43rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 32 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100272337 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - While removing signals unnecessary for measuring signals from a metabolite, data required for eddy current correction are obtained in a short period of time. Signals from an unnecessary substance which is not an object of the measurement are removed, and phase data for correcting spectral distortion caused by an eddy current are obtained by a single measurement. Two kinds of frequency-selective pulses of which intensities are adjusted so that the signals from the unnecessary substance should have the same absolute values of intensities and opposite polarities are applied with changing intensities for every phase encoding for at least one axis, and the obtained signals are arranged in a k-space. By removing aliasing of image data obtained from the k-space data, signals from an unnecessary substance are removed, and phase data for eddy current correction are calculated by using a part of the k-space data. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272338 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROSS-MODALITY CASE-BASED COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS - A system and method for cross-modality case-based computer-aided diagnosis comprises storing a plurality of cases, each case including at least one image of one of a plurality of modalities and non-image information, mapping a feature relationship between a feature from images of a first modality to a feature from images of a second modality, and storing the relationship. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272339 | Calibration of a Multi-Pinhole SPECT System Without Pre-Knowledge of Point Source Markers 3D Coordinates - A system and method is provided for reconstructing single photon emission computed tomography data acquired with a pinhole collimator without pre-knowledge of 3D coordinates of point source markers. The system and method include reiteratively applying a downhill simplex process to determine a first parameter and a second parameter, keeping a lowest vertex from a previous iteration, randomly resetting starting values for rest vertexes for a current iteration, wherein the lowest vertex is prevented from performing a last iteration, determining whether at least one of a first threshold and a second threshold has been reached, wherein the first threshold comprises a cost function value and the second threshold comprises a predetermined number of iterations of the downhill simplex process, acquiring projection data from the first parameter, determining locations of 2D data from the projection data of the first parameter; and estimating the second parameter by fitting the forward projected data locations to the measured data locations. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272340 | NOISE REDUCTION OF IMAGES - A method of reducing noise in an image, comprising: a) for each pixel being examined in the image, selecting a set of search pixels; b) calculating a value of one or more features of a neighborhood of each search pixel, and a value of corresponding features of a neighborhood of the pixel being examined; and c) calculating a reduced noise grey value for each pixel being examined, based on raw or transformed grey values of its search pixels, with greater sensitivity to those with one or more feature values similar to those of the pixel being examined; wherein calculating the value of at least one feature comprises calculating a characteristic of a distribution of raw or transformed grey values of pixels in the neighborhood, other than a mean grey value of all pixels in the neighborhood. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272341 | Method and Apparatus for Small Pulmonary Nodule Computer Aided Diagnosis from Computed Tomography Scans - The present invention is a multi-stage detection algorithm using a successive nodule candidate refinement approach. The detection algorithm involves four major steps. First, a lung region is segmented from a whole lung CT scan. This is followed by a hypothesis generation stage in which nodule candidate locations are identified from the lung region. In the third stage, nodule candidate sub-images or the lung region of the CT scan pass through a streaking artifact removal process. The nodule candidates are then successively refined using a sequence of filters of increasing complexity. A first filter uses attachment area information to remove vessels and large vessel bifurcation points from the nodule candidate list. A second filter removes small bifurcation points. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272342 | Method Of Reconstructing Computed Tomography (CT) Volumes Suitable For Execution On Commodity Central Processing Units (CPUS) And Graphics Processors, And Apparatus Operating In Accord With Those Methods (Rotational X-Ray on GPUs) - The invention provides in one aspect methods and apparatus for use with C-arm and other CT systems, e.g., with non-rigid geometries. In such systems, by way of example, calibration can be performed to determine the exact position of the x-ray source and the exact orientation of the detector where each projection measurement is made. Next, a weighting coefficient can be determined for the voxels in each plane of a reconstruction volume at every possible projection. Finally, the order in which to process the voxels during image reconstruction can be determined. Following an actual CT scan procedure in which scans are obtained of a volume to be constructed, a system according to these and related aspects of the invention can use an optimal, pre-calculated processing method, while utilizing offsets and weighting coefficients determined during calibration, for performing backprojection image reconstruction. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272343 | PHOTOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A photographic information processing apparatus corrects photographic information based on temporarily determined photographic information relating to a photographing operation. The photographic information processing apparatus includes a photographic information correction determination unit determines whether correction of the photographic information is required based on an operation by an operator, an image data acquisition unit detects an X-ray having penetrated a body of a patient and acquires image data based on the detected X-ray, a photographic information correction unit corrects the temporarily determined photographic information based on patient information of the patient in a case where the correction of the photographic information is determined to be required, and an image data output unit outputs the image data after the correction of the temporarily determined photographic information is completed. The acquired image data is prevented from being output unless the temporarily determined photographic information is corrected. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272344 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND X-RAY DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An X-ray perfusion-image creating unit creates an X-ray perfusion image indicating blood flow dynamics in a certain organ from an X-ray projection image of a subject given with a contrast agent. An image correction unit extracts thickness information indicating the thickness of a myocardium from a three-dimensional image taken by an X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) apparatus. Moreover, the image correction unit creates a corrected perfusion image in which the thickness of the myocardium in the X-ray perfusion image is corrected, based on the thickness information. A display unit then displays the corrected perfusion image. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272345 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING COUNTS WITHIN A BIOLOGIC FLUID SAMPLE - A method for enumerating cellular elements and particulates within a biologic fluid sample is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, the method includes the steps of: a) providing a chamber formed between a first planar member that is transparent and a second planar member, which members are separated from one another by a substantially uniform height, and which chamber has a known volume; b) introducing the biologic fluid sample into the chamber in an amount such that the sample extends between the first and second members for substantially the entire extent of the chamber, which fluid sample has first cellular elements having a first thickness and second cellular elements having a second thickness; c) selecting the chamber height relative to the first and second thicknesses such that the first and second cellular elements non-uniformly distribute within the sample upon introduction into the chamber; d) examining substantially all of the sample within the chamber and enumerating all of at least one of the elements; and e) determining a number per unit volume of sample of the at least one of the elements. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING FORM AND POSITION TOLERANCES OF AN OBJECT - A method for measuring form and position tolerances of an object receives a preselected feature element to be fitted from an image of a measured object, obtains a reference feature element from an image of a reference object corresponding to the measured object. The method further fits a feature element corresponding to the preselected feature element so as to obtain a fitted feature element, and calculates form and position tolerances between the fitted feature element and the reference feature element thereby generating the form and position tolerances of the measured object. