| 26th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
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| 20130163775 | Communications Headset Speech-Based Gain Control - A gain of a signal representing sounds detected by a talk-through and/or feedforward ANR microphone of a talk-through function provided by a communications headset is reduced in response to a user of the communications headset speaking. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163776 | Headset Noise-Based Pulsed Attenuation - A headset having a talk-through microphones incorporates an audio circuit that compresses a signal representing sounds detected by the talk-through microphones in response to the audio circuit detecting the onset of a peak (positive and/or negative) in the signal that exceeds a predetermined voltage level (positive and/or negative voltage level, perhaps a predetermined magnitude of voltage from a zero voltage level), and that does so with a rate of change in voltage level that exceeds a predetermined rate of change in voltage level, the degree of compression possibly being a compression to or near a zero amplitude (perhaps to or near a zero voltage level) and the duration of the compression possibly being controlled by a timing circuit set to a predetermined period of time that may be retriggerable while amidst the predetermined period of time. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163777 | SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE - A sound output device for masking an operation sound generated by equipment, having: a sound reproducing unit that starts reproducing a masking sound before the operation sound is generated; and a sound output unit that outputs the masking sound reproduced by the sound reproducing unit. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163778 | SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE - A sound output device for masking an operation sound generated by equipment, having: a BGM output unit that outputs a BGM; and a masking sound output unit that outputs a masking sound after the BGM output unit outputs the BGM. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163779 | SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE - A sound output device for masking an operation sound generated by equipment, having: an operation determining unit that determines an operation mode to be executed by the equipment; and a sound output unit that outputs a masking sound on the basis of the operation mode determined by the operation determining unit, the masking sound changing at least in sound pressure level over time. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163780 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN MULTIMEDIA COMPONENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING AUDIO TRANSDUCER PERFORMANCE - A system and method for utilizing a plurality of Transducer specification files (TSFs) stored in one or more TSF databases to configure a Transducer Correction Processor (TCP). An incoming audio stream from an audio signal source is provided to the TCP, with the TCP using the unique configuration of the Transducer (e.g., speaker) contained in the TSF, applies corrections to the audio stream to produce a corrected audio stream. The corrected audio stream compensates for temporal or frequency domain or other aberrations produced by the particular Transducer. Consequently, a sound field produced by the Transducer from the corrected audio stream is close to or identical to a sound field produced by a “perfect” Transducer from the incoming audio stream. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163781 | BREATHING NOISE SUPPRESSION FOR AUDIO SIGNALS - Systems and methods are described herein for detecting and suppressing breathing noise in an audio signal. First, systems and methods are described that analyze audio signals generated by two or more microphones to detect breathing noise in one of the audio signals and that leverage the multiple microphones to suppress detected breathing noise in a manner that minimizes signal distortion. Then, systems and methods are described that are capable of analyzing the audio signal generated by a single microphone to detect breathing noise in the audio signal and thereafter suppress it. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163782 | Sound Processing Apparatus and Sound Processing Method - A sound processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit which acquires control information including at least one of mode information for designating a reproduction mode of the sound processing apparatus and attribute information for designating an attribute of an audio content represented by a sound signal, a frequency band expansion unit which performs frequency band expansion processing for adding an expanded component generated from the sound signal to the sound signal, and a control unit which changes parameters to be applied to the frequency band expansion processing in accordance with the control information acquired by the information acquisition unit. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163783 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO FILTER AUDIO - Systems, methods, and apparatus to filter audio are disclosed. An example device includes first and second audio speakers having first audio characteristics, a third audio speaker having second audio characteristics, wherein the third speaker is positioned between the first and second audio speakers, a first audio filter to process an audio input signal to have a first frequency response including a first cutoff frequency, the first audio filter to output a first audio output signal to the first audio speaker, and a second audio filter to process the audio input signal to have a second frequency response to compensate for interference between the first and second frequency responses caused by a position of the first audio speaker relative to the second audio speaker. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163784 | BASS ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM - A bass enhancement system can provide an enhanced bass effect for speakers, including relatively small speakers. The bass enhancement system can apply one or more bass enhancements to an input audio signal. For example, the bass enhancement system can exploit how the human ear processes overtones and harmonics of low-frequency sounds to create the perception that non-existent (or attenuated) low-frequency sounds are being emitted from a loudspeaker. The bass enhancement system can generate harmonics of at least some low-frequency fundamental frequencies in one embodiment. Playback of at least some harmonics of a low-frequency fundamental frequency can cause a listener to perceive the playback of the low-frequency fundamental frequency. Advantageously, in certain embodiments, the bass enhancement system can generate these harmonics without performing processing-intensive pitch-detection techniques or the like to identify the fundamental frequencies. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163785 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VIBRATION BASED ON SOUND CHARACTERISTICS - A method and apparatus for generating vibration based on sound characteristics in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes converting audio data into an audio signal upon generation of a sound play request; determining whether to generate vibration based on a sound volume of the audio signal; setting an actuator to be driven for the audio signal among at least two actuators based on frequency distribution characteristics of the audio signal if it is determined upon determining to generate the vibration; and driving the actuator being set for the audio signal when outputting the audio signal. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163786 | MIXING SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MIXING SIGNAL PROCESSING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - User is allowed to designate a desired mode defining the respective numbers of channels and mixing buses, and processing for mixing input signals of the number of channels corresponding to the designated mode is performed repetitively to generate signals for the individual buses. The time of arrival of the last step in the mixing processing for the number of channels, corresponding to the designated mode, is detected to output an accumulation result obtained at the last step, and new accumulation is started with a digital audio signal inputted at a step following the last step. Digital audio signals processed by a first signal processing circuit are stored into a memory and transmitted to a second signal processing circuit via a cascade-connection. The second signal processing circuit adds the audio signal, processed for each of the steps, to audio signals input via the cascade-connection and writes added signal into the memory. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163787 | Electronically Orbited Speaker System - Exemplary embodiments are directed to a sound modification system and loud speaker system. The system may impose amplitude and frequency modulation on to a signal representing the output of an electrical musical instrument or other sound source while also imposing a sense of movement of the sound to the listener. Further, the system may simultaneously amplify sound signals without the amplitude, frequency and spatial sense of modulation or a different sense of modulation. The system combines a plurality of speaker transducers, a plurality of amplifiers and digital signal processors to provide a flexible, portable and practical sound modification and amplification system. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163788 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS FOR AUDIO AMPLIFIERS - Several amplifier power circuits and methods for powering an audio amplifier are described. An AC line voltage is rectified and selectively coupled to a filter capacitor in response to a switch control signal. The filter capacitor is charged to generate an amplifier supply voltage signal, which is used to power the audio amplifier. A controller generates the switch control signal in accordance with a leading control approach or a lagging control approach. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163789 | AMPLIFIER AND AMPLIFYING METHOD - An amplifier that modulates a carrier frequency according to a digital signal and amplifies the modulated signal includes a determining portion that determines at least one of a sound quality required for the digital signal, a sound source of the digital signal, and a type of sound of the digital signal, a carrier frequency setting portion that sets a carrier frequency according to a result of the determination, and a pulse-width modulating portion that pulse-width modulates the carrier frequency according to the digital signal. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163790 | MICROPHONE UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - In this microphone unit, a first sound hole and a second sound hole are provided to extend toward a surface of an electronic apparatus internally mounted with a differential vibrating portion, intersecting with a main surface of the electronic apparatus, and an end portion of the first sound hole closer to the surface intersecting with the main surface of the electronic apparatus and an end portion of the second sound hole closer to the surface intersecting with the main surface of the electronic apparatus are so arranged that the vertical distances of the end portions from the main surface of the electronic apparatus are different from each other. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163791 | BONE CONDUCTION SPEAKER AND COMPOUND VIBRATION DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163792 | VIBRATION SPEAKER WITH A SECURING DEVICE - The present invention is directed to a vibration speaker with a securing device. The vibration speaker includes at least one transducer. The vibration speaker is attached to a securing element, which includes a bottom plate, at least one lateral plate and at least one securing portion. A top surface of the bottom plate is in contact with a bottom surface of the vibration speaker; the lateral plate extends from an edge of the bottom plate, and is in contact with a side surface of the vibration speaker; and the securing portion fastens the vibration speaker. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163793 | VIBRATION SPEAKER WITH A SECURING DEVICE - The present invention is directed to a vibration speaker with a securing device. The vibration speaker includes a transducer, and a bottom having at least one groove. At least one fastening element corresponding to the at least one groove is capable of being inserted into the groove. The transducer is driven to generate vibration, which is then transferred to a vibration plate via the fastening element. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163794 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF AUDIO ON A MOBILE DEVICE WITH RESPECT TO ORIENTATION OF THE MOBILE DEVICE - A method of optimizing audio performance of a mobile device. The method can include detecting an orientation of the mobile device. The method also can include, via a processor, responsive to the mobile device being oriented in a first orientation, dynamically selecting at least a first output audio transducer to output left channel audio signals and dynamically selecting at least a second output audio transducer to output right channel audio signals. The method further can include communicating the left channel audio signals to the first output audio transducer and communicating the right channel audio signals to the second output audio transducer. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163795 | SOUND REPRODUCTION DEVICE - Provided is a sound reproduction device including a loudspeaker and a superdirective speaker. The loudspeaker is configured so that a sound pressure of audible sound produced therefrom decreases as the sound travels farther away from the loudspeaker. The superdirective speaker is configured so that a sound pressure of audible sound produced therefrom has a peak at a predetermined distance from the superdirective speaker, and is configured to use an ultrasonic wave as a carrier wave. The loudspeaker and the superdirective speaker are positioned such that a loudspeaker sound field of the audible sound produced from the loudspeaker and a superdirective speaker sound field of the audible sound produced from the superdirective speaker overlap with each other at a position of a listener. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163796 | VERSATILE PORTABLE LAPTOP VIDEO MONITOR WITH KEYBOARD - In a versatile video and audio monitor, a portable laptop chassis is provided with a flat panel video display in a lid connected by a foldable hinge. No computer is provided in the chassis. The chassis has a keyboard, touchpad, rear panel, left side panel, right side panel, and front panel. At least one of the panels has an HDMI video input port with digital audio, a VGA video input port, a host USB input port for connection to a PC or other host device, an audio input port, at least one USB port for a peripheral device other than the host USB input port, a power connector, and left and right speakers. A power supply and charging circuit are also provided. The chassis further includes a powered USB hub connected to the USB ports, keyboard, and touchpad, and a display controller. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163797 | Systems and Methods for Diagnosis and Treating Tinnitus - Systems and methods for diagnosis or treating tinnitus are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for treating tinnitus includes receiving, by a programmed computer system, input data representative of one or more of the following characteristics of an user tinnitus: central frequency, bandwidth, volume, hearing threshold, and tone to noise ratio of a user tinnitus; processing, in real-time, by the programmed computer system, user tinnitus data to generate a user tinnitus profile based on the received one or more categories of user tinnitus data; and generating, in real-time, by the programmed computer system, a notched audio output according to the user tinnitus profile. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163798 | HEARING AID SYSTEM AND A MICROPHONE DEVICE - A hearing aid system comprising a microphone device for wireless communication with a hearing aid to be worn at or in proximity to a first user, the microphone device configured to be worn at or in proximity to a second user, the microphone device includes: a housing; a microphone for conversion of an acoustic sound signal into an electrical signal; a transceiver for wireless radio frequency communication; a first antenna connectable to the transceiver; and a second antenna connectable to the transceiver; wherein the first antenna is accommodated within the housing; and wherein the second antenna is external to the housing such that the second antenna can be carried at or in proximity to the second user at a distance from the housing; and wherein the microphone device further comprises a distributor for distributing power to the first antenna, to the second antenna, or to both. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163799 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOUND - An apparatus for providing sound. The apparatus includes a sound receiver for receiving sound and outputting an output signal, a first part comprising a signal generator for generating a second signal corresponding to the output signal, a second part comprising receiving means for receiving the second signal and outputting sound corresponding to the second signal, and an element for transporting the second signal from the signal generator to the receiving means. The transporting element comprises a sound guiding channel connected to the sound receiver and for guiding sound from outside the apparatus to the sound receiver along a portion of a length of the transporting element. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163800 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a speaker unit configured to reproduce a bass sound and arranged so as to face down; a bottom plate formed in a rectangular shape as viewed in plane and arranged apart from the speaker unit such that an upper surface of the bottom plate opposes the speaker unit; and four legs attached to a lower surface of the bottom plate. The four legs are provided respectively on lines each connecting between an intersection point of diagonal lines of the lower surface of the bottom plate and a corner of the lower surface of the bottom plate in a region where a ratio of a distance between the intersection point and an attachment position of the leg to a distance between the intersection point and the corner is 0.5-0.7. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163801 | TRANSPARENT PANEL FOR MOBILE DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MOBILE DEVICE USING THE SAME - A transparent panel including a plurality of microholes, which has improved shock resistance by distributing external shocks and allows distortion-free audio data to pass through the same while preventing or substantially preventing infiltration of foreign materials, a method for manufacturing the same, and a mobile device using the same. A transparent panel including a panel having a thickness and a plurality of microholes formed at a side of the panel, a diameter of each of the microholes being 50 to 500 μm. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163802 | MICROPHONE THAT IS WORN ON A PAIR OF EYEGLASSES - A microphone worn on a pair of eyeglasses includes a microphone body and at least a suspender. The microphone body includes a thin rod, an end of which is a high sensitivity microphone and the other end is a plug; the thin rod is assembled with an electric wire through the plug and a socket. An upper end of the suspender is installed on a temple at a side of the eyeglasses and a lower end is a hook unit. When the microphone body is used, the thin rod is installed on the hook unit to assemble the microphone body with the temple at the side of the eyeglasses; therefore, when the eyeglasses are worn, the microphone body is worn simultaneously. Not contacting with an ear to cause uncomfortableness, the microphone body is worn conveniently and handy, can be applied to frames of various sizes and carried conveniently. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163803 | AUDIO-BYPASS, SAFETY EARBUD APPARATUS AND METHOD - A fitting provided for earbud-type personal audio speakers may be formed as a homogeneous, integral component molded from an elastomeric polymer, such as silicone, urethane, or other elastomeric resins. A sleeve fitted to the speaker engages the fitting to the speaker, while ribs extending from the sleeve terminate in flutes conformal to an ear canal of a user. Axial insertion of the fitting and speaker into an ear of a user results in localized deflection of flutes and ribs in order to accommodate size and shape of an ear canal, resulting in transmission of sound from the speaker directly through the sleeve into an ear canal of a user, while also permitting environmental sounds to pass along a parallel path over the outside of the sleeve, between the ribs. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163804 | EARPHONE WITH OPEN-CLOSE TYPE ENCLOSURE - Provided is an earphone with an open-close type enclosure in which it is possible to open or close the communicating hole of the enclosure so as to reinforce the high-pitched tones or low-pitched tones of the sound being listened to. The earphone includes a sound wave generation means 150 that generates sound waves depending on electric signals, a body 100 including an enclosure which encloses the back of the sound wave generation means, and a worn portion 200 in which a sound wave path for transmitting a sound wave to the external auditory canal is formed, and which is worn in the external auditory canal. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163805 | SECURING APPARATUS FOR A VIBRATION SPEAKER - The invention is directed to a securing apparatus for a vibration speaker, the securing apparatus including at least one fastening plate fixed to or pressed on the vibration speaker; and at least one suction cup correspondingly attached to the fastening plate. When the at least one suction cup is adhered to a vibration plate, the suction cup draws the fastening plate, which then presses on the vibration speaker, such that the bottom of the vibration speaker bonds with the vibration plate. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163806 | DRIVER ASSEMBLY FOR LOUDSPEAKERS - In one embodiment, a loudspeaker system is provided comprising a motor assembly for driving a diaphragm assembly, where the motor assembly includes a pole piece configured to receive an inductance sleeve. The motor assembly also comprises a permanent magnet, a first shorting ring, and a second shorting ring, with the first and second shorting ring being positioned at least partially within an air gap adjacent the pole piece, and with the first ring positioned adjacent a first side of the permanent magnet and the second shorting ring positioned adjacent a second side of the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet preferably is preferably coated with an insulative material, and may also comprise a plurality of arcuate segments. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163807 | ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electro-acoustic transducer includes an insulative flexible substrate, a base, and a magnetic field generator. The base includes a cavity and a magnetic portion disposed below the cavity. The insulative flexible substrate is configured to cover the cavity. The magnetic field generator can be disposed on the insulative flexible substrate and corresponds to the cavity. The magnetic field generator can produce a magnetic field and a reverse magnetic field to cause the magnetic field generator and the magnetic portion of the base to attract and repel each other, thereby vibrating the insulative flexible substrate. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163808 | Method and System of Digital Steganography - The system and method of digital steganography comprises a sending AI engine, a decision tree AI engine, an armored security object, and a receiving AI engine. The armored security object comprises concentric layers. The layers of the armored security object can be 3-dimensional and are comprised of at least one axis of rotation, at least one surface, at least one color, and at least one texture. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163809 | PIPE THICKNESS MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A pipe thickness measuring device | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163810 | INFORMATION INQUIRY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING POSITIONS - An information inquiry system includes an information acquisition unit, to acquire information of a bus route. An image capture unit captures an image of an object on the bus route. An information processing unit compares the object in the image with the information of the bus route to locate the object and access information of the located object. A storage unit stores the information of the object. An output unit displays the information of the bus route as a map and highlights the located object in the map. An information inquiring method is also provided. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163811 | LAPTOP DETECTION - Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for the detection of objects (e.g., laptop computers, electronics, explosives, etc.) within luggage. In particular, methods are provided for the detection of laptop computers within luggage (e.g., luggage containing other metallic objects and/or electronic devices). | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163812 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processor includes an image capturing part configured to obtain a displayed screen image; a storage part configured to store the screen image each time the screen image is obtained; an image comparison part configured to generate one or more difference pixels by comparing a screen image stored last and the obtained screen image; a difference region determination part configured to determine the smallest rectangular region including the difference pixels as a difference region based on a predetermined rectangle formed of a predetermined number of pixels, the screen image being divided using the predetermined rectangle as a unit; a compressed difference image generation part configured to generate a compressed difference image by compressing a difference image using the predetermined rectangle as a unit, the difference region being cut out from the screen image into the difference image; and an image transmission part configured to transmit the compressed difference image. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163813 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus for compositing a plurality of images that are shot with different exposures, comprises an object detection unit configured to detect object regions from the images; a main object determination unit configured to determine a main object region from among the object regions; a distance calculation unit configured to calculate object distance information regarding distances to the main object region for the object regions; and a compositing unit configured to composite the object regions of the plurality of images using a compositing method based on the object distance information, so as to generate a high dynamic range image. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163814 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Face recognition data to be used in recognizing a person corresponding to a face image is managed upon associating the feature amount of the face image, a first person's name, and a second person's name different from the first person's name with each other for each registered person. A person corresponding to a face image included in a captured image is identified using the feature amount managed in the face recognition data, and the second person's name for the identified person is stored in a storage in association with the captured image. When the image stored in the storage is read out and displayed on a display device, the first person's name which corresponds to the second person's name associated with the readout image is displayed on the display device together with the readout image. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163815 | 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF TRAJECTORY - Disclosed is a method of determining a 3D trajectory of an object from at least two observed trajectories of the object in a scene. The observed trajectories are captured in a series of images by at least one camera, each of the images in the series being associated with a pose of the camera. First and second points of the object from separate parallel planes of the scene are selected. A first set of 2D capture locations corresponding to the first point and a second set of 2D capture locations corresponding to the second point to determine a approximated 3D trajectory of the object. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163816 | Prioritized Contact Transport Stream - A detection process, contact recognition process, classification process, and identification process are applied to raw sensor data to produce an identified contact record set containing one or more identified contact records. A prioritization process is applied to the identified contact record set to assign a contact priority to each contact record in the identified contact record set. Data are removed from the contact records in the identified contact record set based on the contact priorities assigned to those contact records. A first contact stream is produced from the resulting contact records. The first contact stream is streamed in a contact transport stream. The contact transport stream may include and stream additional contact streams. The contact transport stream may be varied dynamically over time based on parameters such as available bandwidth, contact priority, presence/absence of contacts, system state, and configuration parameters. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163817 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGE CONTENT - A method and a system for generating image content. The method and system allow segments of a panoramic scene, to be generated with reduced distortion. The method and system reduce the amount of distortion by mapping pixel data onto a pseudo camera focal plane which is provided substantially perpendicularly to the focal location of the camera that captured the image. A camera arrangement can implement the method and system. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163818 | METHOD FOR THE AUTHENTICATION AND/OR IDENTIFICATION OF A SECURITY ITEM - A method for authenticating and/or identifying a security article that includes a transparent or translucent substrate and, on a side of a first face of the substrate, a first image. The method includes superimposing at least partially the first image of the article with a second image. The second image may be produced by an electronic imager. The second image may be situated on the side of a second face of the substrate that is opposite to the first face. The method permits observation of an authentication and/or identification information item of the security article during a change of the angle of observation of the first and second superimposed images. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDENTIFYING IMAGE LOCATIONS SHOWING THE SAME PERSON IN DIFFERENT IMAGES - The same person is automatically recognized in different images from his or her clothing. Color pixel values of a first and second image are captures and areas are selected for a determination whether they show the same person. First histograms of pixels area are computed, representing sums of contributions from pixels with color values in histogram bins. Each histogram bin corresponds to a combination of a range of color values and a range of heights in the areas. The ranges of color values are normalized relative to a distribution of color pixel values in areas. Furthermore, second histograms of pixels in the areas are computed, the second histograms representing sums of contributions from pixels with color values in further histogram bins. The further histogram bins are at least partly unnormalized. First and second histogram intersection scores of the first and second histograms are computed. A combined detection score is computed from the first and second histogram scores. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163820 | SURVEY APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND SURVEY METHOD - A determination unit determines, on images of video data where a road set as a survey target was shot in different times, whether or not the shooting position of the image is within a tolerance value with the shooting position of any of the images as a reference, for each image having a corresponding shooting position. When the shooting position is determined to be within the tolerance value, a creation unit creates screen information of a screen where images that has been determined to be within the tolerance value is displayed in synchronization. Moreover, when the shooting position is determined to be beyond the tolerance value, the creation unit creates screen information of a screen where an image that has been determined to be beyond the tolerance value is undisplayed. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163821 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING ROAD REGION AS WELL AS METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING ROAD LINE - Disclosed are a road line detection method and a road line detection device. The road line detection method comprises a step of obtaining a first disparity map including one or more road regions and a corresponding V-disparity image; a step of sequentially detecting plural sloped line segments in the corresponding V-disparity image according to a big-to-small order of disparities and a big-to-small order of V-values, to serve as plural sequentially adjacent road surfaces; a step of obtaining a second disparity map of plural road line regions of interest corresponding to the plural sloped line segments; and a step of detecting one or more road lines in the second disparity map of the plural road line regions of interest. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163822 | Airborne Image Capture and Recognition System - Provided is a system and method of electronically identifying a license plate and comparing the results to a predetermined database. The software aspect of the system runs on standard PC hardware and can be linked to other applications or databases. It first uses a series of image manipulation techniques to detect, normalize and enhance the image of the number plate. Optical character recognition (OCR) is used to extract the alpha-numeric characters of the license plate. The recognized characters are then compared to databases containing information about the vehicle and/or owner. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163823 | Image Capture and Recognition System Having Real-Time Secure Communication - Provided is a system and method of electronically identifying a license plate and comparing the results to a predetermined database. The software aspect of the system runs on standard PC hardware and can be linked to other applications or databases. It first uses a series of image manipulation techniques to detect, normalize and enhance the image of the number plate. Optical character recognition (OCR) is used to extract the alpha-numeric characters of the license plate. The recognized characters are then compared to databases containing information about the vehicle and/or owner. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163824 | Method and Device for Detecting Distance, Identifying Positions of Targets, and Identifying Current Position in Smart Portable Device - An electronic device for recognizing a position of a target object in a smart portable device includes a distance detection device for determining a distance between the smart portable device and the target object according to an image of the target object, a direction determination unit for acquiring a direction from the smart portable device to the target object, a positioning unit for acquiring coordinate information of a current position of the smart portable device, and a determination unit for determining the position of the target object according to the distance between the smart portable device and the target object, the direction from the smart portable device to the target object and the coordinate information of the current position of the smart portable device. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163825 | HEAD MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS - A head movement detection apparatus capable of more reliably detecting a head movement of a subject. In the apparatus, an image capture unit captures a facial image of the subject. A trajectory acquisition unit acquires a trajectory of a facial feature point of the subject over time from a sequence of facial mages captured by the image capture unit. A storage unit stores a set of features of a trajectory of the facial feature point during a specific head movement made by the subject. A head movement detection unit detects the specific head movement made by the subject on the basis of a degree of correspondence between the set of features of the trajectory previously stored in the storage unit and a corresponding set of features of a trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition unit. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163826 | Systems and Methods for Processing of Coverings Such as Leather Hides and Fabrics for Furniture and Other Products - Methods and systems for processing coverings such as leather hides and fabrics are provided. A system can include a worktable having a surface on which a covering is placeable. An imaging device can be positionable relative to the worktable. The imaging device can be configured to obtain an image of the covering on the surface of the worktable. A projector can be positionable relative to worktable. The projector can be configured to project an image onto the surface of the worktable and the covering on the surface of the worktable. A controller can be in communication with the imaging device and projector. The controller can be configured to correct images taken by the imaging device. The controller can also be configured to correct the images projected onto the surface of the worktable and the covering thereon. The controller can be configured to permit the showing of virtual markings on the covering placed on the surface of the worktable through an image projected thereon by the projector. The covering can then be marked or cut along the virtual markings. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163827 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ARTIFACTS IN PRINTED CONTENT - A method for detecting artifacts in content printed on a moving print media includes capturing one or more images of the content as the print media is moving to obtain pixel data and averaging the pixel data to produce blur in one direction. The one direction can be the direction the print media is moving. Derivative data of the averaged pixel data is determined. A determination is then made as to whether or not one or more peaks are present in the derivative data. If one or more peaks are present, a determination can be made as to whether or not the one or more peaks meet or exceed a threshold value. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163828 | OBJECT WHICH CAN BE AUTHENTICATED AND WHICH CONTAINS A COVER MASKING AN AUTHENTICATING PATTERN - An object which can be authenticated includes a substrate containing at least one authenticating or identification pattern. The pattern is covered by a cover for masking and exposing the pattern. The pattern is fluorescent and comprises organic fluorescent particles and/or inorganic fluorescent particles included in the substrate. The cover can be physically or structurally deformed in order to expose the pattern. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163829 | SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING DISGUISED FACE USING GABOR FEATURE AND SVM CLASSIFIER AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a system and a method for recognizing a disguised face using a Gabor feature and a support vector machine (SVM) classifier according to the present invention. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus generates, for each person, a first face dictionary storing face data concerning a face of the person included in an image. The apparatus receives, from an imaging apparatus, a second face dictionary which is stored face data of a person corresponding to the first face dictionary and which may be updated the face data using images obtained on the imaging apparatus, and stores. The information processing apparatus transmits the first face dictionary to the imaging apparatus when an update date and time of the second face dictionary is older than a date and time of the first face dictionary. The information processing apparatus does not transmit the first face dictionary to the imaging apparatus when the first face dictionary includes face data of the person included in an image captured outside of a predetermined period. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163831 | OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND DICTIONARY DATA REGISTRATION METHOD - In a personal authentication apparatus that compares input feature information with feature information stored in advance as dictionary data, thereby calculating a similarity and recognition a person, when additionally storing feature information in the dictionary data, the feature information is compared with the feature information of the same person already stored in the dictionary data. Pieces of feature information are put into groups for the same person based on the similarities and stored in the dictionary data. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING - According to one of embodiments, taking in facial image data for a user, extracting feature points of the face of the user from the facial image data and then coding the feature points, and registering the facial image data on a destination management table so that the facial image data is associated with a special identifier and/or the coded feature points. In particular, the face of the sender is incorporated into a video mail, so that the exchange of addresses (faces) is facilitated and the reliability of the e-mail itself can be enhanced. Further, a face can be automatically registered on an address book at a receiving end. In this case, a similar face can be updated by the latest face. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163833 | SECURITY DEVICE WITH SECURITY IMAGE UPDATE CAPABILITY - An exemplary security device includes a controller that determines whether a security credential for an individual corresponds to an authorized credential. The controller also determines whether an acquired image of the individual corresponds to a reference image that is associated with the authorized credential. The controller determines if a correspondence between the acquired image and the reference image satisfies a selected criterion when the security credential corresponds to the authorized credential. The controller updates the reference image responsive to the selected criterion being satisfied. The controller updates the reference image by including the acquired image into the reference image and weighting the acquired image higher than other image information previously incorporated into the reference image. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163834 | Systems and Methods for Collecting Medical Images - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for collecting a plurality of medical images. According to one embodiment, a system may include an image acquisition unit to acquire image data, a processing unit to process the image data, a workflow unit to receive a selection of a primary workflow, and an insertion unit to suspend the workflow system. The insertion unit may receive a second selection of a secondary workflow. Upon the completion of the collection of the second plurality of medical images, the workflow unit may resume the collection of the first plurality of medical images. According to certain embodiments, the primary workflow or the secondary workflow may specify an order for collecting a primary and secondary plurality of medical images. Annotations may be added to the plurality of images based on the primary workflow and/or the secondary workflow. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163835 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA USING REFERENCE COORDINATES AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for managing medical image data using reference coordinates. The medical image data management method includes receiving medical image data including a plurality of medical image slices, causing the received medical image data to correspond to a preset reference coordinate system for a human body, and generating relative coordinates corresponding to the reference coordinate system for at least part of the plurality of medical image slices. The medical image data management method further includes storing the generated relative coordinates and at least part of the plurality of medical image slices so that the relative coordinates match the at least part of the medical image slices. Accordingly, the present invention can easily manage the medical image data of an examinee and easily perform matching between the slices of different pieces of medical image data or the display of the slices. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163836 | COMPUTING THE MASS OF AN OBJECT - The mass of an object may be estimated based on intersection points of a representation of a surface in an image space with cubes defining the image space, the surface representing a surface of an object. The representation may be, for example, based on marching cubes. The mass may be estimated by estimating a mass contribution of a first set of cubes contained entirely within the representation of the surface, estimating a mass contribution of a second set of cubes having intersection points with the representation of the surface, and summing the estimated mass contribution of the first set of cubes and the estimated mass contribution of the second set of cubes. The object may be segmented from other portions of an image prior to estimating the mass of the object. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163837 | System and Method for Image Sequence Processing - A method for processing a sequence of images. In an embodiment, one or more training datasets are analyzed having a sequence of images showing a first condition and a sequence of images showing a second condition. A multivariate regression model is used to determine a relationship between relative positions of one or more features in the sequence of images showing the first condition and relative positions of the one or more features in the sequence of images showing the second condition. In an embodiment, the determined relationship is used to predict positions of the one or more features in an inquire sequence of images showing the second condition given an inquire sequence of images showing the first condition. The predicted positions can then be refined using various methods. In an embodiment, sequences of images are aligned to a common time scale. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163838 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING MEDICAL IMAGES - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for collecting a plurality of medical images. According to one embodiment, a system may include an image acquisition unit to acquire image data, a processing unit to process the image data, a workflow unit to receive a selection of a primary workflow, and an insertion unit to suspend the workflow system. The insertion unit may receive a second selection of a secondary workflow. Upon the completion of the collection of the second plurality of medical images, the workflow unit may resume the collection of the first plurality of medical images. According to certain embodiments, the primary workflow or the secondary workflow may specify an order for collecting a primary and secondary plurality of medical images. Annotations may be added to the plurality of images based on the primary workflow and/or the secondary workflow. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163839 | SIGNAL AND IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM - A time domain signal analysis method is provided. The signal analysis method includes the following steps. A signal to be analyzed is received. The signal to be analyzed is iteratively sifted by using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) to extract at least one intrinsic function (IMF). A normalized Hilbert transform is performed on the IMF. The transformed IMF includes phase information. The transformed IMF is processed by means of phase processing to obtain the processed IMF including angular frequency information. The foregoing signal analysis method could be utilized in an ultrasound imaging system to identify image information of ultrasound images. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163840 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An image processing method is provided. The image processing method includes the following steps. A plurality of raw signal is received by a signal transceiving module of the ultrasound imaging system. It is determined whether each of the raw signals satisfies any condition in a condition group, and the raw signal satisfying any condition in the condition group is mapped to one of a plurality of preset constants to generate a plurality of first data. The raw signals not satisfying any condition in the condition group are processed according to a calculation formula to generate a plurality of second data. A beamforming procedure is simultaneously performed on the first and second data to obtain a beamformed image. The beamformed image is transformed to obtain an image of a region to be detected. Furthermore, an imaging system using the foregoing image processing method is also provided. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163841 | AC-PC SEGMENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented system and method of determining anterior commissure (AC) and posterior commissure (PC) points in a volumetric neuroradiological image. The method includes determining, by a computer, a mid-sagittal plane estimate to extract a mid-sagittal plane image from the volumetric neuroradiological image, and AC and PC point estimates in the mid-sagittal plane image. The method further includes determining, by the computer, a refined mid-sagittal plane estimate from the AC and PC point estimates to extract a refined mid-sagittal plane image, the AC point from the refined mid-sagittal plane image, and the PC point from the refined mid-sagittal plane image and the AC point. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163842 | COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTING DEVICE AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM - A computed tomography method for determining a volumetric representation of a sample comprising reconstruction initial volume data of the sample from x-ray projections of the sample taken by an x-ray system, determining a part of the reconstructed initial volume data to be updated, and executing an iterative update process for generating configured to generate, using an iterative reconstruction method, updated volume data only for the part of the volume data determined to be updated. Determining the part of the sample volume to be updated comprises individually evaluating every single voxel in the reconstructed initial volume data, based on available quality information for the reconstructed initial volume data, whether or not the voxel fulfils a predetermined condition indicating that an update is required for the voxel, and the iterative update process generates the updated volume data only for the voxels which have been determined that an update is required. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163843 | METHOD OF PROCESSING RADIOGRAPH AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING RADIOGRAPH USING THE METHOD - Provided are an apparatus and a method for processing a radiograph which is capable of precisely detecting a region of interest. The apparatus includes: an inputter that outputs an input image obtained by irradiating radioactive rays; and a line detector that performs a Hough transform on the input image, senses at least one edge line based on the Hough-transformed input image, performs a Radon transform in a region in which the at least one edge line is sensed, and obtains an edge line of the at least one edge line as a first collimation line one based on a result of the Radon transform. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163844 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a setting unit, a filter setting unit, a generating unit, and a determination unit. The obtaining unit obtains a captured image of a test piece including a target cell having a nucleus. The first extraction unit extracts pixels which are candidates for the nucleus from pixels included in the captured image. The second extraction unit extracts a connected-pixel group which is a candidate for the target cell. The setting unit sets rectangular regions in the captured image. The filter setting unit sets a filter including regions. When the filter is disposed in each of the rectangular regions, the generating unit generates an image feature value. The determination unit determines, on the basis of whether the image feature value satisfies a condition, whether the target cell is included in the rectangular region. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163845 | System For Detecting Infectious Agents Using Computer-Controlled Automated Image Analysis - A method for providing quantitative information regarding the extent of infection of host cells by an infectious agent. A microscope image of a specimen of a bodily fluid is analyzed using image processing techniques to quantify the percentage of the area of the specimen that is infected. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163846 | DOCUMENT DE-SKEWING - A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing an image of a rectangular target object. The method includes the steps of determining only a first dimension of a rectangular target object in an initial image, subsequently determining only a second dimension of the target object and subsequently providing a cropped and de-skewed final image of the target object responsive to the determined first and second dimension. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163847 | Method and Apparatus for Locating Objects - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for automatic optoelectronic detection and inspection of objects, based on capturing digital images of a two-dimensional field of view in which an object to be detected or inspected may be located, analyzing the images, and making and reporting decisions on the status of the object. Decisions are based on evidence obtained from a plurality of images for which the object is located in the field of view, generally corresponding to a plurality of viewing perspectives. Evidence that an object is located in the field of view is used for detection, and evidence that the object satisfies appropriate inspection criteria is used for inspection. Methods and apparatus are disclosed for capturing and analyzing images at high speed so that multiple viewing perspectives can be obtained for objects in continuous motion. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163848 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTION OF COMPONENTS - The quality of a dry film lubricant coating or molybdenum based undercoat coating provided on the root of a gas turbine fan blade is determined by a method which includes providing an image of the coating taken under controlled conditions which include diffusing light through a translucent screen. The difference between an RGB value of a group of pixels from the image compared with a known RGB value is determined and used to calculate the quality of the coating. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163849 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC INSPECTION OF THROUGH-HOLES OF A COMPONENT - An apparatus and a method for automatic inspection of through-holes of a component is provided. The proposed apparatus includes an imaging module, an image processing module and an analysis module. The imaging module generates a thermographic image of the component by passing a medium through the through-holes and capturing infra-red radiation emitted from the component while the medium is flowing through the through-holes. The image processing module fits the thermographic image on a digital image obtained from geometrical data of the component. The image processing module is further masks the fitted thermographic image using a digital image mask to extract regions corresponding to through-holes in the thermographic image. The digital image mask is computed based on a determination of positions of through-holes on the digital image. The analysis module evaluates the masked thermographic image to determine an irregularity or blockage in one or more of the through-holes. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163850 | MASK PATTERN AND CORRECTING METHOD THEREOF - A mask pattern and a correcting method thereof are provided. The correcting method includes the following steps. An original pattern having a first original contour and a second original contour is provided. The first original contour has a first original corner. The second original contour has a second original corner, which is near the first original corner. The first and second original corners are cut to form a cut pattern. An optical proximity correction (OPC) process is applied to the cut pattern to form the mask pattern. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163851 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CLASSIFICATION WITHIN INSPECTION IMAGES - In accordance with an aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter, there is provided an analysis system for classifying possible defects identified within an inspection image of an inspected object, the system comprising a pattern matcher configured to determine an anchor location with respect to the inspection image, based on a matching of a template and a portion of the inspection image; wherein an accuracy of the determining of the anchor location exceeds a resolution of the inspection image; a distribution analysis module configured to determine, based on the anchor location and a mask which defines different segments within an area, a distribution of a potential defect with respect to one or more of the segments; and a classifier, configured to classify the potential defect based on the distribution. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163852 | ROTATIONAL MULTI-LAYER OVERLAY MARKS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS - In one embodiment, a semiconductor target for determining overlay error, if any, between two or more successive layers of a substrate or between two or more separately generated patterns on a single layer of a substrate is disclosed. The target comprises at least a plurality of first structures that are invariant for a plurality of first rotation angles with respect to a first center of symmetry (COS) of the first structures and a plurality of second structures that are invariant for a plurality of second rotation angles with respect to a second COS of the second structures. The first rotation angles differ from the second rotation angles, and first structures and second structures are formed on different layers of the substrate or separately generated patterns on a same layer of the substrate. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163853 | APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING ROBOT POSITION AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for estimating a location of a device uses a color image and a depth image. The method includes matching the color image to the depth image, generating a 3D reference image based on the matching, generating a 3D object image based on the matching, extracting a 2D reference feature point from the reference image, extracting a 2D reference feature point from the object image, matching the extracted reference feature point from the reference image to the extracted reference feature point from the object image, extracting a 3D feature point from the object image using the matched 2D reference feature point, and estimating the location of the device based on the extracted 3D feature point. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163854 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - An image processing method includes: receiving a plurality of images, the images being captured under different view points; and performing image alignment for the plurality of images by warping the plurality of images, where the plurality of images are warped according to a set of parameters, and the set of parameters are obtained by finding a solution constrained to predetermined ranges of physical camera parameters. In particular, the step of performing the image alignment further includes: automatically performing the image alignment to reproduce a three-dimensional (3D) visual effect, where the plurality of images is captured by utilizing a camera module, and the camera module is not calibrated with regard to the view points. For example, the 3D visual effect can be a multi-angle view (MAV) visual effect. In another example, the 3D visual effect can be a 3D panorama visual effect. An associated apparatus is also provided. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163855 | AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF STEREOSCOPIC EDGE VIOLATIONS - Pixel-based and region-based methods, computer program products, and systems for detecting, flagging, highlighting on a display, and automatically fixing edge violations in stereoscopic images and video. The highlighting and display methods involve signed, clamped subtraction of one image of a stereo image pair from the other image, with the subtraction preferably isolated to a region of interest near the lateral edges. Various embodiments include limiting the detection, flagging, and highlighting of edge violations to objects causing a degree of perceptual discomfort greater than a user-set or preset threshold, or to objects having a certain size and/or proximity and/or degree of cut-off by a lateral edge of the left or right eye images of a stereo image pair. Methods of removing violations include automatic or semi-automatic cropping of the offending object, and depth shifting of the offending object onto the screen plane. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163856 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE, RECORDED MEDIUM THEREOF - An apparatus for enhancing a stereoscopic image may include: a color relationship extraction unit which extracts color relationships between a plurality of first coordinates in a 3-dimensional color space for a first image and second coordinates in a 3-dimensional color space for a second image corresponding to the plurality of first coordinates; a color relationship correction unit, which corrects a color relationship for any one first coordinate from among the plurality of first coordinates based on a color relationship of at least one first coordinate existing within a particular distance from the any one first coordinate; and a color value transformation unit, which transforms a color value of the first image by using the corrected color relationship of the any one first coordinate. The invention provides the advantage of accurately correcting color imbalance between the left image and right image forming a stereoscopic image. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163857 | MULTIPLE CENTROID CONDENSATION OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION CLOUDS - Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying objects captured by a depth camera by condensing classified image data into centroids of probability that captured objects are correctly identified entities. Output exemplars are processed to detect spatially localized clusters of non-zero probability pixels. For each cluster, a centroid is generated, generally resulting in multiple centroids for each differentiated object. Each centroid may be assigned a confidence value, indicating the likelihood that it corresponds to a true object, based on the size and shape of the cluster, as well as the probabilities of its constituent pixels. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163858 | COMPONENT RECOGNIZING APPARATUS AND COMPONENT RECOGNIZING METHOD - Disclosed are a component recognizing apparatus and a component recognizing method. The component recognizing apparatus includes: an image preprocessing unit configured to extract component edges from an input component image by using a plurality of edge detecting techniques, and detect a component region by using the extracted component edges; a feature extracting unit configured to extract a component feature from the detected component region, and create a feature vector by using the component feature; and a component recognizing unit configured to input the created feature vector to an artificial neural network which has learned in advance to recognize a component category through a plurality of component image samples, and recognize the component category according to a result. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163859 | REGRESSION TREE FIELDS - A new tractable model solves labeling problems using regression tree fields, which represent non-parametric Gaussian conditional random fields. Regression tree fields are parameterized by non-parametric regression trees, allowing universal specification of interactions between image observations and variables. The new model uses regression trees corresponding to various factors to map dataset content (e.g., image content) to a set of parameters used to define the potential functions in the model. Some factors define relationships among multiple variable nodes. Further, the training of regression trees is scalable, both in the training set size and in the fact that the training can be parallelized. In one implementation, maximum pseudolikelihood learning provides for joint training of various aspects of the model, including feature test selection and ordering (i.e., the structure of the regression trees), parameters of each factor in the graph, and the scope of the interacting variable nodes used in the graph. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163860 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method and Program - The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily adding an annotation to content. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163861 | PIXEL FLOW PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH INTEGRATED CONNECTED COMPONENTS LABELING - An apparatus for efficient processing of images that are expressed as flows of pixels is disclosed. The proposed pixel flow processor consists of a number of readout units each of them capable of reading images as continuous flows of pixels and flows of pixels provided in bursts, a plurality of pixel flow output units each of them capable of generating images, at least one pixel processing pipeline implementing functions like color conversion, color balancing, scaling and feature extraction, and at least one component labeling unit. This apparatus can be further enhanced with an integral image calculation unit. The apparatus provides output image as continuous flows of pixels and flows of pixels provided in bursts, which can become input to equivalent structures or stored to bus-accessible devices. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163862 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDEYE CORRECTION - An image processing method and a device for redeye correction are provided. In the method, a face region of a pending image is received and detected. At least one region of interest (ROI) is set in the face region. The ROI is segmented according to a color model so as to produce a plurality of candidate regions. Each of the candidate regions is filtered separately according to a candidate region filtering method. It is determined whether a color candidate region is produced after filtering. If yes, luminance values of a plurality of pixels in the ROI are calculated by a contrast mask. The ROI is segmented by using a calculated luminance distribution so as to produce a high contrast candidate region. An overlapped portion between the color and the high contrast candidate regions is taken as a redeye region, and the redeye region is corrected to produce a corrected image. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163863 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A processor of an image processing apparatus designates a target region. When an image is divided into a plurality of small regions which are smaller than a target region, the processor calculates a centroid obtained by weighting the central coordinates of each of the plurality of small regions by a likelihood of each of the plurality of the small regions and calculates a covariance matrix that depends on the centroid, the likelihood being based on characteristic value histograms of respective small regions inside and outside the target region. The processor detection unit detects a degree of separation according to a histogram, a likelihood, a centroid, and a covariance matrix. The processor also determines a post-update target region according to a degree of separation. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163864 | VIDEO DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHODS - A video detection system and method compares a queried video segment to one or more stored video samples. Each of the queried video segments and stored video samples can be represented by respective digital image sets. A first and second comparison comprises comparing a set of low and high resolution temporal and spatial statistical moments in a COLOR9 space, and eliminating file digital image sets that do not match the queried digital image set. A third comparison generates a set of matching files by comparing a set of wavelet transform coefficients in a COLOR9 space. RGB bit-wise registration and comparison of one or more subframes of specific frames in the queried digital image set to a corresponding set of matching file subframes determines queried subframe changes. In the event of a change in a queried subframe, the changed subframe is added to the set of matching file subframes. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163865 | GUIDANCE DEVICE, GUIDANCE METHOD, AND GUIDANCE PROGRAM - A mark object that serves as a marker for a guidance point on a set route is specified, and coloration information related to a coloration of the mark object is acquired. Based on the coloration information, a correction information creating object before the mark object on the route having a coloration similar to the coloration of the mark object is specified. An image of the correction information creating object while a vehicle travels the route is acquired as a correcting image, and color correction information is calculated based on acquired color information and existing color information. A recognition template is then corrected based on the calculated color correction information to create a correction template. Thus, because the recognition template used for recognizing the mark object is corrected to a color more closely resembling the actual appearance of the mark object, the recognition accuracy of the mark object can be improved. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163866 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR FACILITATING WHITE BALANCING OF AN IMAGE - An apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates selection of white balancing to adjust the color cast of a captured image. A quantum dot element is positioned to receive incident light associated with a scene forming an image that is to be captured. Incident light upon the quantum dot element causes photonic emissions that are detected and converted into electrical form. The electrical representations of the photonic images are used to measure or determine a color ratio. The value of the color ratio is utilized to select white balancing of a captured image, captured either prior to, concurrent with, or subsequent to, the color-ratio determination. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163867 | SYSTEMS, PROCESSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CREATING GEO-LOCATION-BASED VISUAL DESIGNS AND ARRANGEMENTS ORIGINATING FROM GEO-LOCATION-BASED IMAGERY - Systems, processes, and computer program products for creating visual designs and arrangements that originate from an image or images are provided. In particular, the present subject matter relates to systems, processes, and computer program products for taking captured images of an intended operating environment and creating visual designs that create visual confusion that can be utilized to disguise a recognizable form of a person or an object by breaking up its outline using portions, magnifications and distortions of a single captured image, portions, magnifications and distortions of multiple captured images, and/or disruptive patterns that can projected on an image screen or can be printed on a material. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163868 | PARAMETERS INTERPOLATION FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE VIDEO TONE MAPPING - A method for toning mapping high dynamic range (HDR) video for display in low dynamic range display comprises accessing the HDR video; producing a luminance information for the individual frames; partitioning different consecutive groups of frames into segments responsive to the luminance information; classifying the segments into static luminance segments and transient luminance segments; producing a tone mapping parameter set for the static luminance segments; producing a tone mapping parameter set for at least one of the transient luminance segments responsive to the tone mapping parameter set of an adjacent static luminance segment; and tone mapping the static luminance segments and transient luminance segments according to the respective tone mapping parameter sets. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163869 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING EDGE IN IMAGE - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for extracting an edge to be used for extracting a feature point of an object in an image. The present invention proposes an image edge extracting apparatus and method that remove noise in an input image, calculate a gradient of an image in a noise-removed image, measure magnitude of the gradient, extract an edge having a maximum thickness value, and then calculate a threshold using a ratio of the extracted edge, and detect a final edge robust against noise based on the threshold. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163870 | FEATURE EXTRACTION UNIT, FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD, FEATURE EXTRACTION PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is a feature extraction device whereby it is possible, while using local binary patterns, to extract image features with which object detection which is robust against disparities in a photographic environment is possible. A feature extraction unit ( | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163871 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING IMAGE DATA TO IDENTIFY A CHARACTER-OF-INTEREST - A system and method of processing an acquired image to identify characters-of-interest in the acquired image. The method includes obtaining image data of a surface of an object. The image data includes a plurality of image pixels having corresponding light intensity signals. The light intensity signals are based on whether the corresponding image pixel correlates to a morphological change in the surface of the object. The method also includes determining a line section of the image data. The line section includes one of the character lines and has character image portions. The method also includes analyzing the light intensity signals of the image pixels in the character image portions to determine a common height of the characters-of-interest. The method also includes removing extraneous areas of the character image portions based on the common height of the characters-of-interest to provide trimmed image portions. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163872 | Method, Server, Reading Terminal and System for Processing Electronic Document - Systems and methods for processing an electronic document are provided. The method comprises segmenting the electronic document based on content of the electronic document and structuring the segmented electronic document into a format for displaying on a reading terminal based on a request received from the reading terminal. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163873 | Detecting Separator Lines in a Web Page - A system and method of detecting separator lines in a web page may include determining coordinates of visible web elements on a web page, generating an edge image of the web page based on the coordinates of the web elements, filtering edges belonging to non-separator line elements within the edge image, detecting horizontal lines within the edge image, detecting vertical lines within the edge image, and filtering short lines within the edge image. A system for detecting separator lines in a web page may include a memory device, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, in which the processor determines coordinates of visible web elements on a web page, generates an edge image of the web page based on the coordinates of the web elements, filters edges belonging to non-separator line elements within the edge image, detects horizontal lines within the edge image, detects vertical lines within the edge image, and filters short lines within the edge image. | 2013-06-27 |
| 20130163874 | Determining Correspondence Between Image Regions - Determining correspondence between image regions can include: selecting first and second regions of visual content including pixels in a computer system, the first region comprising a first patch to be mapped to the second region; selecting at least two heuristics for use in mapping the first patch to the second region, the heuristics selected from the group consisting of: (i) nearby-pixel mapping evaluation; (ii) random-perturbation mapping evaluation; (iii) evaluation of multiple mapping candidates identified in an iterative search process; and (iv) enrichment to increase a collection of mapping candidates; and identifying, using the selected heuristics, at least one patch in the second region for the first patch. | 2013-06-27 |
