| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,551,828 |
Optical transmission device for controlling optical level of transmission
signal in optical transmission system An optical transmission device includes: an attenuator that attenuates an optical signal before being input into an optical element by a predetermined... |
| US-7,551,827 |
Cable exit trough with insert A cable exit trough defining an insert aperture for receiving a modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management... |
| US-7,551,826 |
Integrated circuit employing low loss spot-size converter An integrated circuit is provided with a photonic device and a spot-size converter waveguide device integrated on a common substrate. The spot-size converter... |
| US-7,551,825 |
Colored optical fiber and evaluation method thereof A colored optical fiber whose transmission loss hardly increases even in a high humidity condition or water-immersed condition is provided. The colored optical... |
| US-7,551,824 |
Extended triangular lattice type photonic bandgap fiber An extended triangular lattice type photonic bandgap fiber, includes a cladding and a capillary core, the cladding having a plurality of holes disposed within a... |
| US-7,551,823 |
Optical transmission fiber with thermal management for high-power
applications An optical transmission fiber including a core having a first index of refraction, a cladding material located around the core and having a second index of... |
| US-7,551,822 |
Nonlinear optical signal-treating apparatus A nonlinear optical signal-treating apparatus can suppress the distortion of pulse light to be inputted into an optical fiber to an allowable level or less. The... |
| US-7,551,821 |
Chemical imaging fiberscope A fiberscope device is disclosed which is suitable for video imaging, laser Raman spectroscopy and laser Raman spectroscopic (i.e. chemical) imaging. The... |
| US-7,551,820 |
Optical device An optical device including (a) a substrate having an electro-optic effect; (b) an optical waveguide formed on a surface layer portion of said substrate and... |
| US-7,551,819 |
Multiple-core photonic-bandgap fiber with coupling between the cores An optical coupler includes a first optical port, a second optical port, a third optical port, and a fourth optical port. The optical coupler further includes a... |
| US-7,551,818 |
High power optical fiber laser array holographic coupler manufacturing
method A chirped grating is made in a thin film layer or a glass layer for producing a holographic optical element within the layer well suited for use as an optical... |
| US-7,551,817 |
Probe and optical tomography system An optical fiber is disposed in the direction of axis of the outer envelope inside a tubular outer envelope. Light emitted from the front end of the optical... |
| US-7,551,816 |
Arrangement for low cost path protection for optical communications
networks An arrangement provides low cost path protection in an optical communications network. The arrangement has a portion 3 that provides (broadcasts) an outbound... |
| US-7,551,815 |
Method of monitoring and controlling the bit error rate (BER) in an
optical communication network A method is disclosed for monitoring and controlling the bit error rate (BER) in an optical communication network where an optical receiver in the optical... |
| US-7,551,814 |
Optical detection of user interaction based on external light source An apparatus for employing ambient light collected from an external light source to detect a user's fingers that are gripping at least a relatively transparent... |
| US-7,551,813 |
Simplified fiber-optic switch for all-optical fiber-optic lines Simplified and insensitive to ambient condition mechanical bi-directional fiber-optic switch that can work in fire and explosion hazardous environment. The... |
| US-7,551,812 |
Optical module, method of manufacturing the optical module, and data
communication system including the optical... An optical module includes a fiber array, a laser diode array and a photodiode array. The fiber array has optical fibers which are divided to a transmitter group... |
| US-7,551,811 |
Optical device and method for producing the same An optical device includes an optical waveguide, an optical element, and a resin layer disposed between the optical waveguide and the optical element. The resin... |
| US-7,551,810 |
Segmented fiber optic sensor and method A fiber optic sensor for sensing the presence of an analyte has a plurality of optical fibers each of which has at least one analyte sensing segment and one or... |
| US-7,551,809 |
Optical fiber delivery system for delivering ultrashort optical pulses and
optical system including the same An optical fiber delivery system for delivering ultrashort optical pulses that can efficiently transmit high peak power, ultrashort optical pulses from an... |
| US-7,551,808 |
Optical signal noise suppressor and optical signal noise suppressing
method The present invention provides an optical signal noise suppressor and an optical signal noise suppressing method that can decrease noise components to be... |
| US-7,551,807 |
Apparatus and method for searching for 3-dimensional shapes Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for searching for 3-dimensional shapes. The apparatus includes, an input means, an acquisition module, a storage... |
| US-7,551,806 |
Two stage interpolation apparatus and method for up-scaling an image on
display device A graphics display adapter has a row interpolator circuit connected to receive the source pixel data synchronized at a first clock rate and to interpolate groups... |
| US-7,551,805 |
Converting the resolution of an image using interpolation and displaying
the converted image An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of converting a resolution of an image using an interpolation method. The interpolation... |
| US-7,551,804 |
Method and apparatus for distributed analysis of images A method and apparatus for intelligent distributed analyses of images including capturing the images and analyzing the captured images, where feature information... |
