| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,555,186 |
Optical fiber An improved optical fiber achieves both reduced bending and microbending losses, as well as a much higher Brillouin threshold, as compared to standard... |
| US-7,555,185 |
Microchannel plate with segmented mounting pads A microchannel plate and a method of making same are disclosed. The microchannel plate has an active area and at least one solid glass pad. The active area has a... |
| US-7,555,184 |
Optical fiber, end face structure of optical fiber assembly, and optical
connector An optical fiber includes a core, a clad formed around the core, a plurality of holes being formed in the clad, and a UV curing optically-transparent resin which... |
| US-7,555,183 |
Optical fiber ribbon core and optical fiber cable There are provided an optical fiber ribbon and optical fiber cable which suppress the deterioration of polarization mode dispersion and contribute to the... |
| US-7,555,182 |
Multi-layered water blocking cable armor laminate containing water
swelling fabrics and associated methods of... A multi-layered laminate armor wrap for use with a various cables is disclosed, the armor wrap having at least one water absorbing fabric layer, at least one... |
| US-7,555,181 |
Fiber optic cables having at least one tether optical fiber A distribution fiber optic cable including a plurality of optical fibers, a main cable body with some of the plurality of optical fibers being disposed within... |
| US-7,555,180 |
Optical branching component with low polarisation sensitivity and
increased process tolerance An optical branching component particularly suitable for use as a tap device is described. The component has two optical waveguides coupled between two optical... |
| US-7,555,179 |
Optical microresonator with resonant waveguide imparting polarization An optical microresonator is formed as a microcylinder and a resonant waveguide on the microcylinder and having a plurality of spaced resonant elements such as... |
| US-7,555,178 |
Periodic optical filter A periodic optical filter for interleaving a plurality of optical signals to provide a multiplexed signal for transmission over an optical fiber is disclosed.... |
| US-7,555,177 |
All fiber magneto-optic on-off switch for networking applications A fiber optic switch based on the magneto-optic effect of magnetic materials is presented. Due to the optical fiber based construction of the switching device it... |
| US-7,555,176 |
Method for producing an optical splitter, and optical splitter An optical splitter has an optical chip, in which a conductor track is arranged on a carrier substrate, wherein a conductor track section of the conductor track... |
| US-7,555,175 |
Arrayed waveguide grating optical multiplexer/demultiplexer An arrayed waveguide grating optical multiplexer/demultiplexer 10 of the present invention 10 comprises one arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) 20 having two input... |
| US-7,555,174 |
Coplanar waveguide line A coplanar waveguide line comprising a substrate; a central electrode strip on the substrate; first and second electrode strips disposed on opposite sides of... |
| US-7,555,173 |
Electro-optic modulator on rib waveguide An electro-optic modulator is formed on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) rib waveguide. An optical field in the modulator is confined by using an electrically... |
| US-7,555,172 |
Dynamic range detection and adjustment An original image is received. The original image is divided into tiles. A whitepoint value of each tile is determined. A blackpoint value of each tile is... |
| US-7,555,171 |
Systems and methods for down scaling a bitmap A method for scaling a first bitmap from a first size to a second size is disclosed. A first bitmap is accessed. The first bitmap is iterated through and the... |
| US-7,555,170 |
Image processing apparatus for scaling images An image processing apparatus for generating scaled image data includes a receiver that receives an input of pixel value information of each pixel which is... |
| US-7,555,169 |
Method and a device for reducing image noises An image noise reduction method in frequency domain is provided, comprising selecting a first image and applying a Fourier transform thereon to acquire a first... |
| US-7,555,168 |
Method of wavelet coding a mesh object The invention relates to a method for the coding an object having at leas two dimensions which is associated with a basic mesh comprising a set of basic surfaces... |
| US-7,555,167 |
Skip macroblock coding Various techniques and tools for encoding and decoding (e.g., in a video encoder/decoder) binary information (e.g., skipped macroblock information) are... |
| US-7,555,166 |
Pattern analysis-based motion vector compensation apparatus and method Disclosed is an apparatus and method for compensating for estimated motion vectors by deciding whether a pattern image exists in target blocks for motion... |
| US-7,555,165 |
Method for semantic scene classification using camera metadata and
content-based cues A method for scene classification of a digital image includes extracting pre-determined camera metadata tags from the digital image. The method also includes... |
| US-7,555,164 |
Robust estimation of pixel values An exemplary method for estimating pixel values of displayed images captured by an image capture device comprises determining a status of a pixel of a displayed... |
| US-7,555,163 |
Systems and methods for representing signed distance functions A system and method for implicitly computing signed distance values in a graphics application. In one embodiment, rather than storing numerous distance values... |
| US-7,555,162 |
Systems and methods for assessing a document using cross-correlation
analysis Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a writing profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. A method may include... |
| US-7,555,161 |
