16th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130094646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF INTERFACES - The automatic selection of interfaces can result in the optimization of interaction between entities. Such selection of interfaces can be applied specifically in the context of interactive voice response systems, and can allow the interface presented to a caller to be optimized based on factors including the caller's usage of the system. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094647 | MULTI-MODAL MOBILE CUSTOMER CARE SYSTEM - Customer service and/or care providers generally have multiple communications channels (i.e., modes of communications, such as an Internet webpage, live agent telephones, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system) of communication with which a customer may interact with the customer service provider. Currently, customers must select the communications channel by guessing which communications channel would best accommodate the customer's purpose/need for communicating with the customer service provider. In some scenarios, the customer may select the wrong communications channel because the selected channel is not able to service the customer's need. In another scenario, the customer may select a channel that is more cumbersome to service the customer's particular need than another channel of the customer service provider. Embodiments of the present invention provide an interface that integrates the multiple channels of the customer service provider and recommends a channel based on an identification of a customer service need of the customer. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094648 | Apparatus and Method for Producing a Bit Sequence - A method for reconstructing a physically unclonable function (PUF) A for use in an electronic appliance is provided. The method includes producing a checksum C, producing a defective PUF B and reconstructing the PUF A from the defective PUF B using an error correction algorithm. The algorithm produces a plurality of ambiguous results (A | 2013-04-18 |
20130094649 | PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOSYSTEM BASED ON GOPPA CODES AND PUF BASED RANDOM GENERATION - This invention provides improved security of the McEliece Public Key encryption system adding features which make full use of random number generation for given message and cryptogram parameters, using this invention the encrypted message (i.e. the cryptogram) is a truly random function, not a pseudo random function of the message so that even with the same message and the same public key, a different, unpredictable cryptogram is produced each time. With the knowledge of the private key, the random function may be determined from the cryptogram and the message decrypted. Different embodiments of the invention are described which enable the level of security to be traded-off against cryptogram size and complexity. A number of different applications are given. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094650 | SECURE DATA TRANSFER USING RANDOM ORDERING AND RANDOM BLOCK SIZING - Encrypted information is conventionally broken into blocks which are transmitted sequentially. Because the order and the size of such blocks can be easily determined, an eavesdropper can gain valuable information regarding the content of the communication. More specifically, if known types of information exist within a block, the encryption key may be determined allowing the content of other encrypted blocks to be obtained. Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product described herein can overcome this deficiency by securely transferring information through random ordering and random block sizing. An original data set to be transferred is divided into a plurality of blocks, where at least two blocks have different sizes. The blocks are encrypted and inserted into a sequence of data transfer slots. The blocks are then selected for transfer in random order by selecting a slot to transfer based on a generated random number. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094651 | FIELD PROGRAMMING OF A MOBILE STATION WITH SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFICATION AND RELATED INFORMATION - Apparatuses and methods for field programming a private security key into a mobile station are described herein. The methods may include a server initially accepting in a wireless network a connection from a mobile station that is without a factory programmed subscriber identification module (SIM). The server may then collaborate with the mobile station to field program the mobile station with an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) and a private security key (K | 2013-04-18 |
20130094652 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE BROADCASTING OF AUDIO CONTENTS BY TWO LOUDSPEAKERS - The broadcasting of audio contents by two loudspeakers is controlled by delivering a first audio content to the two loudspeakers and a further processing in which an auxiliary audio content is received. A second audio content is formed by temporally delaying the auxiliary audio content with a delay dependent on the spacing between the loudspeakers and on a distance between a first loudspeaker and a spot located in front of this first loudspeaker. The second audio content is delivered to the first loudspeaker. A third audio content is formed by inverting the auxiliary audio content. The third audio content is then delivered to the second loudspeaker. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094653 | VOIP DEVICE, VOIP CONFERENCING SYSTEM, AND RELATED METHOD - Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) devices and conferencing systems may include a spatial encoder associated with a first endpoint and a spatial renderer associated with a second endpoint. The spatial renderer may configured to receive audio data. The audio data may be rendered among a plurality of speakers based on a first set of spatial information for a plurality of microphones associated with the first endpoint, and a second set of spatial information for the plurality of speakers associated with the second endpoint. A method for generating a sound field may include determining spatial information for a plurality of microphones in a local room, determining spatial information for a plurality of speakers in a remote room, mapping the spatial information for the plurality of microphones and the spatial information for the plurality of speakers, and generating a sound field in the remote room based on the mapping. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094654 | SPATIAL AUDIO - In summary, this application describes a psycho-acoustically motivated, parametric description of the spatial attributes of multichannel audio signals. This parametric description allows strong bitrate reductions in audio coders, since only one monaural signal has to be transmitted, combined with (quantized) parameters which describe the spatial properties of the signal. The decoder can form the original amount of audio channels by applying the spatial parameters. For near-CD-quality stereo audio, a bitrate associated with these spatial parameters of 10 kbit/s or less seems sufficient to reproduce the correct spatial impression at the receiving end. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094655 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Sideband Residual Signal - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for generating a sideband residual signal. The method includes: comparing energy of a first signal input by a first sound channel with energy of a second signal input by a second sound channel; if the energy of the first signal is greater than the energy of the second signal, generating a sideband residual signal by allocating a monophonic quantization error to the first signal; and if the energy of the first signal is smaller than the energy of the second signal, generating a sideband residual signal by allocating a monophonic quantization error to the second signal. By using the method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, it can be avoided that a monophonic quantization error has a greater impact on a signal whose energy is smaller. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094656 | Intelligent Audio Volume Control for Robot - A method for automatic audio volume control on a robot is presented. The robot can deliver its audio output at a comfortable and intelligible level to the user according to user's distance and background noise intensity in user's environment. The user's distance is estimated, by using a camera with known focal length and resolution, by using a stereo camera with known focal length and distance between lenses, or by using an electronic ranging device. Background noise intensity is measured by using a microphone and digital signal processing techniques. The audio output volume is adjusted considering the effect of signal attenuation over user's distance and the effect of background noise. The audio output volume adjustment mechanism can be close-looped, based on the measured signal to noise ratio of acoustic echo of the audio output. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094657 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVING THE AUDIBILITY, LOCALIZATION AND INTELLIGIBILITY OF SOUNDS, AND COMFORT OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES WORN ON OR IN THE EAR - A method and device are provided for maintaining or improving the audibility, localization and/or intelligibility of sounds from electro-acoustic devices worn on the head or in the ear, such as headphones, headsets, hearing protectors, earplugs, and earbuds, as well as in combination with or built into hard hats and helmets, and for improving their comfort to the user. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094658 | SOUND EXPOSURE MONITOR FOR HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE - A system and method include sensing sound on the inside of a protective seal of a hearing protection device being worn, and using a sliding window algorithm to calculate the sound to which the ear of the wearer is exposed. The method may also include sensing noise and generating sound to cancel the sensed noise within the ear of the wearer. It may also include sensing ambient sound and regenerating this sound at safe levels inside the hearing protection device in order to aid situational awareness, and it may include receiving signals that are then regenerated as audio inside the hearing protection device for communication or entertainment purposes. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094659 | MUSIC PLAYING CONTROL METHOD AND MUSIC PLAYING TERMINAL - The invention discloses a music-playing control method and a music playing terminal. The method comprises the following steps: optical-proximity inductive sensors in the earphone sense there is an object within their effective induction ranges, and trigger the earphone to send control signals to a music playing terminal, wherein the control signals are used for indicating the optical-proximity inductive sensors that have sensed the objects; the music playing terminal determines the motion trail of the object within a preset time period according to the received control signals and the time of receiving the control signals and executes control instructions corresponding to the motion trail. Through the invention, the music-playing control becomes simple and convenient, and the user experience is improved. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094660 | HANDS-FREE MOBILE AUDIO DEVICE FOR WIRELESSLY CONNECTING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH HEADPHONES FOR TRANSMITTING AUDIO SIGNALS THERETHROUGH - A wireless hands-free mobile audio device is provided for wirelessly connecting an electronic device with at least one headphone speaker for transmitting audio signals therethrough, essentially transforming any set of headphones into a wireless headset. The mobile audio device comprises a housing having a wireless interface for connecting with the electronic device, and an audio output port for transmitting audio signals received by the mobile audio device from the electronic device to at least one earpiece or speaker connected thereto. The mobile audio device can also include a pre-attached earpiece component in addition to the separate audio output port permitting use of the device either by attaching a standard set of headphone to the housing or attaching a singular earpiece for use with the pre-attached earpiece component where audio signals are simultaneously transmitted to the pre-attached earpiece and the audio output port. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094661 | POWER MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER FOR DRIVERS - A driver controller comprising a state machine for controlling transitions between a plurality of states. An output switch for providing a low impedance path to ground during transition periods. An output stage for decoupling output signal from driver amplifier during the transition periods. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094662 | WIRELESS DIGITAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR LOUDSPEAKERS - This invention relates to a wireless digital transmission system for loudspeakers comprising: compression means for the file representing the digital audio signal of the “compact disc” type, a transmission device comprising means of converting this compressed signal into a series signal moving by packets going to a modulator circuit with phase quadrature and means of transmitting the signals exiting the modulator circuit with phase quadrature to the domestic network for feeding electricity; a receiving device comprising means of connecting to this domestic network and of extracting from the feed electrical signal, by a demodulator with phase quadrature, data packets moving the digital audio signal to convert it into a parallelized digital signal sent to a decompression circuit; means of converting the decompressed digital signals into an analog signal intended to feed a loudspeaker after adequate amplification. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094663 | VEHICLE ACCESSORY MICROPHONE - A microphone assembly includes one or more transducers ( | 2013-04-18 |
20130094664 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PHASE-SENSITIVE PROCESSING OF SOUND SIGNALS - A method and device for phase-sensitive processing of sound signals of at least one sound source may include arranging two microphones at a distance d from each other, capturing sound signals with both microphones, generating associated microphone signals, and processing the sound signals of the microphones. During a calibration mode, a calibration-position-specific, frequency-dependent phase difference vector φ0(f) between the associated calibration microphone signals may be calculated from their frequency spectra for the calibration position. Then, during an operating mode, a signal spectrum S of a signal to be output is calculated by multiplication of at least one of the two frequency spectra of the current microphone signals with a spectral filter function F. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094665 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A device and method for controlling reproduction of an audio signal is provided, wherein the device is operated by means of an energy storage device. The method comprises the steps of deactivating a normal mode and activating an energy saving mode. Power consumption from the energy storage device for reproduction of the audio signal is reduced in the energy saving mode when compared to the normal mode. The method comprises reducing in the energy saving mode, a bass frequency component of a frequency spectrum of the audio signal and outputting the audio signal with reduced bass frequency component. The method further comprises ascertaining a charge state of the energy storage device and controlling the reduction in the bass frequency component based on a decrease in the charge state of the energy storage device. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094666 | Distance-Based Rendering of Media Files - A rendering device is configured to dynamically vary how audio and visual information is rendered by a rendering device responsive to changes in distance between the rendering device and a mobile device carried by a user. As the user moves about, the distance between the rendering device and the mobile device carried by the user will vary. As the distance between the mobile device and the rendering device changes, the rendering system can dynamically adapt how the audio and visual information is rendered. For example, the rendering device can increase or decrease the volume of an audio output, depending on changes in the distance. Also, the rendering device can change how visual information is rendered on a display responsive to changes in distance. In some embodiments, when the distance between the mobile device and rendering device exceeds a predetermined distance, the audio and/or visual information may be sent to the mobile device. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094667 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO CONTROL AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES - Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to control audio playback devices are disclosed. An example audio playback device includes an audio output device to generate audio signals based on a signal source, a device interface to receive a first message from a first audio information source, and a source selector to change the signal source from a second audio information source to the first audio information source based on the first message. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094668 | PROXIMITY SENSING FOR USER DETECTION AND AUTOMATIC VOLUME REGULATION WITH SENSOR INTERRUPTION OVERRIDE - A mobile device includes at least one speaker and an audio subsystem for providing an audio signal to the at least one speaker for playback by the at least one speaker. The audio subsystem operates by detecting a distance to a user of the mobile device using a proximity sensor and controlling volume output of the at least one speaker based on the distance to the user of the mobile device and the operational status of the proximity sensor. If it is determined that the proximity sensor is functional, the audio subsystem applies a gain factor to the audio signal that varies based on the distance to the user or limits the maximum allowable speaker output based on the distance. A high or low gain setting may be applied for when the user is far away or in close proximity to the mobile device. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094669 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND A PROGRAM - An audio signal processing apparatus which includes an input analysis unit which analyses the characteristics of an input signal and generates an input sound feature value; an environment analysis unit which analyses the characteristics of the environmental sound and generates an environmental sound feature value; a mapping control information generation unit which generates mapping control information as control information of amplitude conversion processing to the input signal by application of the input sound feature value and the environmental sound feature value; and a mapping process unit which performs amplitude conversion on the input signal based on a linear or non-linear mapping function determined according to the mapping control information and generates an output signal. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING OPERATIONS AMONG A PLURALITY OF INDEPENDENTLY CLOCKED DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING DEVICES - An audio information source interface that receives first audio information from an audio information source directly connected to the audio playback device; an ADC configured to sample the first audio information; a network interface configured to connect the audio playback device to a network and to receive packets from the network containing second audio information and playback timing information from a network audio information source; a DAC for generating an analog audio signal based on either the first or second audio information; an audio amplifier interconnected with the DAC and configured to amplify the audio signal; an audio reproduction device interface interconnected with the audio amplifier; and, a control module configured to receive commands via the network interface and to provide to the DAC one of the first or second audio information. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094671 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR CROSS-PLATFORM CONFERENCE CONVERGENCE - A method, an apparatus, and a system for cross-platform conference convergence are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention, where implementation of the method includes: receiving, after attending a first conference, an INVITE request sent by a first application server, where the INVITE request is a request for inviting a second terminal served by a second application server to attend a first conference; sending an invitation call to the second application server to request creating a second conference; and sending, after receiving conference creation success information sent by the second application server, an invitation to the second application server to invite the second terminal to attend the second conference. Usage of a private line between an enterprise and an operator can be eliminated in the entire implementation process. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094672 | AUDIO MIXING PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNALS - An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an audio mixing processing method for audio signals. The method includes: determining a terminal that needs to adjust a location of an audio signal, and adjusting location information about the audio signal for the terminal; and performing audio mixing processing for the audio signal whose location is adjusted and other signals to be audio mixed. An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an audio mixing processing apparatus for audio signals. According to the solutions provided in the embodiments, the audio location information about terminals whose audio signal locations overlap are adjusted, so that the location of each sending terminal is separated from each other as far as possible, and the sound of each sending terminal is more clear, thereby improving the field experience and feeling of a user. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094673 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for outputting an audio signal with improved sound quality is provided. The apparatus includes a modulation and amplification unit for pulse modulation and switching amplification of an input audio signal and generating an amplified signal which corresponds to the input audio signal; and a vacuum tube amplification unit for inputting a vacuum tube signal generated by attenuating the amplified signal and adding harmonics of a vacuum tube to the amplified signal, to the modulation and amplification unit to provide a mellow sound. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094674 | COMPACT, HIGHLY INTEGRATED MICROPHONE ASSEMBLY - A microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphone assembly includes a MEMS structure, a base portion, and a lid. The MEMS structure includes a diaphragm that responds to changes in sound pressure and the MEMS structure contributes to a vertical dimension of the assembly. The MEMS structure is supported by the base portion. The lid partially but not completely encloses the MEMS structure, such that the portion of the MEMS structure is not surrounded by the lid, the lid, and the base portion form a boundary with and are exposed to the environment external to the microphone assembly. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094675 | MEMS MICROPHONE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed are a MEMS microphone and a method of manufacturing the same. The MEMS microphone includes: a substrate; a rear acoustic chamber formed inside a front surface of the substrate; a vibrating plate formed on the substrate and having an exhaust hole; a fixed electrode formed on the vibrating plate; and a fixed electrode support supported by a bottom of the rear acoustic chamber and connected to the fixed electrode through the exhaust hole. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094676 | Electret Condenser Microphone - An electret condenser microphoneelectret condenser microphone includes a capsule, diaphragm ring with attached diaphragm, back electrode plate having an electret-dielectric-film-coated surface facing the diaphragm, insulating spacer with space between the back electrode plate and the diaphragm, impedance converter, flexible printed circuit board in which a hollow cylinder, a flange projecting radially from an edge of the hollow cylinder on one end face facing the back electrode plate, and a rear plate blocking the other end face of the hollow cylinder are integrally formed, in which the impedance converter is placed on a surface of the rear plate facing the back electrode plate, and gate ring electrically connecting the back electrode plate to wiring on the flexible printed circuit board. An edge on an open side of the capsule bends inwardly to fit against the flange of the flexible printed circuit board. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094677 | COMPOUND MULTI-SPEAKER WITH MODULAR STRUCTURE - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for creating a speaker with a diaphragm of a desired size and shape by joining the frames and cones of two or more speakers together using a straight or V-shaped bridge between each adjacent pair. The compound multi-speaker makes it possible to achieve the increased diaphragm area needed for large sound systems without increasing the number of diaphragms, thus avoiding phase cancellation problems. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094678 | ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLY - An acoustic transducer assembly is disclosed. It comprises a layer of support material. An electric circuit is integrated with the layer of support material. A plurality of transducers are mounted on the layer of support material to form at least part of an array of transducers A recess or aperture is provided between a pair of the transducers of the array of transducers. The recess or aperture can comprise a recess or aperture of the support material between a pair of transducers of the plurality of transducers mounted on the layer of support material. The layer of support material can be rigid or flexible. A rigid support can be used for supporting at least one transducer of the plurality of transducers. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094679 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL LOUDSPEAKER ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MICROELECTROMECHANICAL LOUDSPEAKER ARRAY - A microelectromechanical loudspeaker array includes a plurality of microelectromechanical loudspeaker elements each having a diaphragm element configured to be deflected from a neutral position into at least one deflection position to produce a sound pulse. The array further includes an actuation device which is configured to put the diaphragm element into the at least one deflection position from the neutral position on the basis of drive signals. The array further includes a control device coupled to the plurality of loudspeaker elements. The control device is configured to send, in each case at a driving time, (i) a first drive signal configured to produce a sound pulse by actuating the diaphragm element, and (ii) a respective second drive signal configured to relax the diaphragm element into the neutral position during a predetermined period of time after the driving time to the actuation device of at least one of the loudspeaker elements. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094680 | Portable Electronic Device with Magnetic Audio Interface and Audio Reproduction Accessory Therefor - A portable electronic device includes an audio coder-decoder ‘CODEC’ capable of generating analog audio signals from digital audio representations, and includes a transmit coil capable of producing an alternating magnetic field upon passage of the analog audio signals through the transmit coil. Automatically determining the presence of conditions for magnetic coupling between the portable electronic device and an audio reproduction accessory results in the portable electronic device causing the analog audio signals to be routed from the CODEC to the transmit coil. When an audio reproduction accessory for a portable electronic device is magnetically coupled to the portable electronic device, the sole source of energy for audible sound generated by the audio reproduction accessory may be energy contained in a magnetic field that acts on the audio reproduction accessory, the magnetic field produced by a transmit coil of the portable electronic device. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094681 | Acoustic Generator - Provided is an acoustic generator which has a high sound pressure at ultrahigh frequencies and which can suppress occurrence of large peak dips. An acoustic generator includes a film, a frame member disposed on an outer peripheral edge of the film, a piezoelectric element disposed on the film and inside the frame member, and a resin layer filled inside the frame member so as to cover the piezoelectric element. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094682 | AUGMENTED REALITY SOUND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method for forming an augmented reality, which includes a surrounding environment and an augmented image. The method comprises: receiving ambient noise by an microphone array; determining whether an event is happening by analyzing the ambient noise. Generating a sound information related to the event from the ambient noise. Then determining a direction of the event relative to the user, and a sound volume of the event; generating content information of the event based on the sound information. Generating the augmented image representing the direction, sound volume, and content information of the event; and showing the surrounding environment and the augmented image on a display unit. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094683 | LISTENING SYSTEM ADAPTED FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION PROVIDING SPATIAL INFORMATION IN AN AUDIO STREAM - A binaural listening system comprises first and second listening devices adapted for being located at or in left and right ears, respectively, of a user, the binaural listening system being adapted for receiving a wirelessly transmitted signal comprising a target signal and an acoustically propagated signal comprising the target signal as modified by respective first and second acoustic propagation paths from an audio source to the first and second listening devices. Spatial information is provided to an audio signal streamed to a pair of listening devices of a binaural listening system. The first and second listening devices each comprise an alignment unit for aligning the first and second streamed target audio signals with the first and second propagated electric signals in the first and second listening devices, respectively, to provide first and second aligned streamed target audio signals in the first and second listening devices, respectively. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094684 | MICROMECHANICAL FUNCTIONAL APPARATUS, PARTICULARLY A LOUDSPEAKER APPARATUS, AND APPROPRIATE METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A micromechanical functional apparatus, particularly a loudspeaker apparatus, includes a substrate, at least one circuit chip mounted on the substrate, and an enveloping package in which the circuit chip is packaged. The functional apparatus further includes a micromechanical functional arrangement, particularly a loudspeaker arrangement having a plurality of micromechanical loudspeakers, which is mounted on the enveloping package. A covering device is mounted above the micromechanical functional arrangement, particularly the loudspeaker arrangement, opposite the enveloping package. A method is implemented to manufacture the micromechanical functional apparatus. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094685 | Micro Speaker Module - Disclosed is a micro speaker module capable of reducing the thickness of an enclosure that supports a micro speaker. The enclosure of the disclosed micro speaker module includes a first frame having a supporting portion configured to support the micro speaker, and a second frame configured to cover an open side of the first frame. A first cover and a second cover are respectively insert injection molded with or attached to portions of the first frame and the second frame corresponding to the micro speaker that is supported by the supporting portion, which results in a reduction in the thickness of each frame. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094686 | PORTABLE TERMINAL - A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a display panel, a case member provided to surround at least both sides of the display panel, and a speaker hole formed in the case member and opened to at least one side of the display panel. The portable terminal includes the speaker hole in at least a side of the display panel by changing only a structure of the case member, such that the volume and quality of sound output from the speaker device can be fully delivered to a user who uses the terminal while viewing the display panel. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094687 | WIRELESS SPEAKER AND RETRACTABLE EAR BUD - A speaker device for hands-free operation of a mobile device includes a first assembly operable for wireless communication with a mobile device, and a second assembly with a receptacle for docking at least a portion of the first assembly. The first assembly includes a first speaker and a first microphone, while the second assembly includes a second speaker. When the first assembly is docked in the receptacle of the second assembly, the mobile device is connected in wireless communication with the second speaker, and when the first assembly is removed from the second assembly, the mobile device is connected in wireless communication with the first speaker. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094688 | RESONATOR SYSTEM FOR A SPEAKER OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system providing a resonator for a transducer of an electronic device is provided. The system comprises a housing defining: a first enclosure having a first opening to house a back end of the transducer and a second opening; a port connected to the first enclosure through the second opening of the first enclosure, the port having a first end, a second end, an interior channel and a second opening in the second end; a second enclosure to cover a front portion of the speaker; and at least one aperture defined in the second enclosure to allow air outside of the electronic device to be in communication with the front of the transducer. When the transducer is mounted into the first enclosure, a first volume between the transducer and the first enclosure is formed which is in communication with air surrounding the second end of the port. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094689 | Microphone Unit, Method of Manufacturing Microphone Unit, Electronic Apparatus, Substrate for Microphone Unit and Method of Manufacturing Substrate for Microphone Unit - This microphone unit includes a vibrating portion converting a sound to an electric signal, a substrate having a first surface where the vibrating portion is set and a second surface opposite to the first surface and including a hollow portion transmitting a sound therein, and a coating layer formed on an inner surface of the hollow portion of the substrate. The substrate further includes a first substrate sound hole portion provided on the first surface for causing the hollow portion and the vibrating portion to communicate with each other, a second substrate sound hole portion provided on the first surface for causing the hollow portion and the exterior to communicate with each other, and a coating liquid draining hole portion provided on the second surface for causing the hollow portion and the exterior to communicate with each other. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094690 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EMBEDDING WATERMARKS - Methods and apparatus for embedding a watermark are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to embed a watermark in a compressed data stream comprises obtaining a set of transform coefficients included in the compressed data stream, the set of transform coefficients having a respective first set of mantissa codes and a respective set of exponents, the first set of mantissa codes associated with a respective set of mantissa step sizes, identifying a first transform coefficient from the set of transform coefficients having a smallest magnitude among the set of transform coefficients, determining a second set of mantissa codes based on the first transform coefficient and the set of step sizes, and replacing the first set of mantissa codes included in the compressed data stream with the second set of mantissa codes to embed the watermark without uncompressing the compressed data stream. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094691 | PROCESSING DATA FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A MESSAGE - Processing data for encoding and decoding a message transmitted through a communication channel having adjacent information known during the encoding, the encoding method comprising the construction of a surjective correcting code produced from a characterization of the adjacent information in a system of spherical coordinates. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094692 | VIDEO WATERMARKING METHOD RESISTANT TO TEMPORAL DESYNCHRONIZATION ATTACKS - A video watermarking method resistant to temporal desynchronization attacks, of the type that comprises a watermark embedding, an attack stage and a watermark detection stage wherein during the watermarking embedding stage, the same watermark is hidden in a number of frames given by the mutual information between them; a temporal redundancy control is modified to hide a watermark in each possible I-frame; and during the watermark detection stage, the watermark extractor takes all the frames watermarked with the same key to extract its characteristics. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094693 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A PACKAGE FOR SHIPPING WITH A COMMON CARRIER ON A WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICE - Various embodiments of present invention provide systems, methods, and computer-program products containing executable code for processing a package for shipping with a common carrier. Various embodiments include a wireless computing device that may be one of several types of devices such as smartphones, mobile telephones, mobile computers, portable digital assistants, laptop computers, gaming devices, electronic tablets, or other types of similar devices. In particular embodiments, executable code is installed on the wireless computing device that, when executed, causes the device to perform certain functionality. For instance, in particular embodiments, the wireless computing device records an image of a shipping form being placed on a package, verifies the image is suitable for analysis and transmission, and extracts a tracking number from the image. Further, the wireless computing device transmits the image to a common carrier so that the carrier may process information extracted from the image to facilitate shipping the package. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094694 | THREE-FRAME DIFFERENCE MOVING TARGET ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGET TRACK IDENTIFICATION - Embodiments of a target-tracking system and method of determining an initial target track in a high-clutter environment are generally described herein. The target-tracking system may register image information of first and second warped images with image information of a reference image. Pixels of the warped images may be offset based on the outputs of the registration to align each warped images with the reference image. A three-frame difference calculation may be performed on the offset images and the reference image to generate a three-frame difference output image. Clutter suppression may be performed on the three-frame difference image to generate a clutter-suppressed output image for use in target-track identification. The clutter suppression may include performing a gradient operation on a background image to remove any gradient objects. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094695 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTO-DETECTING ORIENTATION OF FREE-FORM DOCUMENT USING BARCODE - Method and apparatus of detecting orientation of document using a barcode decoding. The method includes (1) capturing an image of the document with an imaging arrangement having a solid-state imager; (2) determining a presence of a barcode in the captured image of the document; (3) decoding the barcode; (4) determining an up-direction of the document as a function of an orientation of the barcode in the document; and (5) setting an orientation of the document in the captured image based upon the up-direction of the document. In one implementation, the barcode is configured with orientation data indicating the up-direction of the document. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094696 | Integrated Background And Foreground Tracking - Systems and methods for tracking the foreground and background objects in a video image sequence. The systems and methods providing for determining a camera model based on a first group of feature points extracted from a video frame, extracting three-dimensional (3D) information for the first group of feature points based on the camera model and a previous camera model for a previous video frame, reassigning feature points to the first group or a second group, based on mapping each feature point to a corresponding 3D model using the extracted 3D information for each feature point and determining a new camera model when a number of reassigned feature points is greater than a predetermined threshold. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094697 | CAPTURING, ANNOTATING, AND SHARING MULTIMEDIA TIPS - Systems and methods are provided herein that can help people share tacit knowledge about how to operate and repair products in their environment. Systems and methods provided herein let users record video and improves the usefulness of recorded content by helping users add annotations and other meta-data to their videos at the point of capture. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094698 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE FOR EMBEDDING TIME-CODED METADATA AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A video processing device includes a content analyzer that receives a video signal and generates content recognition data based on the video signal, wherein the content recognition data is associated with at least one timestamp included in the video signal. A metadata search device generates time-coded metadata in response to content recognition data and in accordance with the at least one time stamp. A metadata association device generates a processed video signal from the video signal, wherein the processed video signal includes the time-coded metadata. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094699 | FOREST FIRE SMOKE DETECTION METHOD USING RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION - A forest fire smoke detection method using random forest classification is provided. In the method, a first reference value is set. For consecutively captured frames, images between the frames are compared, each block, in which a number of pixels, motions of which have been identified, is equal to or greater than the first reference value, is set as a candidate block, and a keyframe is selected. The selected keyframe is compared with at least one frame previous to the keyframe and then a plurality of feature vectors are extracted from the candidate blocks. The extracted feature vectors are learned using different random forest algorithms. Probabilities output to terminal nodes for classes are accumulated, and two first cumulative probability histograms are generated. The two first cumulative probability histograms are averaged, and then a second cumulative probability histogram is generated. A detected state of each candidate block is determined. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094700 | Aerial Survey Video Processing - An aerial survey video processing apparatus for analyzing aerial survey video. The apparatus includes a feature tracking section adapted to associate identified features with items in a list of features being tracked, based on a predicted location of the features being tracked. The tracking section updates the list of features being tracked with the location of the associated identified features. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094701 | ADAPTIVE CROSS PARTITION FOR LEARNING WEAK CLASSIFIERS - Systems and methods are disclosed to perform object detection for images from an image sensor by reusing a 1-dimensional feature from a previously learned weak classifier and selecting a new feature to construct a 2-dimensional feature space; and cross partitioning the 2-dimensional space to learn optimal outputs for instances in each domain within a boosting framework. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094702 | Arrangements Involving Social Graph Data and Image Processing - This technology concerns, in one aspect, using a person's social network graph data as a virtual visual cortex—taking image input from a smartphone or the like, and processing it with the graph data to yield a personalized form of processing based on the imagery. The user's network graph data is typically updated by such processing—providing a form of virtual image memory that can influence future social network behavior. In another aspect, the technology concerns identifying content (e.g., audio) by both fingerprint-based and watermark-based techniques, and arrangements employing such identification data. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094703 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING ZONES OF HIGHER ACTIVITY IN SURVEILLANCE SCENES - The invention relates to a method for visualizing zones of higher activity in a monitoring scene monitored by at least one monitoring device ( | 2013-04-18 |
