30th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 32 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120189090 | Tiered Tie Plates and Fuel Bundles Using the Same - Example embodiments are directed to tiered tie plates and fuel bundles that use tiered tie plates. Example embodiment tie plates may include upper and lower tiered tie plates. Example embodiment tiered tie plates may have a plurality of bosses divided into groups, or tiers, having differing vertical (axial) displacement. Example embodiment fuel bundles may use tiered tie plates such that fuel rods in example bundles may originate and terminate at different vertical displacements, based upon the vertical displacement of the bosses receiving the fuel rods into the tiered tie plates. Optionally, shanks may be used to further vary fuel rod axial displacement and diameter. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189091 | Imaging Method for Rotating a Tissue Region - An imaging method, more particularly a mammography method, includes rotating a tissue region in the virtual domain. Projection recordings of a tissue region are generated by way of radiation emitted by an emitter, which radiation is captured by a detector after passing through the tissue region. Slice images are generated from the projection recordings. A slice image region corresponding to a partial tissue region is rotated virtually. The virtually rotating partial tissue region can be displayed as a set of virtual projections. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189092 | Imaging Method with Improved Display of a Tissue Region, Imaging Device, and Computer Program Product - An imaging method with an improved display of a tissue region generates a first visualization and a second visualization from projection recordings that were recorded at different angles. A radiologist is enabled to mark a region in the first visualization, which region is displayed by way of the second visualization. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189093 | X-RAY DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN X-RAY IRRADIATION REGION - An X-ray diagnosis apparatus and a method for controlling an X-ray irradiation region that can appropriately narrow down an X-ray radiation aperture so as to fit a configuration of a region of interest during acquisition of X-ray projection data for reconstructing tomography images of an object. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189094 | COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND TOMOSYNTHESIS SYSTEM - A computed tomography system, capable of tomosynthesis, includes an inner circular gantry and an outer gantry within a housing assembly. A plurality of spaced apart radiology imaging plates are located along the inner gantry and adapted as x-ray detectors. An x-ray source is secured to the outer gantry and adapted to shoot x-rays between the spaced apart detectors and onto the patient or object while being rotated along the gantry and relative to the patient. A radiography device is moveably coupled to the inner gantry and adapted to scan and read the radiology plates and provide the data to an image processing computer. The x-ray source coupled to the outer gantry moves relative to the imaging plates such that a large number of projections can be exposed and thereafter scanned by the integral radiology device. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189095 | PATIENT TABLE COMPRISING A POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SUCH A PATIENT TABLE - A patient table ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189096 | X-RAY DEVICE AND X-RAY SENSITIVE CAMERA FOR PANORAMIC TOMOGRAPHY AND 3D SHOTS - The invention relates to an X-ray device comprising an x-ray sensitive camera for creating tomograms, especially panoramic tomograms. Means for creating 3D shots of a partial volume of the mandibular arch are also provided, said 3D shots being created especially by a second image receiver for creating a 2D shot and means for taking a plurality of 2D shots from different directions and creating a 3D shot therefrom, preferably according to conebeam technology with the associated reconstruction algorithms. The x-ray sensitive camera comprises a first x-ray sensitive image receiver for creating a tomogram, and a second x-ray sensitive image receiver for creating plane shots. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189097 | TRANSPORT BIN IN AN X-RAY INSPECTION SYSTEM - A transport bin for an X-ray inspection system, comprising a identifying device rigidly connected to the bin, the identifying device having a bin-specific identifier, wherein the identifying device has a memory, in which an identification code that is unique worldwide, in particular a universally unique identifier (UUID), is stored in such a way that theidentification code can be read out. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189098 | X-RAY SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH DIGITAL IMAGE ACQUISITION - An X-ray imaging system includes a digital X-ray detector configured to acquire X-ray image data without communication from a source controller and to send the X-ray image data to a portable detector control device for processing and image preview. The source controller is configured to command X-ray emissions of X-rays from an X-ray radiation source for image exposures. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189099 | X-RAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING X-RAY IMAGE DATA - An X-ray imaging method includes performing an X-ray exposure via an X-ray radiation source responsive to a source controller. The method also includes sampling X-ray image data via a digital detector without communication of timing signals from the source controller. The method further includes combining the sampled X-ray image data of at least one imaging frame or two or more imaging frames with at least one of the frames spanning a duration in which the exposure occurred, to produce X-ray image data capable of being reconstructed into a user-viewable image. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189100 | X-RAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLING IMAGE DATA - An X-ray imaging method includes in a digital X-ray detector including an array of discrete picture elements each including a photodiode and a transistor, applying a first voltage to the transistors of the discrete picture elements. The method also includes preparing for acquisition of X-ray image data by sampling data from the discrete picture elements while applying a second voltage to the transistors of the discrete picture elements not then being sampled, the second voltage being more negative than the first voltage. The method further includes receiving X-ray radiation on the detector from a source. The method yet further includes sampling X-ray image data from the discrete picture elements while applying the second voltage to the transistors of the discrete picture elements not then being sampled. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189101 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTOR - A radiographic imaging apparatus for obtaining a phase contrast image by using two gratings including a first grating and a second grating, wherein one of the first grating and the second grating includes a plurality of unit gratings arranged in a predetermined range corresponding to each pixel forming the phase contrast image, wherein the unit gratings are formed by sets of unit grating members extending in different directions from each other, and a pixel signal of each pixel of the phase contrast image is generated based on a plurality of detection signals detected by the pixel sections corresponding to the unit gratings in the predetermined range. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189102 | Ring Gantry Radiation Treatment Delivery System With Dynamically Controllable Inward Extension Of Treatment Head - Systems, methods, and related computer program products for image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) are described. For one preferred embodiment, an IGRT apparatus is provided comprising a ring gantry having a central opening sufficiently large to accommodate a body of a patient positioned along a longitudinal axis and extending therethrough, and a gantry tilting mechanism configured to tilt the ring gantry to a plurality of different tilt angles relative to the longitudinal axis. A radiation treatment head is coupled to the ring gantry and is rotatable around said central opening in at least a 180 degree arc. The radiation treatment head is mechanically coupled to the ring gantry such that a distance by which the radiation treatment head extends inwardly toward the central opening relative to the ring gantry is dynamically controllable. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189103 | X-Ray Imaging System With Cabling Precharging Module - An X-ray imaging system can include an X-ray tube, an X-ray generator, a precharging module and a triaxial cable. The X-ray tube can be configured to generate an X-ray emission and include an anode, a cathode and a filament. The X-ray generator can be coupled with the X-ray tube and include a high voltage module and a low voltage module. The high voltage module can be being configured to supply a dosing voltage across the X-ray tube and the low voltage module can be configured to supply a dosing current to the filament. The precharging module can be configured to supply a precharge voltage. The triaxial cable can electrically connect the X-ray generator to the X-ray tube. The outer shield conductor of the triaxial cable can carry a ground voltage, the inner shield conductor can carry the precharge voltage and the center conductor can carry the dosing voltage. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189104 | TUNGSTEN OXIDE COATED X-RAY TUBE FRAME AND ANODE ASSEMBLY - An x-ray tube having a coated x-ray tube frame inner surface and a coated anode assembly is provided. The x-ray tube includes an x-ray tube frame in which an anode assembly is disposed therein. A cathode assembly is also disposed within the x-ray tube frame that emits an electron beam to strike a target surface of the anode assembly and form x-rays. A plasma-sprayed tungsten oxide coating is formed on an inner surface of the x-ray tube frame and on the anode assembly to dissipate heat created by the electron beam. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189105 | SENSOR POSITIONING AND STABILIZING DEVICE - A sensor positioning and stabilizing device is provided. The sensor positioning and stabilizing device holds and stabilizes dental x-ray film or digital sensors during implant surgery with requiring a patient to bite down or manually hold it in position in order to take an x-ray. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189106 | MOBILE X-RAY UNIT - One embodiment of the present disclosure may be directed to a mobile X-ray unit. The mobile X-ray unit may include a base and a mast associated with the base. The mobile X-ray unit may further include an arm having a ball joint and a rotational joint. The arm may rotate relative to the mast about the rotational joint, and a X-ray applicator may rotate relative to the mast about the ball joint. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189107 | Enhanced E911 Network Access for a Call Center Using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Messaging - A switched emergency call (e.g., a 911 call, an alarm company call) forwarded by a telematics call center is converted into a session initiation protocol (SIP) packetized phone call at the call center, and routed over an IP network, for presentation to an emergency services gateway, which connects to a selective router via dedicated circuits, gaining full access to the Enhanced 911 network. This provides a PSAP receiving a call from a telematics call center or other call center with all features available in an Enhanced 911 network, e.g., callback number of the 911 caller, and location of the 911 caller. Location of the caller is provided using a VoIP positioning center (VPC), queried from the call center. In this way, the switched emergency call is converted into a SIP packetized phone call and routed without further passage through the public switched telephone network (PSTN). | 2012-07-26 |
20120189108 | VOICE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A voice communication apparatus includes an analysis unit to analyze an outgoing conversation signal transmitted from a user of the voice communication apparatus to another party in communication or an incoming conversation signal from the another party in communication received by the voice communication apparatus, a storage unit to store a voice message to be played back, a mixing unit to perform mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal, and a control unit to control a start timing of the mixing so that the mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal is started between utterances of the user on the basis of an analysis result of the analysis unit. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189109 | METHOD OF TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD FOR CONNECTING DIRECTLY THE CALLBACK TO THE EXTENSION OF THE ORIGINAL CALLER - The present invention provides a “Phone Log” in a telephone switchboard for recording the extension numbers, the phone numbers dialed by the extension numbers and the accumulated times. When there is an outside call, the telephone switchboard will first check the “Phone Log” whether the telephone number of the outside call is on the “Phone Log” or not; if the telephone number of the outside call is on the “Phone Log”, then the outside call (callback) is connected directly to the corresponding extension; otherwise the outside call will be connected to an auto-attendant for connecting. As the accumulated time of each of the records reaches a time limit, the related record will be cleared out. After the callback is picked up by the corresponding extension successfully, the related record is also cleared out. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189110 | Machine and Process for Accepting Customer Payments and Placing Orders - A machine and process for accepting customer payments and placing orders for telecommunications services is disclosed. The machine and process include a kiosk operable to accept account set-up information from an individual, accept payment from the individual, collect identifying data from the individual, and communicate with a system to activate a telecommunication account for the individual. The kiosk may be placed wherever quick telecommunication account set-up and payment verification is necessary, for example: a correctional facility or college campus. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING COMMUNICATION INFORMATION (MCI) - A system for processing a call originated by a call originator to a call target. The system having an information processor configured to receive origination information for the call including identifying information of the call originator. The system further having a database storing modified call originator identifying information indexed by call modification triggers. The information processor is further configured to access the database, to determine at least one of the call modification triggers is satisfied according to the origination information, and to retrieve modified call originator identifying information indexed to the at least one satisfied call modification trigger, for transmission to the call target. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189112 | DELEGATE UNIT FOR A CONFERENCE SYSTEM, CONFERENCE SYSTEM, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE DELEGATE UNIT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Conference Systems usually comprise a plurality of delegate units, whereby each delegate unit provides a speaking place for a person attending the Conference. A delegate unit ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189113 | PERSONALIZED CONFERENCE BRIDGE - The present invention allows a user to customize her personal conference bridge such that conference participants who connect to the bridge are provided conference information selected by the user. In particular, after each conference participant gains access to the personal conference bridge, the conference information is delivered to a terminal of the conference participant. Although the user associated with the personal conference bridge may be a conference participant, delivery of conference information to the user is optional. The conference information may be any type of media content, or information identifying the location of media content to present to the conference participants. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189114 | TELEPHONE RELAY DEVICE, METHOD OF RELAYING TELEPHONES, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A second device ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189115 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEGMENTING WORK IN A CONTACT CENTER - Provided herein is a method and system for segmenting work implemented in a contact center server. The method may include: creating a plurality of common skill options; creating a service skill definition tree comprising a plurality of service skill options, wherein each of the plurality of common skill options is associated with the service skill definition tree; receiving a contact from a customer; obtaining a common skill option selection, wherein the common skill option is selected from the plurality of common skill options by the customer; transmitting the plurality of service skill options to the customer, and receiving a service skill option selection from the customer, wherein the service skill option selection is selected from the plurality of service skill options; and segmenting the contact to an agent associated with the common skill option selection and service skill option selection. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189116 | Technique for Determining Usage of Encrypted Media Content - A technique for determining usage of encrypted media content is described. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of obtaining a short-term key for decrypting the media content, obtaining a long-term key for decrypting the short-term key, decrypting the short-term key based on the long-term key, decrypting the media content based on the decrypted short-term key, and logging a parameter relating to the short-term key as a basis for determining media content usage. The short-term key may be a Traffic Encryption Key, TEK, and the long-term key may be a Service Encryption Key, SEK. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189117 | Methods And Apparatus For Protecting Digital Content - A processing system to serve as a source device for protected digital content comprises a processor and control logic. When used by the processor, the control logic causes the processing system to receive a digital certificate from a presentation device. The processing system then uses public key infrastructure (PKI) to determine whether the presentation device has been authorized by a certificate authority (CA) to receive protected content. The processing system may also generate a session key and use the session key to encrypt data. The processing system may transmit the encrypted data to the presentation device only if the presentation device has been authorized by the CA to receive protected content. Presentation devices and repeaters may perform corresponding operations, thereby allowing content to be transmitted and presented in a protected manner. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189118 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCRYPTION OF A DATASTREAM - A method for an encryption of a data stream is provided. The method includes: providing the data stream, providing at least two first random number generators having a first cryptographic strength, wherein each of the at least two first random number generators is switchable between states including a clocked state and a working state, and providing a second random number generator having a second cryptographic strength, wherein the second cryptographic strength is higher than the cryptographic strength. The method further includes switching the states of the at least two first random number generators using an output of the second random number generator and using an XOR-function for combining the data stream with an output of one of the at least two first random number generators, which is in the working state, such that a ciphered data stream is created. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189119 | Method and Apparatus for Increasing the Speed of Cryptographic Processing - Encrypting data in as cascaded block cipher system may be accomplished by applying a first encryption algorithm using a secret shared between first and second parties as a key to generate a secret inner key; applying a second encryption algorithm for a predetermined number of rounds using the secret inner key to generate a plurality of blocks of ciphertext data from a plurality of blocks of plaintext data; and repeating the applying the first encryption algorithm and the applying the second encryption algorithm steps. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING DATA OF MOBILE PHONE - In a method for protecting data of a mobile phone, the mobile phone includes a storage system. The storage system stores a plaintext file to be encrypted and an international mobile equipment identification (IMEI) number of the mobile phone. The IMEI number of the mobile phone and the plaintext file are read from the storage system. A ciphertext is generated from the plaintext file according to the IMEI number of the mobile phone using an encryption algorithm. The IMEI number of the mobile phone and the ciphertext are read from the storage system when the ciphertext needs to be decrypted. The plaintext file is recovered from the ciphertext according to the IMEI number of the mobile phone using a decryption algorithm. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189121 | CASCADING DYNAMIC CRYPTO PERIODS - Systems and methods for performing cascading dynamic crypto periods are disclosed. In embodiments, a control word and a set of functions is transmitted between a head-end and recipient devices at the beginning of a crypto period. The crypto period is divided into a discrete number of sub-crypto periods. The control word used to encrypt and decrypt the broadcast content is changed during each sub-crypto period. At the end of the first sub-crypto period, a derived control word is generated by passing the original control word to a function in the set of functions in order to generate a derived control word at the first transition between sub-crypto periods. The derived control word is used for encryption and decryption of the broadcasted content during the second sub-crypto period. Upon transitioning to the third sub-control-period, the derived control word is input into another function to produce a second derived control word. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189122 | METHOD WITH DYNAMIC KEYS FOR MUTUAL AUTHENTICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS WITHOUT PRIOR AUTHENTICATION CONNECTION - A mutual authentication method with which a base station and a subscriber station can mutually authentication with each other is proposed. In this method, dynamic keys are employed, and SS and BS individually input random numbers to the Diffie-Hellman Public Key Distribution System (DH-PKDS for short) to generate a set of public keys and a set of common secret keys as the strong data connection for authentication (DCA for short) between the two stations. An addition function (ADR) which is more secure than that of an exclusive OR function in key transmission is used as a data carrier. SS and BS authenticate each other by using the identity certification keys. Plaintext is encrypted by a two-dimensional stream cipher method so that ciphertext can be more securely, also efficiently, transmitted. Further, dynamic keys and all other security parameters transmitted through wireless channels are only used once to further improve system security. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189123 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication circuit includes a receiver to receive at least one of a beacon frame and a probe response frame from a first wireless communication apparatus belonging to a first communication group, at least one of the beacon frame and the probe response frame including first security information indicating a first encryption method. The circuit includes a transmitter to transmit an association request frame to the first wireless communication apparatus, the association request frame including second security information indicating a second encryption method which is supported by the wireless communication circuit, after a determination that the second encryption method overlaps with the first encryption method. The transmitter declines to associate with the first wireless communication apparatus if the first encryption method fails to overlap with the second encryption method. The transmitter transmits a data frame including a frame body after a reception of an association response frame. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189124 | Methods and Devices for Establishing Security Associations and Performing Handoff Authentication in Communications Systems - A method of providing secure communications between a base station, a relay station, and a mobile station in a communication network includes receiving, by the relay station, an unsolicited security key from the base station; receiving, by the relay station, a signaling message from the mobile station; and authenticating, by the relay station, the mobile station using the security key. A method of providing secure communications between a base station, a relay station, and a mobile station in a communication network includes receiving, by the relay station, a signaling message from the mobile station; transmitting, by the relay station, subsequent to receiving the signaling message, a security key request to the base station; receiving, by the relay station, a security key from the base station in response to the previously sent security key request; and authenticating, by the relay station, the mobile station using the received security key. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189125 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A SECURE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - In a method for establishing a secure communication channel between a portable data carrier ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189126 | MAPPING SCHEMES FOR SECONDARY SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL SCRAMBLING - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes a synchronization unit configured to provide a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal having first and second segments. The transmitter also includes a secondary scrambling unit configured to provide a scrambled secondary synchronization signal, wherein scrambling agents for the first and second segments are derived from a primary synchronization sequence of the primary synchronization signal. The secondary scrambling unit is further configured to provide an additional scrambling of one of the first and second segments, wherein a second scrambling agent is derived from the remaining segment of a secondary synchronization sequence of the secondary synchronization signal. The transmitter further includes a transmit unit configured to transmit the primary synchronization signal and the scrambled secondary synchronization signal. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189127 | STEREO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A stereo decoding method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: restoring a monophonic signal from a received code stream through decoding; restoring an interchannel level difference, a group delay, and a group phase from the received code stream through decoding; and processing the monophonic signal according to the interchannel level difference, group delay, and group phase to obtain a first channel signal and a second channel signal. According to the stereo decoding method and apparatus provided in embodiments of the present invention, the first and second channel signals are obtained according to the monophonic signal, ILD, group delay, and group phase by referring to not only the ILD but also the group delay and group phase, thereby yielding favorable stereo sound field effect for the obtained first and second channel signals. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189128 | ELECTROACOUSTIC DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR FOR A CONCERT HALL - The device according to exemplary embodiments of the invention includes means for compensating the effects of temperature for cells that are used to obtain reverberation effects in an auditorium. This avoids the disagreeable effects of the “Larsen” effect, for example. The invention may be applicable to a public address system in a concert hall. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189129 | Apparatus for Aiding and Informing a User - An apparatus is described that allows the user to interact with an electronic system, such as a music player, and notifies when a potentially dangerous situation may be occurring in the immediate vicinity of the user. This is particularly important when the user is listening to music using a loud volume setting thereby making the user oblivious to the any dangerous conditions surrounding them, for example, a car beeping at an intersection. The apparatus monitors the surrounding environment while the user is listening to their music and interrupts the user's interaction with the music player and redirects the user's attention to the audio of the newly determined potentially dangerous situation. The user decides on the urgency of this situation, decides what needs to be done, and responds as they see fit. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189130 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELF-MANAGED SOUND ENHANCEMENT - A system and method are provided for capturing hearing characteristics from self-administered hearing tests or from professionally administered hearing tests, including loudness tolerance levels as at different sound frequencies, as an individualized audiological profile for automatically enhancing audio to complement and address as closely as possible an individual's hearing deficits. The user may self-administer a hearing test on a convenient personal apparatus, such as a smartphone. The system includes the ability for capturing an environment profile. The user's hearing is protected against harm in the enhanced audio setting while being provided with the option of a “enhanced hearing” experience. The invention is useful for any individual seeking an enhanced hearing experience, whether having hearing within normal range or hearing that is impaired. Thus the system is useful as a hearing aid. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189131 | LOW-PITCHED SOUND ENHANCEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, SPEAKER SYSTEM AND SOUND EFFECTS APPARATUS AND PROCESSES - Musical sound signals in at least one frequency band in a low band range are enhanced by a low-pitched sound enhancement processing device. Musical sound signals greater than a predetermined level are compressed by a compression device, such that the level in a low band range would not become excessively large, while musical sound signals with a lower level are enhanced by an enhancement device to be outputted with sufficient sound pressure. Also, the input/output level ratio is determined based on the level of inputted musical sound signals, to prevent the output level from becoming smaller than the input level. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189132 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL APPARATUS - An active vibration noise control apparatus uses an adaptive control process, which predicts rear road wheel noise canceling sounds by correcting a front road wheel reference signal or a rear road wheel reference signal with a corrective filter, based on different characteristics of front road wheel suspensions and rear road wheel suspensions. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189133 | Headset With Configuration Switch - An apparatus including a first section which is sized and shaped to be supportably mounted on a person's ear, a second section movably connected to the first section, and a switch. The first section includes a speaker. The second section is movable between a first home position and a second outward position relative to the first home position and the first section. The switch is configured to be automatically actuated when the second section is moved relative to the first section between the first home position and the second outward position. The switch is OFF when the first and second sections are in a first configuration with the second section in the first home position. The switch is ON when the first and second sections are in a second different configuration with the second section in the second outward position. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189134 | EARPHONE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - An electronic device includes a main body and an earphone. The main body includes an earphone socket and a first processing unit. The earphone includes an earphone plug, a storage unit, and a second processing unit. The earphone is connected to the main body by inserting the earphone plug into the earphone socket. The storage unit stores a password. The second processing unit transmits the password to the main body when the second processing unit detects that the earphone plug is inserted into the earphone socket. The first processing unit unlocks the main body if the password received from the earphone matches a predetermined condition. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189135 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, RELAY SERVER, DATA TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM, AND DATA TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING METHOD - A data transmitting/receiving method that reproduces content data distributed from a content server in a user terminal includes the user terminal connected to a network and a relay server in a system configuration. Request information that requests content data is transmitted from the user terminal to the relay server, the relay server reads volume adjustment information from a storing unit based on the request information to transmit the volume adjustment information to the user terminal, the user terminal adjusts a volume based on the volume adjustment information, the user terminal detects a volume change caused by a user operation to generate volume change information and transmits the volume change information from the user terminal to the relay server in association with content specifying information, and the relay server updates the volume adjustment information based on the volume change information. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189136 | DONNED/DOFFED MULTIMEDIA FILE PLAYBACK CONTROL - Methods and apparatuses for headset wearing mode based operation are presented. A headset system includes a first earbud and a second earbud. One or both earbuds have a detector which indicates whether the earbud is donned or doffed. Operation of the headset is modified based on the donned or doffed status of the earbuds. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189137 | MICROPHONE UNIT, POCKET TRANSMITTER AND WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM - There is provided a microphone unit for recording audio signals comprising an audio processing unit for processing the recorded audio signals, a detection unit for detecting metadata belonging to the audio signal, and a first transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting the processed audio signal and the metadata. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189138 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM - A desired signal is extracted with a higher accuracy from a mixed signal wherein a plurality of signals are mixed. At the time of extracting a first signal from a first mixed signal and a second mixed signal, said first mixed signal and second mixed signal having the first signal and second signal mixed therein, an estimate value of the first signal in the past is obtained as a first estimate value, and an estimate value of the second signal in the past is obtained as a second estimate value. Then, a first isolation signal is generated by subtracting the second estimate value from the first mixed signal, and a second isolation signal is generated by subtracting the first estimate value from the second mixed signal. Then, the signal generated using the first isolation signal and the second isolation signal is outputted as the first signal. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189139 | Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Having a Switched Charge Pump Unit and Operating Method Thereof - Power source noises of a digital amplifier arising from regenerative current of an inductor of a low pass filter is reduced. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a digital amplifier, a driver; and a charge pump unit which is supplied with a positive operating voltage and generates a positive power supply voltage and a negative power supply voltage. An output terminal of the digital amplifier is coupled to a low pass filter including an inductor and a filter capacitor. The charge pump unit includes a first switch through a sixth switch, and a first capacitor through a fourth capacitor, all connected via a first node through a sixth node. Regenerative current which flows between the filter capacitor and the positive power supply voltage or the negative power supply voltage is absorbed by the second capacitor, by controlling the sixth switch to an on state. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189140 | AUDIO-SHARING NETWORK - Systems, methods, and devices for sharing ambient audio via an audio-sharing network are provided. By way of example, a system that receives shared audio from such an audio-sharing network may include a personal electronic device. The personal electronic device may join an audio-sharing network of other electronic devices and receive several audio streams from the audio-sharing network. Based at least partly on these audio streams, the personal electronic device may determine a digital user-personalized audio stream, outputting the digital user-personalized audio stream to a personal listening device. By way of example, the personal electronic device may represent a personal computer, a portable media player, or a portable phone. The personal listening device may represent a speaker of the personal electronic device, a wireless hearing aid, a wireless cochlear implant, a wired hearing aid, a wireless headset, or a wired headset, to name only a few examples. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189141 | DRIVER CIRCUIT - A pair of PWM signals having mutually opposite or identical phases is applied to both terminals of a load to drive the load. An anomaly detection circuit detects a state of change in the pair of PWM signals (PWM+ and PWM−), performs counting operation when at least one PWM signal stops changing, and outputs an anomaly detection signal when the count value becomes a predetermined value. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189142 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A multi-channel audio switching method and device for terminal sets correspondence between output audio types and audio output modules, and sets output levels for the different audio output modules. When the portable terminal receives an instruction to output an audio, the instruction carries an output audio type. The portable terminal determines an audio output module corresponding to the output audio type and an output level according to the correspondence, and determines, which audio output module has an output level not higher than the determined output level, and whether there are idle audio output modules among the found out audio output modules; if yes, the portable terminal outputs the audio through the currently highest level idle audio output module among the found out audio output modules; if not, the portable terminal determines and instructs one audio output module to output the audio according to the determined output level. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189143 | Micromechanical Microphone Device and Method for Producing a Micromechanical Microphone Device - A micromechanical microphone device includes a membrane that is mounted in an elastically deflectable manner above a substrate and that has at least one gate electrode. The device further includes a source region and a drain region provided in or on the substrate with a channel region therebetween. The channel region is at least partly covered by the gate electrode and is spaced apart from the gate electrode by a gap. The membrane is deflectable under the influence of sound in such a way that the gap is variable. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189144 | Packaged Microphone with Reduced Parasitics - A packaged microphone has a base with a top face, a lid coupled to the base and forming an interior, and a MEMS microphone (i.e., a die or chip) secured to the top face of the base within the interior. The packaged microphone also includes a circuit chip secured to the top face of the base within the interior. The circuit chip has a top surface with a top pad, a bottom surface with a bottom pad, and a via. The bottom pad is electrically connected to the base, and the via electrically connects the top pad with the bottom pad. A wire bond is connected between the MEMS microphone and the top pad on the circuit chip. The MEMS microphone is electrically connected to the bottom pad and the base through the via. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189145 | RIBBON MICROPHONE - To provide electromagnetic damping without a special output connector for protecting a diaphragm of metallic ribbon foil of a ribbon microphone against shocks. A ribbon microphone operable with a phantom power supply comprises: an acoustic-electric converter | 2012-07-26 |
20120189146 | CONTACTLESS RECHARGING OF THE BATTERY OF A PORTABLE OBJECT BY A TELEPHONE - A method for charging the battery of a portable object by a telephone, comprising a step for contactless transmission of power from a charging device of the telephone to the portable object, inducing the charging of the battery of the portable object. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189147 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD AND HEARING AID - By using output signals from a plurality of omnidirectional microphones, respectively, the sound processing apparatus outputs a first directivity signal in which the main axis of directivity is formed in the direction of the utterer and outputs a second directivity signal in which the dead zone of directivity is formed in the direction of the utterer. The sound processing apparatus calculates the level of the first directivity signal and the level of the second directivity signal, and determines the distance to the utterer based on the level of the first directivity signal and the level of the second directivity signal. The sound processing apparatus derives a gain to be given to the first directivity signal according to the result of the determination and controls the level of the first directivity signal by using the gain. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189148 | HEADWORN SOUND PROCESSOR CASE - A case for encasing a hearing device to allow the wearer to continue wearing the device while engaging in activities such as swimming. In certain embodiments, the case comprises a protective portion for providing mechanical protection to the device and a flexible portion for housing a coil associated with the hearing device. In specific embodiments, the case also includes one or more acoustic ports. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189149 | HEARING AID - A hearing aid of the present invention is convenient to repair and replace. The hearing aid includes: (i) an out-of-canal assembly comprising a power source (e.g., a battery) and a processor, and (ii) an in-canal assembly comprising a microphone and a receiver. The out-of-canal assembly is selectively, removably, electrically coupled to the in-canal assembly. Sound perceived by the in-canal assembly is processed by the out-of-canal assembly and transmitted to the user's eardrum. The in-canal assembly is conveniently, selectively decoupled from the out-of-canal assembly for convenient replacement or repair. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189150 | SUBWOOFER STRUCTURE AND ADJUSTING METHOD - A subwoofer ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189151 | ROBUST DIAPHRAGM FOR AN ACOUSTIC DEVICE - A rigid, flat plate diaphragm for an acoustic device is illustrated. The internal supporting structure of the diaphragm provides a combination of torsional and translational stiffeners, which resemble a number of crossbars. These stiffeners brace and support the diaphragm motion, thus causing its response to not be adversely affected by fabrication stresses and causing it to be very similar in dynamic response to an ideal flat plate operating in a frequency range that extends well beyond the audible. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189152 | Component having a micro-mechanical microphone structure and method for producing the component - Measures are provided for improving the acoustic properties of a component ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189153 | Mounting Panel With Elongated Tongue - A device for mounting a communication headset to a helmet includes a mounting panel having a seat in a front surface thereof that includes a set of electrical contacts and a guide, a printed circuit board | 2012-07-26 |
