26th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140176600 | TEXT-ENLARGEMENT DISPLAY METHOD - A method controls display data in an electronic device, with the method including: receiving an input of a page image including at least one letter; obtaining at least one text object image by cutting an area that corresponds to the at least one letter from the page image; and displaying the at least one text object image in a selective manner in response to a user input. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176601 | SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - A synthetic image generation apparatus includes: a receiving unit which receives painting data from an input device; a synthesis unit which synthesizes a still image included in video content with the painting data received by the receiving unit, to generate a synthetic image; and a display control unit which selectively displays the video content and the synthetic image on a display device. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176602 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is an information processing apparatus which supports diagnosis based on a tissue specimen image obtained by capturing body tissues, including an area generation unit that divides at least one feature value of the tissue specimen image into a plurality of levels based on a magnitude of the feature value, and generates an area on the tissue specimen image belonging to each level; and an overlay image generation unit that associates the area of each level which is generated by the area generation unit with an image which is processed to have the same shape and the same positional relation as the area and in which a magnitude relation of the feature value is identifiable and generates an overlay image. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MENTORING VIA AN AUGMENTED REALITY ASSISTANT - A method and apparatus for training and guiding users comprising generating a scene understanding based on video and audio input of a scene of a user performing a task in the scene, correlating the scene understanding with a knowledge base to produce a task understanding, comprising one or more goals, of a current activity of the user, reasoning, based on the task understanding and a user's current state, a next step for advancing the user towards completing one of the one or more goals of the task understanding and overlaying the scene with an augmented reality view comprising one or more visual and audio representation of the next step to the user. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176604 | Automated Object Selection and Placement for Augmented Reality - A system to facilitate AR processing includes receiving captured media from a user device and context information relating to media that is being delivered to a receiving device. The system may use the media being delivered with the captured media to generate one or more virtual objects. The user device may augment a user's view of reality that is reflected in the captured media by overlaying or otherwise incorporating the virtual objects in the user's view of reality. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176605 | DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A vehicular camera includes a housing, a lens, an image sensor positioned for receiving images from the lens, a processor, and a memory. The memory contains a plurality of overlays. The processor is programmed to (a) receive first input data from a vehicle in which the camera is to be mounted, wherein the first input data correspond to the configuration of the vehicle, and (b) select a particular overlay to display based at least in part on the input received. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176606 | RECORDING AND VISUALIZING IMAGES USING AUGMENTED IMAGE DATA - A device and method for presenting augmented image data. An image capture device captures an image together with information about the image. Alternatively a data logger may capture additional information about a particular image. The image and additional information is sent to a database where a server analyzes the augmented image and relates the augmented image to other images in the database. A subsequent user may query the database for all images and augmented information for a particular area, location, or object and retrieve that collected information for subsequent analysis. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176607 | SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR MIXED REALITY CONTENT - Disclosed is a simulation system for mixed reality content. A simulation system according to the present invention may comprise at least one real object for demonstrating contents configured with a tracking sensor, a multi-modal input-output apparatus tracking the at least one real object and collecting information on the at least one real object and a content authoring apparatus configured to edit virtual contents according to a predefined scenario, receive the information on the at least one real object collected by the multi-modal input-output apparatus, and edit the virtual contents based on the information on the at least one real object and a user feedback. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176608 | DECORATING SYSTEM FOR EDIBLE PRODUCTS - An augmented reality system for a food product includes an edible media or a food product decoration with an embedded augmented reality marker and a related application for a mobile device. The application presents augmented reality content associated with the augmented reality marker. The application permits access to the augmented reality content in response to detection of the application recognizing the embedded augmented reality marker. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176609 | MIXED REALITY APPARATUS - A mixed reality device is provided with: a head-mounted display ( | 2014-06-26 |
20140176610 | IMAGE DISPLAYING SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE, IMAGE DATA OUTPUTTING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAYING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DATA OUTPUTTING PROGRAM - A system consisting of a plurality of terminals storing image data and an image displaying device which are connected with each other through a network capable of two-way communication has the disadvantage of decreasing in throughput on account of slow image data transfer over the network. The image displaying device performs two-way communications with each of the terminals by a communication means at the display device side. Also, the image displaying device acquires image data from a relevant terminal while instructing other terminals to suspend transmission by the image data acquisition controlling means, thereby suspending transmission of image data. The image displaying device displays images by the image displaying means based on the thus acquired image data. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176611 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - An image display system and a method for displaying the image are disclosed, in which the image display system includes a display device and a host. The display device includes an acceleration sensor and a microcontroller. The acceleration sensor detects movement of the display device and generates a plurality of inner-integrated circuit packets. The microcontroller transfers the received inner-integrated circuit packets and converts the received inner-integrated circuit packets to the USB packets. The host receives the USB packets and accordingly adjusts the setting of the displayed image. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176612 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus that determines crop positions for an image including a plurality of objects in a preferred manner. This image processing apparatus specifies object regions from the image, and sets a plurality of crop region candidates for each of the specified object regions. The image processing apparatus selects a predetermined number of crop regions from among the plurality of crop region candidates based on evaluation values obtained for the plurality of crop region candidates and on similarities among the plurality of crop region candidates. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176613 | ALTERNATE VIEWPOINT RENDERING - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for alternate viewpoint rendering. A first image and a set of pixel-shift values for the pixels in the first image are received. A portion of a second image is generated, the second image comprising a different viewpoint than a viewpoint of the first image. A first pixel from the set of pixels is selected based on the different viewpoint. A first destination pixel is identified for the first pixel in the second image based on a pixel-shift value from the set of pixel-shift values associated with the first pixel. A value of the first destination pixel is determined based on at least one of (a) a previously considered pixel from the set of pixels of the first image that is horizontally adjacent to the first pixel or (b) the pixel-shift value associated with the first pixel. