44th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150310231 | Multi-Core Processor Based Key Protection Method And System - A multi-core processor based key protection method and system is described. An Operating System (OS) supporting Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) is set up on a multi-core processor. One core of the multi-core processor is configured as a cryptographic operation core, which is prohibited from running other processes of the OS and dedicated to perform a public-key cryptographic operation. The private key and an intermediate variable in a process of the public-key cryptographic operation are stored in a cache exclusively occupied by the cryptographic operation core. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310232 | ACTIVE COMPONENT EMBEDDED IN CABLE - Examples disclose a cable to secure data transmission. Examples of the cable include a connector to connect to a computing device for data transmission. Further, the examples of the cable include an active component coupled to the connector and embedded in the cable. The active component is to at least perform one of encrypt and decrypt the data transmitted on the cable. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310233 | IC Card Reader and Operating Method Thereof - An IC card reader may comprise a first interface unit that communicates with an IC chip of an IC card by using a first communication mode, a second interface unit that communicates with the IC chip by using a second communication mode, and a control unit that controls the first and second interface units, and reads data from the IC chip through an interface unit, which first receives a response message from the IC chip, between the first and second interface units. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310234 | PROXIMITY CHECK FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES - There is described a method of checking whether a transponder device ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310235 | ELECTRONIC ENTITY WITH CONTACT AND REMOTE COMMUNICATION MEANS - An electronic entity includes contact communication elements ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310236 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO SEMI-AUTOMATIC GOLF DATA COLLECTING AND RECORDING - Apparatuses, methods and systems relating to golf data collecting and recording are described. In one embodiment an apparatus on a golf club includes an integrated reminder and a stroke cancellation system and is semi-automatic in that the recording of the stroke is directly in response to changing the state (e.g. activating) of a switch which indicates that the golfer has pressed a button on the golf club. The pressing of the button indicates that the golfer will or has taken a stroke with the golf club and that the stroke is to be recorded, optionally with the location of the stroke and an identifier of the club (e.g. 9 iron). | 2015-10-29 |
20150310237 | STREAMLINED APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RFID COMMUNICATION - Methods and devices for receiving a data signal transmitted via load modulation, by detecting current supplied in an amplifier feeding the antenna of the device which transmits the carrier signal. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310238 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING BLIND SPOT IN AN RF ANTENNA ARRAY - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for eliminating blind spot of a high frequency RF antenna array, allowing an RFID tag to be detected when placed anywhere on top of and within the communication range of the RF antenna array. The RF antenna array includes a first array of RF antenna placed on a first surface and a second RF antenna placed on a second surface. The second RF antenna is located directly below or above the area encompassing borders of multiple antennas in the first array, but is not connected to any electrical path. Through the electromagnetic induction with the EM field generated by the first RF antenna array, a second EM field is formed by the second RF antenna, which enables detection and identification of the RFID tag placed on the blind spot of the first array of RF antenna. The present invention is useful in improving the RF communication range and accuracy of a passive RFID system. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310239 | DETECTOR LOGIC AND RADIO IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING TERMINAL OPERATIONS - An electronic device operable with a radio frequency identification device operable with a detector logic and a method for operating the electronic device with a radio frequency identification device and a detector logic is provided. Firstly, a detection event is registered by the detector logic. The detected event relates to an operation of the radio frequency identification device, which is applicable to transmit data to a counterpart radio frequency identification device. A detection signal is generated and issued by the detector logic in response to the registering and detection event, respectively, which detection signal is received by the electronic device. Then, the electronic device initiates one or more operations in response to the receiving of the detection signal. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME TRACKING USING COMBINED NEAR FIELD AND FAR FIELD RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION - Provided is a portable transport apparatus having an enclosure for containing an item to be transported, a RFID reader connected to a near field antenna disposed within the enclosure for a first RFID reading of an area inside the enclosure and to a far field antenna disposed on the enclosure for a second RFID reading of an area outside the enclosure, and a wireless communication module, and a method of use of the portable transport apparatus. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310241 | PACKAGE-ON-PACKAGE BASED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP IMAGER - An apparatus for use in decoding a bar code symbol includes a first integrated circuit chip with a wafer level camera, at least one light source, and a plurality of contact pads on a surface of the chip and a second integrated circuit chip with a processor, memory, plurality of contact pads on a surface of the chip, and plurality of contact pads on another surface of the chip. The apparatus includes a PCB having a plurality of contact pads disposed on at least one surface of the PCB and wherein the first and second integrated circuit chips are vertically stacked on the PCB and the plurality of contact pads on the first and second integrated circuit chips interface with the contact pads of the second integrated circuit chip and PCB. The apparatus is operative for processing image signals generated by the WLC for attempting to decode the bar code symbol. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310242 | CAMERA AND METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF A MOVED FLOW OF OBJECTS - A camera is provided for the detection of a flow of objects moved relative to the camera, comprising an image sensor for the taking of images of the objects and a receiving optics that is arranged in front of the image sensor and that has a depth of field range. In this respect, a mirror unit having at least two mirror elements is arranged in front of the receiving optics, the mirror elements having a different spacing amongst one another with respect to the receiving optics and/or having a different tilt angle and in this way imaging sections of the object flow a plurality of times with light paths of different length and in this way with different depth of field ranges at the image sensor. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310243 | AUTOFOCUS LENS SYSTEM FOR INDICIA READERS - An autofocus lens system includes no conventional moving parts and has excellent speed and low power consumption. The system includes a small electronically-controlled focusing-module lens. The focusing-module lens includes two adjustable polymeric surfaces (e.g., two adjustable-surface lenses in a back-to-back configuration). The curvature of the surfaces can be adjusted to change focus. The performance of the autofocus lens system is extended by adding a conventional first and second lens, or lens group, on either side of the focusing-module lens. What results is an autofocus lens system with excellent near field and far field performance. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310244 | INDICIA READING SYSTEM EMPLOYING DIGITAL GAIN CONTROL - A scanning code symbol reading system includes an analog scan data signal processor for producing digitized data signals, wherein during each laser beam scanning cycle, a light collection and photo-detection module generates an analog scan data signal corresponding to a laser scanned code symbol, an analog scan data signal processor/digitizer processes the analog scan data signal to generate digital data signals corresponding thereto, and a synchronized digital gain control module automatically processes the digitized data signals in response to start of scan (SOS) signals generated by a SOS detector. The synchronized digital gain control module generates digital control data which is transmitted to the analog scan data signal processor for use in controlling the gain of a signal processing stage in the light collection and photo-detection module and/or analog scan data signal processor, during the corresponding laser beam scanning cycle. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310245 | Embedding Information in an Image for Fast Retrieval - A binary bit-string is encoded in a circular image. The circular image encodes substrings of the bit-string in sectors of the circular image and includes redundant bits, error correcting codes, and metadata pertaining to the encoding scheme. To encode the bit-strings, a circular image is generated that includes a center ring and a first ring. Outward from the first ring, additional rings represent bits in the bit-string according to the width of each ring. The exterior of the image includes an outer boundary ring. The width of the boundary rings is used to define the widths representing the value of each ring. To extract a bit-string from an image, the center of the circular image is identified and a direction is selected to evaluate the image outward, determining the boundaries of each ring. The boundaries are analyzed to determine the width of each ring and the encoded bit values. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310246 | DECODING BARCODE USING SMART LINEAR PICKLIST - A method of decoding a barcode includes determining number of barcode candidates in the image captured and processing the image captured in accordance with the number of barcode candidates found. If the number of barcode candidates is one, the image captured is processed to decode the only one barcode candidate in the image captured. If the number of barcode candidates is larger than one, the image captured is processed to find a barcode candidate that overlays with an aiming location between a first location and a second location on a scan line and to decode the barcode candidate that is found that overlays with the aiming location. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310247 | SELECTIVE OUTPUT OF DECODED MESSAGE DATA - An imaging apparatus can be operative to capture a frame of image data representing a scene having one or more decodable indicia and display image data corresponding to the one or more decodable indicia. The imaging apparatus can be operative so that responsively to a user input control decoded message data of a selected decodable indicia is selectively output. One or more processor executable program can be provided for facilitating selective output of decoded message data. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310248 | CAPACITIVE FINGERPRINT SENSOR WITH IMPROVED SENSING ELEMENT - The present invention relates to a capacitive fingerprint sensing device comprising a semiconductor substrate; and an array of sensing elements formed on the semiconductor substrate. Each of the sensing elements comprises a protective dielectric top layer; a sensing structure arranged underneath the top layer; and a charge amplifier connected to the sensing structure. The charge amplifier comprises a negative input connected to the sensing structure; a positive input; an output providing a sensing signal; a feedback capacitor; and a sense transistor having a gate constituting the negative input. The sense transistor is formed in an insulated well in the semiconductor substrate. The fingerprint sensing device further comprises excitation signal providing circuitry connected to the positive input of the charge amplifier and the well for changing electric potentials of the sensing structure and the well, to thereby reduce the influence of parasitic capacitances in the sensing element. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310249 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT - A light receiving section includes light receiving elements. A light source section includes a light emitting section that illuminates the subject and transmissive sections. The light emitting section is provided with a first translucent layer, which includes a light emitting layer, and a reflection layer and a semi-transmissive reflection layer interposing the first translucent layer, so that a resonance structure is formed. Each of the transmissive sections includes a second translucent layer, and a first semi-transmissive reflection layer and a second semi-transmissive reflection layer, which are opposed each other interposing the second translucent layer, so that a resonance structure that resonates incident light from the subject side is formed. A resonance length between the reflection layer and the semi-transmissive reflection layer in the light emitting section is more than a resonance length between the first semi-transmissive reflection layer and the second semi-transmissive reflection layer in the transmissive section. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310250 | LOW POWER FINGERPRINT CAPTURE SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD - The present invention provides a large format fingerprint capture apparatus, system and method that is low power, compact, and lightweight and has a platen area greater than 3.0 square inches. The present system is typically powered, controlled, and exchanges data over a single data/control/power connection to a host PC, e.g., a desk top computer, PDA, or laptop computer although the system can also be used in a wireless fashion with a power subsystem so no physical connections are required. The system typically includes a light source, a prism, a camera (including the lens), and a case. Optional elements comprise holographic elements such as gratings and holographic optical elements (HOEs), a battery subsystem, magnetic stripe reader, barcode reader, platen heater, platen blower, and mirrors to divert the image beam. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310251 | DISPLAY-INTEGRATED USER-CLASSIFICATION, SECURITY AND FINGERPRINT SYSTEM - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to biometric authentication of a user of an electronic device. An electronic display has a display cover glass with a front surface that includes a viewing area, and a fingerprint reading area within the viewing area. At least one photosensing element is configured to detect received scattered light, the received scattered light resulting from interaction of light with an object in at least partial optical contact with the front surface within the fingerprint reading area and to output, to a processor, fingerprint image data. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310252 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A biometric authentication apparatus includes a single reading sensor configured to acquire first matching authentication characteristics data being unique to a first hand and used for matching, and second matching authentication characteristics data being unique to a second hand and used for matching; and a communications part configured to externally transmit the first and second matching authentication characteristics data for one person as authentication data and to receive an authentication result. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310253 | HANDLING GLARE IN EYE TRACKING - Embodiments are disclosed for eye tracking systems and methods. An example eye tracking system comprises a plurality of light sources and a camera configured to capture an image of light from the light sources as reflected from an eye. The eye tracking system further comprises a logic device and a storage device storing instructions executable by the logic device to acquire frames of eye tracking data by iteratively projecting light from different combinations of light sources of the plurality of light sources and capturing an image of the eye during projection of each combination. The instructions may be further executable to select a selected combination of light sources for eye tracking based on a determination of occlusion detected in the image arising from a transparent or semi-transparent optical structure positioned between the eye and the camera and project light via the selected combination of light sources for eye tracking. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310254 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF ABNORMAL CILIARY MOTION - A method of classifying ciliary motion includes receiving digital video data representing the ciliary motion generated by an image capture device, wherein the digital video data includes a plurality of frames. The method further includes receiving an indication of a region of interest applicable to each of the frames, wherein the region of interest includes a plurality of pixels in each of the frames, calculating time series elemental motion data for at least one elemental motion parameter for the region of interest based on the digital video data, and using the time series elemental motion data to classify the ciliary motion. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310255 | System, electronic pen and method for the acquisition of the dynamic handwritten signature using mobile devices with capacitive touchscreen - The invention describes a system, an electronic pen and a method for the acquisition and processing of the bio-kinetic information associated with the signature, in order to send this information to an authentication server for authenticity validation. The system includes an electronic pen ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310256 | DEPTH IMAGE PROCESSING - Embodiments described herein can be used to detect holes in a subset of pixels of a depth image that has been specified as corresponding to a user, and to fill such detected holes. Additionally, embodiments described herein can be used to produce a low resolution version of a subset of pixels that has been specified as corresponding to a user, so that when an image including a representation of the user is displayed, the image respects the shape of the user, yet is not a mirror image of the user. Further, embodiments described herein can be used to identify pixels, of a subset of pixels specified as corresponding to the user, that likely correspond to a floor supporting the user. This enables the removal of the pixels, identified as likely corresponding to the floor, from the subset of pixels specified as corresponding to the user. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310257 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION USING 3-D CURVE MATCHING - The claimed subject matter provides for systems and/or methods for identification of instances of an object of interest in 2D images by creating a database of 3D curve models of each desired instance and comparing an image of an object of interest against such 3D curve models of instances. The present application describes identifying and verifying the make and model of a car from a possibly single image—after the models have been populated with training data of test images of many makes and models of cars. In one embodiment, an identification system may be constructed by generating a 3D curve model by back-projecting edge points onto a visual hull reconstruction from silhouettes of an instance. The system and methods employ chamfer distance and orientation distance provides reasonable verification performance, as well as an appearance model for the taillights of the car to increase the robustness of the system. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310258 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, NEAR INFRARED LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE, AND SUNVISOR - An image pickup device includes a first emission unit that emits a near infrared light toward a face of a driver from a front lower side of the driver, and a second emission unit that emits a near infrared light from an upper side of the driver. When a sunvisor is present at a storage position in which sunlight is not shielded, the second emission unit is disposed at a position to be covered with the sunvisor. A portion where the sunvisor present at a storage position covers the second emission unit is made of a material that shields a visible light contained in the sunlight and transmits the near infrared light. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310259 | USING FACIAL DATA FOR DEVICE AUTHENTICATION OR SUBJECT IDENTIFICATION - Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for authenticating a user to computing device. In one exemplary embodiment, an indication of a request by a user to unlock a mobile device in a locked state is received. One or more images of the face of the user are captured. Facial components of the user from the one or more captured images are extracted. A determination is made as to whether the user is an authorized user or a non-authorized user based at least in part on a comparison of the facial components of the user extracted from the one or more captured images to facial components of the authorized user from one or more authentication images of the authorized stored on the mobile device. If the user is determined to be the authorized user, the mobile device unlocked; otherwise, the mobile device is maintained in its locked state. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310260 | Determining Which Participant is Speaking in a Videoconference - Aspects herein describe methods and systems of receiving, by one or more cameras, images in which the images comprise facial images of individuals. Aspects of the disclosure describe extracting the facial images from the images received, sorting the extracted facial images into separate groups wherein each group corresponds to the facial images of each individual, and selecting, for each individual, a preferred facial image from each group. The preferred facial images selected are transmitted to a client for display. Aspects of the disclosure also describe selecting either a facial recognition algorithm or an audio triangulation algorithm to use to determine which individual is speaking wherein the selection is based on whether lip movement of one or more of the individuals is visible in the images received from the cameras. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310261 | CREATION OF REPRESENTATIVE CONTENT BASED ON FACIAL ANALYSIS - Technologies for analyzing various features detected in a face detected in an image. Such features may include at least the eyes, eyebrows, node, and mouth of a face. Such analyzing may include scoring aspects of these features. Such scores may be weighted. The analysis may be used to determine expressions and/or poses of the face, as well as indicate if the face is smiling, frowning, or neutral. An overall quality score for the face may also be determined and provided based on the aforementioned analysis as well as whether or not the face is near an edge of the image or cut-off in the image. Finally, a face signature may be determined that uniquely identifies the face, at least within the scope of the analyzed features. Such face signatures may be used to detect a similar face in other images. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310262 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING FACIAL EXPRESSION TYPE - A method of determining a facial expression type may include extracting feature points representing facial characteristics from a facial image of a user; grouping the extracted feature points into a plurality of regions; and determining a facial expression type for each of a plurality of groups using feature points and a facial expression type function corresponding to each of the groups. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310263 | FACIAL EXPRESSION TRACKING - The description relates to facial tracking. One example can include an orientation structure configured to position the wearable device relative to a user's face. The example can also include a camera secured by the orientation structure parallel to or at a low angle to the user's face to capture images across the user's face. The example can further include a processor configured to receive the images and to map the images to parameters associated with an avatar model. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310264 | Dynamic Gesture Recognition Using Features Extracted from Multiple Intervals - In one embodiment, an image processor comprises image processing circuitry and an associated memory. The image processor is configured to implement a gesture recognition system utilizing the image processing circuitry and the memory. The gesture recognition system implemented by the image processor comprises a dynamic gesture recognition module. The dynamic gesture recognition module is configured to establish a dynamic gesture recognition interval comprising a plurality of image frames, to extract one or more first features from the dynamic gesture recognition interval, to adjust the dynamic gesture recognition interval, to extract one or more second features from the adjusted dynamic gesture recognition interval, and to recognize a dynamic gesture based at least in part on at least a subset of the extracted first and second features. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310265 | Method and System for Proactively Recognizing an Action of a Road User - A method and system are provided to proactively recognize an action of a road user in road traffic, wherein an image of the road user, which is structured in a pixel-wise manner, is captured by way of at least one camera, and corresponding image data is generated. Image data of multiple pixels is grouped in each case by cells, wherein the image comprises multiple cells. A respective centroid is determined based on the image data within a cell. For each of the pixels, the respective distance from the centroids of a plurality of cells is ascertained, wherein a feature vector that is assigned to the pixel is formed based on coordinates of the respective pixel and the centroids. The feature vector is compared to at least one reference vector cluster, and a pose is associated with the road user based on the comparison. The pose is representative of the road user planning to carry out the action. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310266 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING GESTURE AND OPERATION METHOD OF GESTURE DETERMINING DEVICE - A device for determining a gesture includes a light emitting unit, an image sensing device and a processing circuit. The light emitting unit emits a light beam. The image sensing device captures an image of a hand reflecting the light beam. The processing circuit obtains the image and determines a gesture of the hand by performing an operation on the image; wherein the operation includes: selecting pixels in the image having a brightness greater than or equal to a brightness threshold; dividing the selected pixels; and determining the gesture of the hand according to a number of group of divided pixels. A method for determining a gesture and an operation method of the aforementioned device are also provided. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310267 | AUTOMATED HANDWRITING INPUT FOR ENTRY FIELDS - An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at a surface of a device accepting handwriting input, a location of the display surface associated with initiation of a handwriting input; determining, using a processor, a location of an entry field in a document rendered on a display surface, the location of the entry field being associated with a display surface location; determining, using a processor, a distance between the location of the surface associated with initiation of the handwriting input and the location of the entry field; and automatically inserting input, based on the handwriting input, into the entry field after determining the distance is less than a threshold value. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310268 | MEDIA ITEM VALIDATION - The present invention provides a method of validating a media item, the method comprising receiving image data corresponding to a plurality of digital images of a media item to be validated, wherein each image is associated with a respective one of a plurality of different channels of an illumination source for illuminating the media item, selecting image data corresponding to two of the plurality of images, dividing a common parameter of the selected image data associated with corresponding locations of the two selected images to create ratio image data representing a ratio image for two different channels of the illumination source, extracting feature information associated with the ratio image, and classifying the extracted feature information with at least one classifier of a validation template to determine whether or not the media item is valid. A computer program and a Self-Service Terminal for validating a media item, such as a banknote, are also provided. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310269 | System and Method of Using Dynamic Variance Networks - A method and system for determining locations of multiple targets in a document, comprising: creating, utilizing a localization module, information compiled from a training document, the information comprising a reference and a reference vector tying the reference to the multiple targets, wherein the multiple targets includes multiple words. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310270 | Portable Optical Reader, Optical Reading Method Using The Portable Optical Reader, And Computer Program - The present invention provides a portable optical reader, an optical reading method using the portable optical reader and a computer program capable of detecting a high possibility of a reading error and notifying a user of a possibility of a reading error. A character string as a reading target is imaged and a character string is recognized based on the captured image. A plurality of reading formats defining an attribute of the character string is stored, and a first reading format matched with the recognized character string among a plurality of stored reading format is searched. Among the plurality of stored reading formats, a second reading format in which a character string matched with the first reading format as a partial character string is searched. Based on the search result, a possibility of a reading error regarding the recognized character string is notified. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310271 | SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS FOR TICKETS - A method of validating the authenticity of a ticket including a unique ticket identifier generated at an issuing terminal in accordance with a confidential algorithm is provided. The method includes receiving one or more identification variable values expressed with respect to a first coordinate measurement domain, the one or more identification variable values enabling the location of ticket verification information within the unique ticket identifier to be determined, using a coordinate transform function configured to map coordinate values from the first coordinate measurement domain to a second coordinate measurement domain to calculate one or more values of the one or more received identification variable values with respect to the second coordinate measurement domain, extracting the verification information from the unique ticket identifier on the basis of the calculated identification variable values, and verifying the authenticity of the ticket on the basis of the extracted verification information. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310272 | BIOLOGICAL FEATURES IMAGING METHOD AND DEVICE - It is an objective of the present invention to provide a biometric imaging device comprising an optical lens component for performing optical imaging (including static image and dynamic image) on a biometric of a region of interest; an image sensor for converting an optical image of said biometric into an electronic image (including static image and dynamic image); and a micromotor controller for acquiring, delivering, or analyzing image quality information of the electronic image, analyzing in real time the definition of the image according to the image quality information of the electronic image, and feeding back said information in real time so as to adjust the optical lens component to perform autofocus control of the biometric of the region of interest. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310273 | STATIC OCCLUSION HANDLING USING DIRECTIONAL PIXEL REPLICATION IN REGULARIZED MOTION ENVIRONMENTS - This disclosure provides a static occlusion handling method and system for use with appearance-based video tracking algorithms where static occlusions are present. The method and system assumes that the objects to be tracked move in according to structured motion patterns within a scene, such as vehicles moving along a roadway. A primary concept is to replicate pixels associated with the tracked object from previous frames to current or future frames when the tracked object coincides with a static occlusion, where the predicted motion of the tracked object is a basis for replication of the pixels. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310274 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY LOCATING STATIC OCCLUSIONS - This disclosure provides a method and system to locate/detect static occlusions associated with an image captured scene including a tracked object. According to an exemplary method, static occlusions are automatically located by monitoring the motion of single or multiple objects in a scene over time and with the use of an associated accumulator array. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310275 | Method and device for calculating number and moving direction of pedestrians - A method for calculating the number and moving direction of pedestrians is provided. in which feature points of a current frame image are extracted; the feature points of the current frame image are compared with those of a selected historical frame image, to obtain moving feature points of the current frame image; directional weighted counting is performed on the moving feature points of the current frame image to obtain the moving direction of the pedestrians; and edge points of pedestrian images are extracted from a foreground image of the current frame image, and performing joint weighted counting on the edge points of the pedestrian images and the moving feature points of the current frame image according to correction coefficients of locations of the respective points, to obtain the number of the pedestrians. A device for calculating the number and moving direction of pedestrians is also provided. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310276 | METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATIC CORRECTION OF ALIGNMENT ERRORS IN STAR TRACKER SYSTEMS - A method for the automatic correction of alignment errors in individual star trackers (R, S) of star tracker systems ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310277 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE-ASSISTED RUNWAY LOCALIZATION - A method and a device for runway localization on the basis of a feature analysis of at least one image of the runway surroundings taken by a landing aircraft is characterized in that, in order to determine the central axis of the runway, feature matching between image features of the image and mirrored image features of the image is carried out, wherein features of the one runway side are made to be congruent with features of the other runway side. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BEHAVIORAL RECOGNITION AND INTERPRETRATION OF ATTRACTION - A mobile system for identifying behavior of being physical attracted towards an individual includes a portable computing device carried by a user having at least one camera. For this system, interested individuals are those that exhibit behavioral indications of physical attraction, referred to here as a “check out”. The software includes an individual detector technique, such as infrared, that detects the presence of individuals in the proximity of the device's camera. The software further includes a body position identifier that determines whether an individual detected by the individual detector is facing the portable device. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310279 | Augmented Reality Display of Dynamic Target Object Information - A method for providing target object information to a mobile device user is presented. The method includes receiving a request for target object information from a mobile device, determining the pose of the mobile interface device relative to the target object, and obtaining target object data for one or more measurable target object parameters (e.g., surface topography). The target object data is used to assemble augmented reality information configured for viewing in conjunction with a real-time view of the target object captured by the mobile interface device. The target object augmented reality information is then transmitted to the mobile device for display to the user. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310280 | MOTION EVENT RECOGNITION AND VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Enables recognition of events within motion data obtained from portable wireless motion capture elements and video synchronization of the events with video as the events occur or at a later time, based on location and/or time of the event or both. May use integrated camera or external cameras with respect to mobile device to automatically generate generally smaller event videos of the event on the mobile device or server. Also enables analysis or comparison of movement associated with the same user, other user, historical user or group of users. Provides low memory and power utilization and greatly reduces storage for video data that corresponds to events such as a shot, move or swing of a player, a concussion of a player, or other medical related events or events, such as the first steps of a child, or falling events. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310281 | Methods and Systems for Object Detection using Multiple Sensors - Methods and systems for object detection using multiple sensors are described herein. In an example embodiment, a vehicle's computing device may receive sensor data frames indicative of an environment at different rates from multiple sensors. Based on a first frame from a first sensor indicative of the environment at a first time period and a portion of a first frame that corresponds to the first time period from a second sensor, the computing device may estimate parameters of objects in the vehicle's environment. The computing device may modify the parameters in response to receiving subsequent frames or subsequent portions of frame of sensor data from the sensors even if the frames arrive at the computing device out of order. The computing device may provide the parameters of the objects to systems of the vehicle for object detection and obstacle avoidance. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310282 | LANE MARK RECOGNITION DEVICE - A lane mark recognition device detects an edge located in a proximal area in front of the vehicle, and determines a lane mark candidate on the basis of the detected edge and an edge that is located in a distal area farther than the proximal area in front of the vehicle and that is continuous with the edge. Therefore, an edge of another vehicle (leading vehicle) or the like located in the distal area in a captured image is not detected as a lane mark candidate (is excluded as a non lane mark candidate). | 2015-10-29 |
20150310283 | LANE RECOGNITION DEVICE - A demarcation line candidate recognizing unit recognizes demarcation line candidates which are candidates for a pair of right and left demarcation lines demarcating a lane based on edge points having predetermined continuity in an image captured by a camera. A demarcation line candidate modifying unit excludes edge points whose corresponding positions in a real space are a predetermined distance or more away from the camera in the case where parallelism between the pair of right and left demarcation line candidates recognized by the demarcation line candidate recognizing unit is equal to or less than a predetermined level and re-recognizes the pair of right and left demarcation line candidates based on the edge points having predetermined continuity among the edge points which have not been excluded. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310284 | ROAD ENVIRONMENT RECOGNIZING APPARATUS - A road environment recognizing apparatus includes an edge image generator, a first area extractor, and an object recognizer. The edge image generating unit generates an edge image by extracting edge points from an image of a road captured by a camera. The edge points have amounts of change in luminance from surroundings, which are higher than or equal to a predetermined value. The first area extractor extracts a first area from the edge image. The first area is partitioned by the edge points and has a luminance higher than the luminances of the surroundings. If a second area having a luminance lower than the luminances of the surroundings exists around the first area in the edge image, the object recognizer recognizes a projection on the road on the basis of a third area resulting from joining of the first area and the second area. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310285 | Vehicle-Mounted Image Processing Device - Provided is a vehicle-mounted image processing device capable of recognizing the outside of a vehicle based on an image taken by a vehicle-mounted camera more precisely. A vehicle-mounted image processing device of the present invention includes: an image acquisition unit ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310286 | VEHICLE RECOGNITION DEVICE - A vehicle recognition device | 2015-10-29 |
20150310287 | GAZE DETECTION AND WORKLOAD ESTIMATION FOR CUSTOMIZED CONTENT DISPLAY - A vehicle controller identifies a vehicle display within a driver field of view, identifies elements of viewable content including primary elements of viewable content deemed high priority for a current driving situation and secondary elements of viewable content that are driver-specified and deemed safe to display in accordance with a driver workload estimation, receives viewable content, and displays the identified elements of the viewable content on the vehicle display. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310288 | HOME INTELLECTUAL POSITIONING SYSTEM - A home intellectual positioning system for use in a house, the system includes a power supply, a sound sensor, a thermal sensor, an identification unit and an intellectual processor. The sound sensor is provided for detecting and tracking a sonic wave of a home member to generate a sonic wave value. The thermal sensor is provided for detecting and tracking a body temperature of the home member to generate a body temperature value. The identification unit is provided for storing sonic wave information and body temperature information of a plurality of home members. The intellectual processor is interconnected to the identification unit, and to compare the sonic wave value of the sound sensor with the sonic wave information and the body temperature value of the thermal sensor with the body temperature information to identify which home member stays in the house. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310289 | Liveness Detection - The present disclosure concerns a method of verifying the presence of a living face in front of a camera ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310290 | TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION - A technique for selectively distributing OCR and/or machine language translation tasks between a mobile computing device and server(s) includes receiving, at the mobile computing device, an image of an object comprising a text. The mobile computing device can determine a degree of optical character recognition (OCR) complexity for obtaining the text from the image. Based on this degree of OCR complexity, the mobile computing device and/or the server(s) can perform OCR to obtain an OCR text. The mobile computing device can then determine a degree of translation complexity for translating the OCR text from its source language to a target language. Based on this degree of translation complexity, the mobile computing device and/or the server(s) can perform machine language translation of the OCR text from the source language to a target language to obtain a translated OCR text. The mobile computing device can then output the translated OCR text. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310291 | TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION - A technique for selectively distributing OCR and/or machine language translation tasks between a mobile computing device and server(s) includes receiving, at the mobile computing device, an image of an object comprising a text. The mobile computing device can determine a degree of optical character recognition (OCR) complexity for obtaining the text from the image. Based on this degree of OCR complexity, the mobile computing device and/or the server(s) can perform OCR to obtain an OCR text. The mobile computing device can then determine a degree of translation complexity for translating the OCR text from its source language to a target language. Based on this degree of translation complexity, the mobile computing device and/or the server(s) can perform machine language translation of the OCR text from the source language to a target language to obtain a translated OCR text. The mobile computing device can then output the translated OCR text. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310292 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND UPDATING OF DOCUMENTS DISPLAYED ON A USER INTERFACE - A method for generating or updating of documents for visualization at a user interface is provided. In a database, the data sets to be displayed in the document are stored, wherein the data sets respectively comprise location information. A server means receives from the first client means a request message, selects from the database data sets according to search criteria, and embeds the selected data sets in a section of a map, wherein the map section is selected such that it comprises the location information of the selected data sets, and embeds a marker into the map section for each data set according to the location information, wherein the marker is linked to a data set logically, and an event trader is adapted to optically highlight the data set associated with the marker (or vice versa) upon a selection of a marker. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310293 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND TRANSFERRING MOTOR VEHICLE INFORMATION - An improved system and method for capturing and uploading pertinent information related to a motor vehicle that is accurate, simple to use, and may be implemented on a wide array of mobile devices in a cost-effective manner. Methods are also disclosed for users of the mobile devices to send identifying information to a database, where the identifying information is compared to other motor vehicle identifying information located the database. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310294 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE - The present invention relates to method for processing an image, said image representing a rock sample. The method comprises receiving said image; for each current threshold value in a plurality of threshold values determining a threshold image, the threshold image having pixels associated with a first color value or a second color value, the determination of the threshold image being based on the received image and the current threshold; and for each current connected set of pixels associated with the first color value in the threshold image, determining a connected volume or a connected surface area of said current connected set of pixels. In addition, the method comprises determining numbers of connected sets of pixels associated with the first color value for a plurality of connected volumes or connected surface areas and for a plurality of thresholds. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310295 | DISCRIMINATIVE INDEXING FOR PATCH-BASED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT - Methods for enhancing images with increased efficiency include using a discriminative index tree to expedite image optimization processes. The discriminative index tree indexes patch-based image priors for modifying an image by using classifiers determined by exploiting a structure of the patch-based image priors. The discriminative index tree quickly and efficiently parses a space of patch-based image patches to determine approximate dominant patch-based image priors for the space of image patches. To further improve the efficiency of the discriminative index tree, one or more embodiments can limit a number of potential patch-based image priors from which a dominant patch-based image prior is selected. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310296 | FOREGROUND REGION EXTRACTION DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a foreground region extraction device includes a processor and a detector. The processor acquires information of first distances at a first time between a first position and a first region. The processor acquires information of second distances at a second time between a second position and a second region. The processor derives a first image of the first region projected onto a first plane based on the first distances, and calculates a first feature based on the first image. The processor derives a second image of the second region projected on to a second plane based on the second distances and a relative arrangement of the first position and the second position and calculates a second feature based on the second image. The detector detects a moving body based on the first feature and the second feature. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310297 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER VISION BACKGROUND ESTIMATION USING FOREGROUND-AWARE STATISTICAL MODELS - Systems and methods are disclosed for background modeling in a computer vision system for enabling foreground object detection. A video acquisition model receives video data from a sequence of frames. A fit test module identifies a foreground object from the video data and defines a foreground mask representative of the identified foreground object. A foreground-aware background estimation module defines a first background model from the video data and then further defines an updated background model from an association of a current frame of the video data, the first background model and the foreground mask. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310298 | DEVICE FOR THE HARDWARE DETECTION OF LOCAL EXTREMES IN AN IMAGE - A device and method for the hardware detection of local edges in an image, comprised of a plurality of elemental cells for mixed signal processing, locally interconnected with each other, comprising in each cell a first switch configured to enable the pre-charging of a condenser at the supply voltage; and where once said condenser is pre-charged, it discharges via a second switch connected to a power source which varies in a monotonically increasing manner with the analogue voltage representing the value of the pixel concerned; and where the value of the pixel is compared asynchronously with the neighbouring pixels of the neighbouring cells via two inverters, a digital NOR gate, a digital NAND gate, a third and fourth switch and a memory feature to store the result. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310299 | IMAGE-BASED DETECTION OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN A FIRST PART AND A SECOND PART - A detection apparatus for detecting the position of a boundary between a first part and a second part of a subject, includes a pixel extraction unit for extracting a plurality of candidate pixels acting as candidates for a pixel situated on the boundary on the basis of image data of a first section crossing the first part and the second part, and a pixel specification unit for specifying the pixel situated on the boundary from within the plurality of candidate pixels by using an identifier which has been prepared by using an algorithm of machine learning. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE OBJECT RECOGNITION AND PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and method for multiple object recognition and personalization recommendations is provided that store images data received from a client device in one or more of an electronic memory and a mass-storage device of an application, generating a first data set from the received image data representing a plurality of regions of in a photographic image, each region including objects of a designated type, generating a plurality of object features for each of the objects of the designated type, identifying each of the objects represented in the image data using a plurality of object features and a plurality of object attributes in a second data set, generating a listing of identified objects and a plurality of attributes associated with each of the identified objects, and transmitting to the client device the listing of identified objects and associated objects for generation of an ordered list of personalized recommendations. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310301 | Analyzing or resolving ambiguities in an image for object or pattern recognition - Specification covers new algorithms, methods, and systems for artificial intelligence, soft computing, and deep learning/recognition, e.g., image recognition (e.g., for action, gesture, emotion, expression, biometrics, fingerprint, facial, OCR (text), background, relationship, position, pattern, and object), large number of images (“Big Data”) analytics, machine learning, training schemes, crowd-sourcing (using experts or humans), feature space, clustering, classification, similarity measures, optimization, search engine, ranking, question-answering system, soft (fuzzy or unsharp) boundaries/impreciseness/ambiguities/fuzziness in language, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computing-with-Words (CWW), parsing, machine translation, sound and speech recognition, video search and analysis (e.g. tracking), image annotation, geometrical abstraction, image correction, semantic web, context analysis, data reliability (e.g., using Z-number (e.g., “About 45 minutes; Very sure”)), rules engine, control system, autonomous vehicle, self-diagnosis and self-repair robots, system diagnosis, medical diagnosis, biomedicine, data mining, event prediction, financial forecasting, economics, risk assessment, e-mail management, database management, indexing and join operation, memory management, and data compression. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310302 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method. The device includes: an acquiring unit for acquiring an image containing an object image; a calculating unit for calculating one or more candidate object image areas based on color and edge characteristics of the image; a selecting unit for selecting a candidate object image area with the maximal similarity to a predetermined color model as a first object image area from the one or more candidate object image areas; a determining unit for determining other of the one or more candidate object image areas as a non-object image area or a second object image area with the first object image area; a creating unit for creating an adaptive color model; and a detecting unit for detecting, based on the adaptive color model, an area containing the object image in the each of the first and second object image areas. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310303 | EXTRACTING SALIENT FEATURES FROM VIDEO USING A NEUROSYNAPTIC SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide a method of visual saliency estimation comprising receiving an input sequence of image frames. Each image frame has one or more channels, and each channel has one or more pixels. The method further comprises, for each channel of each image frame, generating corresponding neural spiking data based on a pixel intensity of each pixel of the channel, generating a corresponding multi-scale data structure based on the corresponding neural spiking data, and extracting a corresponding map of features from the corresponding multi-scale data structure. The multi-scale data structure comprises one or more data layers, wherein each data layer represents a spike representation of pixel intensities of a channel at a corresponding scale. The method further comprises encoding each map of features extracted as neural spikes. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310304 | METHOD OF RAINDROP DETECTION ON A VEHICLE WINDSCREEN AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - The invention relates to a method of raindrop detection on a vehicle windscreen by capturing images using a camera which is at least focused on the windscreen, including a step of detecting edges ( | 2015-10-29 |
