18th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 35 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090110277 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING A PLURALITY OF STORED IMAGES - A method for analysing a plurality of stored images comprising the steps of:
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20090110278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIEWING AND UTILIZING DATA FROM ELECTRONIC IMAGES - A method of utilizing data extracted from an electronic image includes receiving an electronic image associated with a subclient and receiving a plurality of data extracted from the electronic image and organized into predefined fields associated with the subclient. The method also includes displaying the electronic image in a first portion of a user interface and, in a second portion of the user interface, a field table containing the plurality of data and associated field names. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING AND ORGANIZING DATA FROM ELECTRONIC IMAGES - A method of extracting and organizing data from electronic images includes processing a set of data fields representative of data to be extracted, mapping at least a subset of the set of data fields to at least one subclient, and attaching a rule from a set of rules to at least one of the mapped data fields. Each rule in the set of rules represents a transformation from a first data format to a preferred data format. The method also includes extracting data from at least one electronic image for the at least one subclient into the plurality of mapped data fields using the attached rule and storing the extracted data. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110280 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RECOGNITION PROGRAM, AND IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD - An image recognition method is conducted by recognizing logical elements based on a logical structure model set to correspond to the logical structure of an image of individual character strings, collecting information processed with the logical structure model of images of a logical structure, acquiring a recognition result when recognizing an image of a logical structure by processing information collected with a post-update logical structure model, | 2009-04-30 |
20090110281 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that processes image data using plural processors that operate in parallel includes an image-data receiving section that receives inputted image data, a layout analyzing section that analyzes a layout structure including a predetermined area on the basis of the image data received by the image-data receiving section, a processing-amount calculating section that calculates a processing amount for the predetermined area in the layout structure of the image data analyzed by the layout analyzing section, and a processing-processor determining section that allocates, in processing for all areas in the layout structure analyzed by the layout analyzing section, processing for the predetermined areas to any one of the plural processors on the basis of the processing amount calculated by the processing-amount calculating section. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110282 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE RECOGNITION PROGRAM - An image recognition apparatus recognizes the correspondence between character strings and logical elements composing a logical structure in an image in which the character strings are described as the logical elements to recognize each logical element. The image recognition apparatus includes outputting means for outputting the recognized logical elements when the correspondence is recognized or re-recognized; first determining means for determining a certain logical element to be correct when input of a determination request to determine the logical element is received from a user; second determining means for determining the correctness of all the logical elements output before the logical element determined by the first determining means and is positioned according to confirmation by the user; and re-recognizing means for re-recognizing the correspondence between logical elements that have not been determined to be correct and the character strings on the basis of the determination content for each logical element. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING, INTERFACING AND/OR MANAGING FOR AT LEAST ONE OPTICAL CHARACTERISTIC SYSTEM FOR CONTAINER HANDLERS IN A CONTAINER YARD - Methods and several apparatus embodiments are disclosed operating Optical Characteristic Systems (OCS) in a container storage and/or transfer yard supporting the automated recognition of container codes displayed on various sides of the containers being stored and/or transferred. At least one processor may initiate an operational process by an OCS mounted on a container handler to create an operational result, select the operational process based upon an operational schedule and communicate with at least one OCS to receive an image of a container being handled by the container handler to at least partly create a container code estimate for a container inventory management system. A program system directing at least one computer implementing these operations, and may reside in computer readable memory, an installation package and/or a download server. The computer readable memory may or may not be accessibly coupled to the computer. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110284 | System and Method for Sorting Objects Using OCR and Speech Recognition Techniques - To perform character recognition on an object for automatic processing of the object in a processing system, where the object contains at least one character string of processing information, a character string spoken by an operator is processed by a speech recognition procedure to generate a candidate list containing at least one candidate corresponding to the operator-spoken character string. The candidate list and a digital image of an area containing the processing information are made available for an optical character recognition procedure. The OCR procedure is performed on the digital image in coordination with the candidate list to determine if a character string recognized by the OCR procedure performed on the digital image corresponds to a candidate in the candidate list. Any such corresponding candidate is outputted as the character string on the object. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110285 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING IMAGE RESOLUTION USING FUZZY MOTION ESTIMATION - The subject matter discloses a method and apparatus for re-sampling a sequence of images in order to improve its resolution, fill-in missing pixels, or de-interlace it. The method operates locally in the images to be processed, comparing pixel values of pixels surrounding the target pixel to pixel values of substantially the same locations in neighboring images. The comparison results in assigning a weight value for each area compared with the area containing the reviewed pixel. The pixel value of the reviewed pixel is updated as a function of multiplying pixel values of the areas by the weight assigned to each area. In another embodiment, areas within the same image are compared to areas containing the reviewed pixel. The subject matter also discloses two possible penalty functions for improving the resolution of images. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110286 | Detection method - The invention relates to a method for the detection of a symmetrical object of a known shape, in particular of a road sign, preferably associated with a road, in an image of the environment in the range of view of an image taking device in particular arranged at a motor vehicle, in which an image is taken by means of the image taking device, at least one image region including image elements, which in each case exceeds a preset degree of symmetry, or a part thereof, is determined in the taken image or in an image generated from the taken image by image processing, a respective relevant image portion is determined with reference to the at least one image region or the part thereof for a subsequent shape recognition, and the shape recognition is carried out in each case only in the at least one relevant image portion to detect a potential image of the symmetrical object. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110287 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE BASED ON TEXT IN IMAGE - A method and a system for displaying an image based on texts in the image are provided. The method of the invention for displaying the image includes: a text extracting step, extracting text regions in the image to be displayed; a text occupancy amount calculating step, calculating occupancy amount of the text in said image; a comparing step, comparing the calculated occupancy amount with a predetermined threshold; a display step, displaying the image in real size of the image if said occupancy amount exceeds said predetermined threshold. It is achieved to display the image to the user in a manner of satisfying the viewing aim of the user, and unnecessary load of the computer system is avoided. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110288 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A document processing apparatus comprises a layout analysis module configured to analyze image data input, divide areas for each classification, and acquire coordinate information of a text area from the areas by a classification; a text area information calculation module configured to calculate position information of a partial area for each text area on the basis of the coordinate information acquired by the layout analysis module; a feature extraction module configured to extract features of the text area on the basis of the position information calculated by the text area information calculation module; an analysis executing module configured to analyze semantic information of the partial area using a plurality of kinds of analysis component modules; and a component formation module configured to select and construct one or a plurality of analysis component modules on the basis of the features of the text area extracted by the feature extraction module and permit the analysis executing module to execute analysis of the semantic information of the partial area according to the one or plurality of analysis components modules contracted. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110289 | IMAGE PROCESSING OF APPARATUS CONDITION - In one embodiment, a method of continually monitoring and detecting in real-time a condition of an apparatus is detailed. In one step, an apparatus is continually monitored in real-time using continual real-time images of the apparatus taken by at least one camera. In another step, the continual real-time images of the apparatus from the at least one camera are communicated to at least one computer processing unit. In still another step, the continual real-time images of the apparatus are processed using at least one software program embedded in the at least one computer processing unit in order to monitor and detect in real-time a condition, of the apparatus. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110290 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image data reading section that reads image data formed on a document, an image processing section that separates regions where effective information is present from the read image data so as to determine, for every separated region, a shape of a see-through preventing pattern and a position at which the see-through preventing pattern is formed, and an image printing section that prints the determined see-through preventing pattern at a part on a back surface of a recording sheet on which the document is printed, on the basis of the information of the determined position at which the see-through preventing pattern is formed, the part corresponding to any of the regions where the effective information of the document is present. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110291 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A key region extraction unit ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090110292 | Hand Sign Recognition Using Label Assignment - A method and system for recognizing hand signs that include overlapping or adjoining hands from a depth image. A linked structure comprising multiple segments is generated from the depth image including overlapping or adjoining hands. The hand pose of the overlapping or adjoining hands is determined using either (i) a constrained optimization process in which a cost function and constraint conditions are used to classify segments of the linked graph to two hands or (ii) a tree search process in which a tree structure including a plurality of nodes is used to obtain the most-likely hand pose represented by the depth image. After determining the hand pose, the segments of the linked structure are matched with stored shapes to determine the sign represented by the depth image. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110293 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information management apparatus includes a characteristic-amount management unit managing a characteristic amount; a characteristic-amount association unit maintaining an association with a similar characteristic amount for each of the characteristic amounts; a space index management unit managing a space index for the characteristic amounts managed by the characteristic-amount management unit; a partial space determination unit determining a partial space in the space index to which a first characteristic amount belongs in accordance with a request for retrieving a characteristic amount similar to the first characteristic amount; and a similarity determination unit calculating similarity between the first characteristic amount and a second characteristic amount and between the first characteristic amount and a third characteristic amount associated with the second characteristic amount by the characteristic-amount association unit, and determines which characteristic amounts are similar to the first characteristic amount by comparing the calculated similarity and a predetermined threshold. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110294 | AUTOMATIC TRANSFER OF OUTLINED OBJECTS FROM ONE DATA SET INTO ANOTHER DATA SET - A method for automatically localizing at least one object or structure in a second data set is provided. A reference data set is provided, and at least one object or structure is outlined or marked in the reference data set, the outline or marking information being a first or reference label data set. A mapping function is determined, using which said reference data set is approximately mapped onto said second data set, and the reference label data set assigned to said reference data set is transformed into a second label data set using said mapping function. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110295 | PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A product identification apparatus for determining whether an inspection target product to be identified is the same as a predetermined verification product includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an input pattern formed of asperities on the surface of a predetermined part of the inspection target product from a captured image obtained by capturing the image of the predetermined part of the inspection target product; and a comparison unit configured to compare the input pattern with an identification pattern extracted from a captured image obtained by capturing in advance the image of a part of the verification product so as to determine whether the input pattern is the same as the identification pattern or the input pattern includes the identification pattern. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110296 | METHOD OF IMAGE FEATURE CODING AND METHOD OF IMAGE SEARCH - A feature coding unit extracts and encodes a feature of a video signal so as to generate a feature stream. A feature identifying unit checks a decoded feature obtained as a result of decoding the feature stream against a search key from a user for a match so that a video content requested by the user is retrieved. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110297 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DIFFERENCE EMPHASIZING PROGRAM, DIFFERENCE EMPHASIZING METHOD, AND DIFFERENCE EMPHASIZING APPARATUS - A difference emphasizing apparatus aligns a first three-dimensional model and a second three-dimensional model in orientation and position in accordance with a predetermined rule, and gets data of respective apices of the first three-dimensional model and the second three-dimensional model. Based on the gotten data, the apparatus finds a corresponding point on the first three-dimensional model, which corresponds to the apex of the second three-dimensional model in a direction of a particular axis. When the corresponding point is detected, the apparatus calculates a difference between the first three-dimensional model and the second three-dimensional model in the direction of the particular axis based on the corresponding point and the apex of the second three-dimensional model. The apparatus enlarges the difference in the direction of the particular axis, and calculates a position of the apex of the second three-dimensional model after the enlargement. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110298 | System and Method for Compiling Images from a Database and Comparing the Compiled Images with Known Images - A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object from the database is confusingly similar with a known object. A computer-readable storage medium storing program for causing a processing system to perform the steps of duplicating objects from a database to produce duplicated objects; storing the duplicated produce to produce stored duplicated objects; and determining if any stored duplicated object is confusingly similar with a known object. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110299 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CLASSIFYING PIXELS IN A MOTION PICTURE AS FOREGROUND OR BACKGROUND - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for classifying pixels in each frame of a motion picture as foreground or background. According to the invention, the apparatus has a decision unit and adjustment unit. The decision unit classifies a pixel as a foreground pixel, a background pixel or an undefined pixel based on a first threshold, a second threshold and a distribution value of the pixel representing an occurrence probability of a pixel value of the pixel. The decision unit sorts each pixel into a foreground pixel or a background pixel based on the classification result of the decision unit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110300 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - A classifying unit classifies a plurality of images by attributes. An obtaining unit obtains image characteristic information indicating an image characteristic from each of classified images. A first generating unit generates a characteristic amount vector for each of the images using the attributes and the image characteristic. A determining unit determines display positions of thumbnail images of the images based on the characteristic amount vector. A second generating unit generates the thumbnail images and a list of thumbnail images in which the thumbnail images are arranged in the display positions. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110301 | Classification of objects as well as recognition of their position and orientation in space - A method for the classification of objects ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090110302 | Declustering Point-of-Interest Icons - Super-clusters of point-of-interest locations are created based on how close the point-of-interest locations are to one another. Additionally, one or more mini-clusters are created in each of the super-clusters based on how close the point-of-interest locations within each super-cluster are to one another. For each of one or more mini-clusters, some point-of-interest icons corresponding to the point-of-interest locations are placed based at least in part on a mean out positioning vector that is based at least in part on a center of the mini-cluster and a center of the super-cluster that includes the mini-cluster. Additionally, some point-of-interest icons are attempted to be placed as a group, while others are attempted to be placed individually. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110303 | OBJECT RECOGNIZING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An object is identified by detecting an object area image of an object to be recognized from a degraded image, converting the object area image to a frequency area, extracting a feature vector which indicates the amount of blur, comparing the feature vector and a classified plurality of blurred images, obtaining a cluster which is the most similar to the feature vector, selecting one point spread function corresponding to the similar cluster, restoring the object area image to the image before being blurred using the point spread function, and comparing the restored image and a target image. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110304 | Method and System for Video Compression with Integrated Picture Rate Up-Conversion - Certain aspects of a method and system for video compression with integrated picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) may include generating picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) data from received video data while the received video data is being encoded. The generated PRUC data may be encoded and communicated to a decoder in order to enable generation of a plurality of interpolated pictures. The generated encoded PRUC data may be communicated via a sideband to the decoder by embedding the generated encoded PRUC data within the encoded received video data prior to the communication to the decoder. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110305 | Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data - The invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing electronic image data, and in particular texture data. The compressed data comprises at least two sets of reduced size data, modulation data and modulation and discontinuity flags. The modulation and discontinuity flags determine how the modulation data is used, in combination with the reduced size data sets, in a decompression process. The invention allows for data decompression of textures including large colour discontinuities. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110306 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A software architecture based on a concept called “pipes and filters” is applied to an image processing apparatus, thereby simplifying the customization, expansion, etc., of functions. In addition, filters are combined together using a description table in which the combination of the filters is described so as to construct a job, thereby further simplifying the customization, expansion, etc., of functions. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110307 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF RICH THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY AND ANIMATION CONTENT OVER NARROW BAND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and system for compacting and distributing graphic data by representing three-dimensional models by primitive objects that are predefined in the system and instructions, which may include solid modeling operations for constructing at least one model from the identified primitive objects. The method and system enable creating compacted representation files that can be distributed via one or more communication network, where a client application enables reconstruction of the models represented by the data in the representation files by combining the primitive objects constructing the model according to the set of instructions that enable the actual construction. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110308 | DECODING AND ERROR CORRECTION IN 2-D ARRAYS - A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repealing array in which the array is unique for every sub window of a given size. The image of the sub window may be captured and its location determined within the non-repeating array. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110309 | IMAGE DECOMPRESSION APPARATUS, MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE DECOMPRESSION PROGRAM, IMAGE DECOMPRESSION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide an image decompression apparatus, a medium recording an image decompression program, and an image decompression method capable of sequentially decompressing compressed data of a plurality of images. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110310 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus and method execute instructions contained in multiple threads in parallel. The image processing apparatus decodes code data that is obtained by dividing image data into areas and carrying out a compression process such that the individual areas can be independently decoded. The image processing apparatus includes a first thread generating unit that allocates one execution thread to each independently compressed code, a second thread generating unit that allocates plural execution threads to each independently compressed code, and a control unit that controls the operation of the first thread generating unit and the second thread generating unit. At least part of an execution instruction for decoding the code data into image data is generated by the first thread generating unit or the second thread generating unit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110311 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium storing computer program - An image processing apparatus includes an image area separation device, a compression device, an image storage device, an image area storage device, a data writing device, and an image output state monitoring device. The image area separation device separates input image data into image data and image area separation data. The compression device compresses the image data. The data writing device writes the image area separation data to the image area storage device, secures an initial compressed image storage region in the image storage device, and sequentially stores the compressed image data in the initial compressed image storage region. The image output state monitoring device monitors a compressed image data amount, and causes the data writing device to secure an additional storage region in the image storage device when the compressed image data amount has reached or exceeded a data amount storable in the initial compressed image storage region. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110312 | Method of image compression with intelligent prediction mechanism - A method of compressing an image by referring to the correlation of previous line information results in high image quality. A register is used to save the previous line information and the derived predictive method for compressing future line of pixels. Another register is used to save the complexity of the previous line for more accurately calculating the bit rate distribution of each segment for compressing future line. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110313 | DEVICE FOR PERFORMING IMAGE PROCESSING BASED ON IMAGE ATTRIBUTE - The present invention provides an image processing device able to compress the information volume of attribute data by vectorizing the attribute data. A transmitting image processing device includes an attribute separating unit that extracts attribute data from image data, a vectorization processing unit that vectorizes the attribute data extracted by the attribute separating unit, and a transmission unit that transmits, to another device, the vectorized attribute data that was vectorized by the vectorization processing unit together with the image data. A receiving image processing device includes a receiving unit that receives the image data and the vectorized attribute data that was obtained by vectorizing the original attribute data, as well as a RIP unit that restores attribute data from the vectorized attribute data in order to accurately restore the attribute data that was vectorized. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110314 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus including: a decoder; an image size processor that executes image processing regarding an image size on uncompressed image data as the output from the decoder; a general-use interface that transfers the output from the decoder or the image size processor; an exclusive-use interface that transfers the output from the decoder or the image size processor an image synthesis processor that generates uncompressed image data of a composite image for display of a small image size by image synthesis on the basis of uncompressed image data transferred through the exclusive-use interface, and generates uncompressed image data of a composite image for printing or storage of a large image size by image synthesis on the basis of uncompressed image data transferred through the general-use or the exclusive-use interface; and an encoder that compresses uncompressed image data of the generated composite image for printing or storage. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110315 | IMAGE DATA COMPRESSING METHOD AND IMAGE DATA COMPRESSING APPARATUS - An image data compressing method, including: storing a plurality of data components of an original image data; assigning a value to a first bit sequence, where the first bit sequence includes a first group of bits associated with zero data components in the plurality of data components and a second group of bits associated with non-zero data components in the plurality of data components, each bit of the first group is assigned a first value, each bit of the second group is assigned a second value different from the first value; counting a first number which is a number of the first value continuing in the first bit sequence; obtaining a significant bit length of at least one of the plurality of data components; translating a combination of the first number and the significant bit length to a code obtained by looking up a coding table; and joining the code to a bit stream of a compressed image data. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110316 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING VIDEO DECODING PROCESSES IN PARALLEL - An apparatus and a method for performing video decoding processes in parallel are provided. The method is adapted for utilizing a first cluster and a second cluster of a processor to perform the video data decoding process in parallel. The method includes performing a VLD process to the video data with the first cluster, so as to obtain a plurality of coefficients and then performing an IZ process, an IQ process, and an IDCT process to the coefficients with the second cluster, so as to obtain a plurality of pixels values of the video data. When the first cluster decodes a coefficient of the video data, the second cluster performs the IZ, IQ, and IDCT processes to a coefficient previously decoded by the second cluster of the video data. Accordingly, a parallel process is realized and the decoding speed is increased. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING IMAGE SIGNAL - A method of compressing image signals, to provide more efficient compression than a discrete cosine transform (DCT) while having the least amount of overhead information is provided. A partial exchange between a row and a column of a transform matrix is performed by applying several values to a parameter, which shows an extent of partial exchange between rows and columns of the transform matrix. When a value of the used angle parameter is stored or transmitted, an overhead increases. Processes generating a random sequence of the angle parameter, generating a compression coefficient matrix regarding each angle parameter of the generated random sequence, and calculating a compression rate are repeated to obtain an angle parameter with the highest compression rate. The angle parameter having the highest compression rate is not stored or transmitted, but a number in the random sequence of the corresponding angle parameter is obtained, and stored or transmitted. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110318 | INFORMATION ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information retrieval apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of a target object to be retrieved and dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of each of comparison objects to be compared with the target object, the dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the target object and the dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the comparison objects being obtained as a result of adaptive dynamic range coding; a distance computation unit configured to compute distances between the target object and the comparison objects using the obtained dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the target object and the obtained dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the comparison objects; and a comparison unit configured to compare the distances between the target object and the comparison objects to select one of the comparison objects having a minimum distance. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110319 | Methods and Systems for Background Color Extrapolation - Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for determining a background color in a digital image. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110320 | Methods and Systems for Glyph-Pixel Selection - Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for detecting glyph pixels in a digital image. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110321 | Determining a Pixon Map for Image Reconstruction - Determining a pixon map for pixon smoothing of an object based on a data set includes receiving the data set and an input object associated to the data set. Determining a pixon map further includes determining, in a series of steps, statistical objects for a set of pixon kernel functions, wherein each step includes selecting a pixon kernel function from the set of pixon kernel functions, smoothing the input object on the basis of the selected pixon kernel function, thereby creating a smoothed object, and determining the statistical object for the selected pixon kernel function on the basis of the smoothed object, the data set, and a Mighell-like statistical weight. Determining a pixon map further includes determining contributions of the pixon kernel functions to the pixon map based on the statistical objects and assigning values to the pixon map corresponding to the contributions of the pixon kernel functions. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110322 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATING ILLUMINATION SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS FROM A SINGLE IMAGE - Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for determining light source characteristics from an image. An image having pixels is received that is affected by a light source. A silhouette boundary is received. The image may be filtered to decrease diffuse reflectivity. The presence of light sources is estimated by identifying a local maxima pixel around the silhouette boundary. The local maxima pixel may be associated with the light source. A slant angle that is associated with the light source is estimated using the silhouette boundary. A tilt angle associated with the light source is estimated using the slant angle and local maxima pixel intensity. The relative intensity of each light source may be determined. The ambient light intensity of the image may be determined. The characteristics, such as the slant angle and tilt angle, may be provided to a user. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110323 | Method and system for dual-envelope image enhancement - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for processing signals, particularly signals encoding two-dimensional images, such as photographs, video frames, graphics, and other visually displayed information. In various method embodiments of the present invention, an input image signal is decomposed into an upper-envelope function, a lower-envelope function, and a details function. One or both of the upper-envelope and lower-envelope functions are then modified to produce one or more image-enhancing effects when the modified upper-envelope and lower-envelope functions are recombined with the details function to produce an enhanced image signal. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110324 | White/black pixel correction in a digital image sensor - Disclosed are embodiments of an apparatus comprising an image sensor comprising a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a detection circuit coupled to the pixel array to detect potential white/black pixel defects in the pixel array, a correction circuit coupled to the detection circuit to correct potential white/black pixel defects detected by the detection circuit. The apparatus further comprises a digital signal processor coupled to the image sensor, the digital signal processor comprising a memory to have therein a list of defective pixels in the pixel array, and a processor coupled to the memory to cross-check each pixel against the list of defective pixels and correct the digital value of each pixel found in the list of defective pixels. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110325 | Image sensor with pixel array subset sampling - An apparatus comprising a pixel array to capture an image of a symbol code, wherein the image is formed on a plurality of pixels within the pixel array and is moving relative to the pixel array, and circuitry and logic coupled to the pixel array to sample a subset of pixels at a selected sampling rate, wherein the subset comprises at least one pixel from among the plurality of pixels on which the image is formed. A process comprising forming an image of a symbol code on a pixel array, wherein the image is formed on a plurality of pixels within the pixel array and is moving relative to the pixel array, and sampling a subset of pixels at a selected sampling rate, wherein the subset comprises at least one pixel from among the plurality of pixels on which the image is formed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110326 | HIGH BANDWIDTH IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a high bandwidth image processing system, which generally includes an image processing unit having a set of servers that each have a universal operating system for receiving image data corresponding to a set of images, generating commands for processing the image data, and sending the images and the commands to an image processing unit (also having a universal operating system(s)) of the high bandwidth image processing system. Upon receipt, the image processing unit will recognize and interpret the commands, assign and/or schedule tasks for processing the image data to a set of (e.g., special) processing engines based on the commands, and return results and/or processed image data to the image interface unit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110327 | Semi-automatic plane extrusion for 3D modeling - In accordance with one or more aspects, a plane in a 3D coordinate system in which a 3D model is to be generated based on one or more 2D images is identified. A direction of extrusion for the plane is also identified. Additionally, a user identification of a region of interest on a 2D image is received and projected onto the plane. A location in the 3D model of the region of interest is then automatically identified by extruding the plane along the direction of extrusion until the region of interest in the plane matches a corresponding region of at least one of the one or more 2D images. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110328 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A method and system for correcting the inclination of a scanned document in which two integers “a” and “b” are input to perform a rotation process. Each time an x-coordinate of a target pixel of a rotated image is changed by one pixel, “a” is added to a factor “kwy”. When “kwy” becomes more than or equal to “b”, “b” is subtracted from “kwy”, and a y-coordinate of a corresponding target pixel of an original image is changed by one pixel. Each time a y-coordinate of the target pixel is changed by one pixel, “a” is added to a factor “kwx”. When “kwx” becomes more than or equal to “b”, “b” is subtracted from “kwx”, and an x-coordinate of the corresponding target pixel of the original image is changed by one pixel. Four pixels including the corresponding target pixel are used to acquire a pixel value of the target pixel by two-dimensional interpolation by ratios acquired by dividing “kwx” and “kwy” respectively by “b”. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110329 | Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Forming a Compensated Image of a Wide-Angle Image - Straight lines in a compensated image of a wide-angle image are identified ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090110330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIEWING IMAGES OF A DEVICE - An image viewing system includes a display, a memory, an image viewing unit, a resize unit and a processor. The memory is configured for storing the images. Each image acquires additional metadata about the corresponding image. A thumbnail of the corresponding image is built in the metadata. The image viewing unit includes a retrieving module and an exhibiting module. The retrieving module is configured for retrieving the thumbnails of the images. The exhibiting module is configured for exhibiting the thumbnails of the images through the display for image viewing. The processor is configured for controlling the image viewing unit and the resize unit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110331 | RESOLUTION CONVERSION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes unit acquiring a target image as a target of resolution conversion, unit acquiring an additional image from the image source, unit estimating a corresponding point in the target image using corresponding point estimation methods, the corresponding point being associated with at least one pixel in the additional image to obtain corresponding points in the target image, unit setting a pixel value of each pixel included in the additional image as a sampling value for the corresponding point when each pixel is set as a target pixel, to obtain sampling values for pixels included in the additional image, and unit generating an image of a first resolution into which a second resolution of the target image is converted, using pixel values and positions of pixels included in the target image, and the sampling values and positions of the corresponding points. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110332 | INCREASING RESOLUTION OF VIDEO IMAGES - A method and apparatus for increasing resolution of video images are disclosed. Vectors may be produced based on a sequence of video frames. Low dimensional vectors may be produced from the vectors. Groups of at least two of the low dimensional vectors may be interpolated to produce respective low dimensional interpolated vectors. Each of the low dimensional vectors and the interpolated low dimensional vectors may be mapped, according to a model, to obtain dimensionally increased image information. Aspects of the image information may be included in corresponding video frames and corresponding interpolated video frames. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110333 | LIGHT MEASURING DEVICE AND SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A light measuring device is disclosed which can take in light from different portions of a plane light source efficiently to carry out measurement. The light measuring device for measuring light from a plane light source includes a spatial division device configured to carry out operation for successively taking in light from different portions of the plane light source. An optical condensing device condenses the light from the different portions of the plane light source taken in by the operation of the spatial division device. A detector receives the light condensed by the optical condensing device and outputs a signal corresponding to the received light. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110334 | ERGONOMIC BAG ASSEMBLY FOR FOODS - The invention relates to a bag assembly for foods, in particular granular foods, including at least one bag which comprises two main walls joined by two side faces forming a gusset (S | 2009-04-30 |
20090110335 | DURABLE FREEZER TO CONVENTIONAL OVEN BAG WITH MATING SEAL - A reclosable food storage bag able to withstand a wide temperature range manufactured from environmentally sensitive materials is disclosed. The bag can be manufactured from such materials as silicone rubber and thermoset resins. By using such materials, the bag can easily withstand the temperature ranges encountered in residential kitchens extending from the freezer to the oven and all ambient temperatures therebetween. In addition, by manufacturing the bag from such materials, the environmental impact of using petroleum based polymers is avoided. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110336 | Adjustable Linear Slide and Method of Assembly - In a preferred embodiment, an apparatus including: a longitudinally extending base member; a moving carriage assembly member adapted to move axial back-and-forth in the longitudinally extending base member; two bearing members extending sideways, on opposite sides, from the moving carriage assembly and engaging longitudinal bearing guides disposed in the longitudinally extending base member; and single means engaging the bearing members to simultaneously adjust the bearing members to take up any slop between the moving carriage assembly member and the longitudinally extending base member. A method of manufacturing the apparatus is also provided. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110337 | Fluid bearing having improved wear properties - A radial fluid bearing having improved wear properties in the operating state of start-up and run-down, the bearing pattern being formed in the region between a bearing bush and a shaft engaging through the bearing bush and consisting of a plurality of grooves disposed at a distance from one another, characterized in that at least the groove depth of the radial bearing is made smaller than that of the prior art, a groove depth of less than 3 micrometers being preferred. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110338 | SLIDE BEARING, SLIDE BEARING SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLY OF A SLIDE BEARING SYSTEM - The invention concerns a plain bearing | 2009-04-30 |
