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20-08-2004 дата публикации

ОСВЕТИТЕЛЬНЫЙ БЛОК ЛАЗЕРНОГО ФОТОНАБОРНОГО УСТРОЙСТВА

Номер: RU0000039857U1
Автор: Долгова Н.В., Смирнов В.Д.
Принадлежит: Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования "Санкт-Петербургский Государственный университет технологии и дизайна"

Осветительный блок лазерного фотонаборного устройства, состоящий из последовательно расположенных на одной оси лазерного источника излучения, собирающей линзы, зеркальной призмы, поляризатора, объектива, зеркального барабана, системы линз и зеркал, отличающийся тем, что дополнительно после источника лазерного излучения, в качестве которого используют лазерный диод выходной мощностью Pout=500 Вт, длиной волны α=0,65 нм, размером области излучения W×H=100×1 мкм, и расходимостью излучения 10х30°, последовательно установлен оптический блок в виде четырех линз, причем первые две положительные цилиндрические линзы совмещены так, что цилиндрическая линза меньшего диаметра находится внутри линзы большего диаметра и их сферические поверхности развернуты друг относительно друга под углом 90°, а две другие отрицательные цилиндрические линзы расположены последовательно за положительными линзами, и выполнены так, что линза меньшего диаметра находится внутри линзы большего диаметра, а их сферические поверхности развернуты друг относительно друга под углом 90°, а в оптическом блоке линзы меньшего диаметра размещены в линзах большего диаметра с возможностью подвижки их относительно оптической оси. РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ (19) RU (11) 39 857 (13) U1 (51) МПК B41B 21/16 (2000.01) H01S 3/101 (2000.01) ФЕДЕРАЛЬНАЯ СЛУЖБА ПО ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЙ СОБСТВЕННОСТИ, ПАТЕНТАМ И ТОВАРНЫМ ЗНАКАМ (12) ОПИСАНИЕ ПОЛЕЗНОЙ МОДЕЛИ К ПАТЕНТУ (21), (22) Заявка: 2004112657/22 , 27.04.2004 (24) Дата начала отсчета срока действия патента: 27.04.2004 (46) Опубликовано: 20.08.2004 (73) Патентообладатель(и): Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования "Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет технологии и дизайна" (RU) Ñòðàíèöà: 1 U 1 3 9 8 5 7 R U U 1 Формула полезной модели Осветительный блок лазерного фотонаборного устройства, состоящий из последовательно расположенных на одной оси лазерного источника излучения, собирающей линзы, зеркальной призмы, поляризатора, ...

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Номер записи: 1
20-12-2016 дата публикации

РЕШЕТКА ДЛЯ БЫСТРОГО ПЕЧАТАНИЯ НА КЛАВИАТУРЕ

Номер: RU0000166963U1
Автор: Осипов Денис Владимирович
Принадлежит: Осипов Денис Владимирович

Решетка для быстрого и безошибочного печатания на клавиатуре компьютера методом слепого десятипальцевого набора, состоящая из прямоугольной пластины, выполненной из прозрачного пластика и имеющая бортик по периметру для предотвращения ее смещения относительно клавиш и содержащая прорези - ограничительные рамки, располагающиеся над клавишами и выполняющие роль ограничителей движений пальцев, отличающаяся тем, что ее применение упрощает и облегчает использование метода слепого десятипальцевого набора, так как не требует от пользователя предельной точности движений пальцев, что достигается посредством ограничительных рамок решетки. И 1 166963 ко РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ВУ” 166 963” 44 ФЕДЕРАЛЬНАЯ СЛУЖБА ПО ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЙ СОБСТВЕННОСТИ (12) ИЗВЕЩЕНИЯ К ПАТЕНТУ НА ПОЛЕЗНУЮ МОДЕЛЬ ММ9К Досрочное прекращение действия патента из-за неуплаты в установленный срок пошлины за поддержание патента в силе Дата прекращения действия патента: 24.03.2019 Дата внесения записи в Государственный реестр: 25.02.2020 Дата публикации и номер бюллетеня: 25.02.2020 Бюл. №6 Стр.: 1 па 596991 ЕП

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Номер записи: 2
26-01-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for capturing, geolocating and measuring oblique images

Номер: US20120020571A1
Автор: Charles Mondello, Frank D. Giuffrida, Robert L. Gray, Stephen L. Schultz
Принадлежит: Individual

A computerized system for displaying and making measurements based upon captured oblique images. The system includes a computer system executing image display and analysis software. The software reads a plurality of captured oblique images having corresponding geo-location data and a data table storing ground plane data that approximates at least a portion of the terrain depicted within the captured oblique images. The executed software causes the computer system to receive a starting point selected by a user, receive an end point selected by the user and calculate a desired measurement between the starting and end points dependent upon the geo-location data and ground plane data. The desired measurement is selected from a group consisting of a distance measuring mode, a height measuring mode, and a relative elevation measuring mode.

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Номер записи: 3
02-02-2012 дата публикации

System and method for maintaining maximum input rate while up-scaling an image vertically

Номер: US20120026367A1
Автор: Frederic J. Noraz, Shashank Dabral, Stephen Busch
Принадлежит: Texas Instruments Inc

An example embodiment provides a resizer in an image processing system. The resizer includes a receiving module that receives pixel data representative of an image. A triple line buffer is coupled to the receiving module that stores the pixel data in response to a write control signal from control logic. The triple line buffer is operated as a circular buffer. The resizer further includes a resizer core that reads pixel data from the triple line buffer in response to a read control signal from the control logic. The pixel data is replicated to up-scale the image vertically according to a vertical up-scale ratio such that the resizer achieves a maximum input data rate and also eliminates an overflow condition in the resizer. The vertical up-scale ratio is a fraction.

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Номер записи: 4
09-02-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for correlating and navigating between a live image and a prerecorded panoramic image

Номер: US20120033032A1
Автор: Mikko Tapio Kankainen
Принадлежит: Nokia Oyj

An approach is provided for correlating and navigating between a live camera image and a prerecorded panoramic image. A mapping and augmented reality application correlates at least one live image with a prerecorded panoramic image, when a first location of a device used to capture the at least one live image substantially matches or falls within a predetermined proximity of a second location of a device used to capture the panoramic prerecorded image. The mapping and augmented reality application causes, at least in part, alternating of the at least one live image and the prerecorded panoramic image in a presentation on a screen of the device capturing the at least one live image.

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Номер записи: 5
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and method

Номер: US20120050327A1
Автор: Koji Takekoshi
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An image processing apparatus for performing a position adjustment on an image displayed on a display screen includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of images for which mutual positional relations are set, a display control unit configured to display at least one image among the plurality of images on a display screen, a first position adjustment unit configured to adjust a position of the image displayed on the display screen, and a second position adjustment unit configured to adjust a position of the image that is not displayed on the display screen among the plurality of images in accordance with the adjustment of the position by the first position adjustment unit.

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Номер записи: 6
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Display apparatus and a method therefor

Номер: US20120050334A1
Автор: Guido Theodorus Gerardus Volleberg, Leo Jan Velthoven, Mark Jozef Willem Mertens
Принадлежит: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV

A display apparatus for presenting an image comprises an image receiver ( 101 ) for receiving an image to be displayed. An image analyzer ( 103 ) performs a local image profile analysis on at least a first region of the image to determine a pixel value spatial variation characteristic. The image analyzer ( 103 ) is coupled to a scaling processor ( 105 ) which scales at least a second region of the image in response to the pixel value spatial variation characteristic. The scaling processor ( 105 ) is coupled to a presentation controller ( 107 ) which presents the scaled image. The scaling may specifically be adjusted dependent on a sharpness or spatial frequency characteristics of the image. The invention may allow an improved adaptation of the presentation of one or more images to the specific characteristics of the image(s).

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Номер записи: 7
15-03-2012 дата публикации

Control device, camera system, and program

Номер: US20120062695A1
Автор: Kazunori Sakaki
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

According to a control device of the present invention, there is provided a center server including a display processing unit that performs control so as to display a panorama image display area in which a panorama image captured with a camera terminal device is displayed and an enlarged image display area in which an enlarged image is displayed, the enlarged image being obtained by enlarging an area corresponding to a position specified on the panorama image, and a control unit that performs control so as to capture with the camera terminal device an image of the area corresponding to the position specified on the panorama image. The display processing unit displays on the enlarged image display area the image captured with the camera terminal device in accordance with control by the control unit, and the panorama image is a circular panorama image.

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Номер записи: 8
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Projector and control method for projector

Номер: US20120069177A1
Автор: Miki Nagano, Shiki Furui
Принадлежит: Seiko Epson Corp

First imaginary screen outer peripheral line is calculated supplementing one side that is undetected with one side of an outer peripheral line of image light that is calculated, an imaginary screen aspect ratio that is an aspect ratio of an area defined by the first imaginary screen outer peripheral line is calculated, whether the imaginary screen aspect ratio is more vertically oriented than a first ratio or not is determined. When a result of the determination of the imaginary aspect ratio is more vertically oriented than the first ratio, the imaginary screen aspect ratio is changed to second ratio that is different from the first ratio, and the one undetected side is calculated according to the second ratio, and the first imaginary screen outer peripheral line is corrected and a second imaginary screen outer peripheral line is calculated.

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Номер записи: 9
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Curvilinear camera lens as monitor cover plate

Номер: US20120069232A1
Автор: Clarence Chui, Matthew S. Grob
Принадлежит: Qualcomm Mems Technologies Inc

Disclosed are various implementations of a camera lens that can be positioned between a display device and a user viewing the display device. The camera lens can be transparent to allow such viewing by the user, and also be configured to capture light rays from the user and turn such rays to an imaging sensor to form an image of the user. Such turning of light rays can be achieved by curved features formed on the camera lens. In some implementations, the camera lens is a substantially flat layer having such curved features. Various examples of the curved features are disclosed. Also disclosed are systems and methods for enhancing the image of the user in situations where a portion of a display being viewed is captured by the camera lens and combines with the image of the user.

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Номер записи: 10
05-04-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium capable of generating wide angle image

Номер: US20120081510A1
Автор: Kosuke Matsumoto, Naotomo Miyamoto
Принадлежит: Casio Computer Co Ltd

A digital camera 1 includes an image composition unit 52 and a composite position determining unit 53. The image composition unit 52 acquires a plurality of images which have been captured continuously. The composite position determining unit 53 sets candidate areas for determining composite positions in adjacent images, from the plurality of images acquired by the composite position determining unit 52. Furthermore, the composite position determining unit 53 determines composite positions of the adjacent images based on a degree of similarity between the set candidate areas. The image composition unit 52 combines the adjacent images at the determined composite positions.