20150310305 | LEARNING PAINTING STYLES FOR PAINTERLY RENDERING - Embodiments relate to automatic rendering of images according to a painting style. A procedural painting system, controlled by one or more parameters is used. Classifiers are trained using machine learning to return a score related to how well an image fits a given painting style. Parameters of the procedural painting system are optimized to maximize the score returned by the classifiers, and an output image is rendered. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310306 | ROBUST FEATURE IDENTIFICATION FOR IMAGE-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION - Techniques are provided that include identifying robust features within a training image. Training features are generated by applying a feature detection algorithm to the training image, each training feature having a training feature location within the training image. At least a portion of the training image is transformed into a transformed image in accordance with a predefined image transformation. Transform features are generated by applying the feature detection algorithm to the transformed image, each transform feature having a transform feature location within the transformed image. The training feature locations of the training features are mapped to corresponding training feature transformed locations within the transformed image in accordance with the predefined image transformation, and a robust feature set is compiled by selecting robust features, wherein each robust feature represents a training feature having a training feature transformed location proximal to a transform feature location of one of the transform features. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING MEDIA CONTENT - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for determining a first set of features in first images of first media content, generating a similarity score by processing the first set of features with a favorability model derived by identifying generative features and discriminative features of second media content that is favored by a viewer, and providing the similarity score to a network for predicting a response by the viewer to the first media content. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310308 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING CLIENT FEATURE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present disclosure, a client feature and a pre-stored template image feature are obtained; the obtained client feature and template image feature are projected according to a preset projection matrix, to generate a projection feature pair, where the projection matrix is formed by training of a first template image feature of a same object and a second template image feature of a different object; and similarity calculation is performed on the projection feature pair according to a preset similarity calculation rule, to generate a similarity result and prompt the similarity result to a client. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING MEDIA CONTENT - A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a system comprising a processor, more common features of a plurality of images according to similarity matrices indicating relative similarities between instances of common features occurring within multiple images of the plurality of images, defining, by the system, cluster groups associated with the more common features, where each cluster group comprises cluster images of the plurality of images, and where the more common features are present in each the cluster images, and performing, by the system, quality-based filtering on the cluster images to identify a target cluster image to represent the cluster images for each of the cluster groups. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310310 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE LOCALIZATION BASED ON IMAGERY - An electronic device includes one or more imaging cameras. After a reset of the device or other specified event, the electronic device identifies an estimate of the device's pose based on location data such as Global Positioning System (GPS) data, cellular tower triangulation data, wireless network address location data, and the like. The one or more imaging cameras may be used to capture imagery of the local environment of the electronic device, and this imagery is used to refine the estimated pose to identify a refined pose of the electronic device. The refined pose may be used to identify additional imagery information, such as environmental features, that can be used to enhance the location based functionality of the electronic device. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310311 | DYNAMICALLY RECONSTRUCTABLE MULTISTAGE PARALLEL SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA ARRAY PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present invention proposes a dynamically reconfigurable multistage parallel single instruction multiple data array processing system which has a pixel level parallel image processing element array and a row processor array parallel. The PE array mainly implements a linear operation which is adapted to be executed in parallel in the low and middle levels of image processing and the RP array implements an operation which is adapted to be executed in row-parallel in the low and middle levels of image processing or more complex nonlinear operations. In particularly, such a system may dynamically reconfigure a SOM neural network in a low cost of performance and area, and the neural network supports high level of image processing such as a high speed online neural network training and image feature recognition, and completely overcomes a defect in which a high level of image processing can't be done by pixel-level parallel processing array in the existing programmable vision chip and parallel vision processor, and facilitate an intelligent and portable real time on-chip vision image system with a complete function at low device cost and low power consumption. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310312 | BUSYNESS DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - This disclosure provides a video-based method and system for busyness detection and notification. Specifically, according to an exemplary embodiment, multiple overhead image capturing devices are used to acquire video including multiple non-overlapping ROIs (regions of interest) and the video is processed to count the number of people included within the ROIs. A busyness metric is calculated based on the number of people counted and notification of the busyness metric or changes in the busyness metric is communicated to appropriate personnel, e.g., a manager of a retail store. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310313 | VISIBILITY ESTIMATION DEVICE, VISIBILITY ESTIMATION METHOD, AND SAFE DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM - A device to estimate visibility change of surroundings, including: an image recognition unit that detects a landmark by analyzing an image; an information storage unit that records, as a detection history in the past, an image analysis result of the landmark detected by the image recognition unit and a detection position when the landmark is detected by the image recognition unit; and a visibility judgment unit that estimates, when the landmark corresponding to the detection history recorded in the information storage unit is detected again by the image recognition unit, change in visibility on the basis of comparison between a detection position when detected again and the detection position in the past recorded in the information storage unit. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310314 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes an execution unit, a reception unit, and a control unit. The execution unit executes a printing job using a tab sheet from a first sheet supply unit and a sheet, other than a tab sheet, from a second sheet supply unit. The reception unit receives an instruction to confirm printed material of the printing job. The control unit controls the execution unit to stop a printing operation of the printing job that the execution unit is executing and print, for confirmation, at least one page included in the printing job, based on receiving the instruction. The control unit further controls the execution unit to restart the stopped printing job after the printing for the confirmation is ended and to execute the printing for the confirmation by not using a tab sheet and by using a sheet other than a tab sheet. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310315 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, an operation control section controls a sheet conveyance section to eject, onto an exit tray, sheets on which images of an even number page group have been formed on respective first sides thereof. A reception section receives input from a user indicating whether the sheets ejected onto the exit tray after the images have been formed on the first sides thereof are new sheets having unused second sides or reused sheets having used second sides. When the ejected sheets are the new sheets, the operation control section controls an image forming section to form images of an odd number page group on the second sides of the new sheets after the new sheets have been loaded onto a manual feed tray. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310316 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Provided is an image forming system having a simple buffer mechanism and capable of preventing paging disorder when image-formed sheets are fed to a processing section. The present invention is featured in that an image forming order of a plurality of sheets to be made to stand by in a buffer section of a conveying path for guiding the sheets to a processing section is made different from an image forming order of sheets that are not made to stand by. To realize this, the system includes an image forming section, an accumulating section that accumulates image-formed sheet for processing, a conveying path along which the sheet is conveyed from the image forming section to the accumulating section, a buffer section disposed in the conveying path, in which the sheet to be fed to the accumulating section is made to temporarily stay, and a control section that controls the image forming section and the accumulating section. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310317 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a print processing portion, a first determination portion, a first determination target excluding portion, and a print color mode switching portion. The first determination portion determines, for each page of the document sheets, whether or not each of a plurality of divided areas is of a color type that is different from the print color mode. The first determination target excluding portion excludes divided areas that are determined as being of a color type that is different from the print color mode in a first set number or more of pages of the document sheets, from determination targets of the first determination portion from then. The print color mode switching portion is able to switch the print color mode during the print process when the number of divided areas that are the determination targets of the first determination portion becomes a predetermined number or smaller. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310318 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A segment extracting section extracts, from a document image, a segment that is an image region containing a series of text characters of a uniform size from a document image. When the segment extracting section extracts a plurality of segments, a segment designating section designates one or more of the extracted segments each as an enlargement segment according to text sizes of the respective extracted segments. A scaling-factor determining section determines a scaling factor for each enlargement segment based on the text size of the enlargement segment and a standard text size. An image creating section enlarges each enlargement segment at the scaling factor determined for the enlargement segment and creates a page image including each enlargement segment as enlarged and each non-enlargement segment that is an undesignated segment among the extracted segments. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310319 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING AN OBJECT ON A PAGE - A method of rendering a graphical object (e.g., | 2015-10-29 |
20150310320 | PRINTER - A printer includes a main apparatus, a device including a drive unit operable by electric power from the main apparatus; and a connection member. The main apparatus includes a first power source and a first output port. The device includes: a first input port from which the electric power from the first power source is inputted; a protector with a first end connected to the first input port; a second output port connected to a second end of the protector and to output electric power from the protector to the outside thereof; and a second input port connected to the drive unit. The connection member includes a first connecting path to connect the first output and input ports and a second connecting path to connect the second output port to the second input port to supply the output from the second output port to the second input port. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310321 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD ALLOWING FOR QUICK ACTUAL START FOR PRINTING DOCUMENT DESCRIBED BY PAGE DESCRIBING LANGUAGE - To provide an image forming device that allows for quick actual start for printing a document described by a page describing language even while an auxiliary storage device such as an HDD is in an unmount state in sleep mode or the like. A main controller checks, in sleep mode, for a mount state of the auxiliary storage device, upon receipt of a request from an external device to process for printing a document described by a page describing language. Then, the main controller, upon judgement of the mount state of the auxiliary storage device, controls for storing printing data set related to the printing document temporally in the auxiliary storage device. On the contrary, the main controller, upon judgement of the unmount state of the auxiliary storage device, controls for storing the printing data set in a random access memory. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310322 | Unique Method to Simultaneously Manufacture Paper Substrate Transaction Card and Display Carrier - An in-line process is provided for economical and concurrent manufacture of attractive flat paper substrate transaction cards and display carriers with or without an RFID chip embedded therein. In the user-friendly process, one or more continuous webs from roller paper are automatically fed and sequentially advanced through a series of operations and stations in a single pass to simultaneously produce the flat paper substrate transaction cards and display carriers. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT UNITS - A system for tracking a harvested agricultural product unit includes a magazine configured to be disposed on an agricultural implement and to facilitate insertion of one or more stakes into the harvested agricultural product unit. The magazine is also configured to store the one or more stakes having a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag is configured to identify the harvested agricultural product unit and to associate the harvested agricultural product unit with harvesting data. Further, the system includes an insertion device configured to insert one of the stakes from the magazine into the harvested agricultural product unit. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310324 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAG AND LOW DROPOUT REGULATOR (LDO) CIRCUIT CONSUMING ULTRA-LOW POWER - A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and a low dropout regulator (LDO) circuit consuming ultra-low power. The circuit is connected to a first threshold unit and a second threshold unit respectively and in series at a first voltage dividing resistor (R | 2015-10-29 |
20150310325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POWER TO A WIRELESS TAG - The present invention provides an engine, system and method for providing an NFC tag capable of receiving a charge and performing as an active tag without interaction. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310326 | IC CARD - An integrated circuit card includes a substrate and an integrated circuit carried by the substrate. A first sector is delimited by a first weakening line on the substrate, with the first sector being able to be separated from the substrate. A second sector is delimited by a second weakening line inside the first sector, with the second sector being able to be separated from the substrate and having the integrated circuit thereon. A disposable frame-piece is defined between the first and second weakening lines of the first and second sectors, and has a ring form. A breakage lug is arranged with respect to the disposable frame-piece to break the disposable frame-piece so that it is no longer intact, during separation of the second sector from the substrate. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310327 | RFID READER AND TRANSPONDERS - A passive and chipless RFID transponder comprising: a substrate; and at least one planar patch on the substrate, the patch including a slot resonator of with radial conductive strips disposed at points around the slot resonator. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310328 | Neural Network Architecture, Production Method And Programs Corresponding Thereto - A method of producing data representing an identifier of a neuron from a cluster of L neurons belonging to a neural network having C clusters. L and C are natural integers of values greater than or equal to two. Each neuron has at least two states. The method includes, for at least one current cluster C | 2015-10-29 |
20150310329 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING STOCHASTIC AVERAGE GRADIENT AND HESSIAN-FREE OPTIMIZATION FOR SEQUENCE TRAINING OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS - A method for training a deep neural network (DNN), comprises receiving and formatting speech data for the training, performing Hessian-free sequence training (HFST) on a first subset of a plurality of subsets of the speech data, and iteratively performing the HFST on successive subsets of the plurality of subsets of the speech data, wherein iteratively performing the HFST comprises reusing information from at least one previous iteration. | 2015-10-29 |
20150310330 | Computer-implemented method and system for digitizing decision-making processes - A computer-implemented method and system defines a uniform decision-tree formation to store decision-making processes. Each node in a decision tree represents a factor decision. All nodes of a decision tree are interlinked in a hierarchical structure based on a decision-making process. Any decision tree of the present invention can serve as a sub-tree of another decision tree. Users can convert their decision-making processes into decision trees and make collaborative decisions through network. | 2015-10-29 |