34th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110206229 | EARPHONE MICROPHONE - An earphone microphone is constituted of a main unit and an insert portion which are united in an L-shape. Two receivers are attached to the external surface of the main unit and exposed externally of a user's ear, whilst one receiver is attached to a distal end of the insert portion that is inserted into a user's external auditory canal and disposed opposite to a user's eardrum. A signal processor produces a difference signal between the output signals of two receivers exposed externally of the user's ear. The difference signal is subjected to high-pass filtering and subsequently added to the output signal of the receiver disposed inside the user's external auditory canal, thus producing a sound signal representing a user's sound. The sound signal includes a sufficient number of frequency components (e.g. frequency components higher than 3 kHz) prerequisite for discriminating the user's sound. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206230 | Inertial vibration exciter - An inertial vibration exciter having a magnet assembly defining an annular gap, a coil assembly disposed in the annular gap, suspension means mounting the coil assembly for reciprocating movement in the gap, means coupling the coil assembly to a member to be vibrated, and a hermetically sealed housing in which the magnet assembly, the coil assembly, the suspension means and the coupling means are disposed. The housing may comprise a heat sink thermally coupled to the magnet assembly and the heat sink may be resiliently coupled to the housing. The coupling means may comprise a plate-like member to which the coil is rigidly attached and of a size substantially greater than the diameter of the coil. The plate-like member may be resiliently coupled to the housing. Mounting means such as a pressure-sensitive adhesive member may be positioned centrally on the plate-like coupling means and adapted to mount the inertial vibration exciter to the member to be vibrated, the mounting means being of a substantially smaller size than the coupling means to leave the periphery of the coupling means free to move. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206231 | ELECTROMAGNETIC CONVERTER - An electromagnetic converter includes a magnetic circuit having permanent magnets, a lower frame for fixing magnetic pole faces of these permanent magnets thereto, an upper frame having an opening formed therein on a side of the other magnetic pole faces of the permanent magnets and plates fixed to the other magnetic pole faces, and a diaphragm having a voice coil pattern arranged on side portions thereof in a direction of the length thereof and on a top portion thereof in a direction of the width thereof. Protruding portions join between these side portions. The periphery of the top portion is joined to the periphery of the opening of the upper frame via an upper gasket. A flange at the edges of the four side portions is joined to an inner surface of the upper frame, i.e., an inner portion of the magnetic circuit via a lower gasket. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENGAGING FUNCTIONALITY WITH A COLOR TAG - A method of creating and/or detecting a color tag being displayed or to be displayed along with or as part of an image, wherein the color tag comprises an attribute or information identifying an attribute that will be communicated to an application and/or device. In one embodiment of this method, the application and/or device is capable of taking an action associated with the color tag. The method of creating a color tag further comprises associating the color tag with an image to be displayed on a display, wherein the color tag will be displayed with or as part of the image on the display. The method of detecting a color tag also comprises communicating the attribute or information identifying the attribute to the application and/or device capable of taking an action associated with the color tag. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206233 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit, a partial information detecting unit and an embedding unit. The image acquiring unit acquires an image in which first additional information is embedded so that pieces of first partial information obtained by dividing the first additional information are coded and embedded in respective unit areas obtained by dividing the image. The partial information detecting unit detects the pieces of first partial information, which are embedded in the respective unit areas of the image acquired by the image acquiring unit. The embedding unit codes and embeds, in the respective unit areas, pieces of second partial information obtained by dividing second additional information which is different from the first additional information so that a sum of differences between corresponding pairs of (i) the pieces of detected first partial information and (ii) the newly embedded pieces of second partial information become minimum. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206234 | ARRANGEMENT FOR AND METHOD OF EXAMINING GEMSTONES - An arrangement for, and a method of, accurately determining at least one optical property, such as coverage and/or symmetry, of a gemstone, employ an energizable, stationary light source for directing light rays at different orientations to an uncovered table of the gemstone, and an energizable, stationary backlight spaced away from a culet of the gemstone. A controller energizes the light source to generate return light from the gemstone for each light ray, and energizes the backlight to illuminate the gemstone from behind. An imager images the return light as a plurality of frontlit images, and images the backlit gemstone as a backlit image. The controller processes at least one of the images to determine the optical property of the gemstone. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING ENVELOPES CONTAINING DOCUMENTS TO OBTAIN IMAGES OF THE DOCUMENTS - A method and apparatus for processing mail is provided. Mail is placed into an input been having a conveyor that conveys the mail towards a feeder. The feeder serially feeds the envelopes to a cutter that severs the top edge of the envelopes. A transport conveys the envelopes from the top cutter to an extractor. The extractor opens the edge-severed mail and presents the contents of the envelopes to an operator who manually extracts the contents. From the extractor, the operator manually feeds the extracted documents to a document input. From the document input, the documents are fed to a document transport that conveys the documents past an imaging module to obtain image data for the documents before sorting the documents to output bins. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206236 | NAVIGATION METHOD AND APARATUS - An automated guidance system for a moving frame. The automated guidance system has an imaging system disposed on the frame; a motion sensing system coupled to the frame and configured for sensing movement of the frame; and a processor communicably connected to the vision system for receiving image data from the vision system and generating optical flow from image data of frame surrounding. The processor is communicably connected to the motion sensing system for receiving motion data of the frame from the motion sensing system. The processor is configured for determining, from kinematically aided dense optical flow correction to frame kinematic errors, due to errors in motion data from the motion sensing system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206237 | RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A recognition apparatus for recognizing a position and an orientation of a target object, inputs a captured image of the target object captured by an image capturing apparatus; detects a plurality of feature portions from the captured image, and to extract a plurality of feature amounts indicating image characteristics in each of the plurality of feature portions; inputs property information indicating respective physical properties in the plurality of feature portions on the target object; inputs illumination information indicating an illumination condition at the time of capturing the captured image; determines respective degrees of importance of the plurality of extracted feature amounts based on the respective physical properties indicated by the property information and the illumination condition indicated by the illumination information; and recognizes the position and the orientation of the target object based on the plurality of feature amounts and the respective degrees of importance thereof. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206238 | PHARMACEUTICAL RECOGNITION AND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - An electronic pharmaceutical recognition and identification system is provided along with a method of use. In certain example embodiments a user can take a digital picture of a pharmaceutical with a portable appliance comprising a telephone, then text that picture to a predetermined telephone number, wait a short period of time for a pharmaceutical identification server system to electronically recognize and identify the pharmaceutical in question, and then automatically receive a text message back from the server system that includes various predetermined information regarding the pharmaceutical in question, such as its name, pictures of it, warnings, whether or not a prescription is required, as well as usage and interaction information. Fixed appliances are also provided that can passively interface with a pharmaceutical dispensing system to ensure that the prescribed pharmaceutical is being dispensed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206239 | INPUT APPARATUS, REMOTE CONTROLLER AND OPERATING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An input apparatus for a vehicle includes: an operation element operable by an occupant of the vehicle; a biological information acquisition element acquiring biological information of the occupant; an unawakened state detection element detecting an unawakened state of the occupant based on the biological information, wherein the unawakened state is defined by a predetermined state different from an awakened state; and an operation disabling element disabling an operation input from the operation element when the unawakened state detection element detects the unawakened state. