| 31st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
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| 20100194772 | IMAGE DISPLAY USING A COMPUTER SYSTEM, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DISPLAY OF A REFERENCE IMAGE FOR COMPARISON WITH A CURRENT IMAGE IN IMAGE EDITING - When editing an image ( | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194773 | Skin color cognizant GMA with luminance equalization - A method for mapping/enhancing the color of an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The image is processed using a pair of gamut color mapping operations in combination with skin-tone pixels detection to modify the image in a suitable manner for presentation on the display, wherein the technique includes color temperature compensation. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194774 | Automatic Color Adjustment of Template Design - The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of source images that are separate from the plurality of template designs are provided on the visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of source images is received from the user. A processor automatically adjusts colors of the selected template design based on the selected source image. The selected template design may include a framing portion and a mat portion, at least one of which is adjusted. The colors may be adjusted to match, contrast with, or be a predetermined variation of a color of the source image at a cursor placed on a source image. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194775 | Color Selection System - Color selection and display methods and devices in which colors can be displayed according to color harmony and color emotion and feedback obtained on color emotion and color harmony evoked by selected color and/or color combinations. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194776 | Color Selection System - Color selection and display methods and devices in which colors can be displayed according to color harmony and color emotion and feedback obtained on color emotion and color harmony evoked by selected color and/or color combinations. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194777 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method and device for converting monochromatic image data into color display image data, characterized in that the display characteristics are obtained, candidate color display image is selected according to the signal value of the monochromatic image data, at least either target brightness information or target chromatic information at least one of the brightness and chromaticity comprised in the candidate color display image data is calculated based on the display characteristics, the signal value of the color display image data corresponding to the signal value of the monochromatic image data is determined from the candidate color display image data based on at least one of the comparison between each calculated brightness and the target brightness and the comparison between each chromaticity and the target chromaticity, and the signal value of the monochromatic image data is associated with that of the determined color display image data. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194778 | PROJECTING DATA DIMENSIONS ON A VISUALIZATION DATA SET - A visualization system is provided. The system includes a visualization component that displays at least two dimensions of data in at least a two dimensional view of the data. A selection component indicates at least one other dimension of data and a projection component expands the two dimensional view of the data with at least one other dimensional view of the data. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194779 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIZING POLYGONS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) LAYOUT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that sizes a polygon in a layout. During operation, the system receives a polygon which is to be sized by a sizing amount. The system then selects one or more vertices of the polygon. Next, the system replaces each selected vertex with a set of replacement vertices, and subsequently assigns a projection path to each replacement vertex in the set of replacement vertices. The system next performs a sizing operation on the polygon according to the sizing amount. During the sizing operation, the system moves each replacement vertex in the set of replacement vertices along the assigned projection path, thereby creating a clipping on the angle associated with the selected vertex. Furthermore, this sizing operation is continuous: similar output polygons are obtained for similar sizing amounts. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194780 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A MOSAIC - A method and a system for building a mosaic. The system includes a software processor to design a pattern from an image, a graphical user interface, an operational manager, a sorter, an inspection station, a bufferer and a mechanical mechanism. The pattern is disassembled into a plurality of sub-images, each of the plurality of sub-images is associated with at least one tile. The operational manager determines materials, a quantity of materials and a location in the pattern for each of the at least one tile. The sorter sorts the at least one tile and the inspection station conducts a quality control review for each of the at least one tile. The bufferer buffers each of the at least one tile according to a command from the operational manager and the mechanical mechanism picks and places each of the at least one tile in a predetermined position, as determined by the software processor. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROPPING AND ANNOTATING IMAGES ON A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is a system and method for cropping and annotating images on a touch sensitive display device or other handheld device, including the following steps: (a) displaying an image of the image file to be cropped/annotated; (b) receiving an first input from a user designating a first point in the image defining a corner of a crop/annotation rectangle; (c) receiving a second input from the user designating a second point in the image defining an opposite corner of the crop/annotation rectangle; and (d) cropping and/or annotating the image from the first point to the second point of the crop/annotation rectangle. The present invention may be used in digital cameras, Apple iPhones®, hand-held devices that inspectors may use to annotate photographs taken to substantiate statements of problems found during industrial inspections, and for other purposes. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING VIRTUAL GRAFFITI IN A MOBILE VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for easily creating virtual graffiti that will be left for a particular device to view. During operation a device will be placed near a first point that is used to define a boundary for the virtual graffiti. The device will locate the first point, and use the point to define the boundary. The device will receive an image that is to be used as virtual graffiti, and will fit the image within the boundary of the virtual graffiti. For example, the device may be consecutively placed near four points that will define a polygon to be used as the boundary for the virtual graffiti. An image will then be received, and the image will be fit within the polygon. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194783 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE - In a display device of the present invention, a map, one or more positions on the map, and one or more information pieces associated with the positions are stored; the stored map is displayed in on a display; one or more prescribed-sized display area portions of a display area, on which the map is displayed, is selected; and an information piece associated with a position on the map being displayed in the prescribed-sized display area portion is displayed on the map. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194784 | Apparatus and Method for Map Zooming - An apparatus for map zooming includes instructions stored in a memory that when executed by a processor render a zoom bar. The zoom bar includes a plurality of map scale hash marks arranged along an axis of the zoom bar and indicative of a map scale range of a geographic map. The plurality of map scale hash marks include a first map scale hash mark representative of a first map scale, a second map scale hash mark offset along the zoom bar axis from the first map scale hash mark and representative of a second map scale, and a map transformation hash mark located between the first and second map scale hash marks and representative of a transformation of the geographic map from a first map data set defined with reference to the first map scale to a second map data set defined with reference to the second map scale. The zoom bar further includes a map zoom bar indicator located relative to the first and second map scale hash marks and corresponding to a current map display scale and a zoom level of the geographic map. