30th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130187938 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An image display device includes: a storing section configured to store associating information that associates information indicating one or more providing sources of image data with each of one or more display areas set within a display screen; an obtaining section configured to obtain image data from a providing source corresponding to each of one or more display areas on the basis of the associating information stored in the storing section; a forming section configured to form display image data of a display image to be displayed on the display screen on the basis of the image data being obtained by said obtaining section for each of one or more display areas; and a display processing section configured to display the display image corresponding to the display image data formed by the forming section on the display screen. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187939 | Texture Fading for Smooth Level of Detail Transitions in a Graphics Application - Systems and methods for providing smooth level of detail (“LOD”) transition for textures in a graphics applications are disclosed. The texture LOD of a first frame of imagery can be compared to a second texture LOD for a current frame. For areas where the second LOD is higher than the first LOD, an LOD fade from the first LOD to the second LOD can be performed to provide a smooth LOD transition. The LOD fade can be implemented by generating a blend between textures at the first LOD and the second LOD. In one aspect, the blend is generated based on an interpolant value calculated based on the difference between the first LOD and the second LOD. The interpolant value can be incremented in subsequent frames to achieve a desired fade rate for the transition. The fade rate can be variable such that the LOD transition time remains constant. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EDITING, OPTIMIZING, AND RENDERING PROCEDURAL TEXTURES - A system for editing and generating procedural textures includes at least one microprocessor, a memory and a list of instructions allowing procedural textures in a procedural format to be edited, and, based on the edited procedural data, generating textures in a raster format. The system provides an editing tool for creating or modifying textures in a procedural format, an optimization device, provided with a linearization module, a parameter-effect tracking module and a graph data module, for storing graph data in an optimized procedural format, and a rendering engine, adapted to generate raster textures. Corresponding editing and generation methods are also provided. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187941 | Systems and Methods for Graph Rendering - An exemplary method comprises receiving graph data, generating an edge draw command to draw a first and a second edge as a display object, buffering first and second node positions for first and second sprites, respectively, identifying shader information associated with application of shading of the first sprite and the second sprite, the shader information indicating a change of shade based on distance from a first position and a change of shade based on distance from a second position associated with the second sprite, generating a node draw command to draw at least the first and second sprites, generating a graph shading command to apply shading to at least a portion of the first sprite based and to apply shading to at least a portion of the second sprite based, and providing the edge draw command, node draw command, and graph shading command to a graph execution module. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187942 | ELECTRONICALLY DOCUMENTING LOCATE OPERATIONS FOR UNDERGROUND UTILITIES - A technician performs a locate operation of an underground utility in a dig area of proposed excavation by applying one or more physical colored markers (e.g., paint, flags, other colored markers) to ground, pavement or other surface to indicate a presence or an absence of the underground utility in the dig area. A digital image of a geographic area comprising the dig area is displayed on a display device, and one or more electronic colored markers corresponding to the physical colored marker(s) are added to the displayed digital image so as to generate a marked-up image. Information relating to the marked-up image is electronically transmitted and/or electronically stored so as to document the locate operation. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187943 | WEARABLE DISPLAY DEVICE CALIBRATION - In embodiments of wearable display device calibration, a first display lens system forms an image of an environment viewed through the first display lens system. A second display lens system also forms the image of the environment viewed through the second display lens system. The first display lens system emits a first reference beam and the second display lens system emits a second reference beam. The first display lens system then captures a reflection image of the first and second reference beams. The second display lens system also captures a reflection image of the first and second reference beams. An imaging application is implemented to compare the reflection images to determine a misalignment between the first and second display lens systems, and then apply an alignment adjustment to align the image of the environment formed by each of the first and second display lens systems. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187944 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT CONTROLS DISPLAY OF CONTENTS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that is capable of displaying, when displaying a large number of contents in a manner divided into a plurality of pages, the contents in a manner such that continuity between each other is maintained, and enables a user to easily recognize the contents located in the vicinity of each page boundary. The information processing apparatus includes a CPU which selects and arranges the contents such that contents selected as objects to be displayed are redundant between adjacent display sections at a predetermined ratio, and subjects displays the contents to screen display in a display area, on a display section-by-display section basis. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187945 | Image Display Apparatus and Image Display Method - An image display apparatus that displays an image on the basis of input image signals corresponding to sub-pixels forming one pixel includes a shift-amount storing unit that stores shift amounts of display positions of the sub-pixels relative to given reference positions in a display image, an image-signal correcting unit that corrects the input image signals according to the shift amounts, and an image display unit that displays an image on the basis of the image signals corrected by the image-signal correcting unit. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187946 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT - A system and method for image data management. A tiled representation of a data set is accessed. The tiled representation includes a plurality of high-resolution tiles and a plurality of reduced-resolution tiles. A request to access said data set from a computing device is received. An image display window is determined based on said request from the computing device, where the image display window corresponds to a displayable image for display on the display device. At least one overlapping image to send the computing device is determined based on said image display window, where the at least one overlapping image is selected from the scaled full images, the plurality of high-resolution tiles, and the plurality of reduced resolution tiles. At least a portion of the at least one overlapping image is sent to the computing device. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187947 | Graphics Tiling Architecture With Bounding Volume Hierarchies - In some embodiments, tile lists may be avoided by storing the geometry of a scene in a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH). For each tile, the bounding volume hierarchy is traversed. The traversals continued only into children nodes that overlap with the frustum on the tile. By relaxing the ordering constraint of rendering primitives, the BVH is traversed such that nodes that are closer to the viewer are traversed first, increasing the occlusion culling efficiency in some embodiments. Rendering the full scene between the central processing cores and the graphics processor may be done through a shared memory in some embodiments. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187948 | 2D LINE DATA CURSOR - Various arrangements for displaying a value of a data point on a graph are presented. The graph that illustrates a plurality of datasets may be presented. Input may be received from a user that indicates a point on the graph. Along a line parallel to an axis that extends through the point on the graph indicated by the user input, a dataset from the plurality of datasets may be identified. The value for the data point of the dataset that corresponds to an intersection of the line parallel to the axis and the visual representation of the dataset may be determined. The value for the data point may be displayed. