37th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110222708 | BIOLOGY-INSPIRED MINIATURE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENSING AND LOCALIZING ACOUSTIC SIGNALS - A system and method for sensing acoustic sounds is provided having at least one directional sensor, each directional sensor including at least two compliant membranes for moving in reaction to an excitation acoustic signal and at least one compliant bridge. Each bridge is coupled to at least a respective first and second membrane of the at least two membranes for moving in response to movement of the membranes it is coupled to for causing movement of the first membrane to be related to movement of the second membrane when either of the first and second membranes moves in response to excitation by the excitation signal. The directional sensor is controllably rotated to locate a source of the excitation signal, including determining a turning angle based on a linear relationship between the directionality information and sound source position described in experimentally calibrated data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222709 | System and Method For Reducing Radio Frequency Interference Between A Wireless Communication Device And A Speaker - A device and method are provided that reduce interference between a wireless communication device and a speaker. Generally speaking, a microphone input is monitored for detecting noise created by the interference. If noise is detected, a power transmission level of the wireless device is reduced from a standard power transmission level. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222710 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY REDUCING A VOLUME LEVEL OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL PROVIDED TO A USER - The present invention provides a method of automatically reducing a volume level of an audio signal provided to a user. An audio signal is received, the audio signal is provided to the and a current hearing threshold for the user based on one or more psychophysical or electrophysiological responses of the user to the audio signal provided to the user is determined. A temporary threshold shift (TTS) based on the current hearing threshold is determined. If the TTS is above the specified TTS, the volume level of the audio signal provided to the user is automatically reduced. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222711 | CONTROLLING GAIN DURING MULTIPATH MULTI-RATE AUDIO PROCESSING - Methods and systems for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise controlling gain during multipath, multi-rate audio processing by generating a digital signal that is a product of an input digital signal and a gain coefficient derived from a lookup table, and coarse tuning the gain by bit-shifting the digital signal to generate a digital output signal. The gain may be fine-tuned utilizing a variable step size determined by interpolation. The gain coefficient may be partitioned into gain blocks, which may be twice a corresponding value in preceding gain blocks. The gain blocks may be partitioned into steps that represent particular gain values within a range associated with the gain block. The digital output signal may be ramped utilizing a linear interpolation of the gain coefficients over a number of samples of the input signal, where the number of samples is given as a power of two. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222712 | AUDIO OUTPUT DRIVER FOR REDUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND IMPROVING AUDIO CHANNEL PERFORMANCE - An audio output circuit includes an on-chip left channel amplifier module, an on-chip center channel amplifier module, and an on-chip right channel amplifier module. A left channel IC pin is operably coupled to an output of the on-chip left channel amplifier module. A right channel IC pin is operably coupled to an output of the on-chip right channel amplifier module. A center channel IC pin is operably coupled to an output of the on-chip center channel amplifier module. A center channel feedback IC pin is operably coupled to an input of the on-chip center channel amplifier module to provide a feedback loop. A left jack connection is operably coupled to the left channel IC pin. A right jack connection is operably coupled to the right channel IC pin. A jack return connection coupled to the center feedback IC pin. An inductor has a first node coupled to the jack return connection and a second node coupled to the center channel IC pin. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222713 | Condenser Microphone - A condenser microphone has an output circuit comprising an emitter-follower circuit; an impedance converter comprising an FET and at least one transistor of the emitter-follower circuit provided next to the FET; and the transistor having an emitter terminal provided with a constant-voltage circuit. The FET included in the impedance converter is operated by a voltage supplied from the constant-voltage circuit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222714 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE SENSOR - A touch-sensitive sensor and a method for detecting a position where a user touches a wire or cable are described. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222715 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmission device includes: a communication unit performing communication with one or more receiving devices; a distance measurement unit measuring direct distances to the receiving devices; a transmission data setting unit setting transmission data including content data including audio and time information indicating the time when reproduction of content data is started for the receiving devices whose distances are measured based on the measured distances; and a transmission processing unit transmitting transmission data set by the transmission data setting unit to corresponding receiving devices of transmission targets all at once. The transmission data setting unit sets time when the device itself starts reproduction of the content data as a reference time, and sets the time information for synchronizing audio indicated by the content data reproduced in the device itself with audio indicated by the content data reproduced in the receiving devices for each receiving device using the set reference time. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222716 | HEARING AID HOUSING - In an embodiment, a hearing aid housing is provided. The hearing aid housing may include a first behind-the-ear hearing aid housing portion, a second behind-the-ear hearing aid housing portion, and a moisture protector at least partially arranged between the first behind-the-ear hearing aid housing portion and the second behind-the-ear hearing aid housing portion. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222717 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MICROPHONE - The semiconductor device has a simplified structure which includes a package structure in which a member for mounting a semiconductor element is separate from a member including a signal input/output unit. A microphone package is configured with a cover and a substrate. A microphone chip and a circuit element are adhered and fixed to a top surface of a recess formed in the cover. A plurality of bonding pads are arranged on the lower surface of the cover on the outer side of the recess. A bonding wire is connected to the circuit element and the bonding pad. The substrate includes a signal input/output terminal serving as the signal input/output unit, and a connection electrode, conducted with the signal input/output terminal, is arranged facing the bonding pad on the upper surface of the substrate. The substrate, cover, connection electrode, and bonding pad are joined with a conductive member. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222718 | Narrow directional microphone - There is provided a narrow directional microphone in which the acoustic resistance of an acoustic tube scarcely varies, and a larger-diameter condenser microphone unit can be used without increasing the external dimensions. In the narrow directional microphone in which a unidirectional condenser microphone unit | 2011-09-15 |
20110222719 | WIRED HEADSET ADAPTABLE FOR LEFT AND RIGHT EAR USE - A wired headset ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222720 | SPEAKER MODULE APPLIED FOR A PORTABLE COMPUTER - A speaker module includes a casing whereon an opening is formed. The casing includes a blocking structure disposed on a side of the opening. The speaker module further includes a first speaker device, which includes a first housing, a first speaker unit disposed inside the first housing, and an engaging component connected to an end of the first housing for engaging with the blocking structure when the first housing is pulled out of the casing through the opening and for rotating relative to the blocking structure so as to adjust an angle of the first speaker unit. The speaker module further includes a second speaker device connected to the first speaker device and capable of passing through the opening, which includes a second housing connected to the first housing in a slidable manner relative to the first housing, and a second speaker unit disposed inside the second housing. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222721 | CONNECTING MEMBER FOR SPEAKER AND SPEAKER - A connecting member for speaker purpose, which is prevented from peeling easily from both a voice coil support and a vibrating body, and a speaker having the connecting member are provided. The speaker | 2011-09-15 |
