53rd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150379705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING DATA CAPTURED BY A 3D CAMERA - A system for processing an image comprises a three-dimensional camera that captures an image of a dairy livestock and a processor communicatively coupled to the three-dimensional camera. The processor accesses a first pixel having a first depth location, a second pixel having a second depth location, and a third pixel having a third depth location. The processor determines that the second pixel is an outlier among the first pixel and the third pixel based upon the first depth location, the second depth location, and the third depth location, and discards the second pixel from the image based at least in part upon the determination. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379706 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TOMOGRAPHIC DATA - A device and a method ( | 2015-12-31 |
20150379707 | MASK INSPECTION APPARATUS, MASK EVALUATION METHOD AND MASK EVALUATION SYSTEM - A mask inspection apparatus includes an optical image acquisition unit configured to acquire an optical image by irradiating light on a mask, a reference image generation unit configured to generate a reference image from design data of the mask, a comparison circuit configured to compare the optical image with the reference image, a pattern data extraction unit configured to obtain coordinates of a defective portion determined to be defective by the comparison unit and to extract, from the design data, pattern data of a predetermined dimension range including the coordinates, and an interface unit configured to supply an aerial image measurement apparatus with information associated with the defect, the information including the defect coordinates and the extracted pattern data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379708 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VESSEL BIFURCATION DETECTION - Provided are systems and methods for analyzing images. An exemplary method can comprise receiving at least one image having one or more annotations indicating a feature. The method can comprise generating training images from the at least one image. Each training image can be based on a respective section of the at least one image. The training images can comprise positive images having the feature and negative images without the feature. The method can comprise generating a feature space based on the positive images and the negative images. The method can further comprise identifying the feature in one or more unclassified images based upon the feature space. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379709 | METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION OF PULMONARY NODULES IN THORACIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES USING HIERARCHICAL VECTOR QUANTIZATION AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - Provided are an apparatus and method for fast and adaptive computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules and differentiation of malignancy from benignancy in thoracic CT images using a hierarchical vector quantization scheme. Anomalous pulmonary nodules are detected by obtaining a two-dimensional (2D) feature model of a pulmonary nodule, segmenting the pulmonary nodule by performing vector quantification to expand the 2D feature model to a three-dimensional (3D) model, and displaying image information representing whether the pulmonary nodule is benign, based upon the 3D model expanded from the 2D feature model, with duplicate information eliminated by performing feature reduction performed using a principal component analysis and a receiver operating characteristics area under the curve merit analysis. A textural feature analysis detects an anomalous pulmonary nodule, and 2D texture features are calculated from 3D volumetric data to provide improved gain compared to calculation from a single slice of 3D data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379710 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FORMING RESPIRATORY-GATED POINT CLOUD FOR FOUR DIMENSIONAL SOFT TISSUE NAVIGATION - A surgical instrument navigation system is provided that visually simulates a virtual volumetric scene of a body cavity of a patient from a point of view of a surgical instrument residing in the cavity of the patient, wherein the surgical instrument, as provided, may be a steerable surgical catheter with a biopsy device and/or a surgical catheter with a side-exiting medical instrument, among others. Additionally, systems, methods and devices are provided for forming a respiratory-gated point cloud of a patient's respiratory system and for placing a localization element in an organ of a patient. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379711 | RADIATION IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, RADIATION IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - It is possible to allow image processing on a radiation image such that the same effect of scattered radiation elimination as when imaging is actually performed using a grid is obtained. When performing processing for eliminating scattered radiation included in radiation transmitted through a subject M on a radiation image imaged by irradiating the subject M with radiation, a characteristic acquisition unit | 2015-12-31 |
20150379712 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING - A method of image processing, including: | 2015-12-31 |
20150379713 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING BRAIN INJURIES - The invention relates to an ex vivo method for detecting and/or quantifying brain injuries. The invention also relates to an ex vivo method for monitoring the evolution of a brain injury, and to an ex vivo method for predicting when a patient will come out of a coma. The invention is particularly applicable in the field of medicine and in the field of clinical studies. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379714 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THREE ORIENTATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF A CUBE-CORNER RETROREFLECTOR - A method for determining three orientational degrees of freedom of a cube-corner retroreflector by obtaining with a photosensitive array an image of a three straight marks on the retroreflector and, with a programmable control device, taking a two-dimensional transform of the image and determining the three orientational degrees of freedom. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379715 | VEHICLE POSITIONING OR NAVIGATION UTILIZING ASSOCIATED FEATURE PAIRS - According to the embodiments described herein, a method for vehicle positioning or navigation utilizing associated feature pairs may include creating a plurality of associated feature pairs by retrieving an initial set of camera data from the camera comprising two-dimensional UV space information, forming pairs from the UV space information, and associating each pair from the UV space information with pairs from each of the plurality of three-dimensional global feature points of the industrial facility map, calculating a best estimate poses from calculated vehicle poses of the associated feature pairs, using an accumulated odometry to update the best estimate pose to a current localized position and setting a seed position as the current localized position. The navigation of the materials handling vehicle is tracked and/or navigated along the inventory transit surface navigate in at least a partially automated manner utilizing the current localized position. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379716 | METHOD FOR WARNING A USER ABOUT A DISTANCE BETWEEN USER' S EYES AND A SCREEN - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for warning a user about a distance between the user's eyes and a screen. The method includes: acquiring an image containing the user's eyes; obtaining the number of pixels between the user's eyes from the image; comparing the number of the pixels between the user's eyes with a preset value; and warning the user if the number of the pixels between the user's eyes is larger than the preset value. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379717 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING FEATURE VALUES OF PRODUCTS FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an image capturing unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of feature values to be used for object recognition and an update program for the feature values, with respect to each of products registered for sale. The image capturing unit is configured to acquire an image of a product registered for sale. The processing unit is configured to extract a feature value of the product from the acquired image, select one of the plurality of the feature values corresponding to the product as a replacement target, by executing the update program corresponding to the product, and replace the selected feature value with the extracted feature value. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379718 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE ORIENTATION OF A CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM OF AN ANATOMICAL OBJECT IN A GLOBAL CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM - A data processing method for determining the relative orientation of an object coordinate system of an anatomical object in a global co-ordinate system, comprising the steps of: acquiring a reference direction dataset representing a first reference direction of a line between a first anatomical landmark of a reference object and a second anatomical landmark of the reference object, and a second reference direction of a line between a third anatomical landmark of the reference object and a fourth anatomical landmark of the reference object, wherein the first and second reference directions are given in a reference coordinate system and the reference object corresponds to the anatomical object; acquiring an object direction dataset representing a first object direction of a line between the first anatomical landmark of the anatomical object and the second anatomical landmark of the anatomical object, and a second object direction of a line between the third anatomical landmark of the anatomical object and the fourth anatomical landmark of the anatomical object, wherein the first and second object directions are given in the global co-ordinate system and the landmarks of the anatomical object correspond to the landmarks of the reference object; calculating the orientation of the reference co-ordinate system relative to the global co-ordinate system which results in the best match between each of the reference directions and the respectively corresponding object direction; and—using the orientation of the reference co-ordinate system in the global co-ordinate system as the relative orientation of the object co-ordinate system. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379719 | OBJECT DIGITIZATION - Digitizing objects in a picture is discussed herein. A user presents the object to a camera, which captures the image comprising color and depth data for the front and back of the object. For both front and back images, the closest point to the camera is determined by analyzing the depth data. From the closest points, edges of the object are found by noting large differences in depth data. The depth data is also used to construct point cloud constructions of the front and back of the object. Various techniques are applied to extrapolate edges, remove seams, extend color intelligently, filter noise, apply skeletal structure to the object, and optimize the digitization further. Eventually, a digital representation is presented to the user and potentially used in different applications (e.g., games, Web, etc.). | 2015-12-31 |
20150379720 | METHODS FOR CONVERTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A method for obtaining a depth map for conversion of 2-dimensional images to 3-dimensional images is provided. Input marks are overlayed on an image that segment the image into one or more zones. The method further provides assigning zone depth values for each of the zones and generating one or more cue related depth values that are weighting with each of the zone depth values to obtain an average depth value and final depth map of the image. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379721 | WINDROW RELATIVE YIELD DETERMINATION THROUGH STEREO IMAGING - A method that that captures images of a windrow and determines a cross section of the windrow based on the captured images to provide a yield map. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379722 | INTELLIGENT IMAGE PROCESSING FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - Techniques are described for processing an electronic image for presentation in a display of an enterprise application according to a format for presenting electronic image in the enterprise application. A format for an enterprise application may indicate display attributes such as an aspect ratio, a frame size, a resolution, or the like. The format for presenting an electronic image may correspond to a type of an enterprise application, a function of an enterprise application, a feature of an enterprise application, one or more subjects of the electronic image, other criteria associated with an enterprise application, or a combination thereof. These techniques may enable an electronic image to be adjusted for presentation in enterprise applications that have different formats. Users may benefit by not having to provide an electronic image adjusted to the different formats, thereby enabling a single electronic image to be used for a variety of enterprise applications. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379723 | AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF INTRA-COCHLEAR ANATOMY IN POST-IMPLANTATION CT OF UNILATERAL COCHLEAR IMPLANT RECIPIENTS - A method for automatic segmentation of intra-cochlear anatomy of a patient. The patient has an implanted ear and a normal contralateral ear. At least one computed tomography (CT) image is obtained to generate a first image corresponding to the normal contralateral ear and a second image corresponding to the implanted ear. Intra-cochlear surfaces of at least one first structure of interest (SOI) of the normal contralateral ear in the first image are segmented using at least one active shape model (ASM). Next, the segmented intra-cochlear surfaces in the first image is projected to the second image using a transformation function, thereby obtaining projected segmented intra-cochlear surfaces for the implanted ear in the second image. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379724 | CARDIAC SEGMENTATION WITH POINT CORRESPONDENCE - A time series of image frames in an anatomical scan is segmented. An image frame k in the time series of image frames is manually segmented. A non-rigid registration is then performed between the image frame k and a next image frame k+1 in the time series of image frames. A segmentation on the image frame k+1 is computed based on the non-rigid registration. Each subsequent image frame k+n in the time series of image frames is iteratively segmented using non-rigid registration with the segmented previous image frame k+(n−1) in the time series of image frames. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379725 | MOVING INFORMATION ANALYZING SYSTEM, CAMERA, AND MOVING INFORMATION ANALYZING METHOD - The present invention relates to a moving information analyzing system in which a camera and a server are connected to each other. The camera includes an imaging section that captures an image of a predetermined imaging region, a background image generating section that repeatedly generates a background image of a captured image of the imaging region at predetermined timings, a moving information analyzing section that extracts moving information regarding a staying position or a passing position in the imaging region of a moving object included in the captured image, and a transmitter that transmits the background image generated by the background image generating section and the moving information of the moving object extracted by the moving information analyzing section to the server at a predetermined transmission cycle. The server includes an image generating section that generates a moving information analysis image in which the moving information of the moving object is superimposed on the background image of the captured image, and a display control section that displays the moving information analysis image generated by the image generating section on a display unit. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379726 | BODY MOTION DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - A contrast calculating unit calculates, as each of a contrast of a high frequency component and a contrast of a low frequency component of a transformed radiographic image, a contrast in a gradient direction of an edge portion in an analysis region with each of analysis points set by an analysis point setting unit being the center of the analysis region. A ratio calculating unit calculates, for each gradient direction, a ratio of the contrast of the high frequency component to the contrast of the low frequency component. A determining unit determines the smallest ratio as an index indicating the body motion, and determines whether or not there is a body motion during an imaging operation to take the radiographic image based on a result of statistical processing of the indexes at the analysis points. A display control unit displays a result of the determination on a display unit. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379727 | MOTION BASED ADAPTIVE RENDERING - An apparatus, system and method is provided to determine a motion of pixels in local regions of a scene, classify the motion into a speed category, and make decisions on how to render blocks of pixels. In one implementation the motion in a tile is classified into at least three different speed regimes. If the pixels in a tile are in a quasi-static speed regime, a determination is made whether or not to reuse a fraction of pixels from the previous frame. If the pixels are determined to be in a high speed regime, a decision is made whether or not a sampling rate may be reduced. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379728 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A MOTION FIELD FOR A VIDEO SEQUENCE - A method for generating a motion field between a current frame and a reference frame belonging to a video sequence from an input set of motion fields is disclosed. An motion field is associated to an ordered pair of frames comprises for a group of pixels belonging to a first frame of the ordered pair of frames, a motion vector computed from a location of the pixel in the first frame to an endpoint in a second frame of the ordered pair of frames. The method comprises determining a plurality of motion paths from a current frame to a reference frame wherein a motion path comprises a random sequence of N ordered pairs of frames associated to the input set of motion fields; N is an integer. The method then comprises determining, for the group of pixels belonging to the current frame, a plurality of candidate motion vectors from the current frame to the reference frame wherein a candidate motion vector is the result of a sum of motion vectors; each motion vector belonging to a motion field associated to an ordered pair of frames according to a determined motion path. And the method then comprises selecting, for the group of pixels belonging to the current frame, a motion vector among the plurality of candidate motion vectors. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379729 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING FIELD OF VIEW OVERLAP AMONG MULTIPLE CAMERAS - Field of view overlap among multiple cameras are automatically determined as a function of the temporal overlap of object tracks determined within their fields-of-view. Object tracks with the highest similarity value are assigned into pairs, and portions of the assigned object track pairs having a temporally overlapping period of time are determined. Scene entry points are determined from object locations on the tracks at a beginning of the temporally overlapping period of time, and scene exit points from object locations at an ending of the temporally overlapping period of time. Boundary lines for the overlapping fields-of-view portions within the corresponding camera fields-of-view are defined as a function of the determined entry and exit points in their respective fields-of-view. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379730 | SAMPLING, FAULT MANAGEMENT, AND/OR CONTEXT SWITCHING VIA A COMPUTE PIPELINE - Apparatuses, systems, and methods may sample a texture, manage a page fault, and/or switch a context associated with the page fault. A three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline may provide texture sample location data corresponding to a texture, wherein sampling of the texture is to be executed external to the 3D graphics pipeline. A compute pipeline may execute sampling of the texture utilizing the texture sample location data and provide texture sample result data corresponding to the texture, wherein the 3D graphics pipeline may composite a frame utilizing the texture sample result data. The compute pipeline may manage a page fault, wherein the page fault and/or management of the page fault may be hidden from a graphics application. In addition, the compute pipeline may switch a compute context associated with the page fault to allow a graphics task not associated with the page fault to be executed and/or to prevent a stall. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379731 | COLOR NAME GENERATION FROM IMAGES AND COLOR PALETTES - Systems and methods are provided for generating color names for colors corresponding to images and/or palettes. A color image is obtained, and one or more color palettes corresponding to the color image are identified. The color palette may be generated based on palette generation criteria, which may facilitate or control a palette generation process. Illustratively, the palette generation process may include image pre-processing, color distribution generation, representative color identification, palette candidate generation, and palette determination. A color name for each color identified in the color palette and/or the color image can be identified based at least in part on color name popularity information. Color name popularity information may be identified from color name-related voting results provided by a social network site. Aspects of the disclosure are further directed to processing the identified color name(s), such as updating color name metadata associated with the original color image and/or the color palette. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379732 | AUTOMATIC IMAGE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS USING A COLOR PALETTE - Systems and methods are described that recommend images, items, and/or metadata based at least in part on a reference color palette or reference color name. A color name can be converted into a representation of the color name in a color space. The reference color can be used to identify images that contain the reference color. The identified images and associated metadata can be analyzed, sorted and provided as an ordered list of items. Systems and methods are also described that identify items that contain colors affiliated with the reference color. Systems and methods are also described that validate color identifier information in metadata associated with an image. Systems and methods are also described that identify non-color specific keywords associated with the reference color. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379733 | AUTOMATIC IMAGE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS USING A COLOR PALETTE - Systems and methods are described that recommend images, items, and/or metadata based at least in part on a reference color palette or reference color name. A color name can be converted into a representation of the color name in a color space. The reference color can be used to identify images that contain the reference color. The identified images and associated metadata can be analyzed, sorted and provided as an ordered list of items. Systems and methods are also described that identify items that contain colors affiliated with the reference color. Systems and methods are also described that validate color identifier information in metadata associated with an image. Systems and methods are also described that identify non-color specific keywords associated with the reference color. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379734 | DITHERED SAMPLING PATTERNS FOR TEMPORAL COLOR AVERAGING - Graphics processing is performed in which a decision is made in individual tiles whether or not to sample at a reduced sampling rate. A sampling pattern is selected from a set of sampling patterns having the same reduced sampling rate. The sampling pattern is dithered over a set of frames to reduce the visual appearance of visual artifacts via temporal color averaging. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379735 | REMOTE MONITORING FRAMEWORK - Described herein is a technology for facilitating remote monitoring, in accordance with one aspect, image data and corresponding true color data of a region of interest is received by a computer system from a mobile device. The computer system may integrate the image data and the true color data to generate normalized true color data. The normalized true color data may then be mapped to device independent color image data A recommendation may then be sent based on the device-independent color image data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379736 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING ANTEGRADE AND RETROGRADE BLOOD FLOW - A computer-implemented method for simultaneously analyzing antegrade and retrograde blood flow is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device including a processor in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a first plot of blood velocities over time and determining a first amount of blood flow based on the first plot. The first amount is associated with antegrade blood flow. The method additionally includes determining a second amount of blood flow based on the first plot. The second amount is associated with retrograde blood flow. Additionally, the method includes determining a mean amount of blood flow based at least in part on the first amount of blood flow and the second amount of blood flow, and storing at least one of the first amount, the second amount, and the mean amount of blood flow in the memory. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379737 | Virtual Memory Supported Compression Control Surfaces - Data destined for memory, i.e., data that was evicted at some level in the cache hierarchy is intercepted and subjected to compression before being sent to memory. Thereby, when the compression is successful, the memory bandwidth requirement is reduced, potentially resulting in higher performance and/or energy efficiency in some embodiments. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379738 | AUTOMATIC COLOR PALETTE BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for determining whether certain color image metadata is accurate. A color image and associated color image metadata provided by a source for inclusion in an electronic catalog are accessed. A color palette corresponding to the color image is generated. A color name associated with the color palette is determined. A determination is made as to whether the image metadata comprises a color name. If the image metadata comprises a color name, a determination is made as to whether the color name included in the image metadata corresponds to the color name associated with the color palette. If the color name included in the image metadata does not correspond to the color name associated with the color palette or if the image metadata does not comprise a color name, the color name associated with the color palette is added to the color image metadata. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379739 | AUTOMATIC COLOR PALETTE BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for generating color-based recommendations using color palette information. An indication may be received that a user is requesting a color-related recommendation, the indication associated with item information and color palette information, the color palette information corresponding to a first color palette. Based at least in part on the item information and the color palette information, one or more items corresponding to the item information and the color palette information are identified. Where there is more than one identified item, a ranking for the identified plurality of items may be generated. Item recommendations comprising at least a portion of the identified plurality of items in accordance with the generated ranking may be provided for presentation on a user device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379740 | EXPOSURE METERING BASED ON BACKGROUND PIXELS - The disclosed technology relates to image-capturing methods. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an image frame comprising a plurality of pixels and subtracting foreground pixels from the image frame to obtain background pixels. The method additionally includes determining an exposure condition for a next image frame based on at least a subset of the background pixels. The method further includes adjusting the foreground pixels such that a difference between a background luma value and a foreground luma value of the next image frame is within a predetermined range. Aspects are also directed to apparatuses configured for the methods. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379741 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In a program including the first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and performed by a processor and the second program layer with an instruction set translated in advance by a unit other than the processor, image data to be processed, which is designated in the first program layer, is converted into image data in a format usable in the second program layer. Image processing including color conversion is performed for the converted image data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379742 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING VISUAL IMAGES - System, methods, and computer-readable media are provided that include receiving an input including data items for creating an account for a member on a website, where the data items include category and/or attribute selections, determining whether one or more category selections have been received, designating an image corresponding thereto, if the one or more category selections have been received, assigning an outer portion shape, based on a number of received category selections, determining whether attribute selections have been received, associating a visual indicator with each attribute selection, designating segments of the outer portion shape with the visual indicators associated with each of the attribute selections, generating an icon, based on the designated image and the assigned outer portion shape, wherein the one or more segments of the outer portion shape are designated visual indicators associated with each of the attribute selections, and displaying the icon. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379743 | IMAGE-BASED COLOR PALETTE GENERATION - Systems and methods are provided for generating an image-based color palette based on a color image. A color palette can be a collection of representative colors each associated with a weight or other metadata. A color palette may be generated based on palette generation criteria, which may facilitate or control a palette generation process. Illustratively, the palette generation process may include image pre-processing, color distribution generation, representative color identification, palette candidate generation and palette determination. Representative colors with associated weight can be identified from a distribution of colors depicted by the color image, multiple palette candidates corresponding to the same color image can be generated based on various palette generation criteria, and a color palette can be identified therefrom. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379744 | Visualization Method for a Human Skeleton from a Medical Scan - A visualization method is provided that allows for the unfolding of a human skeleton from a medical image scan and providing increased efficiency for interacting with the image scan and whole body bone reading from such scans. That is, a full head-to-toe unfolded skeleton view (e.g., a 2D unfolded view) is realized for improved visualization and diagnostic capabilities. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379745 | CT IMAGE CALIBRATION METHOD AND DEVICE AND CT SYSTEM - The present invention provides a CT image calibration method and device and a CT system. The method includes: arranging a fixed calibration element at the outside of a channel area and within the maximal reconstruction area of a CT scanning device, and storing the theoretical value of the fixed calibration element; collecting the projection data of the fixed calibration element to obtain the actual reconstructed image of the fixed calibration element; and comparing the actual reconstructed image with the stored corresponding theoretical value, to establish a mapping function for correcting the actual reconstructed image into the theoretical value. By adopting the present invention, the calibration quality can be effectively improved, the image calibration effect is enhanced, the reliability of the CT scanning device is improved and the maintenance cost is saved, thus the practical application value is very high. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379746 | CINEMATIZATION OF OUTPUT IN COMPOUND DEVICE ENVIRONMENT - Synthesizing of information and application user interface elements into a continuous stream form. This is done by adjusting a level of cinematicity to be applied to a session of information as the session is presented. Higher level cinematicity use higher degrees of movement in presenting user interface elements representing the information. In contrast, lower levels of cinematicity use lower or no movement of user interface elements representing the information. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379747 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CALCULATING SIZE AND POSITION OF ONE OF AN ENTIRE PERSON AND A PART OF A PERSON IN AN IMAGE - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a detecting unit detecting one of an entire person and a part of a person in an image produced by image data acquired by image pickup by an imaging unit; a position/size calculating unit calculating a size and a position of the detected one of the entire person and the part of the person in the image; and a GUI disposing unit disposing graphical user interface (GUI) elements, which are to be displayed by being superimposed on the image produced by the image data, on the image based on the calculated size and position. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379748 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING PROGRAM FOR GENERATING NEW IMAGE BY SYNTHESIZING A PLURALITY OF IMAGES - An imaging apparatus includes an image acquiring unit, an image setting unit, an image selecting unit, and an image generating unit. The image acquiring unit acquires a plurality of images belonging to different groups. The image setting unit determines the number of images to be used for generation of a new image. The image selecting unit selects images of the number determined by the image setting unit from the plurality of images based on supplementary information of a plurality of images belonging to each of the different groups acquired by the image acquiring unit. The image generating unit generates a new image from the images selected by the image selecting unit. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379749 | OBJECT DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, OBJECT DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OBJECT DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an object display control apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor executes a process of displaying on the display at least one object comprising a plurality of object parts, wherein the plurality of object parts include first object parts having variable values; setting one of the first object parts displayed on the display as a change target for changing the value of the one of the first object parts; and displaying a list of the first object parts, the one of the first object parts set as the change target being distinguishably displayed from the other of the first object parts in the list. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379750 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device according to the present invention includes a display manner determination unit for determining a display manner of a second text in a cover image to be superimposed onto an original image integrated with a first text, so as to satisfy a predetermined condition concerning a coverage extent by which the first text in the original image is covered by the second text in the cover image, and for outputting position specifying data specifying a superimpose position at which the cover image integrated with the second text to be displayed in the display manner determined is superimposed onto the original image, so as to be correlated to the cover image. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379751 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING CODES IN MUTLIMEDIA CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method and system for embedding a code in a multimedia content item are provided. The method comprises identifying multimedia content elements existing in the multimedia content item; generating a new multimedia content element based on the identified existing multimedia content elements; and adding the at least one new multimedia content element to the multimedia content item. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379752 | AVATAR-BASED TRANSFER PROTOCOLS, ICON GENERATION AND DOLL ANIMATION - Systems and methods may provide for identifying one or more facial expressions of a subject in a video signal and generating avatar animation data based on the one or more facial expressions. Additionally, the avatar animation data may be incorporated into an audio file associated with the video signal. In one example, the audio file is sent to a remote client device via a messaging application. Systems and methods may also facilitate the generation of avatar icons and doll animations that mimic the actual facial features and/or expressions of specific individuals. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379753 | MOVEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVEMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In order to allow main parts of a face to move more naturally, a movement processing apparatus includes a face main part detection unit configured to detect a main part forming a face from an acquired face image, a shape specifying unit configured to specify a shape type of the detected main part, and a movement condition setting unit configured to set a control condition for moving the main part, based on the specified shape type of the main part. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379754 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ANIMATION CREATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to an image processing apparatus, a control unit creates an animation that sets initial positions of parts of an image, such as the head, lips, and eyelids, and moves the parts of the image with positions of the parts of the image in the first frame as their set initial positions, and moves the parts of the image in such a manner as that positions of the parts of the image in the last frame coincide with the set initial positions. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379755 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION - Based on heart behavior data, a computation unit determines a first time step at which a heart exhibits a first behavior in response to a first wave of an electrical signal, as well as a second time step at which the heart exhibits a second behavior in response to a second wave of the same. The computation unit reproduces the heart's behavior over time by updating a three-dimensional model of the heart according to the heart behavior data, simultaneously with variations in electrical signal strength over time according to electrocardiogram data. The computation unit coordinates this reproduction such that a first shape of the heart at the first time is reproduced step simultaneously with the first wave of the electrical signal, and such that a second shape of the heart at the second time step is reproduced simultaneously with the second wave of the electrical signal. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379756 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING RAY TRACING - A method of processing ray tracing comprising acquiring information about a light source and a bounding box that are located in a three-dimensional graphics (3D) graphics environment, the bounding box containing an object; testing whether a ray generated by the light source intersects the bounding box along each of first to third coordinate axes that define the 3D graphics environment based on the acquired information; and rendering the object in response to a result of the testing being that the ray intersects the bounding box along all of the first through third coordinate axes. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379757 | Profiling Ray Tracing Renderers - A profiler for a ray tracing renderer interfaces with the renderer to collect rendering information, such as ray definition information, a pixel origin, objects hit, shader invocation, and related rays. In an interface, an artist views a simplified 3-D scene model and a rendered 2-D image. A pixel in the 2-D image is selectable; the profiler responds by populating the simplified 3-D scene with rays that contributed to that pixel. Rays can be displayed in the simplified 3-D scene to visually convey information about characteristics of each ray, such as whether the ray intersected an object, portions of the scene where it is occluded, and a direction. Statistics can be produced by the profiler that convey information such as relative computational complexity to render particular pixels. The profiler can step through multiple passes (e.g., multiple frames and passes of a multipass rendering), and the UI can allow pausing and stepping. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379758 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This is comprising: a volume rendering unit for generating a two-dimensional rendered image by converting three-dimensional volume data into two-dimensional volume data; a depth information generator for generating depth information indicative of the length from a virtual view position in a virtual three-dimensional space to the three-dimensional volume data on the basis of the three-dimensional volume data; an anti-aliasing unit for identifying a target in the rendered image based on the depth information and executing anti-aliasing processing on an edge portion of the identified target; and a display unit for displaying an image including the target, on which the anti-aliasing processing has been executed, as a rendered image. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING BUILDINGS IN THREE DIMENSIONS - To quickly render buildings in a three dimensional building landscape on graphical use interface, buildings may be described with sufficient accuracy by dividing the building into a number of building objects having a base polygon that is projected upwards for a specified height. The building objects may have a consistent horizontal cross section or may be projected to a roof polygon having an equivalent number of boundary data points. The building files may be coupled with property listing data so that available floor space in a building is depicted on the 3-D building landscape. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379760 | ADAPTIVE NAVIGATION TECHNIQUE FOR NAVIGATING A CATHETER THROUGH A BODY CHANNEL OR CAVITY - A method for using an assembled three-dimensional image to construct a three-dimensional model for determining a path through a lumen network to a target. The three-dimensional model is automatically registered to an actual location of a probe by tracking and recording the positions of the probe and continually adjusting the registration between the model and a display of the probe position. The registration algorithm becomes dynamic (elastic) as the probe approaches smaller lumens in the periphery of the network where movement has a bigger impact on the registration between the model and the probe display. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379761 | TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCED PIXEL SHADING - Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for reducing processing demands of shading primitives in rendering a 2D screen image from a 3D model. A device includes a clipping component to clip a visible primitive of a 2D screen image derived from of a 3D model within a first area of the screen image covered by a shading pixel to form a polygon representing an intersection of the first area and the visible primitive; a first interpolation component to interpolate at least one attribute of vertices of the visible primitive to each vertex of the polygon; and a second interpolation component to interpolate color values of the vertices of the polygon to a point within a second area covered by a screen pixel of the screen image, the second area smaller than the first area and at least partly coinciding with the first area. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379762 | FACILITATING DYNAMIC AND EFFICIENT PRE-LAUNCH CLIPPING FOR PARTIALLY-OBSCURED GRAPHICS IMAGES ON COMPUTING DEVICES - A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic and efficient pre-launch clipping for partially-obscured images on computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving state data relating to an image having partially-obscured regions, where the image is capable of being processed on a graphics processing unit of a computing device, and evaluating the state data, where evaluating includes computation of at least one of visible pixels and invisible pixels of the image. The method may further include selecting the visible pixels to be included in processing of the image, where the invisible pixels are ignored. The method may further include processing the image based on the visible pixels. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERED COARSE PIXEL SHADING - An apparatus and method for performing coarse pixel shading (CPS). For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: A method for coarse pixel shading (CPS) comprising: pre-processing a graphics mesh by creating a tangent-plane parameterization of desired vertex attributes for each vertex of the mesh; and performing rasterization of the mesh in a rasterization stage of a graphics pipeline using the tangent-plane parameterization. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379764 | ELIMINATION OF MINIMAL USE THREADS VIA QUAD MERGING - Fragment merging is performed on a draw call basis. One application is for quad merging. Primitives of the same draw call have many common attributes, such as a graphics state, which facilitates merging of quad fragments. Partially covered quad fragments of the same draw call are considered for possible merging and at least one merge test performed. The merge test may include error tests such as a level of detail error test, interpolated depth, and an interpolation error test. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379765 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR PATH DETERMINATION OF A SENSOR BASED DETECTION SYSTEM - Provided herein are systems and methods for receiving information associated with a plurality of sensors configured to detect a hazardous condition, wherein the information includes metadata and sensor reading data; determining a path of the hazardous condition about the plurality of sensors from the information; and rendering the path of the hazardous condition on a graphical user interface on a display device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379766 | GENERATION OF 3D MODELS OF AN ENVIRONMENT - Generating a 3D reconstruction of an environment around a monitoring-unit as that monitoring-unit is moved through the environment: a) providing at least a camera and a LIDAR sensor, each being controlled by independent clocks; b) using the camera to determine the trajectory of the monitoring-unit and determining a first time series using the clock of the camera, where the first time series details when the monitoring-unit was at predetermined points of the trajectory; c) recording the returns from the LIDAR sensor and determining a second time series using the clock of the LIDAR sensor, where the second time series details when each scan from the LIDAR was taken; d) using a timer to relate the first and second series in order to match the return from the LIDAR sensor to the point on the trajectory at which the return was received; and e) creating the 3D reconstruction based upon the LIDAR returns using information from the two time series. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379767 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus comprises an acquiring section that acquires DEM data indicating digital elevation of each lattice-shaped area in a predetermined map region, a selecting section that selects at least one of a plurality of line filters that filters data which is continuous in one direction in the map region and a plurality of matrix filters that filters data constituting a two-dimensional region in the map region, a filter processing section that conducts filter processing of the DEM data acquired by the acquiring section by a filter selected by the selecting section, and an outputting section that outputs the DEM data after being filtered in the filter processing. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379768 | ESTIMATION OF OBJECT PROPERTIES IN 3D WORLD - Objects within two-dimensional video data are modeled by three-dimensional models as a function of object type and motion through manually calibrating a two-dimensional image to the three spatial dimensions of a three-dimensional modeling cube. Calibrated three-dimensional locations of an object in motion in the two-dimensional image field of view of a video data input are determined and used to determine a heading direction of the object as a function of the camera calibration and determined movement between the determined three-dimensional locations. The two-dimensional object image is replaced in the video data input with an object-type three-dimensional polygonal model having a projected bounding box that best matches a bounding box of an image blob, the model oriented in the determined heading direction. The bounding box of the replacing model is then scaled to fit the object image blob bounding box, and rendered with extracted image features. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESH SIMPLIFICATION - The invention provides a method and apparatus for mesh simplification. In the method, an iterative edge collapse transformation is carried out to simplify an input mesh model, each edge collapse unifying two adjacent vertices of the input mesh model into a single vertex. The method further comprises: carrying out an edge collapse for an edge formed by two adjacent vertices in ascending order of a cost value which is determined as a function of the scales of the two adjacent vertices in the hierarchical repetitive structure of the input mesh model and geometric attributes of the two adjacent vertices. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379770 | DIGITAL ACTION IN RESPONSE TO OBJECT INTERACTION - A system and method are disclosed for identifying objects, and performing a digital action with respect to the object in a mixed reality environment. Objects may be recognized by a processing unit receiving feedback from a head mounted display worn by a user in a number of ways. Once an object is identified, the digital action performed may be displaying additional information on the object, either on a virtual display slate or as a three-dimensional virtual representation. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379771 | IMAGE DATA GENERATING DEVICE, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PORTABLE CONTROL DEVICE - A PC includes: an image data setting section for (i) setting, to background image data indicative of a background image, apparatus image data obtained by capturing an image of an apparatus and serving as referential image data to be referred to for identifying the apparatus, and (ii) setting, to the apparatus image data, dynamic part image data indicative of a dynamic part image positioned on the apparatus image; and an address setting section for (i) associating, with the dynamic part image data, (a) an address for specifying a storage area of a memory in which storage area data to be accessed by a portable terminal device is stored and (b) address substitutive information to be substituted for the address, and (ii) generating address display data to be used to display the address substitutive information instead of the address. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379772 | TRACKING ACCELERATOR FOR VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAYS - A display system includes: a sensor to detect head movements and to generate sensor data corresponding to the head movements; and a display device to display a first portion of an image according to the sensor data, wherein the first portion is smaller than an entirety of the image. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379773 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A display device for a vehicle includes a decorative member; a light source that emits light to the decorative member; and a virtual image generation unit that displays a virtual image between a driver of the vehicle and the decorative member. The light source is disposed closer to the driver than the decorative member, and is alternately switchable between a light-on state and a light-off state when the virtual image generation unit displays a virtual image. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379774 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING CONTEXTUAL AND PERSONALIZED DIGITAL CONTENT - A digital content generating system comprising mobile computing devices in communication with a server. A sensor data analyser receives data, generated by the sensors one of the mobile devices in respect of a real-world scene and determines features of the real-world scene from the data. A data analytics system matches the real-world scene features and user preferences with digital content items to create personalised digital content for the user of the mobile device. The system therefore dynamically generates digital content that is automatically and contextually constructed, the context being created from automatically-sensed features in the user's physical environment and from the user's interests and opinions. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379775 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A DISPLAY DEVICE AND SYSTEM WITH A DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for operating a display device Involves displaying at least one virtual object from a virtual observation position by virtual reality glasses, continuously detecting a position of the virtual reality glasses, determining, using the continuously detected position of the virtual reality glasses, whether the glasses are disposed in a specified region, and displaying the virtual object from the same virtual observation position by means of the display device as long as the virtual reality glasses are disposed in the specified region. A system includes virtual reality glasses. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379776 | VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A combination meter including a first meter and a second meter, which are visible from a front side, and a half-silvered mirror disposed in front of the combination meter and having semi-transparent property are provided. Also, an image output device displays an image toward the half-silvered mirror is provided. The half-silvered mirror reflects the image displayed by the image output device to display a virtual image in front of the meter. Thus, the virtual image is overlappedly displayed with respect to the combination meter, whereby a use intuitively recognizes high priority information. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379777 | AUGMENTED REALITY PROVIDING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND AUGMENTED REALITY PROVIDING METHOD - An augmented reality providing system is provided with: a group of sensors measuring information on movement; a storage device that stores the reference position of the group of sensors; a card control unit that decides whether or not the group of sensors is located at the reference position; a position and posture identification unit that, after decision by the card control unit that the group of sensors is located at the reference position, identifies the current position of the group of sensors based on the reference position stored in the storage device and the information on the movement measured by the group of sensors; and a display unit that outputs output information in accordance with the current position of the group of sensors identified by the position and posture identification unit, thereby representing augmented reality. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379778 | COORDINATE GEOMETRY AUGMENTED REALITY PROCESS FOR INTERNAL ELEMENTS CONCEALED BEHIND AN EXTERNAL ELEMENT - Embodiments of the invention include a method, a system, and a mobile device that incorporate augmented reality technology into land surveying, 3D laser scanning, and digital modeling processes. By incorporating the augmented reality technology, a 3D digital model of internal elements concealed behind an external element can be visualized on a live view, aligned to the orientation and scale of the scene displayed on the mobile device. In an embodiment, a marker can be placed at a predetermined set of coordinates on the external element, determined by surveying equipment. The 3D digital model of the internal elements can be retrieved by the mobile device and overlaid in relation to the marker position, orientation, and size so that it is seen at a calculated distance in depth behind the external element as they would exist hidden behind the external element in the real environment. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379779 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DATA IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for displaying data in a portable terminal to control data displayed on a projection beam screen. The apparatus includes a beam projector unit for displaying data on a beam screen, at least one camera unit for capturing the data displayed on the beam screen, and a controller for extracting a differential region between data to be displayed on the beam screen and the displayed data captured by the camera unit and displaying the data on the beam screen according to a display screen region excluding the differential region therefrom. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379780 | IMAGE DISPLAY TO DISPLAY 3D IMAGE AND SECTIONAL IMAGES - The disclosure is related to displaying a three dimensional image and corresponding sectional images. A display device may include a data storage, an input interface, an image display, and a processor. The data storage may store image data. The input interface may receive position information of a first image point from a user. The image display may display a 3D image in a first display region and a sectional image of the 3D image in a second display region of the screen. The processor may generate the 3D image data to display the 3D image by locating the first image point of the 3D image at a first position in the first display region and the sectional image data to display the sectional image of the 3D image by locating a second image point of the sectional image at a second position in the second display region. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379781 | Tracking the Use of at Least One Destination Location - Tracking the use of at least one destination location is disclosed. Initially, four or more first images are received from a first camera having a first field of view. It is then determined that the first vehicle is stopped within the at least one destination location at a first time and that the first vehicle has left the at least one destination location at a second time. A first characteristic of an occupant of the first vehicle based on a first image is determined to correspond to a second characteristic of the occupant of the first vehicle based on a second image. It is then determined that the occupant of the first vehicle traveled between the first vehicle and a payment station. Payment information specifying a period of time that was received by a third-party parking payment system is received. The period of time is then associated with the first vehicle. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379782 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING TOLL COLLECTION INFORMATION BASED ON A NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS IN A VEHICLE - A method of communicating information regarding a number of occupants in a vehicle for an electronic toll collection system having an antenna at a toll lane entrance, the vehicle and a transponder in the vehicle, includes detecting occupancy in the vehicle by at least one sensor in the vehicle, computing a number of one or more occupants based on the detected occupancy by the at least one sensor, setting one of a plurality of toll configurations based on the number of one or more occupants, transmitting the one of the plurality of toll configurations and account information associated with the transponder to the antenna, receiving the one of the plurality of toll configurations and the account information from the transponder, and charging a predetermined toll amount on an account corresponding to the received account information based on the one of the plurality of toll configurations from the transponder. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379783 | EMBEDDED HOIST HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE - A cable drum receives a length of working cable that is wound in and out from the drum in response to powered rotation of the drum with an uppermost layer of working cable on the drum forming a working surface. A torque sensor in communication with the cable drum measures a torque applied to the cable drum due to tension on the working cable from a load. A drum height gauge is provided for measuring a height of the working surface of the cable on the cable drum. A processor receives the torque value from the torque sensor and the height of the working surface from the drum height gauge and computes a force applied to the length of working cable due to the load based on the torque and height of the working surface. The work performed by the cable may be calculated to assist in determining cable health. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379784 | OBTAINING AND USING VEHICLE RELATED DATA - A mobility status of a vehicle is estimated based on received data from a data collection device associated with a vehicle. The received data includes a first data set collected at a first point of time and a second data set collected at a second point of time. The mobility status of the vehicle is estimated based on a difference between values or a status change of at least one common parameter of the first data set and the second data set and based on the time difference between the first point of time and the second point of time. The estimated mobility status of the vehicle is stored at multiple points of time in a vehicle-specific mobility status database. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379785 | WIRELESS MONITOR MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A system of mobile computer equipment, sensors and software methods for generating alerts, recommendations, control signals and report outputs for primarily towed machines, the method including receiving wirelessly data sets from a plurality of sensors, comparing them to a database of optimal values for each data set and generating an audible or visible output to a wireless hand-held graphical user interface including any combination of machine stroke count per unit produced to generate yield maps or recommendations to change linear travel rate of such machine, subcomponent performance rating, status or condition, recommendation and details to perform specific repair and maintenance procedures, order specific spares, production inventory field locations and other outputs, to optimize the productivity and uptime of such mobile machines. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379786 | REMOTELY MONITORING A PLURALITY OF VEHICLES - A method for remotely monitoring and gathering information about a plurality of vehicles, including the steps of accessing the plurality of vehicles wherein each vehicle is individually operated, selecting vehicle data from the plurality of vehicles, communicating the vehicle data from the plurality of vehicles to a remote processor, and processing the plurality of vehicle data into population data by the remote processor. The individual operation of each vehicle preferably includes the steps of generating vehicle data, operating the vehicle based on the vehicle data with a vehicle controller, and storing the vehicle data in a database located on the vehicle. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379787 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT - An electronic control unit comprises a central processing unit for calculating plural types of control data used for controlling a control object and a non-volatile memory rewritable of data. The processing unit writes sequentially type-affixed control data, in each of which type information indicating a type of control data is affixed to the control data, into a data write-in area in the non-volatile memory. When a hold condition corresponding to one of the plural types of control data is satisfied, the processing unit reads out the type-affixed control data, which includes the control data corresponding to a satisfied hold condition, from the data write-in area based on the type information, and writes the type-affixed control data read out from the data write-in area in a data holding area of the non-volatile memory. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379788 | METHOD FOR MANAGING FAULT MESSAGES OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for managing fault messages (m) of a motor vehicle by a monitoring computer of a motor vehicle, the monitoring computer including a step (E1) of receiving a fault message (m), a filtering step (E3) in which the method executes a step (E4) of storing the fault message (m) in a temporary storage memory (TMP) in case of positive filtering and a step (E5) of storing the fault messages (m) in a dynamic storage memory (DYN). | 2015-12-31 |
20150379789 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TELEMATICS MONTORING AND COMMUNICATIONS - Certain example embodiments of the disclosed technology may include systems and methods for telematics monitoring. An example method is provided that includes receiving, at a mobile computing device, and from a Vehicle Identification Unit (VIU), identification (ID) data representing a first vehicle. The method further includes receiving, by the mobile computing device, sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the mobile computing device. Certain embodiments may further include receiving, at an Operational Measurement Unit (OMU), an operation indication associated with the first vehicle. The OMU may include an operational measurement component configured to advance an operational count in response to receiving the operation indication. Certain example embodiments may include transmitting telematics data by the mobile computing device. In certain embodiments, the telematics data may include least a portion of one or more of the ID data, the sensor data, and/or the operational count data. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379790 | KEY FOB SECURITY COPY TO A MOBILE PHONE - A mobile device having a transceiver, a microphone, and a processor programmed to control a vehicle function at a vehicle computing system based on a received voice command via the microphone. The transceiver is configured to receive key fob security codes having predefined key assignments from the vehicle computing system. The microphone is configured to receive voice command inputs associated with the key fob security codes. The processor is programmed to configure a mobile device application to initiate vehicle control functions using the security codes, and in response to a voice command, transmit a vehicle function request to the vehicle computing system via the transceiver. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379791 | Wearable RFID Devices With Manually Activated RFID Tags - A wearable RFID device may include one or more manually activated RFID tags configured to transmit unique RFID signals in response to a manual activation thereof. Such wearable RFID devices may be worn about any aspect of a user's body, such as a hand, a wrist or an arm of the user, who may contact the manually activated RFID tag and transmit an RFID signal that is consistent with a particular action or instruction associated with a task. The action or the instruction may be executed based on the RFID signal, or upon receiving a confluence or sequence of RFID signals. Additionally, a wearable RFID device may be recognized by one or more discrete systems and configured to operate such systems accordingly. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379792 | DOOR SYSTEM WITH NONCONTACT ACCESS CONTROL AND NONCONTACT DOOR OPERATION - The door system consists of a door frame ( | 2015-12-31 |