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206240 | DETECTING CONCEALED THREATS - Potential threat items may be concealed inside objects, such as portable electronic devices, that are subject to imaging for example, at a security checkpoint. Data from an imaged object can be compared to pre-determined object data to determine a class for the imaged object. Further, an object can be identified inside a container (e.g., a laptop inside luggage). One-dimensional Eigen projections can be used to partition the imaged object into partitions, and feature vectors from the partitions and the object image data can be used to generate layout feature vectors. One or more layout feature vectors can be compared to training data for threat versus non-threat-containing items from the imaged object's class to determine if the imaged object contains a potential threat item. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206241 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT POLLEN EXTRACTION, COUNTING, AND USE OF COUNTED POLLEN FOR CHARACTERIZING A PLANT - An apparatus and method of quantitatively obtaining a measurement of pollen of a plant. One method of counting comprises imaging the sample with the pollen well-distributed in the focal plane of the imager. Image evaluation software can identify and count objects in the image that are consistent with pollen. Total pollen count for the plant can be derived from the count of pollen of the sample, proportionality of the sample volume to the starting volume, and proportionality of area of sample imaged to total area of sample. Pollen quantification can be used for research or commercial production decisions relative to the plant or its seed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206242 | Instrumental Support for Monitoring the Color Imprint in the Manufacture of Surfaces Patterned in Multiple Colors - A method is disclosed that relates to maintaining or improving the end quality of the visual color imprint of multiple-colored patterned surfaces. These surfaces cannot be measured using the decorations that are manufactured by printing processes, the so-called primary decoration, because subsequent processes change the color imprint further resulting in the so-called secondary color imprint. According to the invention, prediction rules are determined based on samples from the primary and secondary decorations during a learning phase to establish from n-channel images of samples of the primary decoration color imprint characteristics and convert those to such characteristics for the secondary decoration; and/or to establish from n-channel images of samples of the primary decoration images of the secondary decoration and to calculate color imprint characteristics. Color imprint characteristics are extracted and converted with the aid of the prediction rules to the color imprint characteristics of the secondary decoration, and applied. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206243 | MULTI-BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - An identification system for authenticating individuals may include enrolling an individual's iris images into a database for late comparison during an identification process. A security attendant may enroll the individual with a mobile device having an iris camera, which captures the individual's iris images. The attendant may also insert biographical information and a face image of the individual. When the individual may be authenticating by walking through a pedestrian lane having an iris camera identification system. The system captures the individual's iris images and compares them to previously enrolled iris images. A nearby security attendant may be alerted to individuals proceeding through a pedestrian lane who have not been previously enrolled. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED BIOMETRIC SECURITY - Embodiments of the invention provide biometrics systems having enhanced security. Embodiments of the invention provide facial recognition systems implemented for access control purposes, such as a biometrics access control system for an electronic device, in which modified and/or additional challenges via a facial recognition system are made prior to granting access to the protected device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206245 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include means for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and means for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STATISTICAL MAPPING BETWEEN GENETIC INFORMATION AND FACIAL IMAGE DATA - A method and system for statistical mapping between genetic information and facial image data including collecting a multiplicity of sets of genetic information and matching facial image data representing a multiplicity of individuals, representing the genetic information of each of the multiplicity of individuals as a first multidimensional representation, representing the facial image data of each of the multiplicity of individuals as a second multidimensional representation; and inferring correlative, non-causal, statistical relationships between the first multidimensional representations and the second multidimensional representations. A system and method for estimating the likelihood of donor-recipient transplant compatibility using facial images of potential donors, the method including inferring correlative, non-causal, statistical relationships, indicative of transplant compatibility, between multidimensional representations of facial image data of potential donors and a multidimensional representation of information relating to a potential recipient. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206247 | Imaging system and methods for cardiac analysis - Imaging systems and methods for viewing medical images of human anatomy and, in particular, to a 3-dimensional imaging system that allows a user to efficiently and accurately detect and view coronary artery calcification as displayed graphically on a computer screen. In one aspect, a method for displaying medical images comprises obtaining an image dataset comprising anatomical image data (step | 2011-08-25 |
20110206248 | IMAGING METHOD FOR SAMPLING A CROSS-SECTION PLANE IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE DATA VOLUME - Automated Vessel Analysis (AVA) allows qualitative and quantitative feedback to the user, regarding vessel pathologies (such as stenosis), with a minimum of user input. However, present algorithms may be unsuitable for large datasets, especially because of the rather long pre-processing time. Here an imaging method for placing probes on the vessel tree is presented that does not require any pre-processing time at 5 all, and performs very well on (very) large datasets, both in terms of speed and memory consumption. The method comprises the steps: classifying voxels of a 3D data volume as voxels of the first, the second or further types, determining a starting voxel in a tubular structure of voxels of the first type, determining the centre line in the proximity of the starting voxel, and fitting a plane through the starting voxel, perpendicular to the 10 centre line. Further the contour of the vessel cross-section on the plane can be determined, as well as its maximum, minimum and average diameter, and the area of the vessel cross-section. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206249 | TRANSMISSION OF MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - Transmission of a medical image such as a DICOM-formatted image which is formatted into a plurality of data sets including a data set for the image data and a data set for embedded information which identifies the nature of the medical image. A region of interest in the medical image is identified automatically by using the embedded information. Image data for the region of interest is transmitted, and image data for a region other than the region of interest is transmitted. Transmission of the image data for the entirety of the region of interest is completed before transmission of the image data for the entirety of the region other than the region of interest. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206250 | SYSTEMS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA, AND METHODS FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF ANOMALIES IN VIRTUAL COLONOGRAPHY MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING - This discloses methods and systems for the processing of medical image data of a colon acquired with an imaging device, such as a computerized tomography (“CT”) scanner and more particularly, to methods and systems for the classification of structures or objects in said medical image data. The disclosed methods and systems analyze image data for objects such as rectal tubes or stools, or for clusters of suspicious regions, and may eliminate such objects from further analysis prior to presenting potential polyps to a user. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206251 | METHOD OF CHARACTERIZING AN IMAGE SOURCE UTILIZING PREDETERMINED COLOR SPACES - A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or its representation (such as images), combined with machine learning capabilities. Using the system and methods of the present invention, certain objects that appear indistinguishable from other objects to the eye or computer recognition systems, or are otherwise almost identical, generate radically different and statistically significant differences in the image describers (metrics) that can be easily measured. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206252 | Radiotherapeutic Treatment Planning Apparatus and Methods - A treatment planning apparatus comprises a means for receiving a three dimensional representation of a patient, a means for displaying at least a part of the representation, a means for user-designation of sub-regions of the representation, and a computing means adapted to segment the representation into a region within an anatomical structure and a region outside the anatomical structure on the basis of the locations of the sub-regions and the degree of similarity of voxels to neighbouring voxels in the representation. The treatment planning apparatus preferably further comprises means for designating sub-regions as being inside the structure, means for designating sub-regions as being outside the structure, and/or means for designating sub-regions as being at a border of the structure. In the latter case, we prefer that the size of border sub-regions is adjustable. The computing means can segment the representation by minimising a cost function. We also prefer that the initial values of the function in sub-regions designated as being in a border region are constrained to a different preset value. In an particularly useful aspect of this invention, after minimisation of the function the values in sub-regions designated as being in a border region are then un-constrained, the remaining values are constrained, and the function is then minimised a second time. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206253 | Region-Growing Algorithm - A technique for automatically generating a virtual model of a branched structure using as an input a plurality of images taken of the branched structure. The technique employs an algorithm that avoids inaccuracies associated with sub-optimal threshold settings by “patching” holes or leaks created due to the inherent inconsistencies with imaging technology. By “patching” the holes, the algorithm may continue to run using a more sensitive threshold value than | 2011-08-25 |