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Номер записи: 11
05-04-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Номер: US20120082394A1
Автор: Chih-Chia Kuo, Wei-Chi Su
Принадлежит: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP

An image processing apparatus including an image detecting unit, an image interpolating unit and an image blending unit is provided. The image detecting unit detects a pixel difference value of an image frame and a previous image frame or a next image frame thereof and outputs a weight value according to the pixel difference value. The image interpolating unit interpolates a pixel value of the image frame in an intra-field interpolation method and an inter-field interpolation method. The image blending unit blends the pixel value interpolated in the intra-field interpolation method and the pixel value interpolated in the inter-field interpolation method to restore the image frame according to the weight value. An image processing method is also provided.

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Номер записи: 12
05-04-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus for image reduction processing and control method thereof

Номер: US20120082400A1
Автор: Shutaro Kunieda
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

The present invention has a configuration in which a reduction and interpolation circuit having a variable reduction ratio and at least one reduction circuit having a fixed reduction ratio are sequentially connected. In the case where a set reduction rate cannot be achieved in the reduction and interpolation circuit, a reduction ratio for the reduction and interpolation circuit is determined such that the set reduction ratio can be achieved through a combination of the reduction ratio of the reduction and interpolation circuit and the reduction ratio of the reduction circuit. It is thereby possible to obtain an image processing apparatus capable of generating a reduced image reduced at a high reduction ratio and having high image quality while suppressing the circuit size.

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Номер записи: 13
12-04-2012 дата публикации

Super resolution from a single signal

Номер: US20120086850A1
Автор: Daniel Glasner, Michal Irani, Oded Shahar, Shai Bagon
Принадлежит: Yeda Research and Development Co Ltd

A method implementable on a computing device includes exploiting data redundancy to combine high frequency information from at least two different scales of an input signal to generate a super resolution version of said input signal. An alternative method includes exploiting recurrence of data from an input signal in at least two different scales of at least one reference signal to extract and to combine high frequency information from a plurality of scales of said at least one reference signal to generate a super resolution version of said input signal. An alternative method includes generating a super resolution version of a single input video sequence in at least the temporal dimension by exploiting data recurrence within the input video sequence or with respect to an external database of example video sequences. A signal may be an image, a video sequence, an audio signal, etc.

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Номер записи: 14
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Method for combining dual-lens images into mono-lens image

Номер: US20120093394A1
Автор: Yun-Chin Li
Принадлежит: Altek Corp

A method for combining dual-lens images into a mono-lens image, suitable for a three-dimensional camera having a left lens and a right lens is provided. First, the left lens and the right lens are used to capture a left-eye image and a right-eye image. Next, a disparity between each of a plurality of corresponding pixels in the left-eye image and the right-eye image is calculated. Then, an overlap area of the left-eye image and the right-eye image is determined according to the calculated disparities of pixels. Finally, the images within the overlap area of the left-eye image and the right-eye image are combined into the mono-lens image.

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Номер записи: 15
24-05-2012 дата публикации

Flexible display device and method for changing display area

Номер: US20120127205A1
Автор: Chang Soo Ryu, Ho Yeon Chae
Принадлежит: PANTECH CO LTD

A display device to change an image displayed in a display area when the display area is changed includes a memory, a location output unit and a screen display unit. The memory stores size information of a display area displayed on a screen and the image data of the displayed image. The location computing unit computes a start point of the changed display area when the display area is changed. The display unit decodes data corresponding to the size of the display area based on the computed new start point from the image data to display the decoded data in the display area. Since the start point is obtained with center point of the changed display area and its size information and then a display area to be displayed is determined based on the start point, a current search location is maintained even when the screen is swung.

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Номер записи: 16
31-05-2012 дата публикации

Strip panorama

Номер: US20120133639A1
Автор: Johannes Kopf, Michael Cohen
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A technology is described for generating a strip panorama. The method can include selecting panoramas grouped together for a road to combine into the strip panorama. Side view images can be extracted from the plurality of panoramas. Another operation is computing depth maps for side view images using stereo matching. Depth histograms can be generated for depth map columns of the depth maps. The depth histograms can have column-depth alignment scores computed by multiplying corresponding depth values from at least two related depth histogram maps. A further operation can be aligning related side view images using the column-depth alignment scores. The aligned side view images can be stitched while maximizing a stitching score.

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Номер записи: 17
31-05-2012 дата публикации

Image processing device and method, data processing device and method, program, and recording medium

Номер: US20120134579A1
Автор: Hirokazu Kameyama
Принадлежит: Fujifilm Corp

In an image processing device and method, program, and recording medium of the present invention, high frequency components of a low quality image and a high quality image included in a studying image set are extracted, and an eigenprojection matrix and a projection core tensor of the high frequency components are generated in a studying step. In a restoration step, a first sub-core tensor and a second sub-core tensor are generated based on the eigenprojection matrix and the projection core tensor of the high frequency components, and a tensor projection process is applied to the high frequency components of an input image to generate a high quality image of the high frequency components. The high quality image of the high frequency components is added to an enlarged image obtained by enlarging the input image to the same size as an output image.

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Номер записи: 18
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Image enlargement device, image enlargement program and display apparatus

Номер: US20120147051A1
Автор: Xiaomang Zhang
Принадлежит: Sharp Corp

There is provided an image enlargement device including: an image enlargement filter that generates a first enlarged image by enlarging an input image; a wavelet transform portion that performs a wavelet transform on the first enlarged image; gain processing portions that perform gain processing on sub-band components including high-frequency components output from the wavelet transform portion; and an inverse wavelet transform portion that regards, as a wavelet transformed image, the input image and the sub-band components including high-frequency components which are output from the gain processing portion and on which the gain processing has been performed, and that generates a second enlarged image by performing an inverse wavelet transform.

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Номер записи: 19
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Techniques for atmospheric and solar correction of aerial images

Номер: US20120154584A1
Автор: David Simons, Ido Omer, Leon Rosenshein, Robert Ledner, Wolfgang Schickler, Yuxiang Liu
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

Techniques for atmospheric and solar correction of aerial images are described. An apparatus may comprise an atmospheric and solar component arranged for execution by a logic device and operative to correct solar and atmosphere artifacts from an aerial image. The atmospheric and solar component may comprise an image information component operative to generate an image record for each aerial image of a group of aerial images, the image record comprising statistical information and image context information for each aerial image, a filter generation component operative to generate an atmospheric filter and a solar filter from the statistical information and the image context information stored in the image records, and an image correction component operative to correct atmospheric and solar artifacts from the aerial image using the respective atmospheric filter and solar filter. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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Номер записи: 20
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Methods and systems for image scaling

Номер: US20120154829A1
Автор: David A. Bartle, Douglas G. Keithley
Принадлежит: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD

A controller for scaling an input image is provided. The controller selects a pixel neighborhood that includes a plurality of pixels neighboring a pixel. The controller compares at least part of the pixel neighborhood to a pattern. If the pattern is present in the pixel neighborhood, the controller applies a scaling algorithm to at least a portion of the pixel neighborhood in order to obtain a scaled image. The controller also selects another pixel neighborhood that includes a plurality of pixels neighboring a pixel in the scaled image, and compares at least part of the another pixel neighborhood to another pixel pattern. If the another pixel pattern is present in the another pixel neighborhood, the controller applies a correction algorithm to at least a portion of the another pixel neighborhood in order to obtain a processed scaled image.

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Номер записи: 21
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Wide-Angle Image Pickup Unit And Measuring Device

Номер: US20120162360A1
Автор: Fumio Ohtomo, Hitoshi Otani, Kaoru Kumagai
Принадлежит: Topcon Corp

The invention provides a wide-angle image pickup unit, comprising at least two cameras ( 4 a and 4 b ) to take digital images, wherein the two cameras are arranged in such a manner that optical axes ( 11 a and 11 b ) of the two cameras cross perpendicularly each other on a same plane and images of wide field angle α with the crossing point O as a center enable to be acquired, and wherein parts of field angles of the two cameras are superimposed on each other and an overlapping portion is formed by the two images superimposed on each other, and stereoscopic measurement can be performed based on the two images of the overlapping portion.

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Номер записи: 22
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for operating a tape drive

Номер: US20120162807A1
Автор: Hirokazu Nakayama, Takashi Katagiri, Yuhko MORI, Yutaka Oishi
Принадлежит: International Business Machines Corp

Methods, computer systems, and computer program products are provided for operating a tape drive comprising a tape medium with a plurality of record groups stored thereon. Access sequence for the plurality of record groups is provided. The tape medium is positioned for reading a record group in the access sequence before a seek command for the record group in the access sequence is received.

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Номер записи: 23
12-07-2012 дата публикации

Image processing device, image processing method and storage medium

Номер: US20120177302A1
Автор: Kensuke Habuka, Toshiki Shino
Принадлежит: Morpho Inc

An image processing device that sequentially generates a synthetic image by joining a first image, which is a single image or constituted by a plurality of the images joined together, and a second image that is input, every time when the second image is input, includes: an overlapping region obtainment portion 14 that obtains a motion vector on the basis of the second image and an image input immediately before the second image among the images constituting the first image, and obtains an overlapping region where the image input immediately before and the second image overlap each other on the basis of the obtained motion vector; a brightness-value conversion factor calculation portion 16 that calculates a brightness conversion factor for converting a brightness value of the first image or a brightness value of the second image on the basis of the brightness value of the first image and the brightness value of the second image in the overlapping region so that a change in the brightness values between the first image and the second image becomes small; and a synthetic image generation portion 12 that generates the synthetic image by converting the first image or the second image using the brightness conversion factor and by joining the first image and the second image.

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Номер записи: 24
19-07-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and method, and program

Номер: US20120182400A1
Автор: Jun Hirai, Noriyuki Yamashita
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program capable of displaying a stereoscopic image having a more appropriate parallax. An image capture apparatus 11 captures a plurality of photographic images P( 1 ) to P(N) in a state of being turned around a center of turn C 11 . In response to an instruction for displaying an image in which a specific region in an area to be captured is displayed, the image capture apparatus 11 selects two photographic images between which parallax having a predetermined magnitude occurs in a subject in the specific region from among photographic images in which the specific region is displayed, and crops regions in which the subject in the specific region is displayed from these photographic images to produce right-eye and left-eye sub-images. These sub-images have an appropriate parallax and therefore are displayed simultaneously using a lenticular method or the like. Thus, a stereoscopic image with depth can be displayed. The present invention can be applied to a camera.

