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20090138012 | Electrode with Rotatably Deployable Sheath - A sheath system for selectively covering a distal end of an electrocautery blade is provided. The sheath system includes a hub having a body portion defining a lumen therethrough and a sheath having a body portion defining a lumen therethrough. The lumen of the sheath is configured and dimensioned to operatively receive an electrocautery blade therein. The sheath is translatably associated with the hub such that rotation of the hub in a first direction results in axial movement of the sheath in a first direction to expose a distal end of the electrocautery blade and rotation of the hub in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, results in axial movement of the sheath in a second direction to cover the distal end of the electrocautery blade. The hub and the sheath may be concentric with one another. | 05-28-2009 |
20090143778 | Electrosurgical Pencil with Improved Controls - An electrosurgical pencil is provided and includes an elongated housing having an electrocautery blade supported therein and extending distally from the housing. The electrocautery blade is connected to a source of electrosurgical energy. The pencil further includes a plurality of activation switches supported on the housing for activating etectrocautery blade. Each activation switch is configured and adapted to selectively complete a control loop extending from the source of electrosurgical energy upon actuation thereof. In use, actuation of at least one of the plurality of activation switches produces a dividing with hemostatic effect at the electrocautery blade. The electrosurgical pencil further includes at least one voltage divider network supported on the housing. The at least one voltage divider network is electrically connected to the source of electrosurgical energy and controls the intensity of electrosurgical energy being delivered to the electrosurgical pencil. | 06-04-2009 |
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20090041373 | Method for Discriminating Textures Regions and Homogeneous or Flat Regions in an Image and Methods for Estimating Noise in an Image Sequence - A method for discriminating textured regions and homogeneous or flat regions in an image. A multi-scale or multi-resolution measurement is performed with respect to the image. Alternatively or additionally, the image is analyzed by using a prior measured noise value and a local variance value in or with respect to the image. | 02-12-2009 |
20090245639 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING MOTION BLUR IN A VIDEO SIGNAL - The present invention relates to an apparatus for reducing motion blur in a video signal, comprising an analysing means for determining edge characteristics of an input video signal and for providing motion estimation of an edge within said input video signal, generation means for generating a synthetic detail signal dependent on said edge characteristics and said motion estimation, and an adding means for adding the detail signal to the edge within the input video signal and outputting an output video signal. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245694 | MOTION COMPENSATED TEMPORAL INTERPOLATION FOR FRAME RATE CONVERSION OF VIDEO SIGNALS - The present invention relates to a method for interpolating a subpixel at an interpolation position, which is situated in the chronological order between two source frames. Thereby the calculation of the interpolated subpixel's value is based on the value of the pixels of the two source frames and additional weighting coefficients, which are based on the motion vectors correlating the two source frames. | 10-01-2009 |
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20110001882 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MOTION VECTORS FOR FLAT REGIONS - The present invention proposes a method and system for providing reliable motion estimation even for flat regions. For this purpose the block under processing is checked for flatness. In case of flatness at least one motion vector among the motion vectors associated to blocks being neighboring blocks to the block under processing is selected as candidate vector. The block under processing and at least one further block in a following frame, to which the at least one candidate vector is pointing, are compared and one candidate vector is adopted as motion vector for the block under processing in case that at least one further block is similar to the block under processing. | 01-06-2011 |
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20120114042 | IN LOOP CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT FOR IMPROVED MOTION ESTIMATION - The present invention relates to a motion estimation method comprising the steps of: providing first image data, providing second image data, block-matching a source block of the first image date with target blocks of the second image data to determine a motion vector corresponding to the position of the target block that most accords with the source block. The method further comprises a contrast enhancement step which is applied on source blocks and/or target blocks to improve block-matching. The invention also relates to a motion estimation device. | 05-10-2012 |
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20130022288 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING EDGE-INDUCED ARTEFACTS - The present invention relates to image processing. A wavelet decomposition unit ( | 01-24-2013 |
20130155319 | USAGE OF DITHER ON INTERPOLATED FRAMES - The present invention relates to an image processing method comprising providing video image frames with a first frame rate, up-converting said frame rate to provide video image frames with a second frame rate, and applying dithering to said video image frames with said second frame rate. | 06-20-2013 |
20140043447 | CALIBRATION IN THE LOOP - Method for iteratively calibrating a disparity estimation process generating a disparity estimation map relating to a 3D image which consists of at least a right and a left image, the method comprising: estimating a left-to-right image disparity map of a 3D image in horizontal and vertical direction, estimating a right-to-left image disparity map of the 3D image in horizontal and vertical direction, determining a misalignment value between the left and right images on the basis of the disparity maps, feeding back the misalignment value as to be considered in the next estimating the disparity maps of a next 3D image, and repeating the method for the next 3D image to iteratively calibrate the disparity estimation process. | 02-13-2014 |
20140146146 | IN-PAINTING METHOD FOR 3D STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS GENERATION - A method for generating an intermediate view on the basis of left and right views of a 3D picture and a disparity map, the method including: using pixel information contained in the left and right views and the disparity map for creating an intermediate view, identifying occlusion pixels in the created intermediate view, and filling the occlusion pixels with information gained from adjacent pixels. | 05-29-2014 |
20150110190 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION ESTIMATION - In a method for estimating motion vectors for blocks of a current video image in a sequence of video images, each video image being divided into a plurality of blocks, the following is performed:
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20150201175 | REFINEMENT OF USER INTERACTION - A method for refining a disparity/motion estimation map of an image at image regions a user has marked, including filtering the image along a mark set by the user, binarizing the filtered image to generate a binarized map of the filtered image, determining a binary step within the binarized map indicating a boundary of an object, and refining the disparity/motion estimation map on the basis of the determined binary step. | 07-16-2015 |