20110206254 | REFLECTANCE IMAGING AND ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATING TISSUE PIGMENTATION - Methods and apparatus are described that provide the ability to estimate the diffuse reflection component of an image of tissue such as skin captured without cross-polarization. It is thereby possible to estimate skin pigmentation information from an image of skin captured conventionally, such as, for example, a total reflection image, obtained in a conventional manner by shining white light on the skin and capturing the reflected light. The image may also be a partially diffuse reflection image, such as a low quality cross-polarized image. The diffuse reflection component of a captured image can then be further processed to obtain Red and Brown pigmentation images, useful for indicating the distribution of hemoglobin and melanin, the primary chromophores of skin. Additionally, a standard captured image of skin can be analyzed to obtain an estimate of the surface reflection component of the reflected light. The surface reflection component can then be used to generate a surface reflection image, useful for showing the distribution of light on the skin and to highlight superficial features such as wrinkles, fine lines, folds, pores, texture, and visible spots. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206255 | ANALYZING AN AT LEAST THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGE - A system for analyzing an at least three-dimensional medical image comprises a lesion detector ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110206256 | VISUALIZATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA FOR VIRTUAL ELECTRODES - Systems and methods can be utilized to visualize physiological data relative to a surface region (e.g., an organ) of a patient. A computer-implemented method can include storing electroanatomic data in memory representing electrical activity for a predetermined surface region of the patient and providing an interactive graphical representation of the predetermined surface region of the patient. A user input is received to define location data corresponding to a user-selected location for at least one virtual electrode on the graphical representation of the predetermined surface region of the patient. A visual representation of physiological data for the predetermined surface region of the patient is generated based on the location data and the electroanatomic data. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206257 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND ACCURATE SEGMENTATION OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM - This invention concerns an efficient algorithm for automatic and accurate segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA). The algorithm first identifies the location of the lumen (the inner portion of aorta) and then segments it. The abdominal portion of the lumen is then found using anatomical and geometrical features. This portion of the lumen is straightened using geometrical transformation based on the smoothed centreline. The transformed lumen is then passed through a number of filters, based on geometrical, intensity, gradient and texture features, to search for the existence of the aneurysm. If aneurysm is detected, a deformable model is first initialized to the approximate borders of the aneurysm which are then refined using global and location information. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206258 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY HIGH DENSITY OBJECT ARTIFACT REDUCTION - A method of providing a corrected reconstructed computed tomography image accesses image data for computed tomography images of a subject, identifying a subset of the computed tomography images that contain high density features. At least one high density feature is detected in each of the identified subset. The high density feature is classified and a compensation image is formed by distributing pixels representative of tissue over the classified high density feature. A difference sinogram is generated for each image in the identified subset of images by subtracting a first sinogram of the high density feature from a second sinogram of the original image. A resultant sinogram is generated for each image in the identified subset by adding a third sinogram generated according to the compensation image to the difference sinogram. The corrected reconstructed computed tomography image is formed according to the resultant sinogram generated for each image in the identified subset of images. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206259 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTRATION REDUCED EQUALIZED EXPOSURE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY - A method is disclosed for producing a computed tomographic image of a subject, the method including: using a radiation source and detector, obtaining radiation transmission information relating to a region of interest in the subject; using the source and detector; obtaining a series of projection images of the region of interest. Each projection image is obtained by: directing an imaging beam of radiation from the source through the region of interest onto the detector along a respective direction; the detector having a detection area. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206260 | AUTOMATED SEQUENTIAL PLANNING OF MR SCANS - A method of acquiring at least one clinical MRI image of a subject comprising the following steps: acquiring a first survey image with a first field of view, the first survey image having a first spatial resolution,—locating a first region of interest and at least one anatomical landmarks in the first survey image, determining the position and the orientation of the first region of interest using the anatomical landmarks, the position and the orientation of the first region being used for—planning a second survey image,—acquiring the second survey image with a second field of view, the second survey image having a second spatial resolution, the second spatial resolution being higher than the first spatial resolution, generating a geometry planning for the anatomical region of interest using the second survey image,—acquiring a diagnostic image of the anatomical region of interest using the geometry planning. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206261 | METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING OF MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES - A method for rendering a mammography image. Mammography image data is obtained and stored in a computer-readable electronic memory. A mapping transforms the data to an output data space by estimating a relative amount of dense tissue from the image data; identifying at least a first control point that delineates tissue from non-tissue image content and a second control point that delineates a fatty from a dense tissue region; allocating output image data values in the output data space for the identified fatty and dense tissue content according to the estimated relative amount of dense tissue; and mapping image data values to the allocated output image data values according to the first and second control points. The mammography image is rendered on a display according to the mapping. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206262 | IMAGE-BASED METHODS FOR MEASURING GLOBAL NUCLEAR PATTERNS AS EPIGENETIC MARKERS OF CELL DIFFERENTIATION - The invention provides methods for determining the differentiation state of cells. The methods include non-invasive, non-perturbing, automatable, and quantitative methods of analysis of cell colonies, individual cells, and/or cellular structures. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206263 | COUNTING BIOLOGICAL AGENTS ON BIOLOGICAL GROWTH PLATES - The invention is directed to counting techniques for counting biological agents on a biological growth plate or similar medium. In order to automate the counting of biological agents, a biological growth plate is inserted into a biological scanning unit. Upon insertion of the biological growth plate, the biological scanning unit generates an image of the plate. Then, the amount of biological agents that appear in the image, such as a number of bacteria colonies, can be counted or otherwise determined using image processing and analysis routines performed either by the scanning unit or an external computing device, such as a desktop computer, workstation or the like. A variety of counting rules are described herein that can be used to improve the accuracy of automated counts of biological agents on a biological growth plate. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206264 | IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD - Among other things, a method is disclosed comprising: receiving image data representing an image; processing the data to generate orientation information; processing the data using the orientation information to measure a quantity called local phase in a direction perpendicular to the orientation of a putative vessel; using the phase measurements from three collinear image locations or from two locations to detect the centerline of a symmetric image structure, such as a blood vessel, and to locate a center-point defined by the intersection of the centerline with the line created by the measurement locations. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206265 | PAPER SHEET MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PAPER SHEET MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PAPER SHEET MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A paper sheet management apparatus includes a serial number recognition unit ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110206266 | Comparison of optical and magnetic character data for identification of character defect type - A system for determining a plurality of PCS values for a document image representing a document having at least one area of interest on a surface of the physical item for containing critical data and a background image positioned on the surface, the document suitable for positioning in a digital image recorder, the system comprising: an input module configured for obtaining a plurality of reflectance values distributed across the surface of the document; a memory configured for storing a plurality of PCS threshold values assigned to a corresponding plurality of locations on the surface; a calculation module configured for determining respective PCS values of a plurality of target portions of the surface, each of the respective PCS values based on a target reflectance value of the corresponding target portion and a region reflectance value of a corresponding defined region located adjacent to the target portion on the surface, each of the defined regions being different for each of the target portions, each of the respective PCS values assigned a location of the surface representative of the location of the target portion, the size of the defined region being greater than the size of the target portion, the target reflectance values and the region reflectance values being determined from said plurality of reflectance values; a comparison module configured for determining from the memory a plurality of PCS threshold values having specified surface locations matching the assigned locations of the calculated PCS values and for comparing the PCS threshold values with the calculated PCS values to determine whether the target portions satisfy their respective PCS threshold values; wherein the degree of target portions that satisfy their PCS threshold value is indicative of the acceptability of the design of the background image when processed by the digital image recorder. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206267 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the image scanner and the discrimination unit. The image scanner obtains an image of the documents, obtains an image of a selected area of the documents, and obtains information contained in the selected area of the document. The discrimination unit determines the authenticity of the document. A system controller directs the flows of documents over the transport mechanism. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206268 | Optical waveform generation and use based on print characteristics for MICR data of paper documents - A method and system for determining an optical waveform based on a plurality of print features of a selected marking of a document. The method and system comprise obtaining optical image data representing the print features of the selected marking. The optical image data is corrected for at least one of print contrast or reflectance of the print features in the optical image data using respective print contrast thresholds or reflectance thresholds to produce a converted pixel map of the selected marking, the pixel map containing an ordered sequence of values. Also included is a generation module to transform the print features represented in the converted pixel map to a plurality of corresponding waveform features to produce the optical waveform of the selected marking, the corresponding waveform features including a plurality of spaced apart peaks representing respective optical signal levels of the print features. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206269 | METHODS OF EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATRIX DOT-PEENED MARKS ON OBJECTS AND MARK VERIFICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and mark verification systems for evaluating the quality of a two-dimensional matrix dot peen mark on an object are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the methods includes scanning a two-dimensional matrix dot peen mark disposed on a surface of an object with a laser displacement sensor to generate three-dimensional scanned data for the mark, the mark including a plurality of dots disposed in a plurality of rows and columns on the surface; and determining whether the mark passes a verification test based on the scanned data. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206270 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE OF EXPOSURE CONDITION AND MASK PATTERN - A computer readable storage medium is provided, storing a computer-executable program for causing a computer to determine at least one of mask pattern and exposure condition of an exposure apparatus having an illumination optical system for illuminating a mask with light from a light source and a projection optical system for projecting the mask pattern onto a substrate. The program causes the computer to perform calculation of an image of a pattern on an object plane of the projection optical system using information about lateral shift of an image caused by the exposure apparatus, and determination of at least one of the exposure condition and the mask pattern based on a calculation result. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206271 | Pattern measurement apparatus and pattern measurement method - A pattern measurement apparatus includes: an irradiation unit for irradiating a sample with an electron beam; an electron detection unit for detecting the amount of electrons generated from the sample on which a pattern is formed; an image processor for generating an SEM image of the pattern based on the amount of electrons; and a controller for acquiring a rectangular measurement specification region of the SEM image and calculating a loss ratio of a corner portion of the pattern from areas of the measurement specification region and the corner portion of the pattern. The controller detects edge positions in a predetermined range including a position where a corner of the measurement specification region intersects with a side of the SEM image, and adjusts the measurement specification region in accordance with the edge positions. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206272 | SYSTEM POWER LEVELING DEVICE AND IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - A system power leveling device includes a bidirectional converter connected to a system bus line providing a electric power to a load from a power source and having a first and a second switching element, a power storage device connected to the bidirectional converter, a first specifying section for specifying a power consumption of the load, a charge-discharge control section for controlling the charge and the discharge of the power storage device by controlling the bidirectional converter based on the power consumption specified at the first specifying section, and a second specifying section specifying a current or an electric power of the charge or the discharge. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206273 | Intelligent Part Identification for Use with Scene Characterization or Motion Capture - A variety of methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for use with motion capture. One such method is implemented for identifying salient points from three-dimensional image data. The method involves the execution of instructions on a computer system to generate a three-dimensional surface mesh from the three-dimensional image data. Lengths of possible paths from a plurality of points on the three-dimensional surface mesh to a common reference point are categorized. The categorized lengths of possible paths are used to identify a subset of the plurality of points as salient points. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206274 | POSITION AND ORIENTATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND POSITION AND ORIENTATION ESTIMATION METHOD - A position and orientation estimation apparatus inputs an image capturing an object, inputs a distance image including three-dimensional coordinate data representing the object, extracts an image feature from the captured image, determines whether the image feature represents a shape of the object based on three-dimensional coordinate data at a position on the distance image corresponding to the image feature, correlates the image feature representing the shape of the object with a part of a three-dimensional model representing the shape of the object, and estimates the position and orientation of the object based on a correlation result. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206275 | IMAGE ORIENTATION DETERMINATION DEVICE, IMAGE ORIENTATION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND IMAGE ORIENTATION DETERMINATION PROGRAM - When positive image similarity (degree of training image similarity between input image features and those of positive training image) is higher than a predetermined first threshold, image orientation determination decision section determines input image orientation. When negative image similarity (degree of training image similarity between input image features and those of a negative training image) is not lower than a predetermined second threshold value, the image orientation determination decision section does not determine input image orientation. When the image orientation determination decision section determines the orientation of the input image, image orientation determination section calculates orientation similarity reflecting similarity between input image features and those stored in orientation-specific features storage section. If the calculated orientation similarity satisfies a predetermined condition, the image orientation determination section determines input image orientation according to positive training image orientation related to the image features stored in the orientation-specific features storage section. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206276 | HYBRID GRAPH MODEL FOR UNSUPERVISED OBJECT SEGMENTATION - This disclosure describes an integrated framework for class-unsupervised object segmentation. The class-unsupervised object segmentation occurs by integrating top-down constraints and bottom-up constraints on object shapes using an algorithm in an integrated manner. The algorithm describes a relationship among object parts and superpixels. This process forms object shapes with object parts and oversegments pixel images into the superpixels, with the algorithm in conjunction with the constraints. This disclosure describes computing a mask map from a hybrid graph, segmenting the image into a foreground object and a background, and displaying the foreground object from the background. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206277 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PROGRAM - A processing object selection unit (for large size) 53 selects data of a plurality of pixels to be processed in texture processing from among YUV components of an original image. An orientation decision unit (for large size) 54 determines orientation of a brush stroke pattern using edge intensity of a Y component in horizontal and vertical directions for each of predetermined unit of pixels of the original image. A texture processing unit (for large size) 55 carries out first texture processing on data of the plurality of pixels selected by the processing object selection unit (for large size) 53 using colors of the pixels and the brush stroke pattern of the orientation determined by the orientation decision unit (for large size) 54. Also, second texture processing similar to the first is carried out only near the edge portion of the image by a processing object selection unit (for small size) 56, an orientation decision unit (for small size) 57, and a texture processing unit (for small size) 58. In this way, it is possible to generate data of an image with enhanced artistically creative effects by taking into account an original image as a whole. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206278 | CONTACT IMAGE SELECTION AND ASSOCIATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A method and computing device for encoding an image according to a preset encoding parameter for the image. The encoding producing an encoded image having a file size. If it is determined that the file size exceeds a maximum file size and the encoding parameter does not meet a threshold, the encoding parameter is modified. The encoding, determining and modifying are repeated until the file size does not exceed a maximum file size or the encoding parameter meets the threshold. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206279 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHROMA-KEY PROCESSING - Apparatus for interpolating or dispersing effects over a video frame, useful for chroma keying of an image comprising a foreground including a part to remove, such as a background or spill from the background. The apparatus handles pixels of the image one by one and includes an interpolation unit for applying an interpolation of attributes at a respective pixel and then applies a function based on the attributes. For example in chroma keying an opaqueness assigner may compare the local color with a color of the part to remove using the interpolation. Based on the comparison, keying is used to set at the respective pixel a level of opaqueness for the pixel. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206280 | IMAGE BRIGHTNESS CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided are an image brightness control device and an image brightness control method for improving the definition of brightness of the entire image and/or improving the definition of brightness of local areas using local brightness information. The image brightness controlling device includes: a preprocessing unit acquiring an offset table for controlling a dynamic range corresponding to an image range of an input image using brightness values of color data of the input image; and a tone mapping unit mapping the offset table onto the color data. It is possible to improve the definition of brightness so as to correspond to the characteristic of the input image, by automatically considering how to reflect a distribution characteristic of an image. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206281 | METHOD FOR FAST UP-SCALING OF COLOR IMAGES AND METHOD FOR INTERPRETATION OF DIGITALLY ACQUIRED DOCUMENTS - Method for up-scaling a color image prior to performing subsequent processing on said color image, comprising the steps of converting the color image into multiple image layers distinguishable from each other and up-scaling at least one of said multiple image layers. The up-scaling is tuned towards the subsequent processing, for example luminance is upscaled at higher quality than chrominance. Further, a method for interpreting information present on digitally acquired documents, comprising the steps of: (i) determining a country; (ii) identifying a list of languages and character sets in use in said country; (iii) performing optical character recognition simultaneously using all languages and character sets of the list; (iv) performing field parsing to identify fields in the digitally acquired document on the basis of international as well as country-specific field recognition rules; (v) storing the recognized information according to the identified fields in a database. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206282 | Device, Method, and Program for Image Processing - An image processing device includes a subject region detector that detects a subject region from an input image; a cutting unit that cuts an image of the subject region from the input image; a priority calculator that calculates a priority of each of predetermined regions on a boundary with respect to the subject region, for the input image; a retrieval unit that retrieves a region similar to an image of a predetermined region with a top priority from among the priorities, from the input image after the image of the subject region is cut; a recovery unit that recovers the subject region by copying an image of an adjacent region that is adjacent to the region similar to the predetermined region retrieved by the retrieval unit and includes a region corresponding to a region cut as the subject region, and by pasting the image obtained by copying onto the region that is adjacent to the predetermined region with the top priority and cut as the subject region; and a composition unit that combines the image of the subject region cut by the cutting unit with the image with the subject region recovered by the recovery unit. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED IMAGE ANALYSIS THROUGH GAZE DATA FEEDBACK - The image analysis system includes a processor and memory and displays an image to a first user. The image analysis system tracks gaze of the first user and collects initial gaze data for the first user. The initial gaze data includes a plurality of gaze points. The image analysis system identifies one or more ignored regions of the image based on a distribution of the gaze data within the image; and displays at least a first subset of the image. The first subset of the image is selected so as to include a respective ignored region of the one or more ignored regions and the first subset of the image is displayed in a manner that draws attention to the respective ignored region. In some embodiments, the ignored region is visually emphasized within the image. In some embodiments, only the first subset of the image is displayed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206284 | ADAPTIVE EVENT TIMELINE IN CONSUMER IMAGE COLLECTIONS - A method for organizing an event timeline for a digital image collection, includes using a processor for detecting events in the digital image collection and each event's associated timespan; determining the detected events that are significant in the digital image collection; and organizing the event timeline so that the event timeline shows the significant events and a clustered representation of the other events, made available to the user at different time granularities. The organized event timeline is also used for selecting images for generating output. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206285 | OBFUSCATING THE DISPLAY OF INFORMATION AND REMOVING THE OBFUSCATION USING A FILTER - This is directed to obfuscating a display to secure the display of information provided to a user. An electronic device can modulate the display of information using different approaches, including for example by adding artifacts or changing the color, frequency or polarity of displayed information, thus obfuscating the display. To view the displayed information, a user can place a filter between the user and the display (e.g., as part of glasses) such that the filter can remove or undo the obfuscation. In some embodiments, the device can display different confidential information for several users simultaneously, where different obfuscation approaches are used for each user. This can allow several users to interact with the device simultaneously while ensuring that each user's information remains confidential. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206286 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A wavelet transform unit performs a wavelet transform on original images and a quantization unit quantizes wavelet transform coefficients. A ROI selector selects a region of interest or regions of interest in the original image, and a ROI mask generator generates ROI masks with which the wavelet transform coefficients (which are also called ROI transform coefficients) corresponding to the regions of interest are specified. By referring to the ROI masks, a lower-bit zero substitution unit substitutes low-order bits of non-ROI transform coefficients with zeros. An entropy coding unit entropy-codes the wavelet transform coefficients sequentially from high-order bit-planes, after the substitution. A coded data generator turns coded data into streams together with parameters and then outputs coded images. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206287 | Compressed Domain System And Method For Compression Gains In Encoded Data - A system and method for compressed domain compression are provided for improving compression gains in an encoded image, such as a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)-encoded images, without fully decoding and re-encoding the compressed images. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206288 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING SYSTEM USING GRAPH BASED PIXEL PREDICTION AND ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are an image encoding/decoding system and method using a graph-based pixel prediction, and a depth map encoding system and method. The encoding system may generate an edge map based on a pixel value difference between neighboring pixels in an inputted image, generate a graph by connecting pixels using the generated edge map, select a prediction value for at least one pixel based on the generated graph, and encode an image based on the selected prediction value. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206289 | Guaranteed-Rate Tiled Image Data Compression - A method of compressing digital image data is provided that includes, for each image data block in a plurality of image data blocks in the digital image data, transforming image data in the image data block to convert the image data to a low-frequency coefficient and a plurality of high-frequency coefficients, computing a predicted low-frequency coefficient for the image data block based on at least one neighboring image data block in the plurality of image data blocks, computing a residual low-frequency coefficient based on the predicted low-frequency coefficient and the low-frequency coefficient, quantizing the plurality of high-frequency coefficients, and entropy coding the residual low-frequency coefficient and the quantized high-frequency coefficients. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206290 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT - The display driving circuit includes: an OD (OverDrive) calculation circuit operable to generate an OD driving signal for improving the response characteristic of a display device according to display image data; a drive-output circuit operable to supply an OD driving signal to the display device; and a compression circuit operable to store compressed display data in a memory. The compression circuit includes a DCT calculation module operable to execute DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) of display image data, and an entropy coding module operable to execute variable length entropy coding of DCT conversion display data. Preferably, the display driving circuit further includes a decompression circuit operable to supply an OD calculation circuit with display data resulting from decompression of compressed display data read out the memory. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206291 | COMBINED SPECTRAL AND POLARIMETRY IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTICS - Combined spectral and polarimetry imaging and diagnostic techniques are disclosed, including an imaging system that simultaneously records spatially co-registered spectral and polarization information from an image of a target scene such as an ocular structure or material or device in an around the eye. Image acquisition and image calibration by such an imaging system or an imaging spectrometer or polarimeter are also disclosed. Methods of data storage and image display relevant to medical practice in general and ophthalmology practice specifically are further disclosed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206292 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention makes it possible to obtain an enlarged image while suppressing noise and maintaining the sharpness of an original image only by setting a simple enlargement ratio without no special knowledge. Original image data (Ia) is enlarged in accordance with a set enlargement ratio (E) to generate an enlarged image (IA). The enlarged image (IA) is smoothed by using a smoothing filter with a size depending on the enlargement ratio (E) to generate smoothed image data (IB). Difference image data (IC) is generated by calculating the difference between the enlarged image data (IA) and the smoothed image data (IB). The generated difference image data is multiplied by an emphasis coefficient. The product is added to the enlarged image data, thereby obtaining image data (IS) that has undergone enlargement/unsharp masking. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206293 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - An image processing apparatus includes a band decomposition unit, an intensity calculation unit, and a band-weighted image generation unit. The band decomposition unit decomposes a given original image into frequency component images each corresponding to an individual frequency band. The intensity calculation unit sets each pixel as a target pixel for processing, and calculates an intensity of a frequency component in each frequency band for a local area having a predetermined size including the target pixel for processing. The band-weighted image generation unit generates a band-weighted image by determining a frequency band to which the target pixel for processing belongs in accordance with intensities of frequency components in the local area and by assigning a weighted value for the frequency band to each pixel in the local area. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206294 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes: an input image energy map generation unit generating an input image energy map from an input image; a reduced energy map generation unit generating a reduced energy map; a reduction seam search unit searching a reduction seam formed by binding pixels of a path along which a cumulative energy value of energies of pixels is minimum; a partial seam search unit searching a partial seam formed by binding pixels with a minimum cumulative value; an input image energy map update unit updating the input image energy map by inserting and replacing a maximum energy value into the energies corresponding to all of the pixels of the input image on the input image energy map; and a reduction expansion unit reducing or expanding the input image by deleting the pixels forming the partial seam from the input image. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206295 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a subject region detection unit detecting regions of subjects included in an input image; a cropped region setting unit setting a region including all of the regions of the detected subjects as a cropped region; an expansion region addition unit adding an expansion region to expand an end of the cropped region only by a predetermined width; a cutting unit cutting a cut image formed from a cut region including the cropped region and the expansion region from the input image; a subject adaptation size change unit changing a size of an image formed from the cut region by deleting a region where an influence on the subjects is small in the cut image; and an entire image size changing unit changing the size of the entire image changed in size by the subject adaptation size change unit at a predetermined ratio. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206296 | SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSOR AND SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSING METHOD - A super-resolution processor according to the present invention includes: an N enlargement unit that generates an N-enlarged image by enlarging the input image by a factor N; an M enlargement unit that generates an M-enlarged image by enlarging the input image by a factor M; a high-pass filter unit that extracts a high-frequency component of the M-enlarged image, as an M-enlarged high-frequency image; a patch extraction unit that extracts an estimated patch of a predetermined size from the M-enlarged high-frequency image, the estimated patch being a part of the M-enlarged high-frequency image; and an addition unit that adds the estimated patch to a processing target block of the predetermined size in the N-enlarged image, to generate the output image, where M is smaller than N. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206297 | IMAGE DATA CONVERTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONVERTING IMAGE DATA, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image data converting device of at least one embodiment of the present invention for converting, by linear interpolation, input image data having a predetermined resolution into delta arrangement image data having a resolution that is smaller than the predetermined resolution, the image data converting device includes: an even line pixel value converting section for converting a value of each pixel in each even line in the input image data into a value of each pixel in each even line in the delta arrangement image data, by using a predetermined initial value for even lines; and an odd line pixel value converting section for converting a value of each pixel in each odd line in the input image data into a value of each pixel in each odd line in the delta arrangement image data, by using a predetermined initial value for odd lines, the predetermined initial value for odd lines being (1±α)/2(0≦α≦0.5) of the initial value for the even lines. This allows conversion into an image that looks natural by controlling a jaggy and/or colored appearance of a contour section of the image, when image data having a high resolution is converted into the delta arrangement image data having a low resolution. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206298 | Method for evaluating video quality - A method for evaluating video quality of a video stream comprising the steps of
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20110206299 | Trash bag raincoat - The trash bag raincoat is a waterproof, biodegradable trash bag that has been adapted so as to convert between trash bag and rainwear. A conventional trash bag is altered by the addition of a hood, sleeves, and fasteners in such a manner as to ensure easy conversion from trash bag to rainwear and back to a trash bag. The invention addresses the age-old practice of tearing holes in trash bags so as to use as protection when caught in unexpected precipitation. This hole-tearing practice destroys the use of the trash bag for its intended purpose and makes for unsatisfactory protection as the head and arms remain exposed to the weather. The current invention addresses the issue of full protection for the head, arms, and torso and offers the ability to reuse the trash bag for its original design. This is accomplished by manipulating the hood, sleeves, and fasteners in a manner designed to fit the need at hand—use as trash bag or protection against the elements. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206300 | SIDE-GUSSET BAG - A side-gusset bag has face panels each having a pair of side edges. Two respective side gussets are each connected between a respective one of the side edges of one of the face panels and a respective one of the side edges of the other face panel. The face panels and side gussets together form a bag body formed along each of the side edges flanking one of the gussets with at least one slot. Two respective carry handles each have a middle section outside the body and a pair of ends extending through a respective one of the slots with the two carry handles at least generally aligned with each other. Welds secure each of the ends inside the body to the respective side gusset and close the slots around the ends. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206301 | BAG WITH MEMBRANE - Bag for receiving bulk material and in particular cement, having a bottom seam and an opposite filling end wherein a receiving space is provided between the bottom seam and the filling end provided to receive the bulk material and formed by the bag wall. A de-aeration device is disposed in the bag wall between the bottom seam and the filling end for de-aerating the bag interior after filling. The de-aeration device comprises a semi-permeable membrane inserted in the bag wall. The membrane is air-permeable and water-impermeable. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206302 | TRI-FOLD SIDE SEAMED PLASTIC PRODUCE BAG, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SAME - A trifold side seamed plastic produce bag includes a front wall and a taller back wall, first and second side edges sealed together and a seamless bag bottom. The taller back wall provides means for finding the bag opening. The bag is joined at the side edges to additional bags by a perforation. The bag is corona treated on at least one wall and promotional material is printed on the treated surface. The bags are folded to one third of their height to fit compact bag roll dispensers. The bags are folded in a Z-fold or C-fold configuration. The method and apparatus for producing the bags includes a slitter that removes a strip of plastic from only the top layer of the bag stream to form an extended flap on each bag. The method includes manufacturing the bags and winding them onto cores or forming the bags into coreless rolls. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206303 | ELASTOMERIC HIGH CAPACITY LAMINATED ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT BEARING FOR ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT - A rotary wing aircraft bearing for providing constrained relative motion between a first rotary wing aircraft member and a second rotary wing aircraft member. The bearing includes an elastomeric mold bonded laminated subassembly, the elastomeric mold bonded laminated subassembly including a plurality of mold bonded alternating layers of interior nonelastomeric shim members and interior elastomeric shim members, the interior elastomeric shim members including a first laminate end elastomeric shim and a distal second laminate end elastomeric shim. The first laminate end elastomeric shim has a first side mold bonded to a first end interior nonelastomeric shim member and a second side mold bonded to a first metal first laminate end structural bond shim. The distal second laminate end elastomeric shim having a first side mold bonded to a distal second end interior nonelastomeric shim member and a second side mold bonded to a second metal distal laminate end structural bond shim, the elastomeric mold bonded laminated subassembly having an elastomeric subassembly tensile strength ESTS between the first metal first laminate end structural bond shim and the second metal distal laminate end structural bond shim. The rotary wing aircraft bearing includes a first end bearing connector first metal member for connecting to the first rotary wing aircraft member, a first end structural chemical adhesive epoxy post-elastomeric mold bond between the first end bearing connector first metal member and the first metal first laminate end structural bond shim, the first end structural epoxy bond having an elongation of at least 11% and a first end tensile strength FETS with FETS≧ESTS. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206304 | Rolling body guide with a separately exchangeable rolling body as well as a receiving section and a rolling tool with an associated exchange method - More specifically during manufacture of hydraulic cylinders for the crane industry, tubular bodies must be rolled on their inner and/or outer surfaces, in order to be able to ensure a sufficient durability of the hydraulic cylinders. Tools with a rolling body guide are used for this. The disadvantage of the prior art is that the replacement of a rolling body guide leads to immobilization times. The present invention therefore proposes an improvement to the prior art with a rolling body guide for receiving and feeding rolling bodies which are used for finish rolling or roller compression of an inner or outer surface of a tubular body and where the rolling body guide has at least two defined detachable receiving sections, so that a modular assembly of the rolling body guide is realizable. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206305 | SINTERED BEARING - With use of separated alloy powder ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110206306 | ROLLING BEARING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF FORMING A LUBRICATION DEVICE THEREFOR - The invention provides a rolling bearing assembly adapted to prevent a cage from sustaining burn-out on a guided surface thereof even when a rolling bearing is rotated at high speed, and a method of forming a lubrication device for use in the same. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206307 | Wheel Bearing Apparatus For A Vehicle - A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member; an inner member and double row balls freely rollably contained between outer raceway surfaces and inner raceway surfaces. An inner ring is axially secured relative to a wheel hub by a caulked portion. The caulked portion is formed by plastically deforming the cylindrical portion radially outward. The wheel hub is formed from medium-high carbon steel including carbon of 0.40-0.80% by weight and with a ferrite grain size number selected larger than #3. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206308 | Wheel Bearing Apparatus For A Vehicle - A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member, double row balls freely rollably contained between the inner raceway surfaces and the outer raceway surfaces, respectively, of the inner member and the outer member. The inner ring is axially secured relative to the wheel hub by a caulked portion. A tapered auxiliary raceway surface is formed on the outer circumference of the inner ring near its inner raceway surface. A chamfered portion is formed between the outer circumference and the caulked end face of the inner ring. The chamfered portion has a circular arc cross-section. The radius of curvature of the circular arc cross-section of the chamfered portion is set within a range of R1.2-R3.0 mm. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206309 | ROLLING-ELEMENT BEARING COMPRISING A FLANGE - A rolling-element bearing which has at least one inner ring and at least one outer ring. A relative movement is possible between the outer ring and the inner ring, and the at least one outer ring has at least one flange for fastening to a rotatable component. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206310 | Bearing System for a Wind Turbine Rotor - A bearing system for a wind turbine rotor is provided. The bearing system includes a double row tapered roller bearing in O-arrangement, wherein the double row tapered roller bearing has an inner ring, a circumferential row of tapered rollers supported on the inner ring, and a floating inner rib. Further, the bearing system includes a driving device as well as a removable interlocking device. The floating inner rib is axially moved by the driving device to a predetermined position so as to abut on each large roller end facing axially outwards in order to apply a corresponding preload on each tapered roller, and is also rigidly coupled to the inner ring by the interlocking device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206311 | Clutch release bearing and method for the production thereof - A clutch release bearing device having an interior and an exterior raceway. The exterior raceway is equipped with a ring wall being retracted underneath the path radius of an inner roller body raceway. An interior sealing device is provided, including a ring element axially supported on an inner radial wall section of the retracted ring wall. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206312 | ENDCAP FOR WHEEL BEARING ASSEMBLY - A wheel bearing assembly endcap | 2011-08-25 |
20110206313 | Reducing optical loss in an optical modulator using depletion region - An optical device includes a light-transmitting medium positioned on a base. The light-transmitting medium includes a slab region and a ridge extending upward from the slab region. The ridge defines a portion of an optical waveguide on the device. A modulator is also positioned on the base. The modulator includes a first doped region of the light-transmitting medium and a second doped region of the light-transmitting medium. The first doped region and the second doped region are configured such that a depletion region forms in the waveguide when an electrical bias is not applied to the modulator. At least a portion of the first doped region is positioned in the ridge and at least a portion of the second doped region is positioned in the slab region. The light-transmitting medium includes a first electrical pathway extending from a first location to the first doped region. The first location is on top of the light-transmitting medium and is spaced apart from the ridge. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206314 | Method for Generating a Spectral Broadband Source by Phase Matching Including Leaky Modes - The disclosure relates to an optical waveguide serving to propagate an original light signal, the optical waveguide including a non-linear waveguide first core that is suitable for generating leaky modes from the original light signal, the waveguide including at least a second core, the first core being included in the second core, the second core being arranged relative to the first core in such a manner as to confine at least the leaky modes generated by the first core from the original light signal outside the first core. By the above-described waveguide, in particular by the non-linearities of the first core of the waveguide, a light continuum can be generated inside the fiber by collinear phase matching. In addition, by Cerenkov effect, other wavelengths are generated by the wavelengths of the continuum by non-collinear phase matching. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206315 | Method of Fabricating an Optical Transformer - A method of fabricating an optical transformer is provided. A substrate is provided first, wherein the substrate includes a first region and a second region. Then a first material layer is formed on the substrate, and the portion of the first material layer other than in the first region is removed. Then a second material layer is formed on the substrate, and the portion of the second material in the first region and the second region is removed. Lastly, a first conductive layer is formed on the substrate and the portion of the first conductive layer other than in the second region is removed to make the first material layer, the second material layer and the first conductive layer have the same height such that the first material layer becomes a part of the optical transformer. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206316 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical interconnect device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an optical waveguide, an electrical wiring and a switching device. The first substrate has an electrical wiring circuit, an electrical-optical converter for converting an electrical signal to an optical signal, and a light emitting device for emitting a light. The second substrate has an electrical wiring circuit, an optical-electrical converter for converting the optical signal to the electrical signal, and a light receiving device for receiving the light from the light emitted device. The optical waveguide optically connects the light emitting and light receiving devices. The electrical wiring electrically connects the electrical wiring circuits of the first and second substrates. The switching device determines a fast signal of data to be transmitted via the optical substrate and a slow signal of data to be transmitted via the electrical wiring. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206317 | Optical fiber switch with movable lens - A scalable optical switch especially useful for switching multimode beams carried by optical fibers. Light from an input fiber is focused by a lens which is moved in an x-y direction perpendicular to the beam direction in order to switch the beam from one output fiber to a different fiber. In preferred embodiments the beam can be directed to any one of as many as 90 output fibers. Techniques for scaling the switch to produce N×N switches with N being large are described. Embodiments of the present invention can also be utilized to create more elaborate fiber optical switches such as an N×N switch and a N | 2011-08-25 |
