21st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 42 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150139490 | DISCRIMINATION CONTAINER GENERATION DEVICE AND PATTERN DETECTION DEVICE - A discriminator generation device | 2015-05-21 |
20150139491 | AUTOMATIC OCCLUSION REGION IDENTIFICATION USING RADIATION IMAGING MODALITY - Among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques for identifying an occlusion region in an image representative of an object subjected to examination is provided for herein. Such systems and/or techniques may find particular application in the context of object recognition analysis. An image is generated of the object and an orientation of the object is determined from the image. Based upon the determined orientation of the object relative to the direction the object is translated during examination, one or more parameters utilized for segmenting a second image of the object, identifying features in the image, and/or determining if the image comprises an occlusion region may be adjusted. In this way, the parameters utilized may be a function of the determined orientation of the object, which may mitigate false positives of detected occlusion regions. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139492 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND DATA REGISTRATION METHOD FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - An image recognition apparatus is provided, comprising: an extraction unit extracting feature amount data of a subject from an image; a database registering a plurality of pieces of feature amount data extracted from different images of one registered object; and a comparing unit identifying whether or not the subject is the registered object by comparing the feature amount data extracted by the extraction unit and the feature amount data of the registered object registered in the database, a registration unit, using an image for registration, adding feature amount data of the registered object to the database in accordance with a predetermined condition which includes a first condition: if new data, which is the feature amount data extracted from the image for registration, is similar to registered data, which is the feature amount data of the registered object already registered in the database, the new data is not added. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139493 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a commodity recognition apparatus detects, from a captured image, an object imaged in the captured image and extracts an appearance feature amount of the object from the image of the object; compares the extracted appearance feature amount with feature amount data of a dictionary file in which feature amount data indicating the surface information of a commodity is stored for each recognition target commodity to calculate a similarity degree indicating how similar the appearance feature amount is to the feature amount data for each recognition target commodity; recognizes whether or not the object is a commodity based on the calculated similarity degree; and specifies and notifies the reason in a case in which the object is not recognized as a commodity. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139494 | SLOW CHANGE DETECTION SYSTEM - A slow change detection system includes: an image acquisition unit adapted to acquire a photographed image including consecutive images of a monitored object; a reference image acquisition unit adapted to acquire a reference image corresponding to the photographed image of the monitored object; a reference image area extraction unit adapted to extract, from the reference image, a reference image area that is an area corresponding to a photographed area of the photographed image; a change detection unit adapted to acquire a change area that is an area of the photographed image which is different from the reference image area and acquire a slow change area by excluding, from the acquired change area, a sudden change area derived from a history of the change area; and a display control unit adapted to superimpose and display information indicating the slow change area on the photographed image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139495 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE THEREOF - A method for processing an image of an electronic device is provided, which includes detecting at least one motion object from image information. When there are two motion objects, determining whether the motion objects are separated from or combined with each other. At least one motion object is extracted the motion objects are separated from or combined with each other, determining whether or not there is a preset motion object synthesis sequence, and recommending a synthesis time point before and after a time point of separation or combination of the motion objects. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139496 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method of operating an electronic device includes displaying an image of a first resolution, determining at least a partial region of the image, and displaying an image of a second resolution corresponding to the partial region. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139497 | LIVENESS DETECTION - An image of a portion of a person's body is accessed, the image having been captured by an image capture device. Using the image, measurements of characteristics in the image are obtained, the characteristics in the image having been selected based on a statistical analysis of characteristics (i) in a plurality of first images taken directly of a person and (ii) in a plurality of second images taken of an image of a person. Based on a liveness function, a score for the image is determined using the obtained measurements of the characteristics in the image. A threshold value is accessed. The score of the image is compared to the accessed threshold value. Based on the comparison of the score of the image to the accessed threshold value, the image is determined to be have been taken by the image capture device imaging the portion of the person's body. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139498 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIRE SIDEWALL CRACK ANALYSIS - An apparatus and method for detecting cracks in automotive tires using an automated optical imaging system that captures an image of the tire, converts the captured image into a grayscale image and next to a binary image, detects discrete shapes from the binary image, bounding each of the discrete shapes by baseline border shapes, and selects a predetermined baseline border shape. The apparatus and method optionally determine if the discrete shape has a tapered end, and if a tapered end is confirmed, calculate a level of jaggedness for the discrete shape, and measure the maximum width of a discrete shape having a predetermined baseline border shape, a tapered end, and a jagged outline, for comparison with industry standards for tire crack widths. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139499 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus that obtains a synthesized image of a subject viewed from an arbitrary viewpoint includes a calculator, a storage, and a synthesizer. The calculator calculates a correction value for a pixel value of a pixel that partially constitutes the picked-up images on the basis of a brightness of each of the plurality of picked-up images. The storage stores the correction value for each of the pixels. The synthesizer obtains a pixel value of a pixel in the synthesized image that corresponds to the pixel that partially constitutes the picked-up images by correcting a pixel value of the pixel that partially constitutes the picked-up images on the basis of a positional relationship of the pixel in the picked-up images, a correspondence relationship between the picked-up images and the synthesized image, and the correction value, and thereby generates the synthesized image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139500 | Method and System for Optimizing Image Processing in Driver Assistance Systems - An imager simulator configured to be used in lieu of an imager within a vehicle is provided. The imager simulator includes an image source configured to store pre-determined reference data; and an imager interface unit configured to generate image data based on the pre-determined reference data. The image data conforms to a pre-determined format; and wherein the pre-determined format corresponds to a format of image data generated by the imager. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139501 | WIND VELOCITY CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A wind velocity calibration system and method for providing highly accurate measurements of the three-dimensional wind velocity vector at high altitudes. The system includes a launcher, a projectile, an artificial aerosol cloud, at least two optical cameras, and an image processor. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139502 | Jump Shot and Athletic Activity Analysis System - Techniques where a computer or mobile device performs video analysis of a person performing a physical activity are described. The computer or mobile device performs video analysis based on one or more reference skeletons. The reference skeleton may be superimposed over captured video of the person performing the physical activity or compared to a generated player skeleton based on the captured video to determine derivation from the reference skeleton in the physical activity performed by the person. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139503 | MOTION PARAMETER ESTIMATION - An object motion parameter determiner ( | 2015-05-21 |