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT BEAM CALIBRATION - A method for performing DA (Dynamic Alignment) beam calibration in a plasma processing system is provided. The method including acquiring a positional difference, the positional difference is acquired using an optical imaging approach. The optical imaging approach comprising of positioning the wafer on the end effector, taking a still image of the wafer on the end effector, processing the still image to ascertain the center of the wafer and an end effector-defined center defined by the end effector, and determining the positional difference between the center of the wafer and the end effector-defined center defined by the end effector. The method also includes centering a wafer with respect to an end effector by compensating for a positional difference between the wafer and the end effector with robot movement compensation. The method including moving the wafer and the end effector through DA beams associated with a plasma processing module. The method also includes obtaining a reference DA beam pattern by recording a break-and-make pattern of the DA beams. The break-and-make pattern occurring as the wafer and the end effector move through the DA beams. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272348 | TRANSPROJECTION OF GEOMETRY DATA - Systems and methods for transprojection of geometry data acquired by a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The CMM acquires geometry data corresponding to 3D coordinate measurements collected by a measuring probe that are transformed into scaled 2D data that is transprojected upon various digital object image views captured by a camera. The transprojection process can utilize stored image and coordinate information or perform live transprojection viewing capabilities in both still image and video modes. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272349 | REAL-TIME ANNOTATION OF IMAGES IN A HUMAN ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENT - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product annotate video images associated with an environmental situation based on detected actions of a human interacting with the environmental situation. A set of real-time video images are received that are captured by at least one video camera associated with an environment presenting one or more environmental situations to a human. One or more user actions made by the human that is associated with the set of real-time video images with respect to the environmental situation are monitored. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the human driver has one of performed and failed to perform at least one action associated with one or more images of the set of real-time video images. The one or more images of the set of real-time video images are annotated with a set of annotations. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272350 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON PSEUDORANDOM FEATURES - Example methods and apparatus to perform image classification based on pseudorandom features are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes generating first and second pseudorandom numbers, extracting a first feature of an image based on the first and second pseudorandom numbers, and determining a classification for the image based on the first extracted feature. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272351 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OBJECT IN IMAGE DATA - Learning is sequentially executed with respect to weak discriminators based on learning data held in a storage device. Upon learning, an evaluation value for the weak discriminator is calculated. It is discriminated, based on a shift of the evaluation value, whether or not the learning is overlearning. If it is discriminated that the learning is overlearning, new learning data is added. Thus, the overlearning is easily detected and the learning is efficiently executed. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272352 | PIXEL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A pixel processing method includes: selecting a first plurality of color component values of a first plurality of pixels within a pixel block in a buffering device, performing a first color component process upon a first target pixel in the first plurality of pixels to determine a first target color component value of the first target pixel; and selecting a second plurality of color component values of a second plurality of pixels within the pixel block at the same time as the first color component process is performed, and performing a second color component process upon a second target pixel in the second plurality of pixels according to the second plurality of color component values to determine at least one underdetermined target color component value of the second target pixel, wherein the second target pixel has been processed by the first color component process. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272353 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ADAPTIVE BLACK POINT COMPENSATION - A system and method for carrying out improved spatial and color adaptive gamut mapping algorithms, based on image decomposition in two bands I | 2010-10-28 |
20100272354 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING DATA FOR COLOR MEASUREMENTS FROM A DIGITAL ELECTRONIC IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE OR SYSTEM - A method for providing an intensity or brightness measurement using a digital image-capturing device comprising: selecting a target area within a field of view of the image-capturing device, the target area containing pixels; determining the brightness of pixels in the target area; accumulating the brightness values of the pixels in the target area; and determining a pixel value representative of the pixels in the target area. A device for making color measurements comprising an image-capture device, a processor or logic device, and a memory location for accumulating color data, and the processor or logic device is programmed to perform color measurements by accumulating the data for pixels located in the target area in memory, and determining a representative color value. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272355 | ADAPTIVE SPATIAL GAMUT MAPPING VIA DYNAMIC THRESHOLDING - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for performing spatial gamut mapping on a received input color image having a plurality of pixels. A standard gamut-mapping algorithm is applied to the input color image to produce a gamut-mapped color image. A difference is computed between a selected channel of the input color image and the gamut-mapped image to produce a difference image. A local measure of complexity is derived for a given pixel in the difference image. One or more parameter values of a spatial bilateral filter are obtained from a lookup table based on the computed local measure of complexity. The spatial bilateral filter is applied, using the obtained parameter values, to the current pixel of the difference image to produce a modified pixel in a modified difference image. Thereafter, a modified gamut-mapped color image is obtained from the modified difference image and the gamut-mapped color image. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272356 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING WHETHER AN IMAGE IS BLURRED - A method for estimating whether an image ( | 2010-10-28 |
20100272357 | Method of image segmentation - A method of segmenting a digital image comprising the steps of performing a preliminary segmentation of the image into sub objects, defining a model object by selecting sub objects that define the model object, providing sub-object and model object features, using a fuzzy logic inference system to calculate segmentation parameters based on at least one of the sub object and model object features, and performing segmentation of the image using the segmentation parameters. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272358 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment that processes time-series images that include a plurality of images captured in time series includes an interval setting unit that sets a time-series interval on the basis of a variation between images of the time-series images; and an area classifying unit that performs, in an image included in the time-series interval, classification into a plurality of category areas using a classification reference for each time-series interval set by the interval setting unit. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272359 | METHOD FOR RESOLVING CONTRADICTING OUTPUT DATA FROM AN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) SYSTEM, WHEREIN THE OUTPUT DATA COMPRISES MORE THAN ONE RECOGNITION ALTERNATIVE FOR AN IMAGE OF A CHARACTER - The present invention is related to a method for resolving contradicting output data from an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system providing a conversion of pixelized documents into computer coded text as the output data, wherein the OCR output data comprises at least a first and second character listed as being likely candidates for an exemplar of a same sampled character instance from the pixelized document, by providing steps that identify locations of differences in graphical appearance between the candidate characters, and then using the location information to identify a corresponding locations in the sampled character instance. Based on correlation technique, this location information is used to select the correct candidate character as the identification of the sampled character instance. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272360 | METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING CONSECUTIVE CHARACTERS IN VIDEO-RECORDING MODE - The invention discloses a method for outputting consecutive characters in a video-recording mode. The method includes obtaining a first image and a second image from an object, comparing the first image and the second image to obtain a third image which is the overlapping part of the first image and the second image, removing the third image from the second image to generate a fourth image, integrating the fourth image with the first image to obtain a fifth image and recognize characters on the fifth image by OCR software and output the characters of the fifth image. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272361 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ARABIC TEXT RECOGNITION BASED ON EFFECTIVE ARABIC TEXT FEATURE EXTRACTION - A method for automatically recognizing Arabic text includes digitizing a line of Arabic characters to form a two-dimensional array of pixels each associated with a pixel value, wherein the pixel value is expressed in a binary number, dividing the line of the Arabic characters into a plurality of line images, defining a plurality of cells in one of the plurality of line images, wherein each of the plurality of cells comprises a group of adjacent pixels, serializing pixel values of pixels in each of the plurality of cells in one of the plurality of line images to form a binary cell number, forming a text feature vector according to binary cell numbers obtained from the plurality of cells in one of the plurality of line images, and feeding the text feature vector into a Hidden Markov Model to recognize the line of Arabic characters. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272362 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING HAND-WRITTEN IMAGE - An image forming apparatus that allows easy and reliable extraction of a hand-written image and allowing reliable execution of a desired process on image data based on the hand-written image is provided. For this purpose, during a mark adding process, a scanner unit and an image processing unit form YMCK data based on an original image; a specific area extracting unit extracts image data of a specific area from the YMCK data; a mark image adding unit combines image data of the specific area with the mark image data to form combined data; and a printer unit outputs a first image based on the combined data. During image processing of the specific area, the scanner unit forms RGB data based on the first image; the mark area extracting unit extracts image data of the mark area from the RGB data; the specific area image processing unit performs prescribed image processing on the image data of mark area; and the printer unit outputs a second image based on the YMCK data after the prescribed image processing. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272363 | FACE SEARCHING AND DETECTION IN A DIGITAL IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE - A method of detecting a face in an image includes performing face detection within a first window of the image at a first location. A confidence level is obtained from the face detection indicating a probability of the image including a face at or in the vicinity of the first location. Face detection is then performed within a second window at a second location, wherein the second location is determined based on the confidence level. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272364 | IMAGE EDITING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An image editing system examines plurality of first images from a video input unit to obtain coordinates of key portion of a first image, and stores the coordinates of the key portions into a storage system. The image editing system further stores a plurality of second images, and reads the coordinates of the key portions and replaces portion of the first image corresponding to coordinates with the second image. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272365 | PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD AND PICTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Shot groups that include face areas and satisfy a predetermined criterion are selected out of shot groups that are sets of similar shots. Face areas included in the same shot group are classified according to features. A classified face area group included in the same shot group is presumed to be that of the same person and selected as the face area group of a main character. Consequently, the main character is selected by combining similarity of shots forming a picture and face area detection. Therefore, even in a picture including a character whose face cannot be detected in a part of shot sections, it is possible to order and select characters and select a face of a main character more conforming to actual program contents in a television program than that in the related art. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272366 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF DETECTING OBJECT IN IMAGE AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE DEVICE - The present invention provides a method for detecting a specific object in an image to be detected, including: a feature extraction step for extracting an image feature of the image to be detected; and a detection step for detecting detection windows with various sizes of the image to be detected according to the extracted image feature by using classifiers with various sizes corresponding to at least a part of the detection windows with various sizes, so as to determine the presence and location of a specific object in the image to be detected. The invention further provides an object detection device and a system including the device. The method, device and system for detecting a specific object in an image to be detected can improve the precision and increase the speed of the object detection. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272367 | IMAGE PROCESSING USING GEODESIC FORESTS - Image processing using geodesic forests is described. In an example, a geodesic forest engine determines geodesic shortest-path distances between each image element and a seed region specified in the image in order to form a geodesic forest data structure. The geodesic distances take into account gradients in the image of a given image modality such as intensity, color, or other modality. In some embodiments, a 1D processing engine carries out 1D processing along the branches of trees in the geodesic forest data structure to form a processed image. For example, effects such as ink painting, edge-aware texture flattening, contrast-aware image editing, forming animations using geodesic forests and other effects are achieved using the geodesic forest data structure. In some embodiments the geodesic forest engine uses a four-part raster scan process to achieve real-time processing speeds and parallelization is possible in many of the embodiments. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272368 | IMAGE PREVIEWING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF AUTOMATICALLY MAGNIFYING FACE PORTION IN IMAGE AND MAGNIFYING METHOD THEREOF - An image previewing system includes a display unit, a face portion recognition unit, a selecting unit, a comparing unit and a magnifying unit. The display unit comprises a screen configured to show an image. The face portion recognition unit is configured to recognize any human face contained in the image and determine face portions in the image if human face(s) exists in the image. The selecting unit is configured to select one of the face portions in the image. The comparing unit is configured to compare the number of image pixels of the selected face portion with the resolution of the screen of the display unit and generate a result. According to the result, the magnifying unit configured to magnify the selected face portion and display the magnified face portion on the screen. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272369 | Image processing apparatus - Multi-resolution images of a reference image and a target image are generated. Then, whole-range matching is performed on an image of a lower resolution to detect a two-dimensional displacement between the images. Block matching is performed on an image of a higher resolution to detect a displacement at each feature point. The accuracy of motion data is increased by correcting the motion data with an image of a higher resolution by using the previously calculated motion data of the lowest resolution through higher resolutions as an initial value. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272370 | DETERMINATION OF TIRE PARAMETERS FOR CONFIGURABLE APPLICATION OF A TIRE DRESSING - A tire dressing system includes an imaging device that captures an image of a vehicle tire or portion thereof and at least one application device that applies tire dressing to the tire based on the captured image. The system determines one or more tire parameters based on the captured image. The tire dressing system configures the at least one application device based on the tire parameter(s) such that the application device substantially restricts application of tire dressing to within the boundaries of the tire sidewalls. By determining the tire parameters, the tire dressing system may apply the tire dressing to the tire sidewalls while reducing or minimizing application of tire dressing to the body or rims of the vehicle. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272371 | PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM, PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PATTERN RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program capable of increasing the accuracy in computing the false acceptance probability and capable of ensuring a stable security strength are provided. Pattern recognition systems | 2010-10-28 |
