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20100060793 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FUSING VIDEO STREAMS - It is provided a method for converting video streams capturing a scene to video streams fitting a viewpoint configuration. The video streams are provided by video cameras, and the method includes receiving parameters associated with the viewpoint configuration, and converting video streams of the scene as captured by the video cameras to video streams fitting the viewpoint configuration. The viewpoint configuration may be a dynamic viewpoint configuration determined by a joystick module. The converting may be done using a three dimensional method, and includes separating objects of the scene from other portions of the scene. The method may includes integrating the scene into the video stream of a certain scene associated with the viewpoint configuration. Sometimes the viewpoint configuration includes a varying zoom and the converting is done using one of several methods, transition between adjacent video cameras having different zoom values, real zooming of a video camera having a motorized zoom, and digital zooming in of video streams. The converting may be done on video streams which have been captured the scene in advance before commencing the converting. | 03-11-2010 |
20110267461 | TRAJECTORY DETECTION AND ANALYSIS IN SPORTING EVENTS - It is provided a method for conveying data on a flying object in a scene. The method including capturing video frames of the scene by video cameras to get video frames which include image of the object, identifying the object in captured video frames to get associated object parameters, calculating motion variables, solving motion equations for anticipated object trajectory taking into account certain effects, and conveying data to displaying devices. The certain effects are an effect of object collision with a ground surface, air friction, wind effect, and interaction of a spinning object with air. The method may be applied to a ball in a sporting playing field. The cameras may have variable operating parameters desirable for the calculating the motion variables, which may be determined by camera calibration using captured artifacts of the scene. Shadow of the object may be captured as well and be used to provide data absent due to occluding a of the object from a video camera. Also, the captured frames of a ball may be used to calculate parameters relating to a bat which hits the ball. | 11-03-2011 |
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20090300461 | DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COMMUNICATION - A transmitter may include an encoder configured to encode a data bit vector to provide an codeword that includes a first codeword portion and a second codeword portion; wherein the first codeword portion is decodable by a first parity check process to yield the data bit vector; wherein the codeword is decodable by a second parity check process to yield the data bit vector; and a communication module, for transmitting the codeword. | 12-03-2009 |
20110150038 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UWB TRANSMISSION PREDISTORTION AND RF WIRE-BOND INTERFACE TECHNIQUE RELATED APPLICATION - A method and a system, the system includes: an analog base-band pre-distorter arranged to receive in-phase (I) baseband signals and Quadrature (Q) baseband signals, and to amplify the I baseband signals and the Q baseband signals by a gain function to provide amplified I baseband signals and amplified Q baseband signals; wherein the gain function is responsive to a sum of (a) a square of amplitudes of the I baseband signals and, (b) a square of amplitudes of the B baseband signals; a frequency converter arranged to convert the amplified I and Q baseband signals to radio frequency (RF) signals; an RF amplifier that is arranged to amplify the RF signals to provide amplified RF signals and to output differential RF signals that represent the amplified RF signals through first and second differential output ports of the RF amplifier; a balun comprising a first and second balanced input ports and a single unbalanced output port; and multiple wire-bonds coupled between the balun and the first and second differential output ports of the RF amplifier; wherein at least one wire-bond serve as potential shunt inductor. | 06-23-2011 |
20120033727 | EFFICIENT VIDEO CODEC IMPLEMENTATION - A device and a method are provided. The device may include: a first encoder arranged to apply a first type encoding process on an input frame element to provide a first type encoded frame element; the input frame elements belong to an input frame; a second encoder arranged to apply a second type encoding process on the input frame element to provide a second type encoded frame element; wherein the first type encoding process differs from the second type encoding process by a degree of expected loss of data; a control circuit arranged to select a selected frame element out of the first and second type encoded frame elements; a memory unit arranged to store information about the selected frame element; and an output interface arranged to output the selected frame element. | 02-09-2012 |
20150351123 | Techniques for Reverse Direction Grants on a Wireless Communication Channel - Examples are disclosed for a reverse direction grant (RDG) on a wireless communication channel between a first wireless device and a second wireless device. In some examples, an RDG may be used by the second wireless device to transmit data over a communication channel for a wireless local area network (WLAN) reserved for use by the first wireless device during a transmit opportunity (TxOP) time period. For these examples, the second wireless device may acknowledge the RDG but may wait for expected data to arrive before transmitting data over the communication channel. Other examples are described and claimed. | 12-03-2015 |
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20090302812 | LOW NOISE VOLTAGE REGULATOR - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a voltage regulator (VR) that includes a first amplifier receiving a first reference voltage and a feedback voltage as inputs. A second amplifier receiving a second reference voltage and an output of the first amplifier as inputs. A drive component (e.g., transistor(s)) coupled to the second amplifier to drive current to an output based on an output of the second amplifier. A shunt component (e.g., transistor(s)) coupled to the first amplifier to shunt current from the output based on the output of the first amplifier. Current variations in the shunt component are controlled. | 12-10-2009 |
