22nd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090136084 | DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTING DEVICE - Provided is a digital watermark detecting device for improving the accuracy of reliability judgment of detected information thereby to prevent misdetection. The digital watermark detecting device includes a pixel extracting unit ( | 2009-05-28 |
20090136085 | Detecting Embedded Signals in Media Content Using Coincidence Metrics - A method of detecting an embedded signal in a media signal. The method comprises receiving blocks of the media signal and computing a detection metric for the blocks. The detection metric comprises a measure of coincidence of detection parameters of different blocks. The method performs subsequent detection operations based on the measure of coincidence of the detection parameters. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136086 | Spray data acquisition system - A spray data acquisition system includes a spray pump actuator that is capable of providing a pumping force to a pumping device to generate an aerosol spray plume along a spray axis. The system also includes an illumination device that illuminates the aerosol spray plume along at least one first geometric plane that intersects the aerosol spray plume. The system further includes an imaging device that acquires data representative of an interaction between the illumination and the aerosol spray plume along at least one geometric plane. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136087 | Replacement Based Watermarking - A video processor for replacement based watermarking may include a video content input channel; a video content preprocessor; a replacement based watermarking (RBW) metadata creator; and a video content encoder. To output the encoded video content, the video processor may have a dual or single output channel. For a dual output channel, the video processor includes an encoded video content output channel and an RBW metadata output channel for outputting encoded video content and RBW metadata as separate streams for further processing and distribution. For a single output channel, the video processor includes a video content output channel for outputting encoded video content combined with RBW metadata as a single output stream for further processing and distribution. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136088 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a watermark process section in an image processing apparatus, a visible watermark pattern read-out section reads out a visible watermark pattern that is stored in a memory. An invisible watermark generating section draws an invisible watermark on the read-out visible watermark pattern. Image data, which includes both the visible watermark and drawn invisible watermark, is multiplied by an overlay ratio. An adder section adds the visible/invisible watermark image data, which is multiplied by the overlay ratio, and input image data. Thus, watermark-overlaid image data is generated. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136089 | 3D inspection of an object using x-rays - A method is presented for a 3D inspection of an object or bag in order to check for explosives or contraband. The method is applicable to Computed Tomography, Laminography or any other method that can be used to produce images of slices through the object. According to this method, it is not necessary to reconstruct the slice image with a high resolution as is required for visual display, but it is sufficient to reconstruct the image at only a sample or a set of points or pixels that are sparsely distributed within the reconstructed slice. The properties of the object are then analyzed only at these sparsely distributed pixels within the slice to make a determination for the presence or absence of explosives or contraband. This process of image reconstruction and analysis is repeated over several slices spaced through the volume of the object. In another embodiment of this invention, the set of points or pixels at which the image is reconstructed are offset spatially with respect to the set of pixels in the adjacent or neighboring slice. This invention greatly reduces the computational burden, hence simplifies the hardware and software design, speeds up the scanning process and allows for a more complete and uniform inspection of the entire volume of the object. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136090 | House Displacement Judging Method, House Displacement Judging Device - To attain a house change judging method and device which can judge a change with high precision and is capable of fully automating the judgment, the present invention provides a house change judging method for judging a change of a house ( | 2009-05-28 |
20090136091 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A powerful, scaleable, and reconfigurable image processing system and method of processing data therein is described. This general purpose, reconfigurable engine with toroidal topology, distributed memory, and wide bandwidth I/O are capable of solving real applications at real-time speeds. The reconfigurable image processing system can be optimized to efficiently perform specialized computations, such as real-time video and audio processing. This reconfigurable image processing system provides high performance via high computational density, high memory bandwidth, and high I/O bandwidth. Generally, the reconfigurable image processing system and its control structure include a homogeneous array of 16 field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and 16 static random access memories (SRAM) arranged in a partial torus configuration. The reconfigurable image processing system also includes a PCI bus interface chip, a clock control chip, and a datapath chip. It can be implemented in a single board. It receives data from its external environment, computes correspondence, and uses the results of the correspondence computations for various post-processing industrial applications. The reconfigurable image processing system determines correspondence by using non-parametric local transforms followed by correlation. These non-parametric local transforms include the census and rank transforms. Other embodiments involve a combination of correspondence, rectification, a left-right consistency check, and the application of an interest operator. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136092 | OBJECT BOUNDARY ACCURATE MOTION DETECTION USING HIERARCHICAL BLOCK SPLITTING AND MOTION SEGMENTATION - The present invention is directed to an apparatus for motion segmentation in the field of motion detection, whereby an initial motion map is processed to a more accurate final motion map which identifies the non- and the movement of pixels between at least two successive images, said apparatus comprising a processing-segmentation device and a combination-logic device. In this apparatus the initial motion map is processed to three different feature maps, describing static edges, moving edges and moving flat areas between at least two successive images, respectively. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THERMAL ANOMALIES - A system and method for detecting a thermal anomaly in humans and/or livestock. In one embodiment, the system includes an image capturing component that captures a visual image of incident light in a screening area, the image capturing component further operable to determine a first coordinate in the captured image, such as the location of a person's eyes. The system further includes a radiation capturing component operable to capture a thermal image of incident radiation in the screening area, the radiation capturing component further operable to determine an analysis area in the captured thermal image based upon the first coordinate in the captured light image. Finally, the system includes a processing component for determining thermal characteristics about the analysis area. As a result, if the thermal characteristics correspond to an alarm event, then an alarm may be triggered and the person or animal may be isolated for further health screening. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136094 | Systems And Methods For Patient Identification Using Mobile Face Recognition - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a patient identifier system including an image capture component adapted to capture a patient image, an image lookup component adapted to compare the patient image to a plurality of stored images to identify a matching image, and a record retrieval component adapted to retrieve medical data using patient data associated with the matching image. The patient image is an image of a patient. Each stored image is associated with patient data. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136095 | Method for Recognition Between a First Object and a Second Object Each Represented by Images - A recognition method for recognition between a first and second object represented by at least one first image and at least one second image, includes: defining a plurality of rectangular assemblies of random pixels; filtering the first image with first n filters obtained from the assemblies of pixels to obtain n first filtered matrices; classifying the n first filtered matrices by providing a first centre and a first radius within a space of N dimensions; filtering the second image with the first n filters to obtain n second filtered matrices; classifying the n second filtered matrices by providing a second centre within the space of N dimensions; comparing the first centre and first radius with the second centre; whereby recognition between the object and second object has if at least one second centre lies at a distance from the first centre which is less than or equal to at least one first radius. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136096 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEGMENTATION OF DATA INVOLVING A HIERARCHICAL MESH - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, user interactions of adding, removing and selecting scale, within a mesh framework to improve repeatability and reproducibility of an arbitrary process in a three-dimensional medical space. In some embodiments, a multiple-mesh framework further improves performance of an arbitrary segmentation process. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136097 | MARKING APPARATUS, MARKING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MARKING A LOCATION IN A MEDICAL IMAGE - Methods and apparatus provide for marking a location in a medical image, including: providing a first marker within a first medical image, which shows an object, at a first location, determining a second location, which corresponds to the first location, within a second medical image showing the same object, marking the second location with a second marker, which is different to the first marker, and presenting the first medical image, the first marker, the second medical image and the second marker. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136098 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE PACING FOR EFFECTIVE RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATION - A system and method of efficiently and effectively triaging an image that may include one or more target entities are provided. The image is divided into a plurality of individual image chips that each have a determinable image complexity. The image complexity of each image chip is determined, and each image chip is successively displayed to a user for a presentation time period that, for each image chip, varies based on the determined image complexity of the image chip. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136099 | Image guided surgery with dynamic image reconstruction - A method may include processing two or more fiducials included in a three-dimensional medical image and included in a current image to generate two or more transform coefficients of a transform, and applying the transform to the three-dimensional medical image to form a present image. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136100 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CREATING RETINAL FUNDUS MAPS - A device has means for computing and obtaining blood vessel extraction images by extracting blood vessel portions from two or more fundus images, means for computing and obtaining a corner data image having corner portions of the blood vessel portions detected from the obtained blood vessel extraction image, means for computing and obtaining a probability distribution diagram for the corner data image by convolving the corner data image with a window function, means for computing a matching probability score when executing a matching processing between two or more fundus images on the basis of the probability distribution diagram corresponding to each fundus image obtained and the corner data image, and means for creating a retinal fundus map by superimposing two or more fundus images on the basis of the obtained matching probability score. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136101 | Method and System for Analyzing Skin Conditions Using Digital Images - The embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for analyzing skin conditions using digital images. The method comprises acquiring a white-light image and an ultraviolet (UV) image of a portion of a body surface, such as a person's face, each of the white-light and UV images including a plurality of pixels and each pixel in the UV image corresponding to a respective pixel in the white-light image. The method further comprises identifying skin-pixels in the white-light and UV images, and obtaining results associated with at least one skin condition using information in the skin pixels in the first white light and UV images. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136102 | IMAGE PROCESSING OF MEDICAL IMAGES - An image processing method and system are described for processing medical images. The method comprises using a new coordinate system for representing combined image data of said plurality of medical images based on correlation information between image data of a plurality of medical images. The method further may comprise extracting such correlation information, and after said representing, mapping obtained image data to an antagonist colour space, thus resulting in visualisation with a fused image with high contrast and luminance and with particular human vision parameters relating to equalities and differences in the plurality of medical images studied. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136103 | System and methods for image segmentation in N-dimensional space - A system and methods for the efficient segmentation of globally optimal surfaces representing object boundaries in volumetric datasets is provided. An optical surface detection system and methods are provided that are capable of simultaneously detecting multiple interacting surfaces in which the optimality is controlled by the cost functions designed for individual surfaces and by several geometric constraints defining the surface smoothness and interrelations. The present invention includes surface segmentation using a layered graph-theoretic approach that optimally segments multiple interacting surfaces of a single object using a pre-segmentation step, after which the segmentation of all desired surfaces of the object are performed simultaneously in a single optimization process. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136104 | Noise Reduction Apparatus, Systems, and Methods - This document describes a general system for noise reduction, as well as a specific system for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR). The general system, which is called Calculated Readout by Spectral Parallelism (CRISP), involves reconstruction and recombination of frequency-limited broadband data using separate narrowband data channels to create images or signal profiles. A multi-channel CRISP system can perform this separation using (1) frequency tuned hardware, (2) a frequency filter-bank (or equivalent), or (3) a combination of implementations (1) and (2). This system significantly reduces what we call cross-frequency noise, thereby increasing signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). A multi-channel CRISP system applicable to MRI and NQR are described. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136105 | RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND RETRIEVAL METHOD FOR RETRIEVING MEDICAL IMAGES - A retrieval system for retrieving medical images is provided. The retrieval system includes an archive for storing medical images, a routing device for determining selected medical images stored in the archive and for routing the selected medical images based on routing rules, and a plurality of end-user devices for use with the medical images for medical diagnosis, the selected medical images stored in the archive being automatically routed via the routing device from the archive to respective one or ones of the end-user devices. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136106 | VOLUME RENDERING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Volume rendering of images of four dimensional (4D) heart image data, in particular cardiac CT data by slab multiplanar reformatting (MPR), is improved by providing an automated method and apparatus for determining and locking onto anatomically relevant viewing parameters. In particular the view plane, view axis and view orientation are changed from frame to frame in the movie so they remain fixed to an anatomical feature of interest, thereby providing a stable movie of the heart feature of interest. Provision of a dynamic view plane compensates not only for translational motion of the heart feature of interest, but also for its tilting and twisting. Tilting effects are highly significant when viewing heart valves, since the valve plane exhibits varying angles of tilt through the heart phases as a result of the generally tubular arteries and veins exhibiting a bending motion. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136107 | Automatic Segmentation of the Heart and Aorta in Medical 3-D Scans Without Contrast Media Injections - A method automatically segments the heart and abdominal aorta from volumetric images without the need to inject iodine contrast media into the subject. The method automatically quantifies arterial plaque (hard plaque, soft plaque or both) in the cardiovascular system. Plaque definitions include subject specific in vivo blood/muscle density measurements, subject specific voxel statistical parameters and 2-D and 3-D voxel connectivity criteria, which are used to automatically identify the plaques. The locations and outlines of the major arteries are determined in a 3-D coordinate system and the specific coordinates of the detected plaques are displayed in a plaque map for follow-up exams or ease in plaque review and reporting the results. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136108 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DELINEATION OF CONTOURS OF TISSUE IN MEDICAL IMAGES - The present invention relates to a method for delineating the contour of an object in captured medical images by first transforming the shape of the object into a simple geometric shape that is more computationally tractable than the shape of the object. After the contour of the transformed shape is detected, the inverse of the transformation is applied to the contour such that it represents the contour of the object in the captured medical image. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136109 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS BY QUANTIFICATION OF MYOCARDIAL PERFORMANCE - An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is described which acquires 3D data sets of the heart including the myocardium. The epicardial myocardium in the data sets are identified by automated or A 3D image of the myocardium is produced from the defined surfaces. The 3D image illustrates the wall regions, with quantified measures made for each defined region. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136110 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - An image processor executes an image processing under an appropriate condition. The image possessor comprises an important area detecting section ( | 2009-05-28 |