20100272372 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method - An image processing apparatus includes an edge keeping index (EKI) generating unit and a noise reducing unit. The image decoding unit decodes a data stream to generate a plurality of image comprising at least a current image having the target pixel. The adjusting unit, coupled to the image decoding unit, comprises an edge keeping index (EKI) generating unit, for generating an edge intensity value of the target pixel according to an original luminance value of the target pixel and an original luminance value of at least one neighboring pixel associated with the target pixel, and a noise reducing unit, coupled to the EKI generating unit, for determining a first adjusted luminance value of the target pixel according to the original luminance value of the target pixel and the original luminance value of the at least one neighboring pixel associated with the target pixel, and for generating a static adjusted luminance value of the target pixel according to the original luminance value, the first adjusted luminance value and a first adjustment value of the target pixel. The adjustment value is determined by the edge intensity value. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272373 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR OPTIMIZATION OF DATA COMPRESSION - A sequence of n coefficients is compressed by determining a cost-determined sequence of n coefficient indices represented by a cost-determined sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs under a given quantization table and run-index derivative coding distribution, wherein each sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs defines a corresponding sequence of coefficient indices such that (i) each index in the corresponding sequence of coefficient indices is a digital number, (ii) the corresponding sequence of coefficient indices includes a plurality of values including a special value, and (iii) each (run, index derivative) pair defines a run value representing a number of consecutive indices of the special value, and an index-based value derived from a value of the index following the number of consecutive indices of the special value. This involves (a) using the given quantization table and run-index derivative coding distribution to formulate a cost function for a plurality of possible sequences of (run, index derivative) pairs; (b) applying the cost function to each possible sequence in the plurality of possible sequences of (run, index derivative) pairs to determine an associated cost; and, (c) selecting the cost-determined sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs from the plurality of possible sequences of (run, index derivative) pairs based on the associated cost of each of the plurality of possible sequences of (run, index derivative) pairs; and encoding the corresponding selected cost-determined sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs using entropy coding based on a run-index derivative coding distribution. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272374 | DCT-BASED TECHNIQUE WITH RHOMBUS SCANNING FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION - A DCT-based technique with rhombus scanning for image compression. A flipped-kernel discrete cosine transform is applied to an eight by eight pixel sub-block of the sixteen by sixteen pixel block. A visually insignificant information is removed from the eight by eight pixel sub-block. A quantization method is used to remove the visually insignificant information. A quantized discrete cosine transform coefficient is scanned of the sixteen by sixteen pixel block. The quantized discrete cosine transform coefficient is scanned according to a rhomboid pattern. A portion of a digital image may be divided into a sixteen by sixteen pixel block. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272375 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus that performs filter processing of image data includes a filter processing unit that performs filter processing by reflecting a correction value in a pixel value, an adjustment value generation unit that generates a gain value based on display position of a pixel, and a correction value change unit that changes the correction value based on the gain value generated by the adjustment value generation unit. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272376 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING SCALING AND SHARPNESS DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing system having scaling and sharpness device and method thereof are described. The global frequency detecting unit calculates a vertical frequency level of the input pixels along a vertical direction and a horizontal frequency level along a horizontal direction. The gradient-calculating summation unit calculates a set of gradient brightness levels according to a portion of the input pixels along a set of directions respectively. The threshold-adjusting device adjusts a first threshold and a second threshold based on the relationship of the vertical frequency level and the horizontal frequency level. The image blending device determines a cross-angle direction with the first threshold from the threshold-adjusting device and determines a minimum-angle direction with the second threshold from the threshold-adjusting device, wherein the image blending device generates the first pattern associated with the cross-angle direction and the second pattern associated with the minimum-angle direction and blends the first pattern with the second pattern based on the weighting factor value. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272377 | Emesis bag - An emesis bag. A liquid-tight, tubular body portion defining a tubular axis and formed of one or more sheets of a plastic sheeting material is provided. The body portion has a first end through which the tubular axis passes, the first end defining a first opening into the body portion. The first end includes a “ziplock” seal for sealing the first opening, the ziplock seal having permanently joined ends that lie substantially along two opposed seams of the bag. The body portion has two sides extending between the two seams. The bag further includes at least two stay elements. One of the stay elements is disposed at the first end of the body portion on one of the sides and the other is disposed at the first end on the other of the sides. The stay elements extend on both sides of the tubular axis and terminate short of the seams. Each of the stay elements includes at least one metal strip. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272378 | Bottom-dumping flexible debris container - In a non-limiting, illustrative embodiment a bottom-dumping flexible debris container includes a top section including flexible side members. A bottom section includes flexible bottom members that are hingedly attached to the flexible side members of the top section. A release mechanism is configured to releasably attach the flexible bottom members to each other. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272379 | MULTILAYER STRETCHY DRAWSTRING - The disclosed subject matter relates to a multilayer stretchy drawstring and methods of making the same. The drawstring of the disclosed subject matter is a stretched multilayer coextruded or laminated film that offers good balance between easy stretching at low strain and high strain hardening at high strain. The multilayer film includes a first layer of elastomeric polymer and second and third layers of thermoplastic polymer and is stretched beyond the deformation limit of the thermoplastic polymer and allowed to recover. This novel drawstring can be incorporated into a bag to enable the bag to be securely fitted to the upper portion of a trash container while not interfering with the intrinsic strength and operation of the drawstring. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272380 | DRIVE AXLE ASSEMBLY WITH WHEEL SPEED MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A wheel speed measurement system for a drive axle is provided within a differential assembly. The system includes a differential side bearing adjustment ring configured for adjusting the position of a differential carrier bearing assembly. A tone ring is provided having an inner bore to accommodate a coaxial axle shaft. A retainer ring member is snap-fit between the differential side bearing adjustment ring and the tone ring, permitting relative rotation of the tone ring. Sensors are provided in sensor mounts integrally formed on an exterior of a differential assembly housing. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272381 | Bearing assembly having a dual stage seal - A bearing assembly is presented having a novel lubricant sealing design that, in one embodiment, combines the sealing advantages of both a labyrinth-like seal in combination with a contact seal. The improved seal includes a non-rotating seal case working in closely spaced cooperation with a rotor to form a channel. The rotor is attached and turns with the shaft, inducing flow in the channel. Lubricant leakage is impeded by the tortuous fluid path formed by the convoluted channel of the labyrinth-like seal and the fluid shear forces developed by the turning shaft. Any lubricant leakage is further impeded by a resilient seal contacting the surface of the rotor and constricting the channel. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272382 | SEALING DEVICE, ROLLING BEARING AND ROLLING BEARING FOR WHEEL - The invention provides a sealing device, a rolling bearing and a rolling bearing for a wheel, in which a torque can be reduced, and also the air and lubricant are less liable to escape from the interior of the bearing to the exterior of the bearing, and the air and foreign matters are less liable to intrude into the bearing from the exterior of the bearing. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272383 | SPLIT LOCKING SLEEVE - The present disclosure provides a split locking sleeve for use with a shaft receivable within a portion of a bearing assembly. The split locking sleeve includes a sleeve portion having a first inner bore diameter sized and configured to receive a shaft therein. A collar portion is integrally formed with the sleeve portion, and the collar portion includes a second inner bore diameter that is smaller than the first inner bore diameter. The split locking sleeve further includes an attachment assembly comprising at least one axial slot extending along the collar portion to define first and second collar portions and at least one fastener receivable within the collar portion and configured to draw the first and second collar portions together. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272384 | FORCE-MOMENT SENSOR - A force-moment sensor is provided for measuring at least one force and/or moment, which comprises a first part, a second part and an optical fibre arranged therebetween, said optical fibre comprising in at least one section a component for detecting deformations and/or stresses of the fibre transversely to its longitudinal axis. The present invention further relates to a method for measuring forces and/or moments. Thus, a fibre is provided which comprises at least one component for detecting deformations and/or stresses of the fibre transversely to a longitudinal axis of the fibre and into which light is introduced. According to this method, a force and/or moment acts on the fibre, wherein at least one component of the force and/or moment acts perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the fibre. The light reflected in the fibre is then detected and the detected spectrum analysed. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272385 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE - Residue is prevented from being generated in a groove on a substrate. An optical waveguide device is provided with the substrate ( | 2010-10-28 |
20100272386 | OPTICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY ACTUATABLE DEVICES - Disclosed herein are optically and electrically actuatable devices. The optically and electrically actuatable device includes an insulating substrate, two electrodes, an active region, and a concentrator. At least one of the two electrodes is established on the insulating substrate, and another of the two electrodes is established a spaced distance vertically or laterally from the at least one of the two electrodes. The other of the two electrodes is an optical input electrode. The active region is established between or beneath the two electrodes. The concentrator is optically coupled to the optical input electrode for concentrating incident light such that a predetermined portion of the active region is optically actuatable. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272387 | Photonic crystal circuit comprising a guided mode adapter and optical system including said circuit coupled with an optical fiber - The invention relates to a photonic crystal circuit comprising a guide produced in a photonic crystal membrane on the surface of a substrate and a mode adapter coupled to said guide, wherein the membrane includes a central point constituting the mode adapter having a section gradient as termination of said guide, said point being suspended so as to allow the propagation of modes in a symmetrical manner. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272388 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE - There is provided a photoelectric conversion module in which an optical device and an optical waveguide are arrayed in a horizontal direction, thereby improving the optical coupling efficiency and therefore, reducing light loss. To this end, the present invention provides a photoelectric conversion module comprising: a printed circuit board; an integrated circuit board mounted on the printed circuit board, wherein an optical waveguide array is positioned within the integrated circuit board so as to pass from one side to the other side of the integrated circuit board, and first and second electrode pads are positioned at one sidewall of the integrated circuit board; an optical device array wherein first and second electrode bumps to be respectively connected to the first and second electrode pads are positioned at one sidewall of the optical device array facing the integrated circuit board and an optical device is positioned in a middle part of the optical device array; and a semiconductor chip mounted on the is integrated circuit board. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272389 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor optical element having a mesa structure formed by wet etching, includes a mesa structure having a ridge-type mesa structure or a high-mesa-type mesa structure, the mesa structure being disposed on a semiconductor substrate, and an extended mesa on the semiconductor substrate, the extended mesa being connected to a corner of the mesa structure and being the same material as the mesa structure. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272390 | Integrated optical transceiver - An optical transceiver includes at least one light source and at least one detector mounted on the same surface of the same substrate. The detector is to receive light from other than a light source on the surface. At least one of the light source and the detector is mounted on the surface. An optics block having optical elements for each light source and detectors is attached via a vertical spacer to the substrate. Electrical interconnections for the light source and the detector are accessible from the same surface of the substrate with the optics block attached thereto. One of the light source and the detector may be monolithically integrated into the substrate. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272391 | CHROMATIC DISPERSION COMPENSATOR - There is provided a chromatic dispersion compensator, which includes an optical circulator optically coupled to an input port and an output port, a chromatic dispersion compensation unit; including, and a light excitation source for supplying, to a light waveguide, excitation light. The chromatic dispersion compensation unit includes a light waveguide doped with the rare earth ion, a grating unit including a grating formed in at least a part of the longitudinal direction of the light waveguide, where the grating unit performing a chromatic dispersion compensation for a signal light input via the optical circulator to a one end of the light waveguide through the input port by reflecting the signal light flowing through the light waveguide according to a wavelength of the signal light and by returning the reflected signal light to the one end to lead to the output port via the optical circulator. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272392 | ELIMINATION OF STITCH ARTIFACTS IN A PLANAR ILLUMINATION AREA - In one aspect, a planar illumination area includes two light-guide elements, each with an out-coupling region. At least a portion of each out-coupling region overlaps with at least a portion of the other. The overlapping region emits a substantially uniform light output power. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272393 | Wafer based optical chassis and associated methods - An optical chassis includes a mount substrate an optoelectronic device on the mount substrate, a spacer substrate, and a sealer substrate. The mount substrate, the spacer substrate and the sealer substrate are vertically stacked and hermetically sealing the optoelectronic device. An external electrical contact for the optoelectronic device is provided outside the sealing. At least part of the optical chassis may be made on a wafer level. A passive optical element may be provided on the sealer substrate or on another substrate stacked and secured thereto. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272394 | ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING (AWG) WITH DIFFERENT RADII IN THE INPUT AND OUTPUT SLAB REGIONS - Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) circuits are disclosed, having different radii in the slab regions to supplement and/or replace other mechanical techniques which enable athermal AWGs. Dual band, interleaved pairs of athermal AWGs are also disclosed, with improved cost, space and center wavelength properties, for, e.g., optical line terminal (OLT), and remote node (RN) applications. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272395 | LASER AND PHOTODETECTOR COUPLED BY PLANAR WAVEGUIDES - An optical apparatus comprises: a waveguide substrate; three planar optical waveguides formed on the substrate, each comprising a transmission core and cladding; a laser positioned to launch its optical output to propagate along the first waveguide; a photodetector positioned to receive an optical signal propagating along the second waveguide; and a lateral splitter core formed on the substrate for (i) transferring a first fraction of laser optical output propagating along the first waveguide to the second waveguide, and (ii) transferring a second fraction of the laser optical output propagating along the first waveguide to the third waveguide. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272396 | LC-TYPE OPTICAL CONNECTOR - In an LC-type optical connector, a capillary is press-fitted into a fixation hole formed in a housing, and hence it is possible to omit a spring or a flange portion which is used in a conventional optical connector to fix a ferrule. Therefore, reduction in the numbers of components and reduction in cost can be achieved. Further, through omitting the spring or the flange portion, it is unnecessary to provide a space for receiving those members in an inside of the housing, and thus a shape of the housing is simplified. Consequently, manufacturing cost can be reduced. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272397 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - Provided is an optical connector in which a through-hole of a housing is opened in a side surface of the housing and a ferrule can be mounted to the housing from an opening portion formed in the side surface of the housing. Thus, it is unnecessary to constitute the housing by a plurality of components. Consequently, reduction in the numbers of components and assembly steps and reduction in cost can be achieved. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272398 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR APPLYING ENERGY TO AN OBJECT - The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying energy to an object ( | 2010-10-28 |
