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20090015791 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CORRESPONDENCE MAPPINGS USING INFRARED PATTERNS - A method performed by a display system is provided. The method includes projecting a first infrared pattern from a first projection plane of a first projector into a scene, capturing the first infrared pattern from the scene in a capture plane of at least one image capture device, and determining a first correspondence mapping between the first projector and the image capture device from at least the first infrared pattern in the first projection plane and the first infrared pattern in the capture plane. | 01-15-2009 |
20090027504 | System and method for calibrating a camera - A method of calibrating a camera includes capturing a set of dark images at each of a plurality of different exposure settings, thereby generating a plurality of sets of dark images. Each set of dark images is averaged, thereby generating a fixed pattern noise image corresponding to each one of the exposure settings. The method includes determining fixed pattern noise for at least one pixel of the camera based on an exposure setting of the camera and at least one of the fixed pattern noise images. | 01-29-2009 |
20090027523 | System and method for determining a gamma curve of a display device - A method of determining a gamma curve of a display device includes identifying a region of interest of a display surface of the display device. A centroid of the region of interest is calculated. A plurality of input levels is applied to the display device to generate a corresponding plurality of displayed images on the display surface. At least one image of each of the displayed images is captured with a camera. A gamma curve of the display device is calculated based on the captured images and the centroid. | 01-29-2009 |
20090037946 | Dynamically displaying content to an audience - A method of dynamically displaying content to an audience is disclosed. The method includes displaying content to the audience wherein at least a portion of the audience is proximate a display means, capturing a plurality of responses from the audience, aggregating the plurality of responses and dynamically updating the displayed content based on the aggregated plurality of responses. | 02-05-2009 |
20110309999 | MULTI-PROJECTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for automatic delivery of consistent imagery in a multi-projector system includes the steps of dividing the projectors into a plurality of sub-groups of projectors, each projector oriented to project a sub-frame to a sub-group display location, and adjusting the output of each projector in each sub-group to provide selected target display characteristics across all sub-groups. | 12-22-2011 |
20120014594 | METHOD FOR TONE MAPPING AN IMAGE - A method for tone mapping a digital image comprised of a plurality of high bit depth intensity values in linear space is disclosed. First, a plurality of liner intensity values are mapped from the linear space to a non-linear space ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120019670 | MULTI-PROJECTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for reducing view-dependent artifacts in a multi-projector system includes the steps of measuring, from multiple viewpoints, projection characteristics of an image projected by a multi-projector system, estimating view-dependent projection parameters that can reduce view-dependent artifacts, and computing rendering parameters for each projector so as to reduce the view-dependent artifacts. | 01-26-2012 |
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20130014008 | Adjusting an Automatic Template Layout by Providing a Constraint - One embodiment of a method for adjusting an automatic template layout by providing a constraint is disclosed. In one embodiment, raw text, figures, references, and semantic information is received. A check is performed for a constraint. An allocation of text, figures, and references is determined for each page of a document. In addition, for each page of the document, a template for displaying the allocation assigned to the page is determined. The template fields are scaled to exhibit the text, figures, and references assigned to the page. The document is then rendered with text, figures, and references allocated to each page within appropriate template fields of the template selected for each page while abiding by the constraint. | 01-10-2013 |
20130036113 | System and Method for Automatically Providing a Graphical Layout Based on an Example Graphic Layout - Methods and Systems for automatically providing a graphical layout based on an example graphic layout are disclosed. In general, a block boundary analysis is used to identify spatial characteristics of the example graphic layout and an actual content. A database is searched for one or more graphical templates having spatial characteristics that are similar to the spatial characteristics of the example graphic layout. A fit analysis with the spatial characteristics of the actual content is also performed on the graphical templates. The resulting graphical templates are ranked. At least one of the graphical templates in the ranking is automatically filled with the actual content and provided in place of the example graphic layout. | 02-07-2013 |
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20120007975 | PROCESSING IMAGE DATA - Systems and methods are provided for identifying an image having a target individual therein. An example system includes an image capture system that generates image data representing a set of a captured images of a predetermined area, an image database that stores the image data, a feature information database that stores feature information for identifying a person caught in an image as the target individual, a target individual image database that stores exemplar image data representing an image of the individual, and a processing subsystem for processing the image data to detect the target individual using the feature information and the exemplar image data. | 01-12-2012 |
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20120204100 | Probabilistic Methods and Systems for Preparing Mixed-Content Document Layouts - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for preparing each page template of a mixed-content document layout. In one embodiment, a method comprises selecting a single page template ( | 08-09-2012 |
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20120304042 | PARALLEL AUTOMATED DOCUMENT COMPOSITION - Systems and methods of parallel automated document composition are disclosed. In an example, a method comprises determining composition scores Φ | 11-29-2012 |
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20130254021 | Systems and Methods for Pull Based Advertisement Insertion - The present disclosure includes a system and method for pull based advertisement insertion. In an example of pull based advertisement insertion according to the present disclosure, content ( | 09-26-2013 |