52nd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 34 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110317882 | BIOMETRIC MATCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A biometric matching apparatus comprising, an output, an input for acquiring items of biometric data, a memory and a processor, the memory comprises, a template database in which is stored a plurality of templates of items of biometric data, each template comprising a template identifier, and a sequence database in which is stored a plurality of sequences, each sequence comprising data that corresponds to template identifiers in a stored sequence order, and comprising further data or a sequence identifier for relating to further data, wherein the apparatus comprises a matching mechanism which is configured to match, after a user has entered a series of items of biometric data into the input, each inputted item against templates in the template database by comparing each item with templates and by selecting a number of templates which satisfy predetermined matching criteria based on the inputted item, and creating a list of selected templates for each inputted item, the matching mechanism is configured to store the lists in the memory in a lists order corresponding to the input order of items in the series, and is configured to identify a sequence from the sequence database in which each of the corresponding template identifiers in the sequence order relates to a selected template included in the list of selected templates which is in a position in the stored lists order corresponding to the position of the identifier in the sequence order, and the processor is configured to use the identified sequence to send the corresponding further data or sequence identifier to the output for identification of a user. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317883 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING ACCURACY OF IRIS AUTHENTICATION BY UTILIZING A PLURALITY OF IRIS IMAGES HAVING DIFFERENT PUPIL DIAMETER/IRIS DIAMETER RATIOS - A plurality of iris images are acquired (SA | 2011-12-29 |
20110317884 | AUTOMATIC APPEAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - An appeal estimation system for estimating a personal appeal of a candidate individual to an observer including a digital image capture device and a soft-copy display. The system further includes a data processing system configured to implement the steps of designating a set of proxy individuals; providing one or more digital images for each proxy individual; determining personal appeal values of each proxy individual to the observer; capturing one or more digital images of the candidate individual using the digital image capture device; determining image similarity metrics between the digital images for the candidate individual and each proxy individual; determining similarity values between the candidate individual and each proxy individual responsive to the determined image similarity metrics; estimating the personal appeal of the candidate individual to the observer by combining the personal appeal values for the proxy individuals; and displaying an indication of the estimated personal appeal on the soft-copy display. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317885 | Automatic and Semi-automatic Image Classification, Annotation and Tagging Through the Use of Image Acquisition Parameters and Metadata - A method for characterizing image contents automatically or semi-automatically using image acquisition parameters and metadata is presented. The method establishes probabilistic and deterministic relationships between different types of metadata and the semantic attributes and contents of images. It furnishes a mechanism that enables the automatic and semi-automatic classification, annotation, tagging, indexing, searching, identification or retrieval of images based on their contents, semantic properties and metadata characteristics. The method uses, but is not limited to, image capture metadata such as focal length, exposure time, relative aperture, flash information, ISO setting, angle of view, subject distance, timestamp, GPS information as well as other forms of metadata, including but not limited to, captions, keywords, headings, tags, comments, remarks, titles which may be automatically, semi-automatically, or manually generated. The present invention can be applied to image databases, web searching, personal search, community search, broad-based or vertical search engines for internet, intranet, extranet or other usages. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317886 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a housing, a fingerprint sensor, a finger detecting module, an authenticating module, and an activating module. The fingerprint sensor is provided in a top surface of the housing and configured to take a fingerprint image. The finger detecting module is spaced from the fingerprint sensor by a certain distance and is configured to detect a finger. The authenticating module is configured to cause the fingerprint sensor to take a fingerprint image when the finger detecting module detects a finger. The authenticating module is also configured to determine whether authentication has succeeded or failed based on fingerprint data obtained from the fingerprint image. The activating module is configured to boot the information processing apparatus if the authenticating module determines that the authentication has succeeded. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317887 | MECHANISM FOR DYNAMICALLY PROPAGATING REAL-TIME ALTERATIONS OF MEDICAL IMAGES - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and a mechanism for manipulating images generated by radiotherapy machines used in radiation diagnostic and treatment applications. In one embodiment, a method is provided for intelligent automatic propagation of real-time alterations across graphical structures of an image by mapping the relativity between the structures; determining the correlation between the structures and a manually edited structure; referencing a deformation map that maps a correspondence for each point in the original structure with a point in the edited structure and applying a similar relative change throughout the remaining structures in the image. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317888 | LIVER LESION SEGMENTATION - A method for segmenting a first object from a bounding object within a digital image identifies pixels between first and second endpoint pixels. A volume of interest is defined spanning at least a portion of the object. Pixels within the volume of interest are partitioned into a first subset of pixels that are neither the first object nor bounding object pixels and second subset of pixels that are not contained in the first subset. A spatially varying two-phase segmentation process segments the first object from the bounding object within the second subset of pixels according to the location of each subject pixel within the second subset relative to pixels in the first subset of pixels. The first object segmentation is refined according to the subject pixel location relative to the segmented bounding object and to the first subset of pixels. A segmented image is formed according to the refined segmentation. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317889 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE CONCENTRATION OF A TRACER IN A TISSUE STRUCTURE ASSEMBLY, AND CORRESPONDING STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE - A method provides for estimating the concentration of a tracer in a tissue structure assembly including at least one tissue structure, from a measurement image of the tracer concentration in said tissue structure assembly, which is obtained by an imaging apparatus, wherein said image includes at least one space domain inside which the tracer concentration is homogenous and at least one region of interest in which the tracer concentration is measured. The method includes: determining a geometric transfer matrix having coefficients representative of the contribution of the space domains in the measurement of the tracer concentration in the regions of interest; optimizing the coefficient of the geometric transfer matrix by defining the best regions of interest in terms of errors in order to measure the tracer concentration, the definition of the regions of interest being carried out according to an iterative loop that includes the following steps upon each iteration: modifying the regions of interest, and calculating the coefficients of the geometric transfer matrix from the modified regions of interest; selecting an optimized geometric transfer matrix among the calculated geometric transfer matrices; and estimating the tracer concentration from the optimized geometric transfer matrix. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVANCED SCANNING AND FOR DEFORMATION SIMULATION OF SURFACES - A system and method for advanced scanning and for simulation of the deformation of surfaces are particularly advantageous for the application of three-dimensional scanning in the medical field. The system and the method allow obtaining digital models of surfaces characterized by an elevated signal-to-noise ratio and by the absence of artefacts due to the movements of the subject during the timing of the scanning. In particular, therefore, the method and system allow obtaining digital models of the surface of particular anatomical areas adapted for the pre-surgery planning, for the estimation and the evaluation of the surgical outcome and for the simulation of the deformation of the bodily surfaces due to predetermined movements performed by the subject. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317891 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT SERVER, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROVISION METHOD, IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An image management server is provided including a microscopic image acquisition portion acquiring a microscopic image of a sample made of a plurality of tile images picked up by a microscope before placing the acquired microscopic image into a predetermined storage area. The image management server also includes a meta information creation portion creating meta information determining the microscopic image according to a result of data analysis acquired by the microscopic image acquisition portion; an image provision processing portion providing the meta information and the microscopic image to an image display apparatus in response to a request from the image display apparatus capable of viewing microscopic images. The image management server also includes a provided image prediction portion predicting the tile image highly likely to be requested by the image display apparatus based on hint information which is transmitted from the image display apparatus and which represents content of a microscopic image display process performed by the image display apparatus. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317892 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CLASSIFYING MEDICAL IMAGES - A method of generating a category model for classifying medical images. The method comprises providing a plurality of medical images each categorized as one of a plurality of categorized groups, generating an index of a plurality of visual words according to a distribution of a plurality of local descriptors in each the image, modeling a category model mapping a relation between each visual word and at least one of the categorized groups according to the index, and outputting the category model for facilitating the categorization of an image based on local descriptors thereof. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317893 | IMAGE DATA SET COMPRESSION BASED ON VIEWING PARAMETERS FOR STORING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA FROM MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA SETS, RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS - Methods for electronically compressing data from a multidimensional medical data set for long-term storage includes: (a) generating a first medical image from a patient multi-dimensional medical image data set in a short-term storage format; and (b) compressing the patient medical image data set into a long-term storage format using at least one viewing parameter. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317894 | PROJECTION TRUNCATION PROCESSING FOR CBCT - A method for 3-D volume image reconstruction of a subject. 2-D projection images are obtained over a range of scan angles, and one or more truncated images are identified from the obtained images. From each of the one or more truncated images, a corrected truncated image is formed by a repeated process of identifying a row of image data values in the one or more truncated images, assigning an extension length to one or both ends of the row according to the row location in the truncated image, and extending the truncated image data for the row of image data values by applying a row-dependent cosine function to each value in the extension length. A 3-D volume image is reconstructed using one or more of the corrected truncated images. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317895 | Radiotherapy system - A radiotherapy system is disclosed, comprising a support for supporting a patient undergoing radiotherapy treatment, a gantry that is rotatable about an axis, a source of radiation mounted on the gantry and producing a beam of radiation directed towards a target region of the patient, a collimator coupled to said radiation source for collimating said radiation beam, the collimator comprising a plurality of beam-limiting elements, each movable to collectively define a shaped aperture through which the radiation beam passes, a portal imager mounted on the gantry opposite the radiation source for detecting the radiation after it has passed through the patient and generating corresponding images, and associated circuitry for controlling at least the gantry, the source, the collimator, and the portal imager, collating detected data comprising a plurality of images acquired from the imager including images at a plurality of angles of rotation of said gantry and images at a plurality of collimator shapes, and generating a three-dimensional image of the target region based thereon. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317896 | MECHANISM FOR ADVANCED STRUCTURE GENERATION AND EDITING - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and a mechanism for manipulating images generated by radiotherapy machines used in radiation diagnostic and treatment applications. In one embodiment, a method is provided for intelligent automatic propagation of manual or automatic contouring across linked (e.g., registered) images and image data sets by acquiring one or more images of one or more image data sets; determining the correlation between the images with respect to identified structures; and generating a deformation map that establishes a correspondence for each point in the source image with a point in the target image. Subsequently, the intelligent propagation mechanism applies this deformation map individually to each structure of the source image and propagates the deformed structure to the target image. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317897 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED LOCALIZATION OF A MOVING STRUCTURE - A method and apparatus for automated localization of at least one moving structure internal to a body is disclosed. The method in one example comprises acquiring a sequence of images of a region of the body, the region the body including the at least one moving structure, computing a motion map of a current frame of the sequence of the images, identifying a plurality of candidate pixels comprising the motion map, clustering the plurality of candidate pixels into at least one cluster, the at least one cluster corresponding to the at least one moving structure and computing a representative point of each of the at least one cluster. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317898 | Registration of 3D tomography images - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for analyzing medical image change, particularly bone changes, either bone gain or loss. Disclosed also are methods and apparatus for bone registration of computed tomography (CT) images. These new methods and apparatus significantly improve the efficiency of current matching procedure. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317899 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NAVIGATION IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA SET - A device and to a method for navigation in a multi-dimensional image data set of an object, obtained by a medical imaging method, including depicting a randomly selectable first visual plane through the image data set as the first sectional image, in which a user can navigate and designate a point by means of an input device, and depicting, in addition to the first sectional image, a further, second sectional image, including another point, designated by the user in the first sectional image, in a second visual plane which intersects the image data set at that angle that corresponds to the perspective obtained during the recording of the image data set at the designated point. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317900 | ATTENUATION CORRECTION OF MR COILS IN A HYBRID PET/MR SYSTEM - Nuclear image data generated by a multimodal imaging device, such as a combined position emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) scanner ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110317901 | Temporal Resolution In Cardio CT - A method is disclosed for the reconstruction of picture data of a moving object under examination from measurement, with the measurement data having been recorded beforehand for a relative rotational movement between a radiation source of a computed tomography system and the object under examination. In at least one embodiment, first picture data is computed from a complete measurement dataset of the measurement data for a picture reconstruction, and second picture data is computed from an incomplete measurement dataset for a computed tomography picture reconstruction. The first picture data and the second picture data are combined into third picture data, with the combination being computed using location-dependent movement information of the object under examination. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF IMAGE PROCESSING TO DETECT EDGES - An edge detection filter comprising an array of filter coefficients having an odd number of rows and columns, a first set of zero coefficients extending along a direction traversing the array through a center position to form a first and second side, a second set of positive coefficients extending away from the direction on the first side, and a third set of negative coefficients extending away from the direction on the second side. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317903 | Method and Apparatus for Segmenting Biological Cells in a Picture - A method of segmenting biological cells in a picture so that the biological cells represent a foreground of the picture includes a step of applying a first fast marching algorithm to the picture or to a pre-processed version of same in order to obtain a first fast marching image. In addition, the method includes a step of segmenting the first fast marching image or a further-processed version of same into a plurality of homogeneous regions. Furthermore, the method includes a step of mapping each of the homogeneous regions to one node of a graph, respectively. In addition, the method includes a step of classifying each homogeneous region either as background or foreground on the basis of the graph. Moreover, the method includes a step of applying a second fast marching algorithm within the homogeneous regions classified as foreground so as to segment the foreground into individual biological cells. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317904 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR A MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - An embodiment is disclosed for performing the image processing for analyzing the results of a fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) microscopic automated sample analysis to determine specific chromosomal characteristics. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317905 | ANTI-COUNTERFEITING / AUTHENTICATION - A system includes an imager that images an object, which includes a marker that is visually obscured, a marker identifier that identifies markers in the image of the object, and an image processor that combines the image of the object and a visual representation for the identified marker into a combined image, wherein a presence of a visual representation for the marker included with the object in the combined image indicates the object is authentic. A method includes imaging an object that includes a visually obscured marker and generating an image of the object, identifying the marker in the image of the object, generating a combined image that includes the image of the object and a visual representation of the identified marker, presenting the combined image, wherein the object is authenticated as not counterfeit in response to the visual representation of the marker corresponding to a reference authentication marker for the object. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317906 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING MACHINE VISION TOOL PARAMETERS - A method for automatically determining machine vision tool parameters is presented, including: marking to indicate a desired image result for each image of a plurality of images; selecting a combination of machine vision tool parameters, and running the machine vision tool on the plurality of images using the combination of parameters to provide a computed image result for each image of the plurality of images, each computed image result including a plurality of computed measures; comparing each desired image result with a corresponding computed image result to provide a comparison result vector associated with the combination of machine vision tool parameters, then comparing the comparison result vector associated with the combination of machine vision tool parameters to a previously computed comparison result vector associated with a previous combination of machine vision tool parameters using a result comparison heuristic to determine which combination of machine vision tool parameters is best overall. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317907 | Optimized Distribution of Machine Vision Processing - A system and method is provided for remotely analyzing machine vision data. An indication of a choice of vision software is sent from a first computer to a remote second computer. The second computer, using the selected vision software, processes image data to provide a result that is transmitted from the second computer to a designated location. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317908 | Method for Performing Pattern Decomposition Based on Feature Pitch - The present invention discloses a method for decomposing a target pattern containing features to be printed on a wafer, into multiple patterns, the features having a plurality of patterns within a minimum pitch for processes utilized to image the target pattern. The method includes superposing a predefined kernel over a pixel, and moving the kernel from one pixel to another, the pixels representing the sub-patterns of the target pattern. Polarity of the kernel may be reversed when the pixel has a stored intensity value that is negative. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317909 | TOOL WEAR QUANTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A portable wear quantification system includes a hand-held image acquisition device and a fixture. The fixture includes a first end coupled to the image acquisition device. A light source emits a light beam along an emission axis. A beam splitter is disposed at an angle with respect to an axis of view of the image acquisition device for directing the beam from the light source toward a portion of an object. A second end of the fixture is located on an opposite side of the beam splitter from the first end. The second end includes a platform that is configured to position the fixture with respect to the object. A channel extends from the first end to the second end along the axis of view of the image acquisition device. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317910 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An image analysis method includes acquiring images of spatially different analysis regions. Each of the images of the analysis regions is constituted by pixels including a plurality of data acquired simultaneously or time-serially. The method further includes obtaining a cross-correlation between two analysis regions by using data of pixels of images of the analysis regions. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317911 | COLOR ROLLING DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION DEVICE - The present invention discloses a color rolling detection method and detection device for an input image, which can detect a phenomenon of color rolling in the image rapidly, efficiently and at a low cost. The detection method includes the steps of: an extracting step for extracting parameter values indicative of the color or brightness of the image in a detection time period T | 2011-12-29 |
20110317912 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium coding and decoding depth image using color image - A depth image may be compressed and transmitted after being sampled to have less information before being coded, as opposed to a conventional scheme of compressing an original depth image. An uncompressed depth image of a non-transmitted depth image may be restored by sampling based on color information associated with a decoded color image and depth information associated with a decoded depth image. Thus, compression may be improved. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317913 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which applies processing to image data encoded by an encoding method that encodes image data by holding, for each block including the predetermined number of pixels, color information and color layout information included in that block, the apparatus comprises: a detection unit configured to detect a region including successive pixels having identical color information, the number of pixels of which is larger than a predetermined value, using the color information and the color layout information in the encoded image data; and a conversion unit configured to convert color information of a pixel corresponding to a predetermined position in the region, and layout information of a block including the pixel at the predetermined position, of a plurality of blocks including the region detected by the detection unit. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317914 | TECHNIQUES FOR ROBUST COLOR TRANSFER - Techniques and systems to transfer color robustly between images are described. In an embodiment, a technique for transferring color includes separating color information of a registered source image into a one dimensional luminosity channel and multi-dimensional chromatic channels. The technique further includes building a voting table, where each table cell is indexed by the chromatic coordinates from the source image and from the destination image. The table is built by adding to a count stored in a table cell indexed by the chromatic coordinates of the source pixel and the chromatic coordinates of its related destination pixel for each occurrence of such a pairing. The voting table values are used to identify a transfer color, and to adjust the colors of the source image to the colors of the destination image. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317915 | SWITCHING CONTROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING IMAGE GRAININESS DURING COLOR MANAGEMENT PROFILE CONSTRUCTION - A switching controller system and method for improving graininess in an image during a profile construction. A switching control strategy can be employed to construct an ICC destination profile by switching between a first controller (e.g., a 3-input 4-output controller) and a second controller (e.g., a 3-input 3-output controller) based on a color space region that requires a graininess minimization. The first controller dynamically modifies the CMYK values until reaching a subset of LAB values contained in the ICC profile. The second controller varies three colorants and holds a remaining colorant of the CMYK values until reaching the remaining LAB values in the ICC profile. Such an approach reduces the graininess and provides an improved smoothness with respect to the image during the ICC profile construction. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317916 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DENOISING AND DEMOSAICKING FOR NOISY COLOR FILTER ARRAY VIDEOS - A method for spatial-temporal denoising and demosaicking for noisy color filter array (CFA) video, the method including applying spatial-temporal CFA video denoising ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110317917 | Skin-tone Filtering - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are disclosed relating to skin-tone filtering for reducing the impact of lighting conditions, while providing a low-computation solution for effective face detection. In one aspect, methods include sampling a digital image frame from among a series of digital image frames. The methods further include analyzing pixels within the sampled digital image frame to determine whether pixels in the sampled digital image frame have a hue, independent of lightness, that is within a range of hues corresponding to human skin tone. Further, the methods include deciding whether the sampled digital image frame includes a depiction of human skin based on a result of the analyzing. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317918 | METHOD FOR CHANGING AN IMAGE DATA SIGNAL, DEVICE FOR CHANGING AN IMAGE DATA SIGNAL, DISPLAY DEVICE - In a method for color enhancement the color distance between spatially close colored pixel or pixel areas does not change more than a threshold, the threshold being a function of the initial color distance. The color difference between pixels that are close together and did not differ much in color will be restricted. This reduces the change on unnatural looking parts of an image and allows more pronounced color enhancement to be 5 used. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317919 | PRODUCING STRUCTURE-BASED ASCII PICTURES - Provided are methods and devices for producing an ASCII picture from a vector outline image. The method comprises rasterizing the vector outline image into a plurality of grid cells, at least one of which has a reference image; matching each reference image with an ASCII character based on log-polar histograms thereof; and gathering all matched ASCII characters to form the ASCII picture. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317920 | APPROACH FOR RESOLVING OCCLUSIONS, SPLITS AND MERGES IN VIDEO IMAGES - Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for resolving an occlusion in a video image. Specifically, an embodiment of the present invention provides an environment in which portions of a video image in which occlusions have occurred may be determined and analyzed to determine the type of occlusion. Furthermore, regions of the video image may be analyzed to determine which object in the occlusion the region belongs to. The determinations and analysis may use such factors as pre-determined attributes of an object, such as color or texture of the object and/or a temporal association of the object, among others. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317921 | INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - The invention relates to information processing equipment and method and an information processing system, and specifically to information processing equipment and method and an information processing system that can realize interactive communications with improved video image quality and with preserved realistic sensations even in an uplink band. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317922 | INCREASING INTEREST POINT COVERAGE IN AN IMAGE - A system for generating virtual interest points in an image, according to detected interest points in that image is detected by an interest point detector. The system includes: an interest point density map producer and an interest point generator, the interest point density map producer receiving the image including the detected interest points, the interest point density map producer extracts a density map of the detected interest points within the image. The interest point generator is coupled with the interest point density map producer, the interest point generator receiving the image including the detected interest points and the interest point density map. The interest point generator determines image areas for generating virtual interest points, the interest point generator generating at least one virtual interest point at the determined areas according to at least the position of one of the detected interest points, the virtual interest point not being detected by the interest point detector. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317923 | METHOD OF COMPILING IMAGE DATABASE, IMAGE DATABASE COMPILATION PROGRAM, IMAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD - A method for creating an image database comprising an extraction step of extracting reference feature vectors from a reference image which should be compared with a retrieval query image for object recognition, the reference feature vectors corresponding to local features at different positions of the reference image and representing the position and characteristics of each of the local features as a vector position, vector length, and a vector direction, a clustering step of creating a plurality of clusters consisting of different reference feature vectors in such a manner that each reference vector belongs to any of the plurality of clusters, a selection step of selecting the representative vector of the clusters from among the reference feature vectors of each of the clusters, and a step of associating the representative vector with the reference image and registering the representative vector associated therewith in the image database for the object recognition, wherein, in the clustering step, each of the clusters is created in such a manner that reference feature vectors at a near vector position belong to the same cluster, and in the selection step, reference feature vectors with long vector length are given priority to select the representative vector, and wherein the retrieval query image and the reference image are compared with each other by generating at least one query feature vector from the retrieval query image, and applying local search between the query feature vector and the representative vector, each of the steps being executed by computers. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317924 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus including: an edge detection processing section configured to generate an edge image by performing edge detection processing on a detection target image from which a target object is to be detected; a segment area setting section configured to segmentalize the edge image into a plurality of segment areas; an index value calculation section configured to calculate, for each of the plurality of segment areas, an edge component index value that indicates an amount of edge components included in each segment area; and a target object determining section configured to determine whether there is an image of the target object in each segment area based on the edge component index value. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317925 | Method for Recognizing Three-Dimensional Control Point and Computer Readable Medium Using the Same Thereof - A method for recognizing three-dimensional control points and a computer readable medium using the same are disclosed. The method for recognizing three-dimensional control points comprises the following steps. A depth information item corresponding to an image captured by an image capturing apparatus is received. A three-dimensional block information item corresponding to a three-dimensional block is generated according to the depth information. At least one reference plane is generated according to the depth information. At least one connection group is generated according to the three-dimensional block information and the reference plane. A three-dimensional block nearest to the image capturing apparatus is selected as a control point from the connection group. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317926 | UNGUIDED CURIOSITY IN SUPPORT OF ENTITY RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES - Provided are techniques for receiving data comprising an entity having at least one feature; determining how the entity correlates with an existing entity, identifying an additional feature to increase confidence of the entity resolution, searching a data source for the additional feature to obtain an observation containing the additional feature, and performing the entity resolution using the at least one feature and the additional feature. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317927 | CLUSTERING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CLUSTERING PROCESSING METHOD - A clustering processing apparatus comprises: N clustering units that group samples included in the data block into clusters, each clustering unit sequentially taking each sample as a target, grouping the target sample into one of the clusters within the data block, storing cluster information including identification on each cluster into which the samples are grouped within the data block, and storing sample assignment information indicating the cluster to which the target sample belongs; a cluster information transferring unit that selects cluster information on a cluster to be integrated from the cluster information when a predetermined condition is met, and transfers the selected cluster information to a third storage unit; and an updating unit that integrates clusters selected based on the cluster information stored in the third storage unit into an integrated cluster, and updates the sample assignment information based on information of the integrated clusters. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317928 | IMAGE EVALUATING DEVICE, IMAGE EVALUATING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided is an image evaluation apparatus for evaluating each of a plurality of images, the images including objects that each belong to a cluster. The image evaluation apparatus calculates (i) a first value pertaining to an object appearing in an image (for instance, the first value indicates a frequency at which the object appears in the plurality of images) according to a cluster that the object belongs to and (ii) a second value pertaining to the object (for instance, the second value indicates an occupation degree of the object in the image) according to an appearance characteristic that the object exhibits in the image. The image evaluation apparatus further calculates, according to the first value and second value, an importance degree of the object and an importance degree of the image. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317929 | 2 DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE - An image is divided into subbands by wavelet transform using the Haar function as the base, and the lowest-frequency LL subband is entirely encoded. LH, HL, and HH subband coefficients which belong to the wavelet decomposition level of each hierarchy are then encoded such that coefficients at the same spatial position are encoded at once. The decoding side first decompresses the lowest-frequency LL subband, and then decodes sets of the LH, HL, and HH coefficients at the same spatial position in the subband of each wavelet decomposition level one by one. The decoding side immediately performs inverse wavelet transform by using the coefficient values, thereby obtaining the LL coefficient value of the next wavelet decomposition level. This makes it possible to sufficiently increase the processing speed even when the wavelet encoding/decoding is performed using a sequential CPU. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY ENCODING/DECODING SYNTAX ELEMENTS, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING SAME - An apparatus and a method for motion vector encoding/decoding, and to an apparatus and a method for image encoding/decoding using same are provided. The apparatus includes a selector of optimal predicted motion vector PMV from candidate motion vector set of current block; a determiner of motion vector prediction mode of current block with selected motion vector prediction mode from multiple motion vector prediction modes by decision criterion prearranged with motion vector decoding apparatus; and an encoder for determining, by determined motion vector prediction mode, optimal PMV or default predicted motion vector into PMV for current motion vector, encoding differential vector between the current block and PMV, and selectively encoding/outputting determined motion vector prediction mode as encoded motion vector prediction mode by the determined motion vector prediction mode. Bit quantity in encoding a motion vector is reduced improving encoding efficiency and preventing decoder crash even at encoding error, improving decoder. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317931 | COMPRESSING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES IN A LOW RESOLUTION VIDEO - A method for compressing an image as a sequence of video frames, comprising dividing the image into a plurality of tiles and compressing a tile, or part thereof, as a frame in the video sequence. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317932 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD WITH VARIABLE QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS AND VARIABLE CODING PARAMETERS - An image compression method is used for processing a plurality of pixels of an image. The image compression method includes the steps of receiving N pixels; analyzing the N pixels and generating a content type corresponding to the N pixels; obtaining a quantization parameter and a coding parameter corresponding to the N pixels according to the content type and a currently available buffer space value; obtaining N quantized differences corresponding to the N pixels through a prediction and quantization way according to values of the N pixels and the quantization parameter; and encoding the N quantized differences according to the N quantized differences and the coding parameter. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317933 | Image Coding Method for Facilitating Run Length Coding and Image Encoding Device Thereof - An image coding method for run-length coding (RLC), including quantizing a coefficient string representing a plurality of pixel values to generate a first quantization coefficient string, determining a cutoff quantization coefficient in the first quantization coefficient string, discarding a part of quantization coefficients of the first quantization coefficient string according to the cutoff quantization coefficient, and forming remaining quantization coefficients of the first quantization coefficient string as a second quantization coefficient string, and performing image coding to the second quantization coefficient string with the RLC. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317934 | PROVIDING AN IMAGING OPERATOR FOR IMAGING A SUBTERRANEAN STRUCTURE - To perform imaging of a subterranean structure, an imaging operator is generated through the design of a weight, where the weight is computed according to a design criterion, where the design criterion is selected from the group consisting of: (1) the imaging operator provides a true amplitude image; (2) the imaging operator minimizes mean square error; and (3) the imaging operator corresponds to a least squares inverse of a forward modeling operator. The weighted filter as defined by the computed weights is applied to produce an image of a subterranean structure. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317935 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND A COMPUTER READABLE NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes, a block division unit configured to divide at least a part of an area of an input image into a plurality of blocks; a block classification unit configured to classify each block in the input image into a white block and a black block based on a variance of luminance values in a white block that typically includes white pixels and a variance of luminance values in a black block that includes at least black pixels among white pixels and black pixels; and a luminance correction unit configured to correct a luminance value of each pixel in a black block in the input image based on an average luminance value of pixels in one or more white blocks in the vicinity of the black block. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317936 | Image Processing Method and Computer Program - To obtain an output image where contrast relating to the luminance of an input image has been adjusted. In an image processing method for adjusting the luminance value of each pixel contained in an input image, first, a closed region β(x, y) made up of a plurality of pixels in the input image is demarcated as a target region, and the target region is moved within the input image by predetermined pixel units. At this point, a maximum value and a minimum value of luminance energy defined as a luminance arrangement in the target region are calculated, and difference data of the luminance energy is calculated (step S | 2011-12-29 |
20110317937 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus is provided that includes an obtaining section and a selecting section. The obtaining section obtains information of first and second images that each have an overlapped region where the first image and the second image are overlapped and constitute a taken image including an image part of a subject by being connected with each other with the overlapped region as a reference. The selecting section determines pixels other than the image part of the subject based on information of a plurality of pixels that belong to the overlapped region of the first image where the first image is overlapped with the second image, the information of the plurality of pixels being included in the obtained information of the first image, and selects, out of the determined pixels, a connection pixel corresponding to a position where the first image and the second image are connected in the overlapped region. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317938 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for processing image data by a plurality of pipeline-connected processing modules is provided. The apparatus includes a first pipeline processing unit configured to include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every first size; and a second pipeline processing unit configured to be branched from the first pipeline processing unit and include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every second size different from the first size. The second pipeline processing unit includes, at a start, a change unit configured to acquire partial image data of the first size from the first pipeline processing unit and change the partial image data of the first size into partial image data of the second size. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317939 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNITION OF WRITING, FOR REMOTE COMMUNICATION, AND FOR USER DEFINED INPUT TEMPLATES - A device including a housing, a writing tip connected to the housing, a writing surface position indicator, a processor in the housing, a memory device in the housing connected to the processor, and a sensor in the housing and cooperative with the writing surface position indicator. The device may be used to record writings and drawings applied to a surface by a user, to transmit that data to a remote device, to download data from remote devices, and to otherwise communicate with remote devices. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317940 | PORTABLE DISPLAY HAVING STORAGE FUNCTION - The present invention provides a portable display having storage function, which comprises a baggy body, a display and at least one handle. The baggy body having four flanks and a bottom surface, wherein the four flanks are connected to the bottom surface to form a accommodation space, the four flanks are connected to form an opening part, and at least one flexible wire installed in the opening part to open and close the opening part easily. The display disposed on the baggy body and the handle disposed in the opening part of the baggy body. The present invention can let the user according to their own needs to carry out belongings of individuals by the accommodation space of baggy body. Moreover, the present invention provides flexibility of angle-adjustable function by the flexible wire of baggy body. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317941 | PACKAGING BAG FOR SECONDARY PACKAGING CONFIGURED TO TRANSPORT INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES - A packaging bag for secondary packaging which allows safety transport of infectious substances is provided. Front and back surface materials are placed on top of another and formed into a bag member by heat-sealing both side edge and bottom edge portions continuously. Partitioning materials formed of a plastic sheet or film having a required size are disposed on inner surfaces of the upper ends of the front and back surface materials and attached to the front and back surface materials by heat-sealing both side edge and bottom edge portions except for an upper end edge portion to form pocket portions. A sealing material is stuck to the back surface material on the outside of the upper end portion thereof so as not to be opened. The internal pressure is received by one of the pocket portions when the internal pressure in the packaging bag is increased. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317942 | SLIDER TRACK WITH IMPROVED SEAL STRENGTH - Rolling action reclosable fastener comprises a male track including a male profile, a female track including a female profile, and a slider disposed on the male and female tracks to matingly engage the male profile and the female profile. The slider includes a back and a pair of sidewall depending therefrom. The slider also includes a separator finger depending from the back between the pair of sidewalls and shaped along its length to first press together a bottom of the male and female profiles and then roll the profiles closed toward a top thereof as the slider moves toward the closed condition. The male profile comprises a base and a rib with a hook portion having an inwardly-directed surface including a projection defining an engagement surface. The female profile comprises a base and a first flange having an inwardly-directed surface including a projection defining an engaging surface. The engaging surface of the female track engages the engagement surface of the male track when in a closed condition with at least a portion of the male profile received by at least a portion of the female profile. A reclosable plastic bag with a rolling action reclosable fastener is also provided. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317943 | MULTI-FUNCTION, MAGNETIC, FOLDING REUSABLE BAG WITH NOTEPAD, PEN AND CLIP - The present invention generally relates to reusable tote bags. Specifically, this invention relates to a reusable tote bag that is capable of securely folding in such a manner as to allow a useable writing surface attached thereto to be utilized as a built-in notepad with writing instrument and clip. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317944 | BACKING PLATE FOR STORAGE BAGS AS WELL AS STORAGE BAG AND STORAGE BOX WITH THE SAME - The present invention discloses a backing plate for storage bags as well as a storage bag and a storage box with the same. With this backing plate including a backing plate body, a trapezoid or triangular edge fold is formed as an extension to one end of the backing plate body, and another trapezoid or triangular edge fold as an extension to the other end of the backing plate body. With the backing plate arranged in the storage bag and the storage box, there are no requirements for the two edge folds extended outwards at the bottom of the storage bag. This will not only strengthen the stereoscopic perception of the storage bag, but also save materials and reduce the production cost, better satisfying the users' requirements. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317945 | Bag - A thermoplastic bag may include a sidewall that may have a plurality of first and second ribs formed therein. The first ribs may be longer in length but shorter in height than the second ribs. The second ribs may be arranged in discrete networks that appear superimposed over the first ribs. The second ribs may normally remain in a bent-over configuration. When a force is applied, the second ribs may expand the area of the sidewall so that the bag may easily accommodate large objects. To produce the bag, a thermoplastic web may be directed between opposing first and second rollers. One of the rollers may include ridges that may have first and second segments of differing heights that correspond to the differing heights of the first and second ribs. The formation of the first ribs may increase the width of the web. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317946 | TELESCOPIC RAIL DEVICE AND MUFFLE COMPRISING SAID TELESCOPIC RAIL DEVICE - A telescopic rail device is provided that includes a first rail, a second rail, and an adapter. The first rail is mobile relative to the second rail, and the first or second rail is detachably connected to the adapter. The adapter is in a stable position relative to the first or second rail that the adapter is detachably connected to. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317947 | SLIDING PULG AND SLIDING ELEMENT - The invention relates to a sliding plug and to a sliding element. The sliding plug, which is inserted into a carrier body of a sliding element, comprises a circumferential surface that has at least one rib extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the sliding plug. The sliding element, which is provided with such sliding plugs, preferably comprises a receiving hole having a small-diameter section and having a large-diameter section. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317948 | HYDRODYNAMIC FOIL BEARING ASSEMBLY - A bearing housing of a hydrodynamic foil bearing assembly has an opening for allowing flow of a fluid into the bearing housing. Also included in the a hydrodynamic foil bearing assembly is at least one foil having at least one opening and defining a cylindrical hollow space for receiving a rotating shaft therein. Fluid is supplied from the opening of the bearing housing to a gap between the at least one foil and the rotating shaft through the at least one opening of the at least one foil to form a pressurized fluid film therein. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317949 | SINTERED METALLIC BEARING AND FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE BEARING - A sintered metal bearing is obtained by compression-molding of a raw-material powder containing at least a Cu powder, an SUS powder, and a pure Fe powder and thereafter sintering a compression-molded body at a predetermined temperature. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317950 | Motor device - Disclosed is a motor device. The motor device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a sleeve having a shaft hole expanding downwardly in an axial direction; a shaft having a head part having exposed to a top portion of the sleeve and a body part having a shape corresponding to the shaft hole; a rotor case combined to the head part and rotating in connection with the shaft; an oil sealing part formed between the rotor case and the sleeve and an oil interface to seal oil provided to have a taper shape; and a thrust dynamic part formed on at least one of the rotor case and the sleeve and pumping the oil interface in an inner-diameter direction from the oil interface at the time of the rotation of the rotor case. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317951 | INTEGRATED BEARING ASSEMBLY - An integrated bearing assembly comprising first and second cylindrical members radially spaced apart from one another along an axis of rotation. The first cylindrical member supports a first portion of a first bearing track while the second cylindrical member supports a second portion of the first bearing track. The first and the second portions face one another and a plurality of bearing elements are retained therein to facilitate relative rotation. At least one of the first and second portions comprises a pair of adjacent V-shaped bearing surfaces. One of the first and the second cylindrical members supports a retaining element which has a bearing surface that forms at least a portion of one of the first and second portions of the first bearing track. The retaining element is adjustable, in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation, to adjust a pressure to be applied to the plurality of captively retained bearings. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317952 | TANDEM ANGULAR CONTACT ROLLER BEARING WITH CONCAVE ROLLER PROFILE FOR IMPROVED ROLLER GUIDANCE - A tandem roller bearing having circumferential inner and outer races each having first and second contact surfaces with convex profiles is provided. Rolling elements are arranged between the inner and outer races, each of the rolling elements having a concave profile corresponding to the convex profiles of a respective pairing of the first contact surfaces of the inner and outer races or of the second contact surfaces of the inner and outer races. A cage is arranged between the inner and outer races that separates and is guided by the rolling elements. The rolling elements include first and second sets of rolling elements having first and second axes of rotation that are arranged between the first and second contact surfaces of the inner and outer races, respectively. The first and second axes of rotation are inclined in a same direction with respect to a central axis of the inner race. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317953 | BEARING CLOSURE/SHIELD FOR CURRENT PASSAGE IN ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT - At least one closure element is arranged between an outer ring and an inner ring of a 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 and onto a shaft of an associated machine. The closure element can take the form of either a seal or a shield. The closure element is arranged in the outer ring and contacts at least one of the notches of the inner ring. Preferably, more than one closure element is used. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317954 | Motor Vehicle Bump Stop Comprising a Set of at Least Two Mounted Seal Rings - A motor vehicle bump stop has an upper retainer, a lower retainer and rolling bodies arranged between the retainers to enable the relative rotation thereof, the retainers are arranged to form together at least one annular space defined laterally by two respectively inner and outer axial walls. The stop has a set of at least two mounted seal rings stacked axially in the space with an axial clearance. The rings are mounted on the inner or outer wall and form a radial clearance with the outer or inner wall, so as to form a sealing baffle in the space. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317955 | BEARINGS - A plastics polymer-based bearing material and a method manufacture thereof are described, the material comprising a matrix of a polyimide/amide plastics polymer material and having distributed throughout the matrix: from 5 to less than 15 vol % of a metal powder; from 1 to 15 vol % of a fluoropolymer, the balance being the polyimide/amide resin apart from incidental impurities. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317956 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL MODULATOR, SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL INTEGRATED DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The invention provides a semiconductor optical modulator including a two-step mesa optical waveguide having a first clad layer ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110317957 | Optical flexible printed circuit board with optical waveguides and method manufacturing the same - The present invention provides an optical flexible printed circuit board comprising: a base layer; an optical waveguide pattern disposed on a partial region of the base layer; an insulating layer which is disposed on the base layer with the optical waveguide pattern and has a surface profile bent by the optical waveguide pattern; and circuit wires disposed on one surface of the base layer. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317958 | Vent Structures For Encapsulated Components On An SOI-Based Photonics Platform - An silicon-on-insulator (SOI)-based photonics platform is formed to including a venting structure for encapsulating the active and passive optical components formed on the SOI-based photonics platform. The venting structure is used to allow for the encapsulated components to “breathe” such that water vapor and gasses will pass through the package and not condensate on any of the encapsulated optical surfaces. The venting structure is configured to also to prevent dust, liquids and other particulate material from entering the package. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317959 | FERRULE AND FERRULE WITH OPTICAL FIBER - Provided is a ferrule which includes a positioning mechanism configured to position an optical fiber having a predetermined outer diameter, and a recess configured for an adhesive to be disposed therein and having a first inner wall from which a front end of the optical fiber portion positioned by the positioning mechanism is protrudable, and a second inner wall opposite to the first inner wall. A distance between the first inner wall and the second inner wall is less than or equal to four times the outer diameter of the optical fiber. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317960 | DIRECT COUPLING OF OPTICAL SLOT WAVEGUIDE TO ANOTHER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE - Devices, systems and techniques for directly coupling an optical slot waveguide to another optical waveguide without a taper waveguide region between the two optical waveguides. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317961 | FIXED ATTENUATION AIR GAP INTERFACE FOR A MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBER INTERCONNECTION - A fiber-to-fiber connector system that includes a first connector for housing a portion of a first fiber, where the first fiber is terminated by a first end-face. The fiber-to-fiber connection system also includes a second connector for housing a portion of a second fiber, where the second fiber is terminated by a second end-face, where the first connector and the second connector permit the first fiber and the second fiber to be interconnected to form an air gap interface between the first end-face and the second end-face; the air gap interface defines a spacing between the first end-face and the second end-face; and the air gap interface enables, based on the defined spacing, an optical signal to be transmitted between the first fiber and the second fiber with a fixed quantity of attenuation. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317962 | CABLE ASSEMBLY HAVING FLOATABLE OPTICAL MODULE - A cable assembly ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110317963 | CONNECTOR FOR A FIBER PROBE AND A FIBER PROBE ADAPTED TO SAID CONNECTOR - A connector to connect a fiber bundle probe to a light injection module including a tightening cam having an opening of a specified shape adapted to receive the fiber bundle probe, a cam driving coupled to the tightening cam, wherein the tightening cam is configured to translate in response to rotation of the cam driving until the tightening cam is blocked, at least one spring extending between the tightening cam and the cam driving, wherein the at least one spring is configured to resist when the cam driving is actuated by rotation and the tightening cam is blocked, and a locking mechanism to lock the cam driving into a selected position. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317964 | Cooling method for CXP active optical transceivers - CXP is a telecommunications connector standard based on cage assemblies originally designed for copper cables. Optical transceivers dissipate more heat than copper cables, however, so cage assemblies designed for copper cables cannot remove heat adequately for proper transceiver operation. One embodiment of the inventive cage assemblies removes heat from an optical transceiver with a heat spreader, which protrudes through an aperture in a cage, and a compressible gap pad in thermal contact with the heat spreader. Inserting the optical transceiver into the cage places the transceiver in thermal contact with a heat spreader and pushes the heat spreader out of the cage, which, in turn, causes the gap pad to come into thermal contact with a heat pipe and/or a heat sink. The embodiment provide a low mechanical profile to support high-density circuit board configurations for high-density optical connectivity systems, such as used in Dense Wavelength Division optical networking. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317965 | OPTICAL SUBASSEMBLY WITH OPTICAL DEVICE HAVING CERAMIC PACKAGE - An optical subassembly (OSA) with a newly arranged optical device is disclosed. The OSA provides a ceramic package that installs a semiconductor optical device, a joint portion welded to a lid of the ceramic package, and an optical coupling portion that receives an external optical fiber. In the OSA, the seal ring put between the top of the multi-layered ceramic package and the lid is isolated from the optical device; accordingly, the lid, the joint portion and the optical coupling portion are electrically isolated from the semiconductor optical device even when the OSA is installed in an optical apparatus such as an optical transceiver. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317966 | SPLICED JOINT BETWEEN TWO OPTICAL FIBERS, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SUCH A SPLICED JOINT - Disclosed is a spliced joint between two fibers, in which at least one of the fibers includes a fiber core comprising at least one inner signaling core and a pumping core that surrounds the signaling core, and a fiber cladding which rests against the pumping core and is used for guiding light within the pumping core. The fiber cladding of the at least one fiber is removed at least in part in a radial direction in a connection zone extending from the spliced end of the fiber along a predetermined length in the longitudinal direction of the fiber. Furthermore, a supporting jacket may be provided, inside which the spliced ends of the two fibers are arranged and which extends along the entire connection zone and therebeyond. The supporting jacket may be mechanically connected to both fibers next to the connection zone while not being mechanically connected to and being at a distance from the respective fiber along the entire connection zone. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317967 | SPLICED CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO OPTICAL FIBERS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SPLICED CONNECTION OF THIS TYPE - The invention in certain embodiments relates to a spliced connection between first and second optical fibres, each of which has a fibre core and fibre cladding resting against said core. In said connection, the fibre cladding of at least one of the two fibres is completely removed in a connection region that extends for a predetermined length from the spliced end of the respective fibre in the longitudinal direction of the fibre and said connection is provided with a support sleeve, in which the spliced ends of the two fibres are located and which extends at least along the entire connection region of the first fibre and beyond, over the fibre cladding of the first fibre. The section of the support sleeve that extends over the fibre cladding of the first fibre does not rest against the fibre cladding of the first fibre and said sleeve is mechanically connected to the fibre core of the first fibre in the connection region of said first fibre, either directly or by means of an intermediate sleeve. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317968 | FIBER OPTIC CABLE FURCATION METHODS AND ASSEMBLIES - Fiber optic cable furcation methods and assemblies are disclosed, wherein the method includes removing an end portion of the cable outer jacket from the fiber optic cable to expose end portions of the micromodules contained within. The method also includes helically stranding the exposed micromodule end portions to form a stranded section having a stranded configuration that includes at least three turns and that substantially immobilizes the optical fibers within their respective micromodules. The method also includes arranging a maintaining member on at least a portion of the stranded section to maintain the stranded configuration. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317969 | Method and Spacer for Assembling Flexible Optical Waveguide Ribbons, and Assembled Stack of Such Ribbons - A method and spacer for assembling flexible optical waveguide ribbons and assembled stack of such ribbons. The method includes the steps of: providing at least two optical waveguide ribbons and a spacer, which includes at least two calibrated spaces; positioning a ribbon stack in the spacer, where the ribbon stack includes the at least two optical waveguide ribbons stacked on top of each other; constraining positioned ribbon stack in one of the calibrated spaces; and fixing constrained ribbon stack in the calibrated spaces. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317970 | HOLLOW FIBER - A hollow fiber has a hollow tube, a reflecting film formed on an inner wall of the hollow tube, and the reflecting film is a first metal film formed by baking a first metal nano particle solution including a first metal nano particle. The hollow fiber may have a transparent film on the first metal film. The transparent film is formed by baking or chemically reacting from a second metal nano particle included in a second metal nano particle solution. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317971 | CABLE MANAGEMENT PANEL - A cable management panel having a chassis and a sliding drawer. The drawer having a cable storage region, a cable splice region, and a cable termination region. The cable management panel including cable guides that define an incoming cable pathway to the cable storage region, and then to the cable splice region; an intermediate cable pathway to the cable termination region, and an outgoing cable pathway. The outgoing cable pathway having an S-curved cable routing configuration when the sliding drawer is closed. The chassis of the cable management panel defining an interior sized for receipt of one two-rack-unit drawer, or in the alternative, two one-rack-unit drawers. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317972 | Optical device, optical arrangement and optical element holder - Embodiments provide an optical device including a carrier; a light source; a receiving chamber in or on the carrier wherein the receiving chamber is configured to receive an optical element; the optical element received in the receiving chamber; a plurality of actuators; and a waveguide arranged to receive light transmitted from the light source through the optical element. At least one of the receiving chamber and the actuators is arranged and configured to adjust the position of the optical element in the receiving chamber in a first direction perpendicular to the main surface of the carrier and in a second direction in-plane with the main surface of the carrier. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317973 | FIBER OPTIC TERMINATION SYSTEM - A fiber optic telecommunications frame is provided including termination modules positioned on left and right sides of the frame. The frame further includes left and right vertical cable guides. The frame includes a horizontal passage linking the left and right panels and the cable guides. The termination modules hold fiber optic modules with front termination locations. The fiber optic modules can house couplers, such as splitters, combiners, and wave length division multiplexers. A retention mechanism retains each fiber optic module in a partially removed position from the termination module. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317974 | Telecommunications Assembly - A telecommunications assembly includes a chassis defining an interior region and a tray assembly disposed in the interior region. The tray assembly includes a tray and a cable spool assembly. The cable spool assembly is engaged to a base panel of the tray. The cable spool assembly is adapted to rotate relative to the tray. The cable spool assembly includes a hub, a flange engaged to the hub and an adapter module. The flange defines a termination area. The adapter module is engaged to the termination module of the flange. The adapter module is adapted to slide relative to the flange in a direction that is generally parallel to the flange between an extended position and a retracted position. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317975 | TRANSITION HOUSING AND CAP FOR FIBER BREAKOUT ASSEMBLY - A breakout assembly in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes a housing including a tubular body defining a passage extending from a first end to an opposite second end of the body. An interior surface of the body includes a plurality of longitudinal guides, the interior surface further including a stop. The tubular body defines a plurality of openings extending through the body on opposite sides of the stop. The breakout assembly further includes a cap which is slidably received within the body of the housing, wherein notches within the cap receive the guides of the housing, and wherein the cap is engageable with the stop. The cap defines a plurality of internal openings extending through the cap. A multi-fiber cable can be received within the body from one end, and a plurality of breakout tubings are received within the body of the opposite end. The multi-fiber cable includes a breakout end terminating within the tubular body wherein a plurality of the broken out fibers pass through the cap, and into the breakout tubings. In one preferred embodiment, epoxy is placed within the tubular body, on opposite sides of the cap. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317976 | SECURITY SYSTEM FOR OPTICAL PLUG-IN CONNECTOR - A duplex adapter or duplex adapter part for a duplex plug of an optical plug-in connection includes two pairs of plug openings which are aligned to one another and into which in each case a duplex plug may be introduced from oppositely lying sides. It is formed from a housing and at least one frame which is fastened or fastenable on the housing and which projects proximally from the housing. The frame surrounds the two plug openings of an adapter side and comprises a middle portion which extends between the plug openings. A safety device for the plug side and which matches this, includes a duplex plug or a clip for creating a duplex plug from two simplex plugs, as well as an actuator for simultaneously activating unlocking pawls of both plugs. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317977 | Locking of Programs Against Fast Forwarding - Speed of commercial playing is detected and used for determining whether program information can be played. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317978 | PROPAGATING METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH DIGITAL VIDEO - Some embodiments provide a method for processing metadata associated with digital video in a multi-state video computer readable medium. The method specifies a set of rules for propagating the metadata between different states in the video computer readable medium. It then propagates the metadata between the states based on the specified set of rules. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317979 | BOOKMARK EXCHANGE - A bookmark communicates precisely the location within an asset where a video clip referenced by the bookmark can be found as well as the start and stop times of the video clip. A subscriber watches a program on a video device or other platform. When the subscriber decides to create a bookmark, the subscriber pauses the program. A bookmark interface is initiated, wherein the subscriber creates a bookmark references a video clip of the program. The first subscriber then selects at least one other subscriber to send the bookmark to. A second subscriber receives the bookmark. The receipt of the bookmark activates a bookmark interface that is displayed on the video device of the second subscriber. The second subscriber initiates an action associated with the bookmark, which may include selecting to watch the video clip associated with the bookmark. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317980 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a processor determining whether a basic stream that can be reproduced singly and an extended stream used for reproduction with the basic stream forming a video stream of contents to be copied are interleaved with respect to each data in a predetermined unit and recorded in a first recording medium based on control information recorded in the first recording medium; and a recording controller, in the case of a determination that the basic and extended streams are interleaved with respect to each data in the predetermined unit and recorded, designating a first file among the first file that manages the basic stream and allowing copying of the basic stream to a second recording medium, and designating a second file that manages the extended stream and allowing copying of the extended stream to the second recording medium. | 2011-12-29 |
20110317981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED MEDIA PERSONALIZATION - A system for generating edited video, the system comprises a storage module configured to store a plurality of video tags; a network interface configured to receive an unedited video clip and a video tag selection from a user device and automatically transmit and edited video to a video sharing website; and a transformer module configured to generate an edited video based on the unedited video clip and the video tag selection. | 2011-12-29 |