20100272399 | SYSTEM FOR PLUGGING A FIBRE OPTIC CABLE INTO A FIBRE OPTIC RECEPTACLE AND CABLE ADAPTOR THEREFOR - A system for plugging a fibre optic cable into a fibre optic receptacle includes: a base element having at least one base port, and an adapter unit having at least one adapter, the at least one adapter and the at least one base port being spaced of a predetermined length. The system includes a cable adaptor associated with the fibre optic cable, the cable adaptor including a connector for being plugged into the adapter; an anchoring device for anchoring the fibre optic cable to said base port, and a connector retaining element for receiving the connector and a cable end portion, the connector retaining element defining the predetermined length and removably engaging with the anchoring device. A cable adaptor for a fibre optic cable and a method of installing a fibre optic cable into a fibre optic receptacle, especially into a joint closure, are also described. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272400 | FIBER OPTIC CABLE CONNECTOR - The invention relates to a fiber optic cable connector ( | 2010-10-28 |
20100272401 | Field Termination Kit - A field termination kit includes an optical fiber preparation device for preparing an end of an optical fiber, an optical inspection device for inspecting the end of the optical fiber, and a termination assembly for terminating the end of the optical fiber. A method of using a field termination kit includes rotating an end of a first optical fiber about a center of an abrasive portion of an optical fiber preparation tool. The end is pressed against an adhesive portion of the optical fiber preparation tool to clean contaminants from the end. The end is inserted into an inner passage of an optical fiber inspection device for viewing. The end is inserted into a termination assembly. The end is terminated to an end of a second optical fiber in a termination region of the termination assembly. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272402 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND CONNECTOR - A semiconductor device of the present invention includes: a circuit substrate; an optical semiconductor element provided on the circuit substrate; and a sealing resin provided on the circuit substrate, with which the optical semiconductor element is sealed, the sealing resin having a cuboid shape or a cubic shape, the sealing resin having an outer shape having at least one cutout part, in a case where a single cutout part is formed, the cutout part being provided in an area other than a center area of a top surface of the sealing resin, in a case where a plurality of cutout parts are provided, the cutout parts are formed so as not to be symmetric with respect to the central point on the top surface. With this arrangement, it is possible to provide a semiconductor device which can secure prevention of a sealing resin from being, in an erroneous direction, fitted into a connector. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272403 | FIBER CONNECTOR MODULE INCLUDING INTEGRATED OPTICAL LENS TURN BLOCK AND METHOD FOR COUPLING OPTICAL SIGNALS BETWEEN A TRANSCEIVER MODULE AND AN OPTICAL FIBER - Embodiments of the invention include a fiber connector module and method for coupling optical signals between an optical transceiver module and an optical fiber described herein involve the coupling to or overmolding of a fiber connector module to an optical transceiver module or other optical source, and a fiber lens coupled to for formed into an angled surface of the fiber connector module housing. The angled surface and the fiber lens are configured in such a way that the fiber lens focuses collimated light from the transceiver module to the receiving end of an optical fiber or other optical detector positioned within the fiber connector module housing. Fiber connector modules according to embodiments of the invention allow for relatively low profiles compared to conventional arrangements and configurations, especially with multi-channel, parallel lane configurations. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272404 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR WITH A PROTECTING MECHANISM FOR PROTECTING AN OPTICAL MODULE THEREOF - An optical connector defining a receiving space for receiving a corresponding plug includes an insulative housing, an optical module mounted to the insulative housing, and a protecting mechanism assembled into the receiving space. The insulative housing has a front surface at a rear side of the receiving space. The optical module has a light receiving element located behind the front surface and forwardly exposed to the receiving space. The protecting mechanism has a door lying in a vertical plane in front of the front surface to shield the light receiving element along an insertion direction when the plug is not inserted into the receiving space, and moving downwardly out of the receiving space to unveil said light receiving element in said insertion direction when the plug is inserted into the receiving space. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272405 | OPTICAL FIBER FUSION SPLICER - An optical fiber fusion splicer ( | 2010-10-28 |
20100272406 | Bend Resistant Multimode Optical Fiber - Bend resistant multimode optical fibers are disclosed herein. Multimode optical fibers disclosed herein comprise a core region and a cladding region surrounding and directly adjacent to the core region, the cladding region comprising a depressed-index annular portion comprising a depressed relative refractive index. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272408 | STRAIN RELIEF FOR OPTICAL FIBRE CABLES AND PATCH CORDS - An enclosure ( | 2010-10-28 |
20100272409 | Cable management system with twist latch - A cable management assembly, and methods related thereto, including a panel having a plurality of discrete openings, including first shaped apertures and second shaped apertures. The assembly further including cable management devices having low-profile mounting arrangements. The low-profile mounting arrangements being configured to mount the cable management devices at selected locations on the panel. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272410 | RADIUS LIMITER CABLE RETENTION BRACKET, CLAMP AND PANEL - The present disclosure relates to a cable retention bracket including four sides defining an interior for containing fiber optic cables. One of the sides defines a pivoting closure member that defines a hinge axis generally transverse to the direction of cables passing through the cable retention bracket. At least one of the sides includes a curved surface defining a cable radius limiter surface for providing bend radius protection for the cables. The various sides are made from a sheet metal construction. The cable retention bracket is usable in a variety of panels, trays, and drawers for managing telecommunications cables. A cable clamp includes two threaded sockets, a pad member and an elongated cover positioned over the pad member, with first and second threaded fasteners mounting the cover over the pad member. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272411 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND PLAYBACK METHOD - A playback apparatus that divides the content into scenes;
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20100272412 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, PROGRAM - A BD-ROM has a video stream and an entry map recorded thereon. The entry map indicates a plurality of entry points (SPN_EP_start) in the video stream, in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of entry times (PTS_EP_start) and flags (is_angle_change_point). Each flag (is_angle_change_point) indicates whether a picture located at a corresponding entry point is an IDR picture for causing decoder refresh or Non-IDR I picture having a reference to a preceding picture. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272413 | Managing Digital Video Recorder Storage for a Plurality of Users - A computer implemented method and apparatus for managing digital video recorder storage for one or more users. Each user in the multi-user environment is assigned an amount of program storage in the digital video recorder. Responsive to receiving a request to record a new program from a user in the multi-user environment, an associated amount of program storage assigned to the use is determined. Responsive to a determination that addition of the new program will not exceed the associated amount of program storage assigned to the user, the new program is recorded to the program storage. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272414 | PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER E-MAIL ALERTS AND STATUS - A web-based service which provides a notification such an email to a user to facilitate managing the recording of broadcast content using a personal video recorder (PVR). The user can agree to participate in the service in exchange for emails which can provide information such as a summary of programs recorded over a few days, missed recordings, and scheduling conflicts. The notification can include targeted recommendations, targeted advertising and information about recording habits of members of a social network of the user. A notification can be provided on an urgent basis if program schedule conflicts or hardware or software problems with the user's equipment are detected. The user's equipment can include a PC-based PVR, or a PC which communicates with a separate PVR device. PC-related information such as events thrown can also be reported up to the web service. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272415 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction program whether the recorded content has to be checked out to the portable device. If a content is recorded in case it has been set that the content has to be checked out, the content having been recorded in the content data base is checked out to the portable device. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272416 | PLURAL DRIVE DEVICE DELAY COUNTERMEASURE AND RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE PERFORMING POWER SAVING CONTROL - The present invention is equipped with a plurality of low-cost middle-capacity hard disks that are combined together to realize a large capacity at the same level as a large-capacity hard disk, and performs power-saving management to minimize the power consumption by the hard disks. At the same time, the present invention eliminates delays for accessing the separate hard disks. For this purpose, the present invention puts any of a plurality of drive devices other than a current access-target drive into a power-saving state, and puts the next access-target drive into a stand-by state from the power-saving state during the access to the current access-target drive, by calculating a remaining time until completion of the access to the current access-target drive. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272417 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO AND AUDIO REPRODUCING METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO AND AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING MEDIUM - The object of the present invention is to provide a stereoscopic video and audio recording method, a stereoscopic video and audio recording medium, a stereoscopic video and audio reproducing method, a stereoscopic video and audio recording apparatus, and a stereoscopic video and audio reproducing apparatus. An audio information storage region for three-dimensional video is arranged in advance, separately from audio information for ordinary two-dimensional video, in a media recording format for recording stereoscopic video and audio. Therefore, when stereoscopic reproduction is selected, an audio can be reproduced with realistic sensation in a depth direction in sound-image processing or surround processing. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272418 | Electronic device and content reproducing method and program - An electronic device includes a communication block configured to execute communication with an external device; a storage block configured to store content; a compression block configured to compress the stored content; a reproduction block configured to reproduce one of the content before compression by the compression block and the content after compression by the compression block; an operation input block configured to enter an operation signal corresponding to a user operation done for the reproduction; and control block configured to control the communication block to transmit the content before compression to the external device for storage therein and, if the operation signal for reproducing the content after compression is entered, receive, the content before compression stored in the external device corresponding to the content after compression from the external device. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272419 | DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER RECORDING AND RENDERING PROGRAMS FORMED FROM SPLICED SEGMENTS - A method and apparatus is provided for recording a program. The method includes storing, in response to a use request, at least one content file that includes first and second program segments that are spliced to form a single program. At least one index file is created and stored. The file index includes program specific information associated with the first and second program segments. The index file also includes an identification of a splice point denoting a transition between the first and second program segments. In addition, a splice index is created and stored. The splice index includes timing information specifying a time at which the splice point occurs. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING A DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER USING A USER TELEVISION BROADCAST LIST - A system and method of managing a digital video recorder using a user customizable television broadcast list which includes a list of a plurality of user selected television programs being displayed on a website. The television programs on the list are identified based on date and time broadcast information which are retrieved from a storage medium. The list includes television programs only to be broadcast on a particular user selected date. At least one of the user selected television programs from the list is exported to a digital video recorder (DVR) upon the user selecting the at least one user selected television program from the list. The DVR is instructed to automatically record the television programs at a predetermined date and time based on the date and time broadcast information. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272421 | ODOR GENERATING DEVICE - The invention discloses an odor generating device, which is capable of generating an odor according to an atmosphere requirement. The odor generating device comprises a conductive portion and a controlling module. The controlling module is electrically connected to the conductive portion. The conductive portion has a capillary structure for accommodating a volatile liquid having the odor. The conductive portion comprises an electrode which is electrically connected to the controlling module. The controlling module apply a voltage, according to an atmosphere requirement, on the electrode of the conductive portion for heating the volatile liquid, so as to release the odor of the volatile liquid via the capillary structure. Accordingly, the odor generating device can achieve the objective of releasing the odor in accordance with the atmosphere requirement. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272422 | RETORT FURNACE FOR HEAT AND/OR THERMOCHEMICAL TREATMENT - A retort furnace designed for heat and heat and chemical treatment in protective gas atmosphere, process gas atmosphere or in vacuum, equipped with a retort with a lid, made of steel or heat-resisting or creep-resisting alloys, separating the process atmosphere from the ambient atmosphere, with heating elements and thermal insulation outside the retort and with a cooling system. The radiation screens, in the form of at least two metal boards, are installed at supports located at the lid inside the retort; the heating elements are located behind the radiation screens, on the retort side and are separated with the metal screen. A few radiation sealing rings are placed in the extreme area of the brackets. The radiation screens and sealing rings, as well as the circumferential sealing rings permanently fixed in the casing of retort make up the system of reducing heat losses through radiation at the wall of the retort. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272423 | SHAKE CORRECTING APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A shake correcting apparatus includes a correcting unit operable to correct an optical axis of light from a subject according to a correction signal, a shake detecting unit operable to detect shake of a target to output a detection signal according to an amount of the detected shake, a correction signal generating unit operable to generate the correction signal based on the detection signal output from the shake detecting unit, a natural oscillation detecting unit operable to detect a frequency component of the detection signal in a predetermined frequency band, and a controller operable to control the correction signal generating unit to generate the correction signal according to a detection result of the natural oscillation detecting unit. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272424 | IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND FOCUS CONTROL METHOD - An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which is capable of restricting unnecessary focus control by an AF method other than the TV-AF method in the hybrid AF. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which generates first information corresponding to a contrast state of a picked-up image, a second detector which detects second information differing from the first information and used for focus control, and a controller which performs focus processing that cyclically repeats first focus control using the first information and performs second focus control using the second information. In the focus processing, the controller is changed over between a state of restricting the second focus control and a state of allowing the second focus control, depending on a change amount of the contrast state. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272425 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An imaging device equipped with an imaging system includes an imaging lens optical system which images an object, a flash emitting unit which synchronizes imaging in the imaging system to emit a flash having not less than a prescribed luminance in a charged state not less than a prescribed charged state by power to be charged, and a control unit which determines a charging amount of the charged state of the flash emitting unit and which controls imaging to be performed by using the flash emitting unit with an imaging sensitivity of the imaging lens optical system set in accordance with the charging amount of the charged state in imaging by the imaging lens optical system. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PHOTOGRAPH LOCATION INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Descriptive location information is associated with and displayed with a photograph taken on a wireless communication device. The descriptive location information is derived from raw location data received from a global positioning system (GPS) receiver in the wireless communication device. The raw location data is cross-referenced with descriptive location information contained within, for example, look-up tables in a memory of the device. The descriptive location information describes the location where the image was taken, for example, a city, a landmark, a distance from a city or landmark, and is visible to a user on the image displayed on a screen of the wireless device or another device. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272427 | DOME TYPE SECURITY CAMERA STRUCTURE WITH REINFORCED WATERPROOFING FUNCTION - A dome type security camera structure with a reinforced waterproofing function is disclosed. The camera structure includes a housing ( | 2010-10-28 |
