Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method of skin detection of a human subject using a textile product. The textile product (10, 31, 43) is made from or comprising textile including near-infrared, NIR, absorbing pigments. It supports and/or partially covers the human subject while skin detection and/or detection/monitoring vital signs of the human subject is carried out. A increased contrast between the textile product and skin in the NIR wavelength range is thus achieved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image former to form an image on a sheet based on an image forming condition for adjusting a position of the image on the sheet, a heater to fix the image on the sheet, and an image reader to read the image on the sheet, the image reader being arranged downstream from the heater in a conveyance direction in which the sheet is conveyed. A processor controls the image former to form an image including a mark on a sheet, controls the image reader to read the mark, generates the image forming condition based on a reading result of the mark by the image reader, and controls to determine, in a case where a second image including the mark is formed by the image former after the first image including the mark is formed by the image former, whether to form a chart including the mark on the sheet before the second image is formed based on an elapsed time after forming the first image.

Abstract: Systems and methods for application of cosmetic designs are described. In an embodiment, the system includes a visible light mirror, comprising a first portion being at least partially transparent to visible light; a camera, optically coupled with the visible light mirror to receive visible light via the first portion; an illumination source, physically coupled with the visible light mirror and configured to emit a plurality of discrete wavelength channels; and a computer system, electronically coupled with the camera and the illumination source, and comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform one or more methods of the present disclosure.

Abstract: Postal, package, and grocery deliveries are performed routinely everywhere around the world. Currently, the delivery truck drives slowly, and the postman or delivery man goes from one house to another. The postman already has a box that he carries with the sorted letters for a few of the contiguous houses, stops the truck, and walks to the different houses in the bunch, and then moves the truck and goes to the next bunch of houses. In this invention, the package delivery truck will automatically follow the mailman while still staying close to the curb to minimize traffic issues. Here, the autonomous package or delivery truck could actually go in front of the mailman to look for a good spot for the next cluster, or can wait for the mailman that is close to the last house of the current cluster, pick him up, and drop off at the center of the next cluster, or at the first house of the next cluster. In addition, there are robots that replace the function of the human (mailman or grocery delivery man).

Abstract: The present technology is to provide an image sensor capable of enhancing the security of biometric information and lowering the risk of information leakage. An image sensor 10 includes: a biometric information acquisition unit 102 that acquires biometric information; a storage unit 14 that stores reference information to be compared with the biometric information; and a biometric authentication unit 104 that performs biometric authentication by comparing the biometric information with the reference information. The image sensor 10 further includes an encryption processing unit 105 that encrypts biometric authentication information that authenticates a living organism.

Abstract: Copy and scan printing may include scanning, by scanner disposed along a paper path between a paper delivery roller and a paper pickup roller, content of documents (302). Further, copy and scan printing may include determining whether the documents are to be copied (304), in response to a determination that the documents are to be copied, determining whether a page count of the documents to be copied is available (306), and generating copies of the documents (310).

Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosures, an image scanning apparatus receives an inquiry for assignment information and, when the assignment information designates none of multiple destination candidates, transmits the assignment information indicating the same to a mobile terminal. When receiving, from the mobile terminal, an assignment request requesting to assign a server as a destination, the image scanning apparatus checks whether the assignment information designates none of the multiple destination candidates. When it is confirmed that the assignment information designates none of the multiple destination candidates, a state of the assignment information is changed to a state of designating a server as the destination of image data.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a terminal performing Bluetooth® communication with an image processing apparatus, includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor performs receiving a Bluetooth® packet transmitted from the image processing apparatus, displaying, on the display unit, information on the image processing apparatus as a retrieval result, based on the received packet, detecting a location direction of the image processing apparatus based on a phase of a radio wave of the received packet, and displaying, on the display unit, the detected location direction of the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A data processing device comprises an analyser to analyse successive images captured by a camera and to detect an optically detectable marker in the captured images, a first location detector to detect a location of the optically detectable marker with respect to a location of the camera according to a first detection mode and to generate a first detection result, a second location detector to detect the location of the optically detectable marker with respect to the location of the camera according to a second detection mode different to the first detection mode and to generate a second detection result, and a processor to select at least one of the first detection result and the second detection result and to generate data indicative of the location of the optically detectable marker with respect to the location of the camera based on the selection.

