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05-01-2012 дата публикации

Data collation apparatus

Номер: US20120002846A1
Автор: Hironori Yokoi, Toshio Endoh
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

A data collation apparatus has: a collation unit which calculates a similarity between input data measured by a measurement apparatus and each of registered data; and a calculation unit which adjusts, if a similarity of first registered data of which similarity with the input data is highest is lower than a first threshold, and a difference between the similarities of the first registered data and second registered data of which similarity with the input data is second highest is smaller than a predetermined value, or if a degree of separation to indicate a distance between the similarity of the first registered data and a similarity distribution of a group of registered data items of which similarities with the input data are second highest or lower is smaller than a predetermined value, the parameters of the measurement apparatus, and instructs the measurement apparatus to remeasure the measurement subject.

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Номер записи: 1
12-01-2012 дата публикации

Manually-assisted automated indexing of images using facial recognition

Номер: US20120008837A1
Автор: David A. Goldberg, Jeffrey Rose, Joe Angell, Robert Gray
Принадлежит: Youfinder Intellectual Property Licensing LLC

The present method relates to the manual assistance for the automated indexing ( 100 ) of a collection of images using facial recognition. In a first automated indexing step, automated indexing of faces within a collection of images is performed, creating sets of faces each of which comprises faces that are determined by the automated process to be representative of the same person. In a second splitting step ( 200 ), sets are displayed to an operator, who determines whether there are false-positive associations within a set. If false-positive associations are found, the faces representing different people are manually split into different sets, hi this way, there will be no false-positive associations within the collection of images, hi a third merging step ( 300 ), sets that have some degree of similarity are presented to the operator, who determines whether the two sets comprise representations of the same person. If so, the two sets are manually merged, thereby eliminating false-negative errors. In this way, all of the faces in the image collection can be completely and accurately indexed.

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Номер записи: 2
19-01-2012 дата публикации

Efficient method for tracking people

Номер: US20120014562A1
Автор: Dror Shapira, Erez Berkovich
Принадлежит: RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD

In accordance with one embodiment, a method to track persons includes generating a first and second set of facial coefficient vectors by: (i) providing a first and second image containing a plurality of persons; (ii) locating faces of persons in each image; and (iii) generating a facial coefficient vector for each face by extracting from the images coefficients sufficient to locally identify each face, then tracking the persons within the images, the tracking including comparing the first set of facial coefficient vectors to the second set of facial coefficient vectors to determine for each person in the first image if there is a corresponding person in the second image. Optically the method includes using estimated locations in combination with the vector distance between facial coefficient vectors to track persons.

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Номер записи: 3
26-01-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus using the image processing appratus

Номер: US20120020639A1
Автор: Hideo Hirono, Shigeyuki Okada
Принадлежит: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd

A first acquisition unit acquires images from a first image pickup unit for picking up moving images for use in recording. A second acquisition unit acquires images from a second image pickup unit for picking up the image of a person taking the moving images. A decision unit determines whether or not the person taking the moving images is viewing a monitor for displaying the moving images for use in recording, based on the images acquired from the second acquisition unit. A control unit varies the status of an image pickup apparatus according to the decision results of the decision unit.

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Номер записи: 4
02-02-2012 дата публикации

Mobile terminal and method of controlling operation of the mobile terminal

Номер: US20120027267A1
Автор: Hojun Lee, Hyunho Jee, Jonghwan KIM, Seonhwi Cho, Youngwoo KIM
Принадлежит: LG ELECTRONICS INC

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of controlling the operation of a mobile terminal includes displaying, on a display module of the mobile terminal, a stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image using a disparity between left-eye and right-eye images, receiving a touch input within the stereoscopic 3D image, determining whether a position of the touch input is received within a first area, a second area or a third area, wherein the right-eye image is displayed in the first area, the left-eye image is displayed in the second area, and the third area is the overlapping area of the left-eye and right-eye images, and correcting a touch-sensing area on the display module according to the position of the received touch input, wherein the touch-sensing area receives a touch for selecting the stereoscopic 3D image.

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Номер записи: 5
02-02-2012 дата публикации

Automated image-selection system

Номер: US20120030575A1
Автор: Ronald S. Cok
Принадлежит: Individual

A computer system comprising storage for storing a plurality of digital image files, each digital image file including a digital image and metadata defining the included digital image. An input system of the computer system enables a user to select first and second dates to define a date range and to select a theme. The processor is programmed to identify digital images having both capture dates that are within the date range and image elements satisfying the theme. The digital images are sorted into distinct event groups, each distinct event group including one or more different digital images, wherein the event group can be a season of the year. The processor selects at least one digital image from each of at least two different distinct event groups which are then incorporated into a multi-image multi-event image product.

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Номер записи: 6
02-02-2012 дата публикации

Fingerprint authentication server, client computer and fingerprint authentication method

Номер: US20120030743A1
Автор: Satoshi Semba
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

A fingerprint authentication server device is disclosed. The fingerprint authentication server device includes a database in which user IDs and the registered fingerprint data of plural users are stored; and a hash value table including user hash values of the user IDs and the registered fingerprint data of the users. The fingerprint authentication server device is configured to receive a hash value of a user ID of a user to be authenticated and a hash value of registered fingerprint data associated with the user ID from a client computer; perform a search in the hash value table to determine whether there are hash values corresponding to the received hash values in the hash value table; and transmit a determination result to the client computer, thereby to cause the client computer to perform a fingerprint authentication process for a user for which correspondence of the hash values has been confirmed.

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Номер записи: 7
09-02-2012 дата публикации

Mobile phone security system and operating method thereof

Номер: US20120033860A1
Автор: Chien-Lih Lung
Принадлежит: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd

A mobile phone security system includes a trigger module, an image acquisition module, a microprocessor and a database. The trigger module is capable of triggering the image acquisition module to capture at least one pupil image of a proximal party. The database is coupled with the microprocessor and capable of storing pupil images of authorized users. The microprocessor includes a comparison module and a response module. The comparison module is capable of comparing the pupil image captured by the image acquisition module with the stored pupil image, and generating a result notification. The response module is capable of making a determination as to whether or not the captured pupil image matches the at least one pupil image stored in the database, and generating a responsive action to lock or unlock the mobile phone. The disclosure further provides a method for using the mobile phone security system.

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Номер записи: 8
09-02-2012 дата публикации

Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Program

Номер: US20120035927A1
Автор: Keiichi Yamada, Tsutomu Sawada
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of information input units that inputs observation information of a real space, an event detection unit that generates event information including estimated position information and estimated identification (ID) information of a user present in the real space based on analysis of the information input from the information input unit, and an information integration processing unit that inputs the event information, and generates target information including a position and user ID information of each user based on the input event information and signal information representing a probability value for an event generating source. Here, the information integration processing unit includes an utterance source probability calculation unit having an identifier, and calculates an utterance source probability based on input information using the identifier in the utterance source probability calculation unit.

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Номер записи: 9
16-02-2012 дата публикации

Color Segmentation

Номер: US20120038787A1
Автор: Alex Drimbarean, Alexei Pososin, Mihnea Gangea, Petronel Bigioi, Stefan Petrescu
Принадлежит: DigitalOptics Corp Europe Ltd

A method of skin segmentation of a digital image is operable in an acquisition device. An image is acquired. A value indicative of a redness of a pixel of said image is compared with a face skin pixel redness criterion. The pixel is identified as a face skin pixel if said criteron is satisfied.

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Номер записи: 10
16-02-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

Номер: US20120039514A1
Автор: Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata, Tamaki Kojima, Tomohiko Gotoh, Yun Sun
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person.

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Номер записи: 11
16-02-2012 дата публикации

System and method for creating and sharing photo stories

Номер: US20120039546A1
Автор: Adnan Asar, Alessandro Marcello Isaacs, Kelly Berger
Принадлежит: Individual

A system and method are described for creating, managing and sharing photo stories. For example, one embodiment of a computer implemented method for selecting among a plurality of different photo story templates comprises: receiving a plurality of new photos from a user the photos having metadata associated; analyzing the photos and the metadata associated with the photos; responsively grouping the photos into a plurality of different photo stories based on the analysis of the photos and the metadata associated with the photos; and selecting a set of photo story design templates for each of the different photo stories based on the analysis of the photos and the metadata associated with the photos grouped into the different photo stories.

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Номер записи: 12
16-02-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for biometric authentication

Номер: US20120042171A1
Автор: Conor Robert White, Gaurav Gupta, Michael Peirce
Принадлежит: Individual

A method of authentication is provided that includes capturing biometric data for a desired biometric type from an individual, determining an algorithm for converting the biometric data into authentication words, converting the captured biometric data into authentication words in accordance with the determined algorithm, including the authentication words in a probe, and comparing the probe against identity records stored in a server system. Each of the identity records includes enrollment biometric words of an individual obtained during enrollment. Moreover, the method includes identifying at least one of the identity records as a potential matching identity record when at least one of the authentication words included in the probe matches at least one of the enrollment biometric words included in the at least one identity record, and generating a list of potential matching identity records.

