34th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 31 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090208098 | TILING AND MERGING FRAMEWORK FOR SEGMENTING LARGE IMAGES - Described is a technology by which a large image is processed into a seamless, radiometric mean image containing meaningful image objects. A large source image is tiled into non-overlapping tiles, which are each segmented into regions and merged via their regions. Source image pixels are separated into tiles comprising rows and columns. Once tiled, the tiles are segmented into regions, with each region having an identifier and other associated information such as size data, boundary data and neighbor data. The tiles are merged by merging columns or rows of tiles into row blocks or column blocks, respectively. The row blocks or column blocks are vertically or horizontally merged, respectively. Merging may proceed by selecting a pair of regions based on merging cost, merging that pair, updating its associated data and data of neighbor regions based on the merge, and repeating for other pairs until merging stop criteria are met. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus enhances contrast without producing color balance distortion or color collapse by generating a gradation-scale correction table from a distribution of a characteristic quantity of an input image signal, using the gradation-scale correction table to derive a gradation correction parameter for each pixel from a maximum component value of the pixel, and multiplying all components of the pixel by the gradation correction parameter. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208100 | Website color match system - The present invention includes a colored appliance, which could be in the form of a standard color wheel in the form of a collapsible keychain or mailer. which is placed on or next to the colored item being photographed and used in a system to standardize the colors seen by a viewer. The consumer is sent a brochure with a color wheel or told to look at a standard overnight envelope like that of Fedex™ or USPS™. When looking at the digital photograph on the business's web site, the consumer would be able to instantly make adjustments to the colors on his computer monitor to see colors accurately by comparing the color wheel on the monitor to the overnight envelope's printed color or to a preferred standard color wheel. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208101 | COLOR CORRECTION COEFFICIENT GENERATOR, COLOR CORRECTION COEFFICIENT GENERATION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The color correction coefficient generator includes a first color value acquiring unit that acquires correction-intended color values in a first color space configured of color components including a particular color component; a second color value acquiring unit that acquires correction color values being color values in a second color space configured of color components including the particular color component, and the correction color values being color values used to correct the correction-intended color values; a weight coefficient acquiring unit that acquires weight coefficients for the correction-intended color values; and a generating unit that generates a color correction coefficient on the basis of the correction color values for correcting the correction-intended color values having the particular color component at a density of a particular density value and on the basis of the weight coefficients for the correction-intended color values, the color correction coefficient used to correct the particular density value. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208102 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: a motion vector measurement region setting unit for setting a plurality of motion vector measurement regions; a motion vector calculation unit for calculating motion vectors; a motion vector reliability calculation unit for calculating a reliability of the respective motion vectors; a main region setting unit for setting a main region; and a motion vector integration processing unit for calculating an inter-image correction vector by integrating the motion vectors of the plurality of motion vector measurement regions, taking into account the reliability. The motion vector integration processing unit includes a contribution calculation unit for calculating a contribution of the respective motion vectors from a positional relationship between the respective motion vector measurement regions and the main region, and integrates the motion vectors in accordance with the reliability and the contribution. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208103 | Control of optical character recognition (OCR) processes to generate user controllable final output documents - An optical character recognition (OCR) system that includes a user-input function for receiving a user input sample for executing said OCR system for optically recognizing a document to generate an output file using the user input sample as a reference. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208104 | Method for Single Pass Blob Image Analysis - A method and electronics circuit for processing very high resolution images or very high frame rate images in real time. Each pixel within a frame of pixels is compared to the neighboring pixels within the frame to determine if the pixel is part of a blob group. If the pixel is part of the blob group, the characteristics of the pixel are added to the statistics for the blob group. When a pixel overlaps two target blob groups, the two blob groups are combined to form one blob group. When the end of the frame is reached information about the blob groups in the frame is made available. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208105 | METHOD, AN APPARATUS, A SYSTEM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR TRANSFERRING SCAN GEOMETRY BETWEEN SUBSEQUENT SCANS - The invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a computer program for transferring scan geometry between a first region and a second region, similar to the first region. In the method according to the invention the first region and the second region are being identified ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090208106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEMANTICALLY CLASSIFYING SHOTS IN VIDEO - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for classifying videos based on video content. For a given video file including a plurality of frames, a subset of frames is extracted for processing. Frames that are too dark, blurry, or otherwise poor classification candidates are discarded from the subset. Generally, material classification scores that describe type of material content likely included in each frame are calculated for the remaining frames in the subset. The material classification scores are used to generate material arrangement vectors that represent the spatial arrangement of material content in each frame. The material arrangement vectors are subsequently classified to generate a scene classification score vector for each frame. The scene classification results are averaged (or otherwise processed) across all frames in the subset to associate the video file with one or more predefined scene categories related to overall types of scene content of the video file. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208107 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD - A character recognition apparatus includes a division mechanism for dividing a diagram into a plurality of parts, a candidate character string acquisition mechanism for combining the plurality of parts of the diagram, and a character string selection mechanism for selecting one character string. The candidate character string acquisition mechanism includes at least one of first mechanism for duplicating a character line that touches adjacent characters and then including a duplicated character line as an element of a candidate character string, and second mechanism for including a candidate character string in which the touching character line between the adjacent characters has been removed, and a candidate character string in which the touching character line is contained, in the plurality of candidate character strings. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208108 | NORMAL LINE INFORMATION ESTIMATION DEVICE, REGISTERED IMAGE GROUP FORMATION DEVICE AND IMAGE COLLATION DEVICE, AND NORMAL LINE INFORMATION ESTIMATION METHOD - A normal line information estimation device for estimating normal line information of an object from an image of the object. The normal line information estimation device includes an illumination direction estimation section for estimating an illumination direction with respect to the object in the image from a luminance value of the image; a normal line information estimation section for estimating the normal line information of the object in the image based on the illumination direction; and a specular reflection component estimation section for estimating a specular reflection component of the image from the normal line information of the object and the illumination direction with respect to the object. The normal line information estimation section estimates the normal line information again from the image from which a specular reflection component has been removed in the specular reflection component section. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208109 | Object Recognition Apparatus - An object recognition apparatus that is capable of consistently recognizing the shape of an object in the periphery of a moving body using a small amount of computation even when data for an extraneous object are introduced, and of calculating the positional relationship of both objects and satisfactorily reporting the positional relationship. The object recognition apparatus for recognizing an object in the periphery of a moving object is configured as described below. The object recognition apparatus comprises object detection means ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090208110 | FACTORING REPEATED CONTENT WITHIN AND AMONG IMAGES - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that factor large-scale repeated content within and/or among images. The system can include devices and components that factor received or acquired images into epitomes that include all the content of the received or acquired images and transform maps that encode how to construct a facsimile or a close approximation of the image by selecting transformed regions from the epitomes. Though use of both the epitomes and the transform maps in conjunction, a facsimile or a close approximation of the input image can be reconstructed and displayed. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208111 | Event structure system and controlling method and medium for the same - Disclosed are an event structure system and a method and medium for controlling the event structure system. The method includes recognizing multiple-person interaction primitives, composing an event by inference based on temporal relations using the multiple-person interaction primitive, and determining a final event by either eliminating an unnecessary event from the composed event, or adding a new event in the composed event. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208112 | PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WHICH STORES PATTERN RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A pattern recognition method is applied to processing of causing an information processing apparatus to recognize a pattern in a plurality of steps. The information processing apparatus detects recognition candidates which can be recognition candidates of each step. The information processing apparatus expands the recognition candidates of the next step belonging to each detected recognition candidate of each step. The information processing apparatus calculates the evaluation value of each expanded recognition candidate based on an a posteriori probability on condition of all recognition processing results for a recognition candidate which has undergone recognition processing. The information processing apparatus selects recognition candidates based on the calculated evaluation value of each recognition candidate. The information processing apparatus determines a recognition result based on the selected recognition candidates. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208113 | AUTOMATED SHOE FITTING USING SHOE AND ADAPTER SYSTEM - A method for shoe fitting includes identifying outer foot outlines defining outer boundaries of feet of a user, and inner foot outlines defining weight-bearing areas of the feet in a computer-readable image of the feet. Weighted foot outlines are calculated based on the outer and inner foot outlines. A plurality of unfilled shoes are defined by a common shoe last having a last bottom outline, and sets of different left and right interchangeable insole adapters for insertion into the unfilled shoes are provided. The adapters match the last bottom outline and have respective adapter outlines. The weighted foot outlines are compared with the adapter outlines, to determine an optimal shoe size of a pair of shoes out of the plurality of the unfilled shoes, and to select left and right insole adapters from the sets of the interchangeable insole adapters whose adapter outlines best match the weighted foot outlines. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208114 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus that selects at least one photo image out of a plurality of photo images. A face area determining unit detects whether or not there is a face in each photo image and determines a face area of the face, if any, detected in each photo image. An image evaluation processing unit calculates a first edge amount pertaining to the face area detected in each photo image. An image selecting unit selects a photo image from among the plurality of photo images on the basis of the first edge amount of each photo image. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208115 | Image Combining Method, Image Combining Program, Image Combining Apparatus, Template Extraction Method and Template Extraction Program - An image combining method for executing a template matching process to specify matching positions in a plurality of images with image patterns therein substantially matching one another and combining the plurality of images so that the matching positions are aligned with one another includes extraction processing through which a plurality of areas (a plurality of templates) to be used as templates in the template matching process are extracted from a reference image. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF IMAGES WITH RECOGNITION ANALYSIS - An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its location on a network, and at least one of (i) a second information item identifying a signature value of an object in the image content, or (ii) identification of a recognized object in the image content. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208117 | FAST BLOCK MATCHING IN DIGITAL IMAGES - A technique is described which reduces the computational load associated with block matching for pattern recognition between images by intelligent selection and updating of rejection criteria. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208118 | CONTEXT DEPENDENT INTELLIGENT THUMBNAIL IMAGES - An apparatus and method are disclosed for context dependent cropping of a source image. The method includes identifying a context for the source image, identifying a visual class corresponding to the identified context from a set of visual classes, applying a class model to the source image to identify a candidate region of the image based on its relevance to the visual class, and identifying a subpart of the source image for cropping, based on the location of the candidate region. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208119 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING IMAGE FILES FOR SLIDESHOWS - A system for generating and playing image files for slideshows is provided. The system includes an image file generator that generates image files. Each image file has an image track including at least two images for slideshow images and information for the slideshow images enabling at least two images to be sequentially displayed at specified time intervals. The system also includes an image file player that extracts the information for the slideshow images from the image files inputted from the image file generator, and provides the at least two images of the image track for a slideshow service. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208120 | ZERO-SEARCH, ZERO-MEMORY VECTOR QUANTIZATION - The invention comprises a method for lossy data compression, akin to vector quantization, in which there is no explicit codebook and no search, i.e. the codebook memory and associated search computation are eliminated. Some memory and computation are still required, but these are dramatically reduced, compared to systems that do not exploit this method. For this reason, both the memory and computation requirements of the method are exponentially smaller than comparable methods that do not exploit the invention. Because there is no explicit codebook to be stored or searched, no such codebook need be generated either. This makes the method well suited to adaptive coding schemes, where the compression system adapts to the statistics of the data presented for processing: both the complexity of the algorithm executed for adaptation, and the amount of data transmitted to synchronize the sender and receiver, are exponentially smaller than comparable existing methods. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208121 | INFORMATION TRANSFER APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECEIVING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information transfer apparatus includes a first image holding unit configured to hold image information of a first region updated in a display screen, a data compressing unit configured to perform compression processing of the image information of the first region outputted from an image acquiring unit, a second image holding unit configured to hold the image information of the first region compressed by the data compressing unit, a region determining unit configured to determine a second region to be a transfer object of a compression error caused by the data compressing unit among the first region, based on output of the image acquiring unit, a data expanding unit configured to extract and expand image information of the second region of the image information held by the second image holding unit, an error calculating unit configured to generate error image information including a compression error based on the image information of the second region in the image information held by the first data holding unit and the image information expanded by the data expanding unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208122 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - In an image coding apparatus | 2009-08-20 |