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187949 | WIRELESS INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE DRIVE-BY STREET VIEW SYSTEM AND METHOD - Video drive-by data provides a street level view of a neighborhood surrounding a selected geographic location. A video and data server farm incorporates a video storage server that stores video image files containing video drive-by data corresponding to a geographic location, a database server that processes a data query received from a user over the Internet corresponding to a geographic location of interest, and an image processing server. In operation, the database server identifies video image files stored in the video storage server that correspond to the geographic location of interest contained in the data query and transfers the video image files over a pre-processing network to the image processing server. The image processing server converts the video drive-by data to post-processed video data corresponding to a desired image format and transfers the post-processed video data via a post-processing network to the Internet in response to the query. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187950 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A projection-type display device is connectively coupled to a mobile device (such as a smartphone) where the light generated by a small projection device is directed at a relatively transparent holographic optical element (HOE) to provide a display to an operator of the mobile device or a viewer. The projector and HOE may be configured to produce and magnify a virtual image that is perceived as being displayed at a large distance from the operator who views the image through the HOE. The HOE may comprise a volume grating effective at only the narrow wavelengths of the projection device to maximize transparency while also maximizing the light reflected from the display projector to the eyes of the operator. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187951 | AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an augmented reality apparatus includes an estimation unit, a search unit, a first generation unit, a second generation unit and selection unit. The estimation unit estimates a main facility. The search unit searches for facilities to obtain target facilities. The first generation unit generates a first feature value according to each item of interest of the user. The second generation unit generates a second feature value for each target facility. The selection unit calculates a degree of association based on the first feature value and the second feature value to select data of a target facility having the degree of association not less than a first threshold as recommended facility data. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187952 | NETWORK-BASED REAL TIME REGISTERED AUGMENTED REALITY FOR MOBILE DEVICES - A method of operating a mobile device with a camera, a display and a position sensor to provide a display of supplementary information aligned with a view of a scene. One or more image obtained from the camera is uploaded to a remote server together with corresponding data from the position sensor. Image processing is then performed to track image motion between that image and subsequent images obtained from the camera, determining a mapping between the uploaded image and a current image. Data is then received via the network indicative of a pixel location for display of supplementary information within the reference image. The mapping is used to determine a corresponding pixel location for display of the supplementary information within the current image, and the supplementary information is displayed on the display correctly aligned with the view of the scene. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187953 | Image Matching Apparatus and Image Matching Method - An image matching apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a storage unit, an obtaining unit, a specification unit, and an image matching unit. The storage unit is configured to store image data of one or more devices that are connected to a local network. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain image data of device image obtained by capturing a device. The specification unit is configured to specify one or more local networks to be used for image matching. The image matching unit is configured to perform image matching of the obtained image data against the stored image data of one or more devices that are connected to the specified local network. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187954 | IMAGE DATA GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA GENERATION METHOD - In a case where a plurality of interest regions are designated with respect to an original image, a position data acquisition unit creates list information, in which data of respective positions of the interest regions is associated with designation order. In a case where data of a position of a newly designated interest region is acquired, a display data generation unit generates data for superimposing and displaying, on a display image, a mark indicating the position of the newly designated interest region, and a path connecting the position of the interest region designated last time and the position of the newly designated interest region. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187955 | INTRA-OPERATIVE IMAGE PRESENTATION ADAPTED TO VIEWING DIRECTION - The invention relates to an intra-operative image presentation method, in which an image representation ( | 2013-07-25 |
20130187956 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING A POLYGON BOUNDING BOX - In a graphics processing pipeline, a processing unit establishes a bounding box around a polygon in order to identify sample points that are covered by the polygon. For a given sample point included within the bounding box, the processing unit constructs a set of lines that intersect at the sample point, where each line in the set of lines is parallel to at least one side of the polygon. When all vertices of the polygon reside on one side of at least one line in the set of lines, the processing unit may reduce the size of the bounding box to exclude the sample point. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187957 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATION OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and computing device are provided for showing affordance of list scroll-ability within a display of a computing device. As part of the rendering process of the graphical user interface a user is prompted through the provision of additional data to that ultimately displayed to consider that the final displayed list is a subset of data which may be accessed through the graphical user interface. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187958 | LUMINANCE BOOST METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system and method for increasing perceived contrast in a medical display ( | 2013-07-25 |
20130187959 | Optical correction for high uniformity panel lights - A display has a spatial light modulator for dynamically controlling a luminance of each pixel according to an input signal, the spatial light modulator having a non-uniform spatial characteristic, the display also having an optical filter having a spatial pattern to alter the luminance to compensate at least partially for the non-uniform spatial characteristic. An electronic signal processing element applies some precompensation predominantly of higher spatial frequencies for the non-uniform spatial characteristic. Such dynamic and optical compensation can enable tuning for different optimizations or for compensating for variations over time. A backlight has an optical source and an optical filter, the source having a color output which has a non-uniform spatial characteristic, and the optical filter having a spatial pattern to alter the color to compensate in part at least for the non-uniform spatial characteristic. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187960 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes: a liquid crystal panel, a timing controller which receives previous image data and current image data, corrects or does not correct the current image data according to a reference bit of conversion image data generated using the previous image data, and outputs a display image signal to the liquid crystal panel, and a data driver which receives the display image signal and applies a data voltage corresponding to the display image signal to the liquid crystal panel. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187961 | ADJUSTING PARALLAX BARRIERS - A device may determine a first distance between a viewer and a display of a device. The display may include a first parallax barrier including a plurality of parallax barrier clusters. Each of the parallax barrier clusters includes a plurality of parallax barrier elements that are parallel to one another and parallel to the parallax barrier clusters. The device may also determine a second distance between a right eye of the viewer and a left eye of the viewer, and move parallax barrier elements to control spacing between the parallax barrier clusters based on the first distance and the second distance. Furthermore, the device may send, from the display, light rays of a right-eye image of a stereoscopic image and a left-eye image of the stereoscopic image to a right eye of the viewer and a left eye of the viewer, respectively, through the spacing between the parallax barrier clusters. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187962 | Mixed Transmissive-Reflective-Transflective Liquid Crystal Display - A display panel comprises two or more display portions having two or more different types of pixels in two or more different spatial segments of the display panel. The display panel may be coupled to a display driving circuit configured to drive two or more display portions in two or more different spatial segments of the display panel to operate in two or more different display modes. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187963 | LATEX ARTICLES IMPRINTED WITH FULL-LENGTH INDICIA AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPRINTING LATEX ARTICLES - Devices, systems, and methods for printing indicia on latex are presented. A system for printing includes a latex surface supported by a mold on a rotary mount, a printer, a base plate supporting print heads, a rotational drive system for selectively rotating the mold during printing, and a printer engine programmed to print indicia onto a substantially contiguous area of the latex surface, from an intermediate border to and including a distal end. In a system with multiple molds moving along a path, the system may include a chassis for supporting the base plate, printer, and/or rotational drive system, and a motion controller for moving the chassis near the molds. Latex articles may be imprinted with indicia that is decorative and/or informative. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187964 | METHOD OF IMPROVING ADHESIVENESS OF MARKING MATERIAL AND RECEIVING MEDIUM AND A PRINTER - A method for printing an image by a reproduction apparatus includes a print head with print elements for ejecting marking material on a receiving medium in a multi-pass mode. The method includes selecting a multi-pass mode out of at least two multi-pass modes, dividing the image into a plurality of strips, determining for each strip a total amount of marking material required to print the strip on the receiving medium, ejecting for each strip a first amount of the total amount of marking material on the receiving medium during a first pass, and ejecting for each strip a remaining amount of the total amount of marking material on the receiving medium during passes subsequent to the first pass. A ratio of the first amount and the total amount of each strip is the same for the at least two multi-pass modes. The method is suitable for implementation in a reproduction apparatus. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187965 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a correction section maintains a predetermined voltage range in which a displacement is greater than a predetermined ratio as a drive voltage range from a relationship between each voltage and the displacement when a reference waveform having a process that changes the voltage from a first voltage to a second voltage having a voltage difference and a process that changes the voltage from the second voltage to the first voltage is supplied by making the voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage constant and changing the first voltage and the second voltage, and wherein the correction section changes the drive waveform into a drive waveform having a minimum voltage and a maximum voltage defined within the drive voltage range. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187966 | Liquid Ejecting Apparatus and Liquid Ejecting Method - A liquid ejecting apparatus which includes an origin drive signal generation unit which generates the origin drive signal; a signal modulation unit which modulates the origin drive signal, and sets as an origin modulation signal; a signal amplification unit which amplifies the origin modulation signal, and sets as a modulation signal; a signal conversion unit which converts the modulation signal to fire drive signal; and a liquid ejecting unit which ejects liquid according to the fire drive signal, in which a frequency of the origin modulation signal, or the fire modulation signal is set to a predetermined value when the origin drive signal is a first value or more, and a second value or less, and when the origin drive signal is other than that, the frequency is set to a value which is less than the predetermined value. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187967 | Liquid Ejecting Apparatus and Liquid Ejecting Method - A liquid ejecting apparatus which includes: an origin drive signal generation unit which generates an origin drive signal; a signal modulation unit which modulates the origin drive signal, and makes the origin drive signal as an origin modulation signal; a signal amplification unit which amplifies the origin modulation signal, and makes the origin modulation signal as a modulation signal; a signal conversion unit which converts the modulation signal to a fire drive signal, and a liquid ejecting unit which ejects liquid according to the fire drive signal, in which a frequency of the origin modulation signal, or the fire modulation signal becomes maximum when the origin drive signal is a predetermined value. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187968 | CONTROLLING INK DEPOSITION DURING PRINTING - Systems and methods of controlling ink deposition during printing are disclosed. An example of a method includes actuating a plurality of print heads to deposit ink on a substrate. The method also includes activating an energy source to speed cure of the deposited ink on the substrate. The method also includes adjusting electrical output to the plurality of print heads to compensate for different distances from the energy source to each of the plurality of print heads. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187969 | PRINTING APPARATUS - This invention is made to solve a problem that the power supply cannot be used efficiently because, even when the normally operable ambient temperature of an apparatus is low, the supplied power of the power supply is restricted in consideration of a case in which the ambient temperature is high. To solve this, a temperature sensor measures the temperature of a predetermined portion of a printing apparatus or an ambient temperature. The driving count of printing elements used to print in a region by one scan is compared with a threshold determined in accordance with the measured temperature, and an appropriate printing mode is selected. When the ambient temperature of the printing apparatus is low, a large power can be supplied to the printhead, increasing the efficiency of the power supply. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DISCHARGE DEFECT, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A discharge defect of a nozzle in an apparatus that forms an image on a medium by discharging liquid from a liquid discharge head based on image data is accurately detected. A discharge defect of a nozzle is detected by comparing data (reference data) of a reference image with read data obtained by reading an output image. In this case, a mark for matching the read pixel and the nozzle position with each other is recorded on the medium, and the correspondence relationship is specified by reading the mark. In addition, data items that are converted to have the nozzle resolution by performing a filtering process corresponding to the human visual characteristics for both the data of the reference image and the data of the read image are compared with each other, thereby detecting a discharge defect of a nozzle. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187971 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There are provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method which can shorten a drying time of inks in an edge region of an image, and can form a sharp image without bleeding of the ink applied onto the edge region into a blank paper. The image processing method generates applying data for forming an image on a print medium by a relative scan between print heads for ejecting a first ink and a second ink having the same color with the first ink and lower in surface tension than the first ink, and the print medium. The image processing method generates first data for applying the first ink to a predetermined region that is adjacent to an edge region of the image and that is included in an inside region inward of the edge region, and generates second data for applying the second ink to the edge region. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187972 | In Situ Calibration Of Multiple Printheads To Reference Ink Targets - A method for calibrating in situ a plurality of printheads in an imaging device has been developed. Firing signals operate a plurality of printheads to form ink test patterns on an image receiving member. Reflectance measurements of light reflected from the test patterns and optical density measurements for a portion of the patterns formed by only one printhead in the plurality of printheads are used to adjust the firing signals and enable the printheads to print within a predetermined range about an average reflectance value and a predetermined optical density. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187973 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTER - In an ink jet printing method, a recording medium is moved relative to a print head having a plurality of nozzles, and ink droplets are ejected from the nozzles onto the recording medium in a single pass in accordance with print data supplied to the print head. Spit pattern data is included in the print data A location of an expected ink dot ejected according to the spit pattern data is scanned, providing a scanned image, and such ink dot is searched for in the scanned image in order to determine an actual presence of the ink dot. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187974 | DOPED BLACK INK WITH INCREASED LIGHT SCATTERING EFFICIENCY FOR NOZZLE HEALTH DETECTION - A method of monitoring nozzle condition in an array of inkjet nozzles comprises ejecting at least one black ink drop from an inkjet nozzle, wherein the black ink comprises a black colorant and a colloidal metal or metal-containing dopant. Light from a collimated light source is directed onto an ink drop-in-flight, and light-scatter from the drop is detected. The dopant increases light-scatter by the ink drop of an incident collimated light beam relative to the same ink without the dopant. From the detected light-scatter, an operational condition of the inkjet nozzle is determined. The dopant is visually undetectable in a printed mark made by the black ink, and the ink has a printed black optical density which is substantially the same as that of the same ink without the dopant. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187975 | Test Apparatus for Liquid Drop Emission Apparatus - A test apparatus for a liquid drop emission apparatus having a plurality of emission mechanisms, the emission mechanisms each having a driving element configured to emit an ink drop from a nozzle, and an application switch coupled with a driving voltage source and the driving element in series, the application switch being configured to switch a driving voltage for emission of a liquid drop between being applied and not being applied to the driving element, the test apparatus including a test switch configured to make each of the emission mechanisms output a test voltage which appears between both ends of the application switch to a test terminal, the test apparatus including a failure deciding section configured to decide whether the emission mechanism is in failure or not on the basis of the test voltage outputted to the test terminal. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187976 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD MODULE AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head module including: a head unit which has a plurality of heads having a nozzle plate on which a nozzle opening is provided; a carriage to which the liquid ejecting head unit is fixed; and a thermistor attached to the carriage, wherein the thermistor is biased to the cover head side which is in contact with the nozzle plate of a head, comes into contact with the nozzle plate and measures the temperature of the nozzle plate. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187977 | PRINTING PAPER AND METHOD FOR FORMING PRINTED IMAGES - The present invention provides plain printing paper comprising
| 2013-07-25 |
20130187978 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head having a head body that ejects liquid from nozzle openings and a flow path member that includes a liquid flow path through which the liquid is supplied to the head body, the liquid flow path being provided with a filter chamber disposed at a position in the liquid flow path with a filter disposed inside the filter chamber, and a portion of the filter chamber which opposes the filter being made of an elastic member; a pressing unit that presses the elastic member toward the filter; and a suction unit that suctions the liquid in the liquid flow path from the nozzle openings. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187979 | WIPING DEVICE FOR AN INK JET FRANKING MACHINE - A wiping device ( | 2013-07-25 |
20130187980 | NOZZLE SURFACE WIPING APPARATUS AND DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS - A nozzle surface wiping apparatus wipes a nozzle surface of a droplet ejection head while moving relatively with respect to the head. The apparatus includes: a band-shaped wiping web; a pay-out spindle which pays out the web; a take-up spindle which is rotated to take up the web; a pressing device which causes the web travelling between the pay-out spindle and the take-up spindle to be pressed against the nozzle surface; a drive roller around which the web travelling between the pressing device and the take-up spindle is wrapped, the drive roller being rotated to apply conveyance force to the web toward the take-up spindle; and a driving device which drives the drive roller and the take-up spindle in such a manner that a velocity at which the web is taken up by the take-up spindle is faster than a velocity at which the drive roller applies the conveyance force to the web. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187981 | ROCK SCREEN WITH PARTICLE TRAP - The possibility that narrow, high aspect ratio particles will pass through a rock screen of a print head is reduced by minimizing the number of times the particles interact with the rock screen. Each interaction is an opportunity for the particle to be positioned in an orientation such that it may pass through the rock screen. The reduction in particles passing through the rock screen is achieved by positioning a particle trap adjacent to the rock screen perimeter to collect debris that sloughs off the rock screen. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187982 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND LIQUID EJECTION METHOD - A liquid ejection device includes a head and a liquid-receiving section. The head has a plurality of nozzles configured and arranged to eject a liquid. The liquid-receiving section has a sloped face for receiving a liquid ejected from the nozzles when flushing is carried out by the head. The sloped face is formed on an elongated member and is configured and arranged to receive the liquid ejected downward from the nozzles. The nozzles forming at least one nozzle row extending in a direction along a longitudinal direction of the elongated member. The head being configured and arranged to carry out the flushing while travelling above the sloped face. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187983 | DIGITAL INK-JET GLASS PRINTER - A method and system for printing on glass boards is provided. The method may include jetting, from an inkjet printing system onto a glass board, a glass-based ink having solid glass particles to form a printed glass board; heating the glass board prior to jetting the glass-based ink; heating the glass board after jetting to fix the ink onto the glass board; conveying the printed glass board to a furnace; and firing the printed glass board in the furnace at temperature of no less than 550.degree. C. to melt the solid glass particles onto the glass board and complete fixation of the glass-based ink. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187984 | NONCIRCULAR INKJET NOZZLE - An inkjet nozzle includes an aperture with a noncircular opening having a first segment substantially defined by a first polynomial equation and a second segment substantially defined by a second equation. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187985 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - An image forming apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a head tank, a liquid storage container, a liquid feed device, a supply valve, an exhaust passage, a float valve, an air release valve, and a suction device. The exhaust passage is disposed in the head tank and communicated with an ambient air. The float valve is disposed in the head tank to close the exhaust passage in response to an amount of liquid in the head tank. The air release valve opens and closes the exhaust passage of the head tank. When the suction device exhausts air from the exhaust passage with the air release valve open, the liquid feed device is driven to pressurize and feed the liquid. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187986 | LIQUID JET HEAD, LIQUID JET APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID JET HEAD - A liquid jet head ( | 2013-07-25 |