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Номер записи: 13
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Microphone stand adjustment system and method

Номер: US20120050527A1
Автор: Chang-Jung Lee, Chih-Ping Lo, Hou-Hsien Lee
Принадлежит: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd

A microphone stand adjustment system and method detects a facial area in a scene image in front of a microphone, and detects a position of a user mouth in the facial area. The system and method further determines if a distance between the microphone and the user is appropriate by determining if an area ratio of the facial area and the scene image equals a preset proportion, and determines if a height and an orientation of the microphone are appropriate by determining if the position of the user mouth is a preset position in the scene image. If the distance, the height, and the orientation are not appropriate, the system and method adjusts the distance between the microphone and the user to the appropriate distance, adjusts the height of the microphone to the appropriate height, and adjusts the orientation to the appropriate orientation.

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Номер записи: 14
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Self-Illuminated Handheld Lens for Retinal Examination and Photography and Related Method thereof

Номер: US20120050683A1
Автор: Paul Andrew Yates
Принадлежит: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION

System and method directed towards providing full and even illumination of a patient's retina through lighting integrated into a handheld fundus lens. By integrating the lighting, the method and system reduces and even eliminate many lens artifacts and reflections. By increasing the accuracy, quality, and field of view afforded during clinical examination of the retina, the method and system will allow practitioners to make more accurate diagnoses and will increase safety during retinal surgical procedures.

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Номер записи: 15
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system

Номер: US20120050769A1
Автор: Akihiro Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu Houjou
Принадлежит: Casio Computer Co Ltd

An image processing apparatus comprises a storage configured to store an original image, a processor configured to change a tone of a reduced image of the original image, a display configured to display a tone-changed reduced image, a connection determination unit configured to determine whether the image processing apparatus is connected to a network, a transmitter configured to transmit the original image to the server via the network together with data indicating a tone when the image processing apparatus is connected to the network, a controller configured to cause the processor to change the tone of the original image when the image processing apparatus is not connected to the network, and a receiver configured to receive the original image whose tone is changed by the server when the image processing apparatus is connected to the network.

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Номер записи: 16
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and method, and program

Номер: US20120051650A1
Автор: Jun Murayama, Kazuki Aisaka, Masatoshi Yokokawa, Masaya Kinoshita, Takashi KAMEYA
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that make it possible to more accurately specify a photographic subject in an image. A photographic subject map generating unit 21 generates, based on an input image, a photographic subject map indicating the likeliness of each region of the input image being a region of a photographic subject. A gradient map generating unit 22 generates a gradient map indicating the degree of change of the likeliness of the photographic subject map being a photographic subject. A threshold processing unit 23 and a threshold processing unit 24 binarize the gradient map using a high threshold THh and a low threshold TH 1 , and obtain threshold maps. A composite map generating unit 25 generates a composite map indicating the likeliness of each region of the input image being a photographic subject by regarding that, among regions specified as being likely to be a photographic subject based on the threshold map of the low threshold TH 1 , a region including a region specified as being likely to be a photographic subject based on the threshold map of the high threshold THh is a region of a photographic subject. The present invention is applicable to an image processing apparatus.

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Номер записи: 17
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Coordinated Motion and Audio Experience Using Looped Motions

Номер: US20120053015A1
Автор: Chris Esaki, Keiichi Yano
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A system for interacting with an application via a user interface is provided. A user is prompted to perform a looped motion such as an exercise move or dance move depicted by the application. User motion data is received from one or more sensors connected to a computing device executing the application. The user's progress of performing a sequence of a looped motion is determined based on the user motion data. In one embodiment, a user may perform one or more looped motions by choosing from multiple looped motions depicted by the application. In another embodiment, a user may perform looped motions at different skill levels based on a skill level determined for the user. In one embodiment, the looped motions performed by the user are displayed to the user, in an order of the looped motions performed by the user, via the user interface.

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Номер записи: 18
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Method and System For Patient-Specific Modeling of Blood Flow

Номер: US20120053921A1
Автор: Charles A. Taylor
Принадлежит: HeartFlow Inc

Embodiments include a system for planning treatment for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of an anatomical structure of the patient, create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the anatomical structure of the patient based on the patient-specific data, and determine a first fractional flow reserve within the anatomical structure of the patient based on the three-dimensional model and information regarding a physiological condition of the patient. The at least one computer system may be further configured to receive input from a user regarding a plan of treatment, modify the physiological condition of the patient based on the received input, and determine a second fractional flow reserve within the anatomical structure of the patient based on the modified physiological condition of the patient.

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Номер записи: 19
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Storing and Searching Fingerprints Derived from Media Content Based on a Classification of the Media Content

Номер: US20120054194A1
Автор: Claus Bauer, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Tianshi Gao, Wenyu Jiang
Принадлежит: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp

Attributes are identified in media content. A classification value of the media content is computed based on the identified attributes. Thereafter, a fingerprint derived from the media content is stored or searched for based on the classification value of the media content.

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Номер записи: 20
08-03-2012 дата публикации

Single-shot photometric stereo by spectral multiplexing

Номер: US20120056994A1
Автор: Graham Leslie Fyffe
Принадлежит: University of Southern California USC

Single-shot photometric stereo techniques are disclosed in which chromaticity is assumed to be a variable. Scene illumination includes three or more spectrally distinct light sources. A scene image is taken with a camera system configured to measure five or more different bands, or channels, of the visible light spectrum. The light sources can include narrow-band colored LED lights, possibly combined with color filters to refine the spectral distributions. In each configuration, a beam splitter assembly is used to align two or more color cameras having different color filters placed over their lenses. By use of such techniques, a single multispectral photograph of a subject provides enough information to recover both the full-color reflectance and the surface normals on a per-pixel basis.

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Номер записи: 21
15-03-2012 дата публикации

Apparatus and method for acquiring high quality eye images for iris recognition

Номер: US20120062720A1
Автор: Dae Hoo Kim, Hwan Pyo Moon, Hyeong In Choi, Jung Kyo Sohn, Seung Min Paik, Song Hwa Kwon, Sung Jin Lee
Принадлежит: Individual

The present invention provides a method for acquiring high quality eye images, comprising the steps of: dividing a camera mode for eye image acquisition into a pre-photographing mode and a main photographing mode, comparing the degree of eye capture, actual eye, resolution, contrast ratio, noise level, angle of the face when an object to be photographed stares at a lens, location of the pupil in the eye, and the degree of exposure of the iris in the eye, etc., with a preset reference quality condition to evaluate the quality of eye images acquired in the pre-photographing mode, and switching from the pre-photographing mode to the main photographing mode if the preset reference quality condition is satisfied; capturing a plurality of eye images in the main photographing mode, finishing the main photographing mode if the preset condition for finishing the main photographing mode is satisfied, and setting a candidate group from the stored plurality of images; comparing the images with the preset reference quality condition if no candidate group is set, and returning to the main photographing mode or pre-photographing mode in accordance with the result of the comparison; and selecting final images from the candidate group if the candidate group is set.

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Номер записи: 22
15-03-2012 дата публикации

Real-Time Face Tracking in a Digital Image Acquisition Device

Номер: US20120062761A1
Автор: Eran Steinberg, Mihai Ianculescu, Mihnea Gangea, Peter Corcoran, Petronel Bigioi, Stefan Petrescu
Принадлежит: DigitalOptics Corp Europe Ltd

A database includes an identifier and associated parameters for each of a number of faces to be recognized. A new acquired image from an image stream is received potentially including one or more face regions. Face detection is applied to at least a portion of the acquired image to provide a set of candidate face regions each having a given size and a respective location. Using the database, face recognition is selectively applied to at least one of the candidate face regions to provide an identifier for a face recognized in a candidate face region. A portion of the image is stored including the recognized face in association with at least one image of the image stream.

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Номер записи: 23
15-03-2012 дата публикации

Calibration Devices and Methods of Use Thereof

Номер: US20120063568A1
Автор: Philipp Lang, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Siau-Way Liew
Принадлежит: Imatx Inc

The present invention relates to calibration devices and to methods of using these devices.

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Номер записи: 24
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Gesture recognition system for tv control

Номер: US20120069168A1
Автор: Kuang-Man Huang, Liangyin Yu, Ming-Chang Liu
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

A gesture recognition system using a skin-color based method combined with motion information to achieve real-time segmentation. A Kalman filter is used to track the centroid of the hand. The palm center, palm bottom, as well as the largest distance from the palm center to the contour from extracted hand mask are computed. The computed distance to a threshold is then compared to decide if the current posture is “open” or “closed.” In a preferred embodiment, the transition between the “open” and “closed” posture to decide if the current gesture is in “select” or “grab” state.