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Номер записи: 25
26-07-2012 дата публикации

System and Method for Pre-loading Flyer Image Tiles and Managing Memory for Same

Номер: US20120188280A1
Автор: David AU-YEUNG, David Meyers, Erik CHARLEBOIS, Jeff Francis, Matthew Cheung, Wehuns Tan
Принадлежит: Individual

In the present disclosure, there is disclosed a communication device including a pre-loading module configured to retrieve a first and a second set of flyer image tiles from a flyer image tile set stored in memory, the first set of flyer image tiles being associated with the most zoomed-out state and the second set of flyer image tiles being associated with a zoom level of a current viewport. The pre-loading module is further configured to associate the first set of flyer image tiles with an underlay viewport. The communication device further includes a display configured to display the first set of flyer image tiles in the underlay viewport that are visible in the current viewport and overlay the second set of flyer image tiles visible in the current viewport onto the first set of flyer image tiles.

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Номер записи: 26
26-07-2012 дата публикации

Autonomous decision system for selecting target in observation satellites

Номер: US20120188372A1
Автор: Suhail Aldhafri, Tarik Ozkul
Принадлежит: Tarik Ozkul

The invention uses plurality of forward-looking preview cameras each looking at different nadir angle viewpoint to get cloud information from approaching target areas. The invention uses fuzzy logic system and other decision mechanisms to decide which target images should be acquired in which particular sequence and when the target image acquisition should start. The invention intends to give autonomous decision capability to agile earth observation satellites to make decision on their own to get the highest yield of quality images of target areas.

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Номер записи: 27
26-07-2012 дата публикации

Image processing method and image processing apparatus

Номер: US20120188562A1
Автор: Hitoshi Tsuboi, Takayuki Ushiyama, Yoshitomo Marumoto
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

Provided is an image processing apparatus and image processing method that are capable of outputting an image wherein seam lines caused by sudden conveyance error are difficult to notice even for a small number of multi passes printing. In order to achieve this, the number of dots that are printed in pixels is adjusted according to the density level so that the number of dots that are printed in pixels corresponding to boundary portions is larger than in pixels corresponding to areas that are not boundary portions, and so that the number of dots that are printed in pixels corresponding to boundary portions increases the higher the density level of the pixels is. As a result, it is possible to avoid the occurrence of white stripes in high-density areas without emphasizing black stripes in low-density areas.

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Номер записи: 28
02-08-2012 дата публикации

Multiple simultaneous unique outputs from a single display pipeline

Номер: US20120194530A1
Автор: Brijesh Tripathi, Duncan A. Riach, Michael A. Ogrinc, Wayne D. Young
Принадлежит: Nvidia Corp

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a system for generating multiple video output signals from a single video pipeline within a graphics processing unit. Pixel data from more than one display surface is retrieved and multiplexed before being transmitted to a video pipeline for processing. The resulting video pixel data is routed to video output encoders, which selectively accept the video pixel data for transmission to attached display devices.

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Номер записи: 29
09-08-2012 дата публикации

Display control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, display control method, and storage medium

Номер: US20120200598A1
Автор: Katsuhito Yoshio, Takashi Yoshimi
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A display control apparatus that enables to reliably and quickly search for a desired image. When a wheel is operated by a user by an amount less than a predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a first display mode where a plurality of images are displayed on an image display unit. When the wheel is operated by the user by an amount equal to or greater than the predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a second display mode where a larger number of images than in the first display mode are displayed on the image display unit in a smaller size than in the first display mode.

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Номер записи: 30
09-08-2012 дата публикации

Kinetic Super-Resolution Imaging

Номер: US20120201477A1
Автор: Jonathan Lee JESNECK, Long N. Phan, Sanjay Sarma
Принадлежит: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Methods and a computer program product for deriving a super-resolution image of a physical object, the super-resolution image characterized by a resolution exceeding a “camera imaging resolution” associated with each of a sequence of lower-resolution images of the physical object. The sequence of images of the physical object is obtained at a plurality of relative displacements with respect to the object. An offset is passively associated with each of the plurality of images to derive effective camera movement, allowing for calculation of a kinetic point spread function on the basis of the effective camera movement. The image sequence is deconvolved, using the kinetic point spread function, to solve for a high-resolution image. Various applications such as portable cameras and infrared imaging for energy conservation are described.

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Номер записи: 31
09-08-2012 дата публикации

Arranging Secondary Images Adjacent to a Primary Image

Номер: US20120201479A1
Автор: Clayton Brian Atkins, Daniel R. Tretter, Xuemei Zhang
Принадлежит: Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

A method includes determining a target layout in which secondary images ( 504 ) are placed along an edge ( 506, 508 ) of a primary image ( 502 ), dividing each of the secondary images ( 504 ) into one of a horizontal group and a vertical group according to the target layout and dimensions of each of the secondary images ( 504 ), dividing any of the secondary images ( 504 ) in the horizontal group into one of a top group ( 706 ) and a bottom group ( 708 ) according to the target layout and a width of each of the secondary images ( 504 ) in the horizontal group, dividing any of the secondary images ( 504 ) of the vertical group into one of a left group and a right group according to the target layout and a height of each of the secondary images ( 504 ) in the vertical group, and placing each of the secondary images ( 504 ) adjacent to an edge ( 506, 508 ) of the primary image ( 502 ) according to an assigned group of each secondary image ( 504 ).

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Номер записи: 32
16-08-2012 дата публикации

Efficient pre-computing of simplified vector data for rendering at multiple zoom levels

Номер: US20120206469A1
Автор: David Eustis, Tudor Hulubei
Принадлежит: Google LLC

Aspects of the invention relate generally to accessing, storing, and processing vector data to represent various geographical features such as roads, rivers, lakes, countries, continents, and oceans on one or more maps. More specifically, the vector data may be pre-simplified for rendering at different zoom levels. The simplification process is based on removing vertices from vector data in order to reduce the number of points in a given polygon or line. As this process is very expensive in terms of time and processing power, the system and method allow for estimation of the proportion of vertices which that would be removed from the original geometry. Based on this estimation, one may decide whether or not the simplification is worth the effort to compute and store the simplified data.

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Номер записи: 33
23-08-2012 дата публикации

Method for Implementing a High-Level Image Representation for Image Analysis

Номер: US20120213426A1
Автор: Hao Su, LI FEI-FEI, Li-Jia Li
Принадлежит: Leland Stanford Junior University

Robust low-level image features have been proven to be effective representations for a variety of visual recognition tasks such as object recognition and scene classification; but pixels, or even local image patches, carry little semantic meanings. For high-level visual tasks, such low-level image representations are potentially not enough. The present invention provides a high-level image representation where an image is represented as a scale-invariant response map of a large number of pre-trained generic object detectors, blind to the testing dataset or visual task. Leveraging on this representation, superior performances on high-level visual recognition tasks are achieved with relatively classifiers such as logistic regression and linear SVM classifiers.

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Номер записи: 34
30-08-2012 дата публикации

Rapid image rendering on dual-modulator displays

Номер: US20120218324A1
Автор: Gregory John Ward, Helge Seetzen, Lorne A. Whitehead, Wolfgang Heidrich
Принадлежит: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp

Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.

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Номер записи: 35
06-09-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for interpolating fractional video pixels

Номер: US20120224098A1
Автор: David M. Baylon, Jian Lou, Koohyar Minoo, Krit Panusopone, Limin Wang
Принадлежит: General Instrument Corp

A method and system for interpolating video pixels is described, in which the value of a first fractional pixel is calculated based on the values of the first set of integer pixels, while the value of a second fractional pixel is calculated based on the values of the second set of integer pixels. The first set of integer pixels is not equal to the second set of integer pixels. For example, the first and second set may contain different integer pixels and may contain different numbers of integer pixels.

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Номер записи: 36
13-09-2012 дата публикации

Apparatus and method for controlling transportation of tape medium

Номер: US20120229931A1
Автор: Takashi Katagiri, Yuhko MORI, Yutaka Oishi
Принадлежит: International Business Machines Corp

High performance is obtained without preventing achievement of a target read data rate. In a controller 16 of a tape drive, a command processing unit 41 receives a synchronization command, and a buffer management unit 42 passes data in a buffer to a channel input-output unit 43. Then, upon completion of writing the data to the tape, a backhitch determination unit 44 determines whether or not to execute backhitch. If it is determined that backhitch should be skipped, the speed determination unit 46 determines a tape speed that minimizes a sum of a time required to write data without backhitch within a range where a data amount of a monitor target is to be written in order to achieve a target read data rate, and a time required to write data with backhitch within the range. Then, an operation signal output unit 49 issues an instruction to change the tape speed to the determined tape speed after execution of backhitch.

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Номер записи: 37
20-09-2012 дата публикации

Photography device, photography method, and program

Номер: US20120236163A1
Автор: Tomokazu Teruya
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

A photography device can perform a continuous shooting operation. The photography device includes: an image determination unit configured to determine whether determination values of a plurality of determination elements for images input by an image input unit are equal to or higher than determination threshold values of the plurality of determination elements; a continuous shooting stopping control unit configured to stop the continuous shooting operation if the image determination unit determines that the determination values of the determination elements are equal to or higher than the respective determination threshold values; and a determination threshold value correction unit configured to decrease the determination threshold value of the corresponding determination element if the image determination unit determines that the determination value of any of the determination elements is lower than the determination threshold value of the corresponding determination element.

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Номер записи: 38
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Articulated Sensor Support Structure

Номер: US20120251092A1
Автор: Christopher E. Fisher, John Peter Zwaan, Makoto Ueno, Marc L. Schmalzel
Принадлежит: AeroVironment Inc

Embodiments include an assembly comprising: (a) a camera support structure comprising: a masthead disposed on the distal end of a mast wherein the masthead is configured to receive an imaging element; where a proximal end of the mast rotatably engaging an azimuth-elevation joint assembly wherein the azimuth-elevation joint assembly comprises a first angular actuator of a first rotational degree-of-freedom and a second angular actuator of a second rotational degree of freedom; and (b) a camera support structure housing comprising an aperture and a hatch wherein the hatch is resiliently biased to close the aperture; and wherein the camera support structure is configured to overcome the hatch resilient bias by at least one of: the release of a pin restraining a loaded spring and a rotational actuation of the mast via at least one of the first angular actuator and the second angular actuator.

