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20090169096 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUS - We describe methods of characterising a set of images to determine their respective illumination, for example for recovering the 3D shape of an illuminated object. The method comprises: inputting a first set of images of the object captured from different positions; determining frontier point data from the images, this defining a plurality of frontier points on the object and for each said frontier point a direction of a normal to the surface of the object at the frontier point, and determining data defining the image capture positions; inputting a second set of images of said object, having substantially the same viewpoint and different illumination conditions; and characterising the second set of images said frontier point data to determine data comprising object reflectance parameter data (β) and, for each image of said second set, illumination data (L) comprising data defining an illumination direction and illumination intensity for the image. | 07-02-2009 |
20100066216 | QUANTUM MOTOR - To provide a quantum motor capable of reliably carrying out rotation. A quantum motor includes a rotor containing a functional material of which quantum characteristic is externally controllable, an N pole permanent magnet and an S pole permanent magnet applying magnetic field to the rotor, and a light source varying the quantum characteristic of the rotor. The light source varies the quantum characteristic of the rotor, so that rotation force is generated in the rotor and the rotor rotates. | 03-18-2010 |
20120201466 | ROBUST INTEREST POINT DETECTOR AND DESCRIPTOR - A method for operating on images is described for interest point detection and/or description working under different scales and with different rotations, e.g. for scale-invariant and rotation-invariant interest point detection and/or description. | 08-09-2012 |
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20090238460 | ROBUST INTEREST POINT DETECTOR AND DESCRIPTOR - Methods and apparatus for operating on images are described, in particular methods and apparatus for interest point detection and/or description working under different scales and with different rotations, e.g. for scale-invariant and rotation-invariant interest point detection and/or description. The present invention can provide improved or alternative apparatus and methods for matching interest points either in the same image or in a different image. The present invention can provide alternative or improved software for implementing any of the methods of the invention. The present invention can provide alternative or improved data structures created by multiple filtering operations to generate a plurality of filtered images as well as data structures for storing the filtered images themselves, e.g. as stored in memory or transmitted through a network. The present invention can provide alternative or improved data structures including descriptors of interest points in images, e.g. as stored in memory or transmitted through a network as well as datastructures associating such descriptors with an original copy of the image or an image derived therefrom, e.g. a thumbnail image. | 09-24-2009 |
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20100284626 | METHOD, AN APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING A NIGHT VISION IMAGE DATASET - A method is disclosed for enhancing the quality of an image dataset, such as, e.g., reducing the noise in a noisy image data set and increasing the contrast in the image data set. The method may be used for processing a sequence of image datasets, e.g. night vision image datasets, wherein said sequence comprises at least two image datasets each having at least two pixels, and wherein each pixel has an intensity value. The method comprises calculating a structure tensor for each pixel in an image dataset comprised in the sequence of image datasets; calculating values in a summation kernel based on said structure tensor for each pixel in said image dataset; calculating a weighted intensity value for each pixel in said first image dataset, using as weights the values in said summation kernel; storing said weighted intensity value for each pixel in said image dataset as a processed intensity value for each corresponding pixel in a processed output image dataset; rotating a local coordinate system in which the summation kernel is described resulting in that the coordinate axes of said local coordinate system coincide with the directions of the eigenvectors of said structure tensor, where said eigenvectors are described in the global coordinate system of the image dataset, and scaling the coordinate axes of the local coordinate system in which the summation kernel is described by an amount related to the eigenvalues of the structure tensor via a width function W(λ | 11-11-2010 |
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20100080383 | SECURE PROVISIONING OF A PORTABLE DEVICE USING A REPRESENTATION OF A KEY - A portable device initially accesses a secure server and requests a certificate. The secure server generates a random key and encodes the generated key to generate a representation of the key, such as a two-dimensional bar code or an audio signal, and communicated to a local device, such as a laptop or desktop computer, using a web interface. The local device is used to present the representation of the key to a mobile device. The mobile device then captures the representation of the key from the local device, for example using an image capture device or audio capture device, and extracts the key by decoding the representation of the key. The key is then stored by the mobile device and used to securely communicate with the secure server without manually entering the key. | 04-01-2010 |
