01st week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120002801 | Subscriber Line Interface Circuitry Line Driver - A linefeed driver apparatus includes a first current mirror having an input leg for current I | 2012-01-05 |
20120002802 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR THE IMAGING REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION, PARTICULARLY FOR USE WITH COMMUNICATION TERMINALS - The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for the imaging representation of information, particularly for use with communication terminals. The arrangement comprises an image output device having at least one first partial region and at least one second partial region, wherein the first partial region is designed such that the representation of the information is optimized for high-quality imaging and the second partial region is designed such that it is optimized for lower-quality imaging. According to the method, the first partial region is activated when data is present for output using high-quality imaging, while the second partial region is always actively operated. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002803 | SELF RECONFIGURING VLSI ARCHITECTURES FOR UNKNOWN SECRET PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS BASED CRYPTO SECURITY SYSTEMS - This invention describes the use of the features of modern reconfigurable and self-reconfigurable VLSI technology to design highly secure unknown and secret physical functions for security applications. Several examples of sample implementation scenarios for self-generated secret hard-wired cipher- and/or hash functions architectures are shown. A designed, true-random, electronic mutation process autonomously activates the creation of such secret unknown functions in a self-reconfiguring VLSI architecture. It is also shown that such mutation processes can be designed to evolve dynamically in a non-predictive manner to come up with highly secure physical security mechanisms and protocols. This self-evolving property of such functions offers a great security quality which can enhance the security and identification resilience of electronic units to levels similar to those only available in biological systems with highly accurate DNA identification and secured history tracing of living entities. The invention shows also that such unknown physical functions can be used to implement highly secure cryptographic protocols which were not possible before the availability of self-reconfiguring VLSI technology. The invention description shows also how to make use of unknown tamper-proof and secret physical mapping as hash functions and ciphers even if the exact architecture is not known to anybody. A primitive identification scenario with its core protocol using an unknown secret cipher is also described, offering high security stability and resilience. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002804 | ARCHITECTURE AND INSTRUCTION SET FOR IMPLEMENTING ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD (AES) - A flexible aes instruction for a general purpose processor is provided that performs aes encryption or decryption using n rounds, where n includes the standard aes set of rounds {10, 12, 14}. A parameter is provided to allow the type of aes round to be selected, that is, whether it is a “last round”. In addition to standard aes, the flexible aes instruction allows an AES-like cipher with 20 rounds to be specified or a “one round” pass. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002805 | Cryptographic Key Spilt Combiner Including a Biometric Input - A cryptographic key split combiner, which includes a number of key split generators for generating cryptographic key splits and a key split randomizer for randomizing the cryptographic key splits to produce a cryptographic key, and a process for forming cryptographic keys. Each of the key split generators generates key splits from seed data. The key split generators may include a random split generator for generating a random key split based on reference data. Other key split generators may include a token split generator for generating a token key split based on label data, a console split generator for generating a console key split based on maintenance data, and a biometric split generator for generating a biometric key split based on biometric data. All splits may further be based on static data, which may be updated, for example by modifying a prime number divisor of the static data. The label data may be read from a storage medium, and may include user authorization data. The resulting cryptographic key may be, for example, a stream of symbols, at least one symbol block, or a key matrix. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002806 | Digital Signatures - Digital signature generation apparatus, comprising an envelope generator operable to generate an envelope representation, of only one polarity, of a sampled data segment, and operable for each of successive portions comprising a predetermined plurality of samples to provide a portion sum value as the sum the values of the samples in the portion, thereby to provide said envelope representation; a threshold value generator operable to determine a threshold value for each portion of the envelope representation; an event detector operable to detect, as an event, a transition of a portion sum value across the threshold value for the portion concerned; and a signature generator operable in response a detected event to generate a digital signature characteristic of the sampled data segment. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002807 | WHITE-BOX CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM WITH INPUT DEPENDENT ENCODINGS - A white-box cryptographic system is presented wherein at least one of its internal values is represented using an input dependent encoding. The system comprises a network of a plurality of basic blocks arranged for collectively performing a cryptographic operation. An encoder is arranged for encoding output data of a first one of the plurality of basic blocks into an encoder-output according to a selected one of a plurality of encoding schemes, said selection depending on an input-message to the system. A compensator is arranged for recoding intermediate data to compensate for the effect of the encoding according to a selected one of a plurality of recoding schemes. Using variable encodings instead of fixed encodings complicates reverse engineering the white-box cryptographic system. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002808 | Interleaving and deinterleaving method for preventing periodic position interference - A method for implementing volatile cipher key and separate verification module by collecting physical features includes: physical features sensor is set on the handset, and control module can be set separately; physical features sensor can collect physical features information of every user in advance, and the physical features can be transmitted to control module, and stored in user database; after physical features sensor went away the user's body or cipher sent successfully, cipher temporary storage unit reset; when registered user is operating again by using handset, control unit can retrieve cipher data in said user database, and check whether same records exist or not; if same record exist, control unit give a instruction to lower-stage controlled object; if not, control unit delivers a warning information, and store an error record. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002809 | Video Slice and Active Region Based Multiple Partial Encryption - A television set-top box has a receiver receiving a digital television signal comprising: a plurality of unencrypted packets and a plurality of encrypted packets, where the encrypted packets carry data describing an active region of a video frame. A decrypter decrypts the encrypted packets. A decoder decrypted packets to produce a signal suitable for play on a television set. This abstract is not to be considered limiting since other embodiments can include more, fewer or different features than those described in this abstract. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002810 | SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CIPHER - A wireless phone system and methods performed thereon for cryptographically processing SMS messages is disclosed. A cryptographic pad is used to replace characters in a payload of a SMS message with coded characters. The cryptographic pad is used by the receiver of the SMS message to decode it. The cryptographic pad is one of two or more possible cryptographic pads stored in the receiver. In one embodiment, the two or more possible cryptographic pads are sent as a key where a particular cryptographic pad is referenced in the key using an index. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002811 | SECURE OUTSOURCED COMPUTATION - Secure outsourced computation on data can be achieved by transmitting shares of the data to respective computation servers; establishing respective connections between each of the computation servers and respective security modules, wherein each security module contains respective security data, the security data on the security modules being related by means of a Linear Secret Sharing Scheme; computing respective shares of a computation result in the computation servers, using the respective shares of the data and the respective security data; returning the shares of the computation result to a data owner; and obtaining the computation result from the respective shares of the computation result. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002812 | DATA AND CONTROL ENCRYPTION - Secure communication of data between devices includes encrypting unencrypted data at a first device by reordering unencrypted bits provided in parallel on a device bus, including data and control bits, from an unencrypted order to form encrypted data including a plurality of encrypted bits in parallel in an encrypted order defined by a key. The encrypted data may be transmitted to another device where the encrypted data is decrypted by using the key to order the encrypted bits to restore the unencrypted order thereby to reform the unencrypted data. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002813 | MULTI-SERVICE VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE - An integrated, multi-service network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service network client can be deployed as a single software package on cellular mobile network devices to provide integrated services including secure enterprise virtual private network (VPN) connectivity, acceleration, security management including monitored and enforced endpoint compliance, and collaboration services. Once installed on the cellular mobile device, the multi-service client integrates with an operating system of the device to provide a single entry point for user authentication for secure enterprise connectivity, endpoint security services including endpoint compliance with respect to anti-virus and spyware software, and comprehensive integrity checks. That is, the multi-service client provides a common user interface to the integrated services, and provides a VPN handler that interfaces with the operating system to provide an entry point for network traffic to which the integrated services can be seamlessly applied. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002814 | VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING DYNAMICALLY CONSTRUCTED DISPLAY FOR NATIVE ACCESS TO WEB MAIL - An integrated, multi-service network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service network client can be deployed as a single software package on cellular mobile network devices to provide integrated services including secure enterprise virtual private network (VPN) connectivity, acceleration, security management including monitored and enforced endpoint compliance, and collaboration services. The VPN network client is programmed to receive a web-based home page from an enterprise VPN appliance, process the web-based home page to identify a bookmark embedded within the response that corresponds to an enterprise webmail for the user and dynamically construct a user interface to have an input control native to the cellular mobile device for launching a native email client of the cellular mobile device to access the email without launching a web browser. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002815 | VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING FAST RECONNECT - A virtual private network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The VPN network client establishes a secure VPN connection with a remote VPN security device. The VPN network client establishes a secure control channel with the secure VPN gateway and, upon a successful authentication, receives a session cookie with a unique identifier. In the event communication with the secure VPN gateway is subsequently temporarily lost, the VPN network client performs a fast reconnect without requiring re-authentication of the cellular mobile device by communicating the session cookie to the secure VPN gateway. Prior to performing the fast reconnect, the VPN network client identifies a set of transport mechanisms currently available to the cellular mobile device and, when only a cellular network is available and not a wireless packet-based connection, the VPN network client defers the fast reconnect until application-layer data is received from a user application and is ready to be sent to the remote VPN security device via the VPN connection | 2012-01-05 |
20120002816 | Method and system for realizing secure forking call session in IP multimedia subsystem - The present invention relates to a method for realizing a secure forking call session, which comprises: performing authentication between a calling party and a KMS or between each called party and the KMS, and acquiring a shared key between the calling party and the KMS or a shared key between each called party and the KMS; generating a random number by the calling party and calling each called party through an IMS; generating a random number by each called party and acquiring a media root key from the KMS; generating a media key, which is shared with the calling party, by each called party according to the media root key and the random number generated by the called party; sending the media root key and the generated random number by a called response party in the called parties, who responds the call, to the calling party through the IMS network; generating a media key identical to that of the called response party by the calling party according to the media root key and the random number generated by the called response party; and performing a secure media session between the calling party and the called response party with the identical media key. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002817 | KEY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND KEY MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A validity information processing section determines a valid MKB and a valid intermediate key by referring to validity information in a recording medium, and, when an MKB and an intermediate key that are not valid have been rewritten, rewrites the validity information in the recording medium. An MKB processing section reads the valid MKB from the recording medium and performs updating processing on an MKB stored in the key management device, and rewrites the non-valid MKB in the recording medium. An intermediate key processing section reads the valid intermediate key from the recording medium and decrypts and re-encrypts the read intermediate key with an authentication key, and rewrites the non-valid intermediate key into the re-encrypted intermediate key. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002818 | Advanced Stereo Coding Based on a Combination of Adaptively Selectable Left/Right or Mid/Side Stereo Coding and of Parametric Stereo Coding - The application relates to audio encoder and decoder systems. An embodiment of the encoder system comprises a downmix stage for generating a downmix signal and a residual signal based on a stereo signal. In addition, the encoder system comprises a parameter determining stage for determining parametric stereo parameters such as an inter-channel intensity difference and an inter-channel cross-correlation. Preferably, the parametric stereo parameters are time- and frequency-variant. Moreover, the encoder system comprises a transform stage. The transform stage generates a pseudo left/right stereo signal by performing a transform based on the downmix signal and the residual signal. The pseudo stereo signal is processed by a perceptual stereo encoder. For stereo encoding, left/right encoding or mid/side encoding is selectable. Preferably, the selection between left/right stereo encoding and mid/side stereo encoding is time- and frequency-variant. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002819 | AUDIO DRIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A grounding switch is described which operates properly even in the presence of negative voltages on a signal line. The grounding switch uses isolated field effect transistors that have their substrates tied to different voltages. The isolated field effect transistor has gate voltage and substrate voltage which can be pulled down to negative voltage when the signal line has a negative voltage allowing the switch to remain open even with a negative voltage. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002820 | Removing Noise From Audio - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for removing noise from audio that includes building a sound model that represents noises which result from activations of input controls of a computer device. The method further includes receiving an audio signal produced from a microphone substantially near the computer device. The method further includes identifying, without using the microphone, an activation of at least one input control from among the input controls. The method further includes associating a portion of the audio signal as corresponding to the identified activation. The method further includes applying, from the audio model, a representation of a noise for the identified activation to the associated portion of the audio signal so as to cancel at least part of the noise from the audio signal. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002821 | GROUNDING SWITCH METHOD AND APPARATUS - A grounding switch is described which operates properly even in the presence of negative voltages on a signal line. The grounding switch uses isolated field effect transistors that have their substrates tied to different voltages. The isolated field effect transistor has a gate voltage and substrate voltage which can be pulled down to a negative voltage when the signal line has a negative voltage allowing the switch to remain open even with a negative voltage. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002822 | CONTROL SYSTEM, EARPHONE AND CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a control system ( | 2012-01-05 |
20120002823 | ACOUSTIC CORRECTION APPARATUS, AUDIO OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND ACOUSTIC CORRECTION METHOD - According to one embodiment, an acoustic correction apparatus includes an input module, a calculator, a divider, a converter, an extractor, a synthesizer, and a generator. The input module receives an audio signal propagated through a sound field. The calculator calculates an impulse response from the audio signal. The divider divides the impulse response into first and second impulse responses. The converter converts the first and second impulse responses into first and second frequency spectrums. The extractor specifies an amplitude component of the first frequency spectrum with a peak relatively higher than that of the amplitude component of the first frequency spectrum, and extracts the peak as a resonance component. The synthesizer synthesizes a first property and a second property for attenuating the resonance component. The generator generates a correction filter for performing correction to obtain the synthesized property. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002824 | AUDIO EQUIPMENT AND A SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to an audio equipment ( | 2012-01-05 |
