Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide an image-based face detection and recognition system that processes and/or analyzes portions of an image using “image strips” and cascading classifiers to detect faces and/or various facial features, such an eye, nose, mouth, cheekbone, jaw line, etc.

Abstract: The invention provides a data processing method, comprising: a first terminal performs image acquisition on at least one photographic object entity, and encodes the image and corresponding recognition information to form video data which is sent to a second terminal; the second terminal performs data separation on the video data to obtain a video file and recognition information associated with at least one photographic object in the video file; the second terminal recognizes at least one photographic object in the video file according to the recognition information, and forms a corresponding operation area in the video file; and when the video file is played, the second terminal performs an associated operation function according to a detected operation action on a designated operation area.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a positioning method and a positioning system. The method comprises: obtaining a reference direction corresponding to a user; determining that an eye of the user is gazing at an auxiliary positioning object; acquiring position information of the auxiliary positioning object; acquiring a distance of the user relative to the auxiliary positioning object; acquiring an angle of a sight line direction of the user relative to the reference direction; and obtaining position information of the user according to the position information of the auxiliary positioning object, the distance of the user relative to the auxiliary positioning object, the reference direction, and the angle of the sight line direction of the user relative to the reference direction.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling and selecting sources in a room on a network. The system allows a remote viewer to create a virtual presence within the room by providing the available displays, corresponding to the sources, to the remote viewer. The system includes a standardizing technique for improving the communication and overall switching of data for streaming on a network. The system can include a recording server for performing dual recording of the video files in each of a local database and a remote database. A graphical user interface (GUI) display is provided to guide a local user through a medical procedure in the standardized system.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an optical medium, for enabling increase in the viewing field angle without increasing a thickness of a device. The optical medium includes: a substrate having an upper interface and a lower interface parallel to each other; a first anisotropic partially-reflective film and a second anisotropic partially-reflective film being parallel to each other and arranged between the upper interface and the lower interface of the substrate in an inclined way; and a total reflection film arranged within the substrate in a direction of inclination opposite to that of the first and second anisotropic partially-reflective films. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide glasses including the optical medium and an imaging method for the glasses.

Abstract: An inspection device for inspecting screw-closures on bottles includes a rotationally-symmetric lens disposed above a bottle's screw-closure and having a convex portion and a flat aspheric portion, a first lighting-unit for illuminating the screw-closure, and a camera located above the lens and connected to an image processor.

Abstract: A headlight device (1) having a projection function includes a light source device (2), a lighting optical system (3), an image display element (4), an image signal controller (6), and a projection optical system (5). The projection optical system (5) includes a coaxial lens system (11) having a refractive action, a free-form surface lens (12), and a free-form surface mirror (13) from the image display element (4) side. In this way, an image that can be readily visually recognized by a driver or a pedestrian may be projected onto a road.

Abstract: The present invention is a rearward imaging device attached to a moving body such as a vehicle, and is provided with an imaging device for capturing images rearward of the moving body, and a housing for accommodating the imaging device. The imaging device has a barrel for holding a transparent member, and a concave part is formed in the rear part of the housing. The barrel penetrates a bottom part of the concave part and protrudes further rearward than a bottom surface of the concave part.

Abstract: Related are a drone-mounted imaging hyperspectral geometric correction method and a system, comprising: collecting position attitude information of a current drone low-precision POS sensor in real time; based on the position attitude information, parsing precise photography center position attitude information of a digital photograph, and generating a DEM of an area covered by the photograph; based on the precise photography center position attitude information, performing correction on position attitude data corresponding to multiple imaging hyperspectral scan lines between photography centers of adjacent digital photographs, and obtaining high-precision linear array position attitude information of the multiple imaging hyperspectral scan lines; based on the high-precision linear array position attitude information and the DEM, establishing a collinearity equation and generating a hyperspectral image.

Abstract: An electronic mirror device 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure displays a user's facial mirror image, and can shift, according to the user's facial orientation or line of sight, the location where the facial image is displayed to a location where he or she can view his or her own facial image easily. The electronic mirror device 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an image capturing section 102 which captures the user's facial image, an image data generating section 120 which outputs image data representing the user's facial mirror image based on image data representing the user's facial image that has been captured, a display section 103 which displays the image data representing the user's facial mirror image, and a display location shifting section 130 which shifts a location where the mirror image is displayed on the display section.