20100272428 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL CAMERA MOUNT DEVICE FOR A COMPOUND BOW - The present invention is a multi-directional camera mount device for mounting a camera onto a compound bow to facilitate movement and positioning of the camera. The camera mount device includes a generally planar camera base bow bracket and a generally planar and elongated camera mount swing arm that is swingably and permanently attached to the bracket. There is also a first attachment assembly to swingably and permanently attach the arm to the bracket, a second attachment assembly to attach the camera to the arm and a swingable assembly that allows swingable movement of the arm and the attached camera. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272429 | APERTURE-RING-AND-SHUTTER DEVICE - An aperture-ring-and-shutter device includes a base unit, a shutter unit, and a diaphragm unit. The base unit includes a base having an optical opening along an optical axis. The shutter unit includes a shutter sheet, a shutter-driving element disposed on the base, and a toggling element actuated by the shutter-driving element. The toggling element has a guide bar utilized to rotate the shutter sheet. The shutter-driving element switches the toggling element between an opening location and a covering location. The guide bar of the toggling element forces the shutter sheet to expose or cover the optical opening of the base unit. The diaphragm unit includes an aperture plate, a diaphragm-driving element, and a toggled element pushed by the diaphragm-driving element. The aperture plate has an aperture less than the optical opening of the base unit. The toggled element has a guide pin utilized to rotate the aperture plate. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSECUTIVE IDENTICAL DIGIT REDUCTION - In a data transmission network, such as a passive optical network, the consecutive identical digit (CID) handling requirements may be reduced by providing a CID monitoring module at the transmitter end that monitors the number of CIDs in a transmission stream. Where the CID number exceeds a threshold, an error generation module induces an error in the transmission stream to reduce the CID below the threshold. The modified transmission stream may then be transmitted to a receiver, allowing clock recovery be performed with improved stability at the receiver. Once clock recovery is achieved, the receiver can then process the transmission stream to correct the errors induced at the transmitter end. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272431 | IN-SERVICE OPTICAL NETWORK TESTING - A system may include a first measurement device configured to be coupled to a first node in an optical path being measured. The first measurement device may be configured to generate a signal at an initiating device; identify an unused channel in an optical path, wherein the optical path includes at least two spans; and transmit the signal on the unused channel. A second test device may be configured to be coupled to a last node in the optical path being measured. The second measurement device may be configured to: receive the signal at a destination device; compensate the signal for chromatic dispersion (CD) and/or polarization mode dispersion (PMD) effects; and determine CD and/or PMD measurements associated with the optical path being measured based on the compensation. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272432 | Soft Clock Delay for OCT System and Method Therefor - An optical coherence analysis system comprises a swept source laser for generating optical signals that are tuned over a scan band; an interferometer for transmitting the optical signals over a sample arm and reference arm and combining the optical signals; a k-clock for generating a sampling clock indicating non-linearities in the frequency tuning of the optical signals over the scan band, the k-clock being not delay matched to propagation delays for the optical signals in the interferometer; a sampling system for sampling the optical signals from the interferometer in response to the k-clock to generate interference signals; and a processing system for determining non-linearities in the sampling clock and for transforming the interference signals into an image of a sample in response to the non-linearities. The system compensates for the lack of an electronic delay of k-clock using a nonuniform discrete Fourier transform. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272433 | Method for Identifying the Optical Network Unit Power Off Reason - A passive optical network (PON) component comprising a power switch, a detector configured to monitor the power switch, and a processor configured to receive an interrupt from the detector and transmit a message comprising a first indicator that the PON component has powered down, and a second indicator giving a reason for the power down. A passive optical network (PON) component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving an interrupt message from a detector, determining a reason for the interrupt, and transmitting a dying gasp message comprising an indicator of the reason for the interrupt. A method comprising transmitting an alarm message comprising an optical network terminal (ONT) manual power off indicator that indicates the ONT is shutting down because a subscriber has turned off its power switch. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272434 | Channel Validation In Optical Networks Using Multi-Channel Impairment Evaluation - In an optical communication network that includes a plurality of interconnected network nodes, a method includes storing in each network node one or more cross-talk margins of respective communication channels that traverse the node. A potential communication channel that traverses a subset of the nodes in the network is identified. A quality of the potential communication channel is evaluated by processing the cross-talk margins stored in the nodes in the subset. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272435 | Channel Validation In Optical Networks Using Multi-Channel Impairment Evaluation - In an optical communication network that includes a plurality of interconnected network nodes, a method includes storing in each network node, and for each communication channel that traverses the node, one or more impairment margins of respective impairments that affect the communication channel. A potential communication channel that traverses a subset of the nodes in the network is identified. A quality of the potential communication channel is evaluated by processing the impairment margins stored in the nodes in the subset. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272436 | OPTICAL PASSIVE NETWORK SYSTEM AND ITS OPERATION METHOD - In the configuration of an optical communication system interconnecting a parent station and a plurality of child stations via an optical fiber network equipped with an optical splitter, RE is provided having a measuring unit for measuring a transmission distance or time to a child station, a determining unit for determining a timing when a child station transmits a signal, in accordance with a transmission bandwidth request from the child station, and a signal processing unit for processing a signal received from a child station and transmitting the processed signal to the parent station. When a burst signal is received from each child station at the determined timing, a portion of the header of the burst signal is deleted, and a dummy signal is inserted into the deleted area and a gap area between received burst signals to convert the burst signals into a series of signals to be sent to the parent station. | 2010-10-28 |
20100272437 | TDMA PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK OLT SYSTEM FOR BROADCAST SERVICE - Provided is a TDMA (time division multiple access) PON (passive optical network) OLT (optical line terminal) system for a broadcast service, including packet processor determining information according to types of frames (unicast, multicast, and broadcast frames) and a switch output port using header information (an IP address of a packet header, MAC (medium access control) addresses of Ethernet frames, and the like) of data received from an external node or the ONT (optical network terminal) and attaching the information to header parts of the frames to generate second data, a switch copying the second data by a predetermined number of times according to a transmission method and transmitting the second data to a corresponding destination output port according to the identification codes, M TDMA PON MAC processors removing the identification codes added to the second data and converting the second data into TDMA PON frames, and M optical transceivers converting the TDMA PON frames into optical signals and transmitting the optical signals to an ONT. | 2010-10-28 |