28th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 31 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120177278 | DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM FOR SEPARATING IMAGE COMPONENTS - A problem inherent to radiographic images, which may occur when an independent component analysis technique is applied to energy subtraction carried out on radiographic images, is solved to achieve separation of image components to be separated with higher accuracy. As preprocessing before the independent component analysis, a spatial frequency band which contains the components to be separated is extracted, pixels of the radiographic images are classified into more than one subsets for each radiographic image based on a value of a predetermined parameter, and/or nonlinear pixel value conversion is applied to the radiographic images based on a value of the predetermined parameter. Alternatively, nonlinear independent component analysis is carried out according to a model using the predetermined parameter. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177279 | Automated Tuberculosis Screening - A method, system, and computer-readable medium for determining a number of mycobacteria in source image data of a sputum-smear sample are provided. First image data is extracted from the source image data of the sputum-smear sample. Binary image data is created from the extracted first image data. A plurality of groups of blobs is identified in the created binary image data. A distance between a pair of the identified plurality of groups of blobs is determined. If the distance is below a threshold value, the pair is combined as a single group of blobs. The determining is repeated for pairs of the identified plurality of groups of blobs, and the remaining groups of blobs are then classified. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177280 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND/OR PROGNOSIS OF CANCER - The subject invention concerns methods for the detection, diagnosis, and/or prognosis of cancer by analyzing centrosomal features. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image of one or more cells; selecting a region of interest in one cell; segmenting the region of interest to delineate at least one centrosomal; extracting one or more features from the segmented image; and analyzing the extracted features to diagnose cancer. In another embodiment, the progression of cancer can be predicted through analysis and classification of the extracted features. In one embodiment, the method can be performed by a quantitative cancer analysis system including a diagnosis module and/or a prognosis module. In one embodiment, the method can be performed using an image processing system. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177281 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE-BASED CHECK VERIFICATION - Embodiments of the invention provide for mobile communication-based verification of the validity of negotiable checks. By verifying the validity of checks on a mobile communication device, the systems and methods provide for on-the-fly check verification regardless of where and/or at what time the check-related transaction occurs. The systems and methods validate the check in terms of insuring that the check is not fraudulent and, in some instances, providing certainty to the payee that the requisite funds currently exist in the related checking account. Additionally, the systems and methods provide for an efficient and readily identifiable means of conveying the outcome of the check verification process. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177282 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED LOCALIZED FEATURE QUANTIFICATION IN SURFACE METROLOGY TOOLS - A method for enabling more accurate measurements of localized features on wafers is disclosed. The method includes:
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20120177283 | FORMING 3D MODELS USING TWO IMAGES - A method for determining a three-dimensional model from two images comprising: receiving first and second images captured from first and second viewpoints, respectively, each image including a two-dimensional image together with a corresponding range map; identifying a set of corresponding features in the first and second two-dimensional images; removing any extraneous corresponding features in the set of corresponding features responsive to the first and second range maps to produce a refined set of corresponding features; determining a geometrical transform for transforming three-dimensional coordinates for the first image to be consistent three-dimensional coordinates for the second image responsive to three-dimensional coordinates for the refined set of corresponding features, the three-dimensional coordinates comprising two-dimensional pixel coordinates from the corresponding two-dimensional image together with a range coordinate from the corresponding range map; and determining a three-dimensional model responsive to the first image, the second image and the geometrical transform. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177284 | FORMING 3D MODELS USING MULTIPLE IMAGES - A method for determining a three-dimensional model from three or more images comprising: receiving three or more images, each image being captured from a different viewpoint and including a two-dimensional image together with a corresponding range map; designating a plurality of pairs of received images, each pair including a first image and a second image. For each of the designated pairs a geometric transform is determined by identifying a set of corresponding features in the two-dimensional images; removing any extraneous corresponding features to produce a refined set of corresponding features; and determining the geometrical transformation for transforming three-dimensional coordinates for the first image to three-dimensional coordinates for the second image responsive to three-dimensional coordinates for the refined set of corresponding features. A three-dimensional model is determined responsive to the three or more received images and the geometrical transformations for the designated pairs of received images. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177285 | STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An imaging device (100) includes: an imaging element (103) obtained by repeatedly arranging a pixel W for entire wavelength band, a W-R pixel for R, a W-G pixel for G, and a W-B pixel for B; a filter (102) configured such that a portion corresponding to the pixel W allows the entire wavelength band of a wavelength band within a certain range to pass and portions corresponding to the W-R pixel, the W-G pixel, and the W-B pixel reflect wavelength bands of corresponding colors, respectively; a reflection amount calculating unit (113) for calculating signal values of R, G, and B by subtracting a value of an image reading signal of each of the W-R pixel, the W-G pixel, and the W-B pixel from a value of an image reading signal of the pixel W. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177286 | DETERMINING AN ORIENTATION DIRECTION OF A COLOR EDGE AT A PIXEL LOCATION IN A COLOR IMAGE - What is disclosed is a system and method for determining an orientation direction of a color edge at a given pixel location in a binary color image. The orientation direction of the color edge is determined from eight pixel counts with each pixel count being a total number of pixels in each of eight regions of a window centered about a candidate pixel which resides along the color edge. The eight regions are associated with 8 compass points. The orientation of the edge is determined by a 1 | 2012-07-12 |
20120177287 | Analytical Motion Blur Rasterization With Compression - A rasterizer, based on time-dependent edge equations, computes analytical visibility in order to render accurate motion blur. An oracle-based compression algorithm for the time intervals lowers the frame buffer requirements. High quality motion blurred scenes can be rendered using a rasterizer with rather low memory requirements. The resulting images may contain motion blur for both opaque and transparent objects. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177288 | IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD FOR CORRECTING A TARGET IMAGE WITH RESPECT TO A REFERENCE IMAGE, AND CORRESPONDING IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE - An automatic image-processing method for applying a mask onto a target image includes the following steps: a) obtaining a target image, in particular an image of a face; b) for at least one area of the target image, identifying the reference points corresponding to at least the points that make it possible to define a typical case of spatial imperfection; c) for at least that area, applying at least one test for detecting spatial imperfection by comparing the target image with a reference image; d) according to the spatial imperfection detected, identifying a spatial correction mask to be applied to the area of the image including said imperfection; and e) applying the mask onto the pertinent area of the target image. An image-processing system also is provided. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177289 | Methods and Apparatuses for Addressing Chromatic Abberations and Purple Fringing - Methods and systems for detecting and correcting chromatic aberration and purple fringing are disclosed. Chromatic aberration can be addressed by separating an image into color planes and then adjusting these to reduce chromatic aberration by using a specific calibration image (calibration chart) as an empirical method to calibrate the image acquisition device. Purple fringing can be corrected by initially addressing color aberration resulting from the lateral chromatic aberration (LCA). The LCA is first removed and then the correction is extended to purple fringing. A discovery is relied upon that the purple fringing is created in the direction of the chromatic aberration and is more pronounced in the direction of the chromatic aberration. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177290 | AUTOMATIC TABLE LOCATION IN DOCUMENTS - A method for locating tables in documents includes defining a plurality of tiles for a document, for each tile, determining a horizontal profile and a vertical profile, determining the location of lines by means of gradients of the horizontal profiles and the vertical profiles, selecting from the lines, the lines that are persistent, determining a rectangle in at least one corner of the document based on the persistent lines, and applying heuristics in order to accept or reject a determined rectangle as a table of the document. An apparatus for automatically locating a table in a document applies the method for locating tables in documents. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177291 | Document comparison and analysis - A method including a process by which a first digital image of the document is obtained. A second digital image of a document is retrieved from a computer, a mobile device, a computer network or by imaging of a second document. The method includes calculating the transformation between the first and second digital images such as geometrical distortion, local ‘brightness and contrast differences and blurring due to the optical imaging process. The method estimates the parameters of these transformations so that the transformations can be applied to one of the images, rendering it as similar as possible to the other image. The method further compares the two images in order to find differences such as addition, deletion or changing of characters or words. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177292 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING CONTENT - A method of collecting content by a content-collecting apparatus is provided. The method includes extracting a characteristic information from content that is being displayed; transmitting the extracted characteristic information to an external device; and receiving content relating to the transmitted characteristic information from the external device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177293 | FEATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a feature extraction device includes an obtaining unit that obtains image data having a plurality of pixels. The device includes a pixel feature calculation unit that calculates first pixel features and second pixel features of each of the pixels, which are different from each other, and a classification unit that classifies a pair of pixels by using the first features for at least some of the plurality of pixels. The device includes a co-occurrence frequency calculation unit that calculates a co-occurrence frequency representing a frequency of co-occurrence of the second pixel features of the first pixel and the second pixel features of the second pixel for the set for which a result of the classification by the classification unit is consistent. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177294 | IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING DISCRIMINATIVE VISUAL FEATURES - Image search results are obtained by providing weights to visual features to emphasize features corresponding to objects of interest while simultaneously deemphasizing irrelevant or inconsistent features that lead to poor search results. In order to minimize the impact of visual features that are unreliable or irrelevant with respect to the objects of interest in the image, context-dependent weights are provided to detect visual features such that those visual features pertaining to the objects of interest are more heavily weighted than those visual features that pertain to irrelevant or unreliable portions of the image. Visual features may be weighted for images in a searchable database. Training data may be obtained and used in weighting visual features in a query image and, alternatively, in searchable database images. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177295 | Document comparison and analysis for improved OCR - A method for enhancing the accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithms by detection of differences between a digital image of a document and a text file corresponding to the digital image, created by the OCR algorithm. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPARING VIDEOS - In a method of comparing a query video and a target video, frames of the query video and frames of the target video arc partitioned into blocks. The mean intensity value is calculated for each block. Minima and maxima values are extracted from temporal changes of the mean intensity values for each block. Inclines and declines are obtained from the minima and maxima values. The inclines and declines are used in determining if alignment exists between the query video and the target video. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177297 | Image Analysis System and Method Using Image Recognition and Text Search - Provided herein are systems and method for obtaining contextual information of an image published on a digital medium. The methods and systems disclosed herein generally identify and analyze the image to obtain image descriptors corresponding to the image. The methods also identify and analyze text published proximate to the image to obtain textual descriptors, which function to describe, identify, index, or name the image or content within the image. The textual descriptors are then matched to the image descriptors to provide contextual information of the published image. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177298 | SCAN CONVERSION APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - This invention enables parallelly sorting data in substantially M blocks though statistical information is updated. In the first scan conversion, ( | 2012-07-12 |
20120177299 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - To provide an image coding device having high coding efficiency and an image decoding device. A plurality of prediction procedures that uses various types of correlations between pixels are adaptively applied with a coded signal as a reference. With respect to an input pixel, first residual and prediction information are obtained by a first prediction unit that carries out in-screen prediction and the like, second residual and prediction information are obtained by a second prediction unit for predicting a first residual as a serial additional process, and third residual and prediction information are obtained by a third prediction unit for directly predicting a pixel to be coded as a parallel additional process on the input pixel. Which of either the second residual or the third residual to code is determined based on the coding cost, and the signal is switched in the first switching unit. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177300 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method comprising: obtaining current signals to be coded of each of the processing units of the image; generating a binary signal by performing binarization on each of the current signals to be coded; selecting a context for each of the current signals to be coded from among a plurality of contexts; performing arithmetic coding of the binary signal by using coded probability information associated with the context selected in the selecting; and updating the coded probability information based on the binary signal, wherein, in the selecting, the context for the current signal to be coded is selected, as a shared context, for a signal which is included in one of a plurality of processing units and has a size different from a size of the processing unit including the current signal to be coded. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING IMAGE BLOCKING ARTIFACT BY USING TRANSFORMATION COEFFICIENT - A method and apparatus for removing an image blocking artifact by using a transformation coefficient are provided. The method includes: detecting a first blocking artifact which is in a flat region of the input image; removing the first blocking artifact using a number of low frequency coefficients from among transformation coefficients for each transformation block of a plurality of transformation blocks of the input image, based on a result of detecting the first blocking artifact; detecting an edge region of the input image; and removing a second blocking artifact, which is in an edge region of an intermediate image obtained from the removing of the first blocking artifact of the input image, based on the detected edge region in the input image. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177302 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device that sequentially generates a synthetic image by joining a first image, which is a single image or constituted by a plurality of the images joined together, and a second image that is input, every time when the second image is input, includes: an overlapping region obtainment portion | 2012-07-12 |
