Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090234825 | Information distribution system and information distribution method - The present invention relates to a system and method for information distribution services. The system comprises an inquiry condition determining component, for constructing inquiry conditions in accordance with a user input and a user model, the user model being applicable for determining features of the user; a searching component, for performing inquiry based on the inquiry conditions; an inquiry result processing component, for processing inquiry results obtained by the searching component to provide the user with processed information; and a distributing component, for distributing information compiled by the user and to be distributed. | 09-17-2009 |
20090286675 | CONTINUOUS MASS PRODUCTION OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN A NANO-AGGLOMERATE FLUIDIZED-BED AND THE REACTOR - The present invention relates to a method for continuous production of carbon nanotubes in a nano-agglomerate fluidized bed, which comprises the following steps: loading transition metal compounds on a support, obtaining supported nanosized metal catalysts by reducing or dissociating, catalytically decomposing a carbon-source gas, and growing carbon nanotubes on the catalyst support by chemical vapor deposition of carbon atoms. The carbon nanotubes are 4˜100 nm in diameter and 0.5˜1000 μm in length. The carbon nanotube agglomerates, ranged between 1˜1000 μm, are smoothly fluidized under 0.005 to 2 m/s superficial gas velocity and 20-800 kg/m | 11-19-2009 |
20120039508 | TARGET DETECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Target detecting method and apparatus are disclosed. In the target detecting method, edges in a first direction in an input image may be detected to obtain an edge image comprising a plurality of edges in the first direction; and one or more candidate targets may be generated according to the plurality of edges in the first direction, a region between any two of the plurality of edges in the first direction in the input image corresponding to one of the candidate targets. | 02-16-2012 |
20120045129 | Document image processing method and apparatus - A method for processing a document image includes: performing horizontal and vertical text line extraction on the document image; providing an overlapping matrix, a value of an element of the overlapping matrix indicating an overlapping relation between horizontal and vertical text lines; merging the overlapping matrix in the vertical and horizontal direction; determining one or more text overlapping regions in the document image, based on the values of the elements of the merged overlapping matrix; counting the total number of strokes or pixel points in the horizontal and vertical text lines, respectively, within one of the one or more text overlapping regions; and determining an orientation of the text overlapping region is horizontal if the total number of strokes or pixel points in the horizontal text lines is larger than that in the vertical text lines, otherwise, determining the orientation is vertical. | 02-23-2012 |
20120045131 | Method of and apparatus for processing images - Ruled lines are extracted and fitted into a real 2-D space. Correspondence between fitted cells and template cells of a ruled line template is determined. For each pair of cells corresponding to each other, the position of each pixel in the template cell is mapped into a real position in the real 2-D space based on an affine transformation between the cells. A pixel value based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels in the image with positions adjacent to the real position is generated as a pixel value of the pixel in the template cell corresponding to the real position. A synthesized image corresponding to the image is generated by merging the ruled lines of the ruled line template with the pixels in the template cells having the pixel values as generated. A form template is obtained based on the synthesized images corresponding to the plurality of images. | 02-23-2012 |
20120063687 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE COMPRISING CHARACTERS - Method and apparatus for processing an image including a character are disclosed. The method may include: searching in a set of characters one or more characters having highest similarities of shape to a character in the set of characters, hereinafter the character being referred to as a first character, the one or more searched characters forming a similar character list of the first character; searching in the set of characters one or more characters having highest similarities of shape to each character in the similar character list of the first character, to form a similar character list of each character in the similar character list of the first character; and selecting in the similar character lists one or more characters having a high mutual similarity between each other, as a character cluster. | 03-15-2012 |
20120249812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAMERA MOTION ANALYSIS IN VIDEO - Embodiments disclose methods and apparatuses for camera motion analysis in a video, wherein one of the methods includes: analyzing, video segments with significant movement characteristics and video segments without any significant movement characteristic; for each segment without any significant movement characteristic, if a first motion type corresponding to a preceding neighboring video segment is different from a second motion type corresponding to a succeeding neighboring video segment, lowering detection criterions of the first type and the second type; judging whether the segment without any significant movement characteristic meets the lowered detection criterions; and merging the segment without any significant movement characteristic with a neighboring video segment according to the result of judgment. With the embodiments of the invention the motion type of a camera in the video can be detected more effectively and accurately, and the photographic intention of a user can be reflected more accurately. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249880 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CAMERA MOTION TYPE IN VIDEO - Embodiments disclose a method and apparatus for detecting a camera motion type in a video, the method including: estimating a first zoom motion parameter between adjacent frames in the video; estimating a second zoom motion parameter between frames having an interval of a preset number in a corresponding video segment when the first zoom motion parameter meets a first preset condition; and identifying the camera motion type of the video segment as slow zoom when the second zoom motion parameter meets a second preset condition. With the embodiments of the invention, the motion type of a camera in the video can be detected more effectively and accurately. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251010 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION OF A PLURALITY OF IMAGES AND IMAGE MATCHING METHOD - The invention provides a method and apparatus for acquiring descriptive information of a plurality of images and an image matching method. The method for acquiring descriptive information of a plurality of images includes: performing a feature point detection with respect to each image of the plurality of images, so as to obtain a plurality of feature points of each image; acquiring 0-level descriptive information of the plurality of images; and the following steps are performed for each image: performing a division of the image for the (n−1)th time, so as to obtain a plurality of (n−1)-level sub-images of the image; and (n−1)-level descriptive information of the image is generated in accordance with a plurality of nth local feature descriptors for the image and a plurality of nth visual words, where n=2,3, . . . , K+1, and K is a positive integer. | 10-04-2012 |
20120309700 | DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA PREPARATIONS - Nuclear receptor LXR is an important member of 49 nuclear receptors in human bodies and has irreplaceable regulatory effects on cholesterol and fat metabolisms. The regulation of the biological activity of LXR may have therapeutic effects to the conditions such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular obstructions, non-insulin dependent hyperglycemia, immune function disorders, and central nerve functional degeneration. We have developed a group of novel Chinese materia medica preparations targeting nuclear receptor LXR by using a computer-simulated docking technology and a process for determining biological activities of human cells cultured ex vivo. The group of preparations are featured by simple ingredients, low costs, easy to prepare, etc. No significant adverse effects were found in initial acute toxicology analysis which was carried out using mice. | 12-06-2012 |
20120320433 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SCANNER - The image processing method includes: determining an edge map of a foreground object in an image; obtaining candidates for a boundary line from the edge map and determining the boundary line among the candidates for the boundary line, the boundary line defining the boundary of a specific object in the foreground object; and removing the foreground object beyond the boundary line other than the specific object. This method can be applied to removing an image of another object, e.g., hands, etc., in a captured image beyond the boundary of a specific object. With the image processing method according to the embodiments, the boundary of the specific object in the image can be determined accurately to thereby remove another object beyond the boundary and facilitate subsequent other image processing. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321198 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method includes estimating corners of a contour of an object area in an obtained image, searching for contour lines of the object area between every two points which are offset from the estimated corners within a predetermined degree or distance along a direction away from the object area respectively, and determining intersection points of the contour lines as final corners of the contour of the object area, and determining contour lines between the final corners as a final contour of the object area. | 12-20-2012 |
20130259385 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image processing device, an image processing method and an apparatus so as to improve at least the precision of extracting document corners in image processing performed on an image captured for a document. The image processing device includes: an extracting unit for extracting boundaries of a document in a first direction and roughly-detected document corners, where the first direction is a horizontal direction or a vertical direction of the document image; a determining unit for determining candidate page corners on the boundaries in the first direction around the roughly-detected document corners; and a selecting unit for determining document corners of the document among the candidate page corners. With the foregoing technology of the invention, more precise document corners can be extracted, a better effect of image processing can be obtained, and applications in the field of image processing are possible. | 10-03-2013 |
20140157275 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING METHOD AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM - A distributed computing method and distributed computing system are provided. Said distributed computing method includes: distributedly computing an input task stream; reducing the computation results of said distributed computation; and storing the reduced computation results in reduction buffers. Said distributed computing system includes distributed computing device which are used for the distributed computation, multiple reduction units which are used for reducing the computation results of said distributed computation, one or more reduction buffer which are used for storing reduced computation results, and a reduction control device which is used for controlling the reduction from said computation results to said reduction buffers and the access to the reduction buffer. | 06-05-2014 |