| US-7,551,803 |
Image adapter with tilewise image processing, and method using such an
adapter An image adapter transforms an input image into an output image by successively processing tiles and by changing numbers of columns and of rows of image points.... |
| US-7,551,802 |
Map image matching method and apparatus The present application relates to an image processing apparatus and a method for matching and combining two map images with at least some overlap area. In some... |
| US-7,551,801 |
Classification of composite actions involving interaction with objects The present invention provides a method for using stored data associated with simple actions to identify and classify an observed composite action which... |
| US-7,551,800 |
Detection of airborne flash artifacts using preflash image Flash image orb artifacts arising from specular reflections from airborne particles are corrected. An image of a scene using flash illumination and a reference... |
| US-7,551,799 |
Apparatus and method for image noise reduction A hardware implemented method for reducing noise in an image is provided. In this method, a difference between color values of corresponding pixels within the... |
| US-7,551,798 |
Apparatus for reducing zipper of image and method thereof This invention is related to a method and an apparatus for reducing the zippers of image. The method uses a recovery model to reduce the zippers of image. The... |
| US-7,551,797 |
White balance adjustment A method (100) of generating a digital image of a scene is disclosed. The method (100) is particularly advantageous in situations where a light source... |
| US-7,551,796 |
Image processing apparatus, image data generation and transmission method
and image data generation and... An image processing apparatus connected to an external apparatus via a network includes an selecting unit for selecting an application mode and an image quality... |
| US-7,551,795 |
Method and system for quantization artifact removal using super precision An image processing method and system removes quantization artifacts in digital video/images. The local neighborhood of the current pixel is segmented based on a... |
| US-7,551,794 |
Method apparatus, and recording medium for smoothing luminance of an image A smoothing calculator determines a smoothed mean luminance value C1.times..mu.(t)+(1-C1).mu.'(t-1) based on a mean luminance value .mu.(t) input at time t and a... |
| US-7,551,793 |
Methods and apparatuses for adaptive loop filtering for reducing blocking
artifacts A loop filtering method and apparatus are provided. The loop filtering method includes: calculating blocking effect strength based on coding type information,... |
| US-7,551,792 |
System and method for reducing ringing artifacts in images A method reduces artifacts in an input image. A variance image is generated from the input image. The input image is partitioned into a plurality of blocks of... |
| US-7,551,791 |
Image evaluation method, image evaluation device, and storage medium
having program stored thereon In the present invention, an image evaluation method includes: (a) a step of acquiring image information to be evaluated; (b) a step of setting an evaluation... |
| US-7,551,790 |
Image capture apparatus capable of correcting captured image An image capture apparatus includes a quantization precision selection device and an image data correction device. The quantization precision selection device... |
| US-7,551,789 |
Reversible overlap operator for efficient lossless data compression An efficient lapped transform is realized using pre- and post-filters (or reversible overlap operators) that are structured of unit determinant component... |
| US-7,551,788 |
Digital image coding device and method for noise removal using wavelet
transforms A digital image coding device based on wavelet transform technology includes a lower-bitplane replacement section which is provided after a coefficient modeling... |
| US-7,551,787 |
Adaptive compression quality Images are captured and are stored (either in compressed or non-compressed form) in non-volatile storage at a predetermined quality or Q level. When the storage... |
| US-7,551,786 |
System and method for efficient non-overlapping partitioning of
rectangular regions of interest in... A system and method in a multi-channel detection system for multi-rate filter bank applications for converting overlapping rectangular two-dimensional (2D)... |
| US-7,551,785 |
Method and system for compressing a continuous data flow in real-time
using cluster successive approximation... The present invention relates to a method and system for compressing a continuous data flow in real-time based on lossy compression. In real-time data... |
| US-7,551,784 |
Continuous inference for sequence data Dynamic inference is leveraged to provide online sequence data labeling. This provides real-time alternatives to current methods of inference for sequence data.... |
| US-7,551,783 |
Methods, functional data, and systems for image feature translation Methods, functional data, and systems are provided for image feature translation. An image is decomposed into sub images, each sub image having its features... |
| US-7,551,782 |
System and method of user interface and data entry from a video call A system and method for imaging an object, and using reference templates to recognize and enhance object image, including the identification of a template for a... |
| US-7,551,781 |
Active matrix acquisition and targeting system The present invention is a system and method of acquiring airborne objects utilizing a plurality of acquisition systems. The present invention is an active... |
| US-7,551,780 |
System and method for using individualized mixed document A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes... |
| US-7,551,779 |
Word or character boundary-based scratch-out gesture recognition Described is a computer-implemented system and method that detects and differentiates scratch-out gestures from other electronic ink, e.g., entered via a pen.... |