20090208123 | ENHANCED VIDEO PROCESSING USING MOTION VECTOR DATA - A device and method for interpolation during frame rate conversion are disclosed. The method includes, receiving original frames F | 2009-08-20 |
20090208124 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which performs processing on an input moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every first period, includes a motion vector calculation unit which calculates a motion vector of an object included in the input moving image every second period, a motion vector conversion unit which, converts the motion vector by multiplying the calculated motion vector by a predetermined gain, a frame compensation unit which generates an output moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every third period by performing frame compensation processing of converting or compensating for the access units on the input moving image so that the object moves in accordance with the motion vector which has been subjected to the conversion, and a gain calculation unit which calculates the gain in accordance with brightness in a user environment and supplies the obtained gain to the motion vector conversion unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208125 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention provides an apparatus which re-encodes encoded image data to generate encoded data at a higher compression ratio while suppressing any increase in the load of re-encoding. A decoder decodes each block stored in a storage, stores the decoding result in a buffer, and stores, in a holding unit, block information representing the location of the encoded data of each block in the storage. A discrimination unit discriminates a text area in the decoded image data. The image in the text area undergoes binarization and then character image data encoding. A fill-up unit replaces the value of a character/line art pixel in the text area with the average of non-character/line art pixel values. A re-encoder encodes the blocks after replacement. Inside the text area, a selector selects and outputs encoded data generated by the re-encoder. Outside the text area, the selector selects and outputs encoded data in the storage. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208126 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The invention provides an image encoding apparatus which can improve image quality of an output image while further reduce the amount of attribute. A determination unit determines an area including a character/line drawing as a foreground image area based on an input multi-valued image. A foreground image generator generates foreground image in binary representation so that a first encoder performs MMR encoding on the foreground image. A background image generator generates multi-valued background image data by replacing the value of a multi-valued pixel in a position of the character/line drawing in the foreground image area with a replacement value calculated from the pixel values in a position of the non-character/line drawing pixel. A second encoder performs JPEG encoding on the background image. A mask unit masks attribute for pixels within the foreground image area with a predetermined value to output the masked data to a third encoder. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208127 | SPATIAL SCAN REPLICATION CIRCUIT - In an image replication circuit, the improvement of replicating a given element at a certain location with the most similar of surrounding sets of image elements. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208128 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM CARRYING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method includes the steps of extracting edges from each of a plurality of original images, thereby obtaining edge images; extracting straight lines from the edge images, thereby obtaining line images; assuming extensions of the straight lines constituting the line images and setting vanishing points on the basis of the extensions; and trimming the plurality of original images so that positions of the vanishing points in the respective original images mutually match, thereby obtaining final images. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208129 | Image Generating Apparatus and Method - There are provided an image generating apparatus and an image generating method, which are capable of generating an image with only a noise portion reliably deleted. A reduced image is generated by reducing the multi-valued image, smoothing processing is executed on the reduced image, an edge image is generated from the reduced image, edge angle information concerning edge angles is generated in pixel units from the edge image, a synthesizing rate of the multi-valued image and the smoothed reduced image is calculated in pixel units of the reduced image based upon the edge angle information. An enlarged image is generated by enlarging the smoothed reduced image to an identical scale, the synthesizing rate calculated in pixel units of the reduced image is converted into a synthesizing rate in pixel units of the enlarged image, and the multi-valued image and the enlarged image are synthesized based upon the converted synthesizing rate. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208130 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus specifies an evaluation-target area that tends to produce distortion in an object contained in an image, and calculates amount of distortion produced in vectorization of the object by comparing the shape of the object and the shape of a vectorized object obtained by vectorizing the object in the specified evaluation-target area. The apparatus further revises the shape of the vectorized object in the evaluation-target area so as to approach the shape of the object when the amount of distortion is larger than a predetermined reference value. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208131 | Method and Device for Watermarking on Stream - The invention relates in particular to a stream-wise method of watermarking independent of the compression parameters used (for example type of the transform) so as to allow the reading of the watermarking inserted independently of the format of the data received. The watermarking method according to the invention consists in generating a contribution matrix in the transformation space, in projecting it into another domain and in watermarking the data in this domain on the basis of the projected matrix so as to allow a watermark reader operating in the transformed transformation space to read back the inserted watermarking in the transformation space. The contribution matrix representing the modifications induced on the coefficients in the transformation space by insertion of the watermarking cue in this same domain. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208132 | Image Binarizing Method, Image Processing Device, and Computer Program - A binarizing method for binarizing an original image of an electrode pad on a substrate. The method includes the steps of processing an electrode image to generate a binary image of the electrode by binarzing the original image with a first threshold value, calculating a contact trace area to calculate the contact trace area including a portion that is predicted to be a trace of an object that contacted the electrode from the binary image of the electrode, processing a contact trace image to generate the contact trace area binary image by binarizing the original image of the area extracted by the contact trace area extracting unit with a second threshold value different from the first threshold value, and synthesizing the images to synthesize the binary image of the electrode and the contact trace area binary image by taking a logical sum on a corresponding pixel to pixel basis. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208133 | IMAGE DISPLACEMENT DETECTION METHOD - The present invention provides an image displacement detection method, which employs the center of a 1 | 2009-08-20 |