20110222722 | LOUDSPEAKER WITH DISTRIBUTED DRIVING OF THE MEMBRANE - The membrane of a loudspeaker, which is driven on a limited part of the membrane, does not move completely like the tone current. For example, a cone, which is driven in the top, provides more accurate driving by also being driven in the periphery from the drive system back where the movement of the sound coil also is taken out. The driving can e.g. be distributed with a cone of net. With separate sound coils from the front side and back side of the driving system, the loudspeaker properties can be optimised. The biggest benefit is achieved with a long loudspeaker where the movement is taken out from the back side of the long drive system and distributed with plates, cones and wavy walls to a bulgy membrane edges. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222723 | LUMINANCE EVALUATION - A method comprises providing a change to apply to video; dividing video into blocks; creating propagation map which captures only specific changes to blocks that would be changed by the application of the change; evaluating the change based on a luminance criterion as being a perceptible change or an imperceptible change; for propagation maps of an imperceptible change, storing the propagation map to a list, wherein the propagation map is the principle data structure to be applied to the video. The propagation map can be created by using motion vector changes associated with the change. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222724 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining personal characteristics from images by generating a baseline gender model and an age estimation model using one or more convolutional neural networks (CNNs); capturing correspondences of faces by face tracking, and applying incremental learning to the CNNs and enforcing correspondence constraint such that CNN outputs are consistent and stable for one person. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222725 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device receives a captured image as input from an image capturing device installed in a conveying mechanism that conveys and tests works. The image processing device causes the image capturing device to capture images a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval. Based on the position of the work detected from the captured image output from the image capturing device by capturing the images at a predetermined time interval and the target position set by the user's operation, the image processing device derives the delay time required for capturing the image at the timing when the work is positioned near the target position, and sets the derived delay time for the image capturing timing of the image capturing device. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222726 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A gesture recognition apparatus is caused to correctly recognize start and end of a gesture without use of special unit by a natural manipulation of a user and low-load processing for the gesture recognition apparatus. The gesture recognition apparatus that recognizes the gesture from action of a recognition object taken in a moving image includes: a gravity center tracking unit that detects a specific subject having a specific feature from the moving image; a moving speed determining unit that computes a moving speed per unit time of the specific subject; a moving pattern extracting unit that extracts a moving pattern of the specific subject; and a start/end judgment unit that discriminates movement of the specific subject as an instruction (such as an instruction to start or end gesture recognition processing) input to the gesture recognition apparatus when the moving speed and the moving pattern satisfy predetermined conditions. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222727 | Object Localization Using Tracked Object Trajectories - A method of processing a video sequence is provided that includes tracking a first object and a second object for a specified number of frames, determining similarity between a trajectory of the first object and a trajectory of the second object over the specified number of frames, and merging the first object and the second object into a single object when the trajectory of the first object and the trajectory of the second object are sufficiently similar, whereby an accurate location and size for the single object is obtained. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222728 | Method and Apparatus for Scaling an Image in Segments - A method and an apparatus for scaling an image in segments are disclosed. The method includes: identifying scene features in each input video frame, and obtaining information about distribution of multiple features in the video frame; obtaining multiple feature distribution areas corresponding to the information about distribution of the multiple features, and obtaining multiple scale coefficients; and scaling the corresponding multiple feature distribution areas in each video frame according to the multiple scale coefficients. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222729 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FINDING A MISPLACED OBJECT USING A DATABASE AND INSTRUCTIONS GENERATED BY A PORTABLE DEVICE - The basic invention uses a portable device that can contain a camera, a database, and a text, voice or visual entry to control the storage of an image into a database. Furthermore, the stored image can be associated with text, color, visual or audio. The stored images can be used to guide the user towards a target that the user does not recall its current location. The user's commands can be issued verbally, textually or by scrolling through the target images in the database until the desired one is found. This target can be shoes, pink sneakers, a toy or some comparable items that the user needs to find. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222730 | Red Eye False Positive Filtering Using Face Location and Orientation - An image is acquired including a red eye defect and non red eye defect regions having a red color. An initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions is performed. A location and orientation of one or more faces within the image are determined. The candidate redeye regions are analyzed based on the determined location and orientation of the one or more faces to determine a probability that each redeye region appears at a position of an eye. Any confirmed redeye regions having at least a certain threshold probability of being a false positive are removed as candidate redeye defect regions. The remaining redeye defect regions are corrected and a red eye corrected image is generated. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222731 | Computer Controlled System for Laser Energy Delivery to the Retina - An embodiment of the invention provides a method that captures a diagnostic image of a retina having at least one lesion, wherein the lesion includes a plurality of spots to be treated. Information is received from a user interface, wherein the information includes a duration, intensity, and/or wavelength of treatment for each of the spots. A real-time image of the retina is captured; and, a composite image is created by linking the diagnostic image to the real-time image. At least one updated real-time image of the retina is obtained using eye tracking and/or image stabilization; and, an annotated image is created by modifying the composite image based on the updated real-time image. A localized laser beam is delivered to each of the spots according to the information, the composite image, and the annotated image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222732 | TRAVELING ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION DEVICE - In order to perform vehicle control, a warning process, and the like which do not give a driver an uncomfortable feeling in speed adjustment, a warning process, and the like corresponding to a road shape such as a curve, it is necessary to recognize not only a near road shape but also a far road shape with high accuracy. A traveling environment recognition device includes: a measurement unit which measures a target object; a three-dimensional object detection unit which detects a three-dimensional object on the basis of a signal acquired by the measurement unit; a road shape prediction unit which predicts a road shape on which a target vehicle is traveling; a three-dimensional object selection unit which selects, from among the three-dimensional objects detected by the three-dimensional object detection unit, only a three-dimensional object within a predetermined range from a point of the road predicted by the road shape prediction unit; and a road shape estimation unit which estimates the road shape on the basis of position information of the three-dimensional object selected by the three-dimensional object selection unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222733 | Automobile Scanning System - A dual energy x-ray imaging system searches a moving automobile for concealed objects. Dual energy operation is achieved by operating an x-ray source at a constant potential of 100KV to 150KV, and alternately switching between two beam filters. The first filter is an atomic element having a high k-edge energy, such as platinum, gold, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, and thorium, thereby providing a low-energy spectrum. The second filter provides a high-energy spectrum through beam hardening. The low and high energy beams passing through the automobile are received by an x-ray detector. These detected signals are processed by a digital computer to create a steel suppressed image through logarithmic subtraction. The intensity of the x-ray beam is adjusted as the reciprocal of the measured automobile speed, thereby achieving a consistent radiation level regardless of the automobile motion. Accordingly, this invention provides images of organic objects concealed within moving automobiles without the detritus effects of overlying steel and automobile movement. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222734 | METHODS FOR EVALUATING DISTANCES IN A SCENE AND APPARATUS AND MACHINE READABLE MEDIUM USING THE SAME - A distance evaluation method for evaluating distances from an observation point to objects within an arbitrary detectable range in a scene is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. First, a focus distance is set to correspond to a lower or higher limit of a chosen detection range. Next, an image is then captured with an image acquisition system, wherein transfer function of the image acquisition system depends on the focus distance. The captured image of the scene is segmented. A blur metric is computed for each image segment of the captured image. The blur metric is associated with the distance of the objects from the observation point in each image segment. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222735 | IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - As to each section making up of an original image, a CPU of an image processing apparatus calculates a distance from a predetermined position, for example, a center of the original image to a center of the section, sets a probability in accordance with the calculated distance, determines whether or not the section is a section where an object is to be drawn according to the set probability, and draws an object in each section which is determined as a section to be drawn. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222736 | ENHANCING STEREO DEPTH MEASUREMENTS WITH PROJECTED TEXTURE - A system for distance calculation is disclosed. The system includes an illuminator unit, one or more camera units, and a distance processor. The illuminator unit illuminates a scene in a target area using a textured pattern creator and wherein the textured pattern creator includes a diffractive optical element. The one or more camera units captures two or more images of the target area from two or more physical locations. A textured pattern illumination is visible in each of the two or more images of the target area. The images are used to calculate distances to one or more points in the scene in the target area. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222737 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THE GROWTH OF LEAF DISKS OF PLANTS AND APPARATUS SUITED THEREFOR - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for measuring the growth of leaf disks. The method comprises the following steps: a) Calibrating the capture system, b) capturing at least 2 images of a leaf disk, c) processing the image data, comprising i) segmenting the leaf disks by threshold segmentation, ii) multiple morphological erosion steps, iii) edge cleaning to remove the edge of the storage vessel, d) 3D reconstruction: generating a disparity map by means of a stereo algorithm, calculating a 3D surface model based on the previously determined calibration parameters from the disparity map, e) smoothing the previously obtained surface model, f) determining the growth rates from the time series of the areas. The apparatus comprises at least one camera, a lighting unit, a translation table in the X/Y plane for the camera and (infrared) lighting, storage vessels for leaf disks, and electronic evaluation and control units. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222738 | VEGETATION GROWTH CONDITION ANALYSIS METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND VEGETATION GROWTH CONDITION ANALYZER - It is aimed to enable analyzing vegetation growth conditions at multiple times of a year accurately using radar images obtainable from a flying body such as artificial satellites, etc. A plurality of radar images of a ground surface of a same target area, which have been taken at multiple times of a year by a radar device mounted on a flying body, are acquired. The acquired plurality of radar images is stored in a map database. While using as a criterion image a radar image of the plurality of radar images stored in the map database, taken at a predetermined time in the multiple times of a year, other radar images than the criterion image of the plurality of radar images, taken at other times than the predetermined time in the multiple times of a year, are aligned with the criterion image, respectively. Then, backscatter coefficients of specified areas in the plurality of radar images are extracted. Based on a backscatter coefficient of a specified area in the criterion image of the plurality of radar images stored in the map database, backscatter coefficients of other radar images than the criterion image of the plurality of radar images are calibrated. And, based on a correlation between backscatter coefficients of radar images and growth values of vegetation shown in the radar images, growth values of vegetation shown in other radar images than the criterion image of the plurality of radar images, whose backscatter coefficients have been calibrated in the calibrating step, are calculated using the calibrated backscatter coefficients. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222739 | Determining Calibration Parameters for a Lithographic Process - A technique for determining a set of calibration parameters for use in a model of a photo-lithographic process is described. In this calibration technique, images of a test pattern that was produced using the photo-lithographic process are used to determine corresponding sets of calibration parameters. These images are associated with at least three different focal planes in an optical system, such as a photo-lithographic system that implements the photo-lithographic process. Moreover, an interpolation function is determined using the sets of calibration parameters. This interpolation function can be used to determine calibration parameters at an arbitrary focal plane in the photo-lithographic system for use in simulations of the photo-lithographic process, where the set of calibration parameters are used in a set of transmission cross coefficients in the model of the photo-lithographic process. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222740 | FINGER VEIN AUTHENTICATION UNIT - The present invention provides a finger vein authentication unit which solves problems such that a turn of a finger around the finger as an axis cannot be detected from an image of the finger, a finger cannot be placed normally because the nail is caught in a dent portion, and an image of the contour of a finger cannot be obtained by an image capturing method using an image pickup window which is narrower than a finger and is completely closed with a finger so that a turn of a finger cannot be detected from the counter. A touch sensor having an X-Y matrix capable of obtaining the position and shape of a fingertip is mounted in a fingertip placement part, and the fingertip placement part is formed in a flat shape so that a finger is easily put. From the data of the position and shape of the fingertip read by the sensor, a turn of the finger around the optical axis of the camera as a center, a turn of the finger around the finger as an axis, and a positional deviation of the finger are detected. On the basis of the data, the vein is extracted accurately and used for a guidance to the user so that the user can put his/her finger in the correct position. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222741 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO RELATE BIOMETRIC SAMPLES TO TARGET FAR AND FRR WITH PREDETERMINED CONFIDENCE LEVELS - At least two biometric measurements of a person are collected, then a statistical measure based on the measurements is computed. The statistical measure is abounded estimate of the discriminative power of a test based on the measurements. While the discriminative power is less than a target value, additional biometric measurements are collected. When enough measurements have been collected, a biometric template is constructed from the measurements and stored for use in future identifications. Systems and software to implement similar methods are also described and claimed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222742 | Pipeline for generating an intrinsic image - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, identifying shadow edges in the image, computing gradient information for the image and modifying the gradient information relative to the shadow edges for improved performance of computer functionality in an image processing operation. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222743 | MATCHING DEVICE, DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, MATCHING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MATCHING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A high-accuracy matching result is obtained when a condition of a photographed input image differs from a condition of a photographed registration image. A face matching device including the registration face image, in which a person is photographed, and a photographing condition which corresponds to the registration face image are registered in a registration face image database. The face matching device includes a condition detecting unit, a registration face image selecting unit, and a matching unit. The condition detecting unit detects a photographing condition in the input face image which includes the photographed person. The registration face image selecting unit determines and selects the closest of the photographing condition from the input face image with the photographing conditions of the registration face images based on the determined closeness of the photographing condition. The matching unit performs matching using the registration face image corresponding to the selected photographing condition. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222744 | FACE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING PLURAL FACE IMAGES - A face recognition apparatus and method using plural face images includes detecting a reference face image from an image input for registration in advance, calculating plural face feature information from a frontal face image if the detected reference face image includes the frontal face image, generating plural compared face images using the calculated plural face feature information, and determining whether the input face image matches the generated plural compared face images by comparing the input face image with the plural compared face images. Face images having diverse points of view are generated through single user registration, and thus the face recognition ratio can be heightened. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIOMETRIC DATA CAPTURE - A method and apparatus for biometric data capture are provided. The apparatus includes in interactive head-mounted eyepiece worn by a user that includes an optical assembly through which a user views a surrounding environment and displayed content. The optical assembly comprises a corrective element that corrects the user's view of the surrounding environment and an integrated processor for handling content to the user. An integrated optical sensor captures biometric data when the eyepiece is positioned so that a nearby individual is proximate to the eyepiece. Biometric data is captured using the eyepiece and is transmitted to a remote processing facility for interpretation. The remote processing facility interprets the captured biometric data and generates display content based on the interpretation. This display content is delivered to the eyepiece and displayed to the user. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222746 | DISPLAYING RADIOLOGICAL IMAGES - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a system for interfacing with multiple medical imaging modalities that includes a normalization module for normalizing hanging protocols for displaying medical images. The normalization can be executed as a function of similar image characteristics shared between multiple sequences of medical images. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222747 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON IMAGE SEGMENTATION - The invention relates to a system ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222748 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A second order partial derivative matrix and at least one first order partial derivative value of a pixel value at each pixel position in an image are calculated. Based on values of the calculated second order partial derivative matrix, an evaluation value of a likelihood of being a line-like structure and/or an evaluation value of a likelihood of being a plate-like structure for the pixel position are calculated, such that the larger the first order partial derivative value, the smaller the evaluation values. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222749 | HYBRID SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE - An image of an anatomical structure can be analyzed to determine an enclosing three-dimensional boundary when the anatomical structure is filled with two substances, such as air and a fluid. Various techniques can be used to determine the enclosing boundary including: analyzing the virtual structure to segment the structure into air and fluid pockets, determining if there are multiple fluid pockets whose surface touches a single air-fluid boundary, determining a separate threshold for respective fluid pockets, resegmenting the virtual anatomical structure using the separate threshold for different fluid pockets, forming a hierarchical pocket tree which represents the relationship between the fluid and air pockets, pruning the pocket tree based on various criteria which corresponds to deleting those pruned portions from the virtual anatomical structure, and resegmenting the remaining virtual anatomical structure using one or more of fuzzy connectedness, two-dimensional gap filling, and level set segmentation. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222750 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDING TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATIONS BASED ON INTERVENTIONAL C-ARM CT IMAGING - A method for guiding transcatheter aortic valve implantations includes receiving an interventional 3D image of an aortic root reconstructed from a sequence of 2D images acquired from a C-arm computed tomography (CT) system being rotated about a patient through a predetermined number of degrees, segmenting the aortic root and detecting aortic root landmarks in the 3D image, where the aortic root landmarks include three lowest points of aortic root cusps, two coronary artery ostia, and three commissures points where the cusps meet, cropping an area inside the segmented aortic root out of the 3D volume for volume rendering, centering the 3D image on an intersection of two orthogonal planes, each containing the two detected coronary ostia, that are orthogonal to a plane spanned by three lowest points of the aortic root cusps, and volume rendering the 3D cropped aortic root image together with the detected landmarks onto a 2D image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222751 | Method and System for Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Axillary Lymph Nodes - A method and system for automatically detecting and segmenting lymph nodes in a 3D medical image, such as a CT image, is disclosed. A plurality of lymph node center point candidates are detected in the 3D medical image. A lymph node candidate is segmented for each of the detected lymph node center point candidates. Lymph nodes are detected from the segmented lymph node candidates by verifying the segmented lymph node candidates using a trained lymph node classifier. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222752 | MICROCALCIFICATION ENHANCEMENT FROM DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS - The present invention provides a method for enhancing microcalcifications for computer-aided lesion detection, review and diagnosis. The method includes two steps: partitioning of the breast tissue area and filtering with a convolution kernel. The partitioning process delineates: breast glandular tissue area; fat tissue sub-area and dense tissue sub-area. The 2D or 3D convolution kernels are designed to highlight small spot regions of rapid intensity changes on 2D mammograms or 3D tomosynthesis mammography images. The size of such a kernel is calculated based on the resolution of the mammographic images that are produced from each manufacturer's digital radiography device. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222753 | Adjusting Radiological Images - In one embodiment, an image processing system can be configured to generate and adjust a radiological image. Upon receiving input via a user interface control indicating a specified adjustment in slab thickness of the radiological image, and upon receiving input via a user interface control indicating a specified reconstruction technique, the image processing system can generate an adjusted radiological image based on the received input, and can present the image on a display. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222754 | SEQUENTIAL APPROACH FOR AUTOMATIC DEFECT RECOGNITION - A method of automatic defect recognition includes receiving a initial set of inspection image data of a scanned object from a scanning machine; applying a first image analysis algorithm to this set of inspection image data; then removing from the set of inspection image data any defect-free image regions, so as to retain a set of analyzed inspection image data; applying an additional image analysis algorithm(s) to the set of analyzed inspection image data, wherein the additional algorithm(s) has a higher computational cost than the first image analysis algorithm; and based on the applying of the additional image analysis algorithm(s), removing from the first set of inspection image data a second set of defect-free image regions, thereby retaining a set of twice-analyzed inspection image data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222755 | DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR EVALUATING SHAPE OF OPTICAL ELEMENT - A method for evaluating a shape of an optical element, including: executing polynomial approximation to obtain a deviation shape of a testing surface of an optical element with respect to an ideal surface; calculating an evaluation shape by extracting a rotationally symmetric irregularity component of the deviation shape from a result of the polynomial approximation; adding a 2 | 2011-09-15 |
