Abstract: Methods for measuring and verifying drug portions while avoiding the need to teach verification devices is provided. Characteristic key data of a drug type are compiled with a calibrated camera of a measuring device, stored in a storage device, and retrieved from or transmitted to a verification device. Individual key data for a drug portion to be verified are compiled using a calibrated camera of the verification device and compared with the characteristic key data. A digital image of a drug portion to be verified is generated with a calibrated camera and transferred to a control unit. The control unit determines individual key data for the drug portion to be verified using known calibration parameters of the camera and the digital image, compares the individual key data with characteristic key data of the corresponding drug type and verifies or rejects the drug portion based on the results of the comparison. Systems and computer readable medium are also provided.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a light source that, in operation, emits an emitted light containing a near-infrared light in a first wavelength region, an image sensor, and a double-band pass filter that transmits a visible light in at least a part of a wavelength region out of a visible region and the near-infrared light in the first wavelength region. The image sensor includes light detection cells, a first filter that selectively transmits the near-infrared light in the first wavelength region, second to fourth filters that selectively transmit lights in second to fourth wavelength regions, respectively, which are contained in the visible light, and an infrared absorption filter. The infrared absorption filter faces the second to fourth filters and absorbs the near-infrared light in the first wavelength region.

Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein include an imaging system that may include a laser diode source; an objective lens positioned to direct a focus tracking beam from the light source onto a location in a sample container and to receive the focus tracking beam reflected from the sample; and an image sensor that may include a plurality of pixel locations to receive focus tracking beam that is reflected off of the location in the sample container, where the reflected focus tracking beam may create a spot on the image sensor. Some examples may further include a laser diode light source that may be operated at a power level that is above a power level for operation at an Amplified Spontaneous Emission (“ASE”) mode, but below a power level for single mode operation.

Abstract: An encoder which codes a moving picture includes: a processor; and a memory, wherein the processor, using the memory: subtracts a prediction image of an image included in the moving picture from the image so as to derive a prediction error; sequentially selects a plurality of transform basis candidates; derives an evaluation value of a transform basis candidate selected; compares the evaluation value with a threshold value; based on a result of the comparison, skips selection of one or more transform basis candidates that have not been selected; determines the transform basis from one or more transform basis candidates selected; performs the transform of the prediction error, using the transform basis; quantizes a result of the transform; and codes a result of the quantization as data of the image.

Abstract: A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar subsystem and images from a video subsystem to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target. The video subsystem and the lidar subsystem may be aligned with one another, and hence calibrated, by determining, for example, a centroid of an iris determined from the lidar subsystem and a centroid of the iris determined from the video subsystem and determining a calibration offset between the two centroids.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display part or all of an image in a first region on a display screen displayed by the display unit, the image indicating an imaging range which an imaging apparatus can image by changing the imaging range; a change control unit configured to change a position or size of an image to be displayed in the first region by the display control unit, on the image indicating the range which an imaging apparatus can image; and an output unit configured to output an instruction to cause the imaging apparatus to image an imaging range corresponding to a range indicating an image displayed in a second region which is a part of the first region.

Abstract: A method for coding a frame of a video stream includes selecting a first initial probability distribution for coding at least a first portion of the frame; updating, to obtain an updated first initial probability distribution and using backward adaptivity, the first initial probability distribution while coding the first portion of the frame; mapping the updated first initial probability distribution to a second initial probability distribution; and coding a second portion of the frame using the second initial probability distribution as an initial probability distribution. The first values of the first initial probability distribution are described using M bits, wherein M is a first positive integer. Second values of the updated first initial probability distribution are described using N bits, where N is a second positive integer that is greater than M. Third values of the second initial probability distribution are described using M bits.

Abstract: A method of partitioning a video coding block for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) structure that can have a quadtree branching from the root node and binary trees branching from each of the quadtree's leaf nodes using asymmetric binary partitioning to split a coding unit represented by a quadtree leaf node into two child nodes of unequal size, representing the two child nodes as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the quadtree leaf node and coding the child nodes represented by leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET, wherein coding efficiency is improved by taking advantage of the similarity of coding modes 2 and 66.

Abstract: An electronic device having a display with an infrared component (such as a camera, a light source) behind the display. The layer of the display is transparent to infrared light at which the infrared component operates. Infrared sensing functions, when implemented by the component, may be accomplished by transmission of infrared light through the layer of the display, thereby removing the conventional need for cut-outs or holes in the display plane and maximizing the display area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to obtain an image of a first camera disposed on a vehicle such that an imaging range of the first camera includes a portion of a vehicle body and images of a second and third cameras that image an area of a blind spot caused by the portion of the vehicle body, combine a blind spot image corresponding to the area of the blind spot in the image of the second camera with the image of the first camera, obtain three-dimensional information of a rear vehicle with stereo vision of the second and third cameras, and store rear vehicle shape information, wherein the processor determines three-dimensional information corresponding to a portion of the rear vehicle, and combines the blind spot image with the image of the first camera using the determined three-dimensional information.

