29th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130182823 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - An X-ray imaging apparatus has an electronic cassette, in which an FPD device receives X-rays applied by an X-ray source to a body, and stores charge according to a radiation dose of the X-rays, to create an image. A control unit controls the FPD device. A radiation sensor detects the radiation dose to be used for controlling the FPD device. A magnet as fastening device secures the radiation sensor removably in a radiation path between the X-ray source and the body. Also, an evaluation unit recognizes a start and end of application of the X-rays according to a dose signal from the radiation sensor, for the control unit to control the FPD device. A flexible support arm is disposed between the radiation sensor and the magnet, for keeping the radiation sensor in a changeable position relative to the magnet. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182824 | SAMPLE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A hair sample analysis system; said system comprising multiple sample arrays located within a container, an automated drive mechanism for removing an individual array from said container and for urging a. hair sample of said sample array to a first approximate location, and a monitoring and control system, for adjustment of said drive mechanism to locate said hair sample into substantial coincidence with an X-ray diffraction beam; locating said sample in substantial coincidence with said X-ray diffraction beam; irradiating said sample with said beam for a predetermined time; receiving and storing for analysis data derived from said step of irradiating said hair sample; repeating said steps for a consecutive one of said hair 5 samples from said sample array; returning said sample array to its original location in said container and removing another array from said sample container and repeating said steps for consecutive arrays. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182825 | X-RAY TUBE CATHODE WITH MAGNETIC ELECTRON BEAM STEERING - An x-ray tube cathode with magnetic electron beam steering. In one example embodiment, an x-ray tube cathode includes a cathode head and an electron emitter. The cathode head includes electrically conductive and non-magnetic material integrated with magnetic material. The cathode head defines an emitter slot in a portion of electrically conductive and non-magnetic material positioned between two portions of magnetic material. The electron emitter is positioned within the emitter slot. The electron emitter is configured to emit a beam of electrons. The beam of electrons is configured to be both focused by the electrically conductive and non-magnetic material and steered during beam formation by the magnetic material. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182826 | RADIATION GENERATING APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - Radiation generating apparatus includes an envelope and a radiation tube disposed inside the envelop. A cooler is connected to the envelope at an inlet port and an outlet port. Coolant circulates between the cooler and the envelope through the inlet port and outlet port. A partition plate divides the inside of the envelope into a first chamber on the side of the radiation tube and a second chamber on the side of the inlet port. An air bubble chamber provided at an upper portion of the second chamber collects air bubbles formed in the coolant. A protrusion projecting toward the second chamber is provided at an end of the partition plate on the side of the opening. Since the air bubbles are moved due to buoyancy force or inertial force when the apparatus is rotated, it is possible to prevent radiation from passing through the air bubbles. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182827 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a curved portion and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure made of different substances periodically arrayed perpendicular to a guiding direction. A critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at a core-cladding interface is larger than a Bragg angle of the periodic structure. A critical angle for the total reflection of the X-ray at a substance interface in the periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle. When s is a core width in a direction perpendicular to the guiding direction and parallel to a curvature radius of the curved portion, n | 2013-07-18 |
20130182828 | X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray imaging apparatus comprises an X-ray source; a housing configured to accommodate the X-ray source; and a plurality of supporting legs each connected to the housing via a movable connecting portion and configured to support the housing, wherein each of the supporting legs can change, by the movable connecting portion, a support angle made by a ground plane and the supporting leg. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182829 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS - Alignment systems and associated methods of using such systems to help aim an x-ray source at an x-ray detector are described in this application. The alignment systems can contain an electromagnetic radiation transmitter (or receiver) that is associated with the x-ray detector and an electromagnetic radiation receiver (or transmitter) that is associated with the x-ray source. Electromagnetic radiation produced by the electromagnetic radiation transmitter can be detected by the receiver and used to align the x-ray source and the x-ray detector in the x-ray device. In some configurations, the electromagnetic radiation transmitter contains a radio-frequency (RF) antenna (or antenna array) that is attached in a fixed position relative to the x-ray detector and the electromagnetic radiation receiver also contains an RF antenna (or antenna array) that is in a fixed position relative to the x-ray detector. Other embodiments are described. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182830 | LINE LOSS TESTER - A portable signal testing system includes a transmitter, a first dynamically tunable receiver, a second dynamically tunable receiver, a first indicator and a second indicator. The transmitter transmits over a wired communications link a first signal having a corresponding first frequency representative of a first frequency range of the wired communications link, and transmits over the wired communications link a second signal having a corresponding second frequency representative of a second frequency range of the wired communications link. Signal losses for the first signal and second signal are measured, and indicators indicate whether the signal losses are acceptable. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182831 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL GENERAL PURPOSE TRANSCEIVERS & DEVICES - The present invention is generally directed to a system and associated method for communicating information. In some embodiments, the invention is directed to a general purpose transceiver having a receiver for receiving an information signal and a transmitter configured to transmit an outgoing signal to a central station. A portion of the information signal can include an instruction code, which may be decoded and acted upon accordingly. Other embodiments and features are also claimed and described. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182832 | USER-BASED AUTHENTICATION FOR REALTIME COMMUNICATIONS - Architecture for a communications system enabling a user to provision a telephone at a new location without network administrative pre-configuring. An input component (e.g., keypad) receives a numeric extension and PIN. The extension is a telephone extension of the user and the PIN can be administratively assigned. A location component provides location information of an enterprise communications server to the telephone based on the extension. The telephone uses the location information to send messages to the enterprise communications server. A registration component registers the telephone with the enterprise communications server based on the numeric extension. A telephony address is returned to the telephone. An authentication component authenticates the telephone based on the PIN. Upon authentication, the extension is assigned to the telephone, and telephone communications can be sent and received from that location. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182833 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system including a plurality of terminals; and a switchboard connected to the terminals, includes a means for causing each of the terminals to register an identifier and an address of the terminal itself in the switchboard; a means for, when one of the terminals transmits a request of transmitting a list of the terminals connected to the switchboard, causing the switchboard to transmit the list of the terminals to the terminal that transmits the request; a means for, when the terminal that transmits the request selects one of the terminals from the list and transmits the identifier of the selected terminal to the switchboard, causing the switchboard to transmit the address of the selected terminal to the terminal that transmits the request; and a means for causing the terminal that transmits the request to establish a communication with the selected terminal using the received address and a default port number. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182834 | Method and System to Connect Consumers to Information - This invention provides for a method of (or apparatus for) facilitating the delivery of advice to consumers using a server unit which can store and display the names and characteristics of experts and then rapidly assist in connecting the expert and consumer for real-time communication. The server can also have the ability to receive keywords from the consumer, match those keywords to one or more experts, and tell the consumer how to contact an expert. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182835 | System and Method of Intelligent Call Routing for Cross Sell Offer Selection based on Optimization Parameters or Account-level Data - An apparatus and methods for a call routing system is disclosed whereby the call routing service provider is associated with a series of partners. By providing a system supporting not only the main user, but also the partners, efficiencies are gained through cost-spreading. Agents can be qualified to field calls for multiple business entities. Cross-selling and proactive servicing based on caller demographic and profile data can be effectuated. The system employs a centralized or global bank of shared Interactive Voice Response (IVR) units so that unnecessary post-routing and call site interflow are reduced. The system comprises a central server system that interfaces with a long distance provider so that route requests are received, caller data is retrieved from one or more databases, routing and handling strategies are developed, load balancing is effectuated, and calls are appropriately routed to one of a plurality of geographically separated call center systems with queues staffed by agents. Each call center system is designed to support various queues, and agents may be qualified or assigned to various queues based on their skill sets and skill levels. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182836 | SECRET SHARING SYSTEM, SECRET SHARING APPARATUS, SECRET SHARING METHOD, SECRET SORTING METHOD, SECRET SHARING PROGRAM - A secret sharing system according to the present invention includes N secret sharing apparatuses. The secret sharing system according to the present invention includes fragment replacement means and reshare means. The fragment replacement means selects a number, smaller than N, of secret sharing apparatuses, generates a bijection π of {1, . . . , K}→{1, . . . , K}among the selected secret sharing apparatuses and designates a fragment a | 2013-07-18 |
20130182837 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING SOFTWARE ACCESS TO NAVIGATIONAL DATA IN A DECRYPTED MEDIA STREAM WHILE PROTECTING STREAM PAYLOADS - A method, apparatus and system enabling software access to navigational data in a decrypted media stream while protecting stream payloads. In one embodiment, a filter may route an encrypted content stream and associated information to a secure partition having a trusted computing component for decryption. Upon decryption, the trusted computing component may store the decrypted payload of the content in a secure storage location accessible to the trusted computing component. Thereafter, the decrypted navigational header information of the content may be used to navigate to the decrypted content via a trusted component such as a trusted rendering unit in the secure partition. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182838 | Method and apparatus for generating a privilege-based key - Disclosed is a method for generating a privilege-based key using a computer. In the method, a privilege is received from an application, and verified as being associated with the application. The computer cryptographically generates a second key using a first key and the privilege. The second key is provided to the application. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182839 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND IC CARD - In power residue calculation in a primality determination, in addition to the conventional randomization of an exponent, a modulus is also randomized. A random number generated by a random number generator is set to a randomizing number, and is input to a modulus generator and an exponent generator. The modulus generator and the exponent generator randomize a prime number candidate P using the randomizing number to generate a randomized modulus R | 2013-07-18 |
20130182840 | System and Method of Lawful Access to Secure Communications - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for secure communications. In some aspects, a method of signalling an interception time period is described. At least one keying information used by a KMF to regenerate a key is stored. A start_interception message is signaled from an ADMF to a CSCF. A halt_message is signaled from the ADMF to the CSCF. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182841 | System and Method of Lawful Access to Secure Communications - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for secure communications. In some aspects, an initiator KMS receives, from an initiator UE, one or more values used in generation of an encryption key, which includes obtaining at least one value associated with a RANDRi. The initiator KMS sends the at least one value associated with the RANDRi to a responder KMS. The responder KMS generates the encryption key using the one or more values. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KEY SPACE DIVISION AND SUB-KEY DERIVATION FOR MIXED MEDIA DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT CONTENT - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for key space division and sub-key derivation for mixed media digital rights management content and secure digital asset distribution. A system practicing the exemplary method derives a set of family keys from a master key associated with an encrypted media asset using a one-way function, wherein each family key is uniquely associated with a respective client platform type, wherein the master key is received from a server account database, and identifies a client platform type for a client device and a corresponding family key from the set of family keys. The system encrypts an encrypted media asset with the corresponding family key to yield a platform-specific encrypted media asset, and transmits the platform-specific encrypted media asset to the client device. Thus, different client devices receive device-specific encrypted assets which can be all derived based on the same master key. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182843 | System and Method of Lawful Access to Secure Communications - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for secure communications. In some aspects, one or more values used to generate an encryption key used to encrypt a packet are stored in a header of the packet. The packet is transmitted with the encrypted data portion in a communication. In some aspects, one or more values used to generate an encryption key are received. The encryption key is regenerated using the one or more values. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182844 | TERMINAL APPARATUSES AND BASE STATION APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING A SIGNAL CONTAINING PREDETERMINED INFORMATION - When a first symmetric key table is received, a storage unit stores the received first symmetric key table that indicates a plurality of kinds of symmetric keys. The storage unit also stores beforehand a second symmetric key table in an area larger than an area where the first symmetric key table is usable. A determining unit determines whether or not a terminal apparatus is present within the area where the first symmetric key table is usable. When the terminal apparatus is determined to be present within the area, a verification unit generates a digital signature with a symmetric key contained in the first symmetric key table. When, on the other hand, the terminal apparatus is determined to be present outside the area, the verification unit generates the digital signature with a symmetric key contained in the second symmetric key table. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182845 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN DEVICES USING A TRUSTED SERVER - A method of establishing secure communication between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device includes receiving a first request from the first mobile computing device to securely communicate with the second mobile computing device via a Wi Fi hot spot, verifying that the first mobile computing device is trusted, generating a public key and a private key based on a trusted certificate, sending the private key to the first mobile computing device via the Wi-Fi hot spot, receiving a second request from the second mobile computing device to securely communicate with the first mobile computing device, verifying that the second mobile computing device is trusted, and sending the public key to the second mobile computing device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182846 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR SETTING FREQUENCY BAND FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS USING ENCRYPTION KEY INFORMATION TO PREDETERMINED FREQUENCY BAND - A controller receives first or second equipment identifier from a first wireless communication apparatus, by using one wireless communication circuit of the third and fourth wireless communication circuit. When the one wireless communication circuit is the fourth wireless communication circuit, the controller sets an encryption key information for wireless communications with the first wireless communication apparatus, to encryption key information including an equipment identifier that does not coincide with a received equipment identifier among the received plurality of encryption key information, and controls the third wireless communication circuit to transmit and receive encrypted transmission data to and from the first wireless communication apparatus by using key data included in set encryption key information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182847 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention provides easy and prompt initiation of wireless communications in which security is ensured requiring additional hardware. A connection button of a PDA or first device is operated and a connection request is broadcast. If the PDA and a portable phone are in near each other, and a reception intensity of the connection request is equal to or higher than a threshold value, a request of the PDA is granted by the portable phone. Then, an encryption key is newly generated by the portable phone, and is transmitted to the PDA. An encryption key and communication parameter transmitted from the portable phone are acquired. Encrypted communications using the encryption key generated by the portable phone are established based on the communication parameter. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182848 | SECURE GROUP MESSAGING - A method for securing at least one message transferred in a communication system from a first computing device to a second computing device in a peer-to-peer manner. At the first computing device, an identity based authenticated key exchange session is established with a third computing device operating as a peer authenticator. The identity based authenticated key exchange session has an identity based authenticated session key associated therewith. The first computing device obtains from the third computing device a random key component of the second computing device, wherein the random key component of the second computing device is encrypted by the third computing device using the identity based authenticated session key prior to sending the random key component of the second computing device to the first computing device. A peer-to-peer messaging key is computed at the first computing device using the random key component of the second computing device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182849 | Contact management system and method - In an embodiment of a method of providing contact information, the method includes creating a contact record in a contact management system, where a process associated with a subject of the contact record and/or a recipient of data associated with the contact record is included in creating the contact record. A unique serial number is generated corresponding to the contact record and the serial number is conveyed to the recipient. A request by an application is received for the contact record from the contact management system corresponding to the serial number and data associated with the contact record is transmitted to the application. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182850 | Circuits and Methods to Reduce Pin Count of a Single Channel Device with a Multi-Channel Serial Interface - A channel selection circuit in a serial audio communication device provides channel selection for insertion or extraction of data to or from a multiplexed serial data stream without the requirement of extra channel selection inputs. The channel selection circuit has multiple counters structured such that each counter represents a channel of the serial data stream. The input of each counter receives one of the multiple synchronizing timing signals. The input of the designated counter receives one timing signal that has the greatest frequency. The remaining counters receive the word select timing signals for determining which channel is being selected. A ready output of each counter is a channel indicator in communication with multiple signal selection circuits for selecting the multiple timing signals to be transferred to a data processing device for inserting or extracting data to or from the multiplexed serial data stream. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182851 | PROCESSOR FOR AN FM SIGNAL RECEIVER AND PROCESSING METHOD - A processing unit for processing a multi-channel audio signal has a delay element ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182852 | DIRECT-DIFFUSE DECOMPOSITION - There is disclosed methods and apparatus for decomposing a signal having a plurality of channels into direct and diffuse components. The correlation coefficient between each pair of signals from the plurality of signals may be estimated. A linear system of equations relating the estimated correlation coefficients and direct energy fractions of each of the plurality of channels may be constructed. The linear system may be solved to estimate the direct energy fractions. A direct component output signal and a diffuse component output signal may be generated based in part on the direct energy fractions. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182853 | Multi-Channel Down-Mixing Device - A down-mixing device is provided. 5.1-channel sounds are down-mixed into 4-channel sounds with high-quality multi-channel surrounding sound effect reappeared. A common-acoustic-pole and zero (CAPZ) model is used to rebuild frequency responses of original head-related transfer functions (HRTF). Direct sounds, reflection sounds and late reverberation in a spatial sound field are gathered. Thus, varieties of sounds become rich and 3-dimensional hearing experiences are enhanced with low cost for a 4-channel earphones system. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182854 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE AND METHOD - An audio coding device that uses a first-channel signal, a second-channel signal, and a plurality of channel prediction coefficients included in a code book, according to which predictive coding is performed on a third-channel signal, the first-channel signal, the second-channel signal, and the third-channel signal being included in a plurality of channels of an audio signal, the device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, determining a distribution of error defined by a difference between the third-channel signal before predictive coding and the third-channel signal after predictive coding as a given curved surface according to the first-channel signal, the second-channel signal, and the third-channel signal before predictive coding; and calculating channel prediction coefficients, included in the code book. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182855 | MULTIMEDIA PLAYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING MODULATED SOUND ACCORDING TO HEARING CHARACTERISTIC OF USER - Multimedia playing apparatuses and methods of measuring hearing characteristics of a user and outputting a sound modulated according to the hearing characteristics of the user are provided. A multimedia playing apparatus includes a sound output unit configured to output a sound comprising of one or more phonemes, and a user interface configured to receive a user response to the phonemes. The multimedia playing apparatus further includes a processor configured to acquire hearing characteristics of a user based on the user response, and determine an output level and/or an output time of the sound for each of frequency bands based on the hearing characteristics of the user. The sound output unit is further configured to output the sound according to the output level and/or the output time of the sound for each of the frequency bands. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182856 | RECORDING AND PLAYBACK DEVICE CAPABLE OF REPEATED PLAYBACK, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RECORDING AND PLAYBACK METHOD - In a recording and playback device of the present invention, when input data exceeding a threshold value is supplied, the CPU records input data for an amount of time corresponding to a single beat in an area specified by syllable number SPLIT in an input buffer IB of the RAM, and after incrementing the syllable number SPLIT, waits until the recorded data becomes silent. The CPU repeats this series of processing until the value of the incremented syllable number SPLIT reaches “4”, and thereby stores input data recorded for an amount of time corresponding to a single beat in each input buffer IB(1) to IB(4) corresponding to syllable numbers SPLIT1 to SPLIT4. Then, the CPU copies the input data to the recording area of the RAM such that these input data are sequentially connected and formed into loop data for an amount of time corresponding to a single bar. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182857 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound emitted from a source different from the particular source if the sound determination portion determines that the input sound includes the first sound, and a sound mixing portion operable to mix the first sound and the second sound separated by the sound separation portion at a prescribed volume ratio. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182858 | AUGMENTED REALITY WITH SOUND AND GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS - A method for responding in an augmented reality (AR) application of a mobile device to an external sound is disclosed. The mobile device detects a target. A virtual object is initiated in the AR application. Further, the external sound is received, by at least one sound sensor of the mobile device, from a sound source. Geometric information between the sound source and the target is determined, and at least one response for the virtual object to perform in the AR application is generated based on the geometric information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182859 | AUDIO SYSTEM WITH SYNTHESIZED POSITIVE IMPEDANCE - An electrical apparatus to sense current through a load includes a first input terminal having a first input voltage relative to a reference, a second input terminal having a second input voltage relative to the reference, a first load terminal of the load having a first load voltage relative to the reference, a second load terminal of the load having a second load voltage relative to the reference, a first current sensing element connected between the first input terminal and the first load terminal and a second current sensing element connected between the second input terminal and the second load terminal. A first sense voltage is determined by a relationship between the first input voltage and the second load voltage and a second sense voltage is determined by a relationship between the second input voltage and the first load voltage. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182860 | UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE DETERMINATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF, HEARING AID ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, AND UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE DETERMINATION APPARATUS - An exemplary uncomfortable sound pressure determination system including: a sound data generator configured to generate sound data concerning sounds consecutively ascending or descending in sound pressure from first to n | 2013-07-18 |
20130182861 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DOWNLOADING EFFECTS TO AN EFFECTS UNIT - Various embodiments relate to a systems and methods for downloading one or more effects to an effects unit. One or more effects may be received. On an effects unit. Audio signals for the one or more effects may be processed based on instructions for processing the audio signals received with the one or more effects. For each subsequent effect received on the effect unit, the processing of the audio signals may be reprogrammed. The one or more effects may be transmitted for output from the effects unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182862 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING HARMONIC LOCKING - An apparatus for modifying an audio signal includes a filterbank processor, a fundamental determiner, an overtone determiner, a signal processor and a combiner. The filterbank processor generates a plurality of bandpass signals based on an audio signal and the fundamental determiner selects a bandpass signal of the plurality of bandpass signals to obtain a fundamental bandpass signal. The overtone determiner identifies a bandpass signal of the plurality of bandpass signals fulfilling an overtone criterion regarding the selected fundamental bandpass signal to obtain an overtone bandpass signal associated to the selected fundamental bandpass signal. The signal processor modifies the selected fundamental bandpass signal based on a predefined modification target. Additionally, the signal processor modifies an identified overtone bandpass signal associated to the selected fundamental bandpass signal depending on the modification of the selected fundamental bandpass signal. Further, the combiner combines the plurality of bandpass signals to obtain a modified audio signal. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182863 | AUDIO CONTROL APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - An audio control apparatus is adapted for use with an external portable electronic device having display functionality, and includes a data storage device, an operation controller operable to access and process audio data stored in the data storage device, and to output information of the audio data, a user control device operable by a user to control operation of the operation controller, and a function expanding interface coupled to the operation controller and configured to transmit the information of the audio data for reception and subsequent display by the external portable electronic device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182864 | RUNNING-LINKED SOUND PRODUCING DEVICE - A running-linked sound generation unit includes an order sound data generation unit, a random sound data generation unit, and a synthesis unit. The order sound data generation unit generates order sound data by changing the tone of basic order sound data according to a motor rotation speed of a vehicle. The random sound data generation unit generates random sound data by changing the volume of basic random sound data according to a motor rotation speed and an accelerator command value of a vehicle, without changing the tone of the basic random sound data. The synthesis unit generates synthetic sound data by combining synthesized order sound data and random sound data. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182865 | ACOUSTIC FAULT DETECTION OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS WITH ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION - An active noise cancellation fault detector (NCFD) is presented that is configured to cancel normal machine noise in an operator cabin, while allowing noise associated with a machine failure mode to remain so that an operator can hear when a machine component is beginning to fail or is in a failure mode. An NCFD can generate a model waveform of normal noise scaled to machine operating parameters. The model waveform can be inverted and adjusted in gain and phase to provide a cancellation waveform. The invention can be configured to determine operator location within a machine cab so that cancellation signals can be configured with the proper phases to destructively interfere with normal machine noise within a quiet zone or noise suppression envelope around an operator. Noise within the quiet zone can be detected and compared to various fault waveforms to determine whether a machine component is beginning to fail. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182866 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SOUND PROCESSING METHOD - A sound processing apparatus includes an inputting section that inputs a sound signal, an analyzing section that analyzes the input sound signal, a storing section that stores a general-purpose masking sound, a masking sound producing section that, based on a result of the analysis by the analyzing section, processes the general-purpose masking sound stored in the storing section to produce an output masking sound, and an outputting section that outputs the output masking sound. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182867 | Wearing Position Derived Device Operation - Methods and apparatuses for wearing position derived device operation are disclosed. In one example, methods and apparatuses are described herein using capacitive sensors to determine device antenna selection or user interface selection. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182868 | Temporal Interpolation of Adjacent Spectra - Embodiments of the present invention exploit redundancy of succeeding FFT spectra and use this redundancy for computing interpolated temporal supporting points. An analysis filter bank converts overlapped sequences of an audio (ex. loudspeaker) signal from a time domain to a frequency domain to obtain a time series of short-time loudspeaker spectra. An interpolator temporally interpolates this time series. The interpolation is fed to an echo canceller, which computes an estimated echo spectrum. A microphone analysis filter bank converts overlapped sequences of an audio microphone signal from the time domain to the frequency domain to obtain a time series of short-time microphone spectra. The estimated echo spectrum is subtracted from the microphone spectrum. Further signal enhancement (filtration) may be applied. A synthesis filter bank converts the filtered microphone spectra to the time domain to generate an echo compensated audio microphone signal. Computational complexity of signal processing systems can, therefore, be reduced. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182869 | ORTHOGONAL ERGONOMIC SPEAKER - A system and method for an audio system with two or more speakers, drivers, sources and the like is presented. An audio system includes a first speaker that reproduces sounds in a first frequency range and a second speaker that reproduces sounds in second frequency range. A crossover frequency is formed between the first frequency range and the second frequency range. The first speaker and the second speaker are physically separated by more than one wavelength of the crossover frequency and the first speaker is arranged horizontal with respect to the second speaker. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182870 | CROSS PRODUCT ENHANCED SUBBAND BLOCK BASED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITION - The invention provides an efficient implementation of cross-product enhanced high-frequency reconstruction (HFR), wherein a new component at frequency QΩ+Ω | 2013-07-18 |
