46th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110280403 | AUTOMATIC APPLICATION MANAGEMENT IN A SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS SYSTEM - Method, device and computer readable storage medium for managing applications on a wireless device by providing applications on the wireless device. The wireless device is used in a short-range wireless system with an effective range. The wireless device and a client device are brought into proximity and thereby into the effective range of the short-range wireless system. The wireless device and the client device are connected and associated. The application is associated with the client device. The application is then automatically launched on the wireless device. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280404 | ITERATIVE DATA SECRET-SHARING TRANSFORMATION - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for iterative data secret-sharing transformation and reconversion. In one aspect, data secret-sharing transformation and reconversion is provided in which each bit of an input stream of bits of data is split, on a bit by bit basis, into a pair of secret-sharing bits, and the secret-sharing bits of each pair of secret-sharing bits are separated into separate streams of secret-sharing bits. In this manner, one secret-sharing bit of each pair of secret-sharing bits may be placed in one stream of secret-sharing bits and the other secret-sharing bit of each pair may be placed in another stream of secret-sharing bits different from the one stream of secret-sharing bits. Confidentiality of the original input stream may be protected in the event one but not both streams of secret-sharing bits is obtained by unauthorized personnel. In another aspect, for an input stream of N bits, each received bit of the N bits of the input stream of data, may be interatively split, on a bit by bit basis, into a pair of secret-sharing bits, to generate as few as N+1 secret-sharing bits from the input stream of bits N bits. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280405 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STABILIZATION OF INTERFEROMETERS FOR QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION - Systems and methods are described in which both a quantum key distribution (QKD) transmitter and QKD receiver may keep both of their two-path interferometers stable, with regard to path length drift, relative to an internal reference laser are described. Systems and methods are also proposed whereby the transmitter interferometer may have only a single path (e.g., Sagnac interferometers). The systems and methods described herein may greatly improve the performance of quantum cryptographic transceivers that may make use of these systems and methods. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280406 | KEY DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a key distribution method and system, the method includes: a card issuer management platform informing a supplementary security domain corresponding to an application provider of generating in a smart card a public/private key pair including a public key and a private key, receiving the public key returned from the supplementary security domain, importing a public key for trust point for external authentication into the supplementary security domain, and transmitting the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key to the application provider management platform; the application provider management platform receiving the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key from the card issuer management platform, and selecting the supplementary security domain of the smart card by a service terminal according to the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key; the application provider management platform informing the supplementary security domain of regenerating a public key and a private key, generating a supplementary security domain certificate according to the regenerated public key which is returned from the supplementary security domain, and achieving the supplementary security domain key distribution by transmitting the supplementary security domain certificate to the supplementary security domain. The present invention can improve the security of the supplementary security domain key distribution. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280407 | Compressor Based Dynamic Bass Enhancement with EQ - A system for and method of enhancing the low frequency response of a loudspeaker for relatively low input level audio signals and protect the loudspeaker for relatively high input level audio signals is disclosed. The system comprises: a crossover network configured so separate an audio input signal into at least two frequency bands including a low frequency band; and a signal compressor responsive to the energy level of the low frequency portion of an input audio signal in the low frequency band and configured to provide amplification gain on the low frequency portion of the input signal when the energy level of the low frequency portion of the input signal is relatively low so as to enhance the low frequency response of the loudspeaker, and attenuation of the low frequency portion of the input signal when the energy level of the low frequency portion of the input signal is relatively high so as to protect the loudspeaker from being overdriven. The system is configurable so that it can be used to enhance the loudspeakers of audio and video play devices such as televisions and computers. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280408 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN DIGITAL MEDIA TERMINALS - A device, system and method for enabling the measuring of audiences to media consumed through the use of digital media terminals. An example disclosed herein includes a loop-back device that allows the production/extraction of content identification information from media items rendered by a digital media terminal that can be seamlessly and homogenously implemented in a wide variety of media distribution platforms and devices, including Internet and mobile networks. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280409 | Personalized Hearing Profile Generation with Real-Time Feedback - A personalized hearing profile is generated for an ear-level device comprising a memory, microphone, speaker and processor. Communication is established between the ear-level device and a companion device, having a user interface. A frame of reference in the user interface is provided, where positions in the frame of reference are associated with sound profile data. A position on the frame of reference is determined in response to user interaction with the user interface, and certain sound profile data associated with the position. Certain data is transmitted to the ear level device. Sound can be generated through the speaker based upon the audio stream data to provide real-time feedback to the user. The determining and transmitting steps are repeated until detection of an end event. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280410 | ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL APPARATUS - An active noise control apparatus includes a control frequency detector for determining a control frequency which is a frequency of a noise to be controlled, a sine-wave generator for generating a reference sine-wave signal having the determined control frequency, a cosine-wave generator for generating a reference cosine-wave signal having the determined control frequency, a first one-tap digital filter for outputting a first control signal obtained by multiplying the reference sine-wave signal by a first filter coefficient, a second one-tap digital filter for outputting a second control signal obtained by multiplying the reference cosine-wave signal by a second filter coefficient, an interference signal generator for generating an interference signal based on a noise control signal obtained by summing the first control signal and the second control signal, an error signal detector for detecting an error signal produced due to an interference between the interference signal and the noise, first and second coefficient updating units for updating the first and second filter coefficients according to the error signal, and a control frequency corrector for correcting the control frequency according to the first and second filter coefficients. This active noise control apparatus can reduce a noise effectively even if the control frequency shifts from the frequency of a noise actually generated. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280411 | Noise Reduction Circuit With Monitoring Functionality - A noise reduction circuit | 2011-11-17 |