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Номер записи: 25
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Foreground/Background Separation Using Reference Images

Номер: US20120069222A1
Автор: Adrian Capata, Adrian Zamfir, Alexandru Drimbarean, Eran Steinberg, Mihai Ciuc, Peter Corcoran, Petronel Bigioi
Принадлежит: Tessera Technologies Ireland Ltd

A technique involves distinguishing between foreground and background regions of a digital image of a scene. First and second images are captured of nominally a same scene. The first image is a relatively high resolution image taken with the foreground more in focus than the background, while the second image is a relatively low resolution reference image taken with the background more in focus than the foreground. Regions of the captured images are assigned as foreground or background. In accordance with the assigning, one or more processed images are rendered based on the first image or the second image, or both.

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Номер записи: 26
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Real-Time Face Tracking in a Digital Image Acquisition Device

Номер: US20120070087A1
Автор: Alexandru Drimbarean, Eran Steinberg, Peter Corcoran, Petronel Bigioi, Stefan Petrescu
Принадлежит: DigitalOptics Corp Europe Ltd

An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives an acquired image from the image stream including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then calculated for a least a portion of the sub-sampled image. Fixed size face detection is applied to at least a portion of the integral image to provide a set of candidate face regions. Responsive to the set of candidate face regions produced and any previously detected candidate face regions, the resolution is adjusted for sub-sampling a subsequent acquired image.

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Номер записи: 27
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Stereo video for gaming

Номер: US20120071239A1
Автор: Andrew Blake, Ralf Herbrich, Thore Kh Graepel
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A real-time stereo video signal of a captured scene with a physical foreground object and a physical background is received. In real-time, a foreground/background separation algorithm is used on the real-time stereo video signal to identify pixels from the stereo video signal that represent the physical foreground object. A video sequence may be produced by rendering a 3D virtual reality based on the identified pixels of the physical foreground object.

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Номер записи: 28
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Method and Apparatus for Authenticating Users of An Emergency Communication Network

Номер: US20120072980A1
Автор: Michael Lee
Принадлежит: Michael Lee

An authentication system is configured to weight multiple available network supplied and user supplied authentication factors to determine whether a user should be provided with access to an Emergency Communication Network (ECN). The multiple factors may include the location of the user, MIN, short PIN, token, biometric information, and other information. The level of access to be provided to the user may be tiered based on the authentication level achieved during the weighting process. Authentication information may be shared between groups of individuals, so that the authentication requirements for group members may be reduced as other members of the group supply authentication information to the ECN. Group authentication may be used to enable group services such as conferencing and push-to-talk to be set up automatically for the group.

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Номер записи: 29
12-04-2012 дата публикации

Pedobarographic biometric system

Номер: US20120086550A1
Автор: Donald Joseph LeBlanc, Julia Petruescu, Paul A. Bennett
Принадлежит: Individual

A method and system to characterize the wearer of at least one item of footwear having a sensor means which, while the item is being worn, collects from the wearer current pedobarometric data that is characteristic of the wearer, and the current pedobarometric data is compared with corresponding reference data for a specified wearer, preferably previously collected via the same or a similar item of footwear while worn by the specified wearer under controlled conditions, the results of the comparison being used to characterize the present wearer according to prescribed criteria.

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Номер записи: 30
12-04-2012 дата публикации

Method and computing device in a system for motion detection

Номер: US20120089949A1
Автор: Chien-Chun Kuo, Duan-Li Liao, Po-Lung Chen, Wen-Yang Wang
Принадлежит: Cywee Group Ltd, Industrial Technology Research Institute ITRI

A computing device in a system for motion detection comprises an image processing device to determine a motion of an object of interest, and a graphical user interface (GUI) module to drive a virtual role based on the motion determined by the image processing device. The image processing device comprises a foreground extracting module to extract a foreground image from each of a first image of the object of interest taken by a first camera and a second image of the object of interest taken by a second camera, a feature point detecting module to detect feature points in the foreground image, a depth calculating module to calculate the depth of each of the feature points based on disparity images associated with the each feature point, the depth calculating module and the feature point detecting module identifying a three-dimensional (3D) position of each of the feature points, and a motion matching module to identify vectors associated with the 3D positions of the feature points and determine a motion of the object of interest based on the vectors.

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Номер записи: 31
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Scratch protection for direct contact sensors

Номер: US20120091517A1
Автор: Danielle A. Thomas
Принадлежит: Individual

In capacitive sensor circuits where physical contact is required and excess pressure may be inadvertently applied to the sensor surface, aluminum is not sufficiently hard to provide “scratch” protection and may delaminate, causing circuit failure, even if passivation integrity remains intact. Because hard passivation layers alone provide insufficient scratch resistance, at least the capacitive electrodes and preferably all metallization levels within the sensor circuit in the region of the capacitive electrodes between the surface and the active regions of the substrate are formed of a conductive material having a hardness greater than that of aluminum, and at least as great as the lowest hardness for any interlevel dielectric or passivation material employed.

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Номер записи: 32
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Electrical System, Method, and Apparatus of Fingerprint Sensor Using Acoustic Impediography

Номер: US20120092026A1
Автор: Christian Liautaud, Rainer M. Schmitt
Принадлежит: Sonavation Inc

Provided is a method of arranging a plurality of sensor elements to form a sensor array. The method includes arranging the plurality of elements to form two or more sub-rows along an axis. Elements in a first of the two or more sub-rows are positioned in a staggered arrangement with the elements in a second of the two or more sub-rows.

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Номер записи: 33
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Automatically tracking user movement in a video chat application

Номер: US20120092445A1
Автор: Brian McDowell, Darren Apfel
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A system for automatically tracking movement of a user participating in a video chat application executing in a computing device is disclosed. A capture device connected to the computing device captures a user in a field of view of the capture device and identifies a sub-frame of pixels identifying a position of the head, neck and shoulders of the user in a capture frame of a capture area. The sub-frame of pixels is displayed to a remote user at a remote computing system who is participating in the video chat application with the user. The capture device automatically tracks the position of the head, neck and shoulders of the user as the user moves to a next location within the capture area. A next sub-frame of pixels identifying a position of the head, neck and shoulders of the user in the next location is identified and displayed to the remote user at the remote computing device.

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Номер записи: 34
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Event determination by alignment of visual and transaction data

Номер: US20120093370A1
Автор: Arun Hampapur, Lei DING, Prasad Gabbur, Quanfu Fan, Sachiko Miyazawa, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti
Принадлежит: International Business Machines Corp

Determination of human behavior from an alignment of data streams includes acquiring visual image primitives from a video input comprising visual information relevant to a human activity. The primitives are temporally aligned to an optimally hypothesized sequence of primitives transformed from a sequence of transactions as a function of a distance metric between the observed primitive sequence and the transformed primitive sequence. More particularly, transforming includes comparing the distance metric costs and choosing and performing the lowest cost of temporally matching the observed primitives to one or more transactions, deleting a primitive, or associating a primitive with a pseudo transaction marker. Accordingly, alerts are issued based on analysis of the transformation of primitives.

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Номер записи: 35
26-04-2012 дата публикации

Biometric-based identity confirmation

Номер: US20120098640A1
Автор: Brian M. O'Connell, II Rick A. Hamilton, Thomas M. Reeves
Принадлежит: International Business Machines Corp

Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for confirming/verifying an identity of a test taker using a biometric analysis. For example, in the medical field, it is desirous to ensure that a given test is being administered to a correct individual (e.g., “test taker’). By comparing a given/submitted identity against a biometric-based identity, such verification can be performed. In one embodiment, the individual will submit biometric information via a biometric reader or the like coupled to a testing apparatus. The identity submitted by or on behalf of the individual (referred to herein as a “submitted identity”) will then be confirmed against the individual's identity as determined based on the biometric reading (referred to herein as a “biometric-based identity”). If the submitted identity and the biometric-based identity match, results of the test will be accepted. If the two identities do not match, then results of the test will be denied. Alternatively, if the identities do not match, then the testing apparatus could refuse to commence or complete the test.

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Номер записи: 36
26-04-2012 дата публикации

Electronic device and image capture control method using the same

Номер: US20120098966A1
Автор: Chang-Jung Lee, Chih-Ping Lo, Hou-Hsien Lee
Принадлежит: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd

A method for controlling an image capture device obtains an image captured by a camera of an electronic device, detects an eye area in the obtained image, and determines a matching subject template by comparing the detected eye area with a plurality of subject templates. The method further determines a control command corresponding to the matching subject template, and sends the control command to the image capture device to adjust movements of the image capture device.

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Номер записи: 37
03-05-2012 дата публикации

Capacitive sensor, device and method

Номер: US20120105081A1
Автор: Esat Yilmaz, Jalil SHAIKH
Принадлежит: Atmel Corp

Exemplary capacitive sensors may be capable of determining presence and location of a touch and capable of determining a fingerprint pattern.