20120177303 | Apparatus And Method For Creation Of Digital Art Forms From Other Digital Data - Apparatus and method for creation or transformation of digital art forms in 2D/3D images, photos, video, music, voice, etc. based on messages received on or sent from mobile or PC devices via email, SMS, Tweets and other messaging services, as well as other forms of accessible or streaming data such as voice calls, web page data, user input data such as button pushes, other downloadable or downloaded content including analog media converted to digital data, i.e. bit streams of any kind as input. There are no solutions today that use data from other sources as input to create new digital art forms or transform other existing digital art forms. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177304 | SYSTEM FOR IMAGE INTELLIGENCE EXPLOITATION AND CREATION - In certain embodiments, an apparatus is provided that includes at least one computer-readable medium comprising code, that, when executed by at least one processor, is operable to: receive an image query, translate the image query to a server, receive an image based on the query from the server, receive image overlay data, and fuse the image overlay data with the image to create an image product. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177305 | Method for Automatic Alignment of Raster Data with Vector Data in a Geographic Information System - The present invention relates to methods for aligning raster and vector data. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177306 | Collection Bag for Power Equipment - A collection bag for the collection of leaf, grass, wood chips and the like is described that is capable of connection to more than one type of outdoor power equipment, including riding mowers, commercial type lawn mowers, wheeled lawn vacuums, hand-held or shoulder-mounted blower/vacuums, and wood chippers. The collection bag, typically having a large, generally conical shape, collects debris from any of the types of outdoor power equipment. The bag typically has a first large opening and at least one second smaller opening for attaching to different types of equipment. In another aspect, an anti-wear shield is placed between the bag and ground and attached to the equipment, to protect the bag from rubbing on the ground. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177307 | Resealable Laminate for Heat Sealed Packaging - A resealable package assembly is described. The package assembly includes a selectively positionable flap that covers an aperture or enables access through the aperture into the package. The flap and package include provisions for releasably engaging the flap to the package to seal the interior of the package. Provisions for grasping the tab and indicating whether tampering has occurred are also described. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177308 | PRESSURE COMPENSATION SYSTEM FOR AN OIL-SEALED MUD MOTOR BEARING ASSEMBLY - In an oil-sealed bearing assembly in the bearing section of a mud motor, in which a mandrel is rotatably disposed within a cylindrical housing, a cylindrical sleeve is disposed coaxially and rotatably around the mandrel, with the sleeve being non-rotatably mounted to an inner surface of the housing, thereby forming an annular piston chamber forming part of a generally annular oil reservoir. The sleeve provides radial support to the mandrel along the length of the piston chamber by virtue of the flexural stiffness of the sleeve. The mandrel rotates within the sleeve, with a radial bearing being provided between the sleeve and the mandrel. An annular piston is axially movable within the piston chamber in response to variations in the volume of oil in the reservoir. The piston slides within the piston chamber without rotation relative to either the housing or the sleeve. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177309 | BEARING SHELL SEGMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES OF VEHICLES - The present invention refers to a bearing shell segment ( | 2012-07-12 |
20120177310 | CRANKSHAFT SUPPORT STRUCTURE - A crankshaft support structure including a bushing which allows a bearing member to be held firmly on a crankcase, the bearing member supporting a crankshaft rotatably on the crankcase wherein the holding strength of the crankcase for the bushing needs to be increased. The crankcase needs to have a lighter weight and the thermal expansion of the crankcase needs to be prevented from affecting a bearing. An outer circumferential surface of the bushing which is insert-cast in the crankcase has a cylindrical shape, and many small protrusions each having a constricted portion are formed on the outer circumferential surface. Accordingly, the holding strength of the crankcase for the bushing is increased, allowing a small thickness of a bushing holding portion of the crankcase. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177311 | PLANET BEARING STRUCTURE - Provided is a planet bearing structure for a wind turbine generator, capable of reducing the risk of causing seizure or wear in a planet bearing of the wind turbine generator in which a slide bearing is used in a bearing portion, by improving and stabilizing formation of an oil film on a sliding surface having division surfaces. In a planet bearing structure that includes a slide bearing ( | 2012-07-12 |
20120177312 | Wheel Bearing Apparatus Incorporated With A Rotational Speed Detecting Apparatus - A wheel bearing apparatus incorporating a rotational speed detecting apparatus has a protecting cover. A cylindrical fitting portion of the cover is press-fit into the end inner circumference of the outer member. A donut-shaped shielding portion extends radially inward from the fitting portion, via a radially reducing portion. A bottom portion is continuous with the shielding portion, via a stepped portion, to close the inner-side end of the inner member. A sealing member is integrally adhered to the outer circumference of the radially reducing portion. The sealing member and annular portion has a diameter slightly smaller than the outer diameter of the fitting portion of the protecting cover. The sealing member projected portion has a diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the fitting portion of the protecting cover. The projected portion is press-fit into the end inner circumference of the outer member via a predetermined interference. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177313 | SEAL CLEANING AND LUBRICATING BEARING ASSEMBLY FOR A ROTATING FLOW DIVERTER - A rotating flow diverter has a lubricated sealed bearing assembly for isolating bearing elements from wellbore fluids under pressure. The sealed bearing assembly is supported between an outer bearing housing and an axially rotatable quill. The bearing assembly further has bearing elements with a bearing lubricant under pressure and a seal assembly. The seal assembly has at least one sealing element which comprises a body, the body having an outer peripheral wall, an inner sealing surface having a plurality of sealing lips and an annular cavity, and a loading ring for compressionally fitting within the annular cavity to urge the sealing surface radially inwardly for sealing engagement with tubulars. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177314 | RETENTION OF BALL BEARING CARTRIDGE FOR TURBOMACHINERY - An assembly for a turbocharger includes a ball bearing cartridge, a center housing with a bore, a turbine end counterbore and a compressor end surface that includes a recess, and a compressor backplate with an axial extension configured to fit into the recess where the counterbore and the backplate define, at least in part, an axial length of a bearing cartridge chamber. Various other devices, assemblies, etc., are also disclosed. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177315 | Wheel Bearing Apparatus For A Vehicle - A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has a seal with a metal core and a sealing member. The metal core includes a cylindrical fitting portion press-fit into an end of the inner circumference of an outer member. A radially inner portion extends radially inward from the fitting portion. The sealing member is integrally adhered to the metal core. The sealing member has a side lip that is radially outwardly inclined. Either one of the metal core or the sealing member is formed with a weir portion that extends radially outward from the fitting portion of the metal core. The weir portion opposes the inner-side surface of the wheel mounting flange, via a small axial gap, to form a labyrinth seal. The weir portion also opposes the outer-side end face of the outer member, via a predetermined axial gap, to form an annular discharging groove. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177316 | ROLLER BEARING ASSEMBLY HAVING A RADIAL SHAFT SEAL RING - A roller bearing assembly includes at least one roller bearing having an outer ring, an inner ring, and roller bodies disposed therebetween, as well as a radial shaft seal ring having a support ring and a seal lip. At least one end side of the outer ring includes a receptacle for retaining the support ring. The support ring extends axially in an outwardly projecting manner beyond the end side of the outer ring and up to an outer circumferential surface of the inner ring. The seal lip connected with the support ring sealingly abuts on the outer circumferential surface of the inner ring at a position that is axially internal of the end side of the outer ring. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177317 | BALL ROLLER BEARING - A ball roller bearing which has an outer and inner bearing ring and ball rollers arranged between the rings, which roll in two groove-shaped tracks in the rings and are held at a uniform distance to one another by a window cage. The cage has two lateral angle ribs, pocket bridges, which connect the ribs and cage pockets separated by the pocket bridges. The pockets have a cross-shaped hole formed from a contour perpendicular to the circumferential direction and a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller arranged longitudinally to the circumferential direction. The side edges are formed from the pocket bridges, which have radii of arch-shaped guide surfaces corresponding to the running surfaces of two ball rollers. The pocket bridges have additional material profiling between the side edges and on the guide surfaces for axial stiffening of the cage and damping bearing noise. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177318 | WAVEGUIDE ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATOR - During operation of an electro-absorption modulator, an optical signal is conveyed, using an optical waveguide in the electro-absorption modulator, to a semiconductor layer that substantially fills a gap between two portions of the optical waveguide. Then, the optical signal is electro-absorption modulated by selectively applying a voltage to electrodes that produces an electric field, approximately perpendicular to the midline of the optical waveguide, in the semiconductor layer. These electrodes are coupled to the edges of the semiconductor layer at the periphery along the width of the semiconductor layer by intervening layers. Furthermore, the intervening layers include a material that has a lower index of refraction than the semiconductor layer, and a lower optical absorption than the electrodes. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177319 | OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE - A superstructure fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) by laser-assisted direct writing of on-fiber metallic films. A laser direct write method is used to fabricate periodic films of silver nanoparticles on the non-planar surface of as-fabricated FBGs. Silver films with a thickness of about 9 μm are fabricated around a Bragg grating optical fiber. The performance of the superstructure FBG is studied by applying temperature and tensile stress on the fiber. An opto-mechanical model is also developed to predict the optical response of the synthesized superstructure FBG under thermal and structural loadings. The reflectivity of sidebands in the reflection spectrum can be tuned up to 20% and 37% under thermal and structural loadings, respectively. In addition, the developed superstructure FBG is used for simultaneous measurement of multiple criteria such as force and temperature to eliminate the inherent limitation of regular FBGs in multi-parameter sensing. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177320 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FOR TOUCH PANEL AND TOUCH PANEL USING THE SAME - Provided are an optical waveguide for a touch panel which has high light-gathering power on a light-emitting side and which may materialize a touch panel having excellent position detection performance, and a touch panel using the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide for a touch panel includes: cores; and an over cladding layer covers the cores, the cores including light-emitting cores each formed as a lens portion having a shape in plan view including a tapered portion whose width gradually increases toward an end surface on the light-emitting side and an elliptical arc portion which bulges outwardly a tip side of the tapered portion having the gradually-increasing width so as to be in a shape of an elliptical arc, the elliptical arc portion having a major axis direction aligned in a longitudinal direction of the tapered portion. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177321 | LIGHT-RECEIVING DEVICE - A light-receiving device including: a lens; and a light-receiving element optically coupled to the lens, a plurality of optical path divided by the lens crossing each other in a position of between the lens and the light-receiving element. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177322 | ACCESSORY WITH CONNECTOR FOR ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL DATA CIRCUITS - An electronic accessory connectable to a remote electronic device through a data interface. The electronic accessory includes an electronic circuit configured to exchange data through a data interface and an optical and electrical circuit connector. The optical and electrical circuit connector includes a connector body configured to engage a corresponding connector, at least one optical terminal for the data interface coupled to the connector body, and at least one electrical data interface terminal for the data interface coupled to the connector body. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177323 | ELECTRONIC ACCESSORY WITH MAGNETICALLY MATING OPTICAL DATA CONNECTORS - An electronic accessory connectable to a remote electronic device through a data interface. The electronic accessory includes an electronic circuit that exchanges data through a data interface, and a magnetically mating optical circuit connector. The magnetically mating optical circuit connector includes at least one optical terminal for the data interface, and a connector body that engages a corresponding connector. The connector body is attached to the at least one optical terminal and includes at least one alignment feature that aligns each of the optical terminals with a corresponding optical terminal of the corresponding connector. The magnetically mating optical circuit connector has at least one magnetic attachment area attached to the connector body and configured to magnetically attach the connector body to the corresponding connector when the connector body is engaged into the corresponding connector. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177324 | DEVICE WITH MAGNETICALLY MATING OPTICAL DATA CONNECTORS - An electronic device. The electronic device includes a processor, a memory that stores information operated upon by the processor, and a wireless communications component that provides wireless data communications between the processor and a wireless data network. The electronic device further has a magnetically mating optical circuit connector with at least one optical terminal, a connector body that engages a corresponding connector. The connector body comprising at least one alignment feature that aligns, when the connector body engages the corresponding connector, each of the at least one optical terminal with a respective corresponding optical terminal of the corresponding connector. The connector body further has at least one magnetic attachment area that magnetically attaches the connector body to the corresponding connector. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177325 | DEVICE WITH MAGNETICALLY COUPLED DATA CONNECTOR FOR ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL DATA CIRCUITS - An electronic device with an optical and electrical circuit connector. The electronic device includes a processor, a memory, a wireless communications component that provides wireless data communications between the processor and a wireless data network, and an optical and electrical circuit connector. The optical and electrical circuit connector includes a connector body configured to engage a corresponding connector, at least one optical terminal coupled to the connector body, and at least one electrical data interface terminal coupled to the connector body. The optical and electrical circuit connector also has at least one magnetic attachment area that magnetically attaches the connector body to the corresponding connector. The at least one magnetic attachment area has an electrically conductive path with an electrical connection that conducts electrical power. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177326 | MINI DOUBLE-CORE OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a connector, and specifically disclose a mini double-core optical fiber connector. The mini double-core optical fiber connector includes: a shell having a containing body, a ferrule assembly having a pair of ferrules and a pair of ferrule handles, a pair of elastic elements and a tail cover; the containing body of the shell has a first end, a second end and a containing groove extending from the second end to an inner flat bottom, where the first end is opened with two through holes; the containing body of the shell contains the ferrule assembly and the pair of elastic elements, and is connected to the tail cover to form a firm assembly; the ferrule handle includes a first tubular end portion and a second tubular end portion. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177327 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR WITH LENSES HAVING OPPOSING ANGLED PLANAR SURFACES - An optical connector for optically connecting at least one light source to at least one light receiver is disclosed. The optical connector includes first and second connector members respectively having first and second positive-power lens elements with respective first and second planar lens surfaces. The lens elements are arranged in their respective connector members such that when the two connector members are operably mated, the first and second lenses form an optical system where the first and second planar lens surfaces are spaced apart in opposition with a narrow gap in between, and are non-perpendicular to the optical system axis. The lenses may be conventional uniform-refractive-index lenses having a convex surface or may be gradient-index lenses having two planar surfaces. The optical connector is tolerant to contamination that can find its way into the narrow gap. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177328 | SPLICE ENCLOSURE ARRANGEMENT FOR FIBER OPTIC CABLES - An optical fiber cable includes a first cable segment; a second cable segment; and a splice enclosure. The first cable segment can have a different configuration than the second cable segment. The splice enclosure is coupled to the strength member and strength component of the first cable segment and the second cable segment. One example splice enclosure includes a first enclosure member and a second enclosure member. The strength component can be glued to one end of the splice enclosure and the strength member can be clamped or otherwise retained by another end of the splice enclosure. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177329 | COATED PLASTIC CLADDING OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - A coated plastic cladding optical fiber and an optical fiber cable, in which a transmission loss caused when this coated fiber or this fiber cable is bent in a small radius is small, and which can be used sufficiently as a USB cable or a HDMI cable in a high speed transmission, are provided. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177330 | TIGHT BUFFER FIBER OPTIC CABLES FOR CONDUITS - A fiber optic arrangement includes a primary strand, a plurality of secondary connection strands, each of which is coupled to the primary strand at a notch. Tight buffer optical fibers are attached, one at the end of each of the secondary connection strands. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177331 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE HAVING DUMMY RODS WITH NON-CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION - An optical fiber cable comprising a polymeric jacket and at least one elongated buffer tube having a substantially circular cross-section and at least one optical fiber disposed within the at least one buffer tube. The optical fiber cable further comprises at least one dummy rod having a substantially non-circular cross-section, wherein the cross-sectional area of each dummy rod is at least 10% less than the cross-sectional area of the at least one elongated buffer tube along a majority of the length of the at least one dummy rod. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177332 | Optical Pulse Compressor - Optical pulse compensator having a chirp unit including a normal dispersion fiber that provides a positive chirp to an input pulse and having a dispersion compensator including an anomalous fiber is provided. The nonlinear coefficient and the absolute value of the second-order group-velocity dispersion of the anomalous fiber that forms the dispersion compensator is set such that a soliton order becomes one or more, and the fiber length of the anomalous dispersion fiber is made to be equal to or smaller than a length required for optical soliton formation. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177333 | OPTICAL FIBER - An optical fiber includes a center core portion; an inner core layer formed around an outer circumference of the center core portion, a refractive index of which is less than that of the center core portion; an outer core layer formed around an outer circumference of the inner core layer, a refractive index of which is less than that of the inner core layer; and a cladding portion formed around an outer circumference of the outer core layer. A refractive index of the cladding portion is substantially equal to that of the inner core layer. At a wavelength of 1550 nm, an effective core area is equal to or larger than 130 μm | 2012-07-12 |
20120177334 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANCHORING FIBER OPTIC CABLES TO PROVIDE STRAIN RELIEF - A cable anchoring assembly includes a jacket anchoring block having a jacket clamping location and a reinforcing structure anchoring block mounted to the jacket anchoring block. The reinforcing structure anchoring block includes a reinforcing structure anchoring location that defines a fastener opening and an access slot that extends outwardly from the fastener opening. The access slot has a first open end positioned at the fastener opening and a second open end offset from the fastener opening. The access slot provides an open lateral passage into the fastener opening. A fastener is adapted for engagement in the fastener opening. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177335 | LOCKING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USE WITH A MULTI-FIBER PUSH ON (MPO) CONNECTOR MODULE TO PREVENT THE MPO CONNECTOR MODULE FROM BEING DECOUPLED FROM A RECEPTACLE - A locking device is provided that is configured to be attached to the MPO connector module and placed in a locking state that prevents the MPO connector module from being decoupled from the receptacle. The locking device may be a locking clip that is configured to be inserted into a keying slot formed in an MPO connector module. When the locking clip is inserted into the keying slot and placed in a locking state, the locking clip prevents the MPO connector module from being decoupled from the receptacle. If the locking clip is placed in an unlocking state, a tool or fingers can be used to extract the locking clip from the keying slot, thereby making it possible to decouple the MPO connector module from the receptacle. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177336 | CROSSING ARM FOR SCHOOL BUS SYSTEMS - A school bus safety assembly useful for stopping approaching vehicles, and detecting, displaying, and recording school bus stop arm violations comprising: a movable arm situated on a driver's side of a school bus, an electric motor for deploying the movable arm, a camera device, an image storage device, and an image display device. The movable arm is designed to indicate to approaching vehicles to stop and is deployable from a retracted position to an extended position via the electric motor. The camera device is mounted on the movable arm and is connected to the image storage device and to the image display device which are situated on an inside of the school bus in a vicinity of a seat of a driver. The school bus safety assembly operates in conjunction with a stop arm but is physically separated a distance from the stop arm. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177337 | AUDIO ROUTING FOR AUDIO-VIDEO RECORDING - Systems and methods for routing audio for audio-video recordings allow a user to record desired audio with captured video at the time the video is being captured. Audio from one or more sources may be routed to the video capture application and recorded with the video. In one or more examples, audio may be routed from another application, e.g., an audio playback application, running on the same device as the video capture application. In another example, audio may be received from a remote device through a wireless connection. Multiple streams of audio content may be mixed together prior to storing with video. The audio, upon reception, may then be routed to the video capture application for recordation. An audio progression bar may also be provided to indicate duration and elapsed time information associated with the audio being recorded. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177338 | DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital image capturing apparatus for displaying on a first display image that indicates a progress of video recording or reproduction, a second display image corresponding to a captured still image, and a method of controlling the same. A time point when a still image is captured may be indicated and thus a user may easily check a video recording or reproduction history. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177339 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR A SCENE IN A VIDEO AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED TO THE METHOD - A method and mobile device for searching for a scene in a video are provided. The mobile device includes an input unit having a touch panel, a display panel, and a controller. The input unit creates an input signal for reproducing video content. The display panel displays a scene-searching bar for searching for a particular scene in the video content. The controller displays, when a first touch event occurs on the scene-searching bar displayed on the touch panel, an enlarged scene-searching bar that has the same length as the scene-searching bar and a shorter time range for searching for a scene in the video content than the time range of the scene-searching bar. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177340 | Graphic User Interface for Playing Video Data - A graphic user interface is provided to facilitate a playback of a movie from any desired point. The graphic user interface includes a track bar to reflect how much time data pertaining to the movie title is available for playback. After it is determined that a current data point is being dragged along the track bar, a time corresponding to the current data point is tracked as such a subsequent playback of the movie starts right from the current data point. In one embodiment, dragging the current data point along the track bar is achieved by a scroll wheel. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177341 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DECODER AND DECODER FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD - A method for controlling a multimedia decoder that can simultaneously access different programs from different sources and/or of different qualities, wherein the decoder can operate in a multitask mode such that it controls the display and/or recording of a first program simultaneously with the display and/or recording of a second program, wherein the decoder performs the following steps: the step of identifying the resources available for displaying and/or recording programs accessible by the decoder; the step of determining the resources required for displaying and/or recording each of the programs accessible by the decoder; and the step in multitask mode of inhibiting a displaying and/or recording control of one of these programs when the resources required by the ordered program are higher than the available resources of the decoder. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177342 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A playback apparatus and method that executes an application while playing back a digital stream. A mixer is configured to, when a flag included in a playlist is set to ON, mix an output of a click sound using sound data with an audio output of the digital stream when a user performs an operation on an application while the application is executed. When the flag is set to OFF, the mixer refrains from mixing the output of the click sound with the audio output. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177343 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A recording medium records a main-view stream, a sub-view stream, and management information. The management information includes a system rate for each stream, and each stream is divided into a plurality of data blocks that form a plurality of extent blocks. In each extent block, main-view data blocks and sub-view data blocks are in a continuous interleaved arrangement. A main-view data block and sub-view data block forming a single pair each have a maximum size that is determined by the following conditions: (i) the system rate of the sub-view stream, (ii) whether the pair is the top pair within the extent block, and (iii) whether a long jump region exists between the recording areas of two extent blocks that are to be read continuously. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177344 | DATA CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA BACKUP APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data control apparatus includes: a separating unit for separating material data included in original video and audio files into a used portion and an unused portion, based on editing information indicating the used portion of the material data in the video and audio files, and generating first data including only the used portion and second data including only the unused portion; a connection information generation unit for generating connection information associating information about positions of the first data and the second data in the original video and audio files with information about positions of the first data and the second data on an external recording medium; and a formatting unit for arranging the first data, the second data, the connection information, and the editing information in a predetermined order, and outputting, as backup data, the first data, the second data, the connection information, and the editing information. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177345 | Automated Video Creation Techniques - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically creating videos from text. A video creation system automatically creates videos from text. The text to be converted is received. Images are located that corresponds to the subject matter in the text. Music for the video is selected. A spoken version of the text is created using text-to-speech conversion, or through an uploaded recording. A video is created using the images, music, and voice. The video is made available for playback, downloading, and/or submission to other systems. A blog/web site plug-in is disclosed that automatically creates a video from an article on the site. An automated video creation system is disclosed that includes a video creation module that receives text, images, music, video, and/or narration from a user. The video creation module creates the video from the user input along with programmatically selected inputs that include text, images, music, video, and/or narration. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177346 | STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE METHOD, AND COMPUTER- READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING VIDEO DATA - A storage device generates low frame rate video data by frame thinning high frame rate video data input. The storage device performs image synthesis on the low frame rate video data and the high frame rate video data, for which video data input has been delayed, into two screens. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177347 | BROADCAST RECORDING DEVICE AND BROADCAST RECORDING METHOD - The present invention discloses a broadcast recording device that generates a partial transport stream from a transport stream representing information of one or more channels as a transport packet group. The device includes a reduction recording unit that generates the partial transport stream by using a filtered transport packet group made by deleting at least one of a caption transport packet and a data broadcast transport packet from the transport packet group representing the information of one recording channel selected from the one or more channels. The reduction recording unit records the generated partial transport stream in a recording media. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177348 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD AND MEDIA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A media processing method for performing media processing by causing a processor to execute plural program modules, includes controlling input/output of media data, determining at least one call time, and calling a second program module in a second layer at each determined call time, by executing a first program module in a first layer, the first layer being higher than the second layer. The method further includes causing the processor to perform data conversion on the media data, by executing the second program module in the second layer, the data conversion being part of the media processing. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177349 | DEVICE PLACED INTO A SHOWER HEAD FOR RECOVERY OF ENERGY USED DURING A SHOWER - This patent refers to a new technological development that concerns the electric equipment industry, specifically for those dedicated to producing electric shower heads, earmarked to reduce the consumption of electrical energy by offering an energy efficiency of around 60%. The object of this patent is principally intended for electrical showers, for the above mentioned reasons, however, its inventive concept may be applied to gas shower heads, in the sector of boilers and industries that use heated water or steam in their production processes, faucets heated for hotels, restaurants, dry cleaners and others, and may also be used in large amounts of water, for example, for swimming pools and any other systems where the reuse of heat energy can be applied by recirculating water or heated steam. The design applied to the embodiments presented is based on the principal of water circulation in a closed circuit in appropriate chambers, placed contiguously with the shower head or inside it. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177350 | PHOTOGRAPHY STAND - An apparatus comprising a platform with a center area and a platform support structure rotatively supporting said platform from outside a safe area adjacent to a plane through said platform's rotational axis whereby an image capture device may be positioned longitudinally throughout a range of angles within the safe area about a subject placed on said platform's center area such that the platform support structure will not substantially interfere visually with the imaging of the subject by appearing in said image capture device's field of view in front of or behind the subject. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177351 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes a three-axis acceleration detector, an inclination calculator to calculate an amount of inclination of the imaging device according to an output value of the acceleration detector, a determining element to determine whether or not the imaging device is dropping or receiving an impact according to the output value of the acceleration detector, a mode switching element to set the acceleration detector to be in either an electronic level mode or an impact detection mode by changing at least one of a measuring range and a sampling rate of the acceleration detector, and a storing element to store detected acceleration data in time series. When the determining element determines that the imaging device has dropped or received an impact in the impact detection mode, the storing element stores acceleration data detected at a time when the drop or impact has occurred. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177352 | COMBINED AMBIENT AND FLASH EXPOSURE FOR IMPROVED IMAGE QUALITY - A method for capturing an improved archival image using an electronic image capture device having a flash, comprising: capturing at least two preview images of a scene at different capture times using the image capture device; determining a scene brightness; using a processor to analyze the captured preview images to determine a motion velocity for the scene; determining a flash exposure setting and an ambient exposure setting responsive to a ratio between the determined scene brightness and the determined motion velocity; and capturing an archival image using the determined flash exposure setting and the determined ambient exposure setting. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177353 | Laser Point of View and Camera Focus Assist Device and Method of Use - A camera aiming and focus assist device using a laser to generate a point of view beam, and method of using the device is disclosed. The device projects a visible beam of light to create a focus spot on an intended subject to be photographed which allows a photographer to select a subject without looking through the camera view finder, and which allows the camera to focus on the desired subject in low light situations or in crowded or obstructed fields of view. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177354 | DRIVING DEVICE, LENS BARREL, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - Provided is a lens barrel includes a vibration actuator that drives a focusing lens which brings a subject image into focus; an amplifying section that applies a pair of driving signals amplified to the vibration actuator; a phase shifting section that changes a phase difference between the pair of the driving signals; and a control section that, when a signal for giving an instruction to drive the vibration actuator is input, executes a first processing of causing the phase shifting section to perform an operation which periodically changes the phase difference of the pair of the driving signals. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177355 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - A lens barrel is a lens barrel that can be mounted to a camera body, including a lens element, a lens support frame, an actuator, an electrical contact, and an electrical substrate. The lens support frame supports the lens element. The actuator is arranged to drive the lens support frame in an optical direction of the lens element, and includes a drive shaft and a detector configured to detect rotation of the drive shaft. The electrical contact is disposed on the opposite side from the actuator with respect to the lens element when viewed in the optical axis direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens element, and is configured to be electrically connected with the camera body. The electrical substrate is disposed on the outer peripheral side of the lens element and cut out at a portion corresponding to the actuator when viewed in the optical axis direction. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177356 | Methods and Apparatus for Full-Resolution Light-Field Capture and Rendering - Method and apparatus for full-resolution light-field capture and rendering. A radiance camera is described in which the microlenses in a microlens array are focused on the image plane of the main lens instead of on the main lens, as in conventional plenoptic cameras. The microlens array may be located at distances greater than ƒ from the photosensor, where ƒ is the focal length of the microlenses. Radiance cameras in which the distance of the microlens array from the photosensor is adjustable, and in which other characteristics of the camera are adjustable, are described. Digital and film embodiments of the radiance camera are described. A full-resolution light-field rendering method may be applied to light-fields captured by a radiance camera to render higher-resolution output images than are possible with conventional plenoptic cameras and rendering methods. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177357 | HOUSING ASSEMBLY AND SURVEILLANCE CAMERA APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A housing assembly and a surveillance camera apparatus including the housing assembly are provided. The housing assembly includes a dome cover which receives a photographing component therein; an air blower which provides air to the dome cover; and a duct through which the air provided from the air blower is discharged to the dome cover. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177358 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COUPLING A COVER TO AN ENCLOSURE - An electronic device can include different components providing different functionality. Some electronic devices can include a proximity sensor for determining when a user's face is near the device. The sensor can include an emitter and a detector that are separated by a foam block to limit cross-talk between the emitter and detector. A sheet can be placed over the foam block to define openings for each of the emitter and detector. Some electronic devices can also include a camera. A glass cover secured to the device enclosure can protect the camera. To improve an adhesive bond between the glass cover and a metal enclosure, an ink layer can be placed between an adhesive and the glass. In addition, the camera or another component may need to be grounded to ensure proper operation. During assembly, however, the position of the camera can shift due to closing an enclosure. A grounding assembly that maintains contact with the camera in its initial and final positions can be provided. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177359 | FOCAL PLANE SHUTTER AND OPTICAL DEVICE USING SAME - A focal plane shutter includes: a board including an opening; blades capable of opening and closing the opening; a drive member movable between a start position and a terminal position, biased toward the terminal position, and driving the blades; a brake member supported to abut and move away from the drive member positioned at the terminal position, and biased to abut the drive member positioned at the terminal position; and a set member rotatable in only one direction, and moving the drive member from the terminal position to the start position; wherein the set member includes a drive portion abutting the brake member to move the brake member away from the drive member and then abutting the drive member to move the drive member toward the start position. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177360 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND REPORTING METHOD FOR REPORTING FAULT - A transmission apparatus includes a processor that is operative to terminate a first line performing a communication using a digital wrapper, to terminate a signal on a second line performing a communication using Gigabit Ethernet, to apply a transparent transcoding process to a terminated signal and the signal received from the second line and to output these signals; and wherein when a fault occurs in a communication performed through the first line and when there is no response for a predetermined time period after an auto negotiation restart signal is reported to an opposite apparatus on a second line side, to report information indicating an occurrence of the fault to the opposite apparatus by using a signal of a MAC (Media Access Control) frame format. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177361 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, STATION-SIDE OPTICAL-LINE TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND USER-SIDE OPTICAL-LINE TERMINAL APPARATUS - An ONU includes the optical transceiver capable of an operation in a power-saving mode in which power consumption is reduced by stopping transmission while continuing reception, and a control device that controls to tentatively validate transmission of the optical transceiver and outputs a response signal when a control signal is received from an OLT during an operation in a power-saving state. Moreover, the OLT includes the control device that allocates a transmission bandwidth to the ONU even while the optical transceiver of the ONU operates in a power-saving mode and stops transmission and determines whether a communication failure occurs or the ONU is in operation in a power-saving mode based on the response signal received by a transceiver of the OLT. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177362 | System and Method for Monitoring a Branched Optical Communication System - A system and method for monitoring an optical communication system. The system may include trunk terminals coupled through a trunk path and a branch terminal coupled the trunk path. A monitoring signal routing device within the branch terminal routes a monitoring signal from a branch-drop path to a branch-add path. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177363 | OPTICAL SIGNAL OUTPUT APPARATUS, ELECTRICAL SIGNAL OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND TEST APPARATUS - To efficiently apply jitter to an optical signal using a simple configuration, provided is an optical signal output apparatus that outputs an optical pulse pattern signal including jitter, the optical signal generating apparatus comprising a light source section that outputs an optical signal having an optical frequency corresponding to a frequency control signal; an optical modulation section that modulates the optical signal output by the light source section, according to a designated pulse pattern; and an optical jitter generating section that delays an optical signal passed by the optical modulation section according to the optical frequency, to apply jitter to the optical signal. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY IN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS - In order to improve the link adjacency discovery in an Optical Transport Network, a method and related network nodes are provided. A first network node ( | 2012-07-12 |
