35th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110211663 | RADIATION EXPOSURE REDUCTION METHOD - A radiation exposure reduction method includes the steps of: injecting iron into a coolant which flows from the reactor cooling system to the reactor core in a nuclear power plant; and ferritizing and fixing radionuclides or parent nuclides thereof, which are contained in the coolant, on the surface of a reactor core structure, wherein an iron citrate which is soluble organic iron, or iron oxalate or iron fumarate which has a particle diameter of 3 μm or less, is used as the iron to be injected into the coolant. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211664 | CONE BEAM Z-AXIS COVERAGE - An imaging system includes a radiation source ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211665 | Gantry Image Guided Radiotherapy System And Related Treatment Delivery Methods - Systems, methods, and related computer program products for image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) are described. Provided according to one preferred embodiment is an IGRT apparatus including a barrel-style rotatable gantry structure that provides high mechanical stability, versatility in radiation delivery, and versatility in target tracking. Methods for treatment radiation delivery using the IGRT apparatus include conical non-coplanar rotational arc therapy and cono-helical non-coplanar rotational arc therapy. A radiation treatment head (MV source) and a treatment guidance imaging system including a kV imaging source are mounted to and rotatable with a common barrel-style rotatable gantry structure, or alternatively the MV and kV sources are mounted to separate barrel-style rotatable gantry structures independently rotatable around a common axis of rotation. Methods for intra-fraction target tracking in a gantry-style IGRT system based on comparisons between a pre-acquired planning image and intrafraction x-ray tomosynthesis images and/or intrafraction cone beam CT (CBCT) images are also described. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211666 | CT SCANNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING MULTI-PIXEL X-RAY SOURCES - A CT scanning system may include a multi-pixel x-ray source, and a detector array. The multi-pixel x-ray source may have a plurality of pixels that are disposed along a z-axis, and that are sequentially activated so as to controllably emit x-rays in response to incident electrons. The detector array may have one or more rows of x-ray detectors that detect the x-rays that are emitted from the pixels and have traversed an object, and generate data for CT image reconstruction system. In third generation CT scanning systems, the number of detector rows may be reduced. Multi-pixel x-ray source implementation of saddle curve geometry may render a single rotation single organ scan feasible. Using a multi-pixel x-ray source in stationary CT scanning systems may allow x-ray beam design with a minimal coverage to satisfy mathematical requirements for reconstruction. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211667 | DE-POPULATED DETECTOR FOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A system, method, and apparatus includes a computed tomography (CT) detector array having a central region with a plurality of central region detecting cells configured to acquire CT data of a first number of slices during a scan, a first wing along a first side of the central region, and a second wing along a second side of the central region opposite the first side. The first wing includes a plurality of first wing detecting cells configured to acquire CT data of a second number of slices during the scan. The second wing includes a plurality of second wing detecting cells configured to acquire CT data of a third number of slices during the scan. The second and third number of slices are less than the first number of slices. The first wing detecting cells are of a different type than the central region detecting cells. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211668 | CONVERTER ELEMENT FOR A RADIATION DETECTOR - The invention relates to converter element ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211669 | RADIATION DETECTOR WITH AN ARRAY OF ELECTRODES - The invention relates to a radiation detector ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211670 | Dynamic Shaping Time Modification in X-Ray Detectors - Methods and apparatus for adapting the shaping time and/or other pulse processing parameters of an x-ray detector ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211671 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSPECTION OF LIQUID ARTICLES - Disclosed are a method and a device for security-inspection of liquid articles with dual-energy CT imaging. The method comprises the steps of obtaining one or more CT images including physical attributes of liquid article to be inspected by CT scanning and a dual-energy reconstruction method; acquiring the physical attributes of each liquid article from the CT image; and determining whether there are drugs concealed in the inspected liquid article based on the difference between the acquired physical attributes and reference physical attributes of the inspected liquid article. The CT scanning can be implemented by a normal CT scanning technique, or a spiral CT scanning technique. In the normal CT scanning technique, the scan position can be preset, or set by the operator with a DR image, or set by automatic analysis of the DR image. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211672 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ACQUIRING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - In a radiographic image acquiring apparatus, in the event that one radiation detection device is selected from among a plurality of radiation detection devices, each of which are capable of converting radiation into a radiographic image, the radiographic image acquiring apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring all of the radiographic images from the plurality of radiation detection devices, including the radiographic image from the one radiation detection device, at a time when application of radiation with respect to a subject is carried out. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211673 | RADIATION DETECTION APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a radiation detection apparatus includes a radiation detection panel, a support member that is configured to support the radiation detection panel on one surface thereof and has electrical conductive property, a circuit board that is supported on the other surface of the support member, a flexible circuit board configured to electrically connect the radiation detection panel to the circuit board, a heat insulation member arranged between the radiation detection panel and the circuit board, a housing that is configured to accommodate the radiation detection panel, the circuit board, the support member, and the heat insulation member and has electrical conductive property, and a heat conduction member that is accommodated in the housing, connected to the support member and the housing, and configured to achieve electrical conduction between the support member and the housing to conduct heat of the support member to the housing. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211674 | GONIOMETER BASE APPARATUS AND METHOD - A goniometer base for X-ray crystallography comprises a magnetic steel part with a cylindrical hole, a compliant cylindrical part that is inserted into this hole, and a cylindrical tube that is press-fit into the hole and holds the compliant part in place, such that when a crystal mounting tool is inserted through the concentric holes in each part, it is positively gripped and held in place at both T=300 K and T=100 K. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211675 | STABILIZATION IN GAMMA-RAY SPECTOMETRY - A calibration source ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211676 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING MATERIAL TO A SURFACE OF AN ANODE OF AN X-RAY SOURCE, ANODE AND X-RAY SOURCE - A method and an apparatus for locally applying material to the surface of an anode of an X-ray source as well as a corresponding anode is presented. Anode material such as a repair material for filling a recess ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211677 | VOICE OPERATED, MATRIX-CONNECTED, ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT ADDRESS BOOK SYSTEM - An online address book system having sufficient hardware and software to operate an address book user interface and to perform intelligent interpretations of voice and text inputs from users. The system includes at least one server software module that includes software to perform a plurality of functions. These include the ability to receive voice input data and separate user voice queries, wherein the software can arrange the data so as to create a data base that includes at least three access dimensions, including contact access, contact-relationship access and contact-time frame access, and so as to create a connectivity matrix based on a plurality of contact pair relationships applying connective recognition logic. The system provides a voice operated user interface that permits access to address book stored data based on user input selected from the group consisting of contact, a contact-relationship pair, a contact-time frame pair, and combinations thereof. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211678 | VIDEO MESSAGING SYSTEM - Systems and methods provide a video messaging service for transmitting video messages between network terminals over a network. After a caller's video-messaging terminal receives a notification that a receiver failed to respond to a communication request, the caller's video-messaging terminal may enable the caller to record a video message and store it for viewing on-demand by a receiver's video-messaging terminal. After recording, the caller's video-messaging terminal transmits a stored message notification terminal to a network server which, in turn, transmits a stored message notification, including an identifier of the caller's video-messaging terminal, to the receiver. Based on the identifier, the receiver's video-messaging terminal may request access to the video message from the callers video-messaging terminal. In response to the request, the caller's video-messaging terminal retrieves the video message from storage and provides it to the receiver's video-messaging terminal over the network. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211679 | Voice Response Processing - A method for transmitting choices to a caller has steps of (a) interacting by voice with a caller using a communication device; (b) encountering a point in the interaction that a choice between two or more options is to be provided to the caller; (c) determining if the caller's communication device is capable of receiving a text message; (d) selecting a compatible text message comprising the options; (e) associating with the text message a text message destination address to the caller's device; and (f) transmitting the text message to the caller's device. The interaction may be by IVR or by a live agent. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211680 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING VOICE MAIL - The present disclosure provides a method and device for analyzing and responding to voice mail messages. A voice mail message may contain one or more addresses or phone numbers associated with the calling party. The portion of the voice mail message containing an address may be recognized and processed with speech recognition algorithms to determine one or more spoken addresses associated with the voice mail message. The recognized spoken addresses may be displayed by a communications device and the portion of the voice mail message recognized as containing the spoken addresses may be replayed in order for a user to confirm the recognized address. Communications to an address associated with the voice mail message may be enabled while the portion of the voice mail message is replayed. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211681 | FINANCIAL CARD ACTIVATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A sponsor purchases a prepaid card that can be transmitted to an intended user with increased security. Using a prepaid card dispenser, the sponsor elects an amount for the prepaid card and is prompted for at least one telephone number at which a server platform should contact the sponsor when the intended user wants to authenticate the card. The sponsor may enter additional phone numbers that will be called if the sponsor does not answer the first number when called by the server platform. When an intended user has received the prepaid card, the intended user calls a telephone number associated with the server platform and is connected to the sponsor via a telephone bridge so that the sponsor may authenticate the intended user. The sponsor may then inform the server platform (e.g., via DTMF tones) that the card has been authenticated. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211682 | TELEPHONY FRAUD PREVENTION - A method for guarding against telephony-based fraud that includes, at a telephony device, identifying a caller ID of an incoming call or a dialled number of an outgoing call attempt or a number to be dialled. The identified caller ID or dialled number or number to be dialled is then compared against a blacklist of telephone numbers. In the event that a match is found, a warning is presented to a user of the device and/or the call or call attempt is terminated. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211683 | Method and device by telephone entry systems - A method and a device complementing a normally preinstalled telephone entry system with option for certain residents to open an entrance door by calling and presenting their telephone numbers/addresses. Advantageously, the telephone entry system's already existing tele connection, subscription, telephone number/address and possible answering are employed for the functioning. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211684 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR JUDGING CALL TYPE - A method, device and system for judging a call type are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: receiving a call request from a calling terminal, where the call request carries a calling terminal number and a called terminal number; querying a number information storage server for plan information of the calling terminal number and/or the called terminal number according to the call request; and judging the call type of a call service corresponding to the call request according to the plan information of the calling terminal number and the called terminal number. In the embodiments of the present invention, a number information storage server stores and manages the number plan information uniformly, thus reducing the maintenance costs; and the method, device and system for judging a call type enable judging of the call type of a terminal. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211685 | METHOD, APPARATUS, PROXY SERVER AND TERMINAL FOR FILTERING OUT SPAM CALL - A method for filtering out a spam call includes: transmitting test information to a calling terminal when receiving a call request from the calling terminal; determining whether feedback information corresponding to the test information and generated by the calling terminal in a one-key reply manner is correct; if the feedback information is incorrect, determining the call request as a spam call request, and filtering out the call request. An apparatus, a proxy server and a terminal are further provided, so as to effectively determine whether a call request from a calling terminal is a spam call request initiated by a machine or software, therefore improving the security and accuracy of a test, and reducing the cost as there is no need to install a speech recognition system. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211686 | ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SERVICE - An order entry system communicates with the customer over a user interface and at the same time works with an automated installation system for installing network service. The order entry system prompts the customer to place a new service order. The service parameters of the new service order are passed to the installation system. The order entry system notifies the customer of the route and prompts the customer to add a service order for the route to the customer order. If the customer adds the service order to the customer order, the order entry system prompts the customer to reserve the service order or to submit an order for the service. If the customer reserves or submits an order for the service, the order entry system requests the installation system to design an actual communication line circuit to satisfy the order. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211687 | System and Method for Call Flow Generation Via Real-Time Tracking of Guided Problem Resolution - Systems and methods for adapting an existing call flow wherein the call flow further comprises an associated data set, comprising: activating the existing call flow, the existing call flow generating a series of questions designed to obtain information from a caller; determining if an exception condition has occurred; allowing a user to activate an exception call flow in response to the exception condition; retaining the data set associated with the call flow when the exception condition occurred; adapting the data set such that the call flow addresses the exception condition; analyzing the adapted data set to determine if it is unique; and, modifying the existing call flow to incorporate the adapted data set if the adapted data set is unique. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211688 | DATA CONVERTER, DATA CONVERSION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A construction with an improved compression-function execution section is achieved. A data conversion process with use of a plurality of compression-function execution sections and through a plurality of process sequences in which divided data blocks constituting message data are processed in parallel is executed. Each of the plurality of compression-function execution sections performs a process with use of a message scheduling section which receives a corresponding divided data block of the message data to perform a message scheduling process, and a process with use of a chaining variable processing section which receives both of an output from the message scheduling section and an intermediate value as an output from a preceding processing section to generate output data whose number of bits is same as that of the intermediate value through compression of received data. The plurality of compression-function execution sections, respectively performing parallel processing commonly use one or both of the message scheduling section and the chaining variable processing section, and allow a single message scheduling section or a single chaining variable processing section to be utilized. Downsizing of a hardware configuration and simplification of processing steps are achieved by such a construction. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIABLE LENGTH ENCRYPTION - Systems and methods for performing a secure transaction provided. In one embodiment, the method for encrypting data is provided, comprising: selecting clear text data; selecting a symbol set corresponding to the clear text data; encrypting the clear text data using a key, the encrypting comprising the operations of: defining a first portion and a second portion of the clear text data, encrypting the second portion using the key to generate an encryption mask, and encrypting the clear text data by applying the encryption mask to the first portion using a modulus operation while preserving the second portion as unencrypted, thereby resulting in encrypted data comprising an encrypted first portion and an unencrypted second portion; and wherein the encrypted data has the same format as the clear text data, has the same length as the clear text data, and uses the symbol set of the clear text data. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211690 | PROTOCOL FOR PROTECTING CONTENT PROTECTION DATA - Through the use of a one-time-use nonce, the transfer of cryptographic data over a potentially insecure link in a two-factor content protection system is avoided. The nonce may be stored encrypted with a public key from a smart card. A random key may be used to produce a storage key, which is used to encrypt a content protection key. The random key may be stored, encrypted with a key derived from the nonce. Instead of receiving a raw content protection key over the potentially insecure link, the raw nonce is received and, once used, replaced with a new nonce. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211691 | COMMON KEY BLOCK ENCRYPTION DEVICE, COMMON KEY BLOCK ENCRYPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A common key block encryption device includes a first hash unit applying locked key permutation to a variable-length s-bit plaintext, and outputting a fixed-length n-bit first block and a second (s-n)-bit block; a first encryption processing unit outputting a third block encrypted by element of n-bit block tweakable block cipher using tweak, inputting the first block; a second encryption processing unit generating a random number (s-n)-bit block with a result of group computation of the third block and the first block as input by using an arbitrary cipher having theoretical security at least against a known-plaintext attack; and a second hash unit applying the locked key permutation to the result of the group computation of the random number block and the second block, and to the third block to output a fifth n-bit block and a sixth (s-n)-bit block. The fifth and sixth blocks are concatenated into an s-bit encryption. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211692 | Secure Computation Using a Server Module - A server module evaluates a circuit based on concealed inputs provided by respective participant modules, to provide a concealed output. By virtue of this approach, no party to the transaction (including the sever module) discovers any other party's non-concealed inputs. In a first implementation, the server module evaluates a garbled Boolean circuit. This implementation also uses a three-way oblivious transfer technique to provide a concealed input from one of the participant modules to the serer module. In a second implementation, the server module evaluates an arithmetic circuit based on ciphertexts that have been produced using a fully homomorphic encryption technique. This implementation modifies multiplication operations that are performed in the evaluation of the arithmetic circuit by a modifier factor; this removes bounds placed on the number of the multiplication operations that can be performed. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211693 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR KEY MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method of key management and to an apparatus ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211694 | DISABLING A CLEARTEXT CONTROL WORD LOADING MECHANISM IN A CONDITIONAL ACCESS SYSTEM - Various embodiments enable a chipset of a receiver of a conditional access system to block cleartext control words provided to the chipset from being used to descramble content. Hereto the chipset comprises a trigger module configured to obtain a disable command that is received with an encrypted Chip Set Session Key (CSSK) and, if the disable command is obtained, have the chipset block any cleartext control word. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211695 | BROADCASTING VARIANTS OF DIGITAL SIGNALS IN A CONDITIONAL ACCESS SYSTEM - The invention provides a headend system, a receiver, a smartcard and a conditional access system enabling distribution of multiple variants of a part of a digital signal, such as multiple variants of an audio part or a video part of a data stream, without requiring receivers to be updated. The digital signal generated by the headend system enables a receiver to receive and process the digital signal without requiring identification of the copies in the second digital signal. Error handling capabilities of the receiver ensure that only one copy is used in the output of the receiver. The error handling capabilities are triggered by having the receiver use one decryption key for descrambling all copies, resulting in one copy being descrambled correctly and the other copies being descrambled incorrectly. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211696 | System and Method for Securing Wireless Transmissions - A system and method for securing wireless transmissions is provided. A method for transmitting secure messages by a transmitter includes encoding a message with a secrecy code to produce L output codewords, where L is an integer value greater than one. The secrecy code includes a first security code and a second security code. The method also includes transmitting one of the L output codewords to a communications device when a channel quality of a channel between the transmitter and the communications device satisfies a criterion, and repeating the transmitting for any remaining L−1 output codewords. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CALCULATION OF A POLYNOMIAL-BASED HASH FUNCTION AND THE ERINDALE-PLUS HASHING ALGORITHM - The present invention is a polynomial-based hash function involving an ERINDALE-PLUS hashing algorithm. The function may involve several elements, including splitting with jumping, masking and bit string generation which generally involves representing an initial sequence of bits as a specially constructed set of polynomials. The means of achieving the function may involve methods that achieve improved speeds, such as requirements related to the size of the bit strings to cause the bit strings to be compatible with splitting and jumping and to involve iterated masking of a degree greater than 0. Additionally the function may involve recursive padding methods and a construction of MAC for considered hash function. The sum of the elements of the present invention is the provision of enhanced security as well as improved speed of processing for messages. Thus, messages processed by way of the present invention may be less prone to attack. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211698 | Encryption/Decryption System for a Mobile Device - An encryption/decryption system for a mobile phone configured to make a voice packet encryption/decryption during mobile communication. The mobile phone has a connecting device for an external plug-in device. The external plug-in device has a control unit, a security chip. When a security communication mode is activated, the communication between users can be prevented from being disclosed. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211699 | Key distribution method and system - This invention discloses a key distribution method and system. The method includes: notifying, by an application provider management platform, a supplementary security domain of an application provider that is set on a smart card and corresponds to the application provider management platform to generate a public/private key pair including a public cryptographic key and a private cryptographic key; receiving, by the application provider management platform, the public cryptographic key from the supplementary security domain of the application provider that has been encrypted by the public key of the application provider obtained in advance and has been signed by a Controlling Authority Security Domain (CASD) on the smart card through a card issuer management platform; authenticating, by the application provider management platform, a signature and using the private key of the application provider to perform decryption to obtain the public cryptographic key; and sending, by the application provider management platform, a trust point's public is key used for external authentication and a certificate of the supplementary security domain of the application provider to the supplementary security domain of the application provider after the trust point's public key and the certificate have been encrypted by the public cryptographic key of the supplementary security domain of the application provider and the encrypted data have been signed by the private key of the application provider, to complete distribution of a key of the supplementary security domain. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211700 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SECURITY KEY EXCHANGE AND SYSTEM PERTAINING TO SAME - The present invention relates to a device and method that enable a security key to be shared using security key exchange between two terminals, and a system that supports the same. To achieve the above, an in-house generated public key is divided into two, said two public keys that have been divided are delivered to counterpart devices via different pathways, and the two public keys delivered from counterpart devices are used to predict the public key of the counterpart device. In addition, said predicted public key is verified, and said verified public key is used to form a master key. Subsequently, said generated master key is verified, and said master key that has been verified is used to exchange data with the counterpart device. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211701 | METHOD FOR EXCHANGING KEYS BY INDEXATION IN A MULTIPATH NETWORK - A method for generating encryption keys and for exchanging the parameters making it possible to generate the keys in a network comprising n entities X wishing to exchange data, the method includes the steps: the n entities elect a common array generator (G | 2011-09-01 |
20110211702 | Signal Generation for Binaural Signals - A device for generating a binaural signal based on a multi-channel signal representing a plurality of channels and intended for reproduction by a speaker configuration having a virtual sound source position associated to each channel, is described. It includes a correlation reducer for differently processing, and thereby reducing a correlation between, at least one of a left and a right channel of the plurality of channels, a front and a rear channel of the plurality of channels, and a center and a non-center channel of the plurality of channels, in order to obtain an inter-similarity reduced set of channels; a plurality of directional filters, a first mixer for mixing outputs of the directional filters modeling the acoustic transmission to the first ear canal of the listener, and a second mixer for mixing outputs of the directional filters modeling the acoustic transmission to the second ear canal of the listener. According to another aspect, a center level reduction for forming the downmix for a room processor is performed. According to even another aspect, an inter-similarity decreasing set of head-related transfer functions is formed. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211703 | Stereo Compatible Multi-Channel Audio Coding - A parametric representation of a multi-channel audio signal having parameters suited to be used together with a monophonic downmix signal to calculate a reconstruction of the multi-channel audio signal can efficiently be derived in a stereo-backwards compatible way when a parameter combiner is used to generate the parametric representation by combining a one or more spatial parameters and a stereo parameter resulting in a parametric representation having a decoder usable stereo parameter and an information on the one or more spatial parameters that represents, together with the decoder usable stereo parameter, the one or more spatial parameters. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211704 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING CROSS-POLARIZATION ISOLATION VALUE AND 1 dB GAIN COMPRESSION POINT - Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for receiving a signal at a monitoring station, determining a transmit cross-polarization isolation value and/or 1 dB gain compression point based at least in part on the signal having one or more polarities; and outputting at about real-time the determination of the transmit cross-polarization isolation value and/or the 1 dB gain compression point to a user. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211705 | LOUDSPEAKER RECTIFICATION METHOD - Loudspeaker drivers used in audio systems are subject to performance variance caused by production deviation of components and assembly processes and consequently audio system performance is influenced by the mechanical attributes of individual loudspeaker drivers of which the audio systems are comprised. This invention provides a solution to minimize the variance of duplicate audio system performance by rectifying the signal processing to minimize loudspeaker variance in duplicated or mass production audio systems. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211706 | SOUND EMISSION AND COLLECTION DEVICE AND SOUND EMISSION AND COLLECTION METHOD - Provided is a sound emission and collection device capable of estimating the azimuth of a sound source (such as a main utterer) precisely without any processing load. The sound emission and collection device ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211707 | REALISATION OF CONTROLLER TRANSFER FUNCTION FOR ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION - An apparatus for realizing an active noise cancellation control law transfer function between a sensing microphone and a speaker. The apparatus includes a multiplicity of filters. Each filter is operable over a different frequency range. At least one filter has an adjustable parameter whereby the filter can be adjusted such that the filters cumulatively realize a required control law transfer function. The adjustable parameter may in one embodiment be the amplitude. In other embodiments, it may be other parameters. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211708 | SIMULTANEOUS ENHANCEMENT OF TRANSMISSION LOSS AND ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT USING ACTIVATED CAVITIES - A method and apparatus for providing simultaneous enhancement of transmission loss and absorption coefficient using activated cavities is presented. A layer of material is provided, and a backing plate having a plurality of cavities on the top surface of said backing plate, is disposed adjacent a top surface of said layer of material. A screen is disposed along the top surface of said cavities on said backing plate and at least one cavity includes an actuator disposed within the cavity and a control system receiving a signal from the microphone and receiving a signal from the accelerometer and providing a drive signal to the actuator to provide an acoustic output to provide simultaneous insertion loss and absorption which serves to minimize a linear combination of the signal from the microphone and the signal from the accelerometer. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211709 | HEADPHONES APPARATUS - The headphones apparatus has at least one ear cup, and at least one operating element coupled to the ear cup for the regulation of one or more audio functions. To facilitate the regulation for the user, the operating element can include an annular dial that is accessible from outside of the ear cup. The annular dial may be rotational, shiftable, tiltable, depressable, deformable, or any combination thereof, relative to the ear cup to operably regulate one or more audio functions of the ear cup. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211710 | VOICE OUTPUT DEVICE - A sound output device is configured to be installed in a vehicle. The sound output device includes a driving-status detector for detecting a driving status of the vehicle, a sound signal generator for generating a reference signal in response to the detected driving status, first and second units for processing the generated reference signal, first and second sound output parts for outputting the reference signals processed by the first and second units. The first unit includes a phase shifter for shifting a phase of the reference signal such that the reference signals output from the first sound output part and the second sound output part have a phase difference between the respective reference signals. This sound output device allows a passenger at a predetermined position to hear the sound in a preferable condition. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211711 | Factor setting device and noise suppression apparatus - In a noise suppression apparatus, an index setter sets an exponent K that is a positive value. A factor setter variably sets a suppression factor according to the exponent K. A noise suppressor generates an audio signal from which a noise component is suppressed through noise suppression process of suppressing a Kth power of an amplitude of the noise component at each frequency thereof in a Kth power of an amplitude of the audio signal at each frequency thereof to a degree determined according to the suppression factor set by the factor setting part. Preferably, the index setter sets the exponent K to a value less than 0.1. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211712 | VOLUME CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, AND AMPLIFYING APPARATUS - A volume control system comprises: an amplifying apparatus; and a controller connectable to the amplifying apparatus. The amplifying apparatus includes; a first receiving section for receiving a volume value from the controller, a first input section into which an instruction for changing the volume value is input by a user's operation, a first transmitting section for transmitting the volume value input into the first input section to the controller, and a volume control section for, when the first receiving section receives the volume value or the changed volume value is input into the first input section, controlling a volume value of the amplifying apparatus based on the volume value. The controller includes; a display section for displaying the volume value on a display device, a second receiving section for receiving the volume value from the amplifying apparatus, a changing section for changing the volume value to be displayed on the display device by the display section into the volume value received by the second receiving section; a second input section into which an instruction for changing the volume value to be displayed on the display device by the display section is input by a user's operation; and a second transmitting section for, when the instruction for changing the volume value to be displayed on the display device by the display section is input by the user's operation, transmitting the changed volume value to the amplifying apparatus. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211713 | ATTACHABLE GUITAR AMPLIFIER AND EFFECTS APPARATUS - A combination pickup, multi-effects processor and amplifying apparatus that is attachable, and detachable to an acoustical guitar and does enable a player of an acoustic guitar to produce, modify and amplify a myriad of sounds, and tones that are normally associated with that of an electrical guitar. The apparatus performs these functions while remaining an independent self-contained accessory that can be easily attached to, and detached from, an acoustic guitar with minimal intrusion to the body structure, appearance, and acoustical properties of the guitar | 2011-09-01 |
20110211714 | ANTENNA UNIT AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION AND/OR RECEIVING UNIT - There is provided an antenna unit comprising an antenna element and at least one high-dielectric supplemental element disposed in the proximity of the antenna element. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211715 | HEARING DEVICE WITH FEEDBACK-REDUCTION FILTERS OPERATED IN PARALLEL, AND METHOD - A hearing device has a signal-processing apparatus for processing an input signal into an output signal, and a feedback-canceller apparatus for reducing feedback artifacts on the basis of the input signal and the output signal. The feedback-canceller apparatus has an adaptive, first filter, for establishing a set of filter coefficients for a predefined feedback situation. The feedback-canceller apparatus is configured to store the set of filter coefficients. It has at least one second filter, which can be operated directly parallel to the first filter on the basis of the stored set of filter coefficients. The adaptive, first filter can be continuously adapted to a current feedback situation, and the feedback-canceller apparatus is configured such that in the current feedback situation it automatically selects either the first or the second filter. As a result, it generally only requires a simple switchover, but not a complete adaptation. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211716 | HEARING DEVICE WITH A CONDUCTING ELEMENT, IN PARTICULAR A SOUND TUBE - In a hearing aid provision can be made for a housing that is worn outside of an auditory canal of a user. Then, sound or electrical signals are conducted into the auditory canal from the housing. To this end, provision can be made for a conducting element such as a sound tube or a cable. The conducting element is then connected to the housing via a coupling element. This connection must be embodied such that the coupling element does not detach from the housing on its own accord. The user must be able to remove the coupling element and the conducting element from the housing in a simple fashion in order e.g. to be able to clean the former two parts. Accordingly, a coupling element and a housing can be interconnected in a detachable fashion, with this connection containing a dovetail joint for the hearing aid. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211717 | HEARING AID WITH ADAPTIVE BULK BIASING POWER MANAGEMENT - A power management system ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211718 | HEARING AID - In an embodiment, a hearing aid ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211719 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In a display device according to the present invention, an image display panel is mounted in a casing including a front cabinet and a back cabinet, and a speaker is mounted in a bottom portion of the back cabinet. A support piece is provided projecting on an inner surface of the front cabinet, a rib is provided projecting on an inner surface of the back cabinet, and the speaker is sandwiched between the support piece and the rib. The support piece can independently temporarily fix the speaker on the support piece without sandwiching the speaker between the support piece and the rib. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211720 | MULTIPLE APERTURE DIFFRACTION DEVICE - A horn assembly for high frequency acoustic speakers. In an array of speakers, a spacing between adjacent speakers needs to be less than the wavelength of sound being emitted in order to combine effectively. For high frequency sound, a relatively small wavelength imposes a limitation on such a spacing. Such limitations are sometimes physically difficult to implement. A horn assembly increases the exit dimensions of the small speaker to larger desired dimensions by utilizing one or more plugs that divide a larger horn cavity into smaller horn cavities and creating similar pathlengths thereto. The similar pathlengths and the smaller horn cavities having desired dimensions allow the exiting sound to combine effectively. The overall dimensions of the exit portion of the horn assembly can be selected to match the dimensions of larger bass speakers, thus allowing improved arraying of the high frequency speakers with respect to other larger speakers. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211721 | ADAPTIVE NOISE GENERATING DEVICE - An acoustic adaptive noise generating device in the form of a flat panel loudspeaker is suitable for increasing people's powers of concentration in acoustically difficult surroundings. The adaptive noise generating device includes a carrier panel, an actuator arranged on the carrier panel. A control device is connected to the actuator and permits adjustment of noise signals emitted by the actuator. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211722 | Acoustic device & method of making acoustic device - An acoustic device comprising a diaphragm ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211723 | EARPHONE CUSHIONS - A cushion includes a first material and a second material and is formed into a first region and a second region. The first region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the concha of a human ear. The second region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the ear canal of a human ear. The first and second regions together define an interior surface shaped to couple the cushion to acoustic elements of an earphone. The first material occupies a first volume adjacent to the interior surface. The second material occupies a second volume between the first material and the first and second outer surfaces. The first and second materials are of different hardnesses. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211724 | EARPHONE - An earphone that can be used with its using mode selected, to be excellent in the handiness, by optionally changing the cord from its normal hang down state easily to an ear hanging state, or oppositely from the ear hanging state to the hang down state, to meet the user's using state or taste, is provided. The earphone has a front housing | 2011-09-01 |