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Номер записи: 39
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Photographic Stitching Device

Номер: US20120251096A1
Автор: Michael Joseph Winiarski
Принадлежит: Individual

A photographic stitching device that has a generally planar structure having an offset aperture, a capture device mount proximate to the offset aperture, and a mounting structure to accommodate a camera frame. The photographic stitching device allows a photographer to capture a matrix of precisely overlapping photographs that can later be electronically stitched together to create a higher resolution composite image, a panoramic image, a vista, a stereoscopic image, a 3-D image, an artistic rendering, or similar custom and unique photographic products.

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Номер записи: 40
25-10-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and method, and program

Номер: US20120269455A1
Автор: Hiroaki Takahashi, Tomoo Mitsunaga
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

A normal-phase candidate position selection unit designates a pixel on a horizontal or vertical line in a position separated by two lines from a target position of an input image as a normal-phase candidate pixel, which is a candidate for a pixel at which jaggies are in the same phase as a pixel of the target position. A reverse-phase candidate position selection unit designates a pixel between the target position in the input image and the normal-phase candidate pixel as a reverse-phase candidate pixel. The weight value calculation unit calculates a weight value based on a degree of similarity between an image adjacent to the target position and an image adjacent to the normal-phase candidate pixel. The weighted expected value calculation unit performs weighted addition of reverse-phase candidate pixels using the weight value and generates a reverse-phase image by reversing only the phase of the jaggies in the input image.

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Номер записи: 41
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Image capturing apparatus and method for controlling the same

Номер: US20120274804A1
Автор: Akihiro Tanabe
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit configured to obtain an image by image capturing includes a first storage unit configured to store face information of an owner of the image capturing apparatus, an estimation unit configured to estimate a photographer of the image capturing apparatus based on a relationship between an object included in the image obtained by the image capturing unit and the face information of the owner stored in the first storage unit, and a change unit configured to change a photographing mode to a simple photographing mode according to the estimated photographer.

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Номер записи: 42
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

Номер: US20120275724A1
Автор: Masafumi Wakazono
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes a pre-enlargement image processing unit that processes an image signal, based on one or more flow vectors corresponding to the image signal, and an enlargement processing unit that enlarges an image indicated by an image signal processed by the pre-enlargement image processing unit, based on the one or more flow vectors.

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Номер записи: 43
08-11-2012 дата публикации

System and Method for Video Caption Re-Overlaying for Video Adaptation and Retargeting

Номер: US20120281139A1
Автор: Dong-Qing Zhang, Hong Heather Yu
Принадлежит: FutureWei Technologies Inc

In accordance with an embodiment, a method of processing an electronic image having caption text includes receiving the electronic source image, detecting the caption text in the electronic source image, reformatting the electronic source image, reformatting the caption text, and overlaying the reformatted caption text on the reformatted electronic image to form a resultant image.

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Номер записи: 44
15-11-2012 дата публикации

Information processing device, and information processing system

Номер: US20120287152A1
Автор: Hisayuki Kunigita, Il-Kwon Cho, Jae-Hyun Park, Ju-Yeong Ji, Yeon-Sook Kim
Принадлежит: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc

A displayed image generation unit enlarges, reduces, or scrolls a displayed image in accordance with a command for change from a user. When a clip command receiving unit receives a clip command, a clipping area identification unit identifies an area to be clipped according to the clip command. A thumbnail image generation unit generates a thumbnail image corresponding to the identified area. A positional information acquisition unit acquires positional information identifying a position of the identified area in an image as a whole. A content ID acquisition unit acquires identification information identifying an image when the clipping command is received. A hard disk drive maps the identification information, the thumbnail image, and the positional information and stores the mapped information.

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Номер записи: 45
22-11-2012 дата публикации

Graphics processing systems

Номер: US20120293545A1
Автор: Andreas Engh-Halstvedt, Edvard Sørgard, Frode Heggelund, Jorn Nystad
Принадлежит: ARM LTD

In a tile-based graphics processing system, when an overlay image is to be rendered onto an existing image, the existing tile data for the existing image from the frame buffer in the main memory is pre-loaded into the local colour buffer of the graphics processor (step 41 ). The overlay content is then rendered and used to modify the tile data stored in the colour buffer (step 44 ). When the data for a given sampling position stored in the tile buffer is modified as a result of the overlay image, a corresponding dirty bit for the tile region that the sampling position falls within is set (step 45 ). Then, when all the rendering for the tile has been completed, the dirty bits are examined to determine which regions of the tile have been modified (step 46 ). The modified tile regions are written back to the output image in the frame buffer in the main memory (step 47 ), but any regions whose dirty bits have not been set are not written back to the frame buffer in the main memory.

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Номер записи: 46
22-11-2012 дата публикации

Color imaging apparatus

Номер: US20120293695A1
Автор: Seiji Tanaka
Принадлежит: Fujifilm Corp

A color imaging apparatus comprising: a single-plate color imaging element including color filters arranged on pixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions where all colors are arranged in each line in the directions; weighted average filters with filter coefficients set in a local area extracted from a mosaic image acquired from the color imaging element corresponding to the weighted average filters so that proportions of sums of the filter coefficients of each color in the lines in the horizontal and vertical directions are equal; a weighted average calculation unit that calculates weighted average values of each color; a demosaicking processing unit that calculates a pixel value of another color at a pixel position of a target pixel of demosaicking processing and that interpolates a pixel value of the target pixel based on a color ratio or a color difference of the calculated weighted average values to calculate the pixel value.

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Номер записи: 47
22-11-2012 дата публикации

Positional Sensor-Assisted Image Registration for Panoramic Photography

Номер: US20120294549A1
Автор: Frank Doepke
Принадлежит: Apple Inc

This disclosure pertains to devices, methods, and computer readable media for performing positional sensor-assisted panoramic photography techniques in handheld personal electronic devices. Generalized steps that may be used to carry out the panoramic photography techniques described herein include, but are not necessarily limited to: 1.) acquiring image data from the electronic device's image sensor; 2.) performing “motion filtering” on the acquired image data, e.g., using information returned from positional sensors of the electronic device to inform the processing of the image data; 3.) performing image registration between adjacent captured images; 4.) performing geometric corrections on captured image data, e.g., due to perspective changes and/or camera rotation about a non-center of perspective (COP) camera point; and 5.) “stitching” the captured images together to create the panoramic scene, e.g., blending the image data in the overlap area between adjacent captured images. The resultant stitched panoramic image may be cropped before final storage.

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Номер записи: 48
06-12-2012 дата публикации

Graphical Display with Integrated Recent Period Zoom and Historical Period Context Data

Номер: US20120306888A1
Автор: Brian J. Buck
Принадлежит: Trading Technologies International Inc

A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plurality of axis regions forms a continuous non-linear scale. The graphical interface also displays the data series in relation to the plurality of axis regions, and the data series is plotted in relation to each axis region based on a scale resolution corresponding to each respective axis region.

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Номер записи: 49
06-12-2012 дата публикации

Image Registration Using Sliding Registration Windows

Номер: US20120307000A1
Автор: Alexis Gatt, Frank Doepke, Kevin L. Hunter, Todd S. Sachs
Принадлежит: Apple Inc

This disclosure pertains to devices, methods, and computer readable media for performing image registration. A few generalized steps may be used to carry out the image registration techniques described herein: 1) acquiring image data from an image sensor; 2) selecting a pair of overlapping image portions from the acquired image data for registration; 3) determining an area of “maximum energy” in one of the image portions being registered; 4) placing an image registration window over both image portions at the determined location of maximum energy; 5) registering the overlapping image portions using only the image data falling within the image registration windows; and 6) determining, according to one or more metrics, whether the image registration window should be shifted from a current location before registering subsequently acquired image portions.

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Номер записи: 50
20-12-2012 дата публикации

Data processing apparatus

Номер: US20120320095A1
Автор: Boghos Boghossian, James Black
Принадлежит: IPSOTEK LTD

A method of configuring data processing apparatus for automatically determining the real size of an object in an image of a scene is provided. The method includes responding to user input by displaying in the image of the scene displayed on the display screen a virtual object representative of a real size object to establish a first datum position, and storing data defining the first datum position; varying a size of the virtual object in the image; storing data representative of a horizontal and vertical size of the virtual object relative to the displayed image at the first datum position; displaying said virtual object at a second datum position in said image; varying the size of the virtual object on the display screen at the second datum position; and storing data representative of the vertical and horizontal size of the virtual object at the second datum position.

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Номер записи: 51
20-12-2012 дата публикации

Image enlargement device, image enlargement program, memory medium on which an image enlargement program is stored, and display device

Номер: US20120321194A1
Автор: Masafumi Ueno, Xiaomang Zhang, Yasuhiro Ohki
Принадлежит: Sharp Corp

The disclosed image enlargement device is provided with: an image enlargement filter ( 1 ) that enlarges an input image, generating a first enlarged image; a first wavelet transformation unit ( 2 ) that performs a wavelet transformation on the first enlarged image; a second wavelet transformation unit ( 3 ) that performs a wavelet transformation on the first enlarged image; and an accentuation processing unit ( 6, 7, 8, 10 ) that performs an accentuation process using a first edge signal (EDGE_CDF9/7), generated from the output of the first wavelet transformation unit, and a second edge signal (EDGE_Harr), generated from the output of the second wavelet transformation unit. The first wavelet transformation unit and the second wavelet transformation unit perform different wavelet transformations.

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Номер записи: 52
27-12-2012 дата публикации

System and method for splicing images of workpiece

Номер: US20120328211A1
Автор: Chih-Kuang Chang, LI Jiang, Xian-Yi Chen, Yi-Rong Hong, Zhong-Kui Yuan
Принадлежит: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, Hongfujin Precision Industry Shenzhen Co Ltd

A computer is connected to a measurement machine. The computer receives an area selected by a user of a three-dimensional model of a workpiece which is put on the measurement machine. A first size of the selected area is calculated corresponding to resolution values of various images of the workpiece captured by a charge-coupled device (CCD). The computer calculates a number of the images which are necessary to create a complete bitmap, of a certain second size, by splicing together the various images. Coordinate values of the pixel points of the various images are calculated according to a splicing type desired and set by the user. The computer puts the pixel points into a mapping relationship according to the coordinate values of the pixel points, to create the complete bitmap.