20120189154 | ANTIHELIX-CONFORMING EAR-MOUNT FOR PERSONAL AUDIO-SET - A light weight and comfortable ear mount for a personal audio-set is disclosed. The ear mount conforms with the antihelix of a wearer's ear, thereby operating substantially as a compression spring between the wearer's antihelix and tragus, to operably secure the personal audio-set in place. In a preferred embodiment, the ear-mount is substantially kidney-shaped and includes an opening to prevent the total occlusion of the ear canal by the personal audio-set. Alternatively, the ear-mount includes a loop of material sized to operably engage the antihelix of the wearer's ear. The ear-mount is preferably reversible to allow it to be placed in either the wearer's left or right ear. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189155 | Apparatus for Electrically Coupling Contacts by Magnetic Forces - A system is described that consists of components that are magnetically and electronically coupled together. The electronic coupling allows signals and power/ground to couple between the various components. The magnetic coupling allows the portable system to come apart without damaging the components when an element of a component gets unexpectedly snagged after passing an obstacle. The components can be easily collected and reassembled to reconstruct the system. Furthermore, the positioning of the magnets in the magnetic coupling provides a lock and key combination in that the pattern and anti-pattern between mating surface couplings can be designed to only allow one orientation when the units are coupled. This restriction in orientation prevents the power leads from shorting to ground or other signal leads during the reassembly thereby preventing damage to the system. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189156 | DOCKING STATION FOR MEDIA PLAYER - A docking station for an iPad or the like, has a base, a support connected to the base and holding an iPad, a signal connector, an operating circuit for amplifying an audio signal received from the iPad via the connector, and speakers for reproducing sound based on an audio signal amplified by the operating circuit. The support is movable relative to the base between an erected position for operation of the docking station and a collapsed position when the docking station is not in use and is, in the erected position, movable between two angular positions, supporting the iPad in portrait and landscape orientations. The base has a recess for receiving at least part of the support in the collapsed position, and providing an unobtrusive profile to the docking station in the collapsed position of the support. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189157 | MOTION-BASED IMAGE WATERMARKING - A computer implemented method and system including providing a motion pattern to an imaging device; and acquiring an image with the imaging device, wherein the image has embedded signals representative of the motion pattern and the embedded signals provide an authenticating watermark. The embedded signals can comprise spectrum information selected from duration, dimension, acceleration and velocity. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189158 | OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION OF BACK PROJECTION FOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) - The disclosure relates generally to a method of three dimensional (3D) tomographic volume reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) using vector processors and more specifically to an optimized implementation which pre-computes back projection weights and perspective geometry data associated with a given CT device as down-sampled tables. The down-sampled perspective geometry data and the weight table are interpolated dynamically as part of the volume reconstruction process for an object scanned using the given CT device. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189159 | PARALLAX EFFECT SECURITY ELEMENT - The present invention relates to a security element ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189160 | LINE-OF-SIGHT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A line-of-sight detection apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a face from image data, a first extraction unit configured to extract a feature amount corresponding to a direction of the face from the image data, a calculation unit configured to calculate a line-of-sight reliability of each of a right eye and a left eye based on the face, a selection unit configured to select an eye according to the line-of-sight reliability, a second extraction unit configured to extract a feature amount of an eye region of the selected eye from the image data, and an estimation unit configured to estimate a line of sight of the face based on the feature amount corresponding to the face direction and the feature amount of the eye region. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189161 | VISUAL ATTENTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD BASED ON MIND AWARENESS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE VISUAL ATTENTION APPARATUS - Disclosed are a visual attention apparatus based on mind awareness and an image output apparatus using the same. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can reduce data throughput by performing object segmentation and context analysis according to downsampling and colors and approximate shapes of input images so as to detect attention regions using extrinsic visual attention and intrinsic visual attention. In addition, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention can detect the attention regions having different viewpoints for each user by detecting the attention regions due to the extrinsic visual attention and the intrinsic visual attention and processing and displaying the attention regions as various regions of interest, thereby increasing the image immersion and the utility of contents. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189162 | MOBILE UNIT POSITION DETECTING APPARATUS AND MOBILE UNIT POSITION DETECTING METHOD - The mobile unit position detecting apparatus generates target data by extracting a target from an image shot by the image capturing device, extracts target setting data that best matches the target data, is prerecorded in a recording unit and is shot for each target, obtains a target ID corresponding to the extracted target setting data from the recording unit, detects position data associated with the obtained target ID, tracks the target in the image shot by the image capturing device, and calculates an aspect ratio of the target being tracked in the image. If the aspect ratio is equal to or lower than a threshold value, the mobile unit position detecting apparatus outputs the detected position data. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189163 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING HAND ROTATION - An apparatus and a method are provided that can intuitively and easily recognize hand rotation. The apparatus for recognizing a hand rotation includes a camera for photographing a plurality of hand image data, a detector for extracting circles through fingers of the hand image data and a controller for recognizing hand rotation through changes in positions and sizes of the circles extracted from each of the plurality of hand image data. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189164 | RULE-BASED COMBINATION OF A HIERARCHY OF CLASSIFIERS FOR OCCLUSION DETECTION - A person detection system includes a face detector configured to detect a face in an input video sequence, the face detector outputting a face keyframe to be stored if a face is detected; and a person detector configured to detect a person in the input video sequence if the face detector fails to detect a face, the person detector outputting a person keyframe to be stored, if a person is detected in the input video sequence. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189165 | METHOD OF PROCESSING BODY INSPECTION IMAGE AND BODY INSPECTION APPARATUS - A method of processing a body inspection image and a body inspection apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method may comprise recognizing a target region by means of pattern recognition, and performing privacy protection processing on the recognized target region. The target region may comprise a head and/or crotch part. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to achieve a compromise between privacy protection and body inspection. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189166 | USER INPUT UTILIZING DUAL LINE SCANNER APPARATUS AND METHOD - A user input method and apparatus may comprise a two line object imaging sensor having a primary line scan-sensor providing a primary line scan-sensor output and a secondary line scan-sensor providing a secondary line scan-sensor output, representing pixels in a current primary scan row and a current secondary scan row, and adapted to scan an object; storing for each scan time each current primary line scan-sensor output and each current secondary line scan-sensor output and a correlation unit correlating at least one of the current representations of pixels in a primary line sensor output with stored representations and the current representations of pixels in a secondary line sensor output with stored representations and, the correlation unit providing as an output a motion indicator. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189167 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device, includes: a first motion vector calculation unit calculating a motion vector of a target block regarding the target block made with a plurality of pixels set up in a target image by detecting a block position maximally correlated with the target block in a search range set up in a reference image; a second motion vector calculation unit calculating a motion vector between the target image and the reference image from the motion vector for each of a plurality of target blocks set up in the target image; and a predictive motion vector setup unit setting up a predictive motion vector using a motion vector calculated between images in further past than the target image. The first motion vector calculation unit sets up the search range on the reference image based on a position of the target block and the predictive motion vector. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189168 | MULTI-MODE REGION-OF-INTEREST VIDEO OBJECT SEGMENTATION - The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic segmentation of a region-of-interest (ROI) video object from a video sequence. ROI object segmentation enables selected ROI or “foreground” objects of a video sequence that may be of interest to a viewer to be extracted from non-ROI or “background” areas of the video sequence. Examples of a ROI object are a human face or a head and shoulder area of a human body. The disclosed techniques include a hybrid technique that combines ROI feature detection, region segmentation, and background subtraction. In this way, the disclosed techniques may provide accurate foreground object generation and low-complexity extraction of the foreground object from the video sequence. A ROI object segmentation system may implement the techniques described herein. In addition, ROI object segmentation may be useful in a wide range of multimedia applications that utilize video sequences, such as video telephony applications and video surveillance applications. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189169 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTHENTICATING USERS - A method of authenticating users is provided that includes capturing biometric authentication data of a user and processing the captured biometric data into an image. Moreover, the method includes determining a region of interest of the image and a gray scale image from the image, determining an optimum transformation parameter set within the region of interest, and aligning the gray scale image with an enrollment gray scale image generated during enrollment of the user using results of the optimum transformation parameter set determination. Furthermore, the method includes extracting biometric feature data from the gray scale image and verifying an identity of the user with extracted biometric feature data included in a region of agreement. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189170 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A biometric authentication device includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of reference biometric data, an identification control unit that extracts reference biometric data where a coefficient for determining a similarity to acquired biometric data is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, a similar region extraction unit that obtains coefficients for determining similarities between the plural pieces of extracted reference biometric data, in units of predetermined regions, and extracts a similar region where the coefficient for similarity determination is greater than or equal to a second threshold value when a plurality of pieces of reference biometric data are extracted by the identification control unit, and a judgment unit that weights a coefficient for determining a similarity to a dissimilar region, compared with the coefficient for determining a similarity to the extracted similar region, and judging the degree of similarity. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189171 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A biometric information processing apparatus includes: a biometric information acquiring unit which acquires a user's biometric information and generates a biometric input image representing the biometric information; and a processing unit. The processing unit implements: generating a first intermediate image by applying first image processing to the biometric input image; generating a second intermediate image by applying second image processing to the biometric input image; detecting, from each of the first and second intermediate images, a singular point candidate; calculating a distance between the singular point candidates detected from each of the first and second intermediate images for the same singular point contained in the biometric information; calculating a quality metric for the biometric input image based on the distance; and if the quality metric is not higher than a predefined threshold value, then prompting the user to have the user's biometric information reacquired by the biometric information acquiring unit. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189172 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH DUAL LINE SCANNER USING LINE COUNTS - A fingerprint scanning and image reconstruction system and method including a fingerprint scanner providing a first scan line and a second scan line separated by a line separation distance in a scanning direction. The system includes an image reconstruction module accumulating scan lines including at least the first scan line and the second scan line over a time period t. The image reconstruction module a value for decimation (t) necessary to produce a selected y axis resolution in the scanning direction based at least in part on (line count(t)/line separation distance)*a selected y resolution, where line count(t) is the number of lines accumulated in time t, and decimation(t) indicates of whether the line count(t) is greater than or less than the number of lines accumulated as a function of the time period t that will result in a selected reconstructed image y resolution in the scanning direction. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189173 | IMAGE DISPLAY - A medical imaging system having a medical image capture device; a medical measurement device; a display coupled to the image capture device and the medical measurement device, the display displaying: a medical image obtained from the medical image capture device; a medical measurement obtained from the medical measurement device, the medical measurement segmenting the medical image on the display; and a border substantially surrounding the medical measurement, the border defining a region of the display excluding the medical image. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189174 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND WARNING INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD THEREOF - The disclosure provides an electronic device and a method of generating warning information. The device includes a capturing unit, a storage unit, a control unit, and a display unit. When the capturing unit takes a photo, the control unit processes the photo to generate an image profile, compares to stored healthy images to determine a body part, acquires an unhealthy image and the parameter of the unhealthy image from the storage unit according to the body part, analyzes the body part to obtain the parameter of the body part, compares to the parameter of the unhealthy image to obtain a comparison value, and evaluates whether the comparison value falls within a predetermined range. If yes, the control unit acquires warning information from the storage unit associated with the unhealthy image and the display unit displays the warning information. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189175 | Method and system for analysing tissue from images - Disclosed is a method of analysing tissue from an image comprising providing an electronic image of tissue ( | 2012-07-26 |
20120189176 | METHOD, SYSTEM, SOFTWARE AND MEDIUM FOR ADVANCED INTELLIGENT IMAGE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF MEDICAL IMAGES AND INFORMATION - Computerized interpretation of medical images for quantitative analysis of multi-modality breast images including analysis of FFDM, 2D/3D ultrasound, MRI, or other breast imaging methods. Real-time characterization of tumors and background tissue, and calculation of image-based biomarkers is provided for breast cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, and therapy response. Analysis includes lesion segmentation, and extraction of relevant characteristics (textural/morphological/kinetic features) from lesion-based or voxel-based analyses. Combinations of characteristics in several classification tasks using artificial intelligence is provided. Output in terms of 1D, 2D or 3D distributions in which an unknown case is identified relative to calculations on known or unlabeled cases, which can go through a dimension-reduction technique. Output to 3D shows relationships of the unknown case to a cloud of known or unlabeled cases, in which the cloud demonstrates the structure of the population of patients with and without the disease. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189177 | METHOD, SERVER, AND USER DEVICE FOR PROVIDING USER'S PERSONAL MEDICINE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICE BETWEEN THE SERVER AND THE USER DEVICE - A method of managing a personal medicine information management service by a user device and a server includes obtaining a medicine image captured by photographing appearance of a user medicine; transmitting the obtained medicine image to the server as a request for recognition of the user medicine; and receiving medicine quantity information and personal medicine information from the server based on a result of the recognition of the user medicine. The personal medicine information includes an image of the user medicine of which recognition training is performed by the server. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189178 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING OPTIMAL 2-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGE FROM 3-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGE - In a method and an apparatus for automatically generating an optimal 2-dimensional (2D) medical image from a 3D medical image, at least one virtual plane crossing a 3D volume is generated from 3D volume image data for showing part of a patient's body in a 3D manner, at least one 2D image representing a cross section of the part of the patient's body is generated by applying the 3D volume image data to the virtual plane, and a 2D image suitable for diagnosis of the patient having a feature most similar to a target feature from among the at least one 2D image is output. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189179 | PROCESSING OF CONTENT-BASED COMPRESSED IMAGES - A technique for prioritizing portions of compressed multi-resolution medical image data to be processed. More relevant portions of medical image data are compressed at a higher resolution than less relevant portions of medical image data. A mask is created from the image data and used to assign data compression quality factors to corresponding image blocks in the image data. The image data in each region is compressed based on their assigned quality factor. During processing of the compressed image data, the compressed image data and the mask are accessed. The mask is used to direct the processing of the compressed image data. Depending upon the application, the mask can be used to direct that the image data for the regions of most relevance be processed before the image data for the regions of lesser relevance. However, the mask can be used to direct that the image data for the regions of lesser relevance be processed before the image data for the regions of most relevance. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189180 | Systems and Methods for Machine Learning Based Hanging Protocols - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for determining a hanging protocol for display of clinical images in a study. Certain embodiments provide a method for determining a hanging protocol for clinical image display. The method includes capturing one or more high level characteristics for an image study based on relationships between images in the study. The method also includes identifying one or more low level characteristics for individual images in the image study. The method further includes classifying the image study based on a combination of the high level characteristics and the low level characteristics. The method additionally includes determining a hanging protocol for the image study based on the classifying. The method includes providing the hanging protocol for display of images in the image study. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189181 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING SYSTEM, DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING PROGRAM AND DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING METHOD - a CPR image that represents a range corresponding to at least a portion of a blood vessel is generated from volume data obtained by imaging, and arranged in a predetermined region of a display screen. Band shaped condition display regions are arranged outside the predetermined region such that they are parallel to the blood vessel represented by the CPR image. Index values, such as stenosis rates and whether plaque is present, are calculated by analyzing the volume data. The calculated index values are converted to colors (RGB values) by referring to a conversion table. The condition display regions are displayed in colors according to the values of the index values. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189182 | AUTOMATIC TOOTH CHARTING USING DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for generating an electronic dental chart for a patient, executed at least in part by a host processor, obtains image data for each of a number of teeth of the patient and generates a template dental chart for the patient that represents the position of each imaged tooth with a symbol according to the obtained image data. The template dental chart for each imaged tooth symbol is populated to form the electronic dental chart by associating the obtained image data to the corresponding symbol in the template dental chart for the imaged tooth, analyzing the obtained image data to identify a condition of the imaged tooth, associating at least the identified condition with the symbol for the imaged tooth, and displaying the populated electronic dental chart, wherein the displayed electronic dental chart provides a visual indication of the identified condition. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189183 | Automatic Registration of Image Series with Varying Contrast Based on Synthetic Images Derived from Intensity Behavior Model - A method for performing motion compensation in a series of magnetic resonance (MR) images includes acquiring a set of MR image frames spanning different points along an MR recovery curve. A motion-free synthetic image is generated for each of the acquired MR image frames using prior knowledge pertaining to an MR recovery curve. Each of the acquired MR images is registered to its corresponding generated synthetic images. Motion within each of the acquired MR image is corrected based on its corresponding generated synthetic image that has been registered thereto. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189184 | TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - Provided is a tomographic imaging apparatus including: a light source; an optical splitter unit for splitting light from the light source into reference light and measuring light; a reference optical system including an adjustment unit for adjusting an optical path length of the reference light; a spectral unit for spectrally splitting combined light of the reference light and the return light obtained by irradiating an object to be inspected with the measuring light so as to acquire an interfering signal; a detection unit for detecting an optical path length when a tomographic image of the object is photographed; a storage unit for recording data about a refractive index of a refracting element of the object; and a calculation unit for calculating image data from the interfering signal acquired by the spectral unit based on an actual size using data about the optical path length and the refractive index. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189185 | Method and System for 3D Cardiac Motion Estimation from Single Scan of C-Arm Angiography - A method and system for estimating 3D cardiac motion from a single C-arm angiography scan is disclosed. An initial 3D volume is reconstructed from a plurality of 2D projection images acquired in a single C-arm scan. A static mesh is extracted by segmenting an object in the initial 3D volume. The static mesh is projected to each of the 2D projection images. A cardiac phase is determined for each of the 2D projection images. A deformed mesh is generated for each of a plurality of cardiac phases based on a 2D contour of the object and the projected mesh in each of the 2D projection images of that cardiac phase. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189186 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGING CURRENCY BILLS AND FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - An input receptacle receives currency bills and checks. A transport mechanism transports the bills and checks along a transport path to an output receptacle. An image scanner, adjacent the transport path, is configured to generate one or more electrical signals from which image data can be derived. The image data is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of documents. A controller is configured to determine a denomination of each of the currency bills. In response to the controller not determining a denomination of one of the currency bills, the controller flags the currency bill as a no-call document by causing at least a portion of the image data to be displayed as a visually readable image of the flagged currency bill on the display. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189187 | PHOTO-MASK AND WAFER IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION - A system receives a mask pattern and a first image of at least a portion of a photo-mask corresponding to the mask pattern. The system determines a second image of at least the portion of the photo-mask based on the first image and the mask pattern. This second image is characterized by additional spatial frequencies than the first image. | 2012-07-26 |
20120189188 | COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM AND MOUNTING STATE INSPECTION METHOD IN THE COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM - Provided is a component mounting system and a mounting state inspection method in the component mounting system in which accurate mounting state inspection can be achieved with good operability. A board image capturing operation for image-capturing an inspection range of a board to be inspected to acquire captured image data is executed on the board before and after mounting work is executed on the board by inspection modules M | 2012-07-26 |
20120189189 | OPTICAL INSPECTION OPTIMIZATION - A method of optimizing an optical inspection and fabrication process is herein disclosed. Images, preferably color digital images, of an object are obtained and multiple filter space representations of these images are created. Each of the representations and the channels or data that define them are analyzed separately or in combination with one another to determine which representations, combination of representations, channels, combinations of channels, data or combinations of data provide the most optimal data for analysis by optical inspection algorithms. The process may be automated in terms of the creation of image representations and/or single or multivariate analysis. | 2012-07-26 |