20130187987 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes the steps of ( | 2013-07-25 |
20130187988 | CORROSION PROTECTED FLEXIBLE PRINTED WIRING MEMBER - A flexible printed wiring member includes a flexible insulating base layer; a patterned copper layer disposed on the insulating base layer, the patterned copper layer including: a first portion including unplated copper leads; and a second portion including a plated metal layer disposed on the patterned copper layer; a first insulating cover layer disposed over the unplated copper leads in the first portion, the first insulating cover layer terminating at a first edge located proximate a boundary between the first portion and the second portion of the patterned copper layer; and a second insulating cover layer disposed over the first insulating cover layer, the second insulating cover layer terminating at a second edge located within the second portion of the patterned copper layer. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187989 | LIQUID JET HEAD AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid jet head ( | 2013-07-25 |
20130187990 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A piezoelectric layer includes a buffer layer containing an oxide containing Bi and Co and disposed on an electrode, and a layer disposed on the buffer layer and containing a perovskite oxide containing Bi, Ba, Fe and Ti. A piezoelectric element includes the piezoelectric layer and the electrode. A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure generating chamber communicating with a nozzle aperture, and the piezoelectric element. A liquid ejecting apparatus includes the liquid ejecting head. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187991 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection head includes a flow path unit having pressure generating chambers, a case head that is mounted to the flow path unit, and a piezoelectric element unit having a fixation member and piezoelectric elements, an adhesive surface of the fixation member being adhered to the case head by using a first adhesive and a second adhesive, and the piezoelectric elements being bonded to a piezoelectric element attachment surface of the fixation member which intersects the adhesive surface and also attached to islands that oppose the pressure generating chambers of the flow path unit, wherein the second adhesive has curing time shorter than that of the first adhesive, and the first adhesive has adhesion strength higher than that of the second adhesive and is applied on a first adhesive surface on the adhesive surface of the fixation member which is subject to a reaction force of the piezoelectric elements. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187992 | LIQUID CONTAINER - An ink cartridge is adapted to be mounted in a holder of a printer and includes: an ink containing bag which is configured in a bag shape and capable of containing a liquid in an inner portion; a flow path member having a flow path that guides the ink contained in the ink containing bag to an outside and a supply port connected to the flow path; and a containing box including a plant derived material accommodating the liquid containing bag; in which an outermost layer forming an outer surface of the ink containing bag has a shock buffering section that buffers against an impact from the outside via the containing box. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187993 | CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING DEVICE - A liquid container is adapted to be used in a printing apparatus having a mounting section provided with a lever. The liquid container includes a front surface disposed on a front side in an insertion direction to the mounting section, a rear surface facing the front surface, and an upper surface intersecting with the front surface and the rear surface. The upper surface includes a concave section configured and arranged to allow a regulating section of the lever to be inserted in the concave section when the liquid container is used in the printing apparatus. The concave section serves as a handle. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187994 | LIQUID ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid container (ink cartridge) is provided with a containing portion (ink pack) containing a liquid including dispersed particles and a solvent in which the dispersed particles are dispersed, and a stirring member contained in the containing portion, in which the stirring member has flexible portions covering a bottom surface of the containing portion. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187995 | LIQUID HOLDING CONTAINER AND LIQUID CONSUMING APPARATUS - In a liquid holding container configured so that a first liquid holding section in which a liquid outflow opening and an air intake opening are provided communicates with a second liquid holding section in which a liquid injection opening is provided, a divider member, capable of switching between a state in which the first liquid holding section and the second liquid holding section communicate and a state in which the stated sections are separated from each other in an airtight state, is provided in an area where the first liquid holding section and the second liquid holding section communicate with each other. If the first liquid holding section and the second liquid holding section are separated from each other in an airtight state, a negative pressure within the first liquid holding section can be maintained even if the injection opening is opened. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187996 | INK CARTRIDGE, INK JET RECORDING SYSTEM AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink cartridge adopts a construction in which an air seal and an ink seal are arranged on the cartridge side and in which sealing between the ink cartridge and the recording apparatus is performed with a radial seal. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187997 | Imaging device, method of remodeling imaging device, and consumables container for imaging device - The imaging device has a housing inside which a machine body is installed, a consumables container receiver, and a connector. The machine body has a master control circuit board; the master control circuit board has a communications module which communicates with a consumables chip. The consumables chip stores the information relating to a consumables container. At least one consumables container is detachably installed on the consumables container installer of the consumables container receiver. The connector is installed apart from the consumables container installer; the consumables chip is installed inside the connector and connected with a communications module in a communication manner. The invention also provides a remodeling method and a consumables container for such an imaging device. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187998 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE RECORDED MATERIAL - Provided is an image forming method capable of obtaining an image which has superior adhesion with a recording substrate having ink non-absorbency or low ink-absorbency and has superior scratch resistance. | 2013-07-25 |
20130187999 | LIQUID COMPOSITION, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDED IMAGE - The invention provides an aqueous liquid composition containing a water-soluble monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and an aqueous medium and further containing a polymer emulsion, wherein the water-soluble monomer is a monomer that has two or more ethylenically unsaturated bonds and is curable with an active energy ray. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188000 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - The liquid ejecting apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a medium, an ink jet head that ejects ink onto the medium, and a recording-medium support unit having a support surface on which the medium is supported. The support surface has suction holes, which are located outside a print area in which the ink is ejected. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188001 | RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet printer includes an openable/closable scanner unit which is provided in an upper portion of a recording unit configured to execute recording on a sheet. A shaft is formed on a main frame which constitutes a base of the recording unit. The scanner unit is enabled to tilt in relation to the recording unit when the bearing provided to the scanner unit engages the shaft. A restricting portion is provided at a location opposing the outer periphery of the bearing. The restricting portion restricts the deformation of the bearing in a direction of expansion of an opening of the bearing within the range of tilt of the scanner unit. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188002 | PRINTER DEVICE, TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF PRINTER DEVICE, AND TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM OF PRINTER DEVICE - The inside of a housing of a printer device is cooled by the air from a ventilation port and, consequently, the temperature of solder SP on a mask surface supported by a mask holding frame inside the housing can be kept low. Moreover, provided is a mask cover for blocking the air flow from the ventilation port toward the mask, and the drying of the solder SP caused by the wind from the ventilation port is thereby inhibited as a result of the wind from the ventilation port not coming into contact with the solder SP on the mask surface. In this way, the solder SP is cooled while inhibiting the drying of the solder SP and, consequently, it is possible to appropriately inhibit the change in viscosity of the solder SP, and favorable printing can be realized. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188003 | Doped Oxide powders in laser markings and methods of use - Laser marking additives of at least one the core particle selected from the group consisting of copper oxide, chromium oxide, ceramic yellow, cobalt oxide, tungsten oxide, vanadium oxide, titanium oxide, ceramic red, molybdenum oxide, zinc sulfide and any combination thereof, and a coating covering at least part of the core particle comprising at least one oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of Si, Ti, Ce, Zr, Zn, Al, Ba, Sr, La, Mg, Ca, V, Ta and mixtures thereof. This powder is used with 1064 nm wavelength laser (semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers) to change color in a plastic or polymer substrate to give contrast in laser marking plastics. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188004 | LIGHT BEAM SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a light beam scanning device, a plurality of light sources, which irradiates a plurality of light beams in a first direction and is retained by a holder, are disposed at distance from one another in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The plurality of light beams are incident, via a coupling optical system, to deflecting and reflecting surfaces of a deflector from a direction that is tilted with respect to a plane orthogonal to the rotational shaft of the deflector. The holder is supported by a housing of the light beam scanning device at a plurality of different positions in a third direction extending from the light source to the coupling optical system. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188005 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a scanning optical device which performs scanning on a photosensitive drum with laser light. The scanning optical device includes a polygon motor unit, an emergence unit and a projecting unit. The polygon motor unit includes a polygon mirror which performs the scanning on the photosensitive drum with the laser light emitted from a light source. The laser light emerges from the emergence unit so that the photosensitive drum is irradiated with the laser light. The projecting unit projects to a first side where the photosensitive drum is disposed from a partition wall. The polygon motor unit is disposed in the projecting unit. The emergence unit is disposed on a second side separated from the first side by the partition wall. A gap is provided between the partition wall and the scanning optical device. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188006 | Internet Video Chat Capable Television with Personal Computer Hardware - An internet video chat capable television with personal computer hardware has a digital screen, a tuner, a camera, a microphone, and a plurality of wireless communication devices and wireless or wired communication ports for connecting to the internet or another digital network and accessories such as a remote, keyboard or a headset. A motherboard, central processing unit, solid state hard drive and associated chipset and other electronic components on par with a personal computer enable installation of a full operating system capable of supporting web applications such as Voice over Internet Protocol and video communications as well as home security, home automation and child minding applications, among many others, without the need for a separate computer. The camera has an infrared option for video monitoring in low light conditions. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188007 | REMOTE PARTICIPANT PLACEMENT ON A UNIT IN A CONFERENCE ROOM - A video conferencing system presents video conference feeds of remote participants in different video conferencing units that are located throughout a conference room. Each of the available units is located at a different position within the conference room. At any point in time, a remote participant is associated with one of the units. The remote participant may move and/or be moved to a different unit during the video conference. For example, a presenter may ask the remote participant to “sit” at a particular unit and/or the remote participant may decide to move to a different unit within the room. Each of the units is configured to determine when a local participant is addressing a remote participant that is associated with the unit. When more than one remote participant is associated with a particular unit, the remote participant who is being communicated with may be shown prominently on the display. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188008 | Generating Video Drive-By Data Corresponding to a Geographic Location and Related Three Dimensional Models - Video drive-by data provides a street level view of a neighborhood surrounding a selected geographic location. A video and data server farm incorporates a video storage server that stores video image files containing video drive-by data corresponding to a geographic location, a database server that processes a data query received from a user over the Internet corresponding to a geographic location of interest, and an image processing server. In operation, the database server identifies video image files stored in the video storage server that correspond to the geographic location of interest contained in the data query and transfers the video image files over a pre-processing network to the image processing server. The image processing server converts the video drive-by data to post-processed video data corresponding to a desired image format and transfers the post-processed video data via a post-processing network to the Internet in response to the query. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188009 | X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - Conventional X-ray photographing has several problems for eliminating the influence from the cervical vertebrae such as rework of original images, causing possible loss of useful information, as well as long processing time and the need for a plurality of panoramic images. The X-ray photographic device according to the present invention can eliminate the influence from the cervical vertebrae projected at around the anterior teeth of the panoramic image of a tooth row, without missing the original image information and without influence of different shapes of cervical vertebrae and X-ray permeability by each subject. In addition, as the present invention achieves these through arithmetic processing, there is no need to intensify X-ray output in the section corresponding to the anterior teeth, nor decelerate the rotating speed of arms during photographing, and it is possible to suppress the X-ray dose received by the subject. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188010 | AUTOMATED PANORAMIC CAMERA AND SENSOR PLATFORM WITH COMPUTER AND OPTIONAL POWER SUPPLY - An indexing mechanism may include a drive table, an indexing table, a control ring between the tables, and a cam follower. The cam includes lobes on an inner surface. A drive arm of the cam follower is coupled to the drive table and an end of an indexing arm of the cam follower rides over the lobes during use. A spring may be coupled between the drive table and the indexing table. As the drive table rotates continuously, the components serve to move the indexing table in a non-continuous movement, by which it stops for a period and then moves to the next stop, etc. A camera may take a still image at each stop position, and the images may be stitched together (e.g., through use of an onboard computer) to produce a panoramic image. A power supply may also be provided, so that the entire system may be self-contained. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188011 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIA - An apparatus for recording information in an optical-information recording media by holography includes a signal-light irradiation unit, a reference-light irradiation unit, a reference light angle adjustment unit, and a positioning unit for positioning irradiation positions of the signal light and the reference light. The optical-information recording media is divided into N (N≧2) recording regions, M multiplexed information can be recorded in the respective recording regions by the reference light angle adjustment unit which changes the angle of the reference light at M angles (θ | 2013-07-25 |