20110191838 | Authentication Using Transient Event Data - Some embodiments provide a method for authenticating a user to access computing resources that uses transient event data regarding previous interactions of the user with the computing resources. The method receives a notification that a user is unable to provide a correct user identifier and password. The method generates authentication questions for the remote user using the transient event data. The authentication questions are presented to the user. The method authenticates the user based on answers to the password recovery questions. The user may be a remote user and the computing resources are a set of application servers to which the user has forgotten a password. The computing resources may be a portable device that the user wishes to access remotely in order to delete data from the portable device. | 08-04-2011 |
20130034227 | SECURE PROVISIONING OF A PORTABLE DEVICE USING A REPRESENTATION OF A KEY - A portable device initially accesses a secure server and requests a certificate. The secure server generates a random key and encodes the generated key to generate a representation of the key, such as a two-dimensional bar code or an audio signal, and communicated to a local device, such as a laptop or desktop computer, using a web interface. The local device is used to present the representation of the key to a mobile device. The mobile device then captures the representation of the key from the local device, for example using an image capture device or audio capture device, and extracts the key by decoding the representation of the key. The key is then stored by the mobile device and used to securely communicate with the secure server without manually entering the key. | 02-07-2013 |
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20090077026 | Electronic Communication Messaging - Systems, methods, and apparatus related to suggesting components of an electronic communication. A component input associated with an electronic communication is received. Suggested recipient address sets of the electronic communication based on previous electronic communications associated with the component input are identified and presented to a user for selection. | 03-19-2009 |
20090216531 | PROVIDING TEXT INPUT USING SPEECH DATA AND NON-SPEECH DATA - Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing a speech input interface. The interface can receive speech input and non-speech input from a user through a user interface. The speech input can be converted to text data and the text data can be combined with the non-speech input for presentation to a user. | 08-27-2009 |
20110173311 | Invitation to Bind to a Device - A server device sends a list of account holders together with an invitation to bind to the server. A client device can decide to present the invitation to a user for decision only if the client device finds a match between the list and the user. | 07-14-2011 |
20120166192 | PROVIDING TEXT INPUT USING SPEECH DATA AND NON-SPEECH DATA - Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing a speech input interface. The interface can receive speech input and non-speech input from a user through a user interface. The speech input can be converted to text data and the text data can be combined with the non-speech input for presentation to a user. | 06-28-2012 |
20120284337 | Invitation to Bind to a Device - A server device sends a list of account holders together with an invitation to bind to the server. A client device can decide to present the invitation to a user for decision only if the client device finds a match between the list and the user. | 11-08-2012 |
20130311578 | INTEGRATED LOCAL/REMOTE SERVER COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR ELECTRONIC DATA TRANSFER - Systems, methods, and computer program products for an integrated local/remote server computer architecture for electronic data transfer are disclosed. In some implementations, a local server computer in a local area network (LAN) is integrated with a network-based server computer outside the LAN, such that the local server computer acts as a cache server computer to the remote server computer. For data transfer between client devices within the LAN, a Domain Name System (DNS) server redirects requests for data transfer destined for the remote server computer to the local server computer to improve data transfer performance within the LAN. In some implementations, the data is also transferred or “mirrored” to the remote server computer (e.g., encrypted backup data) at a data transfer rate that is different from the data transfer rate in the LAN. | 11-21-2013 |
20140040346 | DELIVERING CONTENT TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES USING LOCAL CACHING SERVERS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that delivers content to an electronic device. The system includes a content provider that obtains a public address of the electronic device from a first request for the content from the electronic device. Next, the content provider uses the public address to identify a local caching server on a local area network (LAN) of the electronic device. Finally, the content provider provides a local address of the local caching server to the electronic device, wherein the local address is used by the electronic device to obtain the content from the local caching server and the LAN without accessing a content delivery network (CDN) outside the LAN. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040412 | DELIVERING CONTENT TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES USING LOCAL CACHING SERVERS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that delivers content to an electronic device. The system includes a content provider that obtains a public address of the electronic device from a first request for the content from the electronic device. Next, the content provider uses the public address to identify a local caching server on a local area network (LAN) of the electronic device. Finally, the content provider provides a local address of the local caching server to the electronic device, wherein the local address is used by the electronic device to obtain the content from the local caching server and the LAN without accessing a content delivery network (CDN) outside the LAN. | 02-06-2014 |
20140081635 | Providing Text Input Using Speech Data and Non-Speech Data - Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing a speech input interface. The interface can receive speech input and non-speech input from a user through a user interface. The speech input can be converted to text data and the text data can be combined with the non-speech input for presentation to a user. | 03-20-2014 |
