| 36th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 18 |
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| 20130229456 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a carriage that reciprocates and includes a recording head that ejects liquid and a liquid container that supplies the liquid to the recording head and an optical sensor that includes a light emitting section capable of emitting light toward the carriage and a light receiving section that receives reflected light that is light that has been emitted from the light emitting section and has been reflected by the liquid container. The carriage is provided with a projecting section capable of suppressing incidence of ambient light to the light receiving section of the optical sensor. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229457 | CONTINUOUS INKJET PRINTER CLEANING METHOD - A method of maintaining a printhead includes providing a jetting module including a plurality of nozzles and a drop forming mechanism associated with the plurality of nozzles. A gas flow deflection mechanism is provided and includes a gas flow duct in fluid communication with a gas flow pressure source. A flow of liquid is provided through the nozzles at a pressure sufficient to form jets of the liquid. Liquid drops are formed from the liquid jets using the drop forming mechanism. At least some of the liquid drops are caused to enter the gas flow duct using the gas flow pressure source. Liquid from the liquid drops that entered the gas flow duct is caused to wet at least a portion of the gas flow duct. The liquid is removed from the gas flow duct. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229458 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A liquid ejection device includes: an ejection head configured and arranged to eject liquid from a nozzle; a suction container in which a first suction port, a second suction port that is farther away from the nozzle compared to the first suction port, and a discharge port are formed, air sucked from the first suction port and the second suction port passing through the suction container; and a suction device configured and arranged to suck the air from the discharge port to an outside of the suction container. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229459 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a first head having a plurality of nozzles from which a first liquid including pigments is ejected; a second head having a plurality of nozzles from which a second liquid including no pigments is ejected; a cap device selectively positioned at a capping position and at an uncapping position; a purging executing portion configured to perform a first purging and a second purging, and to perform the first purging greater in number of times than the second purging in a certain purging period and to perform the first purging as the last purging operation in the certain purging period; and a cap controller configured to control a position of the cap device. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229460 | MIST COLLECTION DEVICE AND LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A mist collection device is adapted to collect a mist of liquid generated by ejecting the liquid from nozzles. A suction section of a suction container includes a suction port having an elongated shape whose length in an arrangement direction of the nozzles is greater than a width in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction. A tube section of the suction container is in communication with the suction section and having a hollow tube shape whose longitudinal direction is parallel to the arrangement direction. An outlet section of the suction container is in communication with an inside of the tube section through a discharge port formed at a lower part of the tube section. A collection container collects the mist by turning it into liquid droplets. A suction device generates an air flow flowing from the suction container to the collection container. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229461 | RECORDING METHOD - Provided is a recording method for performing recording by ejecting liquid to a recording medium, the recording method including: preparing a liquid ejection head including an ejection orifice array in which multiple ejection orifices for ejecting the liquid are arranged; and ejecting multiple liquid droplets from the multiple ejection orifices while the recording medium and the liquid ejection head are relatively moved at a speed of 40 inch/s or more to fill a predetermined pixel area on the recording medium with the multiple liquid droplets. A relationship A/12≦b≦25−A/5 is satisfied, where A (inch/s) represents the speed of the relative movement and b (pl) represents an amount of a liquid droplet ejected by one ejection. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229462 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head and a production method wherein the inkjet head is produced by forming a film on a head chip having a channel member with an ink channel formed thereon and joining an end surface of the head chip coated with the film to a nozzle plate. The method includes a step of applying an adhesive containing spherical particles, whose volume average particle diameter is in the range of 0.95*Rz (MV) to 2.0*Rz (MV), in the range of 0.1 volume % to 10.0 volume % to at least one of the end surface of the head chip and a joint surface of the nozzle plate and then joining the nozzle plate. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229463 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A process for producing a liquid ejection head including a recording element substrate having a principal surface and a support member having a color separation wall for ink flow paths and an outer wall, the substrate being narrower than the support member, a plane formed by conducting translation of a lower side of a substrate outer surface perpendicularly to the principal surface having an intersection with an outer wall top surface at a position distant from an inner edge of the outer wall top surface by a outward distance, including applying an adhesive onto top surfaces of the outer and color separation walls such that a surface height of the adhesive at the intersection is higher than that at a position distant from an inner edge of the color separation wall top surface by the outward distance, and bonding and fixing the substrate to the support member with the adhesive. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229464 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, AND LIQUID EJECTING DEVICE - There is provided a method of manufacturing a liquid ejecting head equipped with a piezoelectric layer and an electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer, the method including forming the piezoelectric layer, which is made from a complex oxide having a perovskite structure containing Bi, Fe, Ba and Ti, and which has a residual stress of | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229465 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A piezoelectric device includes: a substrate; a first electrode which is layered over the substrate; a first piezoelectric film which is layered over the first electrode; a metal oxide film which is layered over the first piezoelectric film; a metal film which is layered over the metal oxide film; a second piezoelectric film which is layered over the metal film; and a second electrode which is layered over the second piezoelectric film, wherein a polarizing direction of the first piezoelectric film and a polarizing direction of the second piezoelectric film are different from each other. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229466 | Deflection Plate For Liquid Jet Printer - A liquid jet printing apparatus is provided having a nozzle for emitting a stream of liquid droplets toward a substrate, a charging section for providing an electrical charge to liquid droplets and a pair of electrically conductive deflecting plates for deflecting the liquid droplets to a desired location on the substrate, wherein the inside face of the deflecting plates is provided with dielectric layer to minimize problems associated with liquid droplets collecting and coalescing on the deflecting plates. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229467 | NON-CONTACT METHOD OF REMOVING FLOODED INK FROM PRINTHEAD PAGE - An ink supply system for an inkjet printhead. The ink supply system includes: an ink reservoir for containing ink, the ink reservoir having a flexible wall; a spring contained within the ink reservoir, the spring being configured for biasing the flexible wall away from an opposite wall of the ink reservoir; an ink conduit providing fluid communication between the ink reservoir and the printhead; and a pressure device for positively pressurizing the flexible wall of the ink reservoir against the bias of the spring. The pressure device includes an air pump for positively pressurizing an air chamber communicating with the flexible wall, such that actuation of the air pump causes the wall to move towards the opposite wall against the bias of the spring. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229468 | METHOD OF SUPPLYING FLUID TO A FLUID EJECTION HEAD, FLUID SUPPLY MECHANISM, AND FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A drop in the throughput of continuous printing operations caused by refilling a subtank with ink is suppressed. The control unit of an inkjet printer | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229469 | CARTRIDGE - A cartridge includes a printing material supply port which is configured and arranged to be connected to a printing material supply pipe provided in a printing device. An effective area T of the printing material supply port is the same or more and five times or less than an effective area S of the printing material supply pipe. The effective area T may be set as two times or more and is 4.5 times or less than the effective area S. The effective area T may be set as three times or more and is four times or less than the effective area S. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229470 | CARTRIDGE - A cartridge is adapted to be detachably mounted to a carriage in a printing device with a first surface as a lower side, where, when a distance between the first surface and a second surface is set as a height H and a distance between a third surface and a fourth surface is set as a depth D, the height H is ¼ or more and ⅖ or less of the depth D. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229471 | Process, Dispersion, Ink and Use - A process for preparing a dispersion of encapsulated solid particles in a predominantly organic liquid vehicle, comprising the following steps: i) providing a dispersion comprising a particulate solid, a liquid medium and a polymeric dispersant having at least 3.0 mmoles of reactive groups per g of dispersant; ii) cross-linking the polymeric dispersant via at least some, but not all, of the reactive groups, said cross-linking being performed in the presence of the particulate solid and the liquid medium and resulting in the encapsulation of each solid particle with a cross-linked polymeric dispersant shell; iii) covalently bonding an end-capping agent to the polymeric dispersant via the reactive groups; said process being such that the final organic liquid vehicle comprises one or more organic liquids and optionally water, provided that water is present at no more than 30% by weight based on the dispersion. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229472 | Heated Ink Delivery System - A liquid ink transport assembly mitigates the migration of ink dye from one conduit in a plurality of conduits to another conduit in the plurality of conduits. The liquid ink transport assembly includes a plurality of conduits, each conduit in the plurality having a first end and a second end, the conduits in the plurality being arranged in a parallel configuration with at least one conduit being spatially separated from an adjacent conduit by a first distance that is greater than a second distance spatially separating other conduits in the plurality of conduits, and a heater, the plurality of conduits being positioned proximate to a first side of the heater to enable the heater to heat ink being carried between the first and the second ends of the plurality of conduits. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229473 | Recirculation of ink - An apparatus includes an inkjet assembly having inkjet nozzles through each of which ink flows at a nominal flow rate as it is ejected from the nozzle onto a substrate. Ink is held under a nominal negative pressure associated with a characteristic of a meniscus of the ink in the nozzle when ejection of ink from the nozzle is not occurring. The apparatus includes recirculation flow paths, each flow path having a nozzle end at which it opens into one of the nozzles and another location spaced from the nozzle end that is to be subjected to a recirculation pressure lower than the nominal negative pressure so that ink is recirculated from the nozzle through the flow path at a recirculation flow rate. Each recirculation flow path has a fluidic resistance between the nozzle end and the other location such that a recirculation pressure at the nozzle end of the flow path that results from the recirculation pressure applied at the other location of the flow path is small enough so that any reduction in flow rate below the nominal flow rate when ink is being ejected is less than a threshold, or a change in the nominal negative pressure when ink is not being ejected is less than a threshold, or both. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229474 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A medium support unit of a liquid ejection device has a negative pressure chamber and a medium support surface so that an ejection medium is supported on the medium support surface by suction, and includes a plurality of first recesses and at least one second recess. The first recesses are in communication with a negative pressure generating unit, and aligned along a width direction. The second recess is disposed at a position corresponding to an end part in the width direction of the ejection medium, and arranged to accept liquid ejected from a liquid ejection head. The second recess is in communication with an adjacent one of the first recesses at a position inward of the end part of the ejection medium. The first recesses are respectively in communication with the negative pressure generating unit via the negative pressure chamber partitioned into a plurality of units in the width direction. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229475 | LABEL PRINTER - A label printer is provided. The label printer comprises a stationary housing ( | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229476 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYING METHOD FOR IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS - An image erasing apparatus includes: a paper feeding tray configured to feed a recording medium; a sensor group including a double-feed detection sensor configured to detect double feed of the recording medium and a media sensor configured to detect the thickness of the recording medium; a recording-medium collecting device, a collection box, or a discharge box configured to collect the recording medium; and a recording-medium conveying device connecting the paper feeding tray, the sensor group, and the recording-medium collecting device, the collection box, or the discharge box on a straight line. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229477 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS FOR ERASING IMAGE ON SHEET WHILE CARRYING SHEET - An image erasing apparatus includes: a first carrying section carrying a recording medium; a second carrying section carrying the recording medium; a branching section branching a carrying path into the first carrying section and the second carrying section; a first erasing section erasing an image of the recording medium in the first carrying section; a second erasing section erasing the image of the recording medium in the second carrying section; a third carrying section carrying the recording medium passing through the first erasing section to the second carrying section; and a control section selecting the carrying path of the recording medium depending on an image erasing mode. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229478 | PRINTING SURFACE PROCESSING METHOD AND PRINTING SURFACE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A printing surface processing method includes first forming, second forming and applying. In the first forming, a substantially flat first image expressed with unevenness sense based on a touch and/or a stroke of a brush is formed on a first face of a thermal expansion sheet. In the second forming, a second image constituted of a grayscale image is formed on a second face of the sheet. The grayscale image includes a dark portion and a light portion with densities set to form a substantially uneven shape on the first face. The uneven shape corresponds to the unevenness sense of the first image and unevenness sense of fabric where the first image is supposed to be formed. In the applying, thermal energy is applied to the second image to expand the sheet to form the uneven shape on the first face. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229479 | MARKING HEAD AND MARKING DEVICE - An inner peripheral surface of a tube-shaped inner casing has a regular hexagonal shape when viewed from the axial direction, a plurality of pins are arranged in the inner casing so as to take a posture parallel to the axial direction of the inner casing, and in this arrangement, a plurality of rows of the pins arranged in a predetermined direction are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the row direction of the pins, the adjacent pins of the adjacent rows are offset from each other in the row direction of the pins, and each pin contacts the pins adjacent thereto. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229480 | Print Head, Printer, and Control Method of Printer - In connection with a printer, a platen roller is configured to transport a recording medium. A print head has a head body portion having a printing portion which performs printing on a recording medium and facing the platen roller. A supporting mechanism supports the head body portion, presses the head body portion against the platen roller and moves the head body portion by rotation of the platen roller. When the platen roller rotates in a second direction opposite the first direction, a contact position of the head body portion with respect to the platen roller is shifted while maintaining the head body portion pressed against the platen roller. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229481 | VIDEO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING IMAGES - A mobile terminal includes a communication unit, a display, a camera for obtaining images, and a processor for causing an image to be displayed on the display and for causing images to be communicated via the communication unit. The processor may be further configured to obtain a first image from the camera, obtain a substantial mirror image of the first image to form a second image, display the second image on the display, and communicate the first image to a receiving device via a wireless communication link. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229482 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CAPTURING AND DISPLAYING APPEARANCES - Systems, devices and methods enabling appearance comparison. The system includes at least one interactive imaging and display station. The station includes a mirror-display device capable of selectably operating in either or both a mirror mode or a display mode; an imaging device to capture one or more appearances appearing in a field of view in front of the mirror-display device; and/or an image control unit to select the mode of operation of the mirror-display device according to a user command. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229483 | Functionality for Indicating Direction of Attention - A communication system is described herein which provides an indicator that helps hub participants of a meeting (or other environmental setting) determine a direction of attention of a satellite participant (who is not physically present at the meeting). The indicator can be implemented as a mechanical pointer, a solid-state display mechanism, a rotating display mechanism, a display mechanism which presents visual information that reflects directionality, and so on. The communication system can assess the directionality of the satellite participant based on any combination of control inputs from explicit input mechanism(s) and/or implicit input mechanism(s). The communication system can also choose between explicit and/or implicit control of the indicator based on at least one selection criterion. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229484 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES - A control point detector detects controls points, with which moving images are associated with a region of a panoramic image, by detecting feature points between the panoramic image and a frame of part of the moving images. An alignment processing unit adjusts the alignment of the moving images relative to the panoramic image, based on the control points. A mapping processing unit maps the panoramic image and a still image frame of the moving images the alignment of which adjusted by the alignment processing unit, onto a three-dimensional (3D) panoramic space as textures. A 3D image generator generates a 3D panoramic image, when the three-dimensional panoramic image is viewed in a specified line of sight. When a moving image reproduction unit receives instructions to reproduce the moving images in the 3D panoramic image, the moving image reproduction unit reproduces the moving images. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229485 | Apparatus, a Method and a Computer Program for Video Coding and Decoding - There is disclosed a method, an apparatus, a server, a client and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a computer program stored therein for motion compensated video coding and decoding. Texture block motion information is used to derive disparity/depth motion information. Alternatively, disparity/depth motion information is used to derive texture block motion information. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229486 | ANGLE SENSITIVE PIXEL (ASP)-BASED IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPLICATIONS - An image processing system includes at least two, complementary, angle sensitive pixel (ASP) structures, having a spatial frequency domain ASP output including a background output and a plurality of ASP response outputs, in response to an optical input; an ASP response output subtractor component, which functions to suppress the background output and perform a subtraction of at least two of the ASP response outputs; and a processing component that can process the subtracted spatial frequency domain ASP response outputs. An optical domain image processing method includes the steps of providing at least two, complementary, angle sensitive pixel (ASP) structures; obtaining a spatial frequency domain ASP output including a plurality of complementary ASP response outputs, in response to an optical input; performing a wavelet-like transform of the ASP response outputs in the optical domain prior to performing any operation in a digital domain; and obtaining a desired output of the optical input. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229487 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING COMPOSITE IMAGES RELATING TO A THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT - A method for generating a stereoscopic video stream includes composite images having pixels related to a right and a left image of a tridimensional video content; the pixels of the right and left images are inserted into a composite image of the stereoscopic video stream, all the pixels of the right and left images are inserted in the composite image by leaving one of said two images unaltered and breaking up the other one into regions including a plurality of pixels and entering the regions into the composite image; the composite image has larger dimensions than those necessary to allow the insertion of all pixels of the left and right images, and in the pixels of the composite image left after such insertion a depth map is inserted, whose elements correspond to the pixel depth of the tridimensional content. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229488 | Stereoscopic Video Signal Processing Apparatus and Method Thereof - According to one embodiment, a basic format for a 3D signal having a first area to arrange main video data, a second area to arrange graphic data, a third area to arrange depth information of pixels of the main video data, and a fourth area to arrange depth information of pixels of the graphic data are defined. When depth information of pixels of the main video data is generated, a 3D processing module can select whether to use a first pattern obtained by inserting the graphic data into the main video data and a second pattern obtained by not inserting the graphic data into the main video data. A 3D related controller decides on the first or second pattern to be used by the 3D processing module. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229489 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided is a video processing device that quickly identifies a distribution mode of a stream of display data, e.g., subtitles, and reproduces the data according to the distribution mode. The video processing device receives a transport stream including additional information and a data stream of display data to be displayed along with a 3D video, the additional information indicating whether the transport stream further includes left-view and right-view data streams generated from left-view and right-view data used for displaying the display data; determines whether the transport stream includes the left-view and the right-view data streams based on the additional information; and reproduces the left-view and the right-view data from the left-view and the right-view data streams when the transport stream includes the left-view and the right-view data streams, and reproduces alternative left-view and right-view data when the transport stream does not include the left-view and the right-view data streams. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229490 | DIGITAL SIGNAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT ON DIGITAL SIGNAGE - An exemplary digital signage method includes obtaining an image captured by a camera, the image comprising distance information indicating distances between the camera and objects shot by the camera. The method then creates a 3D scene model according to the captured image and the distances between the camera and objects captured by the camera. Next, the method determines whether one or more persons appear in the created 3D scene model. The method then determines a distance between the one or more persons and the digital signage when one or more persons appear in the created 3D scene model, determines the content according to a stored relationship and the determined distance, obtains the determined content, and further controls the at least one display to display the obtained content. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229491 | METHOD OF OPERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SENSOR - In a method of operating a three-dimensional image sensor including a light source module according to example embodiments, the three-dimensional image sensor detects a position change of an object by generating a two-dimensional image in a low power standby mode. The three-dimensional image sensor switches a mode from the low power standby mode to a three-dimensional operating mode when the position change of the object is detected in the two-dimensional image. The three-dimensional image sensor performs gesture recognition for the object by generating a three-dimensional image using the light source module in the three-dimensional operating mode. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN OPERATING UNIT FOR A HOME APPLIANCE - An offset operating unit for a home appliance includes a camera, an evaluation unit which evaluates picture data generated by the camera for recognition of an operating gesture from a predefined set of operating gestures, wherein the operating gestures serve for operator control of the home appliance, wherein the home appliance includes a control device for function control spaced apart from the operating unit, an interface for wireless data transmission between the operating unit and the control device, wherein information regarding the recognized operating gesture is transmitted to the control device via the interface in a wireless manner, and a housing in which the camera, the evaluation unit and the interface are integrated. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229493 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY APPARATUS AND FOCAL PLANE SCANNING AND ABERRATION CORRECTION UNIT - Provided is a 3-dimensional confocal microscopy apparatus which is manufactured by combining a confocal microscope and an optical tweezers technique, wherein a pair of lenses for focal plane displacement where one lens is movable in the optical axis direction is arranged between a fixed objective lens and a fluorescent light imaging camera, and the 3-dimensional confocal microscopy apparatus also includes a mean which corrects the aberration of a fluorescent confocal image obtained by the fluorescent imaging camera. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a 3-dimensional confocal microscopy apparatus which can acquire a 3-dimensional image of a specimen during a manipulation of the specimen using optical tweezers without affecting an optical trap. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229494 | MICROSCOPIC DEVICE AND MICROSCOPIC METHOD FOR THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOCALIZATION OF POINT-LIKE OBJECTS - A microscopic device provides three-dimensional localization of point-like objects and includes two imaging optics, each configured to image a same point-like object located in an object space into two separate image spaces as a focused light distribution. Two detector units are respectively associated with the imaging optics and configured to capture an analyzable light spot in detection points of a detection surface disposed in the respective image space. Each imaging optics includes an optical device that orients the focused light distributions obliquely to a detection axis such that, taking into account the detection point correspondence, the two light spots shift in opposite directions based on a z-position of the point-like object. An evaluation unit brings the detection points of the two detection surfaces into mutual pairwise correspondence and analyzes the two light spots so as to ascertain a lateral x-y position and an axial z-position of the point-like object. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229495 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AN IMAGING SYSTEM - In order to increase the accuracy of the calibration of an imaging system of a radiation treatment system operable to generate a treatment beam, an imaging device generates first data representing a reticle disposed in a beam path of the treatment beam. A first transformation between at least two dimensions of a coordinate system of a radiotherapy device of the radiation treatment system and a two-dimensional (2D) image coordinate system for the imaging device is determined based on the first data. The imaging device generates second data representing a phantom including a plurality of markers. A position of the phantom in the coordinate system of the radiotherapy device is determined based on the second data and the first transformation. A second transformation between three dimensions of the coordinate system of the radiotherapy device and the 2D image coordinate system for the imaging device is determined based on the second data and the determined position of the phantom. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229496 | SMALL THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a small three-dimensional imaging device, including a tilt part that is plastically deformed by an external force so as to compensate for tilting between camera modules, and therefore reduces defects in order to improve productivity. The small three-dimensional imaging device of the present invention includes a main member and a camera module. The camera modules includes a first camera module and a second camera module, which are mounted on the top portion of the main member and are space apart from each other to capture a subject image in three dimensions. The main member include a tilt part for tilting the first camera module or the second camera module relative to the other by means of plastic deformation resulting from an external force. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229497 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MONITORING PHASE SHIFTING BETWEEN STEREOSCOPIC CAMERAS - A method and device for monitoring phase shifting between stereoscopic cameras. The device for monitoring phase shifting between the images from the stereoscopic cameras includes: a circuit ( | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229498 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An image-luminance transformation section receives a video signal on a frame basis, and transforms the video signal into a luminance signal in each frame. A crosstalk ratio setting section sets a crosstalk ratio. An amount-of-correction calculation section calculates a correction luminance signal, for correcting a video signal of a frame n, using a luminance signal of a frame n−1, a luminance signal of the frame n, and the crosstalk ratio. A luminance-image transformation section transforms the correction luminance signal into a correction video signal. A correction section adds the correction video signal to the video signal of the frame n to generate a video signal of the frame n in which the amounts of crosstalk have been corrected. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229499 | GENERATION OF DEPTH IMAGES BASED UPON LIGHT FALLOFF - Technologies pertaining to computing depth images of a scene that includes a mobile object based upon the principle of light falloff are described herein. An infrared image of a scene that includes a mobile object is captured, wherein the infrared image has a plurality of pixels having a respective plurality of intensity values. A depth image for the scene is computed based at least in part upon square roots of respective intensity values in the infrared image. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229500 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR UPGRADING A PROJECTOR TO DISPLAY THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT - An apparatus for upgrading a projector having a two-dimensional projector lens to display three-dimensional content includes a circular polarized filter having at least two polarized zones, and a motor having a shaft on which is mounted the filter. At least one light sensor is disposed in front of the two-dimensional projector lens for providing a spatial control output signal and a temporal control output signal. A processor controls a speed at which the filter is rotated around the shaft of the motor responsive to information determined from the spatial control output signal and the temporal control output signal, such that the filter is automatically adjusted to spin so as to respectively place an appropriate one of the at least two polarized zones of the filter in front of an applicable frame of the video sequence to obtain a polarization thereof representative of the three-dimensional content. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229501 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A video display apparatus includes a display section that carries out a display process based on a drive signal and a drive section that outputs to the display section a first drive signal based on a video signal having undergone video processing in a first video processing section at a fixed cycle and a second drive signal based on a video signal having undergone video processing in a second video processing section at the same cycle as the cycle at which the first drive signal is outputted but at timing shifted from the first drive signal by one-half the cycle. When the video signals contain two-dimensional video images, the first video processing section produces a video signal for two-dimensional video images and the second video processing section produces a video signal for black screen insertion. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229502 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope system includes: a photoelectric conversion element that subjects an image formed by an optical lens to photoelectric conversion; a contour enhancing section that detects an edge component in a picked-up image subjected to the photoelectric conversion, thereby generating a contour enhancement signal; an electronic zoom region determining section that determines an electronic zoom region in the picked-up image based on a strength of the contour enhancement signal; an instruction section that provides an instruction for enlargement/reduction of the image; a parameter setting section that sets a zoom parameter for an electronic zoom section according to the of the instruction section; and the electronic zoom section that upon an input of the instruction of the instruction section, performs an electronic zoom of the picked-up image for the electronic zoom region determined by the electronic zoom region determining section, according to the parameter set by the parameter setting section. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229503 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus includes: a storage that stores operation information including information on an operation on a display screen of a medical image and reference feature data that are feature data of the medical image subjected to the operation; an acquiring unit that acquires image data corresponding to a series of medical images; a processor that calculates feature data of each medical image; a setter that compares the feature data calculated by the image processor with the stored reference feature data, and, when reference feature data having a correspondence to the feature data exist, sets, as information related to a display operation executed when the series of medical images are displayed on a screen, the information related to the operation associated with the reference feature data having the correspondence; and a controller that executes the set display operation when image data included in the series of medical images are played back. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229504 | THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASONIC GUIDANCE OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS - An ultrasonic imaging system is used to observe and guide insertion of a needle into the body to access a targeted surgical site. A two dimensional array probe scans a volumetric region including the surgical site and a multiplanar reformatter formats the resulting 3D echo dataset to form a sequence of spatially adjacent images in real time. A plurality of the spatially adjacent images are concurrently displayed in real time. As the clinician inserts the needle into the body its progress of insertion may be observed in one plane. But if the insertion path of the needle is not constrained to one plane but passes through numerous planes, the insertion path is seen in successive ones of the concurrently displayed adjacent images. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229505 | Endoscope - There is provided an endoscope apparatus capable of stably and precisely measuring a distance to an object by suppressing variations in measured values of the distance to the object depending on the presence or absence of pigment dispersion or the like and capable of enabling observations based on clear and high quality images. The endoscope apparatus includes an optical system that condenses light from an object and simultaneously forms two optical images having the same characteristics with difference only in focal point; an imaging element that captures the two optical images formed by the optical system and acquires two images; and a calculation unit that obtains distance information corresponding to a distance to the object based on a contrast ratio of the two images in a range in which the two images acquired by the imaging element have a common contrast. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229506 | Imaging Apparatus, Imaging Method, and Endoscope Apparatus - A head separated type imaging apparatus includes a head unit and a main unit which are separated, the main unit processing an image signal transmitted from the head unit. The main unit includes a first communication unit transmitting/receiving data to/from the head unit via wireless communication, a second communication unit transmitting/receiving data to/from the head unit via wired communication, and a control unit detecting whether the second communication unit is communicable, and continuing, when the first and second communication units are switched based on a detection result therefrom, transmission/reception of the data which is performed before the switching. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229507 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus is provided, the indoor unit which can easily cause a wireless remote controller to output sound and does not degrade the design of an appearance of a main body. A main body | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229508 | Gesture Detection Based on Information from Multiple Types of Sensors - A method includes receiving a first output from a first sensor of an electronic device and receiving a second output from a second sensor of the electronic device. The first sensor has a first sensor type and the second sensor has a second sensor type that is different from the first sensor type. The method also includes detecting a gesture based on the first output and the second output according to a complementary voting scheme that is at least partially based on gesture complexity. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229509 | METHOD OF MEASURING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE - In order to measure a three-dimensional shape, feature information is read from a database. A board is transferred to a measurement position. A measurement head is transferred to an inspection area of the board. Light of a first lighting device for three-dimensional measurement and light of a second lighting device for two-dimensional measurement is illuminated onto the inspection area to photograph a first reflection image and a second reflection image that are reflected from the inspection area. The inspection area is realigned by comparing the feature information with at least one of the photographed first and second reflection images to inspect distortion of the inspection area. The realigned inspection area is inspected. Thus, the three-dimensional shape may be precisely measured. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229510 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INDIVIDUAL GRAIN SORTING OF OBJECTS FROM BULK MATERIALS - Individual grain sorting of objects from bulk materials ( | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229511 | MACHINE-VISION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE QUALITY INSPECTION OF A PRODUCT - A machine-vision system for monitoring a quality metric for a product. The system includes a controller configured to receive a digital image from an image acquisition device. The controller is also configured to analyze the digital image using a first machine-vision algorithm to compute a measurement of the product. The system also includes a vision server connected to the controller, and configured to compute a quality metric and store the digital image and the measurement in a database storage. The system also includes a remote terminal connected to the vision server, and configured to display the digital image and the quality metric on the remote terminal. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229512 | METHOD FOR USING A HANDHELD APPLIANCE TO SELECT, LOCK ONTO, AND TRACK A RETROREFLECTOR WITH A LASER TRACKER - A method for locking onto and tracking a selected retroreflector target with a laser tracker includes steps of: actuating by the operator the handheld appliance and sending a wireless signal; responding to the wireless message by repetitively carrying out steps in the following loop and exiting the loop when an exit condition is met: reflecting part of the cone of light by the at least one retroreflector target and capturing an array image on the photosensitive array; determining which retroreflector target meets the retroreflector target criterion; determining whether the position detector is receiving the reflected beam; establishing that the exit condition is met when the position detector receives the reflected beam and the reflected beam comes from the selected retroreflector target; and steering the first light beam toward the selected retroreflector target. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229513 | IMAGE INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image input device capable of obtaining a luminance signal and a chromaticity signal appropriately even when photographing at nighttime is provided. Further, an image processing device capable of forming an image in which an object can be confirmed visually even under a low luminance environment is provided. Since a color space converting unit assigns weights to the visible light component and the infrared light component based on positional information acquired by the positional information acquiring unit, and converts the original image data into color space including the luminance signal and the chromaticity signal, it is possible to obtain the color space appropriately according to a height of the object and a distance to the object. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229514 | DISPLACEMENT DETECTION DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a displacement detection device including an image sensor, a light source, a light control unit and a processing unit. The image sensor captures image frames at a sampling frequency. The light source provides, in a speed mode, light for the image sensor in capturing the image frames. The light control unit controls the light source with the speed mode to turn on at a lighting frequency or to turn off serially. The processing unit calculates a displacement according to the image frames captured when the light source turns on to be served as an estimated displacement for an interval during which the light source turns off. There is further provided an operating method of a displacement detection device. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229515 | WILDLIFE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA - A wildlife surveillance camera has a housing and first and second battery compartments located in the housing, which battery compartments are sized to receive at least two batteries in end-to-end fashion. The battery compartments are separated from each other by a gap which contains the electronics for the camera. The camera unit has an inner door that closes the access openings into the battery compartments. An outer door is provided to provide access to the inner door. The camera image sensor, the triggering device and the display are all mounted to the rear portion of the housing. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229516 | METHOD OF VALIDATING A CLEANING PROCESS - A method of validating or verifying a process for cleaning a surface contaminated with at least one chemical substrate, comprising the steps of: capturing an infrared image of the surface using infrared chemical imaging; utilising at least one algorithm to interpret the captured image to extract an infra-red signal from the at least one chemical substrate to determine the amount of the at least one chemical substrate present on the surface; and determining if the amount of the at least one detected chemical substrate exceeds a threshold value, thereby indicating that a repeat cleaning process is required or thereby indicating that no further cleaning is required. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229517 | VEHICLE SPEED MEASUREMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM UTILIZING A SINGLE IMAGE CAPTURING UNIT - A vehicle speed measurement method and system for identifying a violating vehicle utilizing single image capturing unit. A vehicle image can be captured by the image capturing unit in order to estimate speed of the vehicle utilizing an ALPR unit. The license plate characters can be located and extracted from the captured image. A distance of the license plate from the image capturing unit can be calculated utilizing a physical character height from a reference point of the image capturing unit and a pixel character height generated by the ALPR unit. A position of the license plate in the field of view of the image capturing unit along with the distance information can be be utilized to determine a height of the license plate from a road surface. The height of the license plate can be employed to accurately estimate the vehicle speed. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229518 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT EMPLOY OBJECT RECOGNITION - An illumination system and methods to control a light source are provided. An illumination system includes a light source, a two-dimensional non-Passive Infrared (non-PIR) imager, and a controller. The light source may provide at least two levels of illumination. The non-PIR imager images an area and to produce image data representative of images across at least part of a visible portion of an electromagnetic spectrum. The controller is communicatively coupled to receive the image data from the non-PIR imager and process the received image data to detect at least one object in the area of a defined type of object. The controller is also coupled to control operation of the light source based on, at least in part, detection of the ambient characteristic of the environment. Alternatively, one or more components of a system may be used to monitor traffic, with or without active illumination. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229519 | AUTOMATIC REAR VIEW DISPLAY IN VEHICLES WITH ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS - An automatic rear view display includes a single camera configuration and a dual camera configuration. In the single camera configuration, as soon as an entertainment screen in a ceiling mounted entertainment system is opened or when the driver puts the vehicle in reverse, the view from a first camera proximate to the rear license plate is displayed on the rearview mirror. In the dual camera version, when the entertainment screen is opened, the view from a second camera near the roof of the vehicle is displayed in the rearview mirror. In the dual camera version if the driver puts the vehicle in reverse, with the entertainment screen open or closed, the view from a first camera would be displayed instead. In both versions as soon as the entertainment screen is closed (and the vehicle is not in reverse) the rearview mirror goes back to being a regular mirror. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229520 | VEHICLE SURROUNDINGS MONITORING APPARATUS - In an image captured by an infrared camera mounted in a vehicle, a featured image portion group including first and second high luminance image portions lined up side by side vertically or horizontally and a third high luminance image portion located below the first and second high luminance image portions is defined. The featured image portion group has a feature indicating that a similarity of one of a luminance distribution and a shape between the first high luminance image portion and the second high luminance image portion is higher than between the third high luminance image portion and at least one of the first and second high luminance image portions. If the featured image portion group is found in the captured image, it is determined that at least the third high luminance image portion is the image of a component of a traffic signal structure. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229521 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOGNISING PULSING LIGHT SOURCES - The invention relates to a method and a device for recognising a pulsing light source, in which a sequence of individual images is acquired with a light sensitive sensor. In an evaluation unit, all or at least some of the picture points of each individual image are examined with regard to at least one predefined feature. A gray value of any picture point depends on two or more charge levels of at least one of the photodetectors of the sensor corresponding to the picture point at the ends of at least two integration intervals for the picture point. The at least two integration intervals for said picture point have different lengths. The examination comprises an examination of the picture points as to whether the picture points have gray values in a defined vicinity of one of at least one predefined gray value. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229522 | ACCESSORY MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE - An accessory mounting system for a vehicle includes a mirror mounting button attached at an in-cabin surface of the vehicle windshield and a mounting element attached at the in-cabin surface of the windshield separate from the mounting button. An interior rearview mirror assembly has a mirror head and a mirror support, which includes a mirror mount configured to mount the mirror assembly to the mirror mounting button. A module is configured to be received at and supported by the mounting element attached at the windshield. The module accommodates a forward facing camera that views through the windshield. The forward facing camera may be part of a driver assistance system of the vehicle. With the module received by and supported by the mounting element, the mirror mount can be mounted to the mirror mounting button and can be demounted from the mirror mounting button without demounting the module from the mounting element. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229523 | VEHICLE IMAGING SYSTEM - A vision system for a vehicle includes an image sensor and image processor. The image sensor is disposed at the vehicle and has a field of view exterior of the vehicle for capturing image data of a scene forward of the vehicle. The field of view encompasses at least a portion of a road surface ahead of and in the direction of travel of the vehicle. The image processor processes captured image data. Responsive to image processing of captured image data by the image processor, the vehicle vision system determines the presence of an animal on the road surface within the field of view. At least in part responsive to determination of the animal on the road surface within the field of view, the vehicle vision system at least one of (a) generates an alert and (b) controls the vehicle. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229524 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE OF THE SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE AND IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device and method for producing an image of a vehicle surroundings of a vehicle with at least one camera includes recording a first partial image in a first position or alignment of the camera and recording at least a second partial image in at least a second position or alignment of the camera, each partial image corresponding to the entire coverage area of the camera. The first partial image and the second partial image are assembled to form the image of the vehicle surroundings such that the image shows a larger area than each partial image. The imaging device includes the camera and an image synthesis device with which the first partial image and the second partial image can be assembled to form the image. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229525 | A DEVICE FOR MONITORING SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE - A device for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle mounted in a vehicle, captures an image of surroundings of the vehicle, extracts from the captured image an image area for a predetermined part of a desired type of object, and sets a predetermined area below the extracted image area. The device extracts candidates for the desired type of object present outside the vehicle based on the predetermined area and determines, for each of the extracted object candidates, whether the object candidate is the desired type of object. When no pattern different from the background is captured in the predetermined area, or when a pattern different from the background is captured only in one of a first and a second areas, then the object in the image area is excluded from the candidates for the desired type of object. Thus, a pedestrian, for example, can be distinguished from an artificial structure. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229526 | CAMERA APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image taking unit takes an image by exposing three color light receivers and an invisible light receiver. The three color light receivers are sensitive to light in an invisible region emitted by an invisible light projector, and concurrently sensitive to the respective three primary colors of light. The invisible light receiver is sensitive to the light in the invisible region emitted by the invisible light projector. A marker pulse generator generates an exposure timing pulse for the image taking unit, and an emission timing pulse for the invisible light projector on the basis of a reference signal. A color image creator creates a color image from outputs from the respective color light receivers. A synchronous detection processor creates a detection image by performing a synchronous detection process on the outputs from the color light receivers and the invisible light receiver by use of the reference signal. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229527 | INFRARED IMAGING PROJECTION - The subject matter disclosed herein involves systems, methods, apparatuses or devices related to infrared imaging or infrared imaging projection. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229528 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC VIDEO RECORDING - System and methods for pointing a device, such as a camera, at a remote target wherein the pointing of the device is controlled by a combination of location information obtained by global positioning technology and orientation information obtained by line of sight detection of the direction from the device to the target. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229529 | Camera to Track an Object - Methods and apparatus to create and display screen stereoscopic and panoramic images are disclosed. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a stereoscopic or a panoramic image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. A controller rotationally aligns images of lens/sensor units that are rotationally misaligned. A compact controllable platform holds and rotates a camera. A remote computing device with a camera and a digital compass tracks an object causing the camera in the platform to track the object. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229530 | SPECTRAL CALIBRATION OF IMAGING DEVICES - Determining, applying and storing model spectral response parameters used to correct colors in a digital image. The model spectral response parameters may be estimated through a recursive error analysis and applied or stored to all digital imaging devices of a particular type, thereby occupying minimal firmware storage space and permitting on the fly correction of images. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229531 | CAMERA BLEMISH DEFECTS DETECTION - A digital image captured by a digital camera module is scaled to a smaller size, and separately horizontal direction filtered and vertical direction filtered using one-dimensional spatial filters. The horizontal direction filtered image and the vertical direction filtered image are combined, wherein edge regions and corner regions of the combined filtered image are created differently than its middle region. The combined filtered image is then thresholded selected pixels of the thresholded image are marked as a blemish region. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229532 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - By a conventional technique, it is not possible to provide an image refocused accurately at a desired subject distance. An image processing device is characterized by including an image data acquiring unit configured to acquire calibration image data obtained by an image capturing device including an aperture to adjust an amount of incident light, a lens array in which a plurality of lenses is arranged, and an image sensing element to photoelectrically convert an image of a subject via the lens array and obtained in a state where the aperture is stopped down in accordance with an instruction of calibration; and a unit configured to acquire a position of an image on the image sensing element corresponding to each of the lenses based on the calibration image data. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229533 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic device receives a broadcast signal includes a high-speed transmission channel and a low-speed transmission channel. The electronic device estimates a CN when the electronic device is in an environment corresponding to a stationary state, based on a measured reception power, reception sensitivity required for receiving a broadcast service of the high-speed transmission channel and a necessary CN required for receiving the broadcast service of the high-speed transmission channel, and controls a processing of switching a demodulation target between the high-speed transmission channel and the low-speed transmission channel, based on a difference between the estimated CN and the measured CN. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229534 | Device Camera Angle - Techniques for device camera angle are described. In one or more implementations, a camera is mounted in a computing device at an angle based on an orientation of the computing device. For example, when the computing device is positioned on a surface and at an angle to the surface (such as when supported by a kickstand), the mounting angle of the camera is such that an optical axis of the camera points forward, and not towards the surface. In at least some implementations, a computing device includes a camera that is physically adjustable to support different orientations of the computing device. In at least some implementations, images that are captured via a camera on a computing device can be manipulated based on an orientation of the computing device. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229535 | CLIENT TERMINAL, SERVER, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a client terminal including a determination unit that determines, based on position information associated with a particular object, whether the particular object is included in an angle of view visually recognized by a user, and a guidance unit that guides the user when the determination unit determines that the particular object is not included in the angle of view visually recognized by the user. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229536 | 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. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229537 | TAGGING CAMERA - A tagging camera device may include an image capturing logic configured to receive an image signal containing data representing at least one of a photographic image and a digital video. The tagging camera device may further include database communication logic configured to receive from at least one database data representing information from an online social network. The tagging camera device may further include identification logic configured to receive an identifying signal containing data identifying one or more objects appearing in the at least one of the photographic image and the digital video. The tagging camera device may further include tagging logic configured to tag a portion of the at least one of the photographic image and the digital video by associating the portion of the at least one of the photographic image and the digital video with the data representing information from the online social network based on the data identifying the one or more objects appearing in the at least one of the photographic image and the digital video, where the tagging logic is configured to automatically tag the portion of the at least one of the photographic image and the digital video. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229538 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - An image capture apparatus includes an internal time information generating unit that includes an internal time source, a receiving unit configured to receive external time information generated in an external time source, and an adjusting unit configured to adjust the external time information using a first delay time information corresponding to a delay time generated in a communication path between the internal time information generating unit and a time setting unit, wherein the time setting unit is configured to perform a process for setting the external time information adjusted by the adjusting unit to the internal time source. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229539 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus receives a signal regularly transmitted from a control apparatus, determines whether or not the imaging apparatus is disconnected from the network based on a status of the reception of the signal, transmits a request for participation in the network to the control apparatus according to a determination that the imaging apparatus is disconnected from the network to notify the control apparatus that the imaging apparatus is disconnected from the network, and participates in the network after the control apparatus receives the request for participation. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229540 | COMPOUND CAMERA SENSOR AND RELATED METHOD OF PROCESSING DIGITAL IMAGES - In one embodiment, a light sensor includes four cell arrays, one for each color of the Bayer pattern, and four lenses each focusing the light coming from the scene to be captured on a respective cell array. The lenses are oriented such that at least a second green image, commonly provided by the fourth cell array, is both horizontally and vertically shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from a first (reference) green image. In a second embodiment, the four lenses are oriented such that the red and blue images are respectively shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the first or reference green image, one horizontally and the other vertically, and the second green image is shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the reference green image both horizontally and vertically. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229541 | Structure Histograms - Systems, methods, and computer readable media expounding “Structure Histograms” and their use are presented. Structure Histograms may be described as histograms whose individual entries (values) express a functional relationship between a given pixel (or group of pixels) and its neighboring pixels. As such, Structure Histograms capture information about the structure of an image in so far as they record information related to the relative placement of pixels within an image (e.g., are pixels of a common value closely spaced or spaced far apart). Structure Histograms may be generated from tonal pixel values (e.g., red, green and blue values), luminance pixel values (e.g., gray scale pixel values) or cross-channel pixel values (e.g., red-luminance, green-blue, or green-blue-luminance pixel values). Structure Histograms may be used in a number of image processing contexts such as, for example, automated image enhancement operations. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229542 | Image Processing Method and Apparatus - A method and apparatus for providing image processing. For one embodiment of the invention, an image processing apparatus is arranged to process a first relatively underexposed and sharp image of a scene, and a second relatively well exposed and blurred image, nominally of the same scene, the first and second images being derived from respective image sources. The apparatus provides a portion of the relatively first underexposed image as an input signal to an adaptive filter; and a corresponding portion of the second relatively well exposed image as a desired signal to the adaptive filter. The adaptive filter produces an output signal from the input signal and the desired signal; and an image generator constructs a first filtered image from the output signal, relatively less blurred than the second image. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229543 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING APPARATUS DRIVING METHOD - An imaging apparatus, driving method of the imaging apparatus, and an imaging system, are provided, wherein pixels output at least two image signals with different viable signal ranges, and the pixel signal with a larger signal range is converted to a digital signal during a first period, and the pixel signal with a smaller signal range is converted to a digital signal during a second period shorter than the first period. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229544 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing device includes: a correspondence point calculating unit, an image deformation unit, an image interpolation unit, and an optional image synthesis unit. The correspondence point calculating unit detects a point of the second image that corresponds to each reference point of the first image. The image deformation unit creates an image by moving pixels from a point in the second image to a corresponding reference point to generate a deformed image that has a viewpoint which is in approximate agreement with the viewpoint of the first image. The image interpolation unit generates an interpolated image, which has interpolated pixel values for points in the region of the deformed image where a corresponding point is not detected. The image synthesis unit generates a synthesized image as a synthesis of the first image and the interpolated image. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229545 | Face Recognition Using Face Tracker Classifier Data - A method of determining face recognition profiles for a group persons includes determining with a multi-classifier face detector that a face region within a digital image has above a threshold probability of corresponding to a first person of the group, and recording probability scores which are analyzed for each classifier, including determining a mean and variance for each classifier for the first person. The process is repeated for one or more other persons of the group. A sub-set of classifiers is determined which best differentiates between the first person and the one or more other persons. The sub-set of classifiers is stored in association with the first person as a recognition profile. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229546 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGES - A low dynamic range (LDR) image data storage stores LDR image sets each of which includes a plurality of LDR segmented images captured with a camera panned. Here each LDR image set is of a different exposure level, respectively. A high-dynamic-range (HDR) synthesizing unit combines and merges a plurality of LDR segmented images of different exposure levels so as to generate an HDR segmented image set including a plurality of HDR segmented images of different pan angles or tilt angles. A panoramic image synthesizing unit generates an HDR panoramic image by stitching together adjacent HDR segmented images. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229547 | MOBILE TERMINAL, METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING, AND PROGRAM - A mobile terminal includes a camera unit that captures a subject while moving a lens back and forth in an optical axis direction and outputs a plurality of images with different angles of view, a storage unit that stores the plurality of images output from the camera unit, an angle-of-view correction unit that takes any one image of the plurality of images stored in the storage unit and corrects the other images of the plurality of images so that the angles of view of the other images match the angle of view of the one image, and a display that outputs the one image and the other images corrected by the angle-of-view correction unit. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229548 | IMAGE PROVIDING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mosaic image having high recognizability of a picture of an original image is provided while the number of division of the original image is suppressed. An image providing device includes a specifying means that specifies a region including an edge of an image from a plurality of regions, a dividing means that further divides the specified region into a plurality of regions, an acquisition means that acquires an image specified by a user, a determination means that determines a region to which the acquired image is assigned from regions not divided by the dividing means among the plurality of regions and from regions formed by being divided by the dividing means, and a presentation means that causes a mosaic image in which the acquired image is arranged on the basis of an assignment determined by the determination means to be presented. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229549 | Automatic Face and Skin Beautification Using Face Detection - Sub-regions within a face image are identified to be enhanced by applying a localized smoothing kernel to luminance data corresponding to the sub-regions of the face image. An enhanced face image is generated including an enhanced version of the face that includes certain original pixels in combination with pixels corresponding to the one or more enhanced sub-regions of the face. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229550 | DEFECTIVE PIXEL CORRECTION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO PERFORM THE METHOD - A defective pixel correction apparatus includes a defect pattern acquisition unit configured to acquire, as a defect pattern, a pattern of positions of a plurality of defective pixels in a group of pixels used to correct a noted pixel, a pixel selection unit configured to select one or more pixels from among pixels other than the defective pixels in the group of pixels on the basis of the defect pattern, and a defective pixel correction unit configured to correct the noted defective pixel using the selected pixels. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229551 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A first generation unit generates a RAW image reduced in the horizontal direction from a RAW image including pixels each having single-color signal information, by limiting the band of spatial frequencies in the horizontal direction and decreasing the number of pixels in the horizontal direction. The RAW image reduced in the horizontal direction is stored in a line memory. A second generation unit generates a reduced RAW image by decreasing, at least in the vertical direction, the number of pixels of the RAW image reduced in the horizontal direction. This makes it possible to generate a reduced RAW image using little memory capacity. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229552 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, ILLUMINANCE MEASURING METHOD PERFORMED BY SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND CAMERA MODULE - According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes an illuminance value calculating unit and an illuminance value output unit. The illuminance value calculating unit calculates an illuminance value based on an integration result of luminance values. The illuminance value output unit outputs the illuminance value calculated by the illuminance value calculating unit by setting, as a target, a subject image obtained through application of one of two or more illuminance measurement conditions. The two or more illuminance measurement conditions are set in advance by varying at least one of an electronic shutter time and an analog gain. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229553 | IMAGING DEVICE EMPLOYING ROLLING SHUTTER SYSTEM - An imaging device includes an imaging unit having a pixel group two-dimensionally arranged vertically and horizontally, and configured to read pixel signals associated with generation of a frame image in units of lines by a rolling shutter system, and a drive unit configured to periodically switch, when a plurality of frame images are consecutively read from the imaging unit with a predetermined frame period in video recording, positions of a plurality of lines each of which is made a read object in each of the frame images in units of frames. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229554 | CAMERA APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image taking unit takes an image by using a specific light projector which emits specific light in a wavelength region corresponding to one of the three primary colors of light and by exposing light receivers which are sensitive to light in wavelength regions corresponding to the three primary colors of light. A marker pulse generator generates an exposure timing pulse for the image taking unit, and an emission timing pulse for the specific light projector on the basis of a reference signal. A color image creator creates a color image from an image taken by the image taking unit. A synchronous detection processor creates a detection image by performing a synchronous detection process on the image taken by the image taking unit by use of the reference signal. | 2013-09-05 |
| 20130229555 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS DRIVING METHOD, AND IMAGING SYSTEM DRIVING METHOD - Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals. | 2013-09-05 |
