17th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140112484 | Automatic Detection of Loudspeaker Characteristics - Disclosed is subject matter that proposes a system and method for a media device to automatically detect the characteristics of an attached speaker. Speakers have many different characteristics, for example, power, impedance, frequency response, etc. With knowledge of the speaker characteristics, audio output can be equalized appropriately, and an amplifier of the media device, for example, can prevent exceeding the maximum power handling capability of the speaker. Described is a device and method for retrieving information about the speaker from a memory that is coupled to the speaker. A media device can read the data from the memory over existing speaker wires. Software and/or hardware in the media device can optimize the output to the attached speaker. Accordingly, the media device can interrogate the speaker directly over speaker wire to obtain the characteristics of the speaker. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112485 | Stackable Communications System - An audio system that comprises an audio server and individual speaker clients may be connected. Individual speaker clients may or may not be the same physical configuration. When the audio server detects each speaker client, the audio server configures each speaker to a particular purpose. This allows remote configurable speakers to be used for different features. Other audio devices may also be connected to the audio server. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112486 | Tube Amplifier Emulator - This disclosure shows methods and apparatus to emulate vacuum tube amplifiers that have output transformers, to deliver “tube sound”, where the output transformer nonlinearity is emulated. Prior arts that emulated vacuum tube amplifiers either did not include output transformer nonlinearity in their emulation, or did not do it correctly. The disclosed methods and apparatus have the advantage of low cost and flexibility, because the output transformers are included in the emulation. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112487 | USING AN AUXILIARY DEVICE SENSOR TO FACILITATE DISAMBIGUATION OF DETECTED ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT CHANGES - Audio input may be received at one or more microphones of a mobile device. Based on the audio input, a change in an acoustic environment of the device, such as a change in a direction of arrival of the audio input or a degradation in a quality of acoustic echo cancellation being performed upon the audio input, may be detected. A determination may be made that the detected change coincides with a non-acoustic physical event detected using an auxiliary sensor at the mobile device. The event may for example be device motion, a new proximate object, a change in a proximity of an object, a new heat source or a change in a heat level from a known heat source. Based on the determining, a signal processor, possibly comprising an audio beamformer or echo canceller, may be recalibrated, e.g. the audio beamformer or echo canceller may be caused to reconverge. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CANCELING ACOUSTIC ECHO, AND METHOD FOR UPDATING ADAPTIVE FILTER COEFFICIENT BY THE APPARATUS - An apparatus for canceling an acoustic echo signal caused by a far-end talker signal is provided. The apparatus for canceling an acoustic echo signal includes: a variance estimating unit configured to estimate a variance of a first audio signal of a near-end talker signal and a first noise signal of the near-end talker signal; a step size determining unit configured to determine a step size by using the variance of the first audio signal and the variance of the first noise signal; an adaptive filter coefficient updating unit configured to update an adaptive filter coefficient of an adaptive filter by using the step size; and an acoustic echo canceling unit configured to estimate an acoustic echo signal by using the adaptive filter coefficient, and cancel the acoustic echo signal from a microphone input signal by using the estimated acoustic echo signal. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112489 | SIGNAL CANCELLATION - Signal cancellation is contemplated. The signal cancellation may include canceling a signal from another signal in order to facilitate further processing of the another signal. The signal cancellation may be beneficial within environments where the signal being canceled is intentionally introduced or its contents/characteristics are otherwise known prior to being exposed to the signal from which it is to be canceled. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112490 | METHOD AND AN ACTIVE DEVICE FOR TREATING NOISE ON BOARD A VEHICLE, AND A VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A DEVICE - A noise treatment device (D) comprising at least one local noise sound sensor ( | 2014-04-24 |
20140112491 | Method and Apparatus for a Configurable Active Noise Canceller - A method and apparatus for active noise canceling. The method includes retrieving an input sample from at least one of a feedback or feedforward microphone digitized through the sigma-delta converter, retrieving the input sample and a related filter, wherein the filter is customized to the particular headset, outputting a filtered signal through a speaker without any interpolation and reducing order of CIC filters, and outputting a response sharply tapered down. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112492 | DIGITAL CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR AMBIENT NOISE-REDUCTION - A digital circuit arrangement for an ambient noise-reduction system affording a higher degree of noise reduction than has hitherto been possible. The arrangement converts the analog signals into N-bit digital signals at sample rate f | 2014-04-24 |
20140112493 | APPARATUS FOR DIFFERENTIAL INTERPOLATION PULSE WIDTH MODULATION DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERSION AND OUTPUT SIGNAL CODING METHOD THEREOF - A differential interpolation pulse width modulation (iPWM) digital to analog converter is provided, including an iPWM for generating differential pulse from an input digital audio data stream, a power driver for providing energy to a terminal load and a filter for removing unwanted harmonic signal to reconstruct analog signal, wherein the iPWM further includes a PWM pulse generator to convert the digital input numerical code to a series of time domain pulse width; an interpolation unit to increase the time domain resolution of the pulse width; a self-calibration unit to maintain the pulse-width accuracy of the interpolation unit; a differential pulse width generator to convert series of PWM pulse into voltage and time domain differential form. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112494 | WIRELESS SPEAKER WITH TABLET COMPUTER STAND - A wireless speaker stand for a tablet computer is presented. The speaker stand comprises a wireless audio speaker within a base. A channel within the base has a channel floor, a channel front wall, and a channel rear wall. One or more spring-mounted bumpers retractably protrude into the channel. A mobile electronic device may be inserted into the channel. The spring-mounted bumper exerts variable force upon the mobile device as it enters the channel, securing the mobile electronic device within in the channel. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112495 | WIRELESS MULTI-USER AUDIO SYSTEM - Various methods and devices are provided for a wireless audio system for a number of users. The system includes a base unit that is adapted to removably store, recharge and communicate with personal microphone modules, table-top microphones, and audio adapters. The system also includes a plurality of personal microphone modules that each are adapted to be removable and coupled to a user's clothing, and to communicate wirelessly with the base unit, and table-top microphones that are adapted to communicate wirelessly with the base unit. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112496 | MICROPHONE PLACEMENT FOR NOISE CANCELLATION IN VEHICLES - Systems and methods for processing acoustic signals in vehicles are provided. An example system comprises one or more microphones and a voice monitoring device. The voice monitoring device can receive, via the one or more microphones, an acoustic signal and suppress noise in the acoustic signal to obtain a clean speech component. The obtained clean speech component can be provided to one or more vehicle systems. In some embodiments, two microphones selected from the one or more microphones can be positioned on an inner side of a roof of the vehicle, above a windshield, in front of a driver's seat, and directed towards a driver. The two microphones can be equidistant with respect to a symmetry plane of the driver's seat. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112497 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING - The present invention provides for methods and systems for digitally processing an audio signal to reproduce high quality sounds on various materials. In various embodiments, a method comprises filtering the signal with a low shelf filter and/or high shelf filter, passing the signal through a first compressor that, filtering the signal again with a low shelf filter and/or high shelf filter, processing the signal with a graphic equalizer based on a selected material profile, passing the signal through a second compressor, and outputting the signal to a transducer. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112498 | METHOD AND IMPLEMENTATION APPARATUS FOR INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLING VOLUME OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method and an implementation apparatus for intelligently controlling volume of an electronic device, where the electronic device is installed with microphones. The method includes receiving an external sound picked up by the microphones, extracting content information of the external sound, determining, according to the content information of the external sound, whether a prestored sound template database includes a sound that is matched with the content information of the external sound, and generating a first determining result. If the first determining result is yes, the method includes adjusting volume of a sound that is being output, or generating a prompt tone, turning off a sound that is being output, and outputting the prompt tone. In the present invention, an electronic device is enabled to intelligently control its own volume according to an external sound. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112499 | AUDIO PRODUCTION CONSOLE AND RELATED PROCESS - The audio production console includes a touch-sensitive display cradled by a chassis that also includes a console panel and meter bridge. The touch-sensitive display includes an IR sensor perimeter and related circuitry for processing multi-touch events simultaneously and translating those events into parameter controls. The parameter controls are represented digitally on the display in a GUI reminiscent of traditional analog production console layouts. Software tracks movement of the digital parameter controls and works in conjunction with hardware to manipulate production audio as one or more on-screen parameters are adjusted by touching the display. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112500 | DC OFFSET COMPENSATION - An apparatus and method for DC offset compensation. An amplifier receives an input signal (A | 2014-04-24 |
20140112501 | DIGITAL MICROPHONE SYSTEM, AUDIO CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A digital microphone system, audio control device and control method thereof is related to the method for controlling a digital microphone circuit including receiving a clock signal; detecting that the clock signal is maintained at a predetermined level for a duration; when the duration reaches a given time, switching a transmission type of a data pin; in a data mode, outputting a digital audio signal to a data line via the data pin in an output type; and in a command mode, receiving a command signal from the data line via the data pin in an input type. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112502 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MICROPHONE OPERATION - An electronic device manages a plurality of microphones comprising a first microphone unit installed in a front side of the electronic device, a second microphone unit installed in a back side of the electronic device and a third microphone unit installed at a position within the electronic device. At least one sensor installed in the electronic device senses a usage condition of the electronic device comprising a physical orientation of the electronic device relative to a plane. A processor selectively operates at least two of the first, second and third microphone units in response to the sensed usage condition of the electronic device. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112503 | Compact Bone Conduction Audio Transducer - A bone conduction transducer for a wearable computing system is provided. The bone conduction transducer includes a magnetic diaphragm configured to vibrate in response to a time-changing magnetic field generated by an electromagnetic coil operated according to electrical input signals. The magnetic diaphragm is elastically suspended over the electromagnetic coil to allow excursion toward and away from the coil by a pair of cantilevered leaf springs projected from opposing sides of the transducer to connect to opposing sides of the magnetic diaphragm. The bone conduction transducer is included in the wearable computing system to be worn against a bony structure of the wearer that allows acoustic signals to propagate to the wearer's inner ear and achieve sound perception in response to vibrations in the bone conduction transducer. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112504 | AUDIO DRIVER AND METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL INTO AIR MOVEMENT - A variant of a planar magnetic transducer for sound and ultrasound reproduction includes a substantially flat coil fixed on a diaphragm. A source of a non-varying magnetic field is disposed on one side of the diaphragm; a thin, electrically conductive, non-magnetic membrane is disposed on the other side. An AC signal in the coil results in diaphragm movement and modulation of the non-varying magnetic field. The modulating field generates a current in the membrane, which, upon further interactions, causes the membrane to move. The two independently moving surfaces, each of which produce sound, together result in an unusually flat SPL/frequency response, with very low narrow-band intensity variation and distortion. The forces acting on the moving planes are substantially uniformly distributed on active parts and the force per unit area is high. In embodiments directed to reproducing sound in a limited frequency band, the driver can be very efficient. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112505 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an exemplary information processing system including a plurality of sound output sections, the positional relationship among the plurality of sound output sections is recognized. In addition, a sound corresponding to a sound source object present in a virtual space is generated. The output volume of the sound for the sound source object is determined, for each sound output section, in accordance with the positional relationship among the plurality of sound output sections, and the generated sound is outputted in accordance with the output volume. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112506 | DIRECTIONAL SOUND APPARATUS, METHOD GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND SOFTWARE - A directional sound apparatus is described. The apparatus comprises a receiver operable to receive audio data associated with a video stream and to receive, over a network, ancillary audio data containing supplemental audio data associated with the video stream; a storage device operable to store a plurality of profiles, each profile being associated with a different user of the sound system and defining the audio to be provided to the user; a user location device defining a first positional location of a first user having a stored profile; an audio output operable to connect to a plurality of speakers; and an audio controller operable to control the audio output to the plurality of speakers to simultaneously provide the audio data and the supplemental audio data to the first user at the first positional location and said audio data to a second user located at a second, different, positional location. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112507 | Dual Transducer With Shared Diaphragm - The invention relates to a transducer comprising a housing having a first and a second sound input, a first and a second vibration sensors configured to convert vibration to an output, and a diaphragm connected to both the first and second vibration sensor. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112508 | FITTING DEVICE AND A METHOD OF FITTING A HEARING DEVICE TO COMPENSATE FOR THE HEARING LOSS OF A USER; AND A HEARING DEVICE AND A METHOD OF REDUCING FEEDBACK IN A HEARING DEVICE - A fitting device for fitting a hearing device to compensate for a hearing loss of a user is disclosed, the hearing device comprising a receiver and a microphone, wherein a feedback path exists between the receiver and the microphone, wherein the hearing device further comprises an adaptive feedback canceller configured to reduce feedback, the adaptive feedback canceller comprising a fixed filter corresponding to an invariant portion of the feedback path, and an adaptive filter corresponding to a variant portion of the feedback path, the fitting device comprising a processor configured to determine the invariant portion of the feedback path, wherein the processor is configured to provide the fixed filter with information relating to the invariant portion of the feedback path independently of the user using the hearing device. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112509 | Transducer, A Hearing Aid Comprising The Transducer And A Method Of Operating The Transducer - The invention relates to a transducer comprising a housing, a first and a second diaphragm, and a first and a second signal provider. The housing comprises an inner surface. The first and second diaphragms are positioned in the housing. The first and second diaphragms define a common compartment being delimited by at least both a part of the inner surface and the first and second diaphragms. The first signal provider is configured to convert movement of the first diaphragm into a first signal. The second signal provider is configured to convert movement of the second diaphragm into a second signal. The transducer can be used in a hearing aid. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112510 | Electronic Devices With Environmental Sensors - An electronic device may be provided with environmental sensors. Environmental sensors may include one or more environmental sensor components and one or more acoustic components. Acoustic components may include a speaker or a microphone. Environmental sensor components may include a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, a humidity sensor, or other sensors or combinations of sensors for sensing attributes of the environment surrounding the device. The environmental sensor may have an enclosure with an opening. The enclosure may be formed from a rigid support structure and a portion of a printed circuit. The opening may be formed in the rigid support structure or the printed circuit. The opening in the enclosure for the environmental sensor may be aligned with an opening in an outer structural member for the device. The outer structural member may be a housing structure or a cover layer for a device display. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112511 | Electronic Device With Conductive Fabric Shield Wall - An electronic device may have a housing such as a metal housing. A display may be mounted in the metal housing. Antenna structures may be mounted in the housing under an inactive peripheral portion of the display. Integrated circuits and other electrical components may be mounted in the housing under an active central portion of the display. Shielding structures may be configured to form a wall that extends between the display and the metal housing. The shielding structures may include a sheet of conductive fabric that is shorted to the metal housing and metal chassis structures in the display. The shielding structures may also include a tube of conductive fabric that is capacitively coupled to ground traces in a touch sensor panel. The conductive fabric tube and the sheet of conductive fabric may be shorted to each other using conductive adhesive. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112512 | SOUND CHANNEL FORMED IN A CASE TO REDIRECT SOUND WITH RESPECT TO A SPEAKER OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE POSITIONED IN THE CASE - Provided is a case for n electronic device including a first surface, a second surface, sides between the first surface and the second surface, and a speaker on a portion of at least one of the first surface, the second surface, and the sides. The case includes a cover in which the electronic device is positioned including an inner surface facing the speaker when the electronic device is positioned in the cover. A sound channel is formed between the speaker and the inner surface when the electronic device is positioned in the cover. An opening to the sound channel to provide sound communication between the sound channel and an area in front of the first surface of the electronic device, wherein sound travels through the sound channel between the speaker and the opening. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112513 | Horn Amplifier - A horn amplifier comprises a horn and at least one speaker member with at least one spherical sound source; wherein the horn has one throat portion and one voice port opened from the throat portion toward outside, the bottom surface of the inner side of the throat portion of the horn has an open, the spherical sound source of the speaker member connects with the open, the inner side of the throat portion has at least one S-type sound-guide board, the sound-guide board is made as a plurality of paths in order to let spherical sound waves from the spherical sound source of the speaker member enter into the paths, then the spherical sound waves are transformed into plane sound waves, the plane sound waves are delivered to outside through the inner structure of the horn. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112514 | VARIABLE DIRECTIVITY CONDENSER MICROPHONE - A first diaphragm FD and a second diaphragm RD are respectively arranged across a fixed electrode BP at both sides to constitute the variable directivity condenser microphone. A microphone body | 2014-04-24 |
20140112515 | DUAL DIAPHRAGM DYNAMIC MICROPHONE TRANSDUCER - A dual diaphragm dynamic type microphone transducer that, among other things, provides control of source/receiver proximity effects without sacrificing professional level dynamic microphone performance. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112516 | Acoustic Device and Method of Manufacture - An acoustic assembly includes an upper housing and a lower housing. The lower housing is coupled to the upper housing forming an interior cavity there between. At least one acoustic component is disposed within the cavity. At least one metalized area is formed in the upper housing or the lower housing. The at least one metalized area is in contact with the at least one acoustic component and is configured and arranged to provide an electrical connection between the acoustic component in the cavity and a customer that is exterior to the assembly. The at least one metalized area directly adheres to the upper housing or lower housing. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112517 | MICROPHONE FEATURES RELATED TO A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A portable computing device includes one or more microphones that function seamlessly with other components within the portable computing device. In one embodiment, a microphone opening is disposed on a side of the personal computing device and configured to be substantially perpendicular to a user. In another embodiment, two microphones can be disposed on an upper region above a keyboard section and can include a third microphone facing toward a rear portion of the portable computing device. In yet another embodiment, a fixture for providing a bonding pressure to microphones is described. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112518 | MICROPHONE MODULE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A microphone module for an electronic device is provided. The microphone module includes a window having at least one microphone hole in a part of an edge of the window, a microphone installed in a position corresponding to the microphone hole of the window, and a case frame coupled with the window and forming an appearance of the electronic device. The microphone module receives an external voice through the microphone hole of the window. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112519 | NOISE-REDUCING HEADSET - A noise-reducing headset, comprising a suspending arm, a connection device, and an ear cover part is disclosed. An engaging device is disposed on both ends of the suspending arm, wherein a position fixing part is disposed on one end of each of the engaging devices. Both ends of each of the connection device are respectively provided with a pivot joint part and an opening for engaging the engaging device. One side of the connection device is provided with a hollow slot. The hollow slot is communicated with the opening such that the position fixing part adjusts the distance the suspending arm entering into the connection device. Moreover, the ear cover part is connected to the pivot joint part of the connection device such that the noise-reducing headset can be collapsed inward by using the pivot joint part to make the noise-reducing headset convenient for a user to take along. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112520 | INTEGRATED EARBUDS AND EARPLUGS, AND METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND KITS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH - An audio system suppresses exterior noise and directs desired sound into a user's ear canal. An audio system may include an earplug to create a seal in the interior of an ear canal. The earplug may include a ribbed exterior profile and can be flexible to create the seal. A speaker driver may be inserted within the earplug. A distal opening may extend from the speaker driver toward the distal end of the earplug to direct sound into a user's ear canal. A proximal opening may extend from the speaker driver to the proximal end of the earplug, and can receive an audio wire connected to the speaker driver. The audio wire may connect to an audio device to allow audio data to pass through the wire and to the speaker, where it can be converted to audio that is passed directly into the ear canal of the user. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112521 | GARMENT WITH BUILT-IN AUDIO SOURCE WIRING - An audio source system may be built into a garment to provide wiring from an audio source to earplugs. The wiring is brought from a point of connection to the audio source such as at a pocket and is then brought to the garment opening by tubes such as may be sewn with normal seams in construction of the garment such as side seams, sleeves seams and shoulder seams, and then into a channel at the opening, which may be a simple neck opening or a collared opening or a hood (in which the channel extends around the hood opening). An auxiliary wiring may be connected to allow a second hearing device such as ear buds or earphones. Wiring may be equipped with spring biased coils to allow stretching. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112522 | AUDIO MODULE MOUNTING APPARATUS - A mounting apparatus for an audio module includes an enclosure base and an enclosure cover. The audio module is pivotally mounted in the enclosure base. A first rotating rod is positioned on the sides of the audio module. An elastic member is mounted on and a plurality of first teeth protrude from one side of the first rotating rod. A gear is pivotally mounted in the enclosure base. A plurality of second teeth protrude from the gear corresponding to the plurality of first teeth. The elastic member is elastically deformed in its original state, and the audio module is received in the enclosure base. When the enclosure cover is rotated away from the enclosure base, the elastic member rotates the first rotating rod, the first rotating rod rotates the gear, and the audio module extends to outside of the enclosure base. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112523 | SPEAKER MODULE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THEREOF - An electronic apparatus includes an antenna, an antenna signal transmitting member, and an electronic device having an attachment part, and a speaker module installed in the attachment part and including a containing casing, a speaker device, and an audio signal transmitting member. The containing casing has a first hole formed thereon. A second hole is formed on the attachment part. The audio signal transmitting member is electrically connected to the speaker device for electrically connecting to the electronic device, so as to establish audio signal transmission between the speaker device and the electronic device. The antenna is formed integrally with the attachment part along a contour of the attachment part. The antenna signal transmitting member is formed on the attachment part and coupled to the electronic device. The antenna is coupled to the antenna signal transmitting member for establishing antenna signal transmission between the antenna and the electronic device. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112524 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECTS - In some arrangements, product packaging is digitally watermarked over most of its extent to facilitate high-throughput item identification at retail checkouts. Imagery of such packaging is analyzed to detect digital watermarking. One claim recites a method utilized at a retail checkout location comprising: receiving imagery representing a packaged item from a digital camera, the packaged item including digital watermarking hidden on its packaging, the packaged item moving relative to the digital camera; determining a region in the imagery corresponding to at least one relatively faster moving object; arranging watermark detection blocks over the determine region; an detecting the digital watermarking from the watermark detection blocks. Of course other claims and combinations are also provided. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112525 | DOCUMENT SECURIZATION METHOD AND A DOCUMENT SECURIZATION DEVICE USING PRINTING A DISTRIBUTION OF DOTS ON SAID DOCUMENT - An analogical mark printed on a document that includes a distribution of dots defined by a digital file, having, as a result of unanticipated unknowns in printing, an unpredictable variation, dot by dot, of at least one geometric characteristic of the printed dots where dots of the distribution of dots have, in the digital file, at least one geometric characteristic that digitally varies among dots, the geometric amplitude of the digital variation having the order of magnitude of said unpredictable variation and being less than an average dimension of the dots of the distribution of dots. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112526 | DETECTING EMBOSSED CHARACTERS ON FORM FACTOR - A portable computing device reads information embossed on a form factor utilizing a built-in digital camera and determines dissimilarity between each pair of embossed characters to confirm consistency. Techniques comprise capturing an image of a form factor having information embossed thereupon, and detecting embossed characters. The detecting utilizes a gradient image and one or more edge images with a mask corresponding to the regions for which specific information is expected to be found on the form factor. The embossed form factor may be a credit card, and the captured image may comprise an account number and an expiration date embossed upon the credit card. Detecting embossed characters may comprise detecting the account number and the expiration date of the credit card, and/or the detecting may utilize a gradient image and one or more edge images with a mask corresponding to the regions for the account number and expiration date. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112527 | SIMULTANEOUS TRACKING AND TEXT RECOGNITION IN VIDEO FRAMES - Architecture that enables optical character recognition (OCR) of text in video frames at the rate at which the frames are received. Additionally, conflation is performed on multiple text recognition results in the frame sequence. The architecture comprises an OCR text recognition engine and a tracker system; the tracker system establishes a common coordinate system in which OCR results from different frames may be compared and/or combined. From a set of sequential video frames, a keyframe is chosen from which the reference coordinate system is established. An estimated transformation from keyframe coordinates to subsequent video frames is computed using the tracker system. When text recognition is completed for any subsequent frame, the result coordinates can be related to the keyframe using the inverse transformation from the processed frame to the reference keyframe. The results can be rendered for viewing as the results are obtained. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112528 | OBJECT RECOGNITION IN LOW-LUX AND HIGH-LUX CONDITIONS - A system for capturing image data for gestures from a passenger or a driver in a vehicle with a dynamic illumination level comprises a low-lux sensor equipped to capture image data in an environment with an illumination level below an illumination threshold, a high-lux sensor equipped to capture image data in the environment with the illumination level above the illumination threshold, and an object recognition module for activating the sensors. The object recognition module determines the illumination level of the environment and activates the low-lux sensor if the illumination level is below the illumination threshold. If the illumination level is above the threshold, the object recognition module activates the high-lux sensor. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112529 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING MEDICAL IMAGE ACCORDING TO PATIENT'S POSE VARIATION - Provided is a method of correcting a medical image according to a patient's pose variation. The method includes attaching a marker to an object, generating a first non-real-time image and a first real-time image when the object is in a first pose, generating a second real-time image when the object is in a second pose, and correcting the first non-real-time image based on shift information of the marker when the object is changed from the first pose to the second pose. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112530 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image recognition device including: a first recognition unit that performs image recognition within an image to find a first object; an obtaining unit that obtains an attribute of the first object found by the first recognition unit; an object specifying unit that refers to object correspondence information showing identifiers of second objects and associating each identifier with an attribute, and specifies an identifier of one of the second objects that is associated with the attribute of the first object; an area specifying unit that refers to area value information showing values that are associated with the identifiers of the second objects and are related to a first area occupied by the first object, and specifies a second area within the image by using a value associated with the identifier of the one of the second objects; and a second recognition unit that performs image recognition within the second area to find the one of the second objects. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112531 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBJECT IN IMAGE - Provided is an image processing apparatus and method for detecting a transparent image from an input image. The image processing apparatus may include an image segmenting unit to segment an input image into a plurality of segments, a likelihood determining unit to determine a likelihood that a transparent object is present between adjacent segments among the plurality of segments, and an object detecting unit to detect the transparent object from the input image based on the likelihood. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112532 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING AN IMAGE RECORDED BY A CAMERA OF A VEHICLE AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A method for analyzing an image recorded by a camera of a vehicle. The method includes a step of reading the image of the camera. Furthermore, the method includes a step of recognizing at least one object in a subsection of the image, the subsection imaging a smaller area of the vehicle surroundings than the image. Furthermore, the method includes a step of transmitting the subsection and/or information about the subsection of the image to a driver assistance module. Finally, the method includes a step of using the subsection of the image and/or the information about the subsection of the image instead of the entire image in the driver assistance module, in order to analyze the image recorded by the camera. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112533 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes an input unit, an attention object detection unit, and a calculation unit. The input unit is configured to input a plurality of temporally continuous images taken by an image pickup apparatus. The attention object detection unit is configured to detect an attention object as an attention target from a first image which is an image taken at a first time point out of the plurality of images input. The calculation unit is configured to compare the first image with one or more second images which are one or more images taken at a time point previous to the first time point, to calculate, as a second time point, a time point when the attention object appears in the continuous plurality of images. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112534 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing device including a detection unit that detects a face image region in an image, a determination unit that determines a human attribute of at least one face image in the face image region detected by the detection unit, and a face image replacement unit that replaces the at least one face image with a natural face image of another person according to the human attribute determined by the determination unit. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT DETECTION - A method for detecting a plurality of object regions in an image, wherein the plurality of object regions having similar specific structural features, comprises: an estimation step for estimating a common initial value for the specific structural features of the plurality of object regions; and a determination step for determining, for each of the plurality of object regions, a final value for the specific structural feature of the object region and a final position thereof separately based on the estimated common initial value. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112536 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY REGISTERING AN IMAGE TO A THREE-DIMENSIONAL POINT SET - A system and methods can create a synthetic image of a target from a 3D data set, by using an electro-optical (EO) image and sun geometry associated with the EO image. In some examples, a 3D surface model is created from a 3D data set. The 3D surface model establishes a local surface orientation at each point in the 3D data set. A surface shaded relief (SSR) is produced from the local surface orientation, from an EO image, and from sun geometry associated with the EO image. Points in the SSR that are in shadows are shaded appropriately. The SSR is projected into the image plane of the EO image. Edge-based registration extracts tie points from the projected SSR. The 3D data set converts the tie points to ground control points. A geometric bundle adjustment aligns the EO image geometry to the 3D data set. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112537 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT MONITORING OF THOROUGHFARES USING THERMAL IMAGING - Various techniques are disclosed for systems and methods using thermal imaging to intelligently monitor thoroughfares. For example, an intelligent monitoring system may include an infrared imaging module, a processor, a communication module, a memory, and an adjustable component. The system may be mounted, installed, or otherwise disposed at various locations along thoroughfares, and capture thermal images of a scene that includes at least a portion of the thoroughfares. Various thermal image processing and analysis operations may be performed on the thermal images to generate comprehensive monitoring information including an indication of detected objects in the scene and at least one attribute associated with the objects. Various actions may be taken, such as generating various alarms and intelligently adjusting operation of various adjustable devices on thoroughfares, based on the monitoring information. The monitoring information may be shared among multiple instances of the system, and may be communicated to external devices. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112538 | PEDESTRIAN MOTION PREDICTING DEVICE - A subject is to provide a pedestrian motion predicting device capable of accurately predicting a possibility of a rush out before a pedestrian actually begins to rush out. According to the embodiments, the pedestrian is detected from input image data, a portion in which the detected pedestrian is imaged is cut out from the image data, a shape of the pedestrian imaged in the cut-out partial image data is classified by collating the shape with a learning-finished identifier group or a pedestrian recognition template group, and the rush out of the pedestrian is predicted based on a result of the acquired classification. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112539 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING VISIBILITY OF A PERIPHERY OF AN IMAGE STREAM - Apparatus and methods are described for imaging a portion of a body of a subject that undergoes a motion cycle, including acquiring a plurality of image frames of the portion of the subject's body. A given feature is identified in at least some of the image frames. At least some image frames are image tracked with respect to the feature, and the image frames that have been image tracked with respect to the given feature are displayed as a stream of image frames. Visibility of a periphery of the displayed stream of image frames is at least partially reduced. Other applications are also described. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112540 | COLLECTION OF AFFECT DATA FROM MULTIPLE MOBILE DEVICES - A user interacts with various pieces of technology to perform numerous tasks and activities. Reactions can be observed and mental states inferred from these performances. Multiple devices, including mobile devices, can observe and record or transmit a user's mental state data. The mental state data collected from the multiple devices can be used to analyze the mental states of the user. The mental state data can be in the form of facial expressions, electrodermal activity, movements, or other detectable manifestations. Multiple cameras on the multiple devices can be usefully employed to collect facial data. An output can be rendered based on an analysis of the mental state data. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112541 | Method and System for Edge Detection - A method executed by a computer system for detecting edges comprises receiving an image comprising a plurality of pixels, determining a phase congruency value for a pixel, where the phase congruency value comprises a plurality of phase congruency components, and determining if the phase congruency value satisfies a phase congruency criteria. If the phase congruency value satisfies the phase congruency criteria, the computer system categorizes the pixel as an edge pixel. If the phase congruency value does not satisfy the phase congruency criteria, the computer system compares a first phase congruency component of the plurality of phase congruency components to a phase congruency component criteria. If the first phase congruency component satisfies the phase congruency component criteria, the computer system categorizes the pixel as an edge pixel, and if the first phase congruency component does not satisfy the phase congruency component criteria, categorizes the pixel as a non-edge pixel. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING PARKING SPACE LINE MARKINGS FOR VEHICLE - Disclosed herein is a method for recognizing a parking space line marking for a vehicle, including: detecting, by a processor, a plurality of parking spaces from a portion of a parking space line marking in an image; calculating, by the processor, an overlap coefficient representing a degree of overlapping between the detected parking spaces; selecting, by the processor, a parking space having a largest brightness coefficient as a final parking space by determining overlap when the overlap coefficient has a predetermined magnitude and comparing the brightness degrees of the overlapped parking spaces. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112543 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device, includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to: extract an edge where positions overlap with each other, by comparing a first edge image extracted from an image captured for a first time and a second edge image extracted from an image captured for a second time after the first time, the image for the first time and the image for the second first time being captured from a movable body, remove the extracted edge from at least one of the first edge image and the second edge image, perform matching processing on the first and second edge images in both or one of which the extracted edge has been removed, and estimate a movement amount of the movable body, by using a displacement amount between the first edge image and the second edge image which are subjected to the matching processing. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112544 | IMAGE BASED TRACKING - Systems and methods that facilitate image motion analysis are described herein. According to a first image motion analysis technique a first image is warped according to a locally affine model. The first warped image and a second image are compared and a pattern that matches between the first warped image and the second image is discovered. A value for a motion parameter is estimated based on the pattern. According to a second image motion analysis technique, an image sequence is converted into an input matrix. A column of the input matrix corresponds to a vectorized image related to the image sequence. The input matrix is approximated with a low rank matrix having a lower rank than the input matrix. One or more outliers of the low rank matrix are detected. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112545 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An association degree evaluation unit acquires pieces of position information of an image sensing apparatus at respective times within an adjacent time range to an imaging time of a designated image of those sensed by the image sensing apparatus. Furthermore, the association degree evaluation unit acquires pieces of position information of a moving object at the respective times within the adjacent time range. Then, the association degree evaluation unit calculates a similarity between routes of the image sensing apparatus and moving object based on the acquired position information group, and decides a degree of association between the designated image and moving object based on the calculated similarity. An associating unit registers information indicating the degree of association in association with the designated image. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112546 | Video Surveillance System - A video surveillance system is disclosed. The system includes a model database storing a plurality of models and a vector database storing a plurality of vectors of recently observed trajectories. The system includes a model building module that builds a new motion model corresponding to the motion data of the current trajectory data structure. The system generates a current trajectory data structure having motion data and abnormality scores. The system also includes a database purging module configured to determine a subset of vectors that is most similar to the current trajectory data structure based on a measure of similarity between the subset of vectors and the current trajectory data structure. The database purging module is further configured to replace one of the motion models in the model database with the new motion model based on an amount of vectors in the subset vectors the recentness of the subset of vectors. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING A BACKGROUND OF AN IMAGE - An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device. A grid of voxels may then be generated based on the depth image such that the depth image may be downsampled. A background included in the grid of voxels may then be discarded to isolate one or more voxels associated with a foreground object such as a human target and the isolated voxels associated with the foreground object may be processed. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112548 | Systems and Methods for Performing Image Inpainting Based on Texture Analysis - Various embodiments are disclosed for performing image inpainting. One embodiment is a method for editing a digital image in an image editing device. The method comprises obtaining a restoration region in the digital image and determining texture information corresponding to the restoration region. Based on the texture information, a texture strength map is generated corresponding to the restoration region. Based on the texture strength map, an inpainting operation is applied to pixels in the restoration region. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112549 | PATTERN EXTRACTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A pattern extracting apparatus includes a first storing section storing plural target information pieces, a candidate pattern producing section producing candidate patterns each including two or more items different from each other based on each of the items included in the plural target information pieces, a candidate evaluation value calculating section calculating an extraction evaluation value of the candidate pattern based on a frequency of appearance at which the produced candidate pattern appears in the plural target information pieces, a pattern extracting section determining and extracting any of the candidate patterns having the calculated extraction evaluation value satisfying a predetermined threshold value, and a second storing section storing an association degree between the items. The candidate evaluation value calculating section calculates the extraction evaluation value based on a weight based on an identified association degree between the items included in the candidate pattern and the frequency of appearance. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112550 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION - High quality, sharply focused images of an iris and the face of a person are acquired in rapid succession in either sequence by a single sensor and one or more illuminators, preferably within less than one second of each other, by changing the sensor settings or illumination levels between each acquisition. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112551 | SECONDARY INFORMATION FOR AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM MATRIX BAR CODE FUNCTION - An information handling system analyzes secondary information captured with an image of a two-dimensional barcode to perform a function. For example, a mobile phone camera captures an image of a QR code at a product plus characters printed next to the QR code, uses optical code recognition to determine the characters, and applies information from the QR code and the characters to register the product. As another example, a security indicator is captured with an image of the QR code and applied to access information of the QR code, such as by using GPS position information, local network information, or telephone number information to encrypt and/or decrypt information stored in the QR code. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112552 | LOW THRESHOLD FACE RECOGNITION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are disclosed for reducing the impact of lighting conditions and biometric distortions, while providing a low-computation solution for reasonably effective (low threshold) face recognition. In one aspect, the methods include processing a captured image of a face of a user seeking to access a resource by conforming a subset of the captured face image to a reference model. The reference model corresponds to a high information portion of human faces. The methods further include comparing the processed captured image to at least one target profile corresponding to a user associated with the resource, and selectively recognizing the user seeking access to the resource based on a result of said comparing. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112553 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring a captured image; extracting a first feature amount and a second feature amount of a user included in the image, and a third feature amount indicative of a likelihood of a portion from which the second feature amount is extracted; generating an authentication table including a plurality of the first feature amounts, a plurality of the second feature amounts, and a plurality of the third feature amounts extracted from a plurality of the images; and selecting the third feature amount extracted at authentication of the user, and the first feature amount and the second feature amount included in the authentication table, based on the third feature amount included in the authentication table, and authenticating the user based on the first feature amount. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112554 | USER RECOGNITION AND CONFIRMATION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND CENTRAL CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES USING THE SAME - A user recognition and confirmation device includes an image sensing unit, a face recognition unit, a display unit and an expression recognition unit. The image sensing unit captures a first image frame and a second image frame. The face recognition unit is configured to recognize a user ID according to the first image frame. The display unit is configured to show ID information of the user ID. The expression recognition unit is configured to confirm a user expression according to the second image frame and output a confirm signal. There is further provided a user recognition and confirmation method and a central control system for vehicles. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112555 | Embedded Authentication Systems in an Electronic Device - This invention is directed to an electronic device with an embedded authentication system for restricting access to device resources. The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information (e.g., embedding a fingerprint sensor in an input mechanism instead of providing a fingerprint sensor in a separate part of the device housing). In some embodiments, the authentication system may be operative to detect a visual or temporal pattern of inputs to authenticate a user. In response to authenticating, a user may access restricted files, applications (e.g., applications purchased by the user), or settings (e.g., application settings such as contacts or saved game profile). | 2014-04-24 |