20120177365 | Secure Data Transmission Using Spatial Multiplexing - An example apparatus includes a mode selective detector, a measurement module, a difference calculator and a threshold and alarm module. The mode selective detector detects a plurality of modes of a spatially multiplexed signal. The measurement module measures a parameter for the plurality of modes of the spatially multiplexed signal, wherein the parameter is a power or a signal to noise ratio (SNR). The difference calculator compares the measured parameter among a subset modes and/or among a known set of unperturbed parameters and determines a differential, the subset including at least one mode. The threshold and alarm module sets an alarm indicator when the differential is out of bounds. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177366 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR IN SERVICE RAMAN GAIN MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING - The invention refers a method and an arrangement for in service Raman gain measurements and monitoring of a wavelength division multiplex system. By measuring the power level values of a transmitted WDM signal (WMS_TX) and an optical supervisory signal (OSS_TX) at the transmitter and the power level values of the received signals (WMS_RX; OSS_RX) the Raman gain can be calculated for the different channels. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING THE GAIN OF AN AMPLIFIER OF AN OPTICAL RECEIVER MODULE BASED ON LINK BIT ERROR RATE (BER) MEASUREMENTS - An open loop gain adjustment method and apparatus are provided for adjusting the gain of a TIA of an optical RX module based on measurements of the BER of the optical link in which the optical RX module is employed. The gain of the TIA is adjusted until a determination is made that a satisfactory or optimum link BER has been achieved. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177368 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION APPARATUS - In an optical transmission apparatus, an optical-to-electrical converter converts a received optical signal into an electrical signal, and an amplifier amplifies the resulting electrical signal. A plurality of analog-to-digital converters then convert the amplified electrical signal from analog form to digital form in a time-interleaved manner to produce digital outputs. When correcting the analog-to-digital converters, a controller varies the gain of the amplifier in such a way that a total amplitude or an average amplitude indicated by the digital outputs of the analog-to-digital converters will be equal to or greater than a specified threshold. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177369 | Automatic Power Adjustment System and Method for Optical Network System - An apparatus and method for automatic power adjustment of an optical network system are provided by the present invention. In the automatic power adjustment system which includes a plurality of electric-adjustable optical attenuators and a power adjustment module configured in a network management board: each OA board, i.e. optical amplification board and each service forwarding board respectively report their power relevant parameters to the power adjustment module; the power adjustment module judges whether an adjustment is required for an OA board and/or a service forwarding board after performing calculation according to the power parameters reported by each OA board and each service forwarding board, and when determining that the adjustment is required, triggers the adjustable optical attenuator on the corresponding OA board and/or the service forwarding board to perform the power adjustment. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177370 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING AN iSNS SERVER IN A NETWORK OF FIBRE CHANNEL OVER ETHERNET DEVICES - Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for assigning Fibre Channel Domain identifiers with an iSNS Server, a Fibre Channel over Ethernet device interconnection apparatus controller (FIAC), and a Fibre Channel over Ethernet device interconnection apparatus (FIA). A Request Domain Identifier iSNS protocol message is sent from a FCoE device interconnection apparatus controller (FIAC) to a iSNS Server. A Fibre Channel Initialization Protocol (FIP) Fabric Login (FLOGI) frame is received from a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) device by a FCoE device interconnection apparatus (FIA). The FIAC assigns a new Fibre Channel address identifier using the Domain Identifier assigned from the Request Domain Identifier response. At the FIAC, a FIP link service accept (LS_ACC) response is transmitted to the FIP FLOGI comprising the newly assigned Fibre Channel address identifier at the FIAC. At the FIA, the FIP LS_ACC is forwarded to the FCoE device that transmitted the FIP FLOGI frame. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177371 | MULTIPLE STAR WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS USING A WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT METHOD - The present invention discloses a multiple star wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network system using a wavelength assignment method. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177372 | Apparatus And Method For Generating Interleaved Return-To-Zero (IRZ) Polarization-Division Multiplexed (PDM) Signals - Return To Zero (RZ) shaping is performed for a first I/Q modulator whose output corresponds to a first polarization component using a first two digital-to-analog convertors (DACs), each of which is sampled at approximately twice a modulation symbol rate or more and has an output with a first interleaving order that interleaves one of a first pair of intended drive signal patterns and zeros. RZ shaping is also performed for a second I/Q modulator whose output corresponds to a second polarization component using a second two DACs, each sampled at approximately twice the modulation symbol rate or more and having a second interleaving order that interleaves zeros and one of a second pair of intended drive signal patterns, the second interleaving order opposite the first interleaving order. The first polarization and the second polarization may be combined, thereby forming an Interleaved Return To Zero (IRZ) Polarization Division Multiplexed (PDM) signal. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177373 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSMITTING SIGNALS BETWEEN NODES OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system has a plurality of nodes adapted to provide for a communication with one or more devices, a central node, a passive optical network having a multiplexer/demultiplexer device adapted to demultiplex a first optical signal from the central node to the plurality of nodes, and to multiplex second optical signals from one or more of the nodes, each node having allocated a wavelength for generating its optical signal, wherein for directly transmitting signals from one node to at least one of the other nodes, the one node is adapted to generate an optical signal at the wavelength allocated to the at least one of the other nodes, the optical signal including the signal to be transmitted, and wherein the multiplexer/demultiplexer device of the passive optical network is adapted to combine the optical signal from the one node with the first optical signal. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177374 | QUANTUM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A quantum communication system including a sending unit and a receiving unit, said sending unit comprising a photon source assembly configured to output a stream of pulses of light having at least two different intensities and a memory configured to store information for determining which pulses should be reference pulses and which pulses should be data pulses, the average intensity of reference pulses being different to the average intensity of data pulses, the receiving unit comprising a memory for storing information for identifying the position of reference pulses within the stream of pulses and a processor for determining the calibration of the quantum communication system from the reference pulses. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177375 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY THAT HAS OPTICAL AND HIGH DATA RATE ELECTRICAL CAPABILITIES AND THAT IS BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WITH EARLIER UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB) STANDARDS - A connector assembly is provided that has optical communications capabilities and high data rate electrical communications capabilities and that is backwards compatible with one or more USB standards. A socket of the connector assembly has high data rate electrical connections and USB electrical connections such that it is capable of supporting high data rate signaling protocols for high data rate devices as well as USB signaling protocols. A plug of the connector assembly has high data rate electrical connections, USB electrical connections, and an optical-to-electrical (OE)/electrical-to-optical (EO) conversion module. The socket can be mated with the plug of the invention and with USB plugs that are compliant with existing USB plugs. Thus, both the socket and the plug have backwards compatibility with one or more existing USB standards. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177376 | Conformal Hybrid EO/RF Aperture - A conformal hybrid elctro-optical/radio frequency (EO/RF) aperture including an optical phased array (OPA) in a center portion of the aperture, and a variable inclination continuous transverse stub (VICTS) RF antenna surrounding the OPA using a plurality of continuous transverse stub (CTS) subarrays. | 2012-07-12 |
20120177377 | CABLE CLAMP-ON DEVICE INCLUDING A USER INTERFACE - In an illustrative embodiment, a cable clamp ( | 2012-07-12 |