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| 20090275097 | PRIMARY ALCOHOL PRODUCING ORGANISMS - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a microbial organism having at least one exogenous gene insertion and/or one or more gene disruptions that confer production of primary alcohols. A method for producing long chain alcohols includes culturing these non-naturally occurring microbial organisms. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100112654 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110045575 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND RELATED METHODS - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO and further optimized for expression of BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110124911 | SEMI-SYNTHETIC TEREPHTHALIC ACID VIA MICROORGANISMS THAT PRODUCE MUCONIC ACID - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a muconate pathway having at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a muconate pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce muconate. The muconate pathway including an enzyme selected from the group consisting of a beta-ketothiolase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA hydrolase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA transferase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA ligase, a 2-fumarylacetate reductase, a 2-fumarylacetate dehydrogenase, a trans-3-hydroxy-4-hexendioate dehydratase, a 2-fumarylacetate aminotransferase, a 2-fumarylacetate aminating oxidoreductase, a trans-3-amino-4-hexenoate deaminase, a beta-ketoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase, a muconolactone isomerase, a muconate cycloisomerase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA dehydrogenase, a 3-hydroxyadipyl-CoA dehydratase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA transferase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA hydrolase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA ligase, a muconate reductase, a 2-maleylacetate reductase, a 2-maleylacetate dehydrogenase, a cis-3-hydroxy-4-hexendioate dehydratase, a 2-maleylacetate aminoatransferase, a 2-maleylacetate aminating oxidoreductase, a cis-3-amino-4-hexendioate deaminase, and a muconate cis/trans isomerase. Other muconate pathway enzymes also are provided. Additionally provided are methods of producing muconate. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110159572 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110201068 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR THE CO-PRODUCTION OF ISOPROPANOL WITH PRIMARY ALCOHOLS, DIOLS AND ACIDS - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having n-propanol and isopropanol pathways, 1,4-butanediol (14-BDO) and isopropanol pathways, 1,3-butanediol (13-BDO) and isopropanol pathways or methylacrylic acid (MAA) and isopropanolpathways. The microbial organism contains at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme in each of the respective n-propanol, 14-BDO, 13-BDO or MAA and isopropanol pathways. The invention additionally provides a method for co-producing n-propanol and isopropanol, 14-BDO and isopropanol, 13-BDO and isopropanol or MAA and isopropanol. The method can include culturing an n-propanol and an isopropanol co-producing microbial organism, where the microbial organism expresses at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an n-propanol, an isopropanol, a 14-BDO, a 13-BDO and/or a MAA pathway enzyme in a sufficient amount to produce each of the respective products, under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce each of the respective products. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110201089 | METHODS FOR INCREASING PRODUCT YIELDS - A non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes a microbial organism having a reductive TCA or Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in which at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding these pathway enzymes is expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance carbon flux through acetyl-CoA. A method for enhancing carbon flux through acetyl-CoA includes culturing theses non-naturally occurring microbial organisms under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce a product having acetyl-CoA as a building block. Another non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen, thereby increasing the yield of redox-limited products via carbohydrate-based carbon feedstock. A method for enhancing the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen includes culturing this organism for a sufficient period of time to produce a product. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110207189 | METHODS FOR INCREASING PRODUCT YIELDS - A non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes a microbial organism having a reductive TCA or Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in which at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding these pathway enzymes is expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance carbon flux through acetyl-CoA. A method for enhancing carbon flux through acetyl-CoA includes culturing theses non-naturally occurring microbial organisms under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce a product having acetyl-CoA as a building block. Another non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen, thereby increasing the yield of redox-limited products via carbohydrate-based carbon feedstock. A method for enhancing the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen includes culturing this organism for a sufficient period of time to produce a product. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110212507 | METHODS FOR INCREASING PRODUCT YIELDS - A non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes a microbial organism having a reductive TCA or Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in which at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding these pathway enzymes is expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance carbon flux through acetyl-CoA. A method for enhancing carbon flux through acetyl-CoA includes culturing theses non-naturally occurring microbial organisms under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce a product having acetyl-CoA as a building block. Another non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen, thereby increasing the yield of redox-limited products via carbohydrate-based carbon feedstock. A method for enhancing the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen includesculturing this organism for a sufficient period of time to produce a product. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110217742 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR THE COPRODUCTION 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND GAMMA-BUTYROLACTONE - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising 1,4-butanediol (14-BDO) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) pathways comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a 14-BDO and GBL pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce 14-BDO and GBL. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce 14-BDO and GBL. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110281337 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110300597 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF BUTADIENE - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a butadiene pathway. The invention additionally provides methods of using such organisms to produce butadiene. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120040426 | PRIMARY ALCOHOL PRODUCING ORGANISMS - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a microbial organism having at least one exogenous gene insertion and/or one or more gene disruptions that confer production of primary alcohols. A method for producing long chain alcohols includes culturing these non-naturally occurring microbial organisms. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120225463 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND RELATED METHODS - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO and further optimized for expression of BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120225466 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF BUTADIENE - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a butadiene pathway. The invention additionally provides methods of using such organisms to produce butadiene. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120329111 | Microorganisms for Producing Cyclohexanone and Methods Related Thereto - Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a cyclohexanone pathway and comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a cyclohexanone pathway enzyme. Also provided herein is a method for producing cyclohexanone, including culturing these non-naturally occurring microbial organisms. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120329113 | Microorganisms for Producing 1,3-Butanediol and Methods Related Thereto - Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a 1,3-butanediol (1,3-BDO) pathway and comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a 1,3-BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce 1,3-BDO. In some embodiments, the pathway includes reducing equivalents from CO or hydrogen. In certain embodiments, a 1,3-BDO pathway proceeds by way of central metabolites pyruvate, succinate or alpha-ketoglutarate. Also provided herein is a method for producing 1,3-BDO, includes culturing such microbial organisms under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce 1,3-BDO. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120329119 | MICROORGANISMS FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a propylene pathway. The invention additionally provides methods of using such organisms to produce propylene. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130011891 | MICROORGANISMS FOR PRODUCING BUTADIENE AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a butadiene or crotyl alcohol pathway. The invention additionally provides methods of using such organisms to produce butadiene or crotyl alcohol. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130034884 | MICROORGANISMS FOR PRODUCING 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO), 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, 4-hydroxybutanal or putrescine pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO, 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, 4-hydroxybutanal or putrescine pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO, 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, 4-hydroxybutanal or putrescine and further optimized for expression of BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO, 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, 4-hydroxybutanal or putrescine. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130065279 | MICROORGANISMS FOR PRODUCING METHACRYLIC ACID AND METHACRYLATE ESTERS AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a methacrylic acid, methacrylate ester, 3-hydroxyisobutyrate and/or 2-hydroxyisobutyrate pathway. The microbial organism contains at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme in a methacrylic acid pathway. The invention additionally provides a method for producing methacrylic acid, methacrylate ester, 3-hydroxyisobutyrate and/or 2-hydroxyisobutyrate. The method can include culturing methacrylic acid, methacrylate ester, 3-hydroxyisobutyrate and/or 2-hydroxyisobutyrate producing microbial organism, where the microbial organism expresses at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a methacrylic acid pathway enzyme in a sufficient amount to produce methacrylic acid, methacrylate ester, 3-hydroxyisobutyrate and/or 2-hydroxyisobutyrate, under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce methacrylic acid, methacrylate ester, 3-hydroxyisobutyrate and/or 2-hydroxyisobutyrate. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130071886 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130109069 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL | 05-02-2013 |
| 20140011249 | METHODS FOR INCREASING PRODUCT YIELDS - A non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes a microbial organism having a reductive TCA or Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in which at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding these pathway enzymes is expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance carbon flux through acetyl-CoA. A method for enhancing carbon flux through acetyl-CoA includes culturing theses non-naturally occurring microbial organisms under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce a product having acetyl-CoA as a building block. Another non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen, thereby increasing the yield of redox-limited products via carbohydrate-based carbon feedstock. A method for enhancing the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydrogen includes culturing this organism for a sufficient period of time to produce a product. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140155567 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF BUTADIENE - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a butadiene pathway. The invention additionally provides methods of using such organisms to produce butadiene. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140162327 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR THE COPRODUCTION 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND GAMMA-BUTYROLACTONE - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising 1,4-butanediol (14-BDO) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) pathways comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a 14-BDO and GBL pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce 14-BDO and GBL. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce 14-BDO and GBL. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140302573 | SEMI-SYNTHETIC TEREPHTHALIC ACID VIA MICROORGANISMS THAT PRODUCE MUCONIC ACID - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a muconate pathway having at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a muconate pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce muconate. The muconate pathway including an enzyme selected from the group consisting of a beta-ketothiolase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA hydrolase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA transferase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA ligase, a 2-fumarylacetate reductase, a 2-fumarylacetate dehydrogenase, a trans-3-hydroxy-4-hexendioate dehydratase, a 2-fumarylacetate aminotransferase, a 2-fumarylacetate aminating oxidoreductase, a trans-3-amino-4-hexenoate deaminase, a beta-ketoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase, a muconolactone isomerase, a muconate cycloisomerase, a beta-ketoadipyl-CoA dehydrogenase, a 3-hydroxyadipyl-CoA dehydratase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA transferase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA hydrolase, a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA ligase, a muconate reductase, a 2-maleylacetate reductase, a 2-maleylacetate dehydrogenase, a cis-3-hydroxy-4-hexendioate dehydratase, a 2-maleylacetate aminoatransferase, a 2-maleylacetate aminating oxidoreductase, a cis-3-amino-4-hexendioate deaminase, and a muconate cis/trans isomerase. Other muconate pathway enzymes also are provided. Additionally provided are methods of producing muconate. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140377820 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR THE CO-PRODUCTION OF ISOPROPANOL WITH PRIMARY ALCOHOLS, DIOLS AND ACIDS - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having n-propanol and isopropanol pathways, 1,4-butanediol (14-BDO) and isopropanol pathways, 1,3-butanediol (13-BDO) and isopropanol pathways or methylacrylic acid (MAA) and isopropanol pathways. The microbial organism contains at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an enzyme in each of the respective n-propanol, 14-BDO, 13-BDO or MAA and isopropanol pathways. The invention additionally provides a method for co-producing n-propanol and isopropanol, 14-BDO and isopropanol, 13-BDO and isopropanol or MAA and isopropanol. The method can include culturing an n-propanol and an isopropanol co-producing microbial organism, where the microbial organism expresses at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding an n-propanol, an isopropanol, a 14-BDO, a 13-BDO and/or a MAA pathway enzyme in a sufficient amount to produce each of the respective products, under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce each of the respective products. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20160053287 | MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL - The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160076060 | Microorganisms for Producing 1,3-Butanediol and Methods Related Thereto - Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a 1,3-butanediol (1,3-BDO) pathway and comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a 1,3-BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce 1,3-BDO. In some embodiments, the pathway includes reducing equivalents from CO or hydrogen. In certain embodiments, a 1,3-BDO pathway proceeds by way of central metabolites pyruvate, succinate or alpha-ketoglutarate. Also provided herein is a method for producing 1,3-BDO, includes culturing such microbial organisms under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce 1,3-BDO. | 03-17-2016 |
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| 20080226171 | Correcting device and method for perspective transformed document images - This invention provides a correcting device and a correcting method for perspective transformation of document images. The correcting device comprises a horizontal vanishing point determining unit, for detecting a horizontal vanishing point of the perspective transformed document image; a vertical vanishing point determining unit, for detecting a vertical vanishing point of the perspective transformed document image; and a perspective transformation correcting and converting unit, for correcting the perspective transformed document image; wherein the horizontal vanishing point determining unit comprises a direct horizontal line segment detecting unit, an indirect horizontal line segment detecting unit and a horizontal vanishing point detecting unit, and wherein the horizontal vanishing point detecting unit detects a horizontal vanishing point in accordance with a direct horizontal line segment detected by the direct horizontal line segment detecting unit and an indirect horizontal line segment detected by the indirect horizontal line segment detecting unit. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20100220930 | VIDEO TEXT PROCESSING APPARATUS - Video frames that contain text areas are selected from given video frames by removing redundant frames and non-text frames, the text areas in the selected frames are located by removing false strokes, and text lines in the text areas are extracted and binarized. | 09-02-2010 |
| 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 |