20110280412 | EARPHONE - An earphone includes an audio input terminal, an audio output terminal, a spring, and a rheostat. The rheostat includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a slide terminal. The audio input terminal is electrically connected to the slide terminal of the rheostat. The audio output terminal is electrically connected to the first terminal of the rheostat. The slide terminal of the rheostat is fixed to the spring. The slide terminal of the rheostat is at or near the first terminal of the rheostat in response to the spring being at an original position. The slide terminal moves to the second terminal of the rheostat in response to the spring being pressed to deform. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280413 | System and Method For Protecting Transmissions of Wireless Microphones Operating in Television Band White Space - A wireless microphone system broadcasts a pilot tone at the designated ATSC pilot position in the TV Band channel being used by the wireless microphone system. The pilot tone is a readily detectable waveform transmitted in the ATSC pilot position. The pilot tone can be generated by any one of: a standalone pilot tone generator; a pilot tone generator incorporated into a wireless microphone receiver; or, a pilot tone generator incorporated into a wireless microphone. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280414 | FUZZY WOOFIES: ONE-WAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TWO WIRELESS AUDIO HEADPHONE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS RECEIVING AUDIO FROM AN AUDIO SOURCE - Two wireless audio headphone communication systems each have an audio input for receiving audio signals from an audio source. The wireless transceivers receive and transmit radio frequency communications including audio signals that conform to wireless audio protocols of wireless communication protocols. A wireless audio headphone communication system sends sound over a one-way radio frequency to a receiver, the second wireless audio headphone communication system. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280415 | SOUND REPRODUCTION AND DETECTION - Apparatus for generating a first acoustic signal and simultaneously sensing a second acoustic signal. The apparatus comprises: an input ( | 2011-11-17 |
20110280416 | DENTAL BONE CONDUCTION HEARING APPLIANCE - An intra-oral hearing appliance includes an actuator to provide bone conduction sound transmission; a transceiver coupled to the actuator to cause the actuator to generate sound; and a first chamber containing the actuator and the transceiver, said first chamber adapted to be coupled to one or more teeth. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280417 | Device For Actuating A Membrane And A Vehicle Comprising A Device For Actuating A Membrane - The invention refers to a device ( | 2011-11-17 |
20110280418 | ELECTRET CONDENSER MICROPHONE - An electret condenser microphone includes a microphone capsule having a diaphragm, a fixed electrode and an extraction electrode. The extraction electrode includes a closed-bottomed cylinder composed of a conductive material. The fixed electrode has holes extending from an air chamber between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode to an air chamber within the extraction electrode, and is fixed to a shoulder of the extraction electrode to form the air chamber that serves as acoustic capacitor within the extraction electrode. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280419 | ACOUSTIC SENSOR AND MICROPHONE - An acoustic sensor includes a semiconductor substrate with a back chamber, a conductive diaphragm arranged on an upper side of the semiconductor substrate, an insulating fixed film fixed on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate covering the conductive diaphragm with a gap, a conductive fixed electrode film arranged on the insulating fixed film facing the diaphragm, an extraction wiring extracted from the conductive fixed electrode film, and an electrode pad to which the extraction wiring is connected. The acoustic sensor converts an acoustic vibration to change electrostatic capacitance between the conductive diaphragm and the conductive fixed electrode film. A plurality of acoustic perforations are opened in a back plate including the insulating fixed film and the conductive fixed electrode film. An opening rate of the plurality of acoustic perforations is smaller in the extraction wiring and a region in the vicinity thereof than in other regions. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280420 | ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER - There is provided an acoustic transducer which is reduced in size and which can generate an acoustic emission having a low frequency. The acoustic transducer of the present invention includes: a plurality of bending vibration modules | 2011-11-17 |
20110280421 | DEVICE FOR AND A METHOD OF PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS - A device for processing an audio signal is provided, wherein the processing device comprises a processing unit, and a determination unit, wherein the processing unit is adapted to receive first data associated with a first subsignal of the audio signal and second data associated with a second subsignal of the audio signal, and wherein the determination unit is adapted to determine a compensation value for one of the subsignals depending on a phase difference between the first subsignal and the second subsignal. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280422 | Devices and Methods for Collecting Acoustic Data - A device includes a network interface to communicate with a communication network and a microphone to convert sounds into an electrical signal. The device further includes a processor coupled to the microphone and the network interface. The processor is configured to process the electrical signal to generate acoustic data based on the electrical signal and to provide the acoustic data to the network interface for transmission to a data storage device. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280423 | HEARING INSTRUMENT WITH A WALL FORMED BY A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - A hearing instrument includes a housing, a printed circuit board, a signal processor on the printed circuit board, wherein the signal processor is configured for generating an audio signal, and a receiver that is connected to an output of the signal processor for converting the audio signal into a sound signal, wherein the housing is configured to accommodate the receiver and the printed circuit board with the signal processor, and the housing has a trunk part that is coupled with a tip part, and wherein the printed circuit board forms a wall within the housing extending transversely relative to a longitudinal extension of the trunk part. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280424 | SYSTEM, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR HEARING AID - To provide a hearing aid system ( | 2011-11-17 |
20110280425 | Open Ear Fitting - An improved open ear hearing aid fitting for insertion into an ear canal is provided. The fitting offers enhanced acoustic performance while maintaining user comfort. The fitting comprises a polymeric body having at least one acoustic source and at least one aperture extending there through and a peripheral portion shaped to conform to surface of the ear canal. A porous material covers at least one aperture of the body. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280426 | Partially Implantable Hearing Aid - A partially implantable hearing aid is provided, comprising an external audio signal unit to be worn at least in part in a user's ear canal, an implantable unit and external means for transmitting power transcutaneously to the implantable unit via an inductive link, the external audio signal unit comprising audio signal processing means for producing processed audio signals from input audio signals and means for transmitting the processed audio signals via an optical link through an ear drum to an optical receiver of the implantable unit, the implantable unit comprising an actuator for stimulating the user's hearing, a power receiving means and a driver unit for transforming the received audio signals into an input signal to the actuator. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280427 | Music Pre-Processing for Hearing Prostheses - A method of pre-processing a sound signal including music for an auditory prosthesis is provided. An input sound signal is received. The sound signal is processed using music pre-processing software to produce a music pre-processed signal. The music pre-processed signal is presented for further processing, so as to produce a corresponding stimuli signal. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280428 | Electronic Device - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a speaker cabinet and a link mechanism. The second body rotates relative to the first body by a hinge. The speaker cabinet, disposed in the first body, is selectively lengthened or shortened. The link mechanism connects the hinge with the speaker cabinet. When the second body is closed relative to the first body, the speaker cabinet is concealed in the first body, and when the second body is opened relative to the first body, the hinge drives the link mechanism to press the speaker cabinet, enabling the speaker to be lengthened or to be shortened | 2011-11-17 |