20120002825 | LIMITING PEAK AUDIO POWER IN MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods of limiting peak audio power in mobile devices may include a high pass filter and a burst module to detect a burst load condition in a mobile device. The burst module can also apply the high pass filter to an audio signal of the mobile device in response to the burst load condition to obtain a filtered signal, and transmit the filtered audio signal to a speaker of the mobile device. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002826 | ELECTRET ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER - An electret electroacoustic transducer comprises first porous complex electrode, support member, electret vibrating film and first adjustment member. Support member is configured on the first porous complex electrode. The fixed portion of the electret vibrating film is fixed on the support member. Adjustment member is set between the first porous complex electrode and the electret vibrating film. A sectional difference is formed between the fixed portion and the adjusted portion of the electret vibrating film. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002827 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing system includes a transmitter, a sensor, a plurality of processing apparatuses, a placement determiner and a signal distributor. The transmitter transmits a wireless signal. The sensor detects the wireless signal transmitted by the transmitter. The plurality of processing apparatuses receives corresponding signals and executes processing on the received signals. The placement determiner determines placement of the processing apparatuses based on the detection of the wireless signal performed by the sensor. The signal distributor distributes and sends signals to the processing apparatuses respectively, on a basis of the placement determined by the placement determiner. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002828 | AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE, AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an audio processing device including an estimation unit configured to estimate a user's representative perceived position of a stereoscopic image from a difference between a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the stereoscopic image displayed on a display device, and an audio controller configured to control audio output of an audio output device in accordance with the representative perceived position estimated by the estimation unit. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002829 | HEARING AID AND HEARING AID SYSTEM - A hearing aid includes: a first microphone configured to generate a first input signal from an input sound; a second microphone configured to generate a second input signal from the input sound; a signal processing unit configured to generate an output signal from the first input signal and the second input signal; and a receiver configured to play an output sound from the output signal. The signal processing unit determines time responses of the first input signal and the second input signal based on a contact sound generated when the hearing aid is contacted in a predetermined time period, and distinguishes a plurality of settings of the hearing aid and changes the setting based on the time responses. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002830 | MULTI-MODE RADIO FOR HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICES - The present disclosure relates to the wireless communication of information for a hearing assistance device including a multi-mode radio adapted to provide communications at different frequencies using frequency control. In applications of hearing aids, the processor is adapted to perform correction of sound for a hearing impaired user. In certain examples the present subject matter provides an inductive portion for inductive communications. In various applications the multi-mode radio can be used for long range and short range communications. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002831 | ELECTRICAL HEARING AID ADAPTER - An electrical hearing aid adapter is provided. The electrical hearing aid adapter may be configured to transfer programming data to a hearing aid having a first end portion formed in such a manner that it corresponds to the shape of a battery compartment receiving chamber being configured to receive a hearing aid battery compartment. The electrical hearing adapter may further include an interface configured to receive programming data and to transfer received programming data to an electrical contact portion arranged on the first end portion. The first electrical contact portion may be arranged such that it electrically contacts to a second electrical contact portion placed in the battery compartment receiving chamber, when the first end portion is inserted into the battery compartment receiving chamber. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002832 | Dynamic microphone - There is provided a dynamic microphone in which vibration noise generated by the rolling of a microphone unit caused by a vibration component perpendicular to the principal axis direction of the microphone is reduced effectively. In the dynamic microphone including a microphone unit | 2012-01-05 |
20120002833 | FILMS AND MEMBRANES FOR ACOUSTIC SIGNAL CONVERTER - Films and membranes produced therefrom for acoustic signal converters made of polyester comprising the structural unit of formula (I) | 2012-01-05 |
20120002834 | Earbud Headset Positioning Device - A device which enables optimal positioning of both an earbud and microphone of an earbud headset. Two devices are used if the headset has two earbuds. The device can also be used with earbud headphone(s) (i.e. no microphone). The device comprises an anchor for positioning onto an ear of a wearer, and a cylindrical sleeve which is operatively connected to the anchor and able to attach to the end of an earbud headset. In an optional embodiment, the device comprises an earhook for positioning around a human ear, and a sleeve which is pivotally attached to the earhook and designed to hold the end of the earbud headset. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002835 | CEILING LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM - The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for installing a tile-mounted ceiling speaker that combines the ease of installation of a lay-in speaker system with the visual appearance of a tile-mounted speaker system. In one or more embodiments, the apparatus of the present invention includes a support frame and back box assembly configured for installation on top of a ceiling tile and a loudspeaker cartridge configured to be mounted to the support frame through an appropriately-sized hole in the ceiling tile. In one or more embodiments, the method of the present invention comprises forming an appropriately-sized hole in a ceiling tile, laying an integrated back box and support frame on top of the ceiling tile, connecting wires from an external audio source to terminals provided at the back box, connecting wires provided on the inside of the back box to a loudspeaker cartridge, inserting the loudspeaker cartridge into the hole in the ceiling tile from below, fastening the loudspeaker cartridge to the support frame, and fastening a grille to the loudspeaker cartridge. In one or more embodiments, a variety of interchangeable loudspeaker cartridges having differing loudspeaker configurations are provided. In one or more embodiments, the support frame and back box assembly is configured to allow installation of more than one loudspeaker cartridge. In one or more embodiments, the loudspeaker cartridges are configured for use both with a back box and without back box. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002836 | LOUDSPEAKER - A loudspeaker includes a movable diaphragm, a resilient centering device for centering and guiding the movement of the diaphragm, and a magnet system for controlling the movement of the diaphragm, where the diaphragm is positioned between the magnet system and the resilient centering device. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002837 | SPEAKER AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME - There is provided a speaker which has a frame structure divided into a first frame and a second frame, wherein tinsel wires are arranged so as not to overlap, with respect to the plane direction, the second frame to which a magnetic circuit is attached, whereby the second frame can be arranged as forward as possible thus enabling reduction of the thickness of the speaker. Also, the first frame and the second frame are both provided with respective frame connection mechanisms and therefore can be easily positioned and connected to each other thus enhancing the workability. The speaker enables further reduction of the thickness without deteriorating input durability and bass range reproduction capability and can be produced with an excellent assembly workability. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002838 | FLAT SUBWOOFER - Flat subwoofer ( | 2012-01-05 |
