39th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150269663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANONYMOUSLY IDENTIFYING MEMBERS OF A SYNDICATE FOR AN INVESTMENT THEME - A fund management system may determine an investment theme based on aggregated information related to investment research activities of a plurality of users and determine a set of potential users to include in a syndicate for the investment theme, wherein the investment theme comprises a topic on which the syndicate may base a strategy for a new investment fund. The fund management system may notify the first user of inclusion in the set of potential users of the syndicate by providing information about the syndicate; and restricting access of the first user to information related to any members of syndicate or information related to other users in the set of potential users. Responsive to the first user indicating acceptance of membership in the syndicate, the fund management system may add the first user as a member of the syndicate and provide information related to other members of syndicate. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269664 | SOLAR PANEL WATTAGE DETERMINATION SYSTEM - Techniques for solar panel wattage determination are provided. A computing device can determine a potential wattage output of a candidate solar panel array using insolation data for a corresponding geographic region, and determine potential energy consumption for a property of a utility customer in the corresponding geographic region using usage data from the property. The computing device can adjust a size of the candidate solar panel array to vary the potential wattage output, and apply a different rate plan to the potential energy consumption for each adjustment to the potential wattage output. The computing device can determine that one of the wattage output adjustments yields a cost efficiency metric that is less than a predetermined threshold. In turn, the computing device provides a notification of the candidate solar panel array corresponding to the cost efficiency metric being less than the predetermined threshold as a recommendation to the corresponding utility customer. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269665 | Automated Documentation System and Method - An automated documentation system includes a data model manager that maintains at least one object model having a plurality of object classes; an interpretation module that populates the object classes of the data model from at least one source file; a persist module that generates at least one persisted object model associated to the or a respective one of the object models, the at least one object model having a plurality of tables and relationships between the tables, and maintain the at least one persisted object model in a data store, the data store having a plurality of stored persisted object models; and a compare module that compares two persisted object models by comparing at least one of the objects common to the persisted object models, and store a representation of differences identified in the at least one common object in one or both of the two persisted object models. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269666 | DYNAMIC MORTGAGE LOAN PRE-APPROVAL SYSTEM - A system for the provision of dynamic, unique and particularized pre-approval information for the purchase of real estate wherein the information provided is particular for the property in question and limited to buyer's approval. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269667 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSUMER BEHAVIOR MODELING BASED ON INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS - A method for predicting consumer behavior includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to one or more consumers including at least consumer data and a profile identifier; receiving, by a receiving device, an authorization request or clearing record for a payment transaction, wherein the authorization request or clearing record includes at least an indication of the payment transaction as an installment transaction, transaction data, a specific profile identifier, a repayment length, and an installment amount; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included profile identifier corresponds to the specific profile identifier; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, an indication of a propensity to have available funding based on the repayment length, wherein the indication includes at least the consumer data included in the identified specific consumer profile and the installment amount included in the received authorization request or clearing record. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269668 | VOTING MECHANISM AND MULTI-MODEL FEATURE SELECTION TO AID FOR LOAN RISK PREDICTION - Presented are a system, method, and apparatus for loan risk prediction. A computing device receives a plurality of loan account histories containing variables x; a plurality of algorithms then independently selects features from the loan account histories, the selected features being functions of the received variables x; the selected features are then grouped into a first data structure x | 2015-09-24 |
20150269669 | LOAN RISK ASSESSMENT USING CLUSTER-BASED CLASSIFICATION FOR DIAGNOSTICS - Presented are a system, method, and apparatus for loan risk assessment by assignment of a specific loan account to a loan cluster of a plurality of loan clusters. A computing device receives plurality of loan account histories describing a plurality of loan accounts during a training phase. An appropriate supervised classification method is applied to the loan account histories to obtain a mathematical description of loan cluster set. Next, the computing device receives a test loan account payment history describing a test loan account to be analyzed. The test loan account is assigned to at least one cluster of the previously trained cluster set. One or a plurality of causes is then determined for assigning the test loan account to the cluster set; and a predicted risk value for the test loan account is determined based on the cluster the test loan account is assigned to. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269670 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC RISK AND AUTOMATIC TARGETING AND ACTION PRIORITIZATION IN LOAN MONITORING APPLICATIONS - Presented are a method, system, and apparatus for semi-automatic and automatic loan risk targeting and action prioritization in loan monitoring applications. In an off-line mode, a computing device associated with a multi-window computer-based tool receives a plurality of loan account histories for loan risk analysis. A predictive multi-output risk model is trained with the received plurality of loan account histories, the predictive multi-output risk model indicating a risk level associated with each of the loan accounts. In an online mode, the user is presented an option for semi-automatic loan analysis, in which the user is presented with output of a predictive multi-output risk model associated with the plurality of loan accounts. The user is also presented with the option for automatic loan analysis, allowing the user to be automatically presented with loan accounts at a greatest level of risk of all loan accounts. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269671 | System and Method for Processing Loan Applications - A system method for quickly and easily processing a loan application is disclosed. The original application is processed quickly using supplemental technology such as a barcode scanner, mag-stripe reader, biometric or card tap device to fill out the applicant's personal details. If the application is approved a seamless transition is made within the mobile device to collect any additional information and allow the applicant to use e-signatures and sign the document directly on the device. Any additional documents needed to disburse a loan are collected by taking a photo of the document and optionally processing it via OCR with the mobile device's camera. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269672 | TRADING PLATFORM CURRENTLY KNOWN AS ALPHAMETRICS AND IT'S ACCOMPANYING API (APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE) FOR ITS USAGE; TO INCLUDE A VOICE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE PLATFORM DESIGNED TO AGGREGATE END OF DAY ORDER IMBALANCE SENTIMENT FOR NYSE TRADED ISSUES - A method performed in a system incorporating a processing unit, an audio capture device, a network interface, a data storage system and a memory, the method being performed in connection with an audio signal containing spoken market imbalance data, the method involving: capturing the audio signal containing spoken market imbalance data using the audio capture device; performing text-to-speech conversion of the captured audio signal containing spoken market imbalance data to obtain textual representation of the audio signal containing spoken market imbalance data; performing parsing of the textual representation of the audio signal containing spoken market imbalance data to obtain parsed textual market imbalance data; performing filtering of the parsed textual market imbalance data to obtain filtered textual market imbalance data; storing the filtered textual market imbalance data in the data storage system; and disseminating the filtered textual market imbalance data. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269673 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR REDUCING AGGREGATE PORTFOLIO STATISTICS - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for reducing aggregate portfolio statistics. Two or more trades that can be netted are identified. The two or more trades have different fixed rates. A net of underlying trade cash flows of the two or more trades is represented by replacing the two or more trades with two or fewer replacement trades having an aggregate notional amount that is smaller than an aggregate notional amount of the two or more trades. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269674 | Tabs Based Drag and Drop Graphical Trading Interface - The interface comprises one or more grids, each grid typically associated with a specific security. GUI objects or icons representing orders of a specific quantity may be dragged and dropped onto the grid to place, change, or cancel orders. The Grids are contained within tab pages, which are further contained as tab sets. Status icons are used to represent open, filled, and cancelled orders. The Icon Locate and Order locate feature allows orders on the Grid and Icons in the status panels to be easily associated and cross referenced by a visual indication. Status Icons may be stamped with their associated order type, quantity, trading symbol, and or status. Similarly, the status icons may take the form of corporate logos and adjust in size according to the value or quantity of a position. An Icon packing feature allows status icons to be efficiently placed within their total panel area such that the status icons are visible to the user. Advertising content may be displayed on the trading interface main window and also conveniently packaged within any tabpage or panel. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269675 | TRADE-TIME CREDIT CHECK SYSTEM AND METHODS - System and methods for performing trade-time credit checks to guarantee the availability of credit to clear and settle trades for market participants are disclosed. In one embodiment, an order to buy or sell an amount of a financial instrument is received by the system. The system then determines an amount of a credit support financial instrument available for the market participant. The credit support financial instrument is a synthetically created financial instrument that is issued on an exchange for a market participant. The system then determines whether the amount of the credit support financial instrument available is enough to cover the order and if so, the system executes the order. The system then depletes the amount of the credit support financial instrument available for a subsequent trade by the amount of the executed trade to reflect the reduction in availability of credit for subsequent trades. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269676 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING A CREDIT VOLATILITY INDEX AND TRADING DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS BASED THEREON - A computer system for calculating a credit volatility index comprising memory configured to store at least one program; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory, in which the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to receive data regarding options on credit default swap index derivatives; calculate, using the data regarding options on credit default swap index derivatives, the credit volatility index; and transmit data regarding the credit volatility index. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269677 | Match Engine Testing System - A symbolic modeling language for trade matching providers techniques to describe the specialized operations of a match engine in a form that can be understood by business analysts and readily translated into program code and test cases by developers and testers. Associated techniques for calculating implied markets and testing can expedite match engine development, testing and maintenance. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269678 | TRADING OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON PUBLIC TICKER DATA - Systems and methods for improving an efficiency of a system, including a financial exchange system, includes extracting trade data from one or more external data sources, parsing the trade data to identify trade information, comparing the trade information to one or more parameters, creating new trades based on the trade information only when the one or more parameters are satisfied, and offering the new trades to one or more participants. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269679 | 2-D and 3-D Graphical Visualization of Diversification of Portfolio Holdings - Data visualization processes are provided for expressing diversification of an investment based on each underlying holding weight in the investment relative to each holding's market capitalization weight in the investment and each holding's market capitalization weight in the broad market or by its absolute holding percentage. Visualizations can be depicted in both 2-D and 3-D formats, with area fill, volume fill, color, and/or opacity depicting percentage of coverage. Visualization can show diversification down to the individual holding level and in aggregate levels, such as mega-cap, mid-cap and small-cap. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN INVESTMENT THEME FOR A POTENTIAL INVESTMENT FUND - A fund management system may determine an investment theme for a potential investment fund based on investment research activities of a plurality of users of the fund management system. The fund management system may also identify a set of users from the plurality of users to include in a syndicate for the investment theme. The determined investment theme may comprise a topic on which the syndicate may base a strategy for a new investment fund. Responsive to a first user being included in the set of users of the syndicate, information related to the investment theme may be output to the first user. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269681 | COMPETITIVE BIDDING PLATFORM FOR VEHICLE INSURANCE - A device may receive a request for a vehicle insurance bid including information that identifies a driver and information that identifies a vehicle associated with the driver. The device may identify an insurer that is to be provided with bidding information associated with the driver and the vehicle. The device may determine a subscription type associated with the insurer that may indicate a scope of the bidding information that is to be provided to the insurer. The device may determine the bidding information based on the subscription type, the request, and driver information associated with the driver and/or the vehicle. The device may provide the bidding information to an insurer device associated with the insurer. The device may receive a bid after providing the bidding information. The device may provide the bid such that the driver can purchase vehicle insurance associated with the bid. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269682 | ONLINE AUCTIONS WITH COLLECTIBLE AUTHENTICITY INSURANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for facilitating a dynamic online based community for collectors of collectible items which provides various features, including a feature by which collectibles of all kinds are authenticated and insured against subsequent claims or challenges to that authentication prior to permitting the collectible to be involved in a transaction. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269683 | REAL-TIME AVAILABILITY OF OMNI-CHANNEL SALES DATA - Techniques of implementing providing real-time availability of omni-channel sales data are disclosed. In some example embodiments, purchase information comprising information of purchases made by a consumer via a plurality of retail channels is received by a back-end system. The purchase information can be stored on the back-end system. A request to access the stored purchase information can be received from the consumer on a computing device. The request can comprise an identification of a virtual host and an identification of a service to invoke on the back-end system to retrieve the purchase information stored on the back-end system. An identification of an internal host can be determined based on the identification of the virtual host. The identification of the internal host can identify the back-end system. The purchase information can be retrieved from the back-end system using the identification of the internal host and the identification of the service. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269684 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A DATABASE FOR HANDLING MULTILATERAL FINANCIAL COMPENSATIONS - A method for operating a database for handling multilateral financial compensations, the method being characterized in that it comprises the steps of: providing a legal entities database ( | 2015-09-24 |
20150269685 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management system, includes: a first detection unit configured to detect position information of a first haul machine configured to travel along a haul road that leads to a loading area of a mine; a second detection unit configured to detect position information of a second haul machine configured to travel along the haul road; and a processing device configured to receive a detection result from each of the first detection unit and the second detection unit, wherein the processing device is configured to determine that the second haul machine arrives at an entrance of the loading area when the second haul machine arrives at a position behind the first haul machine that is in a standby state at the entrance based on the detection results. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269686 | MULTIPLE FIELD BOUNDARY DATA SETS IN AN AUTOMATED CROP RECORDKEEPING SYSTEM - A method includes defining a plurality of crop field boundaries such that an area of land falls within each of the plurality of field boundaries. The method further includes maintaining the plurality of crop field boundaries within the crop recordkeeping system, using a first of the crop field boundaries in performing a first function of the crop recordkeeping system executing on a computer, and using a second of the crop field boundaries in performing a second function of the crop recordkeeping system executing on the computer. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269687 | System for Providing Extensible Location-based Services - A system for providing location-based services to a mobile device regularly determines the location of the mobile device. Using the location of the device, the system queries a database of virtual geographic regions to determine if the location of the mobile device falls within one or more of the virtual geographic regions. The virtual geographic regions correspond to service entities that have purchased, rented, leased, or otherwise acquired the virtual geographic regions. The virtual geographic regions cover a certain area of a map. If the mobile device is within a virtual geographic region, the system notifies the mobile device. A location-based services application installed on the mobile device launches an applet for the entity that acquired the virtual geographic region within which the mobile device is located. When the mobile device is located within multiple overlapping virtual geographic regions, the system generates a prioritization scheme that defines which of the corresponding service entities should be displayed on the mobile device, and in what order the service entities should be displayed. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269688 | Method for Passive Mining of Usage Information In A Location-Based Services System - A method and system for providing advertising effectiveness searching capabilities, predictive modeling capabilities and usage mining in a location-based services system is disclosed. During operation of the location-based services system, usage information for advertising campaigns placed on the location-based services system is stored. Advertisers are provided with the ability to enter a search request form on a remote terminal to mine the usage information. The search request is then transmitted to an application that searches usage information to generate a response to said search request. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269689 | Interactive Real Property Presentation System - Certain embodiments are directed to systems and devices for providing an enhanced presentation of a property based on the location of a user or a device on the property. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269690 | Methods and Systems for Facilitating a Subscription-Based On-Line Property Listing - Facilitating a subscription-based on-line property listing as part of an on-line property listing publication service are described. Consistent with some embodiments, in exchange for a fixed fee, a property listing is activated for a fixed duration of time, referred to as an activation period. At the end of the activation period, the property listing is deactivated if the property listing has generated a number of leads equal to or greater than some predetermined threshold number of leads. However, if the number of leads generated during the activation period was less than the threshold number, the property listing is reactivated for a rollover period. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269691 | LEGAL REASONING GRAPHS AND USAGE THEREOF - A computer implemented method, a computerized apparatus and a computer program product for legal reasoning graph and usage thereof. The computer implemented method comprising obtaining a query from a user; searching in a repository of legal reasoning graphs, wherein the searching is based on the query, wherein each legal reasoning graph in the repository is a graph composed of legal reasonings that cite one another, wherein each legal reasoning is one or more paragraphs extracted from a legal document, wherein in response to the searching, obtaining a result legal reasoning graph; and outputting the result legal reasoning graph. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269692 | Electronic Contract Creator - An electronic device creates a contract between two parties and includes an identity determiner that determines and verifies, based on an analysis of a photograph or biometric data of a party to the contract, personal information about the party. A contract creator creates the contract between the parties, and a wireless transmitter transmits the contract over a network to secure storage after the contract receives consent from both parties. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269693 | Method and System of querying patent information based on image interface - A system for submitting an image segment which is relevant, wherein said system then converts the image into an appropriate encoding that can be submitted as a query. The query is then used to match the descriptors of the image segment with those figure or images related to those of a submitted patent. The matched figure of the patent has an associated number which will be matched to a patent element which will then be used to extract the nodes of the patent. Those nodes will be characterized by functional as well as structural descriptions that are located in the narrative of the patent. The system will then use the relevant segments extracted from the patent to construct a narrative that describes the functionality and structure of the element of the image that is described by a patent. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269694 | CATALOG-BASED SOFTWARE LICENSE RECONCILIATION - A software reconciliation engine utilizes a software rule-based catalog to produce accurate license reconciliation across a wide range of software configurations. A software offering may comprise software installables and corresponding constraints. Installed software and active hardware is discovered by a scanner, stored in an installed software database and active hardware database respectively and is mapped against entitled software offerings to determine whether the installed software is entitled to be installed on the hardware. The installed software has a base product attribute, a used-in-count attribute and a parent-child attribute that are used by the reconciliation engine to compare against the constraints to determine entitlement and report compliance. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269695 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEDICATIONS AS PART OF THE PROCESSING OF A HEALTHCARE TRANSACTION - Systems and methods are provided for identifying non-insurance related financial assistance opportunities for patients as part of the processing of a healthcare transaction. Upon receiving a healthcare transaction from a healthcare provider, the service provider can identify non-insurance related financial assistance opportunities for the patient. The service provider can reject the transaction and transmit the rejection along with a message identifying the non-insurance related financial assistance opportunity to the healthcare provider and await a resubmitted healthcare transaction. In other examples, the service provider can process the healthcare transaction and include a message or code identifying the financial assistance opportunity in the healthcare transaction or an adjudicated response to the healthcare transaction. In another example, the service provider can identify contact information for the patient identified in the healthcare transaction and can transmit a message identifying the non-insurance related financial assistance opportunity directly to the patient via the contact information. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269696 | PAYOR-REIMBURSABLE METHOD OF TRANSFORMING CLINICAL COMMUNICATION INTO A PERSON-CENTERED EXPERIENCE - This invention is a payor-reimbursable method for engaging clinical communication with patients and families to alleviate communication flow problems associated with conflicts between biomedical scientific and other healing paradigms. Through the method, payor reimburses physician and/or other clinician to both deliver the medical information included in biomedical paradigm utilizing the languages rooted in the cultures of science and statistics and to determine whether patient and/or surrogate experience and/or decisions are influenced by any paradigm other than biomedical scientific paradigm, to determine whether expression of hope and/or prayer is an intervention important to patient/surrogate/family healthcare decision making, and, when appropriate, to provide hopeful and/or prayerful religious or spiritual or emotional intervention from spiritual or religious or emotion-based paradigm, using that paradigm's language to express desire and/or request for outcome deemed wrong headed, unlikely, or impossible by medicine but believed and/or hoped virtuous, likely, or possible by patient/surrogate/family. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269697 | TEXT-MESSAGING BASED COACHING PROGRAMS - Technology is directed to an interactive text message based coaching program (“the technology”). A user enrolled in a campaign interacts with a server to obtain guidance on performing a set of tasks of the campaign to achieve a health goal. The user interacts with the server via text messages using a mobile computing device. After the health goal of the user is identified, the server generates text messages having information related to the campaign. The text messages are generated based on the health goal for the user, and are customized for the user. The server sends the text messages to the user in a sequence, wherein a next text message of the sequence sent to the user is based on a response received from the user for a previous text message of the sequence. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269698 | USE OF NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION DEVICES AS PROOF OF IDENTITY DURING ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE PROCESS - Electronic signatures are authenticated utilizing near field communication (NFC) devices as proof of identity. An identification service collects an identification of a NFC device associated with a signer of a contract. The identification may be utilized as an access control mechanism that enables the signer to receive, view, or sign the contract. An electronic signature associated with the signer is received. The identification of the NFC device and the electronic signature of the signer are recorded in the contract and/or audit information associated with the contract. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269699 | System and Method For Monitoring A Traveling Passenger Requiring Assistance - A system and method for monitoring a passenger requiring assistance during travel, such as an unaccompanied minor, a disabled passenger, or an elderly passenger, on a common carrier. The system includes a machine-readable tag such as a Quick Response code (QR code) or a RFID tag that references passenger information, including itinerary information. A first mobile device of a first agent decodes the QR code to present the unaccompanied minor information. A second mobile device of a second agent decodes the QR code to present the unaccompanied minor information. In one embodiment, the QR code includes a uniform resource locator (URL) for accessing the passenger information and the first and second agents can authorize and accept the transfer of the unaccompanied minor by interfacing with a user interface. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269700 | EXCHANGE OF CRISIS-RELATED INFORMATION AMONGST MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS AND MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS - A crisis information exchange manages the exchange of crisis-related information among multiple individual users and organizations. A safety communications service (SCS) manages information flow between users and organizations without compromising the security of the private networks of organizations protected by firewalls. The SCS manages subscription data for controlling what information is received by particular users and organizations, providing subscription services including automated subscriptions services based on configurable business rules. User-initiated communications are routed to multiple organizations and/or other users based on configurable business rules. Organization-initiated communications are routed to multiple individual users and/or organizations based on configurable business rules. In one embodiment, the system automatically generates follow-up communications related to the acknowledgement of receipt of communications and/or prompts users for additional information if an expected communication was not received in a timely manner or is not fully responsive to prior communications, based on configurable business rules. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269701 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTITY VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION - According to some embodiments, a system and a method of transmitting identity verification information to a merchant include receiving an account identifier from a user in response to the user interacting with a merchant. The user is authenticated based on the account identifier and identity verification information is transmitted to the merchant. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269702 | CRISIS-RELATED INFORMATION EXCHANGE HUB - A crisis-related information hub manages the exchange of crisis-related information among multiple individual users and organizations. A safety communications service (SCS) manages information flow between users and organizations without compromising the security of the private networks of organizations protected by firewalls. The SCS manages relationship data for controlling what information is received by particular users and organizations, providing subscription services including relationship generation services based on configurable business rules. User-initiated communications are routed to multiple organizations and/or other users based on configurable business rules using user and organization attributes. Organization-initiated communications are routed to individual users or organizations based on configurable business rules using user and organization attributes. The system automatically generates follow-up communications related to the acknowledgement of receipt of communications or prompts users for additional information if an expected communication was not received in a timely manner or is not fully responsive to prior communications. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269703 | DARK TO LIGHT WATERMARK WITHOUT SPECIAL MATERIALS - Methods and systems rasterize a document to produce a bitmap having first pixels of a first color as background uniformly located across a watermark region and second pixels of a second color located in a pattern forming foreground items within the watermark region. The rasterization causes the first pixels to deposit a first marking material (forming the first color) to a first height on the print media, and the rasterization causes the second pixels to deposit a second marking material (forming the second color) to a second height (different from the first height) on the print media. In the printed document, by having the first color be different from the second color and the second height be different from the first height, this causes the relative darkness between the background and the foreground items to reverse when the printed document is viewed from different angles (relative to a light source). | 2015-09-24 |
20150269704 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display device includes: a storage unit, a communication unit and a control unit. In the storage unit, preregistered path information indicating a network path is stored. The communication unit receives path information indicating a network path sent from a terminal device. The control unit (i) compares the received path information with the stored path information so as to determine whether or not the received path information and the stored path information indicate approximately the same path and (ii) displays display information on a display unit when determining that the received path information and the stored path information indicate approximately the same path. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269705 | BARE EARTH FINDING AND FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR 3D POINT CLOUDS - Generally discussed herein are systems and apparatuses that relate to systems and methods for analysis of 3D light radar (LiDAR) point clouds. The disclosure also includes techniques of bare earth and feature extraction. According to an example, bare earth and feature extraction can include estimation of a ground layer, generation of an inverse Above Ground Layer (AGL), identification of paths, roads, and cleared areas, identification and removal of buildings, and identification of a Human Activity Layer (HAL). This combination of features may provide for a much higher probability of detection of human activity. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269706 | Deforming a Surface via a Control Point - Methods and apparatus for manipulating digital images. A warping module is described that enables the manipulation of a surface by selectively deforming portions of the surface while maintaining local rigidity. The user may position multiple control points on a surface to constrain deformation. The user may specify multiple properties (e.g., translation, rotation, depth, and scale) at each control point. A mesh may be overlaid on the surface. The warping module may perform an initialization in which the properties are propagated other vertices in the mesh to generate an initial deformed mesh. The warping module may then perform an iterative optimization operation on the deformed mesh to improve the deformation while retaining local rigidity. Thus, instead of moving every pixel in the surface, the warping module moves or adjusts coordinates of the vertices of the mesh. The surface is then deformed according to the deformed mesh. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269707 | AUTOMATED SLIVER REMOVAL IN ORTHOMOSAIC GENERATION - Techniques for automatically removing slivers from orthomosaics. First, slivers may be identified, which may be based upon user-configurable characteristics such as width and length. Second, slivers may be replaced with portions of another image, such as an older image. Third, boundary slivers may optionally be removed. Fourth, remaining boundary or interior slivers can be inflated by expanding the sliver until it is no longer a sliver, which may include replacing a portion of an adjacent image portion with older imagery. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269708 | Method for Generating High-Resolution Images using Regression Patterns - A method generates a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image using regression functions. During a training stage, training HR images are downsampled to LR images. A signature is determined for each LR-HR patch pair based on a local ternary pattern (LTP). The signature is a low dimensional descriptor used as an abstraction of the patch pair features. Then, patch pairs with the same signature are clustered, and a regression function which maps the LR patches to the HR patches is determined. In some cases patch pairs of similar signatures can be combined for learning and a single regression function determined, thus decreasing the number of required regression functions. During actual upscaling, LR patches of an input image are similarly processed to obtain the signatures and from the regression functions. The LR patches can then be upscaled using the training regression functions. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269709 | Display Method And Electronic Apparatus - A display method and an electronic apparatus include a display unit with various kinds of different display modes, so that when the current display mode of the display unit is the first display mode, the first application in the electronic apparatus is initiated, and then the electronic apparatus detects the first parameter information of the first application, and then determines the correspondence relationship between the first parameter information and the display modes, determines the second display mode corresponding to the first parameter information, and adjusts the display unit from the first display mode displayed currently to the second display mode at last. Determining the display modes according to different applications running in the electronic apparatus increases the display effect of the electronic apparatus and reduces the power consumption of the display of the electronic apparatus. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269710 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, SETTING CHANGING METHOD, AND SETTING CHANGING DEVICE - A method, an apparatus and a recording medium are provided for display control. The display control apparatus comprises a circuitry configured to set a display hold state, change a display state from a first state displaying a first screen, to the other state, in a case that the display control apparatus is not operated in a predetermined period, and return to the first state, in response to an operation, displaying the first screen in an orientation determined based on an attitude of the display control apparatus and the display hold state. The recording medium comprises instructions to configure the apparatus to perform a display control method. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269711 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND X-RAY DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a processor that acquires medical image data and performs noise reduction in at least two of three different directions in the medical image data in a predetermined order. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269712 | Eye Beautification Under Inaccurate Localization - Sub-regions within one or more face images are identified within a digital image, and enhanced by applying an artificial glint symmetrically and/or synchronously to image data corresponding to sub-regions of eyes within 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 eye regions of the face with the artificial glint. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269713 | Analytical Motion Blur Rasterization With Compression - A rasterizer, based on time-dependent edge equations, computes analytical visibility in order to render accurate motion blur. An oracle-based compression algorithm for the time intervals lowers the frame buffer requirements. High quality motion blurred scenes can be rendered using a rasterizer with rather low memory requirements. The resulting images may contain motion blur for both opaque and transparent objects. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269714 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO SEQUENCE, CORRESPONDING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE-MEDIUM - The invention relates to a method for processing a video sequence formed by at least two video images, said method comprising:
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20150269715 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE - An electronic device and an image processing method thereof are provided. The method includes acquiring image detail information by applying a filter to an image, detecting an edge region and a texture region from the image detail information, and correcting the image detail information by dividing the edge region into a plurality of regions and applying different gain values to image signals corresponding to at least two of the plurality of regions, and applying a gain value to an image signal corresponding to the texture region according to a magnitude of the image signal corresponding to the texture region. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269716 | IMAGE PROCESSING USING A BILATERAL GRID - Methods and systems are provided for processing digital images. An integrated grid, comprising one or more integrated values, may be generated based on processing of an image, with the generating comprising cumulatively integrating at least one value, of a cell in a bilateral grid generated based on the processed image, over the bilateral grid. A modified bilateral grid may then be generated, with generating comprising computing a sum of said at least one value over a portion of said bilateral grid, by using integrated values of said integrated grid corresponding to said portion of said bilateral grid. An output image may be generated based on the modified bilateral grid. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269717 | SCENE ADAPTIVE BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT - A method for brightness and contrast enhancement includes computing a luminance histogram of a digital image, computing first distances from the luminance histogram to a plurality of predetermined luminance histograms, estimating first control point values for a global tone mapping curve from predetermined control point values corresponding to a subset of the predetermined luminance histograms selected based on the computed first distances, and interpolating the estimated control point values to determine the global tone mapping curve. The method may also include dividing the digital image into a plurality of image blocks, and enhancing each pixel in the digital image by computing second distances from a pixel in an image block to the centers of neighboring image blocks, and computing an enhanced pixel value based on the computed second distances, predetermined control point values corresponding to the neighboring image blocks, and the global tone mapping curve. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269718 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MEDICAL IMAGE ACQUISITION PARAMETERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying image acquisition parameters. One method includes receiving a patient data set including one or more reconstructions, one or more preliminary scans or patient information, and one or more acquisition parameters; computing one or more patient characteristics based on one or both of one or more preliminary scans and the patient information; computing one or more image characteristics associated with the one or more reconstructions; grouping the patient data set with one or more other patient data sets using the one or more patient characteristics; and identifying one or more image acquisition parameters suitable for the patient data set using the one or more image characteristics, the grouping of the patient data set with one or more other patient data sets, or a combination thereof. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269719 | IMAGE INSPECTING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image inspecting device includes: an image inspection unit that inspects a read image obtained by reading an image formed by an image formation output, based on threshold information including one or more types of thresholds and a difference image indicating a difference between the read image and a reference image generated based on print data of the image formation output, and specifies a defect portion; and a screen information generation unit that generates and outputs threshold adjustment screen information including a threshold image indicating each value of the thresholds and an inspection result image indicating an inspection result of the defect portion, and threshold adjustment result screen information including a threshold image and a reinspection result image using adjusted threshold information; and a threshold information changing unit that changes the threshold information to the adjusted threshold information based on a threshold information change input. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING, GEOLOCATING AND MEASURING OBLIQUE IMAGES - A computerized system for displaying and making measurements based upon captured oblique images. The system includes a computer system executing image display and analysis software causing the computer system to display at least one oblique image having corresponding geo-location position data; receive one or more signals indicative of user selection of at least two points on a man-made structure depicted within the at least one oblique image; and calculate at least one measurement between the at least two points on the man-made structure depicted within the at least one oblique image using the geo-location position data associated with the at least one oblique image. The system may calculate at least one measurement using a series of interconnected line segments between at least two points on a geographic structure depicted within the at least one oblique image using the geo-location position data associated with the at least one oblique image. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269721 | AUTOMATED VALIDATION OF THE APPEARANCE OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - According to embodiments of the present invention, a first metadata defining how a user interface associated with an application under test should appear is generated using one or more computer processors. An image of the user interface associated with the application under test that is invoked during a test run is captured using one or more one or more computer processors. The captured image is converted, using one or more computer processors, into one or more of a second metadata and text. The first metadata is compared, using one or more computer processors, to the second metadata and the text. In response to the comparison resulting in a difference between the first metadata and the second metadata, the image is stored, using one or more computer processors, and an assessment request is generated using one or more computer processors. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269722 | OPTICAL ROUTE EXAMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Optical route examination systems and methods described herein obtain image data of a field of view of a camera disposed onboard a first vehicle as the first vehicle moves along a first route, and autonomously examine the image data onboard the first vehicle to identify one or more of a feature of interest or a designated object. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269723 | STEREO VISION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for automatic, stereo vision based, in-line solder ball height and substrate coplanarity inspection includes providing an imaging setup together with an imaging processor for reliable, in-line solder ball height measurement. The imaging set up includes a pair of cameras mounted at two opposing angles with ring lighting around each camera lens, which allows the capture of two images of an electronics package in parallel. The lighting generates features on solder balls located on a substrate of the electronics package, which are then used to determine height. Specifically, points with the same intensity on each solder ball surface are grouped, which allows for the formation of curves, also known as iso-contours, which are then matched between the two views. An optimized triangulation is then performed to determine the height of each one of the solder balls. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269724 | DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - In a digital image processing, a weighting function having a pixel-to-pixel distance as a variable and a weighting function having a pixel-value difference of a neighboring pixel as a variable are each set (Step S | 2015-09-24 |
