19th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 35 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140126763 | EAR WARMER AND HEADPHONE DEVICE - An ear muff and headphone device having a warmth optimizing mode and a sound optimizing mode includes an earmuff body including at least one coupling element disposed along at least a portion of a perimeter of said earmuff body. A cushioning member is mounted on an interior side of the earmuff body, said cushioning member defining a rim area having a perimeter. At least one insulator member having at least one coupling element able to be releasably attached to the at least one coupling element of the earmuff body is provided. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126764 | System and Method for Managing and Sharing Lottery Tickets via Mobile Devices - The embodiments herein disclose a system and a method for managing and sharing at-least one lottery ticket via a plurality of mobile devices. The system comprises a central server and a plurality of mobile devices. The plurality of mobile devices is connected to the central server via a communication media. The plurality of mobile devices comprises a data capturing unit, a data processing unit and a data sharing unit. The data capturing unit captures an image of a lottery ticket. The data processing unit converts a captured data into a plurality of data packets. The data processing unit compresses the plurality of data packets. The data sharing unit transfers the plurality of compressed data packets to the central server as well as a plurality of user devices. The central server implements a software application which reassembles the plurality of data packets received from the data sharing unit to form the lottery ticket. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126765 | SECURITY DEVICES INCORPORATING COLOUR SHIFTING INKS - A security document or device is provided which includes at least one area formed from a transparent plastics material which is exposed on at least one side to form a window or half-window, and a first colour shifting ink composition and a second colour shifting ink composition which both include different colour pigments and interference pigments but which both, at a first viewing angle, exhibit substantially the same colour when the interference pigments are viewable, and at other angles exhibit different colours when viewing the colour pigments. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126766 | ENCODING HIDDEN INFORMATION IN SPATIAL LINE FREQUENCIES - A method of encoding a hidden image in high frequency spatial frequencies of a line pattern of a host image. A set of host image spatial frequencies is generated based on a predefined mapping of a domain of a set of representative scalar values of the hidden image mage and a domain of the host image spatial frequencies. The line pattern of the host image is generated based on the set of host image spatial frequencies. The host image may be composed of tiles containing parallel line segments, with each tile encoding a corresponding one of the scalar values. The host image may be composed of a stochastic line pattern generated from a white noise image convolved with a space variable kernel based on the predefined domain mapping. The hidden image may be decoded algorithmically or optically in a single step. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOCATION AND ORIENTATION OF IDENTIFICATION MARKERS - A three-dimensional position and orientation tracking system comprises one or more pattern tags, each comprising a plurality of contrasting portions, a tracker for obtaining image information about the pattern tags, a database with geometric information describing patterns on pattern tags; and a controller for receiving and processing the image information from the tracker, accessing the database to retrieve geometric information, and comparing the image information with the geometric information. The contrasting portions are arranged in a rotationally asymmetric pattern and at least one of the contrasting portions on a pattern tag has a perimeter that has a mathematically describable curved section. The perimeter of the contrasting portion may comprise a conic section, including for example an ellipse or a circle. The tracking system can be implemented in a surgical monitoring system in which the pattern tags are attached to tracking markers or are themselves tracking markers. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126768 | Method for Initializing and Solving the Local Geometry or Surface Normals of Surfels Using Images in a Parallelizable Architecture - A system and method is described herein for solving for surface normals of objects in the scene observed in a video stream. The system and method may include sampling the video stream to generate a set of keyframes; generating hypothesis surface normals for a set of mappoints in each of the keyframes; warping patches of corresponding mappoints in a first keyframe to the viewpoint of a second keyframe with a warping matrix computed from each of the hypothesis surface normals; scoring warping errors between each hypothesis surface normal in the two keyframes; and discarding hypothesis surface normals with high warping errors between the first and second keyframes. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126769 | FAST INITIALIZATION FOR MONOCULAR VISUAL SLAM - Apparatuses and methods for fast visual simultaneous localization and mapping are described. In one embodiment, a three-dimensional (3D) target is initialized immediately from a first reference image and prior to processing a subsequent image. In one embodiment, one or more subsequent reference images are processed, and the 3D target is tracked in six degrees of freedom. In one embodiment, the 3D target is refined based on the processed the one or more subsequent images. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126770 | PHR/EMR Retrieval System Based on Body Part Recognition and Method of Operation Thereof - A method of filtering an electronic medical record (EMR) based on a selected body part (SBP). The method may be controlled by one or more controllers and may include one or more acts of obtaining image information of a patient, analyzing the image information using an object recognition method, identifying a SBP of the patient based upon the analyzing of the image information, and filtering the EMR of the patient in accordance with the SBP. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126771 | ADAPTIVE SCALE AND/OR GRAVITY ESTIMATION - Systems, apparatus and methods for estimating gravity and/or scale in a mobile device are presented. A difference between an image-based pose and an inertia-based pose is using to update the estimations of gravity and/or scale. The image-based pose is computed from two poses and is scaled with the estimation of scale prior to the difference. The inertia-based pose is computed from accelerometer measurements, which are adjusted by the estimation for gravity. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126772 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - A candidate output element configured to output recognition target commodities as candidates of a recognized commodity in a descending order of the similarity degrees calculated by the similarity degree calculation element, a distance measurement element configured to measure the distance from the image capturing section to a commodity photographed by the image capturing section, and a changing element configured to change the number of candidates of a recognized commodity output by the candidate output element according to the distance measured by the distance measurement element. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126773 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - A commodity recognition apparatus comprises a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract the appearance feature amount of a commodity contained in an image captured by an image capturing section; a distance measurement unit configured to measure the distance from the image capturing section to a commodity captured by the image capturing section; a file selection unit configured to select a recognition dictionary file corresponding to the distance measured by the distance measurement unit from the recognition dictionary files for each distance. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126774 | LIBRARY APPARATUS - Disclosed is a library apparatus capable of indicating an availability state of a slot according to the availability state of the slot that a magazine has. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126775 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - A commodity recognition apparatus comprises an image interface, a memory and a processor. The image interface is configured to acquire a commodity image captured by a camera. The memory is configured to store a candidate of a commodity recognized from the commodity image acquired by the image interface. The processor is configured to try to read a commodity recognition code from the commodity image acquired by the image interface and reset the candidate of the commodity stored in the memory if the commodity recognition code is read. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126776 | EYELID DETECTION DEVICE, EYELID DETECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Distances between edges which are detected and paired from images which show a driver's face are computed sequentially. Based on a change in the computed distances, a low-probability candidate for a pair of eyelid edges is eliminated. The edge pairs ultimately remaining as a result thereof are detected as upper eyelid edge and lower eyelid edge pairings. It is thus possible to carry out a detection which takes into account not only a feature which is near to an eyelid edge, but also movement as an eyelid. Accordingly, it is possible to accurately detect edges of a driver's eyelids. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126777 | ENHANCED FACE RECOGNITION IN VIDEO - The computational resources needed to perform processes such as image recognition can be reduced by determining appropriate frames of image information to use for the processing. In some embodiments, infrared imaging can be used to determine when a person is looking substantially towards a device, such that an image frame captured at that time will likely be adequate for facial recognition. In other embodiments, sound triangulation or motion sensing can be used to assist in determining which captured image frames to discard and which to select for processing based on any of a number of factors indicative of a proper frame for processing. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126778 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VEHICULAR IMAGE - An image processing method for generating a vehicular image includes the following steps: providing a first image, wherein the first image has a first specific region, and pixel data of each pixel in the first specific region is converted to a predetermined value; providing a second image, and overlapping the first image and the second image to form an overlapping region; comparing the predetermined value with pixel data of each pixel in the first image overlapped on the second image to generate a comparison result; and determining whether pixel data of each pixel in the overlapping region is pixel data of the first image or pixel data of the second image according to the comparison result, and accordingly generating the vehicular image. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126779 | System for license plate identification in low-quality video - This invention proposes an identification system for license plates captured in low-quality motion video, such as accidental footage from security cameras, amateur video, cell phones, etc, including situations when the license plate number is completely unreadable. This is done by dividing the surface of the license plate into a pattern of segments assigned to a number of groups, each group possessing unique optical properties such as shading, reflectivity, IR absorption, etc. Taking advantage of the the varied light response among the segment groups, the pattern can encode identifying information, e.g. a binary sequence, which helps identify the vehicle. Using image processing software, this information can be decoded from low-quality video footage via an analysis of temporally correlated luminance levels. The system thus allows the identification of vehicles captured accidentally and under poor lighting conditions, as in the case of a security camera in a convenience store capturing the image of a vehicle fleeing a nearby crime scene. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126780 | VIDEO SPEED DETECTION SYSTEM - Multiple-object speed tracking apparatuses are disclosed, including a camera configured to capture a set of images of a monitored area (e.g., a roadway). The camera's longitudinal axis may be positioned at any viewing angle relative to a longitudinal axis of a roadway such that at least two moving objects moving on the roadway are included in a set of high or low resolution images. A computer system is configured to analyze the set of images to detect the two moving objects and substantially simultaneously determine a calculated rate of speed of at least one of the two moving objects. The computer system also provides an on-site speed calibration process for transforming locations of an image among the set of images into real-world coordinates by considering both perspective and scale of the image. An apparatus mount for at least one of either the camera or the computer system is also disclosed. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126781 | SPATIAL EXPANSION SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method for processing seismic data may include receiving input seismic data (d | 2014-05-08 |
20140126782 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image display apparatus used while it is mounted on a user's head or facial area includes a display unit configured to display an inside image viewable from the user; an input unit configured to input an identification pattern from the user; a checking unit configured to check the identification pattern; and a control unit configured to control the image display apparatus on the basis of a result of the checking by the checking unit. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126783 | Finger Indentification Apparatus - An identification apparatus keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications, and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. The apparatus comprises a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or structure for a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member is located in the guide member where a fingertip is positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with where a finger to be imaged should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images. The apparatus may also include dual light sources power saving functionality, and means for limiting the interference of external light sources. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING TRUNCATION ARTIFACT CORRECTION - A method for performing truncation artifact correction includes acquiring a projection dataset of a patient, the projection dataset including measured data and truncated data, generating an initial estimate of a boundary between the measured data and the truncated data, using the measured data to revise the initial estimate of the boundary, estimating the truncated data using the revised estimate of the boundary, and using the measured data and the estimated truncated data to generate an image of the patient. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126785 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TISSUE REGION IDENTIFICATION - Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for method and apparatus for tissue region identification may include segmenting the image into a plurality of regions, filtering out regions in the plurality of regions which are curvilinear, and isolating a target area where the tissue sample is identified as the plurality of regions not filtered. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORIENTING TISSUE SAMPLES FOR COMPARISON - Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for orienting tissue samples for comparison may include incrementally rotating orientation of a first image by a predetermined rotation angle while maintaining orientation of a second image at a fixed angle, checking alignment of the orientation of the first image with the orientation of the second image at each predetermined rotation angle by matching a plurality of points in the first image and the second image, determining whether a predetermined rotation angle is a correct rotation angle for alignment based on a count of the plurality of points being greater than a threshold value and rotating to the next predetermined rotation angle when the count of the plurality of points is less than or equal to a threshold value. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126787 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MELANOMA RISK ASSESSMENTS - According to one embodiment of this disclosure, a method is provided that includes obtaining mole image information; detecting a particular mole from among the one or more moles based on the mole image information to provide particular mole image information; obtaining mole diameter information; analyzing the particular mole image information to determine (i) whether the particular mole is substantially asymmetrical, (ii) whether a border of the particular mole is substantially circular, and (iii) whether the particular mole comprises one or more substantially different colors to provide asymmetry, border, and color (ABC) analysis data; analyzing the mole diameter information to determine whether an estimated diameter of the particular mole exceeds a predetermined threshold to provide diameter (D) analysis data; and generating a plurality of melanoma risk assessments for the particular mole based on at least the ABC analysis data and the D analysis data. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126788 | METHOD FOR TRIGGERING BLOOD SALVAGE - One variation of a method for triggering blood cell salvage for a patient includes: processing a first photographic image of a canister to estimate a content of a blood component within the canister; processing a second photographic image of a gauze sponge to estimate a content of the blood component in the gauze sponge; estimating an aggregate salvageable blood component content for the patient based on the estimated content of the blood component within the canister and the estimated content of the blood component in the gauze sponge; and in response to the estimated aggregate salvageable blood component content exceeding a threshold salvageable blood component content, generating a prompt to salvage the blood component from fluid within the canister and from the gauze sponge. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126789 | IMAGE DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD - Improvement is made in efficiency of positioning between images when comparing a plurality of images to perform a radiographic image interpretation in an image diagnosis assisting apparatus. An image diagnosis assisting apparatus, which assists an image diagnosis by use of registration among a plurality of images, comprises: a radiographic image interpretation terminal ( | 2014-05-08 |