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Номер записи: 38
03-05-2012 дата публикации

Calibration free, motion tolerent eye-gaze direction detector with contextually aware computer interaction and communication methods

Номер: US20120105486A1
Автор: Charles McKinley, Chris Lankford, II Timothy Mulholland
Принадлежит: DYNAVOX SYSTEMS LLC

Eye tracking systems and methods include such exemplary features as a display device, at least one image capture device and a processing device. The display device displays a user interface including one or more interface elements to a user. The at least one image capture device detects a user's gaze location relative to the display device. The processing device electronically analyzes the location of user elements within the user interface relative to the user's gaze location and dynamically determine whether to initiate the display of a zoom window. The dynamic determination of whether to initiate display of the zoom window may further include analysis of the number, size and density of user elements within the user interface relative to the user's gaze location, the application type associated with the user interface or at the user's gaze location, and/or the structure of eye movements relative to the user interface.

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Номер записи: 39
03-05-2012 дата публикации

Face or Other Object Detection Including Template Matching

Номер: US20120106790A1
Автор: Bogdan Sultana, Corneliu Zaharia, Mihnea Gangea, Peter Corcoran, Petronel Bigioi, Radu Nicolau, Stefan Petrescu, Szabolcs Fulop, Vlad Ionut Ursachi
Принадлежит: DigitalOptics Corp Europe Ltd

A template matching module is configured to program a processor to apply multiple differently-tuned object detection classifier sets in parallel to a digital image to determine one or more of an object type, configuration, orientation, pose or illumination condition, and to dynamically switch between object detection templates to match a determined object type, configuration, orientation, pose, blur, exposure and/or directional illumination condition.

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Номер записи: 40
03-05-2012 дата публикации

Position aware gestures with visual feedback as input method

Номер: US20120110516A1
Автор: Ilya Tumanov
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A gesture based user interface is provided for a user to interact with a device in order to operate and control the device through detection of gestures and movements of the user. Visual feedback of the user gestures is provided to the user to aid in the user's operational and control decisions of a device. An image capturing device such as a video camera may be employed to capture a user's image, and an integrated application on a computing device may process continuous images from the capturing device to recognize and track user gestures. The gestures may correlate to an object and/or location on the display and the user's image may be projected on the display to provide visual feedback of the user's interaction.

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Номер записи: 41
10-05-2012 дата публикации

Fingertip tracking for touchless user interface

Номер: US20120113241A1
Автор: Milivoje Aleksic, Ning Bi, Sairam Sundaresan, Xuerui Zhang, Yingyong Qi
Принадлежит: Qualcomm Inc

In general, this disclosure describes techniques for providing a gesture-based user interface. For example, according to some aspects of the disclosure, a user interface generally includes a camera and a computing device that identifies and tracks the motion of one or more fingertips of a user. In some examples, the user interface is configured to identify predefined gestures (e.g., patterns of motion) associated with certain motions of the user's fingertips. In another example, the user interface is configured to identify hand postures (e.g., patterns of showing up of fingertips). Accordingly, the user can interact with the computing device by performing the gestures.

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Номер записи: 42
10-05-2012 дата публикации

Image processing system, image capture apparatus, image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program

Номер: US20120114177A1
Автор: Keiji Adachi
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

There is provided an image processing system in which an image capture apparatus and an image processing apparatus are connected to each other via a network. When a likelihood indicating the probability that a detection target object detected from a captured image is a predetermined type of object does not meet a designated criterion, the image capture apparatus generates tentative object information for the detection target object, and transmits it to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus detects, from detection targets designated by the tentative object information, a detection target as the predetermined type of object.

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Номер записи: 43
10-05-2012 дата публикации

System for uniquely identifying subjects from a target population

Номер: US20120114186A1
Автор: II Paul Anthony Skvorc
Принадлежит: Biopar LLC

The system for uniquely identifying subjects from a target population operates to acquire, process and analyze images to create data which contains indicia sufficient to uniquely identify an individual in a population of interest. This system implements an automated, image-based process that captures data indicative of a selected set of external characteristics for subjects that are members of a target population of a predetermined species.

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Номер записи: 44
10-05-2012 дата публикации

Image auto tagging method and application

Номер: US20120114199A1
Автор: Dominic Jason Carr, Phillip E. Bastanchury, Sai Panyam, Thomas B. Werz, Iii, Yong Wang
Принадлежит: MySpace LLC

A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provides the ability to automatically tag a photograph. First photographs are obtained. Each of the first photographs is associated with a tag that uniquely identifies a user. Based on the tag and the first photographs, a single facial identification record (FIR) is generated for the user. A second photograph is uploaded. Profile based FIRs for the user that uploaded the second photograph is obtained. A matching FIR from the profile based FIRs that match a second face in the second photograph is obtained.

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Номер записи: 45
17-05-2012 дата публикации

System and method for performing chemical analysis of fingerprints for providing at least one response

Номер: US20120119906A1
Автор: Theodosios Kountotsis
Принадлежит: Individual

A fingerprint recognition system is presented including a fingerprint collecting module positioned about an electronic device for collecting fingerprint information related to one or more fingerprints; a chemical analysis module for performing a chemical analysis of the fingerprint information collected; and an evaluating module for evaluating the chemical analysis of the fingerprint information collected to provide at least one response. Additionally, a chemical analysis system for performing substantially instantaneous chemical analysis of received fingerprints and providing substantially instantaneous recommendations or feedback or responses based on the chemical analysis of the fingerprints received is presented. The chemical analysis indicates at least one or more of the following: age, gender, race, dietary information, and lifestyle information or a combination thereof.

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Номер записи: 46
24-05-2012 дата публикации

Systems And Methods For Applying Model Tracking to Motion Capture

Номер: US20120127176A1
Автор: Jeffrey Margolis
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device and a model of a user in the image may be generated. The model may then be adjusted to mimic one or more movements by the user. For example, the model may be a skeletal model having joints and bones that may be adjusted into poses corresponding to the movements of the user in physical space. A motion capture file of the movement of the user may be generated in real-time based on the adjusted model. For example, a set of vectors that define the joints and bones for each of the poses of the adjusted model may be captured and rendered in the motion capture file.

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Номер записи: 47
24-05-2012 дата публикации

Eye position registering and tracking

Номер: US20120127429A1
Автор: Horia Grecu, Ralf Weise
Принадлежит: SensoMotoric Instruments Gesellschaft fuer Innovative Sensorik mbH

Embodiments of the invention refer to a system for registering and tracking the position of a person's eye, in particular for refractive ophthalmic surgery. According to embodiments, the system is structured such that eye images containing at least the iris and the pupil of the eye are made at a first wavelength of light and that eye images containing scleral blood vessels are made at a different second wavelength of light. The invention furthermore refers to a corresponding method for registering and tracking the position of a person's eye.

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Номер записи: 48
24-05-2012 дата публикации

Techniques to detect video copies

Номер: US20120131010A1
Автор: Jianguo Li, Tao Wang, Wenlong Li, Yimin Zhang
Принадлежит: Intel Corp

Some embodiments include a video copy detection approach based on speeded up robust features (SURF) trajectory building, local sensitive hash (LSH) indexing, and spatial-temporal-scale registration. First, interesting points' trajectories are extracted by SURF. Next, an efficient voting based spatial-temporal-scale registration approach is applied to estimate the optimal transformation parameters (shift and scale) and achieve the final video copy detection results by propagations of video segments in both spatial-temporal and scale directions. To speed up the detection speed, local sensitive hash (LSH) indexing is used to index trajectories for fast queries of candidate trajectories.

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Номер записи: 49
07-06-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Номер: US20120140994A1
Автор: Satoshi Yamada
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An image processing apparatus comprises a face detection unit configured to periodically perform face detection processing of detecting a face area of a person from an image; an authentication unit configured to periodically perform personal authentication processing for the detected face area; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a determination criterion to select a face area as a target of the personal authentication processing from the detected face areas, wherein the authentication unit performs the personal authentication processing at a cycle longer than that of the face detection processing, and when the face detection unit detects the face areas from a plurality of images, selects a face area complying with the determination criterion calculated by the calculation unit from the face areas of the plurality of images as the target of the personal authentication processing.

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Номер записи: 50
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Automated monitoring and control of safety in a production area

Номер: US20120146789A1
Автор: Koichi Sato, Nicholas De Luca
Принадлежит: Individual

A machine vision process monitors and controls safe working practice in a production area by capturing and processing image data relative to personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by individuals, movement of various articles, and movement-related conformations of individuals and other objects in the production area. The data is analyzed to determine whether there is a violation of a predetermined minimum threshold image, movement, or conformation value for a predetermined threshold period of time. The determination of a safety violation triggers computer activation of a safety control device. The process is carried out using a system including an image data capturing device, a computer and computer-readable program code, and a safety control device.