20090110339 | Bearing Device with Sliding Bearing - A sliding bearing according to the present invention includes a metal part formed by electroforming on an inner periphery of the sliding bearing and an oil feeding mechanism for supplying oil to the bearing gap. As a result, oil retained by the oil feeding mechanism is supplied to the bearing gap, so the lubricity between the bearing and the shaft member is improved by an oil film formed in the bearing gap, making it possible to avoid generation of noise due to defective lubrication and wear of members due to the contact sliding between the bearing and the shaft member. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110340 | Bearing apparatus for supporting pinion shaft - A pinion shaft is supported in a housing by two tapered roller bearings which are arranged separately from each other in an axial direction, and these two tapered roller bearings are lubricated with lubricating oil in the housing in oil bath lubrication method. A labyrinth forming member in a disc-like shape is disposed with respect to a backward tapered roller bearing out of the two tapered roller bearings, on an end face at a small diameter side of an inner ring thereof in a press-contact manner, so as to be opposed to a rib part which is formed inwardly in a radial direction at a small diameter end of a cage. In this manner, a labyrinth structure for restricting a flow of the lubricating oil is formed between the rib part at the small diameter end side of the cage and the labyrinth forming member. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110341 | Bearing for a rotatable disk - According to the invention, a bearing for a circular rotatable disc ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090110342 | Silicon modulator offset tuning arrangement - A silicon-based optical modulator structure includes one or more separate localized heating elements for changing the refractive index of an associated portion of the structure and thereby providing corrective adjustments to address unwanted variations in device performance. Heating is provided by thermo-optic devices such as, for example, silicon-based resistors, silicide resistors, forward-biased PN junctions, and the like, where any of these structures may easily be incorporated with a silicon-based optical modulator. The application of a DC voltage to any of these structures will generate heat, which then transfers into the waveguiding area. The increase in local temperature of the waveguiding area will, in turn, increase the refractive index of the waveguiding in the area. Control of the applied DC voltage results in controlling the refractive index | 2009-04-30 |
20090110343 | METHOD FOR MODULATING REFRACTIVE INDICES OF OPTICAL FIBER GRATINGS - The present invention proposes a method for modulating refractive indices of optical fiber gratings, wherein the UV exposure on a least one assigned location of an optical fiber grating is divided into to two UV shots, and the intensities or phases of the two UV shots, which expose the location sequentially, are controlled to make the total exposure intensity of one assigned location maintained at a fixed value, whereby the interference fringes, which are created by a superposition of the two UV shots, have fixed phases and adjustable intensities, and whereby the dc index of the optical fiber grating maintains fixed and the ac index independently adjustable. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110344 | Symmetric Optical Circuit with Integrated Polarization Rotator - The present invention is directed to an on-chip symmetric optical circuit having one or more integrally fabricated polarization rotators forming a monolithic, solid state polarization independent symmetric circuit. The symmetric optical circuit has at least one integrally fabricated rotator positioned in a plane of symmetry of at least one optical fiber, waveguide or circuit path of the symmetric optical circuit. The folded symmetric optical circuit may be for example a Mach-Zehnder type optical circuit or an arrayed waveguide grating optical circuit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110345 | METHODS FOR PASSIVE MICROMETER-RANGE ALIGNMENT OF COMPONENTS USING REMOVABLE REFERENCE STRUCTURES - A method for passive alignment of adapters, enabling high-precision connection between components on a rigid or flexible substrate as part of a printed circuit board (PCB) is provided. Removable alignment structures are positioned in an alignment area on a PCB, where the alignment structures are in accordance with a patterned layer. Alignment pins of a two-part connector are inserted into the holes of the alignment structures such that the two-part connector is aligned with the alignment structures on the substrate, and the two-part connector is a component that comprises an integrated adapter part and ferrule part. The ferrule part of the two-part connector is fixed on the substrate in the alignment area. The adapter part of the two-part connector is removed from the ferrule part of the two-part connector such that the ferrule part remains on the substrate. The alignment structures are removed from the substrate. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110346 | Diffusion And Laser Photoelectrically Coupled Integrated Circuit Signal Line - A diffusion and laser photoelectrically coupled integrated circuit signal line, wherein photoelectrically coupled pairs are formed on integrated circuit chips utilizing a diffusion light or a laser light emitted by LED or the photoelectrically coupled pairs are arranged in an array to form photoelectrically coupled matrixes on the chips are used as signal lines connecting integrated circuits; furthermore a light emission is made to hollow light emitter and placed on the integrated circuit chip; a hollow reflective sheet is located on the bottom surface of the chip and under the light emitting body where a send-receiving photosensitive module is disposed around and a hollow reflective sheet or a semitransparent diffusion sheet is placed over; and the same processed chips are stacked up. The present invention solves the problem of signal transmission bandwidth between the computer chips, increasing the present arithmetic capability and reducing the volume of the supercomputer. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110347 | Optical Assembly for Repetitive Coupling and Uncoupling - There is provided an optical assembly ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090110348 | Magnetically Activated Photonic Switches And Switch Fabrics Employing The Same - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to photonic switches and switch fabrics employing the photonic switches. In one embodiment of the present invention, a photonic switch comprises a first waveguide disposed on a surface of a substrate in proximity to an opening in the substrate, and a second waveguide crossing the first waveguide and positioned in proximity to the opening in the substrate. The photonic switch includes a tunable microring resonator disposed on the surface of the substrate adjacent to the first waveguide and the second waveguide and configured with an opening aligned with the opening in the substrate. The photonic switch also includes a wire having a first end and a second end and configured to pass through the opening in the microring and the opening in the substrate. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110349 | Beam steering element and associated methods for mixed manifold fiberoptic switches - An optical system comprising two or more mixed optical switches co-packaged together, each set configured either with N input fiber ports and 1 output fiber port (N×1 optical switch) or with 1 input fiber port and N output fiber ports (1×N optical switch), wherein at least a first array of MEMS mirrors is utilized to select and switch selected wavelengths from the input fiber ports to an output fiber port of the same set, and wherein at least a second array of MEMS mirrors using and sharing the same free space optics as the first MEMS array is utilized to select and switch selected wavelengths between input and output ports belonging to another set; and wherein output fiber ports from one set can be coupled to input ports of other sets, thus, enabling a cost effective, high level of integration one or more N×M co-packaged optical switching system. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110350 | OPTICAL CABLE MODULE - An optical cable module has an optical waveguide formed by surrounding a core with a clad layer and a light-receiving/emitting element, installed on a supporting substrate. A light-releasing face of the optical waveguide or a light-incident face to the optical waveguide is aligned so as to face a light-receiving face or a light-emitting face of the light-receiving/emitting element. The optical waveguide is formed into a film shape having flexibility, and provided with a reinforcing member that prevents a deflection from occurring in the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is placed on a protruding portion from a supporting face of the optical waveguide on the supporting substrate. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110351 | Wave Energy Transmission Apparatus for High-Temperature Environments - A wave energy transmission apparatus has a conduit made from a refractory oxide. A transparent, refractory ceramic window is coupled to the conduit. Wave energy passing through the window enters the conduit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110352 | Electronic Device Having Optical Data Connection Of Movable Housing Parts - The present invention provides an electronic device comprising two or more housing parts which are movable in relation to each other with an optical arrangement enabling optical data communication between electronic components located in the housing parts. The device according to the invention comprises a first housing part comprising first electronic components, a second housing part comprising second electronic components, wherein said first housing part and said second housing part are movably connected and capable of taking at least a first and a second position in relation to each other, a first optoelectronic device connected with said first electronic components, a second optoelectronic device connected with said second electronic components, and a first light duct, and a second light duct, wherein said first light duct is arranged to provide a first light path optically coupling said optoelectronic devices in said first position, and said second light duct is arranged to provide a second light path optically coupling said optoelectronic devices in said second position. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110353 | Method of Producing an Optical Connecting Component, and Optical Connecting Component - A method of producing an optical connecting component in which three-dimensional electric wiring can be easily and accurately performed, and the optical connecting component are provided. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110354 | Glass-based micropositioning systems and methods - A method of forming a microbump for micropositioning an optical element comprises providing a base substrate, providing a first optical element to be supported by the base substrate, and providing an alignment element capable of locally expanding when locally heated and adapted to support the first optical element from the base substrate. The method further comprises locally heating the alignment element to cause local expansion of the alignment element so as to create a microbump alignment element, terminating heating of the alignment element so as to fix the microbump and securing the alignment element to the base substrate, thereby supporting the first optical element from the base substrate. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110355 | Strain-managed optical waveguide assemblies and methods of forming same - The strain-managed optical waveguide assemblies of the present invention utilize a large-mode-area (LMA) optical fiber that is annealed in a first bending such that the fiber in that configuration has substantially no axial strain. A fiber support member is then used to support the annealed LMA optical fiber in a second bending configuration that forms within the LMA optical fiber an axial strain profile that reduces stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) as compared to the first bending configuration, and that also preferably causes the LMA optical fiber to operate in a single mode. The LMA optical fiber may have a double-clad configuration and include a doped core that serves as a gain medium. The strain-managed optical waveguide assembly can then be used to constitute a fiber amplifier that mitigates the SBS penalty associated with high-power fiber-based optical systems. The strain-managed waveguide assembly can also provide for thermal management in high-power applications, and can be used to control SBS by controlling the temperature profile along the length of the LMA optical fiber in a manner that mitigates SBS. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110356 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR WAVEGUIDING LUMINESCENCE GENERATED IN A SCATTERING MEDIUM - The present invention is directed to a luminescent waveguide device, and methods of making thereof, that may be used to convert solar energy into electricity. In particular, the present invention relates to extracting and waveguiding luminescence generated in a scattering medium so as to improve luminescent concentrator performance. By stacking one or a pair of transparent plates of refractive index slightly smaller than that of luminescent plate but still larger than that of air, a much greater fraction of re-emitted light by the embedded luminescent particles can be extracted so that the detrimental effect of particle scattering can be minimized. Additionally, by additionally using a high-efficiency diffractive optic component in the structure to redirect the re-emitted photons with angles falling into the escape zone to much larger angles so these otherwise outgoing photons can be waveguided by total internal reflection. These improvements minimize the critical-angle loss and increase the output light intensity at the ends of the waveguide. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110357 | FIBER WRAP DESIGN AND METHOD - A fiber wrap and a method of rotating the fiber wrap without twisting a data cable are disclosed. The fiber wrap includes a sun gear, a sun cylinder coupled to the sun gear, a planetary gear in contact with the sun gear, a planetary cylinder coupled to the planetary gear, an outer housing in contact with the planetary gear, and a data cable coupled to the sun cylinder, the planetary cylinder, and the outer housing. The data cable is coupled in such a way as to only bend the data cable during use of the fiber wrap. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110358 | Methods and Devices for the Installation of the Fiber Optic Cable to a House or Other Building Structure - Methods and devices for the installation of a fiber optic cable to a house or other building structure are provided. The method may include identifying a preferred location of a customer through an indication left by the customer either on the interior side or exterior side of a wall, forming a through opening in the wall near or at the preferred location, and installing the in-wall termination device in the opening. The in-wall termination device may include a wall plate for attaching to an interior surface of the wall. The wall plate includes one or more connectors for receiving ends of cables extending from the exterior and connecting those cables to other cables extending through the interior of the building structure. The method may allow for the installation of the cable without requiring the presence of the customer or requiring access to the interior of the building structure. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110359 | LOW PROFILE FIBER DISTRIBUTION HUB - Certain embodiments of a fiber distribution hub include a swing frame pivotally mounted within an enclosure having a low profile. For example, the enclosure can have a depth of less than about nine inches. Termination modules can be mounted to the swing frame and oriented to slide at least partially in a front-to-rear direction to facilitate access to connectors plugged into the termination modules. Splitter modules and connector storage regions can be provided within the enclosure. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110360 | SPLICE TRAY HOLDER - A splice tray holder includes a body with a first portion, a second portion, and a front surface. A retention portion is disposed on an outer periphery of each of the first and second portions and defines a receiving groove having an inner surface that faces toward the front surface of the body. A spring portion is disposed on each of the first and second portions, wherein the spring portion is adapted to provide a biasing force in a direction from the front surface of the body toward the inner surface of the receiving groove. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110361 | Optical termination unit - An optical termination unit is provided for allowing an optical cable to be easily projected straight in any of five directions, including upward, downward, rightward, leftward, and rearward directions, thereby enhancing the efficiency of cable laying or the like. An end securing box | 2009-04-30 |
