| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,526,154 |
Cover for optical fibers and/or optical devices Apparatus and methods are provided for controlling a light emission from an end of an optical fiber by utilizing a cover that blocks the light emission at the... |
| US-7,526,153 |
Optical element device and two-dimensional optical waveguide device and
optoelectronic circuit board using the same An optical element device comprises an optical element and an optical path transforming structure for changing a light proceeding direction in order to couple... |
| US-7,526,152 |
Substrate for mounting IC chip, substrate for motherboard, device for
optical communication, manufacturing... The present invention aims to provide a substrate for mounting an IC chip, on which an optical signal passing region is formed and which can suppress a... |
| US-7,526,151 |
Highly symmetric optical structures An intermediate structure used to form an integrated optics device comprising a substrate, a cladding on the substrate, at least one real waveguide on the... |
| US-7,526,150 |
Deployment of electro-optic amplitude varying elements (AVES) and
electro-optic multi-functional elements... Electro-optic amplitude varying elements (AVEs) or electro-optic multi-function elements (MFEs) are integrated into signal channels of photonic integrated... |
| US-7,526,149 |
Dual wavelength strain-temperature Brillouin sensing system and method An optical fiber strain-temperature sensing system includes first and second optical sources respectively generating first and second light signals having... |
| US-7,526,148 |
High-sensitivity fiber-compatible optical acoustic sensor An acoustic sensor includes at least one photonic crystal structure having at least one optical resonance with a resonance frequency and a resonance lineshape.... |
| US-7,526,147 |
Sensor array for perimeter defense An intensity modulated broadband optical signal source is arranged to produce optical signals in a plurality of wavelength bands. A demultiplexer/multiplexer... |
| US-7,526,146 |
Electro-optical modulator and a method for manufacturing the same An electro-optical modulator is provided. The electro-optical modulator has a substrate. A first insulator layer, an optical waveguide, a first doped... |
| US-7,526,145 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same Provided is an optical scanning device, including a light source, an incident optical system for allowing a light beam emitted from the light source to enter a... |
| US-7,526,144 |
Image processing method, image expansion method, image output method,
image conversion method, image processing... An image processing method generating a single image group file from a plurality of still images, by setting an output sequence of the plurality of still images,... |
| US-7,526,143 |
Imaging method A method which, while displacing the field-of-view, allows the image in a target area to be acquired without degradations such as out-of-focus of the image.... |
| US-7,526,142 |
Enhancement of decompressed video A method and apparatus for enhancing the video quality of compressed video signals adaptively removes distortions and ringing effects embedded in the... |
| US-7,526,141 |
Correcting image gradation based on neighboring pixels The invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. An area to which image data belongs is discriminated, and a correction... |
| US-7,526,140 |
Model-based localization and measurement of miniature surface mount
components A system and method for object inspection includes an object modeler; an iterative object segmentor in signal communication with the object modeler for receiving... |
| US-7,526,139 |
Image processing for improving character readability of characters
disposed on an image An image processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores a background image and a character image that is separate from the background image and overlaps the... |
| US-7,526,138 |
Context based adaptive image resampling A resampling process uses a predictive model to capture the spatial correlation among pixels in an input image, thus enabling adaptation of resampling schemes to... |
| US-7,526,137 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing
program, and storage medium A domain block image is extracted from an original image by a domain block extracting section, and the domain block image is classified by a domain block... |
| US-7,526,136 |
Faster transforms using early aborts and precision refinements Fast transforms that use early aborts and precision refinements are disclosed. When to perform a corrective action is detected based upon testing the incremental... |
| US-7,526,135 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage
medium An image processing apparatus includes an image composition unit configured to generate a composite image by compositing first and second images, a specification... |
| US-7,526,134 |
Image processing apparatus, program, recording medium, and data
decompression method An image processing apparatus includes a decompressing unit decompressing image data having a first data compression format, an obtaining unit obtaining a second... |
| US-7,526,133 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus comprises a compression coding unit that performs compression coding of image data according to JPEG2000 algorithm. A coding style... |
| US-7,526,132 |
Apparatus, method, storage medium and data structure for identifying and
storing data An apparatus, a method, a data structure and a storage medium with a program are for identifying and storing image data and/or metadata. The apparatus includes... |
| US-7,526,131 |
Image processing apparatus and methods A method is provided of processing digital image data representing an image of an object to determine data representing a boundary for said object, the method... |
| US-7,526,130 |
Signal processing in barcode reading with a wavelet transformation A method for processing a digital signal obtained in a barcode reading operation comprises a step of applying a wavelet transformation to the digital signal. The... |