20140126790 | QUALITY CONTROL AND ASSURANCE OF IMAGES - Applicants have discovered a multi-layer quality control/quality assurance system that provides higher quality data, without human intervention, by rejecting images that do not achieve a pre-determined quality threshold. In some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a new method of processing an image from a data set through a pipeline wherein quality control/assurance allows to determine a quality of the image processing, the method comprising; receiving a test image; pre-processing the test image; registering the test image to a reference image; calculating a test image quality using a correlation of image intensity values between corresponding locations of the test image and the reference image; providing a plurality of training images and calculating training image quality distribution statistics for the training images with respect to the reference image; and relating the test image quality to the training image quality distribution. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126791 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DETERIORATION OF ULTRASOUND PROBE TRANSDUCER - In order to provide an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method for detecting deterioration of a transducer of an ultrasound probe in which or by which deterioration of a transducer of an ultrasound probe can be correctly detected, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including an ultrasound probe for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves, and a tomographic image constructing part for constructing a tomographic image from reflected echo signals received with the ultrasound probe is provided with a brightness analyzing part for analyzing brightness of a plurality of regions of interest in the tomographic image, and a judging part for judging whether a transducer of the ultrasound probe has deteriorated or not on the basis of analyzed brightness. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126792 | AUTOMATED FLY THROUGH REVIEW MECHANISM - A novel and useful mechanism for generating a fly-through review for digital images such as tissue sample scans. A fly-through path based on the sample image is determined and one or more fly-through curves are generated. Two-dimensional image manipulations are applied to the sample image in accordance with the one or more fly-through curves and any user preferences to generate a sequence of frame images to be displayed. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126793 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PET PENALIZED-LIKLIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH SPATIALLY VARYING SMOOTHING PARAMETERS - A computer-implemented method for penalized-likelihood reconstruction of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image includes generating a regularization function in which a smoothing parameter is modulated by one or more data-independent spatially variable modulation factors to compensate for sensitivity variations in a PET voxel dataset, and reconstructing the PET image from the PET emission dataset using the regularization function. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126794 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTIAL VOLUME CORRECTION IN PET PENALIZED-LIKELIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION - A computer-implemented method for partial volume correction in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction includes receiving emission data related to an activity distribution, reconstructing the activity distribution from the emission data by maximizing a penalized-likelihood objective function to produce a reconstructed PET image, quantifying an activity concentration in a region of interest of the reconstructed PET image to produce an uncorrected quantitation, and correcting the uncorrected quantitation based on a pre-calculated contrast recovery coefficient value to account for a partial volume error in the uncorrected quantitation. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126795 | FAT AND IRON QUANTIFICATION USING A MULTI-STEP ADAPTIVE FITTING APPROACH WITH MULTI-ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - A computer-implemented method for quantifying fat and iron in anatomical tissue includes acquiring a plurality of multi-echo signal datasets representative of the anatomical tissue using a magnetic resonance (MR) pulse sequence. A plurality of multi-echo signal datasets are selected from the plurality of multi-echo signal datasets and used to determine a first water magnitude value and a first fat magnitude value. In response to determining that the multi-echo signal datasets include at least three multi-echo datasets, a first stage analysis is performed. This first stage analysis comprises selecting a first effective transverse relaxation rate value. Next, first algorithm inputs comprising the first water magnitude value, the first fat magnitude value, and the first effective transverse relation rate value are created. Then, a non-linear fitting algorithm is performed based on the first algorithm inputs to calculate a second water magnitude value, a second fat magnitude value, and a second effective transverse relaxation rate value. A first proton density fat fraction value is then determined based on the second water magnitude value and the second fat magnitude value. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126796 | MRI RECONSTRUCTION WITH MOTION-DEPENDENT REGULARIZATION - A method of image reconstruction for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes obtaining k-space scan data captured by the MRI system, the k-space scan data being representative of an undersampled region over time, iteratively reconstructing preliminary dynamic images for the undersampled region from the k-space scan data via optimization of a first instance of a minimization problem, the minimization problem including a regularization term weighted by a weighting parameter array, generating a motion determination indicative of an extent to which each location of the undersampled region exhibits motion over time based on the preliminary dynamic images, and iteratively reconstructing motion-compensated dynamic images for the region from the k-space scan data via optimization of a second instance of the minimization problem, the second instance having the weighting parameter array altered as a function of the motion determination. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126797 | EFFICIENT USER INTERACTION WITH POLYGONAL MESHES FOR MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION - An apparatus for delineating a structure of interest includes: a plane selection interface for selecting a contouring plane of selectable orientation in a three-dimensional image or map; a contouring interface for defining a contour in the selected contour plane; and a mesh constructor configured to construct a three-dimensional polygonal mesh delineating the structure of interest in the three-dimensional image or map. The mesh constructor positions constrained vertices on or near a plurality of non-coplanar delineation contours defined using the contouring interface. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126798 | SYSTEMS WITH WORKSTATIONS AND CIRCUITS FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF GLOBAL INJURY - Physician interactive workstations with global voxel distribution visualization may also include one or more of a 3-D color scale image of a population of voxel in target regions, organs or systems. The workstation may be configured to evaluate intensity or other measures of voxels of patient images associated with tissue for early detection of a global injury. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126799 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A subtraction image is generated by performing subtraction between a mask image serving as a radiation image obtained by capturing an object, at least of a specific region of which does not include contrast medium, and a live image serving as a radiation image obtained by capturing the object which includes the contrast medium. The emphasis degree serving as the degree of emphasis processing for the subtraction image is determined based on at least either the mask image or live image. The emphasis processing is performed for the subtraction image based on the emphasis degree. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126800 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ANALYSIS OF X-RAY IMAGES - The present invention relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. In particular, devices, methods and algorithms are provided that allow for the accurate and reliable evaluation of bone structure from x-ray images. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126801 | Microscopy Visualization - A method is described for correlating microscopy images from a number of modalities in a sub diffraction resolution environment. The method may include receiving a number of datasets that may represent microscopy captures from a number of different modalities. The microscopy captures may contain feature markers that may be used to register a number of data points contained in a dataset with data points from another dataset. Upon registering the data points of the datasets, a combined dataset may be produced and a visual image of the combined dataset may be provided. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126802 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING LOW CONTRAST IMAGES - A method of classifying, with a computer processor, at least one feature of cells from a low contrast, digital image. The method includes generating a contrast-enhanced image by applying a high-pass filter to the low contrast, digital image. The contrast-enhanced image is smoothed with a first low pass filter. A background image, generated from the low contrast, digital image, is subtracted from the smoothed, contrast-enhanced image to form an analysis image. The at least one feature is identified in analysis image. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126803 | PAPER MEDIUM IDENTIFYING DEVICE AND IDENTIFYING METHOD - A paper medium identifying device and an identifying method. The paper medium identifying device comprises an image data obtaining unit, a faulty wire detecting unit, an image dividing unit, a standard template data storage unit, a comprehensive analyzing unit, a new template generating unit and a judging unit. The paper medium identifying device divides the standard template into new sub-templates by dividing the template from a faulty wire position as margin, and then matches the sub-templates with a papery medium image which being identified so as to avoid the influence of faulty wires on the template match identification and improve the acceptance rate of the papery medium identifying device. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126804 | EDGE MEASUREMENT VIDEO TOOL AND INTERFACE INCLUDING AUTOMATIC PARAMETER SET ALTERNATIVES - A user interface for setting parameters for an edge location video tool is provided. In one implementation, the user interface includes a multi-dimensional parameter space representation with edge zones that allows a user to adjust a single parameter combination indicator in a zone in order to adjust multiple edge detection parameters for detecting a corresponding edge. The edge zones indicate the edge features that are detectable when the parameter combination indicator is placed within the edge zones. In another implementation, representations of multiple edge features that are detectable by different possible combinations of the edge detection parameters are automatically provided in one or more windows. When a user selects one of the edge feature representation, the corresponding combination of edge detection parameters is set as the parameters for the edge location video tool. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126805 | OPTICAL INSPECTION METHOD - An optical inspection method including the following steps is disclosed. A tester is utilized to obtain an image of an inspection object. A target image region of the image is determined. Multiple central coordinates of multiple inspection ranges of a target image region are obtained. The central coordinates are filled to an array, and then the central coordinates are reordered according to relative relationships of the central coordinates to obtain a reordered coordinate array. The reordered coordinate array is compared with an original coordinate array to inspect whether parts of the inspection object corresponding to the inspection ranges are missed. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126806 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE-PICKUP OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND NETWORK DEVICE - An image processing method is configured to denoise three-dimensional image data. The image processing method includes an image transform step of performing a frequency transform for the three-dimensional image data in the optical axis direction and of calculating three-dimensional transformed image data, an image modulation step of reducing an absolute value of the three-dimensional transformed image data in a specific frequency region and of calculating three-dimensional modulated image data, and an inverse image transform step of performing an inverse frequency transform corresponding to the frequency transform for the three-dimensional modulated image data in the optical axis direction and of calculating three-dimensional inversely transformed image data. The specific frequency region is a part of a predetermined. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126807 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a luminance extraction means to extract luminance components of an input image; a contrast extraction means to extract contrast components of the input image based on the luminance components of the input image extracted by the luminance extraction means; a storage means to store a performance function indicating relation between the contrast components of the input image and depth amounts subjectively perceived, which is determined based at least in part on visual sense characteristics of human beings; and a contrast adjustment means to calculate present depth amounts of the input image from the contrast components of the input image extracted by the contrast extraction means based at least in part on the performance function with respect to region of the input image which are determined from depth information of the input image and adjusting contrast components of the input image. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126808 | RECURSIVE CONDITIONAL MEANS IMAGE DENOISING - Methods and composition for denoising digital camera images are provided herein. The method is based on directly measuring the local statistical structure of natural images in a large training set that has been corrupted with noise mimicking digital camera noise. The measured statistics are conditional means of the ground truth pixel value given a local context of input pixels. Each conditional mean is the Bayes optimal (minimum mean squared error) estimate given the specific local context. The conditional means are measured and applied recursively (e.g., the second conditional mean is measured after denoising with the first conditional mean). Each local context vector consists of only three variables, and hence the conditional means can be measured directly without prior assumptions about the underlying probability distributions, and they can be stored in fixed lookup tables. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126809 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF DETERMINING COLOR AMOUNT, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When a printing fee is changed, if a printing fee is changed to one for a color amount that is smaller than an actual color amount of an input image, an image processing apparatus automatically performs image processing in order to maximize the color amount at the selected printing fee and prints an image processing result. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126810 | Computer Vision Methods And Systems To Recognize And Locate An Object Or Objects In One Or More Images - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for identifying and locating an object in an image. In embodiments, an object in an image may be identified by segmenting a first image of an object into one or more superpixels; extracting local descriptors from the first image, each of the descriptors having an interest point with a location; correlating the local descriptors to the superpixels based on locations of the local descriptors and superpixels; determining a probability for an object label for each of a set of the superpixels; and assigning an object label to each of the set of the superpixels based on the probability and a smoothness factor that includes weighting in terms of one or more of spatial, colors, angular distances between superpixels. The superpixels of an image may be concatenated to predict an object label for the image and to determine the location of the image. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126811 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus detects boundaries from an image; extracts straight-line segments from the boundaries; detects a region where differences between pixel values of near pixels located across the segments are larger than, or at least a predetermined first value; classifies the segments in the region into four sides of quadrangles; detects colors or densities in outer areas of the four sides; selects combinations that differences between the colors or the densities corresponding to the segments in the combinations are no more than, or smaller than a predetermined second value, from the combinations of the four sides that possibly form the quadrangles; detects coordinates of four vertexes obtained when the segments in the combinations are extended, and a combination that an area of a quadrangle formed by the corresponding four coordinates satisfies a predetermined condition; and corrects the quadrangle formed by the combination to a rectangle. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126812 | DETECTING A JUNCTION IN A TEXT LINE OF CJK CHARACTERS - A method for detecting a junction in a received image of the line of text to update a junction list with descriptive data is provided. The method includes creating a color histogram based on a number of color pixels in the received image of the line of text and detecting, based at least in part on the received image of the line of text, a rung within the received image of the line of text. The method also includes identifying a horizontal position of the detected rung in the received image of the line of text and identifying a gateway on the color histogram, wherein the identified gateway is associated with the detected rung. The junction list is updated with data including a description of the identified gateway. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126813 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NEAR-DUPLICATE IMAGE SEARCHING - Image processing includes dividing the plurality of images into a plurality of groups wherein images in the same group share the same main color; extracting a color feature vector (CFV) of each image in the plurality of groups; subdividing images in each of the plurality of groups into a plurality of subgroups using a clustering technique according to a distance between the CFVs of the images in the group to establish an image signature tree; searching among the plurality of subgroups for a result-subgroup having the same main color as the main color of a given image and containing an image whose CFV has the shortest distance from the CFV of the given image; comparing the CFV of the given image with the CFVs in the result group; and identifying a near-duplicate image from the result group that meets a preset near-duplicate image determining condition. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126814 | IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH ALPHA CHANNEL DATA - Techniques for a compressed image with alpha channel data are described. Encoded alpha channel data from a compressed image representation may be extracted. A common type pixel run characteristic may be determined for at least one common type pixel run represented in the encoded alpha channel data. A common alpha channel value is applied, based on the common type pixel run characteristic, to pixels in a decompressed image representation correlated to the at least one common type pixel run. Pixels in the decompressed image representation correlating to at least one lookup type pixel run represented in the encoded alpha channel data may be processed. The processing may include a determination of an alpha channel value based on pixel data, specific to a pixel correlated to the lookup type pixel run, in the encoded alpha channel data and an application of the alpha channel value to the pixel. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126815 | COLOR BALANCING APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE IMAGE SYNTHESIS AND METHOD THEREFOR - A color balancing apparatus for multiple image synthesis and a method therefore, in which an automatic white balance unit, with respect to each of a plurality of input images that are obtained by sequentially capturing adjacent scenes, is configured to compare a neutral color representing the input image with chromaticity of standard sources that are predefined, determine a standard source which is closest to the neutral color among the standard sources as a standard illuminant, and perform a white balance on the input image based on the standard illuminant, so that a natural wide-area synthesis image is generated by use of a light source estimation scheme considering multiple light sources, without complex computation of the conventional wide-area image synthesis, are provided. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126816 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR COLOR-BALANCING A SERIES OF OBLIQUE IMAGES - Image processing systems and methods are disclosed, including an image processing system comprising a computer running image processing software causing the computer to divide a captured oblique image into a plurality of oblique image sections, the oblique image sections determined at least in part on a path length distance between the location of a point in the scene in the captured oblique image and the location of the camera when the oblique image was captured; and apply a varying amount of color correction to the sections based in part on the determined path length, thereby reducing variation in the captured oblique image caused by specular reflection and atmosphere depicted in the sections prior to color balancing. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126817 | IMAGE ANALYSIS USING COEFFICIENT DISTRIBUTIONS WITH SELECTIVE BASIS FEATURE REPRESENTATION - Distributional information for a set of α vectors is determined using a sparse basis selection approach to representing an input image or video. In some examples, this distributional information is used for a classification task. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126818 | METHOD OF OCCLUSION-BASED BACKGROUND MOTION ESTIMATION - A technique for estimating background motion in monocular video sequences is described herein. The technique is based on occlusion information contained in video sequences. Two algorithms are described for estimating background motion: one fits well for general cases, and the other fits well for a case when available memory is very limited. The significance of the technique includes: a motion segmentation algorithm with adaptive and temporally stable estimate of the number of objects is developed, two algorithms are developed to infer occlusion relations among segmented objects using the detected occlusions and background motion estimation from the inferred occlusion relations. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126819 | Region of Interest Based Image Registration - Techniques for registering images based on an identified region of interest (ROI) are described. In general, the disclosed techniques identify a region of ROI within an image and assign areas within the image corresponding to those regions more importance during the registration process. More particularly, the disclosed techniques may employ user-input or image content information to identify the ROI. Once identified, features within the ROI may be given more weight or significance during registration operations than other areas of the image having high-feature content but which are not as important to the individual capturing the image. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126820 | Local Image Translating Method and Terminal with Touch Screen - The invention provides a method for local image translation and a terminal with a touch screen, wherein the method for local image translation includes: obtaining a region to be translated from an original image; extracting a region with a remarkable characteristic through performing cluster analysis on the region; performing region growing according to the region with the remarkable characteristic to generate a target region; and fusing the target region translated to the target image with the target image. The above method for local image translation and the terminal with the touch screen can be used for translating the local images in various types of images. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126821 | FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION - Foreground and background image segmentation is described. In an example, a seed region is selected in a foreground portion of an image, and a geodesic distance is calculated from each image element to the seed region. A subset of the image elements having a geodesic distance less than a threshold is determined, and this subset of image elements are labeled as foreground. In another example, an image element from an image showing at least a user, a foreground object in proximity to the user, and a background is applied to trained decision trees to obtain probabilities of the image element representing one of these items, and a corresponding classification assigned to the image element. This is repeated for each image element. Image elements classified as belonging to the user are labeled as foreground, and image elements classified as foreground objects or background are labeled as background. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126822 | Image Processing - A method and apparatus for processing images, the method comprising: using a radar ( | 2014-05-08 |
