspective image may be tinted with a second color different from the first color. The first perspective image tinted with the first color may be displayed. The second perspective image tinted with the second color may be displayed. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083165 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING TEXTURE IMAGE AND DEPTH IMAGE - Provided are an apparatus and method for extracting a texture image and a depth image. The apparatus of the present invention may project a pattern image on a target object, may capture a scene image on which the target image is reflected from the target object, and may simultaneously extract the texture image and the depth image using the scene image. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083166 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - An imaging element includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that output an image signal for each pixel through a micro lens. An imaging signal processing circuit separates image signals output from the imaging element into a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal. An image combining circuit generates combined image data by performing arithmetic average processing for left-eye image data and right-eye image data. A recording medium control I/F unit controls to record left-eye image data and right-eye image data for use in 3D display and combined image data for use in 2D display in different regions in an image file. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083167 | PROJECTOR APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - There is provided a projector apparatus including a terminal unit supplied with video data output by a source apparatus; a video projection processing unit that generates a projection video based on the video data and projects the generated projection video through a projection lens, a distance detection unit that detects a distance to a display surface on which the projection video projected through the projection lens is displayed, a projection angle detection unit that detects a projection angle of the projection video projected through the projection lens, and a control unit that calculates a display size of the projection video on the display surface based on the distance detected by the distance detection unit and the projection angle detected by the projection angle detection unit and transmits the calculated display size as the data regarding the display capability of the projector apparatus from the terminal unit to the source apparatus. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083168 | CALIBRATION APPARATUS FOR CAMERA MODULE - There is provided a calibration apparatus for a camera module capable of calibrating the difference in optical characteristics between left and right images of a binocular camera module in real time by capturing images of a plurality of rotating test boards. The calibration apparatus of a camera module includes: a test unit including two or more mutually connected test boards, the test boards having images captured by a camera module and rotating at a pre-set angle; and a calibration unit receiving the images of the test boards captured by the camera module and calibrating optical characteristics thereof. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083169 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Information for a camera unit not used for a stereoscopic view in the case of a display method having parallax only in a horizontal direction is used to thereby generate a multi-viewpoint image subjected to an image processing. Step S | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083170 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A stereoscopic image pickup apparatus includes: two optical systems arranged having binocular disparity; image pickup units for shooting images of an object from the optical systems; a convergence angle driver for changing directions of optical axes of the optical systems, and changing intersection distances from the optical systems to a position at which the optical axes of the optical systems intersect with each other; an object distance detector for detecting object distance; an intersection distance controller for computing the intersection distance in fusion limit range that is a stereoscopically viewable range based on the object distance and image pickup condition; and a convergence angle controller for controlling the convergence angle driver based on the object distance and a track delay amount set to cause the intersection distance fall within the fusion limit range such that the intersection distance tracks the object distance with a delay by the track delay amount. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083171 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083172 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - There is provided an imaging apparatus including a first polarizing unit that polarizes light from an object, a lens system that condenses light from the first polarizing unit, and an imaging element array that has imaging elements arranged in a matrix of a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, has a second polarizing unit arranged on a light incident side, and converts the light condensed by the lens system into an electric signal. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083173 | VIRTUAL SPECTATOR EXPERIENCE WITH A PERSONAL AUDIO/VISUAL APPARATUS - Technology is described for providing a virtual spectator experience for a user of a personal A/V apparatus including a near-eye, augmented reality (AR) display. A position volume of an event object participating in an event in a first 3D coordinate system for a first location is received and mapped to a second position volume in a second 3D coordinate system at a second location remote from where the event is occurring. A display field of view of the near-eye AR display at the second location is determined, and real-time 3D virtual data representing the one or more event objects which are positioned within the display field of view are displayed in the near-eye AR display. A user may select a viewing position from which to view the event. Additionally, virtual data of a second user may be displayed at a position relative to a first user. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083174 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A natural stereoscopic image is displayed and eye strain is mitigated. A face image is detected in a stereoscopic image composed of a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The left- and right-eye images are shifted in such a manner that visual disparity of the detected face image is removed. Furthermore, a display area containing the face image is calculated. The calculated display area is enlarged so as to be displayed over the entirety of the display screen. Since a double image that appears in front of the face image is excluded, the strain upon the eyes of the observer is mitigated. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083175 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOTION OF MECHANICAL ARM - In a method for controlling motion of a mechanical arm, the method moves the mechanical arm horizontally or vertically so that an image capturing device of the mechanism arm focuses on an object. The contours of the object are analyzed, and a central area of the object is established. By making the center of the image area of the image capturing device coincide with the center area of the object at least twice, the method records two positions of the mechanical arm, and calculates a total apparent displacement value of the object and a distance between the object and camera lens of the image capturing device according to the first position, the second position of the mechanical arm and the total apparent displacement value of the object. The method ensures accurate positioning of the mechanical arm. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083176 | OVERHEAD SCANNER DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An overhead scanner device includes an image photographing unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes an image acquiring unit that controls the image photographing unit to acquire an image of a document including at least an indicator provided by a user, a specific-point detecting unit that detects two specific points each determined based on the distance from the gravity center of an indicator to the end of the indicator, from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit, and an image cropping unit that crops the image acquired by the image acquiring unit into a rectangle with opposing corners at the two points detected by the specific-point detecting unit. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083177 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOSAICKING ENDOSCOPE IMAGES CAPTURED FROM WITHIN A CAVITY - Systems and methods for capturing and mosaicking images of one or more surfaces of a collapsed cavity are described. One embodiment includes capturing images using an endoscope, where the optics of the endoscope are radially symmetrical, locating the optical center and dewarping each of the captured images by mapping the image from polar coordinates centered on the optical center of the image to rectangular coordinates, discarding portions of each dewarped image to create high clarity dewarped images, estimating the motion of the endoscope with respect to the interior surface of the cavity that occurred between successive high clarity dewarped images, registering the high clarity dewarped images with respect to each other using the estimates of motion, and combining the registered high clarity dewarped images to create at least one mosaic. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083178 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND EXTERNAL CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENDOSCOPE - In the processor device connected to the endoscope, the imaging signal transmitted in serial from an imaging chip of the endoscope is converted by an S/P converter to parallel data, and is then decoded by an 8B10B decoder. Pixel data (eight bits) for each pixel is converted by an 8B10B encoder of the imaging chip to word data with ten bits being taken as one word for serial transmission. In the processor device, the fact that a deviation occurs in timing of word synchronization for delimiting serial data into word data due to an influence of noise or the like is detected from a decode error in the 8B10B decoder, and recovery is made by shifting the timing of word synchronization. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083179 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND EXTERNAL CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENDOSCOPE - In the processor device connected to the endoscope, the imaging signal transmitted in serial from an imaging chip of the endoscope is converted by an S/P converter to parallel data, and is then decoded by an 8B10B decoder. When data corruption occurs due to noise or the like during transmission of the imaging signal and normal pixel data cannot be obtained due to decode error at an 8B10B decoder, that pixel data is interpolated with pixel data of a peripheral part in an inner memory of an image processing circuit. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083180 | FOCUS CONTROL DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS, AND FOCUS CONTROL METHOD - A focus control device includes an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image that has been captured by an imaging optical system, an evaluation value calculation section that calculates a focus evaluation value based on the captured image, the focus evaluation value being used to evaluate an in-focus state of an object in the captured image, a determination information calculation section that calculates determination information based on the focus evaluation value, a determination section that determines whether to start or stop an autofocus control process based on the determination information, and a focus control section that starts or stops the autofocus control process based on a determination result of the determination section. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083181 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF CARIES - A method for obtaining an image of tooth tissue directs incident light toward a tooth, wherein the incident light excites a fluorescent emission from the tooth tissue. Fluorescence image data is obtained from the fluorescent emission. Back-scattered reflectance image data is obtained from back-scattered light from the tooth tissue. The fluorescence and back-scattered reflectance image data are combined to form an enhanced image of the tooth tissue for caries detection. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083182 | LENS UNIT AND CAMERA MODULE FOR ENDOSCOPE - A lens unit for an endoscope includes a movable lens. A rotatable cam shaft is disposed to extend in parallel with an optical axis direction. A support device is engaged with the cam shaft, for supporting the movable lens. A cam device is disposed between the cam shaft and the support device, for moving the movable lens in the optical axis direction in response to rotation of the cam shaft. A housing is provided. A first housing cavity is defined in the housing, for containing the movable lens. A second housing cavity is defined in the housing, for containing the cam shaft. An intermediate channel is formed between the first and second housing cavities, contains the support device, and includes a pair of channel surfaces, opposed to one another, formed by machining, for guiding the support device. A black surface is formed on the support device in black dyeing. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083183 | HOST, OPTICAL LENS MODULE AND DIGITAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A digital diagnostic system with interchangeable lenses includes a host and at least one optical lens module, wherein the host without any optical lens having curved surface includes a focus adjustment module which drives an image capture module to linearly move. Therefore, the optical system of the optical lens module can be designed independently, and no need to include focus adjustment mechanism, so that the optical design of the optical lens module can be greatly simplified, and the system allows a greater mechanism tolerance, thereby reducing manufacturing difficulty and manufacturing cost. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083184 | IMAGER, MODULE FOR AN IMAGER, IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An imager ( | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083185 | OPTICAL ADAPTER FOR OPHTHALMOLOGICAL IMAGING APPARATUS - An optical adapter system for a smart-phone has a lens and a light transmission guide within a housing. The adapter lens is located at the distal end of the housing in optical alignment with the smart-phone's camera lens, and the light transmission guide extends from one end that is adjacent to the smart-phone's light source toward the distal end of the housing and directs light outside of the housing to the subject being imaged. The optical adapter is preferably used in combination with the smart-phone as an ophthalmic examination tool and can be used with a computer program that runs on the smart-phone's processor. The computer program can be calibrated for use with the particular optical adapter and can be used to control the smart-phone's imaging system, such as varying the intensity of the light source, and can determine a refractive error in a patient's eye. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083186 | SUPER-RESOLUTION OBSERVATION APARATUS - Super-resolution observation apparatus includes excitation light irradiation unit for irradiating excitation light intended to excite a sample on the sample, excitation light modulation unit for modulating a spatial intensity distribution of the excitation light on the sample, enlarged image forming unit for forming an enlarged image of the sample at an image position from observation light generated by irradiating the excitation light on the sample, image capturing unit for converting a spatial intensity distribution of the enlarged image into digital image data, and super-resolution processing unit for generating a super-resolution image where a super-resolution frequency component higher than a cutoff frequency of the enlarged image forming unit is made visible from one or a plurality of pieces of the digital image data. The super-resolution processing unit includes spatial frequency intensity modulation unit that change process contents according to an intensity level of a noise included in the digital image data. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083187 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDS FREE INSPECTION - Systems and methods for inspecting a device are disclosed. The method includes arranging the device in a known position relative to a plurality of movable cameras. The plurality of movable cameras is mounted on a controllable actuator. The plurality of cameras is pointed at the device by controlling the controllable actuator to position the camera with a user interface. An image of the device generated by the camera is displayed on a mobile and wireless display. The computing device also causes a rendered virtual image of the device to be displayed on the mobile and wireless display. A stream of interest and a region of interest is selected at the mobile and wireless display from the images generated by the cameras. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083188 | Brake component monitoring - A solution for evaluating a component of a vehicle, such as a brake pad of a rail vehicle, is provided. An imaging component can acquire image data for a target area of the vehicle within which at least a portion of the component is visible. The target area can be illuminated by an illumination device that is, for example, horizontally offset from the imaging device to highlight the three-dimensional structure in the target area by creating shadows in the image data. A set of points corresponding to the component can be identified in the image data using the shadows. A measurement for at least one attribute of the component can be calculated from the set of points. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130083189 | SCANNING APPARATUS - A scanning apparatus for scanning a biological sample labeled with fluorochrome includes a case, a sample table, a light source module, an image capture unit, and a driving unit. The light source module provides excitation light to the biological sample on the sample table, in which the fluorochrome is excited to generate fluorescence by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. The image capture unit catches images of the fluorescence from the biological sample. The driving unit is connected to the image capture unit to move the image capture unit. The present invention further includes a filter unit on the image capture unit to filter the fluorescence into the image capture unit. | 2013-04-04 |
