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| US-7,194,165 |
Arrayed waveguide grating and optical communication system using arrayed
waveguide grating An arrayed waveguide element having flat optical frequency characteristics, and an optical communication system using such arrayed waveguide element are realized... |
| US-7,194,164 |
Distributed optical structures with improved diffraction efficiency and/or
improved optical coupling An optical apparatus comprises a planar optical waveguide having at least one set of diffractive elements and confining in at least one transverse spatial... |
| US-7,194,163 |
Multi-layered structure characterization A method and an apparatus (10) for characterising a multi-layered structure (28) during formation of said multi-layered structure are disclosed. The method... |
| US-7,194,162 |
Filter response optimization for an arrayed waveguide grating device by
adjusting grating optical path length... A method of optimizing a filter response of an arrayed waveguide grating is disclosed. The method includes the step of measuring a respective phase error of a... |
| US-7,194,161 |
Wavelength-conserving grating router for intermediate wavelength density A wavelength router to be used for fiber optical networking router is based on a diffraction grating which utilizes only N wavelengths to interconnect N inputs... |
| US-7,194,160 |
Filter module A filter module includes a first optical fiber collimator, a second optical fiber collimator, and a filter located between the first and second optical fiber... |
| US-7,194,159 |
Asymmetric optical circulator An asymmetric optical circulator has three ports: a first fiber optic port, a second free space port, and a third fiber optic port. Light entering the first port... |
| US-7,194,158 |
Method for producing light-scattering structures on flat optical
waveguides A method for producing light-scattering structures on flat optical waveguides into which light can be coupled for making the light-scattering structures visible.... |
| US-7,194,157 |
Method and apparatus providing an output coupler for an optical beam An optical output coupler having a reflector integrated in an evanescent coupler. In one aspect of the present invention, an apparatus according to an embodiment... |
| US-7,194,156 |
High bit rate optical communication over multimode fibers An optical communication system includes a transmitter that receives an input optical signal from an optical source and performs filtering so that an output... |
| US-7,194,155 |
Adaptive control for mitigating interference in a multimode transmission
medium Optical data is processed and transmitted in a multimode transmission medium in a manner that facilitates the mitigation of interference such as that often... |
| US-7,194,154 |
Optical connector A rotatable connector comprises a plurality of optically conductive light rings adapted to mount to a first rotatable component; a plurality of light emitters... |
| US-7,194,153 |
Optical switch device An optical switch device for driving a movable member mounting a light reflection member thereon by a magnetic drive circuit, wherein, in an optical waveguide... |
| US-7,194,152 |
Micro mirror and method of manufacturing the same A micro mirror and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The micro mirror includes a silicon substrate having a first slant plane and a second slant... |
| US-7,194,151 |
Optical media detector and method of operation thereof An optical media detector, for use in a media transport mechanism, the detector comprising a light source and an optical sensor, is described. The light source... |
| US-7,194,150 |
Optical modulation element module The present invention provides an optical modulation element module capable of stably operating for long periods without limiting the operating conditions. An... |
| US-7,194,149 |
System and method for image compression, storage, and retrieval A system and method for compressing and storing image data. The system and method creates for each of a plurality of original images a plurality of resultant... |
| US-7,194,148 |
Technique for providing simulated vision A visual simulation technique is provided to facilitate visual activities, such as reading and movement of a subject through surroundings, for sight-impaired... |
| US-7,194,147 |
Methods and systems for improving display resolution in achromatic images
using sub-pixel sampling and visual... Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for converting an achromatic, higher-resolution image to a lower-resolution image with reduced... |
| US-7,194,146 |
Automated system and method for processing of astronomical images This invention encompasses near-real-time processing of astronomical images for viewing on a computer. This image processing method is preferably integrated with... |
| US-7,194,145 |
Method for contrast matching of multiple images of the same object or
scene to a common reference image A method of imaging and a system therefore are provided. The imaging system includes an image forming device for generating a first image and a second image and... |
| US-7,194,144 |
Document image processing device, document image merging method, and
storage medium recording a document image... A character region detecting unit detects respective character regions in a plurality of document images which are partitioned and read. A character recognizing... |
| US-7,194,143 |
Method of enhancement of the visual display of images and other visual
data records An digital image input, possibly being either pre-compressed or decompressed, is enhanced; its edges are preserved while any compression artifacts, like blocking... |
| US-7,194,142 |
Selective thickening of dark features by biased sharpening filters Processing of a pixel of a digital image includes sharpening a digital image, while boldening dark features in the digital image as a non-decreasing function of... |
| US-7,194,141 |
Image resolution conversion using pixel dropping A system for generating image conversion data is provided. The system includes a numerator buffer storing numerator data of a conversion ratio, such as where the... |
| US-7,194,140 |
Image processing apparatus and method which compresses image data of each