20130182871 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH FADERS - An electronic device with faders. In order to enable a user to readily ascertain which of a plurality of faders belongs to the same group and which one of the faders in the group is a master fader, indicators of all of the faders in the group are lighted when the thus-set master fader in the grouped faders is operated. When the user operates slave faders, the operation is revoked, and only the indicator corresponding to the master fader is lighted or blinked. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182872 | COMPUTING DEVICE DOCKING TRAY FOR AUDIO MIXER - An audio mixer ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182873 | DEVICE FOR SUPPLEMENTING VOICE INCLUDING SENSING UNIT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A device for supplementing a voice includes: a sensing unit sensing a bio-signal corresponding to a first vibration of vocalization and generating a first signal corresponding to the bio-signal; a vibration unit generating a second vibration using the first signal; and a power unit supplying a power to the sensing unit and the vibration unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182874 | RECHARGEABLE PARTIALLY IMPLANTABLE HEARING INSTRUMENT - A system has an implantable unit and an external unit. The external unit is fixable at the patient's head and has an audio signal source, an audio signal processing unit for processing audio signals from the audio signal source, a rechargeable power source, a transmitter for transmitting processed audio signals via a transcutaneous audio link to the implantable unit and a power transmission coil for transmitting power via a transcutaneous power link to the implantable unit. The implantable unit has a stimulator for a patient's middle ear or inner ear component according to the processed audio signals. The external unit is coupleable to the inductive charging device for inducing an AC voltage in the power transmission coil. The external unit has a recharging circuitry for transforming the AC voltage induced in the power transmission coil by the charging device into a charging current for recharging the rechargeable power source. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182875 | HEARING AID AND A METHOD OF IMPROVED AUDIO REPRODUCTION - A hearing aid comprising a frequency shifter ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182876 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING HEARING ASSISTANCE TO A USER - A method for providing hearing assistance to a user by capturing input audio signals; estimating a speech level of the input audio signals and an ambient noise level of the input audio signals; applying a gain model to the input audio signals to transform the input audio signals into filtered audio signals, wherein, for a each ambient noise level, the gain varies as a function of the speech level and wherein the function varies according to the ambient noise level changing the ratio of the gain at low speech levels and at high speech levels as a function of the ambient noise level; wirelessly transmitting the filtered audio signals to a receiver unit forming or being connected to a user hearing stimulator, the stimulator being worn at or in the user's ear; and stimulating the user's hearing by the stimulator according to audio signals supplied by the receiver unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182877 | RECEIVER SYSTEM FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT - A hearing instrument receiver system for operation in an ear canal of a user for converting audio signals into sound, comprising a lateral receiver, a medial receiver and a flexible joint assembly connecting the medial end of the lateral receiver and the lateral end of the medial receiver in such a manner that the lateral receiver and the medial receiver are pivotable relative to each other in order to follow the shape of the ear canal. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182878 | Vibration Speaker - A vibration speaker includes a screen including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a vibrator disposed below the screen with vibration direction perpendicular to the screen. The screen is actuated to vibrate and generate sound by the vibration of the vibrator. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182879 | PHASE PLUG WITH AXIALLY TWISTED RADIAL CHANNELS - A loudspeaker assembly comprises a casing with a diaphragm loudspeaker mounted in the casing. A phase plug is mounted in the casing adjacent the diaphragm loudspeaker. The phase plug has a central cone with a longitudinal axis extending from an input end adjacent the diaphragm loudspeaker to an output end with its base at the input end tapering to an apex at the output end. A plurality of vanes extend radially outwardly from the central cone with the plurality of vanes being thickest at the input end and progressively thinning toward the output end. Radially outward edges of the plurality of vanes are twisted relative to the longitudinal axis with the degree of twist being progressively greater with increasing proximity to the output end. The plurality of vanes tapers in width along their longitudinal extent from the input end to the output end. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182880 | Integrated Antenna and Electrostatic Discharge Protection - A mobile communications device having an antenna partly formed from an electrostatic discharge shield covering a microphone. The antenna includes a radiator arm extending from the electrostatic discharge shield and includes a feed element connecting the electrostatic discharge shield to a signal trace. To the extent the microphone employs an acoustic tube to form an acoustic pathway between the device casing and the microphone, the radiator arm of the antenna may be arranged over the acoustic tube. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182881 | EARPHONE CONNECTOR - An earphone connector having a plug provided with a cylindrical inserted portion and a locking claw that protrudes from the side surface of the inserted portion, and a receptacle provided with a fitting indentation that encloses at least the front-end portion of the inserted portion and an insertion opening formed in a fitting surface that communicates with the fitting indentation. The insertion opening includes a cylindrical portion through which the inserted portion passes and an indentation through which the locking claw passes. A spring member in contact with the locking claw is disposed within the fitting indentation, so that when the inserted portion is inserted into the insertion opening, the locking claw passes through the indentation and is enclosed within the interior of the fitting indentation and the inserted portion is rotated. The spring force of the spring member causes a moment that further rotates the inserted portion to act on the locking claw. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182882 | POSITIONING AN INPUT TRANSDUCER FOR AN EARPIECE BASED UPON DYNAMIC DATA - The attenuation and other optical properties of a medium are exploited to measure a thickness of the medium between a sensor and a target surface. Disclosed herein are various mediums, arrangements of hardware, and processing techniques that can be used to capture these thickness measurements and obtain dynamic three-dimensional images of the target surface in a variety of imaging contexts. This includes general techniques for imaging interior/concave surfaces as well as exterior/convex surfaces, as well as specific adaptations of these techniques to imaging ear canals, human dentition, and so forth. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182883 | SOUND REPRODUCTION DEVICE - A sound reproduction device includes a superdirective speaker having a first surface, and an attachment part having a second surface opposed to the first surface. The first surface has a convex face, and the second surface has a concave face which can come into contact with the convex face. A curvature of the convex face is set larger than that of the concave face. A direction of emitting a sound wave of the superdirective speaker can be adjusted by making the convex face move along the concave face. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182884 | SPEAKER FALL PREVENTION STRUCTURE - Provided is a speaker fall prevention structure, which includes a speaker device formed by housing a speaker unit in a housing independent of a main appliance, a speaker attaching part provided to the main appliance to allow the speaker device to be attached, an attached part facing the speaker attaching part in the speaker device, a fall prevention wire set between the speaker device and the main appliance, and a fastening member for attaching the attached part to the speaker attaching part. Using the fastening member, a first end of the fall prevention wire is fastened and fixed to the main appliance along with the attached part. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182885 | ELECTRODYNAMIC SPEAKER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electrodynamic speaker in which the number of steps of forming a tinsel wire to be connected to a voice coil and connecting the tinsel wire to a terminal can be reduced is provided. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182886 | REMOTE RECOGNITION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized method for intelligently distributing computer processing of mail piece scan images across a plurality of mail piece scan image processors. The method can include receiving a mail piece scan image from a mail piece scan image job requestor and selecting one of a plurality of scan mail piece scan image processors to process said mail piece scan image. The mail piece scan image can be transmitted to said one of a plurality of plurality of mail piece scan image processors and a mail piece scan image processing result can be received from said one of a plurality of plurality of mail piece scan image processors. Post-processing operations can be performed based on said mail piece scan image processing result. The mail piece scan image processing result can be transmitted to said mail piece scan image processing requestor. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182887 | ELECTRONIC LOCKBOX TRANSACTION PROCESSING - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for electronically sorting and managing mail within an electronic lockbox are described. Mail may be routed from a mail delivery service to a first location. The mail may be scanned at the first location and information may be extracted from the envelopes and items within the envelopes. The information may be verified and grouped into electronic transactions. The electronic transactions may be classified and sorted into batches based on identifiers contained within the information extracted from the mail. The batches of electronic transactions may be processed and information relating to the transactions may be stored. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182888 | REMOTE ENCODING CENTER AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A nontransitory computer readable medium having stored thereon software instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations. The operations can include intercepting a request for manual processing of a mail piece image. The request can be transmitted by an originating MPE having failed to resolve the mail piece image. The request can be ignored and the mail piece scan image can be forwarded to an automated mail recognition system (AMRS). If the AMRS successfully resolved the image, a response, including a plurality of addressing data corresponding to the mail piece scan image, can be received from the AMRS. If the AMRS successfully resolved the image, at least a portion of the plurality of addressing data can be transmitted to the originating MPE. If the AMRS did not successfully resolve the image, the request can be forwarded to a manual mail recognition processing system. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182889 | REMOTE ENCODING CENTER AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computerized method for retrofitting a legacy manual mail recognition processing system (MRPS) with an automated MRPS without substantial changes to the configuration of the legacy manual MRPS includes detecting a request by a keyer desk software component to display a mail piece scan image on a computer display connected to the keyer desk computer. The image can at least temporarily be prevented from being displayed on the computer display and the image can be read from memory. Automated recognition processing can be performed on the image to resolve the image and create an automated recognition processing results data. If said automated recognition processing was successful the automated recognition processing results data can be sent to the keyer desk software component and the image can be permanently prevented from being displayed on the computer display. Otherwise, the image can be displayed to the human user for manual processing. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182890 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING HUMANS ON CONVEYOR BELTS USING ONE OR MORE IMAGING DEVICES - A system for detecting a class of objects at a location, for example humans on a conveyor belt. A thermal camera may be used to detect objects and to detect the variance of the heat distribution of objects to classify them. Objects detected in an image from one camera may be detected in an image from another camera using geometric correction. A color camera may be used to detect the number of edges and the number of colors of an object to classify it. A color camera may be used with an upright human body classifier to detect humans in an area, and blobs corresponding to the detected humans may be tracked in a thermal or color camera image to detect if a human enters an adjacent forbidden area such as a conveyor belt. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAP GENERATION FOR LOCATION AND NAVIGATION WITH USER SHARING/SOCIAL NETWORKING - Methods and systems for map generation for location and navigation with user sharing/social networking may comprise determining a position of a wireless communication device (WCD) and capturing images of the surroundings of the WCD. Data associated with objects in the surroundings of said WCD may be extracted from the captured images, positions of the objects may be determined, and the determined positions and the data may then be uploaded to a database. The elements may comprise structural and/or textual features in the surroundings of the WCD. The position of the WCD may be determined utilizing sensors in the WCD to measure a distance from a last determined or known position. The sensors may comprise a pedometer, an altimeter, a camera, and/or a compass. The positions of the extracted elements may be determined utilizing known optical characteristics of a camera in the WCD. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182892 | GESTURE IDENTIFICATION USING AN AD-HOC MULTIDEVICE NETWORK - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for establishing an ad hoc network of devices that can be used to interpret gestures. Embodiments of the invention use a network of sensors with an ad hoc spatial configuration to observe physical objects in a performance area. The performance area may be a room or other area within range of the sensors. Initially, devices within the performance area, or with a view of the performance area, are indentified. Once identified, the sensors go through a discovery phase to locate devices within an area. Once the discovery phase is complete and the devices within the ad hoc network are located, the combined signals received from the devices may be used to interpret gestures made within the performance area. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO EPISODE VIEWING AND MINING - Systems and methods for video episode viewing and mining comprise: receiving video data comprising a plurality of frames representing images of one or more objects within a physical area; identifying a plurality of events within the video data, wherein an event represents a movement of an object of interest from a first location in a grid associated with the physical area to a second location in the grid; generating a plurality of event data records reflecting the plurality of events; and determining one or more frequent episodes from the plurality of event data records, wherein an episode comprises a series of events associated with a particular object of interest. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182894 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAMERA TRACKING - A camera pose tracking apparatus may track a camera pose based on frames photographed using at least three cameras, may extract and track at least one first feature in multiple-frames, and may track a pose of each camera in each of the multiple-frames based on first features. When the first features are tracked in the multiple-frames, the camera pose tracking apparatus may track each camera pose in each of at least one single-frame based on at least one second feature of each of the at least one single-frame. Each of the at least one second feature may correspond to one of the at least one first feature, and each of the at least one single-frame may be a previous frame of an initial frame of which the number of tracked second features is less than a threshold, among frames consecutive to multiple-frames. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182895 | Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Analysis and Data Mining Systems and Related Methods and Computer Program Products - Methods for analyzing images acquired using an image acquisition system include receiving a plurality of images from at least one image acquisition system; selecting at least a portion of a set of images for analysis using at least one attribute of image metadata; selecting at least one method for deriving quantitative information from the at least a portion of the set of images; processing the selected at least a portion of the set of images with the selected at least one method for deriving quantitative information to generate an intermediate set of quantitative data associated with the at least a portion of the set of images; and storing the intermediate set of quantitative data and the metadata in a reference database, the reference database including intermediate sets of quantitative data and associated metadata for images associated with a plurality of subjects. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182896 | GRADIENT ESTIMATION APPARATUS, GRADIENT ESTIMATION METHOD, AND GRADIENT ESTIMATION PROGRAM - A gradient estimation apparatus includes a feature point extracting unit configured to extract feature points on an image captured by an imaging unit, an object detecting unit configured to detect image regions indicating objects from the image captured by the imaging unit, and a gradient calculating unit configured to calculate a gradient of the road surface on which the objects are located, based on the coordinates of the feature points extracted by the feature point extracting unit in the image regions indicating the objects detected by the object detecting unit and the amounts of movements of the coordinates of the feature points over a predetermined time. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182897 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING MOTION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE - Methods and systems for capturing motion and/or determining the shapes and positions of one or more objects in 3D space utilize cross-sections thereof. In various embodiments, images of the cross-sections are captured using a camera based on reflections therefrom or shadows cast thereby. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182898 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a difference image generation unit which generates a difference image by obtaining a difference between frames of a cutout image which is obtained by cutting out a predetermined region on a photographed image; a feature amount extracting unit which extracts a feature amount from the difference image; and a recognition unit which recognizes a specific movement of an object on the photographed image based on the feature amount which is obtained from the plurality of difference images which are aligned in time sequence. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182899 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORE SYSTEM AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises a similarity calculation unit calculates a similarity showing the degree of similarity between the image of an object captured and the reference image of each registered commodity, which is registered together with a superior category showing information relevant with each registered commodity registered in a dictionary, a determination unit compares the degree of similarity between the reference image and each image acquired by an acquisition unit and determines whether or not the degree of similarity of the superior category acquired by adding the similarities of a plurality of varieties belonging to the same superior category meets a specified condition and a reporting unit reports the information relevant with a commodity corresponding to the plurality of varieties meeting the specified condition as a candidate of a captured commodity in the situation that the determination unit determines that the specified condition is met. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182900 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - For obtained raw moving image data, an image processing apparatus decides a focal distance at which a specific subject is focused on. The respective pixels of image signals in each frame of the raw moving image data correspond to light beams having different combinations of pupil regions through which the light beams have passed, and incident directions in an imaging optical system. More specifically, the image processing apparatus generates, from the image signals of each frame of the raw moving image data, a pair of images corresponding to light beams having passed through different pupil regions, and decides, based on a defocus amount at the position of the specific subject that is calculated from the pair of images, the focal distance at which the specific subject is focused on. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182901 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a region acquisition unit configured to obtain a specific region of a subject, a tomographic image acquisition unit configured to obtain a tomographic image of the subject, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a region indicating probability of existence of the specific region in the obtained tomographic image. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING MOTION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE - Methods and systems for capturing motion and/or determining the shapes and positions of one or more objects in 3D space utilize cross-sections thereof. In various embodiments, images of the cross-sections are captured using a camera based on edge points thereof. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182903 | ROBOT APPARATUS AND POSITION AND ORIENTATION DETECTING METHOD - A robot apparatus includes a reference-model storing unit configured to store a reference model of an object, a feature-value-table storing unit configured to store a feature value table that associates position data and orientation data of the reference model and a feature value, a photographed-image acquiring unit configured to capture a photographed image of the object, a detecting unit configured to calculate a photographed image feature value from the photographed image, and a driving control unit configured to control a robot main body on the basis of the position data and the orientation data to change the position and the orientation of a gripping unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CONTENT ANALYSIS USING DEPTH SENSING - A method and system for performing video content analysis based on two-dimensional image data and depth data are disclosed. Video content analysis may be performed on the two-dimensional image data, and then the depth data may be used along with the results of the video content analysis of the two-dimensional data for tracking and event detection. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING AUTOMATION USING VIDEO CONTENT ANALYSIS WITH DEPTH SENSING - A method and system for monitoring buildings (including houses and office buildings) by performing video content analysis based on two-dimensional image data and depth data are disclosed. Occupation and use of such buildings may be monitored with higher accuracy to provide higher energy efficiency usage, to control operation of components therein, and/or provide better security.. Height data may be obtained from depth data to provide greater reliability in object detection, object classification and/or event detection. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182906 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND ENVIRONMENT MAP GENERATION APPARATUS - Based on an image imaged by an imaging unit ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182907 | FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING DEVICE, FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING METHOD, AND FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present approach enables an impression of the atmosphere of a scene or an object present in the scene at the time of photography to be pictured in a person's mind as though the person were actually at the photographed scene. A feeling-expressing-word processing device has: a feeling information calculating unit | 2013-07-18 |
20130182908 | VEHICLE TYPE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE - There is provided a vehicle type identification device including a detection section detecting, based on a vehicle region extracted from a captured image, on an imaging plane, a ground point, a first endpoint, a minimum ground clearance point, a second endpoint, and an upper endpoint of a vehicle, a vehicle width estimation section estimating a vehicle width in a real space based on the ground point, the first endpoint, and the minimum ground clearance point, a vehicle length estimation section estimating a vehicle length in the real space based on the ground point, the first endpoint, and the second endpoint, a vehicle height estimation section estimating a vehicle height in the real space based on the ground point, the first endpoint, and the upper endpoint, and a vehicle type identification section identifying a type of the vehicle based on the vehicle width, the vehicle length, and the vehicle height. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182909 | IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON APPROXIMATION OF SEGMENTATION SIMILARITY - A system and a method for image segmentation use segmentation maps of one or more similar images as a basis for the segmentation. The method includes generating an image signature for an input image to be segmented and identifying at least one similar image from a set of images, based on the image signature of the input image and image signatures of images in the set of images. The similarity may be computed after first projecting the image signatures into a feature space where similarity is more likely to agree with segmentation map similarity. The input image is segmented, based on the segmentation map of one or more of the at least one identified similar images. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182910 | LICENSE PLATE OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system for recognizing a license plate character utilizing a machine learning classifier. A license plate image with respect to a vehicle can be captured by an image capturing unit and the license plate image can be segmented into license plate character images. The character image can be preprocessed to remove a local background variation in the image and to define a local feature utilizing a quantization transformation. A classification margin for each character image can be identified utilizing a set of machine learning classifiers each binary in nature, for the character image. Each binary classifier can be trained utilizing a character sample as a positive class and all other characters as well as non-character images as a negative class. The character type associated with the classifier with a largest classification margin can be determined and the OCR result can be declared. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182911 | LEAF AREA INDEX MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A leaf area index measurement system includes: a reflector placed in a neighborhood of a measurement target plant; imaging means placed at a position where no obstacle is present between the imaging means and the reflector, and for capturing an image of the reflector and outputting the captured image; intensity calculation means for calculating an intensity of light reflected by the reflector, based on the captured image output from the imaging means; and leaf area index calculation means for calculating a leaf area index, based on the intensity of light calculated by the intensity calculation means. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182912 | BAGGAGE CHECK-IN USING SHORT TERM MESSAGE SERVICE - A check-in method for airlines allows passengers to use Short Message Service (SMS) to check-in themselves and baggage. A passenger requests to check-in via SMS from practically anywhere and not limited to the airport. After receipt of the request, a confirmation message is sent back to the passenger's registered mobile phone number by SMS. The system will ask the passenger for, and receive from the passenger, the number of bags they intend to check-in for the flight. The passengers can in some embodiments drop the baggage off without any required further action. The system issues an SMS-based cryptographically secure code, such as a bar-code boarding pass to the passenger once the baggage (if any) is successfully transferred and registered to existing baggage management systems through the process above. This code, when scanned, recognized and authenticated provides identification and security clearance for the passenger to board the aircraft. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182913 | FRAUD RESISTANT BIOMETRIC FINANCIAL TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for authenticating financial transactions is disclosed wherein biometric data is acquired from a person and the probability of liveness of the person and probability of a match between the person or token and known biometric or token information are calculated, preferably according to a formula D=P(p)*(K+P(m)) , wherein K is a number between 0.1 and 100, and authenticating if the value of D exceeds a predetermined value. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182914 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus may include a user recognition unit to recognize a user in a captured image, and a behavior recognition unit to recognize a behavior of a user. In addition, the apparatus may include a generation unit to generate user behavior information including information of the recognized user and the recognized behavior of the recognized user. Further, the apparatus may include a communication unit to transmit the user behavior information to an external apparatus. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182915 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION - High quality, high contrast images of an iris and the face of a person are acquired in rapid succession in either sequence by a single sensor and one or more illuminators, preferably within less than one second of each other, by changing the data acquisition settings or illumination settings between each acquisition. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182916 | CUSTOM ELECTRONIC SYSTEM OF IRIS PATTERN MATCHING IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method, apparatus, and system for a custom electronic hardware for iris pattern matching in a mobile device. In one embodiment, a method of a custom hardware solution that includes a change in the CPU clock frequency dependency by using programmable logic and a highly parallel array of high capacity flash memory is shown. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182917 | DYNAMICALLY PRESENTING INFORMATION OF POTENTIAL INTEREST TO A VARYING TRANSITORY GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS SCANNED BY FACIAL RECOGNITION IN A CONSUMER MARKETING ENVIRONMENT - Video monitoring of groups of individuals who are passing into and out of defined areas, such as sections in shopping malls, to dynamically attempt to recognize and capture the profiles of a plurality of individuals who are in the defined area during a determined time period and whose facial recognition match stored facial recognition profiles. Accordingly, once the method recognizes the recognition profiles of a plurality of individuals, the plurality of recognized individuals have their interests screened for interests in common. These screened common interests may be used to directly present advertisements and like information in the area where the plurality of individuals have been recognized. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182918 | 3D IMAGE ESTIMATION FOR 2D IMAGE RECOGNITION - A server determines a plurality of faceprints representing a plurality of users to be recognized at a client device. Each faceprint contains a number of reference images for a given user that are used to recognize facial images of the user detecting in media captured at the client device. The faceprints delivered to the client device are determined for the client device based on the users likely to be detected in images captured at the client device. The reference images with a given faceprint delivered to the client device are selected by the server based on their recognition value in identifying the users likely to be detected in images captured at the client device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182919 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capture apparatus include transmission unit for transmitting first feature data concerning a face region included in an image captured by an image sensor to an external apparatus, reception unit for receiving a matching result between the first feature data and second feature data concerning a sub object from the external apparatus, storage unit for storing third feature data concerning a main object in a predetermined storage area in advance, matching unit for matching the first feature data with the third feature data and display unit for identifiably displaying, on a display device, the face region recognized as the sub object in the matching result received by the reception unit and the face region recognized as the main object in the matching result obtained by the matching unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182920 | Separating Directional Lighting Variability in Statistical Face Modelling Based on Texture Space Decomposition - A technique for determining a characteristic of a face or certain other object within a scene captured in a digital image including acquiring an image and applying a linear texture model that is constructed based on a training data set and that includes a class of objects including a first subset of model components that exhibit a dependency on directional lighting variations and a second subset of model components which are independent of directional lighting variations. A fit of the model to the face or certain other object is obtained including adjusting one or more individual values of one or more of the model components of the linear texture model. Based on the obtained fit of the model to the face or certain other object in the scene, a characteristic of the face or certain other object is determined. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182921 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A biometric authentication apparatus of the present invention comprises: a finger-tip placing detecting means for detecting placing of a finger-tip onto a finger-tip placing section; a finger-base-part placing detecting means for detecting placing of a finger-base part onto a finger-base-part placing section; and a guidance means for conducting guidance of whether or not the finger-tip or the finger-base part has been placed, on the basis of the results of the detections conducted by the finger-tip placing detecting means and the finger-base-part placing detecting means. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182922 | Interactive and automated tissue image analysis with global training database and variable-abstraction processing in cytological specimen classification and laser capture microdissection applications - A system and method for performing tissue image analysis and region of interest identification for further processing applications such as laser capture microdissection is provided. The invention provides three-stage processing with flexible state transition that allows image recognition to be performed at an appropriate level of abstraction. The three stages include processing at one or more than one of the pixel, subimage and object levels of processing. Also, the invention provides both an interactive mode and a high-throughput batch mode which employs training files generated automatically. | 2013-07-18 |