20100164552 | Ratio meter for temperature sensor - In some embodiments, a new DTS implementation, which employs the conventional Vbe/ΔVbe temperature dependent principles but substitutes a voltage-to-frequency (V/F) based ratio meter for the DAC based approach. This new approach can result in a more simplified circuit that may be more variation tolerant and can require less power and area. | 07-01-2010 |
20130283082 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM - A disable module may be coupled to an analog circuit of an electronic circuit. The disable module may detect an input voltage that is supplied to the analog circuit, and may disable (such as by powering off) the analog circuit if the input voltage is below a reference value. The reference value may be set at a voltage level at or below a maximum voltage that may be present across a transistor in the analog circuit. Accordingly, the analog circuit may be disabled without damage to the transistors of the analog circuit. The disable module may detect whether the input voltage is below the reference value level by comparing the input voltage to a reference voltage. The electronic circuit may include a voltage regulator, and the voltage regulator may include the analog circuit. | 10-24-2013 |
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20140094157 | Method and System for Automatically Controlling the Insertion of Control Word in CPRI Daisy Chain Configuration - A method and apparatus automatically controls the insertion of information flow data over a shared CPRI link ( | 04-03-2014 |
20150146612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA FLOWS - The method and system supports multiple bandwidth traffic over a single CPRI (common public radio interface) link ( | 05-28-2015 |
20150146613 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESETTING AT LEAST ONE NODE WITHIN A CPRI RADIO BASE STATION SYSTEM - A method of resetting at least one node within a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) radio base station system is described. The method comprises, at an end-point Radio Equipment Controller (REC) node within the CPRI radio base station system, receiving on a slave port a reset notification, and in response thereto transmitting on the slave port a reset notification comprising a reset bit being set within at least ten hyperframes. | 05-28-2015 |
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20150347332 | A COMMON PUBLIC RADIO INTERFACE LANE CONTROLLER - A Common Public Radio Interface, CPRI, lane controller of a processor, in a Time Division Duplex, TDD, system, said CPRI lane controller comprising: a Direct Memory Access (or more than one), DMA, controller connected to a memory through a switch fabric to perform read or/and write memory access transactions via an internal system bus of said processor, wherein said DMA controller is adapted to generate a RX/TX transaction interrupt(s) for each completed memory access RX/TX transaction counted by a corresponding transaction counter(s) which provides a TDD slot awareness interrupt(s) when a RX/TX TDD slot has terminated, wherein said DMA controller has a steering control(s) adapted to steer the memory access transactions either to said memory or to be legitimately blocked by said switch fabric in response to said TDD slot awareness interrupt(s) to save bandwidth, BW, of the internal system bus of said processor. | 12-03-2015 |
20150372930 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PACKET DATA FLOW - A system for use in nodes communicating over a CPRI (common public radio interface) allows each networking node in a daisychain configuration to seamlessly manage the control and management HDLC (high-speed data link control) channel for both uplink and downlink. The connection is kept alive through a soft reset flow. Received HDLC packets can be extracted for use by a local node. Locally generated packets can be inserted into the packet data stream at the datalink layer for onward transmission over the CPRI. The system arbitrates between the locally generated packet data held in a buffer in the local node and remote packet data received from a remote node and held in the local node in a first in first out buffer for onward transmission to a subsequent node after arbitration. Remote packet data is given priority. | 12-24-2015 |
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20120330702 | MOBILE SERVICE CONTEXT - According to one general aspect, a method may include requesting, from a database and by a program executing on a mobile computing device, at least a portion of a business service context regarding a business service. The method may also include receiving, from the database, an aggregated database result regarding the business service. The aggregated database result may include the requested business service context and wherein the business service context includes information from a plurality of applications. The method may also include displaying, via the mobile computing device, at least a portion of the information included by the business service context. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330929 | SERVICE CONTEXT - According to one general aspect, a method of using an application may include receiving a request, from a user, to display at least a portion of a business service context regarding a business service. The method may also include receiving, from a database, an aggregated database result regarding the business service. The aggregated database result may include the requested business service context. The business service context may include information from a plurality of other applications. The method may further include displaying a graphical user interface element that displays at least a portion of the information included by the business service context. | 12-27-2012 |