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194785 | Front Lighting for Rollable or Wrappable Display Devices - A display device includes a housing, a screen connected to the housing and being configured to display data in grey-scale on a first portion of the screen, and at least one light source connected to the housing. The light source is configured to project color content on a second portion of the screen. The screen may be flexible and/or rollable on a roller included in the housing. The screen may be electrophoretic and/or reflective. The display device may also include optics or a light guide-to-guide light from the light source to the screen. Further, optics may be provided to detect light reflected from the screen and direct more light to portions of the screen having reduced illumination. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194786 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus including: a display panel configured to display a display image based on an image signal; an illumination unit configured to output an illumination light for illuminating the display panel; and a controller configured to correct, when a illumination request for illuminating the display panel is received, at least one of brightness and chromaticity of the illumination light based on light-on time and light-off time of the illumination unit previous to a time point at which the illumination request is received. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194787 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DISPLAY APPARATUS - White noise images and white noise-like pattern images are discerned by making use of the fact that the address current is increased when such an image is entered and detecting the address current by an address current detection circuit. When the detected address current exceeds a given value α and persists for a given period of time, a CPU controls a contrast control circuit to lower the contrast of the video signal, thus reducing the power consumption of an address driver circuit. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194788 | Driving method for vacuum fluorescent display, and vacuum fluorescent display - Luminance life can be enhanced in a vacuum fluorescent display that is driven according to a dynamic drive scheme and that uses a phosphor having remarkable luminance saturation. A drive method for a vacuum fluorescent display, having causing a phosphor layer formed on an anode to display under low-energy electron excitation by the dynamic driving, wherein the phosphor included in the phosphor layer is a phosphor in which the luminance increases when a pulse width is reduced under conditions in which the Du is kept the same in the dynamic driving, and in which, after a voltage is applied to the anode and the luminance of the phosphor is saturated, the time at which the luminance value decreases to 10% of the saturation luminance value following stoppage of the voltage application is 200 μsec or more; and wherein the pulse width and pulse repetition period in the dynamic driving are made variable in the direction of maintaining the initial luminance of the phosphor as driving time elapses. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194789 | PARTIAL IMAGE UPDATE FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS - The present invention is directed to methods for partial image updates. Such methods provide the display controller the ability to update selected areas of an image that require updating and leave other areas unchanged. The methods also allow for multiple waveforms to be used for specific regions, giving the display the capability of updating each region with its own waveform. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194790 | Set of light emissive diode elements for a backlight device and backlight display - The invention relates to a backlight device with light emissive diodes not requiring the supply of a large current. According to the invention, each light emissive diode of the backlight device is combined with a voltage converter capable of storing energy during part of the operating cycle and then discharging this energy into the light emissive diode during another part of the cycle. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194791 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - For the purpose of obtaining a video signal by suppressing a black float while not consuming an excess electric power therein, not contributing to display of a backlight, a video display apparatus having a plural number of backlights for irradiating lights upon a display panel, comprises a histogram detector for conducting a histogram detection for each display region corresponding to that backlight from an input video signal of one (1) frame, a means for determining a control value of that plural number of backlights depending on a specific picture or video, which is detected by the histogram detector, and a video signal processor for controlling an amount of a controlled light the display panel of a display region, i.e., a put-out region, depending on the backlight control value, which is determined by the means for determining the control value of the backlight. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194792 | ILLUMINATION UNIT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE ILLUMINATION UNIT - An illumination unit may include at least one luminous means; a detector, which is configured to be used to detect at least one brightness of an image; at least one controller connected to the at least one luminous means and to the detector, wherein the at least one luminous means can be driven in a manner dependent on the at least one brightness of the image with the aid of the controller; a plurality of luminous means whose brightnesses can be set in each case at least one of individually and in clusters with the aid of the controller; and at least one switch which is configured to be used to short-circuit at least one luminous means. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194793 | CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display element of a dot matrix type; a row driver that drives a row electrode of the display element; a column driver that drives a column electrode of the display element; and a multiple voltage power source that supplies a drive voltage to the row driver and the column driver, wherein: the row driver and the column driver are configured by a segment driver; and the device includes a power source switching switch which switches drive voltages to be supplied to the row driver in accordance with the polarity of an applied voltage to be applied to a pixel of the display element. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194794 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING DISPLAY ELEMENT OF DOT MATRIX TYPE AND A DRIVE METHOD OF THE SAME - A display device includes a matrix-type display element, a drive circuit, a control circuit, and a temperature sensor, the control circuit controls the drive circuit so that an initialization pulse to initialize a pixel to be rewritten is applied to bring about an initial gradation state and then a gradation pulse is applied to the initialized pixel to bring about a gradation state, the cumulative time during which the gradation pulse is applied is related to the value of the gradation state, the control circuit fixes the pulse voltage of the initialization pulse and varies the pulse width of the initialization pulse in accordance with the temperature detected by the temperature sensor, and varies the pulse width of the gradation pulse when the temperature is low and varies the pulse voltage of the gradation pulse when the temperature detected is high. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194795 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a voltage applying unit to apply a voltage to and charge a surface of transport belt, a leak judging unit to judge a charge leak on the surface of the transport belt, and a recovery operation unit to perform a charge leak recovery operation in which the transport belt is driven in a state where the voltage applying unit applies no voltage to the transport belt, if the leak judging unit judges that the charge leak is generated on the surface of the transport belt. The leak judging unit again judges whether the charge leak is generated on the surface of the transport belt after the recovery operation unit performs the charge leak recovery operation. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194796 | INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING INK CARTRIDGES - In an inkjet printer, ink cartridges are set individually in predetermined positions of a cartridge holder portion. Information on the ink cartridges is read by read portions and it is determined whether or not the ink cartridges are adaptive. If all the ink cartridges set in the predetermined positions of the cartridge holder portion are determined to be adaptive, a drive unit is driven to perform a connecting operation. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194797 | METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH SUBSTRATE COMPRISING IR-ABSORBING CODING PATTERN - A method of interacting with a printed substrate comprising a coding pattern printed with an IR-absorbing ink. The method comprises the steps of: operatively positioning an optically-imaging sensing device relative to the substrate and sensing part of the coding pattern; and generating interaction data using the sensed coding pattern. The IR-absorbing ink comprises a dye of formula (I): | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194798 | INKJET PRINTER AND INK CIRCULATION METHOD THEREOF - An inkjet printer includes a first tank for storing ink supplied to a ink jetting unit, a second tank for storing the ink that is not jetted from the ink jetting unit, and a pump for sending the ink within the second tank to the first tank, and a filling unit for filling a ink circulation path with the ink. The pump starts to be driven if the amount of ink within the first tank is smaller than a predetermined amount and the amount of ink within the second tank is equal to or larger than a predetermined amount. Additionally, the filling unit fills the ink circulation path with the ink if the amount of ink within the first tank is smaller than the predetermined amount and the amount of ink within the second tank is smaller than the predetermined amount. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194799 | PRINTER WITH PRESSURE REGULATED INK SUPPLY - An inkjet printer that has a printhead, a container for maintaining a quantity of ink at a pressure less than ambient pressure, an ink outlet for sealed fluid connection to the printhead, and, an air inlet with a pressure regulator that allows air into the container at a predetermined pressure difference between the container interior and atmosphere. The pressure regulator is a porous member with a first surface for exposure to atmosphere and a second surface for contacting the ink in the container. During use, air at the first surface moves to the second surface and forms bubbles and, the porous member is a membrane in a side wall of the reservoir. The membrane is positioned closely adjacent an internal wall such that ink is held between the wall and the membrane by capillary action when the ink level drops below the membrane. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194800 | Inkjet printing devices and methods of driving the same - An inkjet printing device includes: a flow path plate, a piezoelectric actuator and an electrostatic force applicator. The flow path plate includes an ink inlet, a pressure chamber and a nozzle. The piezoelectric actuator is configured to provide a first driving force, and the electrostatic force applicator is configured to provide a second driving force. The disclosed inkjet printing devices and methods combine piezoelectric and electrostatic techniques. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194801 | Recording Apparatus - A recording apparatus of the present invention includes: a droplet ejection head including an inflow passage, a common fluid passage, and a plurality of individual fluid passages each extending to an ejection opening; a supply mechanism capable of forcedly supplying a fluid to the inflow passage; a wiper made of an elastic material; and a moving mechanism which moves the wiper. The fluid forcedly supplied to the inflow passage and discharged from each ejection opening does not drop from the ejection face, and at least a predetermined amount of the fluid discharged from each ejection opening is retained on the ejection face when the wiper traverses the relevant ejection opening. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194802 | PRINTER HAVING SELF-REFERENCING PRINTING CARTRIDGE - A printer is provided with a body having a slot for removably receiving a printing cartridge, a mesa feature arranged in the slot to cooperate with a complementary slot in the fluid distribution support of the printing cartridge upon mounting of the printing cartridge to the printer, and protrusions arranged in the slot to cooperate with a flat surface of a plurality of corners of the printing cartridge upon mounting of the printing cartridge to the printer The printing cartridge has at least one printhead integrated circuit with a plurality of fluid ejection nozzles and a fluid distribution support mounting the printhead integrated circuit. The cooperation of the mesa feature and complementary slot and the protrusions and corners provides information on the location of the nozzles. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194803 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head having a pressure generating chamber which communicates with a nozzle opening for discharging a liquid and a pressure generating unit which generates a pressure variation within the pressure generating chamber; and a driving unit that supplies the pressure generating unit with a driving signal having an inflation element in which the pressure generating chamber is inflated, a contraction element in which the pressure generating chamber is contracted to discharge a liquid from the nozzle opening, and a re-inflation element in which the pressure generating chamber is inflated during the contraction element, wherein the re-inflation element is initiated in a state that two different phases of vibration of the meniscus within the nozzle opening are not opposite to each other. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194804 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGING METHOD - A liquid discharging apparatus is provided, which including: a pressure chamber communicating with a liquid supply portion and each nozzle; an element that performs an operation for providing change of pressure to liquid within the pressure chamber; and a pulse generating section that generates a pulse of which a voltage is changed to operate the element. The pulse generating section generates a first discharge pulse that causes the element to perform an operation for discharging liquid droplets from the nozzles, a non-discharge pulse, generated later than the first discharge pulse, that produces pressure vibration of strength, by which the liquid droplets are not discharged from the nozzles, in the liquid within the pressure chamber, which has a phase different from pressure vibration produced in the liquid within the pressure chamber by applying the first discharge pulse to the element, and a second discharge pulse, generated later than the non-discharge pulse, that causes the element to perform the operation for discharging the liquid droplets from the nozzles, while using the pressure vibration produced in the liquid within the pressure chamber by applying the non-discharge pulse to the element. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194805 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits on a recording medium a treatment liquid having a function to aggregate inks or increase viscosity of inks; an ink deposition device which includes a plurality of ink heads for ejecting the inks of at least two types in such a manner that the inks are deposited on the recording medium on which the treatment liquid has been deposited; and a heating-pressuring device which fixes the inks that have been deposited on the recording medium, wherein the ink deposition device ejects the inks from the plurality of ink heads in such a manner that following Relationships (A) and (B) are satisfied where M | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194806 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid from a nozzle passage, a heating unit which heats and dries the liquid attached to an ejection medium, a temperature measuring unit which is disposed at a predetermined region near the liquid ejecting head, a temperature calculating unit which calculates a temperature of the liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting head based on the initial temperature measurement and a temperature correction table which associates time obtained after operation of the heating unit with a temperature of the liquid and which calculates a temperature of the liquid based on a descending correction table associating a difference between a temperature obtained immediately after interruption of the heating unit and an outside ambient temperature, and a driving waveform correcting unit which corrects a head driving waveform of the liquid ejecting head on the basis of a calculation result. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194807 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - A liquid ejecting apparatus executes a collective multiple liquid ejecting process of ejecting a liquid so as to superimpose the predetermined number of unit images on basic images formed on a target. The liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an ejection executing unit which ejects the liquid onto the target from an ejecting head; a position acquiring unit which acquires arrangement positions of the predetermined number of two or more basic images, at which an arrangement image in which the predetermined number of two or more unit images are arranged among the plurality of basic images formed on the target is superimposed; an image adjusting unit which detects an error between the acquired arrangement positions of the basic images and arrangement positions of the predetermined number of two or more unit images, and adjusts the arrangement positions of the unit images by allocating the detected error to each unit image. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194808 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present image forming apparatus converts driving data in such a manner that when a volume of liquid to be ejected in an (m+1)-th print cycle following an m-th print cycle is a maximum volume of ink among a plurality of predetermined volumes of ink, a volume of liquid to be ejected in the m-th print cycle is any volume other than zero and the maximum volume among the predetermined volumes, in which m-th print cycle (m is an integer number no less than “0”) no ink is to be ejected | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194809 | Liquid Ejection Method and Liquid Ejection Apparatus - A liquid ejection method includes determining, according to image data, an ejection pixel that is a pixel at which a liquid is to be ejected and a non-ejection pixel that is a pixel at which a liquid is not to be ejected; determining, according to the image data, a nozzle requiring flushing; and ejecting liquid from the nozzle requiring flushing to the non-ejection pixel adjacent to the ejection pixel, the non-ejection pixel being among pixels associated with the nozzle requiring flushing. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194810 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS USING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - In order to provide a compact and highly reliable recording head enabling precise detection of temperature information on each nozzle and rapid as well as highly accurate detection on nozzles with a discharge defect, a liquid discharge head including a liquid discharge head with a plurality of electrothermal transducing members provided on a substrate to generate heat energy for discharging liquid from a discharge port includes a temperature detecting element formed immediately under each of the plurality of electrothermal transducing members to sandwich insulating film and a temperature detecting circuit for detecting temperature information from each of the temperature detecting elements. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194811 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing method of the present invention includes the steps of: carrying a medium and ejecting ink from a print head to print, on the medium, a mark that can be filled in by a user; detecting, with a sensor, whether or not the mark has been filled in; and performing a process in accordance with a result of the detection by the sensor. With this printing method, operations with respect to a printing apparatus can be performed with ease. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194812 | MEDIA ADVANCE SYSTEM FOR A PRINTER AND METHOD OF ADVANCING A PRINT MEDIUM - A media advance system for a printer, the system comprising: a drive roller for advancing the print medium, said drive roller being mounted on a first spindle, a second rotary element mounted on a second spindle for applying tension to the print medium downstream of said drive roller, a drive motor operatively connected to said first spindle, and a second motor operatively connected to said second spindle, wherein the velocity of the drive motor is constantly adjustable and the velocity of the second motor is constantly adjustable to the instantaneous velocity of the drive motor. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194813 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCURATE POSITIONING OF PRINTING UNITS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for accurate positioning of a unit movable by a drive system. The method may include adjusting tension of a resilient element of the drive system to reduce hysteresis motion errors of the resilient element below a predetermined threshold by performing measurements of the hysteresis motion errors of the resilient element for two or more tension values and selecting a tension value for which the hysteresis motion error is below the threshold. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194814 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus in which a fabric as a recording medium is intermittently conveyed in an ink jet recording section is capable of printing an image on the fabric with precision and at high quality. The ink jet recording section of serial printing type includes a conveyer for intermittently conveying the fabric. Printing on the fabric intermittently conveyed in the ink jet recording section, the fabric printing ink jet recording apparatus with the conveyer intermittently conveying the fabric while it is temporarily stuck on the conveyer, includes: a feed roll for continuously feeding the fabric onto an upstream end of the conveyer, and a dancer roll unit, the feed roll and dancer roll unit being disposed upstream of the ink jet recording section in order from upstream in the traveling direction of the fabric; and a drying section, and a traction roll for continuously pulling the fabric from a downstream end of the conveyer for unsticking the fabric from the latter, the drying section and traction roll unit being disposed downstream of the ink jet recording section in order from upstream in the traveling direction of the fabric. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194815 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet head which forms an image on a recording surface of a recording medium by ejecting ink to be deposited to the recording surface; a roller member which rotates in contact with the recording surface of the recording medium on which the image has been formed; an oil supply device which supplies oil to the roller member, the oil suppressing adherence of the ink to the roller member; a medium holding device which has a medium holding surface on which the recording medium is held while the roller member on which the oil has been deposited is making contact with the recording surface of the recording medium; and a cleaning sheet supply device which supplies a cleaning sheet to the medium holding device when a size of the recording medium is changed and an image is to be formed on a recording surface of the recording medium of large size compared to a size of the recording medium used before the change of size, the cleaning sheet removing the oil adhering to the medium holding surface of the medium holding device. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194816 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes a printing head configured to eject solvent ink from nozzles of the printing head on a medium at a printing position. A medium is made of a polyvinyl chloride film. The solvent ink includes an organic pigment of from 3 to 7 weight %, a resin of 15 weight % or less, and solvents. A print heater is configured to heat the medium at the printing position. The print heater is arranged separately from a pre-heater. A temperature controller is configured to control a pre-heater heating temperature of the pre-heater and a print heater heating temperature of the print heater such that a surface temperature of the medium at the printing position becomes within a range of from 30° C. to 70° C. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194817 | Method and Device for Dispensing Data from a Tachograph - A method and to a device for dispensing data from a tachograph to an endless printing medium. A first division is plotted in the longitudinal direction of the printing medium, and a second division is plotted transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the printing medium. The first division represents a predetermined unit of time, in particular a day in generalized time coordinates, and the second division represents at least one variable recorded by the tachograph during the unit of time, the at least one variable is depicted by at least one graph. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194818 | INKJET PRINTER WITH RECIPROCALLY MOVABLE MAINTENANCE STATION - An inkjet printer comprises a stationary pagewidth inkjet printhead and a printhead maintenance station. The maintenance station comprises a chassis having a maintenance roller and a transfer roller mounted thereon. An engagement mechanism reciprocally moves the chassis towards and away from the printhead such that a contact surface of the maintenance roller is sealingly engaged with or disengaged from the face. A rotation mechanism rotates the maintenance roller only when the maintenance roller is disengaged from the face, and the transfer roller receives ink from the maintenance roller during rotation of the maintenance roller. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194819 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink-jet recording apparatus, including: an ink-jet head; a cap including a support member, an annular protrusion which defines a recessed portion with the support member, and a discharge opening formed in a bottom surface of the recessed portion; a discharge mechanism; a plate member disposed in the recessed portion such that a space is formed between the plate member and the bottom surface and such that there is formed, between an inner peripheral surface of the cap and the plate member, a gap in which a capillary phenomenon occurs; protrusions disposed on an upper surface of the plate member, each protrusion extending in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the head from one end to the other end of the upper surface in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and separations each of which divides the corresponding protrusion into segments in the direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194820 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING METHOD - A fluid ejecting apparatus includes: a rotating body which rotates while holding a medium at its circumferential surface; a fluid ejecting section which ejects fluid toward the medium such that a margin is not formed at an end portion of the medium on the circumferential surface in an axial direction of the rotating body; an absorber which absorbs fluid which has come out of the end portion of the medium on the circumferential surface in the axial direction, out of fluid ejected from the fluid ejecting section, at a position further outside than the end portion; and a rotating body driving mechanism for rotating the rotating body, which drives the rotating body such that driving force by the rotating body driving mechanism is not transmitted to the absorber. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194821 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus in which a head supporting plate having a line head mounted thereon which comprises a plurality of short heads staggered is attached to a carriage whereby recording is performed by ink jet printing with the line head on a recording medium positioned beneath the carriage is rendered capable of using ordinary short heads. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194822 | APPARATUS FOR PRINTHEAD MOUNTING - A printhead assembly including a printhead module and a mounting structure is described. The printhead module is mounted on a receiving surface of the mounting structure and includes a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. The first and second edges extend beyond edges of the receiving surface by a first distance in a first direction and are positioned between featured edges of the mounting structure in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Each featured edge includes a first feature protruding from the featured edge by a second distance in the first direction, where the second distance is greater than the first distance. The first features extend beyond the first and second edges of the printhead module. Each featured edge includes a recessed second feature configured to receive a first feature of a neighboring mounting structure. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194823 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, INK CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid ejection head is disclosed that includes piezoelectric elements constituting driving element rows in which plural driving piezoelectric element columns that generate energy for ejecting liquid droplets from nozzles are arranged side by side; a wiring board arranged on the side opposite to a surface in which the nozzles are formed; and two sheets of flexible printed circuits that are provided to correspond to the piezoelectric elements and have output terminal parts connected to the plural driving piezoelectric element columns and input terminal parts connected to the wiring board, the input terminal parts being drawn to the side of the wiring board. The flexible printed circuits are arranged facing each other with their input terminal parts not facing each other, and the input terminal parts of the flexible printed circuits are folded in a direction where the flexible printed circuits face each other and are connected to the wiring board. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194824 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE AND LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE - A piezoelectric material of the invention includes a perovskite oxide (P) (which may contain inevitable impurities) represented by the formula below: | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194825 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes: first and second pressure generating chambers which are provided in parallel on a flow path forming substrate such that each of the first and second pressure generating chambers forms a row so as to communicate with nozzle openings for ejecting liquids; first and second piezoelectric devices which causes the volumes of the first and second pressure generating chambers to change, respectively, through a vibration plate formed on the flow path forming substrate; a common fixing member which is arranged between the first and second piezoelectric devices at a position opposite to the first and second pressure generating chambers, a part of each of the first and second piezoelectric devices being bonded to the common fixing member; and a signal line film which has input terminals through which a driving signal for driving the first and second piezoelectric devices is supplied from the outside and output terminals through which the driving signal is supplied to the first and second piezoelectric devices, the signal line film having flexibility. In this case, the signal line film includes a first wiring portion having the input terminals and the output terminals for supplying the driving signal to the first piezoelectric device at one side face of the fixing member, and a second wiring portion extending from the first wiring portion to the other side face of the fixing member and having the output terminals for supplying the driving signal to the second piezoelectric devices. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194826 | LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD - A piezoelectric actuator includes a first active portion interposed by an individual electrodes and a first constant electric potential electrode and a second active portion interposed by the individual electrode and a second constant electric potential electrode, and a wiring structure is provided with a wiring board and driver IC. The wiring board is provided with individual lines, a power line, a ground line, a first and second constant electric potential lines, a first short circuit line for short-circuiting the power line and the first constant electric potential line, and a second short circuit line for short-circuiting the ground line and the second constant electric potential line. Accordingly, a liquid droplet discharge head, which is capable of suppressing the crosstalk, is provided. The liquid droplet discharge head has the wiring structure suitable for the head. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194827 | Method of Working Small Recess Portion, Method of Fabricating Liquid Ejection Head and Liquid Ejection Head - The invention is directed to a method of working a small recess portion. In the method, prior to press-forming small recess portions arrayed in a row by pressing a predetermined number of pieces of aligned male dies to a metal base plate, the metal base plate is previously formed with a highly rigid portion at a predetermined portion at a vicinity of an imaginary line extending in a row direction along end portions of predicted press portions to which the respective male dies are pressed. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194828 | INKJET PRINTHEAD HAVING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR - An inkjet printhead and a method of driving the inkjet printhead include a flow channel substrate having a pressure chamber, and a piezoelectric actuator formed on the flow channel substrate to apply a driving force to the pressure chamber to eject ink. The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric layer formed on the flow channel substrate to correspond to the pressure chamber, and a plurality of common electrodes and a plurality of driving electrodes alternately arranged in a length direction of the piezoelectric layer. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194829 | CONTINUOUS MULTI-NOZZLE INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A continuous multi-nozzle inkjet recording apparatus includes a multi-nozzle inkjet head including a liquid chamber, an ink nozzle plate, and a heating unit, a gas flow applicator, a cap, and a gutter unit. The ink nozzle plate includes ink jetting nozzles to jet ink column. The heating unit stimulates the pressurized ink at an exit opening of the ink jetting nozzles to separate ink droplets from the ink column. The gas flow applicator applies a gas flow to flying ink droplets. The gas flow applicator includes an opening to jet the gas flow. The cap shields an area of the gas flow from an ambient atmosphere space existing around a transporting and image forming area for the recording medium. The gutter unit catches ink droplets. Ink droplets not caught by the gutter unit are directed onto a recording medium to form an image on the recording medium. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194830 | LIQUID TANK WITH VENT-TO-ATMOSPHERE MECHANISM - A liquid tank includes a vent-to-atmosphere mechanism configured to open and close a vent-to-atmosphere passageway for venting an internal reservoir space connected to a liquid spray head to atmosphere, the vent-to-atmosphere mechanism including a cylindrical member, a valve seat disposed inside the cylindrical member, a valve plug disposed inside cylindrical member and movable to come in contact with or separate from the valve seat, a movable member disposed inside the cylindrical member on an atmosphere side of the valve plug in a slidable manner to cause a movement of the valve plug, the movable member having an outer surface in movable contact with an inner surface of the cylindrical member and having a communication passageway formed therethrough for communication with atmosphere, and a filter member disposed at the communication passageway to capture foreign material. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194831 | REFILL UNIT FOR INCREMENTAL MILLILITRE FLUID REFILL - A refill unit for a fluid container is providing. The refill unit has a housing defining a fluid path in fluid communication with an outlet and configured to be operatively engaged with the fluid container, a fluid reservoir having an ejection port arranged in fluid communication with the fluid path inside the housing, and an ejector assembly configured to incrementally eject between 6 ml and 50 ml per increment of fluid from the reservoir when the assembly is actuated by operative engagement of the fluid container with the housing. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194832 | REFILL UNIT FOR INCREMENTALLY FILLING FLUID CONTAINER - A refill unit for a fluid container is provided. The unit has a housing defining a fluid path in fluid communication with an outlet and configured to be operatively engaged with the fluid container, a fluid reservoir having an ejection port arranged in fluid communication with the fluid path inside the housing, and an ejector assembly having a piston and cylinder reservoir, said piston having a thread which engages a screw thread in an internal wall of the cylinder, the piston rotationally biased by a wound spring and the ejector assembly having a pawl-and-ratchet detent preventing the biased piston threading into the reservoir until the pawl is actuated by operative engagement of the fluid container with the housing to incrementally eject fluid from | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194833 | REFILL UNIT FOR FLUID CONTAINER - A refill unit for a fluid container is provided. The unit has a housing defining a fluid path in fluid communication with an outlet and configured to be operatively engaged with the fluid container, a fluid reservoir having an ejection port arranged in fluid communication with the fluid path inside the housing, and a plunger having a toothed thread which engages with a screw thread provided in an internal wall of the housing, the ejector having a drive gear so that actuation of the drive gear imparts rotation to the toothed thread so as to rotate the plunger within the screw thread of the housing to incrementally eject fluid from the fluid reservoir when the drive gear is actuated by operative engagement of the fluid container with the housing. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194834 | Ink Melt Device with Solid State Retention and Molten Ink Pass-Through - A phase change ink melting assembly for use in a phase change ink imaging device includes an ink melt perimetric constraint having an open top and a melted ink egress positioned at a bottom of the perimetric constraint. The open top is sized to receive a leading end of an ink stick fed downwardly therethrough. The perimetric constraint includes an interior through path with egress at the bottom and a plurality of melted ink flow paths intermediate the open top and the melted ink egress. The assembly includes a heater for heating the perimetric constraint to a phase change ink melting temperature. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194835 | Solid Ink Melt Tub with Corrugated Melt Region and Offset Outlet - A phase change ink melting assembly includes a tub having an open top, a bottom surface, and a plurality of side walls extending upwardly from the bottom surface. The bottom surface has a solid ink melt region and a melted ink outlet offset from the solid ink melt region. The solid ink melt tub includes a three dimensional area extending from the bottom surface in the solid ink melt region. At least one constraining surface is positioned proximate the open top of the melt tub above the solid ink melt region tub and thermally isolated from the melt tub. The at least one constraining surface is configured to prevent lateral movement of an ink stick as it is being fed downwardly into contact with the solid ink melt region. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194836 | INK JET PRINTING INK CONTAINING THIN ALUMINIUM EFFECT PIGMENTS AND METHOD - Aluminium effect pigments having the following properties:
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| 20100194837 | IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - The image recording method includes ejecting an ink to form an image on the surface of a recording layer of a recording medium; and then applying a glossiness imparting liquid on the surface of the recording medium. The ink includes a particulate colorant, a surfactant and water, and has a solid content of not lower than 6% by weight. The recording layer is located overlying a substrate including cellulose pulp as a main component and includes an inorganic pigment and a styrene-butadiene copolymer. The surface of the recording medium bearing the recording layer absorbs the ink in an amount of from 1 ml/m | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194838 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing method that is performed by using a first nozzle ejecting color ink that is used for printing an image on a medium and is cured in a case where irradiation of an electromagnetic wave is received, a second nozzle ejecting a process solution that is used for processing the surface of the medium and is cured in a case where irradiation of an electromagnetic wave is received, and an irradiation unit emitting the electromagnetic wave. The printing method includes printing an image constituted by color dots on the medium by ejecting the color ink from the first nozzle so as to form the color dots on the medium and forming process dots in areas other than the image on the medium by ejecting the process solution from the second nozzle, emitting the electromagnetic wave onto the color dots and the process dots, coating the color dots and the process dots with the process solution after the electromagnetic wave is emitted onto the color dots and the process dots, and emitting the electromagnetic wave onto the process solution with which the color dots and the process dots are coated. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194839 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS - An image erasing apparatus includes: a scanner which detects a side of a sheet on which an image is formed using a thermally decolorable coloring agent; a heat roller which provides heat for the sheet having the image formed thereon; and a controller which causes a quantity of heat provided for the sheet from the heat roller when an image forming side detected by the scanner does not face the heat roller to be greater than a quantity of heat provided for the sheet from the heat roller when the image forming side faces the heat roller. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194840 | Thermal Printer - Accumulation of foreign matter on the surface of the thermal head that can cause printing defects can be reliably prevented. The downstream edge | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194841 | Exposure Head, Image Forming Apparatus, and Image Forming Method - Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a latent image carrier, on which a latent image is formed; an exposure head that includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element that is disposed in a direction in which the latent image container corresponding to the first light-emitting element is moved; and a control unit that changes over and performs a first latent image forming operation, in which the latent image is formed on the latent image container by using the first light-emitting element, and a second latent image forming operation, in which the latent image is formed on the latent image container by using the second light-emitting element, wherein the control unit controls a first light emission timing of the first light-emitting element in the first latent image forming operation and a second light emission timing of the second light-emitting element in the second latent image forming operation to be different from each other. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194842 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING BANDING DEFECTS IN A PHOTORECEPTOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for correcting banding defects in a photoreceptor image forming apparatus. The method or apparatus may form one or more images using one or more laser beams to alter an electrostatic charge on a photoreceptor, check the one or more images for one or more sets of image perfections arising from electric field attenuation in the photoreceptor, and compensate for the electric field attenuation. The method or apparatus may further form a compensated image. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194843 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an optical scanning device including a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), an optical scanning device controls so as to satisfy P | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194844 | SYSTEM FOR PRINTING UNIQUE INTERACTIVE DOCUMENT IN RESPONSE TO PRINT REQUEST - A system for printing and interacting with documents comprising: (a) a computer system configured for: receiving a print request; allocating a unique document identifier to the document in response to receiving the print request; and associating the document identifier with a description of the document; (b) a printer for printing the document containing human-readable content together with a coding pattern on a surface; and (c) an optically imaging pen for sensing a portion of the coding pattern during handwritten input on the document and for generating a signal indicative of the unique document identifier and a position of the pen relative to the document. The computer system is further configured for: receiving the signal from the pen; determining the document identifier and the position of the pen; retrieving the description associated with the document identifier; interpreting the positions as a path of handwritten input; and updating the description with information corresponding to the handwritten input. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194845 | TELEVISION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A television system for providing video telephony includes a user input device; and a signal processing apparatus. The user input device includes an image photographing unit which photographs an image of a user; and a voice receiving unit which receives a voice of the user. The signal processing apparatus includes a display unit; a voice output unit; a communication unit which receives an image and a voice of counterpart and transmits the user image and the user voice; a voice processing unit which processes the received counterpart voice and outputs the processed voice to the voice output unit; an image processing unit which includes a first image processing block which processes the received counterpart image; and a controller which processes the user image using a software decoder and controls the image processing unit. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194846 | EQUALIZATION OF VIDEO STREAMS - A method equalizing video signals transmitted across a network is provided. The method can include introducing one or more captured video signals across a network via a plurality of conferencing devices. The conferencing devices can include a video display device adapted to display a received video signal, and a video capture device adapted to provide a captured video signal. One or more modules can be disposed in, on, or about the network, the video display device, the video capture device, or any combination thereof. One or more parameters of the video signals transmitted across the network can be modified via the one or more modules such that the one or more modified display parameters of all or a portion of the video signals transmitted across the network fall within a predetermined parameter range. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194847 | Method and System for Conducting Continuous Presence Conferences - Disclosed are methods and systems for multipoint videoconferencing. A Media Relay MCU (MRM) receives compressed media (audio, video, and/or data) from a plurality of endpoints participating in a video conferencing session. For a given endpoint, the MRM selects which of other endpoints to display in a CP layout at the given endpoint. The MRM transmits the compressed media from the selected endpoints to the given endpoint to be presented in the CP layout. The MRM does not decode the compressed media. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194848 | MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND TERMINAL - At one of the timings: during a period between the moment when one of terminals which performs transmission calls out a communication partner and the moment of response and at the timing after the communication between the terminals is complete; content data is read out from a database and the read out content data is converted according to conversion information based on reproduction at the terminal. The converted content data is transmitted to the terminal. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194849 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE MOVEMENT OF A LINE OF SIGHT, A VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEM, A TERMINAL AND A PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD - A method of controlling movement of a line of sight of a video camera mounted on a mobile videoconferencing terminal includes: a) a step ( | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194850 | Method and apparatus for correction of an image from a fisheye lens in a camera - A method of operating a video system includes receiving an image captured by use of a fisheye lens. The image is divided into a plurality of horizontal image lines. A respective fraction of each of the horizontal image lines is sampled with a different respective sampling frequency. Each sampling frequency is inversely related to a size of the sampled fraction. The size of the sampled fraction increases with each horizontal image line in a progression from a top of the image to a bottom of the image. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194851 | PANORAMA IMAGE STITCHING - Systems and methods are disclosed for generation of a panoramic image of a scene. In an implementation, the method includes acquiring a plurality of images (e.g. first image and a second image) of the scene. Subsequent to image acquisition, the plurality of images is registered based on spatial relations of image data in an overlap region between the images. The spatial relations may correspond to distance and angle between a plurality of features in the first and the second images respectively. The registered images are merged based at least in part on a block based mean of the overlap region to generate the panoramic image. Block based merging is utilized to normalize spatially varying intensity differences of the first image and the second image. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194852 | AUTOMATIC CAPTURING METHOD OF A PANORAMIC IMAGE FOR A DIGITAL CAMERA - An automatic capturing method of a panoramic image for a digital camera panoramic image is presented. In the method, a motion vector value of an alignment image selected from a first image captured by the digital camera in a real-time image is continuously tracked, calculated, and accumulated to obtain an accumulated motion vector value. When the accumulated motion vector value reaches a preset threshold value, the digital camera is automatically driven to capture a second image, so as to stitch and blend the first image and the second image into a panoramic image. Through the automatic image capture mode, operations for capturing the panoramic image are simplified. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194853 | WIDE-ANGLE OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGE PICKUP LENS DEVICE, MONITOR CAMERA, AND DIGITAL APPARATUS - A wide-angle optical system comprises a front lens group ( | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194854 | Holographic Reconstruction System with an Arrangement of Controllable Microcells - A holographic reconstruction system is disclosed for the three-dimensional reconstruction of object light spots of a scene, comprising spatial light modulation means which modulate interference-capable light waves of illumination means with at least one video hologram, and optical focussing means which focus the modulated light waves with the reconstructed object light spots for at least one eye position of the observer's eyes. An electro-optical deflection means controlled by a system controller focuses the modulated light wave with the reconstructed object light spots on at least one eye position and tracks them when the eye position changes. The electro-optical deflection means is a controllable optical diffraction grating with a variable surface relief structure consisting of separately controllable microcells. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194855 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING DEVICE AND BOARD INSPECTION DEVICE - A three-dimensional measuring device includes an irradiation means capable of irradiating a striped light pattern used for a spatial encoding method and a striped light pattern used for a phase shift method on a measurement object part on a board main body, an imaging means capable of imaging a measurement object part irradiated by the light pattern, an image control means for controlling imaging by the imaging means, a first calculation means for calculating a height of the measurement object part according to the phase shift method based on a multiplicity of image data imaged by the imaging means, and a second calculation means capable of using the spatial encoding method to identify a line corresponding to the measurement object part from among the image data at a time of calculation by the first calculation means by the phase shift method based on the image data. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194856 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEPTH-RELATED INFORMATION PROPAGATION - The present invention relates to an apparatus for and a method of propagating depth-related information from a first depth-map ( | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194857 | METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC 3D VIEWING USING WIRELESS OR MULTIPLE PROTOCOL CAPABLE SHUTTER GLASSES - A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable media are provided for the viewing of stereoscopic three dimensional (3D) images using shutter glasses. According to one method, a wireless protocol is used to communicate stereoscopic synchronization information. The glasses may scan wireless, infrared, and visible light signals to deduce the timing necessary for stereoscopic synchronization with the display. The necessary synchronization information is then determined from the information in these signals. Other methods incorporate this technology into a mobile device, a cradle or dongle that attaches to the mobile device, or an otherwise ordinary pair of sunglasses. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194858 | Intermediate image generation apparatus and method - An intermediate image generation apparatus and method are described. An intermediate image may be generated from any one image of a left image and a right image, and the intermediate image may be interpolated by referring to the other image of the left image and the right image. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194859 | CONFIGURATION MODULE FOR A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM, SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM COMPRISING THE CONFIGURATION MODULE, METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Video surveillance systems typically comprise a plurality of video cameras that are distributed in a surveillance region at different locations. The image data recorded by the surveillance cameras is collected in a surveillance center and automated or evaluated by surveillance personnel. It is known with the automated surveillance that certain image regions of a surveillance camera are selected and continuously monitored by means of digital image processing. A configuration module | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194860 | METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC 3D IMAGE CAPTURE USING A MOBILE DEVICE, CRADLE OR DONGLE - A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable media are provided for the capture of stereoscopic three dimensional (3D) images using multiple cameras or a single camera manipulated to deduce stereoscopic data. According to one method, a dongle or cradle is added to a mobile phone or other device to capture stereoscopic images. According to another method, the images are captured from cameras with oblique orientation such that the images may need to be rotated, cropped, or both to determine the appropriate stereoscopic 3D regions of interest. According to another method, a single camera is manipulated such that stereoscopic 3D information is deduced. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194861 | Advance in Transmission and Display of Multi-Dimensional Images for Digital Monitors and Television Receivers using a virtual lens - The present invention provides an advance in multi-dimensional displays for digital monitors and televisions. In general, the present invention provides image capture devices arranged at different angles about a target image, or in a straight line, to capture images at pre-designated angles. Each captured image is combined into a composite image using hardware such as a computer. The composite image and a virtual lens are then transmitted together to a display means to be viewed having stereoscopic characteristics. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194862 | 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. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL INTERACTIONS FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL CAMERA IMAGES - A computer implemented method for incorporating a representation of a participant into a virtual 3D environment substantially in real-time is provided. An image including a participant is captured by a camera. A contour of the participant is automatically determined. Depth data is automatically associated with the participant contour. A first virtual 3D representation of the participant is automatically generated by extruding the participant contour based on the associated depth data. An interaction between the first virtual 3D representation of the participant and a second virtual 3D representation of a second object is displayed. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194864 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRAWING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - Coordinate values of an object located in a coordinate space are stored in a memory. The coordinate space is represented by a first direction, a second direction and a third direction each different. The coordinate values include first coordinate values along the first direction, second coordinate values along the second direction and third coordinate values along the third direction. A stereoscopic image of the object having a parallax along one of the first direction and the second direction is displayed. A direction of the parallax is detected. When the direction of the parallax is the first direction, the first coordinate values are subjected to a parallel projection. When the direction of the parallax is the second direction, the second coordinate values are subjected to the parallel projection. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194865 | METHOD OF GENERATING AND DISPLAYING A 3D IMAGE AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - To provide an image of a scene having three-dimensional characteristics, without the use of special glasses, a special camera employing an electrically controllable LCD lens which may be changed as to focal length by varying an applied voltage is used to record a plurality of images of the scene at each of a plurality of closely spaced focal lengths. All of the recorded images are simultaneously displayed on a device employing a stack of transparent LCD screens with one image being provided to each screen in the same order as the focal lengths used during the recording step. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194866 | Electronic imaging device and driving method thereof - An electronic imaging device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels divided into a first region and a second region, and a controller that generates first and second control signals to control the light emission of the plurality of pixels and applies the first and second control signals to the plurality of pixels in the first region and the plurality of pixels in the second region, respectively. The controller may generate and apply the first control signal as a turn-off signal when second stereoscopic images synthesized in a second order different from a first order are displayed in the first region after first stereoscopic images synthesized in the first order are displayed in both the first and second regions. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194867 | METHOD OF ILLUMINATING A 3D OBJECT WITH A MODIFIED 2D IMAGE OF THE 3D OBJECT BY MEANS OF A PROJECTOR, AND PROJECTOR SUITABLE FOR PERFORMING SUCH A METHOD - The invention provides a method of illuminating a 3D object | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194868 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE MODULAR PROGRAMMING FOR VIDEO PROCESSORS - A system, apparatus and a method for providing a flexible framework for a video processing infrastructure to enable rapid integration of video analytics algorithms in video security systems. Such a flexible framework preferably features a plurality of ready-to-use libraries, as well as at least one “skeletal” module into which customized programming may be inserted. The skeletal module preferably comprises a generic customizable interface to a hardware device or system, described collectively herein as a video processor. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194869 | SCENE-CHANGE DETECTING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SCENE-CHANGE DETECTION PROGRAM, AND SCENE-CHANGE DETECTING METHOD - An image processing device includes a motion-vector detecting unit that detects motion vectors between an image and another image at a plurality of positions on the image, the image being at least a part of a plurality of images making up an image sequence; a pattern categorizing unit that categorizes the images into pattern groups each indicating a predetermined motion pattern, on the basis of the plurality of the motion vectors detected in the image; a group-based image-change detecting unit that detects, in each of the pattern groups, an image change between the images in the pattern group; and a group-based scene-change detecting unit that detects scene change in each of the pattern groups on the basis of the image change between the images in the pattern group. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194870 | ULTRA-COMPACT APERTURE CONTROLLED DEPTH FROM DEFOCUS RANGE SENSOR - The present application teaches an implementation of an ultra-compact range sensor based on aperture varying passive depth from defocus. An embodiment of the present application teaches a range sensor, which is a fast LCD matrix that allows the acquisition of a plurality of images with variable focal levels by changing the size of the aperture of a typical lens. The range sensor of the present application may be implemented in mobile devices or used in the construction of medical endoscopes able to perform depth recovery. | 2010-08-05 |
| 20100194871 | FLUORESCENCE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND FLUORESCENCE IMAGING METHOD - Before a fluorescent labeling agent is administered on an observation area, the observation area is irradiated with an excitation light for fluorescence quenching. An image taking unit captures two fluorescence images at a predetermined time interval during the irradiation with the excitation light. The first fluorescence image is written to a first frame memory, and a second fluorescence image is written to a second frame memory. An image processing circuit reads out the two fluorescence images, and calculates a difference in light intensity between the two fluorescence images. A judgment circuit judges whether or not fluorescence from a fluorescent dye that has already existed in the observation area is quenched based on the difference in light intensity. | 2010-08-05 |