Abstract: In a case where a user instructs an image forming apparatus to perform processing of sending scanned image data to the user from a mobile terminal, the user needs to input a user's e-mail address on the mobile terminal, which includes an inconvenient operation. From the mobile terminal, the user instructs the image forming apparatus to send the data to the user's e-mail address which is preliminarily registered in the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A data processing method comprising obtaining information identifying a position of an object in a scene at a time during a sporting event; obtaining an image of the scene captured at the time during the sporting event; projecting the position of the object in the scene onto an image plane of the image; and outputting information based on the projection.

Abstract: Then image reading device includes a transparent document table, a frame, a reading unit, a moving mechanism, a white reference member, and a controller. The frame is provided around a peripheral of the document table. The white reference member is provided on the frame adjacent to the document table in the sub scanning direction and has a length in the main scanning direction longer than the document table. The reading unit includes a first reading part which reads an area corresponding to the document table and a second reading part which reads an area corresponding to the frame. The controller detects a boundary between the frame and the reference member based on a read value of the second reading part while moving the reading unit by the moving mechanism, and positions the reading unit at a home position apart from the boundary by a predetermined distance.

Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a media management system, for video data processing and adaptation data generation, are provided. At a high level, a video data processing engine relies on different types of video data properties and additional auxiliary data resources to perform video optical character recognition operations for recognizing characters in video data. In operation, video data is accessed to identify recognized characters. A video OCR operation to perform on the video data for character recognition is determined from video character processing and video auxiliary data processing. Video auxiliary data processing includes processing an auxiliary reference object; the auxiliary reference object is an indirect reference object that is a derived input element used as a factor in determining the recognized characters. The video data is processed based on the video OCR operation and based on processing the video data, at least one recognized character is communicated.

Abstract: A verification apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure selects an image associated with a code of a reference image switching sheet as a reference image when the code of the reference image switching sheet is read. An instruction is provided to discharge the reference image switching sheet to a set sheet discharging destination.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image, receive designation of a type of the image, present another type specified from the image in a case where the type does not satisfy a criterion corresponding to the image, and receive re-designation of a type of the image.

Abstract: A display apparatus including: light source(s); camera(s); and processor(s) configured to: display extended-reality image for presentation to user, whilst capturing eye image(s) of user's eyes; analyse eye image(s) to detect eye features; employ existing calibration model to determine gaze directions of user's eyes; determine gaze location of user; identify three-dimensional bounding box at gaze location within extended-reality environment, based on position and optical depth of gaze location; identify inlying pixels of extended-reality image lying within three-dimensional bounding box, based on optical depths of pixels in extended-reality image; compute probability of user focussing on given inlying pixel and generate probability distribution of probabilities computed for inlying pixels; identify at least one inlying pixel calibration target, based on probability distribution; and map position of calibration target to eye features, to update existing calibration model to generate new calibration model.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a system for selective replacement of an object in an image. The system includes an interface configured to receive as input an original image and a background image, and a processing device in communication with the interface. The processing device is configured to process the original image using a neural network to detect one or more objects in the original image, generate a neural network mask of the original image for the one or more objects in the original image, generate a filtered original image including the original image without the one or more objects, generate a modulated background image including a replacement background based on the neural network mask, and generate a combined image including the filtered original image combined with the modulated background image.

Abstract: A reading device includes: a reader; and a controller. The reader is configured to read both of a sheet of paper and a card as an original. The controller is, when the card having four original corners is set as the original, configured to perform for implementing a card reading function: (a) reading; and (b) acquiring. The (a) reading reads the original with the reader to acquire original image data corresponding to an original image area having four corner regions. The (b) acquiring acquires edge information of a first original corner from the original image data to estimate a round shape of the first original corner using the edge information. The first original corner being one of the four original corners in the original.

Abstract: A method and analysis devices for classifying tissue samples are provided. In the method, annotated training data is generated from a known positive tissue sample and a known negative tissue sample from a patient, and the annotated training data is then used to train an automatic classifier patient-specifically. To delimit an affected tissue region of the patient, then, unknown tissue samples from the same patient are classified by the automatic classifier trained for the patient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for distributing resources to different data sources based on their knowledge contribution. In addition, the invention relates to a resource distribution data system for distributing resources, a computer program product for distributing resources and a computer readable medium. It may comprise the steps of receiving values from a plurality of different data sources, blending the received values for the attributes into a dataset, assigning data lineages to the values for the attributes, receiving a query for providing a data subset, providing the data subset based on the query, determining a knowledge contribution of each of the data sources to the data subset based on the data lineages of the values and instructing a distribution of shares of resources to the different data sources based on the knowledge contribution of each of the data sources to the data subset.