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Номер записи: 53
27-12-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for restoring resolution of multi-view image

Номер: US20120328212A1
Автор: Byung Tae Oh, Ho Cheon Wey, Jae Joon Lee, Seok Lee, Seung Sin Lee
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

A method and apparatus for restoring a resolution of a low resolution view image from a multi-view image. In the resolution restoration method, detailed information may be generated using a reference image neighboring a criterion image, and a resolution of the criterion image may be restored using the detailed information.

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Номер записи: 54
03-01-2013 дата публикации

Systems for displaying images on portable display devices and head-mountable displays, methods for controlling such systems, and computer-readable storage media storing instructions for controlling such systems

Номер: US20130002701A1
Автор: Takayasu IDA
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

A system includes a head-mountable display and a portable information processor. The portable information processor includes a determination device that determines whether communication between a head-mountable display and the portable information processor is enabled. The portable information processor includes an identification device that identifies at least a portion of image data that is displayed by the portable information processor. The portable information processor includes a transmitter that transmits the identified at least a portion of the image data to the head-mountable display when the determination device determines that communication between the head-mountable display and the portable information processor is enabled. The head-mountable display includes a receiver that receives the identified at least a portion of the image data from the portable information processor. The head-mountable display includes a display that displays the identified at least a portion of the image data.

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Номер записи: 55
17-01-2013 дата публикации

System and method for capturing and displaying cinema quality panoramic images

Номер: US20130016181A1
Автор: Max Penner
Принадлежит: Social Animal Inc

A system and method for capturing and displaying seamless cinema-quality 360° panoramic photographic and video images is described. In one embodiment, the panoramic imaging system comprises an image capture unit, a computing unit, a cooling unit, and a panoramic image display unit. The image capture unit includes a panoramic camera assembly which comprises a plurality of cameras evenly distributed upon a base plate about a circle of radius Riens. Each camera has its lens pointed at and aligned with a reflecting mirror positioned at a predetermined angle with respect to the vertical. The reflecting mirrors are arranged about a cylindrical support and are affixed to a top plate. The panoramic camera assembly acquires a plurality of images which are wrapped to form a 360° panoramic image. A specially configured Social Animals Flash player allows a user to view, play, manipulate, and click on the processed 360° image file.

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Номер записи: 56
24-01-2013 дата публикации

Image processing method

Номер: US20130022266A1
Автор: Wei Hsu
Принадлежит: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP

An image processing method adapted to calculate image data of a pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels, and each of the pixels has predetermined elementary color data. The image processing method includes following steps. First, a target pixel of the pixel array is selected. Next, a plurality of first elementary color differences of a plurality of first pixels adjacent to the target pixel are calculated. A part of the first pixels are arranged along a first direction, and another part of the first pixels are arranged along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Then, first recovered elementary color data of the target pixel is calculated according to the elementary color differences of the first pixels and the predetermined elementary color data of the target pixel.

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Номер записи: 57
07-02-2013 дата публикации

Image processing device, and control method and computer readable medium

Номер: US20130033566A1
Автор: Kazuya SENTO
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

One embodiment of an apparatus includes a reference position receiving unit configured to receive intermediate or end panorama reference position information input by a user, and a control unit configured to control an imaging device to begin generating a plurality of images to be used to generate a panoramic image based on the intermediate or end panorama reference position information input by the user after the reference position receiving unit receives the intermediate or end panorama reference position information.

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Номер записи: 58
07-02-2013 дата публикации

Denoising and Artifact Removal in Image Upscaling

Номер: US20130034311A1
Автор: Jen-Chan Chien, Jianchao Yang, Sarah A. Kong, Scott D. Cohen, Zhe Lin
Принадлежит: Adobe Systems Inc

Methods and systems for denoising and artifact removal in image upscaling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a low frequency band image intermediate is obtained from an input image. An upsampled image intermediate is obtained from the input image by upsampling. A result image is estimated, based at least in part on the upsampled image intermediate, the low frequency band image intermediate, and the input image. The input image is of a smaller scale than the result image. The estimating the result image further includes eliminating from the result image noise that is present in the input image.

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Номер записи: 59
14-02-2013 дата публикации

Sending Three-Dimensional Images over a Network

Номер: US20130038604A1
Автор: Ofer Shor, Ronnie Yaron
Принадлежит: Skyline Software Systems Inc

A benefit is obtained for sending digital information over a network. The digital information is representative of three-dimensional images which include photographic images. The receiving computer renders the images from the received digital information, and a viewer at the receiving computer can interactively choose a viewpoint or perspective to view the images on a display of the receiving computer. The benefit to the sender can be monetary compensation and/or increased recognition of the sender, for example.

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Номер записи: 60
14-02-2013 дата публикации

In camera implementation of selecting and stitching frames for panoramic imagery

Номер: US20130038680A1
Автор: Ayelet Mashiah
Принадлежит: CSR Technology Inc

A system, method, and computer program product for selecting qualifying frames from an image sequence for use in subsequent stitching into a composite panoramic image are disclosed. Incoming frames from any source may be cropped and downscaled prior to evaluation against qualifying criteria relating to image overlap and local motion. Qualifying images are saved and/or output. The resulting panoramic image generally uses fewer qualifying images and appears smoother and has fewer artifacts than those of the prior art. The qualifying criterion for image overlap is a predetermined overlap margin or percentage between a current image and a previous image from the sequence. The qualifying criterion for image motion includes a maximum amount of local motion, often due to passing objects. The embodiments may process incoming images in real time or from stored sequences. Problems may trigger user warnings.

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Номер записи: 61
14-02-2013 дата публикации

Method and Apparatus for Managing Image-Processing Operations

Номер: US20130039601A1
Автор: Kevin Quennesson, Pierre-Olivier Latour
Принадлежит: Apple Inc

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for performing image conversion operations. The system starts by receiving a request from a client for one or more pixel buffers containing a pixel-formatted, cropped, geometrically transformed, and/or color matched version of an image representation. The system then determines if a provider can provide the one or more pixel buffers. If so, the system calls the provider to generate the one or more pixel buffers containing the pixel-formatted, cropped, geometrically transformed, and/or color matched version of the image representation. Otherwise, the system calls the provider to generate one or more intermediate pixel buffers, generates a sequence of converters for converting the one or more intermediate pixel buffers, and calls the sequence of converters to generate the one or more pixel buffers containing the pixel-formatted, cropped, geometrically transformed, and/or color matched version of the image representation.

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Номер записи: 62
28-02-2013 дата публикации

Image frame interpolation method and apparatus

Номер: US20130051471A1
Автор: Hyun-Wook Park, Hyung-Jun Lim, Jae-Hyun Kim, Jun-ho CHO, Se-Hyeok Park, Tae-gyoung Ahn
Принадлежит: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

An image frame interpolation method and apparatus for determining an object and a background according to a degree of similarity between corresponding areas of a first image frame and a second image frame used for interpolation in every predetermined data unit of a third image frame interpolated between the first image frame and the second image frame and interpolating an object area of the third image frame by using object areas existing in original image frames.

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Номер записи: 63
07-03-2013 дата публикации

Image resolution enhancing device and method for display panel

Номер: US20130058572A1
Автор: Hsiang-Tan Lin, Meng-Chao Kao, Pei-Lin Hsieh
Принадлежит: Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd

An image resolution enhancing device and method for a display panel are provided. The image resolution enhancing method includes the following steps. Enlarge the image resolution of a first image to obtain a second image. Shrink the image resolution of the second image to obtain a third image. Implement a subtraction operation on the first image and the third image, so as to obtain a difference image. Enlarge the image resolution of the difference image to obtain an enhancing image. Implement an addition operation on the enhancing image and the second image, so as to obtain a fourth image with high image resolution.

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Номер записи: 64
14-03-2013 дата публикации

Computing Higher Resolution Images From Multiple Lower Resolution Images

Номер: US20130064474A1
Автор: Konstantin Rodyushkin, Oleg Maslov, Vadim Pisarevsky
Принадлежит: Individual

Super-resolution images may be produced by dividing a higher resolution image into a set of non-overlapping rectangular tiles of substantially the same size. Then, each pixel in each lower resolution image is mapped to the higher resolution image and it is determined which tiles are mapped to which lower resolution image pixels. A continuous buffer may be allocated for each tile and the relevant lower resolution pixels may be stored, together with optical flow vectors, in that continuous buffer. Then, the determination of gradients may use the information now stored in the buffer to facilitate symmetric multiprocessing using multi-core processors.

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Номер записи: 65
28-03-2013 дата публикации

Circuit Configuration And Method For Distributing Pulses Within A Time Interval

Номер: US20130077733A1
Автор: Bernard Pawlok, Eberhard Boehl
Принадлежит: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

A circuit configuration for generating pulses within a time interval on the basis of an input signal includes a counting unit, a comparator unit and a first adder circuit; the time interval being predicted on the basis of at least two defined changes in input signals; the circuit configuration being configured for triggering at the beginning of the time interval by the first adder circuit on the basis of clock pulses, for generating and outputting pulses; for counting a number of generated and output pulses using the counting unit; for comparing the counted number to a setpoint value using the comparator unit; and for ending the generation and outputting of the pulses in response to the reaching of the setpoint value or the ending of the time interval.

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Номер записи: 66
28-03-2013 дата публикации

Enhancing Video Using Super-Resolution

Номер: US20130077821A1
Автор: David R. Gerwe, Deying Zhang, Yang Chen
Принадлежит: Boeing Co

A method and apparatus for processing images. A portion of a selected image in which a moving object is present is identified. The selected image is one of a sequence of images. Pixels in a region of interest are identified in the selected image. First values are identified for a first portion of the pixels using the images and first transformations. The first portion of the pixels corresponds to the background in the selected image. A first transformation is configured to align features of the background between one image in the images and the selected image. Second values are identified for a second portion of the pixels using the images and second transformations. The second portion of the pixels corresponds to the moving object in the selected image. A second transformation is configured to align features of the moving object between one image in the images and the selected image.

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Номер записи: 67
04-04-2013 дата публикации

Image display apparatu, display control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with display control program

Номер: US20130082960A1
Автор: Hidetaka Iwai, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Masayuki Kawamoto, Toshihiko Otake, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Принадлежит: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES INC

An image display apparatus includes a storage portion to store application data and reduced image data thereof, in association with each other, a position detection portion to detect a position designated by the user on a display surface of a display portion, an enlargement operation detection portion to detect an enlargement operation, a first image display portion to display a first display image generated from the reduced image data as a preview image, a process target determination portion to determine process target data from the reduced image data and the application data, based on a magnification set based on the amount of operation in the enlargement operation, a second display image generation portion to generate a second display image based on the process target data, in response to the enlargement operation being detected, and a second image display portion to display the second display image as a preview image.