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Номер записи: 51
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Gesture recognition apparatus, gesture recognition method, control program, and recording medium

Номер: US20120146903A1
Автор: Masahiro Abe, Masahiro Kinoshita, Takeshi Arihara
Принадлежит: Omron Corp

A gesture recognition apparatus has a temperature sensor in which a plurality of infrared sensors are arranged, a change region specifying unit that specifies a change region where a temperature change is generated as a region indicating a hand based on a temperature detected by each infrared sensor of the temperature sensor, and a gesture recognition unit that specifies a movement locus of the change region specified by the change region specifying unit and recognizes a gesture of the hand.

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Номер записи: 52
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Optical structure for acquiring fingerprint image

Номер: US20120147168A1
Автор: Dong Mok Shin, Jae Hyeon PARK, Jae Won Lee
Принадлежит: Individual

An optical structure for acquiring a fingerprint image with high resolution and minimum distortion is provided. The optical structure includes a prism configured to comprise an input surface to which light is irradiated, a contact surface formed horizontally to be in contact with a finger, and an output surface through which the light that has been irradiated to the input surface and reflected from the finger in contact with the contact surface passes; a lighting unit configured to emit a beam to the input surface of the prism; a reflector unit configured to reflect a fingerprint image passing through the output surface of the prism; a lens unit configured to comprise two or more lenses, each being configured to receive the fingerprint image reflected from the reflector unit; and an image sensor on which the fingerprint image passing through the lens unit is formed.

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Номер записи: 53
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Landmark localization for facial imagery

Номер: US20120148160A1
Автор: Gurumurthy Swaminathan, Saad J. Bedros
Принадлежит: Honeywell International Inc

A process and system for facial landmark detection of a face in a scene of an image includes determining face dimensions from the image, identifying regions of search for one or more facial landmarks using the face dimensions, and running a cascaded classifier and a strong classifier tailored to detect different types of facial landmarks to determine one or more respective locations of the facial landmarks. According to another example embodiment, the facial landmarks are used for face mining or face recognition, and the cascaded classifier is performed using a multi-staged AdaBoost classifier, where detections from multiple stages are utilized to enable the best location of the landmark. According to another example embodiment, the strong classifier is a support vector machine (SVM) classifier with input features processed by a principal component analysis (PCA) of the landmark subimage.

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Номер записи: 54
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Enhanced detection of circular engagement gesture

Номер: US20120151421A1
Автор: Ian Clarkson
Принадлежит: Qualcomm Inc

The enhanced detection of a circular engagement gesture, in which a shape is defined within motion data, and the motion data is sampled at points that are aligned with the defined shape. It is determined whether a moving object is performing a gesture correlating to the defined shape based on a pattern exhibited by the sampled motion data. An application is controlled if determining that the moving object is performing the gesture.

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Номер записи: 55
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Flat Panel Display Screen Operable For Touch Position Determination System And Methods

Номер: US20120154319A1
Автор: Jeffrey Konicek
Принадлежит: Individual

A system and method are disclosed that determines the location of an object touching a display screen. The system and method modifies already existing display technology, including using the underlying structure of many types of existing displays as the touch detecting structure. The systems and methods are applicable to virtually all LCD and LCD-like displays, including emissive displays (OLED, PLED, quantum dot displays, etc.), electronic paper, and others.

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Номер записи: 56
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Low power fingerprint capture system, apparatus, and method

Номер: US20120154568A1
Автор: Carl Gaebe, Jeremy Hutchins, Michael Pedigo, Nicholas Salerno, Richard Fenrich
Принадлежит: Identification International Inc

The present invention provides a large format fingerprint capture apparatus, system and method that is low power, compact, and lightweight and has a platen area greater than 3.0 square inches. The present system is typically powered, controlled, and exchanges data over a single data/control/power connection to a host PC, e.g., a desk top computer, PDA, or laptop computer although the system can also be used in a wireless fashion with a power subsystem so no physical connections are required.

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Номер записи: 57
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

Номер: US20120155773A1
Автор: Kenji Tsukamoto, Mahoro Anabuki, Masakazu Matsugu
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit configured to input an image in which a real space is captured by an image capturing apparatus, an image recognition unit configured to recognize a situation in the real space captured in the input image, an image recording unit configured to record the input image, an image selection unit configured to select an image used for image communication from a plurality of images including images recorded by the image recording unit in the past based on a recognition result of the input image, and an image output unit configured to modify the selected image and output the modified image.

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Номер записи: 58
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Pose tracking pipeline

Номер: US20120157207A1
Автор: Craig Peeper, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Johnny Lee, Mark Finocchio, Matt Bronder, Momin M. Al-Ghosien, Oliver Williams, Robert Matthew Craig, Ryan M. Geiss, Tommer Leyvand
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A method of tracking a target includes receiving from a source a depth image of a scene including the human subject. The depth image includes a depth for each of a plurality of pixels. The method further includes identifying pixels of the depth image that belong to the human subject and deriving from the identified pixels of the depth image one or more machine readable data structures representing the human subject as a body model including a plurality of shapes.

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Номер записи: 59
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Validation analysis of human target

Номер: US20120159290A1
Автор: Charles Claudius Marais, Craig Carroll Peeper, James Chadon Foster, Jon D. Pulsipher, Joseph Bertolami, Kien Toan Huynh, Michael Taylor Janney, Nazeeh Amin ElDirghami, Parham Mohadjer, Patrick Orville Cook, Robert John Fitzgerald, Ronald Omega Forbes, JR., Shao Liu, Spencer Dean Perreault, Szymon P. Stachniak, Tommer Leyvand, Wayne Richard Bisson
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

Technology for testing a target recognition, analysis, and tracking system is provided. A searchable repository of recorded and synthesized depth clips and associated ground truth tracking data is provided. Data in the repository is used by one or more processing devices each including at least one instance of a target recognition, analysis, and tracking pipeline to analyze performance of the tracking pipeline. An analysis engine provides at least a subset of the searchable set responsive to a request to test the pipeline and receives tracking data output from the pipeline on the at least subset of the searchable set. A report generator outputs an analysis of the tracking data relative to the ground truth in the at least subset to provide an output of the error relative to the ground truth.

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Номер записи: 60
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Electronic device, and capacitor capacitance detection method applied to the same

Номер: US20120161792A1
Автор: Erika Ikeda, Hiroki Matsushita, Osamu Kawashima, Takehiko Katou
Принадлежит: Toshiba Corp

According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a capacitor, a power supply device, a discharger and a capacitance detector. The capacitor is used as a backup power supply. The power supply device charges the capacitor. The discharger discharges the capacitor. The capacitance detector maintains a terminal voltage of the capacitor at a given level for a predetermined time, by controlling an operating time of the power supply device. The capacitance detector allows the discharger to start the discharge the predetermined time later. The capacitance detector detects a capacitance of the capacitor based on a transient response characteristic of the discharge.

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Номер записи: 61
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium storing program

Номер: US20120162603A1
Автор: Tatsuya Dejima
Принадлежит: Casio Computer Co Ltd

A display unit 11 has a display area of a predetermined shape and displays an image on the display area. An image capturing unit 12 generates data of a captured image by capturing an image of an eye 2 of a user in which the display area is reflected. A reference detection unit 21 detects a moving reference point that moves along with the movement of user's eye-gaze and an unmoving reference point that can be assumed as approximately stationary regardless of the user's eye-gaze movement, and generates a vector drawn from the unmoving reference point to the moving reference point as a shift amount V(x,y). An eye-gaze detection unit 22 detects a movement vector ΔV(Δx,Δy) as the user's eye-gaze movement amount based on a reference shift amount Vo(xo,yo) generated in the past and the shift amount V(x,y) currently generated.

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Номер записи: 62
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Classification of posture states

Номер: US20120163723A1
Автор: Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Alexandru Balan, Jamie Shotton, Matheen Siddiqui, Oliver Michael Christian Williams, Ryan M. Geiss
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

Systems and methods for estimating a posture of a body part of a user are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, an image is received from a sensor, where the image includes at least a portion of an image of the user including the body part. The skeleton information of the user is estimated from the image, a region of the image corresponding to the body part is identified at least partially based on the skeleton information, and a shape descriptor is extracted for the region and the shape descriptor is classified based on training data to estimate the posture of the body part.

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Номер записи: 63
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Visual based identitiy tracking

Номер: US20120165097A1
Автор: Casey Leon Meekhof, Jian Sun, Jinyu Li, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Timothy Milton Keosababian, Tommer Leyvand, Yichen Wei
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A video game system (or other data processing system) can visually identify a person entering a field of view of the system and determine whether the person has been previously interacting with the system. In one embodiment, the system establishes thresholds, enrolls players, performs the video game (or other application) including interacting with a subset of the players based on the enrolling, determines that a person has become detectable in the field of view of the system, automatically determines whether the person is one of the enrolled players, maps the person to an enrolled player and interacts with the person based on the mapping if it is determined that the person is one of the enrolled players, and assigns a new identification to the person and interacts with the person based on the new identification if it is determined that the person is not one of the enrolled players.