20150379793 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system includes an in-vehicle device including an in-vehicle device communication unit that performs wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method, and an in-vehicle device control unit that executes control for transmitting a request signal; a mobile terminal including a mobile terminal communication unit that performs wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method; and a mobile device including a mobile device communication unit that performs wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method, a mobile device control unit that executes control for transmitting a response signal to a request signal from the in-vehicle device, and a mobile device transmission unit that transmits a response signal to the in-vehicle device according to the control by the mobile device control unit. The in-vehicle device control unit executes control for transmitting the request signal when the short-range wireless communication network is formed with the mobile terminal and the mobile device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379794 | CAPACITIVE DATA TRANSFER IN AN ELECTRONIC LOCK AND KEY ASSEMBLY - An electronic key may include a partial capacitor comprising a capacitive metal plate in communication with a processor. The capacitive metal plate of the partial capacitor is configured to form a capacitor with a corresponding capacitive metal plate of a lock when brought into proximity with the metal plate of the lock. Data may be transferred from the key to the lock using a capacitor formed by combining the two metal plates, wherein a common ground is established between the metal plate of the key and the metal plate of the lock through a parasitic capacitance present between the key and lock circuitry. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379795 | Active Detection Type Radio Frequency Identification Smart Door Lock Controller - An active detection type radio frequency identification (RFID) smart door lock controller includes a door lock controller having a triggering unit with an infrared sensing module for transmitting an infrared signal. The door lock controller further includes a reading unit and a control unit operatively coupled to a door lock. A user information is stored in an electronic tag unit having an RFID module. The triggering unit is activated when the infrared signal is blocked by the electronic tag unit and actuates the reading unit to activate the RFID module by a first RFID signal. The user information is sent by the RFID module to the reading unit by a second RFID signal and is then sent to the control unit. The control unit compares the user information with a user information stored in the control unit to decide whether or not to unlock the door lock. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379796 | HANDSHAKE AUTHENTICATED CODED LOCKED CONTAINER - A system and method for a handshake authenticated coded locked container are provided. In example embodiments, a digitally encoded lock mechanism that is used by a sender to lock a container before shipping is determined. An access key is received from the recipient that receives the container. An authentication process is performed that determines whether the access key triggers the unlocking of the container. Based on a determination that the access key triggers the unlocking of the container, instructions are provided to unlock the container. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379797 | Medium Recognizing and Counting Apparatus, Financial Device and Financial Management System - The present disclosure provides a recognizing and counting apparatus having a medium storing function, including: a hopper in which an inserted medium is stacked; a recognizing unit which recognizes an abnormal medium while counting the medium transferred from the hopper; a reject pocket in which abnormal medium recognized to be abnormal by the counting unit is stacked; a normal medium pocket in which a normal medium normally counted by the counting unit is stacked; one or more storage cassette which is disposed below the normal medium pocket to store the normal medium stacked in the normal medium pocket; and a conveying unit which is provided between the counting unit, the normal medium pocket, and the storage cassette to convey the normal medium. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379798 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING MACHINE - A paper sheet handling machine | 2015-12-31 |
20150379799 | Medium Processing Apparatus and Financial Device - A medium processing apparatus is provided. The medium processing apparatus comprises a first cassette support to at least one first cassette, a second cassette support to support at least one second cassette, the second cassette support being connected to the first cassette support, a container in which the first and second cassette supports are received, and a first locking unit to lock the second cassette support and the first cassette support. When the first locking unit is released, the second cassette support is pulled out to the outside of the container in a state in which the first cassette support is disposed in the container. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379800 | SELF-CHECKING CASH BOX - The invention relates to a cash box ( | 2015-12-31 |
20150379801 | Actuated Castellation Plate For a Currency Acceptor - An actuated castellation plate can be arranged across a length of a currency passageway of a currency acceptor assembly and configured in an open state. Pressure from an attempted string fraud, such as pulling in reverse a bill across the castellation plate, can actuate the castellation plate to a closed state, obstructing the currency passageway so that the bait bill cannot be retrieved. Embodiments can include a currency acceptor including a currency passageway, mounting assembly, currency storage assembly having an entrance, the currency passageway being arranged to guide a currency denomination to the entrance of the currency storage assembly, and an actuated castellation plate including an array of teeth coupled to a baseplate including a receptacle and two opposing mounting ends, the castellation plate being configured at the entrance of the cashbox assembly to transfer between an open and closed state. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379802 | Coin Acceptor with Anti-Fraud Feature - A method and apparatus for preventing the fraudulent receipt of credit for the goods or services provided by a coin-operated device is disclosed. A coin acceptor with an anti-fraud feature comprises a coin-accept channel comprising a lip to block the introduction of a non-coin object to a coin sensor and a coin-guiding surface to guide a coin downstream the lip to the coin sensor. The coin-accept channel may further comprise a blocking area, a deflection surface, and a protrusion to prevent the upstream movement of a tethered coin-like object, thereby preventing a single tethered coin-like object from receiving multiple credits for the goods or services provided by a coin-operated device. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379803 | COMPOSITING DEVICE FOR COMBINING VISUAL CONTENT - A compositing apparatus is provided that has, in certain implementations, electronic circuitry for combining visual content for an electronic game of chance. The compositing apparatus may receive wagering display information from a wagering engine that controls wagering aspects of the game and entertainment display information from an entertainment engine that controls non-wagering aspects of the game. The compositing apparatus may combine the wagering and entertainment display information for presentation to a player on a display. In certain implementations, the compositing apparatus also enables the wagering engine to control the output of display information on the display. | 2015-12-31 |
20150379804 | SLOT GAMES WITH CONNECTED PAYGROUPS ACTING ON SYMBOLS IN A SYMBOL ARRAY - A slot machine game includes connected paygroups in a symbol array that causes prizes to be awarded, as an alternative or supplement to traditional paylines. The connected paygroups are defined in a reel spin result by counting symbols of a designated type that are contiguous horizontally or vertically. Preferably the designated type is matching symbols. The connected paygroups may be enhanced by wild symbols increasing their size or linking two or more groups to form a larger single group of contiguous symbols. To receive an award, groups must meet a minimum designated size. Players can wager on different sets of connected paygroup sizes like traditional games allow wagering for numbers of paylines. Bonus rounds are provided with special features that enhance connected paygroup sizes. | 2015-12-31 |