20110206318 | Optical router with stationary response and increased number of channels - A planar optical router consisting of two stages performing stationary imaging has advantages of reduced size, increased number of channels and reduced crosstalk. In one embodiment, each stage of the router includes a waveguide grating, and the router produces several sets of interleaved images, with the property that different sets are characterized by different diffraction orders of the two gratings. The new arrangement substantially increases the number of output waveguides, as compared to previous arrangements using only one set of images, characterized by the same order of the output stage. Moreover, since adjacent sets are characterized by different orders, crosstalk is substantially reduced. In a second embodiment, the number of output waveguides is further increased by including two gratings in the second stage. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206319 | Capacitive Rotary Joint For Optical Signals - A non-contacting rotary joint for transmitting an input signal guided within an input optical waveguide has an electrical transmission line and a probe. The transmission line has an even number N≧4 of equal length transmission line segments. The optical waveguide is connected to an optical distribution network which has an optical power splitter for splitting the input signal into N or N/2 individual signals of equal optical power. These signals are forwarded to opto-electrical converters to generate electrical signals for driving the electrical transmission line. The lengths of the optical transmission lines are adjusted so that the propagation time of the optical signal from the end of the input optical waveguide to the end of each individual optical transmission line is approximately the same. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206320 | Optical Beam Couplers And Splitters - Beam couplers and splitters are disclosed herein. An embodiment of a beam coupler and splitter includes a first waveguide including a bevel and a bend, and a second waveguide including a bevel complementarily shaped to the first waveguide bevel. The first waveguide bevel is configured to totally internally reflect at least some light incident thereon. The second waveguide is coupled to the first waveguide such that i) the second waveguide bevel is adjacent to at least a portion of the first waveguide bevel, and ii) a predetermined coupling ratio is achieved. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206321 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO A SIDE-FIRE OPTICAL FIBER HAVING A ROBUST DISTAL END PORTION - An aspect of the present disclosure may include an apparatus having an optical waveguide. The optical waveguide may have a distal end surface non-normal to a longitudinal centerline of a distal end portion of the optical waveguide, wherein the distal end surface may define a portion of an interface configured to redirect electromagnetic radiation propagated from within the optical waveguide and incident on the portion of the interface to a direction offset from the longitudinal centerline. The apparatus may further include a capillary component which may have a first portion of an inner surface heat-fused to a portion of an outer surface of the optical waveguide. The apparatus may also include a reinforcement component which may have a proximal end surface disposed distal to the distal end surface of the optical waveguide such that the distal end surface of the optical waveguide and the proximal end surface of the reinforcement component may be separated by a non-zero distance, and wherein a portion of an outer surface of the reinforcement component may be heat-fused to a second portion of the inner surface of the capillary component. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206322 | Method and System for Implementing High-Speed Interfaces Between Semiconductor Dies in Optical Communication Systems - A method and system for implementing high-speed electrical interfaces between semiconductor dies in optical communication systems are disclosed and may include communicating electrical signals between an electronics die and an optoelectronics die via coupling pads which may be located in low impedance points in Tx and Rx paths. The electrical signals may be communicated via one or more current-mode, controlled impedance, and/or capacitively-coupled interfaces. The current-mode interface may include a cascode amplifier stage split between source and drain terminals of transistors on the dies. The controlled-impedance interfaces may include transmission line drivers on a first die and transmission lines on a second die. The capacitively-coupled interfaces may include capacitors formed by contact pads on the dies. The coupling pads may be connected via one or more of: wire bonds, metal pillars, solder balls, or conductive resin. The dies may comprise CMOS and may be coupled in a flip-chip configuration. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206323 | WAVEGUIDE-BASED DISPERSION DEVICE - Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed relating to dispersion devices that include a slot waveguide coupled with another waveguide such as a strip waveguide. For example, one or more structural parameters can be obtained for a dispersion device, including a slot waveguide coupled to a strip waveguide, to cause the dispersion device to produce dispersion, having a dispersion profile, for an electromagnetic wave propagated through the dispersion device, the one or more structural parameters including one or more of a slot thickness for a slot of the slot waveguide or a spacing thickness between the slot waveguide and the other waveguide; and making the dispersion device, including the slot waveguide and the other waveguide, according to the structural parameters. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206324 | Multi-Port Shielded Adapter - An inner sleeve has a main body with an opening therein and a front and back end. The back end has projections or extensions to engage corresponding cavities on another inner sleeve to allow for movement of the inner sleeves relative to a outer portion into which the inner sleeves have been inserted. The outer portion may accommodate any number of inner sleeve pairs. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206325 | Optical connector plug with shutter - For a less load to a shutter and secure motions of the shutter without damaging a ferrule, a rear stopper guide ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110206326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING AND POSITIONING PARALLEL OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULES IN A MID-PLANE MOUNTING CONFIGURATION WITH IMPROVED MOUNTING DENSITY AND ALIGNMENT ACCURACY - An optical communications system is provided in which module locating pins of the system mate with inwardly-shaped corners formed on parallel optical transceiver modules of the system when the parallel optical transceiver modules are mounted on a mid-plane mounting structure of the system. The inwardly-shaped corners of the parallel optical transceiver modules are complementary in shape to portions of the module locating pins. The mating of the module locating pins with the inwardly-shaped corners of the modules operates to passively position the modules at intended spatial locations relative to each other and relative to the mid-plane mounting structure. The inwardly-shaped corners consume very little space in the modules and the pins consume very little space in the optical communications system. Consequently, the pitch between adjacent parallel optical transceiver modules can be kept very small and the mounting density of the modules on the mid-plane mounting structure can be very high. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206327 | ACTIVE OPTICAL CABLE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL SUB-ASSEMBLY - An active optical cable electrical connector with bi-directional optical sub-assembly, including: a circuit board having a front end serving as an electrical connector; an optical cable having an internal optical fiber for transmitting and receiving optical signals; and a bi-directional optical sub-assembly electrically connected to the circuit board and connected with a terminal of the optical fiber. The bi-directional optical sub-assembly serves to convert electrical signals received by the electrical connector into optical signals, which are then transmitted through the optical fiber. The bi-directional optical sub-assembly also serves to convert optical signals transmitted from the optical fiber into electrical signals, which are then transmitted through the electrical connector. | 2011-08-25 |
20110206328 | OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE WITH EMI SHIELD - An optoelectronic module for converting and coupling an information-containing electrical signal with an optical fiber including a housing having an electrical input for coupling with an external electrical cable or information system device and for transmitting and receiving information-containing electrical signals over such input, and a fiber optic connector adapted for coupling with an external optical fiber for transmitting and receiving an optical signal; an electro-optical subassembly coupled to the information containing electrical signal and converting it to and/or from a modulated optical signal corresponding to the electrical signal; and an electromagnetic shield including (i) a latchable top cover; (ii) an O-ring metallic seal surrounding the optical ports; and (iii) a spring-clip finger shaped sleeve circumferentially surrounding the optical ports. | 2011-08-25 |