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Номер записи: 68
04-04-2013 дата публикации

Method and Apparatus for Presenting a Video Screen

Номер: US20130083078A1
Автор: Dai Qiang, Li Shiping, Ma Huateng
Принадлежит: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED

Embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for presenting a video screen, which may identify a black border area in a video displaying interface and zoom an effective video displaying area in an original effective video screen to adjust the black border area intelligently. The black border area may include a black border area from an original video and a black border area of a displaying interface. Thus the effective video displaying area in the video displaying interface can be adjusted, a displaying area in a video screen can be adaptively adjusted, the black border area of the video screen can be eliminated without participation of a user, and diversified demands of users for video screens can be satisfied. 1. A method for presenting a video screen , comprising:identifying a black border area in a video displaying interface;zooming a video screen according to the black border area identified;displaying the zoomed video screen in the video displaying interface.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying a black border area in a video displaying interface comprises:selecting at least two image frames from a video sequence to be played in the video displaying interface, scanning pixels in the at least two image frames, and identifying an area having identical pixels in the at least two image frames as the black border area in the video displaying interface.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the scanning pixels in the at least two image frames and identifying an area having identical pixels comprise:segmenting the selected at least two image frames into areas in the same way, scanning pixels in the same area of the at least two image frames, calculating a Hash value of pixels for the area in the at least two image frames, taking pixels having the same Hash value as the identical pixels;obtaining the height of the identical pixels when the identical pixels are distributed horizontally in the video displaying interface, obtaining the width of the identical ...

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Номер записи: 69
04-04-2013 дата публикации

Controlling device for causing print performing unit to perform print

Номер: US20130083101A1
Автор: Hirotoshi Maehira, Masashi Kuno, Sadaaki MIYAZAKI, Toru Mizuno
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

In a case where N1 lines (N1 being less than N which is a number of nozzles included in one nozzle line) of target line image data represent N1 lines of target line images to be printed by only one specific color of ink, and (N−N1) lines of remaining line image data include line image data which represents a line image to be printed by two or more colors of ink, the controlling device may select only the N1 lines of target line image data, so as to determine the opposite direction of the direction of the main scanning of a previous time as the direction of the main scanning of a present time.

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Номер записи: 70
11-04-2013 дата публикации

ZOOMING A DISPLAYED IMAGE

Номер: US20130088519A1
Автор: Cristescu Sorin Alexandru, Duliskovich Tibor, GERAATS Jacobus Sigbertus Marie, Peeters Harold Johannes Antonius, Post Wijnand
Принадлежит: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.

A system for displaying an image in a viewport is disclosed. A zoom subsystem () is arranged for gradually zooming the image () towards a scale factor at which the image just fits within the viewport (), wherein the zoom () subsystem is arranged for keeping a fixed point () fixed within the viewport (), wherein the fixed point () depends on a pan/zoom parameter () of the image () at the time zooming starts, wherein the fixed point () is a point of the image () which is being displayed in the viewport () at the time zooming starts, and wherein the image () is capable of being zoomed to a zoom level at which the image just fits within the viewport (), while the fixed point () is kept fixed with respect to the viewport (). 1. A system for displaying an image in a viewport , comprising a zoom subsystem for gradually zooming the image towards a zoom level at which the image just fits within the viewport , wherein the zoom subsystem is arranged for keeping a fixed point fixed within the viewport during the gradual zooming of the image , and wherein the system comprises a fixed point determiner for establishing the fixed point based on a panning parameter and a zoom parameter of the image at the time zooming starts for obtaining as the fixed point a point of the image which is being displayed in the viewport at the time zooming starts and which enables the image to be zoomed to the zoom level at which the image lust fits within the viewport by keeping the fixed point fixed with respect to the viewport.2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein a viewport coordinate of the fixed point normalized with respect to a size of the viewport corresponds to an image coordinate of the fixed point normalized with respect to a size of the image.3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein a portion of the viewport covered with the image claim 2 , when the image just fits within the viewport claim 2 , is referred to as a target region claim 2 , and wherein the fixed point determiner ...

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Номер записи: 71
18-04-2013 дата публикации

BACK DROP SYSTEM AND METHOD

Номер: US20130097058A1
Автор: BAKER Floyd
Принадлежит:

A backdrop system includes a backdrop, a frame and a backdrop clip for holding the backdrop. The backdrop system also includes a storage system and a system for fulfilling orders. 1. A backdrop system comprising:a frame;a pattern printed on a lightweight material;a main body attached to the frame;a clip attached to the lightweight material and to the main body; anda adjustable portion attached to the main body for determining the amount of tension to place on the main body and the clip.2. The backdrop system of wherein the lightweight material is a matte polypropylene material.3. The backdrop system of wherein the lightweight material is a vinyl banner material.4. The backdrop system of wherein the pattern printed on the lightweight material is a photo image.5. The backdrop system of wherein the pattern printed on the lightweight material is manipulated using a photo editing software.6. The backdrop system of wherein the lightweight material has a width in a range of 0.9 meters to 3 meters.7. The backdrop system of wherein the adjustable portion includes an elastomeric cord and a cord stop claim 1 , the cord stop used to vary the length of the elastomeric cord to adjust the amount of tension placed on the main body and the clip attached to the lightweight material.8. The backdrop system of wherein the lightweight material is rolled for storage.9. The backdrop system of further comprising:a plurality of lightweight materials having images for backdrops thereon, the lightweight materials rolled for storage; anda storage system for storing the plurality of rolled lightweight materials.10. The backdrop system of wherein the storage system includes arcuate cradles for storing the plurality of rolled lightweight materials.11. The backdrop system of wherein the storage system includes:a first modular portion; anda second modular portion.12. The backdrop system of wherein at least one of the first modular portion and the second modular portion is a cradle portion.13. A ...

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Номер записи: 72
25-04-2013 дата публикации

System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles

Номер: US20130103648A1
Автор: Elias Z K Loup, John T. Sample
Принадлежит: US Department of Navy

System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles.

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Номер записи: 73
02-05-2013 дата публикации

Camera stabilization mechanism

Номер: US20130105619A1
Автор: Henry E. Kulesza, Michael Sean Buscher
Принадлежит: Vanguard Defense International LLC

Camera mount systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a camera mount system is provided, including a first and a second axial arm configured to mount a camera system. The camera mount system further includes a plurality of pistons configured to attach the first and the second axial arms to a vehicle frame. The camera mount system also includes a plurality of springs configured to attach the first and the second axial arms to the vehicle frame, wherein the first and the second axial arms are disposed underslung to the vehicle frame, and wherein the pistons enable a first movement of the first and the second axial arms about a geometric plane and the springs enable a second movement of the first and the second axial arms along an axis normal to the geometric plane.

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Номер записи: 74
02-05-2013 дата публикации

Image processing method and image processing system and image capturing device using the same

Номер: US20130107081A1
Автор: Masui Hikaru
Принадлежит: Ability Enterprise Co Ltd

An image processing method applied to an image capturing device includes the following steps. Firstly, a number of shooting parameters, provided by an image capturing module of the image capturing device, are obtained. Next, a number of super resolution parameters are obtained according to the shooting parameters. Then, a captured image is obtained through the image capturing module. After that, a super resolution operation is executed on the captured image based on the super resolution parameters.

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Номер записи: 75
02-05-2013 дата публикации

Vision recognition apparatus and method

Номер: US20130108107A1
Автор: Eun-Soo Chang, Hwa-Yong Kang, Young-Kwon Yoon, Young-Sam Yu
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Some of pixels in a general image sensor for image capturing are designated as vision pixels used for vision recognition. Optical information obtained only from the vision pixels is used to perform vision recognition in the vision recognition mode. Capturing image data is generated based on optical information obtained from all the pixels in the image data in the image-shooting mode. A digital signal converter that converts optical information obtained only from vision pixels into a digital signal is separately provided in addition to a digital signal converter that converts optical information of all pixels in the image sensor into a digital signal.

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Номер записи: 76
09-05-2013 дата публикации

Parameter Controlling Apparatus

Номер: US20130113837A1
Автор: Masanori Kamihara, Masato ESASHI, Toru Kitayama
Принадлежит: Yamaha Corp

By user's pinching operation on a slider 2 e of a controller 2 , it is judged that the slider 2 e has been operated on two points, so that a DAW screen is zoomed in or out in accordance with the speed at which the distance between the two points has changed and the amount by which the distance between the two points has changed. By user's sliding operation on the slider 2 e of the controller 2 , it is judged that the slider 2 e has been operated on one point, so that the function of the DAW is controlled in accordance with the speed at which the slider 2 e has moved and the amount by which the slider 2 e has moved.

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Номер записи: 77
16-05-2013 дата публикации

Rendering image on web browser display at smaller resolution than original image without storing original image first to conserve space

Номер: US20130120389A1
Автор: Jeffrey Moguillansky
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An accessing computer accessing an image specified by a web page to be rendered at a resolution that is smaller than the resolution of the full image downloaded from the server does not store the full image. Instead, the accessing computer immediately decompresses the full image to the specified smaller resolution, renders it, and then stores the smaller version of the image.

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Номер записи: 78
16-05-2013 дата публикации

Printing device, printing method and program thereof

Номер: US20130120769A1
Автор: Toshiaki Kakutani
Принадлежит: Seiko Epson Corp

A printing device includes the following features. The first dot group in which dots are formed based on the first printing condition and the second dot group in which dots are formed based on a printing condition which is different from the first printing condition are formed together in a common region. In the common region, when the printing is performed in a plurality of conditions such that a difference of the dot pitch between a formation position of dots belonging to the first pixel group and a formation position of dots belonging to the second pixel group is 2/720 inch to 5/720 inch, the change in CIEL*a*b* of the printed image is within the preliminary determined range.

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Номер записи: 79
23-05-2013 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for resampling a spatially sampled attribute of an image

Номер: US20130129257A1
Автор: Keith Hammond
Принадлежит: Snell Ltd

Resampling a spatially sampled attribute of an image, for example up- or down-conversion, in which contributions to a symmetrical FIR resampling filter from positions outside the image—that is to say where the filter aperture extends beyond an image edge—are obtained by copying values from positions inside the image. This can conveniently be done by modifying filter coefficients.