20140112556 | MULTI-MODAL SENSOR BASED EMOTION RECOGNITION AND EMOTIONAL INTERFACE - Features, including one or more acoustic features, visual features, linguistic features, and physical features may be extracted from signals obtained by one or more sensors with a processor. The acoustic, visual, linguistic, and physical features may be analyzed with one or more machine learning algorithms and an emotional state of a user may be extracted from analysis of the features. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112557 | BIOLOGICAL UNIT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON SUPERVISED SHAPE RANKING - A method of segmenting a digital image of biological tissue includes accessing a ranking model calculated from training data representing shapes of conforming and non-conforming biological unit exemplars. The ranking model may include support vectors defining a hyperplane in a vector space. The method further includes accessing image data representing the digital image, identifying a first shape and a set of second constituent shapes in the digital image, wherein the first shape comprises a union of the set of second constituent shapes, determining a rank of a first data point in the image data corresponding to the first shape and a rank of a second data point in the image data corresponding to the set of second constituent shapes into the vector space, and segmenting the digital image using the first shape or the set of second constituent shapes based on which data point has a greater respective rank. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112558 | AUTOMATED PELLETIZED SAMPLE VISION INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHODS - A method for visually inspecting pelletized samples. The method generates an inspection image of the bottom of a sample tube holder. The sample tube holder has a number of sample tube locations, and each sample tube location is configured to receive a sample tube in it. The inspection image is evaluated to determine whether a tube image exists for each sample tube location, and each sample tube image is evaluated to determine whether a pellet is located in each sample tube. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112559 | HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING IN DIABETES AND PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE - The invention is directed to methods and systems of hyperspectral and multispectral imaging of medical tissues. In particular, the invention is directed to new devices, tools and processes for the detection and evaluation of diseases and disorders such as, but not limited to diabetes and peripheral vascular disease, that incorporate hyperspectral or multispectral imaging. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112560 | System and Method For Assessing Image Interpretability in Anatomic Pathology - A portion of imagery data is obtained from a digital slide and a protocol of image analysis/diagnostic tasks is performed on the portion of imagery data by a pathologist or an image analysis module. The result of each task (e.g., success or no success) is recorded and a score is determined for the portion of the imagery data. Multiple portions of imagery data from the digital slide are analyzed and scored and the various scores from the multiple portions of imagery data are calculated to determine an overall score for the digital slide. Regions of the digital slide can be scored separately. Multiple rounds of scoring (by different pathologists and/or different image analysis algorithms) may be employed to increase the accuracy of the score for a digital slide or region thereof. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112561 | METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING IMAGES - A method of analyzing a thermal image of a body section is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a thermospatial representation of the body section, calculating a surface integral of the thermal data over the surface, and determining the likelihood that a thermally distinguishable region is present in the body section, based on a value of the surface integral. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112562 | OPHTHALMIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND OPHTHALMIC ANALYSIS PROGRAM - An ophthalmic analysis apparatus is the ophthalmic analysis apparatus for obtaining analysis results of tomography images of a subject eye acquired at different dates by ophthalmic optical coherence tomography and outputting statistical information formed based on time-series data of the analysis results, and includes instruction receiving means for receiving selection instructions to select an analytical region on a subject eye from an examiner, and control means for respectively acquiring analysis results in the analytical region selected by the instruction receiving means with respect to tomography images acquired at the different dates and outputting the statistical information. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112563 | Breast Tomosynthesis with Display of Highlighted Suspected Calcifications - Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of size, shape, presence in selected slice images, distribution of pixels that could be indicative of calcification relative to other pixels or of other image features of clinical interest. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112564 | Comprehensive Cardiovascular Analysis with Volumetric Phase-Contrast MRI - Processing techniques of volumetric anatomic and vector field data from volumetric phase-contrast MRI on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system are provided to evaluate the physiology of the heart and vessels. This method includes the steps of: (1) correcting for phase-error in the source data, (2) visualizing the vector field superimposed on the anatomic data, (3) using this visualization to select and view planes in the volume, and (4) using these planes to delineate the boundaries of the heart and vessels so that measurements of the heart and vessels can be accurately obtained. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112565 | IMAGING APPARATUS - The invention relates to an imaging apparatus ( | 2014-04-24 |
20140112566 | AUTOMATIC ANGIOGRAM DETECTION - Apparatus and methods are described including acquiring a plurality of image frames of a blood vessel of a subject, acquisition of the image frames commencing prior to injection of a contrast agent into the blood vessel. A first image frame is identified as being the image frame in which an angiographic sequence commenced by calculating a vesselness descriptor for each one of the image frames, by determining an extent to which pixels within the image frame are likely to correspond to the blood vessel, and by determining that, in the first image frame, there was an increase in the vesselness descriptor relative to at least one image frame acquired prior to the first image frame. An output is generated at least partially in response to identifying the first image frame. Other applications are also described. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112567 | IMPLANTED DEVICE X-RAY RECOGNITION AND ALERT SYSTEM (ID-XRAS) - This system comprises a method and software application that, when used in conjunction with digital radiographic imaging software, automatically locates and identifies surgically-implanted devices located inside of a patient and instantly notifies the healthcare provider viewing the digital radiographic image of clinically pertinent information regarding the device, such as, but not limited to the manufacturer, model, and manufacturer notifications, alerts, and/or recalls. In the case of pacemakers and defibrillators, this system also identifies defects in pacemaker and/or defibrillator leads. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC HER2 SCORING OF TISSUE SAMPLES - Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for method and apparatus for automatic HER2 scoring of tissue samples may include for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising identifying one or more nuclei in a slide image of a tissue sample, determine one or more membrane strengths in the slide image surrounding each of the one or more nuclei, classifying one or more cells, each corresponding to the one or more nuclei, in a class among a plurality of classes according to the one or more membrane strengths and determining a cancer diagnosis score based on a percentage of cells classified in each of the plurality of classes. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112569 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC CANCER DIAGNOSIS SCORING OF TISSUE SAMPLES - Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for automatic ER/PR scoring of tissue samples may include for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising identifying a positive stained nucleus in a slide image of the tissue sample, identifying a negative stained nucleus in the slide image, computing a proportion score based on number of the positive stained nucleus identified and number of the negative stained nucleus identified and determining the cancer diagnosis score based on the proportion. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112570 | MEDIA IDENTIFICATION - A method and apparatus for identifying a media item. The apparatus includes a module for receiving media items and capturing an image of a received media item. The method involves ascertaining external dimensions of the media item from the captured image; creating a monochromatic image based on high contrast boundaries within the captured image; matching the monochromatic image to one of a plurality of templates of media items of approximately the same external dimensions as the media item; and providing details of the matched template, including type and orientation of the media item corresponding to the matched template. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112571 | System and Method for Improved Remote Deposit Image Handling - Improved systems and methods for detecting and correcting image errors and risks in remote deposit systems during an in-line or in-process troubleshooting session are disclosed. Various embodiments include systems for displaying remote deposit session data to a support technician with links for invoking an image display or image editor user interface during a troubleshooting session. The links can be included in one or more individual remote deposit session events, records, or tasks, such as check image uploads and bi-tonalization events. The image editor can be used to manually or automatically correct any detected errors or flaws in uploaded or processed deposit document images. The corrected check images can be then be stored and used to complete or reprocess a remote deposit. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112572 | FAST CORRELATION SEARCH FOR STEREO ALGORITHM - Techniques are disclosed for carrying our correlation search in contexts such as stereo algorithms of graphics systems. In accordance with an embodiment, the techniques employ a locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) function to reduce the number of bits to be processed during the correlation process, and to identify a sub-set of available image points that are likely to be the best match to a given target image point. Once such a sub-set of likely image points is identified, a more comprehensive correlation algorithm can be run, if so desired, to further ensure the quality of the match. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112573 | Systems and Methods for Marking Images for Three-Dimensional Image Generation - Methods and systems for image marking and generation of a three-dimensional (3D) image of an object are described. In an example, a computing device may be configured to receive a first set of images of an object that capture details of the object. The computing device may also be configured to receive a second set of images that include markings projected on the object and that are indexed to correspond to images of the first set of images. The computing device may be configured to spatially align images of the second set of images based on the markings projected on the object and determine respective images of the first set of images corresponding to spatially aligned images of the second set of images. The computing device may then generate a 3D image of the object from the respective images of the first set of images. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112574 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING DEPTH IMAGE BASED ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEPTH SENSOR AND COLOR CAMERA - Disclosed is a method of calibrating a depth image based on a relationship between a depth sensor and a color camera, and an apparatus for calibrating a depth image may include a three-dimensional (3D) point determiner to determine a 3D point of a camera image and a 3D point of a depth image simultaneously captured with the camera image, a calibration information determiner to determine calibration information for calibrating an error of a depth image captured by the depth sensor and a geometric information between the depth sensor and a color camera, using the 3D point of the camera image and the 3D point of the depth image, and a depth image calibrator to calibrate the depth image based on the calibration information and the 3D point of the depth image. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112575 | CONVEX MINIMIZATION AND DATA RECOVERY WITH LINEAR CONVERGENCE - A convex minimization is formulated to robustly recover a subspace from a contaminated data set, partially sampled around it, and propose a fast iterative algorithm to achieve the corresponding minimum. This disclosure establishes exact recovery by this minimizer, quantifies the effect of noise and regularization, and explains how to take advantage of a known intrinsic dimension and establish linear convergence of the iterative algorithm. The minimizer is an M-estimator. The disclosure demonstrates its significance by adapting it to formulate a convex minimization equivalent to the non-convex total least squares (which is solved by PCA). The technique is compared with many other algorithms for robust PCA on synthetic and real data sets and state-of-the-art speed and accuracy is demonstrated. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112576 | Systems and Methods for Matching Visual Object Components - Systems and methods for modeling the occurrence of common image components (e.g., sub-regions) in order to improve visual object recognition are disclosed. In one example, a query image may be matched to a training image of an object. A matched region within the training image to which the query image matches may be determined and a determination may be made whether the matched region is located within an annotated image component of the training image. When the matched region matches only to the image component, an annotation associated with the component may be identified. In another example, sub-regions within a plurality of training image corpora may be annotated as common image components including associated information (e.g., metadata). Matching sub-regions appearing in many training images of objects may be down-weighted in the matching process to reduce possible false matches to query images including common image components. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112577 | Method and Apparatus for Spawning Specialist Belief Propagation Networks - A method and apparatus for processing image data is provided. The method includes the steps of employing a main processing network for classifying one or more features of the image data, employing a monitor processing network for determining one or more confusing classifications of the image data, and spawning a specialist processing network to process image data associated with the one or more confusing classifications. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112578 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - An image recognition method and an image recognition system can be applied to fetal ultrasound images. The image recognition method includes: (a) adjusting the image with a filter operator to decrease noise and to homogenize an image expression level of the pixel units within an individual object structure; (b) analyzing the image by a statistic information function, determining a foreground object pixel unit and a background pixel unit according to a max information entropy state of the statistic information function; and (c) searching by a profile setting value and recognizing a target object image among the foreground object pixel unit. The image recognition method can not only increase the efficiency of identifying the object of interests within the image and measuring the object of interests, but also improve the precision of measurements of the object of interests. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112579 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF 3D DATA WITH ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGERY VIA PHOTOGRAMMETRIC BUNDLE ADJUSTMENT - Accurate automatic registration and fusion of LADAR (from laser detection and ranging) and EO (electro-optical) data from different sensors provides additional analysis and exploitation value beyond what each data set provides on its own. Such data sets often exhibit significant misregistration due to uncorrelated geometric errors between or among two or more sensors. One or more automatic algorithms achieve superior registration as well as algorithms for fusing the data in three dimensions (3D). The fused data can provide multi-image colorization for change detection, automatic generation of surface relief colorization, interactive and/or automatic filtering of 3D vegetation points for LADAR foliage penetration analysis, automatic surface orientation determination for improved spectroradiometric exploitation, and other benefits that cannot be achieved by the LADAR or EO data alone. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112580 | EYELID DETECTION DEVICE - An ECU which is connected to an image sensor and an illuminance sensor includes an eyelid detection unit that detects the positions of the upper and lower eyelids from a face image, an eyelid determination unit that determines the positions of the upper and lower eyelids detected by the eyelid detection unit, and an eye opening degree calculation unit that calculates the degree of eye opening. The eyelid determination unit searches for a red-eye candidate in the range in which the skin is assumed to be present from the positions of the upper and lower eyelids detected by the eyelid detection unit. When the red-eye candidate is searched in the range, the eyelid determination unit determines that the eyelid detection unit falsely detects the positions of the upper and lower eyelids. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112581 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING PURPLE DISTORTION IN DIGITAL IMAGES AND A COMPUTING DEVICE EMPLOYING SAME - A computing device and a method for correcting color distortion are provided, in particular for correcting purple flare. A digital image has an array of pixels each represented by a green (G), a red (R) and a blue (B) primary color, and for each pixel, the computing device establishes a minimum value between the R and B intensity values, and compares the minimum value and the G intensity value. The original R, G and B intensity values are maintained if the G intensity value is equal or greater than the minimum value. The R and B intensity values are attenuated by an adjustment value if the G intensity value is less than the minimum value. The adjustment value is calculated as the difference of the minimum value and the G intensity value. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112582 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION - Systems and methods for character recognition by performing lateral view-based analysis on the character data and generating a feature vector based on the lateral view-based analysis. | 2014-04-24 |
20140112583 | AUTOMATIC CHARACTER STEM STRETCHING - A method and system for extending characters. The method automatically identifies sections of a character to elongate and sections of the character to not elongate. The method moves the sections of the character that are not to be elongated and elongates the sections that are to be elongated. The sections to be elongated are those sections of the character that are parallel to an axis for extending the character. | 2014-04-24 |