20090208134 | Image Processing and Analysis Framework - A system and method for processing and analyzing virtual microscopy digital images (“digital slides”) is provided. The system comprises an algorithm server that maintains or has access to a plurality of image processing and analysis routines. The algorithm server additionally has access to a plurality of digital slides. The algorithm server executes a selected routine on an identified digital slide and provides the resulting data. The digital slide can be accessed locally or remotely across a network. Similarly, the image processing routines can be obtained from local storage or across a network, or both. Advantageously, certain common sub-routines may be stored locally for inclusion in other local or remotely obtained routines. Access to image processing and analysis may be restricted through a monitor process that authenticates requests to process or view digital slides. Variations in restrictions to images provide a rich diversity in access levels that allow sharing of digital slides and demonstrations of image processing algorithms. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208135 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A composite image is generated by a method including: detecting at least one in a captured image; judging arrangement of the at least one subject by an arithmetic operation; selecting at least one composition-purpose image at random in accordance with the arrangement of the at least one subject; determining arrangement of the selected at least one composition-purpose image at random so that the at least one composition-purpose image does not overlap with one another and does not overlap with the detected at least one subject; and generating a composite image by combining the captured image with the at least one composition-purpose image. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208136 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus - A distortion of image data is corrected by performing a coordinate transformation of the image data by using | 2009-08-20 |
20090208137 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that generates interpolation image signals based on a motion vector between continuously input time-series image signals and increases time resolution. The image processing apparatus includes a feature variation detecting unit that detects a predetermined feature variation between the time-series image signals; a generation time setting unit that sets a generation time of the interpolation image signals; and an interpolation image signal generating unit that generates the interpolation image signals at the generation time set by the generation time setting unit. In addition, when the generation time setting unit sets the generation time after the feature variation of the time-series image signals has been detected by the feature variation detecting unit, the generation time setting unit sets the generation time to approximate an approximation time of any one of the time-series image signals whose times are arranged before and after the generation time. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208138 | Image imaging Apparatus, Image Managing Method, and Computer Readable Recording Medium - An image managing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores image data, a receive unit that receives an image transmission request, and a controller. Herein, the controller adds security information to the image data and transmits the image data from the storage unit to an external apparatus in response to the image transmission request. Moreover, the controller determines whether to add the security information to the image data on the basis of a value of a security addition flag for the box in which the image data is stored or a value of a security addition flag for the image data. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208139 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREFOR - There are provided a data processing apparatus which makes an I/F for data processing modules (processors) versatile to facilitate addition/modification on a data processing module basis in accordance with processing contents, an image processing apparatus, and a method for the apparatuses. A data processing module ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090208140 | Automatic Video Quality Measurement System and Method Based on Spatial-Temporal Coherence Metrics - An automatic video quality (AVQ) metric system for evaluating the quality of processed video and deriving an estimate of a subjectively determined function called Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). The AVQ system has a blockiness metric, a streakiness metric, and a blurriness metric. The blockiness metric can be used to measure compression artifacts in processed video. The streakiness metric can be used to measure network artifacts in the processed video. The blurriness metric can measure the degradation (i.e., blurriness) of the images in the processed video to detect compression artifacts. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208141 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processor comprising a control unit, wherein the control unit includes an obtaining unit that obtains image data generated as a result of reading a document by a reader in which a predetermined document reading condition is set; a selecting unit that allows a user to select an intended use of the image data obtained by the obtaining unit out of a plurality of the intended uses set in advance; a processing unit that processes the image data obtained by the obtaining unit according to an image processing condition suitable for the intended use selected by the selecting unit; and a transferring unit that transfers the image data after being processed by the processing unit to an application suitable for the intended use selected by the selecting unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208142 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT AWARE DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND MODIFICATION - Systems, methods and consumer-readable media for providing content-aware document analysis and modification are provided. A system for analyzing document content according to the invention may include a rules server that stores a set of expressions. Such expressions may define predetermined confidential information and/or patterns of confidential expressions. The system may further include a communication plugin that provides a platform for incorporating the set of confidential expression patterns as part of a document-producing application. Following incorporation of the communication plugin, an inline document monitor module according to the invention may form part of the document-producing application. The inline document monitor may monitor for the occurrence of at least one of the set of confidential expression patterns in a document. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208143 | EFFICIENT AUTOMATED UROTHELIAL IMAGING USING AN ENDOSCOPE WITH TIP BENDING - A scanning fiber endoscope (SFE) disposed at the distal end of a flexible, small diameter imaging probe is inserted through a relatively small opening and into a larger volume, such as the bladder. Actuators disposed adjacent to the distal end of the imaging probe are selectively activated to bend the distal end of the imaging probe to assist in positioning and orienting the SFE at a plurality of points selected to image substantially all of at least a desired portion of the interior surface of the volume. The insertion depth, bending arc, and rotational position of the imaging probe can be manually and/or automatically controlled. The user can inspect the images to determine if a desired portion of the surface has been imaged and can thus ensure that a tumor or other characteristic of the surface is not overlooked due to a failure to image it. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208144 | User control of computer peripheral apparatuses to perform tasks according to user input image file - A computer peripheral apparatus (CPA) provided for connecting to a computer. The CPA includes a CPA processor to execute a CPA program to independently and directly carry out a document processing function without receiving an instruction from a computer. In an exemplary embodiment, the CPA includes a scanner for scanning a document and the CPA processor executes a optical character recognition (OCR) program to directly recognize characters included in the document scanned by the scanner. In another exemplary embodiment, the characters recognized by the OCR program further include instructions for instructing the CPA processor to execute a subsequent program to process the document scanned by the scanner. In another exemplary embodiment, the characters recognized by the OCR program further includes instructions for instructing the CPA processor to send a facsimile of the document scanned by the scanner to a facsimile destination. In another exemplary embodiment, the characters recognized by the OCR program further includes instructions for instructing the CPA processor to save the document recognized by the OCR program as a text file in a data storage as part of the CPA processor. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208145 | LOCKING BAG WITH LOCKING HANDLE - A bag comprising a lockable pouch and a lockable handle is disclosed. The bag comprises a locking mechanism that secures the contents of the bag by securing a sliding fastener in place. In one embodiment, the handle and sliding fastener are both secured via a common key-operated mechanism. A handle that is removal at one end allows the handle to be placed around a stationary object as to secure the bag to that object while unattended. A single control is provided conveniently to release both the sliding fastener and the handle. The handle is comprised of a flexible yet strong material, such as a metal cable. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208146 | Impermeable Bag - Disclosed is an impermeable bag for holding articles. The impermeable bag includes a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a flexible interlocking member and a flexible interposing member. The first sidewall includes a first inner surface and a first outer surface. The second sidewall includes a second inner surface and a second outer surface. The first inner surface and the second inner surface are attached to form a receptacle with an opening to hold the articles therein. The flexible interlocking member is disposed on the first inner surface proximate to the opening. The flexible interposing member is disposed on the second inner surface proximate to the opening. A pressure is applied on the first outer surface and the second outer surface to insert the flexible interposing member into the flexible interlocking member for sealing the opening. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208147 | MULTI-COMPARTMENT FLEXIBLE PACKAGE - A flexible package having multiple compartments is described and depicted. The package can include an internal compartment panel to define first and second package cavities or compartments. Two adjacent but opposing access openings can be provided proximate a top portion of the package to define separate access into the distinct compartments, without a need to open or remove the top or handle portion of the package. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208148 | PORTABLE MAGNETIC POCKET - A portable bag having a first layer of fabric and a second layer of fabric that are attached at outer edges to form a first hollow chamber. The layers of fabric are folded to form a first pocket and a second pocket. The first pocket is folded to form a flap. Magnets are inserted within the first pocket and the flap such that the magnets align when the flap is folded over the first pocket. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208149 | Washable and Reusable Wastebasket Liner Made of Cloth - A wastebasket liner constructed of a cloth material which is washable and reusable. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208150 | SLIDE GUIDE APPARATUS OF PRESS MACHINE - A slide guide apparatus of a press machine, which guides reciprocating motion of a slide of the press machine by a sliding surface provided between a guide member and the slide, wherein a slide member that is rotatable about a predetermined rotation center axis and a slide member holder that rotatably holds the slide member and is rotatable about a rotation center axis transverse to the predetermined rotation center axis are provided between the guide member and the slide, and a flat portion of the slide member is adapted to function as the sliding surface. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208151 | BEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATION - A bearing system includes a first bearing ring, a second bearing ring spaced radially outwards from the first bearing ring, and a bearing cage between the first bearing ring and the second bearing ring. The bearing cage includes a circumferential outer side, a circumferential inner side, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced retainer portions between an axially forward end and an axially trailing end. Roller elements are located in the plurality of retainer portions of the bearing cage. At least one fluid nozzle is axially spaced from the bearing cage for dispensing a fluid to the roller elements. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208152 | Tapered roller bearing apparatus - A tapered roller bearing for a pinion shaft according to the invention includes an inner ring that has an outer circumferential surface on which an inner ring raceway surface is formed and that is integrally fixed to a one-end-side of the pinion shaft, an outer ring that has an inner circumferential surface on which an outer ring raceway surface is formed and that is fixed to a housing, and a plurality of tapered rollers rollably interposed between both of the raceway surfaces. An annular oil reservoir groove for storing lubricating oil is formed in a distal end portion at the one-end-side in an axial direction of the inner circumferential surface by being recessed thereinto adjacent to the outer ring raceway surface. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208153 | HOUSING FOR FLUID LUBRICATION BEARING APPARATUSES, A HOUSING FOR HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING APPARATUSES, AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A fluid lubrication bearing apparatus which can stably produce high bearing performance is provided at low costs. Moreover, a method for producing a housing for hydrodynamic bearing apparatuses which can improve the accuracy of form of the housing of this type at low costs is provided. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208154 | PLAIN BEARING BUSH, USE OF THE SAME, AND PRODUCTION THEREOF - A plain bearing bush includes at least one abutment disk. The plain bearing bush and the abutment disk respectively comprising a steel back and at least one sliding layer. The abutment disk is embodied as a single component or multiple components and is fixed to the front side of the plain bearing bush by means of laser welding. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208155 | Swingarm bushing stabilizer for harley-davidson - A motorcycle stabilization system comprising at least two pairs of cylindrical bushing members comprising of a rigid polymer which is inserted into opposite sides of the swing arm of a motorcycle; each pair having a first member being cylindrical in profile, a beveled nose section and an axial bore that is inserted via the beveled nose section into the swing arm; and a second cylindrical member being inserted behind the first member, including a rear radial ring which aligns with the rubber mount on the swing arm. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208156 | BEARING STRUCTURE - A bearing structure includes a housing having a bore that penetrates the housing, a rotation shaft inserted into the bore, an annular first metal bearing and an annular second metal bearing, which are provided apart from each other in an axial direction in the bore and rotatably support the rotation shaft, and a ventilation passage provided in the housing. The ventilation passage is formed on the housing-side contact surfaces which are formed on an inner surface of the housing, and bypasses at least one of the first metal bearing and the second metal bearing. Through ventilation passage, a closed area sandwiched between the both first metal bearing and second metal bearing inside the bore communicates with an outside area. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208157 | Grease for hub bearing and hub bearing - The present invention provides a hub bearing, made of carbon steel for machine structural use, which has a long life even in a strict lubricating condition by improving the resistance to peeling starting from the surface. A grease for the hub bearing contains a base oil and a thickener, and in the base oil, the number of naphthenic carbons found by an n-d-M ring analyzing method accounts for 32 to 37% of a whole number of carbon atoms in the base oil. The base oil is a mineral oil or a mixed oil of a mineral oil and a synthetic hydrocarbon oil. The thickener is a urea compound shown by the following formula (1) and is contained at 1 to 40 mass % for the entire grease. The grease for the hub bearing is enclosed in the hub bearing. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208158 | ROLLER BEARING WITH DIFFERENTIAL RIGIDITY IN THE INSTRUMENTED AREAS IN DEFORMATION - A roller bearing includes a stationary member, a rotary member and at least one row of rolling bodies arranged between the members so as to enable their relative rotation. The stationary member includes a circumferential surface that is resiliently deformable by the forces induced by the passage of the rolling bodies when the rotary member rotates. The surface has at least one instrumented area on which at least one gauge for measuring the deformations is attached. The instrumented area is circumferentially surrounded on each side by a non-instrumented area, and the rigidity of the instrumented area is strictly greater than the rigidity of the non-instrumented areas. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208159 | Wheel Bearing Device for Motor Vehicles - A wheel bearing device for a motor vehicle is proposed, with an inner ring arrangement, formed for rotationally fixed reception of a first rotary partner, particularly an axial stump or a shaft, an outer ring arrangement, which is connected and/or connectable and rotationally fixed with a second rotary partner, a multitude of rolling elements, which roll off between the inner ring arrangement and the outer ring arrangement, so that inner ring arrangement and outer ring arrangement and/or the rotary partners are rotatable against each other, and an electric sensor device, which, using mechanical contact, is arranged and/or formed for detecting an operating status of the wheel bearing device, in which the sensor device has a stationary sensor element and a rotating sensor element, which can work together to form the mechanical contact, one of the sensor elements is connected with the inner ring arrangement without the interposition of the first rotary partner. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208160 | BEARING ASSEMBLY - A bearing assembly for radial and axial support of a shaft part relative to a housing includes two radial antifriction bearings located at an axial distance to one another on the shaft part and two axial antifriction bearings located at an axial distance to one another on the shaft part. To create better support, the bearing assembly has an outer bearing ring which is inserted into a hole of the housing and which, made as a one-piece component, has tracks for the two radial antifriction bearings and for the two axial antifriction bearings. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208161 | CAGE SEGMENT FOR THE CAGE OF A ROLLER BEARING - The invention relates to a cage segment for the cage of a roller bearing, having at least two peripheral sections extending in the peripheral direction and at least two connecting sections. The peripheral sections and the connecting sections form at least one pocket for receiving a rolling body. The cage segment has a coupling unit which connects the front of the cage segment to another cage segment. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208162 | UNIT-CELL ARRAY OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR - This invention provides a versatile unit cell as well as programmable and reconfigurable optical signal processors (such as optical-domain RF filters) that are constructed from arrays of those unit cells interconnected by optical waveguides. Each unit cell comprises an optical microdisk, an optical phase shifter, and at least one input/output optical waveguide, wherein the microdisk and the phase shifter are both optically connected to a common waveguide. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208163 | HIGH-SENSITIVITY FIBER-COMPATIBLE OPTICAL ACOUSTIC SENSOR - An acoustic sensor includes at least one photonic crystal structure having at least one optical resonance with a resonance frequency and a resonance lineshape. The acoustic sensor further includes a housing mechanically coupled to the at least one photonic crystal structure. At least one of the resonance frequency and the resonance lineshape is responsive to acoustic waves incident upon the housing. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208164 | Printed circuit board and manufacturing method thereof - A printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the printed circuit board are disclosed. The printed circuit board can include: an optical waveguide, in one side of which a circuit pattern and a pad are buried; an insulation layer stacked over one side of the optical waveguide; a first insulating material stacked over the insulation layer; a first electrical wiring layer stacked over the first insulating material; a second insulating material stacked over the other side of the optical waveguide; a second electrical wiring layer stacked over the second insulating material; and a via penetrating the optical waveguide. Certain embodiments of the invention enable the efficient transmission of optical and electrical signals, reduce loss in the optical signals transferred to the photoelectric converters, and allow more efficient designs for the wiring in the board. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208165 | WAVEGUIDE TYPE OPTICAL ISOLATOR AND MAGNET HOLDER USED IN WAVEGUIDE TYPE OPTICAL ISOLATOR - A waveguide type optical isolator comprises a substrate, a waveguiding layer provided with waveguides, a magnetic garnet, magnetic field applying means, and a package substrate, wherein a first magnet and a second magnet is provided as the magnetic field applying means, and the first magnet and the second magnet are housed and fixed within a magnet holder. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208166 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PERIODIC STRUCTURE INCLUDING ANTI-REFLECTION STRUCTURE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - The three-dimensional structure includes a first waveguide (line defect) in a three-dimensional photonic crystal formed by periodically arranging first and second media, which causes light to propagate therein in a first guide mode, a second waveguide (line defect) in the three-dimensional photonic crystal, which causes light to propagate therein in a second guide mode, reflective portions provided in the first and second waveguides to reflect parts of the lights propagating in the first and second waveguides, and
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20090208167 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTO-ELECTRIC HYBRID BOARD AND OPTO-ELECTRIC HYBRID BOARD OBTAINED THEREBY - A method of manufacturing an opto-electric hybrid board capable of optically coupling light-emitting and light-receiving elements mounted on an electrical wiring board and an optical waveguide provided in an optical wiring board to each other easily with high accuracy. An opto-electric hybrid board obtained thereby. Guide pins have end portions fitted in alignment openings of an electrical wiring board and end portions fitted in alignment openings of an optical wiring board to accomplish alignment therebetween. The electrical wiring board is configured such that a conductor layer having pads for mounting light-emitting and light-receiving elements thereon and interconnect lines is formed on a metal substrate, and the alignment openings are formed in the metal substrate. The optical wiring board is configured such that an optical waveguide is formed on a metal substrate, and optical coupling openings for the optical waveguide and the alignment openings are formed in the metal substrate. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208168 | CONNECTOR, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE AND OPTICAL-ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE - A connector, including: a receptacle including a projecting terminal electrically connected to an external terminal; and a plug including a contact point with an elastic section to elastically deform when the projecting terminal is inserted therein to be electrically connected to the projecting terminal by resilience. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208169 | OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICE WITH RECONFIGURABLE CHANNEL SPACING - An optical switching device includes an array of liquid crystal macropixels, wherein each macropixel includes at least two liquid crystal subpixels. The subpixels may be controlled together to act as a single polarizing pixel, or independently to act as multiple polarizing pixels. When the switching device processes a WDM having a wide channel spacing, the subpixels are controlled together, and when the switching device processes a WDM having a narrow channel spacing, each subpixel is controlled independently. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208170 | OPTICAL BEAM FLATTENING USING MULTI-MODE FIBER - The present invention includes a device and method to create a light beam having substantially uniform far-field intensity. Light from a laser source is directed to at least one multimode optical fiber configured produce an intensity profile approximated by a Bessel function. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208171 | Waveguide For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording - An apparatus includes a slider mounted on an arm, a first waveguide including a first core guiding layer, a second waveguide mounted on the slider and including a second core guiding layer having a thickness smaller than the thickness of the first core guiding layer, and a coupler for coupling light from the first core guiding layer to the second core guiding layer. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208172 | BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE - An optical communication module includes a base substrate; a wavelength branching filter arranged on the base substrate, in which a light is allowed to go through or be reflected according to a wavelength thereof; a photodetector arranged on the base substrate to receive a light passed through the wavelength branching filter and to convert the light into an electric signal; and a light emitting device arranged on the base substrate to provide a transmission light. The transmission light is outputted through the wavelength branching filter. The optical detector comprises a light receiving portion which is formed to have a first length and a second length, which is shorter than the first length. The first length of the light receiving portion is perpendicular to an optical axis of an input light on a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate, and a second length of the light receiving portion is parallel to the optical axis of the input light. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208173 | FIBER CABLE TERMINATOR - A fiber cable assembly includes a cable formed from a bundle of fiber optic strands, a buffer encasing the bundle, and a terminator clamp coupled to an end of the cable over the buffer. The terminator clamp includes a first clamp portion and a second clamp portion. The first and second clamp portions each have an engaging surface for engaging the other of the first clamp portion and the second clamp portion. A channel is formed between the first clamp portion and the second clamp portion for receiving an end of the cable. The channel has a cross-sectional area that is less than a cross-sectional area of the cable. The end of the cable can be inserted into the first clamp portion and the second clamp portion can be secured to the first clamp portion to secure the clamp terminator to the cable. The cable is compressed within the channel to a reduced cross-sectional area. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208174 | Apparatus for positioning optical fibers - An apparatus for splicing optical fibers is arranged on a supporting plate in the form of a printed circuit board. The apparatus comprises a first optical fiber guide, which is arranged on a spring plate to displace a first optical fiber in the longitudinal direction, and a second optical fiber guide, which is arranged on a further spring plate to displace a second optical fiber in the longitudinal direction. The spring plates are arranged on a respectively bendable lever arm. The optical fibers which have been inserted in the optical fiber guides can be displaced in a lateral direction by bending the lever arms. The precision required for alignment of the optical fibers can be provided by stepping down the forces acting on the bending apparatuses. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208175 | HOLLOW FIBER AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME - A hollow fiber has a hollow tube, a reflecting film formed on an inner wall of the hollow tube, and the reflecting film is a first metal film formed by baking a first metal nano particle solution including a first metal nano particle. The hollow fiber may have a transparent film on the first metal film. The transparent film is formed by baking or chemically reacting from a second metal nano particle included in a second metal nano particle solution. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208176 | EXTENDED TRIANGULAR LATTICE TYPE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER - An extended triangular lattice type photonic bandgap fiber, includes a cladding and a capillary core, the cladding having a plurality of holes disposed within a silica glass portion in a longitudinal direction of the fiber and arranged in an extended triangular lattice shape, the capillary core having a plurality of holes arranged in a triangular lattice shape, wherein the cross-sectional area of the respective holes in the capillary core is smaller than that of the respective holes in the cladding. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208177 | DROP TERMINAL WITH OPTICAL SPLITTER - A fiber optic network includes a main cable with a breakout location. A tether optically connected to the main cable at the breakout location where the tether includes a single fiber connector. The single fiber connector optically coupled to an input on an input end of an optical splitter which is disposed in an interior cavity of a fiber drop terminal. Each of a plurality of outputs disposed on an output end of the optical splitter is optically coupled to an input of a distinct splitter disposed in an inner cavity of a distinct drop terminal. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208178 | MODULAR OPTICAL WALL BOX ENCLOSURE - A modular fiber optic enclosure for enclosing optical fiber connections that includes a base housing module with a plurality of sides having a front end portion and a back end portion and a base disposed at the back end portion, wherein the base and the sides define an interior region. The modular fiber optic enclosure also includes a termination module that is pivotally engaged to the front end portion of one of the sides of the base housing module and selectively moveable between an open position and a closed position. The modular fiber optic enclosure further includes a cover that is pivotally engaged with the termination module and selectively moveable between an open position and a closed position. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208179 | Analog video signal generation circuit, analog composite video signal generation method, analog signal synthesizing circuit, analog signal synthesizing method, semiconductor integrated circuit, and video equipment - In an analog video signal generation circuit, an inverting output terminal NDAOUT | 2009-08-20 |
20090208180 | CONTROLLED METADATA REVELATION - A method of controlling revelation of one or more metadata items is disclosed. Each of the one or more metadata items is associated with one or more parts of an audio-visual data stream ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090208181 | System and Method for Automated Creation of Video Game Highlights - Automated creation of videos for interactive entertainment, such as video game highlights, may be based on events that occur within that entertainment, for example based on video game events. A series of events that can occur within a play session may be designated. The game keeps track of sufficient replay data such that these discrete events can be identified. Upon replay generation, the game searches over the historical data for that session and identifies the events that have occurred. The game may present several combinations of views of those events. For example, the game can create a highlights reel of the entire play session by linearly displaying several of the discovered events, or the highlights from several games can be selected by one or more individuals to generate a “highlights of highlights” video. Another embodiment allows the player, or group of players or other individuals, to choose which events to view. The events could also be categorized, allowing the player to view a collection of a selected event type, such as all flag capture videos or all long-distance shots. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208182 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for content reproduction, a recording medium, and a program that make it possible to edit taken images easily and automatically in accordance with an intention of an editor. Each time a reproduction is performed, a reproduction start point and a reproduction end point of VOBU units of images reproduced by a disk camcorder are recorded in Play Data | 2009-08-20 |