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Номер записи: 80
30-05-2013 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Номер: US20130135642A1
Автор: Hisashi Ishikawa, Shigeo Kodama
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

The invention provides a technique which allows high-quality printing. An image processing apparatus for forming an image by executing N printing scans for a single region on a printing medium, comprises: a readout unit configured to read out image data of a region corresponding to a k-th printing scan from input image data; a print data generation unit configured to generate print data from the image data by halftone processing; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain position fluctuation information of dots in a preceding printing scan, wherein the readout unit controls a readout position of the region corresponding to the k-th printing scan in accordance with the position fluctuation information at the time of the preceding printing scan obtained by the obtaining unit.

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Номер записи: 81
06-06-2013 дата публикации

DATA DISPLAY METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO

Номер: US20130141467A1
Автор: Han Kyunghoon, Lee Chaekyung, PARK Sungho, SHIN Youngsun
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

A data display method and a mobile device adapted thereto includes: displaying one or more filtering conditions on a condition display area and one or more items of media data on a data display area in a data display mode; determining whether an event occurs on the condition display area or the data display area; identifying, if an event occurred on the condition display area, information regarding a filtering condition as filtering condition information corresponding to the event; and displaying media data according to the identified filtering condition information. Since the media data can be displayed, in real-time, on the mobile device according to the filtering conditions, the mobile device user can feel an interest in setting the filtering conditions. 1. A method for displaying data in a mobile device , comprising:displaying one or more filtering conditions on a condition display area and one or more items of media data on a data display area in a data display mode;determining whether an event occurs on the condition display area or the data display area;identifying, if the event occurred on the condition display area, information regarding a filtering condition as filtering condition information corresponding to the event; anddisplaying at least one thumbnail image corresponding to one or more items of media data filtered according to the identified filtering condition information.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identification of information regarding a filtering condition comprises:altering the condition display area according to the type of event; andidentifying the filtering condition information displayed on the altered condition display area.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the alteration of the condition display area comprises:zooming-in or out on the condition display area if the event is an event to execute a zooming-in or out function.4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the alteration of the condition display area comprises:detecting, if the ...

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Номер записи: 82
06-06-2013 дата публикации

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE AREA SCANNED BY AN AIRBORNE ELECTRO-OPTIC RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEM IN A GIVEN TIME

Номер: US20130142500A1
Автор: Yavin Zvi
Принадлежит: RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD.

The invention relates to an airborne reconnaissance system which comprises: (a) optical unit for acquiring light rays from a terrain portion, said optical unit comprises a plurality of optical components that are positioned along an optical path and designed to maneuver said light rays to produce at a focal plane an acquired image of a terrain portion, said acquired image having an area S which is several times larger than the area A of a focal plane array which is positioned at same focal plane; (b) gimbals unit for performing a continuous back and forth across-track scanning movement of a respective line of sight formed between said optical unit and the terrain below the aircraft; (c) a first back-scanning mirror along said optical path, for compensating for said continuous across track movement of the line of sight, said compensation is performed during a respective integration period for a section of said acquired image of area S which falls during said period on said focal plane array; and (d) a second, along-track mirror also positioned along said optical path, which alternates between plurality of along track states, each state causes a different diversion of the light rays within said optical path thereby to impinge on said focal plane array another along-track section of said acquired image of area S; and (e) capturing means for recording in each state of said along-track mirror the corresponding section of the terrain image which is impinged during said state on the focal plane array. 1. An airborne reconnaissance system which comprises:a. optical unit for acquiring light rays from a terrain portion, said optical unit comprises a plurality of optical components that are positioned along an optical path and designed to maneuver said light rays to produce at a focal plane an acquired image of a terrain portion, said acquired image having an area S which is several times larger than the area A of a focal plane array which is positioned at same focal plane;b. ...

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Номер записи: 83
13-06-2013 дата публикации

Method and systems for thumbnail generation, and corresponding computer program product

Номер: US20130148906A1
Автор: Andrea Riccardo Palmieri, Stefano Pascali
Принадлежит: STMICROELECTRONICS SRL

An embodiment of a consumer electronics product having a thumbnail display feature includes a system for generating and storing thumbnails having a given size from images, such as JPEG images, for which a spatial frequency domain representation is available. The system includes a zooming processor to reduce the size of the images by zooming. The zooming processor is configured to perform both spatial frequency domain zooming to approximate the desired thumbnail size and then image pixel domain zooming to fit the desired thumbnail size. The product includes cache storage configured to store a plurality of thumbnails in a file system as free blocks in the file system, so that file system data structures are left unchanged.

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Номер записи: 84
20-06-2013 дата публикации

Electronic Family Tree Generation and Display System

Номер: US20130154934A1
Автор: Peters Klaus
Принадлежит: AIV TECHNOLOGY LLC

An interactive electronic picture organization and display system stores pictures that include images of users' relatives and/or friends and enables the user to crop the images from the pictures into portraits of varying intimacy or social closeness values. The cropped portraits are stored with identification information and age indices and with specified preferred social proximities for the various individuals. Family trees are generated showing portraits of family tree members with appropriate age indices and preferred social closeness indices and are modified by simply mouse-clicking on displayed portraits. Collections of portraits of selected individuals exemplarily of different generations with an average generational age difference or the same age index (all as children, all as parents or grandparents, etc.) may be displayed. Life stories can be developed, collated to portraits of different age indices. 1. A method for cropping pictures , comprising:using an electronic computational device to access a picture in electronic form including an image of a person's face showing the person's head and facial features;displaying said picture on a display of said computational device;using an input peripheral of said computational device to designate or identify a location of a selected one of the person's facial features on said picture;further using said peripheral to designate a location above the person's head; andoperating said computational device to trigger an electronic cropping of said picture to generate a cropped portrait wherein said selected one of the person's facial features is located at a predetermined position in said cropped portrait and wherein an upper margin of said cropped portrait is at least proximate the designated location above the person's head.2. The method defined in claim 1 , further comprising operating said computational device to trigger a storing of said cropped portrait.3. The method defined in wherein the storing of said cropped ...

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Номер записи: 85
20-06-2013 дата публикации

Image three-dimensional (3d) modeling

Номер: US20130155047A1
Автор: Don Kim, Jett Evan Jones, Jonathan Rosenberg, Peter G. Sibley, Samuel Williams, Sandeep Kanumuri
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for creating a three-dimensional model of an image. Image data, comprise a series of images of a location, such as along a route, can be received. The image data can comprise a first image element location for a first image element, where the first image element location may correspond to a three-dimensional point in the image, such as a location in the image with a depth from a point of observation. The first image element can be segmented into a first façade plane using the first image element location. The first façade plane can be merged with a second façade plane, resulting in a three-dimensional model of the image. The second façade plane can comprise a second image element, where the image data comprises a second image element location for the second image element.

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Номер записи: 86
27-06-2013 дата публикации

Image browsing apparatus, control method of the image browsing apparatus and program

Номер: US20130162686A1
Автор: Eito Sakakima, Saloshi Hanamitsu, Satoshi Ukawa, Shinya Oda, Tetsu Fukuda
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An image browsing apparatus for displaying an image by using image data of an image group including a plurality of images at different focal lengths, detects an operation of changing a position of a displayed area, when a partial area in one of the images included in the image group is displayed, determines whether to revise the displayed image to another image of the image group on the basis of a focal position in a display area which is based on the position change, in response to the detection of the operation, selects another image with the focal position in the display area based on the position change, in a case where it is determined to revise the image to another image, and displays the display area based on the position change, of the selected image.

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Номер записи: 87
27-06-2013 дата публикации

Ringing suppression in video scalers

Номер: US20130162901A1
Автор: Laurence A. Thompson
Принадлежит: Silicon Image Inc

Embodiments are generally directed to ringing suppression in video scalers. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a stream of video data, received video data including sets of video data values, and storing a first set of video data values in a memory. A first set of scaled values for the set of video data values is determined based on a scaling technology, and a second set based on linear interpolation. The method includes detecting rate of change in amplitude for received video data, generating a mixing control signal based at least in part on the rate of change, mixing first set of scaled values and second set of scaled values based at least in part on mixing control signal to generate blended set of coefficients, and generating scaled video data output using the set of blended values.

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Номер записи: 88
27-06-2013 дата публикации

IMAGE STABILIZATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS

Номер: US20130163972A1
Автор: Miyazawa Hitoshi
Принадлежит: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

An image stabilization apparatus, having a vibration correction unit that corrects image blur due to vibrations, detects an angular velocity of vibrations with a first vibration detection unit, calculates a rotational shake correction amount based on an output from the first vibration detection unit, detects vibrations with a second vibration detection unit, calculates a correction value from the outputs of the first and second vibration detection units, calculates a translational shake correction amount based on the correction value and the output of the first vibration detection unit, and drives the vibration correction unit based on at least one of the rotational or translational shake correction amounts. The image stabilization apparatus changes the translational shake correction amount to a smaller value when a main object accounts for a smaller proportion of an entire screen. 1. An image stabilization apparatus comprising:a vibration correction unit that corrects image blur due to vibrations;a first vibration detection unit that detects an angular velocity of vibrations;a first calculation unit that calculates a rotational shake correction amount based on an output from the first vibration detection unit;a second vibration detection unit that detects vibrations by using a method different from that of the first vibration detection unit;a second calculation unit that calculates a correction value from outputs from the first vibration detection unit and the second vibration detection unit and calculates a translational shake correction amount based on the correction value and the output of the first vibration detection unit;a driving unit that drives the vibration correction unit based on at least one of the rotational shake correction amount and the translational shake correction amount; anda changing unit that, when a main object accounts for a smaller proportion of an entire screen, changes the translational shake correction amount so as to be smaller than ...

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Номер записи: 89
11-07-2013 дата публикации

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCALING LAYOUT OF APPLICATION IN IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE

Номер: US20130176345A1
Автор: CARSTEN Haitzler, CHOI Jin-Hee, Hong Sun-Gi, JEONG Seok-Jae, KIM Du-Il, KIM Seung-Gyun, KIM So-Hyun, LEE Sang-jin, Park Se-Hwan, YOON Jang-Hyun
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.

