48th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090290737 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A MULTILEVEL FILTER BANK AND CORRESPONDING FILTER BANK AND HEARING APPARATUS - A filter bank system that is optimized with respect to group delay and power consumption is provided. The filter bank system has multiple levels and has an input-side and an output-side filter bank based on a defined filter type. The input-side filter bank has input channels as a variable first parameter, and an oversampling factor as a variable second parameter. For optimizing the multilevel filter bank, a group delay and an operation rate are now respectively determined for each of a plurality of value pairs of the first and second parameters. The value pair for which the associated group delay and the associated operation rate satisfy a defined criterion, in particular for which they are as low as possible, is selected from the value pairs. The input-side filter bank is subsequently configured with the number of channels and the oversampling factor corresponding to the selected value pair. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290738 | Light powered hearing aid - A hearing aid includes a case and a photovoltaic cell located in the case near a translucent portion of the case. A detector circuit includes a voltage comparator for monitoring the voltage from the photocell and indicating variations in voltage. The variations are analyzed to detect data for operating the hearing aid. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290739 | MIXING OF IN-THE-EAR MICROPHONE AND OUTSIDE-THE-EAR MICROPHONE SIGNALS TO ENHANCE SPATIAL PERCEPTION - This document provides a hearing assistance device for playing processed sound inside a wearer's ear canal, the hearing assistance device comprising a first housing, signal processing electronics disposed at least partially within the first housing, a first microphone connected to the first housing, the first microphone adapted for reception of sound, a second microphone configured to receive sound from inside the wearer's ear canal when the hearing assistance device is worn and in use and microphone mixing electronics in communication with the signal processing electronics and in communication with the first microphone and the second microphone, the microphone mixing electronics adapted to combine low frequency information from the first microphone and high frequency information from the second microphone to produce a composite audio signal. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290740 | MICROPHONE UNIT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A microphone unit includes a microphone substrate. A plurality of diaphragm units are disposed on the microphone substrate. Each of the diaphragm units includes a diaphragm. A plurality of partition walls are disposed on the microphone substrate. Each of the partition walls surrounds the diaphragm so as to define a first area. A signal processor is disposed at a second area outside the first area and is configured to process signals output from the diaphragm units. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290741 | Wind immune microphone - Disclosed is an acoustic device comprising an enclosed housing defining an inner volume and having a front and a back; an acoustic port penetrating the front of the enclosed housing; a first and second sense structure attached to the inside of the housing and defining a gap between the first and second sense structures; a front volume defined by the portion of the inner volume between the first sense structure and the front of the housing; a back volume defined by the portion of the inner volume between the second sense structure and the back of the housing; and at least one vent in the first sense structure operatively connecting the front volume and the gap, wherein the acoustic device has a cutoff frequency above approximately 100 Hz. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290742 | Touch Sensitive Controls With Weakly Conductive Touch Surfaces - A touch activated control useful for incorporation into, e.g., a DON/DOFF sensor of a communications headset or a touch pad for a cell phone, includes a weakly conductive electrode and a sensor coupled to the electrode and operative to detect a change in parasitic capacitance caused by a change in the proximity of a body to the electrode. The electrode may include a covering made of a weakly conductive material. The weakly conductive property of the electrode enables the prevention of undesirable electrostatic discharge (ESD), user skin irritation and electrode corrosion caused by direct contact between the electrode and the user's skin and also exhibit's a substantially higher sensitivity than electrodes covered with an insulative material. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290743 | SKIN-MOUNTED DIGITAL DEVICE WITH STACKED FLEX CIRCUIT - A skin-mounted digital audio device composed of one or more removable adhesive sheets, a battery layer, and flex circuitry. The device can be folded and unfolded, and permits convenient, hands-free wearing and operation by a user via the adhesive sheet(s). | 2009-11-26 |
20090290744 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A SPEAKER - An electronic device ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090290745 | BATTERY CHARGING JOBSITE AUDIO APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention comprise a battery charging jobsite audio unit that is particularly useful at construction and other jobsites are disclosed which provides important desirable features and functionality comprise a housing, at least one charger for charging a removable battery pack, an audio unit that includes a speaker system for providing substantially 360° sound, as well as subwoofer, a cord and plug for connecting the unit to a source of AC power, and circuitry for selectively applying power to the audio unit and the charger. The preferred and alternative embodiments also preferably have a unique protective frame structure that is connected to the housing of the unit. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290746 | CARD-TYPE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - In a display panel ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090290747 | MOUNTABLE AUDIO SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Disclosed is a mountable audio system configured to be mounted on an electronic device, such as a computer monitor, a television and a music system. The mountable audio system includes a frame assembly, a pair of audio sources and a fastening mechanism. The frame assembly includes a pair of frame members. Each frame member of the pair of frame members includes a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The pair of frame members is removably coupled to each other by slidably engaging and disengaging first portions of the pair of frame members. The pair of audio sources is coupled to second portions of the pair of frame members. The fastening mechanism is capable of detachably coupling the frame assembly and the pair of audio sources with the electronic device. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290748 | Moving-Coil Planar Speaker - The planar speaker contains a frame, a diaphragm, a driver, a surround, and a number of flexible suspension elements. The diaphragm is suspended in a front opening of the frame by the surround. The driver is positioned at the center of the frame and a voice coil of the driver is attached to a back surface of the diaphragm. Two beams are arranged in parallel between two opposing longer wall segments of the frame on either side of the driver. The suspension elements are supported by the two beams, respectively, and attached to a back surface of the diaphragm. The symmetric deformation of the diaphragm along its longer side is thereby constrained by the suspension elements and the deformations at the two end zones of the diaphragm vibrating at a phase opposite to that of the center of the diaphragm would be suppressed. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290749 | DYNAMIC ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER AND EARPHONE - There is thus provided a dynamic electro-acoustic transducer having a moving coil ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090290750 | BLOCK-BASED WATERMARKING - A water marking system generates a water marked image frame for conveying a payload data word by combining at least one image frame with a two-dimensional water mark pattern. The water mark pattern includes plural regions each associated with one of symbols of the payload data word. Each region includes a two dimensional water mark block selected from a predetermined set of possible water mark blocks to represent the value of the payload data symbol associated with that region. A detecting data processing apparatus detects the payload data from a received water marked image frame, which has been encoded by utilizing a block match prior probability calculator operable to correlate each region of the water marked image frame with each of the water mark blocks from the set of water marked blocks) to form for each region a set of probability surfaces. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290751 | Methods and Systems for Detecting Numerals in a Digital Image - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the location of numerals in an electronic document image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290752 | Method for producing video signatures and identifying video clips - A method for receiving input video having a sequence of input video frames, and producing a compact video signature as an identifier of the input video, includes the following steps: generating a processed video tomograph using an arrangement of corresponding lines of pixels from the respective frames of the sequence of video frames; measuring characteristics of the processed video tomograph; and producing the video signature from the measured characteristics. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290753 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GAZE ESTIMATION - A gaze estimation method and system, the method including capturing a video sequence of images with an image capturing system, designating at least one landmark in a head portion of the captured video sequence, fitting a virtual model of the head portion to the actual head portion in the captured video sequence, and determining the gaze estimation. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290754 | Deriving Identifying Data From Video and Audio - The present invention relates generally to deriving identifying data from sample values representing video or audio. One claim recites a method including: obtaining identifying data from an electronic processor that derives the identifying data from sample values representing audio or video; providing the identifying data to a database; receiving advertising information from the database, the advertising information being associated with the audio or video, and the advertising information having been identified in the database utilizing at least the identifying data; and providing the advertising information to a consumer. Of course, other combinations are provided and claimed too. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290755 | System Having a Layered Architecture For Constructing a Dynamic Social Network From Image Data - A system having a layered architecture for constructing dynamic social network from image data of actors and events. It may have a low layer for capturing raw data and identifying actors and events. The system may have a middle layer that receives actor and event information from the low layer and puts it in to a two dimensional matrix. A high layer of the system may add weighted relationship information to the matrix to form the basis for constructing a social network. The system may have a sliding window thus making the social network dynamic. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290756 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A COMPOSITION OF AN AUDIENCE OF AN INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE - Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes: capturing at least one image of the audience; determining a number of people within the at least one image; prompting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is detected based on the number of people determined to be within the at least one image; and if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a predetermined number of prompts of the audience, adjusting a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290757 | INSPECTION USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROFILE INFORMATION - A three-dimensional profile of at least a portion of an object, such as a vehicle, is generated using image data corresponding to the object. The image data can be acquired as the object passes an inspection location and can be enhanced using emitted electromagnetic radiation or the like. The three-dimensional profile is analyzed to identify any anomalies that are associated with the object. The analysis can include comparing the three-dimensional profile to a standard three-dimensional profile corresponding to a type of the object. Further, the analysis can include comparing the three-dimensional profile to a previously acquired three-dimensional profile for the object. The three-dimensional profile can be generated using visible light-based image data, and one or more additional profiles based on non-visible data also can be generated and analyzed. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290758 | Rectangular Table Detection Using Hybrid RGB and Depth Camera Sensors - Objects having a flat surface such as a table are detected by processing a depth image and a color image. A mask indicating an area likely to include an object having the flat surface is generated by processing a depth image including the depth information. A color image corresponding to the depth image is then cropped using the mask to detect a portion of the color image that likely include the object having the flat surface. Geometric features of the cropped color image such as lines are then detected to determine the location and orientation of the object having the flat surface. A subset of the detected geometric features is selected as outlines of the flat surface. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290759 | STEREOSCOPIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A stereoscopic measurement system captures stereo images and determines measurement information for user-designated points within stereo images. The system comprises an image capture device for capturing stereo images of an object. A processing system communicates with the capture device to receive stereo images. The processing system displays the stereo images and allows a user to select one or more points within the stereo image. The processing system processes the designated points within the stereo images to determine measurement information for the designated points. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290760 | PASSIVE METHOD FOR WIND MEASUREMENT - A method for measuring wind velocity including using a Fourier Transform (FT) and a correlation between a wave vector number and temporal frequency of a wind to calculate wind velocity. Contour line deviations in a series of images of a far object are evaluated by performing a spatial discrete fourier transform (DFT) on deviations within each image, and subsequently a time discrete fourier transform (DFT) on the Fourier coefficients obtained by the spatial DFT, to get the frequency dependence of each Fourier coefficient. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290761 | UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE WIND DIRECTION, SPEED, AND TURBIDITY MONITORING USING DIGITAL IMAGING AND MOTION TRACKING - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for monitoring wind direction, speed, and turbidity. The visible sky is monitored by a set of cameras for contrails produced by a high-altitude aircraft. In response to identifying a contrail, the contrail is tracked across the field of view of the camera. Contrail data generated when the contrail is identified and during the tracking of the contrail is stored. The contrail data describes characteristics of the contrail including the spread of the contrail and the movement of the contrail across the field of view of the camera. Coordinates of the high-altitude aircraft are determined and compared with the contrail data to identify wind conditions. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290762 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HUMAN HAND MOTION DETECTION BY SKIN COLOR PREDICTION - Systems and methods for motion detection of human skin within temporally adjacent electronic images are provided. Motion detection is accomplished by analyzing the color values of selected pixels within the electronic images represented in CbCr color space. Histogram distributions which represent skin colors and non-skin colors in CbCr color space are modeled in order to provide likelihoods that a selected color value appears within the histogram distributions. Posterior skin probability values, indicating the probability that a selected pixel having a given CbCr color value represents human skin, are calculated from these likelihoods. For each of the selected pixels, an intensity difference of the pixel between the electronic images is compared to an adaptive intensity threshold which is a function of the posterior skin probability in order to determine whether the pixel is in motion. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290763 | VEIN AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND VEIN AUTHENTICATION METHOD - According to the present invention, there is provided a vein authentication apparatus including an imaging unit that generates a plurality of pieces of vein imaged data, a vein pattern extraction unit that extracts a vein pattern from each of a plurality of pieces of vein imaged data, a rotation amount calculation unit that calculates a rotation direction and a rotation amount of a finger accompanying a rotational motion of each extracted vein pattern, and a registration information selection unit that selects the vein pattern to be registered as a template from a plurality of the vein patterns to make the vein pattern registration information if, after calculating a shift amount of the imaging range and determining whether a shift width of the imaging range is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold, the shift width of the imaging range is less than the predetermined threshold. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290764 | System and Method for Media Fingerprint Indexing - A fingerprint and indexing service is implemented to receive a media object and generate a fingerprint corresponding to the media object. The fingerprint and indexing service may segment the fingerprint into frames and generate a confidence value for each bit within each frame. The confidence values may be added together and totaled, such that each frame has a corresponding confidence score. The frames may be ranked, according to their confidence scores. N of the top ranked frames may be selected as the index. Subsequently, a search component may determine the index values for a query media object. The database of media objects may be searched for matching index values for fingerprints with fingerprint lengths matching the query media object's length. Once a match is declared, the fingerprints of the query media object and the matching media objects within the database may be compared to determine if a match exists. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290765 | Neurodegenerative Disease Detection Method, Detecting Program, and Detector - A method of detecting a neurodegenerative disease includes (a) a standardization step of creating a first image by applying anatomical standardization to a brain nuclear medical image; (b) a conversion step of creating a second image by converting the pixel value of each pixel of an image based on the first image into a z score or a t value; (c) an addition step of calculating the sum of the pixel values of individual pixels in a predetermined region of interest in the second image; and (d) a detection step of obtaining the results of the detection of the neurodegenerative disease through an operation of comparison of the sum with a predetermined threshold. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290766 | Automated placental measurement - A method for analyzing the placenta and histology slides of placental tissue comprising: selecting a placental sample to be analyzed; obtaining a digital image of the placental sample; and performing an analysis on the digital image, wherein a mathematical algorithm is applied to the digital image. The results of the analysis are correlated with data on health outcomes in infants, children, or adults and are used to assess future physiological risks to a patient. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290767 | Determination of extent of congruity between observation of authoring user and observation of receiving user - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a result of an observation of an authoring user; acquiring a result of an observation of a receiving user; comparing the result of the observation of the authoring user with the result of the observation of the receiving user; and presenting data indicative of an extent of congruity between the result of the observation of the authoring user and the result of the observation of the receiving user based at least in part on said comparing. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290768 | Remote interpretation of medical images - A remote view station is communicatively coupled to an image server and receives a compressed version of source medical images. The remote view station uncompresses and displays the received medical image. A medical professional, such as a pathologist, can select a region of the displayed medical image. Region information is transmitted back to the image server that applies image analysis operations on a region of the source medical image that corresponds to the selected region of the compressed medical image. In this manner, the data loss that occurs during image compression does not effect the image analysis operations. As such, the image analysis operations produce more accurate results than if the operations were applied by remote view station to the uncompressed image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290769 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a medical image processing method for manipulating a curve using a pointing device. The method includes: (a) accepting a first point on the curve specified by the pointing device; (b) reading a first time; (c) reading a second time when a point specified by the pointing device is moved to a second point from the first point; (d) determining a new curve based on a position of the second point, the second time, and the first time; (e) displaying said new curve; (f) reading a third time and a third point specified by the pointing device; (g) determining a further new curve based on a position of the third point, the third time, and the first time or the second time; and (h) displaying said further new curve. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290770 | MRI METHODS USING DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING TECHNIQUES AND MRI SYSTEMS EMBODYING SAME - Featured is a method for automatically evaluating acquired MRI data, determining the quality of the acquired images and removing the image data when it is determined that an image is corrupted so the imaged data for the corrupted image is removed from the subsequent tensor fitting. In further embodiments, such determining includes judging the quality of the image data to determine if the image data satisfies a quality threshold criteria and if determined not to be satisfied adjudging the image to be corrupted. Such methods include performing said evaluating, determining and removing in real time and in the case where an image is determined to be corrupted, such methods further includes re-acquiring additional image data corresponding to each of the one or more images removed as being corrupted. Also featured are MRI systems embodying such methods. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290771 | Method and Apparatus for Performing 2D to 3D Registration - A method and apparatus for performing 2D to 3D registration includes an initialization step and a refinement step. The initialization step is directed to identifying an orientation and a position by knowing orientation information where data images are captured and by identifying centers of relevant bodies. The refinement step uses normalized mutual information and pattern intensity algorithms to register the 2D image to the 3D volume. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290772 | Medical Data Processing and Visualization Technique - A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes accessing patient image and non-image deviation scores derived through respective comparisons of patient image and non-image data to standardized image and non-image data. The method may also include processing the image and non-image deviation scores to generate a visual output indicative of differences between the patient image and non-image data, and the standardized image and non-image data, respectively. Further, the method may include displaying the visual output. Additional methods, systems, and manufactures are also disclosed. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290773 | Apparatus and Method to Facilitate User-Modified Rendering of an Object Image - A user interface ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090290774 | DYNAMIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING - Projection data ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090290775 | Method and System for Selecting the Number of Gaussian Modes for the Segmentation of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (MR) Images - A method for automatically selecting a number of Gaussian modes for segmentation of a cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) image, including: identifying a left ventricle (LV) in a cardiac MR image slice; quantifying the LV blood pool; obtaining a mask for the LV blood pool; generating a ring mask for a myocardium of the LV from the LV blood pool mask; fitting three Gaussian modes to a histogram of the image slice to obtain a corresponding homogeneity image for the myocardium; computing a quality of fitting (QOF) measure for the three Gaussian modes based on the corresponding homogeneity image; repeating the fitting and computing steps for four and five Gaussian modes; and selecting the homogeneity image of the number of Gaussian modes with the largest QOF measure as the homogeneity image for processing. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290776 | Automatic Determination Of Field Of View In Cardiac MRI - A method for automatically determining a field of view for performing a subsequent medical imaging study includes acquiring one or more preliminary images. A body mask is generated by thresholding the preliminary images and identifying a largest connected component. A boundary mask is obtained from the boundary of the generated body mask. A rectangular bounding box is fit to the obtained boundary mask. The rectangular bounding box is used as a field of view for performing a subsequent medical imaging study. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290777 | AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE IN CARDIAC CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - A method for automatically localizing left ventricle in medical image data includes acquiring a sequence of three-dimensional medical images spanning a cardiac cycle. Each of the images includes a plurality of two-dimensional image slices, one of which is defined as a template slice. The template slice of each medical image of the sequence is automatically cropped to include the heart and a margin around the heart based on temporal variations between pixels of the template slice throughout the sequence of medical images. The template slice of each medical image of the sequence is automatically contoured to determine the endo-cardial and epi-cardial boundaries for at least the end-diastolic and end-systolic phases. Localization information is generated for the left ventricle based on the determined endo-cardial and epi-cardial boundaries for at least the end-diastolic and end-systolic phases. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MR MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION MAPS WITHOUT USER INTERACTION - A method for automatically generating a myocardial perfusion map from a sequence of magnetic resonance (MR) images includes determining a region of interest (ROI) in a reference frame selected from a time series of myocardial perfusion MR image slices, registering each image slice in the time series of slices to the reference frame to obtain a series of registered ROIs, and using the series of registered ROIs to segment endo- and epi-cardial boundaries of a myocardium in the ROI. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290779 | FEATURE BASED NEURAL NETWORK REGRESSION FOR FEATURE SUPPRESSION - A method of obtaining one or more components from an image may include normalizing and pre-processing the image to obtain a processed image. Features may be extracted from the processed image. Neural-network-based regression may then be performed on the set of extracted features to predict the one or more components. These techniques may be applied, for example, to the problem of extracting and removing bone components from radiographic images, which may be thoracic (lung) images. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290780 | ANALYSIS METHOD FOR CHEMICAL AND/OR BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - An analysis method for chemical and/or biological samples, particularly chemical and/or biological samples comprising cells, includes the following steps:
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20090290781 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE FOR CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS, SURFACE INSPECTION METHOD IMPLEMENTED THEREWITH AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An illuminating device is provided that includes, but is not limited to a cylindrical lighting unit with a cylindrical slit diaphragm arranged in the interior thereof. The lighting unit includes, but is not limited to a cylindrical light source with a cylindrical diffusor arranged therein, and the slit diaphragm has a cylinder with axially extending slits that are arranged in such a way that incident beams coupled in perpendicular to the slit diaphragm axis (O) converge in a point (M) that is spaced apart from the cylinder axis in the interior of the slit diaphragm through the slits. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290782 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING AN INSPECTION-RECIPE - A method and a system for establishing a wafer testing recipe are disclosed. According to the present invention the system is comprised of a camera for acquiring images of a number of dice from a produced wafer; and a dedicated software that operative for using at least part of the images and composes a reference-image to be used as testing reference of a typical die image; defining on the reference-image single and/or repeatable elements of a die pattern as a “zone of interest; determining the Detection-Policy for each of the zone of interest or for a group of similar zones of interest and determining the algorithm that will be used by each of the Detection-Policy; determining the parameters of each of the Detection-Policy's algorithms; determining the Reporting-policy by defining a set of specific names of defect classes that could be used during inspection of a specific lot of wafers; determining the Inspection-policy defining behavior of inspection system as a set of pre-defined logical rules; and creating a “wafer testing recipe” by integrating of the testing reference of a typical die image, the defined zones of interest, the determined Detection-Policies, the parameters of the determined Detection-Policies' algorithms, the determined Reporting-Policies and the determined Inspection-Policies. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290783 | Defect Inspection Method and Apparatus Therefor - The invention relates to a defect inspection apparatus in which images of mutually corresponding areas in identically formed patterns on a sample are compared to detect mismatched portions of the images as defects. The defect inspection apparatus includes an image comparator that creates a feature space with the use of feature quantities calculated from pixels of images acquired under different optical conditions and detects outlier values in the feature space as defects. Thus, the defect inspection apparatus can detect various defects with high sensitivity even if there are luminance differences between images of identical patterns which are attributable to the difference in wafer pattern thickness. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290784 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BINNING DEFECTS DETECTED ON A SPECIMEN - Methods and systems for binning defects detected on a specimen are provided. One method includes comparing a test image to reference images. The test image includes an image of one or more patterned features formed on the specimen proximate to a defect detected on the specimen. The reference images include images of one or more patterned features associated with different regions of interest within a device being formed on the specimen. If the one or more patterned features of the test image match the one or more patterned features of one of the reference images, the method includes assigning the defect to a bin corresponding to the region of interest associated with the reference image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290785 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display (LCD) inspection apparatus and method are provided. The inspection apparatus and method are capable of automatically and accurately detecting defects of an LCD panel, and providing information of the automatically-detected defects of the LCD panel to the operator, thereby enabling the operator to easily recognize the defects. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290786 | STEREOSCOPIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A stereoscopic measurement system captures stereo images and determines measurement information for user-designated points within stereo images. The system comprises an image capture device for capturing stereo images of an object. A processing system communicates with the capture device to receive stereo images. The processing system displays the stereo images and allows a user to select one or more points within the stereo image. The processing system processes the designated points within the stereo images to determine measurement information for the designated points. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290787 | STEREOSCOPIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A stereoscopic measurement system captures stereo images and determines measurement information for user-designated points within stereo images. The system comprises an image capture device for capturing stereo images of an object. A processing system communicates with the capture device to receive stereo images. The processing system displays the stereo images and allows a user to select one or more points within the stereo image. The processing system processes the designated points within the stereo images to determine measurement information for the designated points. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290788 | System and method for performing multi-image training for pattern recognition and registration - A system and method for performing multi-image training for pattern recognition and registration is provided. A machine vision system first obtains N training images of the scene. Each of the N images is used as a baseline image and the N−1 images are registered to the baseline. Features that represent a set of corresponding image features are added to the model. The feature to be added to the model may comprise an average of the features from each of the images in which the feature appears. The process continues until every feature that meets a threshold requirement is accounted for. The model that results from the present invention represents those stable features that are found in at least the threshold number of the N training images. The model may then be used to train an alignment/inspection tool with the set of features. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290789 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCED COMPLEXITY VIDEO PROCESSING VIA SPECIAL CHROMA HANDLING - A method and apparatus for reduced complexity video and image processing with special chroma handling are disclosed. Frame-type decisions are made on a video stream made up of a sequence of frames. A first subset of the frames are selected to be monochrome and generated without chroma data. A second subset of the frames are selected to be in color and generated with chroma components. In one embodiment, the first subset of frames includes odd frames and the second subset of frames includes even frames in the video stream. Under higher video frame rates, the lack of color in every other frame is not visible to the end viewer. Accordingly, subsequent processing of the output video stream permits luma-only processing of many frames in the video stream, extensively reducing the amount of computation. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290790 | Detection of anti aliasing in two-color images for improved compression - A method for identifying anti aliased images of two or three colors makes use of the fact that in most anti-aliasing techniques, the color values of the source images are known with sub-pixel accuracy, e.g., the boundaries of text characters are described with arbitrary high precision and averaging ensures that the destination pixel values are interpolations of the two source colors so that all of the color values of the image lie on a single line, or a single plane, in 3-dimensional color space. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290791 | AUTOMATIC TRACKING OF PEOPLE AND BODIES IN VIDEO - A facial detection module detects faces in any frame in a video by applying at least two rectangles between the eyes of a face and other regions and calculating a difference in intensity between those regions. The intensities are used to generate face detections. A tracking module predicts the location of faces in frames across time and compares the predicted location to the face detections. The face detection that is closest to the predicted location is selected, provided that it exceeds a threshold of overlap with the predicted location. A tracking module determines shot boundaries by comparing the similarities between frames. A clustering module groups the face tracks in the shots, as demarcated by the shot boundaries, for individuals within the video. A body detection module attaches a body outline to each of the face tracks to increase the clickable area for the individuals. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290792 | METHOD FOR SETTING AUTO WHITE BALANCE AREA - Disclosed is a method for setting an auto white balance area. An image is received from an image sensor. An edge from the image is detected and an edge area having no color information is removed from the image. The image, from which the edge area is removed, is divided into blocks having preset sizes. Remaining areas are set as an auto white balance area except a darkest area and a brightest area by applying a threshold value for brightness to the divided image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290793 | SIGNAL SEARCH IN THREE DIMENSIONAL BITMAPS - A method for automated searching of signal characteristics represented in a bitmap of an RF test and measurement device is provided. The bitmap is populated via sampling of a time-varying signal, where a first signal characteristic is reflected by an X-axis of the bitmap, a second signal characteristic is reflected by a Y-axis of the bitmap, and a third signal characteristic is reflected by a Z-axis of the bitmap. The method includes: selecting a region of the bitmap. The method further includes generating, for the region, a histogram of Z-values of the bitmap versus Y-values of the bitmap, searching the histogram for any portion in the histogram that meets a predetermined search criteria, and identifying a location of the bitmap corresponding to each portion of the histogram that meets the predetermined search criteria. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290794 | IMAGE VISUALIZATION THROUGH CONTENT-BASED INSETS - A method and a system for forming an inset image are disclosed. The method includes identifying a region of interest in an original image. An inset is generated, based on the region of interest. A region of low interest is identified in the original image. The inset is applied to the region of low interest to form an inset image. The region of interest is scaled differently from the inset in the inset image. The method can proceed automatically or substantially automatically, without the need for significant user input. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290795 | Geodesic Image and Video Processing - A method of geodesic image and video processing is proposed. In an embodiment, the method uses a geodesic distance transform to construct an image filter. The filter can be used in a variety of image editing operations such as segmentation, denoising, texture smoothing, image stitching and cartooning. In one embodiment, the method may be made efficient by utilizing parallelism of the algorithm to carry out processing steps on at least two processing cores concurrently. This efficiency may enable high-resolution images and video to be processed at ‘real time’ rates without the need for specialist hardware. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290796 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus and an image processing method blurs a background portion of an image. The image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit for acquiring original image data; an image processing unit for separating background pixels from foreground pixels in the original image; an image filtering unit for filtering the background pixels; and an image merging unit for merging the foreground pixels with the filtered background pixels in order to generate a new image having a blurred background. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290797 | IMAGE PROCESSING FOR STORING OBJECTS SEPARATED FROM AN IMAGE IN A STORAGE DEVICE - An image processing apparatus has a separation unit for separating objects constituting an image input by an image input unit, a setting unit for setting a criterion to determine whether or not a separated object is stored, and a determination unit for determining whether the separated object is stored based on the criterion set by the setting unit. The image processing apparatus also has a unit for displaying the separated object, responding to a user access via an interface unit, when the separated object is determined to be stored by the determination unit and storing the separated object such that the separated object can be reused. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290798 | IMAGE SEARCH METHOD AND DEVICE - An image search method that is robust and fast (with computational complexity of logarithmic order relative to the number of models). The image search method including: extracting a plurality of specific regions possessing such a property that a shape can be normalized regardless of an affine transformation thereof, as affine-invariant regions from one or more learning images; calculating, with respect to a reference affine-invariant region, other neighboring affine-invariant regions as a set; deforming the neighboring affine-invariant regions by a transformation to normalize the shape of the reference affine-invariant region; and outputting the deformed shapes of the neighboring affine-invariant regions, together with combination of the reference affine-invariant region and the neighboring affine-invariant regions. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290799 | Detection of Organ Area Corresponding to Facial Organ Image in Image - An image processing apparatus. A face area detecting unit detects a face area corresponding to a face image in a target image. An organ area detecting unit detects an organ area corresponding to a facial organ image in the face area. An organ detection omission ratio, which is a probability that the organ area detecting unit does not detect the facial organ image as the organ area, is smaller than a face detection omission ratio, which is a probability that the face area detecting unit does not detect the face image as the face area. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290800 | Cortex-Like Learning Machine for Temporal and Hierarchical Pattern Recognition - A cortex-like learning machine, called a probabilistic associative memory (PAM), is disclosed for recognizing spatial and temporal patterns. A PAM is usually a multilayer or recurrent network of processing units (PUs). Each PU expands subvectors of a feature subvector input to the PU into orthogonal vectors, and generates a probability distribution of the label of said feature subvector, using expansion correlation matrices, which are adjusted in supervised or unsupervised learning by a Hebb rule. The PU also converts the probability distribution into a ternary vector to be included in feature subvectors that are input to PUs in the same or other layers. A masking matrix in each PU eliminates effect of corrupted components in query feature subvectors and enables maximal generalization by said PU and thereby that by the PAM. PAMs with proper learning can recognize rotated, translated and scaled patterns and are functional models of the cortex. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290801 | Methods and Systems for Identifying the Orientation of a Digital Image - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the orientation of an electronic document image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290802 | CONCURRENT MULTIPLE-INSTANCE LEARNING FOR IMAGE CATEGORIZATION - The concurrent multiple instance learning technique described encodes the inter-dependency between instances (e.g. regions in an image) in order to predict a label for a future instance, and, if desired the label for an image determined from the label of these instances. The technique, in one embodiment, uses a concurrent tensor to model the semantic linkage between instances in a set of images. Based on the concurrent tensor, rank-1 supersymmetric non-negative tensor factorization (SNTF) can be applied to estimate the probability of each instance being relevant to a target category. In one embodiment, the technique formulates the label prediction processes in a regularization framework, which avoids overfitting, and significantly improves a learning machine's generalization capability, similar to that in SVMs. The technique, in one embodiment, uses Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) to extend predicted labels to the whole feature space based on the generalized representer theorem. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290803 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a storage unit which stores a plurality of image correction values, a control unit which extracts information on compression rate, and an image correcting unit which corrects an image using image quality correction values. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290804 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PREDICTION COEFFICIENT GENERATING APPARATUS, PREDICTION COEFFICIENT GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAMS FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHODS - An image signal processing apparatus includes: a block division unit inputting an image signal encoded by orthogonal transformation and dividing the image signal into second blocks different from first blocks encoded using the orthogonal transformation; an activity calculation unit calculating an activity of each second block; a re-encoding unit encoding the second blocks using the orthogonal transformation; a re-encoded difference calculation unit calculating difference values between the second blocks and the first blocks; a class determination unit determining a class of each second block on the basis of a distribution of the difference value and the activity; a prediction coefficient generating unit generating a prediction coefficient corresponding to each class; a prediction tap construction unit constructing a prediction tap for calculating a target pixel in each second block; and a predictive operation unit operating the prediction tap and the prediction coefficient to calculate a pixel value of each target pixel. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290805 | DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A selector selects one of a standard parameter corresponding to a filter strength contained in input movie image data and an original parameter originally set at the decoding side as a filter parameter to be used. A screen-display filter performs deblocking filtering using the filter parameter selected by the selector on decoded movie image data. A post-filter performs deblocking filtering using the standard parameter and stores the obtained decoded image data in a memory to allow it to be used in inter-frame compensation. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290806 | Method and apparatus for the restoration of degraded multi-channel images - An imager and method for operating the imager. The imager comprises a pixel array for producing an image signal and an image processor configured to restore images degraded by inter-channel degradations and intra-channel degradations in all channels of the image simultaneously by diagonalizing an image degradation matrix and componentizing the diagonalized image degradation matrix and multi-channel image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290807 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC ENHANCEMENT OF IMAGES CONTAINING SNOW - A content-based image processing method and system are provided for images identified as having snow content. Images having dark snow content are identified and processed with a first enhancement chain tailored to enhancing images which would be generally perceived as having dark snow while images having blue snow content are identified and processed with a second enhancement chain tailored to enhancing images which would be generally perceived as having blue snow. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290808 | Image Processing Method - An image processing method for removing a noise component contained in an original image includes: smoothing a noise component contained in an original image on a temporary basis by using a noise fluctuation index value; extracting a temporary noise component free of a non-noise component based upon a differential signal representing a difference between the original image and a smoothed image; extracting an actual noise component by further excluding a component less likely to be a noise component from the extracted temporary noise component by comparing the extracted temporary noise component with the noise fluctuation index value again; and removing noise from the original image based upon the extracted actual noise component having been extracted. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290809 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A motion vector calculation unit | 2009-11-26 |