20140280683 | USING GROUPS OF USER ACCOUNTS TO DELIVER CONTENT TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES USING LOCAL CACHING SERVERS - The described embodiments electronically deliver content (e.g., digitally-encoded files) to an electronic device using groups of accounts. In the described embodiments, a content provider obtains a public address of the electronic device and at least one account identifier for the electronic device from a request for the content received from the electronic device. Next, the content provider uses the public address to identify a local caching server (LCS) on a local area network (LAN) to which the electronic device is connected and uses the account identifier to determine that an account associated with the LCS is associated with a group of accounts with which an account for the electronic device is also associated. The content provider then provides a local address of the LCS to the electronic device, which uses the local address to obtain the content from the LCS via the LAN without accessing a content delivery network outside the LAN. | 09-18-2014 |
20150350342 | USING LISTEN RANGES TO DELIVER CONTENT TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES FROM LOCAL CACHING SERVERS - In the described embodiments, local caching servers (LCSs) are configured to cache content so that the content can be acquired by client electronic devices that are located on local area networks (LANs) with the LCSs. In some embodiments, to enable the acquisition of the cached content, a client electronic device sends, to a registration server, a request for identifiers for LCSs that are located on a LAN with the client electronic device. The request includes one or more “listen ranges,” each of which includes an indication of client electronic devices for which a corresponding LCS is to provide content. The registration server uses the listen ranges to select one or more LCSs, and returns identifiers for the one or more LCSs to the client electronic device. Using the one or more identifiers, the client electronic device acquires the content from an LCS via the LAN. | 12-03-2015 |
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20150047734 | PIPE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PIPE - A pipe includes: a tubular pipe main body made from fiber reinforced plastic; and a substantially tubular connection portion centered on a central axis of the pipe main body, which receives an end portion of the pipe main body, thereby being fixed to the end portion, the connection portion having an external tapered male screw portion. The male screw portion engages a tapered female screw portion on an internal surface of a substantially tubular coupling of another pipe main body. The male screw portion includes, near a screw thread surface, a corresponding metallic mesh layer as a reinforcement layer, other regions of the tapered male screw portion being made from resin, to suppress breakage of the male screw portion. | 02-19-2015 |
20150075663 | PIPE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PIPE - A pipe includes a tubular reinforced fiber structure, and a tubular matrix resin pipe main body centered on the central axis, together with a reinforced fiber structure, covering an internal side of the reinforced fiber structure on the central axis side, and an external side. An external end surface of the pipe main body has an inclined surface whose diameter is gradually reduced toward the end face, which connects the pipe main body to another pipe main body, with the main body inclined surface coupled to a substantially tubular-shaped coupling. A portion of the reinforced fiber structure near the main body inclined surface has a plurality of fiber bundles extending in parallel to the central axis. This prevents a shear failure of the fiber bundles of the reinforced fiber structure of the main body inclined surface. | 03-19-2015 |
20150300535 | PIPE - A pipe with a pipe main body made from fiber reinforced plastic and a connection portion made from resin and having substantially tubular shape, into which an end portion of the pipe main body is inserted, thereby being fixed to the end portion. The connection portion includes an annular cover portion that covers an end face of the pipe main body, and an external tapered male screw portion. When the pipe main body is connected to another pipe main body, the male screw portion is screwed with a substantially tubular tapered female screw portion of a coupling. The pipe has a tubular-shaped front-end protrusion located beyond a front-end portion of the male screw portion. The front-end protrusion includes a region of the pipe main body. The entire circumferential region of the pipe in the vicinity of the front-end portion is reinforced by the front-end protrusion. | 10-22-2015 |
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20130196521 | BATTERY PACK BUSBAR MODULE - Abnormal noise at a battery pack busbar module is prevented. A battery pack busbar module includes busbar accommodating portions each accommodate busbars which connect in series batteries, cover portions coupled by hinges to one of side edges of openings in the busbar accommodating portions to cover the openings, and lock portions to lock the cover portions by bringing first engagement portions provided on the other side edges of the busbar accommodating portions and second engagement portions provided on the cover portions into engagement with each other, and ribs projecting from the cover portions to come into abutment with the busbar accommodating portions are formed in positions spaced away from the lock portions, a height of the ribs being set such that the second engagement portions are not brought into engagement with the first engagement portions when the ribs abut the busbar accommodating portions. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196533 | ELECTRIC CABLE CONNECTING CONSTRUCTION AND ELECTRIC CABLE CONNECTING METHOD - Attaching work of a high-voltage cable is improved. In an electric cable connecting construction of battery packs, the high-voltage cable is connected to conductors held in resin busbar modules for connection with the general electrodes by fastening crimp terminals to the conductors. Two ribs are formed on each of the busbar modules where the crimp terminal is held therebetween to limit an entrained rotation of the crimp terminal. A difference between a gap of the two ribs on one of the adjacent battery packs and a width of the crimp terminal connected to the general electrode is set to a first gap dimension L | 08-01-2013 |