20110222756 | Method for Handling Pixel Occlusions in Stereo Images Using Iterative Support and Decision Processes - In stereo images that include occluded pixels and visible pixels, occlusions are handled by first determining, for the occluded pixels, initial disparity values and support for the initial disparity values using an initial support function, an occlusion map and disparities of the visible pixels neighboring the occluded pixels in the stereo images. Then, for the occluded pixels, final disparity values and support for the final disparity values are determined using the initial disparity values, a final support function and a normalization function in an iterative support-and-decision process. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222757 | Systems and methods for 2D image and spatial data capture for 3D stereo imaging - Systems and methods for 2D image and spatial data capture for 3D stereo imaging are disclosed. The system utilizes a cinematography camera and at least one reference or “witness” camera spaced apart from the cinematography camera at a distance much greater that the interocular separation to capture 2D images over an overlapping volume associated with a scene having one or more objects. The captured image date is post-processed to create a depth map, and a point cloud is created form the depth map. The robustness of the depth map and the point cloud allows for dual virtual cameras to be placed substantially arbitrarily in the resulting virtual 3D space, which greatly simplifies the addition of computer-generated graphics, animation and other special effects in cinemagraphic post-processing. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222758 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES - A radiographic image capturing system includes an image reconstructor for processing a plurality of radiographic images of a subject in order to reconstruct a radiographic tomographic image of the subject, and a monitor for displaying at least the radiographic tomographic image. The radiographic image capturing system also includes a region-of-interest setter for setting a region of interest of the subject on the radiographic images or the radiographic tomographic image, a radiographic image extractor for extracting, from among the radiographic images, two radiographic images for viewing the region of interest by way of stereographic vision, and a first stereographic vision display controller or a second stereographic vision display controller for controlling the monitor to display the extracted two radiographic images for stereographic vision. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222759 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a characteristic amount calculating unit calculating a characteristic amount for each of a plurality of n different image patterns, a specifying unit specifying a best-matching image pattern among the plurality of n image patterns for each of frames forming a learning moving picture and having temporal continuity, a computing unit computing a collocation probability Pij indicating a probability that, for a frame located at a position where a temporal distance to a frame for which a first image pattern Xi is specified among the plurality of n image patterns is within a predetermined threshold τ, a second image pattern Xj is specified among the plurality of n image patterns, and a grouping unit grouping the plurality of n image patterns by using the computed collocation probability Pij. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222760 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MARKED IMAGES BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON FREQUENCY DOMAIN COEFFICIENT DIFFERENCES - Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method of identifying marked images based at least in part on frequency domain coefficient differences is disclosed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222761 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESERVING THE CREATIVE INTENT WITHIN AN IMAGE PRODUCTION CHAIN - Capturing complex artistic intent for an image having image data for multiple pixels. Plural look algorithms are defined, where each look algorithm applies color adjustments to one or more colors to produce corresponding output colors. An artistic intent is identified for each pixel of the image, where the artistic intent is constituted by chained application of one or more of the look algorithms. Information identifying the artistic intent for each pixel of the image is stored in a format that stores the artistic intent identification information together with the image data for each pixel of the image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222762 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a separation section, a background color setting section, and a generating section. The separation section separates at least one image component having different attributes contained in electronic document data expressing an original image. The background color setting section selects a coloring method, from among a plurality of coloring methods for coloring a background, according to software to be used and sets a background color. The generating section generates software data corresponding to the software by coloring the background color based on the setting of the background color setting section, and re-arranging the at least one image component. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222763 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF READING MONOCHROMATIC PATTERNS - A method of extracting data from an identifiable monochromatic pattern. The method comprises separating a polychromatic optical signal, received from an object having identifiable monochromatic pattern, into a plurality of wavelength components, separately capturing each of the wavelength components, reconstructing a plurality of images each from a different wavelength component, detecting the identifiable monochromatic pattern in one or more of the images, and extracting data associated with or encoded by the detected identifiable monochromatic pattern. The images have different depths of field. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222764 | IMAGE RESTORATION DEVICE, IMAGE RESTORATION METHOD AND IMAGE RESTORATION SYSTEM - An image restoration device, an image restoration method, and an image restoration system are provided. The image restoration device includes a point spread function estimation unit, and an image restoration filter unit. The point spread function estimation unit receives an image signal and estimates a Point Spread Function (PSF) from the received image signal. The image restoration filter unit receives the image signal and the PSF, generates an image restoration filter coefficient from the PSF, and filters the image signal according to the image restoration filter coefficient to output the filtered image signal. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222765 | MODIFICATION OF MEMORY COLORS IN DIGITAL IMAGES - Modification of a digital image includes determining a likelihood of a pixel belonging to a memory color region ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222766 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An edge code histogram of a model generated in a model image is registered. A target region with respect to the input image is set. An edge code histogram, for the target region is generated. A relative positional relationship between the edge code histogram of the model and the edge code histogram for the target region is sequentially changed, and a degree of coincidence between the edge code histograms at each relative position is calculated. A possibility that the region that matches the model is contained in the set target region from the sequentially calculated degree of coincidence between the edge code histograms is evaluated. Then a candidate point having a possibility of matching the model in the input image is specified while sequentially changing the position of the target region with respect to the input image and repeating steps above for each target region. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222767 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a histogram calculation unit configured to calculate a histogram of a luminance value for each spatial block obtained by dividing an input image in a spatial direction, a gray scale correction coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate a gray scale correction coefficient used for correction of the gray scale of a luminance value for each bin of the histogram, and a gray scale correction unit configured to perform gray scale correction of a luminance value of a target pixel based on the gray scale correction coefficient of the bin to which the target pixel of the input image belongs and the gray scale correction coefficient of a bin adjacent to the bin to which the target pixel belongs in the spatial direction and a luminance direction. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222768 | TEXT ENHANCEMENT OF A TEXTUAL IMAGE UNDERGOING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION - A method for enhancing a textual image for undergoing optical character recognition begins by receiving an image that includes native lines of text. A background line profile is determined which represents an average background intensity along the native lines in the image. Likewise, a foreground line profile is determined which represents an average foreground background intensity along the native lines in the image. The pixels in the image are assigned to either a background or foreground portion of the image based at least in part on the background line profile and the foreground line profile. The intensity of the pixels designated to the background portion of the image is adjusted to a maximum brightness so as to represent a portion of the image that does not include text. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222769 | DOCUMENT PAGE SEGMENTATION IN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION - Page segmentation in an optical character recognition process is performed to detect textual objects and/or image objects. Textual objects in an input gray scale image are detected by selecting candidates for native lines which are sets of horizontally neighboring connected components (i.e., subsets of image pixels where each pixel from the set is connected with all remaining pixels from the set) having similar vertical statistics defined by values of baseline (the line upon which most text characters “sit”) and mean line (the line under which most of the characters “hang”). Binary classification is performed on the native line candidates to classify them as textual or non-textual through examination of any embedded regularity. Image objects are indirectly detected by detecting the image's background using the detected text to define the background. Once the background is detected, what remains (i.e., the non-background) is an image object. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222770 | SUBPIXEL-BASED IMAGE DOWN-SAMPLING - Systems, methods, and apparatus for sampling images using minimum mean square error subpixel-based down-sampling (MMSE-SD) are presented herein. A partition component can receive a first array of pixels, and divide the first array of pixels into two-dimensional (2-D) blocks of pixels. Further, a sampling component can diagonally down-sample subpixels of a block of the 2-D blocks, and generate a second array of pixels based on the down-sampled subpixels. The sampling component can alternately sample subpixels of adjacent pixels of the block in a diagonal direction, and generate the second array of pixels based on the subpixels. A reconstruction component can create a virtual image based on, at least in part, the second array of pixels. A MMSE-SD component can determine an optimal low resolution image based on, at least in part, respective color components of the virtual image and a high resolution image associated with the first array of pixels. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222771 | PAGE LAYOUT DETERMINATION OF AN IMAGE UNDERGOING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION - A method and system is provided for identifying a page layout of an image that includes textual regions. The textual regions are to undergo optical character recognition (OCR). The system includes an input component that receives an input image that includes words around which bounding boxes have been formed and a text identifying component that groups the words into a plurality of text regions. A reading line component groups words within each of the text regions into reading lines. A text region sorting component that sorts the text regions in accordance with their reading order. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222772 | RESOLUTION ADJUSTMENT OF AN IMAGE THAT INCLUDES TEXT UNDERGOING AN OCR PROCESS - An optical character recognition process characterizes text lines in a textual image by their base-line, mean-line and x-height. The base-line for at least one text line in the image is determined by finding a parametric curve that maximizes a first fitness function that depends on the values of pixels through which the parametric curve passes and pixels below the parametric curve. The base-line corresponds to the parametric curve for which the first fitness function is maximized. The first fitness function is designed so that it increases with increasing lightless or brightness of pixels immediately below the parametric curve while also increasing with decreasing lightness of pixels through which the parametric curve passes. The mean-line is determined by incrementally shifting the base-line upward by predetermined amounts (e.g., a single pixel) until a second fitness function for the shifted base-line is maximized. The second fitness function is essentially the inverse of the first fitness function. Specifically, the second fitness function increases with increasing lightless of pixels immediately above the shifted base-line while also increasing with decreasing lightness of pixels through which the shifted base-line passes. The x-height is equal to the sum of the predetermined amounts by which the base-line is shifted upward in order to maximize the second fitness function. In some cases different groups of text-lines in the textual image may be characterized differently from one another. For example, each group may be characterized by a most probable x-height for that group. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222773 | PARAGRAPH RECOGNITION IN AN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) PROCESS - An image processing apparatus for detecting paragraphs in a textual image includes an input component for receiving an input image in which textual lines and words have been identified and a page classification component for classifying the input image as a first or second page type. The apparatus also includes a paragraph detection component for classifying all textual lines on the input image as a beginning paragraph line or a continuation paragraph line. The apparatus is also provided with a paragraph creation component for creating paragraphs that include textual lines between two successive beginning paragraph lines, including a first of the two successive beginning paragraph lines. The paragraphs that have been identified may be classified by the type of alignment they exhibit. For instance, paragraphs may be classified according to whether they are left aligned, right aligned, center aligned or justified. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222774 | IMAGE FEATURE DETECTION BASED ON APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE FEATURE DETECTORS - In a particular embodiment, a method includes applying a first feature detector to a portion of an image to detect a first set of features. The first set of features is used to locate a region of interest, and a boundary corresponding to the region of interest is determined. The method also includes displaying the boundary at a display. In response to receiving user input to accept the displayed boundary, a second feature detector is applied to an area of the image encapsulated by the boundary. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222775 | IMAGE ATTRIBUTE DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS, ATTRIBUTE DISCRIMINATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, IMAGE ATTRIBUTE DISCRIMINATION METHOD, ATTRIBUTE DISCRIMINATION SUPPORT APPARATUS CONTROLLING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An attribute of image data can accurately be discriminated. An image attribute discrimination apparatus includes a heterogeneous region extracting unit that specifies a heterogeneous region from image data. The heterogeneous region includes a heterogeneous matter whose attribute is different from that of a content originally produced by the image data. An image attribute discrimination apparatus further includes a scene discrimination unit that discriminates the attribute of the image data based on a feature quantity extracted from a pixel group except each pixel in the heterogeneous region in each pixel of the image data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222776 | FORM TEMPLATE DEFINITION METHOD AND FORM TEMPLATE DEFINITION APPARATUS - Disclosed are a form template definition method and a form template definition apparatus. The form template definition method comprises a cell extraction step of analyzing an image of a form so as to extract one or more cells from the image of the form; a cell classification step of classifying the extracted cells; and a cell attribute definition step of defining attributes of the extracted cells class by class. If an attribute of a first cell in one class is defined, then other cells in the class automatically copy the attribute of the first cell. As a result, the work amount of form template definition may be dramatically reduced by employing the form template definition method and form template definition apparatus. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222777 | Systems And Methods For Automatically Determining 3-Dimensional Object Information And For Controlling A Process Based On Automatically-Determined 3-Dimensional Object Information - An image containing one or more types of objects to be located is analyzed to locate linear features within the image. The objects have edges having known spatial relationships. The linear features and identified virtual lines are analyzed to find groups of linear features and/or virtual lines that have one of the known spatial relationships. These relationships can include parallel edges, edges that meet at certain angles or angle ranges, the number of lines meeting a vertex and the like. The identified group is compared with projected 2-dimensional representation(s) of the object(s) to determine whether any additional lines appear in the image that are part of the located object. In various exemplary embodiments, two or more hypotheses for how the identified group of linear features maps to the 3-dimensional representation of the object can be generated. The best fitting hypothesis becomes the recognized 3-dimensional shape and orientation for that object. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222778 | COLOR AND INTENSITY BASED MEANINGFUL OBJECT OF INTEREST DETECTION - An apparatus and method for detecting “Object Portraits” (photographs or images with a stand-out object of interest or a set of stand-out objects of interest) is described. A set of tools has been developed for object of interest detection, including “Sunset-like” scene detection, pseudo-color saturation-based detection and object of interest isolation, block intensity based detection and object of interest isolation. By effectively integrating these tools together, the “Object Portrait” images and “Non-Object Portrait” images are successfully identified. Meaningful object of interest areas are thereby successfully isolated in a low complexity manner without human intervention. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222779 | Edge orientation for second derivative edge detection methods - An improved algorithm for edge detection is provided that utilizes the second order derivative of the intensity distribution function of an image to provide edge orientation information for the detected edges. An exemplary embodiment of the improved algorithm includes determining the second order derivative of the intensity distribution function, identifying zero-crossings in the horizontal and vertical directions, assigning angle information to the identified zero-crossings in the horizontal and vertical directions; and identifying an edge orientation based the assigned angle information for the horizontal and vertical zero-crossing of the edge and adjacent edges. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222780 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A BLOCK RASTER - The present invention describes a method for the detection of a block raster in an image that has a plurality of pixels, to each of which at least one pixel value is assigned and which are situated one next to another along horizontal and vertical pixel boundaries (x | 2011-09-15 |