20090110362 | Video-related meta data engine, system and method - A video engine, system and method for use with a video player, including a presenter that presents at least two audio/visual works, at least one software application capable of at least one metadata-related interaction with the audio/visual works, communication points over which the audio/visual works are received, and over which at least a portion of the at least one meta-data interaction occurs, and a hierarchical taxonomy that effects a common metadata reference to each recurrence of a particular object across the audio/visual works, and across each of the at least one metadata-related interaction. The video engine, system, and method may additionally include a prioritization data for use with the metadata. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110363 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VIDEOS THEREIN - A portable terminal and a method for managing videos in the portable terminal are provide increased efficiency in managing videos in the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes: a memory for storing at least one video and a preview thereof a controller for playing back a preview of a video corresponding to a set preview section during a video search and, upon selection of a video, playing back the selected video; and a display unit for displaying, under control of the controller, the video preview and the video that are being played back. The method for managing videos in the portable terminal includes: displaying a list of at least one video preview on a first screen during a video search; playing back, on a second screen, a preview of a video corresponding to a set preview section; selecting the video corresponding to the video preview being played back; and playing back the selected video. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110364 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - In reproducing a stream containing video and audio, an audio decoder section decodes audio frames separated from the stream, and a video decoder section decodes video frames separated from the stream. Decoded audio data and video data are reproduced by an audio reproduction section and by a video reproduction section, while a synchronization section maintains temporal synchronization between the reproductions. When the stream has a seamless boundary at which a seamless connection has been made with priority given to the video frames, the audio decoder section skips m of the audio frames immediately after the seamless boundary without decoding the m frame or frames (where the number m is an integer equal to or higher than 1). | 2009-04-30 |
20090110365 | RECORDER APPARATUS - It is provided a recorder apparatus in which a user can use simply and efficiently plural functions which can be performed simultaneously. According to an embodiment of the invention, a recorder apparatus has a display, an input section for a video being inputted, a random access recording medium for recording the video, an output section for outputting the video recorded in the recording medium, a multitask control section, a display control section and a reception section for receiving an specification of the tab and the direction of the video for a processing target for the selected function. The multitask control section performs plural functions in parallel simultaneously which plural functions includes a function for recording the inputted video in the recording medium. The display control section displays tabs assigned to the plural functions respectively and processing situation of the function selected by specifying the tab on the display. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110366 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, includes: a reception unit adapted to receive a parameter in respective frames which constitute a motion picture image; a generation unit adapted to generate from the parameter received by the reception unit, trajectory information for drawing a trajectory where the parameter is used for a coordinate while the parameter is used for a spatial axis of a virtual space; and a display control unit adapted to display the trajectory within the virtual space on the basis of the trajectory information generated by the generation unit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110367 | Information recording and reproducing device - After judgment that timer reservation has been set, upon judgment that a channel, a scheduled broadcast date, broadcast start time, and broadcast end time included in the EPG information respectively agree with a channel, a recording reservation date, recording start time, and recording end time included in recording reservation information, agreement information is displayed on a display device. On the other hand, upon judgment that any of them do not agree with each other, disagreement information is displayed on the display device. After the agreement information is displayed on the display device, a replacement from recording reservation through timer reservation for the desired program to recording reservation based on electronic program guide information is made for the desired program. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110368 | Videoconference Recording, Post-Processing, and Playback - Apparatus having corresponding computer-readable media comprises: a recording module adapted to record audio and video streams of a videoconference; a storage module adapted to store a media file associated with the videoconference; and a command module adapted to generate a command file comprising records for events that occur during the videoconference, wherein at least one of the records comprises a time of occurrence in the videoconference of an event associated with the media file, and a reference to the media file. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110369 | MOVING IMAGE AND AUDIO REPRODUCTION DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a moving image and audio reproduction device includes an extraction block which extracts a composition of an Elementary Stream in an Audio Stream included in content and a setting shown in the Elementary Stream, and a signal processing part which reproduces the Audio Stream in accordance with the composition of the Elementary Stream in the Audio Stream and the setting shown in the Elementary Stream, extracted by the extraction block. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110370 | AUDIO/VIDEO SYNCHRONOUS PLAYBACK DEVICE - An audio/video synchronous playback device includes a first synchronization section for repeating or skipping a first video data sequence in units of a video frame interval thereof to synchronize the first video data sequence with an audio data sequence, and a second synchronization section for repeating or skipping a second video data sequence in units of a video frame or video field interval thereof to synchronize the second video data sequence with the audio data sequence. A first video data sequence output and a second video data sequence output having different frame frequencies are separately synchronized with one channel of audio data sequence output with their respective precisions. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110371 | VIDEO REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, VIDEO REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND VIDEO REPRODUCTION PROCESS PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, for each GOP, frames from an I frame present at a leading position of GOP to an I frame contained in a succeeding GOP and B frames referencing the I frame contained in the succeeding GOP are managed as a new GOP. For each new GOP, video frames from a leading I frame to a last I frame are subjected to a decoding process in order of increasing PTS value. For each new GOP with the last I frame of the video frames discarded, the video frames are subjected to video display in order of decreasing PTS value. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110372 | CONTENT SHOOTING APPARATUS - A content shooting apparatus is provided, in which thresholds for generating metadata concerning shot images can be calibrated in accordance with shooting conditions. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110373 | Information Playback Apparatus - According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention includes an acquisition module configured to acquire content data, an analysis module configured to analyze the content data to generate viewing and listening environment control information based on an analysis result, a viewing and listening control module configured to control a viewing and listening environment based on the viewing and listening environment control information, and a playback control module configured to control playback of the content data under the viewing and listening environment. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110374 | Optical disc recording and playback apparatus - A DSP of a DVD recorder includes: a gain setting portion determining appropriate values of a first gain α and a second gain β when playback of an optical disc is performed, recording the first gain α and the second gain β thus determined in a gain storing portion, and setting them in a main differential amplifier and a sub differential amplifier, respectively; and a correction performing portion reading, when recording on the optical disc is performed, the first gain α and the second gain β stored in the gain storing portion, correcting at least one of them, and setting them in the main differential amplifier and the sub differential amplifier, respectively. | 2009-04-30 |
20090110375 | INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information recording device is provided with a recording means ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090110376 | DATA CONVERSION METHOD AND DATA CONVERSION DEVICE, DATA RECORDING DEVICE, DATA PLAYING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A data conversion method for an information processing device to generate data for copying of defined format data of a clip including playback segment data includes the steps of: performing data input for a data input unit to input copy source data; obtaining copy source clip configuration data including streaming data to be copied from the copy source by a clip adjusting unit; and clip setting for the clip adjusting unit to set one clip including multiple copy source clip configuration data corresponding to a play item in the playlist file defined with a copy source format, as a copy destination clip. | 2009-04-30 |