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176614 | Dynamically Updating an Electronic Paper Display by Computational Modeling - Embodiments provide techniques for updating pixels of an electrophoretic display through computational modeling of a current state of each pixel. A model buffer may store data for a modeled current state of each pixel in a display, providing a prediction of a current color state for each pixel based on voltages previously applied to the pixel. Upon receiving a frame to be displayed, including a target state for each pixel, embodiments determine which of a set of voltages (e.g., positive, negative, or neural/zero voltages) optimally alters the state of the pixel to be as close as possible to the target state. These voltage(s) may be applied to each pixel in an iterative manner, with each voltage determined based on the current modeled state of the pixel. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176615 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY USING SELECTIVE LIGHT FILTERING - A transparent display device and method of forming such device. The transparent display device includes a substrate, wherein the substrate allows greater than 50% of incident light to pass through the substrate. The device also includes a plurality of pixels formed on the substrate, wherein the pixels are formed of an adjustable permittivity material wherein the adjustable permittivity material exhibits a change in permittivity upon the application of a voltage and is normally transparent. The device further includes interconnects operatively coupled to the adjustable permittivity material in each pixel, wherein the interconnects are configured to provide voltage to the adjustable permittivity material. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176616 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING AN ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - In a method of driving an organic light emitting display device, a first data signal constituting an image frame is sequentially written into first pixel circuits coupled to first scan-lines by sequentially performing a scanning operation on the first scan-lines in a first direction, a second data signal constituting the image frame is sequentially written into second pixel circuits coupled to second scan-lines by sequentially performing the scanning operation on the second scan-lines in a second direction, and the image frame is displayed by controlling the first and second pixel circuits to simultaneously emit light. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176617 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a display panel arranged to include a plurality of unit pixels having red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, a four-color data converter configured to convert input data of red, green, and blue of each unit pixel into data of red, green, blue, and white respectively corresponding to the red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, and a panel driver configured to accumulate data of each of the sub-pixels at every accumulation period, store the accumulated data in a memory, decide a color correction mode for correcting a color of each unit pixel on the basis of the accumulated data of the white sub-pixel stored in the memory, drive the white sub-pixel of each unit pixel according to the decided color correction mode, and selectively drive the red, green, and blue sub-pixels. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176618 | Backlight Driving Apparatus and Liquid Crystal Display Device Using the Same - Disclosed is a backlight driving apparatus. The backlight driving apparatus includes a light source configured to include at least one LED, a DC-DC converter configured to generate a driving voltage according to a turn-on of a switching element and supply the driving voltage to the light source, a feedback circuit configured to generate a feedback voltage corresponding to a voltage level of the driving voltage supplied from light source, a duty controller connected to the light source, and configured to control a turn-on period of the LED according to an LED duty signal corresponding to a backlight dimming signal, and a switching controller configured to generate a PWM signal for controlling the turn-on of the switching element according to the feedback signal, generate a switching control signal corresponding to the PWM signal according to the LED duty signal, and selectively control the turn-on of the switching element. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176619 | SELF LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF SELF LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a self light emitting display device, including a variation detection unit configured to detect a variation of a video signal equal to, or greater than a predetermined threshold, a correction unit configured to correct an output level of the video signal based on the detection of the variation by the variation detection unit, and a video processing unit configured to perform a process with a predetermined time delay on the video signal supplied from the variation detection unit and configured to output the processed video signal to the correction unit. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176620 | DISPLAY UNIT, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image processing device includes a control section configured to determine, based on first luminance information for each display pixel, frame luminance information in a single frame and current information. The current information indicates a magnitude of a current that is expected to be consumed in displaying the single frame on a display section. The control section is configured to control, based on the frame luminance information and the current information, light-emitting luminance of the display section. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176621 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SCREEN ACCORDING TO DATA LOADING IN TERMINAL - A device for controlling a screen according to data loading in a terminal is provided. The device includes a display whose screen brightness value is changed step by step while data is being loaded, and a controller configured to control to change, if data information is requested, a screen brightness value of the display step by step according to progress of data loading, and to control to display the data being loaded, on the display whose screen brightness value is changed step by step. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176622 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels formed in intersection areas between a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of sensing lines, a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines, a plurality of data driving ICs including a data driver, supplying data voltages to the data lines, and a sensing unit including a plurality of ADCs that each sense characteristic change of a driving transistor included in a corresponding pixel to generate sensing data, a memory storing a gain error and offset error of each ADC, and a timing controller correcting the sensing data on a basis of the gain error and offset error, modulating input data on a basis of the corrected sensing data, and supplying the modulated data to the data driving ICs. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176623 | SELF-LUMINOUS DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF SELF-LUMINOUS DISPLAY DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a self-luminous display device including a data calculation section configured to calculate, by using a supplied video signal, data relating to a luminance amount accumulated in a unit of a first block in a target region for luminance control in a screen on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including a light emitting element which emits light by itself according to a current amount, a resampling section configured to resample the data relating to the luminance amount in the target region, in a unit of a second block, the data relating to the luminance amount being calculated by the data calculation section, the second block being larger than the first block, and a scaling section configured to generate data for luminance control in the target region by scaling the data resampled by the resampling section. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176624 | GATE-ON VOLTAGE GENERATOR, DRIVING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME - A gate-on voltage generator that can enhance display quality at low temperatures, a driving device, and a display apparatus having the same, in which the gate-on voltage generator includes a temperature sensor having an operational amplifier configured to receive a driving voltage and produce a temperature-dependent variable voltage, the level of which varies according to the ambient temperature, and a charge pumping unit shifting the temperature-dependent variable voltage by the voltage level of a pulse signal and generating a gate-on voltage. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176625 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD of DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of driving the same are discussed. The method includes sensing a threshold voltage and mobility of a driving thin film transistor (TFT) included in each pixel using a sensing line connected per pixel and supplying the threshold voltage and the mobility to a timing controller in a measurement mode, by a data driver, and supplying image data input from an external source to the data driver by a timing controller, the timing controller adding and multiplying an offset value and gain value corresponding to the threshold voltage and mobility of the driving TFT, sensed by the data driver in the measurement mode, with the image data to compensate the image data, wherein the compensation of the image data includes varying a weight of the gain value according to luminance of the image data. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176626 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a display screen which displays an input image based on input image data. In a case where the display screen displays an image having a uniform grayscale, the display screen displays a check-patterned image on a part that includes a luminance boundary. This makes it possible to provide (i) a displays device capable of certainly reducing display unevenness so as to increase display quality and (ii) a method of driving the display device. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176627 | INKJET HEAD DRIVING METHOD AND DRIVING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a driving device applies an ejection pulse signal that deforms a partition in such a way that an ink drop is ejected from a nozzle and an auxiliary pulse signal that deforms the partition to such an extent that an ink drop is not ejected from the nozzle, as a drive signal for providing a potential difference between electrodes, to an inkjet head at different timings so that the two pulse signals are not applied simultaneously. A constraint on output of the auxiliary pulse signal is significantly relaxed. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176628 | CONTROL EJECTION OF INK DROPS TO RESPECTIVE REGIONS IN THE SPITTOON - A method of maintaining nozzles of a printhead includes periodically moving a printhead having a plurality of nozzles toward a spittoon, and ejecting a plurality of sets of ink drops from the nozzles of the printhead to the spittoon mode. The method also includes controlling the ejecting of the plurality of sets of ink drops from the nozzles of the printhead to the spittoon by the control module. Consecutive sets of ink drops received by the spittoon are received by different sets of regions of the plurality of sets of regions within the spittoon. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176629 | METHOD TO EXECUTE A PRINT INTERRUPTION IN PRINTING OPERATION OF AN INK PRINTING SYSTEM WITH AT LEAST ONE PRINTING APPARATUS - In a method to execute a printing interruption in a printing operation, with triggering of the print interruption a feed speed of the printing substrate is reduced from a print speed to a predetermined speed in a slowing ramp, and after the print interruption the printing substrate is accelerated again to the print speed in an acceleration ramp. With aid of the sensor, print clock pulses are generated which are supplied to a print controller depending on the feed speed of the printing substrate. Given occurrence of a print clock pulse during the ramps, with the print controller a vibration cycle is initiated at nozzles of the print head that are not ejecting ink droplets at a time when the vibration cycle is initiated. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176630 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus including an ink tank for storing an ink, a flow path member communicating with the ink tank and a recording head for ejecting the ink supplied from the ink tank through the flow path member, wherein the apparatus further includes a light detection unit which applies light to at least one of the ink in the ink tank and the ink in the flow path member and detects the intensity of back-scattered light of the applied light, and an image density correction unit which corrects the density of an image to be recorded on the basis of the intensity of the back-scattered light which has been detected by the light detection unit. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176631 | NOZZLE EJECTION AMOUNT CORRECTING METHOD, FUNCTIONAL LIQUID EJECTING METHOD, AND ORGANIC EL DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A nozzle ejection amount correcting method includes: a first signal correction for performing first signal correction by calculating correction amounts of the plurality of driving signals from a difference C between a predetermined amount B in a case of ejecting liquid droplets from the selected nozzles to the ejecting regions in the main scanning performed a plurality of times and the predetermined amount A that is set in advance; a second signal correction for performing second signal correction by calculating correction amounts of the plurality of driving signals before the correction corresponding to the main scanning in the later stage from a difference E between a predetermined amount D in a case of ejecting the liquid droplets to the ejecting regions and the predetermined amount A by using the plurality of driving signals, by which the first signal correction is performed, in the main scanning in the former stage. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176632 | Defective Printer Nozzle Compensation Control - Ink ejection problems of black ink nozzles are compensated for by forming dots by mixing cyan, magenta and yellow inks without reducing print quality. When a nozzle that discharges black ink becomes unable to properly eject ink, cyan, magenta, and yellow inks are ejected from respective nozzles to the discharge area on the recording medium to which the defective nozzle should eject ink. The volumes of the cyan, magenta and yellow inks that are ejected are set to effectively compensate for the missing black dot. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176633 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTER - A method of printing a spit pattern for an inkjet printer includes selecting a dot distance between dots of the spit pattern, selecting at least a sub-matrix of a dither matrix of entries arranged in rows and columns, constructing a bi-level bitmap of the same size as the sub-matrix, splitting each column of the bi-level bitmap which has more than one entry having a value of one into a number of columns such that each column of the number of columns comprises one entry having a value of one, removing each column of the bi-level bitmap which has no entry having a value of one, extracting the row and column number of each entry of the bi-level bitmap having a value of one, adapting the row number of each extracted entry in accordance with the dot distance, and printing the spit pattern. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176634 | CONDENSATION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN INK JET PRINTING SYSTEM - Condensation control systems are provided for use with inkjet printing systems that use a combination of higher resistance flow areas and lower resistance flow areas to allow a vaporized carrier fluid reducing airflow to flow between a printing module and a receiver during printing without creating observable artifacts in a print. Removal of the vaporized carrier fluid reduces condensation. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176635 | PRINTER VAPOR CONTROL - Examples systems and methods of this disclosure include a threshold corresponding to a vapor density, and a circuit or method step to compare an incoming signal that corresponds to a detected vapor density with the threshold. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176636 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - An image recording device is provided with: a first guide mechanism for guiding the movement of a print head between an image recording position and a maintenance-receiving position, which is a position different from a support member in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the print head at the image recording position and the support member face each other; and a second guide mechanism for guiding the movement of a maintenance unit between a withdrawn position for separating away from the print head in a third direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the second direction, in relation to the print head at the maintenance-receiving position, and a maintenance position for drawing nearer to the print head than the withdrawn position. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176637 | MANAGING CONDENSATION IN AN INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM WITH CO-LINEAR AIRFLOW - Methods for operating an inkjet printing system are provided. In one method, a cross-module airflow is used to limit concentrations of an evaporated inkjet carrier fluid between barrier that is between inkjet printheads of a printing module and a receiver. In the method, inkjet droplets are printed along a first print line and a second print line as the receiver is moved past the first print line and as the receiver is moved past the second print line. A co-linear airflow that flows along with ink droplets to the receiver is also supplied. Between the first print line and the second print line the receiver is moved to create an integration area in which the cross-module airflow and co-linear airflow can integrate and flow from between the printing module and the receiver without disrupting the travel of ink droplets. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176638 | INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM WITH MANAGED CONDENSATION CONTROL AIRFLOW - Inkjet printing systems are described that have deflection surfaces to guide a condensation reducing airflow between a printing module and a receiver without disrupting inkjet drop placements. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176639 | INKJET PRINTING WITH MANAGED AIRFLOW FOR CONDENSATION CONTROL - Inkjet printing methods are provided that deflect and guide a condensation reducing airflow between a printing module and a receiver without disrupting inkjet drop placements. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176640 | INKJET PRINTING WITH CONDENSATION CONTROL - Inkjet printing methods are described that create a combination of higher resistance flow areas and lower resistance flow areas to allow a vaporized carrier fluid reducing airflow to flow between a printing module and a receiver without disrupting inkjet drop placements. Removal of the vaporized carrier fluid reduces condensation. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176641 | Condensation control system for inkjet printing system - Condensation control systems are provided for use with inkjet printing systems that use a combination of higher resistance flow areas and lower resistance flow areas to allow a vaporized carrier fluid reducing airflow to flow between a printing module and a receiver during printing without creating observable artifacts in a print. Removal of the vaporized carrier fluid reduces condensation. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176642 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a carriage which is movable in a forward direction from one end to the other end; a recording head provided in the carriage and having a plurality of nozzle groups from which the ink is discharged; an ink receiver provided at a side of the one end including a flushing position and configured to receive the ink discharged by a flushing operation; and a controller configured to control operations of the carriage and the recording head. In a case that the carriage is moved in the forward direction, the controller executes: an acceleration process for accelerating the carriage; a selecting process for selecting at least one nozzle group for which the flushing operation is performed; a flushing process for performing the flushing operation for the nozzle group selected in the selecting process during the acceleration process; and a recording process for recording the image. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176643 | WASTE INK TANK AND INKJET PRINTER | 2014-06-26 |
20140176644 | INKJET PRINTER HAVING PRINTHEAD PLUMBED FOR OPTIMIZED COLOR MIXING - An inkjet printer including an inkjet printhead positioned relative to a media feed direction. The printhead has a plurality of color planes for ejecting different inks, each color plane including a nozzle row defined in a nozzle face of the printhead, and each nozzle in a respective color plane being supplied with a same ink. The printhead is plumbed such that a first color plane positioned furthest upstream with respect to the media feed direction ejects yellow ink and a second color plane neighboring the first color plane ejects black ink. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176645 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, INKJET PRINT HEAD ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR AND THE INKJET PRINT HEAD ASSEMBLY - A piezoelectric actuator includes upper and lower electrodes providing driving voltages and a piezoelectric film formed between the upper and lower electrodes and providing a driving force to ink in a plurality of pressure chambers formed on an inkjet print head, respectively. The piezoelectric film may include a plurality of basin parts individually formed on respective tops of the plurality of pressure chambers and a large-area part connected to the plurality of basin parts, respectively, at one ends of the plurality of basin parts and formed as a single body. The large-area part may include an etching groove formed on an extended line of a basin line partitioning the basin parts. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176646 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A flow channel substrate has pressure chambers, and the pressure chambers communicate with nozzle openings for ejecting liquid. Each of piezoelectric elements on the flow channel substrate has a piezoelectric layer, a pair of electrodes, and a wiring layer coupled to the electrodes. The wiring layer has an adhesion layer and a conductive layer on the adhesion layer. The adhesion layer contains at least one selected from nickel, chromium, titanium, and tungsten. The piezoelectric element has an insulating film at least between the wiring layer and the electrodes. The wiring layer and the electrodes of the piezoelectric element are coupled via contact holes created through the insulating film. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176647 | LIQUID CONTAINER AND APPARATUS IN WHICH LIQUID CONTAINER IS MOUNTABLE - A liquid container and an apparatus in which the liquid container is mountable are provided, the liquid container and the apparatus enabling the presence or absence of remaining liquid to be checked without the need for a power source and even after the liquid container is removed. The pressure in a communication path is maintained while ink in a containing section is not supplied to the exterior. Thus, the displacement state of a detection valve which is displaced depending on the pressure in the communication path can be maintained even after removal of an ink tank. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176648 | METHOD OF SUPPLYING FLUID TO A FLUID EJECTION HEAD, FLUID SUPPLY MECHANISM, AND FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A drop in the throughput of continuous printing operations caused by refilling a subtank with ink is suppressed. The control unit of an inkjet printer | 2014-06-26 |
20140176649 | REPLACEABLE INK BAG AND INK CARTRIDGE WITH REPLACEABLE INK BAG - A replaceable ink bag and an ink cartridge with replaceable ink bag are provided. The ink bag includes an ink amount trigger, a bag body and a positioning element. The two opposite sides of the bag are partially adhered with the ink amount trigger and the positioning element respectively. The ink cartridge includes a cartridge body, an ink bag and a lid body. The lid body is removably engaged to the cartridge body to house the ink bag. The wall on long side of the cartridge includes at least a retention block. The surroundings of the positioning element of the ink bag are disposed with at least a retention element. The retention element can be inserted between the retention block and the bottom of the cartridge body for fixing the ink bag inside the cartridge. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176650 | LIQUID CONTAINER RETAINING UNIT AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid container retaining unit includes: a first urging member for generating, in relation to the insertion of a liquid container into the container retaining element, an urging force to urge the liquid container in a removal direction; a container retaining mechanism for releasing the liquid container from a restricted state by moving the liquid container retained in the restricted state in the insertion direction so that the urging force of the first urging member is capable of moving the liquid container in the removal direction; a second urging member for generating, when the liquid container is retained within the container retaining element in the restricted state, an urging force to urge so as to cause the first electrodes on the liquid container and the second electrodes on the container retaining element to abut against each other. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176651 | PRINTING MATERIAL CONTAINER, AND BOARD MOUNTED ON PRINTING MATERIAL CONTAINER - A printing material container detachably attachable to a printing apparatus having apparatus-side terminals. The container can comprise an electrical device, a memory device and a plurality of terminals. First and second terminals can be coupled to the electrical device and a plurality of memory terminals can be coupled to the memory device. Terminal contact portions are present where the terminals contact a respective apparatus side contact forming member. A short detection contact portion can be positioned to contact a contact forming member that itself is coupled to a short detection circuit of the printing apparatus. The terminals can be arranged with the memory terminal contact portions located to the left of the second terminal contact portion and to the right of the first terminal contact portion. The contact portion that is second farthest to the right can be the third contact portion. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176652 | Phase Change Ink Composition And Process For Preparing Same - A process for preparing a phase change ink including (a) subjecting a white colorant to acoustic mixing at an acceleration of from about 30 to about 110 g; (b) optionally, adding a dispersant and subjecting the white colorant and dispersant to further acoustic mixing at an acceleration of from about 30 to about 110 g; (c) separately melt mixing an optional antioxidant, an optional synergist, and a phase change ink carrier comprising (i) a branched triamide and (ii) a polyethylene wax, a Fischer Tropsch wax, or a mixture or combination thereof, to form a melt mixture; (d) adding the melt mixture of (c) to the acoustically mixed white colorant of (a) or (b) with stirring; (e) optionally, adding a fluorescent dye with stirring; and (d) optionally, filtering the phase change ink. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176653 | NOVEL COMPOUND HAVING MULTIMER STRUCTURE OF XANTHENE DERIVATIVE, COLORING COMPOSITION, INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, METHOD OF INKJET RECORDING, COLOR FILTER, AND COLOR TONER - There is provided a compound represented by formula (1): | 2014-06-26 |