20120002839 | Malware image recognition - According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of detecting malware or other potentially unwanted programs. The method includes, at each of a plurality of client terminals, when it is determined that a program may be malware or a potentially unwanted program, generating image recognition data from displayed image data that includes image elements generated by the program, and sending the image recognition data to a central server. At the central server, storing the received image recognition data, and using the stored image recognition data to detect the presence of a malware or potentially unwanted program at the client terminals. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002840 | METHOD OF AND ARRANGEMENT FOR LINKING IMAGE COORDINATES TO COORDINATES OF REFERENCE MODEL - A method of linking image coordinates to coordinates in a reference model is disclosed. The method includes acquiring a 2½D or 3D input image representing a body of a living being and including at least two image boundaries of at least two parts within said body, acquiring a 3D reference model representative of a reference living being describing in a reference model coordinate system at least two reference boundaries of the at least two parts within said body, and overlaying the reference model and the input image. The method further includes adjusting at least a portion of one of the reference boundaries and/or at least one of the image boundaries such that this reference boundary and this image boundary substantially coincide, while the adjusted reference boundary does not intersect with the remaining reference boundaries and/or the adjusted image boundary does not intersect with the remaining image boundaries. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002841 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL POSITION CALCULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a region segmentation unit configured to segment each of a plurality of images shot by an imaging apparatus for shooting an object from a plurality of viewpoints, into a plurality of regions based on colors of the object, an attribute determination unit configured to determine, based on regions in proximity to intersections between scanning lines set on the each image and boundary lines of the regions segmented by the region segmentation unit in the each image, attributes of the intersections, a correspondence processing unit configured to obtain corresponding points between the images based on the determined intersections' attributes, and a three-dimensional position calculation unit configured to calculate a three-dimensional position of the object based on the obtained corresponding points. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002842 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOVEMENT OF OBJECT - A device for detecting a movement of an object includes: an image shooting unit to generate a first image and a second image by continuous shooting; a detection unit to detect a movement region based on a difference between the first and second images; an edge detection unit to detect an edge region in the first image; a deletion unit to delete the edge region from the movement region; and a decision unit to determine a degree of object movement in accordance with the movement region in which a part of the movement region being deleted by the deletion unit. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002843 | DROWSINESS ASSESSMENT DEVICE AND PROGRAM - Local maxima values and local minima values are derived from eyelid openness time series data in a segment in which a continuous closed eye period of extracted blinks is a specific time duration (for example 1 second) or longer. When plural local minima values are present in the segment of continuous closed eye period of 1 second or longer, blinks are extracted passing over and back through each variable closed eye threshold value of a variable closed eye threshold that is slid in a direction from the derived local maxima value towards the local minima value in set steps to a low value, and a inter-blink interval derived. Determination is made that a blink burst has occurred when the derived inter-blink interval is 1 second or less, and say greater than 0.2 seconds, thereby detecting a blink burst. Blink bursts can be detected with good precision, and the state of drowsiness can be assessed with good precision. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002844 | Computer product, information display apparatus, and information display method - A 3-dimesional model of an antigen is regarded as a display subject and a 3-dimesional model of an antibody is regarded as a comparison subject. A portion of the molecular surface of the display subject at a distance enabling binding with the comparison subject is cut out as a display surface. The 3-dimensional model of the antigen, which is the display subject, is displayed in a rotated state, where the normal of the display surface is rotated to point in a counter viewing direction, whereby the 3-dimensional model is rotated in a viewing coordinate system. The display surface alone is displayed in color, whereas other portions of the molecular surface are not, thereby enabling the display surface of the antigen that is at a distance enabling binding with the antibody to be displayed at a position easily viewed by the user. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002845 | METHOD OF DETERMINING SHIFT BETWEEN TWO IMAGES - A method of determining shift between two images is disclosed. A first array of pixel data of a first image is mapped to a first feature array(s) having a dimension lesser than the first array, and a second array of pixel data of a second image is mapped to a second feature array(s) having a dimension lesser than the second array. The second feature array is aligned with the first feature array by determining similarity between the first feature array and a number of the shifted second feature arrays. The position shift of the shifted second feature array with most similarity is thus determined as the shift between the two images. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002846 | DATA COLLATION APPARATUS - A data collation apparatus has: a collation unit which calculates a similarity between input data measured by a measurement apparatus and each of registered data; and a calculation unit which adjusts, if a similarity of first registered data of which similarity with the input data is highest is lower than a first threshold, and a difference between the similarities of the first registered data and second registered data of which similarity with the input data is second highest is smaller than a predetermined value, or if a degree of separation to indicate a distance between the similarity of the first registered data and a similarity distribution of a group of registered data items of which similarities with the input data are second highest or lower is smaller than a predetermined value, the parameters of the measurement apparatus, and instructs the measurement apparatus to remeasure the measurement subject. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE IDENTITY VERIFICATION - A system controlling online access to a study course verifies the identity of an individual taking a study course over a global computer network from a first computer at a node of the network. The first computer has a biometric identification program and communicates over the network with a second computer that is at a network node other than a node of the first computer. The second computer includes study program material. The first computer operates a biometric reader, which obtains a first set of biometric data from the individual and a second set of biometric data from the individual while access is granted to course material. The biometric identification program compares the first set of data with the second set of data to make a verification of the identity of the individual and communicates the verification to the second computer. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002848 | METHOD OF ASSESSING PEOPLE'S SELF-PRESENTATION AND ACTIONS TO EVALUATE PERSONALITY TYPE, BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES, CREDIBILITY, MOTIVATIONS AND OTHER INSIGHTS THROUGH FACIAL MUSCLE ACTIVITY AND EXPRESSIONS - A method of assessing an individual through facial muscle activity and expressions includes receiving a visual recording stored on a computer-readable medium of an individual's non-verbal responses to a stimulus, the non-verbal response comprising facial expressions of the individual. The recording is accessed to automatically detect and record expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images. The contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings are automatically coded to an action unit, a combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion. The action unit, combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion are analyzed to assess one or more characteristics of the individual to develop a profile of the individual's personality in relation to the objective for which the individual is being assessed. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002849 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE-PICKUP DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image-processing device configured to process image data including at least one face image includes an image-input unit configured to input the image data, a face-detection unit configured to detect the at least one face image from an image frame of the input image data, an importance-determination unit configured to determine importance of each of the at least one detected face image, and a priority-determination unit configured to determine priority of each of the at least one detected face image based on the determined importance. The importance-determination unit determines the importance considering data on the size and position of the detected face image shown in the image frame, and a priority determined by the last time by the priority-determination unit. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002850 | REGION DATA EDITING APPARATUS, REGION DATA EDITING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A region data editing apparatus includes a contour deforming section for receiving a contour deforming operation in which a contour of a region in a three-dimensional image is deformed, a boundary surface deforming section for deforming a boundary surface ∂D in such a manner that the boundary surface ∂D follows the contour deformed by the contour deforming operation, and a region data updating section for updating region data in such a manner that the region data thus updated represents an inside of the boundary surface which has been deformed by the boundary surface deforming section. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002851 | System, Method and Computer Accessible Medium for Providing Real-Time Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging and for Facilitating Estimation of Tensors and Tensor- Derived Measures in Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging - Exemplary method, system, and computer-accessible medium can be provided for determining a measure of diffusional kurtosis by receiving data relating to at least one diffusion weighted image, and determining a measure of a diffusional kurtosis as a function of the received data using a closed form solution procedure. In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, provided herein are computer-accessible medium, systems and methods for, e.g., imaging in an MRI system, and, more particularly for facilitating estimation of tensors and tensor-derived measures in diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI). For example, DKI can facilitate a characterization of non-Gaussian diffusion of water molecules in biological tissues. The diffusion and kurtosis tensors parameterizing the DKI model can typically be estimated via unconstrained least squares (LS) methods. In the presence of noise, motion, and imaging artifacts, these methods can be prone to producing physically and/or biologically implausible tensor estimates. The exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can address at least this deficiency by formulating an exemplary estimation problem, e.g., as linearly constrained linear LS, where the constraints can ensure acceptable tensor estimates. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002852 | Advanced Digital Pathology and Provisions for Remote Diagnostics - The present invention discloses a method for detecting and identifying pathologies in a magnified captured image. The method comprising the step of: performing macro image analysis for identifying abnormal and normal segments of the captured image, performing conversion of colored images to gray scale image, performing segmentation of the gray scale colored biopsy by applying two segmentation levels, merging the image results of the coarse level and the fine level segmentations by expanding the coarse image to fit scale of the fine image and identifying pixels having the same value at both levels, performing comparison between object's properties and characteristics appearing in abnormal segments and object's properties and characteristics appearing in normal segments, and calculating the deviations of each property between the abnormal segments and the normal segments and ranking objects based on the calculated deviations of each property and characteristic. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002853 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINITION OF DICOM HEADER VALUES - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an improved system and method for image file header configuration. Certain embodiments of the method include retrieving one or more criterion for configuration of an image orientation parameter, configuring the image orientation parameter based on the one or more criterion, obtaining image data, and storing the image data in an image file. The image file has a header portion including the image orientation parameter. In an embodiment, the image orientation parameter may be modified from a default configuration. The one or more criterion may include user preference, modality restriction, system preference, and/or rule, for example. The method may further include saving the image file with the configured image orientation parameter. Additionally, the method may include displaying an image according to the configured image orientation parameter. The image may be automatically oriented for display based on the configured image orientation parameter. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002854 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA SIGNALS - A signal processing method is presented. The method includes acquiring undersampled data corresponding to an object, initializing a first image solution and a second image solution, determining a linear combination solution based upon the first image solution and the second image solution, generating a plurality of selected coefficients by iteratively updating the first image solution, the second image solution and the linear combination solution and adaptively thresholding one or more transform coefficients utilizing the undersampled data, an updated first image solution, an updated second image solution and an updated linear combination solution, and reconstructing a data signal using the plurality of selected coefficients. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002855 | STENT LOCALIZATION IN 3D CARDIAC IMAGES - Systems and methods are described for automatically identifying coronary stents within a 3D cardiac image. Based on feature analysis on a cardiac image, coronary stents can be detected by filtering the cardiac images for stent candidates, applying a score based on factors related to coronary stents and applying a threshold. Once coronary stents are identified, in-stent restenosis and stent fractures can be further detected. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002856 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING MICRO-PERIMETRY EXAMS BASED ON A RETINAL VOLUME IMAGE AND A WELL REGISTERED FUNDUS IMAGE - A method of performing a retinal examination is described wherein perimetry points are selected in three dimensional imaging data of the retinal tissue. The corresponding points in register with these perimetry points are mapped to an en-face image. These corresponding points are used as stimulus locations for a micro-perimetry examination. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002857 | HYBRID DUAL-MODALITY IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Hybrid dual-modality image processing systems and methods are disclosed. For example, an image processing system includes a computer for processing SPECT tomographic projection data and a CT volume image. The computer derives a SPECT transverse volume image from the projection data and registers the SPECT transverse volume image with the CT volume image to obtain an attenuation map and registration information. The computer uses the attenuation map and the registration information to derive a SPECT transverse volume image with attenuation correction. The computer uses the registration information to derive a SPECT transverse volume image without attenuation correction. The SPECT transverse volume images, with and without attenuation correction, are derived at or near the same time, using the same registration information. The registration information is stored in, carried by, or otherwise communicated through the attenuation map for subsequent processing of the SPECT transverse volume images. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002858 | MOTION DETECTION AND CORRECTION IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FOR RIGID, NONRIGID, TRANSLATIONAL, ROTATIONAL, AND THROUGH-PLANE MOTION - A magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstruction method comprises: compensating an MR imaging data set ( | 2012-01-05 |
20120002859 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE PARTIALLY PARALLEL IMAGING (PPI) WITH MOTION CORRECTED COIL SENSITIVITIES - Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging performed in cooperation with an MR scanner ( | 2012-01-05 |
20120002860 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING PATTERNS FORMED ON A SUBSTRATE - In a pattern inspection apparatus, influences of pattern brightness variations that is caused in association with, for example, a film thickness difference or a pattern width variation can be reduced, high sensitive pattern inspection can be implemented, and a variety of defects can be detected. Thereby, the pattern inspection apparatus adaptable to a broad range of processing steps is realized. In order to realize this, the pattern inspection apparatus of the present invention performs comparison between images of regions corresponding to patterns formed to be same patterns, thereby determining mismatch portions across the images to be defects. The apparatus includes multiple sensors capable of synchronously acquiring images of shiftable multiple detection systems different from one another, and an image comparator section corresponding thereto. In addition, the apparatus includes means of detecting a statistical offset value from the feature amount to be a defect, thereby enabling the defect to be properly detected even when a brightness difference is occurring in association with film a thickness difference in a wafer. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002861 | Method and Apparatus For Inspecting Defect Of Pattern Formed On Semiconductor Device - An apparatus and method for inspecting a defect of a circuit pattern formed on a semiconductor wafer includes a defect classifier have a comparison shape forming section for forming a plurality of comparison shapes corresponding to an SEM image of an inspection region by deforming the shape of the circuit pattern in accordance with a plurality of shape deformation rules using design data corresponding to the circuit pattern within the inspection region and a shape similar to the SEM image of the inspection region out of the plurality of comparison shapes formed and selected as the comparison shape, and a shape comparing and classifying section for classifying the SEM image using information of the comparison shape selected in the comparison shape forming section and the inspection shape of the circuit pattern of the SEM image of the inspection region. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002862 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DEPTH SIGNAL - According to one embodiment, a depth signal generating apparatus includes following units. The calculating unit is configured to calculate a statistic value for pixel values for each of predefined areas in the first image, and calculate, for each of predetermined base depth models, a first evaluation value based on the calculated statistic value. The correcting unit is configured to correct, based on a second evaluation value previously derived for the second image and a first degree of similarity indicating a similarity between the predetermined base depth models, the first evaluation value to derive second evaluation values for the predetermined base depth models. The selecting unit is configured to select a base depth model having the highest second evaluation value from the predetermined base depth models. The generating unit is configured to generate a depth signal based on the selected base depth model. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002863 | Depth image encoding apparatus and depth image decoding apparatus using loop-filter, method and medium - A depth image encoding apparatus and a depth image decoding apparatus are provided. The depth image encoding apparatus may compute coefficients used to restore an edge region and a smooth region of a depth image, and may restore the depth image using the depth image and a color image. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002864 | IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing unit includes a statistical information calculating section which calculates statistical information in macroblock units with regard to image data with a plurality of fields, a region determination section which executes region determination with regard to the image data with the level of recognition of three-dimensional images as a determination standard using the statistical information calculated by the statistical information calculating section, and an encoding processing section which encodes the image data of each field and generates an encoded stream while changing the content of the encoding process for each of the macroblocks according to the result of the region determination executed by the region determination section. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002865 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF IMAGE INFORMATION - The method is characterised in that the method comprises the steps that a computer or several interconnected computers are caused to a) store, in the form of a pixel set in which set each pixel is associated with image information in at least one channel for light intensity, a first image to be classified onto a digital storage medium; b) carry out a first classification of the image, which classification is caused to be based upon the image information of each respective pixel and which classification is caused to associate each pixel with a certain class in a first set of classes, and to store these associations in a first database; c) calculate, for each pixel and for several classes in the first set of classes, the smallest distance in the image between the pixel in question and the closest pixel which is associated with the class in question in the database, and to store an association between each pixel and the calculated smallest distance for the pixel in a second database for each class for which a distance has been calculated; d) carry out a second classification of the data in the second database, which classification is caused to be based upon the smallest distance for each pixel to each respective class, and to associate each pixel to a certain class in a second set of classes; and e) store the classified image in the form of a set of pixels onto a digital storage medium, where each pixel comprises data regarding the association of the pixel to the certain class in the second set of classes, and where the classified image has the same dimensions as the first image. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002866 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THE MEMORY REQUIREMENT FOR DETERMINING DISPARITY VALUES FOR AT LEAST TWO STEREOSCOPICALLY RECORDED IMAGES - A method and an apparatus reduce the temporary random access memory required when determining disparity values for at least two stereoscopically recorded images with known epipolar geometry, in which a disparity is determined for each pixel of an image. Path-dependent dissimilarity costs are calculated on the basis of a disparity-dependent cost function, and compared, in two runs for a number of paths which open in the pixel. The disparity-dependent cost function evaluates a pixel-based dissimilarity measure between the pixel and the corresponding pixel, according to the respective disparity, in a second image. The path-dependent dissimilarity costs for a first predetermined set of disparities are calculated in a first run for a number of first paths and in a second run for a number of remaining paths, and the corresponding path-dependent dissimilarity costs of the first paths and of the remaining paths are accumulated for a second predetermined set of disparities. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002867 | FEATURE POINT GENERATION SYSTEM, FEATURE POINT GENERATION METHOD, AND FEATURE POINT GENERATION PROGRAM - A feature point generation system capable of generating a feature point that satisfies a preferred condition from a three-dimensional shape model is provided. Image group generation means 31 generates a plurality of images obtained by varying conditions with respect to the three-dimensional shape model. Evaluation means 33 calculates a first evaluation value that decreases steadily as a feature point group is distributed more uniformly on the three-dimensional shape model and a second evaluation value that decreases steadily as extraction of a feature point in an image corresponding to a feature point on the three-dimensional shape model becomes easier, and calculates an evaluation value relating to a designated feature point group as a weighted sum of the respective evaluation values. Feature point arrangement means 32 arranges the feature point group on the three-dimensional shape model so that the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation means 33 is minimized. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002868 | METHOD FOR FAST SCENE MATCHING - A method for identifying digital images having matching backgrounds from a collection of digital images, comprising using a processor to perform the steps of: determining a set of one or more feature values for each digital image in the collection of digital images, wherein the set of feature values includes an edge compactness feature value that is an indication of the number of objects in the digital image that are useful for scene matching; determining a subset of the collection of digital images that are good candidates for scene matching by applying a classifier responsive to the determined feature values; applying a scene matching algorithm to the subset of the collection of digital images to identify groups of digital images having matching backgrounds; and storing an indication of the identified groups of digital images having matching backgrounds in a processor-accessible memory. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002869 | System and method for detection of multi-view/multi-pose objects - The present invention provides a computer implemented process for detecting multi-view multi-pose objects. The process comprises training of a classifier for each intra-class exemplar, training of a strong classifier and combining the individual exemplar-based classifiers with a single objective function. This function is optimized using the two nested AdaBoost loops. The first loop is the outer loop that selects discriminative candidate exemplars. The second loop, the inner loop selects the discriminative candidate features on the selected exemplars to compute all weak classifiers for a specific position such as a view/pose. Then all the computed weak classifiers are automatically combined into a final classifier (strong classifier) which is the object to be detected. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002870 | Device Link Profile Creation Method, Computer-Readable Medium Storing Program, and Device Link Profile Creation Apparatus - A device link profile creation method including: storing a plurality of device link profiles in a storage unit with information about a first device profile which is used to create one of the plurality of device link profiles, for each of the plurality of device link profiles; storing the first device profile in the storage unit; and performing control by a control unit to: when the first device profile is updated to be a second device profile, detect the second device profile; detect a first device link profile which is created by using the first device profile, as a device link profile to be updated; automatically create a second device link profile by using the second device profile; and update the detected device link profile to be updated by replacing the device link profile to be updated with the created second device link profile. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002871 | Method of Estimating Depths from a Single Image Displayed on Display - A method of estimating depths on a monocular image displayed on a display is utilized for improving correctness of depths shown on the display. Feature vectors are calculated for each patch on the monocular image for determining an intermediate depth map of the monocular image in advance. For improving the correctness of the intermediate depth map, an energy function in forms of vectors is minimized for calculating a best solution of the depth map of the monocular image. Therefore, the display may display the monocular image according to a calculated output depth map for having an observer of the display to correctly perceive depths on the monocular image. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002872 | Image Capture and Identification System and Process - A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002873 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK BASED IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH MULTIPLE NON-UNIFORM BLOCK ENCODINGS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for block based image compression with multiple non-uniform block encodings. In one embodiment, an image is divided into blocks of pixels. In one embodiment the blocks are four pixels by four pixels, but other block sizes are used in other embodiments. In one embodiment, a block of pixels in the original image is compressed using two different methods to produce a first and second compressed block. Thus, each block in the original image is represented by two, typically different, compressed blocks. In one embodiment, color associated with a pixel is determined by combining the compressed information about the pixel in the first compressed block with information about the pixel in the second compressed block. In another embodiment, global information about the image is combined with the information in the first and second compressed blocks. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002874 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHIFT INVARIANT DIFFERENTIAL (SID) IMAGE DATA INTERPOLATION IN FULLY POPULATED SHIFT INVARIANT MATRIX - An image processing system for interpolating image data is comprised of a shift invariant point determining device, an illumination averager, a second order differentiator, and color data calculator. The shift invariant point determining device ascertains shift invariant points within the mosaic color element array pattern. The illumination averager determines average illumination values of clusters of a plurality of pixels. The second order differentiator determines a second order derivative of the average illumination values of the clusters of the plurality of pixels. The color data calculator determines color data for each of the plurality of pixels from the image data and second order derivative. A second order derivative scaler multiplies the second order derivative by a scaling factor for selectively smoothing and sharpening the second order derivative. A color data averager averages color data values of adjacent pixels to a resolution of the image data. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002875 | Methods and Systems for Image Data Processing - Methods, storage mediums, and systems for image data processing are provided. Embodiments for the methods, storage mediums, and systems include configurations to perform one or more of the following steps: background signal measurement, particle identification using classification dye emission and cluster rejection, inter-image alignment, inter-image particle correlation, fluorescence integration of reporter emission, and image plane normalization. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002876 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AN ENHANCED RANK ORDER VALUE OF A DATA SET - The value of a median or other rank of interest in a dataset is efficiently determined. Each active bit of the dataset is serially processed to compute one bit of the output value from each bit of the input dataset. If any sample in the dataset has an active bit that differs from the determined output value for that bit, then that sample can be marked as no longer in consideration. After an active bit has been processed, the data for that bit may be discarded or subsequently ignored. These techniques allow the rank value to be efficiently determined using pipelined logic in a configurable gate array (CGA) or the like. Further implementations may be enhanced to compute clipped means, to identify “next highest” or “next lowest” values, to reduce quantization errors through less-significant bit interpolation, to simultaneously process multiple values in a common pipeline, or for any other purpose. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002877 | Non-transitory computer readable storage medium, marker creating apparatus, restoration apparatus, and marker creating method - When creating a marker, an encryption apparatus extracts each pixel value in a region and allows a storing unit to save, as restoration information, the high-order bits of each extracted pixel value. Then, the encryption apparatus creates a marker by changing the high-order bits of the pixel value in a region in which the marker is created and embeds encrypted information in an encrypted region specified by the marker. When decoding the encrypted information, a decoding apparatus detects the marker from a digital image, decodes the encrypted information in the encrypted region specified by the marker, and overwrites bits contained in the restoration information with the high-order bits of the pixel value of the marker. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002878 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM THAT CLASSIFIES DATA OF IMAGES - In an image processing apparatus, a face detection unit | 2012-01-05 |
20120002879 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an area extracting unit that extracts a candidate area of a classification target area in which a pixel value does not correspond to a three-dimensional shape of an imaging target based on pixel values of an intraluminal image acquired by imaging the inside of a lumen or information of a change in pixel values of peripheral pixels; and an area classifying unit that classifies the classification target area out of the candidate area based on the pixel values of the inside of the candidate area, a boundary portion of the candidate area, or a periphery portion of the candidate area. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002880 | IMAGE COMPARISON USING REGIONS - Methods and systems for comparing two digital images are provided. A region of a selected image is extracted and processed. A target image from a plurality of target images is provided, where the region is smaller than the target image. The region is compared with a plurality of regions in the target image, and the region is matched to a target region from the plurality of regions in the target image. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002881 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image management device acquires an image group with an image acquisition unit, extracts objects and feature amounts from each image in the image group with an object detection unit, and sorts the objects into relevant clusters with an object sorting unit. Next, a similarity calculation unit calculates a similarity between the feature amounts of each object and each relevant cluster, a co-occurrence information generation unit finds co-occurrence information for each cluster, and then an accuracy calculation unit and an evaluation value calculation unit find an evaluation value for each object with respect to each cluster from the similarity and co-occurrence information. An object priority evaluation unit evaluates the object priority of each object with the evaluation value, and an image priority evaluation unit evaluates the priority of each image from the object priority. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002882 | Methods and Systems for Image Data Processing - Methods, storage mediums, and systems for image data processing are provided. Embodiments for the methods, storage mediums, and systems include configurations to perform one or more of the following steps: background signal measurement, particle identification using classification dye emission and cluster rejection, inter-image alignment, inter-image particle correlation, fluorescence integration of reporter emission, and image plane normalization. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002883 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIDEO CONTENT - Video files stored in a data store are managed by analyzing the semantic relationship of at least one associated descriptive tag of a given video file to tags associated with video files in the data store. The results of the analysis are used to select a set of video files from those stored in the data store. The content of the given video file is compared with the content of the selected set to determine the similarity of the content. The results of the determination may be used to update information concerning the similarity of video files in the data store, for example, to be used in providing results in response to a search query. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002885 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - In an image processing device, a lowpass filter extracts a low-frequency component of 8-bit input image data VI | 2012-01-05 |