20140278824 | SERVICE CONTEXT - According to one general aspect, a method may include displaying a user interface associated with the application. The user interface may provide a selection of a business service that is implemented within an Information Technology (IT) environment by at least one server and at least one business application executing on the at least one server. The method may include requesting a service status for the business service based on the selection, and receiving a database result regarding the business service from a database server. The database result may include performance information associated with the business service. The method may include displaying the service status as a user interface element viewable within the user interface of the application. The service status may provide the performance information that has been received within the database result. | 09-18-2014 |
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20110158533 | ROBUST AND EFFICIENT IMAGE IDENTIFICATION - Apparatus for matching a query image against a catalog of images, comprises: a feature extraction unit operative for extracting principle features from said query image; a relationship unit operative for establishing relationships between a given principle feature and other features in the image, and adding said relationships as relationship information alongside said principle features; and a first comparison unit operative for comparing principle features and associated relationship information of said query image with principle features and associated relationship information of images of said catalog to find candidate matches. | 06-30-2011 |
20120169583 | SCENE PROFILES FOR NON-TACTILE USER INTERFACES - A method, including capturing an image of a scene including one or more users in proximity to a display coupled to a computer executing a non-tactile interface, and processing the image to generate a profile of the one or more users. Content is then selected for presentation on the display responsively to the profile. | 07-05-2012 |
20130202161 | Enhanced face detection using depth information - A method for face detection includes capturing a depth map and an image of a scene and selecting one or more locations in the image to test for presence of human faces. At each selected location, a respective face detection window is defined, having a size that is scaled according to a depth coordinate of the location that is indicated by the depth map. Apart of the image that is contained within each face detection window is processed to determine whether the face detection window contains a human face. Similar methods may also be applied in identifying other object types. | 08-08-2013 |
20130301931 | ROBUST AND EFFICIENT IMAGE IDENTIFICATION - Apparatus for matching a query image against a catalog of images, comprises: a feature extraction unit operative for extracting principle features from said query image; a relationship unit operative for establishing relationships between a given principle feature and other features in the image, and adding said relationships as relationship information alongside said principle features; and a first comparison unit operative for comparing principle features and associated relationship information of said query image with principle features and associated relationship information of images of said catalog to find candidate matches. | 11-14-2013 |
20150193649 | Enhanced face detection using depth information - A method for face detection includes capturing a depth map and an image of a scene and selecting one or more locations in the image to test for presence of human faces. At each selected location, a respective face detection window is defined, having a size that is scaled according to a depth coordinate of the location that is indicated by the depth map. Apart of the image that is contained within each face detection window is processed to determine whether the face detection window contains a human face. Similar methods may also be applied in identifying other object types. | 07-09-2015 |
20150242707 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PERSONALITY TRAITS, CAPABILITIES AND SUGGESTED INTERACTIONS FROM IMAGES OF A PERSON - The present invention relates to a method of predicting personality characteristic from at least one image of a subject person, in particular images of the person's face, comprising: a) collecting training images of multiple persons for training propose, wherein each of said training images is associated with metadata characteristics of human personality; b) grouping said collected training images into training groups according to said associated metadata, either according to same metadata or similar metadata; c) training at least one image-based classifier to predict at least one characteristics of human personality from at least one image of a second person; and d) applying said at least one image-based classifier to at least one image of said subject person for outputting a prediction of at least one human personality characteristic of said subject person. | 08-27-2015 |
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20090302477 | Integrated circuit with embedded contacts - In some embodiments, disclosed is an interconnect structure with embedded plugs. | 12-10-2009 |
20100243306 | HIGH RATE SELECTIVE POLYMER GROWTH ON A SUBSTRATE - Method and systems provide growth of polymer structures at a high rate in a selective manner. In various embodiments, the method or system can expose the growth site to a polymer source and growing a polymer tube at a rate of at least 80 micrometer per hour at the growth site. The method or system can provide selectivity by providing a growth site on a substrate by patterning a metal, such as copper, that provides a seed site for the polymer. Non-selected sites can be coated with a polymer growth inhibitor, such as polyimide or silicon nitride. | 09-30-2010 |
20120190194 | SELECTIVE POLYMER GROWTH ON A SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE - Method and systems provide growth of polymer structures at a high rate in a selective manner. In various embodiments, the method or system can expose the growth site to a polymer source and growing a polymer tube at a rate of at least 80 micrometer per hour at the growth site. The method or system can provide selectivity by providing a growth site on a substrate by patterning a metal, such as copper, that provides a seed site for the polymer. Non-selected sites can be coated with a polymer growth inhibitor, such as polyimide or silicon nitride. | 07-26-2012 |