Abstract: Provided are a method and device for coding an image, a method and device for decoding an image. The method for coding the image includes that: coding mode parameters and parameter groups of one coding block are divided into multiple types of coding mode parameters and parameter groups corresponding to the multiple types of coding mode parameters according to a specified rule respectively; Quantization Parameters (QPs) included in the multiple types of coding mode parameters are determined according to a preset target bit rate; a QP of the coding block is determined according to reconstruction quality for the coding block; a coding mode parameter to be used is selected from the multiple types of coding mode parameters according to the QP of the coding block, a parameter group corresponding to the selected coding mode parameter is set, and a QP difference is calculated; and the coding mode parameter, the parameter group used by the coding block and the QP difference are written into a video bitstream.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide an image-based face detection and recognition system that processes and/or analyzes portions of an image using “image strips” and cascading classifiers to detect faces and/or various facial features, such an eye, nose, mouth, cheekbone, jaw line, etc.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image capturing device that can easily perform image processing of visible light region and that of near infrared region, while utilizing a general image capturing device structure.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling and selecting sources in a room on a network. The system allows a remote viewer to create a virtual presence within the room by providing the available displays, corresponding to the sources, to the remote viewer. The system includes a standardizing technique for improving the communication and overall switching of data for streaming on a network. The system can include a recording server for performing dual recording of the video files in each of a local database and a remote database. A graphical user interface (GUI) display is provided to guide a local user through a medical procedure in the standardized system.

Abstract: A system for leveraging user gaze in a user monitoring subregion selection system includes a first camera configured to capture an image of a scene. A pattern generator is configured to generate and project a pattern onto a surface of at least one of a user's eyes. A sensor is configured to obtain an image of the pattern reflected from at least one of the user's eyes. In an alternate implementation, the pattern generator may be omitted, and the sensor may be a stereo user facing camera. A gaze estimation and scene mapping module is configured to estimate a gaze direction of the user using the image captured by the user facing sensor and to map the estimated gaze direction to the image of the scene based on a location of an object of interest within the scene. A subregion selection module is configured to select a subregion of the image of the scene based on the mapped user gaze direction.

Abstract: A video decoder configured to decode an encoded video bitstream comprises a first parsing unit and a second parsing unit, each configured to independently parse the encoded video bitstream to derive parsing state information therefrom on which subsequent parsing of the encoded video bitstream at least partially depends and to identify macroblock information for decoding. The encoded video bitstream comprises frame header information defining a sequence of frames and each frame is composed of macroblocks represented by macroblock information. A control unit of the video encoder allocates each frame of macroblock information to one of the two parsing units to parse. The two parsing units are both configured to parse frame header information to thereby each derive parsing state information for the encoded video bitstream, and the two parsing unit are each configured to parse macroblock information allocated to them, skipping macroblock information allocated to the other parsing unit.

Abstract: A surveillance apparatus, a corresponding method, surveillance radar apparatus, computer program, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, the surveillance apparatus including an optical camera that captures images based on received light, the optical camera having a first field of view, a radar sensor that emits and receives electromagnetic radiation, the radar sensor having a second field of view, and wherein the first field of view is variable with respect to the second field of view.

Abstract: In a display-object information displaying apparatus, each display object predetermined as a detection target is detected from image data captured by a front capture apparatus to capture of the front of a vehicle. A recognition failure probability that the driver fails to recognize each display object is evaluated. A memory saves the recognition failure probability and display object data containing display-object information with respect to each display object. A display unit displays the display-object information based on the corresponding display object data saved in the memory with respect to each display object. The display-object information about the display object assigned the higher recognition failure probability is displayed preferentially among the display objects corresponding to the display object data saved in the memory.

Abstract: To recognize an obstacle such as a working face which may be touched by a revolving upperstructure including a height position thereof at the time of a swing control. A plurality of first cameras 13 for forming bird's eye views which photograph obliquely lower parts of directions different from each other are arranged in a revolving upperstructure 3, a composite bird's eye view 20 is displayed on a display 15, second cameras 16R, 16L for photographing through images including corner parts from a rear end of the revolving upperstructure 3 to side parts within a visual field range are arranged in lower part positions of a swing frame 3a of the revolving upperstructure 3 so as to rotate following swing of the revolving upperstructure 3, and corner part through images 30R, 30L are displayed on the display 15 so as to be superimposed on the composite bird's eye view 20.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system apparatus and device for facilitating the backup of network edge devices and methods of operation thereof. A monitoring circuit(s) may detect inoperable electrical power condition(s) (IEPC) on the power-line of a network edge device. Upon detection of an IEPC a backup power source may provide electrical power to the edge device. Upon detection of a connectivity fault between the edge device and its packet sink, a packet sink emulator may emulate a packet sink of the edge device. The disclosed system apparatus and device may implement a Power over Ethernet (PoE) power backup device for providing power to one or more edge devices, the device comprising: a PoE input port, an auxiliary power input port, a PoE output port, a power storage circuits, and power management circuits for detecting available power, switching between power sources, and regulate the power switching based on power detection outputs.