02nd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 17 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140010354 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A THERMALLY STABLE CATHODE IN AN X-RAY TUBE - An x-ray imaging system includes a detector positioned to receive x-rays, an x-ray tube configured to generate x-rays toward the detector from a focal spot surface, the x-ray tube includes a target having the focal spot surface, a cathode support arm, and a cathode attached to the cathode support arm. The cathode includes a split cathode cup having a first portion and a second portion that is separate from the first portion, the first and second portions having respective first and second emitter attachment surfaces, and a flat emitter that is attached to the first and second emitter attachment surfaces such that, when an electrical current is provided to the first portion of the cathode cup, the current passes through the flat emitter and returns through the second portion of the cathode cup such that electrons emit from the flat emitter and toward the focal spot surface. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010355 | POSITION SENSORING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATOR - A multi-leaf collimator for radiation therapy in which the position of the leaves are determined by measuring a magnetic field allows to determine the leaf position with enhanced precision, and is at the same time robust to perturbations or disturbances. The magnetic sensor may comprise a magnetic encoder that varies in a predefined pattern along a lengthwise direction of the magnetic element, in particular according to a step function. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010368 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A wireless communication system includes a plurality of transmitters each configured to transmit transmission information including a code and an identifier of the corresponding transmitter, and a plurality of terminals configured to wirelessly communicate with each other. Each of the terminals includes an obtaining unit that obtains codes extracted from multiple sets of the transmission information transmitted from the transmitters, and a communication unit that performs encrypted communications with other terminals using the obtained codes. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010369 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR HANDLING ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION - By allowing the option of placing an Logical Link Control (LLC)-entity within the Base Station Subsystem (BSS) an improved system performance in the form of mobile stations experiencing reduced information acquisition times can be achieved by using a cache memory in the BSS. A method in the BSS can include receiving one or more LLC Packet Data Units (PDUs) from a mobile station, and extracting Sub Network (SN)-PDU(s) contained in each LLC PDU and reassembling the SN-PDU(s) to recover a single N-PDU. The N-PDU is determined to include a request for information using an LLC entity in the base station subsystem. Content of a cache memory in the base station subsystem is determined to correspond to the request for information indicated by the N-PDU. A response to the request for information from the mobile station is made using the content of cache memory in the base station subsystem. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010376 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA PARAMETER NOTIFICATION - A method and apparatus for antenna parameter notification is provided. At a device comprising: at least one processor, an antenna, a proximity sensor and a speaker, a parameter associated with performance of the antenna is determined by the processor. When the parameter meets a given criteria, and when the proximity sensor detects proximity, then the processor changes audio of sound played at the speaker. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010377 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING VOLUME IN TELECONFERENCE - An electronic device is used in a teleconference. Each attendee location of the teleconference has at least one electronic device. The electronic device detects ambient noise and sets a volume range of a speaker of the electronic device according to the ambient noise. When an attendee location sends audio to the electronic device, a receiver of the electronic device receives the audio and analyzes volume parameter from the audio. When the volume parameter is in the volume range, the speaker outputs the audio directly. When the volume parameter is not in the volume range, the electronic device adjusts a digital sound value of the attendee location and outputs the audio with the adjusted digital sound value. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010382 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND ECHO SIGNAL REMOVING METHOD THEREOF - An audio signal processing system and an echo signal removing method thereof are provided. The audio signal processing system includes a speaker that is configured to output an audio signal; a microphone that is configured to receive the audio signal output by the speaker including an echo signal generated by the audio signal; an echo signal delay unit that is configured to delay the echo signal for a bulk delay time, and output the echo signal that is delayed; and an echo signal removing unit that is configured to remove the echo signal that is delayed and output by the echo signal delay unit from the audio signal received by the microphone, wherein the echo signal delay unit includes a bulk delay measuring unit that is configured to measure a bulk delay by analyzing impulse response characteristics of an echo path. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010383 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES WITH INTEGRATED MICROPHONES - Modern electronic devices are becoming smaller while the need to critically locate acoustic sensors or transducers, e.g., microphones, is increasing in order to provide improved intelligibility in adverse environments. The acoustic transducers can be used in arrays with their outputs processed in beam forming and noise cancellation algorithms. The use and creation of features on the surface of a small package to deal with the problem of achieving high performance solutions in a limited space are disclosed herein. For example, embodiments of electronic communication devices ( | 2014-01-09 |
20140010384 | MICROPHONE AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT - The invention provides a microphone amplifier circuit which enhances the SNR (signal noise ratio) and expands the dynamic range by reducing the noise level. A microphone amplifier circuit includes a preamplifier which amplifies an audio signal from a capacitor microphone, a level detection circuit which outputs a level detection signal when the level of the audio signal is in the vicinity of the noise level of the microphone amplifier circuit, and an attenuator which attenuates the level of the audio signal outputted from the preamplifier in response to the level detection signal. The preamplifier includes an operational amplifier, a feedback capacitor and a feedback resistor. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010385 | Differential Amplifier - An amplifier for amplifying a differential audio signal, having common-mode rejection and digital gain control, includes a current source ( | 2014-01-09 |
20140010386 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT FOR A TWO-WIRE INTERFACE - The invention relates to an amplifier circuit ( | 2014-01-09 |
20140010387 | Sound and Vibration Transmission Device - An apparatus capable of transmitting sound and vibrations to a user is described. The apparatus may also generate an electromagnetic field sufficient to stimulate the user's energy system. The apparatus includes a support structure configured to support at least a part of the user's body; a transducer coupled to the frame of the support structure in a manner which allows the transducer to move in relation to the frame; and an audio signal source for transmitting audio signals to the transducer. The transducer is capable of receiving and responding to audio signals having a wide range of audio frequencies when the apparatus is in use. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010388 | CAPACITIVE TRANSDUCER, CAPACITIVE TRANSDUCER MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS - Provided is a capacitive transducer having broadband frequency characteristics. The capacitive transducer includes an element which has multiple kinds of cells, each cell including: a first electrode; a vibrating film including a second electrode, the second electrode being opposed to the first electrode with a gap; and a support portion that supports the vibrating film so as to form the gap. The multiple kinds of cells have different ratios of an area of one of the first electrode and the second electrode to an area of the gap when viewed from a normal direction of the vibrating film. The first electrodes or the second electrodes in the multiple kinds of cells are electrically connected together. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010389 | EAR BUD HEADSET - A headset comprising a head band assembly including a left-side head band curved to extend from a crown end toward a temple end at a left temple region of a wearer's head; a right-side head band curved to extend from the crown end toward a temple end at a right temple region of the wearer's head; an elbow including a first end coupled to the temple end of the left-side head band or the temple end of the right-side head band, a second end opposite the first end, and a bend between the first end and the second end; an ear bud stem pivotally coupled to the second end of the elbow; and an ear bud coupled to the ear bud stem. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010390 | AUDIO AND VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An audio and video signal transmission interface apparatus includes a left sound channel interface, a right sound channel interface, a multimedia terminal interface, and a ground interface; where a first power supply and a first resistor are connected in series in the multimedia terminal interface; and the apparatus further includes a voltage detecting module, a determining module, a control module, and a second resistor connected in series in the multimedia terminal interface, where a resistance value of the second resistor is greater than an internal resistance value of an audio and video terminal and smaller than an internal resistance value of a microphone terminal in reverse connection; the determining module identifies different types of transmission lines by using a voltage value measured by the voltage detecting module; and the control module is configured to implement adaptation of different transmission lines. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010391 | AMPLIFYING AUDIO-VISIUAL DATA BASED ON USER'S HEAD ORIENTATION - One or more devices may receive, from a media presentation device worn by a user, sensory data comprising at least information describing orientation of the media presentation device. The one or more devices may also determine an approximate direction of a gaze of the user in a three dimensional audio space based on the information describing the orientation of the media presentation device, identify a sound source at which the user gazes based on the approximate direction of the gaze of the user in the three dimensional audio space, obtain audio data associated with the sound source based on an identity of the identified sound source, determine an action to perform on the audio data associated with the sound source, and perform the determined action. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010404 | WATERMARKING DIFFERENT AREAS OF DIGITAL IMAGES WITH DIFFERENT INTENSITIES - An image is processed to encode a digital watermark, with different regions thereof processed using different levels of watermark intensity. In an image comprised of elements of differing sizes (e.g., halftone shapes of different sizes, or lines of different width), the different regions can be defined by reference to the sizes of elements contained therein. Regions characterized by relatively small elements can be watermarked at a relatively low intensity. Regions characterized by relatively large elements can be watermarked at a relatively high intensity. A variety of other features are also discussed. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010405 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING VIRTUAL TRIPS FROM SETS OF USER CONTENT ITEMS - A set of user content items, such as a set of photographs or audio or video recordings, is used to identify recommended locations. Each item of user content in the set includes a geographical identifier and a time-stamp indicative of the location and time of origin of the item. The items of user content are placed in time-order, and a route is determined that links, in time-order, the locations identified by the geographical identifiers. A recommended location is then identified, from a database of recommended locations, that is located near the determined route but is not geographically coincident with the locations of any of the items of user content. Information for a map containing the route and an illustration of the identified location are sent to a terminal device for presentation to a user. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010406 | METHOD OF POINT SOURCE TARGET DETECTION FOR MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING - A method of point source target detection for multispectral imaging is disclosed. In one embodiment, a background source spectral ratio is determined using at least one radiant source, such as baseline intensities, camera optics sensitivity properties and atmospheric transmission properties. Further, a spectral difference is computed for each pixel in an incoming frame by applying the background source spectral ratio to a spectral band-specific radiant intensity value of each pixel. Furthermore, offset biasing in the incoming frame is removed by applying spatial median filtering to each computed spectral difference in the incoming frame. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010407 | IMAGE-BASED LOCALIZATION - Image-based localization technique embodiments are presented which provide a real-time approach for image-based video camera localization within large scenes that have been reconstructed offline using structure from motion or similar techniques. From monocular video, a precise 3D position and 3D orientation of the camera can be estimated on a frame by frame basis using only visual features. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010408 | LENS-ATTACHED MATTER DETECTOR, LENS-ATTACHED MATTER DETECTION METHOD, AND VEHICLE SYSTEM - A lens-attached matter detector includes an edge extractor configured to create an edge image based on an input image, divide the edge image into a plurality of areas including a plurality of pixels, and extract an area whose edge intensity is a threshold range as an attention area, a brightness distribution extractor configured to obtain a brightness value of the attention area and a brightness value of a circumference area, a brightness change extractor configured to obtain the brightness value of the attention area and the brightness value of the circumference area for a predetermined time interval, and obtain a time series variation in the brightness value of the attention area based on the brightness value of the attention area, and an attached matter determiner configured to determine the presence or absence of attached matter based on the time series variation in the brightness value of the attention area. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010409 | OBJECT TRACKING DEVICE, OBJECT TRACKING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An object tracking device which tracks a target object in a time-series image including a plurality of frames has a location information acquisition unit that acquires location information of a target object in a first frame, the target object being a tracked target, a detailed contour model generation unit that generates a detailed contour model in the first frame, on the basis of the location information, the detailed contour model being formed with a plurality of contour points representing a contour of the target object, and a search location setting unit that sets a plurality of different search locations in a second frame, the second frame being any one of frames following the first frame. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010410 | IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE RECOGNITION PROGRAM - An image recognition system includes a partial area determination unit for determining a plurality of learning partial areas in a learning image including an object to be recognized, a partial area set generation unit for generating a learning partial area set including the learning partial area and a plurality of peripheral areas included in a predetermined range with reference to the learning partial area, and a learning unit for selecting an area including an image suitable to be determined as an object to be identified included the object to be recognized from a plurality of areas included in the learning partial area set, to learn a classifier so as to determine a likelihood that the image included in the area is the object to be identified to be higher based on a feature amount related to the selected area. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010411 | AUTOMATIC AIRVIEW CORRECTION METHOD - An automatic airview correction method comprises steps: moving a vehicle to an airview alignment pattern; capturing a plurality of airview alignment images of the surroundings of the vehicle; correcting distortion of the airview alignment images to obtain a plurality of corrected images; performing alignment compensation on the corrected images; searching for corner points of the corrected images and converting view point s to obtain a plurality of view angle-converted images; and searching for corner points of the view angle-converted images, and seaming the view angle-converted images to form a panoramic airview and obtain parameters corresponding to the panoramic airview. The present invention can automatically align images and can also automatically detect corner points to seam the images of the surroundings of a vehicle, whereby to form a panoramic airview. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010418 | LIP ACTIVITY DETECTION - Provided is a method of detecting lip activity. The method determines magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region of a detected face. The ratio of magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region is compared against a threshold. If the ratio is found to be greater than the threshold, lip activity of the detected face is recognized. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010419 | IMAGE VERIFICATION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE VERIFICATION PROGRAM, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE VERIFICATION METHOD - An image verification device that checks an input image obtained by photographing an object to be checked against a registered image database, wherein, in the registered image database, an amount of feature of an image obtained by photographing an object is registered as a registered image, and the registered image includes registered images registered with respect to a plurality of objects, has a verification score calculating unit that calculates a verification score serving as a score representing a degree of approximation between the objects indicated by the registered images and the object of the input image by using the amount of feature of the input image and the amounts of feature of the registered images, and a relative evaluation score calculating unit. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010438 | THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A three dimensional shape measurement apparatus includes m projecting sections, each of which includes a light source and a grating element, and, while moving the grating element by n times, projects a grating pattern light onto a measurement target for each movement, wherein the ‘n’ and the ‘m’ are natural numbers greater than or equal to 2, an imaging section photographing a grating pattern image reflected by the measurement target, and a control section controlling that, while photographing the grating pattern image by using one of the m projecting sections, a grating element of at least another projecting section is moved. Thus, measurement time may be reduced. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010439 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A PREDEFINED SET OF CHARACTERISTIC POINTS OF A FACE - A method of detecting a predefined set of characteristic points of a face from an image of the face includes a step of making the shape and/or the texture of a hierarchy of statistical models of face parts converge over real data supplied by the image of the face. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010444 | APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Images of a layout target for a template are acquired. The plurality of acquired images are edited using editing processing corresponding to a category corresponding to a layout. The edited images are arranged on the template corresponding to the category. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010445 | System And Method For Image Compression - A method for compressing image data into a sequence of codes, the image data being represented by a plurality of input color vectors. The method includes a repetitive processing of one color vector at a time with the following steps: receiving one of the input color vectors; comparing the received input color vector with codebook words in a codebook, the codebook words being expressed as color vectors: compressing the received input color vector to generate a code based on the comparison; updating the codebook with a color vector, the color vector being generated by decoding the code; and outputting the code before receiving a next one of the input color vectors; wherein the updating may include rearranging the order of the codebook words based on the comparison. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010446 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an image coding method is for coding an image including a luminance component and color difference components. The method includes acquiring a reference image; and generating a predicted image by interpolating the luminance component and the color difference components in the reference image according to a motion vector. If a size of a block, which is designated as a unit of the interpolation, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold value, the generating includes inhibiting a bi-directional prediction, and performing only a uni-directional prediction to generate the predicted image according to the motion vector. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010447 | Color Enhancement for Graphic Images - A color enhancement system may enhance color components in an image. In one embodiment, the color enhancement system suppresses banding by combining an input color value with an enhanced colored value. In another embodiment, local variation in saturation values around a pixel may be used to determine a modification of an input saturation value for color enhancement. As still another embodiment, flickering between frames may be suppressed by combining a histogram that counts the number of times a given pixel value occurs in a particular image with a historical histogram that keeps track of an average of how often given values have occurred in previous frames. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010452 | OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION VERIFICATION AND CORRECTION SYSTEM - A system for verifying and correcting errors after translation of printed text into machine-readable text. The system includes a memory for storing formulas defining relationships between data fields. A processor evaluates the formulas according to data values associated with the data fields to determine whether the formulas evaluate as truthful statements. The processor marks the data fields of the formulas as unverified or as verified based upon this evaluation. The system also uses the processor to calculate a determined value for data fields in an attempt to correct errors in the translation of the printed text into machine-readable text. If different determined values are calculated for the same data field, based upon different formulas, the data field is marked as uncertain. The system iterates based upon the marking of the data fields of the formulas as verified or unverified and as uncertain or not uncertain. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010453 | DIGITAL SIGNATURE COLLECTION AND AUTHENTICATION - A digital signature collection and authentication system includes an ink pen having an ultrasonic transmitter that transmits ultrasonic energy to a plurality of ultrasonic receivers. A computer triangulates the location of the pen versus time to generate the signature shape, and to generate velocity and acceleration data. The pen also includes a pressure sensitive tip to record pressure applied to the pen tip. The pen also includes a higher frequency burst transmitter useful to generate a time reference, and to transmit the pressure information. The computer packetizes the shape, velocity, acceleration, and pressure data with a time stamp and an IP address or phone number, encrypts the packet and sends it to a host computer for authentication. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010454 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method includes a state determination step of determining the quality of an object in image data, an extraction step of extracting feature information from the object, and a registration step of registering, in a dictionary, the feature information extracted in the extraction step. In the registration step, when the quality of the object determined in the determination step is lower than a predetermined reference, registration of the feature information of the object in the dictionary by the registration step is not performed. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010455 | IMAGING PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image block generator, a pixel extractor, a correction parameter calculator and a corrector. The image block generator enlarges an image block including a plurality of pixels to generate an enlarged image block. The pixel extractor extracts a maximum pixel with a maximum pixel value and a minimum pixel with a minimum pixel value from the image block. The correction parameter calculator calculates a correction parameter including a first difference and a second difference. The first difference is an absolute value of a difference between a sample pixel value of a sample pixel to be corrected in the enlarged image block and the maximum pixel value. The second difference is an absolute value of a difference between the sample pixel value and the minimum pixel value. The corrector corrects the enlarged image block using the correction parameter. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010458 | APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus extracts feature information from an object of image data. The apparatus registers the extracted feature information in a dictionary. The apparatus refers to the dictionary and determines a similarity between feature information registered in the dictionary and the extracted feature information. The apparatus does not use, of feature information to be registered in the dictionary, feature information not satisfying a predetermined evaluation criterion in similarity determination. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010459 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to determine, based on a region that satisfies a predetermined condition in an image as a candidate of an output target, whether to set the region as the output target; and a decision unit configured to, in a case where a plurality of regions that satisfy the predetermined condition exists in the image, decide a portion of the image including one or a plurality of regions determined, out of the plurality of regions, as the output target by said determination unit as a portion of the output target. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010464 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AN OBJECT EXTRACTED FROM IMAGE DATA - An apparatus includes a first management unit configured to classify and manage feature information of a plurality of objects extracted from image data in units of similar feature information, a second management unit configured to classify and manage the plurality of objects extracted from the image data object by object, an association unit configured to associate the objects in the first management unit with feature information in the second management unit, and an input unit configured to input a correction instruction about classifications of the objects by the second management unit. The second management unit is configured to, if the correction instruction is input, correct and manage a classification to which a target object of the correction instruction belongs and the first management unit is configured to change and manage a classification to which feature information associated with the target object of the correction instruction belongs. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010465 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AN OBJECT EXTRACTED FROM IMAGE DATA - An apparatus includes a first management unit configured to classify and manage feature information of a plurality of objects extracted from image data in units of similar feature information, a second management unit configured to classify and manage the plurality of objects extracted from the image data object by object, an association unit configured to associate classifications of the objects by the second management unit with classifications of the feature information by the first management unit, and an input unit configured to input a correction instruction about the classifications of the objects by the second management unit, wherein the association unit is configured to, if the correction instruction is input, update an association between the classifications of the objects and the classifications of the feature information and the second management unit is configured to correct and manage the classifications of the objects based on updating of the association. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010468 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME SERVICE OF HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGE ON INTERNET - A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010469 | PICTURE ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, PICTURE ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICE AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A picture encoding and decoding method, a picture encoding and decoding device and a network system are provided, in which, the picture encoding method includes: determining a prediction block used by a picture block according to a division manner of the picture block; determining a corresponding division level in the picture block or the prediction block of transform blocks corresponding to the picture block or the prediction block, in which, the transform blocks corresponding to the picture block or the prediction block include one or more transform blocks; determining a size of the transform blocks corresponding to the picture block or the prediction block according to the division manner of the picture block and the division level; determining identification information for identifying the division level corresponding to the transform blocks corresponding to the picture block or the prediction block; and writing the identification information into a code stream. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010472 | Image Sharpening Method and Device - Embodiments of the present invention provide an image sharpening method and device. The method includes performing bilateral filtering processing and difference of Gaussians filtering processing on original image information to obtain first image-layer information and second image-layer information respectively. The first image-layer information is subtracted from the original image information to obtain third image-layer information. Fusion and superimposition processing is performed on the second image-layer information and the third image-layer information to obtain fourth image-layer information. The original image information and the fourth image information are added to obtain processed image information. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010473 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THIN OBJECT IMAGING - A method for imaging an object is provided. The method includes acquiring image data of the object, wherein the image data includes a plurality of original voxels each having an original CT number, identifying, using a processing device, a subset of the original voxels based on at least one of an original CT number and a location of each original voxel, applying, using the processing device, an anisotropic smoothing filter to the identified original voxels in the subset to generate a set of smoothed voxels each having a smoothed CT number, generating, using the processing device, smoothed image data by combining the original voxels and the smoothed voxels, and analyzing the smoothed image data to determine whether the object contains contraband. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010474 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGE DISTORTION OF REAR CAMERA - An apparatus for correcting image distortion of a rear imaging device including analyzing, by a processor, a characteristic of a imaging device installed in a rear of a vehicle; setting, by the processor, a plurality of tilting angles for a plurality of photographed areas of a virtual imaging device corresponding to the rear imaging device from a characteristic value of the imaging device; generating, by the processor, a correction model by applying the plurality of tilting angles for the plurality of photographed areas of the virtual imaging device; tilting, by the processor, the virtual imaging device based on the correction model; performing, by the processor, a view conversion on an image photographed through the rear imaging device according to the plurality of set tilting angles for the plurality of photographed areas of the virtual imaging device to generate a corrected image; and outputting, by the processor the corrected image. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010475 | Digital Image Resampling - Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for resampling a digital image. According to an implementation, a source image can be presharpened and upsampled to a first upsampled image having a specified image size and a first level of presharpening. The source image is also presharpened and upsampled to a second upsampled image having the specified image size and second level of presharpening that is less than the first level of presharpening. The first and second upsampled images are deblurred. A binary edge mask image is generated from the deblurred, upsampled images. The binary edge mask image is dilated and blurred to generate a deep mask image. The first and second, deblurred upsampled images are blended together using the deep mask image. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010480 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STATISTICS COLLECTION USING CLIPPED PIXEL TRACKING - Systems and methods are provided for selectively performing image statistics processing based at least partly on whether a pixel has been clipped. In one example, an image signal processor may include statistics collection logic. The statistics collection logic may include statistics image processing logic and a statistics core. The statistics image processing logic may perform initial image processing on image pixels, at least occasionally causing some of the image pixels to become clipped. The statistics core may obtain image statistics from the image pixels. The statistics core may obtain at least one of the image statistics using only pixels that have not been clipped and excluding pixels that have been clipped. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010481 | Closure Assembly And A Collapsible Pouch Container Provided With A Closure Assembly - A closure assembly comprising an article with a neck and a cap. The cap includes a tamper-evident ring having at least two ring segments, each ring segment having a base portion and an indicator portion. The article has for each segment a boss with a catch portion having a recess. Upon rotating the cap in an opening direction by the user from its closed position for the first time the head end of the indicator portion enters the recess of the catch portion and is then prevented from further rotation of the cap in opening direction, while the catch portion outer wall comes in the spacing between the spaced apart head end and trailing end, the frangible bridge between the head end and trailing end breaking and the indicator portion bending, folding, and/or buckling while being subjected to permanent deformation upon further rotation of the cap in opening direction. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010482 | VACUUM FRESH PACKAGING BAG - A vacuum fresh packaging bag is provided, which is formed by fixedly splicing edges of an upper film and a lower film and has at least one end opening formed into the bag opening. The inner surfaces of the upper film and lower film both are densely provided with many convex strips which do not intersect with each other; the convex strips form many airflow channels there-between; the convex strips on the inner surfaces of the upper film and lower film are severed once by grooves which intersect with the convex strips along the strip direction. The utility model can compress, package and store foods and valuable ornaments in vacuum. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010483 | Sealing Bag for Hydrogen Gas, and Method for Dissolving Hydrogen Gas - The present invention aims at dissolving hydrogen gas in a liquid and maintaining the solubility of the hydrogen gas in the liquid at a high state. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010484 | SLIDE BEARING COMPRISING A PRIMER SYSTEM AS ADHESION PROMOTER - A slide bearing can include a metal support, a primer layer, an adhesive layer applied directly thereto, and a sliding layer applied to the adhesive layer. The primer layer can include an oligomeric condensate of at least one silanol selected from the group having the formula: | 2014-01-09 |
20140010485 | THRUST SLIDING BEARING - A thrust sliding bearing | 2014-01-09 |
20140010488 | INSTRUMENTED BEARING - This instrumented bearing comprises a bearing and a sensor unit for sensing the angular position of the rotatable ring with respect to the fixed ring of the bearing, an encoder element which is fastened to the rotatable ring, and a sensing element fastened to the fixed ring, adapted to sense a parameter representative of the rotation speed of the rotatable ring. The sensing element is mounted in a casing fastened with the fixed ring. The casing provides a peripheral wall mounted on the fixed ring and which includes at least one snap portion adapted to be received in a recess of a surface of the fixed ring, and at least one axial blocking portion adapted to abut against a lateral surface of the fixed ring, perpendicular to the rotation axis of the instrumented bearing. Each snap portion and each blocking portion alternate around a central axis (X | 2014-01-09 |
20140010489 | HUB-BEARING ASSEMBLY WITH SEALING DEVICE - A hub-bearing assembly ( | 2014-01-09 |
20140010490 | ROLLING ELEMENT CAGE - The invention concerns a rolling element cage ( | 2014-01-09 |
20140010491 | SUSPENSION STRUT BEARING - A suspension strut bearing including a cap ( | 2014-01-09 |
20140010496 | WAFER-LEVEL PACKAGED OPTICAL SUBASSEMBLY AND TRANSCEIVER MODULE HAVING SAME - A wafer-level packaged optical subassembly includes: a substrate element, the substrate element including a top layer and a base layer being bonded with the top layer; a top window cover being bonded with the top layer of the substrate element; and a plurality of active optoelectronic elements disposed within the substrate element. At least one primary cavity is defined in the substrate element by the top layer and the base layer, and configured for accommodating the active optoelectronic elements. A plurality of peripheral cavities are defined around the at least one primary cavity as alignment features for external opto-mechanical parts. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010497 | Generating Broadband Spectral Power In Multimode Optical Fibers - A broadband spectral power generator in a multimode optical fiber utilizes a standard multimode fiber that is coiled. A plate is placed on the coiled fiber and a force is applied to compresses the coiled fiber and thereby increase the interactions between the compressed windings and induce modal mixing and birefringence in the fiber. In addition, the compression causes additional non-linear processes to be excited and occur in the compressed fiber coil to generate more broadband light. This allows for better “mixing” of the spatial beam in the multimode fiber coil and allows for the various modes to overlap. The multimode fiber coil is made of silica, silicate, germinate, phosphate, fluoride, chalcogenide, or telluride. The compressed coiled fiber may be driven by a laser providing more than one wavelength output and this greatly increases the amount of nonlinear mixing in the fiber for a greatly enhanced spectral coverage. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010500 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR, METHOD FOR ALIGNING MULTI-CORE FIBER WITH BUNDLE STRUCTURE, AND FIBER ARRANGEMENT CONVERSION MEMBER - An optical connector is structured so as to include a fiber connection structure therein. A multi-core fiber is included inside a ferrule, and affixed to the ferrule substrate. One end surface of the multi-core fiber is exposed to an end surface of the ferrule. The other end of the multi-core fiber passes through and is affixed to a capillary. A plurality of optical fiber pass through a capillary that faces the capillary, and are affixed thereto the capillary in the same manner. Seven optical fiber cores of the same diameter are joined in a close-packed arrangement in the fiber connection structure. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010501 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING BUNDLE STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR CONNECTING FIBERS, BUNDLE TERMINAL STRUCTURE, AND FIBER CONNECTION STRUCTURE - A multicore fiber has a plurality of cores formed at predetermined distances and surrounded by a cladding. A bundle structure includes optical fibers joined in a close-packed arrangement. Specifically, one optical fiber is arranged at a center, and six optical fibers are arranged around the optical fiber arranged at the center. Accordingly, cores of the optical fibers are arranged at equal distances. The optical fibers are bonded together with an adhesive. Accordingly, claddings of adjacent optical fibers are in contact with each other either directly or via the adhesive. The adhesive also fills spaces between the optical fibers. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010504 | FIBER OPTIC CABLES WITH EXTRUDED ACCESS FEATURES AND METHODS OF MAKING FIBER OPTIC CABLES - Cables are constructed with embedded discontinuities in the cable jacket that allow the jacket to be torn to provide access to the cable core. The discontinuities can be longitudinally extending strips of polymer material coextruded in the cable jacket. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010505 | CRUSH-RESISTANT FIBER OPTIC CABLE - A crush-resistant fiber optic cable is disclosed, wherein the cable includes a plurality of optical fibers. The fibers are generally arranged longitudinally about a central axis, with no strength member arranged along the central axis. A tensile-strength layer surrounds the plurality of optical fibers. A protective cover surrounds the tensile-strength layer and has an outside diameter D | 2014-01-09 |
20140010506 | OPTICAL FUSE DEVICES, OPTICAL FIBER LINES, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME - An optical fuse device adapted to be placed in between ends of lead-in fibers of an optical fiber line. The optical fuse device has a destructible region having a core, the destructible region including a light absorbing material adapted to heat and destroy the core upon application of a light intensity greater than a predetermined threshold. Optical fiber lines including the optical fuse device and methods of manufacturing the optical fuse device are provided. Numerous other aspects are provided. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010507 | MULTICORE FIBER - A multicore fiber includes a cladding and a plurality of core elements which is provided in the cladding and includes a core, an inner cladding layer that surrounds the core, and a low-refractive index layer that surrounds the inner cladding layer and has a lower average refractive index than the cladding and the inner cladding layer. The plurality of core elements is arranged such that a specific core element is surrounded by three or more core elements, and a low-refractive index layer of a partial core element of the plurality of core elements is configured to have larger light confinement loss in the core than low-refractive index layers of the other partial core elements. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010508 | OPTICAL FAN-IN/FAN-OUT DEVICE - A radius of a first core | 2014-01-09 |