20090136111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DIAGNOSING A MEDICAL CONDITION - A system and method of diagnosing a medical condition in a patient from accessing image data and non-image data of a patient, analyzing the combination of image data and non-image data to generate an output with image findings and a risk assessment for diagnosing certain medical conditions in the patient. The image data may be acquired from an image acquisition system. The non-image data may include clinical data of the patient and may be acquired from a user interface, an electronic medical record, and/or findings from an expert system from previous imaging sessions. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136112 | Method for the processing of images in interventional radioscopy - A method for the processing of images in interventional radioscopy to produce a sequence of de-noised images in which elongated objects of guiding instrumentation equipment are preserved and enhanced. The method of the invention uses a tool for indicating the confidence to be placed in a given pixel as regards its belonging to a piece of guidance equipment. This tool is used to create a combination algorithm capable of re-injecting the pixels having a low contrast-to-noise ratio into the de-noised image. This combination algorithm enables the enhancement solely of the pixels of the guidance equipment with a high confidence value so as not to produce artifacts with the enhancement of false positives. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136113 | REDUCING FALSE POSITIVES IN COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION - Methods, systems, and related computer program products for computer-aided detection (CAD) of anatomical abnormalities in digital (or digitized) x-ray mammograms are described. The inventive techniques are based on using a foundational CAD processing algorithm that is characterized by at least one of non-shift-invariance, non-rotational-invariance, and non-inversional-invariance. According to one preferred embodiment, a first x-ray mammogram image of a breast is received, and at least one altered version thereof is generated that differs therefrom by at least one of image shift, image rotation, and image inversion. The first x-ray mammogram image and each of the at least one altered versions thereof are individually processed using the foundational CAD algorithm to generate a respective plurality of individual CAD detection sets. The plurality of CAD detection sets are then compared to generate an overall CAD detection set. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136114 | MULTI-MODALITY INSPECTION METHOD WITH DATA VALIDATION AND DATA FUSION - An inspection method is provided and includes acquiring at least one inspection data set. Each inspection data set comprises inspection data for a component. The inspection method further includes mapping the inspection data set onto a three-dimensional (3D) model of the component, to generate a 3D inspection model for the component, and validating the inspection data against the 3D model of the component using at least one validation criterion. A multi-modality inspection method is also provided and includes acquiring multiple inspection data sets corresponding to multiple inspection modalities for a component and fusing the inspection data sets to form a fused data set. The multi-modality inspection method further includes mapping the fused data set onto a 3D model of the component to generate a 3D multi-modality inspection model for the component. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136115 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING RECHARGEABLE BATTERY CONNECTION STRUCTURE - An inspection apparatus for inspecting a rechargeable battery electrode plate-connected structure to check whether electrode plates are properly connected to a current collector plate by filters. The apparatus includes an imaging device arranged on one side of the rechargeable battery electrode plate-connected structure, a first lighting device which illuminates the rechargeable battery electrode plate-connected structure at the same side of the rechargeable battery electrode plate-connected structure as the first lighting device, a second lighting device which illuminates the rechargeable battery electrode plate-connected structure from the opposite side of the rechargeable battery electrode plate-connected structure, and an inspection circuit connected to the imaging device which inspects the connection state of the fillets by analyzing a front lighting image captured by the imaging device when only the first lighting device emits light and a back lighting image captured when only the second lighting device emits light. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136116 | Method and apparatus for inspecting reticle - The present invention provides a reticle inspection technology that enables a relative position between patterns to be evaluated for a pattern that may become a defect at the time of exposure to a sample, such as a wafer, in the double patterning technology on the same layer. An apparatus for inspecting a reticle for inspecting two reticles that are used in order to form patterns in the same layer on a substrate using the double patterning technology has: a coordinate information input unit for inputting coordinate information of a pattern of a measuring object; an image input unit for acquiring images of patterns of the two reticles based on the obtained coordinate information; an image overlay unit for overlaying the images of the two reticles at the same coordinates; a relative position calculation unit for finding the relative position between the patterns on the two reticles; an evaluation unit for assigning an index of the overlaying accuracy based on the relative position and evaluates whether the two reticles need repair; and an evaluation result output unit for outputting an evaluation result. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136117 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESIDUE DETECTION ON A POLISHED WAFER - There is provided an automatic optical inspection tool of an apparatus for residue detection on polished wafers, including an inspection tool, an illumination source, capable of instantaneous entire wafer surface illumination, colour digital camera, encompassing the entire wafers surface without eclipse, in a duple of consecutive, properly delayed imaging shots and providing appropriate image resolution for tiny residue detection, computation means, implementing image processing and manipulation algorithms to enable residue detection and characterization, logic and command operations execution and camera control, the computation means accumulating an on-line created wafer images and wafer residue defects data base, the computation means providing for inspection tool worthiness monitoring, wafer handling and transportation means. A method of automatic optical self-contained inspection for pattern wafers' polishing residue detection is also provided. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136118 | Electronic Device Handling Apparatus - An electronic device handling apparatus for conducting a test of electric characteristics of electronic devices by conveying the electronic devices to sockets of a contact portion and bringing them electrically connected to the sockets: wherein standard image data as image data of sockets to be standard is stored in advance, and inspection image data as image data of sockets as inspection objects is obtained by taking an image by the image pickup device, standard image data is read from a memory device and a defect of a socket as inspection objects is detected by comparing the standard image data with the inspection image data. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136119 | IMAGE PLOTTING DATA OBTAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PLOTTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Obtaining hypothetical image plot point trajectories in original image data corresponding to predetermined hypothetical image plotting trajectories on a substrate; obtaining and storing in advance hypothetical image plotting data corresponding to the hypothetical image plot point data trajectories from the original image data; selecting hypothetical image plot point data trajectories corresponding to the image plotting trajectory on the substrate when an image is plotted, and obtaining information indicating the area corresponding to the image plot point data trajectory in each hypothetical image plot point data trajectory indicated by the selected hypothetical image plot point data trajectories; identifying hypothetical image plotting data corresponding to the hypothetical image plotting data trajectories; obtaining partial hypothetical image plotting data based on the information indicating the area corresponding to the image plot point data trajectory; and obtaining image plotting data based on each partial hypothetical image plotting data. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136120 | LED INSPECTION APPARATUS AND LED INSPECTION METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a light emitting diode (LED) inspection apparatus, which can determine whether an LED has a defect such as leakage current, without making physical contact with the LED being inspected, and an LED inspection method thereof. The LED inspection apparatus includes an ultraviolet emission unit emitting UV light to an LED, an image generation unit generating an image of the LED to which the UV light is emitted, and a control unit obtaining color or intensity information of the LED from the image of the LED and determining, based on the color information, whether the LED is defective | 2009-05-28 |
20090136121 | Defect review method and apparatus - A candidate-defect classification method includes the steps of acquiring a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a candidate defect detected in an inspection from a sample including a pattern formed thereon, the inspection being preliminarily performed by an other inspection device; computing a feature value of the candidate defect by processing the SEM image; executing defect classification of the candidate defect as any one of a pattern shape defect and an other defect by using the computed feature value; acquiring positional information contained in design data of the pattern with respect to a candidate defect classified as the pattern shape defect; and extracting a systematic defect from among candidate defects classified as the pattern shape defects by performing a comparison of the positional information contained in the design data of the acquired candidate defect to positional information of a portion that has a high probability of causing a pattern formation failure and that has been obtained from the design data of the pattern, the systematic defect being caused due to a layout shape of the pattern, properties of a processor for forming the pattern, or the like. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSPECTING ANODES AND SMELTING MANAGEMENT RELATING TO THE SAME - Systems and methods for inspecting anodes, and smelting management based thereon are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes an imaging device configured to obtain images of at least one anode assembly, an image processor configured to producing imaging data based on the images, and a data analyzer configured to produce anode characteristic data based on the imaging data. In one embodiment, a method includes the steps of obtaining at least one image of at least a portion of an anode assembly, producing imaging data based on the at least one image, and deriving anode characteristic data based, at least in part, on the imaging data. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136123 | Program pattern analyzing apparatus, pattern appearance status information production method, pattern information generating apparatus, and program - Conventionally, there is the problem that a source program that is to be converted cannot be properly analyzed and the conversion ratio cannot be improved. The present invention provides a program pattern analyzing apparatus, comprising: a pattern information storage portion | 2009-05-28 |
