Abstract: Maintenance carriers can include one or more tools to perform a maintenance operation. These carriers may include removable cartridges that include the tool or consumables, such as a cleaning fluid, compressed gas, or disposable items. Maintenance carriers can also be configured to move along with other carrier traffic in the automation system and may be selectively deployed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of representing the movements, if any, of a structure (10), the method being performed in an appliance (50) including a camera (52), said structure being provided with at least one movement measurement device (20, 22, 24). The invention comprises: a step of acquiring an image of the structure with the help of the camera; a step of sending a query to a remote server (30); a step of receiving at least some information about the movement measurement device in response to said query, said information including data about at least one measurement obtained with the help of the movement measurement device; and a step of inserting said measurement data in said image.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs for controlling behavior of an electronic device are presented. A method includes an operation for operating the electronic device in a first mode of operation, and an operation for tracking the gaze of a user interfacing with the electronic device. The electronic device is maintained in a first mode of operation as long as the gaze is directed towards a predetermined target. In another operation, when the gaze is not detected to be directed towards the predetermined target, the electronic device is operated in a second mode of operation, which is different from the first mode of operation.

Abstract: A method for encoding a video sequence in a video encoder to generate a compressed video bit stream is provided that includes binarizing a plurality of syntax elements, wherein each binarized syntax element comprises a string of one or more binary symbols (bins), wherein a bin is one selected from a context-coded bin and bypass bin, encoding the context-coded bins of the binarized syntax elements using binary arithmetic encoding, and adding the bypass bins of the binarized syntax elements to the compressed video bit stream with no encoding.

Abstract: A distance adaptive holographic displaying method and device based on eyeball tracking are disclosed. The method includes: detecting a human face of a user and acquiring positions of eyes of the user, wherein the positions of the eyes of the user comprise a distance between the eyes and a displaying screen; adjusting the size of an object in a holographic scene along a z-axis direction in the holographic three-dimensional display according to the distance, and displaying the object in the displaying screen; adjusting an emergent direction of the light emitted by the displaying screen to the direction of the left eye and the right eye of the eyes so that the different individual holographic three-dimensional images of the left eye and the right eye are imaged into the left eye and the right eye respectively; and tracking the change of the positions of the eyes, and repeating the aforesaid steps to dynamically adjust viewpoints and the displayed content.

Abstract: A method for determining the position of multiple cameras relative to each other includes at a processor, receiving video data from at least one video recording taken by each camera; selecting a subset of frames of each video recording, including determining relative blurriness of each frame of each video recording, selecting frames having a lowest relative blurriness, counting features points in each of the lowest relative blurriness frames, and selecting for further analysis, lowest relative blurriness frames having a highest count of feature points; and processing each selected subset of frames from each video recording to estimate the location and orientation of each camera.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, an image based vehicle detection and measuring apparatus that employs an accelerated, structured, search method is described for quickly finding the extrema of a multivariable function. The input domain of the function is determined. The method exploits information as it becomes available, calculating a best possible value with the information available so far, and terminating further evaluation when the best possible value does not exceed the extreme value found so far. Ordering and best guess schemes are added to the best possible value idea to accelerate it further. The method is applied to speed up an image processing problem, an example of which is given, but has general application, for example, in fields such as vehicle detection.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image obtaining unit for obtaining a captured image onto which an emission graphic image including a marker serving as a reference is emitted and a correction information generation unit for generating correction information, for making an emission range and an image capturing range be the same, from a difference between the emission range onto which the emission graphic image is emitted and the image capturing range of the captured image, based on the marker in the captured image and the marker in the emission graphic image.

Abstract: The present invention provides arithmetic encoder and decoder, and methods implemented therein for termination of arithmetic coding. The arithmetic encoder first determines whether a bin value indicates termination of arithmetic encoding. If the bin value is determined not indicating termination of arithmetic encoding, no bit is written in a bitstream indicative of the bin value so determined. If the bin value is determined indicating termination of arithmetic encoding, a stop bit is written in the bitstream. The arithmetic decoder determines whether or not the end of a coded slice has been reached, based on a number of bits in the bitstream. More specifically, the arithmetic decoder makes a determination, based on a number of bits preceding a stop bit located in a last byte in the bitstream.