20090208183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MEDIA CLOCK AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE METHOD - A method of generating a media clock indicating a time referred to by an application, which is a reference time used during operation of the application so as to synchronize video and the application. The method includes confirming a presentation start time of an enhanced video object unit (EVOBU) corresponding to a system time clock (STC) of playback video, subsequently setting an accumulated playback time of an EVOBU preceding the EVOBU corresponding to the STC as a media clock start time and setting the media clock of the playback video by adding the media clock start time to a difference value obtained by subtracting the presentation start time from the STC. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208184 | VIDEO CONTENT PLAYBACK ASSISTANCE METHOD, VIDEO CONTENT PLAYBACK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - Having the object of facilitating the cued playback of important scenes even for video content on which cue point information has not been conferred, a video content playback assistance method includes steps of: acquiring identical video correspondence information that indicates the correspondence relation of identical video, which are identical partial video contained in common in a plurality of items of video content; when cued playback is instructed, specifying the points of identical video in video content based on the acquired identical video correspondence information and specifying cue points based on the points of identical video that have been specified, and reproducing video from the specified cue points based on the video content. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208185 | MULTIPLE OUTPUT DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM - A multimedia time warping system allows a user to store selected multimedia data streams while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing other multimedia data. Data streams are converted to digital streams for internal transfer and manipulation. A parser and event buffer decouple the CPU from having to parse the digital stream. Video segments are stored on a storage device and when data is requested for display, its video segments are extracted from the storage device and sent to a decoder that converts them into display output signals and delivers the display output signals to a display. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208186 | Varying UV and Near IR Light to Interfere With Camcorder Piracy - An inventive method varies light within a wavelength range of ultraviolet to infrared coincident with media content being projected. In an exemplary embodiment, the wavelength light is varied with a wavelength in a range that includes 360, 370, 380, 390, 650, 660, 670, 680 and 690 nanometers. Preferably, the varying light is projected from behind a screen onto which the protected content is projected. Also, the varying light is projected onto different locations on a screen onto which the media content is projected. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208187 | STORAGE MEDIUM IN WHICH AUDIO-VISUAL DATA WITH EVENT INFORMATION IS RECORDED, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - A storage medium in which audio-visual data with event information is recorded, and a reproducing apparatus and reproducing method thereof, includes: audio-visual (AV) data; and event information to activate an event when a predetermined specific scene is reproduced while reproducing the AV data and to execute a predetermined program application corresponding to the activated event by synchronizing the program application with the specific scene. Accordingly, the storage medium may be controlled so that an application having a program function is synchronized with a specific scene of the AV data using the event information while reproducing the entirety of the AV data or a portion of the AV data. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208188 | Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, program, and reproduction method - Play list information is recorded on the local storage | 2009-08-20 |
20090208189 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD - A playback device for playing back a playlist. The playback device determines, as a current sub-playitem, a sub-playitem that is optimum for the current sub-playitem each time the current playitem changes. The playback device continues a playback of a playitem when a clip file being referred to by the current sub-playitem has been downloaded and is in the Enable state in the local storage; and stops, by issuing a DataStarved event, the playback of the playitem when the clip file being referred to by the current sub-playitem is in a missing state or an invalid state in the recording medium. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208190 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD, MANAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION REPRODUCING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A reproducing apparatus ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090208191 | PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAYING PROGRAM AND PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAYING APPARATUS - A program information displaying apparatus includes a CPU, and displays a plurality of program information in tabular form. For example, users register accounts as user information in the program information that the user is interested in. A priority and a display manner are set for each of the plurality of accounts, and the program information in which the account is registered is depicted in the display manner on the basis of the priority. When a first depicting method is selected, the program information is depicted in a display manner of the account with the highest priority. When a second depicting method is selected, the program information is depicted such that the display manners are layered in order of the priority. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208192 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ROTATION SPEED OF COMPUTER FAN - An exemplary device for controlling rotation speed of a computer fan includes an identifying device and a control circuit. The identifying device is configured for identifying the type of the computer fan. The control circuit configured for controlling rotation speed of the computer fan includes an electric switch, an integrated circuit, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The electric switch has a first terminal coupled to the identifying device to receive an identifying signal, a second terminal coupled to a super I/O chip to receive a PWM signal. The integrated circuit is configured to convert the PWM signal to an analog voltage signal. The first output terminal is configured to output the PWM signal to a PWM control pin of a fan header. The second output terminal is configured to output the analog voltage signal to a power pin of the fan header. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208193 | Breastmilk Handling Apparatus Particularly Useful for Warming of Breastmilk Containers Such as Bottles and Syringes - The present invention relates to an infant feeding warming system useful to repeatedly and precisely warm breastmilk or formula for use in the NICU. The system in one form comprises a bedside unit that is attachable to an IV pole. The system may also comprise a centralized warming station with multiple chambers, wherein one chamber heats a bottle or syringe, and the remaining chambers are used for storage and/or refrigeration. The system will use a non-liquid heating system to heat feedings. A disposable liner may be used inside the chamber. The system may also contain heating algorithms that are based on a user inputting milk parameters such as volume and initial temperature. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208194 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, CAMERA BODY, CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - There is provided an interchangeable lens, a camera body, a camera system, and a method for controlling the same, with which a highly efficient and stable image blur correction effect can be obtained. A camera system | 2009-08-20 |
20090208195 | Zoom Lens, image capture apparatus, and method for controlling zoom lens - A zoom lens formed of a plurality of lens groups and performing zooming by changing separations between predetermined lens groups. A lens group closest to an object side is fixed in both optical axis directions during zooming, and has a reflecting member for folding an optical axis approximately 90 degrees. A final lens group positioned closest to an image side and fixed in both optical axis directions during zooming has a lens part group SG having positive refractive power and a lens part group RG arranged adjacent to the image side of the lens part group SG and having negative refractive power. A blur is corrected by shifting the lens part group SG in either direction perpendicular to the optical axis. | 2009-08-20 |
20090208196 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes a gyro sensor | 2009-08-20 |
20090208197 | RETRACTING MECHANISM OF A LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a linear guide member, a linearly advancing/retracting member guided by the linear guide member along an optical axis of an imaging optical system to be movable between operating and retracted positions, and a displaceable element supported by the linearly advancing/retracting member to be movable between an on-axis position in which the displaceable element is positioned on the optical axis and an off-axis displaced position in which the displaceable element is displaced from the optical axis. The linear guide member includes a linear guide projection which extends in a direction parallel to the optical axis to be engaged with the linearly advancing/retracting member. The linear guide projection includes an accommodation through-cutout formed through the linear guide projection in a radial direction, at least part of the displaceable element entering the accommodation through-cutout when the linearly advancing/retracting member is in the retracted position. | 2009-08-20 |