20140176654 | INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM WITH CONDENSATION CONTROL - Inkjet printing systems are provided that use a combination of higher resistance flow areas and lower resistance flow areas to allow a vaporized carrier reducing airflow to flow between a printing module and a receiver without disrupting inkjet drop placements. Removal of the vaporized carrier fluid reduces condensation. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176655 | CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A conveyance apparatus is provided with a conveyance body that suction adheres and conveys a sheet form medium, and a pressing body that presses the sheet form medium against a suction adhesion face of the conveyance body that suction adheres the sheet form medium, the paper press roller pressing more strongly portions that are present at plural locations along the suction adhesion face width direction where the suction adhesion force of the suction adhesion face is weak than the pressing body presses other portions. The pressing body of the conveyance apparatus includes large diameter portions that press the sheet form medium at plural locations along the width direction, thereby preventing lift-off of the sheet form medium at suction hole unformed regions that are portions where the suction adhesion force to the suction adhesion face of the conveyance body is weaker than in the vicinity thereof. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176656 | LIGHT SOURCE DRIVER, LIGHT SOURCE-DRIVING METHOD, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE-DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND OPTICAL SCANNER - A light source driver includes a controller which outputs an undershoot current in synchronization with lighting complete timing in lighting information, wherein the controller is configured to output the undershoot current such that a voltage in a light source when the output of the undershoot current is complete is equal to a voltage in the light source before being turned on. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176657 | LENS ARRAY UNIT, ERECTING EQUAL-MAGNIFICATION LENS ARRAY, OPTICAL SCANNING UNIT, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE WRITING DEVICE - A first lens array unit includes a first lens array plate and a second lens array plate in which a plurality of lenses are provided in the main scanning direction, and a first light shielding member piece and a second light shielding member piece provided with a plurality of through holes corresponding to the lenses. The first lens array plate, the second lens array plate, the first light shielding member piece, and the second light shielding member piece are formed as one piece. The lens array is built by bending joints joining the lens array plates and the light shielding member pieces such that the lens is located to directly face the corresponding through hole. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176658 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SUPERVISOR TERMINAL AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAMMES - A communication method in a communications network is provided. The method includes, in a communications network in which a communication link has been communication link having been allocated by a resource manager module in accordance with a first value of a characteristic of data rate, latency or jitter required for providing a first service on the said link between a first and a second communication terminal, the steps of transmitting a request to replace the said first communication service by a second communication service between at least the first and second terminals; further to receipt of the said request by the resource manager module of the network, replacing by the said resource manager module of the first value of the said characteristic by a second value required for providing the said second service; and providing the second communication service instead of the first communication service between the first and second terminals on the said communication link. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176659 | OFFLOADING A VIDEO PORTION OF A VIDEO CALL - A method for offloading a video portion of a video call form a cellular network to a WLAN is provided. The method can include a wireless communication device participating in a video call with a remote device over a connection between the wireless communication device and a cellular network. The video call can include a first video stream carried over a first bearer on the cellular network and an audio stream carried over a second bearer on the cellular network. The method can further include the wireless communication device establishing a connection between the wireless communication device and a WLAN; performing a call setup procedure with the remote device to establish a second video stream over the WLAN; terminating the first video stream; and using the second video stream and the audio stream to continue the video call. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176660 | TRANSITIONING A VIDEO CALL BETWEEN NETWORKS - A method for transitioning a video call is provided. The method can include a wireless communication device participating in a video call with a remote communication device via a first video call session established over a connection between the wireless communication device and a first cellular network. The video call can include a packet switched video stream carried over a first bearer and an audio stream carried over a second bearer. The method can further include the wireless communication device determining a degradation in a connection quality for the first cellular network; transitioning to a legacy cellular network having a circuit switched domain in response to the degradation in connection quality for the first cellular network; establishing a second video call session on the legacy cellular network; and using the second video call session to continue the video call on the legacy cellular network. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SURGICAL TELEMENTORING AND TRAINING WITH VIRTUALIZED TELESTRATION AND HAPTIC HOLOGRAMS, INCLUDING METADATA TAGGING, ENCAPSULATION AND SAVING MULTI-MODAL STREAMING MEDICAL IMAGERY TOGETHER WITH MULTI-DIMENSIONAL [4-D] VIRTUAL MESH AND MULTI-SENSORY ANNOTATION IN STANDARD FILE FORMATS USED FOR DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE (DICOM) - The invention relates generally to a medical apparatus and method of using the same for receiving and transmitting streaming medical imagery and audio signals in real time, and allowing remote operators to annotate and telestrate with same. The invention acquires streaming medical imagery and audio signals through a telestreamer input device, allowing users to electronically collaborate, generally by telestrating, annotating, and sketching image overlays on streaming medical imagery. Video images of streaming imagery data displayed on a monitor are superimposed onto a virtual mesh projected via computer graphics. The vertices of the mesh move according to equations of motion based on a computational physics engine. Virtual tools are projected above the mesh via computer graphics. These virtual tools interact with the virtual mesh according to the physics engine. The superposition of the video images onto the virtual mesh makes it appear that points within the video image are moving in a realistic manner and reacting to the virtual tools with a realistic response. The invention allows for recursive superposition of mesh layers, also known as ‘surgi-skins’, and creation of a multi-layered virtual mesh. Multi-layered surgi-skins synthesized from multi-modal streaming medical imagery and saved together with multi-dimensional [4-D] virtual mesh and multi-sensory annotation in single file format as DICOM files are also known as ‘DICOM mesh’ or ‘haptic holograms’. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176662 | STATIC AND DYNAMIC VIDEO CALLING AVATARS - A communication device may include logic configured to detect a request to initiate a video call by the user of the communication device; select an avatar for the video call, wherein the avatar corresponds to an image selected by the user to be used as a replacement for a video stream for video calls associated with the user; determine a facial expression associated with the user of the communication device; select an avatar facial expression for the selected avatar, based on the determined facial expression; and incorporate the selected avatar facial expression into a video stream associated with the video call. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176663 | PRIVACY CAMERA - A privacy camera, such as a light field camera that includes an array of cameras or an RGBZ camera(s)) is used to capture images and display images according to a selected privacy mode. The privacy mode may include a blur background mode and a background replacement mode and can be automatically selected based on the meeting type, participants, location, and device type. A region of interest and/or an object(s) of interest (e.g. one or more persons in a foreground) is determined and the privacy camera is configured to clearly show the region/object of interest and obscure or replace the background according to the selected privacy mode. The displayed image includes the region/object(s) of interest clearly shown (e.g. in focus) and any objects in a background of the combined image shown having a limited depth of field (e.g. blurry/not in focus) and/or the background replaced with another image and/or fill. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176664 | PROJECTION APPARATUS WITH VIDEO CONFERENCE FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING VIDEO CONFERENCE USING PROJECTION APPARATUS - A projection apparatus includes a projection module, a network module, a video-audio capturing module, a conference module and a processor. The network module provides a network interface. The video-audio capturing module is configured to capture an image and voice of a local user, and accordingly generates local video-audio data. The conference module provides the video conference function. The processor is electrically connected to the projection module, the network module, the video-audio capturing module and the conference module. When the processor enables the video conference function, the projection apparatus establishes a connection with a remote apparatus through the network interface, in order to receive a remote video-audio data of a remote user from the remote apparatus, and transmit the local video-audio data to the remote apparatus. The projection module projects an image corresponding to the remote video-audio data onto a projection surface. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MULTI-USER EVENTS - Systems and methods for facilitating multi-user events are provided. In at least one embodiment, a method for preventing unauthorized access to an environment of a user device connected to a multi-user network is provided. The method includes determining whether the user device is being actively used for communicating with at least one remote device connected to network, and causing a status of the user device to be altered in response to a determination that the user device is not being actively used for communicating with the at least one remote device. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176666 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING MEDIA STREAM IN VIDEO CONFERENCING - A method for managing media streams including at least video data and audio data in a multi-party video conference involving one or more groups of one or more nodes respectively receiving a media stream from each of a plurality of associated endpoints is provided. In each of the one or more nodes of each of the one or more groups, the loudest audio of the media streams received from the respective plurality of associated endpoints is determined. An indication of the volume of the determined loudest audio and an identification of the node is transmitted to a decision maker. The highest received volume and the associated identification is determined. The node of the identification is instructed to transmit the received media stream of the endpoint to one of: all nodes in the one or more groups and to a proxy. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176667 | CODE STREAM PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, MULTIPOINT CONTROL UNIT - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a code stream processing method and system, and a multipoint control unit. The code stream processing method includes: obtaining code stream information of each site, and type attribute information of a target site; determining a site type of the target site according to the type attribute information, searching a code stream processing policy file to obtain a code stream output policy corresponding to the site type of the target site; and according to code stream output policy, using the code stream information of each site to generate a code stream of the target site and sending it to the target site to present it in the target site. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176668 | AIRCRAFT PROVIDED WITH A SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - An aircraft ( | 2014-06-26 |
20140176669 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT COMBINES A PLURALITY OF IMAGES - An image capture apparatus ( | 2014-06-26 |
20140176670 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - An image capturing apparatus includes a driving unit for displacing one of a lens unit and an imaging device with respect to an optical axis, and a controller for causing the driving unit to displace one of the lens unit and the imaging device, in response to the motion of the image capturing apparatus. When, with a shooting direction being moved, captured images are generated so that a panoramic image is generated from the captured images, the controller displaces the position of the lens unit or the imaging device at the start of exposure of each image to be captured in a direction based on a direction in which the shooting direction is moved. In addition, a displacement amount at the start of the exposure is set in response to the length of an exposure time period so that the displacement during the exposure time period becomes small and the quality of an image is improved. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176671 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A HOLOGRAM - An apparatus for displaying a hologram comprises: a hologram display panel that represents light having the hologram images to an observer; a detecting camera that decides a position of the observer; a deflector that forms a prism pattern to refract the light corresponding to the detected position of the observer; and a deflector driver that supplies a driving voltage corresponding to a inclined angle for forming the prism pattern, wherein the deflector includes: a plurality of first electrodes running to a first direction and divided into a plurality of electrode groups; a plurality of connection electrodes running to a second direction crossing with the first direction, and connecting same numbered first electrodes of the electrode groups, wherein each end of the connection electrodes forms a pad portion; and a second electrode facing to the plurality of the first electrodes with a liquid crystal cell therebetween. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176672 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE DEPTH MAP GENERATION - Systems and methods which provide generation of image depth maps which more accurately represent the local depth discontinuity within images through use of image global depth maps adapted based upon image global motion and/or localized depth analysis utilizing relative relationships of attributes across depth discontinuities in the image are disclosed. Embodiments utilize a full global depth map which is larger than or equal to the image being converted in order to accommodate image global motion, in generating an image global depth map. In operation according to embodiments, an image global depth map is identified within the full global depth map, such as based upon global motion within the image. Localized depth analysis, using pixel attribute relative relationships, is applied with respect to the image global depth map according to embodiments to generate an image depth map which more accurately reflects the local depth discontinuities within the image. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176673 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECORDING AND DISPLAY SYSTEM USING NEAR- AND DISTAL-FOCUSED IMAGES - Methods and apparatuses for providing simulated three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional display screen without the use of special filters or overlays on the display or special eyewear. Images having different focal points are displayed as pictures and switched between rapidly, such that the human eye automatically adjusts to focus on each picture in succession. As the pictures are presented sequentially, the viewer may perceive that the display shows images at different depth planes. The number of depth planes may vary between embodiments. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176674 | DISPARITY VECTOR DERIVATION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CODING - A video coder searches a set of neighbor blocks to generate a plurality of disparity vector candidates. Each of the neighbor blocks is a spatial or temporal neighbor of a current block. The video coder determines, based at least in part on the plurality of disparity vector candidates, a final disparity vector for the current block. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176675 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO RECORDING METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO RECORDING MEDIUM, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO REPRODUCING METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS, AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS - The present invention is for more optimally performing recording and reproduction of stereoscopic video. In the present invention, parallax information is utilized to store, in a recording medium, stereoscopic video including left-eye images and right-eye images. Particularly, for video content that contains stereoscopic images, information is obtained regarding the amount of variation in parallactic angle having a given or larger value, a variation time that the variation in parallactic angle takes, and the number of times that the variation in parallactic angle occurs. An evaluation value is calculated that corresponds to the degree of eye fatigue on the basis of the amount of variation, the variation time, and the number of times of the variation. According to the present invention, the video content is encoded in such a manner that the evaluation value is within a given range, and then recorded in the recording medium. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176676 | IMAGE INTERACTION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR DETECTING FINGER POSITION, STEREO DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF STEREO DISPLAY - The disclosure provides a stereo display system including a stereo display, a depth detector, and a computing processor. The stereo display displays a left eye image and a right eye image, such that a left eye and a right eye of a viewer generate a parallax to view a stereo image. The depth detector captures a depth data of a three-dimensional space. The computing processor controls image display of the stereo display. The computing processor analyzes an eyes position of the viewer according to the depth data, and when the viewer moves horizontally, vertically, or obliquely in the three-dimensional space relative to the stereo display, the computing processor adjusts the left eye image and the right eye image based on variations of the eyes position. Furthermore, an image interaction system, a method for detecting finger position, and a control method of stereo display are also provided. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176677 | 3D Scene Scanner and Position and Orientation System - A hand-held mobile 3D scanner ( | 2014-06-26 |
20140176678 | Method for High-Resolution 3D-Localization Microscopy - A method for high-resolution 3D-localization microscopy of a sample having fluorescence emitters, in which the fluorescence emitters in the sample are excited to emit fluorescent radiation and the sample is displayed with spatial resolution in wide-field microscopy. Excitation is caused such that in reference to the spatial resolution at least some fluorescence emitters are isolated. A three-dimensional localization is determined in a localization analysis, which includes in the depth direction of the display a z-coordinate and a x-coordinate as well as a y-coordinate orthogonal in reference thereto, for each isolated fluorescence emitter showing a precision exceeding the local resolution. A table of localization imprecision is provided, which states the imprecision of the localization, regarding its z-coordinate as a function of the z-coordinate and a number of photons collected during imaging in the wide-field microscopy. Localization imprecision being determined for each localized fluorescence emitter by accessing the table of localization imprecision for the localization determined during the localization analysis. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176679 | Method for Automatically Classifying Moving Vehicles - The invention is directed to a method for classifying a moving vehicle. The object of the invention is to find a novel possibility for classifying vehicles moving in traffic which allows a reliable automatic classification based on two-dimensional image data. This object is met according to the invention in that an image of a vehicle is recorded by means of a camera and the position and perspective orientation of the vehicle are determined therefrom, rendered two-dimensional views are generated from three-dimensional vehicle models which are stored in a database in positions along an anticipated movement path of the vehicle and are compared with the recorded image of the vehicle, and the vehicle is classified from the two-dimensional view found to have the best match by assignment of the associated three-dimensional vehicle model. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176680 | Methods and Apparatus for Demosaicing Images with Highly Correlated Color Channels - In one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus is disclosed including an image sensor, a color filter array, and an image processor. The image sensor has an active area with a matrix of camera pixels. The color filter array is in optical alignment over the matrix of the camera pixels. The color filter array assigns alternating single colors to each camera pixel. The image processor receives the camera pixels and includes a correlation detector to detect spatial correlation of color information between pairs of colors in the pixel data captured by the camera pixels. The correlation detector further controls demosaicing of the camera pixels into full color pixels with improved resolution. The apparatus may further include demosaicing logic to demosaic the camera pixels into the full color pixels with improved resolution in response to the spatial correlation of the color information between pairs of colors. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176681 | IMAGING APPARATUS - In an imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the light-shielding member performing light shielding so that the light beam passing through the second region does not enter the first light-receiving element is provided only to the first light-receiving element. That is, no light-shielding member is provided to the second light-receiving element. Therefore, the number and types of light-shielding members can be reduced, and pupil division can be performed with a simple structure. Also, various products can be easily supported. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176682 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND METHOD - A stereoscopic image capture device comprising: a single imaging optical system; an imaging element that forms pupil-divided object images; a diaphragm that restricts a light flux that enters into the imaging element; and a diaphragm control device, wherein, when focal lengths before and after adjusting the focal length of the imaging optical system are assumed to be f1 and f2 and the F value of the diaphragm before adjusting the focal length of the imaging optical system is assumed to be FNo1, the diaphragm control device performs control such that an F value of FNo2 after adjusting the focal length of the imaging optical system becomes an F value that can be set according to a following equation: | 2014-06-26 |
20140176683 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes a plurality of imaging elements having a plurality of PDs, where each of the plurality of PDs photoelectrically converts a light flux having passed through a different region of an exit pupil of an imaging optical system and output a left-eye image/right-eye image. The imaging apparatus generates a composite image based on the left-eye image and the right-eye image, calculates a positional shift amount of the left-eye image relative to a position of the composite image as a parallax amount, and stores information regarding the parallax amount as a parallax map. The imaging apparatus generates a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be reproduced by shifting an object included in the composite image to a position corresponding to the parallax amount indicated by the parallax map. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176684 | TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIPLE VIEWER THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - Various embodiments are generally directed toward a viewing device using and steering of collimated light to separately paint detected eye regions of multiple persons to provide them with 3D imagery. A viewing device includes an image panel to cause collimated light to convey multiple pixels of one of a left side frame and a right side frame associated with a frame of 3D imagery, and a steering assembly to steer the collimated light towards an eye to paint an eye region of a face that includes the eye. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176685 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image display method and an image display apparatus, which solve the three-dimensional cueing confliction problem of the maximum intensity projection in the stereoscopic display method, while enabling users to select and render with emphasis the maximum intensity projection of the objects of interest, so that to realize the stereoscopic display. In accordance with the present invention, a three-dimensional surface which has equal distance to a sight-point is utilized as a reference surface, and the distances from all of the local maximum intensity points to this reference surface are calculated, then, the weighting factor of each local maximum intensity point is calculated according to the distances and predetermined weighting function, afterwards, the values of local maximum intensity points are adjusted according to the obtained weighting factors, and finally, the maximum intensity projection value is produced by synthesizing all of the adjusted values of local maximum intensity points. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176686 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DISPARITY AMOUNT - A subject whose disparity amount is to be adjusted is selected with a cross key. An identification mark representing the subject is displayed on a two-dimensional graph in an assistance window. Both the disparity amount corresponding to a vertical axis and distance information corresponding to a horizontal axis are explicitly indicated. A guide mark is displayed close to the identification mark. The guide mark, being an arrow, indicates a direction in which the disparity amount of the subject decreases. The identification mark and the guide mark are shifted along the vertical axis in accordance with an operation for adjusting the disparity amount, and displayed. A disparity amount adjustment circuit is activated to adjust the disparity amount of the subject. When the identification mark is shifted to a position between displayed lines, which indicate an appropriate range, the guide mark disappears. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176687 | ANAGLYPH GHOST CANCELLATION - Ghosting of images can be produced by the use anaglyph techniques to produce stereoscopic images. Ghost effects can be produced when filtering is applied to images by displays such as televisions or monitors. Techniques and apparatus are described for reducing or cancelling ghost effects. Anaglyph ghost reduction information can be produced to reduce or cancel ghost effects. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176688 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A photographing apparatus includes a display unit; and a processor that is configured to acquire from a storage unit that stores information that indicates a photographed image composition for photographing a crop, information that indicates a composition determined based on information related to a farm field, the storage unit storing multiple records of the information for the crop; and display on the display unit, the acquired information that indicates the composition. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176689 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN OBJECT RECOGNITION - An apparatus and method for assisting object recognition are provided. The method includes detecting at least one object in an image, determining which of the at least one object is selected by a user, providing feedback to the user so as to enable the user to center the selected object within the image, and capturing an image of the selected object in which the selected object is centered within the image. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176690 | MAGNIFICATION SYSTEM - A magnification system which allows viewing a magnified representation of an object is provided. The magnification system includes two main components: a handheld device and a base station. The handheld device is provided with a camera module, a processing unit and, optionally, a display unit. The base station has a frame structure and, optionally, a monitor. The frame structure includes a cradle for receiving the handheld device. The handheld device can function as a stand-alone device and can be carried around for use outside of the home or office or, generally, away from the base station, or it can be mounted on the base station where images of documents or other objects disposed on a workspace of the frame structure can be acquired by the camera module of the handheld device and shown on the monitor through the processing unit. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176691 | ENDOSCOPE FOR OUTPUTTING SIGNAL - An endoscope is provided having an imager, an analog-digital converter, and a data converter. The imager comprises multiple pixels which output pixel signals, and that outputs an image signal comprising the pixel signals. The analog-digital converter converts the image signal to digital image data in parallel data format. The data converter converts the digital image data to transmission data. The data converter converts the pixel-generated digital image data based on a first rule, converts the converted digital image data to converted pixel data in serial data format, and adds a start bit and an end bit to the converted pixel data to convert the digital image data to the transmission data. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176692 | Endoscope System - An image with an expanded depth of field is more effectively acquired while reducing the manufacturing cost, without enlarging the apparatus. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176693 | CAMERA ADAPTER BASED OPTICAL IMAGING APPARATUS - The invention describes several embodiments of an adapter which can make use of the devices in any commercially available digital cameras to transform the digital camera into a fundus camera for inspecting the back of the eye, or into a microscope. The camera adapter is adapted to be placed between the camera device and the object. The devices in the camera being used are at least its optical source, photodetector sensor, memory, shutter and autofocus. Means in the adapter are provided to employ these devices and allow camera to operate its autofocus capability and its different color sensors. Methods of investigation of an object are also presented of using the adapter to transform the camera into an imaging instrument, where the effect of adjustments of elements inside the adapter are guided by the displaying screen of the camera. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176694 | Imaging system - The invention provides an novel imaging system for microscopy including both continuous motion and stationary field image acquisition. More specifically, the invention provides a system that can translate a specimen relative to the field-of-view of an imager while synchronously acquiring image data. Using the same imaging optics and imager, the system can acquire stationary images at any location on the specimen. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176695 | IMAGING SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING A TURBINE - An imaging system for inspecting a turbine through an opening in a turbine casing is disclosed. The system includes a fitting installed in the opening. A lens assembly is mounted to a first side of the fitting and extends inside of the turbine casing. A fiber optic bundle is mounted to a second side of the fitting and extends outside of the turbine casing to a camera disposed remote from the opening. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176696 | ROTATING CONTACT ASSEMBLIES FOR SELF-LEVELING CAMERA HEADS - Camera heads and associated rotating contact assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment a slip-ring assembly includes a rotating contact assembly including slip rings having a cylindrical ring assembly and a flexible or bendable brush assembly. Brush elements may flexed to remain in contact with corresponding ring assembly electrical contacts. Bush contacts may be coated or have attached contact assemblies to increase hardness and oxide resistance with materials such as palladium nickel, rhodium, or hard gold, though a variety of other materials may be used as a suitable coating. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TELEMETRY - A bidirectional telemetry system for data transfer over relatively long distances such as, for example, within an oil or gas well. Data is transferred via cable such as a single conductor cable used for the transmission of various types of logging data including, but not limited to, video signals, pressure and temperature information. A video or other signal can be electronically converted into an amplified current modulated telemetry equivalent, transmitted along a cable having a varied impedance characteristics, and electronically converted back into a compliant voltage modulated composite video standard. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176698 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS OF A SAMPLE AND FOR IDENTIFYING REGIONS OF DAMAGE IN THE SAMPLE - Systems and methods for imaging characteristics of a sample and for identifying regions of damage in the sample are generally described. Some example systems and methods for non-destructive evaluation of regions of material may operate in a direct current (DC) mode in which the system directly images regions of material where weak structural damage has occurred by imaging a self magnetic field generated by a DC electric current coupled through the material. Some example systems may operate in an alternating current (AC) mode to image regions of material where damage has occurred by generating a time varying magnetic field due to AC excitation coils inducing eddy currents in the sample, and imaging a magnetic field generated by the eddy currents around the regions of damage. The systems may use magneto-optical imaging techniques (MOI) to measure and map the magnetic field and channels of current flow in the material, for example. | 2014-06-26 |
20140176699 | DRIVING ASSISTANT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A driving assistant system comprises a plurality of cameras configured to capture pictures around a vehicle in different positions and directions and a monitor to display the pictures. The driving assistant system further comprises a FPGA connected to the plurality of cameras. The FPGA combines the pictures into a panorama picture and send the panorama picture to the monitor which displays the panorama picture. The present disclosure further discloses a driving assistant method based upon the above driving assistant system. | 2014-06-26 |