35th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220277396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING A DIGITAL CARD IN AN ELECTRONIC WALLET - A mobile computing device configured to manage a digital wallet card within a mobile wallet on the device by communicating with a central server. The mobile computing device continually communicates with the central server that stores policy information for an account associated with the digital wallet card. If the central server detects an update to the digital wallet card then, based on such indication, the mobile computing device generates an alert such as a notification to be displayed on a user interface of the mobile computing device indicating the existence of the update. The mobile computing device displays concurrently the notification of an update and an embedded link that when selected triggers downloading the update and replacing the digital wallet card with an updated digital wallet card in the mobile wallet. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277397 | PRIORITIZATION OF INSURANCE REQUOTATIONS - A computer-assisted method for providing re-quotations for insurance coverage may include receiving a list of insurance leads corresponding to individuals who received a previous quotation for insurance coverage but did not purchase the insurance coverage and identifying a difference between the previous quotation and a new quotation. This difference may include an increase in offered insurance coverage and/or a reduction in cost. A computing device may calculate a probability for each of the individuals on the list using a regression model based, at least in part, on the identified difference. In some cases, the regression model may be associated with individual states. In other cases, the regression model may correspond to a plurality of states. The regression model may output a probability that a resident of a particular state will purchase insurance in response to a re-quotation for insurance coverage, where individuals may then be ranked based on the probability. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277398 | SELECTING A CONTINGENT ACTION TOKEN - A method executed by a computing device includes identifying a non-fungible token (NFT) of an object distributed ledger that meets obtained minimum NFT requirements. The method further includes determining whether to select the NFT based on an evaluation of the NFT with regards to an evaluation profile. When selecting the NFT the method further includes to producing a selected NFT and determining reassignment information for the selected NFT. The method further includes facilitating taking control of the selected NFT of a blockchain of the object distributed ledger and updating the selected NFT utilizing the reassignment information for the NFT to produce an updated NFT. The method further includes causing generation of a new block affiliated with the updated NFT via the blockchain of the object distributed ledger, where the new block includes the updated NFT. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277399 | PERSONALIZED TRANSACTION CATEGORIZATION - A method performs personalized transaction categorization. A transaction record is received, by a server application. In a first stage, sparse raw features are extracted from a transaction record of a transaction and converted into a transaction vector including dense features. In a second stage, the transaction vector is classified into a customized chart of accounts using the dense features to generate adapter model output. The method further includes selecting, an account identifier, corresponding to the transaction record and to an account of the customized chart of accounts, using the adapter model output, and presenting the account identifier for the transaction record. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGULAR EXPRESSION GENERATION FOR IMPROVED DATA TRANSFER - A system and method for generating regular expressions to identify vendors to enable improved financial data transfer from a first computer system to a second computer system is provided. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277401 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTICIPATIVE SUPPORT OF CONTENT-PROVIDING USERS - Systems and methods for facilitating participative support among users are disclosed. The users may include content-providing users that provide user-provided content to other users. Exemplary implementations may: obtain items of user-provided content; effectuate presentations of the items of user-provided content through user interfaces to the users; receive revenue information from the users, wherein the revenue information represents received revenue for the content-providing users, including a participative-support exchange between a second user and the content-providing user of an amount of a currency being exchanged for a portion of particular (future) revenue received by the content-providing user; determine the particular revenue for the content-providing user, based on the received revenue information; determine and distribute the portion of the particular revenue to the second user, in accordance with the participative-support exchange. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277402 | USER LOCATION CALCULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Estimation of the range of activities of a target user is enabled in a relatively narrow range. A target user whose location is to be calculated has an account in social media. An offline friend determination means ( | 2022-09-01 |
20220277403 | INFORMED CONSENSUS DETERMINATION AMONG MULTIPLE DIVERGENT USER OPINIONS - The disclosed systems and methods can produce an informed consensus among multiple different opinions or preferences that can be presented in social media posts and online polls. Such an informed consensus can identify an opinion, assertion, and/or decision from among a plurality of different opinions, and can do so in a way that is more accurate, reliable, and representative of group preferences. The method can include receiving poll results having a first group and a second group, receiving comments to the poll, and identifying, based on reactions to the comments and the poll results, a comment associated with users of the second group as a critical comment, and bringing this comment to attention of users in the first group. The method can also include determining, based on the responses of users who saw or did not see the critical comment, the deliberative consensus or informed consensus of the poll. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277404 | Pattern Identification in Time-Series Social Media Data, and Output-Dynamics Engineering for a Dynamic System Having One or More Multi-Scale Time-Series Data Sets - In some aspects, computer-implemented methods of identifying patterns in time-series social-media data. In an embodiment, the method includes applying a deep-learning methodology to the time-series social-media data at a plurality of temporal resolutions to identify patterns that may exist at and across ones of the temporal resolutions. A particular deep-learning methodology that can be used is a recursive convolutional Bayesian model (RCBM) utilizing a special convolutional operator. In some aspects, computer-implemented methods of engineering outcome-dynamics of a dynamic system. In an embodiment, the method includes training a generative model using one or more sets of time-series data and solving an optimization problem composed of a likelihood function of the generative model and a score function reflecting a utility of the dynamic system. A result of the solution is an influence indicator corresponding to intervention dynamics that can be applied to the dynamic system to influence outcome dynamics of the system. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277405 | Adaptation of a Production Process, Edge Device of an Industrial Control System and Product Ordering Process - A method for adapting a production process, an edge device of an industrial control system and a method for a product ordering process, wherein at least one first party node of a blockchain network is adapted to publish order transactions in the blockchain network, published order transactions are validated by the blockchain network, where at least one second party node of the blockchain network analyzes validated order transactions in the blockchain network by identifying validated order transactions, extracting order parameters, sending the order parameters to a simulation system, receiving a capacity parameter from the simulation system, generating an offer based on the capacity parameter, and adapting the production process based on the offer if the at least one first party node accepts the offer. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277406 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS - A computer-implemented method of optimizing an industrial process includes comparing current environmental condition data to historic environment condition data for at least one day preceding a specified day. The method also includes determining a visual state from a plurality of visual states for the at least one day based on the comparison between the current environmental condition data and the historic environment condition data. The method further includes generating a calendar interface comprising a plurality of days preceding the specified day and corresponding to a plurality of visual representations. The method further includes generating a graphical user interface comprising historical data for at least one type of industrial process. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277407 | Tannery system for the constitution and supply of an optimal batch of homogeneous grade hides from multiple tanneries with random qualities, to undergo a further transformation step - A Tannery System (DT), for providing a Batch (LOkr) of Hides ( | 2022-09-01 |
