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20100103463 | DETERMINING GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF A SCANNED IMAGE - A method of determining the geographic location of a hardcopy medium having an image side and a non-image side, includes scanning a hardcopy medium to produce a scanned digital image; scanning the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; detecting a location feature from the scan of the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; using the location feature to determine the geographic location of the scanned digital image; and storing the determined geographic location of the scanned digital image. | 04-29-2010 |
20100121566 | GENERATING PHOTOGENIC ROUTES FROM STARTING TO DESTINATION LOCATIONS - A method of computing at least one photogenic route from a starting location to a destination location, including; computing photogenic values for images in a large collection representing a geographic region that includes the starting location and the destination location; computing a photogenic index for each route segment based on computed photogenic values of images taken along the route segment; computing at least one photogenic route from the starting location to the destination location and presenting the route(s) to a user | 05-13-2010 |
20110044530 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING RANGE INFORMATION - A method of identifying an image classification for an input digital image comprising receiving an input digital image for a captured scene; receiving a range map which represents range information associated with the input digital image, wherein the range information represents distances between the captured scene and a known reference location; identifying the image classification using both the range map and the input digital image; and storing the image classification in association with the input digital image in a processor-accessible memory system. | 02-24-2011 |
20110184953 | ON-LOCATION RECOMMENDATION FOR PHOTO COMPOSITION - A method of providing at least one recommended view to a user at a current geographic location that the user can use in composing images, comprising using a processor to provide the following steps using the geographic location of the user to obtain, from a database, images that were previously taken around the current geographic location; grouping the obtained images into clusters that correspond to distinct scenes; selecting a recommended view for each distinct scene using an image; and presenting the recommended view(s) to the user for consideration in composing images. | 07-28-2011 |
20110188742 | RECOMMENDING USER IMAGE TO SOCIAL NETWORK GROUPS - A method of recommending social group(s) for sharing one or more user images, includes using a processor for acquiring the one or more user images and their associated metadata; acquiring one or more group images from the social group(s) and their associated metadata; computing visual features for the user images and the group images; and recommending social group(s) for the one of more user images using both the visual features and the metadata. | 08-04-2011 |
20140012502 | GENERATING PHOTOGENIC ROUTES FROM STARTING TO DESTINATION LOCATIONS - A method of computing at least one photogenic route from a starting location to a destination location, including; computing photogenic values for images in a large collection representing a geographic region that includes the starting location and the destination location; computing a photogenic index for each route segment based on computed photogenic values of images taken along the route segment; computing at least one photogenic route from the starting location to the destination location and presenting the route(s) to a user | 01-09-2014 |
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20110164387 | SWITCH CABINET CONNECTION AND COMBINATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention discloses a switch cabinet connection and combination apparatus, wherein upper line-in/line-out terminals of a medium-voltage switch cabinet are connected to upper contact boxes via a conductor, and lower line-in/line-out terminals thereof are connected to lower contact boxes via the conductor, and remaining gaps to be insulated are filled with a solid insulating material. The present invention further discloses a method of manufacturing a switch cabinet connection and combination apparatus including the steps of: connecting upper line-in/line-out terminals of a medium-voltage switch cabinet via a conductor to upper contact boxes; connecting lower line-in/line-out terminals thereof via the conductor to lower contact boxes; and pouring a solid insulating material for molding. The present invention realizes high reliability, small volume, and no pollution of the medium-voltage switch cabinet. | 07-07-2011 |
20130043890 | Sensing Method and Circuit for Use with Capacitive Sensing Devices - A sensing method is used for a capacitive sensing device, wherein the capacitive sensing device has a plurality of capacitive sensing components, each of which is charged or discharged by a charging component respectively. The sensing method comprises the steps of: a first sampling step of sampling at least one of charging or discharging time of a capacitive sensing component of the plurality of capacitive sensing components to determine a first sample time for the component sampled, wherein the component sampled and at least one another component of the plurality of capacitive sensing components are charged or discharged simultaneously during the first sampling step; a first comparing step of comparing the first sample time for the component sampled with a reference time; and an outputting step of outputting a trigger signal in the event that the first sample time exceeds the reference time. | 02-21-2013 |
20150226014 | ULTRA-HIGH TOUGHNESS AND HIGH STRENGTH DRILL PIPE AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF - The invention discloses a drill pipe having ultra-high toughness and high strength and comprising the following chemical elements in mass percentage: C: 0.24-0.30%, Si: 0.1-0.5%, Mn: 0.7-1.5%, Cr: 0.7-1.5%, Mo: 0.5-0.75%, V: 0.01-0.10%, Nb: 0.01-0.05%, P≦0.015% , S≦0.005%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities; and a process of manufacturing the drill pipe having ultra-high toughness and high strength, comprising: heating the drill pipe as a whole to 900-950° C.; subjecting the inner surface of the drill pipe to axial-flow water-spray cooling and the outer surface of the drill pipe to laminar-flow water-spray cooling while controlling the amount of the water sprayed at thickened ends of the drill pipe and that along the pipe body to be different from each other; and controlling the tempering temperature to be 650-675° C. The inventive drill pipe having ultra-high toughness and high strength has a longitudinal full-size impact toughness at −20° C. of at least 100 J and has a strength of 135 ksi. | 08-13-2015 |
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20120114296 | METHOD FOR ALIGNING DIFFERENT PHOTO STREAMS - A method for organizing individual collections of images or videos captured for the same event by different cameras into a master collection, wherein each individual collection forms a media stream in chronological order. A processor for extracting image features for each image or video of the media stream of each collection; constructing a graph based on the extracted features to link the images or videos from the two media streams; finding on the graph at least a pair of images or videos, each from one of the two media streams, that corresponds to correlated captured content; aligning the remaining images or videos in response to the aligned pair so that the all images or videos from the two media streams are aligned over a common timeline; and producing a master stream in chronological order of the event over a common timeline by merging the aligned individual. | 05-10-2012 |
20120148149 | VIDEO KEY FRAME EXTRACTION USING SPARSE REPRESENTATION - A method for identifying a set of key frames from a video sequence including a time sequence of video frames, comprising: extracting a feature vector for each video frame in a set of video frames selected from the video sequence; defining a set of basis functions that can be used to represent the extracted feature vectors, wherein each basis function is associated with a different video frame in the set of video frames; representing the feature vectors for each video frame in the set of video frames as a sparse combination of the basis functions associated with the other video frames; and analyzing the sparse combinations of the basis functions for the set of video frames to select the set of key frames. | 06-14-2012 |
20140188769 | SEISMIC DATA ANALYSIS - An approach for seismic data analysis is provided. In accordance with various embodiments, the active learning approaches are employed in conjunction with an analysis algorithm that is used to process the seismic data. Algorithms that may employ such active learning include, but are not limited to, ranking algorithms and classification algorithms. | 07-03-2014 |