20150269725 | COLLAGEN D-SPACINGS IN FIBRIL BUNDLES - Methods and systems for diagnosing a bone disease or other condition related to collagen in a subject are provided. These include providing a bone sample from the subject and determining a quantitative collagen morphology value of the bone sample. A reference value is provided from a non-affected control subject where the reference value is a quantitative collagen morphology value from the same type of bone sample obtained from a population of non-affected control subjects. The quantitative collagen morphology value of the subject's bone sample is compared to the reference value. If the collagen morphology value is altered versus the reference value, the subject is diagnosed as having a collagen related bone disease. The collagen morphology value can include mean fibril spacings and distributions of the fibril spacings taken from a subject's bone sample. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269726 | IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An image analysis device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a moving image showing a variation of a respiratory status, the moving image being formed with frame images including an image of a heart; an image analyzing unit configured to generate a first index indicating a cardiac status with respect to each of the frame images; and an index analyzing unit configured to derive a second index indicating lung function from a change caused in the first indexes by the respiratory status. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269727 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING BONE RESECTION ON A DEFORMED BONE SURFACE FROM FEW PARAMETERS - The invention relates to a method for non-invasive reproducible determination of a corrected surface on a 3D bone surface model constructed from 3D medical image of a bone having a deformation consisting in a bump overgrowth at the head-neck junction; wherein said corrected surface comprises: i) a 3D spherical corrected surface patch on the head portion of said 3D bone surface model, and ii) a 3D smooth transition corrected surface patch on the neck portion of said 3D bone surface model, contiguous to said 3D spherical corrected surface patch; Said corrected surface patches are defined by a set of parameters comprising: iii) at least one first parameter (a*) representing a spherical extent value of said 3D spherical corrected surface patch, iv) and a set of at least one second parameter, said set determining the 3D correction boundary of said corrected surface patches, such that said corrected surface patches are continuous with said 3D bone surface model along said boundary. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269728 | ACCURATE AND RAPID MAPPING OF POINTS FROM ULTRASOUND IMAGES TO TRACKING SYSTEMS - A method for mapping coordinates between images and tracking systems includes providing ( | 2015-09-24 |
20150269729 | Eye Image Stimuli for Eyegaze Calibration Procedures - A system and method are disclosed for using a camera image of a user's eye as a visual stimulus for the calibration point in an eyetracking calibration system. A camera image of a user's eye is generated on a user display using an eyetracker. The camera image of the user's eye is used as a visual stimulus of a calibration point. In an embodiment, the center of the pupil of the camera image of the user's eye represents the coordinates of the calibration point on the user display. In another embodiment, the center of the corneal reflection of the camera image of the user's eye represents the coordinates of the calibration point on the user display. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269730 | RECIPE BASED METHOD FOR TIME-LAPSE IMAGE ANALYSIS - A computerized recipe station for time-lapse image analysis method includes the steps of inputting an image sequence and an initial recipe to a computer storage; performing by a computer program an incremental apply using the image sequence and the initial recipe to generate an incremental output; pausing the incremental apply; using the incremental output to perform an incremental output assurance operation, which may be an intermediate result analysis to generate an analysis output, a recipe update to generate an updated recipe, or a result editing to generate an edited incremental output; and continuing the incremental apply until pausing or completion to generate a processing output. The analysis output generated by the intermediate result analysis may be used to guide the recipe update step or used to guide the result editing step. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269731 | DEVICE, METHOD FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A device, method for image analysis and a computer-readable medium are provided. The method includes loading a first video stream having a first resolution, and selecting one first video frame of the first video stream. When an object exists in the selected first video frame, determine whether an image of the object in the selected first video frame matches a preset condition. If yes, the method performs image analysis to the image of the object in the selected first video frame. If not, the method loads a second video stream having a second resolution higher than the first resolution, selects one second video frame of the second video stream that the object exists in it, and performs the image analysis to an image of the object in the selected second video frame. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269732 | OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE - An obstacle detection device is provided, which includes a storage unit, a quasi-vertical edge detection module, an intersection determination module, a position determination module, and an obstacle detection module. The quasi-vertical edge detection module receives an input image and performs a quasi-vertical edge detection procedure on the input image to obtain a plurality of quasi-vertical edges. The intersection determination module determines whether the quasi-vertical edges intersect a predetermined virtual horizontal. If one of the quasi-vertical edges intersects the predetermined virtual horizontal, the position determination module determines whether an end of one of the quasi-vertical edges intersecting the predetermined virtual horizontal is located in a detection zone. If one end of one of the quasi-vertical edges intersecting the predetermined virtual horizontal is located in the detection zone, the obstacle detection module determines that an obstacle exists and issues a warning. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269733 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a processed-image generating unit, a detection unit, and a calculation unit. The processed-image generating unit generates processed images by scaling the image picked up by the camera provided on a vehicle by respective ones of scale factors. The detection unit scans each processed image by a frame, determines likelihood using a dictionary of the detection object, and detects a scan frame having high likelihood. Each processed image is associated with respective image distance which is a predetermined estimated distance from the vehicle. The calculation unit determines an estimated distance from the vehicle to the detection object according to an image distance associated with a processed image to which the detected scan frame belongs, and calculates and outputs, based on a history of determined estimated distances and on the image distances, a time until the vehicle and the detection object collide. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269734 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING LOCATION OF OBJECT - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for recognizing the location of an object, which recognize the location of an object using an artificial landmark that is easily identifiable in an outdoor environment and that minimizes visual resistance. The presented apparatus includes an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image of an artificial landmark implemented using at least one of a first-type mark and a second-type mark, an artificial landmark detection unit for processing the image acquired by the image acquisition unit and detecting the artificial landmark from the image, a pose calculation unit for calculating a pose of the object based on an image coordinate and a world coordinate of the artificial landmark detected by the artificial landmark detection unit, and a pose verification unit for verifying whether the pose of the object calculated by the pose calculation unit are within an effective range. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269735 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, POSITION AND ORIENTATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, AND ROBOT SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit, variation amount deriving unit, acquisition unit, and threshold value deriving unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured image obtained by an imaging unit. The variation amount deriving unit derives a luminance value variation amount of a predetermined area of the acquired captured image based on a luminance value of the predetermined area and first information indicating a relationship between a captured image luminance value and an amount of luminance value variation. The acquisition unit acquires an amount of variation of a luminance gradient value based on the derived amount of variation of the luminance value, wherein the luminance gradient value is a gradient value of the luminance value. The threshold value deriving unit derives a threshold value with which an obtained luminance gradient value is to be compared, based on the acquired amount of variation of the luminance gradient value. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269736 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FILTERING OF MEDIA CONTENT - In an example embodiment, a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes defining a plurality of depth layers of a depth map. At least one depth layer of the plurality of depth layers is associated with a respective depth limit. The method further includes determining, for the at least one depth layer, a respective texture view layer of a first picture. The method further includes deriving a measure of a respective texture property for the respective texture view layer. Selective filtering is applied to the respective texture view layer based on the measure of the respective texture property and the respective depth limit associated with the at least one depth layer. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269737 | Multi-View Synthesis in Real-Time With Fallback to 2D from 3D to Reduce Flicker in Low or Unstable Stereo-Matching Image Regions - Multi view images are generated with reduced flickering. A first depth map is generated from stereo images by stereo-matching. When stereo-matching is poor or varies too much from frame to frame, disparity fallback selects a second depth map that is generated from a single view without stereo-matching, preventing stereo-matching errors from producing visible artifacts or flickering. Flat or textureless regions can use the second depth map, while regions with good stereo-matching use the first depth map. Depth maps are generated with a one-frame delay and buffered. Low-cost temporal coherence reduces costs used for stereo-matching when the pixel location selected as the lowest-cost disparity is within a distance threshold of the same pixel in a last frame. Hybrid view synthesis uses forward mapping for smaller numbers of views, and backward mapping from the forward-mapping results for larger numbers of views. Rotated masks are generated on-the-fly for backward mapping. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269738 | DISPARITY DERIVING APPARATUS, MOVABLE APPARATUS, ROBOT, METHOD OF DERIVING DISPARITY, METHOD OF PRODUCING DISPARITY, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A disparity deriving apparatus for deriving disparity of an object based on a captured reference image of the object and a captured comparison image of the object includes a calculator to calculate costs between a first reference area in the reference image and each one of corresponding areas in the comparison image, and costs between a second reference area and each one of corresponding areas corresponding to the second reference area in the comparison image; a synthesizer to synthesize the costs of the first reference area, and the costs of the second reference area as synthesis costs; a deriving unit to derive a disparity value of the object captured in the first reference area based on the synthesized synthesis cost; and an output unit to output the derived disparity value and a specific cost of the first reference area identified by the derived disparity value. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269739 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FOREGROUND OBJECT SEGMENTATION - Embodiments of apparatus and methods for foreground object segmentation are described. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a color modeler to build a color model based at least in part on a boundary of a foreground object in an image frame. The apparatus may further include a segmentation processor to segment the foreground object from a background of the image frame, based at least in part on the color model. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269740 | Image Processor Configured for Efficient Estimation and Elimination of Foreground Information in Images - An image processing system comprises an image processor having image processing circuitry and an associated memory. The image processor is configured to implement a foreground processing module utilizing the image processing circuitry and the memory. The foreground processing module is configured to obtain one or more images, to estimate a foreground region of interest from the one or more images, to determine a plurality of segments of the foreground region of interest, to calculate amplitude statistics for respective ones of the plurality of segments, to classify respective segments as being respective portions of static foreground objects or as being respective portions of dynamic foreground objects based at least in part on the calculated amplitude statistics and one or more defined patterns for known static and dynamic objects, and to remove one or more segments classified as static foreground objects from the foreground region of interest. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269741 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - RGB image signals are inputted. B/G ratio is calculated based on B image signal and G image signal. G/R ratio is calculated based on the G image signal and R image signal. In a feature space formed by the B/G ratio and the G/R ratio, an expansion process and a compression process are performed. In the expansion process, an angle between a first center line and coordinates in a specific region, which contains the first center line, is changed at an angle change rate Wnx. In the compression process, an angle between the first center line and coordinates outside the specific region is changed at an angle change rate Wny smaller than the angle change rate Wnx. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269742 | VISIBLE LIGHT IMAGE WITH EDGE MARKING FOR ENHANCING IR IMAGERY - The invention relates generally to edge detection and presentation in thermal images. Infrared and visible light images comprising at least partially overlapping target scenes are analyzed. An edge detection process is performed on the visible light image to determine which pixels represent edges in the target scene. A display image is generated in which some pixels include infrared image data and in which pixels corresponding to edges in the visible light image include a predetermined color and do not include corresponding infrared image data to emphasize edges. Edge pixels in the display image can include exclusively the predetermined color, or in some examples, a blend of a predetermined color and visible light image data. Methods can include replacing one or the other of visible light edge pixels or corresponding infrared pixels with the predetermined color before combining the visible light and infrared image data to create a display image. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269743 | IMAGE DESCRIPTOR AND METHOD OF PATTERN RECOGNITION - Image description and image recognizable method, it contain (a) It obtain an image which possess plural pixels. (b) It determines a starting position in the image. (c) In the image, From the starting point along the trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes a pixel sampling, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation.(d) the angle increases with the increase of the variance, it forming a the angle of the latter spiral aggregation. From the starting point along a trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes the pixel sample, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (e) It decides how many frequencies the angle variation increase, and repeatedly performs the step (d). After obtaining a plurality of the latter spiral aggregation, the pixel corresponds to the value. (f) It ranks the former spiral aggregation and the latter spiral aggregation. Then, spiral aggregation map will be formed and recorded the every value of the pixel. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269744 | ACTION BASED ACTIVITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A processor implemented system and method for identification of an activity performed by a subject based on sensor data analysis is described herein. In an implementation, the method includes capturing movements of the subject in real-time using a sensing device. At least one action associated with the subject is ascertained from a predefined set of actions. From the predefined set of actions, a plurality of actions can collectively form at least one activity. The ascertaining is based on captured movements of the subject and at least one predefined action rule. The at least one action rule is based on context-free grammar (CFG) and is indicative of a sequence of actions for occurrence of the at least one activity. Further, a current activity performed by the subject is dynamically determined, based on the at least one action and an immediately preceding activity, using a non-deterministic push-down automata (NPDA) state machine. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269745 | ROBUST CHANGE-DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for detecting change in a video stream may include receiving, by a processor, a video image from a video stream and a reference image. The processor may divide the video image and the reference image into non-overlapping blocks, and each block in the video image may correspond to a block in the reference image. The processor may perform an orthogonal transformation on a corresponding pair of blocks in the video image and the reference image. DC (direct current, or, average value) components in the orthogonally transformed pair of blocks in the video image and the reference image may be zeroed. An infinity-norm difference between coefficient values of the corresponding pair of transformed and modified blocks in the video image and the reference image may be determined and compared to a threshold. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269746 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURFACE COVERING PREPARATION - A surface covering layout system includes a processing circuit configured to receive image data regarding one or more images associated with a surface to be covered with a surface covering, and generate a surface covering layout based on the image data, the surface covering layout providing an indication of a pattern of a plurality of covering members included in the surface covering. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269747 | PALETTE GENERATION USING USER-SELECTED IMAGES - Automatic generation of custom palettes based on an image selected by a user is disclosed. In various embodiments, automatic palette generation may involve generating one or more than one palette based on the color or shading content of the image provided by the user. The generated palette may include a variety of colors (or shadings) that can be automatically mapped to and applied to various distinct features within a composite graphic construct to be customized. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269748 | FLESH COLOR DETECTION CONDITION DETERMINING APPARATUS, AND FLESH COLOR DETECTION CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD - A flesh color detection condition determining apparatus includes a flesh color region detecting unit which detects, from an image on which a subject having a flesh color is represented, a group of pixels having colors included in a range of colors corresponding to the flesh color, as a flesh color region; an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates an evaluation value representing a size of the flesh color region; a condition alteration unit which narrows the range of colors until a difference between the evaluation value and a reference value representing a size of the subject on the image is not included in a predetermined allowable range; and a setting unit which sets a narrowest range of colors as a flesh color detection condition, among a range of colors satisfying that the difference is included in the predetermined allowable range. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269749 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A representative value calculator calculates a representative value which is a luminance value representing a main inspection object area from an input image. On the other hand, an image divider divides an image area of the input image, and sets a plurality of divided ranges. A factor calculator calculates a tone conversion factor for enhancing or suppressing contrast adjacent the representative value calculated by the representative value calculator for each area (each divided area) divided by the image divider. A tone converter converts the tone of each pixel of the input image based on the tone conversion factor for the range divided by the image divider, which range includes a pixel for image processing, and ranges adjacent that range. As a result, the contrast of the area for which enhancement is desired can be enhanced optimally. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269750 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - RGB image signals are inputted. B/G ratio is calculated based on B image signal and G image signal. G/R ratio is calculated based on the G image signal and R image signal. In a feature space formed by the B/G ratio and the G/R ratio, a first process is performed. In the first process, a difference between coordinates in a first observation area and coordinates in a second observation area is increased. The first observation area mostly contains coordinates corresponding to a portion (of an object) infected with | 2015-09-24 |
20150269751 | NOTE RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT USING MULTI-COLOR CHANNEL NON-MARKER DETECTION - Techniques are described for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes. A computing device comprises a processor and a note identification module executable on the processor and configured to separate an input image into a plurality of channelized input images. Each of the channelized input images are associated with a different color. The note identification module is configured to apply edge detection and feature extraction to identify polygons within each of the channelized input images and select, from the polygons from the channelized input images, a representative polygon for each of the physical notes in the input image. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269752 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - The X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a rotation unit, a data generation unit, an image generation unit and a setting unit. The data generation unit generates data used in reconstruction processing of a CT image on a basis of an output of the X-ray detector. The image generation unit performs reconstruction processing of the CT image, the reconstruction processing using the data and a parameter value relating to at least one of an FDD and an FCD. The setting unit sets the parameter value used in the reconstruction processing using the data generated when the X-ray is emitted to the object, the parameter value being set based on CT values of a plurality of CT images obtained by a plurality of parameter values used in the reconstruction processing using the data generated when the X-ray is emitted to a phantom. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269753 | Multi-Output With Acquisition Replay System and Method - Generating multiple types of output data during a single nuclear acquisition. The output data can be used for advanced reconstruction. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269754 | INTELLIGENT RENDERING OF INFORMATION IN A LIMITED DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT - Methods for the intelligent rendering of information in a limited display environment are provided. Display environments, especially in mobile devices; are limited with regard to physical space and technical capability. The present invention provides for the scaling of information in the display in light of those limitations. Additional methods for intelligently determining information to be or not to be displayed in the environment are further provided. Determinations of information to be displayed may be a result of a user-determination or automatic determinations made by a user device. Zooming and ‘quick look’ features are also provided. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269755 | CREATING A THICKNESS GRID FOR DETERMINING RESERVE ESTIMATES FOR A RESERVOIR - Systems and methods for creating a thickness grid for determining reserve estimates for a reservoir by performing a fast sweep thickness extraction on a sealed triangulated mesh to create the thickness grid. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269756 | Visualization Tools For Digital PCR Data - A method for generating a data visualization is provided. The method includes displaying a representation of a portion of detected data from a substrate to a user. The method further includes generating a data quality value for the portion of detected data and displaying, along with the representation of the portion of detected data, an indication of data quality value for the portion of detected data. The method further includes selecting, by the user, a quality value threshold, and displaying an adjusted indication of data quality value for the portion of detected data meeting the quality value threshold. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269757 | GRAPHICAL RENDITION OF MULTI-MODAL DATA - Changes and anomalies in multi-modal data are detected, collected and abstracted into understandable and actionable formats utilizing, for example, color, intensity, icons and texture creating a rendition of current and developing situations and events. Changes and anomalies in multi-modal sensor data are detected, aggregated, abstracted and filtered using case-based reasoning providing a tractable data dimensionality. From this collection of data situations are recognized and presented in a means so as to assist a user in accessing an environment and formulate the basis a recommended course of action. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURFACE COVERING PREPARATION - A surface covering layout system includes a processing circuit configured to receive image data regarding one or more images associated with a surface to be covered with a surface covering, and generate a surface covering layout based on the image data, the surface covering layout providing an indication of a pattern of a plurality of covering members included in the surface covering. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269759 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a first acquirer, a first generator, and a storage controller. The first acquirer acquires a first clothing image of a piece of clothing to be synthesized. The first generator generates a second clothing image by editing at least one of a size, a shape, and a position of the piece of clothing in the first clothing image. The storage controller stores the second clothing image in a storage. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269760 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system includes circuitry configured to acquire image data captured by an electronic device, acquire content and display position information corresponding to the content based on an object detected in the image data, the display position information indicating a display position of the content in relation to the object, determine whether the content is capable of being displayed by a display in a superimposed manner on the image data at the display position, generate guide information indicating at least one of a recommended size and a recommended position of the object in relation to the display based on at least one of a position and a size of the object in the image data when it is determined that the content is not capable of being displayed, and output the guide information. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269761 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CAMERA - Provided are an image processing apparatus, a pixel processing method, a program, and a camera which are capable of appropriately generating a joined image. An image processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment generates a joined image by joining a plurality of textures based on a plurality of images. The image processing apparatus includes: a motion vector derivation unit that derives a motion between images of the plurality of images; a frame memory in which a joined image frame is set and the plurality of textures that form the joined image are written; and a texture writing unit that writes the plurality of textures into the frame memory based on the motion between the images. The texture writing unit writes a first texture among the plurality of textures into an area that is not in contact with an edge of the joined image frame. | 2015-09-24 |
20150269762 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to superimpose a plurality of X-ray images that are based on X-ray detection data representing detection results obtained by detecting a plurality of times in a time-division manner parallel beam X-rays output from a ray source including a plurality of X-ray sources that output parallel beam X-rays. | 2015-09-24 |