17th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130100159 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED TUTORIAL FOR VISUAL MANIPULATION SOFTWARE - A method for reproducing authored content within a visual manipulation software environment includes displaying the authored content, such as an individual drawing stroke, in a manner that enables the end-user to experience the temporal dynamics associated with the creation of each drawing stroke or action performed by the author when creating the content. Each individual drawing stroke created by the author may be displayed in a tutorial with the same speed and direction used by the author to create the stroke, and can then be used as a guidance curve by the end-user. End-user input corresponding to the displayed author content is then received and used to generate an end-user version of the displayed content. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100160 | INFRARED REFLECTION BASED COVER DETECTION - A system and method for improving power consumption by providing the ability to detect whether a cover is placed on top of Infrared, IR, touch device. While the cover is in the open state, a certain amount of the light transmitted by the IR transmitters is directed upward and away from the IR receivers in the device. When the cover is closed, this light is reflected off of the cover and is incident on the IR receivers. The system of the present invention recognizes this increased level of received IR light and determines that the cover is in a closed position. Having made such a determination that the cover is placed on the device, the device's power savings system can switch to an appropriate power saving mode. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100161 | DIGITAL COMIC EDITOR, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A digital comic editor comprising a speech bubble region addition device configured to add a new piece of speech bubble region information to the position indicated by the indication device, a speech bubble region deletion device configured to delete the speech bubble region information from the position indicated by the indication device, and an editing device configured to update the speech bubble region information included in the information file based on the speech bubble region information added by the speech bubble region addition device and the speech bubble region information deleted by the speech bubble region deletion device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100162 | METHOD, PROGRAM AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING SCREEN IMAGE - An image display device is provided. The device includes a main displaying module for displaying an image, a selected area displaying module for specifically displaying a selected area that is at least a part of the image displayed by the main displaying module, an image acquiring module for acquiring an image corresponding to the selected area, a zoom processing module for creating image data by zooming the image acquired by the image acquiring module to correspond to a predetermined display area, a zoom displaying module for displaying the image data in the display area, and an area adjusting module for adjusting at least one of a position and a size of the selected area and a size of the display area. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100163 | SCREEN SYNTHESISING DEVICE AND SCREEN SYNTHESISING METHOD - Disclosed is a screen synthesising device which can achieve greater power saving effects when synthesising a plurality of display screens containing moving images, without affecting the display result. In the disclosed device, a synthesis destination allocation determination unit ( | 2013-04-25 |
20130100164 | GRAPHIC METER DEVICE - There is provided a graphic meter device which improves the visibility of a needle and which allows for easy determination of the kind of indicator. The graphic meter device includes a dot matrix display ( | 2013-04-25 |
20130100165 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a display control unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires information about a plurality of markers included in an image. The display control unit performs control to superimpose on the image and display on a display unit a plurality of virtual objects corresponding to the plurality of markers. The determination unit determines whether the plurality of virtual objects is a specific combination. In response to the determination unit determining that the plurality of virtual objects is a specific combination, the display control unit performs control to superimpose on the image the plurality of virtual objects in a specific arrangement corresponding to the specific combination. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100166 | VIEWER UNIT, SERVER UNIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DIGITAL COMIC EDITING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A viewer unit, comprising a display control device configured to control to shift the position of the display range sequentially within the page image in accordance with the positional line determined by the determination device in order to display the images of each display range sequentially on the display device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100167 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF ORIENTATION OF INFORMATION PRESENTED BASED UPON DEVICE USE STATE - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to enable the provision of a mechanism by which an orientation of information presented may be maintained based upon a use state of a device, regardless of a physical display orientation. A method may include determining a physical orientation, determining whether the physical display orientation warrants a change of orientation of information presented, and determining whether a use state precludes a change of the orientation of the information presented based upon the physical display orientation. The method may further maintain the orientation of the information presented in response to a physical display orientation that warrants a change of the orientation of the information presented in an instance in which the use state is determined to preclude the change of the orientation of the information presented based on the physical display orientation. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100168 | OVERDRIVE CONTROLLING SYSTEM FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An overdrive controlling system for a liquid crystal device includes an image scaling device for storing a current frame data and a preceding frame data, and a time sequence controlling panel. The time sequence controlling panel includes an overdrive controller, a first storage device connected to the overdrive controller for storing a lookup table, and a time sequence controlling circuit connected to the overdrive controller. The time sequence controlling panel further includes two low-voltage differential signaling receivers respectively connected to the overdrive controller. The low-voltage differential signaling receivers are further connected to the image scaling device for receiving the current and preceding frame data and outputting the received frame data to the overdrive controller. The overdrive controller compares the current frame data and the preceding frame data with the lookup table to obtain a compensated image data, and outputs the compensated image data to the time sequence controlling circuit. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100169 | INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ZOOMING AN OBJECT USING THE INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes a motion sensor for sensing a first axis value, a distance sensor for sensing a limb distance between two limbs, and a controller. The controller is used to perform a method for controlling zooming of an object. The method includes using the motion sensor to sense the first axis value; and initiating a zooming program when the first axis value meets an initiating condition. The zooming program includes the following steps of using the distance sensor to sense the limb distance between two limbs, comparing the limb distance with a reference value; and based on a comparison result outputting a zooming control signal to zooming of an object. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100170 | Image Processing Apparatus And Image Processing Program - Provided is an image processing apparatus and an image processing program which are capable of selectively and readily acquiring a geometrical physical quantity of a desired measuring portion. An object image is displayed based on object image data, and a measuring portion designating image corresponding to a specific portion of the object image is displayed based on designating image data. By operation of an operation part by a user, the displayed measuring portion designating image is moved relatively to the object image. When the measuring portion designating image is moved to a specific portion of the object image, a geometrical physical quantity of a measuring portion of the measuring object, previously set so as to correspond to that specific portion, is measured. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100171 | Image Processing Apparatus, Content Creating Support Apparatus, Image Processing Method, Content Creating Support Method, And Data Structure of Image File - A hard disk drive stores hierarchical image data, a speed map holding, for each tile image, an index of the processing time required to render a tile image having a predetermined image size obtained by partitioning the image, and scenario data which defines viewpoint shifting. In a control unit of an information processing apparatus having a function of displaying an image, an input information acquisition unit acquires information with respect to the user's input operation via an input device. A loading unit loads necessary data for image displaying from the hard disk drive. A shifting condition adjustment unit adjusts the viewpoint shifting speed based upon the speed map. A frame coordinate determination unit sequentially determines frame coordinates of a display area. A decoding unit decodes compressed image data. A display image processing unit renders a display image. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100172 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses an LCD device and a driving method of the LCD device. The LCD device comprises a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a data driver, a scan driver, and a plurality of pixels. The pixels comprise a first pixel set and a second pixel set. The first pixel set and the second pixel set are arranged alternatively. Each of the pixels has a first display mode and a second display mode. The pixels of the first pixel set and the pixels of the second pixel set are alternatively switched between the first display mode and the second display mode. The LCD device and related driving method in the present invention is capable of improving the display quality. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING PIXELS IN A DISPLAY TO MITIGATE IMAGE FLICKER - Circuits for programming a circuit with decreased programming time are provided. Such circuits include a storage device such as a capacitor for storing display information and for ensuring a driving device such as a driving transistor drives a light emitting device according to the display information. The present disclosure provides driving schemes for decreasing flickering perceived while displaying video content by introducing idle phases in between in emission phases to increase the effective refresh rate of a display. Driving schemes are also disclosed for reducing the effects of cross-talk by ensuring that programming information is refreshed in a display array that utilizes a driver connected to multiple data lines via a multiplexer. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100174 | Luminaire - According to one embodiment, a luminaire includes an image forming part, a display part, a light-emitting part and a control part. The image forming part is configured to form an image. The display part is configured to display the image formed. by the image forming part. The light-emitting part is configured to generate a light having directivity, and to irradiate the light through the display part to an irradiation area, with luminous intensity distribution of the light being controlled. The control part is configured to control the image forming part, the display part and the light-emitting part. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100175 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device including: an image display section in which unit pixels each composed of a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to a plurality of colors are arranged; and an optical element having a window section allocating light emitted from the image display section in units of the sub-pixels to a plurality of viewpoints, wherein a color arrangement of the sub-pixels of the image display section or an arrangement of the window section of the optical element is set such that, when the image display section is viewed from each of the plurality of viewpoints, in an arrangement of colors of light allocated by the window section of the optical element, a same color is not arranged linearly in a predetermined number of sub-pixels or more in succession in any of a row direction, a column direction, and an oblique direction. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100176 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING FRAME RATE AND RESOLUTION FOR DISPLAYS - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for increasing the frame rate of a display, while maintaining or improving image resolution. In one aspect, displays may include a plurality of pixels arranged along segment lines and common lines, and the common lines may be associated with one or more colors. In one implementation, one set of common lines is written independently of the other common lines, and at least one other set of common lines is written simultaneously. The resolution is preserved by the independent writing of one set of common lines, while the frame rate is increased by the line multiplication of another set of common lines. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100177 | SPATIALLY MULTIPLEXED PULSE WIDTH MODULATION - A process of operating a PWM display system wherein some display data bits are assigned substantially equal time weights. Display data codewords are defined for every pixel intensity value to form display data codeword tables so that there are at least as many display data codeword tables as the number of display data bits with substantially equal time weights. The display pixel is subsequently operated in a digital manner according to the display data codeword in the selected display data codeword table to display a desired pixel intensity value. The display data codeword tables are configured so that immediately adjacent display pixels are operated so that identical pixel intensity values are displayed with different temporal sequences. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100178 | DISPLAYING IMAGES ON LOCAL-DIMMING DISPLAYS - Displays, display components, image and video processing apparatus and related methods are described. A method for driving local-dimming displays comprises generating control values for driving pixels of a spatial light modulator from one image data component and generating control values for driving backlight elements from a second image data component. The first and second image data components may respectively comprise a tone map and a ratio image. Control values for the spatial light modulator and/or backlight may be obtained using cost effective hardware. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100179 | MULTIPLE-PRIMARY COLOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A multi-primary-color liquid crystal display device ( | 2013-04-25 |
20130100180 | COLOR LCOS DISPLAY CHIP AND CONTROL METHOD - The present invention relates to a color LCOS display chip and the drive and control method thereof. With new structure design and drive and control method, the video signal nonlinear correcting chip, display drive signal control chip and other high cost special chips which are used in conventional control and drive circuit are abandoned. Multiple systems are integrated in a single chip to save PCB required for combination of multi-system chips, which leads to a lower production cost. The weight and size of control and drive circuit are reduced due to fewer integrated circuit chips and save of PCB. Power consumption is reduced without nonlinear correcting chips and display drive signal control chips. With the finite state machine (FSM) Scheduler as the core of digital signal processing module, the voltage coding value could be adjusted as per nonlinear characteristics of different crystal materials so as to achieve an optimal nonlinear correcting performance, which enhances the universality of the chip. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100181 | DIGITAL HOLOGRAM IMAGE REPRODUCING DEVICE AND SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A digital hologram image reproducing device includes a light modulator reproducing a hologram interference fringe image, a first panel driving circuit which scans a first display panel and writes data of the hologram interference fringe image to the first display panel, a first timing controller controlling an operation timing of the first panel driving circuit, a second panel driving circuit which scans a second display panel and writes data of the hologram interference fringe image to the second display panel, a second timing controller controlling an operation timing of the second panel driving circuit, and a panel synchronization circuit which simultaneously transfers a polarity control signal received from one of the first and second timing controllers to the first and second panel driving circuits. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100182 | COMPENSATION METHOD FOR PRIVACY-IMAGE PROTECTION - A compensation method for privacy-image protection is provided. The compensation method operates a display device in a narrow visual-angle mode, then determines where is data to be displayed according to a relative position between the data to be displayed and a specific object, and finally determines to use which to adjust the data to be displayed according to the determined result, and displays the data. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100183 | VISCOSITY MODULATED DUAL FEED CONTINUOUS LIQUID EJECTOR - A continuous liquid ejector includes a structure including a wall. A portion of the wall defines a nozzle having a first fluidic resistance R | 2013-04-25 |
