| 32nd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
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| 20120200596 | TABLET INSPECTION SUPPORT METHOD AND TABLET INSPECTION SUPPORT APPARATUS - The tablet inspection support apparatus ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200597 | CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY EVICE, DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A control device for a display device including a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines traversing the plurality of scanning lines, and a plurality of pixels disposed at positions corresponding to intersections between the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines, the control device displaying a first character inputted in a predetermined region of the display device; and thereafter, displaying a second character different from the inputted character, superposed on the first character displayed in the predetermined region. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200598 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control apparatus that enables to reliably and quickly search for a desired image. When a wheel is operated by a user by an amount less than a predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a first display mode where a plurality of images are displayed on an image display unit. When the wheel is operated by the user by an amount equal to or greater than the predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a second display mode where a larger number of images than in the first display mode are displayed on the image display unit in a smaller size than in the first display mode. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC SPACE MANAGEMENT OF A DISPLAY SPACE - A method for space management of a workspace provided on a display includes defining a first data structure of full-space rectangles present on the workspace, wherein at least a portion of the full-space rectangles are permitted to overlap. A second data structure of largest empty-space rectangles available on the workspace is also defined to complete the representation of the workspace. The methods include performing an operation on at least one full-space rectangle on the workspace and redefining the first data structure and the second data structure in accordance with the workspace resulting from the operation performed. The operations can include adding a new full-space rectangle, moving an existing full-space rectangle and deleting an existing full full-space rectangle from the workspace. Generally, the workspace is a display device coupled to an electronic device such as a personal computer, personal digital assistant, electronic book viewer and the like. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200600 | HEAD AND ARM DETECTION FOR VIRTUAL IMMERSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for detection of the head and arms of a user to interact with an immersive virtual environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises generating a virtual representation of a non-virtual environment, determining a position of a user relative to the display using an overhead sensor when the user is within a predetermined proximity to a display, determining a position of a user's head relative to the display using the overhead sensor, and displaying the virtual representation on the display in a spatial relationship with the non-virtual environment based on the position of the user's head relative to the display. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200601 | AR GLASSES WITH STATE TRIGGERED EYE CONTROL INTERACTION WITH ADVERTISING FACILITY - This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content, wherein the eyepiece includes a state triggered eye control interaction with advertising facility. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200602 | HAND IMAGE FEEDBACK - An image generation method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing apparatus from a video recording device attached to a backside of a video monitor connected to the computing apparatus, a video data stream comprising a first video image of an input device connected to the computing apparatus and a second video image of a users hands enabling switches on the input device. An input device image associated with the input device is displayed. The computing apparatus super-imposes and displays a hand image associated with the user's hands over the input device image. The computing apparatus adjusts a brightness of the hand image such that the input device image is visible through the hand image. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200603 | Pointer Tool for Touch Screens - Pointing tools for use in connection with touch screen displays are described. The pointing tools are provided with a visually offset pointer tip that can be rotated easily by user manipulation provided to the computing device through an interface. The pointing tools may include one or more buttons. The button(s) may be visually connected with the pointing tool on the display screen and/or logically associated therewith. The pointing tools described provide for accurate and precise inputs, and are useful in many applications, such as those where fine positioning and input within a touch screen environment is desirable. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200604 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, MAP DISPLAY METHOD AND MAP DISPLAY PROGRAM - The map display device may be a mobile terminal device, and a map is displayed on the display unit. The display unit may be a liquid crystal display device of touch-panel type, and detects the contact position of the contact body such as a user's finger, a touch pen or else. When plural contact bodies contact the display unit, the display mode is changed from the normal display mode to the map rotation mode based on the movement amounts of the contact bodies. In the map rotation mode, the displayed map is rotated and displayed based on the movement amount of the contact position of the contact body. When only one contact body is in contact with the display unit after the change to the map rotation mode, the displayed map is rotated and displayed based on the movement amount of the contact position of the one contact body. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200605 | FLOW RADIOLOGY USER INTERFACE - The present invention concerns a novel and non-obvious system for viewing and interpreting radiology films by integrating one or more prior films from the same subject with the current film in a manner that produces a chronological moving image of the films. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200606 | DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT LENSES FOR DIGITAL IMAGE CROPPING, MEASUREMENT AND ONLINE MAPS - In one or more implementations, a signal is received selecting a geographic location in an original image of a digital map for display on a display. The original image is distorted to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the digital map for display on the display, the appearance of the lens including a focal region that includes a magnification of the geographic location and a base region that surrounds the focal region. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200607 | OFFERING MENU ITEMS TO A USER - The invention relates to an electronic device offering a plurality of menu items to a user. In order to enable a user friendly selection of the menu items, the electronic device comprises a screen, user input means, storing means adapted to store parameters for a virtual model of a user and processing means. The processing means are adapted to generate a visual representation of a virtual user model on the screen based on the stored parameters for the virtual model of a user, to cause a movement of a visually represented virtual user model depending on a user input, to detect a movement of a visually represented virtual user model that is associated to a particular menu item, and to call a function that is assigned to the particular menu item. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200608 | GAMMA CONTROL MAPPING CIRCUIT AND METHOD, AND ORGANIC EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - A gamma control data mapping circuit, a mapping method, and a display device using the gamma control data mapping circuit are provided. The gamma control data mapping circuit is for converting input data into grayscale data to display an original image on a display device. The mapping circuit separates the input data into high-order bit data and low-order bit data, and outputs a low-order grayscale boundary and a high-order grayscale boundary by using the high-order bit data. The gamma control data mapping circuit divides a grayscale region defined by the low-order grayscale boundary and the high-order grayscale boundary by a unit grayscale number to calculate unit grayscale data of the grayscale region, multiplies the low-order bit data by the unit grayscale data to calculate linear grayscale data, and adds the low-order grayscale boundary to the linear grayscale data to generate the grayscale data. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200609 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A driving method of a liquid crystal display is provided for improving an echo phenomenon in the screen and improving crosstalk in a 3D display device. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel and a light source unit divided into a plurality of blocks and that irradiates light by a light source unit of the corresponding block being driven at a response time of liquid crystals of the liquid crystal panel. Data of a liquid crystal panel corresponding to the plurality of blocks is analyzed to determine an n-th block corresponding to a portion having the highest visibility. Driving periods of light source units of the n-th block, an (n−1)-th block, and an (n+1)-th block are synchronized. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200610 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING MEMORY PROPERTY - An image display device expresses multiple colors including intermediate colors and an electrophoretic particle making up the image display device includes n-kinds of (n>2) charged particles each having colors and threshold value voltages each being different from one another. A specified period during which a voltage is applied includes a resetting period for applying a resetting voltage, a first, . . . , k | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200611 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display device including pixels has formed therein at least two driving blocks each made up of pixel rows, and includes: a signal line driving circuit that outputs a signal voltage to an output line disposed in each of pixel columns; and a selector circuit that controls a selector disposed in each of the columns for providing a signal voltage outputted from the output line to one of a first signal line and second signal line disposed in each of the columns, and selectively provides a standard voltage or the signal voltage outputted from the output line to one of the first signal line or the second signal line. Each of the pixels includes a current control unit and an organic EL element. Pixels in the k-th driving block are connected to the first signal line and pixels in the (k+1)-th driving block are connected to the second signal line. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200612 | Driving Method of Display Device - Pseudo contours occur in a display device that expresses a gray scale by dividing one frame into a plurality of subframes and using a time gray scale method. In the case of expressing a high-order bit, a gray scale is expressed by sequentially adding the weight (light emitting period, frequency of light emission, and the like) in each subframe. On the other hand, in the case of expressing a low-order bit, a gray scale is expressed by selecting a subframe where light is emitted. Then, subframes for a high-order bit and subframes for a low-order bit are not to be unevenly distributed in a specific place in one frame. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200613 | FLUORESCENT LAMP AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - To obtain effective luminance and light efficiency while avoiding discharge, it is necessary to sufficiently increase a current luminous efficiency of gas and an electron emission efficiency of an electron source. In a fluorescent lamp, an anode electric field is increased by setting a pressure of a noble gas or a molecular gas enclosed to 10 kPa or higher, setting an anode voltage to 240 V or lower, and setting a substrate distance to 0.4 mm or smaller. Furthermore, the resulting effect that the current luminous efficiency is increased in proportion to the electric field is used. Also, by applying a MIM electron source having an electron emission efficiency exceeding 10% as an electron source, a non-discharge fluorescent lamp having a light emission luminance equal to or larger than 10 | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200614 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD - In a display device (i) which carries out a display based on a video signal whose resolution has been converted to higher resolution (high-resolution conversion driving) and (ii) which carries out CC driving, when the resolution of the video signal is converted by a factor of 2 (double-size display), assuming that a direction in which the gate lines extend is a row-wise direction, signal potentials having the same polarity and the same gray scale are supplied to pixel electrodes included in respective two pixels that correspond to two adjacent gate lines and that are adjacent to each other in the column-wise direction (scanning direction), and a direction of change in the signal potentials written to the pixel electrodes from the source lines varies every two adjacent rows according to the polarities of the signal potentials. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200615 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200616 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - Crosstalk between right-eye images and left-eye images is suppressed, and high-quality 3D images are displayed. For this purpose, a driving method of a plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus has a plasma display panel and a driver circuit for driving the panel. In this driving method, right-eye images and left-eye images are alternately displayed on the panel by alternately repeating right-eye fields, each of which has a plurality of subfields and displays a right-eye image signal, and left-eye fields, each of which has a plurality of subfields and displays a left-eye image signal. Each subfield has an address period for performing an address operation and a sustain period for performing a sustain operation. In a discharge cell where gradation of a predetermined threshold or higher is displayed, the address operation is prohibited in the subfield disposed last in the field. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200617 | Variable Flower Display Backlight System - Techniques for using variable flower assemblies to control light leakage between designated portions of light-emitting elements are provided. In some embodiments, a variable flower assembly ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200618 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an image display device capable of, by using a general-purpose image display driver configured to operate based on display data pieces each containing tones corresponding to plural bits, quickly performing bit extension processing to perform tone display corresponding to the display data pieces without providing any special circuit configured to perform the bit extension. A controller ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200619 | Fluid Circulation - Among other things, an apparatus for use in fluid jetting is described. The apparatus comprises a printhead including a flow path and a nozzle in communication with the flow path that has a first end and a second end. The apparatus also includes a first container fluidically coupled to the first end of the flow path, a second container fluidically coupled to the second end of the flow path, and a controller. The first container has a first controllable internal pressure and the second container has a second controllable internal pressure. The controller controls the first internal pressure and the second internal pressure to have a fluid flow between the first container and the second container through the flow path in the printhead according to a first mode and a second mode. In either mode, at least a portion of the fluid flowing along the flow path is delivered to the nozzle when the nozzle is jetting. The first mode has the first internal pressure higher than the second internal pressure and the second mode has the second internal pressure higher than the first internal pressure. The fluid flows from the first container to the second container according to the first mode and flows from the second container to the first container according to the second mode. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200620 | PRESSURE PULSES TO REDUCE BUBBLES AND VOIDS IN PHASE CHANGE INK - A phase change ink printer may be operated so that multiple pressure pulses are applied to the ink in an ink flow path of the printer during a time that the ink is changing phase. During the phase change, a portion of the ink in the ink flow path is in liquid phase and another portion of the ink is in solid phase. The pressure pulses are applied at least to the liquid phase ink in the ink flow path. The phase change may involve a transition from solid to liquid phase, such as during a start-up operation, or may involve a transition from a liquid phase to a solid phase, such as during a power down operation. Application of pressure during either of these operations serves to reduce bubbles and voids in the phase change ink. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200621 | COORDINATION OF PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE DURING INK PHASE CHANGE - A print head assembly for an ink jet printer includes an ink flow path configured to allow passage of a phase-change ink. A pressure unit is fluidically coupled to the ink flow path to apply a pressure to the ink. The applied pressure is controlled by a control unit during a time that the ink in the ink flow path is undergoing a phase change. During the phase change, a portion of the ink in a first region of the ink flow path is in liquid phase and another portion of the ink in another region of the ink flow path is in solid phase. A constant or variable pressure can be applied at least to the liquid phase portion of the ink during a phase transition from a liquid phase to a solid phase or from a solid phase to a liquid phase. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200622 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - Leakage of an ink remaining in a gutter or the like is prevented. An inkjet recording device includes an ink tank for retaining an ink, a nozzle for discharging the ink as ink particles to print on a printing object, an ink supply unit for feeding the ink from the ink tank to the nozzle, a gutter for recovering the ink particles which are not used in printing in the ink tank among the ink particles discharged from the nozzle, an ink recovery line for returning the ink particles recovered in this gutter to the ink tank, and an ink recovery unit disposed on this ink recovery line for recovering the ink in the ink tank. The inkjet recording device has a gas-liquid separation unit for separating a gas returned along with the ink particles through the ink recovery line, a gas supply line for feeding the gas to the gutter, and an atmosphere relief line for releasing the gas from the gas-liquid separation unit to the outside. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200623 | BUBBLE PURGING SYSTEM FOR A FLUID EJECTION HEAD - A method and system for purging bubbles from a fluid ejection head comprising a plurality of fluid flow channels including a first plurality of fluid flow channels flowing a first ink to a first actuator device and a second plurality of fluid flow channels for flowing a second ink to a second actuator device. During a bubble purging operation the first and second actuator devices are pulsed with different energies that depend on the viscosity of the first ink and the second ink. Heating the inks with different energies, results in the viscosity of the first ink to be same as the viscosity of the second ink. In one embodiment, a test pattern that includes a plurality of dots is printed to determine a clogged fluid ejection nozzle. Based on the determination, an actuator device corresponding to the clogged fluid ejection nozzle is pulsed. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200624 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING JETTING PERFORMANCE IN AN INKJET PRINTER - A printer receives print jobs and identifies at least one parameter associated with a print job to select a pressure level for at least one ink reservoir and at least one firing signal waveform for operating a printhead in the printer. The selected pressure and waveform enable optimal image quality for existing conditions identified from the print jobs performed by the printer. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200625 | PRINT DATA GENERATION APPARATUS AND PRINT DATA GENERATION METHOD - An ink jet printing apparatus, for each level, employs a plurality of density patterns to prevent cancelation of a granularity reduction effect that has been provided by an increase in resolution. Specifically, when determining an arrangement of dot-on areas in the density pattern, the dot-on areas is not located in the areas of a first row of the each of the plurality of density patterns. Thereby, whitish areas appear with the same cycle as a use cycle of the density patterns in a longitudinal direction and thus the whitish areas is not unevenly located. As a result, granularity is prevented from increasing. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200626 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING THREE DIMENSIONAL ARTICLES - An apparatus for printing an image onto a curved surface of a three dimensional article. The apparatus principally includes a support fixture, an ink jet print head having a plurality of nozzles, and an articulatable robotic arm. One of the support fixture and the print head is mounted to and carried by the robotic arm. The robotic arm is moveable so as to cause relative movement of the print head along a series of scanning paths that follow the surface contour of the curved surface of the article. A controller is coupled to the robotic arm and is configured to cause articulation of the robotic arm. The controller causes the robotic arm to continuously locate the print head relative to the curved surface and to cause the plurality of nozzles to eject printing medium at predetermined locations along the scanning paths so as to form the image. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200627 | PRINT DATA GENERATION DEVICE, PRINT DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND PRINT DATA GENERATION PROGRAM - To suppress misalignment of a line formation position resulting from main scans being performed with different timings. A printer is made to perform a printing action of acquiring image data, printing a line during an N | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200628 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer includes a roll driving mechanism for causing a roll to rotate and a medium to be conveyed, a roll driving section for driving the roll driving mechanism, a first conveying mechanism for conveying the medium, a first driving section for driving the first conveying mechanism, a second conveying mechanism for conveying the medium, and a second driving section for driving the second conveying mechanism, and a controller for performing a control in such a way that when there is a change in the rate at which the first conveying mechanism conveys the medium, the maximum amount of the difference between the amount of the medium conveyed by the roll driving mechanism and the amount of the medium conveyed by the second conveying mechanism exceeds the maximum amount of the difference. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200629 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A plurality of images is sequentially printed on a sheet, and the sheet is cut at a cut position that is behind the finally-printed image. At that time, if an inappropriate region of the fed sheet that is not suited to printing is detected, and the detected inappropriate region is behind the finally-printed image, the cut position is changed to be behind the detected inappropriate region. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200630 | REDUCTION OF BUBBLES AND VOIDS IN PHASE CHANGE INK - Bubble mitigation approaches for phase change ink involve creating a thermal gradient along an ink flow path of an ink jet printer during a time that the ink is undergoing a phase change. The thermal gradient causes one portion of the ink in the ink flow path to be in liquid phase while another portion of the ink is in solid phase. The thermal gradient allows the liquid ink to move along the ink flow path to fill in voids and/or to push out air pockets in the portion of the ink that is still solid. The bubble mitigation process may be implemented during a start-up operation when the ink is transitioning from a solid phase to a liquid phase and/or during a power down operation when the ink is transitioning from a liquid phase to a solid phase. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200631 | COOLING RATE AND THERMAL GRADIENT CONTROL TO REDUCE BUBBLES AND VOIDS IN PHASE CHANGE INK - The Niyama number of a flow path for phase change ink is the ratio of cooling rate of the ink to the thermal gradient of the ink along the ink flow path. Print head assemblies can be designed and configured to achieve ink flow paths having Niyama numbers that are greater than a critical Niyama value. These designs reduce entrapment of air in the ink as the ink is changing phase and provide optimal bubble and void mitigation for phase change ink. The thermal gradient of the ink flow path can be achieved using passive and/or active thermal elements disposed along the ink flow path. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200632 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AN ARRAY OF IMAGING ELEMENTS - For accurately calibrating an inline scanner a printer such as an inkjet printer may print a pattern, which is scanned by the inline scanner. The method is configured such that print artifacts resulting from not yet calibrated print heads do not significantly influence the calibration of the scanner. After calibration of the scanner, the print heads and the control units driving the print heads may be calibrated using the calibrated inline scanner. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200633 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK USED FOR THE SAME - An ink jet recording method includes forming an image on a print medium by discharging a specific ink; and transporting the print medium, wherein the forming and the transporting are alternatively performed for printing; in the forming an image, while a print head is moved relative to the print medium that stops in the printing area, scanning for discharging the ink from the print head to the print medium is performed a plurality of times, and the specific ink discharged to the print medium is fixed to the print medium by being supplied with energy; the print medium is a non-ink-absorptive or low-ink-absorptive print medium; and the specific ink contains 60% by mass or more of one or more kinds of organic solvent that have a boiling point of 120° C. to 240° C. and are selected from a group consisting of glycol ether-based solvents and non-protonic polar solvents in the ink. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200634 | NON-AQUEOUS PIGMENT DISPERSIONS USING DISPERSION SYNERGISTS - Non-aqueous pigment dispersions exhibiting improved dispersion quality and/or stability were prepared for a specific selection of quinacridone pigments, diketopyrrolo-pyrrole pigments and azo pigments by using specific naphthol AS dispersion synergists. The non-aqueous pigment dispersions can be advantageously used in inkjet inks inkjet printing methods. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200635 | LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS AND HEAD CARTRIDGE - A liquid jetting apparatus includes a first liquid jetting head which has a plurality of first nozzles, a head holder to which a first liquid jetting head is fixed, a liquid cartridge which is detachably mounted on the head holder, and which supplies the first liquid jetting head with a liquid which is to be jetted from the first nozzles, and a head cartridge which has a second liquid jetting head having a plurality of second nozzles, and a liquid tank which supplies the second liquid jetting head with a liquid which is to be jetted from the second nozzles. The second liquid jetting head and the liquid tank are integrated to form the head cartridge, and the head cartridge is detachably mounted on the head holder. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200636 | WASTE INK RECLAMATION APPARATUS FOR LIQUID INK RECIRCULATION SYSTEM - An ink reclamation receptacle receives ink purged from an inkjet printing apparatus. Ink in the reclamation receptacle wets a porous membrane positioned in the reclamation receptacle, and flows into a flow channel. Negative pressure applied to a port that is placed in fluid communication with the flow channel withdraws ink from the flow channel for use in the inkjet printing apparatus, while ink wetting the pores in the membrane resists a flow of air into the flow channel. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200637 | PRESSURE DAMPER, LIQUID JET HEAD, AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - Provided is a pressure damper ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200638 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A liquid ejecting head includes a channel unit having a plurality of pressure chambers respectively communicating with a plurality of nozzles opened to a nozzle formation surface, a plurality of reservoirs for supplying liquid to the plurality of the pressure chambers, and a plurality of compliance units formed by partitioning at least a part of the surface of each reservoir opposite to the nozzle formation surface by a film member; and a head case joined to a surface of the channel unit. A concave chamber formed by depressing a part of a surface joined to the channel unit in a side opposite to the reservoir and an atmosphere opening passage whose one end communicates with the concave chamber and the other end is opened to the atmosphere are formed at the head case. The concave chamber is formed in series over the compliance units. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200639 | COATING DEVICE AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - Provided are a coating device and an inkjet recording device capable of reliably removing liquid attached to a drum. A process liquid is coated by pressing a coating roller against a surface of paper to be transported by a process liquid coating drum. The process liquid attached to an outer peripheral surface of the process liquid coating drum is removed by a blade coming into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the process liquid coating drum. The blade is separated from the process liquid coating drum by an installation portion of a gripper. The process liquid remaining in the process liquid coating drum during separation is removed by air that is ejected from air nozzles. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200640 | LOW-PROFILE MEMS THERMAL PRINTHEAD DIE HAVING BACKSIDE ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS - A thermal printhead die is formed from an SOI structure as a MEMS device. The die has a printing surface, a buried oxide layer, and a mounting surface opposite the printing surface. A plurality of ink delivery sites are formed on the printing surface, each site having an ink-receiving and ink-dispensing structure. An ohmic heater is formed adjacent to each structure, and an under-bump metallization (UBM) pad is formed on the mounting surface and is electrically connected to the ohmic heater, so that ink received by the ink-delivery site and electrically heated by the ohmic heater may be delivered to a substrate by sublimation. A through-silicon-via (TSV) plug may be formed through the thickness of the die and electrically coupled through the buried oxide layer from the ohmic heater to the UBM pad. Layers of interconnect metal may connect the ohmic heater to the UBM pad and to the TSV plug. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200641 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION METHOD - A liquid ejection head including an ejection orifice for ejecting a liquid; a flow path for supplying the liquid from a liquid supply port holding the liquid to the ejection orifice; and a heat generating element of a rectangular form with a long-side to short-side ratio of 2.5 or more for generating thermal energy used to eject the liquid, a longitudinal direction of the heat generating element being arranged along an extending direction of the flow path. An end portion of the heat generating element on a downstream side of a liquid flowing direction within the flow path is located between an end portion of the ejection orifice on the downstream side and an end portion of the ejection orifice on an upstream side when viewed from a direction to which the liquid is ejected from the ejection orifice. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200642 | Inkjet Printers - An inkjet printhead having at least one internal electrode in contact with ink in use, wherein region(s) of the electrode surface are covered by an electrically insulating organic material that has been deposited thereon by electrophoresis. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200643 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, LIQUID-EJECTING HEAD, AND LIQUID-EJECTING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric device comprises a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer provided above the first electrode, and a second electrode provided above the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer comprises a mixed crystal containing at least bismuth ferrate and barium titanate. The piezoelectric layer comprises a first piezoelectric layer and a second piezoelectric layer which is disposed between at least one of the first and second electrodes and the first piezoelectric layer. The barium titanate content of the second piezoelectric layer is at least 10 mole percent higher than the barium titanate content of the first piezoelectric layer. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200644 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejection head that reciprocates, a liquid supplying flow channel supplies a ink to the liquid ejection head, a non-return valve in the liquid supplying flow channel that opens when ink flows from an upstream region to a downstream region where the liquid ejection head is located and closes when ink flows from the downstream region to the upstream region, a volume changing unit that changes a volume of an inner space, and a stirring unit that stirs ink stored therein in accordance with the volume change of the volume changing unit, the stirring unit being disposed separately from the volume changing unit and they are disposed in the liquid supplying flow channel between the non-return valve and the liquid ejection head. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200645 | AGITATING DEVICE AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - An agitating device includes: a movement portion which is provided in a liquid accommodation portion that has an accommodation chamber accommodating a liquid containing a functional material and a deformation portion that is deformed so as to change a volume of the accommodation chamber, and is moved along with deformation of the deformation portion; and an agitating portion which agitates the liquid in the accommodation chamber along with movement of the movement portion. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200646 | CARTRIDGE - A cartridge includes a casing, a printing material containing portion, a printing material flow path and first and second insertion holes formed in a front face of the casing. A rod used for detection of the out-of-printing material state is inserted into the first insertion hole, and a printing material supply tube is inserted into the second insertion hole. The first insertion hole is located on the front face at a middle position between a first side face and a second side face of the casing. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200647 | INK TANK AND PRODUCTION PROCESS OF INK TANK - An ink tank for being installed in an ink jet recording apparatus to supply ink thereto, including an ink storage portion, one side surface of a casing of the ink tank in which side surface an opening for supplying ink to the apparatus is formed, and a joint member for joining the one side surface to the apparatus by engaging with a connection member of the apparatus. The joint member has a welding portion for being welded to the one side surface along a peripheral portion of the opening, the welding portion corresponding to the peripheral portion; and a hollow portion forming a positioning hole for inserting therein and engaging therewith the connection member for determining a relative position of the apparatus and the one side surface. The hollow portion is provided on the outside of the welding portion and abuts to the one side surface without being welded. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200648 | PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE INKJET BLACK INK, AND INK CARTRIDGE, INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTED MATERIAL USING THE INK, AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE INK - A photopolymerizable inkjet black ink having a viscosity not greater than 20 mPa·s at 60° C., including a clear ink having a viscosity not greater than 15 mPa·s at 60° C. including a photopolymerizable monomer having a Stimulation Index (SI value) less than 3 when subjected to a skin sensitization test (LLNA method) and a polymerization initiator without including carbon black and insolubles; and a carbon black in an amount not greater than 7% by weight. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200649 | LIQUID CIRCULATION SYSTEM AND INK-JET PRINTER - An ink circulation system includes: an ink-jet head in which a shared ink flowing route is formed, an ink tank, a supply flowing route for supplying ink from the ink tank to the shared ink flowing route, a reflux flowing rout for refluxing the ink from the shared ink flowing route to the ink tank, and a differential pressure generating unit for generating a differential pressure in the ink tank. The differential pressure generating unit is equipped with an impeller placed inside the ink tank, and a drive unit placed outside the ink tank. Then, the drive unit operates to turn the impeller, by means of remote driving, for generating a differential pressure between a supply port of the supply flowing route and a reflux port of the reflux flowing route so as to circulate the ink through the ink flowing route. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200650 | NON-AQUEOUS PIGMENT DISPERSIONS USING DISPERSION SYNERGISTS - Non-aqueous pigment dispersions exhibiting improved dispersion quality and/or stability were prepared for a specific selection of naphthol AS pigments, diketopyrrolo-pyrrole pigments and quinacridone pigments, by using specific yellow monoazo dispersion synergists. The non-aqueous pigment dispersions can be advantageously used in inkjet inks inkjet printing methods. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200651 | INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink set is disclosed which includes a yellow ink composition containing a resin-coated yellow pigment in which a yellow pigment is coated with a crosslinked water-soluble resin, a water-soluble polymerizable compound and water; a magenta ink composition containing a resin-coated magenta pigment in which a magenta pigment is coated with a crosslinked water-soluble resin, a water-soluble polymerizable compound and water; a cyan ink composition containing a resin-coated cyan pigment in which a cyan pigment is coated with a crosslinked water-soluble resin, a water-soluble polymerizable compound and water; and a treatment liquid containing an aggregating agent for aggregating components in the ink compositions. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200652 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method is for recording on a recording medium with a photocuring liquid substance by discharging droplets from a discharge head onto the recording medium while displacing the discharge head and the recording medium relative to each other. While the discharge head and the recording medium are displaced relative to each other, a droplet discharge step of discharging the droplets from the discharge head toward a predetermined section of the recording medium, and a radiation step of radiating the light toward the droplets discharged on the recording medium, are performed n (n being an integer of 2 or greater) times on the predetermined section to complete recording on the predetermined section, and the recording rate in the nth discharge step is lowered below 100%/n. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200653 | INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The invention provides an ink composition including:
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| 20120200654 | PRINT MEDIA CHARACTERIZATION - A method is provided for detecting the type of print media provided to a thermal printer. A printer has a heat source disposed adjacent a temperature sensor to transfer heat upon activation across a portion of an introduced print media to the temperature sensor and a controller to receive a signal from the temperature sensor and to obtain a temperature signature generally identifying attributes of the introduced print media and to adjust print head settings in response to the identified attributes. The printer may further comprise a sensor to detect access to a print media storage compartment and to initiate examination of the heat transfer properties of the introduced print media upon detecting that the print storage compartment has been accessed. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200655 | Optical Scanner And Image Forming Apparatus Including Same - An optical scanner includes a light source, an optical part, an enclosure, and a retainer. The light source projects light against a target. The optical part is disposed on a light path between the light source and the target. The enclosure houses the light source and the optical part. The retainer is fixed to the enclosure and includes a plurality of optical part mounts of identical shape and different sizes. The optical part is adhered to one of the plurality of optical part mounts. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200656 | DRAWING CONTROL METHOD, LASER IRRADIATING APPARATUS, DRAWING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREWITH - Drawing control methods, laser irradiating apparatuses, drawing control programs, and recording mediums having recorded therewith are provided that make it possible to efficiently carry out drawing with high quality. The drawing control method controls, by a computer, a drawing device which draws what is to be drawn onto multiple unit regions on a surface of a medium. The computer executes a drawing order determining step which determines a drawing order of a line segment included in the what is to be drawn such that multiple continuing line segments over mutually neighboring multiple unit regions are drawn continuously. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200657 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STATUS INFORMATION PRESENTING APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus has a presence information generator that generates a presence information indicating whether or not a user of the electronic apparatus is in a room or a home in which the electronic apparatus is placed. A power supply outlet of the apparatus supplies power to another electronic appliance. A power supply status detector detects a state of power supply being supplied to the another electronic appliance by the power supply outlet. The presence information generator generates the presence information in accord with the state of power supply to the another electronic appliance, where the status of the power supply is obtained by the power supply status detector. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200658 | Automatic Video Layouts for Multi-Stream Multi-Site Telepresence Conferencing System - A videoconference multipoint control unit (MCU) automatically generates display layouts for videoconference endpoints. Display layouts are generated based on attributes associated with video streams received from the endpoints and display configuration information of the endpoints. An endpoint can include one or more attributes in each outgoing stream. Attributes can be assigned based on video streams' role, content, camera source, etc. Display layouts can be regenerated if one or more attributes change. A mixer can generate video streams to be displayed at the endpoints based on the display layout. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200659 | Displaying Unseen Participants in a Videoconference - Displaying unseen participants in a videoconference. A videoconference layout including a plurality of portions may be displayed on a display. Each portion of the videoconference layout may include one or more participants of the videoconference. Additionally, a plurality of the participants of the videoconference are not currently displayed in the videoconference layout. User input may be received to view the plurality of the participants who are not currently displayed in the videoconference layout. Accordingly, in response to the user input, the plurality of the participants may be displayed in a first portion of the videoconference layout. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200660 | TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE LIGHTING CONTROL IN VIDEO CONFERENCING - Techniques to provide active lighting control for video teleconferencing systems are described. In an embodiment, a video teleconferencing (TVC) device receives lighting data from cameras in a room where a VTC is taking place. The VTC device may access lighting profiles for the lights in the room from a lighting control system. The VTC device may compare the current lighting conditions to a target model. The VTC device may use the lighting profiles to select lights to turn on or off via the lighting control system to improve the lighting. The VTC device may monitor the lighting conditions during the conference and may re-adjust the lights if a large change occurs. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200661 | Reserved Space in a Videoconference Layout - Reserving a space in a videoconference layout. The videoconference layout may be displayed at a first participant endpoint and may include images of a plurality of participants during the videoconference. A first portion of the videoconference layout may include a plurality of portions for the plurality of participants. A second portion of the videoconference layout may be used for an active speaker of the plurality of participants. When a first participant displayed in a first portion of the plurality of portions becomes an active speaker in the videoconference, the first participant may be displayed in the second portion of the videoconference layout and the first portion of the plurality of portions may be reserved for the first participant. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200662 | Method and System for Controlling Multipoint Video Conference, Central Control Subsystem and Video Terminal - A system and method for controlling multipoint video conference, a video terminal and a central control subsystem are provided by the present invention. The system includes a central control subsystem and a video terminal at the conference place side, and central office equipment at the network side. The central control subsystem is configured to transmit a multipoint video conference control command to the video terminal; the video terminal is configured to transmit the received multipoint video conference control command to the central office equipment at the network side; the central office equipment is configured to control the video terminal of each conference place according to the received multipoint video conference control command. The scheme of the present invention maintains the good usability of the central control subsystem and guarantees the safety and the stability of the central office system. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200663 | Method and Apparatus For Improving The Average Image Refresh Rate in a Compressed Video Bitstream - An apparatus and method for digital video encoding is disclosed. The disclosed system provides for a way of improving video quality for a given video coding system design. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200664 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VISUALLY-DEPICTING FIELDS OF VIEW OF A COMMERCIAL VEHICLE - A display device for visually depicting legally-prescribed fields of view of a commercial vehicle in a driver's cab of the commercial vehicle includes at least one display unit. The display device permanently and in real time displays at least two fields of view, which are legally-prescribed to be permanently displayed during operation of the vehicle, on the display unit in the driver's cab in a common image. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200665 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PANORAMIC IMAGES - When there is a shooting location of another panoramic image in a shooting direction of a panoramic image to be displayed, a marker setting unit associates a marker, indicating the presence of the another panoramic image in the shooting direction, with the panoramic image to be displayed. A mapping processing unit maps the panoramic image to be displayed, which has been associated with markers for the other panoramic images, into a three-dimensional (3D) panoramic space as textures. A 3D image generator generates a 3D panoramic image when the 3D panoramic space is viewed in a specified line of sight, with the shooting location of the panoramic image to be displayed being set as a viewpoint position. An interface receives an instruction from a user concerning the displayed 3D panoramic image. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200666 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND 3D VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Abstract: A broadcast receiver and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a broadcast signal including system information and video data, parsing system information of a program, and determining whether the program provides a 3D broadcast service from the system information, extracting, if the program provides a 3D broadcast service, broadcast data of the program, and processing video data of broadcast data according to the system information. The broadcast receiver includes a receiving unit receiving a broadcast signal including system information and video data, an SI processor parsing system information of a program, and determining whether the program provides a 3D broadcast service from the system information, a demultiplexer extracting, if the program provides a 3D broadcast service, broadcast data of the program, and a video processor processing video data of the broadcast data according to system information. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE INTERACTIONS WITH VIRTUAL CONTENT - According to some embodiments, a graphics platform may receive a video signal, including an image of a person, from a video camera. The graphics platform may then add a virtual object to the video signal to create a viewer or broadcast signal. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200668 | VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND VIDEO REPRODUCING METHOD - A video reproducing apparatus includes: a decoding unit configured to decode the coded images for stereoscopic viewing, and output the decoded images for stereoscopic viewing and coding-related information which is used in the coding of the images for stereoscopic viewing and is related to compression distortion which occurs due to the coding; a quality determining unit configured to determine whether the decoded images for stereoscopic viewing should be output as a two-dimensional video or as a three-dimensional video, based on the coding-related information related to the compression distortion; and a screen generating unit configured to output the decoded images for stereoscopic viewing as the two-dimensional video or the three-dimensional video, according to the determination by the quality determining unit. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200669 | FILTERING AND EDGE ENCODING - Several implementations relate, for example, to depth encoding and/or filtering for 3D video (3DV) coding formats. A sparse dyadic mode for partitioning macroblocks (MBs) along edges in a depth map is provided as well as techniques for trilateral (or bilateral) filtering of depth maps that may include adaptive selection between filters sensitive to changes in video intensity and/or changes in depth. One implementation partitions a depth picture, and then refines the partitions based on a corresponding image picture. Another implementation filters a portion of a depth picture based on values for a range of pixels in the portion. For a given pixel in the portion that is being filtered, the filter weights a value of a particular pixel in the range by a weight that is based on one or more of location distance, depth difference, and image difference. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200670 | Method and apparatus for a disparity limit indicator - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a stereoscopic camera system, a user interface, and a disparity range system. The user interface includes a display screen. The user interface is configured to display on the display screen an image formed by the stereoscopic camera system. The image corresponds to a scene viewable by the stereoscopic camera system. The disparity range system is configured to detect a disparity for the scene. The disparity range system is configured to provide an indication on the display screen in response to the detected disparity. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200671 | Apparatus And Method For Three-Dimensional Image Capture With Extended Depth Of Field - An optical system for capturing three-dimensional images of a three-dimensional object is provided. The optical system includes a projector for structured illumination of the object. The projector includes a light source, a grid mask positioned between the light source and the object for structured illumination of the object, and a first Wavefront Coding (WFC) element having a phase modulating mask positioned between the grid mask and the object to receive patterned light from the light source through the grid mask. The first WFC element is constructed and arranged such that a point spread function of the projector is substantially invariant over a wider range of depth of field of the grid mask than a point spread function of the projector without the first WFC element. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200672 | 3D IMAGING DEVICE - A 3D imaging device includes: a first imaging unit having a first variable power lens and a first driving unit that drives the first variable power lens along an optical axis; a second imaging unit having a second variable power lens and a second driving unit that drives the second variable power lens along an optical axis; a storage unit that temporarily stores the first photographic image and the second photographic image; a parallax determining unit that determines a parallax in a horizontal direction between the first photographic image and the second photographic image; a parallax adjusting unit that generates a third photographic image excluding a first parallax adjusting image from the first photographic image and a fourth photographic image excluding a second parallax adjusting image from the second photographic image; and a photographic information recording unit that records information about a magnification of the first variable power lens. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200673 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - The present invention provides an imaging apparatus which generates, based on a captured image, a depth map of an object with a high degree of precision. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200674 | System and Method for Determining Whether to Operate a Robot in Conjunction with a Rotary Parlor - In certain embodiments, a system includes a three-dimensional camera and a processor communicatively coupled to the three-dimensional camera. The processor is operable to determine a first hind location of a first hind leg of a dairy livestock based at least in part on visual data captured by the three-dimensional camera and determine a second hind location of a second hind leg of the dairy livestock based at least in part on the visual data. The processor is further operable to determine a measurement, wherein the measurement is the distance between the first hind location and the second hind location. Additionally, the processor is operable to determine whether the measurement exceeds a minimum threshold. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF GENERATING IMAGE DATA HAVING PARALLAX, AND IMAGE SENSING MODULE - A method of generating image data having disparity (or parallax) using a digital image-capturing device, as well as a digital image-capturing device are disclosed. The feature is to rotate a focus lens of the digital image-capturing device at two opposite directions or to place a refractive sheet having two opposite refractive directions in front of an image sensor of the digital image-capturing device. Also disclosed are a method and a device of generating stereoscopic image using the generated image data having disparity. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200676 | Three-Dimensional Display with Motion Parallax - The subject disclosure is directed towards a hybrid stereo image/motion parallax system that uses stereo 3D vision technology for presenting different images to each eye of a viewer, in combination with motion parallax technology to adjust each image for the positions of a viewer's eyes. In this way, the viewer receives both stereo cues and parallax cues as the viewer moves while viewing a 3D scene, which tends to result in greater visual comfort/less fatigue to the viewer. Also described is the use of goggles for tracking viewer position, including training a computer vision algorithm to recognize goggles instead of only heads/eyes. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200677 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a display unit including pixels arranged in a matrix form; and an optical plate opposed to the display unit, the optical plate functioning as a plurality of optical apertures which are extended nearly in a straight line manner in a second direction and arranged in a first direction. Each of the pixels is divided into M sub-pixels respectively comprising M color components arranged in the first direction where M is an integer of at least 1, and Q/B is an integer N, M×P/A is a non-integer, and (Q/B)/(P/A) is a non-integer, where P is a period of the optical apertures in the first direction, Q is a period of the optical apertures in the second direction, A is a period of the pixels in the first direction, and B is a period of the pixels in the second direction. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200678 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus for processing image data may include a receiving unit, which may be configured to receive first image data representing at least one first image. The apparatus may also include an edge data generating unit, which may be configured to generate edge data representing unidirectional edge components of the at least one first image. Additionally, the apparatus may include a display control unit, which may be configured to generate second image data representing at least one of a left-eye image or a right-eye image, based on the first image data and the edge data. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200679 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND DISTRIBUTION METHOD - The present invention aims to provide a video processing device allowing notifications to be made to viewers of a program without annoyances being posed thereby. A video processing device comprises a receiver receiving video information including a subject program and flag information indicating whether the video information includes type-1 guide information for making a notification when the subject program is in 3D; a determiner determining, according to received flag information, whether the user is to be notified of the type-1 guide information; and an output controller outputting a program from the received video information, outputting type-2 guide information for making the notification when the subject program is in 3D and the determiner determines that the user is not to be notified of the type-1 guide information, and preventing output of the type-2 guide information when the determiner determines that the user is to be notified of the type-1 guide information. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200680 | Display device and method for providing 3D image of the display device - Provided is a display device including: a viewpoint tracker for detecting a viewpoint variation by tracking a user's viewpoint; a display for alternately displaying a right image and a left image corresponding to user's right eye and left eye; a parallax barrier consisting of sub-segments which are continuously arranged to transmit or block the images by electrical on or off and alternately turned on/off by the unit of groups to alternately form an image transmission region and an image blocking region, in order to provide a 3D image by separately transmitting the right image and the left image to the user's right eye and left eye; and a barrier controller for electrically moving the image transmission region and the image blocking region of the parallax barrier by the unit of sub-segment according to the viewpoint variation, and a method for providing a 3D image of the display device. According to the present invention, it is possible to continuously smoothly provide an autostereoscopic 3D image to a user regardless of a change of a user's viewpoint from a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a change of relative position of the mobile terminal. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200681 | THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - In a three dimensional video display device ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200682 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING A PIXEL OF A HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE IN A REMOTE SENSING APPLICATION - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for simultaneous spectral decomposition suitable for image object identification and categorization for scenes and objects under analysis. The present system captures different spectral planes simultaneously using a Fabry-Perot multi-filter grid each tuned to a specific wavelength. A method for classifying pixels in the captured image is provided. The present system and method finds its uses in a wide array of applications such as, for example, occupancy detection in a transportation management system and in medical imaging and diagnosis for healthcare management. The teachings hereof further find their uses in other applications where there is a need to capture a two dimensional view of a scene and decompose the scene into its spectral bands such that objects in the image can be appropriately identified. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200683 | SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING IMAGES - An image recording and reproducing system that records and reproduces a combined image of images input from plural input sources outputs a combined image data group including component images forming the combined image, information related to the combined image, and image layout information of the combined image, records the output combined image data group, changes reproduction image designation information including information for designating component images forming a reproduction image, information related to the reproduction image, and image layout information of the reproduction image, forms a reproduction image from the recorded combined image data group on the basis of the changed reproduction image designation information, outputs the formed reproduction image, and receives the output reproduction image and reproduces the reproduction image. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200684 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-VIVO IMAGING - An in-vivo imaging device including a camera may include a frame storage device. Systems and methods which vary the frame capture rate of the camera and/or frame display rate of the display unit of in-vivo camera systems are discussed. The capture rate is varied based on physical measurements related to the motion of the camera. Alternatively, the frame capture rate is varied based on comparative image processing of a plurality of frames. The frame display rate of the system is varied based on comparative image processing of a multiplicity of frames. Both the frame capture and the frame display rates of such systems can be varied concurrently. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200685 | ENDOSCOPE SCOPE AND WIRELESS ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope scope is provided with a generation unit that photographs a subject and generates moving image data and still image data, a reception unit that receives a transmission instruction for the still image data, a transmission unit that wirelessly transmits the still image data, the moving image data, and instruction information to instruct prohibition of wireless transmission by another wireless device, and a transmission control unit that causes the instruction information to be transmitted and then the still image data to be transmitted when receiving the transmission instruction. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200686 | INTRAORAL CAMERA WITH LIQUID LENS - An auto focus intraoral camera with liquid lens includes: a digital imaging sensor ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200687 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC IMAGE ACQUIRING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC IMAGE OBSERVATION APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS, CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A light source apparatus is designed in accordance with an object, and following elements and phosphors are disposed in a casing, a first light emitting element that emits a light in a first irradiation mode, which is selected so that a light emission band has a portion that overlaps a first-specific-band, a first phosphor selected so as to include the first-specific-band in an excitation band and include a second-specific-band in a fluorescence-emission-band, a second phosphor selected so that an excitation intensity compared with the first phosphor is low in the first-specific-band, and high in a second-fluorescence-excitation-band at a short wavelength side in a second-irradiation-band and a fluorescence-emission-band includes the second-irradiation-band other than the second-fluorescence-excitation-band, and a second light emitting element that emits a light in a second irradiation mode, which is selected so that a light emission band is included in the second-fluorescence-excitation-band. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200688 | IMAGE TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An image transmitting device includes: a transmitting unit that transmits image data by wireless communication; a measuring unit that measures information relating to a busy state of a communication channel used in the wireless communication for a time period per | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200689 | LONG DISTANCE MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for multimodal biometric identification has a first imaging system that detects one or more subjects in a first field of view, including a targeted subject having a first biometric characteristic and a second biometric characteristic; a second imaging system that captures a first image of the first biometric characteristic according to first photons, where the first biometric characteristic is positioned in a second field of view smaller than the first field of view, and the first image includes first data for biometric identification; a third imaging system that captures a second image of the second biometric characteristic according to second photons, where the second biometric characteristic is positioned in a third field of view which is smaller than the first and second fields of view, and the second image includes second data for biometric identification. At least one active illumination source emits the second photons. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200690 | OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENTS - An ophthalmic instrument for viewing an eye under examination, wherein the instrument includes image capture means ( | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200691 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A microscope apparatus and control method. An image processing unit obtains an image on a plane observation cross-section inside a sample. A drive control unit controls a galvano-scanner and a z drive unit, and inclines the entire observation cross-section in a direction where the cross-section of an observation target that appears in the image becomes long. When an edge portion of the cross-section of the observation target is detected in the observation cross-section while gradually inclining the observation cross-section, the drive control unit uses an axis passing through the edge portion as the center to incline a part of the observation cross-section located on a side, where the cross-section of the observation target does not appear, from among the sides having this axis as a boundary, in a direction where the cross-section of the observation target appears, so as to form the observation cross-section having a profile which is folded. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200692 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGING HIGH DENSITY BIOCHEMICAL ARRAYS WITH SUB-PIXEL ALIGNMENT - A method and associated system for imaging high density biochemical arrays comprises one or more imaging channels that share a common objective lens and a corresponding one or more time delay integration-type imaging cameras with optical alignment mechanisms that permit independent inter-channel and intra-channel adjustment of each of four degrees: X, Y, rotation and scale. The imaging channels are configured to independently examine different spectra of the image of the biochemical arrays. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200693 | MICROSCOPE WITH A SHEET OF LIGHT - A family of microscopes with illumination systems directing a sheet of light having an approximately planar extension in an illumination axis of an illumination beam path and in a transverse axis orthogonally oriented to the illumination axis. The microscopes have detection devices used to detect light that is emitted by a sample region. The detection devices including a detection lens system disposed in the detection beam path and an optical detection element spaced from a front lens of the detection lens system and independently adjustable thereof. The optical detection element continuously varies the size of a detection image field and/or continuously displaces a focal plane of detection in the P-region. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200694 | MULTI-MODALITY CONTRAST AND BRIGHTFIELD CONTEXT RENDERING FOR ENHANCED PATHOLOGY DETERMINATION AND MULTI-ANALYTE DETECTION IN TISSUE - Multiple modality contrast can be used to produce images that can be combined and rendered to produce images similar to those produced with wavelength absorbing stains viewed under transmitted white light illumination. Images obtained with other complementary contrast modalities can be presented using engineered color schemes based on classical contrast methods used to reveal the same anatomical structures and histochemistry, thereby providing relevance to medical training and experience. Dark-field contrast images derived from refractive index and fluorescent DAPI counterstain images are combined to produce images similar to those obtained with conventional H&E staining for pathology interpretation. Such multi-modal image data can be streamed for live navigation of histological samples, and can be combined with molecular localizations of genetic DNA probes (FISH), sites of mRNA expression (mRNA-ISH), and immunohistochemical (IHC) probes localized on the same tissue sections, used to evaluate and map tissue sections prepared for imaging mass spectrometry. | 2012-08-09 |
| 20120200695 | ELECTRODE INSPECTION APPARATUS FOR SPOT WELDING - An electrode inspection apparatus for spot welding is provided for precisely measuring diameters of a tip of an electrode without reducing availability ratio in a production line, and is particularly useful when inspecting a weld gun having electrodes with a narrow distance therebetween. | 2012-08-09 |