Image analysis A method for the automated analysis of digital images, particularly for the purpose of assessing the presence and severity of cancer in breast tissue based on... |
| US-7,555,160 |
Compensating for human perception of colour A method, combination or apparatus for compensating for or predicting the shift in the human perception of color which occurs when the color is seen on a small... |
| US-7,555,159 |
Image highlight correction using illumination specific HSV color
coordinate An image highlight correction method comprising the steps of mapping the image data from RGB color coordinates to an illumination specific HSV color coordinate... |
| US-7,555,158 |
Apparatus for recovering background in image sequence and method thereof Provided is a background recovering apparatus for deleting an object of an arbitrary region and recovering a background covered with the object. The apparatus... |
| US-7,555,157 |
System and method for transforming graphical images A system and a method for transforming graphical images. Graphical images are adapted by the present invention to be applied to a three-dimensional topography of... |
| US-7,555,156 |
Method and system for online communication between a check sorter and a
check processing system A system for handling checks is provided that includes a sorter operable to retrieve MICR data from a plurality of checks. An emulator is coupled to the sorter.... |
| US-7,555,155 |
Classifying image features Methods are disclosed for classifying different parts of a sample into respective classes based on an image stack that includes one or more images. |
| US-7,555,154 |
Fully automated segmentation of genetic micro-array images A method and system for automatically processing images from a micro-array uses an image processor that is controlled by software. The software controls the... |
| US-7,555,153 |
Non-invasive joint evaluation Disclosed, in one general aspect, is a musculoskeletal imaging system that includes a source of feature data extracted from imaging data resulting from imaging... |
| US-7,555,152 |
System and method for detecting ground glass nodules in medical images Detecting ground glass nodules in medical images includes calculating a probability distribution function of background lung tissue in a chest image, estimating... |
| US-7,555,151 |
System and method for tracking anatomical structures in three dimensional
images A system and method for defining and tracking a deformable shape of a candidate anatomical structure wall in a three dimensional (3D) image is disclosed. The... |
| US-7,555,150 |
Fingerprint input apparatus This invention provides a fingerprint input apparatus which detects that a finger is put on a sensor element, which can reduce power consumption, which requires... |
| US-7,555,149 |
Method and system for segmenting videos using face detection A method generates a summary of a video. Faces are detected in a plurality of frames of the video. The frames are classified according to a number of faces... |
| US-7,555,148 |
Classification system for consumer digital images using workflow, face
detection, normalization, and face... A processor-based system operating according to digitally-embedded programming instructions includes a face detection module for identifying face regions within... |
| US-7,555,147 |
Video recording system for an amusement park ride and associated methods A video recording system for an amusement park ride includes a video camera for generating video images of riders on the amusement park ride, and a video capture... |
| US-7,555,146 |
Identification recognition system for area security Disclosed is an identification recognition system for area security. The system consists of a plurality of area security sub-systems. Each sub-system includes an... |
| US-7,555,145 |
Multi-level optical mark reading that uses an unambiguous symbology of
marks to fill into response bubbles One or more response bubbles are used on a scannable form to be read by a scanning system. An unambiguous symbology of marks is defined to fill into each... |
| US-7,555,144 |
Optical scanning device for liquid biological samples, process of
operation and computer program for a computer... Optical scanning device for the production of a 2D computer image of a liquid or humid biological sample observed by transparency, wherein an even thickness of... |
| US-7,555,143 |
Real-time geo-registration of imagery using COTS graphics processors A method of performing real-time geo-registration of high-resolution digital imagery using existing graphics processing units (GPUs) already found in current... |
| US-7,555,142 |
Multiple camera control system A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program running on a computer is provided. The tracking system includes two or more video... |
| US-7,555,141 |
Video phone A video phone includes an image sensing unit, face detection unit, image sensing adjustment unit, and communication control unit. The image sensing unit senses... |
| US-7,555,140 |
Image processing using object information A CPU 300 divides an image into plural regions and for each of the regions, generates a histogram and calculates an average brightness Y ave. The CPU 300... |
| US-7,555,139 |
Secure documents with hidden signals, and related methods and systems A security document comprising artwork including a security pattern, characterized in that the security pattern has the form of a line structure in which lines... |
| US-7,555,138 |
Method and apparatus for digital watermarking for the electronic literary
macrame An embodiment of digital watermarks which contains literary information of interest to a reader of an electronic literary macrame (ELM) or a knowledge transfer... |
| US-7,555,137 |
Method of watermarking a color image by vectorial approach, method of
detecting a mark of watermarking,... A method of watermarking a color image that has at least three components is provided. Such a method of watermarking includes an insertion step of a mark of... |