20140238723 | BUS BAR MODULE ACCOMMODATING PART STRUCTURE - A synthetic resin plate ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140329133 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device includes a battery cell assembly being an assembly of battery cells each having electrodes, a battery connecting block including a case body including terminal fixing portions connected to each other via flexural deformation portions and a cover fixed to the case body and configured to cover the terminal fixing portions, and lock portions provided to the cover and the case body with intervals in a longitudinal direction. A lock portion other than lock portions located at two end positions in the longitudinal direction is configured to be capable of locking the cover with the case body with a changeable relative lock position of the cover and the case body in the longitudinal direction. | 11-06-2014 |
20140329413 | TERMINAL FIXATION STRUCTURE AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A terminal fixation structure includes a terminal fixing portion including a terminal housing chamber, a terminal including a positioning recessed portion and housed in the terminal housing chamber, and a positioning rib provided in a center of the terminal fixing portion to protrude into the terminal housing chamber and fitted into the positioning recessed portion. | 11-06-2014 |
20140349165 | BUS BAR MODULE - A bus bar module includes: a plurality of bus bar cases each housing a bus bar; a first engagement portion provided to one of the plurality of bus bar cases; a first connecting member having flexibility and connecting the plurality of bus bar cases; a plurality of insulating covers covering openings of the plurality of bus bar cases, the insulating covers including a second engagement portion to be engaged with the first engagement portion; a second connecting member having flexibility and connecting the plurality of insulating covers; and a pair of ribs provided to extend downward from an inner surface of each of the insulating covers located adjacent to each other. | 11-27-2014 |
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20150086819 | STRUCTURE FOR HOLDING VOLTAGE DETECTING TERMINAL - A voltage detecting terminal includes a flat plate-shaped electric contact portion having an insertion hole into which an electrode column of a battery is inserted, and a bent portion formed such that a tip is bent upward with respect to the electric contact portion. The bent portion is provided with a holding portion, and both ends of the holding portion in a plate width direction are expanded in the plate width direction, respectively. The voltage detecting terminal has a lower end surface of the holding portion in a thickness direction abutting against supporting surfaces of the plate and is held by a first housing portion. | 03-26-2015 |
20150155655 | FIXING STRUCTURE FOR FUSE HOLDER AND FUSE COVER - A fuse cover lock | 06-04-2015 |
20150221923 | ELECTRIC WIRE ROUTING STRUCTURE FOR BUS BAR MODULE - Provided are: a first-group accommodation part ( | 08-06-2015 |
20150372281 | RESIN PLATE AND BUSBAR MODULE - A resin plate includes divided resin plates that are linked to each other at a prescribed intermediate position in a battery arrangement direction of the battery assembly. Each of the divided resin plates includes busbar housing units arranged in the battery arrangement direction, wire housing units arranged in the battery arrangement direction, and a wire housing passage disposed at a position that is distant from the other side of the busbar housing units, houses wires that are different from wires housed in the wire housing units, and extends in the battery arrangement direction with its length which is greater in length than each of the busbar housing units and each of the wire housing units. The wire housing passage is formed, at its ends, with respective link and variation absorbing portions. | 12-24-2015 |
20160049631 | BUS BAR MODULE AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars, each of which connects adjacent electrodes in a plurality of batteries so as to connect the plurality of batteries in series, the plurality of batteries being arranged such that the electrodes thereof are aligned in a straight line, a terminal connected to each of the bus bars; and a casing that accommodates the plurality of bus bars and the plurality of terminals. The casing includes a routing groove configured to route an electric wire in the arrangement direction, the electric wire being to be connected to the terminal. The routing groove includes an absorbing portion formed to be swollen such that a groove width dimension of a part thereof is made larger than a groove width dimension of the other part thereof, whereby the absorbing portion absorbs an extra length portion of the electric wire. | 02-18-2016 |
20160072113 | BUS BAR MODULE AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - Provided is a bus bar module and a power supply device capable of reducing the entire size thereof and improving assemblability thereof. A barrel portion of a voltage detection terminal extends from a voltage detection line housing groove provided between batteries and is connected to an outer end portion of a terminal portion in a Y direction through a connection portion, so that it is possible to ensure a Y direction dimension of the barrel portion while reducing a Y direction dimension of the entire bus bar module and power supply device. This can prevent the voltage detection terminal from being bent in an X direction when being bent in the Y direction when being housed in a bus bar housing portion, thereby allowing improvement of assemblability. | 03-10-2016 |