20110280429 | WATERPROOF PILLOW WITH AUDIO UNIT - A waterproof pillow with audio unit is described. The waterproof pillow with audio unit includes a waterproof pillow, a sound unit and a remote control unit. Either the sound unit scans a plurality of audio devices for identifying the audio devices or the audio devices respectively scan the sound unit for identifying the sound unit to establish the communication links between the sound unit and audio devices. The sound unit then utilizes a switch unit to switch for selecting one of the audio devices. An audio output device is used to output the audio output of the selected audio device. The remote control unit controls the sound unit for selecting the musical sound of the audio devices served as the audio output. The remote control unit further adjusts the volume of the audio output. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280430 | RESONANCE DEVICE FOR SPEAKER - A resonance device for a speaker is provided. The device includes a speaker unit and a resonance unit. The speaker unit outputs a sound corresponding to a signal. The resonance unit is fixed to the speaker unit to provide a space for allowing a sound to resonate. The resonance unit is flexible, and the space for allowing a sound to resonate is variable. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280431 | KEYCHAIN SPEAKER - A speaker has a speaker body of a generally cubical shape of a small keychain size of under eight cubic inches in volume. An upper rim is formed on the speaker body which has an upper rim inside surface sized to receive a standard sized plastic bottle. Internal speaker components are housed within the speaker body. An audio input provides audio signal to the speaker. A plurality of threads have small annular threading grooves and protrusions and are sized for engaging with a standard sized plastic bottle. The plurality of threads are circularly deposed and are within the bounds of the upper rim inside surface. The speaker has a front flat sidewall and a rear flat sidewall. A medium annular rim is located within the bounds of the upper rim inside surface. The medium annular rim is sized to engage with a standard sized plastic bottle. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280432 | LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM - A loudspeaker module includes a housing having a plurality of side walls and a cover plate positioned over a top surface of the plurality of side walls, a bottom of the housing remaining open. A driver mounting plate is secured to the plurality of side walls and divides the housing into an upper compartment and a lower compartment, wherein the upper compartment is defined by an upper surface of the driver mounting plate, the plurality of side walls and the cover plate, and the lower compartment is defined by a lower surface of the driver mounting plate and the plurality of side walls. The bottom of the housing remains open to be ultimately closed off when the loudspeaker module is mounted to a supporting surface. At least one of the plurality of side walls includes an aperture linking the lower compartment to the external environment surrounding the housing. A driver is mounted to the driver mounting plate, the driver being positioned to fire into the lower compartment of the housing. A mounting bracket is secured to the at least one of the plurality of side walls including an aperture. The mounting bracket includes a mounting bracket aperture shaped and dimensioned for alignment with the aperture within the at least one of the plurality of side walls. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280433 | LINEAR VIBRATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a linear vibration device, the linear vibration device including: a case formed with a storage space; a vibrator including a cylindrical back yoke accommodated in the storage space, a magnet mounted on the back yoke, a leaf spring coupled to the back yoke and a weight coupled to the back yoke; and a coil block accommodated in the case to face the magnet, wherein one lateral end of the leaf spring is coupled to the case, and the other lateral end of the leaf spring facing the one lateral end is coupled to the back yoke. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280434 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WATERMAKR INSERTIN USING VIDEO START CODES - A receiver may be operable to receive a default version for each portion of each of video frames, and an alternative version and corresponding watermark control information for one or more portions of one or more of the video frames, in a compressed video stream. The receiver may be operable to determine one or more of the default versions and/or one or more of the alternative versions for decoding based on the corresponding watermark control information and/or specific information locally associated with the receiver. The receiver may be operable to select the determined one or more of the default versions and/or the determined one or more of the default versions for decoding of the received compressed video stream by modifying one or more start codes. Each of the one or more start codes comprises a start code suffix. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280435 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The image processing apparatus is provided with a user authenticating portion, an operation portion capable of displaying an operation screen, and a registration portion for registering in a storage portion, with respect to an operation screen of the image processing function displayed through inputting of a user operation, the operation screen and a numeric key input before or after user authentication processing by the user authenticating portion being associated with each other for each authenticated user. The image processing apparatus, when the user authentication processing and inputting of the numeric key are performed, displays the operation screen, or a screen during image processing or after image processing as well as executes image processing by the image processing function. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280436 | EMBEDDING AND DETECTION OF WATERMARK IN A MOTION IMAGE SIGNAL - A video watermarking scheme is disclosed, which is designed for the digital cinema format, as it will be used on large projector screens in theaters. The watermark is designed in such a way that it has minimal impact on the video quality, but is still detectable after capture with a handheld camera and conversion to, for instance, VHS, CD-Video or DVD format. The proposed watermarking system only exploits the temporal axis. This makes it invulnerable to geometrical distortions generally caused by such a way of capturing. The watermark is embedded by modulating a global property of the frames (e.g. the mean luminance) in accordance with the samples of the watermark. The embedding depth is preferably locally adapted within each frame to local statistics of the respective image. Watermark detection is performed by correlating the watermark sequence with extracted mean luminance values of a sequence of frames. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280437 | Narrowcasting From Public Displays, and Related Methods - A user with a cell phone interacts, in a personalized session, with an electronic sign system. In some embodiments, the user's location relative to the sign is discerned from camera imagery—either imagery captured by the cell phone (i.e., of the sign), or captured by the sign system (i.e., of the user). Demographic information about the user can be estimated from imagery captured acquired by the sign system, or can be accessed from stored profile data associated with the user. The sign system can transmit payoffs (e.g., digital coupons or other response data) to viewers—customized per user demographics. In some arrangements, the payoff data is represented by digital watermark data encoded in the signage content. The encoding can take into account the user's location relative to the sign—allowing geometrical targeting of different payoffs to differently-located viewers. Other embodiments allow a user to engage an electronic sign system for interactive game play, using the cell phone as a controller. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280438 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing method includes: identifying at least one moving object of a current image according to the current image and at least one image different from the current image; and utilizing a processing circuit to generate an adjusted current image by performing a first image adjustment operation upon the at least one moving object of the current image and performing a second image adjustment operation upon a surrounding region of the at least one moving object of the current image, where the first image adjustment operation is different from the second image adjustment operation. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280439 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERSON DETECTION - Techniques are disclosed that involve the detection of persons. For instance, embodiments may receive, from an image sensor, one or more images (e.g., thermal images, infrared images, visible light images, three dimensional images, etc.) of a detection space. Based at least on the one or more images, embodiments may detect the presence of person(s) in the detection space. Also, embodiments may determine one or more characteristics of such detected person(s). Exemplary characteristics include (but are not limited to) membership in one or more demographic categories and/or activities of such persons. Further, based at least on such person detection and characteristics determining, embodiments may control delivery of content to an output device. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280440 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Rendering an Image to Convey Levels of Confidence with Respect to Materials Identification - A control circuit accesses image information regarding an image of a target. This information comprises, at least in part, information regarding material content of the target. The control circuit also accesses confidence information regarding at least one degree of confidence as pertains to the target's material content. The control circuit uses this confidence information to facilitate rendering the image such that the rendered image integrally conveys information both about materials included in the target and a relative degree of confidence that the materials are correctly identified. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280441 | PROJECTOR AND PROJECTION CONTROL METHOD - A method controls a projection of a projector. The method predetermines hand gestures, and assigns an operation function of an input device to each of the predetermined hand gestures. When an electronic file is projected onto a screen, the projector receives an image of a speaker captured by an image-capturing device connected to the projector. The projector identifies whether a hand gesture of the speaker matches one of the predetermined hand gestures. If the hand gesture matches one of the hand gestures, the projector may execute a corresponding assigned operation function. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280442 | OBJECT MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An object monitoring system and method identify a foreground object from a current frame of a video stream of a monitored area. The object monitoring system determines whether an object has entered or exited the monitored area according to the foreground object, and generates a security alarm. The object monitoring system searches N pieces of reference images just before an image is captured at the time of a generation of the security alarm, and detects information related to the object from the N pieces of reference images. By comparing the related information with vector descriptions of human body models stored in a feature database, and a holder or a remover of the object can be recognized. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280443 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an identification criterion creating unit that creates an identification criterion so as to enable identification of specific regions in a target image to be processed that is selected in chronological order from among images constituting a set of time-series images; includes a feature data calculating unit that calculates the feature data of each segmented region in the target image to be processed; and includes a specific region identifying unit that, based on the feature data of each segmented region, identifies the specific regions in the target image to be processed by using the identification criterion. Moreover, the identification criterion creating unit creates the identification criterion based on the pieces of feature data of the specific regions identified in the images that have been already processed. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280444 | CAMERA AND CORRESPONDING METHOD FOR SELECTING AN OBJECT TO BE RECORDED - A camera is described having an image capturing device, an evaluation and control unit and a storage unit, the evaluation and control unit analyzes an image sequence having at least two successively captured images recorded by the image capturing device to segment and stabilize at least one object to be recorded during the image recording. The evaluation and control unit ascertains a deliberate panning movement of the camera and compares it with ascertained movements of objects represented in the captured images, the evaluation and control unit determining at least one object as an object to be recorded, the ascertained movement of which is most consistent with the camera's ascertained panning movement, and the evaluation and control unit storing an image section of the image captured by the image capturing device in the storage unit which represents the at least one object to be recorded. Also described is a corresponding method. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280445 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING AN IMAGE GENERATED BY AT LEAST ONE CAMERA - A method for analyzing an image of a real object, particularly a printed media object, generated by at least one camera comprises the following steps: generating at least a first image by the camera capturing at least one real object, defining a first search domain comprising multiple data sets of the real object, each of the data sets being indicative of a respective portion of the real object, and analyzing at least one characteristic property of the first image of the camera with respect to the first search domain, in order to determine whether the at least one characteristic property corresponds to information of at least a particular one of the data sets of the first search domain. If it is determined that the at least one characteristic property corresponds to information of at least a particular one of the data sets, a second search domain comprising only the particular one of the data sets is defined and the second search domain is used for analyzing the first image and/or at least a second image generated by the camera. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280446 | Method and Apparatus for Selective Disqualification of Digital Images - An unsatisfactory scene is disqualified as an image acquisition control for a camera. An image is acquired. One or more eye regions are determined. The eye regions are analyzed to determine whether they are blinking, and if so, then the scene is disqualified as a candidate for a processed, permanent image while the eye is completing the blinking. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280447 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTENT PROCESSING - Cell phones and other portable devices are equipped with a variety of technologies by which existing functionality can be improved, and new functionality can be provided. Some relate to visual search capabilities, and determining appropriate actions responsive to different image inputs. Others relate to processing of image data. Still others concern metadata generation, processing, and representation. Yet others relate to coping with fixed focus limitations of cell phone cameras, e.g., in reading digital watermark data. Still others concern user interface improvements. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280448 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHIPPING CONTAINERS - A system and method, which enables precise identification of characters contained in vehicle license plates, container I.D, chassis I.D, aircraft serial number and other such identification markings. The system can process these identified characters and operate devices, such as access control operations, traffic systems and vehicle and container tracking and management systems, and provide records of all markings together with their images. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING OF COVERINGS SUCH AS LEATHER HIDES AND FABRICS FOR FURNITURE AND OTHER PRODUCTS - Methods and systems for processing coverings such as leather hides and fabrics are provided. A system can include a worktable having a surface on which a covering is placeable. An imaging device can be positionable relative to the worktable. The imaging device can be configured to obtain an image of the covering on the surface of the worktable. A projector can be positionable relative to worktable. The projector can be configured to project an image onto the surface of the worktable and the covering on the surface of the worktable. A controller can be in communication with the imaging device and projector. The controller can be configured to correct images taken by the imaging device. The controller can also be configured to correct the images projected onto the surface of the worktable and the covering thereon. The controller can be configured to permit the showing of virtual markings on the covering placed on the surface of the worktable through an image projected thereon by the projector. The covering can then be marked or cut along the virtual markings. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280450 | MOBILE IMAGE QUALITY ASSURANCE IN MOBILE DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS - Techniques for assuring the quality of mobile document image captured using a mobile device are provided. These techniques include performing one or more tests to assess the quality of images of documents captured using the mobile device. The tests can be selected based on the type of document that was imaged, the type of mobile application for which the image quality of the mobile image is being assessed, and/or other parameters such as the type of mobile device and/or the characteristics of the camera of the mobile device that was used to capture the image. The image quality assurance techniques can also be implemented on can be implemented on a mobile device and/or on a remote server where the mobile device routes the mobile image to the remote server processing and the test results are be passed from the remote server to the mobile device. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280451 | LEARNING IMAGE ANCHOR TEMPLATES FOR DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION - Methods, and corresponding systems, of generating one or more image anchor templates for discriminating between documents of a first class and documents of other classes are provided. The methods include generating one or more candidate image anchor templates; determining, using a computer processor, a quality score for each of the one or more candidate image anchor templates; ranking the one or more candidate image anchor templates according to the quality scores of the one or more candidate image anchor templates; and selecting one or more of the most highly ranked image anchor templates. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280452 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION RESULT VERIFICATION APPARATUS AND CHARACTER RECOGNITION RESULT VERIFICATION METHOD - In one embodiment, a character recognition result verification apparatus has a group generation section and a verification image generation section. The group generation section generates a group including a plurality of character images recognized as the same character from a document image including a plurality of character images. The verification image generation section generates a verification image including a first region and a second region by superimposing the plurality of character images included in the generated group. The first region corresponds to a pixel having the same pixel value in all of the plurality of character images. The second region corresponds to a pixel having the same pixel value in a part of the plurality of character images. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280453 | System and Method for Fusing Geospatial Data - Automatic conflation systems and techniques which provide vector-imagery conflation and map-imagery conflation. Vector-imagery conflation is an efficient approach that exploits knowledge from multiple data sources to identify a set of accurate control points. Vector-imagery conflation provides automatic and accurate alignment of various vector datasets and imagery, and is appropriate for GIS applications, for example, requiring alignment of vector data and imagery over large geographical regions. Map-imagery conflation utilizes common vector datasets as “glue” to automatically integrate street maps with imagery. This approach provides automatic, accurate, and intelligent images that combine the visual appeal and accuracy of imagery with the detailed attribution information often contained in such diverse maps. Both conflation approaches are applicable for GIS applications requiring, for example, alignment of vector data, raster maps, and imagery. If desired, the conflated data generated by such systems may be retrieved on-demand. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280454 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A region of an iris image where eyelash and other part images are mixed is identified with accuracy. The noise region of an iris image contained in a digital eye image (P | 2011-11-17 |
20110280455 | Determination of Tissue States by Imaging Mass Spectrometry - Spatially resolved tissue states (status image) are determined from spectrally resolved mass spectra of a tissue section by (a) acquiring a plurality of spatially resolved mass spectra of the tissue section, (b) generating at least two mass images from the spatially resolved mass spectra, (c) smoothing the mass images using an edge-preserving smoothing algorithm and (d) calculating a status image from the smoothed mass images by means of a classification algorithm derived from mathematical statistics. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280456 | METHOD OF SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATION FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - A method, system and user interface for synthetic image generation for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is described. A plurality of MR imaging data sets is received, each data set being acquired at a different value for a MR acquisition parameter. A response value for a particular property of tissues is determined, based on a calculated fit of each pixel to a property response model. A synthetic image is generated for a selected value of the MR acquisition parameter, based on the determined response value. An option is provided to dynamically change the selected value of the MR acquisition parameter and the synthetic image is re-generated for the changed value. An option may be provided to dynamically change the value. Another option may be provided to calculate a reliability measure for the synthetic image. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280457 | CLASSIFICATION OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES - The invention provides methods for automated classification of a medical diagnostic image of a lung according to its deduced probability of relating to a lung of a patient who is suffering from a diffuse parenchymal lung disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, or severe asthma, or to a class of patients characterised by the severity of such a condition, or to a class of patients characterised by a prognostic likelihood of developing such a condition or severity of condition. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280458 | Method For The Reduction Of Image Artifacts, In Particular Of Metal Artifacts, In CT Image Data - A method is disclosed for the reduction of image artifacts, in particular metal artifacts, during the generation of computed tomography image data of an object. In at least one embodiment of the method, two CT image data sets are generated with different medium x-ray energies. By way of a weighted combination of the two CT image data sets, a new image data set is calculated. The weighting factor employed in the weighted combination is here selected in such a way that the image artifacts in the new CT image data set are significantly reduced compared with the image artifacts in the two original CT image data sets. In this way it is possible in a simple manner significantly to reduce in particular metal artifacts in CT images. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280459 | X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, and a rotating unit. The first reconstruction processing reconstructs a clinical image based on projection data detected by the X-ray detector. The second reconstruction processing reconstructs a noise image based on noise data. The clinical image is combined with the noise image. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280460 | IRON QUANTIFICATION OF BRAIN MICROBLEEDS - A method to quantify iron content or effective diameter of a localized iron source in an anatomical region of a subject is provided herein. The first step is to obtain a phase image from a magnetic resonance scan of the anatomical region of the subject. The next step is identifying a dipole pattern in the phase image corresponding to a localized iron source in the anatomical region. One or more than one image parameter of the dipole pattern is then measured and related to the iron content of the localized iron source. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280461 | GROUP-WISE IMAGE REGISTRATION BASED ON MOTION MODEL - A method includes generating a set of group-wise registered images from a time sequence of images based on a region of interest of a subject or object identified in at least one of the images, the image sequence, and a motion model indicative of an estimate of a motion of the subject or object during which the image sequence is acquired. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280462 | AUTOMATIC AORTIC DETECTION AND SEGMENTATION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA - A method including searching image data corresponding to a series of axial image slices with a processor, searching axial image slices from a starting image slice and calculating a confidence score that an image slice includes a cross-section image of an aorta, identifying an image slice containing at least one seed disk, including an ascending aorta seed disk, from candidate image slices identified according to the confidence score, and growing a 3D segmentation of the ascending aorta by stacking ascending aorta image disks included in consecutive image slices beginning from the ascending aorta seed disk. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280463 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An image processing method is provided including a band image generation step for generating band images through extracting a portion of frequency components in a source image having a subject image falling thereon; a lowest-frequency image generation step for generating a lowest-frequency image having a lowest-frequency component extracted from the source image; a lowest-frequency image control step for performing conversion processing to the lowest-frequency image in accordance with a lowest-frequency function to generate a lowest-frequency controlled image; a controlled band image generation step for performing conversion processing to the band image in accordance with a high-frequency function, that is different from the lowest-frequency function, to generate a controlled band image; and an image processing step for performing dynamic range compression processing to the source image using the lowest-frequency controlled image and the controlled band image. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280464 | Image Processing Method and Computer Program - To assign angle-dependent information to an input image in order to highlight and display one-dimensional patterns. First, data of an input image is inputted to a computer (Sa | 2011-11-17 |