An apparatus and method for scaling a layout of an application in an image display device are provided. The method for scaling includes generating a scaling variable considering a distance between the image display device and a user, and scaling a layout of an application using the scaling variable. 1. A method for scaling a layout of an application in an image display device , the method comprising:generating a scaling variable based on a distance between the image display device and a user; andscaling a layout of an application based on the scaling variable.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating of the scaling variable comprises:determining Pixels Per Degree (PPD) of the image display device based on at least one of the distance between the image display device and the user, a resolution of the image display device, and a size of a display region of the image display device; andgenerating the scaling variable based on the PPD of the image display device and reference PPD,wherein the PPD represents the number of pixels of the image display device comprised in a range of an angle of 1° from a user's sight according to the distance between the image display device and the user.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the determining of the PPD of the image display device comprises:determining Dots Per Inch (DPI) of the image display device based on the resolution of the image display device and the size of the display region thereof;determining the distance between the image display device and the user; anddetermining the PPD of the image display device based on the DPI of the image display device and the distance between the image display device and the user.4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the determining of the distance between the image display device and the user comprises estimating the distance between the image display device and the user based on the size of the display region of the image display device.5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the ...

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Номер записи: 90
11-07-2013 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and computer program

Номер: US20130176487A1
Автор: Toshiyuki Nakashima
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

An image processing section includes: a repetitive pattern detection section for detecting whether a repetitive pattern is present in at least one of first and second frames; a motion vector calculation section for calculating a motion vector by performing a matching operation between the first and second frames within a search range determined based on a detection result from the repetitive pattern detection section; and an interpolation image generating section for generating an interpolation frame in accordance with a calculation result of the motion vector.

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Номер записи: 91
01-08-2013 дата публикации

SCREEN GENERATING APPARATUS, SCREEN GENERATING SYSTEM, AND SCREEN GENERATING METHOD

Номер: US20130194277A1
Автор: TAKISHIMA Naoki
Принадлежит:

According to an embodiment, provided is a screen generating apparatus that includes: a position information acquirer that acquires a screen position information file that sets a font size of a font included in a screen and position information of an image or a part included in the screen; a screen display size acquirer that acquires a screen display size of a display devise as a target display; a magnification calculator that calculates a magnification by using a predetermined screen display size and the acquired screen display size; a font size determiner that determines a font size in the display devise as the target display based on the calculated magnification; a converter that converts the screen position information file based on the calculated magnification and the determined font size; and a screen generator that generates a screen compatible with the converted screen position information file. 1. A screen generating apparatus comprising:a position information acquirer that acquires a screen position information file that sets a font size of a font included in a screen and position information of an image or a part included in the screen;a screen display size acquirer that acquires a screen display size of a display devise as a target display;a magnification calculator that calculates a magnification by using a predetermined screen display size and the acquired screen display size;a font size determiner that determines a font size in the display devise as the target display based on the calculated magnification;a converter that converts the screen position information file based on the calculated magnification and the determined font size; anda screen generator that generates a screen compatible with the converted screen position information file.2. The screen generating apparatus according to claim 1 , whereinwhen an image is included in the screen, the screen generator acquires an image compatible with the acquired screen display size and generates the ...

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Номер записи: 92
01-08-2013 дата публикации

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

Номер: US20130195379A1
Автор: Kunieda Shutaro
Принадлежит: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

An image processing apparatus generates an image appended with additional effective pixels by executing appending processing for appending additional effective pixels by extending input image data in a scanning direction using pixels at terminal ends of the input image data in the scanning direction. The image processing apparatus generates image data of a second hierarchy obtained by reducing the input image data by applying filtering to the generated image appended with the additional effective pixels, and generates image data of a third hierarchy by applying filtering to the image data of the second hierarchy. 1. An image processing apparatus comprising:an additional effective pixel appending unit configured to generate an image appended with additional effective pixels by executing appending processing for appending additional effective pixels required to extend image data of a first hierarchy in a scanning direction using pixels at an end portion of the image data in the scanning direction;a first generating unit configured to generate image data of a second hierarchy obtained by reducing the image data of the first hierarchy by applying filtering to the image appended with the additional effective pixels generated by said additional effective pixel appending unit; anda second generating unit configured to generate image data of a third hierarchy obtained by reducing the image data of the second hierarchy by applying filtering to the image data of the second hierarchy.2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said first generating unit applies filtering to the image data of the first hierarchy so that centroids of pixels at terminal ends in the scanning direction of the image data of the first hierarchy and the image data of the second hierarchy are matched claim 1 , andsaid second generating unit applies filtering to the image data of the second hierarchy so that centroids of pixels at terminal ends in the scanning direction of the image data of the ...

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Номер записи: 93
08-08-2013 дата публикации

Image management apparatus and control method thereof

Номер: US20130201352A1
Автор: Akihiro Masukawa
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An image management apparatus for managing an image, to which position information indicative of an image shooting location is appended, comprises a transmission unit configured to transmit map data corresponding to the position information to an information processing apparatus, and an identification unit configured to identify a user of the information processing apparatus, the transmission unit transmits, to the information processing apparatus, map data with a different scale in accordance with the user identified by the identification unit.

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Номер записи: 94
08-08-2013 дата публикации

Camera for recording aerial images from aircraft

Номер: US20130201374A1
Автор: Dirk Döring, Holger Stoldt, Jörn Hildebrandt, Martin Timm, Martin Welzenbach
Принадлежит: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH

A camera, more particularly for recording aerial images from aircraft, comprising a lens and at least one digital, areal image sensor fixed on a carrier element and having a predetermined pixel size, which image sensor has a curvature, more particularly caused by the fixing on the carrier element within a specific tolerance range. The lens at least partly brings about optical compensation of the curvature of the digital areal image sensor.

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Номер записи: 95
08-08-2013 дата публикации

Product imaging device, product imaging method, image conversion device, image processing device, image processing system, program, and information recording medium

Номер: US20130202154A1
Автор: Hiromi Hirano
Принадлежит: RAKUTEN INC

A product imaging device ( 121 ) is provided which facilitates a user to capture the image sequence of entire surroundings of a product. An image sensor unit ( 201 ) senses incident light from the external world where the product is disposed and outputs an image representing a result of the sensing. An instruction receiving unit ( 202 ) receives an image-capture instruction from the user. A memory unit ( 203 ) stores the image sensed by the image sensor unit ( 201 ) upon reception of an image-capture instruction. A finder display unit ( 204 ) synthesizes the image stored in the memory unit ( 203 ) with an image presently sensed by the image sensor unit ( 201 ) and displays a synthesized image on a finder screen.

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Номер записи: 96
08-08-2013 дата публикации

Coin Identification System and Method Using Image Processing

Номер: US20130202184A1
Автор: Jared Grove
Принадлежит: Individual

A coin identification system and method is disclosed for determining the identity of a source coin by way of image processing. The system comprises a source coin image capture means, an image processing means, and an output that relays information to the user or sorts the coin according to its match results. The processing means compares at least one image of the source coin to a plurality of reference coin images, whereby the image of the source coin is manipulated and overlaid onto the reference coin images to determine if a match is available with a given probability. An embodiment of the system employs a coin collection and sorting device. Another embodiment contemplates a handheld electronic device that captures and processes the source coin. Both embodiments may connect to a remote server housing the reference coin information or store the information locally.

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Номер записи: 97
15-08-2013 дата публикации

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING OBJECT IN PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

Номер: US20130208013A1
Автор: CHOI Tae-Sung, Kim Young-Ho, LEE Kyu-Hyuk, YUU Beyong-Ho
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.

An apparatus and a method for displaying an object in a portable electronic device are provided. The method for displaying the object includes displaying at least one object according to a first arrangement, and when an object size change event occurs, changing a size of the at least one object and displaying the at least one object having the changed size by changing an object arrangement to a second arrangement. 1. A method for displaying an object in an electronic device , the method comprising:displaying at least one object according to a first arrangement;when an object size change event occurs, changing a size of the at least one object according to a second arrangement; anddisplaying the at least one object having the changed size.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one object comprises at least one of an application program icon claim 1 , a widget claim 1 , and a thumbnail image.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first arrangement comprises any one of a reference arrangement and a previous arrangement used to display the at least one object.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the changing of the size of the at least one object comprises:when a zoom-in event occurs, enlarging the size of the at least one object according to the second arrangement.5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:when the zoom-in event occurs, determining whether to enlarge the size of the at least one object by considering the first arrangement,wherein, when determining whether to enlarge the size of the at least one object, the size of the at least one object is enlarged according to the second arrangement and the at least one object having the enlarged size is displayed.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the changing of the size of the at least one object comprises:when a zoom-out event occurs, reducing the size of the at least one object according to the second arrangement.7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:when the zoom-out event occurs, determining ...

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Номер записи: 98
15-08-2013 дата публикации

Up-sampling binary images for segmentation

Номер: US20130208983A1
Автор: Carsten Curt Eckard Rother, Toby Sharp
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A method of up-sampling binary images for segmentation is described. In an embodiment, digital images are down-sampled before segmentation. The resulting initial binary segmentation, which has a lower resolution than the original image, is then up-sampled and smoothed to generate an interim non-binary solution which has a higher resolution than the initial binary segmentation. The final binary segmentation for the image is then computed from the interim non-binary solution based on a threshold. This method does not use the original image data in inferring the final binary segmentation solution from the initial binary segmentation. In an embodiment, the method may be applied to all images and in another embodiment, the method may be used for images which comprise a large number of pixels in total or in single dimension and smaller images may not be down-sampled before segmentation.

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Номер записи: 99
15-08-2013 дата публикации

Mosaic oblique images and methods of making and using same

Номер: US20130208996A1
Автор: Frank Giuffrida, Robert Gray, Stephen Schultz
Принадлежит: Pictometry International Corp

A computer system running image processing software receives an identification of a desired geographical area to be imaged and collected into an oblique-mosaic image; creates a mathematical model of a virtual camera looking down at an oblique angle, the mathematical model having an oblique-mosaic pixel map of the desired area encompassing multiple source images; assigns surface locations to pixels included in the oblique-mosaic pixel map; creates a ground elevation model of the ground and vertical structures within the oblique-mosaic pixel map using overlapping source images of the desired geographical area, wherein the source oblique images were captured at an oblique angle and compass direction similar to that of the virtual camera; and reprojects, with the mathematical model, source oblique image pixels of the overlapping source images for pixels included in the oblique-mosaic pixel map using the ground elevation model to thereby create an oblique-mosaic image of the desired area.

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Номер записи: 100