20150139504 | DETECTING APPARATUS, DETECTING SYSTEM, AND DETECTING METHOD - The present invention provides a detecting apparatus for detecting an abnormal state such as a drop or fall of a person to be observed from a captured image in a real-time manner and realizing improvement in precision of the detection while eliminating the influence of a background image and noise. The detecting apparatus calculates a motion vector of each of blocks of an image of video data, and extracts a block group in which the size of the motion vector exceeds a predetermined value. The detecting apparatus forms a group from adjacent blocks. For example, in descending order of the area of the blocks, the detecting apparatus calculates characteristic amounts such as an average vector, a variance, and a rotation direction component of motion blocks included in the blocks. The detecting apparatus detects that the person to be observed is in an abnormal state such as a drop or fall on the basis of the characteristic amounts of the groups, and informs an external apparatus or the like of the detection result. The detecting apparatus corrects a deviation of the angle of the imaging direction on the basis of a process of reducing pixels in the horizontal direction of an image and acceleration of the camera, thereby improving the precision of the detection. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING HUMAN MOTION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for predicting human motion in a virtual environment. The apparatus includes a motion tracking module configured to estimate a human pose of a current time step based on at least one piece of sensor data and a pre-learned motion model, and a motion model module configured to predict a set of probable human poses in the next time step based on the motion model, the estimated human pose of the current time step, and virtual environment context information of the next time step. A sense of immersion of the virtual environment may be maximized. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139506 | CLIENT SIDE FILTERING OF CARD OCR IMAGES - The technology of the present disclosure includes computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and systems to filter images before transmitting to a system for optical character recognition (“OCR”). A user computing device obtains a first image of the card from the digital scan of a physical card and analyzes features of the first image, the analysis being sufficient to determine if the first image is likely to be usable by an OCR algorithm. If the user computing device determines that the first image is likely to be usable, then the first image is transmitted to an OCR system associated with the OCR algorithm. Upon a determination that the first image is unlikely to be usable, a second image of the card from the digital scan of the physical card is analyzed. The optical character recognition system performs an optical character recognition algorithm on the filtered card. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139507 | CONTENT EXTRACTING DEVICE, CONTENT EXTRACTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that obtains intimacy degree information corresponding to identification information of a first person, specifies an extraction period based on the intimacy degree information, and extracts content in the extraction period. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139508 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION - Method for a wearable device worn by a first user to generate or retrieve a personal contact record when encountering a second user is disclosed. The method of generating the personal contact record includes capturing a facial photograph of the second user and generating a face information; capturing a card photograph of a business card and performing OCR to obtain a card information; retrieving time and location information to obtain an encounter information; and generating the personal contact information. The method of retrieving the personal contact record includes capturing a facial photograph of the second user; searching through a contact database comprising facial images associated with identities of persons, and attempting to match the captured facial photograph with one of the facial images in the contact database to determine the identity of the second user, and providing messages. Wearable devices for performing the above methods are also disclosed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139509 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LOGIN METHOD THEREOF - Head-mounted display apparatus and login method thereof are provided. The head-mounted display apparatus includes an image capturing device, a pico-projector, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and an application processor. The image capturing device captures a first eye image and a plurality of second eye images corresponding to a locus image. The ASIC determines whether the first eye image passes an iris recognition test. The application processor controls a pico-projector to project the locus image when the first eye image passes an iris recognition test, and generates a pupil locus based on the plurality of second eye images. The application processor determines whether the pupil locus is compliant with the locus image, and allows a login request if the pupil locus is compliant with the locus image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139510 | DETECTING EXPOSURE QUALITY IN IMAGES - Systems, methods and computer readable media for exposure quality detection are described. In some implementations, a method can include computing an overall image exposure score for an image. The method can also include determining one or more face regions in the image. The method can further include computing a face region exposure score for each face region. The method can also include combining the overall image exposure score and each face region exposure score to generate an exposure quality score for the image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139511 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING FINGERPRINT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method for operating of an electronic device is provided. The method includes: sensing an input on an input device, detecting one axis direction of a fingerprint input or to be input to a fingerprint sensor, based on the sensed input, determining whether the one axis direction of the fingerprint is consistent with a reference direction of a reference fingerprint, when the one axis direction is not consistent with the reference direction, making the one axis direction consistent with the reference direction, and determining whether the fingerprint is consistent with the reference fingerprint. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139512 | Enrollment Using Synthetic Fingerprint Image and Fingerprint Sensing Systems - A fingerprint sensing system. The fingerprint sensing system includes: at least one sensor; at least one display device; at least one application processor; and at least one secure enclave processor. The application processor(s) receives fingerprint data from the sensor(s) and provides the fingerprint data to the secure enclave processor(s). The secure enclave processor(s) decodes the fingerprint data and provides a signal indicative of at least one matched node. The application processor(s), responsive to receipt of the signal indicative of the matched node(s), presents at least a portion of a synthetic fingerprint image via at least one display device corresponding to the matched node(s). | 2015-05-21 |
20150139513 | CYLINDER SOURCE SOFTWARE-POSITIONING METHOD FOR PET CALIBRATION AND IMAGE QUALITY ASSURANCE - A method and system for determining a position of a source including obtaining prompt data and related delayed data from a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner, generating a sinogram from the prompt data, generating crystal efficiency correction factors by performing a normalization calibration based on the obtained delayed data, performing normalization correction on the generated sinogram based on the crystal efficiency correction factors to generate a corrected sinogram, rebinning the corrected sinogram to generate a plurality of two-dimensional sinogram slices, and determining a central axis for each of the plurality of two-dimensional sinogram slices using a center estimation process. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139514 | METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS FOR, VISUALIZING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - An apparatus for visualizing medical image data comprises a data processing unit for obtaining first image data representing a first medical image, second image data representing a second medical image, and subtraction image data representing a subtraction image, wherein the subtraction image data is generated by subtracting one of the first medical image data and the second medical image data from the other of the first medical image data and the second medical image data, and the apparatus further comprises a feature identification unit for processing the first image data representing the first medical image to identify a feature, and a rendering unit for rendering a combined image comprising an overlay of the identified feature from the first medical image data and one of the subtraction image and the second medical image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139515 | MOVEMENT CORRECTION FOR MEDICAL IMAGING - A method of improving the resolution of images from medical imaging devices by removing blurring due to movement of a patient during a scan. The method uses tracking algorithms to extract movement data from a video image of the patient and uses the movement data to correct the scanner date and remove the effects of movement. Also disclosed is a calibration process to calibrate the movement data to the scanner data. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139516 | DENOISING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-CONTRAST MRI - A denoising method and apparatus for multi-contrast MRI's are disclosed. An aspect of the invention provides a denoising method for an MRI that includes: acquiring multiple MRI's having different contrast levels for the same site; determining pixels corresponding to the same tissue by using the MRI's; and calculating a new luminance value for the pixels by using luminance values of the pixels that are determined to be belonging to the same tissue. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139517 | Methods And Systems For Calibration - The methods and systems for calibration are provided. For example, radiographic image density such as Hounsfield unit can be calibrated to facilitate tissue characterization of tumors or fluids when imaged at differing energy levels. The disclosed methods and systems can perform coronary calcium scanning at a radiation dose comparable to that of a chest X-ray or mammogram, and provide an accurate coronary calcium score as provided by a conventional high radiation coronary calcium scanning. An example method can comprise receiving first image data related to a first scan at a first energy level, receiving second image data related to a second scan at a second energy level, co-registering the first image data and the second image data, processing the co-registration of the first image data and the second image data to determine a calibration formula, and generating a score for the second image data based on the co-registration. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139518 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input unit, an identifying unit, and a display control unit. The input unit receives specification of a region of interest (ROI) included in a mammography image. The identifying unit identifies a medical image including a position substantially the same as the position of the ROI received by the input unit in an ultrasound image group acquired from a subject for whom the mammography image is captured. The display control unit performs control such that the medical image identified by the identifying unit is displayed on a display unit. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139519 | Dose Estimation Service System Configured to Support Multiple Computerized Medical Imaging Scan Providers - Techniques are disclosed for estimating patient radiation exposure during computerized tomography (CT) scans. More specifically, embodiments of the invention provide efficient approaches for generating a suitable patient model used to make such an estimate, to approaches for estimating patient dose by interpolating the results of multiple simulations, and to approaches for a service provider to host a dose estimation service made available to multiple CT scan providers. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139520 | SCAN REGION DETERMINING APPARATUS - A method includes displaying an iconic image of the human body and a list of predetermined anatomical regions. The method further includes displaying, in response to a user selected anatomical region, a scan box over a sub-portion of the iconic image. The method further includes receiving an input indicative of at least one of a scan box location of interest or a scan box geometry of interest, with respect to the anatomical region, of the first user. The method further includes at least one of re-locating or changing a geometry of the first initial scan box, in response thereto, creating a first user defined scan box for the first user. The method further includes creating a first transformation between a first template image representative of the selected anatomical region and the iconic image with the first user defined scan box for the first user, and storing the first transformation. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139521 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a rendering controller, a detector, and a voxel data generator. The rendering controller divides three-dimensional data constituted by voxel data into a plurality of slice regions, rearranges the slice regions based on a sight line direction in which the voxel data is observed, and performs volume rendering on the voxel data in which the slice regions have been rearranged so as to generate image data. The detector detects image quality information indicating image quality of image data that is generated by the rendering controller. The voxel data generator rearranges the voxel data constituting the three-dimensional data based on the image quality information detected by the detector based on the sight line direction. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139522 | STATISTICAL PROPERTY PRESERVED BAD LINE CORRECTION - The present disclosure presents systems and methods for correcting image artifacts on an x-ray image. X-ray images are obtained and processed with a correction algorithm that generates corrected pixel lines having pixels with corrected pixel values. The corrected pixel lines can then be processed with a filtering algorithm that generates filtered pixel line having pixels with a filtered pixel value. The bad pixel lines are replaced by the filtered pixel lines to generate corrected x-ray images. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139523 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MAMMOGRAPHY IMAGES - In a method for displaying mammography images, an identification of the mammography images is first inputted via a user interface of a computer system. A host is employed to receive the identification for activating the mammography images and reading a header of the mammography images. The host reads a plurality of displaying rules previously configured for comparing with the header of the mammography images. The host then automatically selects one of the plurality of displaying rules that is best conformed to the header of the mammography images. The host automatically classifies the mammography images according to the selected one displaying rule. Finally, a monitor displays the classified mammography images. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PANORAMA IMAGE DATA - A method and an apparatus for providing panoramic image data by reconstructing frame images captured by a panoramic imaging apparatus, are disclosed. In reconstruction of images with multiple image layers, sizes of images reconstructed with an image layer or images to be used for a reconstruction are scaled. An image is selected by analyzing sharpness. A panoramic image is provided by combining selected image. According to the present invention, parts having unclear focal planes may be completely removed in a panoramic image and it is possible to provide an image including only with focused regions. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139525 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MODEL-BASED DETECTION OF STRUCTURE IN VIEW DATA - In one aspect, a method for determining a value for at least one parameter of a configuration of a model, the model associated with structure of which view data has been obtained from at least one x-ray scanning device capable of producing x-ray radiation, the view data being obtained, at least in part, by scanning at least a portion of the structure, wherein the view data is attenuation data of the x-ray radiation attenuated by the structure as a function of view angle about the structure is provided. The method comprises acts of operating on the view data to detect at least one feature in the view data, and determining the value for the at least one parameter of the configuration of the model based, at least in part, on the at least one feature. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139526 | IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION UNIT, X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING IMAGE - An imaging method includes calculating a derivative back projection (DBP) result value using a DBP method with respect to a projection image of a field of view (FOV) inside an object, and reconstructing an image of the FOV by applying a regulation function to the FOV while reconstructing the image of the FOV using the DBP result value. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139527 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: an interface unit configured to input an image signal from an imaging apparatus that exposes a specimen dyed with a fluorescent dye to excitation light and images fluorescence by a color imaging element; and a color correction circuit configured to retain information on a percentage of each of a component of a second color and a component of a third color with respect to a component of a first color corresponding to the excitation light in the image signal, which is determined in advance based on color filter spectral characteristics of the color imaging element, and reduce each of an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the second color and an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the third color from the input image signal. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139528 | NETWORK IMAGE REVIEW IN CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for using digital imaging and networked communications in clinical hematology. An Area of Interest (AOI) on a slide is determined. A high resolution image of the AOI is analyzed for sample integrity and adjusted and rescanned based on programmable parameters. Sensitive HIPAA information is removed from the AOI image stored on a server. The server includes Web 2.0 software applications. A remote user reviews the image and adds metadata to the server. The server manages the work flow between the stored AOI images and the available users. A technician accesses information about a particular image file, as well as other topics, through knowledge management and social network applications. Lab reports are generated based on the metadata. The quality of the metadata is subject to quality control processes. The stored images and associated metadata can be mined for subsequent medical research. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139529 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR OBTAINING CARD INFORMATION - A server system with one or more processors and memory obtains, from a client device, a card image which includes an image of a card, and identifies a card configuration type corresponding to the card in the card image based on a database of stored card configuration types. Each stored card configuration type in the database is associated with layout information regarding respective features and information regions for the stored card configuration type. In accordance with the identified card configuration type, the server system determines one or more information regions of the card image containing respective card information of the card. The server system extracts at least a portion of the card information of the card from the one or more information regions of the card image and transmits, to the client device, at least the extracted portion of the card information. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139530 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECT OF IMAGE HAVING PERIODIC PATTERN - Disclosed is a defect detection apparatus. The defect detection apparatus includes an angle extractor configured to extract a slope angle of a pattern from an original image in which a plurality of the patterns are formed at periodic intervals, a pattern period extractor configured to extract a pattern period at which the patterns are separated from each other, by using the slope angle, and an image shifter configured to shift the original image by the pattern period in a direction perpendicular to the slope angle to form the shifted image. The present invention shifts an image by using the slope angle and pattern period of the periodic pattern, thus easily extracting a defect of the original image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139531 | DEFECT ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, PROGRAM EXECUTED BY DEFECT ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND DEFECT ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Conventionally, there was no method for automatically selecting the layers to be overlaid, so when the number of layers to be overlaid was large, there was a problem that much time was required for selecting the layers. It is an object of the present invention to provide a defect image analysis method capable of specifying patterns and layers in which a defect occurs by overlaying defect images to be analysis targets and design layout data, and a defect image analysis system capable of improving the efficiency to select the layers from the design layout data. The present invention is characterized in dividing analysis target images for each hierarchy corresponding to a manufacturing process and generating a plurality of layers; calculating a degree of matching between each of the layer division images and each design layer of the design layout data; and specifying a design layer with a highest degree of matching of the each design layer as a design layer corresponding to the layer division image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139532 | CAMARA TRACKING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING RECONSTRUCTION SEGMENTS AND VOLUMETRIC SURFACE - Provided are an apparatus and method for tracking a camera that reconstructs a real environment in three dimensions by using reconstruction segments and a volumetric surface. The camera tracking apparatus using reconstruction segments and a volumetric surface includes a reconstruction segment division unit configured to divide three-dimensional space reconstruction segments extracted from an image acquired by a camera, a transformation matrix generation unit configured to generate a transformation matrix for at least one reconstruction segment among the reconstruction segments obtained by the reconstruction segment division unit, and a reconstruction segment connection unit configured to rotate or move the at least one reconstruction segment according to the transformation matrix generated by the reconstruction segment division unit and connect the rotated and moved reconstruction segment with another reconstruction segment. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139533 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR ADJUSTING DEPTH VALUES - A depth processing method, an electronic device and a medium are provided. The depth processing method includes: obtaining a color image and a depth map corresponding to the color image; extracting a plurality of regions from at least one of the depth map and the color image; obtaining region information of the regions, and classifying the regions into at least one of a region-of-interest and a non-region-of-interest according to the region information, wherein the region information comprises area information and edge information; and adjusting a plurality of depth values in the depth map according to the region information. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139534 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE CORRECTION METHOD - An image processing apparatus for correcting, on the basis of an image and a depth map corresponding to the image, the depth map, includes: a detection unit that detects an object included in the image; a determination unit that determines whether a size of the object detected by the detection unit is a threshold or less; and a correction unit that corrects a distance in a target area which corresponds to an area of the object in the depth map, when the size of the detected object is the threshold or less. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139535 | SILHOUETTE-BASED OBJECT AND TEXTURE ALIGNMENT, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An object-image alignment data generating method for use in an object recognition system is presented. The method obtains a 3D model and a set of 2D images of the object. Each 2D image from the set is captured based on a particular camera point of view. The method then uses the 3D model of the object to generate multiple silhouettes of the object according to different camera point of views. Each silhouette is then matched and aligned with a 2D image based on the corresponding camera point of view. The method also derives at least one descriptor from the 2D images and compiles feature points that correspond to the descriptors. Each feature point includes a 2D location and a 3D location. The method then generates an object-image alignment packet by packaging the 2D images, the descriptors, and the feature points. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139536 | Image Classification Using Images with Separate Grayscale and Color Channels - Image classification techniques using images with separate grayscale and color channels are described. In one or more implementations, an image classification network includes grayscale filters and color filters which are separate from the grayscale filters. The grayscale filters are configured to extract grayscale features from a grayscale channel of an image, and the color filters are configured to extract color features from a color channel of the image. The extracted grayscale features and color features are used to identify an object in the image, and the image is classified based on the identified object. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139537 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING ANGULAR MOVEMENT WITH A SINGLE TWO DIMENSIONAL DEVICE - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for neuro-simulation with a single two-dimensional device to track objects. The neuro-simulation may report a point of interest in an image that is provided by the device. The device may center on the point of interest using one or more actuators. The simulation mechanism may input pixels and output a plurality of angles to the actuators to adjust their direction. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139538 | OBJECT DETECTION WITH BOOSTED EXEMPLARS - In techniques for object detection with boosted exemplars, weak classifiers of a real-adaboost technique can be learned as exemplars that are collected from example images. The exemplars are examples of an object that is detectable in image patches of an image, such as faces that are detectable in images. The weak classifiers of the real-adaboost technique can be applied to the image patches of the image, and a confidence score is determined for each of the weak classifiers as applied to an image patch of the image. The confidence score of a weak classifier is an indication of whether the object is detected in the image patch of the image based on the weak classifier. All of the confidence scores of the weak classifiers can then be summed to generate an overall object detection score that indicates whether the image patch of the image includes the object. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139539 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FORGERY/FALSIFICATION OF HOMEPAGE - An apparatus and method for detecting forgery/falsification of a homepage. The apparatus includes a homepage image shot generation module for generating homepage image shots of an entire screen of an accessed homepage. A character string extraction module extracts character strings from each homepage image shot using an OCR technique. A character string comparison module compares each of the extracted character strings with character strings required for determination of homepage forgery/falsification, thus determining whether the extracted character string is a normal character string or a falsified character string. A homepage falsification determination module determines whether the corresponding homepage has been forged/falsified, based on results of the comparison. A character string learning module learns the character string extracted from the homepage image shot, based on results of the determination, and classifies the character string as the normal character string or the falsified character string. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139540 | Mixed Media Reality Recognition Using Multiple Specialized Indexes - An MMR system for searching across multiple indexes comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a pre-processing server or MMR gateway, and an MMR matching unit, and may include an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image from the pre-processing server or MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result including a document, the page, and the location on the page. The MMR matching unit includes a distributor for distributing the image to corresponding content type specific index tables and an integrator for integrating recognition results. The result is returned to the mobile device via the pre-processing server or MMR gateway. The techniques described herein also include a number of novel methods including a method for processing content-type specific image queries and for processing queries across multiple indexes. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139541 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING HARMFUL VIDEOS - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for detecting harmful videos. The apparatus includes a video input unit for receiving an input video. A frame extraction unit extracts frames from the input video. A skin model generation unit generates a skin model for the frames extracted by the frame extraction unit. A color distribution-based determination unit determines whether the input video corresponds to a harmful video by comparing harmful color distribution information that is information related to a color distribution of preset harmful videos with target color distribution information. A skin area-based determination unit determines whether the input video corresponds to a harmful video by comparing a target skin area with harmful skin area information that is skin area information of preset harmful videos, the target skin area being extracted from the input video by separating an area corresponding to the skin model from the input video. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139542 | Toner Limit Processing Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes analyzing a meta-data structure corresponding to each tile of a sheetside image to detect a blank state of the sheetside image, detecting a sensing display item in a data stream and scanning the sheetside image in response to detecting the sensing display item. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139543 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENHANCING AN IMAGE UTILIZING A HYPER-CLARITY TRANSFORM - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enhancing an image utilizing a hyper-clarity transform. In use, an image is identified. Additionally, the identified image is enhanced, utilizing a hyper-clarity transform. Further, the enhanced image is returned. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139544 | METHOD OF EMBEDDING OF AN IMAGE WITH A COLOR TRANSFORM - The method comprises the generation of a deteriorated image associated with a first bit rate and of a deteriorated color transform associated with a second bit rate, an evaluation of a first distortion by comparison of the image with a first test image obtained by the application of the color transform to the deteriorated image, and of a second distortion by comparison of the image with a second test image obtained by the application of the deteriorated color transform to the image, and the determination of a final conjoint bit rate associated with a best trade-off between a conjoint bit rate (R=R1+R2) and a global distortion (dE=dE1+DE2). The optimized deteriorated image and the optimized deteriorated color transform are then embedded based on this conjoint bit rate. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETECT OBJECTS IN MULTIMEDIA USING NON-TEXTURAL INFORMATION WITHIN SEGMENTED REGION - A method and a system for detecting and monitoring of at least one object in a multimedia content are provided. The method includes extracting at least one contour from the multimedia content using non-textural information in a segmented region within the multimedia content, computing a histogram for the extracted at least one contour in the segmented region of the selected multimedia content to represent an object shape based on the computed histogram, and determining an orientation change of the represented object shape within the segmented region of the multimedia content. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139546 | IMAGE SEGMENTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus has: a segmenting unit for segmenting an input image into a plurality of areas on the basis of a similarity of pixels; an acquiring unit for acquiring sizes of the segmented areas; a selecting unit for selecting one of a plurality of discriminating methods, with respect to adjacent areas among the plurality of areas, on the basis of an acquired size of each of the adjacent areas, whether or not the adjacent areas are connecting targets by using different kinds of features; an extracting unit for extracting, from the adjacent areas, the feature of the kind which is used in the selected discriminating method; a connecting unit for connecting the adjacent areas determined as the connecting targets by the selected discriminating method; and a classifying unit for classifying a kind of connected area. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139547 | FEATURE CALCULATION DEVICE AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a feature calculation device includes a procurement controller, a first calculator, an extraction controller, a second calculator, and an integrating controller. The procurement controller obtains a plurality of strokes. The first calculator calculates, for each of the plurality of strokes, a stroke feature quantity related to a feature of the stroke. The extraction controller extracts, for each of the plurality of strokes, from the plurality of strokes, one or more neighboring strokes. The second calculator calculates, for each of the plurality of strokes, a combinational feature quantity based on a combination of the stroke and the one or more neighboring strokes. The integrating controller generates, for each of the plurality of strokes, an integrated feature quantity by integrating the stroke feature quantity and the combinational feature quantity. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOGNIZING HANDWRITING IN HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS - The disclosed embodiments illustrate a method for comparing handwriting in a first electronic document and a second electronic document. The method includes extracting, by one or more processors, one or more segments from a first electronic document and a second electronic document. Each of the one or more segments includes a handwritten text. Thereafter, one or more sets of segments are created from the one or more segments. An information indicating categorization of each segment in a set of segments in one or more categories is received. The information is provided by one or more workers based on the handwriting in each segment. A similarity score based on a count of segments in each of the one or more categories is determined. The similarity score is deterministic of a degree of similarity between the first electronic document and the second electronic document. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139549 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENT - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display controller, a detector and a processor. The display controller displays a document on a screen of a touch screen display, the document including one or more elements corresponding to a first layer and one or more elements corresponding to a second layer. The detector is configured to detect a position and a contact pressure of a first contact on the screen. The processor is configured to delete either a first element corresponding to the first layer or a second element corresponding to the second layer, by using the position and the contact pressure of the first contact. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139550 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM AND DISPLAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - The inputted character candidate display section ( | 2015-05-21 |