20110280465 | Breast Segmentation in Radiographic Images - An image segmentation embodiment comprises generating a start model comprising a set of model points approximating an outline of an object in an initial image, smoothing the image at a first smoothing level, generating a curvature image by applying a second derivative operator, locating second derivative local maxima in the curvature image that are orthogonal to a respective model point and within a search region having a first boundary on one side of the start model and a second boundary on an opposite side of the start model, generating a set of contours, shifting the start model to an outer boundary of the contours, and generating a segmentation mask of the object based on the shifted start model. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENETIC IMAGING - Sequence data, e.g., genetic sequence data such as nucleic acid or amino acid sequences, can be represented in Genetic Images, as defined herein, that provide a compact, portable image that can be analyzed electronically (e.g., by computer) or optically, e.g., visually or by optical scanning devices. New methods and systems are described by which sequence data is first converted into a numeric data set, which is, in turn, encoded to form a Genetic Image. The Genetic Image can be traced backwards to determine the original sequence data. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280467 | METHOD FOR IMAGING AND DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS OF CELLS - Provided are methods for determining and analyzing photometric and morphogenic features of small objects, such as cells to, for example, identify different cell states. In particularly, methods are provided for identifying apoptotic cells, and for distinguishing between cells undergoing apoptosis versus necrosis. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280468 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUICKLY IDENTIFYING CIRCUIT COMPONENTS IN AN EMISSION IMAGE - A system and method for localization and resolvability of an integrated circuit includes selecting one or more electrical stimuli to be applied to a device under test such that the electrical stimuli are chosen to provide a baseline image and a distinguishing image effect as a result of the chosen stimuli when applied to the device under test. The one or more electrical stimuli are applied to the device under test. Emissions from the device under test are measured to provide a measurement data set from the one or more electrical stimuli using one or more measurement tools for collecting the baseline image and the distinguishing image effect. The measurement data set is analyzed to localize and evaluate circuit structures by comparing the baseline image and the distinguishing image effect. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280469 | Run-Time Correction Of Defect Locations During Defect Review - One embodiment relates to a method for run-time correction of defect locations on a substrate during defect review. The substrate is loaded into a stage of a review apparatus, and coordinates for the defect locations on the substrate is received. The defect locations are grouped, and at least one local reference site in proximity to each group of defect locations is determined. The local reference site(s) is (are) used to determine a positional offset for the defect locations in each group. Another embodiment relates to an apparatus for reviewing defect locations on a substrate which provides for run-time correction of the defect locations. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280470 | WAFER DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING A WAFER DEFECT - It is an object to obtain an image of a wafer that is suitable for a defect inspection in an efficient manner. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280471 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, defect detection method, semiconductor device manufacturing method, and program - An image processing apparatus which compresses an image, the apparatus includes: a storage unit which stores a code book, the code book being prepared by allocating identification codes to code blocks, the code blocks being formed by executing quantization processing regarding a plurality of first image blocks as multidimensional vectors, the plurality of first image blocks being generated by cutting, in preset sizes, first regions out of a code book preparation image containing a first edge, each of the first regions surrounding and including an edge point of the first edge, the first edge being detected from the code book preparation image; an edge detection unit which detects a second edge from a compression target image containing the second edge; an image block generation unit which cuts, in preset sizes, second regions out of the compression target image to generate a plurality of second image blocks, each of the second regions surrounding and including an edge point of the detected second edge; a search unit which searches the code book stored in the storage unit for code blocks similar to the second image blocks; and an output unit which outputs information on the identification codes of the similar code blocks which have been searched for and information on coordinates of the edge points of the second image blocks. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBUST CALIBRATION BETWEEN A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM AND A ROBOT - A system and method for robustly calibrating a vision system and a robot is provided. The system and method enables a plurality of cameras to be calibrated into a robot base coordinate system to enable a machine vision/robot control system to accurately identify the location of objects of interest within robot base coordinates. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280473 | ROTATION ESTIMATION DEVICE, ROTATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND RECORD MEDIUM - A rotation estimation device includes an attitude determination section that accepts a plurality of three-dimensional images captured by an image capturing device at a plurality of timings, detects a plane region that is present in common with the plurality of images, and obtains a relative attitude of the image capturing device to the plane region in the image based on the image for each of the plurality of images; and a rotation state estimation section that obtains a rotational state of the image capturing device based on the relative attitude of the image capturing device, the relative attitude being obtained for each of the images. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280474 | AUTO CLASSIFYING IMAGES AS "IMAGE NOT AVAILABLE" IMAGES - An image may be accepted from a vendor, and the image may be submitted to an image analysis system. The image analysis system may determine whether the image is a not found image or a true image. The determination may occur in a variety of ways by examining the color and intensity characteristics of an image. After the analysis, a determination is received from the image analysis system of whether the image is a not found image or a true image. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280475 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING BOKEH EFFECT IN OUT-FOCUSING PHOTOGRAPHY - An apparatus and method for out-focusing photography in a portable terminal is disclosed, including detecting a position of each pixel corresponding to a light area from an original image, generating a blurred image by blurring the original image, mapping a preset texture in correspondence with the detected positions of the pixels in the blurred image, and outputting a result image by mixing the image in which the texture is mapped and the original image, a user can perform out-focusing photography by using a portable terminal having a small lens iris. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY LAYING OUT PHOTOS AND COLORING DESIGN ELEMENTS WITHIN A PHOTO STORY - A system and method are described for automatically laying out photos within a photo story and automatically selecting colors for design elements based on the main colors in each of the photos. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: quantizing a photo used for the photo story, the photo initially having a predefined number of colors, wherein the quantizing reduces the number of colors to N colors; determining usage values for each of the N colors to determine the most used colors in the photo; and selecting a color for a photo story design element based on the usage values for each of the N colors. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280477 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPROCESSING AN IMAGE FOR OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION - The present invention provides method and system for preprocessing an image including one or more of Arabic text and non-text items for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The method includes determining a plurality of components associated with one or more of the Arabic text and the non-text items, wherein a component includes a set of connected pixels. A first set of characteristic parameters is then calculated for the plurality of components. The plurality of components are subsequently merged based on the first set of characteristic parameters to form one or more of one or more sub-words and one or more words. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280478 | OBJECT MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An object monitoring system and method identify a foreground object from a current frame of a video stream of a monitored area. The monitoring system marks foreground pixels of the foreground object as interest points, and identifies a plurality of corresponding pixels of the foreground pixels as the interest points, to obtain a first pixel set. The object monitoring system searches pixels corresponding to the first pixel set from the background model to obtain a second pixel set if a pixel number of the first pixel set is larger than a determined value. By comparing a size of the first pixel set with that of the second pixel set, the object monitoring system can determine whether the object has entered or exited the monitored area. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280479 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus and a method for efficiently executing correction of false color, such as purple fringe, caused by chromatic aberration and for generating and outputting high-quality image data are provided. A white-saturated pixel is detected from image data, a false-color-pixel detection area is set around the detected white-saturated pixel, and pixels having color corresponding to false color such as purple fringe are detected from the set area. The detected pixels are determined as false-color pixels and correction processing based on the values of the surrounding pixels is performed on the determined false-color pixels. With this configuration, an area of false color such as purple fringe generated in the neighborhood of a white-saturated pixel can be efficiently detected, pixel values can be partially corrected, and high-quality image data can be generated and output without affecting the entire image. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280480 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SECURITY PRINTING - A system for enhancing security printing includes a segmentation system, a secure database in operative communication with the segmentation system, a secure registry in selective operative communication with the segmentation system, and an analysis system in operative communication with the segmentation system and the secure database, and in selective operative communication with the secure registry. The segmentation system performs zoning analysis on a scanned image to identifying a list of regions in the image. The secure database stores at least one of i) a template, or ii) prior zoning output specification. The secure registry stores region of interest information and information pertaining to strategies for identifying a region of interest. The analysis system identifies the region of interest utilizing at least one of the secure database or the secure registry. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280481 | USER CORRECTION OF ERRORS ARISING IN A TEXTUAL DOCUMENT UNDERGOING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) PROCESS - An electronic model of the image document is created by undergoing an OCR process. The electronic model includes elements (e.g., words, text lines, paragraphs, images) of the image document that have been determined by each of a plurality of sequentially executed stages in the OCR process. The electronic model serves as input information which is supplied to each of the stages by a previous stage that processed the image document. A graphical user interface is presented to the user so that the user can provide user input data correcting a mischaracterized item appearing in the document. Based on the user input data, the processing stage which produced the initial error that gave rise to the mischaracterized item corrects the initial error. Stages of the OCR process subsequent to this stage then correct any consequential errors arising in their respective stages as a result of the initial error. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280482 | IMAGE DATA EXPANSION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A portion of an image that has been compressed is displayed promptly. To achieve this, an image is divided into a number of units and an RST marker is inserted into a unit every ten units. The image is compressed and recorded unit by unit. In a case where an area which is a portion of the image is displayed, the image data of all units of the original data is not expanded. Rather, units in which the image data is to be expanded are decided utilizing the RST markers. Only the image data of the units decided is expanded. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280483 | Shape Clustering in Post Optical Character Recognition Processing - Techniques for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280484 | FEATURE DESIGN FOR HMM-BASED HANDWRITING RECOGNITION - The disclosed architecture is a new feature extraction approach to handwriting recognition. Given an handwriting sample (e.g., from an online source), a sequence of time-ordered dominant points are extracted, which include stroke-endings, points corresponding to local extrema of curvature, and points with a large distance to the chords formed by pairs of previously identified neighboring dominant points. At each dominant point, a multi-dimensional feature vector is extracted, which includes a combination of coordinate features, delta features, and double-delta features. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280485 | PORTRAIT ILLUSTRATION CREATION SYSTEM, CHARACTER CREATION SYSTEM, AND CREATED PORTRAIT ILLUSTRATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - A portrait illustration creation system includes a basic face photo data storage unit for storing a plurality of pieces of face photo data of basic faces, a basic portrait illustration data storage unit for storing a plurality of basic portrait illustrations, and an associating information storage unit for storing information which associates the basic face photo data with the basic portrait illustration data. The system also includes an approximate basic face photo extraction unit for recognizing, from face-photo-data-to-be-illustrated which is a photo of a face-to-be-illustrated of which a portrait illustration is desired to be created, the face-to-be-illustrated; performing matching between the face-to-be-illustrated and the basic faces represented by the plurality of pieces of basic face photo data stored on the basic face photo data storage unit; and extracting the basic face photo data having a high approximation degree. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280486 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SORTING PICTURES - A system and method for sorting pictures stored in an electronic device receives sorting features of the pictures and a sorting priority sequence of the sorting features set by a user. The pictures are sorted in each of the sorting features according to the sorting priority sequence. If pictures have no sorting features, the pictures are stored in a file of a storage system of the electronic device. The pictures having the same sorting sub-feature of the sorting feature are stored in a picture file. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280487 | IMAGE SIGNATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE - The image signature extraction device includes a first feature extraction means for extracting, from an image, first features corresponding to the respective dimensions of a feature vector; a second feature extraction means for extracting, from the image, second features which are different from the first features, corresponding to the respective dimensions of a feature vector; a feature type determination means for analyzing at least one of the image and the extracted first features as a subject for analysis to determine whether or not the feature vector constituted of the extracted first features has effectiveness in discriminating an image, and if the feature vector has the effectiveness, determining the first features to be the type of the features used for the respective dimensions, while if the feature vector does not have the effectiveness, determining the second feature to be the type of the features used for at least part of the dimensions and determining the first features to be the type of the features used for the remaining dimensions; and a feature vector generation means for generating a feature vector of the image from the extracted first features and the extracted second features, according to the determined type of the features used for the respective dimensions. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280488 | Method and system for image extraction and identification - The present invention provides a method for extracting an image texture signal, a method for identifying image and a system for identifying an image. The method for extracting an image texture signal comprises the following steps: extracting a first image signal; employing a first operation procedure to the first image signal to obtain a second image signal; employing a second operation procedure to the second image signal to obtain a third image signal; employing a third operation procedure to the third image signal to obtain a fourth image signal; outputting the fourth image signal. Therefore, the first image signal is transformed to the fourth image signal via the method for extracting an image texture signal. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280489 | SIGNAL RECOGNITION AND TRIGGERING USING COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES - A test and measurement instrument processes digital data that represents an input signal to produce a target image, and then uses a computer vision technique to recognize a signal depicted within the target image. In some embodiments, the location of the signal within the target image is identified on a display device. In other embodiments, the location of the signal within the target image is used to perform a measurement. In other embodiments, when the signal is recognized, a trigger signal is generated that causes digital data that represents the input signal to be stored in a memory. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280490 | LEARNING IMAGE TEMPLATES FOR CONTENT ANCHORING AND DATA EXTRACTION - Methods, and corresponding systems, of generating one or more image anchor templates for extracting data from a data field of a first class of documents are provided. The methods include generating one or more candidate image anchor templates from at least one of one or more exemplars of the first class; determining a quality score for each of the one or more candidate image anchor templates using a computer processor and known locations of the data field within the one or more exemplars of the first class; ranking the one or more candidate image anchor templates according to quality score; and selecting one or more of the most highly ranked image anchor templates. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280491 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENCODING 3D IMAGE - Disclosed is a three-dimensional (3D) image encoding apparatus. The 3D image encoding apparatus includes a first compressed information generation unit to generate first compressed information used to encode one image of two types of images to form a 3D image and a second compressed information generation unit to generate second compressed information used to encode another one image using the first compressed information. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280492 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: an intermediate code generating unit that, when a data string that matches an input data string of image data is found from data string of the image data input in the past, outputs a length and a position of the found data string and, when a data string that matches with the input data string is not found, outputs the input data string as escape data; and an encoding unit that performs encoding with the length of the found data string, the position of the found data string, and the escape data. When a plurality of the escape data are successively output from the intermediate code generating unit, the encoding unit encodes the plurality of escape data collectively by adding, to the plurality of the escape data, information representing a count value obtained by counting a number of the plurality of the escape data. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280493 | VISUAL ENHANCEMENT OF A DATA RECORD - A method, system and computer product are provided for visual enhancement of a data record. The method includes selecting a data record including a data field and providing one or more reference data records including the same data field as the selected data record. The method further includes: analysing the data field of the selected data record with reference to the same data field in one or more reference data records according to a defined criterion; determining an annotation of the data field of the selected data record; and applying a visual enhancement corresponding to the annotation to the data field of the selected data record. No additional text data is added to the selected data record. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280494 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ENHANCED IMAGES - A method and apparatus for generating an enhanced image is provided. The method includes receiving ( | 2011-11-17 |
20110280495 | Multi-Function Summing Machine - A system for processing an image including multiple pixels and intensity data thereof. An image memory is adapted for storing the image. An arithmetic core is connectible to the image memory and adapted for inputting the intensity data. The arithmetic core includes a multiple function processing units. One or more of the function processing units includes (i) a processing core adapted for computation of a function of the intensity data and for producing results of the computation, (ii) a first and (iii) a second accumulator for summing the results; and storage adapted to store the results. The function processing units are configured to compute the functions in parallel and sum the results simultaneously for each of the pixels in a single clock cycle. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280496 | IMAGE MEASURING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND TEACHING METHOD OF IMAGE MEASURING APPARATUS - A data memory storing Gerber data containing closed area information of a work; a display displaying a pattern image based on the closed area information of the Gerber data; a detection specification information display program displaying on the display a detection tool specifying a location of edge to be detected, a detection direction and detection length, by superimposing on the pattern image; an image capturing program and an image capturer capturing an image of an area corresponding to the detection tool of the work; an edge detection program performing an edge detection of the location of the edge to be detected with respect to data of a captured image; and a condition determination program determining a light-dark change condition indicating whether an image is changing from a light section to a dark section or from a dark section to a light section along a detection direction. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280497 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND SHARING PHOTO STORIES - A system and method are described for creating, managing and sharing photo stories. For example, one embodiment of a computer implemented method for selecting among a plurality of different photo story templates comprises: receiving a plurality of new photos from a user the photos having metadata associated; analyzing the photos and the metadata associated with the photos; responsively grouping the photos into a plurality of different photo stories based on the analysis of the photos and the metadata associated with the photos; and selecting a set of photo story design templates for each of the different photo stories based on the analysis of the photos and the metadata associated with the photos grouped into the different photo stories. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280498 | BIODEGRADABLE WASTE CONTAINER - A biodegradable waste container includes an elongated moisture proof biodegradable bag having an open end. A rigid ring is integrally connected to the bag open end. The biodegradable bag and/or the ring may be formed of a synthetic resin film including a microbe working additive. The waste container also may include elongated neck straps having a bag connecting end connected to the rigid ring and having a neck connecting portion. The neck strap also may be formed a synthetic resin film including a microbe working additive. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280499 | APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING A POSITION OF AN ITEM - An apparatus maintaining a position of an item is disclosed which includes a pouch, a flap, a magnet attracting material, and a magnetic member. The pouch includes a first panel coupled to a second panel along a periphery of the first panel and the second panel with a portion of the panels uncoupled to form an opening. The flap is positionable in an engagement position wherein the flap is positioned parallel to the second panel with the second panel disposed between the flap and the first panel. The magnet attracting material is coupled to one of the second panel and the flap with the magnetic member coupled to the other of the second panel and the flap. The magnetic member has a magnetic field sufficient to attract the magnet attracting material when one or more pieces of material are positioned between the second panel and the flap. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280500 | Toy Bag - The invention relates to a a toy bag that gathers up equally at the edges to contain toys involving many little pieces such as building blocks, etc. and provides a play area when completely extended on the ground. These characteristics are not found in a typical canvas tote bag or toy bin. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280501 | Stand-Up Bag of a Heat-Sealable Plastic Film - A stand-up bag with a film carry handle for transporting and dispensing liquid, granular or other flowable products is provided. The stand-up bag is made from a heat-sealable plastic film and includes two face panels connected to each other by a head weld and on their longitudinal edges by longitudinal welds. The stand-up bag further includes an inwardly folded film floor, a reclosable closure, and a film carry handle. The reclosable closure is a reclosable spout provided at a head seam connecting the face panels and has a screw closure. The film carry handle is attached approximately centrally to one of the face panels. | 2011-11-17 |
20110280502 | DEVICE FOR CONNECTING A BEVERAGE CONTAINER TO A FITTING - The invention relates to a device connecting a container for receiving liquid beverages, such as beer, soft drinks and wine, to a fitting ( | 2011-11-17 |