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| 20080232693 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus that detects a face area from image information includes a pattern database, a face-direction determining unit, and a face-area detector. The face-direction determining unit determines, as a face direction, a direction in which a face image in image information is upright based on determination pattern information stored in the pattern database. The face-area detector matches the direction of the image information with the direction of the determination pattern information based on the face direction, and detects a face area from the image information. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232698 | Object image detection method and object image detection device - An object image detection device is disclosed that is able to rapidly detect an object image from an input image. The object image detection device includes an image block generation unit to generate plural image blocks from the input image for detecting the object images, an image classification unit to determine whether each of the image blocks includes one or more of the object images by using one or more features of the object images, and acquire the image blocks including the object images to be object image candidates; and a detection unit to sequentially detect the object images from the object image candidates. The image classification unit acquires the object image candidates based on a relative positional relationship between the image blocks and already-acquired object image candidates. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080253664 | Object image detection method and object image detection device - An object image detection device is disclosed that is able to rapidly detect an object image from an input image without a great deal of computation. The object image detection device includes an object image classification unit for determining whether the object images are included in an image having a given orientation, an image orientation detection unit for detecting orientation of the input image, an image rotation unit for rotating the object image classification unit according to the detected orientation of the input image, and a detection unit for detecting the object images from the input image by using the rotated object image classification unit. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090161035 | COLOR SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Disclosed are a color substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a liquid crystal display. The color substrate comprises a substrate; black matrices disposed on the substrate; color pixels whose material is fluorescent material disposed alternately among the black matrices; a flat encapsulation layer covering the black matrices and the color pixel; and a built-in polarizer attached to the flat encapsulation layer. The manufacturing method comprises forming black matrices on a substrate, and forming color pixels of fluorescent material among the black matrices; form a flat encapsulation layer; and form a built-in polarizer. The liquid crystal display by using the color substrate of the present invention further comprises a array substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a back light wherein wavelength of light emitted by the back light is shorter than of equal to stimulated luminescence critical wavelength of fluorescent material of the color pixels on the color substrate. In the present invention, the color fluorescent material is used for replacing the color resin material on the color substrate, the lamination mode is changed and the energy loss resulting from light-absorbing of the resin material is decreased, which could increase the light utilization efficiency and improve the visual angle characteristic of the liquid crystal display. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090273744 | POLARIZER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a polarizer and a method for produce for producing the same, and an LCD device. The polarizer includes a glass substrate and a metal wire grating disposed on the glass substrate. The polarizer disposed on the LCD device can greatly lower cost of the polarizer and the LCD device. Besides, the polarizer does not absorb incident lights so as to greatly reduce energy loss of lights passing through the polarizer and improve the utilization rate of light energy. The method includes: disposing a cathode and an anode in parallel on one glass substrate; connecting the cathode and the anode to a direct current power supply; dropping solution containing metal positive ions between the cathode and the anode; disposing another glass substrate on the cathode and the anode; adjusting temperature of the solution until the solution is frozen to be ice; adjusting the temperature until a liquid layer appears between the one glass substrate and the ice; and supplying power for the cathode and the anode so as to obtain the polarizer, which can greatly simplify the producing process of the polarizer and lower the producing cost of the polarizer. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090283768 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE OF TFT-LCD AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an array substrate of TFT-LCD and Method for manufacturing the same. The array substrate includes: gate lines, data lines, pixel electrodes and TFTs formed on a substrate; and a grid graph formed on each of the pixel electrode to make each of the pixel electrodes be simultaneously a built-in polarizer and change natural lights into linear polarized lights. The method for manufacturing an array substrate includes: forming a graph including gate electrodes and gate lines on a substrate; depositing continuously a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and a doped semiconductor layer, and forming graphs of semiconductor layers and doped semiconductor layers above the gate electrodes; forming graphs of source electrodes, drain electrodes, data lines and pixel electrodes, in which a grid graph formed on each of the pixel electrode to make each of the pixel electrodes be simultaneously a built-in polarizer and change natural lights into linear polarized lights. In the present invention, there is no need to attach polarizer of absorption type to the array substrate after being disposed with the color filter substrate as a cell, thereby reducing the production cost of the TFT-LCD, and which is propitious to reduce the thickness of the TFT-LCD and increase the power utilization efficiency greatly of LCD. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090290040 | Image dynamic range compression method, apparatus, and digital camera - A method of compressing an original dynamic range of an original image, includes a first step of obtaining a reduced image corresponding to the original image by performing quantization and downsampling on the original image that has been input; a second step of calculating a look-up table based on the reduced image, wherein the look-up table indicates a mapping relationship between the original dynamic range of the original image and a dynamic range of a medium; and a third step of mapping each of the pixels in the original image from the original dynamic range of the original image onto the dynamic range of the medium based on the look-up table. | 11-26-2009 |