20150139551 | Cascaded Object Detection - Cascaded object detection techniques are described. In one or more implementations, cascaded coarse-to-dense object detection techniques are utilized to detect objects in images. In a first stage, coarse features are extracted from an image, and non-object regions are rejected. Then, in one or more subsequent stages, dense features are extracted from the remaining non-rejected regions of the image to detect one or more objects in the image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139552 | AUGMENTED REALITY INTERACTION IMPLEMENTATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a method and system for realizing interaction in augmented reality. The method includes: collecting a frame image and uploads the frame image; recognizing a template image that matches the frame image and returning the template image; detecting a marker area of the frame image according to the template image; and superposing media data corresponding to the template image on the marker area and displaying the superposed image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139553 | Device for Detecting Edges and Improving the Quality of an Image - Device for edge detection and quality enhancement in an image which comprises a grouping of identical and locally interconnected elementary processing cells. Each processing cell is characterised in turn by a comparator which carries out in parallel the comparison of each pair of neighbouring pixels. The threshold voltage which establishes the difference in voltage between pixels considered to be part of an edge is determined by means of a temporary adjustment of a control signal. This adjustment, along with that of the filtering control signal, also temporary in nature, are the only ones necessary for configuring the required processing. No external analogue control signals are required making it easier to programme the hardware by the device which is used and reducing the number of digital/analogue converters of the final system. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139554 | CONSECUTIVE THIN EDGE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING A COLOR FILTER ARRAY IMAGE - A consecutive thin edge detection system and method for enhancing color filter array image is disclosed in the present invention. The consecutive thin edge detection system includes a consecutive thin edge detector, a color gradient estimator and a direction indicator. The consecutive thin edge detector receives a color pixel array including a plurality of color pixels and alternately sets each color pixel as a target pixel. The consecutive thin edge detector detects a difference value between a plurality of first green pixels and a plurality of second green pixels nearby a target pixel, and determines whether the target pixel comprises a consecutive thin edge feature or not according to the difference value. The plurality of first green pixels are in red pixel rows which comprises a plurality red pixels and the plurality of first green pixels, and the plurality of second green pixels are in a blue pixel row which comprises blue pixels and the plurality of second green pixels. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139555 | SHOE IMAGE RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MATCHING PAIR - Provided are a shoe image retrieval apparatus and method using a matching pair, which can accurately retrieve image information corresponding to an inputted image from the database and provide the retrieved image information, by normalizing a correspondence relation in consideration of geometric image transformation about the matching pair and allowing a similar image to be retrieved by applying the normalized correspondence relation. It is possible to detect optimum geometric image transformation from a matching pair between the inputted shoe image and the image stored in the database and simultaneously retrieve a plurality of objects in the inputted shoe image based on the detected geometric image transformation, thereby providing an efficient shoe retrieval service. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139556 | APPARATUS FOR COMPENSATING CAMERA IMAGE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a camera image compensating apparatus for a vehicle, including a detecting unit which detects a base line and a vehicle body contour line; a coordinate storing unit which stores a first reference image coordinate value and a second reference image coordinate value; a first coordinate calculating unit which calculates a first base line image coordinate value and calculates a first vehicle body contour line image coordinate value; a coordinate comparing unit which compares the first reference image coordinate value and the first base line image coordinate value and compares the second reference image coordinate value and the first vehicle body contour line image coordinate value; and a correcting unit which calculates angle change information of the camera, calculates correction information based on the angle change information, and corrects the camera parameter using the correction information. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139557 | FAST DENSE PATCH SEARCH AND QUANTIZATION - In techniques for fast dense patch search and quantization, partition center patches are determined for partitions of example image patches. Patch groups of an image each include similar image patches and a reference image patch that represents a respective patch group. A partition center patch of the partitions is determined as a nearest neighbor to the reference image patch of a patch group. The partition center patch can be determined based on a single-nearest neighbor (1-NN) distance determination, and the determined partition center patch is allocated as the nearest neighbor to the similar image patches in the patch group. Alternatively, a group of nearby partition center patches are determined as the nearest neighbors to the reference image patch based on a k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) distance determination, and the nearest neighbor to each of the similar image patches in the patch group is determined from the nearby partition center patches. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139558 | SEARCHING DEVICE, SEARCHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a searching device includes an acquiring unit, a receiver, a calculator, and a determining unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire a first image. The receiver is configured to receive selection of a first area contained in the first image. The calculator is configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of second images to be searched, a first similarity with the first area and a second similarity with a second area that has been received by the receiver before the first area. The determining unit is configured to determine a third image or third images to be presented from among the second images on the basis of a result of a logical operation of the first similarity and the second similarity for each of the second images. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHAPE CLUSTERING USING HIERARCHICAL CHARACTER CLASSIFIERS - A system and method of processing an image of a document using an optical character recognition process is disclosed. In one example, the method comprises acts of extracting, by a computer system, a plurality of recognizable units from the document, extracting, by the computer system, a plurality of features from the plurality of recognizable units, separating, by the computer system, the plurality of recognizable units, based on the plurality of extracted features into a plurality of fragments having at least one fragment type, determining a distance metric between the plurality of recognizable units, based on the plurality of extracted features, and classifying, by the computer system, the plurality of recognizable units into a plurality of clusters based on the distance metric, each cluster including a set of recognizable units associated with a shape classification. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139560 | CODED IMAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A coded image system enables a user to recover an object scene from an encoded image. The coded the image system comprises: a physical object scene; an encoding logic creating an encoded image, the encoding logic including a programmable aperture mask spaced a distance away from the physical object scene to encode the encoded image via a doubly-Toeplitz matrix, the doubly-Toeplitz matrix including two one-dimensional vectors; and a decoding logic operatively coupled to the programmable aperture mask to decode the encoded image recovering a visual representation of the object scene from the encoded image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING IMAGES AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGES - An apparatus for decoding an image includes an encoding information extractor which extracts split information indicating whether to split a coding unit of an upper depth into coding units of deeper depths and skip information indicating whether a prediction mode of a current coding unit is a skip mode, from image data and a decoding unit which determines a split structure of a maximum coding unit, according to the split information so that the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split as a depth increases and determines whether the prediction mode of the current coding unit is the skip mode according to the skip information. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139562 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING IMAGES AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGES - An apparatus for decoding an image includes an encoding information extractor which extracts split information indicating whether to split a coding unit of an upper depth into coding units of deeper depths and skip information indicating whether a prediction mode of a current coding unit is a skip mode, from image data and a decoding unit which determines a split structure of a maximum coding unit, according to the split information so that the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split as a depth increases and determines whether the prediction mode of the current coding unit is the skip mode according to the skip information. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139563 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE BY USING LARGE TRANSFORM UNIT - A method of decoding an image in which wherein, when a prediction mode is an inter prediction mode, not an intra prediction mode, a size of at least one prediction unit in the coding unit is determined independently from a size of at least one transformation unit in the coding unit. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139564 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED DELTA ENCODING - Methods and systems are provided for batch processing. A plurality of correlation parameters representing degrees of correlation between two or more data sets in a first batch of data sets may be determined, and an optimized correlation dependency graph may be generated according to the plurality of correlation parameters. A second batch of data sets may then be encoded according to the optimized correlation dependency graph. For example, the optimized correlation dependency graph may be used for performing a predetermined correlation encoding operation. The plurality of correlation parameters may be determined, for example, in accordance with one or more predetermined correlation metrics associated with a predetermined correlation encoding operation. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139565 | FILTERING METHOD FOR REMOVING BLOCK ARTIFACTS AND/OR RINGING NOISE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Provided are a filtering method and apparatus for removing blocking artifacts and ringing noise. The filtering method includes transforming video data on a block-by-block basis, and detecting the presence of an edge region in the video data by checking the distribution of values obtained by the transformation. Accordingly, it is possible to completely remove blocking artifacts and/or ringing noise by more effectively detecting the presence of an edge region in video data. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139566 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a first production part configured to apply a first smoothing process to an original image data by using a first edge-preserving smoothing filter to produce first image data that include a low-frequency image and an edge image, a second production part configured to apply a second smoothing process to a differential image between the original image data and the first image data to produce second image data that include a high-frequency image, and a synthesis part configured to synthesize the first image data and the second image data. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139567 | ADJUSTING DIGITAL IMAGES FOR PARALLAX - Adjusting digital images for parallax includes receiving ( | 2015-05-21 |
20150139568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A OPTIMAL SEAM FOR SURROUND VIEW SYNTHESIS - A method, apparatus and a surround view camera system for determining the optimal seem for a surround view camera system. The method includes determining the corrected side view image at bird-eye perspective, generating a cost map for overlapping region, finding a minimum cost seam for each overlapping region, computing weight based on distance to the seam, if blending of the pixel, and blending the pixel, synthesizing composite view, and generating a composite view image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139569 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE DIMENSIONS OF AN OBJECT SHOWN IN A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ITEM - A method and system for determining at least a size dimension of objects shown in multimedia content items are presented. The method includes receiving an input multimedia content item; identifying objects shown in the multimedia content item; generating at least a first signature for at least a first object of the plurality of objects and at least a second signature for at least a second object; identifying at least one concept that matches the at least a first object; determining an actual size of the first object respective of the match to the at least one concept; determining a size scale between the first object and the second object using the at least a first signature and the at least a second signature; and determining the at least size dimension of the second object respective of the size scale and the actual size of the first object. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139570 | STORING PHOTOGRAPHIC METADATA FOR SCENE REPRODUCTION - In an approach for collecting and storing photographic metadata, a computer receives a file containing an image. The computer receives photographic metadata from one or more photographic devices. The one or more photographic devices include at least one or more illumination devices. The one or more photographic devices are utilized to create the image. The received photographic metadata includes at least specifications of the one or more photographic devices. The computer stores the received photographic metadata in association with the received file. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139571 | PLASTIC BAG WITH GRIP STRIP - A plastic bag comprising a grip strip configured to assist with opening the bag, wherein the grip strip is formed from a material different from a material from which its associated panel is formed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139572 | LINEAR MOTION BEARING WITH MODULAR BEARING SEGMENTS - A modular bearing segment is disclosed. The modular bearing segment having a first end and a second end and can include a retainer defining at least one bearing track having an open load bearing portion; a plurality of bearings positioned within the at least one bearing track; a bearing plate in load bearing communication with less than all of the plurality of bearings and positioned opposite the retainer, and a lid positioned on the bearing plate, fixed to the retainer and defining a rocker element retaining hole positioned above the bearing plate. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139573 | GAS-DYNAMIC AIR BEARING - A gas-dynamic air bearing for radially mounting a shaft may include a plurality of bearing segments arranged in a recess of a housing. The bearing segments may radially enclose the shaft. Each bearing segment may be held with play on the housing via a respective bolt arranged radially to a predetermined bearing axis. Each bearing segment may include an associated stop spring device supported between the housing and the bearing segments. The respective stop spring device may be resilient to stroke movements of the bearing segment effective radially outwardly relative to the bearing axis. The respective bolts may be adjustably screwed to the housing. The bolts may have an end on a segment side that delimits a spring travel of the stop spring device radially inwardly towards the bearing axis and may position the respective bearing segment. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139574 | RADIAL CHANNEL WITH FLUID RESERVOIR - Provided is an apparatus, including a stationary component; a rotatable component, wherein the stationary component and the rotatable component are positioned for relative rotation; a first sealing means positioned in a radial channel at a first axial end of the rotatable component; a second sealing means positioned in an axial channel at a second axial end of the rotatable component; and a fluid reservoir adjacent to the first sealing means and extending radially outward from the first sealing means, wherein the fluid reservoir is positioned radially outward from the pump seal, and wherein the fluid reservoir extends radially outward from the pump seal. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139575 | ELASTOMERIC SPHERICAL BEARING ASSEMBLY AND STRUCTURAL MEMBER INCORPORATING THE SAME - A bearing assembly can include a top retainer; a middle retainer having a first concave spherical surface; a bottom retainer having a second concave spherical surface; a spherical ball member; and an elastomeric member coupled to the first concave spherical surface, the second concave spherical surface, and an outer surface of the spherical ball member. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139576 | JOURNAL HOUSING FOR A CYLINDRICAL BEARING AND RELATED METHOD - To address the problem of flush fluid leakage under normal operating conditions in rotary machinery, an improved pack-box has been conceived. The pack-box has a rotary bearing concentrically disposed within the pack-box, wherein a circumferential segment of the rotary bearing is circumferentially fixed within the pack-box. The pack-box further comprises a wall-step that defines at least a first thermal expansion channel and an inner wall that defines at least a second thermal expansion channel. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139577 | SHAFT SUPPORT AND LUBRICATION ASSEMBLY - A shaft support and lubrication system can include two vise bearings, a lantern ring, and two or more sets of packings. The vise bearings can be rigid cylinder tubes. The lantern ring can be a flexible cylindrical tube with one or more outer grooves on an outer diameter, one or more inner grooves on an inner diameter, and one or more through holes from either the outer diameter or the one or more outer grooves to either the inner diameter or the one or more inner grooves. When arranged coaxially and installed on a shaft, the shaft support and lubrication system provide physical stabilization and provide lubrication or cleaning solution to the shaft. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139578 | SLIDING COMPONENT - A sliding component, which can seal and lubricate at the same time by reducing the amount of leakage of sealed fluid further while preventing torque increase and local wear, is characterized in that an extremely shallow step of circular shape is provided on a sealing face of one of a pair of sliding parts that slide against each other in such a way that the step is positioned on the low-pressure fluid side (atmosphere side) of this sealing face and also set lower than the sealing face, and that pumping grooves acting to push back toward the high-pressure fluid side (sealed fluid side) the fluid that tends to leak from the sealing face toward the low-pressure fluid side (atmosphere side) are provided on the surface of the extremely shallow step. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139579 | BEARING FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A bearing for an internal combustion engine may include a ferrous base material onto which a primary layer of a bronze alloy is disposed and a deposited layer applied over the primary layer. A bonding layer may be applied onto the primary layer between the primary layer and the deposited layer. The bonding layer may include nickel and chrome, and the deposited layer may include a metal alloy composed of aluminum and tin. A sliding layer may be disposed on the deposited layer and include a polymeric polyamide-imide matrix provided with a soft metal and at least one of a fluoropolymer and a silane-based material. The ferrous base material, the primary layer, the bonding layer, the deposited layer and the sliding layer in combination may be capable of standing a gripping load higher than 85 MPa. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139580 | BOTTOM BRACKET ASSEMBLY FOR LOW-SPEED ROTATION - A bottom bracket assembly for low-speed rotation is formed of a main body having an axial hole running therethrough, a spindle inserted into the axial hole, and a pivotal assembly having a self-lubricating bearing, a bushing, and a ball valve, each of which is made of a self-lubricating material. The self-lubricating bearing is sleeved onto the spindle and located at one end of the axial hole. The ball valve includes a through hole running through an axis thereof and sleeved onto one end of the spindle relative to the self-lubricating bearing. The external diameter of the bushing is smaller than the internal diameter of the axial hole. The bushing includes a spherical bushing aperture for engagement with the ball valve to make the bushing deflected on the center of the ball valve and thus the rotation of the spindle remains stable and smooth. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139581 | PHENOLIC BEARING CAGE WITH SELF-LUBRICATING COATING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHENOLIC BEARING CAGE WITH SELF-LUBRICATING COATING - A bearing cage, including: a body fabricated of phenolic material and having an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface; and a coating of molybdenum disulfide or polytetrafluoroethylene adhered to the outer circumferential surface or the inner circumferential surface. A method of manufacturing a bearing cage, including: fabricating a body from phenolic material, the body including an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface connecting first and second sides; and adhering a coating of molybdenum disulfide or polytetrafluoroethylene to the inner or outer circumferential surface. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139582 | BEARING HAVING COMPONENTS FABRICATED FROM A CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE - Embodiments of a bearing are provided herein. In one embodiment a bearing may include a bearing assembly having an inner race and an outer race; a plurality of rolling elements disposed between the inner race and the outer race, wherein at least one of the inner race, the outer race, and the plurality of rolling elements is at least partially fabricated from an AlMgB | 2015-05-21 |
20150139583 | BEARING UNIT FOR FLUID MACHINERY APPLICATION - A bearing unit for a fluid machinery application having a double-row bearing, the double-row bearing comprising: a first angular self-aligning contact bearing arranged next to a second angular self-aligning contact bearing for locating and rotatably support a shaft; each angular self-aligning contact bearing having a respective set of rolling elements formed of rollers arranged in a row and interposed between an associated curved inner raceway and a curved outer raceway. Each roller is a symmetrical cylindrically shaped roller having a curved raceway-contacting surface engaging with the curved inner and outer raceways. Each roller is inclined in relation to the axial direction of the shaft by a respective first or second contact angle. The rollers are arranged to cooperate with the associated curved inner and raceways for supporting an axial force and a radial force. Examples of fluid machinery applications include: wind turbine, water turbine or propulsion turbine arrangements. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139584 | BEARING ASSEMBLY - A bearing assembly includes first and second rolling-element bearings each having an inner ring with a running surface for rolling elements and a guide flange that extends radially outwardly beyond the running surface for limiting axial movement of the rolling elements. The inner rings are configured such that they are in contact with each other exclusively within a contact surface diameter that is smaller than an average value of a maximum diameter of the running surface of one of the inner rings and a maximum outer diameter of that inner ring. The guide flanges are disposed on sides of the inner ring of the first rolling-element bearing and of the second rolling-element bearing that face each other axially. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139585 | Device and Method for Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System Photonic Switch - In one embodiment, a micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) photonic switch includes a first plurality of collimators and a first minor array optically coupled to the first plurality of collimators, where the first minor array includes a first plurality of minors, and where a first minor of the first plurality of minors includes a first plurality of photodiodes integrated on the first mirror. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139586 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device and a method of manufacturing an optical device. The optical device includes: a conversion means for converting propagation light propagating through an optical waveguide into parallel light and for outputting the parallel light; and a first lens means for focusing the parallel light outputted from the conversion means on a core of an optical fiber. The method includes: converting propagation light propagating through an optical waveguide into parallel light; outputting the parallel light; and focusing, using a first lens, the parallel light on a core of an optical fiber. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139587 | FIBER COUPLER - A fibre coupler is provided, which includes a tubular enveloping structure and several optical fibres arranged in the enveloping structure, each of which has a fibre core and a fibre cladding surrounding same, in order to conduct laser radiation, and each of which extends from the first as far as the second end of the enveloping structure. The enveloping structure includes a tapering section which is tapered in a first direction from the first as far as the second end. In the tapering section, both a first ratio of the diameter of the fibre core to the diameter of the fibre cladding and also a second ratio of the diameter of the mode field of the laser radiation conducted in the optical fibre to the diameter of the fibre core, increases in the first direction for each optical fibre. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139588 | HYBRID FIBER CONNECTOR PATCH CORD ASSEMBLIES - Fiber patch cable assemblies are described. More particularly, fiber patch cable assemblies that provide adaptability between a terminal and a drop cable having different connection formats are described. | 2015-05-21 |
20150139589 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR, METHOD FOR CONNECTING OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR AND OPTICAL FIBER, AND ASSEMBLED BODY OF OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR AND OPTICAL FIBER - An optical fiber connector in which: an optical fiber guide member includes a fiber guide side substrate portion forming part of a substrate, a fiber guide pattern, and a lid member; and an optical waveguide includes an optical waveguide side substrate portion adjacent to the fiber guide side substrate portion, an optical waveguide side first lower clad layer, an optical signal transmission core pattern, and an optical waveguide side upper clad layer. The fiber guide pattern is formed of a plurality of guide members aligned parallel to one another at intervals. A space defined by every two adjacent guide members, the fiber guide side substrate portion, and a fiber guide side lid member portion forms a fiber guide groove. The fiber guide groove is present on an extension of the optical signal transmission core pattern in an optical path direction. The optical fiber connector facilitates alignment of an optical fiber and an optical waveguide core and also facilitates mounting of the optical fiber with hardly any misalignment of the optical fiber. | 2015-05-21 |