24th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120148045 | SYSTEM FOR THE CONTROLLED DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO DATA CARRIERS VIA MOBILE READ-WRITE MEMORIES - The present invention relates to a data transmission system ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148046 | Secure Wireless Communication Using Rate-Adaptive Codes - Data are communicated in a wireless network between a transmitter to a receiver. The transmitter estimates a first channel response between the receiver and the transmitter at the transmitter, and generating a first key based on the first channel response. The data are encoded at the transmitter using a rate-adaptive code to produce encoded data, which is scrambling using the first key before broadcasting. Subsequently, the receiver can estimate a second channel response to generate a second key to be used to descramble the broadcast data. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148047 | DETECTING KEY CORRUPTION - Corruption in a key stored in a memory is detected by reading a key from a key memory and determining if detection bits of the key read from the key memory correspond to an expected value. The expected value is a value of the detection bits of the key when the key is written to the key memory. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148048 | METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING CONTENT, METHOD FOR DECRYPTING CONTENT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS APPLYING THE SAME - A method for encrypting content includes using a plurality of different encryption schemes to produce encrypted content. Encryption information is provided so as to indicate which of the plurality of different encryption schemes is used on portions of the content that was encrypted. Encryption information and the encrypted content are both sent as a content stream to another device. The decryption involves using the encryption information to help control the decryption so that the correct one of a plurality of different decryption schemes is applied to the proper portions of the encrypted content. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148049 | Handling Medical Prescriptions in a Secure Fashion - Techniques for secure automated dispensing of prescription medications utilize broadcast encryption to encrypt a prescription for storage on a machine-readable medium that is pre-written with a key management block (KMB). The KMB encodes a session key needed to read from or write to the medium. Each prescription-writing device and medication dispensing device is assigned a unique set of device keys, which are used to recover the session key from the medium. Only authorized devices are able to recover the session key from a medium's KMB. Thus, only authorized devices may read or validly write prescriptions from/to the machine-readable medium. In this manner, only authorized providers can write fillable prescriptions and only authorized dispensers can dispense medications to fill those prescriptions. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148050 | BINDING KEYS TO SECURE MEDIA STREAMS - A key message can include a key-encryption-key (KEK) associated with a KeyDomainID and a KeyGroupID. A session description message can describe streaming media initialization parameters containing media stream information for one or more media streams. For each media stream, the media stream information can include an IP address and a data port. The session description message can further contain a linkage for binding the KEK to a corresponding one of the media streams. The linkage can include the KeyDomainID and KeyGroupID or can include an abstract representation of the KeyDomainID and KeyGroupID. During session initialization, the key-encryption-key (KEK) can be bound to the media streams using the linkage of the session description message. Each of the media streams can be secured using a traffic key conveyed to user equipment (UE) under protection of the key-encryption-key (KEK). | 2012-06-14 |
20120148051 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AN IDENTIFIER - The invention relates to a method for generating an identifier for identifying a pair, wherein the pair comprises a cryptographic device ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148052 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Conveying a Signal to One or More Devices - A wire system comprising a splitter integrated between two wire portions. The wire system can be used to transmit a signal between a signal source and a first output device connected to the wire portions. At any time, a user can choose to couple one or more additional output devices to the splitter to access the same signal being transmitted to the first output device. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148053 | DIRECTIONAL SOUND SYSTEM - A directional sound system is disclosed. The directional sound system ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148054 | METHOD OF INITIALIZING A BINAURAL LHEARING AID SYSTEM AND A HEARING AID - In a method of initializing a binaural hearing aid system ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148055 | AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUDIO THEREOF - Provided are an audio processing apparatus and a method for providing audio thereof, and an audio receiver and a method of providing audio thereof. The audio processing apparatus includes: a location detecting unit which detects a location of an audio receiver; a sound adjusting unit which adjusts a sound of an audio signal according to the detected location; and an audio signal transmitting unit which transmits the audio signal with the adjusted sound to the audio receiver. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148056 | METHOD TO REDUCE ARTIFACTS IN ALGORITHMS WITH FAST-VARYING GAIN - A method and device reduce artifacts in an audio processing algorithm for applying a time and frequency dependent gain to an input audio signal. The method provides a time frequency representation of an input audio signal comprising a number of frequency bands; applies an audio processing algorithm providing an estimated algorithm output signal; determines for each frequency band a difference between a value of the estimated gain signal at a given time and at a preceding time; averages the difference over a predefined time; provides a confidence estimate based on the time averaged difference, the said confidence estimate being relatively low in case said time averaged difference is above a predetermined threshold level and relatively high in case said time averaged difference is below a predetermined threshold level; and optionally applies the confidence estimate to the noise reduced output signal thereby providing an improved algorithm output signal. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148057 | Method and System for Determining a Perceived Quality of an Audio System - The invention relates to a method for determining a quality indicator representing a perceived quality of an output signal of an audio device with respect to a reference signal. Such audio device may for example be a speech processing system. In the method the reference signal and the output signal are processed and compared. The processing includes dividing the reference signal and the output signal into mutually corresponding time frames. The processing further includes scaling the reference signal towards a fixed intensity level. Time frames of the output signal are selected based on measurements performed on the scaled reference signal. Then, a noise contrast parameter is calculated based on the selected time frames of the output signal. A noise suppression is applied on at least one of the reference signal and the output signal based on the noise contrast parameter. Finally, the reference signal and the output signal are perceptually subtracted to form a difference signal, and the quality indicator is derived from the difference signal. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148058 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE LOCATIONS OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS - A disclosed example method to determine a location of an audience member involves generating a correlation analysis result based on correlating first audio samples from a stationary audio detector with second audio samples from a portable audio detector carried by the audience member and determining via a neural network the location of the audience member based on the correlation analysis result. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148059 | Controlling Audio Signals - Method, user terminal and computer program product for controlling audio signals at the user device during a communication session between the user device and a remote node, in which a primary audio signal is received at audio input means of the user device for transmission to the remote node in the communication session. It is determined whether the user device is operating in (i) a first mode in which secondary audio signals output from the user device are likely to disturb the primary audio signal received at the audio input means, or (ii) a second mode in which secondary audio signals output from the user device are not likely to disturb the primary audio signal received at the audio input means. In dependence upon determining that the user device is operating in the first mode, the secondary audio signals are selectively suppressed from being output from the user device during the communication session, such that when the user device is operating in the first mode said secondary audio signals do not disturb the primary audio signal received at the audio input means for transmission to the remote node in the communication session. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148060 | AUTOMATIC POLARITY ADAPTATION FOR AMBIENT NOISE CANCELLATION - A sound reproducing device has a loudspeaker arranged to produce sound from an audio signal provided by an audio signal source. A microphone is positioned to pick up ambient noise and generate a microphone signal which comprises the noise. An ambient noise cancellation (ANC) system receives the microphone signal from the microphone and generates anti-noise corresponding to the ambient noise in the microphone signal. An automatic polarity adaptation (AAP) system monitors the ANC system and, when a decision criterion is fulfilled, causes a switch in polarity for the generated anti-noise. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148061 | EARPHONE - An earphone has a casing, containing a speaker, the casing being adapted to fit within the outer ear of a user at the entrance to the ear canal of the user. The earphone can be used in a noise cancelling earphone system, with signal processing circuitry connected to the microphone and to the speaker. The signal processing circuitry is adapted to receive the ambient noise signal from the microphone, and to apply the ambient noise signal to a filter having a controllable amount of gain, for generating a noise cancellation signal for transmission to the speaker. The result is that, however the earphone is worn within the outer ear of a user, an amount of sound leakage lies within a predetermined range, such that the amount of gain to be applied by the signal processing circuitry falls within a relatively narrow range. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148062 | AUDIO DEVICE - Existing ANC headsets have active noise reduction circuitry and a power supply in the headset. Alternate ANC headsets rely on ANC circuitry in the player and have non-standard connectors meaning that they cannot be used with any other players. An audio headset ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148063 | AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An audio processing apparatus includes a first microphone, a second microphone, and a masking unit configured to mask movement of air from outside of the apparatus to the second microphone. A filter coefficient is estimated and learned so as to minimize the difference between the output signal of the first microphone and the output signal of the second microphone, thereby suppressing a reverberation component generated in the closed space between the masking unit and the second microphone out of the output signal of the second microphone. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148064 | AUDIO ON-DEMAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An audio-on-demand communication system provides real-time playback of audio data transferred via telephone lines or other communication links. One or more audio servers include memory banks which store compressed audio data. At the request of a user at a subscriber PC, an audio server transmits the compressed audio data over the communication link to the subscriber PC. The subscriber PC receives and decompresses the transmitted audio data in less than real-time using only the processing power of the CPU within the subscriber PC. According to one aspect of the present invention, high quality audio data compressed according to lossless compression techniques is transmitted together with normal quality audio data. According to another aspect of the present invention, metadata, or extra data, such as text, captions, still images, etc., is transmitted with audio data and is simultaneously displayed with corresponding audio data. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148065 | ACTIVE LOAD ISOLATOR AND WIRELESS SPEAKER FOR MIXED SIGNAL ENVIRONMENTS - An isolation circuit includes a low dropout operational current control loop and a shunt regulator. The current control loop is configured to drive the shunt regulator to result in a high dynamic impedance ratio between a voltage source and a load. The current control loop may include a series-pass transistor, a current sensing resistor, and a high side current sensor. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148066 | ENGINE SOUND PROCESSING SYSTEM - Microphones are provided at an air inlet of the engine and a vehicle-cabin-side wall surface of an engine room, and engine sounds are picked up. The engine sound is processed by a signal processing section, and the processed engine sound is output from a speaker provided in a vehicle cabin. The signal processing section is provided with a filter which simulates a sound insulation characteristic of the vehicle cabin and a transformation section for processing the engine sound according to driving condition. A spectrum transformation characteristic of the transformation section is determined according to values detected by a vehicle speed sensor, an engine speed sensor, and an accelerator depression sensor, and a spectrum of the engine sound is transformed by means of specification of the spectrum transformation characteristic, thereby enhancing an engine sound. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148067 | WIND NOISE DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a multi-microphone system and method adapted to determine phase angle differences between a first microphone and a second microphone signal to detect presence of wind noise. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148068 | COEXISTENCE OF WHITE SPACE DEVICES AND WIRELESS NARROWBAND DEVICES - Architecture that enables wireless narrowband devices (e.g., wireless microphones) and white space devices to efficiently coexist on the same telecommunications channels, while not interfering with the usability of the wireless narrowband device. The architecture provides interference detection, strobe generation and detection and, power ramping and suppression (interference-free coexistence with spectrum efficiency). The architecture provides the ability of the white space device to learn about the presence of the microphone. This can be accomplished i using a geolocation database, reactively via a strober device, and/or proactively via the strober device. The strober device can be positioned close to the microphone receiver and signals the presence of a microphone to white space devices on demand. The strober device takes into consideration the microphone's characteristics as well as the relative signal strength from the microphone transmitter versus the white space device, in order to enable maximum use of the available white space spectrum. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148069 | MICROPHONE ARRAY STRUCTURE ABLE TO REDUCE NOISE AND IMPROVE SPEECH QUALITY AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a microphone array structure able to reduce noise and improve speech quality and a method thereof. The method of the present invention comprises steps: using at least two microphone to receive at least two microphone signals each containing a noise signal and a speech signal; using FFT modules to transform the microphone signals into frequency-domain signals; calculating an included angle between a speech signal and a noise signal of the microphone signal, and selecting a phase difference estimation algorithm, a noise reduction algorithm or both to reduce noise according to the included angle; if the phase difference estimation algorithm is used, calculating phase difference of the microphone signals to obtain a time-space domain mask signal; and multiplying the mask signal and the average of the microphone signals to obtain the speech signals of the microphone signals. Thereby is eliminated noise and improve speech quality. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148070 | PARAMETRIC SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A signal processing system for generating a parametric signal comprises an audio compressor, operable to compress a dynamic range of an audio input signal, and an equalization network, operable to equalize the audio signal. A low pass filter is operable to remove high portions of the audio signal and a high pass filter is operable to remove low portions of the audio signal. An oscillator circuit is operable to generate a carrier signal, and a modulation circuit is operable to combine the audio signal with the carrier signal to produce at least one modulated carrier signal. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148071 | Micromechanical Digital Loudspeaker - A digital loudspeaker includes a substrate, a first stator fixed with respect to the substrate, a second stator fixed with respect to the substrate and spaced at a distance from the first stator, and a membrane between the first stator and the second stator. The membrane is displaceable between a first position in which the membrane mechanically contacts the first stator and a second position in which the membrane mechanically contacts the second stator. The first stator and the second stator are arranged to electrostatically move the membrane from a rest position spaced apart from the first position and the second position to the first position and the second position, respectively. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148072 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WIDENING AUDIO SIGNAL BAND - An audio signal band expanding apparatus ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148073 | PIEZOELECTRIC SPEAKER - Disclosed is a piezoelectric speaker including: a piezoelectric layer that converts electrical signals into oscillation and outputs sound; an electrode that is formed on a top or a bottom of the piezoelectric layer to apply the electrical signals to the piezoelectric layer; an acoustic diaphragm that is made of a hetero material including a first acoustic diaphragm and a second acoustic diaphragm and is attached to the bottom of the piezoelectric layer on which the electrode is formed; and a frame attached in a form enclosing a side of the acoustic diaphragm. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148074 | Electrostatic Loudspeaker System - An electrostatic loudspeaker (ESL) system includes a damping screen adjacent an outside surface of at least one of its stators to reduce distortion of acoustic output rendered by the loudspeaker's diaphragm, including effects of resonance of the diaphragm. A resilient excursion limiter placed adjacent an inside surface of at least one of the stators prevents contact of the diaphragm with the stator. A conductive portion of the diaphragm is printed with a conductive ink layer that includes conductive nanofibers. The loudspeaker system includes a dipole-radiating ESL element, an unbaffled or partially baffled dynamic loudspeaker and a baffled monopole-radiating dynamic loudspeaker (subwoofer), all essentially co-planar. The unbaffled or partially baffled dynamic loudspeaker provides a smooth transition in sound between the dipole-radiating ESL element and the monopole-radiating subwoofer. The ESL system includes two or more invertedly-driven ESL elements of different sizes, each element handling a different range of frequencies. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148075 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING REPRODUCTION OF AUDIO SIGNALS FROM AN APPARATUS FOR AUDIO REPRODUCTION - There is provided a method for optimizing reproduction of audio signals from an apparatus for audio reproduction with the apparatus for audio reproduction having a variable number of speakers. The method includes determining performance characteristics of each of the variable number of speakers; comparing performance characteristics of each of the variable number of speakers with each other; and designating a master speaker from the variable number of speakers either with or without manual intervention. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148076 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND HAC MODULE THEREOF - An exemplary hearing aid compatibility (HAC) module includes an insulative substrate and a ground member. The substrate includes a first mounting surface, and a second mounting surface at opposite sides thereof, and a third mounting surface between the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface. The ground member includes two ground portions respectively attached to the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface, and a connecting portion attached to the third mounting surface. The connecting portion comprises two or more parts. One of the parts connects one of the ground portions, and another of the parts connects the other ground portion. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148077 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING SYSTEM, HEARING SYSTEM AND AUDIO GATEWAY DEVICES - A body-worn audio gateway device transmitting audio signals comprised in close-range electromagnetic signals may be used outside a car, where it may provide for hands-free mobile telephony and listening to music streamed directly to hearing devices worn by a user. When the user enters the car, he or she may want to use a corresponding in-car audio gateway device for the same purposes. This typically requires manual interaction e.g. to trigger the switch-over and to maintain hands-free operation of a carried mobile phone. Furthermore, the audio gateway devices may disturb each other, which may lead to malfunction, more troublesome interaction and/or reduced audio quality. To overcome this, the invention foresees means for detecting when the user enters and/or leaves the car and for automatically disabling functions of the first audio gateway device when the user is in the car. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148078 | METHOD AND HEARING DEVICE FOR SETTING FEEDBACK SUPPRESSION - A method and an associated hearing device are enabled for setting feedback suppression. The method includes determining feedback events, determining the frequency of the feedback events within a prescribed first period of time, and setting feedback suppression in accordance with the frequency of the feedback events. The hearing device is able to choose automatically between different feedback algorithms in accordance with the specific feedback situation so that an optimal sound and feedback quality can be achieved. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148079 | ATTACHMENT OF A HOOK TO A HEARING DEVICE - A hearing device with a connecting portion ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148080 | WIDE ACTION CLAMPING MOUNT FOR COMMUNICATION HEADSET TO HALF-HELMETS, SPORTS HELMETS, AND THE LIKE - Device for mounting a communication headset to helmets of the type having a first strap extending in front of an ear of a user, a second strap extending behind the ear, and a chin strap connectable to the first and second straps, for instance, sports helmets. The device includes a mounting panel having a seat that includes electrical contacts connected to a printed circuit board and a guide. A rear of the mounting panel spans a distance that overlaps the first second straps. A second surface also spans the distance that overlaps the first and second straps and is movable relative to the mounting panel. A clamp resiliently biases the second surface into contact with the rear surface of the mounting panel but is urgable so as to move the second surface away from the rear surface allowing the device to be fastened to or removed from the helmet. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148081 | ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDS WITH PIEZOS - Methods and apparatus for improving the acoustical performance associated with a speaker, such as a piezoelectric speaker, are disclosed. According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a substrate, a can mounted on the substrate, and a piezoelectric speaker arrangement. The piezoelectric speaker arrangement is at least partially mounted on the can. In one embodiment, the substrate is a printed circuit board (PCB) and the can is an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding can. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148082 | PARAMETRIC TRANSDUCERS AND RELATED METHODS - An audio emitter comprises a support member operable to support a sound emittive material and a sound emittive material carried by the support member. A protective screen has a plurality of apertures formed therein, the protective screen being spaced a predetermined distance from the sound emittive material, said predetermined distance being a function of a resonant frequency of the audio emitter. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148083 | Microphone package and method for manufacturing same - A System and method to provide a cost-effective implementation of a microphone package, very good microphone performance being achieved even with a high degree of miniaturization. A microphone package includes a MEMS microphone component having a microphone diaphragm, and a housing having a housing base and a housing cover, the housing enclosing the back-side volume of the microphone component, and an acoustic access channel to the microphone diaphragm being provided in the housing which is closed off with respect to the back-side volume and which connects at least one sound opening in the housing to one side of the microphone diaphragm. An interposer is mounted inside the housing which defines the acoustic access channel to the microphone diaphragm in that the interposer is coupled to the sound opening in the housing, and has at least one exit opening above which the microphone component together with the microphone diaphragm is mounted. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148084 | AUDIO SPEAKER ASSEMBLY - An audio speaker assembly including a housing defining an internal compartment, and a glass membrane having a first portion supported in the housing and a second portion extending externally from the housing. The second portion having a length greater than its width, the length of the second portion extending orthogonal to the width of the housing, the second portion defining at least one aperture and a curved section formed along an edge of the glass membrane. A driver is mounted to the membrane that is responsive to an electrical signal causing the membrane to vibrate. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148085 | DIAPHRAGM AND SPEAKER DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A diaphragm is provided with a plurality of thick portions radially from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side. The thick portions are composed of at least two kinds having different lengths in a radiation direction and formed to be gradually thinner in the radiation direction from the inner circumferential side to the outer circumferential side. With this configuration, separate vibrations in the diaphragm can be suppressed. Further, a speaker device provided with the diaphragm having the above-described configuration can reproduce sounds faithfully in accordance with input signals. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148086 | COMPOSITE SPEAKER - A composite speaker is disclosed that can more easily be made thin and small, and is configured so that the assembly process of the speaker is easy. A first space that opens to the rear is formed in a main yoke that forms a magnetic field emitter, and a magnetic gap is formed in the first space. A first voice coil, connected to an inner peripheral end of a first diaphragm whose surface area is large, is inserted into the first magnetic gap toward the front direction. A second space that passes through from front to back is provided in the main yoke, a second magnetic field emitter is mounted therein, and a second diaphragm whose surface area is small is provided in front thereof. Because of the structure in which the second magnetic field emitter is housed within the first magnetic field emitter, the front-to-back dimension of the speaker can be reduced. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148087 | WATERMARK DECODING VIA SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF PIXEL SPACING - Provided are methods, apparatus and systems related to watermark decoding via spectral analysis of an image. According to one exemplary method, spectral analysis is performed to decode a watermark within an image, where the pixel spacing associated with the image was modulated to encode the watermark. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148088 | EXTENSIONS FOR MODIFYING A GRAPHICAL OBJECT TO DISPLAY DATA - A graphical manipulation tool to create and/or make modifications to a graphical object suitable for visually representing data. The graphical manipulation tool analyzes the graphical object to determine parameters of visual characteristics of the graphical object that can be used to visually represent data. A computing system, through the graphical manipulation tool, may generate metadata that defines a capacity for visual characteristics to represent data. In some cases, a preview is displayed on a user interface indicating to a user how the metadata, if incorporated with the graphical object, may result in the visual characteristics of the graphical object being used to visually represent data. If incorporating the metadata with the graphical object is desirable, the user may provide to include the additional metadata with the graphical object. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148089 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT WATERMARKING OF VIDEO CONTENT - A method for watermarking of video content is provided. An averaged scene image is computed for each scene of video content by performing averaging of frames present in each scene of video content. For each averaged scene image a set of random numbers are generated using a secret key to identify pixels at random locations of the averaged scene image. The secret key is associated with a watermark pattern corresponding to each averaged scene image. The identified pixels in each averaged scene image are mapped to each pixel of corresponding watermark pattern to obtain respective mapped pixels. Using respective mapped pixels, values of verification information are fetched and assigned using predetermined rules. The values of verification information are arranged to obtain first visual cryptographic share of watermark pattern for each averaged scene image. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148090 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING X-RAY IMAGE, RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a conversion acquisition unit configured to acquire a gradation conversion characteristic based on an X-ray image captured by an X-ray sensor, a storage unit configured to store a pixel value range in which a signal-to-noise ratio is higher than a threshold value according to a characteristic of the X-ray sensor, a determination unit configured to determine whether a pixel value range in which gradation is widened according to the gradation conversion characteristic is included in the stored pixel value range, and a correction unit configured to correct the gradation conversion characteristic depending on a result of determination by the determination unit. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148091 | Location Estimation Using Image Analysis - An implementation of location estimation using image analysis is described. In this implementation, an image of a place is obtained and matched with previously stored images. The matching may be achieved by employing methods based on key feature extraction algorithm, color histogram analysis, pattern matching or other image comparison techniques. Upon determining a match, the location information associated with the image provides the location. The location information may be in the form of location tags or location keywords and the location information may be used by the user or other applications for the purposes of location determination. The technique allows for the user to enter location information. The location information may be assigned to the previously stored images residing in local and remote databases for users and applications to assign information or keywords to images. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148092 | AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC VIOLATION DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a system and method for the automatic detection of traffic and parking violations. Camera input is digitally analyzed for vehicle type and location. This information is then processed against local traffic and parking regulations to detect violations. Detectable driving offenses include, but are not limited to: no scooters, buses only, and scooters only lane violations. Detectable parking offenses include, but are not limited to: parking or loitering in bus stops, parking next to fire hydrants, and parking in no-parking zones. Camera input, detected vehicle information, and violations can be stored for later search and retrieval. The system may be configured to signal the authorities or other automated analysis systems about specific violations. When coupled with automatic license plate recognition, vehicles may be automatically matched against a registration database and reported or ticketed. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148093 | Blob Representation in Video Processing - A method of processing a video sequence is provided that includes receiving a frame of the video sequence, identifying a plurality of blobs in the frame, computing at least one interior point of each blob of the plurality of blobs, and using the interior points in further processing of the video sequence. The interior points may be used, for example, in object tracking. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148094 | IMAGE BASED DETECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC PARAMETERS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF - An image-based detecting system for traffic parameters first sets a range of a vehicle lane for monitoring control, and sets an entry detection window and an exit detection window in the vehicle lane. When the entry detection window detects an event of a vehicle passing by using the image information captured at the entry detection window, a plurality of feature points are detected in the entry detection window, and will be tracked hereafter. Then, the feature points belonging to the same vehicle are grouped to obtain at least a location tracking result of single vehicle. When the tracked single vehicle moves to the exit detection window, according to the location tracking result and the time correlation through estimating the information captured at the entry detection window and the exit detection window, at least a traffic parameter is estimated. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148095 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a detector. A detector detects one or at least two object images each of which is coincident with a dictionary image from each of K (K: an integer of two or more) of continuous shot images. A classifier executes on the K of continuous shot images a process of classifying the object images detected according to a common object. A determiner determines an attribute of equal to or less than K of object images belonging to each of one or at least two object image groups classified. A first excluder excludes a continuous shot image satisfying an error condition out of the K of the continuous shot images, based on a determined result. A selector selects a part of one or at least two continuous shot images remained after an exclusion as a specific image. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148096 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE USING MOBILE PROJECTOR - Disclosed is an image control system using a mobile projector, including a first apparatus configured to determine, when a first picture is projected and a user input for a specific image is received, whether the projected first picture is projected onto the specific image, and if so, control the specific image to perform an operation corresponding to the user input, and a second apparatus configured to, receive the user input from the first apparatus, determine whether the first picture is projected onto the specific image, and if so, perform an operation corresponding to the user input. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148097 | 3D MOTION RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed are a three-dimensional motion recognition method and an apparatus using a motion template method and an optical flow tracking method of feature points. The three dimensional (3D) motion recognition method through feature-based stereo matching according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: obtaining a plurality of images from a plurality of cameras; extracting feature points from a single reference image; and comparing and tracking the feature points of the reference image and another comparison image photographed at the same time using an optical flow method. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148098 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA - An electronic camera includes an imager. An imager outputs an electronic image corresponding to an optical image captured on an imaging surface. A first generator generates a first notification forward of the imaging surface. A searcher searches for one or at least two face images each having a size exceeding a reference from the electronic image outputted from the imager. A controller controls a generation manner of the first generator with reference to an attribute of each of one or at least two face images detected by the detector. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148099 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING FLIGHT INFORMATION OF A SPHERICAL OBJECT WITH HIGH-SPEED STEREO CAMERA - Disclosed is a method for automatically extracting centroids and features of a spherical object required to measure a flight speed, a flight direction, a rotation speed, and a rotation axis of the spherical object in a system for measuring flight information of the spherical object with a high-speed stereo camera. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148100 | POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT METHOD - A position and orientation measurement device includes a grayscale image input unit that inputs a grayscale image of an object, a distance image input unit that inputs a distance image of the object, an approximate position and orientation input unit that inputs an approximate position and orientation of the object with respect to the position and orientation measurement device, and a position and orientation calculator that updates the approximate position and orientation. The position and orientation calculator calculates a first position and orientation so that an object image on an image plane and a projection image of the three-dimensional shape model overlap each other, associates the three-dimensional shape model with the image features of the grayscale image and the distance image, and calculates a second position and orientation on the basis of a result of the association. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING TEXT AREA, AND AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION SYSTEM OF NUMBER PLATE USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method of extracting a text area, the method including generating a text area prediction value within an input second image based on a plurality of text area data stored in a database including geometric information about a text area of a first image, generating a text recognition result value by determining whether a text is recognized with respect to a probable text area within the input second image, and selecting a text area within the second image by combining the generated text area prediction value and text recognition result value. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148102 | MOBILE BODY TRACK IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a mobile body track identification system that determines which mobile body matches which detected track with a high precision irrespective of frequent interruption of tracks of a mobile body detected in a tracking area. Herein, hypotheses are generated by use of sets of track-coupling candidate/identification pairs, which combines track-coupling candidates, combining tracks of a mobile body detected in a predetermined time in the past, and identifications of the mobile body and which satisfies a predetermined condition. Next, identification likelihoods are calculated as likelihoods of detecting identifications in connection with tracks indicated by track-coupling candidates included in track-coupling candidate/identification pairs ascribed to each of the selected hypotheses. Identification likelihoods are integrated per each track-coupling candidate/identification pair, thus calculating an identification likelihood regarding the selected hypothesis. A most-probable hypothesis is estimated based on identification likelihoods of hypotheses. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148103 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC OBJECT DETECTION AND SUBSEQUENT OBJECT TRACKING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OBJECT SHAPE - A method and system for automatic object detection and subsequent object tracking in accordance with the object shape in digital video systems having at least one camera for recording and transmitting video sequences. In accordance with the method and system, an object detection algorithm based on a Gaussian mixture model and expanded object tracking based on Mean-Shift are combined with each other in object detection. The object detection is expanded in accordance with a model of the background by improved removal of shadows, the binary mask generated in this way is used to create an asymmetric filter core, and then the actual algorithm for the shape-adaptive object tracking, expanded by a segmentation step for adapting the shape, is initialized, and therefore a determination at least of the object shape or object contour or the orientation of the object in space is made possible. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148104 | PEDESTRIAN-CROSSING MARKING DETECTING METHOD AND PEDESTRIAN-CROSSING MARKING DETECTING DEVICE - Provided are a pedestrian-crossing marking detecting method and a pedestrian-crossing marking detecting device, wherein the existence of pedestrian crossing markings and the positions thereof can be detected accurately from within a picked up image, even when detection of the intensity edges of painted sections is difficult. In the pedestrian-crossing mark detecting device ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148105 | AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP BASED ADAPTIVE LEARNING - An automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system and method using a human-in-the-loop based adaptive learning approach. One or more images with respect to an automotive vehicle can be segmented in order to determine a license plate of the automotive vehicle within a scene. An optical character recognition (OCR) engine loaded with an OCR algorithm can be further adapted to determine a character sequence of the license plate based on a training data set. A confidence level with respect to the images can be generated in order to route a low confidence image to an operator for obtaining a human interpreted image. The parameters with respect to the OCR algorithm can be adjusted based on the human interpreted image and the actual image of the license plate. A license plate design can be then incorporated into the OCR engine in order to automate the process of recognizing the license plate with respect to the automotive vehicle in a wide range of transportation related applications. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148106 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY - A method for providing augmented reality includes acquiring a real-world image including an object; transmitting terminal information, in which the terminal information includes a location information of a terminal and an original retrieval distance; receiving object information corresponding to the object, in which the object information is based on the transmitted terminal information; and overlapping the received object information over the corresponding object in the real-world image. A terminal to perform the methods described herein includes a location information providing unit, an information transmitting/receiving unit, an image processing unit, and a user view analyzing unit. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148107 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a representative image creating section which creates a representative image on the basis of images of respective screens which form a predetermined scene; and a symbol drawing section which draws, on the basis of a movement of a target portion of each screen in the predetermined scene, a symbol indicating the movement of the target portion in a peripheral section of the representative image created by the representative image creating section. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148108 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - Image capturing data captured by using an imaging optical system including an iris with an aperture having no point symmetry is input. An imaging parameter for the imaging optical system when the image capturing data is captured is captured. A spectrum of the input image capturing data is calculated. Optical characteristic information corresponding to an imaging parameter and an object distance and a spectrum model are obtained. A predictive model is generated as a spectrum model corresponding to the input image capturing data by using the imaging parameter, optical characteristic information, and spectrum model. An evaluation function is generated by using the spectrum of the image capturing data and the predictive model. The actual distance of the object included in an image represented by the image capturing data is estimated by using the evaluation function and a statistical method. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148109 | DISTANCE ESTIMATION DEVICE, DISTANCE ESTIMATION METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A distance estimation device ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148110 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLACEMENT DETERMINATION BY MOTION COMPENSATION - Motion estimator apparatus and methods are presented in which a fully constrained nonlinear system of equations combing forward and backward displaced frame difference (DFD) equations with a plurality of displacement vector invariant (DVI) equations is solved using the input data from two image frames without approximation and without imposing any additional constraints or assumptions to obtain an estimated displacement field. Also presented is an adaptive framework for solving a system of motion estimation equations. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148111 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSERVATIVE MOTION ESTIMATION FROM MULTI-IMAGE SEQUENCES WITH OPTIMIZED MOTION COMPENSATION - Apparatus and methods are presented for estimating the velocity field based on a multi-image frame sequence having an integer number M frames, M is greater than two, in which a set of M−1 displaced frame difference (DFD) equations is solved including a motion compensated prediction (MCP) equation, M−2 motion compensated interpolation (MCI) equations for solving a velocity field at a first time using a set of iteration equations to determine a velocity field, and 2×(M−2) conservative velocity constraint (CVC) equations for solving a velocity field at times | 2012-06-14 |
20120148112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSERVATIVE MOTION ESTIMATION FROM MULTI-IMAGE SEQUENCES - Apparatus and methods are presented for estimating the velocity field based on a multi-image frame sequence having an integer number M frames, M is greater than two, in which a set of M−1 displaced frame difference (DFD) equations is solved using a set of iteration equations to determine a velocity field. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148113 | METHOD FOR DETECTING SHIFTS IN LINE IMAGES OBTAINED BY A SENSOR THAT IS AIRBORNE OR MOVING IN SPACE - Method for estimating shifts of line images obtained by an airborne or spaceborne scanning sensor. The invention relates to a method for estimating shifts in line images of an image, referred to as a “composite image”, made up of the juxtaposition of J line images. The line images show portions of a scene on the surface (S) of a celestial body that are different and successively acquired by a row of sensitive cells of a sensor ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148114 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing device is comprising: an input unit which inputs image data of a chart; and a streak detection processing unit which specifies an inspection region in the inputted image data, calculates a line average which is an average of all pixels on a line, for each line in a sub-scanning direction in the inspection region, calculates a width average value which is an average of the line averages of the lines corresponding to a series of main scanning pixels, the number of which is a specified width and whose center is a target pixel, for each target pixel, calculates a difference between the width average value, and the average of the line averages of the target pixel and a predetermined number of main scanning pixels, and determines that the target pixel is included in a streak when the difference exceeds the threshold value set in advance. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148115 | Mobile Biometrics Information Collection and Identification - A biometric mobile device is capable of interacting with existing cellular, wireless, and wired telecommunication and other communication networks to support intelligence gathering, human body identification, special operations and other applications. A method of collecting biometric data at an accident or crime scene may comprise, for example, utilizing a camera to photograph the accident scene, collecting key entered data that may not be otherwise obtainable, using a fingerprint scanner to collect, digitize and store fingerprint data, using a lab-on-a-chip DNA profile device for collecting and analyzing a DNA specimen and generating identification and DNA profile data for bar code entry and other means for collecting any known form of biometric data including, but not limited to, vascular facial structure, dental structure, cornea, iris or other data which may be unique or limiting for identification purposes. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148116 | Identity Verification Device - Provided is an apparatus for identifying person's identity. User's eyeballs may be precisely located in an operation region of the apparatus for identifying the person's identity, i.e., a photograph region in which an iris image of a user to be identified by the camera can be photographed using an indicator provided by the apparatus for identifying the person's identity. Also, a limitation in which the user's eyeballs are located at positions different from each other due to person's parallaxes different from each other even though the indicator is provided at the same position may be solved to locate the eyeballs of the user to be identified using the apparatus for identifying the person's identity at the same position. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148117 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACIAL IDENTIFICATION - The present invention is a system for providing facial identification, which includes a photography unit, a facial identification unit, a memory unit, and a controller. More specifically, the photography unit photographs a driver's face and the memory unit stores a user image or one or more image feature values which are registered to a first user ID. A user is identified by the facial identification unit which compares the driver's face photographed by the photography unit with a user image or one or more image feature values stored in the memory unit. If a positive identification cannot be made, however, a user input unit which is configured to receive a signal from user which requests that the driver's face photographed face be registered as a user image or one or more image feature values of the first user ID. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148118 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING IMAGES AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - An image classifying apparatus may include a database constructor which constructs database by detecting face region from received classification target image, extracting face feature descriptor from detected face region, extracting a costume feature descriptor using position information of detected face region, and storing face feature descriptor and costume feature descriptor in database, a first processor which generates representative image model by comparing face feature descriptor and costume feature descriptor of classification target image stored in database based on a received representative image to search for a similar image and registering similar image in a representative image model for each person, and second processor which compares additional information of representative image stored in representative image model for each person and additional information of classification target image stored in database and classifies image for each person based on similarity measured by adding up weights corresponding to similarities according to comparison results. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148119 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING THE PERCEIVED AGE OF AN INDIVIDUAL - A system wherein various facial properties/features are observed and wherein such facial properties are given numerical representations based upon predetermined criteria. The selected numerical representations are then calculated in a manner that results in a perceived age of the individual. Cosmetic and/or surgical alterations or enhancements can then be made physically to the individual and/or via graphic representation to the individual's face, in accordance with changes based upon the numerical representations given for one or more of the observed features. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148120 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION CONTROL METHOD FOR AN INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION CONTROL PROGRAM - To make it possible to significantly reduce a burden on a user at a time of a classification of image files added or updated, for example, and thus facilitate association with other content data. An image detector/register ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148121 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CREATING PHOTO ALBUM - A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing one or more of the faces, a temporary trimming reference point determining unit determines a trimming reference point in the trimming reference area, an image rotating unit rotates the inputted image depending on the inclination of the inputted image, a trimming unit sets in the inputted image a layout frame of an image insertion area of a photo album template such that the layout reference point is positioned on the trimming reference point and the trimming reference area is contained within the layout frame and carries out trimming, and a template composition unit combines the trimmed area with the template. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148122 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE IN FINGERPRINT SENSING CIRCUITS - An apparatus for reducing noise in fingerprint sensing circuits is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a fingerprint sensing area onto which a user can apply a fingerprint. An analog front end is coupled to the fingerprint sensing area and is configured to generate an analog response signal. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) samples the analog response signal and converts the sample to a digital value, which may be received by a digital device such as a processor or CPU. To reduce the amount of the noise that is present in the analog response signal and therefore reflected in the digital value, the digital device may be shut down while the ADC is sampling the analog response signal. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148123 | SEGMENTING AN ORGAN IN A MEDICAL DIGITAL IMAGE - A method for obtaining a segmented region corresponding to an anatomical organ in a volume image generates a smoothed image from the volume image and forms a core segmentation of the volume image according to the smoothed image. The size of the core segmentation of the volume image is increased to form the segmented region for the anatomical organ according to data obtained from the core segmentation. Data corresponding to the segmented region is stored in a memory. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148124 | Dual-Spectrum Heat Pattern Separation Algorithm For Assessing Chemotherapy Treatment Response And Early Detection - Infra-red images of tumors carry the information of normal and cancerous tissues in every pixel. We developed a Dual-Spectrum Heat Pattern Separation (DS-HPS) algorithm to quantify the energy from the area of the high temperature tissues, called q | 2012-06-14 |
20120148125 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO ADAPTIVELY RECONSTRUCT MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to adaptively reconstruct medical diagnostic images are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes storing non-reconstructed image data captured by a medical image acquisition system, receiving a parameter representing a region of interest from a diagnostic imaging workstation, and communicating a portion of the non-reconstructed image data associated with the region of interest to the diagnostic imaging workstation in response to receiving the parameter, wherein the portion of the non-reconstructed image data is processed by the diagnostic imaging workstation to form a medical diagnostic image. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148126 | Representation of Spatial-Frequency Data as a Map - A method for representing the structural information in a biological or physical sample is disclosed. In this method, a time-frequency representation of the spatial distribution within a sample is transformed into a color representation of the data. Furthermore, due to the directional sensitivity of the method for gathering the data, information about the structural anisotropy of the sample can also be encoded from the data. The application of this method to one or more regions within the sample enables a map to be generated which clearly illustrates quantitative measures of the structures present. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148127 | Apparatus and Method for Mapped Hair Metric - Apparatus for determining the status of hair bulk in an area of a scalp is operative to provide a metric over a sufficiently large area to permit revisiting with only negligible misalignment error. Accurate re-measurement of hair status in accurately identified areas produces a reliable metric for determining degree of hair loss and or the effectiveness of treatment. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148128 | UNIFYING RECONSTRUCTION AND MOTION ESTIMATION IN FIRST PASS CARDIAC PERFUSION IMAGING - Methods and a system to unify reconstruction and motion estimation steps in first pass cardiac perfusion MRI include a global objective function that meets data consistency, spatial smoothness, motion and contrast dynamics constraints. The global objective decomposed into simpler sub-problems which include low pass filtering of a deformed object, TV shrinkage, analytical Fourier replacement and an l | 2012-06-14 |
20120148129 | Prior Enhanced Compressed Sensing (PRINCE-CS) Reconstruction for Dynamic 2D-Radial Cardiac MRI - A reconstructed image is rendered from a set of MRI data by first estimating an image with an area which does not contain artifacts or has an artifact with a relative small magnitude. Corresponding data elements in the estimated image and a trial image are processed, for instance by multiplication, to generate an intermediate data set. The intermediate data set is transformed and minimized iteratively to generate a reconstructed image that is free or substantially free of artifacts. In one embodiment a Karhunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) is used. A sparsifying transformation may be applied to generate the reconstructed image. The sparsifying transformation may be also not be applied. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148130 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF SUBJECT'S EYE, IMAGING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect layers on the retina based on tomographic images of the retina, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a region having a larger curvature of the boundary surface between the retina and the corpus vitreum than a threshold value, and a determination unit configured to determine an optic disc of the retina based on the optical disc including a region where a specific layer is not detected by the detection unit and the region acquired by the acquisition unit. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148131 | GENERATING A SUITABLE MODEL FOR ESTIMATING PATIENT RADIATION DOSE RESULTING FROM MEDICAL IMAGING SCANS - Techniques are disclosed for estimating patient radiation exposure during computerized tomography (CT) scans. More specifically, embodiments of the invention provide efficient approaches for generating a suitable patient model used to make such an estimate, to approaches for estimating patient dose by interpolating the results of multiple simulations, and to approaches for a service provider to host a dose estimation service made available to multiple CT scan providers. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148132 | GENERATING AN ESTIMATE OF PATIENT RADIATION DOSE FROM MEDICAL IMAGING SCANS - Techniques are disclosed for estimating patient radiation exposure during computerized tomography (CT) scans. More specifically, embodiments of the invention provide efficient approaches for generating a suitable patient model used to make such an estimate, to approaches for estimating patient dose by interpolating the results of multiple simulations, and to approaches for a service provider to host a dose estimation service made available to multiple CT scan providers. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148133 | Dual-Energy Material Identification Method and Apparatus with Undersampling - A dual-energy material identification method and system with under-sampling is disclosed. A CT image of the object is obtained by using the CT image reconstruction method, while the dual-energy projections are under-sampled to obtain a few samples. Photoelectric coefficient integral and Compton coefficient integral are computed from these dual-energy projection data. The CT image is segmented into regions with image processing technique, and the regions are labeled. The length by which a few dual-energy rays crosses each labeled region is computed, and an equation system is established with dual-energy preprocessing dual-effect decomposition reconstruction method to compute Photoelectric coefficient and Compton coefficient, and then atomic number and electron density of material in each region are computed. The material of the object can be identified with the atomic number. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148134 | Medical Imaging Machine and Methods of Use - A system for medical imaging is provided and includes at least one neutron generator having a neutron generator fuel material and at least one neutron moderator material, a gantry for stationing an imaging subject, a neutron collimator attached to the neutron generator, the collimator disposed between the neutron moderator and the imaging subject, at least one gamma ray camera electrically connected to a processor-based data acquisition system, and software executing on the processor-based data acquisition system from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing a first function for producing at least one gamma ray spectrum or image, a second function for applying correction factors to the gamma ray spectra or images, and a third function for analyzing the corrected gamma ray spectra or images to process one or more clinically relevant images of one or more targeted or general areas of the imaging subject. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148135 | GENERATING OBJECT DATA - The invention relates to the generation of a 3D vessel model of a region of interest of an object. The invention relates particularly to a medical imaging system and a method for generating a 3D vessel model of a region of interest of an object and to a computer program element as well as a computer readable medium for generating a 3D vessel model of a region of interest of an object. In order to facilitate and improve the generation of a 3D vessel model of a region of interest of an object, a medical imaging system and a method with the following steps is provided: Acquiring at least two 2D X-ray projection images of contrast enhanced vascular structures from different viewing angles; determining a probability map for predetermined vessel features for each of the 2D X-ray projection images; displaying the probability map for each of the 2D X-ray projection images for interaction purposes; segmenting vessels of interest by indicating the location of a first set of points of interest in the probability map of one of the at least two 2D X-ray projection images by interaction of the user, determining and displaying epipolar lines for the first set of points of interest in the probability map of the other one of the at least two 2D X-ray projection images, indicating the location of a second set of points of interest in the probability map of the other one of the at least two 2D X-ray projection images by the user, wherein the epipolar lines act as orientation and wherein the second set of points is corresponding to the indicated first points, determining the closest relevant predetermined features of the vascular structure upon the indication of the location of points of interest and extracting 2D centrelines, bifurcation points and/or vessel borders of the vascular structure from the determined features of the vascular structure; and calculating a 3D vessel model from the extracted 2D vessel centrelines, bifurcation points and/or vessel borders. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148136 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PROJECTION DATA - The invention relates to a projection values processing apparatus ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120148137 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND CORRECTING DEVICE - An image data correcting device has a movement information acquiring section, a correcting section and a synthesizing section. The movement information acquiring section acquires movement information showing spatial distribution of the magnitude of a movement in the real space of an image pickup part of a detected body. The correcting section makes a correction different from that of a second area in a first area of image data collected by a scan of magnetic resonance imaging on the basis of the movement information. The synthesizing section synthesizes respective image data of the first area and the second area corrected by the correcting section. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148138 | Extension of Truncated CT Images For Use With Emission Tomography In Multimodality Medical Images - An apparatus and method for expanding the FOV of a truncated computed tomography (CT) scan. An iterative calculation is performed on the original CT image to produce an estimate of the image. The calculated estimate of the reconstructed image includes the original image center and a estimate of the truncated portion outside the image center. The calculation uses an image mask with the image center as one boundary. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148139 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT METHOD - A medical image diagnosis device according to an embodiment includes: a mask image generation unit that generates a plurality of mask images that are different in terms of time; a first image generation unit that calculates differences between a plurality of the mask images, and extracts an image of a preceding device that is placed and kept in a blood vessel; a second image generation unit that generates a real-time fluoroscopic image depicting a situation where an insertion device is being inserted into a blood vessel, calculates a difference between the real-time fluoroscopic image and the mask image, and generates an image of the insertion device; an image synthesis unit that synthesizes images generated by the first image generation unit and the second image generation unit; and a display unit that displays an image generated by the image synthesis unit. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148140 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTI-PARAMETER IMAGING WITHIN A SINGLE FLUORESCENT CHANNEL - A method of monitoring temporal and spatial information of cells includes trapping a plurality of cells within single cell traps contained in a microfluidic device having an inlet, and an outlet. A first fluorescent stain specific to a first target is flowed into the inlet of the device and exposed to the trapped cells. The trapped cells are then imaged as a function of time. A fluorescent stain specific to a different target is flowed into the inlet of the device, the subsequent fluorescent stain having an emission spectrum that substantially overlaps with the emission spectrum of the prior fluorescent stain. The plurality of trapped cells are then imaged again as a function of time. The process can be repeated with additional fluorescent stains having substantially overlapping emission spectra. Images may be subtracted to reveal the contribution of a single fluorescent stain. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148141 | COMPACT AUTOMATED SEMEN ANALYSIS PLATFORM USING LENS-FREE ON-CHIP MICROSCOPY - A compact and light-weight lens-free platform to conduct automated semen analysis is disclosed. The device employs holographic on-chip imaging and does not require any lenses, lasers or other bulky optical components to achieve phase and amplitude imaging of sperm a relatively large field-of-view with an effective numerical aperture of approximately 0.2. A series of digital image frames is obtained of the sample. Digital subtraction of the consecutive lens-free frames, followed by processing of the reconstructed phase images, enables automated quantification of the count, the speed and the dynamic trajectories of motile sperm, while summation of the same frames permits counting of immotile sperm. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148142 | DETECTION OF CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS USING IMAGING FLOW CYTOMETRY - Photometric and morphometric features derived from multi-mode imagery of cells in flow are used as a cell analyzer to determine if a marker corresponding to a cancer cell or precancerous cell is present in the population of cells imaged. An imaging system simultaneously acquires a plurality of images for each cell passing through the field of view of the imaging system. Acquiring a plurality of different images (i.e., bright field, dark field, and fluorescent images) facilitates the determination of different morphological and morphometric parameters. Simultaneously acquiring the plurality of images enables relatively large populations of cells to be rapidly imaged, so that relatively small numbers of cancer cells in a large population of cells can be detected. Initially, known cancer cells are imaged to enable a marker to be identified. Then, a sample that may include cancer cells is imaged to determine if the marker is present. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148143 | COMPACT BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY OF IMAGING AND DETECTING LIVING-TISSUE PATTERNS - The apparatus enables biometric authentication without the risk of forgery or the like and enables living-tissue discrimination. The roughness distribution pattern of deep-layer tissue of the skin covered with epidermal tissue is detected, thereby extracting a unique pattern of the living tissue. Biometric authentication is performed based upon the detected pattern. The roughness distribution pattern of the deep-layer tissue of the skin is optically detected using difference in optical properties between the epidermal tissue and the deep-layer tissue of the skin. Long-wavelength light, e.g., near-infrared light, is used as illumination light cast onto the skin tissue. A fork structure of a subcutaneous blood vessel is used as the portion which is to be detected, for example. The portion which is to be detected is determined based upon the structure of the fork structure. The living-tissue discrimination may be made using the subcutaneous blood vessel. | 2012-06-14 |
20120148144 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD - A computing device reads a reference image and a real-time of a printed circuit board (PCB), determines feature points and feature information of the feature points in the reference image; and creates two 1×N matrices based on the feature points. Furthermore, a mapping matrix is determined based on the two 1×N matrices. The device determines matching points in the real-time image based on coordinates of base points in the reference image and the mapping matrix, determines a matching region the real-time image based on the matching points, and determines an angle between the matching region and an X-axis of a coordinate system. If the angle does not equal zero, the device determines that the real-time is tilted, and corrects the real-time image to obtain a corrected image by taking a center of the real-time image as a turning pivot to rotate the real-time image until the angle equals zero. | 2012-06-14 |