20220277408 | System and method for the collection of United States of America nationwide building code for all jurisdictions having authority to adopt and enforce building code for the determination of the jurisdiction with authority for building code adoption and enforcement at the location of real property and the supplying of the building code for real property to the user - An application, implemented by a computer that compiles real property addresses and then determines which municipality or special district has jurisdiction over a particular real property address for the adoption, governing, control, and enforcement of the adopted building codes and issuance of building permits, and provides the said building codes and authority to issue permits from a proprietary national Master Database, where the building codes are stored once collected, that is monitored to ensure that any changes or new adoptions of building code or building permit authority are updated. This system will provide the end user with instant, accurate information regarding the applicable building codes that have been adopted at a particular real property address including whether the address is regulated by a special district, such as a coastal commission or an Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction | 2022-09-01 |
20220277409 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CIVIL ADMINISTRATION IN SMART CITY BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) - The embodiments of the specification provide a method for civil administration in a smart city based on the Internet of Things (IoT). The method may include: a civil administration platform obtaining target resident information of a target area from a civil service platform, wherein the target resident information may be obtained by the civil service platform after processing resident information of a target user in response to a civil service request sent by the target user through a user platform; and determining, based on the target resident information, an increased population of the target area within a target period. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277410 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - An image display system includes at least one user parameter analyser configured to determine at least one parameter associated with a user, an image display screen having luminous pixels, at least one graphics processing unit configured to process at least one first main image that can be displayed on the image display screen and that is representative of a first zone of a main scene. The system further includes at least one image buffer device configured to store at least the first main image, and a graphics controller configured to control a display of at least one first secondary image on the image display screen, the first secondary image having a first portion of the first main image included in the first main image and positioned within the first main image as a function of a first user parameter. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277411 | TILE-BASED GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A method of operating a tile-based graphics processing pipeline, in which the pipeline maintains information indicating whether sample values of rendered fragment data stored in the tile buffer for a set of plural pixels (or for each set of a plurality of sets of plural pixels) have the same value. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277412 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA BIAS IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE - An apparatus and method are described for managing data which is biased towards a processor or a GPU. For example, an apparatus comprises a processor comprising one or more cores, one or more cache levels, and cache coherence controllers to maintain coherent data in the one or more cache levels; a graphics processing unit (GPU) to execute graphics instructions and process graphics data, wherein the GPU and processor cores are to share a virtual address space for accessing a system memory; a GPU memory addressable through the virtual address space shared by the processor cores and GPU; and bias management circuitry to store an indication for whether the data has a processor bias or a GPU bias, wherein if the data has a GPU bias, the data is to be accessed by the GPU without necessarily accessing the processor's cache coherence controllers. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277413 | PAGE FAULTING AND SELECTIVE PREEMPTION - One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a system interface and circuitry coupled with the system interface. The circuitry includes an execution resource and a preemption status register. The execution resource is configured to execute an instruction. During execution of the instruction, the execution resource is to receive a request to preempt execution of a thread associated with the instruction and, based on a value stored in the preemption status register, execute at least one additional instruction after receipt of the request to preempt execution of the thread. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277414 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME 3D-SPACE SEARCH AND POINT-CLOUD PROCESSING - The current document is directed to a dimensional shuffle transform (“DST”) that maps a 3D space to a one-dimensional space that preserves 3D neighborhoods within 1D neighborhoods within an implicit recursive hierarchical structure. The search for points in a 3D subspace is reduced, by the DST, to one or more searches in the transformed 1D space. The search is performed by either recursive decomposition of the 3D region indexed by the transform into subspaces, exploiting the transformed space structure, or by direct indexing into the region of interest. The searches over the subspaces generated by recursive decomposition are independent from one another, providing many opportunities for a variety of parallel, DST-enabled search methods. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277415 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING MULTIPLE LENS DISTORTIONS WITHIN A SINGLE IMAGE - Multiple single lens distortion regions and one or more boundary regions may be determined within an image. Individual single lens distortion regions may have pixel displacement defined by a single lens distortion and individual boundary regions may have pixel displacement defined by a blend of at least two lens distortions. Multiple lens distortions may be simulated within the image by shifting pixels of the image input positions to output positions based on locations of pixels within a single lens distortion region and the corresponding single lens distortion or within a boundary region and a blend of corresponding lens distortions. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277416 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGE REGIONS FOLLOWING UPSAMPLING OR FRAME INTERPOLATION - Apparatus and method for correcting image regions following upsampling or frame interpolation. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises a machine-learning engine to evaluate at least a first image in a sequence of images generated by a real-time interactive application, the machine learning engine to responsively use previously learned data to generate an upsampled or interpolated image comprising a plurality of pixel patches. In one embodiment, each pixel patch is associated with a confidence value reflecting how accurately the pixel patch was generated by the machine learning engine. A selective ray tracing engine identifies a first pixel patch to be corrected based a first confidence value corresponding to the first pixel patch being lower than a threshold and performs ray tracing operations on a first portion of the first image to generate a corrected first pixel patch. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277417 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises an acquisition unit configured to acquire a probability distribution of a color in a teacher image group, a generation unit configured to generate, as an artificial teacher image, an image having a color sampled based on the probability distribution, and a learning unit configured to perform learning of a learning model for performing a demosaicking inference, by using the artificial teacher image. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277418 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC PORTAL SYSTEM FOR BUILDING FA ADE INSPECTION - A method for building façade inspection includes: acquiring individual local images of a building façade; creating local image positions and an orthomosaic from a subset of the acquired local images of the building façade, a plurality of two- or three-dimensional data relating to the building façade and/or features and dimensions indicated in a computer-aided design drawing of the building façade; generating a visual image database correlating each local image position to a corresponding user-selectable link for accessing and presenting a close-up of that image location to a user, the visual image database including one or more non-nadir local images; displaying an overall combined image of the building façade, with the visual image database overlaying the orthomosaic; and adding user-interactive elements to the visual image database that correlate a region of interest (ROI) in the orthomosaic with at least one of the individual local images corresponding to the prescribed ROI. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277419 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can easily execute a stitching process. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277420 | MAPPING BINNED MEDICAL DATA - A method of generating a combined image of a body part from a sequence of partially overlapping source images of the body part, each of the partially overlapping source images showing the body part at one of a plurality of different times, the source images being ordered in the sequence according to the different times, the method including defining a temporally coherent sequence of transformations, for registering the partially overlapping source images in the sequence with each other, registering the source images to each other using the defined temporally coherent sequence of transformations, to obtain co-registered images, and combining at least some of the co-registered images into a combined image. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277421 | Neural Super-sampling for Real-time Rendering - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a pair of stereo images having a resolution lower than a target resolution, generating an initial first feature map for a first image of the pair based on first channels associated with the first image and generating an initial second feature map for a second image of the pair based on second channels associated with the second image, generating a first feature map based on combining the first channels with the initial first feature map, generating a second feature map based on combining the second channels with the initial second feature map, up-sampling the first feature map and the second feature map to the target resolution, warping the up-sampled second feature map, and generating a reconstructed image corresponding to the first image having the target resolution based on the up-sampled first feature map and the up-sampled and warped second feature map. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277422 | OBJECT RECOGNITION BASED IMAGE OVERLAYS - Systems and methods for distributing photo filters based on the location of the object in the image are described. A photo filter publication system detects that a client device in communication with the system has captured an image, identifies an object in the image, identifies a location of the object in the image, identifies an image overlay associated with the identified location and having object criteria satisfied by the identified object, and provides the identified image overlay to the client device. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277423 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE SENSING DEVICE INCLUDING AN IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR - An image signal processing method includes: detecting a high frequency component in an input image received from an image sensor; calculating a ratio of the detected high frequency component; reconstructing a high frequency image based on the calculated ratio; and outputting an output image by combining the reconstructed high frequency image with a non-high frequency image of the input image. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277424 | METHOD FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN AN X-RAY IMAGE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ELECTRONICALLY READABLE DATA STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for noise reduction in a low-dose X-ray image includes preprocessing for determining input data, at least one trained function for determining noise-reduced output data from the input data, and postprocessing for determining a result image from the output data. At least one result parameter specifying at least one desired result attribute of the result image is received or determined. The at least one result attribute is obtained by modifying the preprocessing to set a noise value of at least one first noise parameter. The noise value is determined from the result parameter. The noise value may be selected to differ from a reference value of the first noise parameter. Alternatively or additionally, the at least one result attribute is obtained by setting, according to the result parameter, the at least one trained function to one of a plurality of predefined noise values of at least one second noise parameter. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277425 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - A vibration generation device | 2022-09-01 |
20220277426 | SELF-REGULARIZING INVERSE FILTER FOR IMAGE DEBLURRING - A method includes capturing, by a camera disposed behind a display panel of an electronic device, an original image through a semi-transparent pixel region of the display panel. The original image is associated with one or more predetermined point spread functions (PSFs) and includes one or more blurring artifacts. The method further includes estimating an optimal regularization parameter for the original image based on the one or more predetermined PSFs and the one or more blurring artifacts, applying a self-regularizing inverse filter, such as a fast self-regularizing inverse filter, to the original image based on the estimated regularization parameter, and generating a deblurred image based on the self-regularizing inverse filter. Generating the deblurred image includes reconstructing the original image utilizing the self-regularizing inverse filter to remove the one or more blurring artifacts. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277427 | METHODS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY - Methods for correcting one or more image aberrations in an electron microscopy image, including cryo-EM images, are provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of electron microscope (EM) images of an internal reference grid sample having one or more known properties, the plurality of electron microscope images obtained for a plurality of optical conditions and for a plurality of coordinated beam-image shifts. The method may also include, among other features, determining an aberration correction function that predicts aberrations for every point in the imaged area using kernel canonical correlation analysis (KCCA). | 2022-09-01 |
20220277428 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A display device including a display; one or more processors; and a memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for receiving an input image to be displayed on the display; selecting a look-up table (LUT) curve stored in the memory for the received input image; performing a histogram on the received input image; applying an offset gain to the selected LUT curve based on the histogram to generate an offset LUT curve; performing tone mapping of the input image through the offset LUT curve; and displaying the tone mapped image on the display. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277429 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD IN DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING DEVICE - An image processing method in a diagnosis assisting device that diagnoses lesions from a picked-up image, the method including A) performing an image correction on the picked-up image for diagnosis, and B) obtaining an input image to an identifier that identifies diseases based on the picked-up image having undergone the image correction. In A), when a brightness correction is performed as the image correction, a peripheral area other than a diagnosis area that has a high probability as diseases in the picked-up image is set to be a measuring area, a brightness histogram is created relative to the measuring area, a correction gain value is calculated based on a peak value of the created brightness histogram, and each of pixels in a color space is corrected by using the calculated correction gain value. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277430 | SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE IMAGE FILTERING - An image processor for transforming an input image, the image processor being configured to implement a trained artificial intelligence model, wherein the image processor is configured to: receive the input image; based on one or both of (i) the content of the input image and (ii) features extracted from the input image, process the image by the trained artificial intelligence model to: (i) determine a set of image filters; and (ii) for each of a plurality of subregions of the image, select an image filter from the set of image filters; and for each of the plurality of subregions of the image, apply the respective image filter to the subregion or to features extracted from that subregion. This may allow for differentiable selection of filters from a discrete learnable and decorrelated group of filters to allow for content based spatial adaptations | 2022-09-01 |
20220277431 | INITIALIZING A LEARNED LATENT VECTOR FOR NEURAL-NETWORK PROJECTIONS OF DIVERSE IMAGES - This disclosure describes one or more embodiments of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that can learn or identify a learned-initialization-latent vector for an initialization digital image and reconstruct a target digital image using an image-generating-neural network based on a modified version of the learned-initialization-latent vector. For example, the disclosed systems learn a learned-initialization-latent vector from an initialization image utilizing a high number (e.g., thousands) of learning iterations on an image-generating-neural network (e.g., a GAN). Then, the disclosed systems can modify the learned-initialization-latent vector (of the initialization image) to generate modified or reconstructed versions of target images using the image-generating-neural network. For instance, the disclosed systems utilize the learned-initialization-latent vector as a starting point to learn a learned-latent vector for a target image that an image-generating-neural network converts into a high-fidelity reconstruction of the target image (with a reduced number of learning iterations). | 2022-09-01 |
20220277432 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDICAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM - Provided are a medical image processing device and a medical observation system that are configured to clarify a boundary between a near-infrared image and a visible image in a specific region. An image processing unit | 2022-09-01 |