20130100184 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING CARRIAGE - A method for cleaning a carriage of an inkjet recording apparatus including a recording head configured to discharge ink to execute recording on a sheet, a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet, a carriage configured to mount the recording head thereon and to move in a main-scanning direction crossing to a sheet conveyance direction, and a height change mechanism configured to move the carriage in a height direction includes moving the carriage in the main-scanning direction to the outside of a sheet conveyance area of the conveyance unit, conveying a cleaning sheet, to which a fold is previously given, to a recording position, moving the carriage to a first height position via the height change mechanism, moving the carriage to the inside of the sheet conveyance area, moving the carriage to a second height position via the height change mechanism, and conveying the cleaning sheet via the conveyance unit. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100185 | ALCu HARD MASK PROCESS - A process for forming a metal interconnection in an integrated circuit includes forming a first metal layer and a second metal layer on the first metal layer. Photoresist is placed on the second metal layer and patterned to form a mask. The second metal layer is etched. The mask is then removed and the first metal layer is patterned with the second metal layer acting as mask for the first metal layer. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100186 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a first part of nozzles that ejects at least one of brilliant ink and white ink to a medium, a second part of nozzles that ejects color ink to the medium, and a control unit that forms a first image by the first part of nozzles and forms a second image on the first image by the second part of nozzles, and deforms, when a part of an edge of the first image and a part of an edge of the second image are overlapped before forming the image on the medium, at least one of the first image and the second image so that a portion of the overlapped edge in the second image is positioned outside a portion of the overlapped edge in the first image. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100187 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print control apparatus configured to cause a printing unit to perform print processing includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a condition for executing maintenance processing of the printing unit is satisfied, a shortening unit configured to shorten redundant maintenance operations in first maintenance processing and second maintenance processing in a case where the determination unit determines that a condition for executing the second maintenance processing is satisfied before completion of the first maintenance processing, and a control unit configured to cause the first maintenance processing and the second maintenance processing to be carried out after the shortening unit shortens the redundant maintenance operations. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100188 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects brilliant ink to a medium to form a brilliant image, a nozzle that ejects color ink to the medium to form a color image, and a control unit that ejects the color ink after ejecting the brilliant ink to the medium, applies, to the color image, a pattern in which blocks each having a predetermined area and each formed of pixels with the same gradation are arranged, and ejects the color ink so that the color image after the application is formed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100189 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A printing apparatus includes a printhead configured to array a nozzle array in which a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink are arrayed in the first direction, a reading unit configured to read, as a plurality of luminance values aligned in a nozzle arrayed direction, an inspection pattern formed by discharging ink from the plurality of nozzles of the printhead, a calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of difference values each by calculating a difference between two luminance values spaced apart by a predetermined number of luminance values, and an analysis unit configured to analyze an ink discharge state in the plurality of nozzles based on the plurality of difference values. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100190 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes (A) a head that discharges first ink and second ink having a color different from that of the first ink, (B) an optical sensor that includes a light source and a light receiving section, and (C) a controller. In the printing apparatus, when the controller corrects a discharge amount of the second ink, the controller causes the head to discharge the first ink to form a first pattern on a medium, causes the optical sensor to detect light reflected from the first pattern, causes the head to discharge the second ink to form a plurality of second patterns having different gradation values on the first pattern, and causes the optical sensor to detect light reflected from the second pattern. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100191 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A head unit is provided that includes a plurality of head groups having a first head and a second head in a direction which crosses a transport direction of a medium. Color difference is obtained which indicates difference in color between patches formed for each band using dots having the same dot diameter from among a plurality of patches based on the result of color measurement performed on a test pattern which includes the plurality of patches for each band, the plurality of patches being formed for each head group using dots having different dot diameters. The amount of first ink and the amount of second ink, which are respectively ejected from the first head and the second head which are included in all the head groups, are adjusted such that the dot diameter becomes the dot diameter which is determined based on the color difference. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100192 | PRINTING NEAR SATURATION - A printer is disclosed. The printer prints colors near saturation using mostly a first ink and prints saturated colors using mostly a second ink. The second ink has a reduced loading of the colorant in the first ink. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100193 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD - There are provided a printing apparatus and an inspection method which can reduce a position deviation of an inspection pattern upon reading the inspection pattern to perform an accurate inspection. A sheet conveyance misalignment in a continuous sheet is corrected in a corrective unit. The inspection pattern is printed on the corrected sheet by a print head of an inkjet type, and the sheet on which the inspection pattern is printed is dried. A sheet conveyance misalignment in the dried sheet is again corrected in the corrective unit, and the inspection pattern of the corrected sheet is read to perform a color shading inspection. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100194 | METHOD TO EXECUTE A PAUSE FUNCTION DURING PRINTING OPERATION IN AN INK PRINT APPARATUS - In a method to execute a pause function of an ink printing system wherein a printing substrate web is printed with a printing unit with print bars having print heads, a real value of a web tension of the printing substrate web is measured with a web tension sensor. In a printing operation the real value of the web pension is regulated to a predetermined desired operating value of the web tension. With triggering of the pause function, the web tension is further regulated by modifying the desired value of the web tension so that the printing substrate web assumes a position at the print heads after an end of the pause function that it had before a beginning of the pause function. After the end of the pause function, the real value of the web tension is regulated again to the desired operating value of the web tension. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100195 | GEOGRAPHICALLY BASED HUMIDITY ADJUSTMENT OF PRINTHEAD MAINTENANCE - A method of controlling a maintenance operation of an inkjet printhead in an inkjet printer, the method includes providing at least one parameter of the maintenance operation as a function of humidity condition; providing a table of average humidity conditions for a geographic locale in which the printer is located; providing a current date; determining a humidity condition corresponding to the current date; and controlling the maintenance operation, wherein the at least one parameter is determined in accordance with the determined humidity condition. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100196 | WEATHER BASED HUMIDITY ADJUSTMENT OF PRINTHEAD MAINTENANCE - A method of controlling a maintenance operation of an inkjet printhead in an inkjet printer, the method includes providing at least one parameter of the maintenance operation as a function of humidity condition; receiving data corresponding to a current outdoor humidity condition; determining a humidity condition corresponding to the current outdoor humidity condition; and controlling the maintenance operation, wherein the at least one parameter is determined in accordance with the determined humidity condition. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100197 | INDOOR HUMIDITY CONDITION ADJUSTMENT OF PRINTHEAD MAINTENANCE - A method of controlling a maintenance operation of an inkjet printhead in an inkjet printer, the method includes providing at least one parameter of the maintenance operation as a function of humidity condition; providing a humidity sensor external to the inkjet printer; receiving data from a humidity sensor external to the inkjet printer, which data corresponds to a current indoor humidity condition where the inkjet printer is located; determining a humidity condition corresponding to the current indoor humidity condition; and controlling the maintenance operation, wherein the at least one parameter is determined in accordance with the determined humidity condition. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100198 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a cooling unit configured to actively cool a sheet, a humidification unit configured to increase a moisture content of the sheet by supplying a humidified gas onto the sheet, and an inkjet print head configured to perform printing on the sheet having a moisture content increased by the humidification unit. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100199 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND MAINTENANCE METHOD - Even when a pressurizing operation is performed, degradation of the quality of a printing head due to wiping of a nozzle surface is suppressed. In an ink jet printing apparatus including a printing head, an ink tank, a first pump arranged in an ink supplying path for supplying ink from the ink tank to the printing head, a second pump arranged in an ink collecting path for collecting ink from the printing head to the ink tank, a switch valve arranged between the printing head and the second pump, and a cleaning mechanism, by driving the first pump in a state where the switch valve is closed, the ink is discharged from the nozzle row, and after driving of the second pump in a state where the switch valve is opened, the cleaning mechanism is caused to clean the printing head. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100200 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRELIMINARY EJECTION METHOD - In a case where a temperature of the print head at a cap closing time is 35° C. or more and the cap closing time is less than six hours, a predetermined preliminary ejection is performed and the ejection number is set to 4000. That is, the predetermined preliminary ejection is, in a case where it is determined that the temperature of the print head at a cap closed time is lower than 35° C., performed by the ejection number larger than the ejection number of other preliminary ejection having the same cap closing time of six hours as that in the predetermined preliminary ejection. Therefore in a case where the temperature of the print head at a cap closing time is a predetermined relatively high temperature or more, the preliminary ejection more accurately reflecting the degree of the ink thickening in the print head at that time is performed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100201 | PRINTHEAD CAP ASSEMBLY - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to a printhead cap assembly. An example includes a rigid base member and a mount gimbaled with respect to the rigid base member and configured to define a recess including a side. The printhead cap assembly additionally includes a sealing member configured to include a retention feature positioned in the recess and engaging the side to orient and couple the sealing member to the mount so that the sealing member retains an original shape. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100202 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to discharge ink, a first waste ink retaining member configured to absorb ink discharged from the recording head, a second waste ink retaining member arranged below the first waste ink retaining member, a first inclined surface configured to flow waste ink overflowing the first waste ink retaining member downward, a waste ink receiving surface connected with a bottom end of the first inclined surface and including a porous body sheet for absorbing waste ink, and a second inclined surface configured to flow waste ink overflowing the porous body sheet to the second waste ink retaining member. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100203 | SYSTEM FOR INK REMOVAL FROM A PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY - A printhead cleaning device includes a housing having an opening and an ink receptacle positioned within the opening. A member extends from the ink receptacle and through the opening. The member is configured to contact a faceplate of a printhead to enable liquid ink emitted onto the faceplate to move from across the member into the ink receptacle. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100204 | SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING AIRFLOW VELOCITY IN PRINT GAP REGIONS OF MICRO-FLUID EJECTION DEVICES - Disclosed is a system for regulating airflow velocity in a print gap region of a micro-fluid ejection device. The system includes a carrier member configured to carry an ejection head therewithin; a nozzle array configured at a bottom portion of the ejection head; and a channel member extending from a top portion of the carrier member and along a depth of the carrier member up to the bottom portion of the ejection head. Also, the channel member extends along at least a width of the nozzle array. Additionally, the channel member is configured to receive a flow of air through a slot configured at the top portion of the carrier member and to direct the flow of air from the top portion of the carrier member towards the bottom portion of the ejection head. Further disclosed is another system for regulating airflow velocity in a print gap region. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100205 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCHARGING SHIPPING INK - The method of this invention for discharging a shipping ink from a newly installed print head filled with that ink minimizes the amount of shipping ink that may remain in the print head after the ink discharging process is performed. The shipping ink discharging method according to this invention comprises: a print head; an ink tank; a first pump; a second pump; a switch valve; and a cleaning mechanism; wherein the switch valve is closed and the first pump is operated to discharge the shipping ink from the ink ejection nozzles and the cleaning mechanism is operated to clean the print head, after which the switch valve is opened and the second pump is operated to supply ink from the ink tank to the print head. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100206 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus includes an endless belt supported by a drive pulley configured to be driven by a motor and an idler pulley, and a moving member configured to be coupled to the endless belt and moved by driving the drive pulley by the motor, wherein a first limit value of electric power to be supplied to the motor when the moving member is moved in a first direction approaching the drive pulley is set larger than a second limit value of electric power to be supplied to the motor when the moving member is moved in a second direction approaching the idler pulley. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100207 | Single-Pass Inkjet Printer - A single-pass inkjet printer is specified with a running path for guiding a printing medium along a running direction and with a number of print-head modules which extend over the running path in a transverse direction. It is provided here that the print-head modules are arranged in each case such that they can be introduced, in a manner which is suspended and self-adjusting, substantially in a vertical direction into a printing position, in which they are fixed to the unit. A single-pass inkjet printer of this type affords the possibility of a simple manual exchange of print-head modules, as a result of which the down times are shortened. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100208 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes: defining a first imaginary reference line along the longitudinal direction of a base member and measuring the distances between the first imaginary reference line and at least two liquid supply port portions of a liquid supply port row, including defining a second imaginary reference line passing the liquid supply port portion at the shortest distance from the first imaginary reference line and the liquid supply port portion at the longest distance from the first imaginary reference line respectively from among the at least two liquid supply port portions and defining the second imaginary reference line between two imaginary lines parallel to the first imaginary reference line. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100209 | Print-Head Module - A print-head module for a single-pass inkjet printer is specified, which print-head module includes a housing, a hangar part which is fastened to the housing for hanging in a manner which is oriented in the direction of gravity, and a number of print heads which are arranged on the housing along a transverse direction which is perpendicular with respect to a running direction, wherein the print heads are positionally adjusted at least at one reference position. The print-head module can be exchanged simply and rapidly. Complicated re-adjustment on the single-pass inkjet printer can be dispensed with. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100210 | SEALANT, INKJET RECORDING HEAD USING SEALANT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A sealant contains a dicyclopentadiene type epoxy resin represented by formula 1 below, a hydrogenated bisphenol A epoxy resin, and a photo-induced cationic polymerization initiator, in which the content of the dicyclopentadiene type epoxy resin is 15 to 40 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total mass of epoxy resins contained in the sealant. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100211 | INKJET RECORDING HEAD - An inkjet recording head of an embodiment includes: an elastic film provided to form a part of a pressure-generating chamber connected to a nozzle opening; and a piezoelectric film-laminated part, an end thereof being fixed to the elastic film, a central part thereof facing the elastic film having an air gap in-between, the piezoelectric film-laminated part including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric film, and an upper electrode. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100212 | Process for Adding Thermoset Layer to Piezoelectric Printhead - Disclosed is a process for preparing an ink jet printhead which comprises: (a) providing a diaphragm plate having a plurality of piezoelectric transducers bonded thereto; (b) aligning an electrical circuit board having a fill joint with the piezoelectric transducers and temporarily attaching the electrical circuit board to the piezoelectric transducers, thereby creating a layered structure having interstitial spaces between the diaphragm plate, the piezoelectric transducers, and the electrical circuit board; (c) applying a thermoset polymer through the fill joint and allowing it to fill the interstitial spaces via capillary action; and (d) curing the thermoset polymer to form an interstitial polymer layer. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100213 | INK SUPPLY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an ink supply apparatus supplies ink to a recording head. The ink supply apparatus includes a pump for circulating ink, a first tank for supplying ink to the recording head, a second tank for receiving ink from the recording head, a third tank supplied with ink from an ink supply source, a first pressure adjusting mechanism, arranged between the first tank and the third tank, which is open if the pressure in the first tank is greater than a first given value to discharge ink in the first tank to the third tank, and a second pressure adjusting mechanism, arranged between the third tank and the second tank, which is open if the pressure in the third tank is lower than a second given value smaller than the first given value to draw ink in the third tank into the second tank. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100214 | Liquid Container - A liquid container comprises a liquid container pouch of flexible sheets and a liquid outlet between the pair of flexible sheets to permit extraction of a liquid in the pouch. The pouch includes a pair of side portions and a lower gusseted portion defining a basal gusset and including bilateral edge portions overlapping individual lower border zones on the side constituting the lower borders of the pair of side portions during extraction of liquid. The individual lower border zones and the individual bilateral side edge portions overlap to define sealed portions; the lower gusseted portion has a fold line parallel to the lower border between the bilateral edge portions and is oriented in a folding direction to define a chevron shape pointing inwardly into the pouch; and the two sealed portions having regulators to restrain outward expansion by a greater extent than other faces on the pair of side portions. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100215 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS, INK SUPPLY METHOD, POWER SHUTDOWN METHOD, AND METHOD FOR SHUTTING DOWN TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT UNIT OF INK-JET RECORDING DEVICE - An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a head that ejects droplets of ink; a flow passage portion; and a temperature adjustment unit. The flow passage portion supplies the ink to the head. The flow passage portion includes, in a part thereof, a reservoir unit that reserves the ink. The temperature adjustment unit is capable of adjusting temperatures of the flow passage portion and the head independently of each other. The temperature adjustment unit controls the temperatures of the flow passage portion and the head so that the ink in the head becomes liquid from solid after ink in the flow passage portion is turned to liquid from solid. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100216 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - The object of the present invention is to form, quickly and at low cost, a high-quality image on a medium formed with a curved surface. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100217 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND SHEET DRYING DEVICE - To downsize a drying device that blows gas on a sheet to dry the sheet. A printing apparatus is provided with: a print head of an inkjet type; and a drying unit that dries a sheet printed by a print head. The drying unit has: a plurality of conveying rollers that support the sheet; a conveying belt that conveys the sheet; and a nozzle that is arranged between the plurality of conveying rollers in a direction of the conveyance of the sheet by the conveying belt and blows gas toward the sheet. The nozzle has a blowout port and the blowout port is tilted with respect to a surface of the sheet, which is supported by the conveying rollers. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100218 | RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet printer includes a liquid recording head that is arranged at a halfway position of a transportation path of a sheet to be transported to a downstream side from an upstream side, and performs surface print processing by adhering ink to a surface of the sheet, a drying device that is arranged so as to be spaced from the liquid recording head on the transportation path, and an exhaust fan that generates airflow for suppressing heat transfer from the drying device to the liquid recording head between the liquid recording head and the drying device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100219 | SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND JAM CLEARING METHOD - A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising: a first processing unit including a first sheet conveyance mechanism; a second processing unit including a second sheet conveyance mechanism; a cutting unit, interposed between the first processing unit and the second processing unit, for cutting the sheet; and a controlling unit that controls, in a case of trouble with sheet conveyance, driving of the first sheet conveyance mechanism until an end of the sheet reaches the first processing unit side beyond a cutting position of the cutting unit. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100220 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a head that ejects liquid to be cured by receiving irradiation of an electromagnetic wave onto a medium; a provisional-curing irradiation section that emits a first electromagnetic wave to a dot formed on the medium by the liquid; and a main-curing irradiation section that emits a second electromagnetic wave, which has irradiation intensity higher than that of the first electromagnetic wave, to the dot to which the first electromagnetic wave is emitted. When the main-curing irradiation section emits the second electromagnetic wave, a dot forming surface of the medium faces the lower side in the direction of gravity. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100221 | RADIATION CURABLE INKJET PRINTING METHODS - A radiation curable inkjet printing method for producing printed flexible foils and plastic bags wherein a web-like polymeric substrate having a maximum value for Tan δ between 40° C. and 110° C. and a surface energy S | 2013-04-25 |
