Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
348025000 | IMAGE FALSIFICATION TO IMPROVE VIEWER PERCEPTION OF SELECTIVE OBJECT (E.G., MOVING OBJECT OR TARGET) | 7 |
20080303891 | Polarization-based shadow detection - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for determining an illumination flux condition in a scene. The method comprises the steps of generating and storing a sequence of images of the scene, each one of the sequence of images comprising an array of pixels and corresponding to the scene photographed in a preselected polarization direction, different from the polarization direction of other ones of the sequence of images, determining a polarization sequence vector for at least one pixel in the array, as a function of color information for the pixel in the array, among the sequence of images; and utilizing the polarization sequence vector to determine one of a shadowed and lit illumination condition for the at least one pixel. | 12-11-2008 |
20090066782 | SPATIAL-TEMPORAL MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGE SENSOR WITH ADAPTIVE FRAME RATES FOR TRACKING MOVEMENT IN A REGION OF INTEREST - A sensor includes an array of pixels to capture an image, the array of pixels arranged as a plurality of pixel groups, each of the pixel groups having a two or more pixels coupled to a shared floating diffusion node for outputting merged image signals from the pixel groups, at least one inter-pixel switch to control transfer of electrical charge from a floating diffusion node for a first one of the pixel groups to a floating diffusion node for a second one of the pixel groups to temporarily store a portion of a previous image frame within the floating diffusion node for the second one of the pixel groups, and a motion comparator to compare an image signal from the first one of the pixel groups with an image signal from the second one of the pixel groups to detect motion between a current frame and the previous frame. | 03-12-2009 |
20090086014 | LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A local positioning system which includes a video camera, a computer communicating with the video camera and a target object sighted by the video camera and having a target object coordinate system. The computer is adapted to define a relative position and orientation of the video camera with respect to the target object, determine a position and orientation of the video camera in the target object coordinate system, and determine the position of a point of interest in the target object coordinate system. The system can also be used to aim the camera at a previously recorded point of interest on the target object. Contact with, or close proximity to, the target object is not required. A local positioning method is also disclosed. | 04-02-2009 |
20110043603 | System And Method For Dehazing - Outdoor imaging is plagued by poor visibility conditions due to atmospheric scattering, particularly in haze. A major problem is spatially-varying reduction of contrast by stray radiance (airlight), which is scattered by the haze particles towards the camera. The images can be compensated for haze by subtraction of the airlight and correcting for atmospheric attenuation. Airlight and attenuation parameters are computed by analyzing polarization-filtered images. These parameters were estimated in past studies by measuring pixels in sky areas. However, the sky is often unseen in the field of view. The invention provides methods for automatically estimating these parameters, when the sky is not in view. | 02-24-2011 |
20110234748 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To provide an image processing device capable of processing so as not to give a viewer a feeling of unnaturalness even when a crash occurs in the frame interpolation processing using motion vectors. It is determined whether there is any input of a vector state (Step S | 09-29-2011 |
20120092446 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A VIDEO SYNOPSIS - A computer-implemented method and system transforms a first sequence of video frames of a first dynamic scene to a second sequence of at least two video frames depicting a second dynamic scene. A subset of video frames in the first sequence is obtained that show movement of at least one object having a plurality of pixels located at respective x, y coordinates and portions from the subset are selected that show non-spatially overlapping appearances of the at least one object in the first dynamic scene. The portions are copied from at least three different input frames to at least two successive frames of the second sequence without changing the respective x, y coordinates of the pixels in the object and such that at least one of the frames of the second sequence contains at least two portions that appear at different frames in the first sequence. | 04-19-2012 |
348026000 | Contour generator | 1 |
20130215216 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION BY ANIMATION - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for displaying information by animation. The method includes: creating different interfaces corresponding to different visible areas; determining a visible interface among the created interfaces, displaying the visible interface, and hiding the other interfaces; and displaying, when receiving a trigger of displaying a visible area, an interface corresponding to the visible area in an animated manner, and hiding interfaces other than the interface corresponding to the visible area. The present invention avoids occurrence of flashing after the end of animation that is caused by coercive rearrangement of a control and adverse to the effect of animated display. | 08-22-2013 |