region using a selected encoding method This invention has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus, which can obviate the need for image re-input, can effectively generate encoded data... |
| US-7,194,139 |
Image compression A method of image compression, comprising: providing image-data encoding light; transforming said light from an image space to a transform space utilizing an... |
| US-7,194,138 |
Reduced-error processing of transformed digital data This invention solves problems due to employing error degraded data in digital processing. It particularly solves multi-generation problems wherein transform... |
| US-7,194,137 |
Variable length coding method and apparatus for video compression A method and an apparatus to encode a series of quantized coefficients of a transform of a block of image data. The transform is such that 0 is the most likely... |
| US-7,194,136 |
Decoding apparatus using tool information for constructing a decoding
algorithm A coding and decoding apparatus is constructed so that the coding side transmits coded data together with identifying information for identifying the device of... |
| US-7,194,135 |
Image recording device An image recording device that compresses and records image data is provided wherein noise reduction is recursively performed on the non-compressed image signals... |
| US-7,194,134 |
Hierarchical, probabilistic, localized, semantic image classifier Described herein is a technology for semantically classifying areas of an image (and/or the images themselves) as one of a number of multiple discriminating... |
| US-7,194,133 |
Methods for detecting similarity between images, voices, oscillation
waves, moving images, and solids and... Disclosed is a method for obtaining an accurate detected value of a similarity between images or the like. Original standard and input pattern matrices, each... |
| US-7,194,132 |
Method and system for detecting anomalies in multispectral and
hyperspectral imagery employing the normal... A method for detecting anomalies from multidimensional data comprises: a) receiving multidimensional data; b) estimating background parameters of a normal... |
| US-7,194,131 |
Image selection based on image content An image capture system comprises an image input and processing unit. The image input obtains image information which is then passed to the processing unit. The... |
| US-7,194,130 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and recording medium Conventionally, when a correction parameter is determined on the basis of the feature of an image obtained by analyzing image data, and the image is corrected,... |
| US-7,194,129 |
Method and system for color space conversion of patterned color images A method and system for converting a patterned color image in a first color space to a second color space, prior to image compression is provided. The process... |
| US-7,194,128 |
Data compression using principal components transformation A method for compressing and reconstructing a color image sequence using principal components transformation. Color image information for individual images from... |
| US-7,194,127 |
Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a
selected image A method and system that allows a user to find images using a query by example is disclosed. Images similar to the selected image are retrieved based on color or... |
| US-7,194,126 |
Realtime stereo and motion analysis on passive video images using an
efficient image-to-image comparison... A compact, inexpensive, real-time device for computing dense stereo range and motion field images, which are fundamental measurements supporting a wide range of... |
| US-7,194,125 |
System and method for interactively rendering objects with surface light
fields and view-dependent opacity A method renders a model of a 3D object. A polygon model of the 3D object is generated, and a set of input images are acquired of the object. For each vertex of... |
| US-7,194,124 |
Reconstruction and motion analysis of an embryo In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of optical sections of different parts of an embryo over time along a Z-axis through differential... |
| US-7,194,123 |
Method of detecting abnormal pattern candidates Processing for detecting an abnormal pattern candidate embedded in a medical image having been obtained from an image recording operation is performed on an... |
| US-7,194,122 |
Medical tomography apparatus for generating a 2D image from a 3D dataset
of a tomographic data A medical tomography apparatus and method, a 3D dataset is generated in as picture elements arranged in a three-dimensional grid during the examination of a... |
| US-7,194,121 |
Method of measuring a biomagnetic field, method of analyzing a measured
biomagnetic field, method of displaying... A biomagnetic field map display apparatus for measuring a biomagnetic field generated by a biotest sample at positions arranged in rows and columns and... |
| US-7,194,120 |
Methods and systems for image-guided placement of implants Methods and computer systems for determining the placement of an implant in a patient in need thereof comprising the step of analyzing intensity-based medical... |
| US-7,194,119 |
Method and system for retrieving a medical picture In a method and system for retrieving a medical image from a data base, an image processing algorithm is applied to a first medical image. The result of the... |
| US-7,194,118 |
System for optically sectioning and mapping surgically excised tissue A display (34) provides from digital images of an excised tissue specimen the orientation and location of tissue and regions of interest (cancers). Images of... |
| US-7,194,117 |
System and method for performing a three-dimensional virtual examination
of objects, such as internal organs Methods for generating a three-dimensional visualization image of an object, such as an internal organ, using volume visualization techniques are provided. The... |
| US-7,194,116 |
Fingerprint image reconstruction based on motion estimate across a narrow
fingerprint sensor A method for reconstructing a fingerprint image from a plurality of frames captured from swipe fingerprint sensor is disclosed. The method is based on a motion... |
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