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Номер записи: 64
05-07-2012 дата публикации

System for reducing effects of undesired signals in an infrared imaging system

Номер: US20120169673A1
Автор: Andrew D. Wilson
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

Effects of undesired infrared light are reduced in an imaging system using an infrared light source. The desired infrared light source is activated and a first set of imaging data is captured during a first image capture interval. The desired infrared light source is then deactivated, and a second set of image data is captured during a second image capture interval. A composite set of image data is then generated by subtracting from first values in the first set of image data corresponding second values in the second set of image data. The composite set of image data thus includes a set of imaging where data all infrared signals are collected, including both signals resulting from the IR source and other IR signals, from which is subtracted imaging in which no signals result from the IR course, leaving image data including signals resulting only from the IR source.

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Номер записи: 65
05-07-2012 дата публикации

Fingerprint Image Sensor without Residual Image

Номер: US20120170819A1
Автор: Shinil Cho, Shoichi Kiyomoto
Принадлежит: Asd Inc

The Problems To dissipate or remove droplets of sweat fluid discharged from sweat glands of the finger placed on the sensor surface, which is the cause of the residual fingerprint image, from the surface of the fingerprint image sensor. Means for Solving the Problem On the surface of a fingerprint image acquisition sensor consisting of the electrode 2 of the minimum functional element separated with the grid 1 , a coating layer on which the groove 30 is etched on the surface of the coating layer 32 , running along the center of each grid line for draining the sweat fluid discharged from the sweat glands on the finger placed on the fingerprint image acquisition sensor.

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Номер записи: 66
12-07-2012 дата публикации

Gesture recognition apparatus and method of gesture recognition

Номер: US20120176303A1
Автор: Yuichi Miyake
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

A gesture recognition apparatus ( 200 ) which controls a display device ( 101 ) based on a gesture operation performed by a user in a vicinity of a screen ( 101 a ) includes: a picture obtainment unit ( 201 ) which obtains a picture of the vicinity of the screen ( 101 a ); a direction determination unit ( 204 ) which determines, based on position information indicating a direction from the screen ( 101 a ) or the picture obtainment unit ( 201 ) toward the user, an operational direction which is a direction of a movement to be recognized as the gesture operation; a gesture recognition unit ( 205 ) which recognizes, as the gesture operation, a movement of whole or part of a body of the user in the operational direction determined by the direction determination unit, with reference to the obtained picture; and a display control unit ( 206 ) which controls the display device ( 101 ) based on the recognized gesture operation.

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Номер записи: 67
12-07-2012 дата публикации

Motion detection using depth images

Номер: US20120177254A1
Автор: Craig Peeper, Johnny Lee, Tommer Leyvand
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A sensor system creates a sequence of depth images that are used to detect and track motion of objects within range of the sensor system. A reference image is created and updated based on a moving average (or other function) of a set of depth images. A new depth images is compared to the reference image to create a motion image, which is an image file (or other data structure) with data representing motion. The new depth image is also used to update the reference image. The data in the motion image is grouped and associated with one or more objects being tracked. The tracking of the objects is updated by the grouped data in the motion image. The new positions of the objects are used to update an application.

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Номер записи: 68
19-07-2012 дата публикации

Capacitive Touchscreen or Touch Panel with Fingerprint Reader

Номер: US20120182253A1
Автор: Michael Brosnan
Принадлежит: Avago Technologies ECBU IP Singapore Pte Ltd

Various embodiments of a capacitive touchscreen or touch panel having dual finger or hand navigation and fingerprint reading capabilities. In one embodiment, fingerprints are read and processed by the same capacitive touchscreen controller that reads and processes capacitively-sensed finger or hand touches made across the touchscreen or touch panel. A small portion of the capacitive touchscreen or touch panel is dedicated to reading an authorized user's fingerprints, while a larger or main portion of the capacitive touchscreen or touch panel is dedicated to sensing a user's finger or hand navigation across the touchscreen or touch panel.

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Номер записи: 69
09-08-2012 дата публикации

Living body information registration method, biometrics authentication method, and biometrics authentication apparatus

Номер: US20120201431A1
Автор: Hiroyuki Takamatsu, Kazuhiro Komura
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Frontech Ltd

A vein authentication apparatus registers vein data and vein characteristic amounts, determines comparison order at vein data identification time by sorting records in descending order of degree of similarity on the basis of vein characteristic amounts for comparison and the registered vein characteristic amounts, and makes vein data comparison in accordance with the comparison order. The vein authentication apparatus uses 32 frequencies obtained by performing a Fourier transform, 12 angles obtained by performing a Fourier transform, curvature directions in 36 angle areas, segment directions in 18 angle areas, and a vein amount as the vein characteristic amounts. By doing so, the accuracy of comparison order is improved and a comparison using a record for which a degree of similarity is low can be omitted. As a result, the speed of a comparison process and the maximum number of pieces of living body information which can be registered can be increased.

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Номер записи: 70
16-08-2012 дата публикации

Method for the electronic authenticating of a handwritten signature, corresponding module and computer program

Номер: US20120207393A1
Автор: Alexandre Kroupski, Fabien Huteaux
Принадлежит: Compagnie Industrielle et Financiere dIngenierie Ingenico SA

A method and apparatus are provided for electronically authenticating a handwritten signature of a user, entered on a writing surface via a writing instrument. The method includes acquiring, by the writing surface, at least one instant during the entering of the signature, of at least one piece of data representing the altitude z of the writing instrument relative to the writing surface, in an area of proximity to the writing surface; and authenticating the entered handwritten signature by taking account of at least the altitude z.

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Номер записи: 71
16-08-2012 дата публикации

Classification device and classification method

Номер: US20120209799A1
Автор: Hiroki Arimura, Iku Ohama, Takuya Kida, Toshihisa Abe
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

Provided is a classification device capable of classifying time series data of location information into groups in which continuity of time is secured. The classification device ( 100 ) includes a data storage unit ( 110 ) that stores time-of-day information and location information corresponding to the time-of-day information, a sorting unit ( 120 ) that sorts the location information in order of time using the time-of-day information, a hidden Markov model storage unit ( 130 ) storing therein a left-to-right hidden Markov model containing a plurality of states and in which a parameter is undetermined, a Markov model output unit ( 140 ) that determines the parameter by inputting the location information sorted in order of time into the hidden Markov model, and a classification unit ( 150 ) that classifies each location information in one of the plurality of states by inputting the location information sorted in order of time into the hidden Markov model containing the determined parameter.

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Номер записи: 72
23-08-2012 дата публикации

Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting information delivery manner using facial recognition

Номер: US20120212629A1
Автор: Finbarr Michael O'Carroll, James Allen Hymel, Julien Camille Paul-Cavallier, Thomas Edward Byrd
Принадлежит: Research in Motion Ltd

An apparatus, and an associated method, selects a manner by which to deliver received information at a wireless, or other electronic, device. A facial recognition indication is obtained and analyzed. Responsive to the analysis of the facial recognition indication, selection is made of the manner by which to deliver the information. If the facial recognition indication indicates the recipient to exhibit a serious demeanor, the information is provided in aural form, thereby to permit delivery of the information without requiring the recipient to read, or otherwise view, the information.

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Номер записи: 73
30-08-2012 дата публикации

Method and Apparatus for Pattern Tracking

Номер: US20120219176A1
Автор: Adam Hanina, Lei GUAN
Принадлежит: Al Cure Tech Inc

A method and apparatus for pattern tracking The method includes the steps of performing a foreground detection process to determine a hand-pill-hand region, performing image segmentation to separate the determined hand portion of the hand-pill-hand region from the pill portion thereof, building three reference models, one for each hand region and one for the pill region, initializing a dynamic model for tracking the hand-pill-hand region, determining N possible next positions for the hand-pill-hand region, for each such determined position, determining various features, building a new model for that region in accordance with the determined position, for each position, comparing the new model and a reference model, determining a position whose new model generates a highest similarity score, determining whether that similarity score is greater than a predetermined threshold, and wherein if it is determined that the similarity score is greater than the predetermined threshold, the object is tracked.

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Номер записи: 74
06-09-2012 дата публикации

Method for visual image detection

Номер: US20120224769A1
Автор: Ashok Ramadass, Dilip Raghavan, Steven White
Принадлежит: Ashok Ramadass, Dilip Raghavan, Steven White

The method uses several steps to collect, analyze, compare, and flag an image for inappropriate content. The image is first collected based on detection and is analyzed via a database of inappropriate images. The collected image is scanned for skin-tone and/or texture, then the method eliminates the background of the image. The method then analyzes the curvature of the image. The next step is body part detection for inappropriate body parts. The image is then given a score based on all of the above steps. If the score is above a point, the image is flagged. If it is below a preselected point, the image is released. If the score is between the two points, it is withheld for further analysis.

