45th week of 2020 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20200349657 | MONITORING AND CONTROLLING THE STATUS OF FREQUENCY-MANAGED ELECTRIC DEVICES FROM FREQUENCY HISTORY - Apparatus comprise control circuitry configured to control a line frequency of a microgrid by directing a first set of one or more electrical devices coupled to the microgrid to produce a change in the line frequency through a change in operation of the first set, such that a second set of one or more electrical devices coupled to the microgrid adjusts operation in response to a detected line frequency changeably produced by the first set. Related methods and additional apparatus and methods are disclosed. Apparatus and methods are disclosed that use line frequency and/or line voltage. Apparatus and methods are also disclosed that use control history. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349658 | MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Described herein are various techniques for managing media related to a construction project, which may relate to one or more buildings to be built and/or renovated as part of the construction project. In accordance with techniques described herein, the media may be managed according to information regarding the construction project that is stored by one or more other systems separate from a media management system. The other systems may be construction information management systems that each store information regarding a construction project, including information relating to planning and/or execution of the construction project. For example, the media management system may generate tags based on the information regarding the construction project, may be trained to recognize features in the media that relate to the tags, and add the appropriate tags to the media based on the recognized features. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349659 | SHORT-, MEDIUM-, OR LONG-TERM OCCUPANT SPACE SYSTEM, METHOD, AND ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of architecture, systems, and methods that enable a tenant or space provider to rent or offer for rent a space for short-, medium-, or long-term occupation including a room in a house, apartment, condominium, office for individual use or with roommates are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349660 | Method and an Apparatus for Searching or Comparing Sites Using Routes or Route Lengths Between Sites and Places Within a Transportation System - Embodiments relate to searching or comparing sites. One embodiment is a real estate search-or-compare method based on commute durations. The method efficiently processes public transportation and real estate property data to compute the durations of travel between the real estate properties and the vehicle stops. These durations are stored. A request framework is introduced that allows to express a wide range of search-or-compare requests. During request processing, the method identifies parts of the commute paths that depend on any real estate property. Because durations for these parts were precomputed and stored, the method can determine commute durations to every real estate property in a scalable manner. As a result, the method rapidly responds to requests within the real estate market of one of the largest metropolitan areas in existence today. Other embodiments include: searching or comparing based on a monetary cost, transportation using private cars, and sites other than real estate properties. A computer system and a computer service also embody the method. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349661 | BUILDING SYSTEM WITH SMART BUILDING SCORING - Systems and methods described herein related to a method for a building analytics system of a building conducted by a processing circuit. The method includes receiving an input comprising a plurality of building values from a building network, wherein each value of the plurality of building values is associated with a one of a plurality of building characteristics. The method includes identifying a plurality of rules based on the plurality of building values, wherein each of the plurality of rules is associated with one of the plurality of building characteristics and determining a plurality of scores based on the plurality of rules and the plurality of building values, wherein each score of the plurality of scores is associated with one of the plurality of building characteristics. The method includes generating a building score based on the plurality of scores, wherein the building score identifies a performance level of the building. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349662 | EVALUATING SOFTWARE LICENSE USAGE USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AGENTS - Techniques are provided for reinforcement learning-based evaluation of software product usage. One method comprises obtaining key performance indicators indicating software product usage by a user; determining, for a predefined time window: (i) a mean and/or a median of the obtained KPIs; (ii) an amount of time that the software product was active; and (iii) an amount of interactions by the user with a user interface; evaluating possible login states of the software product using at least one reinforcement learning agent, wherein the evaluating comprises (a) observing the plurality of possible login states, including a current state comprising a current login state of the software product, and (b) obtaining an expected utility score for changing from the current login state to a different login state of the software product; and determining whether to change from the current login state to a different login state of the software product based on the expected utility score. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349663 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL ASSETS - A method of distributing a smart will of a user, the method comprising: receiving a smart will creation request comprising: one or more beneficiary wallet identifiers, and asset distribution rules; creating, based on the smart will creation request, an estate smart contract, the estate smart contract being configured to authorize transfer of one or more assets registered to the estate smart contract to a storage location specified by an executor smart contract; receiving, by the executor smart contract, a death notification indicative of death of an owner of the estate smart contract; instructing the estate smart contract to transfer the assets from the estate smart contract to a trust smart contract; verifying, by the trust smart contract, that the beneficiary wallets are valid; and transferring, by the trust smart contract, one or more assets to the beneficiary wallets in accordance with the asset distribution rules. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349664 | Methods and Devices for Searching for a Missing Person - Methods and devices for searching for a missing person. Data sources are accessed through an IP network to obtain information about the missing person. Based on the obtained information, potential scenarios are develop of the current location of the missing person. The information is disseminated to search entities that search the geographic areas of the potential scenarios. Additional information is obtained about the missing person during the search to further develop the potential scenarios and focus the search areas. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349665 | INFORMED MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR AN ITEM PROCESSING SUPERVISOR OR USER WITHIN A DISTRIBUTION FACILITY - Systems and methods for informed mobility platform for an item processing supervisor within a distribution facility are disclosed. In one embodiment, a supervisor mobile terminal for electronically managing item processing activities associated with a distribution facility is provided. The terminal may include a transceiver circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with a server computer a plurality of sets of data relating to the item processing activities. The terminal may further include a user interface configured to display the plurality of sets of data and a controller in data communication with the transceiver circuit and the user interface. The controller may be configured to control the user interface to modify the at least one set of data and control the transceiver circuit to wirelessly communicate the modified data with the server computer such that the at least one set of data stored in the server computer is updated with the modified data. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349666 | ENHANCED VEHICLE SHARING SYSTEM - Rideshare cars operate within a network and each includes a car-camera device which allows each car driver to communicate with each other. The car-camera device uses object and facial recognition software to locate objects, people, sounds, QR codes and gestures, inside and outside the car and responds accordingly, providing a corrective action. The car-camera devices perform functions to ensure that both riders and drivers of rideshare services and drivers of car-share services are safe and can communicate with each other, before, during, and after a ride or drive. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349667 | (LOSE-LOSE)-WIN RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT - Until the physiology of the brain and actions from the human mind are better understood, negotiations are the primary peaceful processes to resolve conflicts. Win-win resolution of conflicts often involves creativity and may not be possible. Compromise or lose-lose is a frequent alternative to win-win. However, addition of a third party interest in dyad conflicts may change the resolution of the conflict from lose-lose to (lose-lose)-win, which is a more favorable outcome. Unfortunately game theory outcome may not accurately predict long term outcome. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349668 | PREDICTIVE CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS - Insects can be classified into a category (e.g., sex category, species category, size category, etc.) using a variety of different classification approaches including, for example, an industrial vision classifier and/or a machine learning classifier. At least some classification approaches may be used in real-time to make real-time decisions and others can be used to validate earlier-made real-time decisions. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349669 | MULTI-RESOLUTION SMOOTHING - Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to process multi-resolution images by identifying pixels at a boundary between pixels of different resolutions, and selectively smoothing the identified pixels. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349670 | MACHINE LEARNING SPARSE COMPUTATION MECHANISM - Techniques to improve performance of matrix multiply operations are described in which a compute kernel can specify one or more element-wise operations to perform on output of the compute kernel before the output is transferred to higher levels of a processor memory hierarchy. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349671 | Down Scaling Images in a Computer Vision System - An apparatus for scaling images is provided that includes at least two input ports, a scaling component coupled to the at least two input ports, the scaling component including a plurality of scalers, the scaling component configurable to map any scaler to any input port of the at least two input ports and configurable to map more than one scaler to any input port, and a memory coupled to the at least two input ports and to outputs of the plurality of scalers, the memory configured to store image data for each input port and scaled image data output by the plurality of scalers. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTING LIVE VIRTUAL REALITY CONTENT - An apparatus, system, and method are described for providing real-time capture, processing, and distribution of panoramic virtual reality (VR) content. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises a video interface to receive a first plurality of images from a corresponding first plurality of cameras; an image rectifier to perform a perspective re-projection of at least some of the first plurality of images to a common image plane to generate a rectified first plurality of images; a stitcher to analyze overlapping regions of adjacent images in the rectified first plurality and to identify corresponding pixels in the overlapping regions and to stitch the adjacent images in accordance with the corresponding pixels to generate a panoramic image comprising a stitched combination of the rectified first plurality of images; and a cylindrical projector to project the panoramic image onto a cylindrical surface to generate a final panoramic video image to be used to implement a virtual reality (VR) environment on a VR apparatus. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349673 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF THE IMAGE AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of processing an image for improving image quality is provided. The method includes inputting an image into a first artificial neural network as an input variable to create a feature map and inputting an image into a second artificial neural network as an input variable to create an estimated class probability distribution map for each of frequency channels. Further, the method may comprise determining a class for each of the frequency channels on the basis of a probability distribution included in the estimated class probability distribution map, creating an estimated class map that includes a determined class, converting the estimated class map into an estimated frequency map, combining the estimated frequency map with the feature map to create a combined feature map, and inputting the combined feature map into a third artificial neural network as an input variable to create an output image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349674 | INTELLIGENT IMAGE ENHANCEMENT - Systems, methods, and computer program products leverage artificial intelligence, and machine learning to process image enhancements using image enhancement techniques and algorithms. Image enhancements are determined to be best suited for enhancing each image as a function of each images' calculated validation parameters by an analytics engine. The images are each categorized by the image quality as a function of the validation parameters. Images identified as having an improvement space are further processed by querying the images' validation parameters using a knowledge base comprising historical data describing past image enhancements and historical validation parameters to the current image. A matrix of recommended enhancements, along with a predicted success rate for improving the image quality is provided to a user interface. A user can select one or more enhancements to apply to the image(s) and further provide feedback to the knowledge base, further improving enhancement recommendations and success rates. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349675 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a memory storing at least one instruction, and a processor, electrically connected to the memory, configured to, by executing the instruction, obtain, from an input image, a noise map corresponding to the input image; provide the input image to an input layer of a learning network model including a plurality of layers, the learning network model being an artificial intelligence (AI) model that is obtained by learning, through an AI algorithm, a relationship between a plurality of sample images, a respective noise map of each of the plurality of sample images, and an original image corresponding to the plurality of sample images; provide the noise map to at least one intermediate layer among the plurality of layers; and obtain an output image based on a result from providing the input image and the noise map to the learning network model. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349676 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SIGNAL-TO-NOISE OF MICROSCOPY IMAGES - An image processing device for improving signal-to-noise of microscopy images includes a memory configured to store microscopy images at least temporarily, and processing circuitry configured to determine an output image based on a weighted rolling average of an ordered set of microscopy images stored in the memory. A method for improving signal-to-noise of microscopy images includes storing microscopy images at least temporarily, and determining an output image based on a weighted rolling average of an ordered set of the stored microscopy images. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349677 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus obtains a first output image by applying an image to a first training network model, obtains a second output image by applying the image to a second training network model, and obtains a reconstructed image based on the first output image and the second output image. The first training network model is a model that uses a fixed parameter obtained through training of a plurality of sample images, the second training network model is trained to minimize a difference between a target image corresponding to the image and the reconstructed image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349678 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES - A machine learning based image processing architecture and associated applications are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning framework is trained to learn low level image attributes such as object/scene types, geometries, placements, materials and textures, camera characteristics, lighting characteristics, contrast, noise statistics, etc. Thereafter, the machine learning framework may be employed to detect such attributes in other images and process the images at the attribute level. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349679 | Method and Device for Ball Impact Localization - It is disclosed a method, and a device ( | 2020-11-05 |
20200349680 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An image processing method and device, storage medium and electronic device for deblurring an image. The method includes obtaining an image processing instruction including an instruction to deblur a target blurred image; obtaining a target model by training an original model based on a plurality of sample images of different scales, one of the plurality of sample images being a blurred image composed of a plurality of clear images, and the obtained target model being used for deblurring the blurred image to obtain a clear image; based on the image processing instruction, using the target model to deblur the target blurred image to obtain a target clear image; and outputting the target clear image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349681 | VIDEO ENHANCEMENT USING A NEURAL NETWORK - Techniques for enhancing an image are described. For example, a lower-resolution image from a video file may be enhanced using a trained neural network applying the trained neural network on the lower-resolution image to remove artifacts by removing artifacts by generating, using a layer of the trained neural network, a residual value based on the proper subset of the received image and at least one corresponding image portion of a preceding lower resolution image in the video file and at least one corresponding image portion of a subsequent lower resolution image in the video file, upscale the lower-resolution image using bilinear upsampling, and combine the upscaled received image and residual value to generate an enhanced image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349682 | VIDEO ENHANCEMENT USING A GENERATOR WITH FILTERS OF GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK - Techniques for enhancing an image are described. For example, a lower-resolution image from a video file may be enhanced using a trained neural network applying the trained neural network to enhance a middle lower-resolution image of the plurality of lower-resolution images using a generator with filters of a generative adversary network according to the request by: temporally pre-processing the lower-resolution images by concatenating the lower-resolution images along a temporal dimension, temporally reducing the concatenated images, removing artifacts of the temporally reduced concatenated images at a first resolution to generate a first red, green, blue (RGB) image using an artifact removal layer and features of the first RGB image, processing features of the first RGB image at a second, higher resolution to generate a second RGB image, upsampling the features of the second RGB image, processing features of the upsampled second RGB image at a third, higher resolution to generate a third RGB image, upsampling the features of the third RGB image to generate a residual of the third RGB image, generating a filter from the features of the first RGB image, performing a product of the generated filter and the RGB image generated by the artifact removal layer, and summing the product with the residual of the third RGB image to generate an enhanced image | 2020-11-05 |