20130094704 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING BONE CANCER METASTASES - The invention relates to a detection system for automatic detection of bone cancer metastases from a set of isotope bone scan images of a patients skeleton, the system comprising a shape identifier unit, a hotspot detection unit, a hotspot feature extraction unit, a first artificial neural network unit, a patient feature extraction unit, and a second artificial neural network unit. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094705 | Method and Apparatus for Projective Volume Monitoring - According to one aspect of the teachings presented herein, a projective volume monitoring apparatus is configured to detect objects intruding into a monitoring zone. The projective volume monitoring apparatus is configured to detect the intrusion of objects of a minimum object size relative to a protection boundary, based on an advantageous processing technique that represents range pixels obtained from stereo correlation processing in spherical coordinates and maps those range pixels to a two-dimensional histogram that is defined over the projective coordinate space associated with capturing the stereo images used in correlation processing. The histogram quantizes the horizontal and vertical solid angle ranges of the projective coordinate space into a grid of cells. The apparatus flags range pixels that are within the protection boundary and accumulates them into corresponding cells of the histogram, and then performs clustering on the histogram cells to detect object intrusions. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094706 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus acquires a plurality of geometric features and normals at the respective geometric features from a target object arranged at the first position. The information processing apparatus also acquires a plurality of normals corresponding to the respective geometric features of the target object from a shape model for the target object that is arranged at the second position different from the first position. The information processing apparatus calculates direction differences between the acquired normals for respective pairs of corresponding geometric features of the target object and shape model. The information processing apparatus determines whether or not occlusion occurs at each geometric feature by comparing the calculated direction differences with each other. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094707 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING A SURVEYING INSTRUMENT'S EXTERNAL ORIENTATION - Verifying surveying instrument's external orientation during a measurement process, comprising directing the imaging means onto a reference object and detecting a first photographing direction of the imaging means, taking a first image of the reference object in the first photographing direction, memorizing the first image and the first photographing direction as being indicative of the surveying instrument's external orientation, re-directing the imaging means onto the reference object and detecting a second photographing direction of the imaging means, taking a second image of the reference object in the second photographing direction, and comparing a first with a second imaged position of the reference object in the first respectively the second image by image processing as well as the first with the second photographing direction and verifying the surveying instrument's external orientation based on disparities between the first and the second imaged position and/or between the first and the second photographing direction. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094708 | Object Information Derived from Object Images - Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094709 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SPECIFIC OBJECT PATTERN FROM IMAGE - A face area is detected from an image captured by an image pickup device, pixel values of the image are adjusted based on information concerning the detected face area, a person area is detected from the adjusted image, and the detected face area is integrated with the detected person area. With this configuration, it is possible to accurately detect an object even in a case, for example, where the brightness is varied. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094710 | POSITIONAL LOCATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system are disclosed for locating or otherwise generating positional information for an object, such as but not limited generating positional coordinates for an object attached to an athlete engaging in an athletic event. The positional coordinates may be processed with other telemetry and biometrical information to provide real-time performance metrics while the athlete engages in the athletic event. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094711 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In an image included in a moving image, a specific area is registered as a reference area, and a specific hue range of the reference area is set as a first feature amount based on the distribution of hues of pixels in the reference area. When the occupation ratio of pixels having hues included in a second feature amount, obtained by expanding the hue range of the first feature amount in a surrounding area larger than the reference area, is smaller than a predetermined ratio, an area having a high degree of correlation is identified from an image using the second feature amount in the subsequent matching process. When the occupation ratio is equal to or larger than the predetermined ratio, an area having a high degree of correlation is identified from an image using the first feature amount in the subsequent matching process. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EYE TRACKING USING RETROREFLECTOR-ENCODED INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to eye tracking systems and methods that can be used in uncontrolled environments and under a variety of lighting conditions. In one aspect, an eye tracking system ( | 2013-04-18 |
20130094713 | STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING STEREO IMAGE - Provided is a stereo image processing apparatus and a method of processing a stereo image, wherein calculation precision of disparity is improved, while maintaining a processing amount equal to the SAD method. In the stereo image processing apparatus ( | 2013-04-18 |
20130094714 | SHAPE MEASURING DEVICE, SHAPE MEASURING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS PLATE - The present invention provides a technology capable of measuring three-dimensional shapes by applying a stereo method even in the case that an object has a specular surface. A shape measuring apparatus | 2013-04-18 |
20130094715 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE MOTION OF A FINGERPRINT SURFACE WITH RESPECT TO A SENSOR SURFACE - A fingerprint motion tracking method and system is provided for sensing features of a fingerprint along an axis of finger motion, where a linear sensor array has a plurality of substantially contiguous sensing elements configured to capture substantially contiguous overlapping segments of image data. A processing element is configured to receive segments of image data captured by the linear sensor array and to generate fingerprint motion data. Multiple sensor arrays may be included for generating directional data. The motion tracking data may be used in conjunction with a fingerprint image sensor to reconstruct a fingerprint image using the motion data either alone or together with the directional data. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094716 | Dual Image Method And System For Generating A Multi-Dimensional Image Of A Sample - The present invention relates in part to a method for generating a multi-dimensional image of a sample which combines different image capturing modalities with data analysis capability for identifying and integrating the higher accuracy image features captured by each respective modality to yield reconciled image data of higher accuracy and consistency. A system which can be used to perform the method also is included. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094717 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF OBJECT PIXELS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL ANALYSIS - A method is provided for automatically discerning between object and non-object pixels in a hyperspectral image data cube. In particular embodiments, the object of the method is a plant, plant part, plant trait, plant phenotype, plant pot or a plant medium. The method comprises a first step of providing a partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA) algorithm and a second step of applying the PLSDA algorithm to a hyperspectral image data cube to automatically determine which pixels contain the spectral properties of the object. The PLSDA algorithm of the method can be generated by establishing a training matrix, performing an eigenvector decomposition of the training matrix, experimentally determining a weighted linear combination of object signal-containing eigenvectors, calculating a regression vector using the weighted linear combination of signal-containing eigenvectors, generating a mask matrix and multiplying the mask matrix by the hyperspectral image data cube along two spatial dimensions. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094718 | AREA SEARCH DEVICE AND AREA SEARCH METHOD - A dynamic area search device includes: a search condition obtainment unit that obtains information on search objects and a condition for a search scope for searching for the search objects; an on-map operation detection unit that detects a first user-specified point on a map displayed on a display; a content search unit that searches for elements associated with locations on the map, based on the information on the search objects; a display area determination unit that determines a first area that has the user-specified point at the center, and includes, among the elements searched for by the content search unit, elements that meet the condition for the search scope; and an area boundary display unit configured to dynamically display, on the map, the user-specified point and the first area determined by the display area determination unit. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094719 | BIOMETRIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICES - A touch sensor is configured to sense a contact event occurring between a body part of a user and the touch sensor. The touch sensor is configured to produce contact data in response to the sensed contact event. A processor is coupled to the touch sensor and memory. The processor is configured to store in the memory a sequence of data frames each comprising contact data associated with a different portion of the user's body part. The processor is further configured to generate biometric signature data using the sequence of data frames. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094720 | NON-LINEAR PROJECTIONS OF 3-D MEDICAL IMAGING DATA - The present invention improves projection displays of volume data. Using the Minimum Intensity Projection (MinIP), fluid filled regions or other regions of hyporeflective tissue are displayed. By limiting the projection to partial volumes within the volume, differences in the scattering intensity within specific regions are isolated. In this way, hyperreflectivity of weakly scattering tissue can be assessed. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094721 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SELECTION METHOD, ALBUM CREATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for selecting images used in an album indicating a group of a plurality of images includes a person setting unit configured to set a person appearing in an image included in the album, an image evaluation unit configured to evaluate an image based on a composition of the image, a count unit configured to count a number of times in which the person set by the person setting unit appears in a plurality of images, and a selection unit configured to select images used in the album based on evaluation made by the image evaluation unit, and a count value obtained by the count unit. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094722 | FACIAL CODING FOR EMOTIONAL INTERACTION ANALYSIS - Various systems and techniques using facial coding for emotional interaction analysis are described herein. Machine-readable facial observations of a subject while the subject is exposed to a stimulus can be received. The machine readable observations can include a stimulus synchronization element. An emotional component of an emotional state of the subject can be determined based on the facial observations. The determination can include assigning a numerical weight to the emotional component. An emotional state to the stimulus synchronization event can be assigned based on the emotional component. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094723 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION AND COLLECTION AT POINTS-OF-SALE AND POINTS-OF-ENTRY - A method of apprehending a criminal, including scanning fingerprint images from a contact area of at least one item at a point-of-sale (POS) location and/or point-of-entry (POE) location and transmitting the fingerprint images to a local or remote electronic device to identify the criminal is presented. A fingerprint recognition and collection device is also presented including a fingerprint scanner for scanning fingerprint images from a contact area of at least one item; a transmitting unit for transmitting the fingerprint images; a receiving unit for receiving the fingerprint images; and an analyzing unit for analyzing the fingerprint images to identify persons of interest. The fingerprint scanner operates concurrently with a price scanner and/or ticket scanner. The fingerprint scanner is fixedly secured at the POS location and/or the POE location and operates concurrently with the price scanner and/or ticket scanner. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094724 | METHOD OF PERFORMING FINGERPRINT MATCHING - The method of performing fingerprint matching includes a matching algorithm that combines affine moment invariants (AMIs) and translation, rotation and scaling invariants (TRS) based on moments analysis without requiring minutiae detection. Preprocessing normalizes the fingerprint image using the Federal Bureau of Investigation's wavelet scalar quantification (WSQ) compression standard definition. Analysis of the orientation field reliably and accurately determines the reference point. The area within a predetermined range around the detected reference point is used as a region of interest (ROI) for feature extraction. A directional filter bank transform (DFB) obtains directional components of the image. An invariant moment analysis on sub-bands of the filtered images extracts features while limiting the effects of noise and non-linear distortions. Absolute distance is used to match the fingerprints. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094725 | Reproducible Segmentation of Elliptical Boundaries in Medical Imaging - A boundary in a medical image is segmented. To increase reproducibility, a multi-level segmentation approach is used. A boundary is detected based on a seed point. The boundary is used to construct a banded graph. Local segmentation is performed using the banded graph. Based on the local segmentation, a new seed point is found. The local segmentation identifies a consistent location for the seed point. The boundary detection is performed again using the new seed point. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094726 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE DEVICE - An image processing device includes: a candidate abnormal region determining unit that determines a candidate abnormal region from an image using a first determination criterion; a bubble region determining unit that determines a bubble region from the image; a bubble inside determining unit that determines whether the candidate abnormal region is present inside the bubble region based on a determination result of the bubble region; and an abnormal region determining unit that determines whether the candidate abnormal region is an abnormal region using a second determination criterion different from the first determination criterion when the candidate abnormal region is determined to be present inside the bubble region. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094727 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING MEDICAL IMAGING DATA - In a method and apparatus for correcting image data from a medical imaging scan of a subject, into which subject a specified amount of an imaging substance has been introduced, a region of the image data, containing an anomalous proportion of the imaging substance introduced, is identified. For the identified region a regional value of a variable in the image data associated with the imaging substance is determined. The regional value is used to determine the proportion of the substance in the region, and the proportion is subtracted from the specified amount of the imaging substance. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094728 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF IMAGE DATA - Systems and methods for managing at least one medical image that includes image data and metadata. One method includes generating, at a processor, a number of copies of the at least one medical image, wherein the number of copies is equal to a number of independent reviewers associated with the at least one medical image. Each of the copies includes the image data and the metadata. The method also includes modifying the metadata of each of the copies to include a unique identifier, and storing the copies to at least one image storage device. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094729 | SINGULAR VALUE FILTER FOR IMAGING OR DETECTION - Apparatus or techniques can include obtaining information indicative of energy, such as ultrasonic energy, reflected from a tissue region, forming respective input matrices representative of the obtained information, the input matrices respectively comprising an ensemble-of-interest and at least one ensemble corresponding to a spatial location nearby a spatial location corresponding to the ensemble-of-interest, performing respective singular value decompositions on the respective input matrices to obtain respective sets of singular values corresponding to respective sets of singular vectors, obtaining respective output matrices including weighting a respective projection of a respective ensemble-of-interest onto at least one of the singular vectors included in a respective set of singular vectors, and, using the respective output matrices, at least one of determining a characteristic, or constructing an image, of at least a portion of the tissue region. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094730 | OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT FOR MEASURING CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS, CHEMICAL SATURATIONS AND BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS - Optical sensor devices, image processing devices, methods and computer readable code computer-readable storage media for detecting biophysical parameters, chemical concentrations, chemical saturations and blood count. In some embodiments, the image processing device receives a live still or video electronic image. Exemplary physiological parameters include but are not limited to a pulse rate, blood pressure, glucose, stroke volume of internal or external tissue (e.g. skin). A biophysical or physiological property is not limited to a cardiovascular or liver or the kidneys or to a cardiovascular disorder or to a pulmonary disorder. Exemplary chemical concentrations or saturation includes but not limited to a pH level, a glucose level, a urea nitrogen level, a CO2 concentration or saturation, or a oxygen concentration or saturation. In some embodiments the parameters are detected from a food or a beverage such as an alcohol, a dairy product, wine, a baked good, a fruit or a vegetable. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094731 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes at least a vascular region extracting unit, a vascular shape image generating unit, a perfusion analyzing unit, a perfusion image generating unit, an image composition unit. The vascular region extracting unit extracts a vascular region based on a three-dimensional medical image. The vascular shape image generating unit generates an image of a vascular shape of the vascular region. The perfusion analyzing unit performs perfusion analysis on the three-dimensional medical image and obtains a perfusion value indicating a blood circulation condition in tissue around the vascular region. The perfusion image generating unit generates an image indicating the perfusion value. The image composition unit generates a vascular shape perfusion composition image in which an image of the vascular shape in a contraction portion in a blood vessel corresponding to the vascular region is combined with the image indicating the perfusion value. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF GEOMETRIC ELEMENTS FROM A 3D MEDICAL IMAGE OF A BONE - The invention relates to an automated method for precise determination of the head center and radius and the neck axis of an articulated bone from acquired 3D medical image of an articulation, comprising the following steps: i) determining, from a 3D image of the bone, an approximate sphere (SFO) of the head of the bone that substantially fits the spherical portion of the head of the bone; ii) constructing from the 3D image and the approximate sphere (SFO), a 3D surface model (S) of the bone; iii) determining, from the 3D surface model (S) and from the approximate sphere (SFO), an approximate neck axis (AXO) of the neck of the bone; iv) determining, from the 3D surface model (S) and the approximate sphere (SFO), a precise sphere (SF); v) determining, from the 3D surface model (S), the precise sphere (SF) and the approximate neck axis (AXO), a precise neck axis (AX | 2013-04-18 |
20130094733 | REGION SEGMENTED IMAGE DATA CREATING SYSTEM AND FEATURE EXTRACTING SYSTEM FOR HISTOPATHOLOGICAL IMAGES - A region segmented image data creating system for histopathological images is provided. The region segmented image data creating system is capable of creating region segmented image data required to generating a region segmented image. A first bi-level image data creating section | 2013-04-18 |
20130094734 | System for Comparison of Medical Images - A system automatically processes different medical image sequences facilitating comparison of the sequences in adjacent respective display areas. An image data processor, identifies first and second mask images of first and second image sequences respectively as images preceding introduction of contrast agent and determines a translational shift between the first and second mask images. The image data processor transforms data representing individual images of at least one of the first image sequence and the second image sequence in response to the determined translational shift to reduce mis-alignment of the individual images of the first image sequence relative to the individual images of the second image sequence. A display presents first and second image sequences corrected for mis-alignment, in substantially adjacent display areas to facilitate user comparison. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094735 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPANDING AXIAL COVERAGE IN ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION IN COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) - The image generation method and system generates an image using a predetermined iterative reconstruction technique from cone beam data that has been expanded by adding additional data, and an instance of the iteration process is weighted according to a corresponding validation weight during the reconstruction. Optionally, an instance of the iteration process is weighted according to a combination of weights during the reconstruction. The predetermined combination of the weights includes axial weights based upon a validity value of the expanded data and statistical weights. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094736 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCING STREAK ARTIFACTS IN HELICAL CONE BEAM COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) - Streak artifacts arise in helical CT reconstruction with cone beam weighting (CBW) with helical pitch ratio between 0.5 and 1.0 in a prevalent 2PI mode. The sreak artifacts are substantially removed by applying upsampling to the measured data in the segment direction before weighting. Furthermore, by making the upsampling adaptive to the view Z-position, an amount of extra processing is greatly reduced to near 1%. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094737 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING REGIONS OF INTEREST IN MEDICAL IMAGING DATA - In a method and apparatus for identifying a region of interest in medical imaging data of a subject is described, an intensity projection image is generated from the medical imaging data. The medical imaging data is then processed to find one or more maxima in the medical imaging data. The found maxima are compared with the intensity projection image, and one of the maxima which is not represented in the intensity projection image is identified. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094738 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ALIGNING SETS OF MEDICAL IMAGING DATA - In a method and apparatus for aligning two sets of medical imaging data, first and second sets of image data are obtained respectively, using first and second different medical imaging modalities, of an anatomical feature of a subject. For each set, an axis of the anatomical feature and a landmark point for the anatomical feature is determined, and the first and second sets are aligned by comparing the respective axes and landmark points. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094739 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In order to generate an X-ray CT image with optimal quality for each part and each region of an object when scanning the object across a plurality of parts using a plane detector, there is provided an X-ray CT apparatus including smoothing means | 2013-04-18 |
20130094740 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING LOCAL BONE CHANGES - A method and system for volumetric quantification of local bone changes includes the steps of loading at least a first and second (cone-beam) computed tomography three dimensional image, registering the first three dimensional image and second three dimensional image to one coordinate system, selecting a region of interest in one of the first three dimensional image or the second three dimensional image. For the first three dimensional image and the second three dimensional image, segmenting the local bone within the region of interest by segmenting voxels related to air and/or soft tissues within the region of interest and attributing these voxels to an outside region, while the volume formed by the remaining volume represent the local bone or the local bone with soft tissue, and calculating of the volume of local bone in the first three dimensional image and the volume of local bone in the second three dimensional image and subtracting the first volume from the second volume and defining the difference as the local bone change or the change in local bone with soft tissue. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094741 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NON-ROTATIONAL COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY - A multi-dimensional representation of an object is obtained in that first and second pictures of the object illuminated using an X-ray source are created using a sensor that is located, in relation to the X-ray source, behind the object in a preferential direction defined by the relative positions of the object and of the sensor. A distance in the preferential direction between the X-ray source and the object is different in the first picture than in the second picture. The multi-dimensional representation of the object is obtained by combining the first and second pictures. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094742 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN IMAGING DIRECTION AND CALIBRATION OF AN IMAGING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a method for determining an imaging direction of an imaging apparatus ( | 2013-04-18 |
20130094743 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING EVOLUTION OF TUMOURAL LESIONS - A new method ( | 2013-04-18 |
20130094744 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - The provision of a feature extracting portion for obtaining sequentially images captured by an x-ray imaging device and for extracting features relating to the densities of the images; an image classifying portion for dividing the images into groups based on the features extracted by the feature extracting portion; a memory portion for storing the images, which have been divided into groups by the image classifying portion, together with imaging time stamps for each group; an image data processing portion for processing, for each group, images stored in the memory portion; and a monitor for outputting images processed by the image data processing portion. | 2013-04-18 |
20130094745 | NON-RIGID 2D/3D REGISTRATION OF CORONARY ARTERY MODELS WITH LIVE FLUOROSCOPY IMAGES - A method for non-rigid registration of digital 3D coronary artery models with 2D fluoroscopic images during a cardiac intervention includes providing a digitized 3D centerline representation of a coronary artery tree that comprises a set of S segments composed of Q | 2013-04-18 |