| 20120163708 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF GENERATING CLASSIFIER FOR DETECTING SPECIFIC OBJECT IN IMAGE - There provides an apparatus for and a method of generating a classifier for detecting a specific object in an image. The apparatus for generating a classifier for detecting a specific object in an image includes: a region dividing section for dividing, from a sample image, at least one square region having a side length equal to or shorter than the length of shorter side of the sample image; a feature extracting section for extracting an image feature from at least a part of the square regions divided by the region dividing section; and a training section for performing training based on the extracted image feature to generate a classifier. By using the apparatus for and method of generating the classifier, it becomes possible to make full use of recognizable regions of objects to be recognized with variable aspect ratios and improve speed and accuracy for recognizing in complex backgrounds. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120288203 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING KEYWORDS - Locating text areas in an image and recognizing text contents in the text areas through optical character recognition, OCR; selecting a first class of pending keywords from the recognized text contents to search for webpages; extracting a second class of pending keywords from the retrieved webpages; and determining one or more keywords corresponding to the image from at least the second class of pending keywords. With the embodiment, both OCR and webpage searching can be combined so that the webpages can be retrieved based upon the first class of pending keywords recognized and selected through OCR to ensure convergence of the keywords and then the second class of pending keywords can be selected from the retrieved webpages to ensure correctness of the keywords. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120320427 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SCANNER - An image processing method generally includes: obtaining a vanishing point on a curved surface in a two-dimension image; extracting all the straight line segments between a top contour line and a bottom contour line of the curved surface by the vanishing point; removing a perspective distortion to get parallel straight line segments; obtaining the lengths of the straight line segments, obtaining the true width of each of the straight line segments in a three-dimension space and the depth increment of the straight line segments according to the lengths; obtaining the expanded width of each straight line segment according to the true width and the depth increment; obtaining the total expanded width of the curved surface to transform it into a flat surface; transforming image contents on the curved surface onto the flat surface. | 12-20-2012 |
| 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 |
| 20130004077 | METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING DIRECTION OF CHARACTERS IN IMAGE BLOCK - The present embodiments disclose a method of and device for identifying the direction of characters in an image block. The method includes: performing optical character recognition processing on the image block by assuming various directions as assumed character directions to obtain sub image blocks, recognized characters corresponding to the sub image blocks and correctness measures thereof in each assumed character directions; in sub image blocks in the assumed character directions with | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130022271 | METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING DIRECTION OF CHARACTERS IN IMAGE BLOCK - The embodiments disclose a method of and a device for identifying direction of characters in image block. The method includes: performing optical character recognition processing on the image block by assuming various directions as assumed character directions to obtain sub image blocks, recognized characters and correctness measures in each assumed direction; in sub image blocks in the assumed directions with a 180° mutual relation, searching for a minimum matching pair; when there is one sub image block in each assumed direction in a minimum matching pair and recognized characters belonging to the minimum matching pair are the same rotation invariant character or belong to the same rotation invariant character pair, adjusting their correctness measures to the same; calculating an accumulative correctness measure in each assumed direction based on the adjusted results; and identifying the direction of the characters in the image block according to the accumulative correctness measures. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130022272 | METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING DIRECTION OF CHARACTERS IN IMAGE BLOCK - The present embodiments disclose a method of and a device for identifying the direction of characters in an image block. The method includes: performing optical character recognition processing on the image block by assuming various directions as assumed character directions, respectively, to obtain sub image blocks, recognized characters corresponding to the sub image blocks and correctness measures thereof in each of the assumed character directions; determining a language group to which the characters in the image block belong; adjusting a correctness measure corresponding to a sub image block which corresponds to a recognized character not belonging to the determined language group in each of the assumed character directions; calculating an accumulative correctness measure in each of the assumed character directions based on the adjusted correctness measure; and identifying the direction of the characters in the image block according to the accumulative correctness measures. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130027419 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing device including: a local mean image generating section; a binarization image generating section configured to generate a binarization image, wherein pixels corresponding to high frequency regions and low frequency regions have a first and second grey scales, respectively; a ternarization image generating section configured to divide, based on comparison between the image and the local mean image, first grey scale regions in the binarization image into regions having the first grey scale and regions having a third grey scale; a filling section configured to recognize connected regions having the second grey scale in the ternarization image, to fill the connected regions with the first grey scale or with the third grey scale according to grey scale of pixels at boundaries of the connected regions; and a recognizing section configured to recognize strokes according to consistency of grey scale at object boundaries in the filled ternarization image. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130182969 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING CORNER POINT OF IMAGE AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for correcting a corner point of an image and an image processing device. The method includes: determining first candidate corner points of an initial corner point in a first local region; obtaining information related to the image in a second local region; selecting, among the first candidate corner points of the initial corner point, the first candidate corner points meeting a predetermined condition, as second candidate corner points of the initial corner point according to the information; and correcting the initial corner point using the second candidate corner points of the initial corner point. The apparatus is configured to perform the processes of the method. The image processing device includes the apparatus for correcting a corner point of an image. With the technology, a roughly detected corner point can be corrected. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130211874 | System and Method for Mass Production and Sale of Configurable and Personalized Tablet Computers - A method to mass produce and sell electronic devices using open architecture manufacturing model and group-buying business model is provided. A group-buying company receives a plurality of offers to buy electronic devices from a plurality of consumers, and each offer is associated with a minimum requirement for each corresponding electronic device. The group-buying company determines one or more final device configurations of a plurality of electronic devices that satisfies the minimum requirements of all the offers, and all the electronic devices are substantially identical to be sold to the plurality of consumers as a group-buying deal. The group-buying company then arranges a single run of the identical electronic devices to be mass produced by a third entity. Finally, the group-buying company supplies the identical electronic devices to each of the plurality of consumers. | 08-15-2013 |
| 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 |
| 20130272602 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SCANNED IMAGE - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a scanned image. The method for processing a scanned image comprises: a shaded region extracting step of extracting a region, which is shaded by a shading object and lies in a margin in the vicinity of an edge of the scanned image, as a shaded region; and a pixel value repairing step of repairing values of pixels, which lie both in a line segment and the shaded region, by using a linear model according to known values of pixels, which lie both in the line segment and the margin, the line segment passing through the shaded region and being parallel to the edge. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130294696 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method and apparatus is provided. The image processing method includes steps of: generating a first scale binary image from an image, wherein the first scale is smaller than the original scale of the image; detecting at least one text line in the image based on the first scale binary image; generating a second scale binary image from the image, wherein the second scale is larger than the first scale; for each text line, calculating a similarity between corresponding sections in the first scale binary image and the second scale binary image, and removing the text line for which the similarity is lower than a predetermined level; for one or more of the remaining text line(s), performing OCR on corresponding section(s) in the second scale binary image to determine character orientation(s) of corresponding text line(s); and determining the orientation of the image according to the determined character orientation(s). | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130322757 | Document Processing Apparatus, Document Processing Method and Scanner - The disclosure provides a document processing apparatus, method and a scanner. The document processing apparatus includes: a text line extraction unit extracting a text line from an input document; a language classification unit determining whether an OCR process is necessary for a language of the input document; an OCR unit determining, by performing the OCR process, an OCR confidence in the case that it is determined that the OCR process is necessary; an graphic feature recognition unit determining an graphic feature recognition confidence; and a determination unit determining a combination confidence based on at least one of the determined graphic feature recognition confidences and the determined OCR confidences, and determining an orientation of the input document based on the combination confidences. This technical solution can determine better an orientation of the document, and is especially applicable when the quality of the image of the document is deteriorated. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130322768 | BOUNDARY EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a boundary extraction method and apparatus, the method including: a gradient estimation step of estimating a gradient of each pixel in a captured image; a gradient adjustment step of adjusting, by enhancing a gradient of a target boundary of an object contained in the captured image and weakening a gradient of a noise boundary, the estimated gradient, so that the adjusted gradient is considered as a current gradient; and a boundary extraction step of extracting a boundary of the object based on the current gradient. According to the embodiments of the invention, in a case of using a non-contact imaging device to capture an image, it is possible to more accurately extract a boundary of an object contained in the captured image. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130322769 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, Scanner and Storage Medium - The disclosure provides an image processing device, image processing method, scanner and storage medium. The image processing device is used for tracing a boundary of an object image in an image, the boundary being continuous and the rate of change in slope between adjacent points on the boundary being slow. The image processing device includes: a boundary estimation unit, adapted to estimate the location of the boundary of the object image; an interfering gradient processing unit, adapted to process an interfering gradient near the estimated boundary, so as to reduce the interfering gradient or remove the interfering gradient from the image; and a boundary tracing unit, adapted to trace the boundary in the image having the interfering gradient processed. By using the technique of the disclosure, the accuracy of tracing a boundary of an image is improved significantly. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140161176 | Method and Device for Controlling Video Quality Fluctuation Based on Scalable Video Coding - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for controlling video quality fluctuation based on scalable video coding. The method includes: performing scalable video coding on video data to be transmitted to generate a base layer and at least one enhancement layer; sending the video data after the scalable video coding to a terminal device; determining a currently expected bit rate according to a transmission status of the video data on a currently used channel, the currently expected bit rate being the maximum data transmission bit rate that the predicted currently used channel can sustain; acquiring the currently highest enhancement layer according to the currently expected bit rate, the sum of all bit rates occupied when transmitting video data under the currently highest enhancement layer being no larger than the currently expected bit rate; and sending the video data under the currently highest enhancement layer to the terminal device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20150036920 | CONVOLUTIONAL-NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED CLASSIFIER AND CLASSIFYING METHOD AND TRAINING METHODS FOR THE SAME - The present invention relates to a convolutional-neural-network-based classifier, a classifying method by using a convolutional-neural-network-based classifier and a method for training the convolutional-neural-network-based classifier. The convolutional-neural-network-based classifier comprises: a plurality of feature map layers, at least one feature map in at least one of the plurality of feature map layers being divided into a plurality of regions; and a plurality of convolutional templates corresponding to the plurality of regions respectively, each of the convolutional templates being used for obtaining a response value of a neuron in the corresponding region. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150138610 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING DOCUMENT IMAGE AND SCANNER - Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and method for correcting a document image and a scanner. Wherein the device includes: an extracting unit configured to extract boundaries in a first direction of the document image and extract lines in the first direction according to a content of the document image, a filtering unit configured to filter the extracted lines, a constructing unit configured to extend and adjust the filtered lines and construct a correcting mesh, and a correcting unit configured to perform correcting according to the correcting mesh. An accurate correcting model can be constructed by taking document boundaries and document contents into account in constructing the correcting model and constructing a correcting mesh after filtering, extending and adjusting the extracted lines, thereby effectively eliminating distortion in the document image. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150161473 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING DISTORTED STRAIGHT LINE FROM IMAGE - A method and a device for extracting a distorted straight line from an image. The method includes performing a line segment detection process on the image; for each line segment detected, finding adjacent line segments having a low non-collinear degree with a current line segment, so as to combine them together to obtain one or more line segment combinations; and extracting the distorted straight line according to the line segment combination. | 06-11-2015 |
| 20150163376 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DOCUMENT IMAGE - An apparatus for and a method of processing a document image are provided. The apparatus comprises: an estimation unit for estimating a brightness image from the document image; and a correction unit for correcting the brightness image by using brightness values of at least a part of edge pixels which lie on or in the adjacency of edges of the brightness image in parallel with x direction, wherein directions of neighboring two edges of the brightness image are set to be x, y directions respectively, and wherein compared with x direction, brightness values of pixels of the brightness image change relatively slightly or do not change along y direction; wherein the correction unit performs interpolation on a straight line extending along y direction by using the brightness values of the edge pixels on the straight line, thereby correcting brightness values of other pixels on the straight line. | 06-11-2015 |
| 20150206021 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SMOOTHING IMAGE - A method and apparatus for smoothing an image representing foreground or background. The method comprises: dividing the image in a specified granularity; for a block divided containing a blank pixel and a non-blank pixel, modifying a value of the blank pixel to a value obtained from a value of the non-blank pixel to obtain a filled block; obtaining the block smoothed by performing singular value decomposition on a matrix of pixels of the filled block, wherein values in the matrix of pixels of the block smoothed is calculated as a product of the obtained singular value, a left singular vector, and a transpose of a right singular vector; and for each of the non-blank pixels in the block smoothed, restoring the values of the non-blank pixels to initial values before the filling step, so as to obtain a reconstructed block. | 07-23-2015 |
| 20150235080 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DOCUMENT IMAGE - An apparatus for and a method of processing a document image are provided. The method comprises: generating a luminance component image from the document image; estimating a luminance image from the luminance component image; and adjusting the luminance component image according to the estimated luminance image. Luminance values of pixels at least in horizontal edge areas of the luminance component image are estimated according to luminance values of pixels in a part of background of the luminance component image. If the estimated luminance values are acceptable according to a predetermined criterion, the luminance image is estimated according to the estimated luminance values. If the estimated luminance values are unacceptable, the luminance image is estimated by using the largest one of the luminance values of the pixels in each column of pixels in the luminance component image as the luminance values of all of the pixels in the column. | 08-20-2015 |
