| 37th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
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| 20080218502 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a gate driver which sequentially outputs a gate signal at a high state in response to a gate control signal and a data driver which converts image data into a data signal in response to a data control signal. The display apparatus further includes a display panel which includes a plurality of gate lines which sequentially receive the gate signal, a plurality of data lines which receive the data signal and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate and data lines and which receive the data signal in response to the gate signal to display an image. The polarity of the data signal is inverted after the gate signal transitions to a low state. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218503 | Power supply, plasma display including power supply, and method of driving plasma display - In a power supply, a plasma display including the power supply, and a method of driving the plasma display, a DC voltage output by a power factor correction unit is converted into a voltage Vs supplied to a sustain or scan electrode during a sustain period, and the voltage Vs is converted into a voltage Va supplied to an address electrode during an address period. The voltage Vs is a less than the DC voltage of the power factor correction unit, and components with a low voltage rating can be used for the Va voltage generator. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218504 | POWER SUPPLY AND DRIVER FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A plasma display panel having a power supply unit connected to a scan driver without a bootstrap circuit. The driver includes a power supply unit supplying a first output voltage of a first level and has a pair of output terminals, a scan driving unit comprising a first driving switch controlling the connection of one of output terminals of the power supply unit to the electrodes of the plasma display panel and a second driving switch controlling the application of a second output voltage of a second level to the electrodes of the plasma display panel, and a third driving switch that controls the connection of a power input terminal of the second output voltage of the second level to the electrodes of the plasma display panel by being connected between the power input terminal of the second output voltage of the second level and the second driving switch. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218505 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN EXTERNAL DATA TRANSMITTING DEVICE USING A USB CONNECTOR AND A METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus which controls an external device transmitting data using a USB connector is provided. The image display apparatus includes a first connector and a second connector which receive an image signal, respectively, a display unit which selectively displays the image signal input via the first connector and the second connector, and if the image signal input via the first connector is displayed on the display unit, a central processing unit (CPU) which stops an external device connected via the second connector from transmitting an image signal. Accordingly, resources in the external device can be efficiently managed by stopping unnecessary operations. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218506 | Single coil parallel imaging - An imaging apparatus for an object in change includes an MRI system having a computer, a first channel and at least a second channel which produce corresponding images of the object in change. The computer combining the individual images into a composite image of the object. Alternatively, the MRI system has at least a first channel which produce an image of the object in change from data acquired in k-space domain in a density of at least ⅔ that required to satisfy a Nyquist criteria. A method for imaging an object in change includes the steps of producing an individual image of the object in change with a first channel of an MRI system. There is the step of producing an individual image of the object in change with at least a second channel of the MRI system independent of the first channel. There is the step of combining the individual images into a composite image of the object with a computer of the MRI system. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218507 | Digital Image Display - A digital image display capable of controlling an image signal output to a display screen portion, particularly capable of precisely controlling the phase of the image signal, regardless of provision/nonprovision of a function of communicating with an image signal output device is obtained. This digital image display includes an analog-to-digital conversion portion converting a received analog image signal to a digital image signal, a display screen portion displaying the digital image signal converted by the analog-to-digital conversion portion and a control portion controlling a clock value, a phase value, a horizontal position and vertical position of the digital image signal, while the control portion is so formed as to decide the optimum phase value on the basis of pixel data on the boundary between an image region having no image and another image region having an image in the digital image signal when controlling the phase value of the digital image signal. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218508 | Generation of 3D look-up tables for image processing devices - An image processor is disclosed which is capable of automatically generating a series of test signals, running the test signals through its image processing software and hardware, and capturing the resulting output signals to automatically generate a 3D LUT that represents most or all of the imaging processing steps being performed by the image processor. No external equipment is required to generate the 3D LUT. In other embodiments, the image processor may be connected to an external image processing device, and the image processor can then automatically generate a series of test signals, run those test signals through the external image processing device, and capture the resulting output signals to automatically generate a 3D LUT that represents most of all of the image processing steps being performed by the external image processing device. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218509 | Method and system for repairing triangulated surface meshes - A method of repairing a three dimensional surface mesh model to be watertight and manifold generally includes identifying a plurality of hole edges in the surface mesh model, selecting one of the hole edges, creating a cycle of hole edges that defines a hole in the surface mesh model, converting the cycle of hole edges into two or more cycles of exactly three edges each, and adding a triangular facet to the surface mesh model for each of the cycles of exactly three edges. The process may be repeated until the model is substantially watertight. Non-manifold vertices may be repaired by selecting a vertex of the model, identifying a number of independent cycles of triangular facets sharing the selected vertex, and redefining the selected vertex for at least all but one of the number of independent cycles. This process may be repeated until the model is manifold. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218510 | 3D-2D Adaptive Shape Model Supported Motion Compensated Recnstruction - A method for generating or reconstruction of three-dimensional (3D) images corresponding to a structure of interest ( | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218511 | DESIGN METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIA - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method comprises an extracting detailed shape information which is unnecessary for a simulation from data of a three-dimension CAD model, simplifying the detailed shape information, and creating a simplified model in which the detailed shape information included in the data of three-dimension CAD model is replaced with simplified shape information. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE MASKING AND MODIFYING OF 3D OBJECTS - A system and method for providing an intuitive and efficient mechanism to select areas of interest on a 3D model, and modify a pose or shape of the 3D model. A masking module allows an artist to interactively mask portions of a 3D object and leave other portions of the object unmasked. A posing module provides various tools to allow the artist to apply a posing or reshaping action on the unmasked areas of the 3D object. The computer artist masks portions of the 3D object by clicking and dragging the user input device on an area of the 3D object. All vertices whose topological distances are closer to the vertex associated with the initial click position than the final dragged position are masked. The artist then draws an action line on or partially on the 3D object to define a coordinate system. The artist clicks on a point on the action line, and drags the user input device for corresponding transformations of the unmasked portions of the 3D object. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218513 | Triangulation Method of a Surface of a Physical Object - An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method for producing a triangulation of a surface of a physical object the method comprising the steps of generating an intermediate mesh representation of the surface out of surface voxels ( | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218514 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND INTERFACING WITH A HAPTIC VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - A method for generating a haptic interactive representation including the steps of defining a haptic interaction space and building a hierarchical construct, for use within the haptic interaction space, using a plurality of underlying constructs. In one embodiment the method includes determining the forces to be applied to a user by generating a haptic interactive, sensing a position of a user in real space, determining a haptic interface location in the haptic interaction space in response to the position of the user in real space and determining whether the virtual object collides with the haptic interface location. The invention also relates to a method for interacting with a haptic interactive representation. The method includes creating a haptic process having the haptic interactive representation, associating a callback with the haptic process, connecting to a second process which interacts with the haptic process and associating the callback which is associated with the haptic process with the second process. The method further includes requesting the callback by the second process, and returning, by the haptic process through the callback to the second process, at least one parameter associated with the haptic interactive representation. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218515 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL-IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAYING METHOD - A three-dimensional-image display system generates a first physical-calculation model generator that expresses a real object, based on both position/posture information expressing a position and posture of the real object, and attribute information expressing attribute of the real object. The three-dimensional-image display system displays a three-dimensional image within a display space, based on a calculation result of the interaction between the first physical-calculation model and a second physical-calculation model expressing a virtual external environment of the real object within the display space. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218516 | System and Method for Factorizing Light in a Sequence of Images - A method factorizing a sequence of images acquired of a scene into lighting components. The scene is illuminated by a moving light source. An appearance profile is constructed for each pixel in the sequence of images. The appearance profile is a vector representing intensities of the pixel at instances in time. The appearance profiles are factorized into a shadow component, a skylight component, and a sunlight component. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING MULTI-RESOLUTION DYNAMIC AMBIENT OCCLUSION - A system and method for generating a three-dimensional image is provided. An embodiment of the present invention includes calculating the ambient occlusion at a vertex in multiple, independent stages. Determining the global AO at the vertex may be performed using a first technique. Determining the local AO at the vertex may be performed using a second technique. The total AO can be found as a function of the local AO and global AO. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218518 | Balancing collections of vertices in a network - A representation of a network having vertices connected by arcs is provided. Different collections of vertices in the network are iteratively selected. Balancing moves are performed in corresponding collections of the network, where the collections are represented by corresponding graphs according to a predefined structure. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218519 | GRAPH EMBEDDING TECHNIQUES - Approaches to embedding source graphs into targets graphs in a computing system are disclosed. Such may be advantageously facilitate computation with computing systems that employ one or more analog processors, for example one or more quantum processors. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218520 | Acceleration of Triangle Scan Conversion Through Minor Direction Detection - A method and system for performing triangle scan conversion in a manner that reduces the number of scanlines generated when performing rasterization. The method includes determining a width and a height of a triangle to be rasterized. A minor axis is established in a direction of the shorter of the width and height, and a major axis is established in a direction of the longer of the width and height. A scanline direction is also established so that scanlines will be generated in a direction parallel to the major axis and perpendicular to the minor axis. Furthermore, the scanline direction yields a single major triangle edge and two minor triangle edges, wherein the scanlines begin at the single major triangle edge and terminate at the two minor triangle edges. The method generates the scanlines in accordance with the established scanline direction. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218521 | OFFSET TILES IN VECTOR GRAPHICS - An efficient rendering method for processing computer graphics in tiles. First a frame of data, typically at least one polygon, is received for rendering. While rendering a polygon the tile for the polygon is assigned so that it minimizes the number of the tiles needed for processing the polygon. It is possible to compute an offset value between the static tiles and the assigned tiles. If the offset value is computed, the rendering into an actual screen may be based on that. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218522 | SCALABLE STROKE FONT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of creating font format data from source font data includes analyzing the source font data to obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs, dissecting the glyph data, extracting midline data from the dissected glyph data, classifying the midline data as unique element data and common element data, associating unique element data and common element data to each glyph of the plurality of glyphs. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATION OF DISPLAY DATA - Navigating display data (e.g., large documents) on an electronic display is described in which a first set of visual indicators are layered over the portion of the portion of data displayed on the electronic display. The user selects a particular navigation task, which selection signal is received by the navigation application. The navigation application determines a section of interest based on the particular navigation task selected and layers a second set of visual indicators over the portion of the display data defined by all of the sections other than the section of interest. The navigation application then animates movement of the display data and both sets of visual indicators on the electronic display according to the particular navigation task selected. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218524 | Display Apparatus, Displaying Method and Computer Readable Medium - The display apparatus is provided with: a display that displays a raw image and an identification image by which an electronic document is identifiable within a screen including at least two areas, the raw image representing a content of the electronic document, the identification image being smaller than the raw image; a detection unit that detects a moving operation of the raw image displayed in a first area to a second area that is different from the first area; and a controller that controls the display to display the identification image in the second area in response to the detection by the detection unit. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218525 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED UTILIZATION OF READ AND WRITE BANDWIDTH OF A GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEM - A system and method for processing graphics data which improves utilization of read and write bandwidth of a graphics processing system. The graphics processing system includes an embedded memory array having at least three separate banks of single-ported memory in which graphics data are stored in memory page format. A memory controller coupled to the banks of memory writes post-processed data to a first bank of memory concurrently with reading data from a second bank of memory. A synchronous graphics processing pipeline processes the data read from the second bank of memory and provides the post-processed graphics data to the memory controller to be written back to the bank of memory from which the pre-processed data was read. The processing pipeline is capable of concurrently processing an amount of graphics data at least equal to the amount of graphics data included in a page of memory. A third bank of memory is precharged concurrently with writing data to the first bank and reading data from the second bank in preparation for access when reading data from the second bank of memory is completed. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218526 | System and Method for Image-Based Rendering with Object Proxies - A system and method for rendering with an object proxy. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a set of view textures corresponding to a set of viewing directions; selecting a viewing direction for rendering; selecting at least two view textures from the formed set based on the selected viewing direction; and rendering the object proxy at the selected viewing direction. The rendering step includes applying texture from the selected view textures onto the selected object proxy. The view texture set forming step includes: calculating texture coordinates for the object proxy based on the level of obstruction at different portions of the object proxy and texture packing data; and drawing portions of the object based on the level of obstruction data for the object proxy and based on the texture packing data to obtain a view texture at the selected viewing direction. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218527 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Hit Rates of a Cache Memory for Storing Texture Data During Graphics Rendering - A method for improving hit rates of a cache memory for storing texture data during graphics rendering is disclosed. In response to a request for a mipmap block from a first mipmap to render a texture, a determination is made whether or not the mipmap block from the first mipmap is already stored in a cache memory. If the mipmap block from the first mipmap is already in the cache memory, the mipmap block from the first mipmap already in the cache memory is utilized to render the texture. Otherwise, if the mipmap block from the first mipmap is not in a cache memory, another determination is made whether or not a bias value associated with the mipmap block from the first mipmap is set. If a bias value associated with the mipmap block from the first mipmap is not set, then the mipmap block is obtained from the first mipmap to render the texture. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218528 | Determination method of edge direction - An edge direction determination method for a pixel of a display picture. The display picture has a corresponding edge map. The pixel has corresponding pixel direction pairs. First, in step (a), it is judged whether the pixel is an edge pixel according to the edge map. Next, in step (b), it is judged whether the pixel has a right-inclined edge direction or a left-inclined edge direction when the pixel is the edge pixel. Then, in step (c), the edge direction of the pixel is determined according to specific pixel direction pairs corresponding to the same inclined edge direction if a judged result in step (b) is affirmative. Finally, in step (d), if the judged result in step (b) is negative, it is judged whether the pixel has a horizontal edge direction or a vertical edge direction. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218529 | Image Creating Device, Load Display Method, Recording Medium, And Program - An operation input reception unit ( | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218530 | DISPLAYING DATA SENSITIVE TARGETS - Users are often in environments that require specific inputs into a device. However, it can be advantageous to display a limited number of targets to a user for inputting information. Therefore, the can be a selection of a limited target set based on a user activity and/or environment. The limited target set can be display to a user through a display, commonly a visual display. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218531 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION WITH SPATIAL OBJECTS - A computer program product including machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the product for assembling and providing a visual interface for a user to interact with spatial information, the product including: a build subsystem for assembling spatial information by converting drawings including the spatial information into scalable vector graphic (SVG) files; the build sub-system further including instructions for merging graphic data of the spatial information and annotating resources represented within the graphic data; and a run-time subsystem for interpreting assembled spatial information and providing the visual interface; wherein the run-time subsystem includes instructions for display and event management control to provide interaction between the user and the spatial information. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218532 | CANVAS-LIKE AUTHORING EXPERIENCE ATOP A LAYOUT ENGINE - An apparatus and method provide for modifying a graphical layout intelligently. Objects may be placed in a grid structure which may include any number of rows and columns. In additional display elements such as icons or other adornments may be displayed corresponding to design functionality. The layout may function in any number of modes where each mode may provide different functionality. For example, in one mode, objects in a grid may be resized based on corresponding resizing of the grid. Also, the additional display elements may be displayed for control of the grid. In another mode, objects in a grid may be resized independently from resizing of the grid. Also, the additional display elements may be hidden from view. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218533 | Terminal apparatus and processing program thereof - In the terminal apparatus, a CPU | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218534 | DISPLAYING OF ITEM THROUGH ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus, a computer program product and a method of displaying an item using the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory for storing an item list having at least one item, a display for displaying at least one object capable of fluidly moving and corresponding to the at least one item respectively and a controller for controlling the display to change a fluid movement of a specific object corresponding to a specific item when an event related to the specific item among the at least one item occurs. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218535 | Portable Electronic Device with Auto-Dim Timers - A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. In some embodiments, the time period after which the display is dimmed due to user inactivity is extended based on user interaction with the device subsequent to a dimming event. The dim time can be extended for a single application, multiple applications, or for the device as a whole. The user interaction with the device that extends the dim time can be a touch on any button of the device, the device's touch screen display, or even a smack on the body of the device that is detected by an acceleration sensor. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218536 | METHOD FOR DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes: a first driving mode that selects only one scanning wiring in one selection period; and a second driving mode that drives the image display apparatus so as to select, in one selection period, a plurality of scanning wiring at the same time and to select, in the following selection period, a plurality of scanning wiring shifted by one scanning wiring from the plurality of scanning wiring selected in the preceding selection period, and | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218537 | Color display system - A color display device including: at least one spatial light modulation element forming a display picture by modulated light obtained by modulating illumination light, a color sequential light generation device changing in a time series the illumination light or the modulated light into multiple groups of different color lights in one frame of a display period of the display picture, a control device controlling the spatial light modulator, and a color sequential light generation device based on the input picture data. The control device controls the spatial light modulator and the color sequential light generation device to change the ratio of the display time of each color of the reflected light time-shared in the display period of the frame depending on the character and/or the set value of the input picture data. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218538 | Cradle Unit For A Print Engine Having A Maintenance Drive Assembly - A cradle unit for a print engine, the cradle unit configured to receive a cartridge unit having a printhead assembly. The cradle unit includes a main body defining an opening for receiving said cartridge, the main body having a frame structure including end plates with drive and exit rollers mounted therebetween. The cradle unit also includes a printed circuit board (PCB) pivotally mounted between the end plates for housing control electronics for controlling the operation of the print engine, along with a cover assembly for securing said cartridge in the opening. The cover assembly is pivotally mounted between the end plates, the cover assembly configured to pivot the PCB into electrical contact with a printhead controller on the cartridge when in a closed position, and to pivot the PCB out of electrical connection with said printhead controller when in an open position. The cradle unit also includes a maintenance drive assembly having a motor operatively connected to a maintenance gear and maintenance actuator arrangement and to a wiper gear and wiper actuator arrangement, the maintenance drive assembly operated by the PCB control electronics. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218539 | INKJET PRINTING PARTIALLY IMAGED PANELS WITH SUPERIMPOSED LAYERS - A panel and method for making the panel are disclosed. The panel includes a substrate sheet partially imaged with a print pattern. The print pattern subdivides the panel into a plurality of discrete printed areas and/or a plurality of discrete unprinted areas. The design is superimposed on or forms a part of said print pattern. The design comprises a design layer. The print pattern includes a base layer. The print pattern includes elongate printed areas orientated lengthways in one direction. The design layer and base layer include inkjet printable ink in elongate ink deposits orientated lengthways in the one direction. The elongate ink deposits may have an aspect ratio of length:width greater than 1.5:1. The base layer may include white ink. The panel may be made using a digital inkjet cylindrical printer that prints the base layer during at least 10 revolutions of the cylinder. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218540 | DUAL PRINTER FOR REGULAR AND RAISED PRINT - Disclosed is an ink jet printing device including an ink jet print head and a print region surface toward which ink is jetted from the ink jet print head, wherein a height distance between the ink jet print head and the print region surface is adjustable. The ink jet printing device is thus a dual printing device capable of printing both regular height and raised height images such as Braille. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218541 | PRINTER - A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a supporting device, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The axes X and Y pass through the print substrate. The movement controller is configured to move the holding unit and the printer head relative to each other in the directions of the axes X, Y and Z which are substantially perpendicular to each other and configured to rotate the holding unit about the axes X and Y relative to the printer head. The printing controller is configured to control ejection of the ink from the printer head according to a relative position of the holding unit and the printer head. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218542 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The printer head is configured to eject ink from a plurality of ejection nozzles to the surface. The movement controller is configured to move the holding unit and the printer head relative to each other. The printing controller is configured to control ejection of the ink from the printer head according to a surface curvature of the surface and a relative position of the holding unit and the printer head. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218543 | Method For Decreasing Sensitivity To Errors In An Imaging Apparatus - A method for decreasing sensitivity to errors in an imaging apparatus includes, defining an ideal pattern of dot locations as a rectilinear grid formed by an intersection of a plurality of rasters and a plurality of vertical columns; for each raster of the plurality of rasters defining a plurality of groups of dot locations; and for each raster of the plurality of rasters, vertically shifting some groups of the plurality of groups of dot locations while not vertically shifting a remainder of groups of the plurality of groups of dot locations so as to define a non-ideal vertically shifted pattern of dot locations. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218544 | INK-JET TYPE IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND INK-JET TYPE IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - An image-forming apparatus is provided which prevents irregularity of an image density and improves the life of heating elements. In a half of recording heads (a group of recording heads | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218545 | LIQUID JET APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus uses a liquid jet apparatus including a plurality of nozzles provided to a liquid jet head, an actuator provided corresponding to each of the nozzles, and drive unit that applies a drive signal to the actuator, wherein the drive unit includes drive waveform signal generation unit that generates a drive waveform signal providing a basis of a signal for controlling the actuator, feedback correction unit for feedback-correcting the drive waveform signal generated by the drive waveform signal generation unit, modulator unit for pulse-modulating the corrected drive waveform signal feedback-corrected by the feedback correction unit, a digital power amplifier for power-amplifying the modulated signal, which is pulse-modulated by the modulator unit, and a low-pass filter for smoothing the power-amplified and modulated signal power-amplified by the digital power amplifier and supplying the actuator with the power-amplified and modulated signal as the drive signal, and the feedback correction unit includes a virtual filter having an equivalent frequency characteristic to a frequency characteristic of a filter composed of the low-pass filter and capacitance of the actuator, and operation unit for feedback-correcting the drive waveform signal with a component of the drive waveform signal generated by the drive waveform signal generation unit and passing through the virtual filter. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218546 | Ink-jet printer - An ink-jet printer including: an ink-jet head in which are disposed a plurality of nozzles that are divided into a plurality of nozzle groups; a plurality of actuators which are provided to respectively correspond to the plurality of nozzles and which are divided into a plurality of actuator groups respectively corresponding to the plurality of nozzle groups; a plurality of drive circuits which are provided respectively for the plurality of nozzle groups and each of which outputs a drive signal used for ejecting an ink, to the plurality of actuators of a corresponding one of the plurality of actuator groups; a controller which controls the ink-jet printer to perform printing such that, by driving any of the plurality of actuators which are determined on the basis of print data, the ink is ejected, toward a recording medium, from any of the plurality of nozzles that correspond to said any of the plurality of actuators; and an adjusting portion which adjusts the drive signal to be outputted from each of the plurality of drive circuits to reduce variation in an ink-ejection property among the plurality of nozzle groups. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218547 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - An ink jet printing apparatus and method are provided which can satisfy in a well-balanced manner both an improvement of image uniformity and a reduction in glossiness variations. A plurality of print modes are prepared which include: a first print mode to perform a printing operation in a way that makes equal print ratios of the plurality of nozzle arrays; and a second print mode to perform a printing operation in a way that makes a print ratio of at least one of nozzle arrays situated at ends of the plurality of nozzle arrays smaller than print ratios of other nozzle arrays. The user selects from the plurality of print modes an appropriate one that strikes a balance between uniformity and glossiness and thereby can achieve a desired quality of image. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218548 | Digital solid ink stick identification and recognition - A system for an ink delivery system comprises a feed path having an insertion end and a melt end, and an ink stick transport for moving at least one ink stick between the insertion end and the melt end of the feed path. At least one sensor is positioned along the feed path. A controller is configured to actuate the transport to move at least one ink stick in a first direction from the insertion end toward the melt end of the feed path so that a coded sensor feature of the at least one ink stick actuates the at least one sensor to generate a signal. The controller is configured to actuate the transport to move the at least one ink stick in one of the first direction and a second direction toward the insertion end of the feed path in response to the signal. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218549 | Liquid ejection apparatus - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head having a nozzle, wherein the liquid ejection head can eject a liquid from the nozzle and is movable in a predetermined direction; a first controller that controls, based on input data, liquid ejection of the liquid ejection head from the nozzle and movement of the liquid ejection head in the predetermined direction to apply the liquid onto an ejection area of a medium; a second controller that controls a flushing operation by moving the liquid ejection head to a flushing area outside the ejection area in the predetermined direction and ejecting the liquid from the nozzle of the liquid ejection head to the flushing area; a third controller that controls a minute vibration operation by vibrating the liquid in the nozzle to such an extent as not to eject the liquid from the nozzle; and a fourth controller that obtains information regarding the ejection area in the predetermined direction and that selectively controls the second controller and the third controller based on the obtained information to execute one of the flushing operation and the minute vibration operation. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218550 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus which discharges ink onto a recording medium to form an image, the inkjet recording apparatus including: a recording head having a nozzle for discharging ink; a conveying belt for supporting a recording medium and conveying the recording medium to a position facing the nozzle; a cleaning roller for cleaning the conveying belt; a cleaning liquid storage section for storing cleaning liquid to be applied to the cleaning roller; a contamination detector for detecting a density of contamination of the cleaning liquid stored in the cleaning liquid storage section; a liquid supplying section for controlling supply of cleaning liquid to the cleaning liquid storage section in accordance with a density of contamination detected by the contamination detector; and a liquid draining section for draining at least a part of the cleaning liquid from the cleaning liquid storage section. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218551 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - Time for which an ejection port surface of a print head has been exposed to the exterior since the end of the last cleaning operation is predicted and accumulated as an accumulated exposure time. A cleaning timing is set to be a timing when the accumulated exposure time coincides with a set time set according to the ambient temperature and humidity of an area in which a label printer is installed. In principle, a cleaning operation is performed at the cleaning timing. However, when the cleaning timing comes during the current consecutive printing operation, the cleaning operation is not performed during the current consecutive printing operation but at a time before the start of the current consecutive printing operation or a time after the end of the current consecutive printing operation. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218552 | PRINTING SYSTEM PARTICLE REMOVAL DEVICE AND METHOD - A printing system includes a source of liquid including a liquid outlet. The source of liquid includes a liquid with particles. A liquid vibrating mechanism is operably associated with the source of liquid. A controller is operably associated with the liquid vibrating mechanism. The controller is configured to control a desired direction of movement of the particles of the liquid by causing the liquid vibrating mechanism to vibrate the liquid with a non-symmetric energy such that movement of the particles is biased in the desired direction. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218553 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - In an inkjet recording device, ink droplets remaining on a nozzle surface are wiped off and the wiped off ink droplets are prevented from being scattered so as to stably form good quality images. When the wiper blade wiping the nozzle surface of the recording heads to wipe off the ink droplets and the like is separated from the nozzle surface and the bend of the wiper blade is straightened to restore to its idle position, a reaction force eliminating member absorbs the reaction force generated and softly restores the wiper blade to its idle position. As a result, the reaction force caused when the bend of the wiper blade is suddenly straightened is controlled, thereby preventing the ink drops and foreign matter on the header of the wiper blade from being scattered and avoiding the contamination of the inside of the inkjet recording device. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218554 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTION SURFACE MAINTENANCE METHOD - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which includes a nozzle ejecting liquid, a pressure chamber connected to the nozzle and arranged in a liquid ejection surface of the liquid ejection head, and a pressure application device applying pressure to the liquid inside the pressure chamber; an internal pressure adjustment device which adjusts an internal pressure of the liquid ejection head; and a pressure control device which controls the internal pressure adjustment device and the pressure application device so as to spread the liquid over the liquid ejection surface of the liquid ejection head. The internal pressure adjustment device adjusts the internal pressure of the liquid ejection head to a positive pressure so as to still hold the liquid on the nozzle while protruding the liquid from the liquid ejection surface. The pressure application device then applies the pressure to the liquid inside the pressure chamber for a pressure application duration so as not to cause the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle but to flow out the liquid from the nozzle onto the liquid ejection surface, while the internal pressure adjustment device is adjusting the internal pressure to the positive pressure. The pressure application device then stops applying the pressure to the liquid inside the pressure chamber after the pressure application duration, while the internal pressure adjustment device is adjusting the internal pressure to the positive pressure. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218555 | INK JET RECORDING HEAD, LIQUID STORAGE CONTAINER AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording head is detachably attached to an ink jet recording apparatus including a carriage operable to reciprocally move and an optical encoder scale. An ink jet recording head, a liquid storage container, or an ink jet recording apparatus includes at least one of a light emitting element configured to emit light to an encoder scale and a light receiving element configured to receive light through the encoder scale. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218556 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid droplet ejection had having: a vibrating pate at which is formed a piezoelectric element which deforms when voltage is applied; a wiring board disposed above the piezoelectric element, an electric wire for deforming the piezoelectric element being disposed at the wiring board; a liquid storage chamber provided at a side opposite to the piezoelectric element, with the wiring board sandwiched therebetween; a pressure chamber provided at a side opposite to the wiring board, with the vibrating plate sandwiched therebetween; an ejection opening that ejects liquid droplets from the pressure chamber; a liquid supply opening that supplies liquid within the liquid storage chamber to the pressure chamber; and an electrical connection portion that passes through the wiring board and electrically connects the piezoelectric element and the electric wire through the liquid supply opening, is provided. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218557 | MICRO-DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS HAVING NOZZLE ARRAYS WITHOUT INDIVIDUAL CHAMBERS AND EJECTION METHOD OF DROPLETS THEREOF - A micro-droplet ejection apparatus includes a substrate, a droplet-ejecting layer, and a plurality of bubble generators. A liquid storage space is formed between the substrate and the droplet-ejecting layer. The liquid storage space has no spacer connecting the substrate and the droplet-ejecting layer. That is, the liquid storage space has no individual chambers. The droplet-ejecting layer has a plurality of through holes arranged in an array, and each through hole is used as a nozzle for pushing out ink. The plurality of bubble generators is disposed above the substrate, and corresponds to and is disposed under the through holes. The bubble generators on two sides of a designated bubble generator generate at least one limit bubble, limiting the growth of a main bubble generated by the designated bubble generator. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218558 | Driver Device And Liquid Droplet Ejection Head - In a switch (mechanical switch) in a drive circuit, an electric potential according to the temperature of a driver IC is given to a gate electrode from a switch control circuit. During normal operation, a lever is in contact with terminals, and thus a terminal connected to an input terminal to which power is supplied from outside and a terminal connected to the drive circuit are connected to each other. On the other hand, when the electric potential given to the gate electrode is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, the lever is deformed due to electrostatic forces between the lever and the gate electrode and separates from the terminal, and thus the connection between the terminals is disconnected. The driver IC including the switch and the above-mentioned circuit is constructed as MEMS. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218559 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE - A piezoelectric device includes a substrate; and a laminated film formed above the substrate. The laminated film includes a lower electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, and an upper electrode layer formed in this order, and the lower electrode layer is a metal electrode layer containing as one or more main components one or more nonnoble metals and/or one or more nonnoble alloys. Preferably, the one or more main components are one or more of the metals Cr, W, Ti, Al, Fe, Mo, In, Sn, Ni, Cu, Co, and Ta, and alloys of the metals. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218560 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, INK JET RECORDING HEAD AND INK JET PRINTER - A piezoelectric element includes: a first electrode formed above a base substrate; a piezoelectric layer formed above the first electrode; and a second electrode formed above the piezoelectric layer, wherein the piezoelectric layer has a plurality of voids. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218561 | LIQUID-JET HEAD AND LIQUID-JET APPARATUS - A liquid-jet head includes a passage-forming substrate. A plurality of pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzles. Piezoelectric elements each include a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer and an upper electrode. Leads for the upper and lower electrodes are drawn out. In the liquid-jet head, the lower electrode is a common electrode continuously provided in the region facing the pressure generating chambers. At least an end on one side of the lower electrode in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the pressure generating chambers is positioned in the region facing the pressure generating chambers. The lead electrode for the lower electrode is provided outside of a region corresponding to a space between the pressure generating chambers. The lead electrode for the lower electrode is connected through a common lead portion extended from the lower electrode. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218562 | DROP DEFLECTION SELECTABLE VIA JET STEERING - A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid stream generator, an electrode system, and a stream deflector. The liquid stream generator includes a nozzle and is operable to produce a stream of liquid through the nozzle. The electrode system is operable to produce an electric field including a first region having a first magnitude and a second region having a second magnitude. The stream deflector is operable to selectively cause the stream to move into one of the first region and the second region. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218563 | TUBE PUMP FOR FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS, FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING FLUID-VACUUMING CAPABILITY OF PUMP - A tube pump for a fluid ejecting apparatus, the tube pump vacuuming fluid through a cap member from a fluid ejecting head for ejecting fluid, includes a specific-vacuuming-capability-information storage unit for storing specific-vacuuming-capability information that indicates a vacuuming capability specific to the tube pump. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218564 | Inkjet recording apparatus - An inkjet recording apparatus that records an image by discharging ink from an inkjet recording head is disclosed. The inkjet recording apparatus includes a disposal liquid tank that accommodates disposal ink that is discharged from the inkjet recording head for purposes other than recording, a mixing member that mixes the disposal ink accumulated in the disposal liquid tank, and a cleaning unit that cleans the mixing member. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218565 | CARTRIDGE UNIT HAVING MULTIPLE INK STORAGE CAPACITY - A cartridge unit arranged for use in a print engine for an inkjet printer is provided. The cartridge unit has a body portion having ink storage compartments and a pagewidth printhead assembly configured to receive ink from ink storage compartments and distribute it to nozzles arranged in use to deliver the ink onto passing print media. The print engine has a cradle which has a body which removably receives the cartridge unit and is configured to control the operation of the printhead assembly for printing. The ink storage compartments comprise absorption material which stores the ink therein under capillary action for supply to the nozzles. The cradle is configured to be secured to the inkjet printer to receive print media from a media input tray and to deliver printed media to a media output tray. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218566 | Metallized print head container and method - Various embodiments of a metallized print head container and method are disclosed. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218567 | Ink cartridge having enlarged end reservoirs - The invention provides for an ink cartridge unit for an inkjet printer. The cartridge includes an elongate main body defining a number of rectangular ink reservoirs along a length thereof, with end reservoirs being larger than reservoirs interposed between the end reservoirs, said end reservoirs being configured to store ink more readily consumed during a printing process. The cartridge also includes a lid assembly covering the main body to seal ink inside the ink reservoirs, and a printhead assembly operatively fed with ink from the ink reservoirs in the main body. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218568 | LIQUID CONTAINER - A liquid container contains a liquid therein and is detachably mountable to a liquid ejection device. The liquid container has a liquid lead-out port for supplying said liquid to the outside, the liquid lead-out port being disposed in a connection surface, and an abutment surface for opening a channel valve by abutting against part of said channel valve provided in said liquid ejection device, the abutment surface being disposed in said connection surface. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218569 | Multi-position interlocking ink stick - An ink stick comprises an ink stick body having first and second opposed ends. A first interlocking face on the first end and a first interlocking face on the second end have complementary nesting shapes and are oriented to allow the first interlocking face of an end of the ink stick body to nest with a first interlocking face of an end of an adjacent ink stick when in a linear section of a feed path of an ink delivery system. A second interlocking face on the first end and a second interlocking face on the second end have complementary nesting shapes and are oriented to allow the second interlocking face of the ink stick body to nest with a second interlocking face of an end of an adjacent ink stick when in a non-linear section of the feed path. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218570 | IMAGING ON FLEXIBLE PACKAGING SUBSTRATES - Methods and devices for forming, such as by printing, high quality, high throughput, ultraviolet curable gel ink images on flexible substrates for packaging applications are disclosed. The methods and devices have excellent image quality and do not require pinning of the ink during color printing or nitrogen inerting during curing. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218571 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes an exhaust unit that discharges air accommodated in a second liquid accommodating unit; a liquid transfer unit that transfers liquid from a first liquid accommodating unit to the second liquid accommodating unit via a liquid supply path and retransfers liquid from the second liquid accommodating unit to the first liquid accommodating unit via the liquid supply path; and a control unit that activates the exhaust unit and the liquid transfer unit according to an air bubble detection result of an air bubble detection unit, controls the liquid transfer unit to transfer a predetermined amount of liquid from the first liquid accommodating unit to the second liquid accommodating unit, and controls the liquid transfer unit to retransfer liquid from the second liquid accommodating unit to the first liquid accommodating unit according to a liquid level detection result of a liquid level detection unit. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218572 | Solid ink stick with reversible keying and interlocking features - An ink stick for use in an ink delivery system of a phase change ink imaging device comprises an ink stick body having first and second opposed end surfaces and first and second opposed lateral side surfaces. The ink stick body is rotationally symmetric about a vertical central axis of the ink stick body. The ink stick body includes an interlocking face on the first end surface and a complementarily shaped interlocking face on the second end surface. A key is on each of the first and second side surfaces. The keys of the first and second side surfaces are similarly shaped. The key on the first side surface and the key on the second side surface are rotationally symmetrically positioned with respect to each other about the vertical central axis. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218573 | Solid ink stick with multiple axis interlocking - An ink stick for use in an ink delivery system of a phase change ink imaging device comprises an ink stick body having first and second opposed ends and the ends are contoured to complement the feed path such that the sticks resist buckling due to feed forces. The ink stick body includes a first interlocking face at the first end and a second interlocking face at the second end. Each interlocking face includes a plurality of bosses and a plurality of boss recesses, the plurality of boss recesses of the first interlocking face are sized and positioned complementary to the plurality of bosses of the second interlocking face, and the plurality of boss recesses of the second interlocking face being sized and positioned complementary to the plurality of bosses of the first interlocking face. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218574 | Ink-jet recording method and ink-jet recording apparatus - An ink-jet recording method of recording an image on a recording medium by jetting from a line head type ink-jet recording head ink droplets which are curable by being irradiated with active energy rays, comprises steps of conveying step of conveying the recording medium in a conveying direction; jetting ink droplets to form first ink dots on the recording medium; irradiating active energy rays onto the first ink dots formed on the recording medium; jetting ink droplets having the same color as that of the first ink dots at a downstream position of the first jetting step in terms of the conveying direction to form second ink dots so as to partially overlap on the first ink dots; and irradiating active energy rays onto the second ink dots formed on the recording medium. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218575 | APPLYING A PRINTED MARK TO AN ARTICLE IN THE TOBACCO-PROCESSING INDUSTRY - Method for applying a printed mark to an article of the tobacco-processing industry. The method includes applying an ink based on a volatile and organic solvent to the article by at least one printing head. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218576 | Escort belt for improved printing of a media web in an ink printing machine - An escort belt facilitates removal of particulate from a print zone in an ink printing machine while maintaining proper registration of printing media in the print zone. The escort belt includes an endless belt having a width between a first and a second edge of the escort belt that is greater than a media sheet carried by the escort belt, a first plurality of apertures arranged in a longitudinal line proximate one of the belt edges of the escort belt, and a second plurality of apertures distributed between the first plurality of apertures and the other edge of the escort belt, the apertures of the first plurality having a shape different from that of the second plurality of apertures and the apertures of the first aperture plurality being positioned so the apertures are only partially covered by edges of the media being held to the escort belt by a vacuum source applied to the first and the second pluralities. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218577 | CONVEYOR BELT WITH LINEAR SCALE, CONVEYOR BELT DRIVING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus for printing characters, figures, or images by ejecting fine liquid from a plurality of nozzles to form fine particles on a print medium. The printing apparatus includes: a conveyor-belt driving system in which a conveyor belt with a linear scale is used, the conveyor belt having a magnetic layer including a magnetic pattern serving as a linear scale on the inner circumference of the conveyor belt along the direction of conveyance of the print medium; scale-pattern detection unit that detects the scale pattern of the linear scale on the conveyor belt; print-timing determination unit that determines the timing to print on the print medium according to the scale pattern detected by the scale-pattern detection unit; and printing unit that prints on the print medium at the print timing determined by the print-timing determination unit. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218578 | RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording apparatus in which a pressure contact position of a pinch roller to a conveying roller and a distance between the pressure contact position of the pinch roller and a platen can be properly set corresponding to different recording conditions so that a high quality image can be recorded even under the different recording conditions. A movement of the pressure contact position in which the pressure contact position of the pinch roller | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218579 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus irradiates a polygon mirror with laser beams from different directions. The polygon mirror reflects the laser beams toward different optical axis directions to scan the laser beams at a predetermined deflection angle. First and second beam detectors are disposed at the beam incident ends in the scanning direction of first and second light scanning sections such that the second beam detector detects the start of the light beam scanning operation at an earlier timing than the first beam detector does. The detection result of the first beam detector is used to set sampling start timing in common between first and second image data. Based on the detection results of the first and second beam detectors, first and second image data are written into a memory, and the first and second laser source sections are controlled based on the image data read out from the memory. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218580 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus - Positioning displacement characteristics of each of scanning beams are obtained in advance. The positioning displacement characteristics is indicative of a relation between temperature and a displacement amount by which each of the scanning beams is displaced in a sub-scanning direction. A displacement control is performed based on the positioning displacement characteristics by shifting the positioning displacement characteristics in a direction opposite to that of a trend of the positioning displacement characteristics within a pixel pitch. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218581 | Network audio/video communication system, comunication device and operation and audio/video data processing method for the same - A network audio/video communication system, a communication device and operation and an audio/video data processing method for the same is disclosed. A user utilizes a remote control unit for operating communication software inside a network audio/video communication device to achieve audio/video communication anywhere via the Internet. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218582 | VIDEO CONFERENCING - A video conferencing system is provided, in which at least two cameras are used to capture images of people at a first location participating in a video conference. One or more active speakers are identified among the people at the location, and one of the at least two cameras is automatically selected based on a position or positions of the one or more active speakers. Images from the selected camera are provided to a person at a second location participating the video conference. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218583 | VIDEO CONFERENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A video conferencing system having video and/or audio capture device for video and audio communications is disclosed. The video and audio capture device may include one or more switches for securely activating and deactivating the device. Furthermore, an indicator may be hard-wired to the video and/or audio components so to provide a true indication of when these components are on and off. The video and audio capture device may also be integrated into a single unit. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218584 | Multi-Point Conference System and Multi-Point Conference Device - There are provided a multi-point conference system and a multi-point conference device capable of using an SIP terminal as a conference terminal and clearly and smoothly performing speaker switching without requesting a conference terminal to transmit an intra frame when a speaker is detected. The multi-point connection device includes an image processing unit for accumulating in a memory ( | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218585 | APPEARANCE MATCHING FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING - Methods and systems for presenting video images generated by multiple endpoints in a videoconference such that the displayed images have consistent appearance, for example consistent brightness levels are disclosed. Sampling methods and algorithms are used to calculate an appropriate amount of correction for each video image and the images are adjusted accordingly. Brightness correction may implement one or more brightness sampling and analyzing logical modules (BSAM) and one or more transforming logical module (TLM). The brightness matching methods may be implemented in centralized architecture, for example, as part of a multipoint control unit (MCU). Alternatively, the methods may be implemented using a distributed architecture. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218586 | Multipoint Conference Video Switching - A method includes receiving a plurality of audio signals, wherein the audio signals each include a plurality of packets containing voice data associated with conference participants. One or more of the audio signals is associated with a video signal and at least one of the audio signals is associated with a voice-only conference participant. The method further includes determining an activity metric for each of the plurality of audio signals, wherein the activity metric indicates a confidence value that the audio signal is associated with a conference participant that is currently speaking. The method also includes encoding, for each of the plurality of audio signals, one or more packets of the plurality of packets with the activity metric and sending the plurality of audio signals encoded with an activity metric to a conference bridge. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218587 | PANORAMIC IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A panoramic image management system and method is disclosed. The system provides for improved calibration of a 360 degree panoramic camera, as well as improved means for manipulating the images, and correlating images from conventional video cameras with the images from the 360 degree panoramic camera. The system also provides means for archiving and retrieving stored images. The present invention contributes to an improved video surveillance system. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218588 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTE GUIDANCE BY EXPERT FOR IMAGING DEVICE - Systems and methods for combining tomographic images with human vision. The systems preferably include a first assembly located proximal to an object to be imaged and a second assembly remote from the target. The first assembly is preferably able to collect a tomographic image from a target object and superimpose that tomographic image onto a direct view of the target object. The first assembly also includes components that allow the transmission of the tomographic image to the remote assembly. At the remote location, a highly trained expert may interact with the captured image by placing electronic markers on the image via an electronic interface. The captured image plus electronic marker are then preferably transmitted back to the local site via a second transmitter-receiver. The local user may use the electronic marker to guide his actions during the appropriate task. The systems have particular utility in the medical field where a trained clinician at a remote location may provide guidance to an untrained individual in performing a medical procedure on a patient. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218589 | Autostereoscopic Display - An autostereoscopic display | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218590 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE-CODEC SURVEILLANCE VIDEO STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL - A method and system for processing surveillance video stored on a video storage system is provided. A universal media control command is received and translated to a local control command specific to a video storage system. The surveillance video is retrieved in response to receipt of the local control command. The surveillance video can be decoded into raw video data and displayed, or be encapsulated within a universal data file. The surveillance video may be subsequently extracted from the universal data file | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218591 | EVENT DETECTION BASED ON VIDEO METADATA - Video data from sources, such as cameras, is analyzed to create metadata descriptive of the events and objects occurring in the video. This metadata, which consists of data about the video, is then analyzed on a transaction basis to determine if a suspicious activity, such as a fraudulent Point of Sale (POS) return event, has occurred in relation to a transaction. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218592 | Method and System for Calibrating a Camera in Production Machines - Method and system for calibrating a camera ( | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218593 | MULTI-STREAMING WEB CAMERA CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHODOLOGY OF THE SAME - A multi-streaming web camera controlling system and controlling methodology are capable of providing an original video data stream and at least one compressed video data stream for displaying demands of local host and for requested video data format(s) by remote hosts, respectively. The host can selectively display the original video data stream and transmit the compressed video data stream(s) through the Internet directly in order to satisfy the video requirements of both the local host and remote hosts. The multi-streaming web camera controlling system and controlling methodology can reduce the consuming system resource of the host for processing a video data stream. Therefore, the multi-streaming web camera controlling system and controlling methodology are capable of decreasing the cost of the host and improving the performance for processing video data stream with improved quality. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218594 | Differential Phase Correlation - Acceleration of a set of three frames of video with N movers may be determined by generating an inverse Fourier transformation of a differential phase correlation matrix of the three frames. The resultant acceleration estimate may be integrated with the velocity and offset estimates for the second frame so as to provide an offset estimate for the third frame. The third frame may then be co-registered with a reference frame. This process may be repeated for subsequent frames so that subsequent frames may also be registered to the reference frame so that video jitter that was caused by platform shake may be reduced or eliminated. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218595 | Digital camera - A digital camera includes an object detecting unit which analyzes an analysis target image including a through image data taken in from an image pickup device to compose a shot of an object, a shot image, or a reduced image, based on a feature appearing in an image representing a subject of shooting, and detects at least one main object captured in the analysis target image, a subject information extracting unit which extracts, for each image of object detected by the object detecting unit, subject information including a position in a screen corresponding to the analysis target image and its expansion, and a tag data writing unit which writes the subject information, as a part of tag data corresponding to the shot image, to a storage medium, thereby enabling use of the information acquired by object detection at the time of shooting, also after the acquisition of the image. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218596 | CAMERA APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH CAMERA APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CAMERA APPARATUS - A through image with a trace frame is displayed. A subject on which a trace frame is superposed when a shutter key is half-depressed is determined as a target image. A trimming frame is additionally displayed. Whether the target image has moved within the through image or not is determined. When the target image has moved within the through image, the trace frame and the trimming frame are displayed so as to follow the target image. Then, whether the center vector of the trimming frame z four surrounding vectors is established or not is determined. When this determination results in YES, it is assumed that the target image is larger than the trimming frame and the trimming frame is enlarged by a predetermined amount. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218597 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes: a first detecting portion that detects each component by dividing a first wavelength region of image information into a plurality of wavelength regions; a second detecting portion that detects components in the first wavelength region with higher sensitivity than the components in the first wavelength region detected by the first detecting portion; and a signal processing unit including a high sensitization signal processing portion that acquires a signal indicating a measured amount on the basis of a unit signal corresponding to each wavelength detected in the first detecting portion and that executes a sensitivity correction operation on the unit signal corresponding to each wavelength detected in the first detecting portion by using the signal indicating the measured amount and a signal of the component in the first wavelength region, which has high sensitivity and is detected in the second detecting portion. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218598 | Imaging method, imaging apparatus, and driving device - A driving device includes a driving control unit that reads out the signal charge generated by at least the charge generating section for a low-sensitivity pixel signal to the charge transfer section, after the predetermined timing, continues incidence of the electromagnetic wave and, after continuing the incidence of the electromagnetic wave, reads out the signal charge generated by at least the charge generating section for a high-sensitivity pixel signal to the charge transfer section, transfers the signal charge read out to the charge transfer section through the charge transfer section, and, concerning at least one of the signal charges for the high-sensitivity pixel signal and the low-sensitivity pixel signal, every time the signal charge is read out to the charge transfer section, transfers the signal charge read out to the charge transfer section through the charge transfer section without retaining the signal charge in the charge transfer section. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218599 | Image Pickup Apparatus - The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus ( | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218600 | System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Evaluating Photographic Performance - A method for automatically evaluating photographic performance is provided. The method includes recording with a camera device one or more images during a photography session. The images are digitally stored, and image information related to the images is automatically compiled. The image information may include sales data, image content data, image capture data, and sales condition data. Other image information may be manually compiled. At least one photographic performance metric is automatically generated using at least one of the images and the image information. The performance metric acts to facilitate evaluation of one or more aspects of photographic performance. A system and a computer program product for automatically evaluating photographic performance are also provided. | 2008-09-11 |
| 20080218601 | Camera System and Camera Main Body - A camera system includes a camera main body and a camera head mounted to the camera main body. A main body CPU of the camera main body determines whether or not an image signal transmitted from the mounted camera head can be processed by a signal conversion processing section of the camera main body based on ID information and signal conversion processing information downloaded from the camera head upon mounting the camera head. When it is determined that the signal cannot be processed by the signal conversion processing section by the main body CPU, the camera main body sets a RAW data recording mode for recording RAW data on a recording medium by adding a part of the signal conversion processing information of the camera head as data without performing signal processing in the signal conversion processing section. | 2008-09-11 |