20090136124 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an interpolation unit ( | 2009-05-28 |
20090136125 | IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE AND IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD - An image corresponding to image data obtained by imaging by a camera is divided into a plurality of image pieces and each of the image pieces is subjected to a color analysis process, a fractal dimension analysis process, and an artificial object amount recognition process. According to a combination of the results obtained by the three processes, a part of a landscape contained in each of the image pieces is classified and the entire characteristic of the landscape contained in the image is judged according to the classification result. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136126 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Color processing is executed in consideration of a change in size of a region of interest in a moving image. To this end, a region of interest is set in each frame image of a moving image and an occupied area ratio indicating an amount that the region of interest occupies with respect to the entire frame image is calculated for each of the frame images set with the regions of interest. A temporal increase or decrease of the occupied area ratio is determined based on the occupied area ratios of a plurality of frame images set with the regions of interest, and a color processing method is set for each frame image based on the occupied area ratio and the temporal increase or decrease determination result. Color processing is applied to each frame image by the color processing method set for that frame image. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136127 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REMOVING COLOR NOISE OF DIGITAL IMAGE - There is provided an apparatus for removing color noise including: a color interpolation unit performing color interpolation on a bayer pattern image output from an image sensor; a high-pass filter unit performing high-pass filtering on each of the pixels of the bayer pattern image to generate high-pass filtered values of each of the pixels; a high frequency region determining unit comparing pixel values of a target pixel, from which color noise is removed, and pixels adjacent to the target pixel with the high-pass filtered values to determine whether the target pixel is included in a high frequency region; and a color noise region determining unit using differences between color values of the target pixel interpolated by the color interpolation unit and determining whether the target pixel is included in a color noise region when it is determined that the target pixel is included in the high frequency region. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136128 | Automatic Color Adjustment of a Template Design - The present invention generates a color template design. According to one aspect, a source image is selected. Colors of a selected template design are adjusted automatically based on placement of a cursor on a source image that is separate from the template design. The adjusted color on the template design may match the color of the source image. Alternatively, a color template design system may be configured to adjust the color to a contrast or any predetermined variation of the color of the source image. The system may display the selected template design after automatically adjusting colors and store the selected template design for use as a template. The template design may include a framing portion, a mat portion, a foreground portion, and a background portion and at least one of those portions may be adjusted based on the placement of the cursor on the source image. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136129 | IMAGE DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The invention provides image display panels. The image display panel comprises a histogram generator, a tone slope generator, and an image transformer. The histogram generator receives an original image, counts the pixels of different gray levels to generate a histogram distribution of the original image, and compares the pixel counts at every gray level with a first threshold count to identify the peaks of the histogram distribution. The tone slope generator generates a tone slope based on the histogram distribution and peaks of the histogram distribution. The image transformer transforms the original image into a modified image based on the tone slope. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136130 | Efficient histogram storage - A histogram has ranges, a value for each range, and a time value. A pattern is generated, having a zero value for each range having a zero value, and a one value for each range having a non-zero value. Any non-zero values of the ranges are compressed into a compressed value. The pattern and the time value match or do not match any given entry of a pattern table having a number of entries, each of which has an index value, a time range, and a pattern. Where the pattern and the time value do not match any given entry of the pattern table, a new entry is added to the pattern table, and is considered the given entry. An entry is then added to a histogram table. This entry has the time value, the index value of the given entry of the pattern table, and the compressed value. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136131 | Method of Extracting an Object on a Projected Backdrop - A method of extracting from a picked-up image an object that is situated in the foreground of a projected backdrop. The method includes an extraction step comprising the steps of establishing a correspondence relationship between pixels of the projected backdrop and of the background of the picked-up image, and defining said object as the set of picked-up pixels that present a departure from said correspondence relationship. The method is applicable to video conferences, to remote teaching, and to television shows. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136132 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF IMAGE AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method for improving quality of an image includes storing feature quantity candidates each having a luminance component for improving of quality of a first image, dividing the first image into blocks with an overlapping region formed between adjacent first and second blocks, assigning first and second feature quantity candidates selected from the feature quantity candidates of the storage to the first and second blocks, respectively, calculating an energy expressing each similarity between first and second luminance patterns of the first and second feature quantity candidates in the overlapping region, selecting one first feature quantity and one second feature quantity from the first and second feature quantity candidates, using the energy, and improving qualities of the first and second blocks using the first and second feature quantities to generate a second image. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136133 | Personalized fetal ultrasound image design - (Process) the consumer submits their fetal ultrasound image along with an order form (includes requirements). The image is scanned and saved as a JPEG file or similar. If required the image is enhanced (cropped, brightness, etc.), saved and moved to Microsoft Publisher or similar software. The caption design and text, the phrase design and text, are created and saved in Microsoft Publisher/similar. The caption and phrase are placed over the fetal image, positioned and saved as a Publisher file. This file is the Personalized Fetal Ultrasound Image Design. Standard format is available to consumers. (Product) the Personalized Fetal Ultrasound Image Design is unique because it captures a personalized image of the fetus; a personalized caption; a personalized phrase. The personalized image can be copied, printed or transferred onto memorabilia and keepsakes such as t-shirts, pictures, mugs, blankets, magnets, bookmarks, etc. Each is unique, original, one of a kind. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136134 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL - An image processing apparatus includes a segment length measuring unit, a segment specifying unit and an information embedding unit. The segment length measuring unit measures lengths of line segments in a pixel block contained in an image by scanning the pixel block. The segment specifying unit specifies a line segment in which information is to be embedded, based on a measurement result of the segment length measuring unit. The information embedding unit embeds the information by changing the length of the line segment specified by the segment specifying unit based on the information to be embedded. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136135 | Apparatus and method for recognizing characters - Provided is an apparatus and method for recognizing characters. The apparatus includes a display unit to display an image in which a region of interest or an error region is indicated, and a character recognition result, a region-of-interest setting unit to set the region of interest in the image displayed on the display unit, a recognition unit to perform character recognition on the region of interest or the error region and provide the character recognition result to the display unit, and an error correction unit to set the error region in the image displayed on the display region, perform image copying on the set error region according to a user input, and provide a handwriting input using the image copying to the recognition unit. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136136 | METHOD FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION, SYSTEM FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION, PROGRAM FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND STORING MEDIUM - In a case in which handwritten character recognition such as online handwritten character recognition is implemented, simple and high performance character recognition by which transformation such as remarkable transformation and rotation is able to be treated and which recognizes an input that is written in a single stroke such as kaisho-writing, is provided. Because of this, the present invention performs: capturing an input handwritten character with parameter representation for each stroke and applying a polygonal approximation to each stroke; assuming each polygonal line segment approximated by the polygonal approximation to be vector that reaches an end point from a start point, and obtaining an angle between an axis that becomes a reference and each line segment as a polygonal line segment angle sequence; obtaining an exterior angle sequence of vertices of the obtained polygonal line segments; making a sum of exterior angles of the same sign, where the same sign of plus or minus in the exterior angle sequence continues, to be a winding angle sequence; extracting a global feature according to each obtained sequence and a localized or quasi-localized feature in each curved portion divided corresponding to the winding angle sequence, hierarchically and divisionally; and performing the character recognition by comparing the extracted result with a template of an object character for recognition that is provided in advance. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136137 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The invention includes a reference oint setting unit configured to extract a plurality of reference points from an input image; a pattern extractor configured to extract a local pattern of the reference points; a characteristic set holder configured to hold a group of characteristic sets having both local patterns of the reference points extracted from a learned image and vectors from the reference points to characteristic points to be detected; a matching unit configured to compare the local patterns extracted from the reference points and the group of characteristic sets and select the nearest characteristic set as a characteristic set having the most similar pattern; and a characteristic point detector configured to detect a final position of the characteristic point based on a vector from the reference point to the characteristic point included in the selected nearest characteristic set. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136138 | Methods and Device for the Determination and Reconstruction of a Predicted Image Area - A method determines a predicted image area for an image area, in which a temporal predictor for the image area is determined based on a reconstructed image that precedes said image, a local predictor for the image area is determined within a reconstructed image area of the image, a margin of error between the image area and the image area predicted image area is determined by the local predictor using the reconstructed image area and by the temporal predictor using one of the preceding images. A predicted image area can be reconstructed. Also disclosed are an establishing device for carrying out the method for determining a predicted image area as well as a reconstructing device for carrying out the reconstruction method. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136139 | Mobility Normalizer, Normalizing Method, Normalizing Program, Self-Organized Map, Substance Detecting Method, Detecting Program, Detection Rule Creating Method, and Data Structure - The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus, a method, a program, and a self-organizing map which are capable of normalizing mobility without using a marker, as well as a substance detection method, a program, a detection rule creating method, and a data structure which use normalized mobility. The mobility normalizing method comprises the steps of determining a plurality of warping functions converting data to be corrected, which is unit time sequence data obtained by measuring mobility, to the respective plurality of reference waveform data sets, and a DTW distance associated with each warping function; evaluating a minimum value of the plurality of DTW distances, and determining the warping function associated with the determined minimum DTW distance; determining a slope and an intercept of a straight line approximating the determined warping function; and correcting the data to be corrected using a linear function specified by the slope and the intercept. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136140 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING FORENSIC EVIDENCE USING IMAGE FILTER AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a system for analyzing forensic digital evidence using an image filter and a method thereof. The system for analyzing forensic evidence using an image filter includes: a duplicator that creates a copy of digital evidence; a verifying unit that discriminates whether a copy and the original of the digital evidence are the same; an original storage that stores the original of the digital evidence; an evidence analyzer that classifies image files for the copy of the digital evidence stored in the original storage, on the basis of an image filtering model created by a learning model in accordance with predetermined categories, and then analyzes the evidence; and a reporting unit that creates a report about the result of evidence analysis. The image evidence analyzer includes an image file extractor, an image filtering model learning unit, an image filter, and a plurality of analyzers. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136141 | ANALYZING A SEGMENT OF VIDEO - There is disclosed a quick and efficient method for analyzing a segment of video, the segment of video having a plurality of frames. A reference portion is acquired from a reference frame of the plurality of frames. Plural subsequent portions are then acquired from a corresponding subsequent frame of the plurality of frames. Each subsequent portion is then compared with the reference portion, and an event is detected based upon each comparison. There is also disclosed a method of optimizing video including selectively storing, labeling, or viewing video based on the occurrence of events in the video. Furthermore, there is disclosed a method for creating a video summary of video which allows a used to scroll through and access selected parts of a video. The methods disclosed also provide advancements in the field of video surveillance analysis. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136142 | MEMORY OPTIMIZED CACHE GENERATION FOR IMAGE TILING IN GIS/CAD BROWSER APPLICATIONS - The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating tile sizes associated with an image presented by a web based image system. An optimal threshold memory size for tiles associated with the image is identified. The image is then divided into tiles of equal physical dimensions and placed into a set of subdivided tiles. The memory size of each tile within the set of subdivided tiles is compared to the threshold memory size. Tiles having a memory size less than or equal to the threshold memory size are deleted from the set of subdivided tiles and stored. Tiles having a memory size greater than the threshold memory size are subdivided into tiles of smaller physical dimensions. The smaller tiles are placed back in the set of subdivided tiles. The process repeats until no tiles exist within the set of subdivided tiles. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136143 | TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE FRAMES, AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An image frame input unit receives the input of image frames. An insertion unit inserts a plurality of markers into the image frame thus inputted. Each of the plurality of markers is defined as a pattern that is not scheduled to appear in data of the image frame. At this time, the insertion unit divides the image frame into a plurality of parts based on a data size storable in a radio packet, and inserts the markers among the divided parts of the image frame. An RF unit outputs the image frame into which the plurality of markers have been inserted. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136144 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A COMPRESSION RATE FOR A FILE - Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a target compression rate for a file, which may be calculated using a predetermined algorithm based on a target file size. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136145 | Editing Apparatus, Editing Method, Editing Program, and Editing System - An editing process is to be properly performed for video data that have been compression-encoded using inter-frame compression. Identification information that identifies a device that has recorded the stream file is extracted from the stream file that stores the video stream to be edited. When the extracted identification information represents a device that can encode the video stream with the same attribute as an attribute that the encoder of the editing apparatus can handle, an editing process is performed on the basis of a technique of decoding only a necessarily minimum region and re-encoding it. Otherwise, the editing process is performed on the basis of a technique of encoding all a video stream to be edited and re-encoding it. It can be determined whether or not the encoding process on the basis of the technique of decoding only a necessarily minimum region can be performed on the basis of only predetermined identification information contained in the video stream. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136146 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, a program, and a recording medium whereby the detection precision of a motion vector by the gradient method can be further improved. A counter value computing unit | 2009-05-28 |