20140126823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND ACTING UPON HANDWRITTEN ACTION ITEMS - A method and system for identifying and acting on a handwritten action item is disclosed. The system may learn a set of user-defined symbols and associate each symbol with an action category. Then, when the system that captures a handwritten action item that includes one of the symbols, it will determine which action category that corresponds to the symbol, identify process parameters in the action item, determine a task to be performed based on the action category, and apply the process parameters to automatically perform the task. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126824 | EFFICIENT INNER PRODUCT COMPUTATION FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS - A computationally efficient approach to determining inner products between feature vectors is provided that eliminates or reduces the need for multiplication, and more specifically, provides an efficient and accurate basis selection for techniques such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126825 | BUSINESS CARD INFORMATION EXCHANGE METHOD COMBINING CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND IMAGE MATCHING - Provided in the present invention is a method for exchanging business card information by combining character recognition and image matching, and the method is applicable in a network system composed of a website server, a first client, and a second client. The method comprises at least: the first client uploading to the website server character information and an image feature acquired from a business card image of a second client user; the website server retrieving all the prestored business cards matched with the character information from a business card database, performing an image feature matching, then selecting a candidate business card on the basis of the similarity of the image feature, and determining if the candidate business card belongs to the second client user; if so, then after obtaining the second client' permission, the website server transmitting the business card information of the second client user to the first client, while also transmitting the business card information of the first client to the second client; and if not, then ending the procedure. This ensures the accuracy and recognition speed of exchanging business card information, and further protects the privacy of the business card owners. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126826 | IMAGE EVALUATION DEVICE, IMAGE EVALUATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image evaluation device pertaining to the present invention aims to realize evaluations matching the needs of each individual user, with respect to images shared on a network. The image evaluation device includes: image feature extraction unit extracting image features from a plurality of images; evaluation information acquisition unit acquiring evaluation information, the evaluation information containing results of evaluations of the images performed by users including a subject user; generation unit generating relational information based on the image features and the evaluation information, the relational information showing relationship between the images, the users, and image feature groups into which the image features are classified; and image social importance calculation unit calculating an image social importance degree of each image based on the relational information generated by the generation unit, each image social importance degree showing a degree of importance to the subject user of the corresponding image. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126827 | MOTION IMAGE REGION IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A rectangular moving image region is determined using a simple configuration. When the difference between the representative value of a unit block and the representative value of the same unit block in a comparative frame exceeds a threshold, moving unit block judgment means | 2014-05-08 |
20140126828 | ADJUSTING APPLICATION PROPERTIES - A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying a first reference point on a display. A second reference point of an object of an application is identified, wherein the object is on the display. A distance is determined of the first reference point on the display from the second reference point of the object on the display. One or more properties of the application is adjusted based upon, at least in part, the distance of the first reference point on the display from the second reference point of the object on the display. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126829 | INTERACTIVE TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE FOR WINE - Interactive display and rendering device, system and method for wine bottles. are disclosed. An interactive wine management and display device and method using a scanning instrument capable of scanning information regarding a bottle of wine; an imaging instrument capable of collecting an image of at least a portion of a bottle of wine; a connection to a wine database containing information regarding wines; a connection to a database having images of wine bottles. The device is able to render the images as well as information on the wine to a display for user interaction. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device, including a cluster reconfiguration determining unit that, in a case where new data having positional information in a feature amount space is added to a data group in which each data has positional information in the feature amount space and is classified into a cluster based on a distance in the feature amount space, decides that a candidate cluster is to be reconfigured when the new data is classified into the cluster if there are a plurality of candidate clusters into which the new data is classifiable based on the distance in the feature amount space among the clusters. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126831 | Method for the Reconstruction of Compressed Digital Image Data - The invention relates to a method for the re-construction of digital image data which has been lossy-compressed by transform coding and quantization, comprising the steps of a) Inputting JPEG-compressed digital image data (J | 2014-05-08 |
20140126832 | SELECTING TRANSFORM PATHS FOR COMPRESSING VISUAL DATA - Encoding data includes: determining multiple patterns for computing one-dimensional transforms over a first array of data elements. Each pattern includes multiple subsets of data elements of the first array. Each subset included in a first pattern has substantially the same number of data elements as each of the other subsets included in the first pattern. Each data element of the first array is included in a single one of the subsets included in the first pattern. At least one subset included in the first pattern consists of data elements that are not in a contiguous sequence along a single dimension. Encoding the data includes: computing, for each pattern, multiple one-dimensional transforms over data elements of respective subsets included in the pattern; selecting a set of transform coefficients from a group of multiple sets of transform coefficients; and encoding the selected set of transform coefficients to represent the first array. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126833 | Systems and Methods for Performing Image Inpainting - Various embodiments are disclosed for performing image inpainting. One embodiment is a method for editing a digital image in an image editing device that comprises obtaining a restoration region in the digital image and generating a structure strength map corresponding to the restoration region based on structure characteristics associated with each pixel in the restoration region. Based on the structure strength map, priority levels are determined for pixels in the restoration region. An inpainting operation is applied to the pixels in the restoration region, beginning with a pixel having a highest relative priority determined based on the structure characteristics. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126834 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING OF AN IMAGE - The invention addresses the problem that traditional Total Variation only enforces the horizontal and vertical intensity continuity and thus fails to reconstruct oblique edges well. In an embodiment, Directional Total Variation is defined which supports multiple gradient directions. It first pre-processes the image and determines the direction of edges/texture; Directional TV is calculated based on the gradients along the determined direction and its orthogonal direction. By utilizing adaptive weights to different directions in the regularization, Directional TV is capable of preserving edges independent from their orientation nicely. Thus, Directional TV regularization based image denoising, compression or super resolution tend to obtain better quality. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126835 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126836 | CORRECTION OF VARIABLE OFFSETS RELYING UPON SCENE - In accordance with various aspects of the disclosure, a method, system, and computer readable media having instructions for processing images is disclosed. For example, the method includes determining a suspicious pixel suspected of causing an artifact in a measurement as a function of a statistical analysis of a collection of samples representing residual error values associated with a subject focal plane pixel measuring one waveband at different times. Based on the determination of the suspicious pixel, a pattern of residual error values is identified that is indicative of the artifact caused by the suspicious pixel. A correcting time-dependent offset determined that is substantially reciprocal to the identified pattern of residual error values. The correcting time-dependent offset is applied to the measurement to correct for artifact in the measurement. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126837 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO PROCESSING - A video processing apparatus and method is provided. The video processing apparatus divides video data and then processes a current divided area of the divided video data by referring to pixels in an adjacent divided area while processing the current divided area, thereby minimizing artifacts generation along a boundary between divided areas when the processed divided areas are subsequently merged. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126838 | Mosaic Oblique Images and Methods of Making and Using Same - A computer system running image processing software receives an identification of a desired geographical area to be imaged and collected into an oblique-mosaic image; creates a mathematical model of a virtual camera looking down at an oblique angle, the mathematical model having an oblique-mosaic pixel map of the desired area encompassing multiple source images; assigns surface locations to pixels included in the oblique-mosaic pixel map; creates a ground elevation model of the ground and vertical structures within the oblique-mosaic pixel map using overlapping source images of the desired geographical area, wherein the source oblique images were captured at an oblique angle and compass direction similar to that of the virtual camera; and reprojects, with the mathematical model, source oblique image pixels of the overlapping source images for pixels included in the oblique-mosaic pixel map using the ground elevation model to thereby create an oblique-mosaic image of the desired area. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126839 | DEFECT DETECTION USING JOINT ALIGNMENT AND DEFECT EXTRACTION - A technique for image processing that includes receiving a model image, an input image, and registering the input image with the model image. A modified input image is determined that includes a first component that is substantially free of error components with respect to the model image and a second component that is substantially free of non-error aspects with respect to the model image. The technique determines an improved alignment of the modified input image with the model image where the improved alignment and the first and second components are determined jointly. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126840 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PIXEL INTERPOLATION METHOD - A periodicity determining unit determines whether an image region including a target pixel is a periodic region in which pixel values vary periodically. A first generating unit generates a pixel value using a first interpolation method. A second generating unit generates a pixel value using a second interpolation method. A control unit determines, based on the determination result of the periodicity determining unit, which one of the first and second generating units is to be used for generating a pixel value of the target pixel. A pixel value inserting unit inserts the generated pixel value to the target pixel. The periodicity determining unit includes a cycle estimating unit to estimate, using pixel values of pixels within the image region, a variation cycle of the pixel values, and/or a determining unit to determine whether each region positioned at left and right sides of the target pixel is the periodic region. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126841 | REAL-TIME CLOUD IMAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGING METHOD THEREOF - A real-time cloud imaging system includes at least a frontend device and a backend system. The frontend device generates an instruction message and a ROI (Region of Interest) message, and the backend system is coupled to the frontend device. The backend system has at least a raw image, wherein the raw image has a plurality of images of different resolutions. Each of the images and the raw image are composed of a plurality of tiles. The ROI message corresponds to a region of interest respectively within each of the images and the raw image. The backend system, according to the instruction message and the ROI message, selectively provides a grouping of the tiles within the region of interest of the raw image or one of the images to the frontend device. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126842 | REUSABLE SHOPPING BAG HAVING MULTIPLE SECONDARY USES - The invention disclosed herein provides a shopping bag that has multiple alternative uses. 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. 37 CFR 1.72(b). | 2014-05-08 |
20140126843 | STANDING BAG TYPE INFUSION LIQUID CONTAINER - The present invention relates to a standing bag type container and aims to increase a visibility of the residual liquid volume in accordance with the progress of infusion process. The standing bag type container includes a bag | 2014-05-08 |
20140126844 | Bulk Bag Carrier with Pallet - A bulk bag carrier for transporting soft goods or granular products is provided. The carrier comprises a flexible bulk bag and a pallet. The bulk bag comprises an upper section that defines a product compartment and a sleeve suspended below the upper section that defines a pocket for receiving the pallet. The pallet may be foldable to facilitate insertion of the pallet into the sleeve. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126845 | MAIN SPINDLE DEVICE OF MACHINE TOOL - A main spindle device of a machine tool includes a plurality of bearings that rotatably support a main spindle of the machine tool, and that are placed inside a housing with a pressure receiving member interposed between the bearings and the housing. The pressure receiving member is capable of moving in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the main spindle. A pressure chamber, which a pressure medium pressing the pressure receiving member toward the bearings in the perpendicular direction is supplied to, is formed in the housing. A plurality of the pressure chambers are independently formed in the housing so as to correspond to the bearings, respectively. The main spindle device further includes a plurality of adjustment units provided independently so as to correspond the pressure chambers, respectively, and each capable of independently adjusting a pressure of the pressure medium for a corresponding one of the pressure chambers. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126846 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE - A shaft side sealing surface ( | 2014-05-08 |
20140126847 | BEARING ARRANGEMENT - A bearing arrangement comprising a bearing shell, and a bearing shell receiving element, wherein the bearing shell is cylindrical or part-cylindrical and has a circumferential oil supply slot, and the bearing shell receiving element has an oil supply channel located in correspondence with the oil supply slot. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126848 | FRICTION AND WEAR REDUCTION IN CRYOGENIC MECHANISMS AND OTHER SYSTEMS - An apparatus includes a first component having a first surface and a second component having a second surface. The first surface includes sputtered gold, and the second surface includes a stainless steel alloy. The first surface is configured to contact the second surface, and one of the components is configured to move against another of the components. The stainless steel alloy could consist of a UNS 21800/AISI Type S21800 metal. The sputtered gold could include ion sputtered gold, and the sputtered gold could have a thickness of about 1 micron. The first component could include a first blade of an adjustable aperture mechanism, where the adjustable aperture mechanism also includes a second blade. The second component could include a first plate of the adjustable aperture mechanism, where the adjustable aperture mechanism further includes a second plate. The blades can be configured to move within a space between the plates. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126849 | MUTLI-PIECE ROLLING BEARING - A wheel bearing arrangement with first rolling elements, which are capable of rolling on a first inner ring, wherein the rolling elements are guided by a first roller bearing cage, and an axial spacer element is provided for spacing apart the first inner ring from a bearing element, wherein the bearing element can in particular be a second inner ring. The intention is to facilitate the complex installation of the individual parts in wheel bearings for utility vehicles. The first rolling element cage forms, together with the axial spacer element, an axial form-fitting connection. The spacer element can be fixed to at least one of the inner rings via the form-fitting connection to the cage prior to tightening the wheel hub, together with the wheel bearing preinstalled thereon. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126850 | CONFIGURATION FOR A ROLLER OF A ROLLER BEARING - A tapered roller for a tapered roller bearing, the tapered roller bearing having a raceway and a flange, and the tapered roller having a rolling surface configured to roll on the raceway and an end surface at the end of the rolling surface configured to face the flange. The end surface includes an abutment surface having a curvature and a radially outer end and a radially inner end and is configured to contact the flange. The curvature increases monotonically from a starting point on the abutment surface to the radially inner end of the abutment surface. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126851 | ROLLING BEARING WITH OPTIMIZED PRESS-IN FORCE - A rolling contact bearing includes a shaft having a first radial elevation and a second radial elevation. A first inner ring has a first raceway for the rolling bodies to roll on, a first radial narrowing and a second radial narrowing, the first radial elevation and the first radial narrowing forming a first press fit, and, respectively, the second radial elevation and the second radial narrowing forming a second press fit. The shaft has a third radial elevation and a fourth radial elevation. A second inner ring has a second, radially outer rolling body raceway for rolling bodies to roll on, a third radial narrowing and a fourth radial narrowing, wherein the third radial elevation and the third radial narrowing forming a third press fit and, respectively, the fourth radial elevation and the fourth radial narrowing forming a fourth press fit. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126852 | CAGE FOR THRUST ROLLER BEARING - A cage bar of at least one of pockets, the cage bar being on one side of the at least one of the pockets in the circumferential direction, has a bent portion that is bent toward one side in an axial direction such that an end face of the cage bar on the other side in the axial direction is recessed toward the one side in the axial direction. Further, a cage bar of the at least one of the pockets, the cage bar being on the other side of the at least one of the pockets in the circumferential direction, has a bent portion that is bent toward the other side in the axial direction such that an end face of the cage bar on the one side in the axial direction is recessed toward the other side in the axial direction. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126853 | MICRO-RING RESONATOR - A micro-ring resonator includes a bus optical waveguide and a circular optical waveguide positioned adjacent to the bus optical waveguide so as to provide evanescent coupling of light between the waveguides. The cladding of the circular optical waveguide comprises an electro-optic polymer with an index of refraction that can be changed through application of an electric field. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126854 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE WITH CASCADED MODULATOR CIRCUITS - An optical waveguide for transmitting an optical signal input to the optical waveguide with a first frequency. The optical waveguide includes a plurality of modulator circuits configured along an optical transmission channel. Each modulator circuit includes at least one resonant structure that resonates at the first frequency when the modulator circuit that includes the at least one resonant structure is at a resonant temperature. Each modulator circuit has a different resonant temperature. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126855 | Polarization Control Device - A polarization control device includes a MMI device having primary-side and secondary-side end-faces; a first phase shifter optically coupled to a first port in the primary-side end-face; a first optical waveguide optically coupled via the first phase shifter to the first port in the primary-side end-face; a second optical waveguide optically coupled to a second port in the primary-side end-face; and a tapered waveguide optically coupled to a first port in the secondary-side end-face. The first and second ports in the primary-side end-face are located on first and second axes, respectively. The first port in the secondary-side end-face is located on a third axis located between the first and second axes. The first, second, and third axes extend in a direction from the primary-side end-face to the secondary-side end-face. The tapered waveguide has a width decreasing in a direction from one end to the other end of the tapered waveguide. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126856 | Method and System for Integrated Power Combiners - A method and system for integrated power combiners are disclosed and may include a chip comprising a polarization controller, the polarization controller comprising an input optical waveguide, optical couplers, and a polarization-splitting grating coupler. The chip may be operable to: generate two output signals from a first optical coupler that receives an input signal from said input optical waveguide, phase modulate one or both of the two output signals to configure a phase offset between the two generated output signals before communicating signals with the phase offset to a second optical coupler. One or both optical signals generated by said second optical coupler may be phase modulated to configure a phase offset between signals communicated to the polarization-splitting grating coupler; and an optical signal of a desired polarization may be launched into an optical fiber via the polarization-splitting grating coupler by combining the signals communicated to the polarization-splitting grating coupler. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126857 | OPTO-ELECTRIC HYBRID BOARD - An opto-electric hybrid board which is capable of significantly reducing stresses applied to a bent portion thereof is provided. The opto-electric hybrid board includes a stacked electric circuit board and an optical waveguide. The electric circuit board includes an insulative layer having front and back surfaces, electrical interconnect lines formed on the front surface of the insulative layer, and an insulative coverlay formed on the front surface of the insulative layer and for covering and protecting the electrical interconnect lines. The optical waveguide includes a first cladding layer having a front surface, cores formed in a pattern on the front surface of the first cladding layer, and a second cladding layer covering the cores. Part of the opto-electric hybrid board is defined as a to-be-bent portion in which the coverlay and the optical waveguide are disposed in non-overlapping relation. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126858 | PIN AND SOCKET TERMINUS ASSEMBLIES FOR TERMINATING OPTICAL CABLES - An optical cable assembly includes an optical cable having an end. The optical cable includes a plastic optical fiber (POF) having a tip segment that includes a tip surface. The optical cable assembly also includes a socket terminus assembly that terminates the end of the optical cable and is configured to mate with a pin terminus assembly. The socket terminus assembly includes a terminus body having a cable passage. At least a portion of the end of the optical cable extends within the cable passage such that the tip surface of the tip segment of the POF is configured to engage a mating POF of the pin terminus assembly to optically couple the POF to the mating POF. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126859 | TERMINUS ASSEMBLY FOR TERMINATING AN OPTICAL CABLE - A terminus assembly is provided for terminating an optical cable that includes a plastic optical fiber (POF) having a tip segment that includes a tip surface. The terminus assembly includes a shell that includes a cable passage. The cable passage is configured to receive at least a portion of a length of the optical cable therein such that the tip segment of the POF extends within the cable passage. A POF stub is held by the shell. The POF stub extends a length from a mating end to a fiber end. The mating end of the POF stub is configured to optically couple with a mating POF of a mating connector. The fiber end of the POF stub includes a coupling surface. The POF stub is held by the shell such that the fiber end extends within the cable passage of the shell. The coupling surface of the fiber end is configured to be aligned with the tip surface of the POF within the cable passage of the shell such that the POF stub is optically coupled to the POF. The POF stub serves as a forward stop for the POF of the optical cable. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126860 | ROTARY OPTICAL CABLE CONNECTOR - The rotary connector is intended for use in the field of fiber optic communication and information transfer. The rotary optical cable connector includes a housing, in which two units with guide sleeves are arranged opposite one another, each having the ends of optical cables fastened therein. One of the units is able to rotate, and the other is fixed. A prism is situated between the guide sleeves, and retainers in the form of rods with a cruciform cross-section are secured in the sleeves. The optical cables are disposed in the recesses in the aforesaid retainers and the ends of the cables line up with gradient-index lenses. The rotary connector transmits four rotating light beams with minimal loss. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126861 | FIXING DEVICE FOR OPTICAL FIBER DETECTION - An optical fiber fixing device includes a base, first fixing block and a second fixing block. The base includes an upper surface has a receiving groove and a groove which is connected with the receiving groove. The receiving groove receives an optical fiber connector, the optical fiber connector receives a plurality of optical fibers, and two ends of the optical fibers separately protrude out of the optical fiber connector. The groove has an optical detecting device, the detecting device defines a plurality of light apertures. The first fixing block is set on the upper surface, which is configured to fix the optical fiber connector into the receiving groove. The second fixing block is received in the groove, in order to fix the detecting device in the groove, the plurality of light apertures are aligned with the plurality of optical fibers. | 2014-05-08 |
20140126862 | TERMINUS ASSEMBLY FOR TERMINATING AN OPTICAL CABLE - An optical cable assembly includes an optical cable having an end that extends a length. The optical cable includes a plastic optical fiber (POF) and a buffer surrounding the POF along a portion of the length of the end of the optical cable. A terminus assembly terminates the end of the optical cable. The terminus assembly includes a terminus body having a cable passage and a crimp zone. At least a portion of the length of the end of the optical cable extends within the cable passage of the terminus body such that the terminus body surrounds the buffer of the optical cable at the crimp zone. The terminus body is mechanically crimped over, in engagement with, the buffer of the optical cable at the crimp zone. | 2014-05-08 |