20130100222 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A decision is made for each page as to whether to allow image printing on that page, by comparing the remaining sheet length DL with a length of an image about to be printed, IL. A length of a non-printed, rear-end cut sheet is also checked to determine whether the non-printed cut sheet needs to be further cut into smaller sheets. This arrangement can prevent a complete image to be printed in one page from being broken and only partly printed in the last portion of a paper roll, ensure that printed cut sheets and non-printed cut sheets are stably conveyed and discharged and enable the non-printed cut sheets to be almost equal in size so that they can be properly accommodated in the associated tray. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100223 | SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising: a sheet conveyance path; a loop forming unit that is disposed on the sheet conveyance path and bends, in a loop, the sheet to be conveyed; and a guide unit that is stepwise high at both sides whereas low at the center, as viewed in a sheet conveyance direction, and extends in the sheet conveyance direction, wherein the sheet sagging in the loop by the loop forming unit enters a guide region being defined between opposite guide faces of paired steps in the stepwise guide unit and having a width according to the width of the sheet, so that the side edges of the sheet abut against the guide faces, thus correcting the skewing of the sheet in the sheet conveyance direction. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100224 | METHOD OF MAKING A PATTERNED LAYER FOR ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A patterned layer is intended to be used in an absorbent article, and has a pattern, for example in the form of a text or an image, which appears clearly legible or interpretable for an observer at a certain distance. The pattern can be formed by a number of dots which, when the layer is in a first state, have a first surface density which forms the legible or interpretable pattern and which, when the layer is in a second and then expanded state, have a second surface density which is lower than the first surface density in the first state, the pattern becoming in the second state essentially illegible or uninterpretable for the observer at the given distance on account of the lower surface density. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100225 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a photoconductive drum, a line-type LED exposing unit disposed to be opposed to the photoconductive drum, an exposing unit supporting tray configured to support the LED exposing unit to be capable of approaching and separating from the photoconductive drum in a radial direction of the photoconductive drum, an extending piece being formed in a part of an end of the exposing unit supporting tray, and a rod member disposed in parallel to the major axis direction of the LED exposing unit and moved in the major axis direction to thereby cause the LED exposing unit to approach and separate from the photoconductive drum in the radial direction of the photoconductive drum via the extending piece of the exposing unit supporting tray. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100226 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - This image-forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a plurality of laser scanning units, and a motor control unit. A motor control unit detects the time difference between a change point of the detection signal of a reference color and the change points of colors targeted for phase correction, and, when the absolute value of the time difference is greater than a threshold, carries out a rough adjustment process for reducing the time difference by a drive signal with which a base period has been changed by a first period change amount and thereafter carries out a fine adjustment process for reducing the time difference by a drive signal with which the base period has been changed by a second period change amount smaller than the first period change amount. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100227 | VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A 3D image rectifying method includes: controlling at least two cameras to capture depth images in front of an electronic device periodically and forms 3D images according to the captured depth images; recognizing the face of the user from the formed 3D image; determining at least one deflection angle which the detected face deflected from a front view of the face in the 3D image; separating the recognized face from the background of the 3D image; and rotating the recognize face according to the at least one deflection angle to rectify the recognize face to the front view of the face and display the rectified image. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100228 | Optimizing Video-call Quality of Service - Techniques to optimize video-call communications are disclosed. The link quality capability of a wireless video-call session and the requirements of the video-call session are determined. The link quality capability determination is based at least on measurements through the entire communications chain, including user, client device, operating system, application, air interface, cell sector, and backhaul parameters. Those parameters may be determined from static profiles, dynamically determined or be statistically derived. Client device response may include adapting the rate of data captured by a video camera, microphone, or other data capture device used in the video-call session. For video-conferencing scenarios, communications throughput is optimized by consolidating video streams. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100229 | WEB BASED ACCESS TO VIDEO ASSOCIATED WITH CALLS - In a communication environment where a voice bearer is established between a multimedia terminal of a first user and a voice terminal of a second user to allow voice communications between the first and second users, the present invention allows the second user to gain access to video content of the first user through a web session. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100230 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR METAL DETECTION, VIEWING, AND COMMUNICATIONS - A detection and viewing system includes a wireless device associated with a door and configured to communicate video data, the wireless device including a camera for providing the video data; a sensor for activating the camera, the sensor comprising a metal detector; a plurality of peripheral devices, each peripheral device associated with a respective user; and a computer configured for communication with the wireless device and configured for communication with each of the peripheral devices; wherein the computer executes software, in accordance with which, video data from the wireless device is received by the computer upon actuation of the sensor, and video data from the wireless device is accessible by each respective user using one of the peripheral devices. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100231 | Method and Meeting Terminal for Adjusting Meeting Place Cameras in a Remote Presentation Meeting System - A method and a meeting terminal for adjusting meeting place cameras in a remote presentation meeting system are disclosed. The method includes: determining a site to be tested in a meeting place (S | 2013-04-25 |