20130188012 | Portable Structured Light Measurement Module/Apparatus with Pattern Shifting Device Incorporating a Fixed-pattern Optic for Illuminating a Subject-under-test - A surface measurement module for 3-D image acquisition of a subject-under-inspection. The module having: (a) a casing to house a pattern shifting device having a fixed-pattern optic through which light from a light source is passed, an output of the pattern shifting device being directed at a polarizing beam splitter and the polarized output of the splitter directed through a lens assembly comprising at least one lens element; (b) a reflector to direct the polarized output exiting the lens assembly, to illuminate a surface of the subject-under-inspection; (c) a scattered light illumination off the surface is directed back through the lens assembly for capture by an image sensor; and (d) the casing also housing the polarizing beam splitter, the lens assembly, and the image sensor. The output of the fixed-pattern optic comprises a multi-frequency pattern. The pattern shifting device may be a linear or rotating type. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188013 | MVC BASED 3DVC CODEC SUPPORTING INSIDE VIEW MOTION PREDICTION (IVMP) MODE - This disclosure describes features and techniques applicable to three-dimensional (3D) video coding. In one example, a technique may include coding a texture view video block, and coding a depth view video block, wherein the depth view video block is associated with the texture view video block. Coding the depth view video block may include coding a syntax element to indicate whether or not motion information associated with the texture view video block is adopted as motion information associated with the depth view video block. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188014 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL LAYER SENDING-AND-RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DATA - Provided is a multi-dimensional layered modulation transmitting and receiving apparatus and method for stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) video data. The transmitting apparatus may convert multi-dimensional data to a plurality of stream data by mapping the multi-dimensional data to a complex number plane, and may transmit the plurality of stream data by mapping the plurality of stream data to dimensions divided based on a time and a space, respectively. The receiving apparatus may determine a signal strength of received signal, a performance, a power mode, may determine a service image corresponding to the signal strength, the performance, the power mode, may determine a dimension corresponding to the service image, and may receive stream data of the determined dimension. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188015 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - Disparity information is transmitted such that reception processing of a legacy 2D-compatible receiving apparatus is not interrupted. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188016 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEPTION DEVICE - A reception device with a 3D function can appropriately acquire corresponding disparity information together with data of overlapping information. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188017 | Instant Calibration of Multi-Sensor 3D Motion Capture System - A method for instantly determining the mutual geometric positions and orientations between a plurality of 3D motion capture sensors has three or more reference markers mounted fixedly relative to each other on substantially one single plane which are sensed by each sensor. Said method enables said sensors to cooperate as a larger sensing system for 3D motion capture applications without requiring said sensors to be mounted rigidly relative to each other. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188018 | SYSTEM & METHOD FOR PROCESSING STEREOSCOPIC VEHICLE INFORMATION - A stereoscopic measurement system determines relative location of a point on an object based on a stereo image pair of the object. The system comprises an image capture device for capturing a stereo image pair of the object, the image pair comprising a first image and a second image of the object. The system comprises a processing system configurable to designate a first point and a second point on the first image, designate the first point and the second point on the second image, define stereo points based on the designated points, and to calculate a distance between the stereo points. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188019 | System and Method for Three Dimensional Imaging - A method of operating a camera with a microfluidic lens to identify a depth of an object in image data generated by the camera has been developed. The camera generates an image with the object in focus, and a second image with the object out of focus. An image processor generates a plurality of blurred images from image data of the focused image, and identifies blur parameters that correspond to the object in the second image. The depth of the object from the camera is identified with reference to the blur parameters. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188020 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING DISTANCES ON A VEHICLE - A method for determining distances for chassis measurement of a vehicle having a body and at least one wheel includes determining a center of rotation of a wheel of the vehicle by projecting a structured light pattern at least onto the wheel, recording a light pattern reflected by the wheel using a calibrated imaging sensor system, determining a 3D point cloud from the reflected light pattern, and determining the center of rotation of the wheel from the 3D point cloud. The method also includes determining a point on the body by evaluating the previously determined 3D point cloud or by evaluating a plurality of grey-scale images recorded under unstructured illumination. A height level is determined as a vertical distance between the center of rotation of the wheel and the point on the body. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188021 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and a control method of the mobile terminal are disclosed. A mobile terminal and a control method of the mobile terminal according to the present invention comprises a memory storing captured stereoscopic images; a display displaying the stored stereoscopic images; and a controller obtaining at least one information of a user viewing the display and changing attributes of the stereoscopic images according to the obtained information of the user and displaying the attribute-changed images. The present invention, by changing attributes of stereoscopic images according to obtained information of a user and displaying the attribute-changed images, can provide stereoscopic images optimized to a user watching a display apparatus. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188022 | 3D ZOOM IMAGER - A 3D imager comprising two cameras having fixed wide-angle and narrow angle FOVs respectively that overlap to provide an active space for the imager and a controller that determines distances to features in the active space responsive to distances provided by the cameras and a division of the active space into near, intermediate, and far zones. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188023 | IMAGE SENSOR WITH OPTICAL FILTERS HAVING ALTERNATING POLARIZATION FOR 3D IMAGING - An image sensor for three-dimensional (“3D”) imaging includes a first, a second, and a third pixel unit, where the second pixel unit is disposed between the first and third pixel units. Optical filters included in the pixel units are disposed on a light incident side of the image sensor to filter polarization-encoded light having a first polarization and a second polarization to photosensing regions of the pixel units. The first pixel unit includes a first optical filter having the first polarization, the second pixel unit includes a second optical filter having the second polarization, and the third pixel unit includes a third optical filter having the first polarization. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188024 | APPARATUS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGING - There is provided in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention an optical assembly including a set of optical paths, wherein two or more optical paths receive an image from a common surface. The optical paths may direct received images onto a common image sensor generating a complex multidimensional data set, an image processing block may extrapolate each of the subset of optical paths printed on the image sensor and may generate a multidimensional data set based on the collected images. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188025 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING METHOD - A stereoscopic imaging device, wherein the aperture controller performs a second aperture control in which the larger the amount of shake detected by the shake detector becomes, the further the amount of opening of the aperture unit increases than the amount of opening required for the first aperture control. The present invention allows to shallow a depth of focus and to increase the amount of parallax by further opening an aperture as the amount of shake becomes larger, so that an influence on a parallax is reduced even when the amount of shake is large, thereby maintaining a stereoscopic effect. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188026 | DEPTH ESTIMATING IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSOR - A depth estimating image capture device as an embodiment of this invention includes: an image sensor | 2013-07-25 |