| 20150310302 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method. The device includes: an acquiring unit for acquiring an image containing an object image; a calculating unit for calculating one or more candidate object image areas based on color and edge characteristics of the image; a selecting unit for selecting a candidate object image area with the maximal similarity to a predetermined color model as a first object image area from the one or more candidate object image areas; a determining unit for determining other of the one or more candidate object image areas as a non-object image area or a second object image area with the first object image area; a creating unit for creating an adaptive color model; and a detecting unit for detecting, based on the adaptive color model, an area containing the object image in the each of the first and second object image areas. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150317804 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING COLOR CHECKER IN IMAGE - Embodiments provide an apparatus and method for detecting a color checker in an image including: an extracting unit to extract sliding window features of sliding windows at multiple positions from an input image by using a predefined sliding window; a selecting unit to select, by using multiple predefined sliding window templates, a sliding window having a minimum distance from each sliding window template from the sliding windows at the multiple positions as a matched sliding window of the sliding window template; and a determining unit to determine segmentation lines of colored squares of a color checker in the input image according to a matching result of each sliding window template. | 11-05-2015 |
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| 20090154346 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A MULTICAST SERVICE WITH MULTIPLE TYPES OF PROTECTION AND RECOVERY - A multicast service method and apparatus for providing multicast service with various types of protections and recoveries. The method includes splitting a multicast service into a plurality of unidirectional point-to-point services from a source node to each sink node, where a signaling message of each unidirectional point-to-point services is independent of one another; establishing, at the source node which publishes the multicast service, one or more label switch paths for each unidirectional point-to-point service with the signaling messages; and receiving a notification message when a failure occurs in the network, where the notification message carries ID(s) of one or more label switch paths that are affected by the failure; establishing, by the source node, a recovered label switch path or a new backup label switch path in response to the notification message. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20110128844 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR RECOVERING SERVICE - A method, system and device for recovering services are provided, which relate to the field of communication. The method includes the following steps. Working resources of a Traffic Engineering (TE) link in a network are set to a shared MESH recovery state, and information of the shared MESH recovery state is flooded into the network, in which the information of the shared MESH recovery state is used to broadcast that the failure recovery mode of the working resources of the TE link is a band-level shared MESH recovery mode; whether the TE link fails is detected; and when detecting that the TE link fails, services on the working resources of the TE link are recovered by switching the N band-level FA LSPs on the TE link to the corresponding N band-level shared MESH recovery paths. The technical solutions reduce service recovery time and satisfy service requirements of customers while increasing bandwidth resource usage rate. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110205902 | PATH COMPUTATION AND ESTABLISHMENT METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - In the field of network technology, a path computation method is provided, which includes: receiving Path Computation Request (PCReq) information from a Path Computation Client (PCC), in which address information of a head node and an end node of a path and information of add/drop interfaces of a service corresponding to the path are carried in the PCReq information; acquiring label information of the add/drop interfaces of the service corresponding to the path, and cross-connection capability limit information of the head node and the end node of the path; computing path information satisfying the cross-connection capability limit information of the head node and the end node of the path, according to the address information of the head node and the end node of the path, the information of the add/drop interfaces of the service, the label information of the add/drop interfaces of the service, and the cross-connection capability limit information of the head node and the end node of the path; and sending the computed path information to the PCC. A path establishment method, apparatus, and a system are provided. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120026886 | PATH COMPUTATION METHOD, PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENT, NODE DEVICE, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - The present invention provides a path computation method, a Path Computation Element (PCE), a node device, and a network system. The method includes: receiving a path computation request message (S | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120257886 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING SHARED MESH PROTECTION AND OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for implementing shared mesh protection includes: receiving, by a first node, a message of a second type sent by a second node, where the message of the second type carries a second positive incoming sublabel allocated by the second node for a protection path of a first service and the second positive incoming sublabel is used to indicate a specified feature of recovery information of the first service; allocating, by the first node, a first positive outgoing label for the protection path of the first service based on the second positive incoming sublabel, where the first positive outgoing label corresponds to the second positive incoming sublabel; and transmitting the recovery information of the first service to the second node based on an indication of the first positive outgoing sublabel when knowing that a working path of the first service is faulty. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20150271055 | PATH COMPUTATION METHOD, PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENT, NODE DEVICE, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - The present invention provides a path computation method, a Path Computation Element (PCE), a node device, and a network system. The method includes: receiving a path computation request message (S | 09-24-2015 |