20200349683 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF GENERIC GEOMETRIC CORRECTION ENGINE - An apparatus and method for geometrically correcting a distorted input frame and generating an undistorted output frame. The apparatus includes an external memory block that stores the input frame, a counter block to compute output coordinates of the output frame for a region based on a block size of the region, a back mapping block to generate input coordinates corresponding to each of the output coordinates, a bounding module to compute input blocks corresponding to each of the input coordinates, a buffer module to fetch data corresponding to each of the input blocks, an interpolation module to interpolate data from the buffer module and a display module that receives the interpolated data for each of the regions and stitch an output image. The method includes determining the size of the output block based on a magnification data. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349684 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method acquires an image, restores a saturated region in which a pixel in the image has a first reference value based on a first illuminance component of the image, enhances a dark region in which a value of a pixel in the image is less than a second reference value based on the restored saturated region and the first illuminance component, and outputs a dark region-enhanced image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLOUR CORRECTION DURING HDR TO SDR CONVERSION - The present embodiments relate to a method and apparatus comprising: —deriving chroma components (I) of a third image by correcting chroma components (II) of a second image according to a luma component of said second image and a reconstructed component obtained by applying a mapping function to said luma component (III) of said second image, said chroma components (II) of the second image being obtained by applying a conversion matrix to components (IV) of a first image; and —adapting coefficients of the conversion matrix which are relative to a chroma component of said third image independently of coefficients of the conversion matrix which are relative to another chroma component of said third image to ensure that there is no clipping on chroma components of the third image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349686 | VIDEO ENHANCEMENT USING A RECURRENT IMAGE DATE OF A NEURAL NETWORK - Techniques for enhancing an image are described. For example, a lower-resolution image from a video file may be enhanced using a trained neural network applying the trained neural network on the lower-resolution image to remove artifacts by generating, using a layer of the trained neural network, a residual value based on the proper subset of the received image and at least one corresponding image portion of a previously generated higher resolution image in the video file, upscaling the received image using bilinear upsampling, and combining the upscaled received image and residual value to generate an enhanced image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349687 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method includes: obtaining a first band image and a second band image; registering the first band image and the second band image; performing an edge detection on the registered second band image to obtain an edge image; and performing a fusion processing on the registered first band image and the edge image to obtain a target image. The present disclosure also provides an image processing device and a UAV using the above method. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349688 | HIERARCHICAL SCALE MATCHING AND PATCH ESTIMATION FOR IMAGE STYLE TRANSFER WITH ARBITRARY RESOLUTION - A style of a digital image is transferred to another digital image of arbitrary resolution. A high-resolution (HR) content image is segmented into several low-resolution (LR) patches. The resolution of a style image is matched to have the same resolution as the LR content image patches. Style transfer is then performed on a patch-by-patch basis using, for example, a pair of feature transforms—whitening and coloring. The patch-by-patch style transfer process is then repeated at several increasing resolutions, or scale levels, of both the content and style images. The results of the style transfer at each scale level are incorporated into successive scale levels up to and including the original HR scale. As a result, style transfer can be performed with images having arbitrary resolutions to produce visually pleasing results with good spatial consistency. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349689 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE, SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method includes obtaining a first band image and a second band image, performing transparency processing on the first band image to obtain an intermediate image, and superimposing the intermediate image and the second band image to obtain a target image. The present disclosure also provide an image processing device and an unmanned aerial vehicle using the method above. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349690 | Method, Device And Program For Processing Diffraction Images Of A Crystalline Material - The invention relates to a method for processing images obtained by a diffraction detector, of a crystalline or polycrystalline material, in which a first image of the material is acquired in a state of reference as well as a second image of the material in a deformed state. The invention is characterised in that, in a calculator, during a first step (E | 2020-11-05 |
20200349691 | OBJECT INSPECTION AND SORTING SYSTEM - A machine vision system for automatically identifying and inspecting objects is disclosed, including composable vision-based recognition modules and a decision algorithm to perform the final determination on object type and quality. This vision system has been used to develop a Projectile Identification System and an Automated Tactical Ammunition Classification System. The technology can be used to create numerous other inspection and automated identification systems. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349692 | AUTOMATED GRAINS INSPECTION - An automated grains inspection apparatus for a production line comprises an inlet to receive the grains and an outlet from which the grains are discharged. A feeder configured to receive the grains from the inlet and release the grains aligned in a line formation is provided while at least one camera is positioned sideway beneath the feeder to capture images of the grains while they fall. At least one background surface positioned sideway beneath the feeder and opposite the camera is also provided in an inspection zone so that the grains are configured to be aligned between the camera and the background surface. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349693 | REAL TIME ESTIMATION OF INDOOR LIGHTING CONDITIONS - A method of estimating an indoor lighting condition includes acquiring an image from a camera at a location within an indoor space at a selected time, determining the location from which the image is taken, and estimating an outdoor sunlight density based on the location and the selected time. The method also includes collecting a plurality of daylight factors, each daylight factor of the plurality of daylight factors corresponding to a characteristic of the indoor space, calculating an indoor daylight index for the indoor space in real time based on the outdoor sunlight density and the plurality of daylight factors, and presenting the indoor daylight index to a user in real time. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349694 | REPAIR LENGTH DETERMINATION METHOD AND REPAIR LENGTH DETERMINATION APPARATUS - A repair length determination method that can accurately calculate a repair region (repair length) in which repair is to be performed in a structure and an apparatus are provided. The repair length determination method has: an image acquiring step of acquiring an image obtained by imaging a repair target region; a detection step of detecting a crack from the image; a display step of displaying a crack; a pointing step of pointing a plurality of points including two points at both ends of the crack; an interpolation curve creating step of creating an interpolation curve by using the pointed points; and a repair length determining step of measuring a length of the interpolation curve and determining a repair length. The apparatus is used for the determination method. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349695 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method with which a user can efficiently check and revise the results of damage detection. An image processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an image receiving unit that receives a plurality of images acquired by photographing a photographic subject in sections; a damage detection unit that detects damage to the photographic subject from individual images that are images individually forming the plurality of images; an image determination unit that determines whether each individual image among the individual images is to be regarded as a check target image for which a user is encouraged to check a detection result for the individual image; a display control unit that controls to display on a display device, the check target image or a partial image cut from a partial region of the check target image so as to fit in a display region of the display device in association with the detection result for the check target image or for the partial image; and a detection result revising unit that revises the detection result on the basis of an instruction input by the user. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING AN OUTPUT FROM A TOMOGRAPHIC SCROLLABLE IMAGE STACK - A method and a system are for calculating an output from a tomographic scrollable image stack, including a large number of generated sectional images of a tissue to be examined. In this context, a tomographic scrollable image stack is received. An output for a display is calculated. The output includes a primary image that is intended for representing the received image stack, and the output includes a secondary image with additional information. The secondary image is displayed overlaid on the primary image once an unhide signal or hide signal is received. In this context, a reference may be provided between the additional information of the secondary image and the slice of tissue for examination that is shown in the sectional image of the image stack. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349697 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE DETECTION AND SEGMENTATION BASED ON A MULTI-TASK FULLY CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK - Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for detecting an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). The system includes a communication interface configured to receive a sequence of image slices and an end-to-end multi-task learning model. The sequence of image slices is the head scan images of a subject acquired by an image acquisition device. The end-to-end multi-task learning model includes an encoder, a bi-directional Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (ConvRNN), a decoder, and a classifier. The system further includes at least one processor configured to extract feature maps from each image slice using the encoder, capture contextual information between adjacent image slices using the bi-directional ConvRNN, and detect the ICH of the subject using the classifier based on the extracted feature maps of the image slices and the contextual information or segment each image slice using the decoder to obtain an ICH region based on the extracted feature maps of the image slice. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349698 | EXCESS MATERIAL REMOVAL USING MACHINE LEARNING - A method includes processing an input comprising data from an intraoral image using a trained machine learning model that has been trained to classify regions of dental sites, wherein the trained machine learning model outputs a probability map comprising, for each pixel in the intraoral image, a first probability that the pixel belongs to a first dental class and a second probability that the pixel belongs to a second dental class, wherein the first dental class represents excess material, the excess material comprising material other than teeth or gums. The method further includes determining, based on the probability map, one or more pixels in the intraoral image that are classified as excess material. The method further includes hiding or removing from the intraoral image data for the one or more pixels that are classified as excess material. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349699 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTATION AND VISUALIZATION OF MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - A computing device has a processor. A display is coupled to the processor. A user interface is coupled to the processor for entering data into the computing device. A memory is coupled to the processor, the memory storing program instructions that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: load a plurality of two-dimensional MRI image data, the two-dimensional MRI image data taken along multiple planes to create a stack of two-dimension MRI images; load a three-dimensional anatomical model associated with an anatomical area of the two-dimensional MRI image data; segment the three-dimensional model may into multiple components, at least one of the components being modified to accurately represent the slacked two-dimensional images to form a modified three-dimensional model; and adjust at least one property on the modified three-dimensional model to form a modified anatomical model to match the medical data image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349700 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A QUANTITY OF INTEREST BASED ON AN IMAGE OF A HISTOLOGICAL SECTION - A method for determining a quantity of interest related to the density of organic tissue starts with a digital representation of a histological image of the tissue. The digital representation is converted to a binary image, to discriminate pixels that represent tissue of interest in the image. A box filter is applied to values of the pixels of interest to obtain a tissue density value for each pixel of interest. A quantity of interest is computed, based upon the tissue density values for the pixels of interest. A tangible representation of the computed quantity of interest, such as a numerical value, a graph, or a color representation, is displayed or otherwise presented via an interface. Prior to forming the digital representation, the tissue can be stained to distinguish particular types of tissue for removal or enhancement in the determination of the quantity of interest. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349701 | OCT ANGIOGRAPHY CALCULATION WITH OPTIMIZED SIGNAL PROCESSING - Methods and systems for angiographic imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) are described using ratio-based and angiographic deviation based calculations. In using these calculations to determine motion, arbitrary interframe permutations may be used, post- calculated, non-linear results for projection visualization may be averaged, poor matches may be eliminated on an A-line by A-line basis, windowing functions may be used to improve results, partial spectrums may be used when capturing data, and a minimum intensity threshold may be used for determining which pixels to use. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349702 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING PULMONARY DISEASE USING FRACTAL DIMENSION VALUE - A method for predicting a pulmonary disease includes acquiring a three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) image from two-dimensional CT images, each of which captures a respective body position of a first patient, dividing the three-dimensional CT image into a plurality of regions to obtain region-based three-dimensional CT images configured to be used for fractal analysis, calculating a region-based fractal dimension value indicating a fractal complexity of a respective region-based three-dimensional CT image among the generated region-based three-dimensional computed tomography images, adding additional information to the region-based fractal dimension value to generate high-dimensional data, and generating status information of the first patient based on the complexity of the generated high-dimensional data. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349703 | INTERLOBAR MEMBRANE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An interlobar position specifying unit specifies an interlobar position in a lung field area included in a three-dimensional image. An expansion unit expands a plane area at the interlobar position in a thickness direction to generate an expansion area including an interlobar membrane. A projection processing unit processes the expansion area by a projection method that emphasizes the interlobar membrane to generate a projection image. The display control unit displays the projection image on a display. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349704 | CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOBILE PLATFORM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A control method for a mobile platform includes obtaining a captured image, identifying one or more candidate first characteristic parts from the captured image, determining a second characteristic part of a target object in the captured image, determining one or more matching parameters each corresponding to one of the one or more candidate first characteristic parts based on the one or more candidate first characteristic parts and the second characteristic part, determining a target first characteristic part of the target object from the one or more candidate first characteristic parts based on the one or more matching parameters, and switching from tracking the second characteristic part to tracking the target first characteristic part in response to a tracking parameter of the target object meeting a preset tracking condition. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCESSIVE MATERIALS REMOVAL FROM INTRAORAL SCANS - A method includes determining the following for each point in a second intraoral scan based on a comparison of a first intraoral scan to the second intraoral scan: whether a surface normal at the point is co-directional with a viewing direction associated with the first intraoral scan, wherein points in the second intraoral scan that have a surface normal that is co-directional with the first viewing direction are back-face points; and whether the point is behind a corresponding point in the first intraoral scan, wherein points in the second intraoral scan that are not behind corresponding points in the first intraoral scan are uncovered points. The method further includes determining a region comprising a plurality of points in the second intraoral scan that are uncovered back-face points, determining that the region satisfies one or more removal criteria, and removing the region from the second intraoral. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349706 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CHEST X-RAY THORACIC DISEASES UTILIZING MULTI-VIEW MULTI-SCALE LEARNING - Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for biomedical image analysis. A method may include receiving a plurality of unannotated biomedical images, including a first image and a second image. The method may also include determining that the first image is in a first view and the second image is in a second view. The method may further include assigning the first image to a first processing path for the first orientation. The method may additionally include assigning the second image to a second processing path for the second view. The method may also include processing the first image in the first processing path in parallel with processing the second image in the second processing path. The first path may share processing parameters with the second path. The method may further include providing a diagnostic output based on the processing of the first image and the second image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349707 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, AND METHODS OF OPERATING THEREOF - Various image diagnostic systems, and methods of operating thereof, are disclosed herein. Example embodiments relate to operating the image diagnostic system to identify one or more tissue types within an image patch according to a hierarchical histological taxonomy, identifying an image patch associated with normal tissue, generating a pixel-level segmented image patch for an image patch, generating an encoded image patch for an image patch of at least one tissue, searching for one or more histopathological images, and assigning an image patch to one or more pathological cases. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349708 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a medical image processing apparatus which includes a first extraction unit configured to extract coronary arteries depicted in images of a plurality of time phases relating to the heart, and to extract at least one stenosed part depicted in each coronary artery; a calculation unit configured to calculate a pressure gradient of each of the extracted coronary arteries, based on tissue blood flow volumes of the coronary arteries; a second extraction unit configured to extract an ischemic region depicted in the images; and a specifying unit configured to specify a responsible blood vessel of the ischemic region by referring to a dominance map, in which each of the extracted coronary arteries and a dominance territory are associated, for the extracted ischemic region, and to specify a responsible stenosis, based on the pressure gradient corresponding to a stenosed part in the specified responsible blood vessel. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349709 | FERTILE OVUM QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, FERTILE OVUM QUALITY EVALUATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a computer system for evaluating the quality of a fertile ovum. The computer system includes computer processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of images of a fertile ovum captured in time-series by an imaging apparatus, provide as input to at least one learned model, the plurality of images of the fertile ovum or information based on the plurality of images of the fertile ovum, wherein the at least one learned model has been trained to output, based at least in part, on the plurality of images, fertile ovum analysis information describing characteristics of the fertile ovum used to evaluate a quality of fertile ovum, and provide evaluation support information based, at least in part, on the fertile ovum analysis information, wherein the evaluation support information enables a quality evaluator to interact with the web dashboard to modify at least some of the evaluation support information. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349710 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED FUNDUSCOPIC IMAGE ANALYSIS - A system and method of classifying images of pathology. An image is received, normalized, and segmented normalizing the image; into a plurality of regions; A disease vector is automatically determining for the plurality of regions with at least one classifier comprising a neural network. Each of the respective plurality of regions is automatically annotated, based on the determined disease vectors. The received image is automatically graded based on at least the annotations. The neural network is trained based on at least an expert annotation of respective regions of images, according to at least one objective classification criterion. The images may be eye images, vascular images, or funduscopic images. The disease may be a vascular disease, vasculopathy, or diabetic retinopathy, for example. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349711 | IMAGE PROCESSING USING A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK TO TRACK A PLURALITY OF OBJECTS - Presented is a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for fingernail tracking, and a method design for nail polish rendering. Using current software and hardware, the CNN model and method to render nail polish runs in real-time on both iOS and web platforms. A use of Loss Mean Pooling (LMP) coupled with a cascaded model architecture simultaneously enables pixel-accurate fingernail predictions at up to 640×480 resolution. The proposed post-processing and rendering method takes advantage of the model's multiple output predictions to render gradients on individual fingernails, and to hide the light-colored distal edge when rendering on top of natural fingernails by stretching the nail mask in the direction of the fingernail tip. Teachings herein may be applied to track objects other than fingernails and to apply appearance effects other than color. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349712 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED SEGMENTATION OF CONTRAST FILLED CORONARY ARTERY VESSELS ON MEDICAL IMAGES - A computer-implemented method for autonomous segmentation of contrast-filled coronary artery vessels, the method comprising the following steps: receiving ( | 2020-11-05 |
20200349713 | SMART METROLOGY ON MICROSCOPE IMAGES - Smart metrology methods and apparatuses disclosed herein process images for automatic metrology of desired features. An example method at least includes extracting a region of interest from an image, the region including one or more boundaries between different sections, enhancing at least the extracted region of interest based on one or more filters, generating a multi-scale data set of the region of interest based on the enhanced region of interest, initializing a model of the region of interest; optimizing a plurality of active contours within the enhanced region of interest based on the model of the region of interest and further based on the multi-scale data set, the optimized plurality of active contours identifying the one or more boundaries within the region of interest, and performing metrology on the region of interest based on the identified boundaries. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349714 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a projection apparatus and an operation method thereof. The projection apparatus comprises a projector and an image capturing device electrically connected to the projector. The projector provides a projection space, and the image capturing device provides an image capturing space. The projection space is located in the image capturing space. The image capturing device is configured to identify a boundary of the projection space in the image capturing space and is configured to detect a biological part located in the projection space. The image capturing device is configured to calculate a position of the biological part in the projection space, and the projector projects a mask block corresponding to the position of the biological part in the projection space. The present invention may prevent the light beam from interfering with a user. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349715 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPPING SYSTEM - A survey application generates a survey of components associated with a three-dimensional model of an object. The survey application receives video feeds, location information, and orientation information from wearable devices in proximity to the object. The three-dimensional model of the object is generated based on the video feeds, sensor data, location information, and orientation information received from the wearable devices. Analytics is performed from the video feeds to identify a manipulation on the object. The three-dimensional model of the object is updated based on the manipulation on the object. A dynamic status related to the manipulation on the object is generated with respect to reference data related the object. A survey of components associated with the three-dimensional model of the object is generated. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349716 | INTERACTIVE IMAGE MATTING METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEMORY MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER DEVICE - The present disclosure provides an interactive image matting method, a computer readable memory medium, and a computer device. The interactive image matting method includes steps: obtaining an original image; collecting foreground sample points on a hair edge foreground region of the original image and collecting background sample points on a hair edge background region of the original image by a human-computer interaction method to correspondingly obtain a foreground sample space and a background sample space; receiving a marking operation instruction input by a user, and smearing a hair region of the original image according to the marking operation instruction to mark unknown regions; traversing the unknown regions to obtain a pixel of each unknown region, traversing all the sample pairs to select a sample pair with a minimum overall cost function value for the pixel of each unknown region. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349717 | BACKGROUND IDENTIFICATION FOR VIDEOS WITH LARGE FOREGROUND OBJECTS - The present disclosure describes a system and method for background identification for videos with large foreground objects. The method includes dividing a video clip into a multiple short video clips, each of which overlaps with neighboring short video clips of the multiple short video clips, detecting, in each short video clip, multiple background motion candidates, linking the background motion candidates between the neighboring short video clips to form multiple linked groups of background motion candidates, and identifying a linked group of background motion candidates that is most dominant among the multiple linked groups of background motion candidates. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349718 | HEADING ANGLE ESTIMATION FOR OBJECT TRACKING - An illustrative example method of tracking an object includes detecting one or more points on the object over time to obtain a plurality of detections, determining a position of each of the detections, determining a relationship between the determined positions, and determining an estimated heading angle of the object based on the relationship. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349719 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus determines a direction (first direction ( | 2020-11-05 |
