Abstract: A camera module (1) for a vehicle (2). A printed circuit board (11) of the camera module (1) has a carrier (10) for at least one camera (14, 141, 142, . . . , 14N). The carrier (10) is mounted directly to the printed circuit board (11). The printed circuit board (11) carries as well electronic components (18) and a connector (19).

Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera module mounted at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle. The camera module includes a windshield-interfacing portion that, with the camera module mounted at the in-cabin side of the windshield, interfaces with the in-cabin side of the windshield. A thermally conductive tape is disposed at the windshield-interfacing portion. A thermally conductive connecting element thermally conductively connects to (i) the thermally conductive tape and (ii) at least one component of the camera module. When electrically operated, the at least one component generates heat at an interior portion of the camera module and heat generated by the at least one component of the camera module is dissipated at the windshield of the vehicle via the thermally conductive connecting element and the thermally conductive tape.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus and an inspection device are provided. The photographing apparatus comprises a camera, a light supplementing structure, and a closed housing; the camera is provided with a lens, and positioned in and connected to the housing; the housing is provided with at least one photographing portion configured to be attached to an object to be photographed, and a space is formed between the lens and the photographing portion; the light supplementing structure is positioned in and connected to the housing, the light supplementing structure is configured to emit light to said object through the space and the photographing portion, and the lens is configured to capture an image of said object via the photographing portion. The inspection device comprises a rack and the photographing apparatus, and the housing is connected to the rack.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described. In at least one embodiment, a premises monitoring system for monitoring a premises is provided. The premises monitoring system comprises a premises device and a power device comprising a rectifier in electrical communication with the premises device. The premises device comprises a video capture element configured to capture video and processing circuitry configured to, in response to a modular wireless transmitter not being removably connected to the premises device, cause transmission of the captured video to the power device via the at least one wired connection. When the modular wireless transmitter is removably connected to the power device, the power device is configured to cause, in response to receiving the captured video, transmission of the captured video via the modular wireless transmitter.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for symmetric merge mode motion vector coding. Symmetric bi-prediction (bi-pred) motion vectors (MVs) may be constructed from available candidates in a merge candidate list for regular inter prediction merge mode and/or affine prediction merge mode. Available MV merge candidates may be symmetrically extended or mapped in either direction (e.g., between reference pictures before and after a current picture), for example, when coding a picture that allows bi-directional motion compensation prediction (MCP). A symmetric bi-pred merge candidate may be selected among merge candidates for predicting the motion information of a current prediction unit (PU). The symmetric mapping construction may be repeated by a decoder (e.g., based on a coded index of the MV merge candidate list), for example, to obtain the same merge candidates and coded MV at an encoder.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes an imager substrate, a housing, and a heat dissipator. The imager substrate has an image sensor mounted thereon. The housing is equipped with a rear wall extending in an in-plane direction perpendicular to a thickness of the imager substrate and has the imager substrate disposed therein. The heat dissipator is arranged between the imager substrate and the rear wall in contact therewith to transfer heat from the imager substrate to the rear wall. The rear wall has a substrate-facing surface facing the imager substrate through the heat dissipator and also has a retainer arranged on the substrate-facing surface to hold the heat dissipator thereon. This structure ensures enhanced stability in releasing thermal energy from the image sensor or the imager substrate.

Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises the steps of: determining that a merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) mode has been applied to a current block that is a current picture referencing (CPR) coding block referring to a current picture; deriving a base motion information candidate for the current block on the basis of candidate blocks neighboring the current block; generating prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the base motion information candidate; and generating reconstruction samples for the current block on the basis of the prediction samples, wherein the base motion information candidate is derived depending on whether the neighboring candidate blocks are CPR coding blocks.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes at least one projector configured to project a plurality of projected patterns, where a projected lighting characteristic of each of the projected patterns varies over a time period in accordance with an associated predetermined temporal lighting-characteristic pattern, a camera configured to capture images of detected patterns during the time period, and one or more processors configured to: determine, for each detected pattern, a detected temporal lighting-characteristic pattern based on variations in a detected lighting characteristic of the detected pattern, identify a detected pattern that corresponds to one of the projected patterns by comparing at least one of the detected temporal lighting-characteristic patterns to at least one of the temporal lighting-characteristic patterns, and compute a depth associated with the detected patterns based on the one or more of the projected patterns, the detected pattern, and a relative position between the camera and the project

Abstract: Implementations of a system for facilitating a virtual visit to a gravesite may include a drone including a video camera, a microphone, and a speaker; and a control system associated with a cemetery. The control system may be configured to receive, from a computing device associated with a user, a request for a virtual visit to a gravesite, calculate a travel path for the drone to the gravesite from a base location located at the cemetery; initiate autonomous travel by the drone along the travel path; confirm arrival of the drone; while at the gravesite, transmit video and audio of the gravesite from the camera and microphone of the drone to the computing device associated with the user using the telecommunication channel; while at the gravesite, transmit audio from the computing device associated with the user from the speaker of the drone; and return the drone to the base location.