20120002886 | IMAGE DATA TEST UNIT, IMAGE APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF TESTING IMAGE DATA USING THE SAME - An image data test unit includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data having individual frames, an image data temporary storage unit configured to receive the acquired image data from the data acquisition unit to store a certain amount of the image data, and a test calculation unit configured to sequentially receive the image data from the image data temporary storage unit to store a certain amount of the image data, and compare the stored image data with pre-set test elements. In addition, an image apparatus having the image data test unit and a method of testing image data using the image data test unit are also provided. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002887 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DETERMINING BASIC PROBABILITY NUMBERS FOR DATA FUSION - Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media relating to determining basic probability numbers for use within data fusion are disclosed. A method of defining a basic probability number may comprise measuring an intensity of a pixel of a radiograph wherein the pixel is associated with an interrogation space of an interrogation volume. The method may also include calculating an assumed intensity of the pixel for each possible configuration of a plurality of possible configurations for the interrogation space. Further, the method may include classifying each possible configuration as a possible target configuration if the measured intensity is within an error-factor of the assumed intensity. The method may further include defining a basic probability number of the pixel as a ratio of a number of possible target configurations to a number of possible configurations. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002888 | Method and Apparatus for Automatic Pattern Analysis - A method and apparatus is disclosed for pattern analysis by arranging given data so that high-dimensional data can be more effectively analyzed. The method allows arrangements of given data so that patterns can be discovered within the data. By utilizing maps that characterizes the data and the type or the set it belongs to, the method produces many data items from relatively few input data items, thereby making it possible to apply statistical and other conventional data analysis methods. In the method, a set of maps from the data or part of the data is determined. Then, new maps are generated by combining existing maps or applying certain transformations on the maps. Next, the results of applying the maps to the data are examined for patterns. Optionally, certain strong patterns are chosen, idealized, and propagated backwards to find a data reflecting that pattern. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002889 | USING HANDWRITTEN NOTATIONS IN DIGITAL VIDEO PRESENTATIONS - A method for producing a slide show video from a collection of hardcopy media, the method includes digitizing the media and detecting handwritten information and estimating the age of the media; determining an order of presentation for the slide show video based on the detected handwritten information and estimated ages; and producing a slide show video from the hardcopy media using the determined order of presentation. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002890 | ALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL IMAGES AND LOCAL MOTION DETECTION FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR) IMAGING - Disclosed embodiments relate to the alignment of images, particularly in HDR imaging applications. In one embodiment, image pyramids may be generated using a reference image and a source image. A difference bitmap is generated for each level of the image pyramids and is evaluated over nine possible one-pixel shift combinations in the x and y directions {−1, 0, 1 }. The difference bitmap is divided into tiles and analyzed and, for each pyramid level beginning from the top level, an optimal shift direction is determined as the shift exhibiting the fewest pixel difference counts across all tiles. The tiles are then pruned using a threshold such that only the tiles contributing up to the threshold are projected to the subsequent pyramid level. The alignment vector for each level is aggregated, and a final alignment vector is determined and used to shift the source image. This process may be repeated for another source image, and the two source images and reference image, once aligned, may be merged to generate an HDR image. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002891 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding graphic data - A graphic data encoding method and apparatus generating a bitstream by encoding a header having at least one piece of first information determined in consideration of a predetermined graphic profile from among multiple pieces of encodable first information; and encoding a payload having at least one piece of second information determined in consideration of the predetermined graphic profile from among multiple pieces of encodable second information. A graphic data decoding method and apparatus decode the generated bitstream. Irrespective of the functions that can be performed by the graphic data encoding apparatus and the functions that can be performed by the graphic data decoding apparatus, the graphic data decoding apparatus, which is in accordance with a graphic profile, can completely restore a 3D mesh model described in the bitstream generated by the graphic data encoding apparatus that is satisfactory to the graphic profile. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002892 | Viewing Digital Slides - Virtual slide image data and corresponding information are stored in a data storage area on a virtual slide image server. A client viewer requests image data at a particular resolution. The image server obtains corresponding image data from the data storage area at a resolution nearest to the requested resolution. The image data is then sent to the client viewer. The client viewer receives the image data and scales the image data to the requested resolution prior to displaying the image data. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002893 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME SERVICE OF HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGE ON INTERNET - A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002894 | METHOD FOR PROGRESSIVE JPEG IMAGE DECODING - A progressive JPEG image decoding method is provided. In the decoding method, a non-zero history table and a sign table of each variable length decoding (VLD) result are recorded and used as a reference for decoding the next scan layer. The decoded coefficients are no longer directly stored in a memory so as to save the memory space. Accordingly, an image can be decoded and displayed correctly even with limited memory space. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002895 | BITMAP COMPRESSION FOR FAST SEARCHES AND UPDATES - Bitmap compression for fast searches and updates is provided. Compressing a bitmap includes receiving a bitmap to compress, and reading the bitmap to determine a value of a bit location for all bits in the bitmap. In one embodiment, a compressed bitmap is created by encoding a variable number of bytes to represent a distance between adjacent 1s in the uncompressed bitmap. In another embodiment, a compressed bitmap is created by representing a distance between adjacent 1s in the uncompressed bitmap using a plurality of bits, and encoding a marker word to indicate the number of bits used to represent the distance. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE IN AN IMAGE - A system and method of reducing noise are disclosed. In one embodiment a system comprises an input configured to receive an input image, a filter configured to filter the input image to generate a filtered image, a weight generator configured to generate one or more edge weights related to at least one edge of the input image, a mixer configured to generate an output image based on the input image, the filtered image, and at least one of the edge weights, and an output configured to output the output image. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002897 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A filter coefficient calculating unit | 2012-01-05 |
20120002898 | Operating a Device to Capture High Dynamic Range Images - Some embodiments provide a method of operating a device to capture an image of a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. Upon the device entering an HDR mode, the method captures and stores multiple images at a first image exposure level. Upon receiving a command to capture the HDR scene, the method captures a first image at a second image exposure level. The method selects a second image from the captured plurality of images. The method composites the first and second images to produce a composite image that captures the HDR scene. In some embodiments, the method captures multiple images at multiple different exposure levels. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002899 | Aligning Images - Some embodiments provide a method of aligning a pair of images. The method defines multiple different pairs of images at multiple different resolutions. The method hierarchically aligns the original pair of images by first aligning the pair of images at the lowest resolution and then aligning each pair of images at each higher resolution based on the alignments of the pair of images at the lower resolutions. For some of the resolutions, to perform the hierarchically alignment, the method identifies, for at least one image at each resolution, portions that are suitable for performing the alignment and portions that are not suitable for performing the alignment. The method compares each pair of images at a particular resolution by using the suitable portions while excluding the unsuitable portions from the comparison. | 2012-01-05 |
20120002900 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A processing apparatus, method, and medium storing a computer program that combine two or more designated images (S | 2012-01-05 |