20140010509 | OPTICAL DEVICE USING A PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDE, AND OPTICAL ISOLATOR - An optical device having a plasmonic waveguide, in which the plasmonic waveguide has a layered structure of at least three layers that a ferromagnetic metal layer, a first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer are layered in this order, in which the first and second dielectric layers are layers that allow light to be transmitted therethrough, and in which a refractive index of the second dielectric layer is higher than a refractive index of the first dielectric layer; and an optical isolator, having the optical device. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010510 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A modular fiber connectivity management system comprises a 1-RU bracket having a front panel defining four openings adapted to receive up to four cassettes, and one to four cassettes having front and rear mating interfaces adapted for interfacing with cable connectors and adapted for mounting to the front panel of the bracket, each front mating interface of a cassette adapted to interface with up to 36 fiber connectors of a first type for a total of up to 144 fiber connectors, and each rear mating interface of a cassette adapted to interface with fiber connectors of a second type. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010511 | ADAPTER PANEL WITH LATERAL SLIDING ADAPTER ARRAYS - An adapter panel arrangement including a chassis and a panel of adapters. The adapters defining rearward cable connections and forward cable connections of the panel arrangement. Openings permitting access to the rearward and forward cable connections of the adapters are provided. The chassis further including a removable rear chassis portion to provide access to cable routing areas within the chassis interior. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010512 | FIBER OPTIC ENCLOSURE WITH TEAR-AWAY SPOOL - A fiber optic enclosure includes a housing and a cable spool assembly disposed on an exterior surface of the housing. The cable spool assembly has a first tear-away end and a second tear-away end. The first and second tear-away ends include at least one area of weakness extending from an inner diameter of the cable spool assembly to an outer diameter of the cable spool assembly. A mounting plate is rotationally engaged with the cable spool assembly such that the cable spool assembly and the housing selectively and unitarily rotate about an axis of the mounting plate. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010513 | FIBER OPTIC ENCLOSURE WITH INTERNAL CABLE SPOOL - A fiber optic enclosure assembly includes a housing having an interior region and a bearing mount disposed in the interior region of the housing. A cable spool is connectedly engaged with the bearing mount such that the cable spool selectively rotates within the housing. A termination module disposed on the cable spool so that the termination module rotates in unison with the cable spool. A method of paying out a fiber optic cable from a fiber optic enclosure includes rotating a cable spool, which has a subscriber cable coiled around a spooling portion of the cable spool, about an axis of a housing of the fiber optic enclosure until a desired length of subscriber cable is paid out. A termination module is disposed on the cable spool. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010514 | METAL STRAIN RELIEF DEVICE FOR USE IN AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, AN OPTICAL FIBER CABLE THAT EMPLOYS THE STRAIN RELIEF DEVICE, AND A METHOD - A strain relief device and method are provided for use with an optical fiber cable of an optical communications system. The strain relief device comprises a plurality of metal wires, or rods, grouped into a bundle of parallel metal wires and a clamping mechanism for clamping first and second ends of the metal wires to an optical fiber cable. The clamped bundle of metal wires forms a spring having a spring constant that provides it with a desired stiffness and a desired flexibility. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010515 | PLAYBACK SYNCHRONIZATION - Various exemplary embodiments relate to method and media devices for synchronizing media playback between a receiving media device and sending media device, including: receiving, at the receiving media device, a plurality of messages from the sending media device, wherein the plurality of messages include a plurality of sender timestamps; generating a plurality of clock offset values based on the plurality of sender timestamps and a clock of the receiving media device; identifying a minimum clock offset value from the plurality of clock offset values; locating first media data for playback and a first presentation time associated with the first media data; and causing the first media data to be rendered at a first time that matches the first presentation time based on the minimum clock offset. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010516 | VIDEO RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A recording apparatus, including: a photographing unit which picks up a moving picture and a still picture; a first encoder which encodes the moving picture and the still picture by a first encoding method; a second encoder which encodes the still picture by a second encoding method which is different from the first encoding method; and a recorder which records a file of the moving picture encoded by the first encoding method, a file of the still picture encoded by the first encoding method and a file of the still picture encoded by the second encoding method, on a recording medium, wherein both of the file of the still picture encoded by the first encoding method and the file of the still picture encoded by the second encoding method, are based on one still picture picked up with a single photographing. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010517 | Reduced Latency Video Streaming - The invention described herein covers methods, apparatus and computer architectures for reducing latency for viewing live video and for archiving the video. Embodiments of the invention include video cameras that generate meta data at or near the time of video acquisition, and tag video segments with that meta data for use by the architectures of the present invention. Alternatively, a live viewing server may tag the video segments with the meta-data upon arrival. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010522 | TAP WATER DEVICE FOR STORING AND HEATING TAP WATER - The invention involves a tap water structure for storing and heating tap water. The tap water structure contains storage devices, such as a tap water storage tank, for storing a certain amount of tap water. The storage devices are equipped with a tap water input for adding tap water to the storage devices, as well as a tap water output for removing water from the storage devices. The tap water structure is equipped with heating elements that will warm the tap water stored in the storage devices. The storage devices also include a heat exchanger supply and a heat exchanger return, as well as an additional heat exchanger return; these can all be connected to an external heat exchanger unit. The tap water device includes regulators to return the tap water to the storage devices either via the heat exchanger return and/or via the additional heat exchanger return. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010523 | IMAGE STABILIZING APPARATUS - An image stabilizing apparatus includes: a base; a first frame movably coupled to the base in a first direction; a first vibration axis that movably support the first frame; a first vibration unit that vibrates the first vibration axis; a first sensing unit that senses a position variation of the first frame; a second frame movably coupled to the first frame in a second direction that crosses the first direction; a lens coupled to the second frame; a second vibration axis that is disposed on the first frame to movably support the second frame; a second vibration unit that vibrates the second vibration axis; a second sensing unit that senses a position variation of the second frame; and a first elastic plate including a connecting portion that is connected to the first frame and a pressing portion that is bent from the connecting portion and presses the first vibration axis. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010526 | FOCAL PLANE SHUTTER AND OPTICAL APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A focal plane shutter includes: a board including an opening; a leading blade and a trailing blade opening and closing the opening; first and second drive members respectively driving the leading blade and the trailing blade; first and second actuators respectively driving the first and second drive members; a first biasing member biasing the first drive member to move the leading blade away from the opening; and a second biasing member biasing the second drive member to move the trailing blade away from the opening. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010527 | BLADE DRIVE DEVICE AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT - A blade drive device includes: a board including an opening; a blade movable between a position receding from the opening and a position covering at least a portion of the opening; a first actuator including a first rotor rotatable about a first axis and a first stator, and being capable of driving the blade; a second actuator including a second rotor rotatable about a second axis and a second stator, and being capable of driving the blade; first and second positioning portions respectively positioning the first and second actuators; and a first biasing member respectively biasing the first and second actuators toward the first and second positioning portions. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010530 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER, WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An optical transmitter includes: a modulator; an output light monitoring unit; and a control unit. The modulator includes a dividing unit dividing light inputted to the modulator into first and second branch lights; first and second modulation units performing phase modulation for the first and second branch lights, respectively; a rotator which rotates the polarization plane of one of the first and second modulated lights; and a polarization combining unit combining the first and second modulated lights. The output light monitoring unit monitors light intensity of the output of the polarization combining unit. The control unit controls at least one of the first and second modulation units, on the basis of a monitoring result by the output light monitoring unit. The control includes a light intensity control making the light intensity of the first and/or second modulated light smaller than a maximum value of a modulation curve light intensity. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010531 | SCHEDULING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AVOIDING DUAL-END MONITORING CONFLICT FOR SUBMARINE CABLE OPTICAL LINE - A scheduling method, apparatus, and system for avoiding a dual-end monitoring conflict for a submarine cable optical line are provided, where the method includes: sending a wavelength occupation request message to a peer-end equipment via a selected submarine cable optical line to be monitored, and receiving a wavelength occupation response message returned by the peer-end equipment; parsing the wavelength occupation response message to determine whether a requested wavelength is occupied by the peer-end equipment; and if the requested wavelength is occupied by the peer-end equipment and the wavelength can be switched, monitoring the selected submarine cable optical line to be monitored by using another wavelength after switching; and if the requested wavelength is not occupied by the peer-end equipment, monitoring the selected submarine cable optical line to be monitored by using the requested wavelength. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010532 | PILOT SYMBOL AIDED CARRIER PHASE ESTIMATION - Methods and systems for processing an optical signal in a communication system are disclosed. The disclosed methods yield benefits for estimation and tracking of carrier phase of received signals at a digital coherent receiver. Specifically, phase ambiguity is removed by the insertion of pilot symbols into a transmitted data stream. Pilot symbols are detected from a received signal, and carrier phase is estimated for the detected pilot symbols. If carrier phase track of received data symbols was lost, a correction is applied to recover the track. Coherent symbol decoding may be used which has not been possible with prior art techniques due to the possibility of phase tracking loss. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010533 | AUTOMATIC BIAS CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - The embodiments provide an automatic bias control method and apparatus for an optical transmitter. The apparatus includes: a detecting unit configured to monitor output optical power of an I/Q modulator of the optical transmitter; a calculating unit configured to calculate bias voltage indicating values of the I modulator, Q modulator and phase modulator of the I/Q modulator according to the output optical power and known modulation data; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust respectively Direct-Current (DC) bias voltages of the I modulator, Q modulator and phase modulator according to the bias voltage indicating values of the I modulator, Q modulator and phase modulator. With the embodiments, known modulation data are used to realize automatic bias control by monitoring the evenness of distribution of the power of output optical signals of the transmitter in the four quadrants of an I/Q plane. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010540 | VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed herein are a visible light communication method and apparatus. The visible light communication method includes determining whether a current location is the start of a symbol of a transmission signal, setting a sample index, a signal accumulated value for an accumulation region of a front half portion of the symbol, and a signal accumulated value for an accumulation region of a rear half portion of the symbol, determining whether the sample index belongs to an accumulation region of the front or rear half portion of the symbol, and accumulating samples of the transmission signal in accordance with the location to which the sample index belongs, determining whether a current location corresponds to the end of the symbol, and outputting a Variable Pulse Position Modulation (VPPM) communication signal corresponding to the transmission signal. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010541 | Energy Efficient Ethernet Power Management Via SIEPON Protocol - Systems and methods are provided to allow a service provider to manage, query, and dynamically configure the protocols on network facing interfaces as well as the devices on that domain where the service provider may be provisioning services using the IEEE P1904.1 Standard for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON). Systems and methods are provided for using SIEPON to update an Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration of a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) device and for using SIEPON to gather information from a CPE device. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010542 | CABLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING QAM UPSTREAM CHANNELS BELOW 16.4 MHZ FOR INCREASED AGGREGATE DEPLOYED UPSTREAM CAPACITY - Cable communication systems and methods to provide voice and/or data services to subscriber premises via a cable plant that conveys upstream information over an upstream path bandwidth via one or more upstream radio frequency (RF) signals. One or more RF signals include an encoded carrier wave having a carrier frequency of between 5 MHz and 16.4 MHz that is modulated using a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) protocol or an Advanced time Division Multiple Access (ATDMA) protocol and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with voice and/or data information constituting at least some of the upstream information. An aggregate deployed upstream capacity of the one or more RF signals to convey the upstream information in a portion of the upstream path bandwidth between 5 MHz and 16.4 MHz is at least approximately 12 Megabits per second (Mbits/s). | 2014-01-09 |
20140010543 | TUNABLE COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER AND METHOD - The invention provides a tunable coherent optical receiver and a related method wherein the receiver uses low-frequency trace-tone modulation of optical WDM channels at transmission as channel IDs in order to detect which optical channels are present in the received optical WDM signal. The receiver than discriminates between the thereby detected optical channels by tuning a local oscillator to one of the received optical channels as determined based on the presence of the low-frequency tones in the received optical signal. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DATA RATE CONVERSION AND PHASE ALIGNMENT - A gearbox IC is incorporated into an optical communications system to enable an optical link that incorporates the system to achieve data rates that are at least double that which are currently achievable in optical links. The gearbox IC performs data rate conversion and phase alignment. In the transmit direction, the gearbox IC receives N lanes of electrical data signals having a data rate of X Gbps and outputs N/2 lanes of electrical data signals having a data rate of 2X Gbps. In the receive direction, the gearbox IC receives N/2 electrical data signals having a data rate of 2X Gbps and converts the N/2 electrical data signals into N electrical data signals having a data rate of X. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010547 | ACTIVE OPTICAL ANTENNA, MICROWAVE TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION SENDING METHOD - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an active optical antenna, a microwave transmitting system and an information sending method. The active optical antenna includes: a substrate; a ground disposed at the bottom of the substrate; a power supply grid and several antenna units that are disposed at the top of the substrate, and photodetector tubes that are disposed in the substrate and located between the antenna units and the ground, where the power supply grid supplies power to the photodetector tubes, the number of the photodetector tubes is equal to the number of the antenna units, and output ends of the photodetector tubes are coupled with the antenna units to output radio frequency signals; and optical waveguides which are disposed in the substrate and connected to the photodetector tubes. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010550 | Method and Device for Providing Notifications in a System for Visible-Light communication - A method for providing visible notification by a device in a visible-light-communication system based on Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) standard 802.15.7, wherein higher levels are allowed to invoke through one standardized interface a medium-access-control sub-layer to provide color-function support and enables invocation of a transmission of color, visibility, and dimming frames by a higher layer, which creates a unified interface between the MAC sub-layer and the higher layers, while providing a primitive for requesting, by the at least one upper layer to the at least one interface of the medium-access-control entity layer, a transmission of at least one visibility frame. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010551 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER WITH OPTICAL RECEIVER ELECTRICALLY ISOLATED FROM HOUSING AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER WITH ENHANCED HEAT DISSIPATION TO HOUSING - An optical transceiver that copes with both the enhanced heat dissipation from heat generating components and the electrical isolation of components processing faint signals from other components generating EMI noises is disclosed. The optical transceiver provides, in addition to a bottom of a frame, a bottom cover made by material with higher thermal conductivity. The former components are directly mounted on the bottom cover through openings in the frame, while, other component to be electrically isolated from the chassis are mounted by putting an insulating support between them and the bottom cover. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010558 | MALFUNCTION INFERRING APPARATUS, MALFUNCTION INFERRING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A malfunction inferring apparatus includes an obtaining unit and an inferring unit. The obtaining unit obtains, from a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus which are used alternatively with each other by plural users, a first usage status of the first image forming apparatus and a second usage status of the second image forming apparatus. If a first change occurs in the first usage status and if a second change corresponding to the first change occurs in the second usage status, the inferring unit infers that a malfunction has occurred in any one of the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus, in accordance with the first usage status and the second usage status obtained by the obtaining unit. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010559 | TONER-STATE PREDICTING DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A toner-state predicting device includes a changing unit that changes a rotation speed of a stepping motor that drives a toner recovery mechanism in an image forming apparatus; a detecting unit that detects presence of synchronization loss of the stepping motor at the changed rotation speed; and a predicting unit that predicts toner clogging which will occur in future in the toner recovery mechanism, based on the rotation speed changed by the changing unit and the presence of the synchronization loss detected by the detecting unit. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010560 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FORMING TONER IMAGE ON IMAGE CARRIER - An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on an image carrier, including: a patch former that forms a solid and a non-solid patch on the image carrier under different image formation conditions; a measurer that measures amounts of toner adhering to the solid and the non-solid patch; a determiner that determines image density properties indicating a relationship between an image formation condition and an amount of adhering toner, based on both (i) a relationship between an image formation condition applied to the solid patch and the amount of toner adhering to the solid patch, and (ii) a relationship between an image formation condition applied to the non-solid patch and the amount of toner adhering to the non-solid patch; and a setter that sets an appropriate image formation condition for forming a toner image having a desired density on the image carrier according to the image density properties. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010561 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium, includes a developer container configured to store developer, an image bearing member configured to be rotated and on which a latent image is formed, a developer bearing member configured to bear developer and to be rotated to develop the latent image, an agitation member configured to be rotated to agitate the developer stored in the developer container, and a control unit configured to control the rotations of the image bearing member, the developer bearing member, and the agitation member so as to rotate the agitation member while the image bearing member is not rotated. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010562 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a transfer member configured to abut against an image carrier for carrying a toner image to form a transfer nip; and a power supply configured to output a bias voltage for transferring the toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium nipped in the transfer nip. The bias voltage includes a first voltage for transferring the toner image from the image carrier onto the recording medium in a transfer direction and a second voltage having an opposite polarity of the first voltage, the first and the second voltages being alternately output. A time-averaged value of the bias voltage is set to a polarity in the transfer direction and is set in the transfer direction side with respect to a median between a maximum and a minimum of the bias voltage. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010563 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a number-of-revolutions determining unit, and a stopping unit. The fixing device includes a toner image forming unit that forms a toner image, a fixing member that fixes toner to a recording medium, a pressure member that conveys the recording medium, a driving unit that rotates the pressure member to allow the fixing member to perform slave rotation, and a number-of-revolutions sensing unit that senses the number of revolutions of the fixing member. The number-of-revolutions determining unit determines, based on the number of revolutions of the fixing member sensed by the number-of-revolutions sensing unit, the number of revolutions of the driving unit. The stopping unit stops the driving unit when the number of revolutions determined by the number-of-revolutions determining unit is not equal to a specific number of revolutions. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010564 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, BIAS POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND BIAS POWER SUPPLY METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging unit, an exposure unit, a developing unit, and a transfer unit. The transfer unit includes a transfer bias power supply and transfers a developed image onto a transfer body. The transfer bias power supply includes a first power supply unit that generates a non-transfer electric field, a second power supply unit that generates a transfer electric field, a first switching controller, and a second switching controller. The first switching controller controls start of supply of the transfer electric field in accordance with a first time constant when switching from the non-transfer electric field to the transfer electric field is performed. The second switching controller controls stop of supply of the transfer electric field in accordance with a second time constant when switching from the transfer electric field to the non-transfer electric field is performed. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010565 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A processing apparatus that an uninterruptible power supply system supplies power to and carries out a process. The processing apparatus includes an electric energy amount determination part that determines, based on a charged amount of electric energy in the uninterruptible power supply system, an amount of maximum electric energy that the uninterruptible power supply system can supply; and a function selection part that selects, depending on the amount of maximum electric energy, functions that can be used for carrying out the process. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010566 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, POWER SAVE CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING POWER SAVE CONTROL PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, a method of controlling a power save state of the image processing apparatus, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a power save control program are provided. In response to detection of a power save transition factor that triggers transition to a power save state, the image processing apparatus determines whether a power save extension factor is detected, extends transition to the power save state at least during when the power save extension factor is being detected, and causes transition to the power save state according to the detected power save transition factor when the power save extension factor is not detected. | 2014-01-09 |
20140010567 | CLEANING DEVICE - A cleaning device for cleaning a cleaning subject moving in a predetermined direction, having; a cleaning member that rotates in an opposite direction from the predetermined direction at a contact with the cleaning subject, thereby gathering toner from the cleaning subject; and a shielding member that is disposed between the cleaning member and the cleaning subject in the predetermined direction relative to the contact and prevents the toner on the cleaning member from moving to the cleaning subject. | 2014-01-09 |