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Номер записи: 75
13-09-2012 дата публикации

Dynamically indentifying individuals from a captured image

Номер: US20120230540A1
Автор: Erik Stephen Ross, Matthew A. Calman
Принадлежит: Bank of America Corp

Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and apparatuses for capturing a real-time video stream using a mobile device, determining, using a processor, which images from the real-time video stream are associated with individuals meeting a user defined criteria, and presenting on a display of the real-time video stream, one or more indicators, each indicator being associated with an image determined to be a person meeting the predefined criteria.

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Номер записи: 76
13-09-2012 дата публикации

Apparatus and method for detecting eye state

Номер: US20120230553A1
Автор: Deepak Chandra Bijalwan
Принадлежит: LG Innotek Co Ltd

The present invention is directed to an eye state detecting apparatus and method, that is, including the step of preliminarily discriminating an eye opening and an eye closure by setting an automatic threshold from an eye region and thus dividing an image, and obtaining boundary points of divided zones and using an ellipse most properly equal to the boundary points and consecutively the step of in a case preliminarily discriminated as the eye closure, if an eye closure time is greater than a preset threshold time, the eye state is discriminated into an eye closure, and if not greater, discriminated into an eye blinking.

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Номер записи: 77
13-09-2012 дата публикации

Automatic quantitative vessel analysis

Номер: US20120230565A1
Автор: Alexander Steinberg, David Tolkowsky, Eldad Klaiman, Jacob Blank, Ran Cohen, Sagiv PHILIPP
Принадлежит: Sync Rx Ltd

Apparatus and methods are described for use with an image of blood vessels of a subject. In response to a user designating a single point on the image (a) a target portion of a blood vessel is automatically identified in the vicinity of the designated point, and (b) quantitative vessel analysis is performed on the target portion of the blood vessel. An output is generated based upon the quantitative vessel analysis. Other embodiments are also described.

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Номер записи: 78
20-09-2012 дата публикации

Locking and unlocking a mobile device using facial recognition

Номер: US20120235790A1
Автор: Lihua Zhao, Richard Tsai
Принадлежит: Apple Inc

In an embodiment of the invention, an unlocked mobile device is configured to capture images, analyze the images to detect a user's face, and automatically lock the device in response to determining that a user's face does not appear in the images. The camera capturing and face recognition processing may be triggered by the device having detected that it has been motionless for a threshold period of time. In another embodiment, a locked mobile device is configured to capture an initial image using its camera, capture a new image in response to detecting movement of the device, determine that the device moved to a use position, capture a subsequent image in response to determining that the device moved to a use position, analyze the subsequent image to detect a user's face, and unlock the device in response to detecting the user's face. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

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Номер записи: 79
20-09-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Номер: US20120237089A1
Автор: Satoshi Okamura
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

Provided is an image processing apparatus including a segmentation unit configured to segment image data into a plurality of segments to create a plurality of segmented image data, a detection unit configured to execute face detection processing for detecting a face area from image data before being segmented and each of the plurality of segmented image data, a recognition unit configured to execute recognition processing for determining whether the face detected by the detection unit is a face of a registered person, in each of the plurality of segmented image data, and a control unit configured to control whether to cause the recognition unit to execute the recognition processing as to each of the plurality of segmented image data depending on a result of the face detection in the image data before being segmented.

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Номер записи: 80
20-09-2012 дата публикации

Fake-finger determination device

Номер: US20120237091A1
Автор: Yoichi Nakamura
Принадлежит: NEC Corp

Fingerprint images that are required for fake-finger determination can be acquired with a single input operation, and the user-friendliness and the determination accuracy of a fake-finger are improved. This device has moving means for moving a sensor surface, on which a finger as a determination object is placed, relatively to the finger, sensing means for acquiring fingerprint images of the finger before and after the sensor surface is moved, derivation means for obtaining a deformation level of the fingerprint before and after the sensor surface is moved based on two types of fingerprint images obtained by the sensing means, storage means for storing a deformation threshold related to the deformation level of the fingerprint to determine whether the finger on the sensor surface is a real finger or a fake-finger, and determination means for determining whether the finger placed on the sensor surface is a real finger or a fake-finger based on comparison results of the deformation level of the fingerprint obtained by the derivation means and the deformation threshold.

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Номер записи: 81
27-09-2012 дата публикации

Login method based on direction of gaze

Номер: US20120243729A1
Автор: Jerome Pasquero
Принадлежит: Research in Motion Ltd

A method of authenticating a user of a computing device is proposed, together with computing device on which the method is implemented. A plurality of objects is displayed on a display screen. The plurality of objects includes at least objects that make up a sequence of objects pre-selected as the user's passcode. In response to a trigger signal an image of the user's face is captured while looking at one of the objects on the display screen. A determination of which object is in the direction of the user's gaze is made from the photograph and whether or not the gaze is on the correct object in the sequence of the passcode. This is repeated for each object in the sequence of the passcode.

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Номер записи: 82
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Surveillance System

Номер: US20120249787A1
Автор: Mahesh B. Patel, Manlio Allegra, Martin Feuerstein
Принадлежит: Polaris Wireless Inc

Data from a wireless network location system is used in conjunction with the known geographic location of a video surveillance area such that the system according to the present invention infers that a person who appears in an image in the video is the user of a mobile phone estimated to be at the person's location. When facial recognition is applied and the person's identity is thus recognized, an association is generated as between the identity according to the facial recognition and the identity of the co-located mobile phone. This association can be critical when there is no personal identification available for a mobile phone such as a pre-paid mobile.

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Номер записи: 83
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Use of low global warming potential (lgwp) solvents for finger print development applications

Номер: US20120251703A1
Автор: Andrew Joseph Poss, Cheryl Cantlon, David Nalewajek, Rajiv Ratna Singh
Принадлежит: Honeywell International Inc

Developing compositions are provided herein for use in producing a visibly detectable image of a latent physiological biometric. The developing compositions include a carrier solvent that includes at least one C 3 -C 4 hydrofluorocarbon olefin or at least one hydrochlorofluorocarbon olefin.

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Номер записи: 84
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Electronic brain model with neuron tables

Номер: US20120254087A1
Автор: Thomas A. Visel
Принадлежит: Neuric Tech LLC

A method of emulating the human brain with its thought and rationalization processes is presented here, as well as a method of storing human-like thought. The invention provides for inclusion of psychological profiles, experience and societal position in an electronic emulation of the human brain. This permits a realistic human-like response by that emulation to the people and the interactive environment around it.

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Номер записи: 85
11-10-2012 дата публикации

Face recognition system and method using face pattern words and face pattern bytes

Номер: US20120257800A1
Автор: Yufeng Zheng
Принадлежит: Alcorn State University

The present invention provides a novel system and method for identifying individuals and for face recognition utilizing facial features for face identification. The system and method of the invention comprise creating facial features or face patterns called face pattern words and face pattern bytes for face identification. The invention also provides for pattern recognitions for identification other than face recognition. The invention further provides a means for identifying individuals based on visible and/or thermal images of those individuals by utilizing computer software implemented by instructions on a computer or computer system and a computer readable medium containing instructions on a computer system for face recognition and identification.

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Номер записи: 86
18-10-2012 дата публикации

Manually-assisted detection of redeye artifacts

Номер: US20120263378A1
Автор: Kunal A. Desai, Matthew D. Gaubatz, Stephen L. Laszlo
Принадлежит: Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

A machine-implemented method of processing an input image includes receiving user input that manually identifies a location in the input image that corresponds to a potential redeye artifact. A set of detected redeye artifacts in the input image is received. One of the detected redeye artifacts that is closest to the manually identified location is identified. The identified detected redeye artifact is stored in a list of redeye artifacts that are identified with manual assistance if the identified detected redeye artifact is within a threshold distance from the manually identified location.

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Номер записи: 87
25-10-2012 дата публикации

Method for finding paths in video

Номер: US20120268594A1
Автор: Andrew J. Chosak, Li Yu, Niels Haering, Zeeshan Rasheed
Принадлежит: Objectvideo Inc

A system for detecting behavior of a target may include: a target detection engine, adapted to detect at least one target from one or more objects from a video surveillance system recording a scene; a path builder, adapted to create at least one mature path model from analysis of the behavior of a plurality of targets in the scene, wherein the at least one mature path model includes a model of expected target behavior with respect to the at least one path model; and a target behavior analyzer, adapted to analyze and identify target behavior with respect to the at least one mature path model. The system may further include an alert generator, adapted to generate an alert based on the identified behavior.