Abstract: Operational convenience is to be improved in an inspection nozzle or cleaning nozzle for operation with liquids under high pressure with a coupling section that can be connected to a high-pressure tube. A feed bore, a deflection chamber and at least one communicating bore are operatively connected to the coupling section. A camera recess running concentric to a longitudinal axis is arranged in a camera-receiving portion. A camera module is accommodated releasably connected to an encapsulated camera housing sealed water-tight. Optics and camera electronics are permanently incorporated in camera housing. Case manipulation of the camera module and the camera housing is unnecessary. This is realized in that within the camera housing, a contactless magnetically operable camera switch is arranged effectively connected to the camera electronics via a circuit board on one wall of the camera housing.

Abstract: A camera system for a vehicle comprises a holding device that can be fastened removably to the outside of the vehicle and that comprises an accumulator, a camera that can be fastened removably to the holding device, wherein electrical energy can be transferred to the camera from the accumulator to operate the camera.

Abstract: An immersive experience system is provided. The immersive experience system has a processor that determines a position of a first head-mounted display. Further, the processor determines a position of a second head-mounted display. The processor also generates a first image for a first immersive experience corresponding to the position of the first head-mounted display. Moreover, the process encodes the first image into a first infrared spectrum illumination having a first wavelength. In addition, the processor generates a second image for a second immersive experience corresponding to the position of the second head-mounted display. Finally, the processor encodes the second image into a second infrared spectrum illumination having a second wavelength. The first wavelength is distinct from the second wavelength.

Abstract: A cryoablation catheter, including a first capsule body, a core tube and a heat insulation part, wherein the first capsule body is mounted at a front end of the core tube, and has a front end area adapted for fitting to myocardial tissue during a cryoablation process and a rear end area exposed to blood; the core tube has a first looping path provided therein which is adapted for a first fluid with low temperature to be filled into or flow out of the first capsule body; the heat insulation part is at least partially fitting to the rear end area, and is adapted for reducing heat exchange efficiency between the first fluid and the blood in an atrium. The cryoablation operating apparatus and the cryoablation equipment thereof can effectively reduce the heat exchange between the cryoablation catheter and the blood during a cryoablation process.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method is provided. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current luma block, deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current chroma block based on the intra-prediction mode of the current luma block, generating a prediction block of the current chroma block based on the intra-prediction mode of the current chroma block, and the deriving of an intra-prediction mode of a current chroma block may comprise determining whether or not CCLM (Cross-Component Linear Mode) can be performed for the current chroma block.

Abstract: The embodiment is a target tracking method. The method is applicable to a UAV including a visible light camera and an infrared camera, and includes: controlling the visible light camera to perform visual tracking on a target object, and recording first tracking information of the target object in real time; controlling the infrared camera to perform infrared tracking on the target object, and recording second tracking information of the target object in real time; controlling, in a case of determining that the target object is lost in the visible light camera, the visible light camera to re-lock the target object according to the second tracking information and continue to perform visual tracking; or controlling, in a case of determining that the target object is lost in the infrared camera, the infrared camera to re-lock the target object according to the first tracking information and continue to perform infrared tracking.

Abstract: Provided is a control device including a location information reception unit which receives, via a communication device, location information of a user terminal from the terminal in a wireless communication area, a detection device control unit which controls a detection device of a flying object to detect a state of a region including a location indicated by the location information, a detection information reception unit which receives, via the communication device, detection information indicating the state, an unmanned aerial vehicle control unit which controls an unmanned aerial vehicle to capture an image around the location by an image capturing unit of the vehicle based on the detection information, a captured image reception unit which receives a captured image captured by the image capturing unit from the vehicle, and a rescue method decision unit which decides a rescue method of rescuing a user of the terminal based on the image.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted recording component which is convenient to assemble and disassemble, including an image terminal for recording image and sounds, an operation terminal for outputting control instruction signals and a processing terminal for processing the recorded images and sounds according to the received control instruction signals, the processing terminal includes a circuit board and a guide structure capable of quickly installing the circuit board. The guide structure has a tapered guide hole and a tapered guide column that cooperate with each other; in case of installing a single-layer circuit board, the tapered guide hole and the tapered guide column are respectively arranged on the circuit board and the circuit board bracket; in case of installing a double-layer circuit board, the tapered guide hole and tapered guide column are respectively arranged on the two circuit boards.

Abstract: Extensions of intra coding modes in video coding are described. One example is a method for video processing, comprising: generating, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of a video, a set of extended intra prediction modes (IPMs) associated with the current video block by revising a set of existing IPMs to include at least one new coding method, wherein the new coding method is different from coding methods in the existing IPMs and is to be treated as IPM; and performing the conversion based on the set of extended IPMs.

Abstract: A supplemental vehicle illumination system is mounted on a structure that is received by a trailer hitch receiver on a vehicle. The supplemental illumination system receives a signal from the vehicle. This actuates a supplemental lighting system that provides additional illumination, in addition to lights disposed on the vehicle. The supplemental lighting system can also, or instead, be activated over a wireless connection.

Abstract: A depth value calculation unit (102) calculates, for an image divided into a plurality of blocks, a depth value (Da, Db) for determining presence or absence of processing of a deblocking filter and determining strength of the deblocking filter according to a division state of respective blocks adjacent to a block boundary (Bv). A filter processing execution determination unit (104) determines whether or not to cause the deblocking filter to operate on the block boundary (Bv) on the basis of the depth value (Da, Db). A filter strength setting unit (105) sets the strength of the deblocking filter to operate on the block boundary (Bv) on the basis of the depth value (Da, Db).