| US-7,526,129 |
Lifting ink annotations from paper A computer-implemented system for obtaining ink annotations from paper comprises a comparator that compares an initial electronic version of a document with an... |
| US-7,526,128 |
Line extraction in digital ink A method and system of line extraction in a digital ink sequence of handwritten text data points, the method including the steps of: obtaining are provided in... |
| US-7,526,127 |
Image segmentation apparatus, image segmentation method, and image
segmentation integrated circuit with low... In a boundary active only scheme proposed by the present invention, only a cell in a boundary of region growth is brought into an active mode, and the other... |
| US-7,526,126 |
Color duplication method and apparatus Method and apparatus for duplicating a target color and changing a color of an object to match the target color. A first color sensor measures the target color.... |
| US-7,526,125 |
Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data The present invention provides for a method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data. According to one embodiment of the present invention,... |
| US-7,526,124 |
Match MSB digital image compression Methods, apparatus and computer readable medium are described that compress and/or decompress a digital image in a lossless or a lossy manner. In some... |
| US-7,526,123 |
Estimating facial pose from a sparse representation A method for accurately estimating a pose of the human head in natural scenes utilizing positions of the prominent facial features relative to the position of... |
| US-7,526,122 |
Information inputting/specifying method and information
inputting/specifying device An object surface is imaged by an imaging unit (11) and, based on the imaging information by the imaging unit (11), the information corresponding to the object... |
| US-7,526,121 |
Three-dimensional visual sensor Slit light is projected onto the surface of an object, the reflected light is received using a video camera and analyzed by means of an image processor to... |
| US-7,526,120 |
System and method for providing intelligent airbag deployment A sensor system is provided for determining a deployment level of an airbag in a vehicle. A light source of the sensor system emits light onto a region around a... |
| US-7,526,119 |
Pattern inspection apparatus With a pattern inspection apparatus, image data corresponding to all patterns on an inspection target plate can be generated on the basis of scanned pattern data... |
| US-7,526,118 |
Digital video optical inspection apparatus and method for vertically
sectioning an object's surface A method for generating a vertical section of an object surface under inspection by a digital optical-video inspection system movable along a vertical Z axis,... |
| US-7,526,117 |
Method for remote check capture A method of enabling remote deposit of checks includes receiving at a second site a plurality of check images and a plurality of entered dollar amounts, wherein... |
| US-7,526,116 |
Automated microscopic sperm identification A method and device for automatically identifying sperm cells in a smear on a microscope slide, including capturing a first digital color image within an area of... |
| US-7,526,115 |
System and method for toboggan based object segmentation using divergent
gradient field response in images A method and device for segmenting one or more candidates in an image having image elements is disclosed. The method includes identifying a location for one of... |
| US-7,526,114 |
Analysis, secure access to, and transmission of array images Systems and methods are provided the autocentering, autofocusing, acquiring, decoding, aligning, analyzing and exchanging among various parties, images, where... |
| US-7,526,113 |
Method for processing an image sequence of a distortable 3-D object to
yield indications of the object wall... An image processing method for processing a sequence of images of a distortable 3-D Object, each image being registered at a corresponding image instant within... |
| US-7,526,112 |
System and method for facilitating cardiac intervention One embodiment discloses a computerized method of facilitating cardiac intervention, comprising inputting patient data, creating a computerized interactive model... |
| US-7,526,111 |
Personal identification device and method A personal identification device and method prevent the reduction in the finger vein recognition rate which otherwise occur due to erroneous insertion of a... |
| US-7,526,110 |
Biometric information authentication device, biometric information
authentication method, and computer-readable... For personal authentication using biometric information, to allow for unfailing authentication without increasing verification time even for an authentication... |
| US-7,526,109 |
Fingerprint scanner with translating scan head An input device with an optical scanner for use in capturing biometric images such as fingerprints. The user places the biometric image on the platen window.... |
| US-7,526,108 |
Wireless data management system A portable electronic data management and transport system includes a base unit and a wireless remote unit. The wireless remote unit can incorporate a graphic... |
| US-7,526,107 |
Card issuing system, card issuing method, and machine readable medium
storing thereon card issuing program A card issuing system that performs personal authentication efficiently and with high accuracy. The card issuing system includes: a personal card reading unit... |
| US-7,526,106 |
Method of tracking images captured with a digital camera A method of tracking images captured by a digital camera includes inputting a profile marker to a profile information database in the digital camera,... |
| US-7,526,105 |
Security alarm system Security system which includes motion detectors connected to cameras which are connected to a computer which is connected to a data communication device that... |