46th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130301903 | METHOD OF INSPECTING WAFER - A method of inspecting a wafer includes performing a fabricating process on a wafer, irradiating broadband light on the wafer, such that the light is reflected from the wafer, generating a spectral cube by using the light reflected from the wafer, extracting a spectrum of a desired wafer inspection region from the spectral cube, and inspecting the desired wafer inspection region by analyzing the extracted spectrum. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301904 | VISUAL INSPECTION APPARATUS - A visual inspection apparatus photographs an inspection object using a camera to determine whether the inspection object is defective, and comprises: a stage part on which an inspection object is seated; a camera part including a lens and an image detection part, wherein the camera part photographs an image of the inspection object; an illumination part for illuminating the inspection object; and a visual processing part that reads the image photographed by the camera part to determine whether the inspection object is defective or not. Within a lateral camera of the camera part, which is slopingly installed with respect to a line perpendicular to a plane on which the inspection object is seated, a surface of the image detection part is slopingly installed at a predetermined angle with respect to a plane perpendicular to a line of connecting a center of the inspection object to a center of the camera lens of the lateral camera. Thus, since resolution may be improved and the optical path difference is compensated for, the image of the inspection object may be precisely read. Also, a lateral image of the inspection object may be clearly photographed without changing the size of the apparatus. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ORIENTATION AND POSITION OF AN OBJECT - A system includes a computation device having an input module adapted to receive data defining a single two dimensional image, an image analyzing module configured to receive the data and analyze the single two dimensional image to determine a two dimensional orientation representative of a three dimensional orientation and position, a position calculating module configured to receive the two dimensional orientation from the image analyzing module and determine the three dimensional orientation and position of the object, and an output module adapted to send information relating to the three dimensional orientation and position of the object. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301906 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING THREE DIMENSIONAL FACES BASED ON MULTIPLE CAMERAS - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) face based on multiple cameras. The apparatus includes a multi-image analysis unit, a texture image separation unit, a reconstruction image automatic synchronization unit, a 3D appearance reconstruction unit, and a texture processing unit. The multi-image analysis unit determines the resolution information of images received from a plurality of cameras, and determines whether the images have been synchronized with each other. The texture image separation unit separates a texture processing image by comparing the resolutions of the received images. The reconstruction image automatic synchronization unit synchronizes images that are determined to be asynchronous images by the multi-image analysis unit. The 3D appearance reconstruction unit computes the 3D coordinate values of the synchronized images, and reconstructs a 3D appearance image. The texture processing unit reconstructs a 3D image by mapping the texture processing image to the 3D appearance image. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301907 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING 3D INFORMATION - An apparatus and method for processing three-dimensional (3D) information is described. The 3D information processing apparatus may measure first depth information of an object using a sensor apparatus such as a depth camera, may estimate a foreground depth of the object, a background depth of a background, and a degree of transparency of the object, may estimate second depth information of the object based on the estimated foreground depth, background depth, and degree of transparency, and may determine the foreground depth, the background depth, and the degree of transparency through comparison between the measured first depth information and the estimated second depth information. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301908 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING GEOMETRY OF SPECULAR OBJECT BASED ON DEPTH SENSOR - A method of acquiring geometry of a specular object is provided. Based on a single-view depth image, the method may include receiving an input of a depth image, estimating a missing depth value based on connectivity with a neighboring value in a local area of the depth image, and correcting the missing depth value. Based on a composite image, the method may include receiving an input of a composite image, calibrating the composite image, detecting an error area in the calibrated composite image, and correcting a missing depth value of the error area. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301909 | Three-Dimensional Shape Measurement Method and Three-Dimensional Shape Measurement Device - This three-dimensional shape measurement method comprises: a projection step for projecting an interference fringe pattern (F) having a single spatial frequency (fi) onto an object surface; a recording step for recording the pattern (F) as a digital hologram; and a measurement step for generating a plurality of reconstructed images having different focal distances from the hologram, and deriving the distance to each point on the object surface by applying a focusing method to the pattern (F) on each of the reconstructed images. The measurement step extracts the component of the single spatial frequency (fi) corresponding to the pattern (F) from each of the reconstructed images by spatial frequency filtering, upon applying the focusing method, and makes it possible to achieve a highly accurate measurement in which the adverse effect of speckles is reduced and the advantage of a free-focus image reconstruction with holography is used effectively. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301910 | EXTRACTING OBJECT EDGES FROM IMAGES - A computer system may elicit from a human observer ground truth data useful in automatically detecting one or more features in images. The elicitation may include presenting an image to a human observer that has a visual indicator in an image, the visual indicator indicating having a location and orientation with respect to the image; asking the human observer to judge whether a particular image feature is present in the image at the location and orientation indicated by the visual indicator; receiving input from the human observer indicative of whether the particular image feature is present at the location and orientation indicated by the visual indicator; storing the input received from the human observer as part of the human-labeled ground truth data; and repeating the process described above one or more times in connection with a visual indicator that has a different location or orientation with respect to the image or that uses a different image. The stored human-labeled ground truth data may have a content that is useful in automatically detecting one or more features in other images. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301911 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BODY PARTS - Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting body parts, the method including identifying a group of sub-images relevant to a body part in an image to be detected, assigning a reliability coefficient for the body part to the sub-images in the group of sub-images based on a basic vision feature of the sub-images and an extension feature of the sub-images to neighboring regions, and detecting a location of the body part by overlaying sub-images having reliability coefficients higher than a threshold value. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301912 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING MODULATION STRENGTH MAP AND MODULATION KERNEL - An image enhancement system may generate a net signed fractional modulation value at each location in an image using a modulation strength map (MSM) in combination with a modulation kernel F(θ). The system may scale an image value at each location using the net signed fractional modulation value at each location. Application of the algorithm may not result in systematic clipping of peri-edge locations to maximum or minimum brightness values, or any other form of systematic homogenization of values at peri-edge locations. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301913 | SELECTING METRICS FOR SUBSTRATE CLASSIFICATION - Methods for selecting metrics for substrate classification, and apparatus to perform such methods. The methods include determining a value of a metric from an image of a substrate sample for each substrate sample of a plurality of substrate samples, wherein the metric is indicative of a surface texture of each substrate sample and iteratively assigning substrate samples of the plurality of substrate samples to an aggregate of a particular number of aggregates in response to a value of the metric for each substrate sample until a convergence of clustering is deemed achieved, then determining an indication of cluster tightness of the particular number of aggregates. The methods further include selecting or ignoring the metric for substrate classification in response to the indication of cluster tightness of the particular number of aggregates. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301914 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE FEATURE EXTRACTION - Image feature extraction includes extracting an cutout image that includes an object from an original image; filling borders of the cutout image with a single color as a background to generate a minimum square image; resizing the minimum square image into a resized square image having a first predetermined size; dividing the resized square image into sub-image blocks having a second predetermined size; computing luminosity derivatives of neighboring pixels in horizontal, vertical, positive 45°, and negative 45° directions for the sub-image blocks; obtaining a quintuplet characteristic vector for the sub-image block; and forming an image characteristic vector of the original image using the quintuplet characteristic vectors of the sub-image blocks. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301915 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MEASURE GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES USING AN IMAGE OF A GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to measure geographical features using an image of a geographical location are disclosed. An example method includes identifying first features of a first open market from a first image of a first geographic area, identifying second features of a second image of a second geographic area, comparing the first features to the second features, and identifying a second open market in the second image based on the comparison. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301916 | Image Recognition of Content - Techniques are described to employ image recognition techniques to content. In an implementation, one or more images are identified in content using a signature derived from the one or more images. Metadata associated with the content is then supplemented based on the identified one or more images. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301917 | Image Processing Method and Apparatus - An image processing technique includes acquiring a main image of a scene and determining one or more facial regions in the main image. The facial regions are analysed to determine if any of the facial regions includes a defect. A sequence of relatively low resolution images nominally of the same scene is also acquired. One or more sets of low resolution facial regions in the sequence of low resolution images are determined and analysed for defects. Defect free facial regions of a set are combined to provide a high quality defect free facial region. At least a portion of any defective facial regions of the main image are corrected with image information from a corresponding high quality defect free facial region. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301918 | SYSTEM, PLATFORM, APPLICATION AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED VIDEO FOREGROUND AND/OR BACKGROUND REPLACEMENT - A system, platform, application and method are provided to enable automated video and image background segmentation and replacement, wherein the platform includes a video background segmentation and replacement module including a segmentation and replacement engine and engine processing script(s); a program interface for allowing data provision to the segmentation and replacement module; and a remote device providing remote user access to the server, wherein the remote device runs code to enable automatic placement of a frame(s) foreground with a replaced background on a viewing platform. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301919 | SELECTION FEATURES FOR IMAGE CONTENT - A method for serving content based on a selection feature for a campaign includes receiving an image associated with particular content and analyzing the image content of the image to derive a selection feature from the image. The selection feature is descriptive of image content. The method further includes identifying at least one keyword based on the selection feature. The method further includes associating the at least one keyword with the particular content and storing the particular content and its associated at least one keyword for serving in response to a content request. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301920 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNIZER OUTPUT - A method, a system, and a computer program product for processing the output of an OCR are disclosed. The system receives a first character sequence from the OCR. A first set of characters from the first character sequence are converted to a corresponding second set of characters to generate a second character sequence based on a look-up table and language scores. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301921 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT SEARCH METHOD - According to one embodiment, a device includes a search module configured to search handwriting information stored in a storage medium for a first handwriting information part whose degree of a similarity with a specific handwriting information part specified as a search key is greater than or equal to a reference value, the handwriting information includes a plurality of stroke data corresponding to a plurality of strokes, and a display processing module configured to display, on a touchscreen display, one or more thumbnail corresponding to handwriting information includes the first handwriting information part and a first user interface for changing the reference value. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301922 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a data processing system includes a touchscreen display, a recorder, and a processor. The recorder is configured to record a plurality of stroke data indicating loci handwritten on the touchscreen display and times respectively. The processor is configured to execute data processing using a first time indicated by first stroke data associated with first data and a second time indicated by second stroke data associated with second data. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301923 | ACCESSORY FOR ATTENUATED TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTANCE (ATR) SPECTROSCOPY - An accessory for use with a microscope arranged to carry out ATR measurements has a support ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130301924 | Method of Out-of-Band Correction for Multispectral Remote Sensing - A method of image processing. A band-averaged spectral radiance is measured using at least one optical filter upon scanning a plurality of original radiances. The measured band-averaged spectral radiance includes a measured in-band-averaged spectral radiance and a measured band-gap-averaged spectral radiance. A multispectral radiance vector is generated from the measured band-averaged spectral radiance. The multispectral radiance vector and an out-of-band correction transform matrix corresponding to the at least one optical filter are matrix-multiplied to generate a band-averaged spectral radiances image vector representing a plurality of recovered band-averaged spectral radiances. The plurality of recovered band-averaged spectral radiances is analyzed for a presence of a target. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301925 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including an input image acquisition portion that acquires an input image, a past image acquisition portion that acquires a past image of a photographic subject in the input image, a mode selection portion that selects one of modes, using the input image, from among a plurality of modes including a first mode in which the photographic subject in the past image is overlapped with the photographic subject in the input image and a second mode in which the photographic subject in the past image is arranged side by side with the photographic subject in the input image, and a display control portion that superimposes the past image on the input image in accordance with the mode selected by the mode selection portion. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301926 | COMPUTER VISION BASED TRACKING OF A HAND - A system and method for computer vision based tracking of a hand may include receiving a sequence of images, the images including at least one object having a shape of a hand. A first selected feature is tracked from within the hand shaped object. Shape recognition algorithms are applied at a suspected location of the hand shaped object in an image from the sequence of images to detect a shape of a hand in the image and a second feature from within the detected shape of the hand is then selected and tracked, thereby providing verification and updating of the location of the hand shaped object. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301927 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING ANOMALIES IN IMAGES - A method of identifying anomalies in images produced using an imaging device ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130301928 | SHIFT VECTOR RELIABILITY DETERMINING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus for determining the reliability of shift vectors between two images comprises an image compensation unit for compensating local shifts between a first image and a second image and to obtain a compensated second image. A similarity estimation unit is provided for determining a similarity information by determining one or more similarity measures between said first image and said compensated second image. A vector consistency check device for comparing shift vectors describing the shift between said first image and said second image from different shift estimation directions to obtain a consistency weight information, and a combination unit for combining said similarity information and said consistency weight information to obtain a reliability information describing the reliability of said shift vectors are provided. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301929 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC OF OBJECT - A measuring device has a first, second and third references, which correspond to a first, second and third edges of a target object. A geometric characteristic of the target object is estimated by acquiring an image of the measuring device and the target object, extracting comparative length information from the image, and calculating the geometric characteristic based on the comparative length information and the lengths of the first, second and third references. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301930 | HARDWARE COPROCESSOR FOR STRIPE-BASED INTEREST POINT DETECTION - A hardware coprocessor architecture calculates the Difference-of-Gaussian (DoG) pyramid of an input image and extracts from this the interest points to be used in several image detection algorithms. Advantages of the architecture include the possibility to process the image by stripes, namely by blocks having one dimension coincident with the input image width, in the absence of an input frame buffer and the possibility to avoid RAM memory. The coprocessor is suitable to be tightly coupled with raw image sources like sensors. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301931 | ROBUST AND EFFICIENT IMAGE IDENTIFICATION - Apparatus for matching a query image against a catalog of images, comprises: a feature extraction unit operative for extracting principle features from said query image; a relationship unit operative for establishing relationships between a given principle feature and other features in the image, and adding said relationships as relationship information alongside said principle features; and a first comparison unit operative for comparing principle features and associated relationship information of said query image with principle features and associated relationship information of images of said catalog to find candidate matches. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301932 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING A SYMMETRY INVARIANT DESCRIPTOR FROM A VISUAL PATCH OF AN IMAGE - The present invention concerns a method for deriving from an arbitrary local image descriptor a descriptor that is invariant under arbitrary mirror symmetries. For a point of interest, pi, for which the descriptor is to be determined a direction, ODi is determined. The local patch from which the descriptor is to be extracted is mirrored along ODi if a “smaller than” relation does not hold a feature extracted from the left half of the local image patch, in regard of ODi, compared to the right half of the local image patch. Thereby, the local patch is brought into a normalized intrinsic orientation. Thereafter, the descriptor is extracted. Examples include a mirror symmetry invariant version of Lowe's SIFT. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301933 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A SUPER-RESOLUTION VERSION OF A LOW RESOLUTION INPUT DATA STRUCTURE - The invention relates to an improved robustness in upscaling the resolution of regularly sampled multi-dimensional signals, where a single low-resolution signal is available. These methods are referred to as example-based super-resolution or single-image super-resolution. A method for super-resolving a single image comprises three stages. First, an interpolation-based up-scaling of the input image is performed, followed by a Local De-noising step in contour regions. The second stage comprises extrapolation through cross-scale block matching, wherein an extrapolated high-frequency band is obtained that is de-noised through regularization in the same contour regions. The third stage comprises adding the contributions of the low-frequency band of the high-resolution image and the extrapolated high-frequency band. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301934 | DETERMINING IMAGE-BASED PRODUCT FROM DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION - A method of making an image-based product includes providing an image collection having a plurality of digital images, each digital image having an image type; providing one or more image-type distributions, each image-type distribution corresponding to a theme and including a distribution of image types related to the theme; using a processor to automatically compare the image types of the digital images in the image collection to the image types in the image-type distribution; using the processor to automatically determine a match between the image types in the image collection and the image types in the image-type distribution; and selecting a group of digital images from the image collection having a distribution of image types specified by the determined matching image-type distribution. The method further includes assembling the digital images in the selected group of images into an image-based product and causing the construction of the image-based product. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301935 | Method and Apparatus of Identifying Similar Images - A user may submit an image and request from a server one or more images that are similar to the submitted image. The server may generate an image signature based on the content of the submitted image. The server may conduct a Hash operation to the image signature to generate one or more Hash values. These Hash values may be used to identify one or more candidate images similar to the image in a Hash table. These candidate images may be sorted and outputted to the user based on similarity. The similarity between each of the candidate images and the image may be determined using at least one of Hamming distance or Euclidean distance. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301936 | VALIDATION TEMPLATE FOR VALUABLE MEDIA OF MULTIPLE CLASSES - A technique for use in automatic validation of a media item involves accessing a template that comprises multiple one-class classifiers, each corresponding to one of multiple classes to which the media item might belong, and then applying each of the one-class classifiers to an image of the media item to generate a result set for each of the multiple classes. The result set for each media class is then analyzed to assess whether the media item belongs to that class. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301937 | COMPARISON METHOD AND COMPARATOR FOR GRAPHIC COMPARISON OF TARGETS - A method, a data network arrangement and a computer program product by which a comparator can be implemented in a data network. The user of the comparator stores his evaluation of the properties included in the targets to be evaluated in a database in the server in the data network using a graphic one- or two-dimensional evaluation frame. In the comparator the comparator user's evaluations are compared to property evaluations given by a reference user. When calculating the total accuracy percentage of the comparison the evaluations given by the comparator user are weighted with a weighting coefficient, which is obtained by normalising first the importance evaluations of all the properties given by the reference user and by using the normalised importance evaluation of a certain property as the weighting coefficient for this property. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301938 | HUMAN PHOTO SEARCH SYSTEM - A human photo search system is provided. A user can search for a human photo using a canvas interactive interface on a user device, such as a touch panel or a computer. The user composes his/her impression of a desired photo on a query canvas to generate query semantics, which are then sent to a photo search server. The photo search server then searches a human photo database for candidate photos corresponding to the query semantics, and ranks the candidate photos according to relevance. Finally, the photo search server sends the sorted candidate photos back to the user device for display. Accordingly, the human photo search system of the present invention can search possible photos by the positions, the sizes, and the human attributes of the people in the desired photo, for which the user composes his/her impression on the query canvas without entering any text tags. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301939 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus, including an event information analyzing section which analyzes event information related to an event in which a person participates, a person image group analyzing section which analyzes, for the person participating in the event, a person image group including one or a plurality of person images including the person, and a profile estimation section which estimates a profile of the person participating in the event based on a result obtained by analyzing the person image group and a result obtained by analyzing the event information. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301940 | METHOD FOR IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION OF IMAGE BLOCK - A method for image data compression of a to-be-encoded image block includes: determining one of a plurality of preset encoding modes as an encoding mode based upon attributes of pixels of the to-be-encoded image block; and compressing image data of the to-be-encoded image block according to the encoding mode thus determined so as to obtain encoded data. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301941 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method which enable encoding efficiency in intra prediction to be improved.