20090290810 | MATTE-BASED VIDEO RESTORATION - Matte-based video restoration technique embodiments are presented which model spatio-temporally varying film wear artifacts found in digitized copies of film media. In general, this is accomplished by employing residual color information in recovering of artifact mattes. To this end, the distributions of artifact colors and their fractional contribution to each pixel of each frame being considered are extracted based on color information from the spatial and temporal neighborhoods of the pixel. The extracted information can then be used to restore the video by removing the artifacts. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290811 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A system and method for generating a multi-dimensional image of an object in a scene is disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a spectral estimation module configured to convert a two-dimensional (2D) high-resolution light intensity image of the scene to a spectral-augmented image of a selected channel. The system further includes a high-resolution depth image generation module configured to generate a high-resolution depth image of the object based on a three-dimensional (3D) low-resolution depth image of the scene and the spectral-augmented image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290812 | System to Compile Landmark Image Search Results - This patent discloses a system to compile a landmark image search result. The system may determine a rank of each image within a visual cluster according to at least one of a low-level self-similarity score, a low-level discriminative modeling score, and a point wise linking score. The landmark image search result may be compiled as a function of the rank of each image. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290813 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING ONE OR MORE REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with one or more representative images are disclosed. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290814 | IMAGE COMPENSATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image compensation apparatus and method for compensating an image scanned using a micro scanning mirror is disclosed. The disclosed image correction apparatus includes a transform/storage unit for storing an original image consisting of image data having an M-row×N-column size, the transform/storage unit laterally reversing an order of the image data at intervals of one row, upon storing the original image, and storing the resultant image data of the original image, and a micro scanning mirror for horizontally scanning the image data read out from the transform/storage unit. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290815 | SPARKLE PROCESSING - An image conversion unit ( | 2009-11-26 |
20090290816 | Shopping Bag System - A system of reusable shopping bags provides an assortment of reusable and selectively collapsible bags and carriers suitable for the various types of good a shopper encounters at, for example, a grocery store. Specific embodiments provide one or more large insulated freezer bag for frozen goods, one or more grocery bags for sundries, one or more veggie bag for vegetables and fruits, at least one carrying case pak, and one or more pod. Some of the bags are stowable in the freezer bag and in other embodiments component bags are stowable in the carrying case pak. The freezer and grocery bags may have adjustable handles and specific embodiments provide a shoulder cushion pad selectively mountable on the handles. Kits with instructions allow customized bag systems to be assembled. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290817 | Flexible Storage Bag - The flexible bag includes overlaying first and second sidewalls that provide an internal volume that can be accessed via an opening. To evacuate air from the internal volume after the open top edge has been closed, the bag includes a one-way valve element attached to the first sidewall. The bag is configured to prevent objects from clogging the valve element during evacuation. In one embodiment, the bag may include a plurality of ridges formed along the inner surface of at least one sidewall that can maintain separation of the sidewalls and contents from the valve element. In another aspect, the valve element is beneficially located at a top corner of the bag where the valve element is spaced apart from those locations in the bag where contents are likely to collect. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290818 | Cover Strip for a Linear Guide Rail - A cover strip for a linear guide rail, wherein a slide block is slidably disposed on the guide rail, a cover strip covers an upper surface of the guide rail, each of two sides of the guide rail extend outwards to form an extending surface with large slope, and each extending surface extends downward to form a flange, two sides of the central portion of the cover strip are provided with extending portions, and each extending portion extends downwards to form an engaging portion, the structures extending from two sides of the cover strip are configured in the shape of the corresponding structures of the guide rail, and a free end of each engaging portion extends downward to cover the ridge of each flange in such a manner that the cover strip can be positioned on the guide rail assuredly and stably. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290819 | Rolling Element Chain System for a Linear Guideway - A rolling element chain system for a linear guideway comprises a slide rail, a slide block, a plurality of rolling elements and a rolling element chain. The circulating path of the slide block is interiorly provided with a guiding groove with a width C, and the rolling elements roll within the circulating path and are confined by the rolling element chain. The rolling element chain has a plurality of spacers for separating the rolling elements from one another and linking portions with a thickness t for linking the rolling elements with one another. The spacer at each end of the rolling element chain has a retaining capacity B for holding the corresponding rolling element. The above structure satisfies the relation: C2009-11-26 | |
20090290820 | Linear Guideway with Retainers - A linear guideway with retainers fixes both ends of each retainer to end caps in such a manner that the retainers are installed at the inside bottom of a slide block. The retainer is provided with a retaining surface and a positioning block. The retaining surface is provided for supporting rolling elements. The positioning block is a T-shaped structure and each end of the T-shaped structure is provided with a semicircle. The positioning groove of the slide block is configured and positioned correspondingly to the positioning block and the positioning block is disposed in the positioning groove for preventing radial deformation of the retainer due to the impact of the rolling elements. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290821 | HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE AND SPINDLE MOTOR USING THE SAME - A hydrodynamic bearing device being low in torque, low in power consumption, high in reliability and best suited for miniaturization and a spindle motor using the same. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290822 | Aerospace Bearing Component - An aerospace bearing component of a substantially non-ferrous metal, the component comprising an oxygen diffusion zone near its surface to provide a bearing surface. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290823 | Modular Unit for an Internal Combustion Engine - The present invention relates to a modular unit for example for an internal combustion engine, having a shaft and having at least one further component, wherein the shaft is provided with bearing pins for mounting it in corresponding bearing bores provided in the at least one component. According to the invention, the surface of least one bearing pin has a sliding layer, with the surface of each bearing bore being in direct contact with the sliding layer of the associated bearing pin. The present invention also relates to a shaft and a component for a modular unit of the type. The shaft according to the invention can, for example, be a crankshaft or a camshaft. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290824 | ROLLING BEARING AND FULL COMPLEMENT ROLLING BEARING - Lubricant, which is shown by the following formula: | 2009-11-26 |