20220277433 | TRAVELLING GRATE CONDITION MONITORING - A system and method for monitoring the condition of a travelling grate machine including univocally identifying each pallet car; collecting a plurality of condition indicating parameters for the wheels, the grate bars, the car body and/or the side walls of the pellet car; attributing the collected condition indicating parameters to an individual pallet car; storing the collected condition indicating parameters for each pallet car in a database; evaluating the condition of the travelling grate machine; comparing the different condition indicating parameters collected by the different sensor means of each pallet car to reference parameters and/or to previously collected condition indicating parameters of that same pallet car; identifying the faults in each pallet car based on this comparison; classifying each pallet car according to its need of maintenance based on the severity of different identified faults; and determining the pallet car in most need of maintenance based on this classification. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277434 | Measurement System, Method for Generating Learning Model to Be Used When Performing Image Measurement of Semiconductor Including Predetermined Structure, and Recording Medium for Storing Program for Causing Computer to Execute Processing for Generating Learning Model to Be Used When Performing Image Measurement of Semiconductor Including Predetermined Structure - The present invention proposes a technique for enabling the execution of measurement processing without referring to a design drawing for which it is difficult to adjust or obtain parameters for image processing that requires knowhow. This measurement system according to the present disclosure refers to a learning model generated on the basis of teaching data, which is generated from a sample image of a semiconductor, and the sample image, generates a region-segmented image from an input image (measurement subject) of a semiconductor having a predetermined structure, and uses the region-segmented image to perform image measurement. Here, the teaching data is an image in which labels, which include a structure of the semiconductor in the sample image, are assigned to each pixel of the image, and the learning model includes parameters for deducing teaching data from the sample image (see indicator 1). | 2022-09-01 |
20220277435 | COGNITIVE FILTERING OF CONTENT FROM SHARED SCREEN DISPLAY - Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining source display content; identifying one or more objectionable portions included in the source display content; modifying the one or more objectionable portions included in the source display content to filter content in the one or more objectionable portions; generating a filtered display content, wherein the filtered display content includes the one or more modified objectionable portions and one or more non-objectionable portions of the source display content; and providing the filtered display content for rendering of a shared presentation. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277436 | System and Method for Performing Quality Control of Manufactured Models - Disclosed herein are example embodiments of methods and systems for identifying manufacturing defects of a manufactured dentition model. One of the methods for performing quality control comprises: determining whether the manufactured dentition model is a good or a defective product based on a statistical characteristic of a differences model. The differences model can be generated based on differences between a scanned 3D patient-dentition data and a scanned 3D manufactured-dentition data. The scanned 3D patient-dentition data can be generated using 3D data of a patient's dentition, and the scanned 3D manufactured-dentition data can be generated using 3D data of the manufactured dentition model. The manufactured dentition model can be a 3D printed model. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277437 | METHODS FOR REQUESTING AND AUTHENTICATING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE DATA - A system and method include obtaining and authenticating image files from users such as insured users at the request of an entity such as an insurance provider. The requesting entity may supply an electronic address of the user and a unique identifier. The system may transmit a link to the electronic address. When selected, the link causes an image authentication application to be installed on a user device. The application takes the images securely and separately from a native camera application. Each image authentication application may be customized for each requesting entity. The authentication server may identify the requesting entity that made the request and identify a corresponding image authentication application to be provided to the electronic address. The images from the image authentication application may be authenticated via reverse image search, time, geolocation, and/or other information. The authenticated images and/or related data may be provided to the requesting entity. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277438 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE FOR COMPARING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TO GROUND TRUTH - A platform to accurately detect user pose/verify against a reference ground truth and provide feedback using an accuracy score that represents the deviation of the user pose from the reference ground truth, typically established by an expert. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277439 | INSPECTION DEVICE, INSPECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A position detector applies an image to be inspected to a position detection model generated by machine learning using image information of a training image to calculate a score for a portion of an image to be inspected. The position detector specifies a portion of the image where the calculated score is a score that satisfies a predetermined relationship to detect the position of a metal part in the image to be inspected. A position outputter outputs the position of the metal part detected by the position detector. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277440 | USER-ASSISTED ITERATION OF CELL IMAGE SEGMENTATION - A segmentation of cell image data obtains cell segmentation data for the nuclei, cytoplasm and cell membranes, which are displayed on an image pane. A data pane is also displayed which contains a table with rows specific to cells and columns specific to cell attributes. In an editing session, a user can select cells for deletion either from the data pane or the image pane. Responsive to a selection via the data pane, the image pane is updated and responsive to a selection via the image pane, the data pane is updated. At any time, the user can command a re-segmentation taking account of the edits, which starts from a version of the previous nuclear segmentation data which has been edited to remove data relating to cells selected for deletion and then from that determines the cytoplasm and cell membrane segmentation data. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277441 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE IN AN AUTOFOCUS SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus for determining a focused output image in a passive autofocus system is configured to retrieve a set of input images and compute a baseline estimate for at least one input image. The baseline estimate represents image structures in the input image. The image structures have a length scale larger than a predetermined image feature length scale. The image processing apparatus is further configured to compute a set of output images, wherein each output image of the set of output images is computed based on one of a different input image of the set of input images and the at least one baseline estimate for the different input image and the at least one baseline estimate for a respective different input image. The image processing apparatus is further configured to determine one output image of the set of output images as the focused output image. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277442 | DETERMINING WHETHER HAIRS ON AN AREA OF SKIN HAVE BEEN TREATED WITH A LIGHT PULSE - According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for use with a treatment device. The treatment device is configured to apply a light pulse to skin of a subject to perform a treatment operation to hairs on the skin. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to receive one or more images of a first area of the skin from an imaging unit, wherein the imaging unit is arranged to obtain images of the skin of the subject; process the one or more images to determine whether the hairs on the first area of the skin have been treated with a light pulse based on a degree of at least one of carbonization and curling of the hairs on the first area of the skin as shown in the one or more images; and output a first signal indicating whether the hairs on the first area of skin have been treated with a light pulse. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277443 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, DIAGNOSIS, RISK STRATIFICATION, DECISION MAKING AND/OR DISEASE TRACKING - The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277444 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AT LEAST ONE METADATA ATTRIBUTE ASSOCIATED WITH A MEDICAL IMAGE - A computer-implemented method is for providing at least one first metadata attribute associated with a medical image. The method includes receiving the medical image and the at least one first metadata attribute. Therein the at least one first metadata attribute includes an attribute tag and a provisional attribute value. Furthermore, the method includes applying a first trained function to the medical image to determine an image-based attribute value. Furthermore, the method includes determining a final attribute value based on the provisional attribute value and the image-based attribute value. Furthermore, the method includes providing the at least one first metadata attribute. Therein the at least one first metadata attribute includes the attribute tag and the final attribute value. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277445 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED GASTROSCOPIC IMAGE DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method assist gastroscopic image diagnosis based on artificial intelligence. The processor in the system analyzes each video frame of a gastroscopic image using at least one medical image analysis algorithm and detects whether a finding suspected of being a lesion is present in the video frame. When the finding suspected of being a lesion is present in the video frame, the processor calculates the coordinates of the location of the finding suspected of being a lesion. The processor generates display information, including whether the finding suspected of being a lesion is present and the coordinates of the location of the finding suspected of being a lesion. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277446 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING IMAGE QUALITY IN MODELING OF PATIENT ANATOMIC OR BLOOD FLOW CHARACTERISTICS - Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing the quality of medical images of at least a portion of a patient's anatomy, using a computer system. One method includes receiving one or more images of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy; determining, using a processor of the computer system, one or more image properties of the received images; performing, using a processor of the computer system, anatomic localization or modeling of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy based on the received images; obtaining an identification of one or more image characteristics associated with an anatomic feature of the patient's anatomy based on the anatomic localization or modeling; and calculating, using a processor of the computer system, an image quality score based on the one or more image properties and the one or more image characteristics. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277447 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING CONTOUR LINE OF BLOOD VESSEL ACCORDING TO CENTERLINE OF BLOOD VESSEL - The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for acquiring a contour line of a blood vessel according to a centerline of the blood vessel. The method comprises: extracting a centerline of a blood vessel according to a two-dimensional coronary artery angiogram image (S | 2022-09-01 |
20220277448 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an information processing program that optimize a second process that is performed for a medical image after a first process are provided. An information processing system includes an automatic processing server that includes a CPU- | 2022-09-01 |
20220277449 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A medical image processing device includes a storage and a processor. The storage stores notification setting information for setting a notification content regarding which method a notification is performed in accordance with lesion information indicating content of a lesion, part information representing a part, or procedure information representing a procedure performed at a time of acquisition of a medical image. The processor is configured to acquire the medical image including a subject; perform image analysis processing on the medical image; select use-notification setting information from the notification setting information by using the lesion information, the part information or the procedure information; and perform the notification to notify a user of a result of the image analysis processing with different methods of the notifications for different lesion information, part information or procedure information according to the use-notification setting information. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277450 | Method and Apparatus for Objective Assessment of Gastrointestinal Conditions based on Images Captured in the GI Tract - A method and apparatus of objective assessment of images captured from a human gastrointestinal (GI) tract are disclosed. According to this method, one or more images captured using an endoscope when the endoscope is inside the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract are received. Whether there is any specific target object is checked. When one or more specific target objects in the images are detected: areas of the specific target objects in the images are determined; an objective assessment score is derived based on the areas of the specific target objects in a substantial number of images from the images; where the step of detecting the specific target objects is performed using an artificial intelligence process. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277451 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR VISUALIZATION OF IMAGING DATA - Medical imaging data can include imaging data of tissue portions, such as, for example, tissue samples. A processor is configured to receive imaging data obtained from imaging tissue. The imaging data includes a two-dimensional scan of tissue, such as, for example, a B-scan. The processor is configured to analyze the imaging data, and to identify imaging data associated with suspicious areas. The processor is configured to generate a visual interface that displays the imaging data associated with the suspicious areas in a stitched view. The processor, via the visual interface, enables a user to navigate to locations in the two-dimensional scan that correspond to imaging data associated with suspicious areas that the user determines to be positive for a characteristic (e.g., cancer). | 2022-09-01 |
20220277452 | METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND REDUCING INTER/INTRA SITE VARIABILITY USING REDUCED REFERENCE IMAGES AND IMPROVING RADIOLOGIST DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY AND CONSISTENCY - A method of securely accessing an image review unit, including: a triage unit configured to determine if an image of interest is normal or abnormal based upon a reference image and extract normal features from the image of interest based on normal features indicated in the reference image, wherein the reference image and the image of interest are acquired by a same medical imaging device or same doctor or same medical facility; and an image transformation unit configured to reconstruct the image of interest based upon the reference image so as to align the normal features in the image of interest with the normal features in the reference image. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277453 | METHODS FOR EVALUATING POLLEN GERMINATION, AND RELATED SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for use in evaluating quality of pollen grains. One example method includes germinating pollen grains of a crop in a fluid media and inserting a sample of the germinated pollen grains and fluid media into a flow chamber of a fluid imaging system. The sample flows through the flow chamber at a predefined rate, and images of the sample are captured by a camera of the fluid imaging system. The method then includes comparing the captured images of the sample to reference images specific to the crop and, based on the comparison, generating a pollen germination score for the sample, the pollen germination score indicative of germinated pollen grains in the sample. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277454 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIGITAL SCAN BODY ALIGNMENT - A system for intraoral scanning comprises a scanner to generate image data of a dental site and a computing device. The computing device receives the image data of the dental site, the image data comprising a representation of the dental site and a representation of a reference object at the dental site. The computing device selects library data for the reference object from library data for a plurality of reference objects in a library. The computing device aligns the library data for the reference object with the image data. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277455 | Methods and Systems for Determining Coronary Hemodynamic Characteristic(s) That is Predictive of Myocardial Infarction - The systems and methods can accurately and efficiently determine a myocardial risk from a lesion disposed along a coronary segment using hemodynamic characteristic(s) associated with one or more sections of the corresponding lesion site. The method may include segmenting one or more lesion sites disposed along at least one arterial segment of the one or more arterial segments of the coronary model into one or more sections. Each lesion site includes a lesion. The method may include determining one or more characteristics for at least one section using at least the one or more characteristics associated with the at least one arterial segment. The one or more characteristics for the at least one section including hemodynamic force characteristic(s) (e.g., wall shear stress (WSS)). The method may include determining one or more risk indices for each lesion site using at least the hemodynamic force characteristic(s) for the at least one section. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING INTRACORONARY IMAGES - Embodiments of the present techniques provide apparatus and methods for analysing intracoronary images, for example to predict the likelihood of a disease, disease presentation or event, and/or to track performance of a drug or other treatment. The method may comprise: for each image in the set of images of a coronary artery: classifying the image, using a first neural network, for the presence or absence of diseased tissue; when the image is classified as having diseased tissue present, classifying the image, using a second neural network, for the presence or absence of an artefact; determining whether to analyse the image based on the classifying steps; when the image is to be analysed, analysing the image by identifying, using a third neural network, one or more features of interest in a coronary artery tissue; and measuring each identified feature of interest. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277457 | SEGMENTATING A TUBULAR FEATURE - In a method of segmenting a tubular feature in an image, a sequence of overlapping portions of the image are segmented using a trained model. The overlapping portions are positioned along the length of the tubular feature and combined to determine a segmentation of the tubular feature. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277458 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING HEADSHOTS FROM IMAGES - Various embodiments contemplate systems, architectures and methods for extracting and selecting headshots of human or non-human entities from catalogs of images of such subjects. The methods described may find and extract faces from within groups of subjects, verify that the extracted faces correspond to the desired subject, determine cropping or masking regions, or both, of rectangular, circular, elliptical or some other geometry to provide an easily recognized image of the desired subject, expand the output image by synthesizing pixels as may be needed for a desired cropping or masking region, select preferred images among a collection of images of the desired subject, and perform other useful functions. The resulting output images may be in either direct form, reference form or both forms. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277459 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-SCALE COARSE-TO-FINE SEGMENTATION OF IMAGES TO DETECT PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA - Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for processing images through multiple neural networks that are trained to detect a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. In one aspect, a method includes actions of obtaining a first image that depicts a first volume of voxels, performing coarse segmentation of the first image using a first neural network trained (i) to process images having the first volume of voxels and (ii) to produce first output data, determining a region of interest of the first image based on the coarse segmentation, performing multi-stage fine segmentation on a plurality of other images that are each based on the region of interest of the first image to generate output data for each stage of the multi-stage fine segmentation, and determining based on the first output data and the output data of each stage of the multi-stage fine segmentation, whether the first image depicts a tumor. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277460 | PROJECTION CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - A projection controlling apparatus includes a determiner configured to determine whether a hand-held object that is an object held by a hand is present in a captured image represented by captured image data generated by capturing a projection region onto which a projector projects a projected image; and a projection controller configured to prohibit the projected image from being projected onto the hand-held object in the projection region in response to a determination by the determiner that the hand-held object is present in the captured image. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277461 | METHOD FOR GENERATING LEARNING MODEL AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for generating a learning model, the method including: acquiring an endoscopic image captured by an endoscope and manipulation information regarding a manipulation of an endoscope operator in each stage of operation of the endoscope by the endoscope operator operating the endoscope; and generating a learning model learned so as to output the manipulation information of a next stage in a case where the endoscopic image and the manipulation information are input, based on training data including the acquired endoscopic image and manipulation information, and the manipulation information of the next stage. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277462 | CORRECTING DEVICE AND CORRECTING METHOD OF REAL-TIME IMAGE - A correcting method of a real-time image is disclosed and includes: continuously receiving real-time images from an image inputting device; analyzing an image feature in each real-time image; computing a motion vector of each real-time image based on a feature difference between any two time-adjacent real-time images; computing a moving trajectory predicted value of a latest real-time image based on accumulated motion vectors; computing a compensation value of the latest real-time image when determining that a difference between the moving trajectory predicted value and the motion vector of the latest real-time image is within a correction allowable range, and correcting the latest real-time image by the compensation value; and, resetting the image inputting device and outputting a default image when determining that the difference between the moving trajectory and the motion vector of the latest real-time image exceeds the correction allowable range. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277463 | TRACKING DYNAMICS USING A COMPUTERIZED DEVICE - The presently disclosed subject matter there includes a computerized device that comprises a processing circuitry, and one or more sensors including at least one image sensor configured to continuously capture images of an environment; the processing circuitry is configured to process the captured images and: detect an object within the environment; track a trajectory of movement of the object; select a best fitting motion model to the trajectory and determine a state of the object based on the best fitting motion model; and determine at least one intersection point between the object and a target object. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277464 | Motion Based Pre-Processing of Two-Dimensional Image Data Prior to Three-Dimensional Object Tracking With Virtual Time Synchronization - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for pre-processing image data before 3D object tracking includes, in at least one aspect, a method including: receiving, at a first computer, image frames from a camera; identifying, by the first computer, locations of interest in the image frames; finding sequences of the locations, wherein each of the sequences satisfies a motion criterion for locations identified in at least three image frames from the camera; and sending output data for the sequences of the locations to a second computer for processing the sequences in the output data by interpolating between specified 2D positions in specific image frames for the sequences, using timestamps of the specific image frames, to produce a virtual 2D position at a predetermined point in time, which is usable for constructing a 3D track of a ball in motion. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277465 | SKIN 3D MODEL FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURE - The present disclosure provides a method of medical procedure using augmented reality for superimposing a patient's medical images (e.g., CT or MRI) over a real-time camera view of the patient. Prior to the medical procedure, the patient's medical images are processed to generate a 3D model that represents a skin contour of the patient's body. The 3D model is further processed to generate a skin marker that comprises only selected portions of the 3D model. At the time of the medical procedure, 3D images of the patient's body are captured using a camera, which are then registered with the skin marker. Then, the patient's medical images can be superimposed over the real-time camera view that is presented to the person performing the medical procedure. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277466 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A measurement method includes measuring a normal vector of a measured portion based on a first vector representing a direction from a measured portion to a principal point of a first lens, a second vector representing a direction from the measured portion to a principal point of a second lens, a third vector representing a direction from the measured portion to a principal point of a third lens, a first value representing luminance of the measured portion in a situation in which the first projector projects a fourth image via the first lens, a second value representing the luminance of the measured portion in a situation in which the second projector projects a fifth image via the second lens, and a third value representing the luminance of the measured portion in a situation in which the third projector projects a sixth image via the third lens. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277467 | TOF-BASED DEPTH MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A time of flight (TOF)-based depth measuring device is provided, which includes: a light emitter, configured to emit a beam to a target object; a light sensor, configured to capture a reflected beam reflected by the target object, generate a corresponding electrical signal, and obtain a two-dimensional image of the target object; and a processor, connected to the light emitter and the light sensor, and configured to: control the light emitter to emit a modulated beam, turn on the imaging module to receive the electrical signal and the two-dimensional image, perform calculation on the electrical signal to obtain one or more TOF depth values of the target object, perform deep learning by using the two-dimensional image to obtain a relative depth value, and determine an actual depth value from the one or more TOF depth values based on the relative depth value. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277468 | Calibration Parameter Obtaining Method and Apparatus, Processor, and Electronic Device - Disclosed in the present disclosure is a calibration parameter obtaining method and apparatus, a processor, and an electronic device. The method includes that: multiple image collection elements are used to capture a calibration image in a calibration scene to obtain multiple images; point sets are obtained from the multiple images, and the point sets are imaging points corresponding to three-dimensional points on the surface of the calibration image in the multiple images; and calibration parameters to be used of the multiple image collection elements are obtained according to the point sets. The present disclosure solves the technical problem in the related art that multiple cameras cannot be integrally calibrated. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277469 | SCENE RETRIEVAL FOR COMPUTER VISION - Systems, methods, computer program products, and apparatuses for scene retrieval are provided. Images can be captured with a depth camera and image data encoded with both color and depth indications. A convolutional neural network comprising a fast channel wide block is provided. Image descriptors can be extracted from the images based on output from the fast channel wide block. Such image descriptors can be used to retrieve scenes from a SLAM process for purposes of localization. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING LONG-DISTANCE TARGET THROUGH BINOCULAR CAMERA, AND INTELLIGENT TERMINAL - A method and a system for detecting a long-distance target through a binocular camera, and an intelligent terminal are provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring original images generated by the binocular camera at a target region, acquiring a disparity map in accordance with the original images, and converting the disparity map into a space information point cloud map; partitioning a predetermined target detection range into a plurality of sub-ranges in accordance with the space information point cloud map, and acquiring a disparity threshold segmentation image for each sub-range; calculating an integral image in accordance with each disparity threshold segmentation image, and acquiring a heatmap of an obstacle in accordance with the integral images; and reversely mapping a maximum matching region in the heatmap to the original image, so as to acquire a target ROI for the obstacle, thereby to acquire a position of the obstacle. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277471 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, GUIDE SYSTEM, AND GUIDE METHOD - There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a guide system, and a guide method that can set optimum movement routes depending on a situation. The guide method includes: a step of taking an image; a step of detecting persons from the taken image; a step of digitizing and estimating states of the detected persons; a step of creating map data in which the states of the persons are shown on a map according to positions of the persons in the taken image; a first area estimation step that estimates a first area on the basis of the map data; a step of setting movement routes for persons of the first area and/or persons of a second area other than the first area; a step of transmitting information about the set movement routes; and a step of receiving the transmitted information about the movement routes and presenting the received information about the movement routes and/or guidance information about routes based on the information about the movement routes. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277472 | SINGLE-STAGE CATEGORY-LEVEL OBJECT POSE ESTIMATION - Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine a pose and relative dimensions of an object from an image. In at least one embodiment, a pose and relative dimensions of an object are determined from an image based at least in part on, for example, features of the image. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277473 | POSE ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, POSE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - To improve pose estimation accuracy, a pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention extracts a person area from an image, and generates person area image information, based on an image of the extracted person area. The pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention further extracts a joint point of a person from the image, and generates joint point information, based on the extracted joint point. Then, the pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention generates feature value information, based on both of the person area image information and the joint point information. Then, the pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention estimates a pose of a person included in the image, based on an estimation model in which the feature value information is an input, and pose estimation result is an output. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEO-REFERENCING OBJECT ON FLOOR - Disclosed is a system and a method for geo-referencing an object on a floor. The method comprises receiving a camera frame providing view of a section of the floor, receiving a detailed floor plan of the floor, selecting a first area from the section of the floor in which the object needs to be tracked and defining a plurality of reference points. Herein, at least one of the pluralities of reference points is close to a mid-point along one of corresponding axes of the first area. The method further comprises mapping the plurality of reference points to the floor plan, processing the camera frame to determine if the object has been placed in the first area and geo-referencing the one or more object in the floor plan if the object is determined to be placed in the first area. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277475 | FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD AND DEVICE, AND POSE ESTIMATION METHOD USING SAME - Feature extraction method, apparatus and device, and a storage medium are provided. Pose estimation method, apparatus and device, and another storage medium using the feature extraction method also are provided. By employing the feature extraction method, in a feature extraction stage, a feature of a depth image to be recognized is extracted to determine a basic feature of the depth image; then multiple features of different scales of the basic feature are extracted to determine a multi-scale feature of the depth image; and finally, the multi-scale feature is up-sampled to enrich the feature again. In the foregoing manner, more diverse features can be extracted from the depth image by the use of the feature extraction method. When pose estimation is performed on the basis of the feature extraction method, the enriched feature can also improve the accuracy of subsequent bounding box and pose estimation. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277476 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH AUGMENTED REALITY POSE DETERMINATION - A method and apparatus with pose determination are provided. The method includes determining first pose information of a computing apparatus dependent on motion sensor information of motion of the computing apparatus, estimating second pose information of the computing apparatus dependent on feature point position information that is pre-defined for an object, and one or more feature points of the object that are extracted from an image captured by the computing apparatus, determining respective reliability values of the first pose information and the second pose information, and determining a pose of the computing apparatus for augmented reality (AR) content based on the first pose information, the second pose information, and the respective reliability values. AR content may be generated based on the determined pose. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277477 | IMAGE-BASED GUIDANCE FOR NAVIGATING TUBULAR NETWORKS - Systems and methods for image-based guidance for facilitating navigation of tubular networks. A region of interest in three-dimensional image data may first be segmented. An endoscopic instrument may be detected in two-dimensional intraoperative image data of the region of interest. A centerline of the detected endoscopic instrument may then be determined. The endoscopic instrument and the centerline may be backprojected to generate a three-dimensional backprojected volume. A device path of the endoscopic instrument may be generated based at least in part on the three-dimensional backprojected volume and the three-dimensional image data. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277478 | Positioning Method and Apparatus - A positioning method includes obtaining an estimated extrinsic parameter of a camera and an intrinsic parameter of the camera, where the estimated extrinsic parameter of the camera is obtained based on world coordinates of a plurality of estimation points in a shooting region of the camera, image coordinates of the plurality of estimation points, and the intrinsic parameter of the camera; obtaining image coordinates of a target in an image shot by the camera; and obtaining world coordinates of the target based on the estimated extrinsic parameter of the camera, the intrinsic parameter of the camera, and the image coordinates of the target. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277479 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a method of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), the method including obtaining a structure of a current image frame, obtaining a structure re-identification constraint based on the structure of the current image frame, and obtaining a SLAM result based on the structure re-identification constraint. By introducing the structure re-identification constraint in a bundle adjustment process to obtain the SLAM result, error accumulation may be more easily controlled, and accuracy and robustness in obtaining the SLAM result may be improved. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277480 | POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, VEHICLE, POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD AND POSITION ESTIMATION PROGRAM - This position estimation device of a moving body with n cameras for imaging the surrounding scene is provided with: an estimation unit which, for each of the n cameras, calculates a camera candidate position in a map space on the basis of the camera image position of a feature point in the scene extracted from the camera image and the map space position of said feature point pre-stored in the map data; and a verification unit which, with reference to said candidate positions, projects onto the camera image of each of the n cameras a feature point cloud in the scene stored in the map data, and calculates the accuracy of the candidate positions of the n cameras on the basis of the matching degree between the feature point cloud projected onto the camera image and a feature point cloud extracted from the camera images. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277481 | PANORAMIC VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and device for processing a panoramic video, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a reference frame in video frames of the panoramic video, and determining a target object in the reference frame; acquiring position information about a position of the target object in the reference frame; acquiring a motion track of the target object in the panoramic video based on the position information; and processing a to-be-processed audio frame based on the motion track to obtain a target audio frame capable of characterizing a position of the target object in the panoramic video, where the target audio frame is used to be synthesized with the video frames of the panoramic video to obtain a panoramic video file. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277482 | POSE IDENTIFYING APPARATUS, POSE IDENTIFYING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A basic pattern extracting unit ( | 2022-09-01 |
20220277483 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASCERTAINING THE POSE OF AN OBJECT - A method for ascertaining the pose of an object. The method includes recording a first and a second camera image of the object, ascertaining a correspondence between camera pixels of the camera images and vertices of a 3D model of the object, and ascertaining the pose of the object from a set of poses by minimizing, across the set of poses, a loss function, the loss function for a pose being provided by accumulation of distance measures between projections of the object in the pose onto the respective camera image plane and the corresponding pixels of the respective camera image. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277484 | Software Engine Enabling Users to Interact Directly with a Screen Using a Camera - The technology of this application relates to a software engine that enables a user to interact with a display (e.g., television) by using an image capture device (e.g., camera). In one non-limiting example, a user can operate a device (such as a mobile phone) to run an application that interfaces with the software engine, so that the device's camera can operate in unison with a separate display to enable unique types of user interactions. For example, the user may use such an application to tap a user interface button or draw a shape with their hand, directly on the surface of a larger display (e.g., television), in view of the mobile phone's camera; the application's visual state would update in response to the user's captured gestures and to the position and orientation of the mobile phone. In another non-limiting example, a user, while playing a game utilizing the software engine, swings a device (such as a mobile phone) in free space, to control the position and orientation of a paddle within the three dimensional scene of the game, presented on the larger display. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277485 | CROSS SPECTRAL FEATURE MAPPING FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION - A method including capturing a first image of a real-world scene by a first camera sensitive to a first spectrum of light, the first camera having a first light source, capturing a second image of the real-world scene by a second camera sensitive to a second spectrum of light, the second camera having a second light source, identifying at least one feature in the first image, identifying, using a machine learning (ML) model, at least one feature in the second image that matches the at least one feature identified in the first image, mapping pixels in the first image and the second image to rays in a three-dimensional (3D) space based on the matched at least one feature, and calibrating the first camera and the second camera based on the mapping. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277486 | TESTING AND VALIDATION OF A CAMERA UNDER ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE - Devices, systems, and methods are provided for testing and validation of a camera. For example, a system includes a camera that is configured to capture an image of a content object. A processor is programmed to: receive a signal indicative of the image of the content object during an electromagnetic event; generate an image quality score of the image; and generate a validation status of the camera based on a comparison of the image quality score to a validation threshold. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277487 | COLOR ESTIMATION DEVICE, COLOR ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When estimating color for a marker candidate region that is smaller in size than a DeBayer filter, a sever estimates the color of the marker candidate region using HSV average values that are the average values of the hue H, the saturation S, and the brightness V of the marker candidate region, in consideration of the Bayer array of color filters. Furthermore, the server appropriately corrects the HSV average values and converts the pixel format to convert the HSV average values to RGB (RGB average value values), and sets the RGB average values in all pixels of a marker region. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277488 | IMAGING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging method is provided which is capable of performing a color measurement easily and appropriately by using a camera. An imaging apparatus captures an image of a face of a user together with a correction device placed close to the face of the user, and identifies a part in the image of the face of the user for which a color measurement is to be performed. The imaging apparatus acquires a colorimetric value of the identified part and corrects the acquired colorimetric value by using the image of the correction device. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277489 | MODELING OBJECTS FROM MONOCULAR CAMERA OUTPUTS - Systems and techniques are provided for modeling three-dimensional (3D) meshes using images. An example method can include receiving, via a neural network system, an image of a target and metadata associated with the image and/or a device that captured the image; determining, based on the image and metadata, first 3D mesh parameters of a first 3D mesh of the target, the first 3D mesh parameters and first 3D mesh corresponding to a first reference frame associated with the image and/or the device; and determining, based on the first 3D mesh parameters, second 3D mesh parameters for a second 3D mesh of the target, the second 3D mesh parameters and second 3D mesh corresponding to a second reference frame, the second reference frame including a 3D coordinate system of a real-world scene where the target is located. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277490 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - Performing, by a computer, an identification procedure for identifying a partial region in a thermal image corresponding to a visible light image in accordance with a threshold for a temperature; and a processing procedure for processing the region of the visible light image identified in the identification procedure prevents privacy leakage from an image captured by a camera. | 2022-09-01 |
20220277491 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED IMAGE COMPRESSION USING GLOBAL CONTEXT - Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for image compression based on machine learning using a global context. The disclosed image compression network employs an existing image quality enhancement network for an end-to-end joint learning scheme. The image compression network may jointly optimize image compression enhancement and quality enhancement. The image compression networks and image quality enhancement networks may be easily combined within a unified architecture which minimizes total loss, and may be easily jointly optimized. | 2022-09-01 |
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20220277495 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING COLLISION RANGE AND RELATED APPARATUS - A method for determining a collision range includes: determining a grid plane corresponding to a model, the grid plane including a plurality of grid regions; projecting the model to the grid plane and obtaining height information of the model with respect to the grid plane, the height information of the model including grid height information corresponding to a grid region that identifies a height of a sub-model in the model with respect to the grid plane, and the sub-model being a portion of the model in a projection space of the grid region; and obtaining a collision range of the model according to the grid plane and the height information. | 2022-09-01 |