20110211725 | LOUDSPEAKER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING LOUDSPEAKER - There is provided an elongated loudspeaker having high sound quality that is unlikely to cause break-up resonances and is capable of obtaining flat frequency characteristics. The loudspeaker includes: an elongated flat-plate-shaped diaphragm; a frame having an opening portion larger than the diaphragm; an edge placed between an inner periphery of the frame around the opening portion and an outer periphery of the diaphragm and supporting and allowing the diaphragm to easily vibrate in an emission direction of sound waves; a coupling cone extending from a rear surface of the diaphragm and including two elongated portions arranged parallel to a longitudinal direction of the diaphragm, the coupling cone vibrating in conjunction with the diaphragm; a voice coil wound around at least the two elongated portions; and a magnetic circuit that imparts, to the voice coil, driving force for generating sound waves. A distance between the two elongated portions of the coupling cone is smaller at end positions than at root positions, the end positions being far from the rear surface of the diaphragm and the root positions being close to the rear surface. The two elongated portions are of such shapes and sizes that the entire two elongated portions are included within respective magnetic gaps of the magnetic circuit when the coupling cone vibrates in conjunction with the diaphragm, the entire two elongated portions extending from the root positions to the end positions, respectively. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211726 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA RELATIVE TO A FOCUS OF ATTENTION WITHIN THE OVERALL IMAGE - This invention provides a system and method for processing discrete image data within an overall set of acquired image data based upon a focus of attention within that image. The result of such processing is to operate upon a more limited subset of the overall image data to generate output values required by the vision system process. Such output value can be a decoded ID or other alphanumeric data. The system and method is performed in a vision system having two processor groups, along with a data memory that is smaller in capacity than the amount of image data to be read out from the sensor array. The first processor group is a plurality of SIMD processors and at least one general purpose processor, co-located on the same die with the data memory. A data reduction function operates within the same clock cycle as data-readout from the sensor to generate a reduced data set that is stored in the on-die data memory. At least a portion of the overall, unreduced image data is concurrently (in the same clock cycle) transferred to the second processor while the first processor transmits at least one region indicator with respect to the reduced data set to the second processor. The region indicator represents at least one focus of attention for the second processor to operate upon. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211727 | Authentication of "SOURCE" for brands - A unique identifier and Authentication System is created to Authenticate to interested parties the BRAND “SOURCE” of: articles (such as clothing, accessories, jewels, fragrances, manufactures, etc.); of authorized dealers for such articles (wholesalers, retailers, etc.); of authorized service entities for such articles: and for the like; of the BRAND “SOURCE” which the provider of the article desires to authenticate its Brand source to the party acquiring the article(s) to substantiate to that acquiring party that they are receiving a genuine article and/or dealing with a “SOURCE” authorized entity. The Authentication System accommodates not only camera enabled imagers and hard wiring but also camera enabled smart phones and internet communications. In addition to responding, in real time, to Authentication Inquiries the system establishes a communication link between the “SOURCE” and the inquirer for marketing and other APP like matters. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211728 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system assigns a comment to a specific region of an image, and calculates a total value of evaluation scores based on assigned comments for each image as an evaluation value of that image. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211729 | Method for Generating Visual Hulls for 3D Objects as Sets of Convex Polyhedra from Polygonal Silhouettes - A visual hull for a 3D object is generated by using a set of silhouettes extracted from a set of images. First, a set of convex polyhedra is generated as a coarse 3D model of the object. Then for each image, the convex polyhedra are refined by projecting them to the image and determining the intersections with the silhouette in the image. The visual hull of the object is represented as union of the convex polyhedra. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211730 | IMAGE MEASURING DEVICE FOR CALIBRATION TEST AND METHOD THEREOF - An image measuring device comprises a storage, a processor, an acquiring module, a positioning module and a determining module. The acquiring module acquires an image of a production object by scanning the production object. The positioning module positions the image of the production object in a coordinate plane according to predefined parameters and acquiring the edge of the image of the production object. The determining module determines whether the difference between the positioned image and the predefined parameters is over a tolerance, wherein the acquiring module, the positioning module and the determining module are stored in the storage and controlled by the processor. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211731 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR DIVIDING REGIONS BY USING FEATURE POINTS AND MOBILE ROBOT USING THE SAME - An apparatus, method, and medium for dividing regions by using feature points and a mobile robot cleaner using the same are provided. A method includes forming a grid map by using a plurality of grid points that are obtained by detecting distances of a mobile robot from obstacles; extracting feature points from the grid map; extracting candidate pairs of feature points, which are in the range of a region division element, from the feature points; extracting a final pair of feature points, which satisfies the requirements of the region division element, from the candidate pair of feature points; forming a critical line by connecting the final pair of feature points; and forming a final region in accordance with the size relationship between regions formed of a closed curve which connects the critical line and the grid map. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211732 | MULTIPLE EXPOSURE HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE CAPTURE - Techniques for creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image within a consumer grade digital camera from a series of images of a scene captured at different exposure levels, and displaying the HDR image on the camera's built-in display are provided. The approach employs mixing images of the series to incorporate both scene shadow and highlight details, and the removing of “ghost” image artifacts appearing in the mixed HDR image resulting from movement in the scene over the time the series images are captured. The low computational resource utilization of the image mixing and ghost removal processing operations, along with the ability to commence image mixing and ghost removal prior to the acquisition of all series images, can significantly reduce the time required to generate and display a tone mapped HDR image. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211733 | CROP THINNING SYSTEMS - A thinning or weeding apparatus includes an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes an automated visual detection system which includes a visual sensor system and an image processing system capable of receiving an image from the visual sensor system. The image processing apparatus then processes the image in the image processing system to determine where plants are located and to determine which plants will be thinned or weeded and which will not. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211734 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING IDENTITY MATCHING - A method of managing large scale biometric data identity matching includes identifying a plurality of biometric modalities to be used in conducting identity matches, determining one of the biometric modalities to be a primary biometric modality and determining whether at least one matching algorithm is compatible with matrix entries. When the at least one matching algorithm is compatible with a matrix entry the method includes assigning a plurality of matching systems to the matrix entry. The matching systems are configured to conduct 1:1 or 1:few matching after conducting a 1:N identity matching. Furthermore, the method includes comparing a probe against enrollment data records stored in a corresponding matching system, and storing information regarding a matching enrollment data record in a queue when the probe matches an enrollment data record. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211735 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING IDENTIFICATION MATCHING - A method of conducting pattern matching is provided that includes establishing probe categories. Each probe category corresponds to pattern characteristics of one of a plurality of subpopulations. Moreover, the method includes coordinating combinations of the subpopulations and probe categories with pattern matching systems such that each combination corresponds to at least one of a plurality of the pattern matching systems, obtaining pattern data for an object, configuring the obtained object pattern data as a probe, and determining the probe category of the probe. Furthermore, the method includes conducting a matching transaction between the probe and each of the subpopulations using the at least one matching system corresponding to each combination of subpopulation and the determined probe category, and determining at least one candidate match when the probe matches at least one enrollment data record in the at least one matching system of any of the subpopulations. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211736 | Ranking Based on Facial Image Analysis - A user's collection of images may be analyzed to identify people's faces within the images, then create clusters of similar faces, where each of the clusters may represent a person. The clusters may be ranked in order of size to determine a relative importance of the associated person to the user. The ranking may be used in many social networking applications to filter and present content that may be of interest to the user. In one use scenario, the clusters may be used to identify images from a second user's image collection, where the identified images may be pertinent or interesting to the first user. The ranking may also be a function of user interactions with the images, as well as other input not related to the images. The ranking may be incrementally updated when new images are added to the user's collection. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211737 | Event Matching in Social Networks - Images from two image databases may be correlated based on identifying a common event, which may be determined by image metadata as well as image content. The image metadata may include timestamps, geotagging metadata, or other tags, as well as input from a social network application in some embodiments. The image content may include analysis to find common persons based on facial recognition or color histograms, common background components, or other common features. The common event may be used to identify images that may be shared among the participants of the event by a social network application, as well as other purposes. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211738 | 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. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211739 | 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. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211740 | FINGERPRINT PREVIEW QUALITY AND SEGMENTATION - A ridge flow based fingerprint image quality determination can be achieved independent of image resolution, can be processed in real-time and includes segmentation, such as fingertip segmentation, therefore providing image quality assessment for individual fingertips within a four finger flat, dual thumb, or whole hand image. A fingerprint quality module receives from one or more scan devices ridge-flow—containing imagery which can then be assessed for one or more of quality, handedness, historical information analysis and the assignment of bounding boxes. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211741 | EVALUATION APPARATUS OF FLUORESCENCE POPULATION, EVALUATION METHOD OF FLUORESCENCE POPULATION AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Statistical data of a fluorescence population is obtained easily with high accuracy. To achieve this, an evaluation apparatus of fluorescence population of the present application includes an input unit inputting a fluorescence observation image (If) of a fluorescence population and a transillumination observation image (It) having a same field of view as the fluorescence observation image, a first detecting unit (Mt) detecting, as a first area, an area in which a cellular image exists on the transillumination observation image being input, a setting unit (If′) setting, as a reference area, an area corresponding to the first area on the fluorescence observation image being input, and an obtaining unit obtaining fluorescence intensity data of a fluorescence image from the reference area in the fluorescence observation image. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211742 | PERFUSION IMAGING - A system includes a perfusion information determiner ( | 2011-09-01 |
20110211743 | Change Assessment Method - This invention relates to a method of assessing the change in size of cancerous lesions in humans utilizing CT scans through the application of a boundary detection algorithm capable of detecting subtle changes in CT images. The change assessment method may include the steps for defining boundary regions on a CT scan image, analyzing said boundaries utilizing a computational program containing statistical analysis techniques, and producing a medically useful output showing any change in lesion size. The change assessment method may also be interfaced with other medical diagnostic techniques or devices that are known in the art. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MR IMAGE SCAN AND ANALYSIS - A system and method for an MRI apparatus includes an MRI system having a computer programmed to initiate a first scan procedure to acquire MR data and locate a feature of interest of the object, initiate a second scan procedure when a feature of interest of the object is located, and determine if an anomaly of the feature of interest exists. The computer is programmed to initiate a third scan procedure to scan the anomaly and reconstruct an image of the located anomaly if the anomaly exists. The first scan procedure includes a scan table motion and scan data acquisition commands. The second scan procedure includes scan table motion and scan data acquisition commands to acquire MR data from the feature of interest. The third scan procedure includes scan table motion and scan data acquisition commands to acquire MR data from the located anomaly. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211745 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH A MULTI-STAGE CLASSIFIER - The systems and methods described herein provide for fast and accurate image segmentation through the application of a multi-stage classifier to an image data set. An image processing system is provided having a processor configured to apply a multi-stage classifier to the image data set to identify a distinctive region. The multi-stage classifier can include two or more component classifiers. The first component classifier can have a sensitivity level configured to identify one or more target regions in the image data set and the second component classifier can have a specificity level configured to confirm the presence of the distinctive region in any identified target regions. Also provided is a classification array having multiple multi-stage classifiers for identification and confirmation of more than one distinctive region or for the application of different classification configurations to the image data set to identify a specific distinctive region. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211746 | PROCESSING FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for processing financial documents are presented. Image data associated with a first financial document, such as a check to be deposited, may be received. A first multivariate vector may be determined based on the received image data, and the first multivariate vector may include a plurality of vector components. Each vector component may represent a distance from an edge of the first financial document to a feature of the first financial document, and each vector component may be a ratio of distances. The determined first multivariate vector may be compared with a second multivariate vector associated with a second financial document. Based on the comparing, a confidence score for the first financial document may be determined. A transaction involving the first financial document may be authorized in response to the confidence score exceeding a threshold. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211747 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED MARKING OF DEFECTS ON WEBS OF MATERIAL - A system for the characterization of webs that permits the identification of anomalous regions on the web to be performed at a first time and place, and permits the localization and marking of actual defects to be performed at a second time and place. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211748 | Full-Field Mask Error Enhancement Function - A technique for determining a full-field Mask Error Enhancement Function (MEEF) associated with a mask pattern for use in a photo-lithographic process is described. In this technique, simulated wafer patterns corresponding to the mask pattern are generated at an image plane in an optical path associated with the photo-lithographic process. Then, the full-field MEEF is determined. This full-field MEEF includes MEEF values in multiple directions at positions along one or more contours that define boundaries of one or more features in the one or more simulated wafer patterns. Moreover, at least one of the MEEF values is at a position on a contour where a critical dimension for a feature associated with the contour is undefined. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211749 | System And Method For Processing Video Using Depth Sensor Information - A method for processing video using depth sensor information, comprising the steps of: dividing the image area into a number of bins roughly equal to the depth sensor resolution, with each bin corresponding to a number of adjacent image pixels; adding each depth measurement to the bin representing the portion of the image area to which the depth measurement corresponds; averaging the value of the depth measurement for each bin to determine a single average value for each bin; and applying a threshold to each bin of the registered depth map to produce a threshold image. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MISALIGNMENT - An apparatus for determining misalignment between a first image and a second image, the first and second images being viewable stereoscopically, the apparatus comprising:
| 2011-09-01 |
20110211751 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MISALIGNMENT - and second images being viewable stereoscopically, the method comprising: determining a feature position within the first image and a corresponding feature position within the second image; defining, within the first image and the second image, the optical axis of the cameras capturing said respective images; and calculating the misalignment between at least one of scale, roll or vertical translation of the feature position within the first image and the corresponding feature position within the second image, the misalignment being determined in dependence upon the location of the feature position of the first image and the corresponding feature position of the second image relative to the defined optical axis of the respective images is described. A corresponding apparatus is also described. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211752 | Image Processing for Aberration Correction - Processing of a digital image that has been recorded through an optical system is described, the image being in a raw format matrix of picture elements and comprising a plurality of subsets of picture elements, each subset corresponding to a color component. The method comprises analyzing values of picture elements of the color components in terms of spatial features, resulting in at least one calculated parameter that is representative of aberration caused by the optical system, and performing demosaicing of the digital image by, for each picture element under consideration, defining a kernel comprising picture elements that are to be considered during the demosaicing, the definition of the kernel being dependent on the at least one parameter that is representative of the aberration. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211753 | Automatic processing of pre-selected filters that are associated with each photo location within the template in relation to creating the photobook - Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a Photo Book using digital images based on pre-assigned templates and filters designed for a particular type of an event, such as weddings and portraits. The placement of the photos and subsequent processing of the photos implements pre-defined templates and pre-defined filters. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211754 | Tracking body parts by combined color image and depth processing - A method for image processing includes receiving a depth image of a scene containing a human subject and receiving a color image of the scene containing the human subject. A part of a body of the subject is identified in at least one of the images. A quality of both the depth image and the color image is evaluated, and responsively to the quality, one of the images is selected to be dominant in processing of the part of the body in the images. The identified part is localized in the dominant one of the images, while using supporting data from the other one of the images. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211755 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PAGE BOUNDARIES - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for detecting page boundaries which are capable of accurately detecting complete page boundaries and dealing with many kinds of complex conditions. The method comprises: an edge image detecting step for detecting an edge image from the book document image; a horizontal page boundary detecting step for detecting top page boundaries and bottom page boundaries on the edge image; a binding center line detecting step for detecting the binding center line by searching an intersection point of the left page and the right page on the top page boundaries and the bottom page boundaries; a page width determining step for determining the page width of the book document image; and a vertical page boundary determining step for determining the left page boundary and the right page boundary by using the top page boundaries, the bottom page boundaries, the binding center line and the page width. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211756 | DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA NON-INTEGER-RATIO BAYER DOMAIN SCALER - An apparatus having a buffer and a circuit is disclosed. The buffer may be configured to receive a digital image. The digital image generally has (i) a Bayer color representation and (ii) two initial dimensions in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction respectively. The circuit may be configured to generate a resample image in a signal by down-sampling the digital image in the Bayer color representation such that (i) the resample image has two resample dimensions, (ii) at least one of the resample dimensions is smaller than a respective at least one of the initial dimensions and (iii) the respective at least one initial dimension is a non-integer multiple of the at least one resample dimension. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211757 | COLOR IMAGE ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING A CORRELATION BETWEEN CHROMINANCE COMPONENTS - A color image encoding and decoding method and apparatus use a correlation between chrominance components in order to improve coding efficiency. The color image decoding method includes: transforming chrominance components of a color image in each of two or more inter-prediction modes, calculating costs for the conversion values in each of the two or more inter-prediction modes using a predetermined cost function, selecting one of the two or more inter-prediction modes based on the calculation result, and outputting conversion values of the selected inter-prediction mode; entropy encoding the output conversion values. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211758 | MULTI-IMAGE SHARPENING AND DENOISING USING LUCKY IMAGING - The multi-image sharpening and denoising technique described herein creates a clean (low-noise, high contrast), detailed image of a scene from a temporal series of images of the scene. The technique employs a process of image alignment to remove global and local camera motion plus a novel weighted image averaging procedure that avoids sacrificing sharpness to create a resultant high-detail, low-noise image from the temporal series. In addition, the multi-image sharpening and denoising technique can employ a dehazing procedure that uses a spatially varying airlight model to dehaze an input image. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211759 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON CHARACTER ORIENTATION - A character recognition apparatus and method based on a character orientation are provided, in which an input image is binarized, at least one character area is extracted from the binarized image, a slope value of the extracted at least one character area is calculated, the calculated slope value is set as a character feature value, and a character is recognized by using a neural network for recognizing a plurality of characters by receiving the set character feature value. Accordingly, the probability of wrongly recognizing a similar character decreases, and a recognition ratio of each character increases. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211760 | Image Capture and Identification System and Process - A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211761 | SURFACE SMOOTHING WITHIN AN EARTH MODEL OF A GEOLOGICAL VOLUME OF INTEREST - Surfaces may be smoothed within an earth model of a geological volume of interest. More specifically, smoothing may be done on a specific surface by smoothing or otherwise altering dip values without changing the position of the surface within the earth model. Dip values may determine certain behaviors of a surface such as reflection and refraction of seismic energy propagating within the earth model. | 2011-09-01 |
20110211762 | IMAGE PROCESSING - A method of selecting a homography model from point correspondences of an associated image pair; a method of filtering point correspondences from a pair of associated images; a method of calculating a homography transformation; and a method of image differencing; including implementing one or more sampling constraints, e.g. partition zones and an exclusion zone, that provide a more even spread of point selection over the image, and/or that provide for selected points to be spread further apart, than would be the case if the one or more sampling constraints were not implemented. Repeated selections of combinations of points may be selected in a deterministic manner, and the deterministic manner may be tailored to an escape condition. | 2011-09-01 |