20090290825 | ROLLER BEARING BALL, ROLLER BEARING, AND METHOD FOR TREATING ROLLER BEARING BALLS - In order to provide a roller bearing ball, a roller bearing and a method for treating roller bearing balls, which are distinguished by an inexpensive and, in terms of production technology, simple surface treatment or coating of the rolling bodies, there is provision for the spherical rolling face of the roller bearing ball which rolls on a running face of a roller bearing in operation to have at least one flattened portion. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290826 | ROLLING ELEMENT BEARING WITH DIFFERENT GUIDE POCKETS - The invention relates to a rolling element bearing comprising a cage with at least one first group of guide pockets in which rolling bodies are guided with a certain play. According to the invention, the degree of play is different at least in a first guide pocket of the first group from the degree of play in a second guide pocket of said first group of guide pockets. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290827 | NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRRORS - There are disclosed a nonlinear optical loop mirror. The nonlinear optical loop mirror comprises: an optical coupler which includes a first optical path and a second optical path coupled to each other; and a loop optical path configured to connect the first and second optical paths, wherein the loop optical path is provided with a nonlinear element configured to vary a wavelength of an optical signal and a linear element configured to produce a wavelength dependent time delay for an optical signal. The nonlinear optical loop mirror may function as a delay interferometer for demodulating a differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) signal. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290828 | Optical Modulator - An optical modulator is provided which suppresses a radiation mode of a microwave generated in a connection substrate or a termination substrate from entering a signal electrode of the optical modulator and suppresses modulation properties from being degraded. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290829 | LIGHT CONTROL ELEMENT - In a polarization-independent light control element operable at low voltage, optical waveguides are provided in an X-cut first substrate and control electrodes are disposed thereabove. Optical waveguides are provided in a Z-cut second substrate and control electrodes are disposed thereabove. The control electrodes of the first and second substrates are connected in series to each other in the propagation direction of light. This allows a transverse electric component and a transverse magnetic component to be efficiently controlled because of the incorporation of high electro-optical effects of the optical waveguides of the first substrate on the transverse electric component and high electro-optical effects of the optical waveguides of the second substrate on the transverse magnetic component. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290830 | OPTICAL PHASE MODULATOR - The invention provides an optical phase modulator having a substrate made of an electro-optical material, a signal electrode provided on the substrate and first and second ground electrodes provided on both sides of the signal electrode. The electrodes are provided so that a size of the first gap between the first ground electrode and the signal electrode is smaller than a size of a second gap between the second ground electrode and the signal electrode. Furthermore, an optical waveguide is provided in the first gap as an optical phase modulator and not provided in the second gap. A driving voltage required for the phase adjustments is thereby lowered, the impedance matching is easily made and excellent radio frequency property can be realized. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290831 | Junction Field Effect Transistor Geometry for Optical Modulators - An optoelectronic apparatus for controlling a signal includes an optical waveguide having a variable refractive index; an active device formed within the waveguide, the device having three electrodes, a drain, a source and a gate; and wherein the device is located within the waveguide so that current flowing from the drain to the source changes the refractive index. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290832 | Printed circuit board including optical waveguide and method of manufacturing the same - Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board including an optical waveguide and a method of manufacturing the board. In the board, the optical waveguide includes a metal layer extending portion integrally connected to a metal layer constituting a mirror formed in the optical waveguide. Since the method of the present invention creates the mirror using electroless plating, which is typically used in a process of manufacturing general printed circuit boards, it is suitable for the manufacture of printed circuit boards having a large area, and the mirror has high reflectivity and is efficient in terms of material consumption. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290833 | Optical device including at least one replicated surface and associated methods - An optical device includes a substrate. a non-planar transparent structure on a first surface of the substrate, the non-planar transparent structure being made of a first material, and a molded refractive surface on the first surface of the substrate adjacent the non-planar transparent structure, the molded refractive surface being made of a second material, different from the first material. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290834 | Optical Switch - An optical switch is provided, which is used to switch a light path(s) between at least three lenses spaced from each other in a horizontal direction, or in horizontal and vertical directions. This optical switch comprises a lens supporting member for supporting the lenses, fixed prism optically coupled to the lenses, and a movable prism supported to be movable relative to the lens supporting member. The movable prism is driven by an actuator between a first position where a light path is formed between two of the lenses by use of the fixed prism and a second position where a light path is formed between another two of the lenses by use of the movable prism. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290835 | OPTICAL-COUPLED RESONATOR STRUCTURES BASED ON LOOP-COUPLED CAVITIES AND LOOP COUPLING PHASE - A resonator structure includes an input waveguide and an output waveguide. In one embodiment, the resonator structure also includes at least one resonator that couples the input waveguide to the output waveguide and a directional coupler that optically couples the input waveguide to the output waveguide. In another embodiment, the resonator structure includes a plurality of ring resonators that couple the input waveguide to the output waveguide. The plurality of ring resonators include a sequence of ring resonators that form a coupling loop. Each ring resonator in the sequence is coupled to at least two other ring resonators in the sequence and the first ring resonator in the sequence is coupled to the last ring resonator in the sequence so as to form the coupling loop. | 2009-11-26 |
20090290836 | OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an optical interconnection structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The optical interconnection structure includes a silicon substrate on which at least one groove formed with a lens is formed to have a curvature radius on the upper surface thereof; and a silica layer that is formed on the silicon substrate including the groove formed with the lens to retain a shape of the groove formed with the lens. As a result, there are effects that the optical interconnection structure can be manufactured in great quantities by performing most of the processes using a semiconductor processing equipment and have better thermal characteristics than that of the existing PCB substrate. | 2009-11-26 |