Abstract: A depth map generation device capable of correcting occlusion includes at least two image capture pairs and a depth map generator. The at least two image capture pairs is used for capturing a plurality of images. The depth map generator is coupled to the two image capture pairs for generating a first depth map and a second depth map according to the plurality of images, wherein when the first depth map includes a first occlusion region and a first non-occlusion region, the depth map generator corrects the first occlusion region according to the second depth map.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus suitable for detecting an image, comprising: a plurality of pixels configured to generate an electric signal upon exposure to a radiation; an electronics system associated with each of the pixels, wherein the electronics system comprises a first memory on a first signal path and a second memory on a second signal path, both signal paths being between an input terminal and an output terminal of the electronics system; wherein each of the first memory and the second memory is configured to store the electric signal generated by the pixel the electronics system is associated with, configured to store the electric signal generated in another pixel, and configured to transmit the electric signal stored in the electronics system to another pixel; wherein the electronics system comprises a switch configured to select one of the signal paths.

Abstract: Selective display of available objects based on eye-gaze characteristics with respect to currently displayed objects and certain attributes of the currently displayed objects. Similarity-driven selective display compares attributes of a displayed object receiving a fixed gaze to attributes of available objects and displays similar objects in addition to the displayed object receiving the fixed gaze.

Abstract: A wearable apparatus is provided for capturing and processing images from an environment of a user. In one implementation, a wearable apparatus for monitoring activities includes a wearable image sensor configured to capture a plurality of images from an environment of a user of the wearable apparatus. The wearable apparatus also includes at least one processing device programmed to analyze the plurality of images to identify in one or more of the plurality of images at least one indicator of an activity, and to transmit, to an external device, the at least one indicator of the activity.

Abstract: An object tracking apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for detecting an object from output information of sensors, tracking the object on a basis of a plurality of detection results, generating tracking information of the object represented in a common coordinate system, outputting the tracking information, and detecting the object on a basis of the tracking information.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for forming a video stream based on images of a scene captured by a camera. The method comprises: encoding image frames based on images captured by the camera, forming an encoded portion; determining a length of motion for a sample image frame, the length of motion being indicative of the amount of relative motion between the camera and the scene in the sample image frame relative a temporally preceding image frame; setting a motion length threshold based on a motion vector search range of the encoder; comparing the determined length of motion with the set motion length threshold; based on the outcome of the comparison, adjusting a chosen temporal frame distance of at least an adjustment portion (PA) of the video stream, wherein the adjustment portion is comprised in the encoded portion or in a temporally later encoded portion.

Abstract: A method of signaling an intra prediction mode used to encode a current block in an encoded video bitstream includes generating a first most probable mode (MPM) list corresponding to a zero reference line of the current block, wherein the first MPM list includes a first plurality of intra prediction modes; generating a second MPM list corresponding to one or more non-zero reference lines of the current block, wherein the second MPM list includes a second plurality of intra prediction modes, the second plurality of intra prediction modes including a subset of the first plurality of intra prediction modes; signaling a reference line index indicating a reference line used to encode the current block; and signaling an intra mode index indicating the intra prediction mode from among the first MPM list and the second MPM list.

Abstract: An apparatus for infrared detection includes: an infrared detection element array that includes an array of a plurality of pixels, the array of the plurality of pixels being configured such that a first pixel and a second pixel are repeatedly arranged in a predetermined arrangement pattern, the first pixel being a pixel configured to respond to infrared light of a first wavelength, the second pixel being a pixel configured to respond to a second wavelength different from the first wavelength; and a readout circuit configured to be coupled to the infrared detection element array, wherein the first pixel is configured to be coupled to the readout circuit via a first connection electrode, and wherein the second pixel is configured to be coupled to the readout circuit via a second connection electrode, the second connection electrode being an electrode having a height different from that of the first connection electrode.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for improving costs and efficiency in affine motion prediction of a current block includes storing motion information of previously coded block in a line buffer or one or more local buffers of a coding unit such as coding tree unit (CTU). The line buffer can store motion information of a line of coding blocks located at a boundary of the CTU, while the local buffers can be utilized for storing motion information of coding blocks located anywhere in the CTU. The utilization of the line buffer can be improved by limiting the number of motion vectors of a neighboring block stored in the line buffer and obtaining remaining motion vectors from an additional block when available. The utilization of local buffers can be improved by restricting a size of neighboring blocks whose motion information is stored in the local buffers.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for depth map generation in a structured light system where an optical transmitter is tilted relative to an optical receiver. The optical transmitter has a transmitter optical axis around which structured light spreads, and the optical receiver has a receiver optical axis around which a reflection of the structured light can be captured. The transmitter optical axis and the receiver optical axis intersect one another. A processing circuit compensates for the angle in the tilt in the reflected pattern to generate the depth map.