20200349720 | PEDESTRIAN FLOW FUNNEL GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure relates to the technical field of data processing. Disclosed are a pedestrian flow funnel generation method and apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method can comprise: acquiring a current frame of image, and tracking and updating, according to a multi-target tracking algorithm, a head and shoulder area in a tracking sequence set in the current frame of image; acquiring, according to a head and shoulder recognition model, a head and shoulder area in the current frame of image, and updating, according to the head and shoulder area in the current frame of image, the tracking sequence set; analysing a motion track of each head and shoulder area in the tracking sequence set so as to count pedestrians, and when the current frame of image is the last frame of image, generating a pedestrian flow funnel based on a counting result of pedestrians. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349721 | SUBJECT TRACKING SYSTEMS FOR A MOVABLE IMAGING SYSTEM - A method is provided for controlling a movable imaging assembly having a movable platform and an imaging device coupled to and movable relative to the movable platform. The method includes receiving user inputs that define an MIA position relative to a target and a frame position of the target within image frames captured by the imaging device. The user inputs include a horizontal distance, a circumferential position, and a horizontal distance that define the MIA position, and include a horizontal frame position and a vertical frame position that define the frame position. The method further includes predicting a future position of the target for a future time, and moving the MIA to be in the MIA position at the future time and moving the imaging device for the target to be in the frame position for an image frame captured at the future time. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349722 | DETERMINING STRUCTURE AND MOTION IN IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS - A system comprising an encoder neural network, a scene structure decoder neural network, and a motion decoder neural network. The encoder neural network is configured to: receive a first image and a second image; and process the first image and the second image to generate an encoded representation of the first image and the second image. The scene structure decoder neural network is configured to process the encoded representation to generate a structure output characterizing a structure of a scene depicted in the first image. The motion decoder neural network configured to process the encoded representation to generate a motion output characterizing motion between the first image and the second image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349723 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING IMAGE DATA FROM A VEHICLE CAMERA - A system and method for aligning image data from a vehicle camera is provided. The method includes: obtaining image data from the vehicle camera; obtaining sensor data from vehicle sensor(s); carrying out a yaw/pitch estimation process to obtain yaw/pitch camera alignment information that includes a yaw misalignment estimate and a pitch misalignment estimate, wherein the yaw/pitch estimation process uses the image data and the sensor data to determine three-dimensional points of identified features within frames of the image data; after the yaw/pitch estimation process, carrying out a roll estimation process to obtain roll alignment information that includes a roll misalignment estimate, wherein the roll estimation process includes using the yaw/pitch camera alignment information; and applying camera alignment information to the image data to obtain aligned image data, wherein the camera alignment information includes information based on the yaw/pitch camera alignment information, the roll alignment information, or both. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349724 | Pattern Matching Tool - The present disclosure is directed to a software tool that engages in a pattern matching technique. In one implementation, the software tool retrieves a two-dimensional drawing and identifies walls as lines, rotates the drawing until a threshold number of lines are aligned with either the X or Y axes, discards lines that are not aligned with either the X or Y axis, identifies intersection points, identifies a subset of intersection points that have a maxima or minima coordinate, constructs a data library indicative of the relative positions of the points in the identified subset; and compares the constructed data libraries for the two-dimensional drawing to data libraries constructed for another two-dimensional drawing. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349725 | AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FIDUCIAL MARKER ALIGNMENT IN ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY - Provided is an apparatus and method for aligning fiducial markers. The apparatus may align positions of the fiducial markers on the two or more micrographs forming a two or more point sets corresponding to the two or more micrographs; create a first set of matched fiducial markers and unmatched fiducial markers; transform unmatched fiducial markers into transformed point sets and match the unmatched fiducial markers resulting in a second set of matched fiducial markers. The matching of the second set of matched fiducial markers results in improved alignment of a large number of fiducial markers. The aligned positions of fiducial markers may be constrained by an upper bound of transformation deviation of aligning positions of fiducial markers on two or more micrographs. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349726 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SURFACE MOTION TRACKING - Embodiments of the disclosure may be directed to an image processing system configured to receive a medical image of a region of a subject's body taken at a first time and to receive a surface image of an exterior portion of the region of the subject's body taken at the first time. The image processing may also be configured to receive a medical image of the region of the subject's body taken at a second time and to register the medical image taken at the first time, the surface image taken at the first time, and the medical image taken at the second time. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349727 | OBSTACLE DETECTION METHOD, MOBILE PLATFORM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure provides an obstacle detection method. The method includes acquiring a first type of grid including obstacle indication information; determining a corresponding project position of the first type of grid in a first depth image; acquiring a first distance between a mobile platform and the corresponding projection position and a second distance between the mobile platform and an obstacle, the obstacle being the obstacle detected based on the first depth image; and updating the obstacle indication information of the first type of grid based on the first distance and the second distance. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349728 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT DEPTH MEASUREMENT USING MODULATION FREQUENCY ADJUSTMENT - In a method for time-of-flight (ToF) based measurement, a scene is illuminated using a ToF light source modulated at a first modulation frequency F | 2020-11-05 |
20200349729 | PASSIVE AND SINGLE-VIEWPOINT 3D IMAGING SYSTEM - A method for a passive single-viewpoint 3D imaging system comprises capturing an image from a camera having one or more phase masks. The method further includes using a reconstruction algorithm, for estimation of a 3D or depth image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349730 | SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Embodiments of this application disclose a method, a computer device, and a storage medium for simultaneous localization and mapping, applied to the field of information processing technologies. In the simultaneous localization and mapping method in the embodiments, edge information of a current frame image captured by an image capturing apparatus is obtained, and the edge information is divided into structural features of a plurality of first components, where each first component may correspond to a partial structure of one object in the current frame image, or correspond to at least one object. Then, a correspondence between first components in the current frame image and second components in a reference frame image may be obtained by matching the structural features of the first components with structural features of the second components in the reference frame image. Finally, the image capturing apparatus may be simultaneously localized according to the correspondence. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349731 | METHOD FOR FACE MODELING AND RELATED PRODUCTS - A method for face modeling and related products are provided. The method includes the following. Multiple first images of a face of an object at multiple different angles are obtained when the face rotates, where each first image is obtained at a different angle. Face detection is performed on any first image of the multiple first images, and the any first image is divided into a first face region and a first background region. Multiple depth images corresponding to the multiple first images are obtained and each of the multiple depth images is segmented according to the first face region and the first background region to obtain multiple face region images. Three-dimensional (3D) face modeling is performed according to the multiple face region images to obtain a 3D face image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349732 | IMAGE ANALYSIS DISTANCE INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image analysis distance information provision system, and the system includes: a computer and an imaging device. The control unit of the computer is configured to perform the following steps according to an image of an object captured by the imaging device: determining the type of the captured object; calculating the actual length of the captured object per unit length of the image of the captured object; calculating the shooting range of the image of the captured object according to the calculation result; and estimating the distance from the imaging device to the captured object according to the calculated shooting range. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349733 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING ORIENTATIONS OR FIBER ELEMENTS IN A PART MADE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A method includes obtaining an image of a composite material part, each pixel of the image representing material density at a point of the part represented by that pixel; extracting from the image, for at least one fiber element of the part, a line that is representative of that element along its length; for each extracted line extending this line in width at reference points in compliance with the width of the fiber element, this extension resulting, for each reference point, in extended points; and associating an orientation with each extended point associated with a reference point, which orientation is parallel to the direction of the line at that reference point; evaluating, for a plurality of extended points, a mean orientation of the fiber elements at those points; and determining, for a plurality of orientations, a proportion of elements having those orientations from among the evaluate mean orientations. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349734 | VIRTUAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A virtual image processing method, an image processing system, and a storage medium used for realizing virtualization of a captured picture, the method includes the following steps: acquiring a reference position and a real-time position of a camera device; calculating a movement parameter of the real-time position relative to the reference position; virtualizing, according to the movement parameter, the position and the posture of the virtual camera device, and calculating a perspective parameter of a scene to be replaced with respect to the virtualized virtual camera device; encoding a virtual scene according to the perspective parameter; and using the encoded virtual scene to replace the scene to be replaced. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349735 | MULTIPLE USER SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING (SLAM) - In some implementations, a first electronic device including a first image sensor uses a processor to perform a method. The method involves obtaining a first set of keyframes based on images of a physical environment captured by the first image sensor. The method generates a mapping defining relative locations of keyframes of the first set of keyframes. The method receives a keyframe corresponding to an image of the physical environment captured at a second, different electronic device and localizes the received keyframe to the mapping. The method then receives an anchor from the second electronic device that defines a position of a virtual object relative to the keyframe. The method displays a CGR environment including the virtual object at a location based on the anchor and the mapping. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349736 | OBJECT LOCALIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR UNANNOTATED IMAGE DATA - A system is provided for object localization in image data. The system includes an object localization framework comprising a plurality of object localization processes. The system is configured to receive an image comprising unannotated image data having at least one object in the image, access a first object localization process of the plurality of object localization processes, determine first bounding box information for the image using the first object localization process, wherein the first bounding box information comprises at least one first bounding box annotating at least a first portion of the at least one object in the image, and receive first feedback regarding the first bounding box information determined by the first object localization process. The system is further configured to persist the image with the first bounding box information or access a second object localization process based on the first feedback. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349737 | MULTI-TARGET CALIBRATION AND AUGMENTATION - A system and method for setting up an AR application that uses a plurality of markers so that accurate augmentations can be displayed anywhere a marker is visible. The method includes placing a plurality of markers throughout the workspace so that a plurality of pairs of two adjacent markers can be viewed in a field-of-view of an AR device. The method further includes determining a distance relationship between the two markers in all of the pairs of markers, and determining a distance relationship between all non-adjacent markers using the distance relationship between the two markers in all of the pairs of markers. The method also includes identifying a distance relationship between one of the plurality of markers and an augmentation in the workspace, and identifying a distance relationship between the other markers and the augmentation using the distance relationships between the adjacent markers and the non-adjacent markers. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349738 | CAMERA-CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A camera calibration system according to an exemplary embodiment includes a first camera capturing the surroundings of a vehicle; a second camera capturing the surroundings of the vehicle and having an overlapping field of view that overlaps with a field of view of the first camera; and a controller configured to receive a first image obtained by the first camera and a second image obtained by the second camera, detect a plurality of calibration markers positioned in the overlapping field of view in the first image and assign a tag to each of the plurality of calibration markers detected in the first image, detect a plurality of calibrate markers positioned in the overlapping field of view in the second image and assign a tag to each of the plurality of calibrate markers detected in the second image, and calibrate the field of view of at least one of the first camera and the second camera based on the tag assigned to each of the plurality of calibration markers detected in the first image and the tag assigned to each of the plurality of calibration markers detected in the second image. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349739 | COLOR-MATCHING BODY PART TO LIP PRODUCT - A method of color-matching a body part, such as a nipple of a human breast, to a lip product, such as a lipstick, comprises receiving an image of the body part, determining a color of the body part, and choosing a color of the lip product (e.g., the lipstick) that corresponds to the color of the body part (e.g., the nipple). | 2020-11-05 |
20200349740 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING STEREOSCOPIC OBJECT, AND VEHICLE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and device for identifying a stereoscopic object, and a vehicle and a storage medium are described. They are used for solving the problem that a monocular camera cannot determine whether an object to be identified is a stereoscopic object. The method is applied to a vehicle, and the method comprises: during driving, photographing an object to be identified by means of a monocular camera on the vehicle, so as to obtain a plurality of images (S | 2020-11-05 |
20200349741 | METHOD AND ENCODER RELATING TO ENCODING OF PIXEL VALUES TO ACCOMPLISH LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF A DIGITAL IMAGE - Encoder and method for encoding of pixel values of a digital image comprising multiple lines of pixels to accomplish lossless compression of the digital image. For each of said multiple lines the encoder obtains unencoded pixels values of the line. Further, for each of said multiple lines, the encoder determines, for each of one or more pixels of the line, which encoding to be used for encoding of the unencoded pixel value of the pixel (x) in said lossless compression of the digital image. The determination being based on how said unencoded pixel value relates to unencoded pixel values of other, closest neighboring pixels (N | 2020-11-05 |
20200349742 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE - A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating an N-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; generating first encoded data by encoding a first branch using a first encoding process, the first branch having, as a root, a first node included in a first layer that is one of layers included in the N-ary tree structure; generating second encoded data by encoding a second branch using a second encoding process different from the first encoding process, the second branch having, as a root, a second node included in the first layer and different from the first node; and generating a bitstream including the first encoded data and the second encoded data. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349743 | IMAGE SYNTHESIZING SYSTEM AND IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to improve the image quality of images obtained during travelling even in inferior environmental conditions. A camera | 2020-11-05 |