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Номер записи: 88
25-10-2012 дата публикации

Methods and systems for analyzing the quality of digital signature confirmation images

Номер: US20120269401A1
Автор: Robert S. Zimmerman
Принадлежит: US Postal Service (USPS)

Methods and systems for evaluating an imager that produces bi-chrome images from a scanner or a digital imaging device, the bi-chrome images having pixels of a first and second color. In one embodiment, a method includes generating an image with a hand-held imaging device, the image having pixels of a first color and a second color, analyzing the image to determine information about particles of the first and second color contained in the image, each particle comprising contiguous pixels of the same color, the particle information comprising information on first and second color particle size and count, and determining if the image is unacceptable based on predetermined objective criteria and the particle information.

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Номер записи: 89
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Milking Box With Robotic Attacher

Номер: US20120272910A1
Автор: Henk Hofman, Peter Willem Van Der Sluis, Ype Groensma
Принадлежит: TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS CORP

In certain embodiments, a system includes a front wall, a rear wall positioned substantially parallel to the front wall, and first and second side walls each extending between the front wall and the rear wall. The first side wall includes a gate, and the second side wall is spaced apart from the first side wall such that the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall define a milking box stall of a size sufficient to accommodate a dairy livestock. The system includes an equipment portion located adjacent to the rear wall. The equipment portion houses a robotic attacher configured to extend between the rear legs of a dairy livestock located within the milking box stall in order to attach milking equipment to the dairy livestock.

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Номер записи: 90
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for detecting and processing specific pattern from image

Номер: US20120275650A1
Автор: Hiroshi Sato, Kan Torii, Katsuhiko Mori, Masakazu Matsugu, Yusuke Mitarai
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

In an image within which a face pattern is detected, when a ratio of a skin color pixel is equal to or smaller than a first threshold value in a first region and a ratio of a skin color pixel is equal to or greater than a second threshold value in a second r region, the vicinity of the first region is determined to be a face candidate position at which the face pattern can exist. Face detection is carried out on the face candidate position. The second region is arranged in a predetermined position relative to the first region.

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Номер записи: 91
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Calibration for stereoscopic capture system

Номер: US20120275667A1
Автор: Cheng Lu
Принадлежит: Aptina Imaging Corp

Apparatus and a method for generating a rectified image. First pixel information corresponding to a first image is received from a first imager. Second pixel information corresponding to a second image is received from a second imager. A plurality of facial feature points of a portrait in each of the first and second images are identified. A fundamental matrix is generated based on the detected facial features. An essential matrix is generated based on the fundamental matrix. Rotational and translational information corresponding to the first and second imagers are generated based on the essential matrix. The rotational and translational information are applied to at least one of the first and second images to generate at least one rectified image.

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Номер записи: 92
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Alertness testing method and apparatus

Номер: US20120278766A1
Автор: R. Kemp Massengill
Принадлежит: Individual

A method and apparatus for detecting the alertness of an equipment operator by displaying a moving icon, and asking the operator to track the movements of the icon, either by following it with the eyes in a head mounted display, or by following it with a finger on a touch screen. The operator's performance can be measured by tracking the gaze of the operator's eyes, or by tracking the operator's finger movements. The performance of the operator can be compared to that particular person's history of test results, or to a data base of test results of other operators. The characteristics of the icon can be varied, and distractions can be provided on the display or screen. Control of the display or screen, tracking of the operator's eyes or finger, and analysis of the test results, can all be performed by a computer.

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Номер записи: 93
08-11-2012 дата публикации

Solid state image pick-up device

Номер: US20120281125A1
Автор: Hiroaki Ohkubo, Yasutaka Nakashiba
Принадлежит: Individual

The solid state image pick-up device comprises a chip wherein an object to be photographed is put directly on the back surface of the chip, a light incident on the object enters the inner portion of the chip, signal electric charges generated in the inner portion of the chip by the light, the signal electric charges are collected in a photo detective region and the photo detective region has a barrier diffusion layer adjacent thereto so as to collect the signal electric charges effectively. The above-mentioned structure of the solid state image pick-up device can provide superior features that the chip of the solid state image pick-up device is protected from the deterioration of elements included in the chip and the destruction of the elements by Electro Static Discharge, resulting in the reliability improvement of the chip.

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Номер записи: 94
08-11-2012 дата публикации

Method, material, and apparatus to improve acquisition of human frontal face images using image template

Номер: US20120281874A1
Автор: Yuan-Ming F. Lure
Принадлежит: Individual

The present invention provides a method and apparatus to improve the image acquisition by utilizing frontal facial image template to improve acquisition of human frontal facial images. Once image data is pre-reviewed in a display window from a human frontal facial image, the data is subjected to this biometric template matching process to allow users to aim the image capture device to features of human face such as eyes, nose, mouth, eyes, etc. This biometric template can guide users to properly position target object on image capture device, to properly position frontal facial features on image capture device, and to fast position target in the right position. Once the frontal facial images are captured, it can improve automatic image matching between two images. It provides the highest quality of the captured facial images to be prepared for face matching with strong confidence.

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Номер записи: 95
08-11-2012 дата публикации

Electronic apparatus and image display method

Номер: US20120281888A1
Автор: Kenichi Tabe
Принадлежит: Toshiba Corp

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a viewer image generating module, a viewer recognition module, a group extraction module, and an image display module. The viewer image generating module generates an image of a viewer by capturing the image of the viewer. The viewer recognition module detects a face image in the generated image and recognizes the viewer corresponding to the detected face image. The group extraction module extracts, from a plurality of groups each including still images, groups including at least one of a still image including the face image of the viewer and a still image imported by the viewer. The image display module displays still images in the extracted groups on a screen.

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Номер записи: 96
08-11-2012 дата публикации

Method for dynamically setting environmental boundary in image and method for instantly determining human activity

Номер: US20120281918A1
Автор: Kai-Tai Song, Wei-Jyun Chen
Принадлежит: National Chiao Tung University NCTU

The present invention provides a method for dynamically setting an environmental boundary in an image and a method for instantly determining human activity according to the method for dynamically setting the environmental boundary. The method for instantly determining human activity includes the steps of retrieving at least an initial environmental image with a predetermined angle, and calculating a boundary setting equation of an object and an environmental boundary in the initial environmental image; retrieving a dynamic environmental image having the object by using a movable platform, and figuring out a new environmental boundary; determining a human image in the dynamic environmental image, recording retention time of the human image, and determining a human posture; and determining human location according to the environmental boundary in the dynamic environmental image and the human image, and instantly determining the human activity.

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Номер записи: 97
08-11-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus to detect coronary artery calcification or disease

Номер: US20120283530A1
Автор: Baqiyyah Conway, John D. Maynard, Nathaniel Matter, Trevor Orchard
Принадлежит: Individual

Coronary artery calcification (CAC) occurs at an earlier age in diabetes and is a risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) in subjects with or without diabetes. One postulated mechanism for the increased CAC is the accelerated accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in the vasculature. As certain collagen AGEs fluoresce, skin intrinsic fluorescence (SIF) can act as a novel maker of collagen AGEs levels. The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for detecting SIF that can be a useful marker of CAD risk and a therapeutic target.

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Номер записи: 98
15-11-2012 дата публикации

Multi-touch input discrimination

Номер: US20120287074A1
Автор: Wayne Carl Westerman
Принадлежит: Individual

Techniques for identifying and discriminating between different types of contacts to a multi-touch touch-screen device are described. Illustrative contact types include fingertips, thumbs, palms and cheeks. By way of example, thumb contacts may be distinguished from fingertip contacts using a patch eccentricity parameter. In addition, by non-linearly deemphasizing pixels in a touch-surface image, a reliable means of distinguishing between large objects (e.g., palms) from smaller objects (e.g., fingertips, thumbs and a stylus) is described.

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Номер записи: 99
22-11-2012 дата публикации

Component mounting system, image recognition data preparation apparatus, and image recognition data preparation method

Номер: US20120293648A1
Автор: Atsushi Tanabe, Hirotake Nakayama
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

It is an objective to provide a component mounting system capable of enhancing work efficiency by diminishing work load stemming from preparation of image recognition data, an image recognition data preparation apparatus, and an image recognition data preparation method. A line camera structurally similar to a line camera used in a component mounting machine outputs image data while a component is irradiated with reflective illumination light and transmissive illumination light. The thus-output image data are acquired and subjected to recognition processing, to thus prepare image recognition data on the basis of a result of recognition processing. Subsequently, a recognition test using the thus-prepared image recognition data is performed, thereby determining whether or not the image recognition data are appropriate. A recognition test which would be performed in an actual component mounting machine thereby becomes unnecessary. Data readjustment operation which would be required when a result of recognition test is determined to be inappropriate is precluded, so that work efficiency can be enhanced by diminishing work load stemming from preparation of image recognition data.

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Номер записи: 100