20110222781 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE REGISTRATION AND CHANGE DETECTION - A system and method for detecting changes by comparing images which cover the same physical area but are collected at different times, the system comprising: at least one input for inputting an image of a target area; the image of the target area having signatures representing outstanding features; at least one processor operating to divide the image of a target area into a plurality of target subimages; at least one memory comprising reference data comprising reference subimages taken at or near the target area at various times, the at least one processor operating to determine a sparse image representation from the reference data; the sparse image representation of the target data being a linear combination of reference data from corresponding reference subimages stored in the at least one memory; the at least one processor operating to compare the target image to the sparse image representation and to match signatures from the target image to the sparse image representation to register the images and perform change detection. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222782 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a characteristic amount extracting unit extracting a plurality of characteristic amounts, which are information expressing characteristics of a video, from the video; a labeling unit associating the extracted characteristic amounts with a person or a background; a matching degree judging unit judging a degree of matching between the associated characteristic amounts and the characteristic amounts of at least one other video; a comparing unit comparing the plurality of characteristic amounts of one scene in the video from which the characteristic amounts have been extracted and the plurality of characteristic amounts of one scene in the at least one other video; and a relationship inferring unit inferring a relationship between the one scene in the video and the one scene in the at least one other video based on a comparison result of the comparing unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222783 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSOR, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processor generates an output image of a resolution higher than a resolution of an input image, using the input image. The image processor includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an edge strength of one of the input image and an image corresponding to the input image; a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the edge strength, J that is a count of data items to be used for generating a synthesized image to be used in generating the output image, where J is an integer equal to or larger than 2; and a generating unit configured to generate the synthesized image by synthesizing J data items, and generate the output image using the synthesized image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222784 | System and Method for a Public Interactive Information Network - A public interactive information network (“PIIN”) that effectively rebuilds and reactivates the public pay telephone system. This network and the interactive information terminal described herein provides many new uses for the public telephone infrastructure including delivery of information and content relevant to the individual citizen in real time at the citizen's location. The terminal replaces a pay telephone in any booth or kiosk. A touch screen and a processor controlled by a main program and a suite of software applications stored in the terminal responds to user selections to provide the interactive access to information. The terminal automatically switches between passive and active display modes and receives user selections by touching the display. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222785 | Signal classification apparatus - An acquisition unit acquires feature vectors (the number is N). A first selection unit selects first neighbor features (k (1≦k≦N)) of each feature vector in order of higher similarity from the feature vectors. A second selection unit generates a plurality of groups each including similar feature vectors from the feature vectors, and selects second neighbor features (u (1≦k+u≦N−2)) of each feature vector in order of higher similarity. Each of the second neighbor features is differently included in a group. A determination unit calculates a density of each feature vector by using a threshold, the first neighbor features and the second neighbor features, and determines feature vectors to be classified into the same class as each feature vector by using the density and a threshold. A classification unit classifies the feature vectors into a plurality of classes by using the selection result. A control unit controls each threshold. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222786 | CLASSIFYING AN IMAGE'S COMPRESSION LEVEL - A method of classifying a compressed input image's compression level, comprising applying inverse quantization to DCT coefficients extracted from the compressed input image, giving rise to dequantized DCT coefficients, applying a threshold to the dequantized DCT coefficients, and determining a compression level classification for the compressed input image according to a relation among the threshold and at least one of the dequantized DCT coefficients. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222787 | FRAME SEQUENCE COMPARISON IN MULTIMEDIA STREAMS - In some embodiments, the technology compares multimedia content to other multimedia content via a content analysis server. In other embodiments, the technology includes a system and/or a method of comparing video sequences. The comparison includes receiving a first list of descriptors pertaining to a plurality of first video frames and a second list of descriptors pertaining to a plurality of second video frames; designating first segments of the plurality of first video frames that are similar and second segments of the plurality of second video frames that are similar; comparing the first segments and the second segments; and analyzing the pairs of first and second segments to compare the first and second segments to a threshold value. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222788 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a recognition section for recognizing a feature keyword representing a feature of at least part of text content, an additional information acquisition section for acquiring additional information related to the text content from an outside of the text content in response to the recognized feature keyword, and a control section for controlling the additional information acquired by the additional information acquisition section to be output along with the part of the text content. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222789 | CHARACTER STRING SENSING DEVICE, CHARACTER EVALUATING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CHARACTER STRING SENSING METHOD, CHARACTER EVALUATION METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Reduction of a processing load, and shortening of a processing time, is realized by performing character string sensing processing on an image. A character string sensing device senses a character string including at least one character from an image. The character string sensing device includes a character information storage unit in which an evaluation value, expressing difficulty of false sensing of the character, is stored in each character. The character string sensing device also includes a search sequence determining unit that determines a search sequence of each character based on the evaluation value of each character included in a keyword input to the character string sensing device as the character string to be sensed. The evaluation value is stored in the character information storage unit. A character search unit searches each character included in the keyword according to the determined search sequence. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222790 | METHODS FOR PROCESSING 2Nx2N BLOCK WITH N BEING POSITIVE INTEGER GREATER THAN FOUR UNDER INTRA-PREDICTION MODE AND RELATED PROCESSING CIRCUITS THEREOF - A method for processing a 2N×2N block under intra-prediction includes: utilizing an intra-prediction unit for performing intra-prediction upon the 2N×2N block by utilizing a plurality of prediction modes, and accordingly generating a plurality of intra-prediction results respectively corresponding to the prediction modes, wherein N is a positive integer greater than four, and a number of the prediction modes is greater than four; and determining a target intra-prediction result from the intra-prediction results. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222791 | Post-Beamformer Ultrasound Compression - Embodiments of the invention compress ultrasound RF data after the receiver beamformer. An efficient compression algorithm is disclosed that incorporates the use of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Discrete Wavelet Packet (DWP) transform, followed by quantization of the wavelet coefficients. The algorithm first processes ultrasound scanlines from the receiver beamformer using a DCT transform. In a low-power configuration, a Hadamard transform may be used instead of the DCT. The output of the DCT processing is DCT coefficients at different frequencies. An optimized wavelet packet transform is then used for each coefficient line. The wavelet filter kernels and the wavelet packet trees can be jointly optimization using a two-step optimization algorithm. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222792 | METHOD FOR CODING IMAGE, IMAGE CODING DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM - It is decided whether a processing target block includes an edge in accordance with an edge detection result of the processing target block. In the case where the edge is included, it is then detected whether there is a flat portion. It is decided whether the processing target block includes the flat portion in accordance with a flat portion detection result. In the case where the flat portion is included, one of a first group of orthogonal transform sizes is selected. In the case where the edge is not included or the flat portion is not included, one of a second group of orthogonal transform sizes greater than the first group of orthogonal transform sizes is selected. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222793 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a conversion section converting a moving object image being an image in a region corresponding to a moving object included in a reference image and other images constituting images generated under different exposure conditions so that the moving object image in the reference image corresponding to the moving object has the exposure levels of the other images so as to generate an exposure level converted moving object image for each of the other images; a substitution section substituting the generated exposure level converted moving object image with a region corresponding to an exposure level converted moving object image of each of the other images corresponding to an exposure level as a reference exposure level at the time of generating the exposure level converted moving object image to generate a substitute image for each of the other images; and a combination section combining the substitute image and the reference image to generate a combined image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222794 | RESOLUTION ADJUSTMENT OF AN IMAGE THAT INCLUDES TEXT UNDERGOING AN OCR PROCESS - A system and method is provided which rescales a received image to an optimal size to undergo an optical character recognition (OCR) process. The system includes an optimal size determination component that determines an optimum size for the image such that processing time of the received image is minimized without affecting accuracy. The optimal size determination component determines the optimum size of the image based at least in part on a dominant interline spacing of text and a dominant text height. The system also includes a rescaling component that resizes the received image to the determined optimum size. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222795 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a separation section that separates image components having different attributes contained in electronic document data expressing an original image; a selection section that selects which mode from plural modes including a reusability emphasis mode for performing predetermined re-laying out of the image components with emphasis on reusability; and a generation section that re-lays the image components separated by the separation section according to the mode selected by the selection section, and generates software data corresponding to software for use. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222796 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, Program, and Imaging Apparatus - An apparatus for evaluating the quality of an input image is disclosed. The apparatus may include a composition pattern selection unit configured to select a composition pattern based on an attribute of the input image. The apparatus may also include a composition evaluation unit configured to evaluate the input image based on the composition pattern and the attribute. Additionally, the apparatus may include an evaluation result output unit configured to output to a display the input image and an indication of a result of the evaluation. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222797 | BAG - A thermoplastic bag may include a sidewall that may have a plurality of first and second ribs formed therein. The first ribs may be longer in length but shorter in height than the second ribs. The second ribs may be arranged in discrete networks that appear superimposed over the first ribs. The second ribs may normally remain in a bent-over configuration. When a force is applied, the second ribs may expand the area of the sidewall so that the bag may easily accommodate large objects. To produce the bag, a thermoplastic web may be directed between opposing first and second rollers. One of the rollers may include ridges that may have first and second segments of differing heights that correspond to the differing heights of the first and second ribs. The formation of the first ribs may increase the width of the web. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222798 | Tube mesh bag - The invention teaches a new way to make mesh bags using adhesive labels and continuous mesh tubing. Using adhesive labels on continuous mesh tubing is made possible by guiding the mesh tubing both on the outside of the tubing and the inside of the tubing so that an adhesive label does not stick to the mesh surface on the other side of the mesh tubing. As a result the invention also teaches a new type of mesh bag made with this process and a new machine used for making mesh bags. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222799 | SLIDING MECHANISM - A sliding mechanism comprises a main plate, a sliding plate, a sliding enabling member and a biasing assembly. The sliding enabling member is coupled between the sliding plate and the main plate so the sliding plate slidably engages with the main plate. The biasing assembly is coupled between the sliding plate and the main plate. When the sliding plate is slid from a closed position to an intermediate position, the biasing assembly is distorted to exert a force on the sliding plate and the main plate, causing the sliding plate to automatically slide toward an open position once the sliding plate passes the intermediate position. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222800 | Methods and Compositions for Isolating a Payload from Vibration - Improved isolation bearings, platforms, and tracks are disclosed for protecting a payload, for example delicate computer equipment such as a hard disk drive, from damage due to vibrations, such as seismic vibrations, as well as weaker vibrations due to HDD, motorized equipment, air conditioning, heating systems, and the like. The isolation platforms and bearings combine a plurality of shapes on their load bearing surfaces to increase stability of the payload even when subjected to vibrations of high velocity or intensity, and preferably have an elastomeric coating on all but a central portion of the load-bearing surfaces of the bearing plates. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222801 | WEAR PAD ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLY - A cam assembly is provided for adjustment of a drill feed guide wear pad. The cam assembly has an eccentric bushing with a shank portion extending circumferentially about a first axis and defining a bore along a second axis. The second axis is generally parallel and offset from the first axis. The bushing has a head portion extending from the eccentric bushing portion, with the bore extending though the head portion. The bushing is sized for insertion into an aperture of a drill feed guide wear pad, and is rotatable causing the shank portion to engage the aperture of the wear pad to provide a camming action to position the wear pad relative to a drill feed guide. The head portion is shaped to interact with a tool for rotating the bushing. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222802 | RING FOR A HYDROSTATIC OR HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING, A HYRAULIC MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH SUCH A RING, AND A METHOD OF MOUNTING SUCH A RING ON A SHAFT - The invention relates to a ring ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222803 | Rotatable Bar Pin Bushing Assembly - A rotatable bar pin bushing assembly is disclosed for connecting components in a vehicular system, such as a suspension and/or axle system. The rotatable bar pin bushing assembly includes an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve positioned around the inner sleeve, and an insert positioned between the inner and outer sleeves. The rotatable bar pin bushing assembly also includes a bar pin rotatably positioned within the inner sleeve. The bar pin has at least one end with at least one bore extending therethrough to receive a fastener. The bar pin is rotatable within the inner sleeve to allow indexing of the bar pin for registering the at least one bore of the bar pin with a connector of a different component. A method for assembling the rotatable bar pin bushing assembly is also disclosed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222804 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - A wind turbine generator is provided in which damage to a rolling element due to running out of lubricant oil in a main bearing ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222805 | SEAL EQUIPPED BEARING ASSEMBLY - A seal equipped bearing assembly including an outer ring ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222806 | Ball Bearing, Its Use and a Motor Vehicle Fitted with such a Bearing - This hall bearing ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222807 | TANDEM ANGULAR BALL BEARING - A tandem angular ball bearing is provide that prevent damage from occurring to the rolling surfaces of the balls during assembly and transport to an extent that would cause an excessive decrease in life of the balls, and that can maintain excelled durability without the occurrence of excessive vibration and noise during operation. In order to accomplish this, the entire portion of the inner peripheral surface of an outer ring ( | 2011-09-15 |