20200349744 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR PROVIDING COLOR VISION DEFICIENCY ASSISTANCE - The present invention discloses a system and a method for providing color vision deficiency assistance by selectively recoloring pixels of an image frame including unperceivable colors with perceivable colors in real time. In particular, the present invention provides for rescaling the image frame using a first set of rules. Further, a perceivable color space is selected based on one or more parameters. Furthermore, one or more pixels associated with unperceivable colors are identified using a second set of rules. Yet further, the identified one or more pixels are recolored using the selected perceivable color space and a third set of rules. Finally, a corrected image frame comprising perceivable colors is provided. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATION OF AN INTERACTIVE COLOR WORKSPACE - The present invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for generation of an interactive color workspace, the method including: generating a workspace; receiving successive inputs from a user to create two or more controllable color swatches, the controllable color swatches including an associated color; generating the controllable color swatches on the workspace; and upon receiving a command from a user to select and associate at least two of the controllable color swatches, generating a gradient of colors with the colors of the selected controllable color swatches as endpoints to the gradient. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM AXIAL STEP-AND-SHOOT CT - The disclosure relates to system and method for CT image reconstruction. The method may include: obtaining scanning data, wherein the scanning data is generated by at least one detector via a plurality of axial scans; obtaining a scanning parameter wherein the scanning parameter include a detector size; obtaining a requested reconstruction parameter; determining a plurality of requested image locations based on the scanning parameter and the requested reconstruction parameter; determining an intermediate reconstruction parameter based on the requested reconstruction parameter; determining a plurality of intermediate image locations based on the plurality of requested image locations and the intermediate reconstruction parameter; determining a intermediate image volume based on the plurality of intermediate images and the scanning data; determining a final image volume based on the intermediate image volume and a filter; reconstructing an image of the subject based on the final image volume and the requested reconstruction parameters. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349747 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING IMAGERY MAPPINGMODELING OF GOBLET - A method and a system for generating imagery mapping modeling of goblet. The method includes: pre-process collected goblets based on a height of each goblet, and establish a sample library of goblet modeling features; perform dimension reduction processing on the imagery vocabulary, and establish a goblet user imagery adjective pair based on the processing result; a relationship between the goblet modeling and imagery adjective is obtained through the sample library of goblet modeling features and the goblet user imagery adjective pair, and an optimal imagery value is established; input an user-entered imagery value into to the established optimal goblet imagery mapping modeling model, and produces a goblet shape meets an index. It realize users' demand for imagery modeling for the goblet and provide a fast and effective new idea for updating and iterating the goblet modeling scheme with a genetic algorithm and a computer programming technology. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349748 | Graphical Display with Integrated Recent Period Zoom and Historical Period Context Data - A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plurality of axis regions forms a continuous non-linear scale. The graphical interface also displays the data series in relation to the plurality of axis regions, and the data series is plotted in relation to each axis region based on a scale resolution corresponding to each respective axis region. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349749 | VIRTUAL REALITY EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - A computer-implemented method for controlling a virtual reality equipment comprises following steps. At first, a first application sends a request for image related data. Then, a camera framework layer sends an instruction for camera control in respond to the request from the first application. Then, a camera hardware abstraction layer responds to the instruction from the camera framework layer. Then, a control layer controls the camera hardware abstraction layer to send a control command to the second application for image related data. Then, the second application provides a virtual reality data captured by a virtual camera in a virtual reality world as the image related data. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EYE MOVEMENT SYNTHESIS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for eye movement synthesis, the method including: obtaining eye movement feature data and speech feature data, wherein the eye movement feature data reflects an eye movement behavior, and the speech feature data reflects a voice feature; obtaining a driving model according to the eye movement feature data and the speech feature data, wherein the driving model is configured to indicate an association between the eye movement feature data and the speech feature data; synthesizing an eye movement of a virtual human according to speech input data and the driving model and controlling the virtual human to exhibit the synthesized eye movement. The embodiment makes the virtual human to exhibit an eye movement corresponding to the voice data according to the eye movement feature data and the speech feature data, thereby improving the authenticity in the interaction. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349751 | PRESENTATION INTERFACE AND IMMERSION PLATFORM - A virtual reality system is disclosed herein. The system includes a viewing device suitable for displaying display information from a virtual reality environment. The system includes a capture device configured to capture a real world activity. Information is received from the capture device related to a real world activity. The information is transmitted to the virtual reality environment generation system for converting the information to a corresponding streaming asset that is embedded into the virtual reality environment for subsequent transmission to an instance of the virtual reality environment on a participant device. Virtual reality environment information is received from the virtual reality environment generation system. The virtual reality environment information corresponds to the position or orientation of a participant asset of a participant that is engaging with the streaming asset. The participant asset is displayed on the viewing device. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349752 | SYSTEM FOR NEUROBEHAVIORUAL ANIMATION - The present invention relates to a computer implemented system for animating a virtual object or digital entity. It has particular relevance to animation using biologically based models, or behavioural models particularly neurobehavioural models. There is provided a plurality of modules having a computational element and a graphical element. The modules are arranged in a required structure and have at least one variable and being associated with at least one connector. The connectors link variables between modules across the structure, and the modules together provide a neurobehavioural model. There is also provided a method of controlling a digital entity in response to an external stimulus. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349753 | METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING ANIMATION - The present disclosure discloses a method, device and storage medium for generating an animation. The method includes: acquiring a configuration file corresponding to a configuration file identifier; determining behavior information and animated resources based on the configuration file; acquiring first animated resources based on first animated resource identifiers in the behavior information; and generating the animation by synthesizing the behavior information and the first animated resources. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349754 | METHODS, DEVICES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING 3D MODELS - A method of generating a 3D model may include receiving a plurality of 2D images of a physical object captured from a respective plurality of viewpoints in a 3D scan of the physical object in a first process. The method may include receiving a first process 3D mesh representation of the physical object and calculating respective second process estimated position and/or orientation information for each one of the respective plurality of viewpoints of the plurality of 2D images. The method may include generating a second process 3D mesh representation of the physical object using the plurality of 2D images, the second process estimated position and/or orientation information, and the first process 3D mesh representation of the physical object. The method may include generating a 3D model of the physical object by applying surface texture information from the plurality of 2D images to the second process 3D mesh representation of the physical object. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349755 | REFLECTION DENOISING IN RAY-TRACING APPLICATIONS - Disclosed approaches may leverage the actual spatial and reflective properties of a virtual environment—such as the size, shape, and orientation of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) lobe of a light path and its position relative to a reflection surface, a virtual screen, and a virtual camera—to produce, for a pixel, an anisotropic kernel filter having dimensions and weights that accurately reflect the spatial characteristics of the virtual environment as well as the reflective properties of the surface. In order to accomplish this, geometry may be computed that corresponds to a projection of a reflection of the BRDF lobe below the surface along a view vector to the pixel. Using this approach, the dimensions of the anisotropic filter kernel may correspond to the BRDF lobe to accurately reflect the spatial characteristics of the virtual environment as well as the reflective properties of the surface. | 2020-11-05 |
20200349756 | GENERATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VIRTUAL VIEWPOINT IMAGE - To make it possible to obtain a natural virtual viewpoint image in which a structure or the like existing within an image capturing scene is represented three-dimensionally so as to be the same as a real one while suppressing a network load at the time of transmission of multi-viewpoint image data. The generation device according to the present invention generates a virtual viewpoint image based on three-dimensional shape data corresponding to an object, three-dimensional shape data corresponding to a structure, background data corresponding to a background different at least from the object and the structure, and information indicating a virtual viewpoint. | 2020-11-05 |