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| 20130169403 | MAGNETIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A magnetic component and manufacturing method thereof are described. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: (1) coating an insulation material on the surface of a magnetic core to form an insulation magnetic core; (2) bending the conducting material into a predetermined shape to form a preformed conductive body; and (3) assembling the mold conducting body with the insulation magnetic core to form a magnetic component. The method of the present invention easily manufactures the magnetic component with a shrinkage size and good insulation characteristic between the preformed conductive body and the insulation magnetic core. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130200973 | CONDUCTIVE WIRE FOR TRANSFORMER AND MAGNETIC ELEMENT IN SWITCH POWER SUPPLY - The present invention relates to a conductive wire for a transformer and a magnetic element in a switch power supply, the magnetic element comprises a transformer and a filter, the transformer comprises a winding base and a coil, the winding base comprises two base bodies and a cylinder locating between the two base bodies, the coil is formed by winding a plurality of the conductive wires in parallel on the cylinder, the conductive wire comprises a conductor and an insulator directly covering an outer periphery of the conductor, a profile of a section of the insulator is a rectangle, a surface contact is formed between the adjacent conductive wires provided in parallel on the cylinder via the profiles of the rectangle sections of the adjacent insulators, and a contact surface forming the surface contact is perpendicular to an axial line of the cylinder. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20150181259 | DIGITAL TELEVISION NETWORK STRUCTURE AND USER TERMINAL - This invention discloses a digital TV broadcast system coordinated with a broadband communication network, an information transmission network in which the broadcast system is applied, a digital TV heterogeneous network architecture, and a client terminal used in each of the above network systems. The various broadcast system architectures of the invention adopt the design concept of heterogeneous network which integrates a broadcast network with other networks, for example, a communication network, the Internet and the like, to form a heterogeneous network architecture coordinating various networks. Meanwhile, the usage in bad conditions are taken into account, and a broadcast TV system which enables uplink transmission by using a broadcast link is designed. The terminal of the invention is a terminal applicable in these heterogeneous network architectures, is capable of receiving signals transmitted from various networks, and can enable flexible receiving and access modes with a series of control means. The network system and client terminal of the invention can achieve an optimized allocation of network resources, save spectrum resources, and enable optimized transmission and management of information resources. | 06-25-2015 |
| 20150357217 | WARPED SILICON-CHIP ADSORPTION DEVICE AND ADSORPTION METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus and method for adsorbing a wafer are disclosed. The apparatus includes a chuck ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160137045 | Dual-motor power system and dual-motor hybrid power system for vehicle - A dual-motor power system or a dual-motor hybrid power system for a vehicle comprises a first motor, a second motor, an intermediate shaft, a first gear set disposed between a first driving shaft, and an intermediate shaft. The first driving shaft couples with the intermediate shaft via the first gear set, a second gear set disposed between the second driving shaft and the intermediate shaft, and a single synchronizer disposed around the second driving shaft. The synchronizer can be switched between a neutral position, a first-speed-ratio position, and a second-speed-ratio position. In the neutral position, the second driving shaft is decoupled from the first and second gear sets. In the first-speed-ratio position, the synchronizer couples the second driving shaft with the intermediate shaft via the first gear set. In the second-speed-ratio position, the synchronizer couples the second driving shaft with the intermediate shaft via the second gear set. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160137188 | Control systems and methods for transmission of hybrid power vehicle - A transmission control system for a hybrid-power driving system includes at least a gear shifting actuation module to control engagement of specific gearwheels and a clutch actuation module to control a clutch that couples an engine to the transmission. Gear shifts are required for each of the engine and the electric motor in the hybrid-power driving system. The control system minimizes power loss when a gear shift is occurring for the engine or the electric motor. By selectively controlling the clutch and engagement of specific gearwheels, power loss associated with a gear shift for one of these power sources can be directly offset by using the other power source. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160137189 | Control systems and methods for transmission of hybrid power vehicle - A transmission control system for a hybrid-power driving system includes at least a gear shifting actuation module to control engagement of specific gearwheels and a clutch actuation module to control a clutch that couples an engine to the transmission. Gear shifts are required for each of the engine and the electric motor in the hybrid-power driving system. By selectively controlling the clutch and engagement of specific gearwheels, the transmission control system can start the engine when the vehicle is initially powered by the electric motor alone. Starting the internal combustion engine in this case switches the vehicle from a pure motor driving mode to a hybrid driving mode. Additionally, the transmission control system can start the engine when the vehicle is in a parked state, for example, to put the vehicle in a battery charging mode for the electric motor. | 05-19-2016 |