20130100232 | WIRELESS MOBILE VIDEO - Systems and methods are disclosed to operate an electronic device having a mobile wireless broadband radio frequency (RF) circuit, a cellular RF circuit, one or more baseband processors connected to the cellular RF circuit, and the mobile wireless broadband RF circuit. The system selects a multimedia stream from one of the mobile wireless broadband RF circuit and cellular RF circuit, and renders the multimedia stream with an application processor. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100233 | Compact Acoustic Mirror Array System and Method - Systems and methods are described for a sound focusing apparatus and method that permits directional sensitivity and increased amplitude sensitivity in very compact form factor. Advanced detection, localization, and identification of sources of sound that are an extended distance away can be accomplished using systems whose form factor are small enough to be used in teleconferencing, while providing superior acoustic performance characteristics. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100234 | CELLPHONE VIDEO IMAGING - A system for forming and transmitting a plurality of video images, at an image transmission rate of at least 1-3 images per sec, from a first cellphone to a second cellphone spaced apart from the first cellphone. A first cellphone user can choose to illuminate and transmit an image of the user or an image of a selected object distinct from the user. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100235 | FACE EQUALIZATION IN VIDEO CONFERENCING - A video conferencing device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a interface configured to receive a video stream having a plurality of objects. The video conferencing device also includes an object selector configured to select a region surrounding a first object in the plurality of objects in the video stream, wherein the first object has abnormal characteristics when compared to a second object, a transformation generator configure to create a transformation, and a transformation module configured to apply the transformation to the video stream to create a transformed video stream, in which the first object appears in a manner more consistent with the second object. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100236 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING AUDIO OF ATTENDANT AT REMOTE END AND REMOTE VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for playing audio of an attendant at a remote end and a remote video conference system are provided. The method includes: receiving audio of an attendant at a remote site; and by means of two or more loudspeakers mounted at a top and a bottom of a remote image presentation device at a local site, simulating an audio transmission path of the audio of the attendant at the remote site between the two or more loudspeakers and an attendant at the local site through a predetermined algorithm, where the simulating means that the audio transmission path is simulated between an image of the head of the attendant at the remote site displayed in the remote image presentation device, and the head of the attendant at the local site. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100237 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR CONFERENCE SWITCHING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and device for conference switching, relating to communications technologies, which solve the technical problem in the prior art that the operation during conference switching is complicated and user experience is poor. The method embodiments of the present invention include: receiving, from a conference terminal, a switching request message requesting switching to a destination conference, where the switching request message includes information of the destination conference; and determining, according to the switching request message, to switch to the destination conference indicated by the information, and performing the process of switching to the destination conference. The embodiments of the present invention are mainly applicable to the field of multimedia communication technologies. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100238 | Call routing based on facial recognition - Systems, apparatus and methods for routing a caller of an incoming video call are presented. A representative frame is selected from a sequence of images from the incoming video call. The representative frame may contain a video element (e.g., a face, QR code or printout). If the video element is recognized or unrecognized, a recognition status is set. Next, a rules database blocks or directs the incoming video call, based at least in part on the recognition status, to a video or audio destination. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100239 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING CASCADE CONFERENCE SITES IN CASCADE CONFERENCE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for processing cascade conference sites in a cascade conference, which may be used to implement one-to-one correspondence between an image orientation and a voice orientation of each conference site in the cascade conference, and improve the user experience of a participant. Certain embodiments of the present invention include: receiving an audio code stream sent by a cascade conference site, where the audio code stream sent by the cascade conference site is sent to different conference sites through different audio sound channels or audio cascade channels; receiving an audio code stream sent by a non-cascade conference site; and selecting audio data satisfying a preconfigured condition from audio data to be selected. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100240 | TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM, TELEPRESENCE METHOD, AND VIDEO COLLECTION DEVICE - A telepresence system, a telepresence method, and a video collection device are disclosed. The telepresence system includes a video collection device, a video display device, an audio collection device, an audio player, and an audio and video communication device. The audio and video communication device transmits videos collected by the video collection device on a local end and audios collected by the audio collection device on the local end to a remote end through a network; the video display device and the audio player on the remote end play the images and audios respectively; and the video collection device is a panoramic camera. The technical solution under the present invention overcomes the poor effect of panoramic presence in the existing telepresence system, and improves the telepresence system in terms of depth presence, seamless display and eye contact. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100241 | Holographic Microscope, Microscopic Subject Hologram Image Recording Method, Method of Creation of Hologram for Reproduction of High-Resolution Image, and Method for Reproduction of Image - An interference fringe pattern (I | 2013-04-25 |
20130100242 | Rendering Hardware Accelerated Graphics in a Web Application - The subject disclosure is directed towards providing a web application with access to hardware accelerated graphics. A rendering format for a set of video frames is established. A graphics component, which is coupled to a graphics device and associated with an unsupported file type, is identified. The graphics component generates image data compromising the hardware accelerated graphics. When the web application requests a set of video frames, the image data is transformed into the set of video frames in accordance with the format. Then, the set of frames is communicated to a display device | 2013-04-25 |
20130100243 | Secure Stereoscopic Display - A secured stereoscopic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a stereoscopic rearranger configured to rearrange an unsecured image having a plurality of pixels into a first secured image component and a second secured image component, wherein the first secured image component and the second secured image component each display an indecipherable image. The secured stereoscopic device also includes a stereoscopic control module configured to transform the first secured image component and the second secured image component into a secured stereoscopic image, and a stereoscopic display configured to display the secured stereoscopic image, wherein the secured stereoscopic image displays a decipherable image. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100244 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - One embodiment provides a communication device for transmitting a video to an external device through first to third transmission lines, the communication device including: a transmission module configured to transmit first color difference information and second color difference information concerned with adjacent two pixels through the first transmission line, to transmit first luminance information concerned with one of the two pixels through the second transmission line, and to transmit second luminance information concerned with the other of the two pixels through the third transmission line. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100245 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING USING VIRTUAL VIEW SYNTHESIS PREDICTION - An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding using view synthesis prediction are provided. The apparatus synthesizes imagers corresponding to peripheral views of a current view, and encodes current blocks included in an image of the current view by a currently defined encoding mode or an encoding mode related to virtual view synthesis prediction, according to a coding unit. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100246 | APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING STEREOCAMERA, STEREOCAMERA, AND METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING STEREOCAMERA - Provided are an apparatus for synchronizing a stereocamera, a stereocamera, and a method of synchronizing a stereocamera. The apparatus for synchronizing a stereocamera includes a synchronization error calculating unit configured to calculate a synchronization error from output signals of first and second image sensors, and a pulse adjusting unit configured to adjust a pulse of a synchronization signal of at least one of the first and second image sensors using the calculated error. In addition, the stereocamera and the method of synchronizing the same are provided. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100247 | IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND IMAGE DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS - To suppress a problem occurring in three-dimensional image display due to picture frame conversion processing for reducing black belt data regions corresponding to side panels and letterboxes. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100248 | VIDEO TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND VIDEO TRANSMITTING METHOD - A video transmitting apparatus includes: a video coder configured to compression-code a video signal to generate coded parameter information and coded pixel data; a supplemental information coder configured to code supplemental information for controlling display of a video to generate coded supplemental information; a coding unit multiplexing unit configured to output, in order, the coded parameter information and the coded supplemental information; and a stream transmitting unit configured to generate a coded stream which includes a packet including the coded parameter information and the coded supplemental information, using the data output from the coding unit multiplexing unit, and transmits the generated coded stream. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100249 | STEREO CAMERA DEVICE - Degradation of a three-dimensional measurement accuracy of a stereo camera device that takes an image of an object in a wide wavelength band is suppressed. In order to achieve the above object, a stereo camera device includes: a stereo image acquiring part for taking an image of light from the object to acquire a stereo image; a corresponding point searching part for performing a corresponding point search between images constituting the stereo image; a wavelength acquiring part for acquiring a representative wavelength of a wavelength component of the light; a parameter acquiring part for acquiring each parameter value corresponding to the representative wavelength with respect to at least one of camera parameters of the stereo image acquiring part in which the parameter value fluctuates according to the wavelength component of the light; and a three-dimensional information acquiring part for acquiring three-dimensional information on the object from a result of the corresponding point search using the each parameter value. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100250 | Methods and apparatus for imaging of occluded objects from scattered light - In exemplary implementations of this invention, a 3D range camera “looks around a corner” to image a hidden object, using light that has bounced (reflected) off of a diffuse reflector. The camera can recover the 3D structure of the hidden object. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100251 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - Present invention provides an imaging element that includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a pickup execution control unit that performs pixel addition by exposing the first pixel group and the second pixel group of the imaging element during the same exposure in a case of pickup in an SN mode and performs pixel addition by exposing the first pixel group and the second pixel group of the imaging element during different exposure times in a case of pickup in a DR mode, a diaphragm that is arranged in a light path through which the light fluxes which are incident to the imaging element pass, and a diaphragm control unit that, in the case of pickup in the DR mode, sets the diaphragm value of the diaphragm to be a value which is greater than that of the case of pickup in the SN mode. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100252 | OBJECT REGION EXTRACTION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an object region extraction system, an object region extraction method and an object region extraction program, which can improve non-extraction of an object region in three-dimensional space caused by extraction error of an object region from an image, and also reduce incorrect extraction of an object region in three-dimensional space. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100253 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING CAPTURING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - To remove visual discomfort during a zooming period, thereby enabling an observer not to feel fatigued. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100254 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image capture device includes: first and second shooting sections, each of which is configured to shoot an image of a subject; and a signal processing section configured to generate, based on first and second images that have been shot by the first and second shooting sections, respectively, information indicating the amount of parallax between the first and second images. Based on at least one of the states of the first and second images, a zoom power during shooting, and the tilt of the image capture device during shooting, the signal processing section generates control information indicating the degree of stereoscopic property of a 3D image to be generated based on the first and second images or indicating whether or not the 3D image needs to be output, and records the control information and the information indicating the amount of parallax. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100255 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM USING CAPTURED IMAGE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An input information acquisition unit of an information processing device acknowledges a user input. An imaging condition control unit initiates imaging using the imaging condition determined according to the user input or a result of analyzing a captured image. An imaging condition storage unit stores an imaging condition table that maps target functions to imaging conditions. First and second image analysis units and acquire images captured by first and second cameras and installed in the imaging device and perform necessary image analysis. An information integration unit integrates images captured by the pair of cameras and results of analysis. An image data generation unit generates data for an image output as a result of the process. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100256 | GENERATING A DEPTH MAP - Methods and systems for generating a depth map are provided. The method includes projecting an infrared (IR) dot pattern onto a scene. The method also includes capturing stereo images from each of two or more synchronized IR cameras, detecting a number of dots within the stereo images, computing a number of feature descriptors for the dots in the stereo images, and computing a disparity map between the stereo images. The method further includes generating a depth map for the scene using the disparity map. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100257 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A image processing method according to an aspect of the present invention includes a parallax amount calculating step of calculating a parallax amount of each pixel of a plurality of viewpoint images constituting a multi-viewpoint image; and a parallax amount correcting step of correcting the parallax amount of each pixel, based on a zoom value of the multi-viewpoint image and the calculated parallax amount of each pixel, in such a manner that a different in parallax amount corresponding to an object distance is kept unchanged even if the zoom value is changed, when a parallax amount of each pixel of at least a portion of the multi-viewpoint image is corrected by image processing. | 2013-04-25 |
20130100258 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A stereoscopic image display includes a display panel including subpixels, a polarizing plate attached to a display surface of the display panel, a patterned retarder film attached to one surface of the polarizing plate, and a pattern groove including an air layer which is formed on one surface of an upper substrate of the display panel contacting the polarizing plate at a location corresponding to a boundary between the subpixels. The pattern groove includes a plurality of peaks and a plurality of valleys and forms a triangular cross section along with a portion of the upper substrate contacting the polarizing plate, thereby providing the air layer. | 2013-04-25 |