20090136147 | METHOD FOR COMPRESSING IMAGE DATA - A method for compressing image data is used to process image data. The method includes the following steps as sampling pixels expressing an image, transforming the sampling data into transformed data by forward discrete cosine transformation, quantifying the transformed data according to a quantification table into quantified data, encoding the quantified data according to Huffman table, and generating a frame data. When the frame data is processed along the reverse pipeline, the frame data is decompressed to the image data. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136148 | Digital auto-focusing apparatus and method - An apparatus and method for digital auto-focus are provided. The apparatus includes a local block generator generating a local block from an input image, a distance-estimation unit estimating distances of each image of the local block, a focal-distance-setting unit setting one of the estimated distances of the local block image as a focal distance of the input image, a reblurred-image generator generating a reblurred image from the local block image, a reconstructed image generator generating an in-focus image focused to the estimated distances from the local block image, a local-block-image-matching unit matching the reblurred image to the in-focus image with different weight values based on the set focal distance, and a final-image generator generating a final image by summing the matched local block images. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136149 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL - An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a counting unit and an information embedding unit. The extraction unit extracts a circumscribed figure of a pixel block in an image. The counting unit counts contact portions between the circumscribed figure extracted by the extraction unit and the pixel block. The information embedding unit embeds information to be embedded by adjusting a number of the contact portions between the pixel block and the circumscribed figure extracted by the extraction unit based on the number of contact portions counted by the counting unit and the information to be embedded. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING IMAGE ARTIFACTS BASED ON APERTURE-DRIVEN COLOR KILL WITH COLOR SATURATION ASSESSMENT - A method and apparatus for reducing false color artifacts in digital images. Aperture correction and color saturation values are determined for a portion of an image surrounding a subject pixel. A color attenuation value is determined based at least in part on the aperture correction and color saturation values. A color value of the subject pixel is adjusted by an amount based at least in part on the color attenuation value. In one exemplary embodiment, the method and apparatus operate in the YUV color space and adjust U and V values of the subject pixel proportionally to the color attenuation value. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136151 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a video processing apparatus and a video processing method. The video processing apparatus includes a first motion correcting part which divides a video frame into blocks of a predetermined unit and corrects a motion with respect to at least some area of a present frame by using a motion vector of an adjacent block adjacent to the present block, a second motion correcting part which corrects the motion by using a motion vector of an adjacent frame adjacent to the present frame, and a controller which controls the first motion correcting part to correct the motion if the number of the adjacent blocks on which a video can be displayed is not smaller than a predetermined value, and controls the second motion correcting part to correct the motion if the number of the adjacent blocks on which the video can be displayed is smaller than the predetermined value. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136152 | IMAGE CORRECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND IMAGE CORRECTING PROGRAM, AND LOOK-UP TABLE CREATING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND LOOK-UP TABLE CREATING PROGRAM - A bright luminance value, a dark luminance value, and an average luminance value relating to a face image portion included in an image represented by fed image data are calculated in calculating circuits. Further, a target bright luminance value and a target dark luminance value are calculated in a calculating circuit on the basis of a target average luminance value and a dynamic range that are inputted from an input device and the calculated bright luminance value, dark luminance value, and average luminance value. Interpolation processing based on a correspondence between the calculated bright luminance value, dark luminance value, and average luminance value relating to the face image portion and the target bright luminance value, the target dark luminance value, and the target average luminance value respectively corresponding thereto is performed in a corrected value calculating circuit, to create a look-up table. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136153 | PIXEL INTERPOLATION METHOD - An image processing circuit inputs pixels of an RGB Bayer array therein. A chroma value calculation circuit calculates a chroma factor (K | 2009-05-28 |
20090136154 | System and method for image sensing and processing - A system and method for image sensing and processing using the Arithmetic Fourier Transform (AFT). An image sensing array has sensors located based on a set of Farey fractions, each multiplied by a unit block size of the array. Similar sampling can be achieved by interpolating the pixel values of a conventional, uniformly spaced array of sensors. The AFT can be determined extremely efficiently by computing weighted sums of the representative pixel values. Corresponding Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients can then be computed by scaling the AFT coefficients. As a result, the number of multiplication operations required to compute the DCT is dramatically reduced. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136155 | Assessment of a View through the Overlay of Maps - A system for evaluating a view, including a first mapper for encoding an image of a view according to a first parameter to create a first map having multiple defined areas, a second mapper for encoding the image according to a second parameter to create a second map having multiple defined areas, an overlap mapper for combining the maps to create an overlap map, a tabulator for measuring areas in the overlap map corresponding to overlapping defined areas, creating a set of measurements of the image, and an analyzer for analyzing the set of measurements of the image and a learning set of measurement groups with associated values to compute an estimated value associated with the image where the estimated value relates to the set of measurements of the image in the same manner that each value in the learning set relates to its associated measurement group. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136156 | INFERRED DISCOVERY AND CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES - A method and a processing device may be provided for discovering and constructing multi-resolution images. Content, including an image, may be obtained from a specified address via a network and rendered to a display monitor of the processing device. The processing device may attempt to discover a second image, corresponding to the image included in the obtained content, but with a different resolution than a resolution of the image included in the obtained content. If the second image is discovered, the second image and the image included in the obtained content may be linked to create a multi-resolution image. If the image included in the content rendered to the display monitor is enlarged beyond a threshold, the rendered image may become pixelated. A high resolution image corresponding to and linked to the rendered image may be blended into the enlarged rendered image to eliminate pixelation. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136157 | System and/or Method for Combining Images - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method and/or system for generating a dynamic image based, at least in part, on attributes associated with one or more individuals. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136158 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A moving object display region where a moving object is displayed and a background display region are extracted based on a difference image of frame images. Blurring processing such as averaging processing is performed on an image in the background display region. Processing for further sharpening an image, such as contrast enhancement, is performed on an image in the moving object display region. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136159 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EDITING A DATE OF A DIGITAL IMAGE IN AN IMAGING DEVICE - A method for editing a date of a digital image file having a predefined date stamp location in an imaging device, wherein the image data of the digital image, and a position coordinate of the predefined date stamp location, are stored in the digital image file. The method includes: selecting the digital image having the predefined date stamp location; obtaining and saving the image data and the position coordinate of the predefined date stamp location from the digital image file; generating a new date according to a user input; modifying the image data of the predefined date stamp location with the new date to form a first date stamp; and applying the first date stamp according to the position coordinate of the predefined date stamp location. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136160 | Film bag and method for producing it - The invention relates to a film bag with two front faces ( | 2009-05-28 |
