Searching:
Search by keyword, patent number, inventor, assignee, city or state:
| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,054,524 |
Asymmetric photonic crystal waveguide element having symmetric mode fields A slab photonic crystal waveguide that preserves the parity of guided modes. The waveguide includes a photonic crystal layer interposed between two dielectric... |
| US-7,054,523 |
Optical waveguide member and optical module The present invention has an object of enhancing the tolerance of setup positioning error of an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer which uses a multi-mode optical... |
| US-7,054,522 |
Bidirectional optical recirculation loop transmitting device This apparatus of bidirectional optical recirculation loop transmission enables bidirectional transmission system to be tested in the long transmission distance.... |
| US-7,054,521 |
Architecture for large optical fiber array using standard 1.times.2
couplers Sensor arrays utilizing standard 1.times.2 couplers reduce the differences in the returned optical power levels by appropriate selection of the coupling ratios.... |
| US-7,054,520 |
Planar array optical switch and method An optical switch device includes a first array (20) of reflectors (22), each associated with a separate optical fiber input (12), and a second array (30) of... |
| US-7,054,519 |
Reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexers with integrated power
equalization Described are various optical, opto-electrical and electrical components and subsystems. Some embodiments include input and output waveguides supporting opposing... |
| US-7,054,518 |
Etalon assembly tuned by applying counterbalanced compression forces A compressive force is applied to a conventional air-spaced etalon filter to fine tune the thickness of the spacers to a precise and uniform optical length. The... |
| US-7,054,517 |
Multiple-wavelength optical source An apparatus comprises: a planar optical waveguide having sets of locking diffractive elements and means for routing optical signals; and corresponding lasers.... |
| US-7,054,516 |
Integrated optical device An integrated optical device includes a substrate, at least a face of the substrate providing a first cladding layer, the first cladding layer including a mesa... |
| US-7,054,515 |
Diffractive light modulator-based dynamic equalizer with integrated
spectral monitor An integrated device of the present invention comprises free-space optics, a bi-directional multiplexor/de-multiplexor, a diffractive light modulator, a beam... |
| US-7,054,514 |
Optical waveguide sensor, device, system and method for glucose
measurement An optical waveguide sensor for glucose measurement comprises a substrate, a first optical waveguide layer formed on a surface of the substrate, an entrance... |
| US-7,054,513 |
Optical fiber with quantum dots Holey optical fibers (e.g. photonic fibers, random-hole fibers) are fabricated with quantum dots disposed in the holes. The quantum dots can provide light... |
| US-7,054,512 |
Optical waveguide, optical device, and method of manufacturing optical
waveguide An optical waveguide is formed on a substrate and includes a curved ridge structure, a curved optical path, and a buffer layer. The curved ridge structure is... |
| US-7,054,511 |
Optical coupling device for single mode optical fibers A device for coupling incident radiation to a single mode fiber optic a solid state interferormeter having a front end similar to a Mach-Zehnder integrated... |
| US-7,054,510 |
Handwriting recognition system In order to improve the accuracy of recognition of hand-written input using a stylus, output signals from a plurality of accelerometers representing x and y axis... |
| US-7,054,509 |
Determining form identification through the spatial relationship of input
data The present invention is a method and system for automated form identification in a forms processing application. Aspects of the form are not used in identifying... |
| US-7,054,508 |
Data editing apparatus and method An apparatus which automatically generates a digital album by using binary data with meta data. One of previously-provided scenarios and an image data group to... |
| US-7,054,507 |
Method of kernel selection for image interpolation A method of interpolating image data is disclosed. The method accesses a first set of discrete sample values of the image data and calculates kernel values for... |
| US-7,054,506 |
Pattern measuring method and measuring system using display microscope
image A method of measuring a pattern by using a display microscope image comprises a step of setting an edge detection reference line by designating a range of... |
| US-7,054,505 |
Composite Hough transform for multitarget multisensor tracking A system and method for tracking multiple targets using distributed linear sensor arrays. The system includes a plurality of arrays of sensors for receiving... |
| US-7,054,504 |
Relative optical path phase reconstruction in the correction of misfocused
images using fractional powers of... Reconstructing relative phase information in a misfocused image correction process for misfocused image data having image amplitude information, but lacking... |
| US-7,054,503 |
Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing
program In the present invention, 2N pixels (having signal levels V.sub.1 through V.sub.8), including a boundary pixel, that consist of N pixels on each side of a... |
| US-7,054,502 |
Image restoration apparatus by the iteration method The transposed filter of the image degrading filter is calculated, and a residual gradient image is calculated by the convolution operation of the transposed... |
| US-7,054,501 |
Estimating noise for a digital image utilizing updated statistics A method of estimating noise in a digital image receiving a digital image; providing a first statistical table related to noise provided by an image source; and... |
| US-7,054,500 |
Video compression and decompression system with postfilter to filter