| 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. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090296013 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR REPAIRING A BROKEN LINE OF A FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a circuit and a method for repairing a broken line of a flat panel display device. The circuit includes a second repairing line and a resistance access port is disposed on the second repairing line. The method includes: disposing a resistance access port on a second repairing line of the flat panel display device; and connecting a resistance meeting a display requirement to the resistance access port. The above solutions enable the circuit for repairing to adjust the load resistance so as to adjust the display effect by disposing the resistance access port; thereby improving the repairing effect and making the display quality of the repaired flat panel display device meet the requirement. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100008316 | NETWORK INTERFERENCE EVALUATING METHOD, DYNAMIC CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS USED IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - There are disclosed a network interference evaluating method, a dynamic channel assignment method and apparatus used in wireless networks. The dynamic channel assignment method used in a wireless network, comprising steps of: calculating each pair of visual delayed time for each pair of basic service sets based on received signal strength indicators, traffic information and rate information, and evaluating an overall network interference under a current channel allocation based on the calculated visual delayed time; constructing an undirected graph so that each basic service set is located at a vertex, and each connection line between each pair of basic service sets has a weight obtained from the pair of visual delayed time for this pair of basic service sets; coloring the undirected graph to get a new channel allocation approach and an optimized minimal overall network interference under this new channel allocation approach; comparing a difference between the evaluated overall network interference under the current channel allocation and the optimized minimal overall network interference with a predetermined threshold; and changing channel allocation for the basic service sets according to the new channel allocation approach if the difference is larger than the predetermined threshold. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100103344 | EDGE-LIGHTING LED BACKLIGHT AND LCD THEREOF - The present invention relates to an edge-lighting LED backlight and LCD. The edge-lighting LED backlight comprises an LED light bar and a light guide plate, wherein a reflector is disposed between the LED light bar and the light guide plate, holes are set on the reflector, and light emitted from the LED light bar enters into the light guide plate through the holes. An LCD comprises the above edge-lighting LED backlight. In the above solution, the surface reflectance of the LED light bar is improved, the light loss is decreased and the utilization rate of light is improved by disposing the reflector between the LED light bar and the light guide plate, which decreases the quantity of the LEDs and the cost of the backlight. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100110920 | METHOD USED FOR RADIO MEASUREMENT AND A COMMUNICATION NODE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method used for radio measurement in a communication network is provided. The communication network comprises multiple basic service sets controlled by a core network controller. The method comprises the steps of: the core network controller issuing a measurement request to a communication node working on a service channel; the communication node switching to a non-service channel based on the measurement request; the communication node broadcasting a measurement beacon in the non-service channel and returning to the service channel immediately after the broadcasting; a node in the non-service channel receiving the measurement beacon; and based on the measurement beacon, calculating the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) from the communication node to the node in the non-service channel. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100135236 | PROPORTIONAL FAIRNESS SCHEDULER AND SCHEDULING METHOD USING IMPERFECT CQI FEEDBACK - The present invention proposes a proportional fairness scheduler used in a base station, which is applicable to a high mobility environment, the scheduler comprising: a correction factor estimator which, for each user equipment in a serving cell of the base station, estimates a correction factor for an instantaneous transmission rate for a next frame according to a statistical result on changes in a channel quality in a current frame; a metric calculator which, for each user equipment in the serving cell of the base station, calculates a metric based on the instantaneous transmission rate for the user equipment, the estimated correction factor and a history throughput recorded for the user equipment; and a transmission opportunity granter which grants a transmission opportunity in the next frame to a user equipment having the optimal metric out of all the user equipments. Also, the present invention proposes a proportional fairness is scheduling method used in a base station. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100150393 | SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION USING OUT OF DOMAIN DATA - Providing sentiment classification of out of domain data are disclosed herein. In some aspects, a source domain having a trained classifier is matched to a target domain having a target classifier. The trained classifier may include identifiers that may be used to predict the sentiment of opinion data for the source domain. The target classifier may use the identifiers of the trained classifier to determine the sentiment of opinion data for the target domain. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100155731 | TOUCHING-TYPE ELECTRONIC PAPER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a touching-type electronic paper and method for manufacturing the same. The touching-type electronic paper includes a TFT substrate and a transparent electrode substrate which are disposed as a cell. The transparent electrode substrate includes a common electrode, microcapsule electronic ink and light guiding poles as light transmitting passages, all of which are formed on a first substrate. The TFT substrate comprises displaying electrodes, first TFTs for driving the displaying electrodes, second TFTs for detecting lights transmitting through the light guiding poles and for producing level signals, and third TFTs for reading the level signals and sending the level signals to a back-end processing system, all of which are formed on a second substrate. The light guiding poles are opposite to the second TFTs respectively. The present invention makes the natural lights or other lights outside transmitted to the second TFTs through the light guiding poles by disposing the light guiding poles as light transmitting passages and disposing the second TFTs as light sensor units. The present invention has many advantages such as simple structure, simple manufacturing process and low cost, so as to have a wide application prospect. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100191746 | Competitor Analysis to Facilitate Keyword Bidding - Disclosed herein are one or more embodiments that facilitate selection of keywords for bidding by an advertiser having a website. One or more of the disclosed embodiments may process a click-through log to determine measures of competitiveness for a plurality of websites extracted from the click-through log. Also, the one or more disclosed embodiments may, for one of the websites, determine a ranking of competing websites based at least in part on the measures of competitiveness. The ranking of competing websites may be used to facilitate selection of keywords for bidding. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100200856 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING E-JPAPER ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND E-PAPER ARRAY SUBSTRATE - A method for manufacturing E-paper array substrate and an E-paper array substrate are provided. The method for manufacturing E-paper array substrate uses two masks. Steps on a surface of the array substrate structure are eliminated, so as to facilitate a subsequent coating process of E-ink and enable a uniform distribution of a drain electric field. An E-paper array substrate is further provided. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100232705 | Device and method for detecting shadow in image - A device for detecting a shadow region in an image includes an imaging module generating a multi-channel image including brightness, red, green, and blue channels, a brightness correcting module correcting values of the brightness channel based on imaging parameters and outputting a corrected multi-channel image, a scene classifying module determining to carry out a shadow detection on the corrected multi-channel image, a shadow detecting module classifying pixels of the corrected multi-channel image into a shadow or non-shadow pixel, and generating a shadow classification mark matrix having pixels having a shadow classification mark value corresponding to the classification, a region segmentation module segmenting the multi-channel image into regions having pixels having similar color values, and generating a region mark matrix having pixels having a region mark value, and a post-processing module updating the shadow classification mark matrix based on the shadow classification mark matrix and region mark matrix. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100298007 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING USER MOBILITY MODEL OF CELLULAR NETWORK - A method for generating a user mobility model includes: firstly deriving user movement tracks of all the users in a cellular network and then generating from the user movement tracks a user mobility model involving a user traffic between home cells of any two of path points in the cellular network. Thus, a cell can be re-divided into respective location areas according to the generated user mobility model to thereby deploy reasonably various network resources in the GSM network according to the re-divided positional zones. The invention further discloses a method and device for generating a user movement track and a device for generating a user mobility model. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100314289 | CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS FOR REDUCING SULFUR CONTENT IN GASOLINE AND THE DEVICE THEREOF - The invention relates to a catalytic cracking process for reducing sulfur content in gasoline and the device thereof, which includes a fluidized bed reactor in addition of a heavy oil catalytic cracking riser, characterized in enhancing contact time of oil-gas with the catalyst, further desulfurizing and reducing olefin content and increasing octane number in gasoline; regenerating all recycling catalysts, quality of products being stable and easily operated, reducing sulfur of gasoline to a maximum limit; adding a cooling device so as to avoid coking when the catalyst contacts with oil-gas in high temperature and decrease of yield of light oil resulted by excessively high reaction temperature of gasoline upgrading, improving products distribution, being flexible to change catalyst-oil ratio and reaction temperature of catalytic cracking reaction. The invention also provides an easily operated process for FCC desulfurization with stronger desulfurizing ability, good selectivity of products and high light oil yield, which can realize 40-80% of FCC gasoline desulfurization. Furthermore, more than 80% of FCC gasoline desulfurization can be achieved if the process is applied in combination with some particular catalysts. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100322510 | Sky detection system used in image extraction device and method using sky detection system - Disclosed is a sky detection system that detects sky in an image collection device. The system includes an image collection unit that collects information of a color image; a color-feature extraction unit that extracts a color feature of each pixel from the collected image; a distance measurement unit that measures a distance between each pixel of the collected image and a lens; a first classification unit that classifies each pixel of the collected image as either a sky pixel or a non-sky pixel based on the color feature; and a second classification unit that further classifies each pixel of the collected image as either the sky pixel or the non-sky pixel based on the distance and a result of the first classification unit. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110078157 | OPINION SEARCH ENGINE - A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to implement an opinion search engine. The instructions to implement an opinion search engine cause the computer to collect opinion data about one or more objects from the Internet, extract metadata about the opinion data from the opinion data, remove duplicate metadata from the metadata to generate a resulting metadata, categorize the resulting metadata for similar objects according to one or more taxonomies from one or more websites on the Internet and rank the similar objects based on the categorized metadata. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078193 | QUERY EXPANSION THROUGH SEARCHING CONTENT IDENTIFIERS - Techniques and technologies for expanding a gallery by seeding the gallery with seed query results. A template is identified which is associated with the subjects of the seed queries and content identifiers are identified which include the template. These content identifiers are used to expand the gallery to include more content identifiers than before the expansion of the gallery. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110115308 | FEEDER AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A feeder automation system and a method for operating the feeder automation system are disclosed. The feeder automation system comprises a first domain comprising a first slave station; a second domain comprising a second slave station; and a tie-switch provided between the first domain and the second domain. The first slave station is adapted to operate the tie-switch directly, and the second slave station is adapted to operate the tie-switch through the first slave station. When a fault occurs in the system, the first slave station and the second slave station cooperate with each other to perform fault detection, fault isolation, and fault restoration etc. without interacting with a master station. | 05-19-2011 |