20130188027 | IMAGE DEPTH GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An image depth generation device and method thereof is disclosed in the present invention. The device includes at least a processing circuit and at least a calculator. The processing circuit receives an input image and determines a visual distance of a pixel Pi according to a color of the pixel in the input image and at least a reference value to generate a depth offset of each pixel. The calculator is coupled to the processing circuit and uses the depth offset of each pixel and a predetermined depth to generate an output depth value of each pixel in the input image. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188028 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure decreases or avoids tearing at a time when a stereoscopic image is updated, without increasing the capacity of memory. The stereoscopic image playback apparatus extracts a set of rendering requests for a left image plane and a right image plane from the BD-J application, and prevents a discord between update timing of an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye by adjusting an actual rendering timing or rendering order depending on an operation of an image output side. This enables an image update which relatively does not make viewers uncomfortable. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188029 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope system includes a focus control section that performs a focus control process on an optical system of an endoscopic scope, an operation information acquisition section that acquires operation information about at least one operation among a discharge operation, a suction operation, and a tissue treatment operation based on sensor information from an operation detection sensor, and a switch control section that determines whether or not to cause the focus control section to perform the focus control process based on the operation information. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188030 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND ENDOSCOPE DISTAL END PORTION INCLUDING THE IMAGE PICKUP UNIT - A lens holder that holds a lens in an inner portion thereof, an image pickup device including a light-receiving section, the image pickup device being positioned at a rear in an optical axis direction L of the lens, a cover glass attached to a facing surface of the image pickup device, and a fitting portion formed in at least an outer circumferential face of the cover glass, the fitting portion allowing a rear end-side part of the lens holder to be fitted thereon are included, and the lens holder and the image pickup device are each formed to have a size allowing the lens holder and the image pickup device to have a same width in a width direction when the rear end-side part is fitted on the fitting portion. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188031 | RISK RECOGNITION METHOD FOR USE IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM BASED ON HUMAN IDENTIFICATION - A risk recognition method based on human identification is disclosed, which identifies a human being from a captured image, such that it can recognize a dangerous situation of each person. The risk recognition method includes detecting a person from photographed image information, and identifying the detected person, thereby generating identification information for each person; extracting access control information for each person using the identification information; analyzing the access control information simultaneously while tracking a movement path for each person, and determining whether a dangerous situation for each person occurs; and if the dangerous situation occurs, selectively warning of the dangerous situation of the person who causes the dangerous situation. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188032 | Method and Apparatus for Communication Between Humans and Devices - This invention relates to methods and apparatus for improving communications between humans and devices. The invention provides a method of modulating operation of a device, comprising providing an attentive user interface for obtaining information about an attentive state of a user; and modulating operation of a device on the basis of the obtained information, wherein the operation that is modulated is initiated by the device. Preferably, the information about the user's attentive state is eye contact of the user with the device that is sensed by the attentive user interface. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188033 | RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING OBSERVATION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN AND OBSERVATION APPARATUS - A recording medium having an observation program recorded therein, the program may cause a computer to execute: an entire-image-pickup process of picking up an image of a sample by picking up an image of an entire container containing the sample and a solution; a sample-mass-identification process of identifying a sample mass having the samples gathering therein, from the image picked up in the entire image-pickup process; a sample-mass-determination process of extracting shape information of the identified sample mass, and determining a state of the sample mass based on the shape information; a coordinate-detection process of selecting a magnifying-observation-target sample mass from the identified sample masses, and detecting coordinates of the center of the magnifying-observation-target sample mass. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188034 | IR microscope with image field curvature compensation, in particular with additional illumination optimization - An IR microscope ( | 2013-07-25 |
20130188035 | CALIBRATION TARGETS FOR MICROSCOPE IMAGING - This disclosure is directed to optical microscope calibration devices that can be used with optical microscopes to adjust the microscope imaging parameters so that images of samples can be obtained below the diffraction limit. The microscope calibration devices include at least one calibration target. Each calibration target includes a number of features with dimensions below the diffraction limit of a microscope objective. Separate color component diffraction limited images of one of the calibration targets are obtained for a particular magnification. The color component images can be combined and image processed to obtain a focused and non-distorted image of the calibration target. The parameters used to obtain the focused and non-distorted image of the calibration target can be used to obtain focused and non-distorted images of a sample for the same magnification by using the same parameters. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188036 | CAMERA SYSTEM FOR HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS - A camera system is provided for use in a high-radiation environment includes a camera assembly with a housing enclosing an image sensor for generating a digital signal of a detected image and a first serializer/deserializer (SERDES) for converting the digital signal from the image sensor into a serial bit stream. A transmission medium transmits the serial bit stream to an image processing module located outside of the high-radiation environment where a second SERDES deserializes the serial bit stream to generate a decoded image signal which is processed by an image processor to generate an output at a display device corresponding to the detected image. | 2013-07-25 |
20130188037 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING CRITICAL DIMENSION AND MONITORING FABRICATION UNIFORMITY - A method for measuring critical dimension (CD) includes steps of: scanning at least one area of interest of a die to obtain at least one scanned image; aligning the scanned image to at least one designed layout pattern to identify a plurality of borders within the scanned image; and averaging distances each measured from the border or the plurality of borders of a pattern associated with a specific type of CD corresponding to the designed layout pattern to obtain a value of CD of the die. The value of critical dimensions of dies can be obtained from the scanned image with lower resolution which is obtained by relatively higher scanning speed, so the above-mentioned method can obtain value of CD for every die within entire wafer to monitor the uniformity of the semiconductor manufacturing process within an acceptable inspection time. | 2013-07-25 |