coding artifacts A video compression and decompression system has an input to receive an encoded video sequence and an output for a decoded video sequence. A video decoder is... |
| US-7,054,499 |
Correction data generation method and imaging apparatus A correction data generation method generates correction data used to correct the focal plane position of a lens in consideration of symmetry of PSF (point... |
| US-7,054,498 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding subband decompositions of
signals An aspect of the present invention includes a method of encoding coefficients of a subband decomposition, to prepare the coefficients for compression. Another... |
| US-7,054,497 |
Method and system for optimizing image sharpness during coding and image
enhancement The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling the quality of video data by selecting the optimal quantization parameter during encoding.... |
| US-7,054,496 |
Method and apparatus for displaying arbitrarily magnified high resolution
images using compressed domain processing A method for efficiently processing image data for display on a computer monitor is provided. The method initiates with reading image data in a compressed format... |
| US-7,054,495 |
Image data coding and/or decoding system capable of high-efficient coding An image data coding system comprises a screen-area determining means for determining the area of a screen reproduced on the basis of an input image data; a... |
| US-7,054,494 |
Coded block pattern decoding with spatial prediction The coded block parameters used to code blocks of image samples into structures called macroblocks are compressed more efficiently by exploiting the correlation... |
| US-7,054,493 |
Context generation A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer,... |
| US-7,054,492 |
Fast regular shaped pattern searching An accumulation method for fast pattern search can accurately locate regular shaped patterns of interest. The method can be used for invariant search to match... |
| US-7,054,491 |
Scalable architecture for corresponding multiple video streams at frame
rate An image processing system which processes, in real time, multiple images, which are different views of the same object, of video data in order to match features... |
| US-7,054,490 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing system An image processing apparatus prepares dot cluster within block by pixel value shift to determine phase quantity every pixel value block at the time of... |
| US-7,054,489 |
Apparatus and method for image recognition An object recognizing apparatus is provided which is capable of precisely recognizing an object in an input image with the use of a corresponding learning image... |
| US-7,054,488 |
Method for determining transparency in images extraction A method for determining transparency in image extraction creates a first mask bitmap by combining a first image and a second image, wherein the first image and... |
| US-7,054,487 |
Controlling and electronic device An electronic device (200), such as a computer, a mobile phone or a PDA, is controlled by an arrangement comprising a handheld input unit (300), which records... |
| US-7,054,486 |
Image processing method, system, computer program and data carrier An image processing system is arranged to process an array of pixels. The array is scanned in a sequential manner, pixel by pixel, each pixel being scanned only... |
| US-7,054,485 |
Image processing method, apparatus and system A method for detecting edges in an image is disclosed along with corresponding apparatus and system for accurately extracting edges in the image. The edge... |
| US-7,054,484 |
Guided color correction system The invention relates to digital image enhancement, and more precisely to a guided color correction system that produces a desirable image display and... |
| US-7,054,483 |
Methods for selecting high visual contrast colors in user-interface design The invention relates to assessing the level of visual contrast between foreground and background in visually presented information, and more particularly, to a... |
| US-7,054,482 |
Smart masking tool for image processing Smart selection and paste operations for image processing use a wide edge area for selection and masking of an object from a source image. The wide edge area,... |
| US-7,054,481 |
Automatic person meta-data labeller A method 214 of identifying an object in a target image is disclosed, the method comprising steps of selecting 400 a part of the object having a distinctive... |
| US-7,054,480 |
System and method for process variation monitor A method to extend the process monitoring capabilities of a semiconductor wafer optical inspection system so as to be able to detect low-resolution effects of... |
| US-7,054,479 |
Segmenting three-dimensional video images using stereo The present invention is a method and apparatus to segment a three-dimensional scene having foreground and background regions. Regions in stereo images of the... |
| US-7,054,478 |
Image conversion and encoding techniques A method of producing a depth map for use in the conversion of 2D images into stereoscopic images including the steps of: identifying at least one object within... |
| US-7,054,477 |
Automatic accurate alignment method for a semiconductor wafer cutting
apparatus An automatic accurate alignment method for a wafer cutting apparatus includes: (a) placing a wafer on a platform, and moving the platform and a camera unit to... |
| US-7,054,476 |
Apparatus for automatically setting measurement reference element and
measuring geometric feature of image In a measurement processing apparatus for measuring a geometric feature of an object image: a measurement-reference-element setting unit automatically sets at... |
| US-7,054,475 |
Apparatus and method for volumetric reconstruction of a cyclically moving
object A method for volumetric reconstruction of a cyclically moving object using a computed tomography (CT) system includes scanning a cyclically moving object with a... |
Copyright 2008−2012 Patents.com