20090136161 | Cereal Bag Zipper - The present invention is a closure capable of being applied to an existing flexible container structure in order to form a releasable closure thereon. The closure includes base formed of a flexible material having an adhesive disposed on one side thereof in order to attach the closure to the exterior of a container. The closure also includes a pair of releasably engageable zipper sections secured to the base on opposite sides of a gap formed in the base having an open end and a closed end. The closure further has a liner located between the zipper sections and the base that extends over the gap to finction as a positioning device for properly locating the closure on the flexible container. The base and the liner also limit the size of any opening formed in the container to the size of the closure. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136162 | Gift Bag For Maintaining an Emotional Connection or Conveying a Show of Support - A drawstring bag to be given as a gift containing message strips inside having a product functional life of at least one year, so that the amount of message strips is at least enough for at least one message strip to be removed every day. According to one embodiment, the message strips contain messages suitable for presentation to a child, spouse or parent. According to another embodiment, the drawstring bag is decorated for presentation on special events such as birthdays, anniversaries, St. Valentine's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas or an illness. According to another embodiment, the message strips contain messages of encouragement for when a child is at school or living away from the family, or when the recipient is in the armed services, hospital or prison. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136163 | Bag and article of manufacture - Disclosed is an article of manufacture including bag having a front surface; a rear surface; two side surfaces each having a gusset therein and connecting the front and rear surfaces; a flattenable bottom surface formed by connecting the front, rear, and side surfaces; and a top surface formable by connecting the front, rear, and side surfaces. The bag has a height, a width, and a depth, and defines an internal volume. The bag is sealable and has a seal strength of at least about 1,600 pounds per square inch. The bag is formed from a plastic laminate having a thickness of from about 130 to about 200 microns and a tensile strength of at least about 3,400 pounds per square inch. The article of manufacture also includes at least about 15 pounds of a particulate, flowable composition contained therein. The bag can also have a closure system comprising a non-reusable closure and a reusable closure. Also included are methods, using the article of manufacture, of enhancing palatability of an oxidizable, particulate, flowable composition contained therein. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136164 | LINEAR ROLLER BEARING WITH DEFLECTION PIECE - A guide carriage for a linear roller bearing includes a main body, which may bear in a longitudinally movably manner and via at least a first and at least a second endlessly circulating roller row against a guide rail that extends in a longitudinal direction, a deflection assembly provided on an end face of the main body and including at least one curved inner deflection channel for the first roller row, and at least a second curved outer deflection channel for the second roller row, the inner deflection channel being located within the outer deflection channel, the deflection assembly includes an end cap, on the inner side of which—that faces the main body—an outer boundary surface of the outer deflection channel is provided, and at least one separate, one-pieced deflection piece inserted in the end cap, on which an inner boundary surface is provided that covers the entire outer deflection channel. An outer boundary surface is provided that covers the entire inner deflection channel on the deflection piece. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136165 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING UNIT - A fluid dynamic bearing unit is provided which has a high load capacity against a moment load, whose bearing sleeves can be manufactured and fixed easily, and which can provide a required fixing power. The bearing sleeve is inserted into an inner periphery of a housing, and its bottom end is fixed to the top end of a spacer part with an adhesive. Another bearing sleeve is inserted into another part of the inner periphery of the housing, and its top end is fixed to the bottom end of the spacer part with an adhesive. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136166 | Combined Roller- and Slide Bearing - A combined roller- and slide bearing comprises at least one roller bearing having roller elements disposed between inner and outer bushings thereof and a slide bearing having a lubricating gap defined between inner and outer bushings thereof. The roller bearing and the slide bearing are disposed axially adjacent to each other and have the same rotational axis. The roller bearing and the slide bearing are configured such that the roller bearings elastically deform in response to a radially-acting load, thereby reducing the radial thickness of the lubricating gap in a circumferential portion thereof, because the outer bushing of the slide bearing radially shifts relative to the inner bushing of the slide bearing. In this state, the circumferential portion of the slide bearing having the reduced radial thickness undertakes a load-supporting and bearing function. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136167 | BEARING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A bearing apparatus including a rolling bearing having an outer race ( | 2009-05-28 |
20090136168 | Wheel Bearing Apparatus For A Driving Wheel - A wheel bearing apparatus for a driving wheel is formed as a unit of a wheel hub, a double row rolling bearing and a constant velocity universal joint. The double row rolling bearing has an outer member with a body mounting flange mounted on a knuckle and double row outer raceway surfaces. An inner member includes the wheel hub and an outer joint member of the constant velocity universal joint. The wheel hub has an inner raceway surface corresponding to one of the double row outer raceway surfaces. The outer joint member has another inner raceway surface corresponding to the other of the double row outer raceway surfaces. Double row rolling elements are rollably arranged between the outer and inner raceway surfaces. Seals are mounted in an annular space opening formed between the outer member and the inner member. A sensor is fit into a mounting aperture formed in the knuckle. A pulser ring is mounted on the outer circumferential surface of the outer joint member. It opposes the sensor via a predetermined radial gap. The outer diameter of the pulser ring is smaller than the inner diameter of the knuckle. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136169 | Needle Roller Bearing and Bearing Structure - A needle roller bearing comprises an outer ring having a plurality of outer ring members split by a parting line extending in the axial direction of the bearing, a plurality of needle rollers rotatably arranged on the raceway surface of the outer ring, and a retainer retaining the plurality of needle rollers. A curvature radius r | 2009-05-28 |
20090136170 | Water-Resistant Grease and Water-Resistant-Grease-Enclosed Rolling Bearing and Hub - The present invention provides water-resistant grease which improves the resistance to peeling which occurs from the surface of a bearing composed of carbon steel for machine structural use or the like even in a strict lubricating condition in which water may penetrate into the water-resistant grease during the operation of the bearing, and a rolling bearing and a hub bearing which use the water-resistant grease and have a long life. The water-resistant grease is composed of non-water-based base oil, a thickener, and a water dispersant used as an additive. The saturated amount of water dispersible in the water-resistant grease is 30 to 60 wt %. The water dispersant capable of dispersing the water in the water-resistant grease is a surface active agent. The non-water-based base oil is mineral oil. The thickener is a urea-based compound. The present invention also provides a rolling bearing and a hub bearing in which the water-resistant grease is enclosed. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136171 | Device for Encapsulating the Main Bearing of a Crankshaft - A device encapsulates a main bearing of a crankshaft. The main bearing is supplied with oil via an oil supply groove. The device has a bearing seat for the main bearing and on its sides which face toward the crank webs of the crankshaft, has oil channels which are open in the direction of the main bearing and in the direction of the crankshaft webs. In the device, the oil channels are sealed off in the direction of the crankshaft webs by sealing disks which are fastened to the bearing seat. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136172 | Grease for Hub Bearing and Hub Bearing - The present invention provides a hub bearing, made of carbon steel for machine structural use, which has a long life even in a strict lubricating condition by improving the resistance to peeling starting from the surface. A grease for the hub bearing contains a base oil, a thickener, and an organozinc compound which is at least one compound selected from dithiozinc carbamate and dithiozinc phosphate. The base oil is a mineral oil or a mixed oil of a mineral oil and a synthetic hydrocarbon oil. The thickener is a urea compound shown by the following formula (1) and is contained at 1 to 40 mass % for the entire grease. The grease for the hub bearing is enclosed in the hub bearing. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136173 | Integrated lateral mode converter - The invention describes method and apparatus for a mode converter enabling an adiabatic transfer of a higher order mode into a lower order optical mode within a photonic integrated circuit exploiting integrated semiconductor ridge waveguide techniques. As disclosed by the invention, such a mode conversion is achievable by using an asymmetric coupler methodology. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the invention is used to provide a low insertion loss optical connection between laterally-coupled DFB laser operating in first order mode and passive waveguide operating in the zero order optical mode. The integrated arrangement fabricated by using one-step epitaxial growth allows for a launch of the laser's light into the waveguide circuitry operating in the zero order lateral mode or efficiently coupling it to single-mode fiber, an otherwise high loss interface due to the difference in laser and optical fiber modes. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136174 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR - A photoelectric conversion device comprises a high-refractive-index portion at a position close to a photoelectric conversion element therein. And, the high-refractive-index portion has first and second horizontal cross-section surfaces. The first cross-section surface is at a position closer to the photoelectric conversion element rather than the second cross-section surface, and is larger than an area of the second cross-section surface, so as to guide an incident light into the photoelectric conversion element without reflection. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136175 | NON-CONTACT CONNECTOR - A non-contact connector, which has a rotation-side optical element positioned on a rotating body which rotates about a rotation axis, and a fixed-side optical element positioned on a fixed body, and which performs data transmission and reception without contact between the rotation-side optical element and the fixed-side optical element, the non-contact connector further having a reflecting body, which reflects light emitted from the rotation-side optical element or from the fixed-side optical element on the rotation axis; and the reflecting body being a cubic mirror, the outer shape of which is a rectangular parallelepiped, and which is formed by evaporation depositing a thin metal film on one face of one of two rectangular parallelepiped members that are transparent from the visible wavelength range to the infrared wavelength range, and then bonding to the same to the other one of the rectangular parallelepiped members, with the evaporation-deposited film face intervening therebetween. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136176 | OPTICAL FIBER MODE COUPLING DEVICE, HAVING AN OPTIMIZED FIBER INTERFACE AND METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF - An optical fiber mode coupling device, capable of being readily connected to a conventional optical fiber with a high degree of ruggedness, is provided. The inventive mode coupling device only allows transmission of at least one supported fiber mode therethrough, and is preferably configured to maximize the coupling, of at least one desired fiber mode, to the at least one supported fiber mode. Advantageously, the inventive mode coupling device is capable of performing the functions of a mode filter for the signal entering its first end, or serving as a mode conditioner for the signal entering its opposite second end. Thus, in one practical application thereof, the novel mode coupling device functions as a mode filter by maximizing the coupling between at least one desired fiber mode of a multi-mode input signal entering the device's first end, and at least one supported mode of the device, to produce an output signal at the device's second end that comprises at least one predetermined fiber mode, corresponding to at least one desired fiber mode. In another practical application thereof, the novel mode coupling device functions as a mode conditioner by maximizing the coupling between an input signal, comprising at least one predetermined fiber mode, that enters the device's second end, and, and at least one supported mode of the device, to produce an output signal at the device's first end that comprises at least one desired fiber mode, corresponding to a conditioned at least one predetermined fiber mode. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136177 | Micro-Optic Adapters and Tips for Surgical Illumination Fibers - A microstructure optical adapter or tip according to the present disclosure may incorporate precision micro structure optical components engaging the input or output end of light energy delivery devices for customized light delivery of the light energy. The incorporation of precision micro structure optical components in injection molded plastic or glass parts will allow for inexpensive modification of the output light while also serving to protect the end of the illumination device. The micro structure optical components may also be incorporated in an adapter to tailor the light energy to the subsequent device. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136178 | Optical Assembly Connecting a Laser With Optical Fibre - An optical assembly includes an optical package having a wall with an aperture and includes a laser device capable of emitting a laser beam through the aperture and a collimator including a sleeve defining a first and a second end, the collimator including a terminating portion of an optical fibre. In addition, the assembly includes a joint element having a first and a second surface, the first surface contacting the wall around the aperture in a first contact area, and the second surface including a convex surface contacting a portion of the surface of the sleeve in correspondence of its first end in a second contact area, the convex surface being at least partially inserted in the sleeve, so that the collimator is aligned with respect to the laser beam. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136179 | LIGHT EMITTING UNIT, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, APPARATUS FOR MOLDING LENS THEREOF, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE PACKAGE THEREOF - A light emitting unit, an apparatus and method for manufacturing the same, an apparatus for molding a lens thereof, and a light emitting device package thereof, which are capable of achieving an enhancement in light extraction efficiency and an improvement in mass productivity, are disclosed. The light emitting unit manufacturing apparatus includes a mold including a first mold and a second mold coupled to each other under a condition in which at least one light emitting unit is interposed between the first and second molds, a groove formed in one of the first and second molds at a position facing the light emitting unit, the groove having a lens shape, and a passage extending from an outer surface of the mold to the groove. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136180 | POLYMER WAVELENGTH FILTERS WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION PERIODICAL STRUCTURES AND ITS FABRICATION USING REPLICATION PROCESS - The present invention discloses a method for fabricating polymer wavelength filter with high-resolution periodical structure, which comprises following steps: (a) a positive photo-resister film is coated on a substrate; (b) a grating pattern is holographically exposed on the positive photo-resister film; (c) the photo-resister film is coated with a negative photo-resister film; (d) the sample is exposed by UV light; (e) develops the sample to obtain a negative waveguide on the photo-resister film having gratings pattern on its bottom to be a waveguide mold; (f) coats a diluted PDMS film on the patterned waveguide mold; (g) bakes the PDMS film to be cured, and peels off from the waveguide mold to be a PDMS mold; (h) places a spacer between the PDMS mold and a thin glass slide to form a first tunnel; (i) injects a precure first UV polymer into the first tunnel; (j) cures the first UV polymer under a broadband UV light; (k) separates the first UV polymer when fully cured, a hardened first UV polymer is formed having a groove with gratings pattern at its bottom for forming a cladding layer of the polymer wavelength filter; (l) a thin layer of a polydimethylsiloxane is spun onto a glass slide, and the glass slide is placed over the groove of the first UV polymer; (m) a second UV polymer is injected into the groove of the first UV polymer; and (n) the second UV polymer is cured by exposing the UV light, and to form the core of the waveguide in the groove of the first UV polymer to finally be the polymer wavelength filter. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136181 | METHODS, MATERIALS AND DEVICES FOR LIGHT MANIPULATION WITH ORIENTED MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES IN MICRONSCALE PHOTONIC CIRCUIT ELEMENTS WITH HIGH-Q OR SLOW LIGHT - An optical device that comprises an input waveguide, an output waveguide, a high-Q resonant or photonic structure that generate slow light connected to the input waveguide and the output waveguide, and an interface, surface or mode volume modified with at least one material formed from a single molecule, an ordered aggregate of molecules or nanostructures. The optical device may include more than one input waveguide, output waveguide, high-Q resonant or photonic structure and interface, surface or mode volume. The high-Q resonant or photonic structure may comprise at least one selected from the group of: microspherical cavities, microtoroidal cavities, microring-cavities, photonic crystal defect cavities, fabry-perot cavities, photonic crystal waveguides. The ordered aggregate of molecules or nanostructures comprises at least one selected from the group of: organic or biological monolayers, biological complexes, cell membranes, bacterial membranes, virus assemblies, nanowire or nanotube assemblies, quantum-dot assemblies, one or more assemblies containing one or more rhodopsins, green fluorescence proteins, diarylethers, lipid bilayers, chloroplasts or components, mitochondria or components, cellular or bacterial organelles or components, bacterial S-layers, photochromic molecules. Further, the molecular aggregate may exhibit a photoinduced response. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136182 | FEMALE FERULE - A female ferule is fixed to a terminal of a multi-core optical fiber in which a sheath is provided outside a large number of optical fibers being tied in a bundle and a portion of the sheath is removed. The female ferule includes a ferule body which includes a cylindrical portion and a step which is formed on an outer surface and at a rear side of the cylindrical portion, and a sleeve which includes an insertion-connected portion for a male ferule serving as a connection partner at the one end and a coupling-connected portion for the cylindrical portion at the other end. The sleeve is retrofitted to the ferule body. The cylindrical portion includes a caulking-fed portion for the bundle optical fibers and an insertion/coupling-fixed portion for the coupling-fixed portion, the caulking-fixed portion and the insertion/coupling-fixed portion are formed successively from a front end face of the cylindrical portion. | 2009-05-28 |
20090136183 | COUPLING FOR OPTICAL-FIBER CONNECTORS - A coupling ( | 2009-05-28 |