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20130301942 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method whereby deterioration of effects of filter processing due to local control of filter processing when encoding or decoding can be suppressed. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301943 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS - An image encoding method of encoding units that are included in a picture is provided. The image encoding method generates a first flag which indicates whether or not a removal time of encoded data from a buffer by a hypothetical decoder is set per unit. The buffer is for storing the encoded data. The image encoding method further generates a second flag indicating whether an interval between removal times of the units is constant or arbitrary when the removal times are set per unit, and also generates an encoded bitstream which includes the encoded data, the first flag, and the second flag. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301944 | ENTROPY CODING METHOD USING AN INDEX MAPPING TABLE, AND IMAGE-ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING SAID ENTROPY CODING METHOD - Disclosed is an entropy coding method using an index mapping table, and an apparatus using the method. An imagedecoding method comprises: a step of mapping an inputted codeword to a code number with reference to an inverse codeword mapping table, and calculating the mapped code number in a table index; and a step of updating the inverse mapping table based on the accumulated number of occurrences of the code number, the number of sequential occurrences of the code number, neighbor block encoding/decoding information, and/or threshold value information for updating the inverse index mapping table. According to the present invention, an index mapping table is realigned based on a certain condition, thereby improving encoding/decoding efficiency. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301945 | IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL TECHNIQUES - A technique for controlling the quality of one or more compressed images. The technique allows, for example, the selection of a target quality metric(s) and the compression of the image(s) such the compressed image(s) meets the metric(s). Alternatively, a target quality metric can be specified, and the image(s) compressed using parameters estimated to achieve the target quality. Optionally, the quality metric can also be made available to, for example, a user on an image processing system. The quality metrics can be, for example, for one or more layers, one or more images and/or one or more image sequences. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301946 | ENCODING AND DECODING BASED ON BLENDING OF SEQUENCES OF SAMPLES ALONG TIME - Computer processor hardware receives image data specifying element settings for each image of multiple original images in a sequence. The computer processor hardware analyzes the element settings across the multiple original images. The computer processor hardware then utilizes the element settings of the multiple original images in the sequence to produce first encoded image data specifying a set of common image element settings, the set of common image element settings being a baseline to substantially reproduce each of the original images in the sequence. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301947 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLYING COSMETIC AND/OR ACCESSORIAL ENHANCEMENTS TO DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for a creating a virtual makeover includes inputting an initial digital Image into and initiating a virtual makeover at a local processor. Instructions are transmitted from the main server to the local processor. Positions of facial features are isolated within the digital image at the local processor. Facial regions within the digital image are defined based on the positions of the facial features at the local processor. After receiving input, cosmetic enhancements or the accessorial enhancement are applied to the digital image at the local processor. A final digital image is generated including the enhancements. The final digital image is then displayed. At least the defining, applying, and generating steps include instructions written in a non-flash format for execution in a flash-based wrapper. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301948 | MASKING TOOL - A system for controlling effects performed on an image includes a digital camera having a display that displays the image. Masking tools position graphical representations on the display to define a portion of the image that is altered when the effects are subsequently applied to the image. The several masking tools may be combined to form a single masking tool. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301949 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image enhancement apparatus for enhancing an input image of a sequence of input images of at least a first view and obtaining an enhanced output image of at least said first view comprises an unsharp masking unit configured to enhance the sharpness of the input image, a motion compensation unit configured to generate at least one preceding motion compensated image by compensating motion in a preceding output image, a weighted selection unit configured to generate a weighted selection image from said sharpness enhanced input image and said preceding motion compensated image based on selection weighting factor, a detail signal generation unit configured to generate a detail signal from said input image and said weighted selection image, and a combination unit configured to generate said enhanced output image from said detail signal and from said input image and/or said weighted selection image. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301950 | MULTIPLIERLESS COPROCESSOR FOR DIFFERENCE OF GAUSSIAN (DOG) CALCULATION - A hardware architecture is applied to the calculation of a Difference-of-Gaussian filter, which is typically employed in image processing algorithms. The architecture has a modular structure to easily allow the matching of the desired delay/area ratio as well as a high computational accuracy. A new solution is provided for the implementation of multiply-accumulators which allows a significant reduction of area with respect to the conventional architectures. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING IMAGE NOISE - Provided are a method and apparatus for removing image noise. The method includes: separating an input image signal into a signal component and a noise component; converting the noise component into a decorrelated noise component that is spatiotemporally decorrelated from neighboring pixels; and generating an image signal by adding the decorrelated noise component to the signal component. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301952 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ALIGNMENT OF FRAMES - In an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes accessing feature points in a first frame of a content, and aligning a second frame to the first frame based on determining a transformation matrix between the second frame and the first frame based on matching the feature points in the first frame with a corresponding feature points in the second frame. The method further includes aligning at least one subsequent frame from the second frame to the first frame by generating a modified first frame based on a transformation matrix between a preceding frame of a subsequent frame and the first frame, and determining a transformation matrix between the subsequent frame and the first frame based on matching a set of feature points in the modified feature points with corresponding feature points in the subsequent frame. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301953 | Rotatable Object System For Visual Communication And Analysis - Visually defining terminology in a paragraph by invoking a multi-media viewer to rotate a subject-object and zoom-in on the associated feature in response to clicking on the terminology; higher resolution, or a different image capture technique is then overlaid. Viewer re-positions near terminology clicked. Clicking on a feature answers a question. Two viewers are synchronized to display the same pose to facilitate a phone conversation; synchronization session is initiated by a pattern of sounds transmitted over the phone. Viewer analytics information is a heat map indicating angles seen, paused, zoomed-in, or terminology clicked; ranks different marketing message wording. After webpage loads, an image having a special pattern within its filename is replaced with multi-media viewer. Upon loading or providing additional subject-object data, advertisements are shown if a subscription fee is not paid. Clipboard data is copied to another computer by a pattern of sounds transmitted over the phone. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301954 | CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM DEVICE, AND IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE - In a scanning electron microscope, if a failure is caused to occur in a SEM image by the influence of a disturbance such as magnetic field or vibration inside and from outside the device, the cause is identified simply and accurately using this SEM image. There is provided a measurement technique whose measurement accuracy is not influenced by a roughness of SEM image pattern. A one-dimensional scanning is performed in a scanning-line direction (X direction) by setting the Y-direction scanning gain at zero at the time of acquiring the SEM image, and a two-dimensional image is created by arranging image information, which is obtained by the scanning, in a time-series manner in the Y direction. A shift-amount data on the two-dimensional image is acquired using a correlation function, and the magnetic field or vibration included within the SEM image is measured by a frequency analysis of the data. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301955 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device includes: a characteristics information storing means for storing analysis characteristics information representing performance of each analysis method, and media characteristics information representing performance of each method of input of media data; a QoS calculating unit for calculating response performance and analysis accuracy when executing an analysis process in the media analysis system by preset media data input method and analysis method, based on the stored analysis characteristics information and media characteristics information; and a QoS controlling unit for, in a case that at least one of the calculated response performance and analysis accuracy does not satisfy a preset target value, changing at least one of the preset media data input method and analysis method, based on the stored analysis characteristics information and media characteristics information. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301956 | IMAGE DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISTRIBUTION METHOD - The present invention enables image distribution while maintaining privacy, using a simple configuration. An image distribution apparatus which distributes image data to which location information has been added stores information specifying an inhibited area concerning the location information and determines whether or not a location indicated by the location information added to the image data to be distributed falls within the stored inhibited area. If it is determined that the location indicated by the location information falls within the inhibited area, the image distribution apparatus distributes the image data by deleting the location information from the image data to be distributed. On the other hand, if it is determined that the location indicated by the location information falls outside the inhibited area, the image distribution apparatus distributes the image data with the location information added. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301957 | MULTI-COMPARTMENT POUCH WITH BREAKABLE INNER COMPARTMENT - Provided is a multi-compartment pouch with a breakable or openable inner compartment used for mixing of two or more ingredients contained within the compartments without opening the pouch to the atmosphere. In one form, a two-compartment pouch includes a top compartment and a bottom compartment and an inner gusset separating the top compartment from the bottom compartment. The inner gusset includes an openable region and a fold line, and means for grasping and pulling apart the front and rear panels of the pouch to cause the openable region to open to allow for the combining of contents of the top compartment with contents of the bottom compartment without opening the pouch. Also provided are methods for making the multi-compartment pouch. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301958 | Elastic Drawstring Trash Bag - The present invention relates to polymeric bags, particularly polymeric drawstring trash bags. The present invention comprises a trash bag having an elastic drawstring. The elastic drawstring trash bag features a short seal and an inner seal at each upper corner of the drawstring trash bag. The short seal and inner seal are separated by a small unsealed area. The inner seal serves to reduce the upper opening of the drawstring trash bag, while the elastic drawstring utilized with the bag provides a bag that allows the bag to fit snugly on many common trash receptacles. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301959 | MATERIAL STORAGE AND DISPENSING PACKAGES AND METHODS - Packages and methods for storage and dispensing of materials, e.g., high purity liquid reagents and chemical mechanical polishing compositions used in the manufacture of microelectronic device products, including containment structures and methods adapted for pressure-dispensing of high-purity liquids. Liner packaging of liquid or liquid-containing media is described, in which zero or near-zero head space conformations are employed to minimize adverse effects of particle generation, formation of bubbles and degradation of contained material. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301960 | CHILDPROOF HIGHLY-INERT PACKAGING FOR INDIVIDUALLY DOSED FILMS CONTAINING AN ACTIVE INGREDIENT - A childproof packaging for individual doses, in particular for preparations for administration in film form, wherein the packaging constitutes a bag produced by sealing, which has at least one each side a covering layer which is provided at least on one side with local weak points which do not touch the edge of the packaging, wherein the local weak points form a cohesive pattern which runs around the individual dos in an arc or a curve and overlaps an angular region of at least 90° when considered from the main area of the individual zone. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301961 | GAS-EJECTING BEARINGS FOR TRANSPORT OF GLASS SHEETS - Non-contact, gas-ejecting bearings ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130301962 | BEARING MECHANISM FOR COMPACT ROTARY MEMBER - A bearing mechanism has a rotary member made of a resin, having a cylindrical bearing integrally formed thereof and protruding from a side surface of the rotary member; a base member made of a resin and rotatably supporting the rotary member, the base member having a support shaft protruding from a position facing the cylindrical bearing of the rotary member; and an urging member constantly urging the rotary member in a predetermined direction. The cylindrical bearing of the rotary member has a bearing hole to fit and insert the support shaft of the base member. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301963 | AUTOMOTIVE POWERTRAIN COMPONENT AND BEARING WITH MICROPORES, AND METHOD THEREOF - One embodiment includes an automotive powertrain component and a bearing. The automotive powertrain component has a first surface and moves during use thereof. The bearing assists movement of the automotive powertrain component and has a second surface that opposes the first surface of the automotive powertrain component. Multiple micropores are located on a portion or more of the first surface, of the second surface, or of both the first and second surfaces. The micropores retain lubricant therein. In use, the lubricant can be lifted above respective openings of the micropores and into a space located between the first and second surfaces. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301964 | BEARING RETAINING STRUCTURE - A bearing retaining structure includes a base, a stator assembly and a bearing. The base has a bearing cup projected from one side thereof, and the bearing cup internally defines a receiving space and has a fixed end connected to the base and an opposite free end. The bearing is disposed in the receiving space of the bearing cup. The stator assembly has an axially extended central opening and a retaining portion radially inward protruded from an inner wall surface of the central opening. The stator assembly is externally mounted around the bearing cup with the retaining portion tightly fitted around the free end of the bearing cup to narrow the receiving space, so that an inner wall surface of the receiving space is in tight contact with an outer wall surface of the bearing, and the bearing is stably retained in the bearing cup. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301965 | MEMBER FOR ROLLING BEARING AND ROLLING BEARING - The present invention provides a member, for a resin-made rolling bearing, which has a low extent of a moisture absorption-caused change in its dimension and mechanical properties, keeps sufficiently high mechanical properties after the member absorbs moisture, and is excellent in its resistance to hydrolysis, grease deterioration, and heat and also provides the rolling bearing in which the member for the rolling bearing is used. A rolling bearing ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130301966 | TEMPORARY SUPPORT MEMBER FOR A SENSOR UNIT OF A BEARING, SENSING SUB-ASSEMBLY AND BEARING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A SUPPORT MEMBER - This temporary support member for a sensor unit of a bearing assembly is stackable with a similar support member when a sensor unit is mounted on each one of the support member and the similar support member. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301967 | METHOD FOR MOUNTING A ROLLING-ELEMENT BEARING SUPPORT MODULE, AND ROLLING-ELEMENT BEARING SUPPORT MODULE - A method of mounting a rolling-element bearing support module on a machine having a shaft includes providing a rolling-element bearing support module having a support and a first rolling-element bearing for supporting the shaft, bringing the first rolling-element bearing with the rolling-element bearing support module up to the shaft so that the support abuts the end surface of the machine, rolling the shaft on at least a portion of a circumference of the bore, recording movement data of the shaft during the rolling, determining an alignment point based on the movement data, aligning the rolling-element bearing support module to the alignment point, and affixing the rolling-element bearing support module to the end side of the machine in the aligned position. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301968 | HUB SPINDLE BEARING UNIT FOR WHEEL - A hub spindle bearing unit for the wheel is equipped with an inner ring having inner ring raceway surfaces formed on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft section itself of the hub spindle or an inner ring forming annular member formed separately from the shaft section, an outer ring member having outer ring raceway surfaces formed corresponding to the inner ring raceway surfaces, and balls rotatably disposed between the inner and outer rings, a groove section configured as a fragile section in which the strength against the shaft bending direction load exerted to the hub spindle is weaker than the strength of the hub spindle is formed in the outer ring member, and the groove section is deformed and broken earlier than the hub spindle when an excessive shaft bending direction load exceeding a load to be input during ordinary use is input to the hub spindle. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301969 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING BEARING RING, BEARING RING, AND ROLLING BEARING - A method for producing a bearing ring of a rolling bearing includes the steps of: preparing a formed body constituted of hypereutectoid steel; forming an annular heated region heated to a temperature of at least an A | 2013-11-14 |
20130301970 | WHEEL ROLLING BEARING UNIT - A wheel rolling bearing unit capable of preventing grease leak even if the interference of the sealing member for sealing the clearance between the inner and outer rings is made small. The wheel rolling bearing unit according to the present invention is equipped with an inner shaft; an outer ring disposed concentrically on the outer peripheral side of the inner shaft; a plurality of balls disposed between these; and a pair of cages for retaining the balls in the circumferential direction. On the inner peripheral surface of each of the pair of cages, a concave section being dented to the outside in the radial direction to hold grease is formed in the range from the axial outside end section to the inside end section. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301971 | CLOSURE DESIGN OF A CONDUCTIVE RUBBER MATERIAL FOR ALLOWING CURRENT PASSAGE THROUGH A BEARING IN ELECTRIC MACHINES - A bearing seal, which has a rubber body impregnated with an electrically conductive material such as graphite. A level of conductivity of the bearing seal depends upon an amount of graphite integrated into the rubber body. A bearing is also disclosed, which includes at least one closure element, such as a seal, arranged between an outer and inner ring of the bearing that is impregnated with an electrically conductive material, such as graphite, to create a conductive pathway for an electrical current to circumvent the rolling elements of the bearing. The closure element aids in ensuring electric current is kept away from the rolling elements by diverting electric current from the outer ring to the inner ring of the bearing. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301972 | BI-ANNULAR-SHAPED BEARING WITH ANTI-PLAY CHARACTERISTICS - A simplified bi-annular-shaped bearing with anti-play characteristics has an inner race, an outer race, at least one ring groove and a roller-shaped limiting set, The races can relatively rotate. The ring groove is configured on the periphery of the inner race or the inner ring surface of the outer race. The roller-shaped limiting set is configured on at least one position of the outer race or inner race, and comprises rigid balls, elastic supporting components and positioning members. The outer race or inner race is configured with a radial housing part to hold the roller-shaped limiting set. The elastic supporting component is to elastically push the rigid ball toward the end opening configured on the radial housing part, so that it will go into and contact against the ring groove. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301973 | TOROIDAL SPACER - The present invention relates to a spacer device for roller elements in a toroidal roller bearing, and a method for manufacturing a toroidal roller bearing comprising a plurality of spacer devices. The toroidal roller bearing allows for axial and angular displacement between an inner and outer bearing ring. The spacer device provides first and second roller-contacting surfaces having a concave shape adapted to conform with respective convex contacting surfaces of the toroidal roller elements, and at least one axial end portion which is elastically deformable. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301974 | ROLLER THRUST BEARING - Construction of a roller thrust bearing is achieved wherein it is possible to keep a thrust race from coming apart from a cage without wear or cracking occurring in a cage element and without impact occurring between the thrust race and cage even when used in an application wherein a rotating section rotates at high speed, or when used in an application wherein relative displacement between members of a rotating section is large. The thickness of metal plate of a first cage element | 2013-11-14 |
20130301975 | HYBRID OPTICAL MODULATOR - An optical modulator includes an input port, a first waveguide region comprising silicon and optically coupled to the input port, and a waveguide splitter optically coupled to the first waveguide region and having a first output and a second output. The optical modulator also includes a first phase adjustment section optically coupled to the first output and comprising a first III-V diode and a second phase adjustment section optically coupled to the second output and comprising a second III-V diode. The optical modulator further includes a waveguide coupler optically coupled to the first phase adjustment section and the second phase adjustment section, a second waveguide region comprising silicon and optically coupled to the waveguide coupler, and an output port optically coupled to the second waveguide region. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301976 | WAVEGUIDE-TYPE POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER - Provided is a waveguide-type polarization beam splitter in which deterioration of a polarization extinction ratio due to temperature change and wavelength change is suppressed. A groove is formed to extend across a pair of optical waveguide arms and two quarter wave plates are provided in the groove to extend respectively across the arms. Polarization axes of the quarter wave plates are orthogonal to each other. A first optical coupler which gives a phase difference of 0° or 180° between coupled or split light beams and a second optical coupler which gives a phase difference of 90° or −90° between coupled or split light beams are used in combination. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301977 | WAVEGUIDE-TYPE POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER - Provided is a waveguide-type polarization beam splitter in which deterioration of a polarization extinction ratio due to temperature change and wavelength change is suppressed. The waveguide-type polarization beam splitter includes: input optical waveguides; a first multimode interference optical coupler; a pair of optical waveguide arms; a second multimode interference optical coupler; and output optical waveguides. A quarter wavelength delay is provided in one of the pair of optical waveguide arms, a groove is formed to extend across both of the pair of optical waveguide arms, and two quarter wave plates are provided in the groove to extend respectively across the arms. Polarization axes of the respective quarter wave plates are orthogonal to each other. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301978 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An optical sensing system includes a transmitter assembly for generating a generated signal having a frequency in an optical wavelength. An optical sensing fiber is coupled to the transmitter assembly for receiving the generated signal and producing a reflected signal from backscattering of the generated signal. The system also includes a receiver assembly coupled to the optical sensing fiber for receiving the reflected signal. The system further includes a controller in communication with the receiver assembly for determining environmental effects imposed on the optical sensing fiber based on characteristics of the reflected signal. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301979 | Isolation of components on optical device - The optical device includes an active component on a base. The active component is a light sensor and/or a light modulator. The active component including an active medium that includes a ridge and slab regions. The ridge extends upwards from the base and is positioned between the slab regions. The ridge defines a portion of a waveguide on the base. One or more isolation trenches each extends into the slab regions of the active medium and is at least partially spaced apart from the ridge of the active medium. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301980 | OPTO-ELECTRIC HYBRID BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - An opto-electric hybrid board capable of suppressing the increase in light propagation losses and excellent in flexibility, and a method of manufacturing the same, are provided. The opto-electric hybrid board includes an electric circuit board, an optical waveguide, and a metal layer. The electric circuit board includes an insulative layer having front and back surfaces, and electrical interconnect lines formed on the front surface of the insulative layer. The optical waveguide is formed on the back surface of the insulative layer. The metal layer is formed between the cladding layer and the insulative layer. At least part of the metal layer is formed in one of first and second patterns. The first pattern includes a distribution of dot-shaped protrusions, and the second pattern includes a distribution of dot-shaped recesses. A first cladding layer fills a site where the metal layer is removed by the patterning. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301981 | OPTICAL COMPONENTS HAVING A COMMON ETCH DEPTH - An optical device is described. This optical device includes multiple components, such as a ring resonator, an optical waveguide and a grating coupler, having a common etch depth (which is associated with a single etch step or operation during fabrication). Moreover, these components may be implemented in a semiconductor layer in a silicon-on-insulator technology. By using a common etch depth, the optical device may provide: compact active devices, multimode ultralow-loss optical waveguides, high-speed ring resonator modulators with ultralow power consumption, and compact low-loss interlayer couplers for multilayer-routed optical links. Furthermore, the single etch step may help reduce or eliminate optical transition loss, and thus may facilitate high yield and low manufacturing costs. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301982 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to the apparatus and method for optical interconnection. The present invention provides an optical interconnection structure comprising: a substrate on which double side perforated multi-hole through a predetermined region is formed; bottom hole which is etched and tapered for optical fiber array is bigger than upper hole which is etched for the optical devices. The present invention provides the optical interconnection structure that can facilitate the optical interconnection between the active optoelectronic devices that transmit/receive the optical signals and the optical fiber array, making it possible to align easily and acutely between the optical devices and optical fiber array. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301983 | Dynamic Terahertz Switching Device Comprising Sub-wavelength Corrugated Waveguides and Cavity that Utilizes Resonance and Absorption for Attaining On and Off states - A terahertz (THz) switch consisting of perfect conductor metamaterials is discussed in this invention. Specifically, we have built a THz logic block by combining two double-sided corrugated waveguides capable of slowing down the electromagnetic waves in the THz regime with a sub-wavelength cavity, having one or more grooves with shorter height than the grooves of the periodic corrugated waveguide. This new type of THz structure is called as the waveguide-cavity-waveguide (WCW). The new invention is based on our mathematical modeling and experimentation that confirms a strong electromagnetic field accumulation inside the tiny cavity which can confine EM field for a long time within a very small effective volume (V | 2013-11-14 |
20130301984 | OPTICAL POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING COUNTER-PROPAGATING CONTROL SIGNAL - A system for delivering optical power over optical conduits includes at least one optical power source delivering multiple optical power forms over an optical conduit with a counter propagating optical control signal. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301985 | MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED STRUCTURE COMPRISING A BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER AND A PHOTODETECTOR - A monolithic integrated structure comprising a buried heterostructure semiconductor optical amplifier and a deep ridge optical receiver comprising such structure are disclosed. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301986 | Design For Spacer Resin Pattern Helping to Reduce Optical Coupling Loss in Optical Waveguide For Light-Emitting Element or Light-Receiving Element on Semiconductor - Spacer resin pattern layer which precisely aligns a light-emitting element or a light-receiving element relative to both a waveguide pattern layer and electrical circuit pattern layer from the semiconductor wafer level. A substratum of resin having a through-hole provided for electrical communication with an electrical circuit pattern layer is formed on a semiconductor wafer. A truncated cone-shaped three-dimensional reflective surface is formed to guide the emitted light towards or received light from a waveguide pattern layer. A metal film is deposited planarly in a predetermined range from the center when positioned relative to the position of the through-hole. A truncated cone-shaped mold is stamped in the center. By modifying the direction of the light using this tapered structure, the precision tolerance is increased and optical loss is reduced. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301987 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER AND RESONATOR - An optical amplifier includes: a first optical fiber, through which seed light and excitation light propagate; an optical coupler that inputs the excitation light into the first optical fiber; a first lens to which the seed light and the excitation light output from the first optical fiber are input and which increases diameters of the seed light and the excitation light; a glass rod doped with rare earth elements to be excited by the excitation light, to which the seed light and the excitation light output from the first lens are input and which amplifies and outputs the seed light as output light; a second lens to which at least the output light output from the glass rod is input and which decreases a diameter of the output light; and a second optical fiber to which the output light output from the second lens is input. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301988 | POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE OPTICAL FILTER WHICH HAS RESONANT GRATINGS AND IS ADJUSTABLE ACCORDING TO THE INCIDENCE ANGLE - The invention relates to a polarization-insensitive optical filter centered on a wavelength (λ | 2013-11-14 |
20130301989 | METHOD OF USING AN OPTICAL DEVICE FOR WAVELENGTH LOCKING - A method of using an optical device. The method comprises splitting a light beam into a first beam that passes through a first arm of a waveguide, and, into a second beam that passes through a second arm of the waveguide. The method also comprises passing at least one of the first beam or second beam through one or more optical resonators that are optically coupled to at least one of the first or second arms. The method also comprises determining a difference in the light-transmittance of the first beam exiting the first arm and the light-transmittance of the second beam exiting the second arm, and, adjusting the operating wavelength if the difference in transmittance exceeds a predefined value. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301990 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DIRECTIONAL COUPLER - An optical waveguide directional coupler includes a base and two optical waveguides formed in the base. The base has a ridge portion, and a planar portion adjacent to the ridge portion. Each of the optical waveguides includes a first straight section located in the ridge portion, a second straight section, and a curved section interconnected between the first and second straight sections. The curved sections and the second straight sections are located in the planar portion. The first straight sections are parallel with each other and define a light coupling region therebetween. The second straight sections are parallel with each other, and a distance between the second straight sections being greater than a distance between the first straight sections. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301991 | CONFIGURABLE PITCH REDUCING OPTICAL FIBER ARRAY - The inventive optical fiber coupler array is capable of providing a low loss, high-coupling coefficient interface with high accuracy and easy alignment between a plurality of optical fibers (or other optical devices) with a first channel-to-channel spacing, and an optical device having a plurality of closely-spaced waveguide interfaces with a second channel-to-channel spacing, where each end of the optical fiber coupler array is configurable to have different channel-to-channel spacing, each matched to a corresponding one of the first and second channel-to-channel spacing. The novel optical coupler array includes a plurality of waveguides (at least one of which may optionally be polarization maintaining), that comprises at least one gradually reduced vanishing core fiber, at least in part embedded within a common housing structure. Alternatively, the novel coupler array may be configured for utilization with at least one of an optical fiber amplifier and an optical fiber laser. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301992 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTROLLED INDEPENDENT FLOAT MECHANISMS FOR OPTICAL CONNECTORS - Systems and methods are provided for controlling optical connectors. A float mechanism for controlling an optical connector can include a pin, a first and a second shaft assembly, and a base. The base can include a first and a second cantilever, and a housing, that defines an opening for receiving the pin. The base can receive the two shaft assemblies. The float mechanism can further include a tab with multiple surfaces and be configured to receive the pin. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301993 | Connector - A receptacle includes a hollow cylinder and a flange. A plug includes a barrel having a cylindrical body, a semicylindrical section extending from the body, and an engaging section provided at an end of the semicylindrical section and a coupling nut. A boom-like retaining piece is cut out and formed in the semicylindrical section and a retaining hook is formed at an idle end of the retaining piece located in the engaging section. The coupling nut is screwed onto threads of the hollow cylinder so that the plug is connected to the receptacle. Before the connection, the engaging section is engaged with and inserted into the hollow cylinder and the retaining piece is caught in the receptacle, so that the plug is temporarily retained to the receptacle securely. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301994 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connector of the present invention comprising a regulating member having regulating portion provided between a lower surface of an operation arm and an upper surface of a retainer. The regulating member movable in a longitudinal direction between a regulating position for regulating downward movement of a front end of the operation arm by the regulating portion and a retracted position for allowing the downward movement of the front end of the operation arm. The retracted position is located behind the regulating position. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301995 | CARTRIDGE RECEPTACLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE CARTRIDGE RECEPTACLE - A cartridge receptacle for receiving at least one cartridge, the cartridge having at least one ferrule and a lens. The receptacle includes at least one bore for receiving the cartridge and an end face on the lens side, the end face lying perpendicularly to an optical axis of the cartridge. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301996 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTING ASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL-ELECTRICAL CONVERSION MODULE THEREOF - An optical fiber connecting assembly includes two optical-electrical conversion modules and a plurality of optical fibers for connecting with the optical-electrical conversion modules. The optical-electrical conversion module includes a circuit board, an optical signal receiving member and an optical signal emitting member mounted on the circuit board, a cover, and several lenses. The cover covers the optical signal receiving member and the optical signal emitting member, and is fixed with the circuit board with glue. A connecting surface of the cover facing towards the circuit board defines a glue-overflow hole, for receiving excessive glue. The first lenses are mounted on the cover, and couple with the optical signal receiving member and the optical signal emitting member, respectively. Each end of the optical fibers inserted into the cover and couple with the first lenses of one corresponding optical-electrical conversion module. The present disclosure further includes an optical-electrical conversion module thereof. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301997 | Method for connecting an optical waveguide, embedded in a fibre composite component, to an external optical waveguide - A method for connecting an optical waveguide embedded in a fibre composite component, in particular of an aircraft and spacecraft, to an external optical waveguide, comprising the following steps: ascertaining a path of the embedded optical waveguide in the fibre composite component; determining a nodal position at which the embedded optical waveguide is to be coupled with the external optical waveguide; exposing, at least in portions, the embedded optical waveguide at the nodal position by removing at least part of the fibre composite component around the embedded optical waveguide; severing the exposed embedded optical waveguide; aligning relative to each other an end portion of the severed, embedded optical waveguide and an end portion of the external optical waveguide; and splicing the mutually aligned end portions of the optical waveguides. | 2013-11-14 |
20130301998 | MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBER, MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBER CABLE, AND MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a multi-core optical fiber enabling calculation effectively using the MEMO technology. The multi-core optical fiber has a plurality of cores and a cladding and the cores rotate around a fiber axis. A conditional expression defined by an average twist rate γ (rad/m), the shortest distance Λ (m) between centers of the cores, a group index n | 2013-11-14 |
20130301999 | FIBER-OPTIC IMAGE GUIDE COMPRISING POLYHEDRON RODS - Fiber optic devices, methods for producing same, and uses of such optical devices are provided. The method includes combining light conducting rods to form bundles in accordance with predefined rules with respect to a cross-sectional area and number thereof in relation to a surrounding sheath, and are subjected to a drawing process. The strong fiber rod produced by the drawing process has an approximately hexagonal outer shape, and due to the drawing process the light conducting rods also have an approximately hexagonal outer contour. Thereby, a high packing density of about 99% is achieved in the fiber rod. Through a further process sequence of bundling and drawing these fiber rods, high-resolution multi-fiber rods are produced that include several thousand light conducting rods, the diameter of an individual light conducting rod included therein being less than 100 μm. | 2013-11-14 |
20130302000 | MULTI-MODE OPTICAL FIBER - The present invention relates to a GI-type multi-mode optical fiber in which the outer diameter of the core is 47.5 to 52.5 μm or 60 to 65 μm, or to a bend resistant multi-mode optical fiber provided with resistance against property fluctuation caused by the bending of the multi-mode optical fiber by providing a trench portion having a low refractive index at the outer periphery of the core. In the multi-mode optical fiber, both the maximum tensile stress and the maximum compressive stress in the optical axis direction remaining in the core are 50 MPa or less. | 2013-11-14 |
20130302001 | LOW-LOSS OPTICAL FIBER OVER WIDE WAVELENGTH RANGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A low-loss optical fiber over wide wavelength range includes a transmission loss of less than or equal to 40 dB/km in a whole wavelength range of 400-1400 nm, and being manufactured by drawing an optical fiber preform including a core composed of a silica glass having a hydroxyl-group concentration of less than or equal to 1 ppm and a cladding composed of a silica glass having a fluorine concentration of more than or equal to 3.2 wt %. | 2013-11-14 |
20130302002 | MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD OF OPTICAL TRANSMISSION - A multi-core optical fiber has: a plurality of core portions; a cladding portion that is positioned around each of the plurality of core portions and has a refractive index lower than that of each of the plurality of core portions; and a separation distance between adjacent ones of the plurality of core portions being set so that crosstalk of light between the adjacent core portions over an entire length thereof becomes −15 dB or greater at a wavelength of 1550 nm and a cable cut-off wavelength becomes 1530 nm or less. | 2013-11-14 |