Abstract: A video decoding method using an inter prediction, includes: reconstructing a first differential motion vector and a second differential motion vector of a current block by decoding encoded data; deriving a first predicted motion vector and a second predicted motion vector of the current block from one or more neighboring blocks of the current block; generating a first motion vector of the current block by adding the first candidate motion vector to the first differential motion vector, and a second motion vector of the current block by adding the second candidate motion vector to the second differential motion vector; generating a predicted block of the current block by using the first and second motion vectors; reconstructing a residual block by decoding residual signals included in the encoded data; and adding each pixel value of the predicted block to a corresponding pixel value of the residual block.

Abstract: Provided is a method of reconstructing multilayer images including obtaining RAP picture information of a plurality of layers including a base layer and an enhancement layer, independently decoding a RAP picture of the base layer by using RAP picture information, and independently decoding a RAP picture of the enhancement layer by using RAP picture information.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes: an image accepting unit that accepts a first image; a transmission-side correspondence table storage unit in which a transmission-side correspondence table is stored, the transmission-side correspondence table having multiple pieces of transmission-side correspondence information for associating a first image block with a second image block; a preprocessing unit that acquires one or more blocks from the first image, acquires one or more second image blocks respectively corresponding to the one or more blocks, and constructs a second image from the one or more second image blocks; and a transmitting unit that transmits the second image.

Abstract: A stereoscopic display device includes a 3D formatter for aligning a left eye image data and a right eye image data received from an outside of the stereoscopic display device in an interlaced method and forwarding the same, a data compensating unit for selecting a compensation data on the left eye image data and the right eye image data received from the 3D formatter from a compensation look-up table having the compensating data on the left eye image data and the right eye image data on each gray scale preset thereon, and compensating the left eye image data and the right eye image data, and a panel driving unit for displaying the left eye image data and the right eye image data from the data compensating unit on a display unit alternately in lines.

Abstract: An exemplary device includes, on a longitudinal axis, an illumination-light source, an axicon (conic) mirror, an image sensor, and a tilted optical element. The light source provides illumination light propagating forwardly on the axis. The axicon mirror reflects the illumination light radially outward, relative to the axis, to the interior surface of a tube to produce reflected light propagating, from the illuminated interior surface, as imaging light back to the axicon, which reflects the imaging light rearwardly. The image sensor receives at least a portion of the imaging light rearwardly reflected by the axicon mirror. The tilted optical element, situated between the axicon mirror and the interior surface, moves a selected first portion of the imaging light away from being incident on the image sensor, while allowing a second portion of the imaging light to be incident on the image sensor.

Abstract: Techniques are described related to performing random access starting from a random access point picture that is not an instantaneous decoder refresh picture. Some techniques are also related to reducing the amount of information that is signaled for long-term reference pictures of a reference picture set. Additional techniques are also related to decoded picture buffer management, such as removing decoded pictures based on a temporal identification value.

Abstract: In one example, a device for presenting video data includes a processor configured to determine an integer value for the video data, determine a difference value between a presentation time of a first picture and a presentation time of a second picture, wherein the difference value is equal to the integer value multiplied by a clock tick value, and present the first picture and the second picture according to the determined difference value.

Abstract: A detecting apparatus for detecting an object includes at least a screen, at least a detecting unit and at least a holding unit. The screen is partial light-permeable and has a first surface and an opposite second surface. The object is disposed adjacent to the first surface of the screen. The detecting unit is disposed corresponding to the object and located adjacent to the second surface of the screen. The holding unit holds the relative distances between the screen, the object and the detecting unit. The detecting unit captures the image of the second surface of the screen so as to calculate the optical field distribution of the object. The detecting apparatus can measure the optical field distribution of an object quickly and has the advantages of low cost and high accuracy.

Abstract: The plurality of encoders respectively transmit encoded information including an encoded image obtained by encoding one image among the plurality of images obtained by partitioning a captured image, and time information corresponding to the one image. At least any one of the plurality of encoders transmits identification information for respectively identifying the plurality of images. A decoding apparatus includes a plurality of decoders. One decoder calculates a playback time for each of a plurality of images based on a scheduled playback time at which a real time according to a scheduled playback time of the plurality of images, which is calculated by each decoder, is later than a real time according to a scheduled playback time of the other images. Encoding with which synchronized partitioned video images can be transmitted in real time in a cost-effective IP network without needing devices such as a conversion device can be performed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for encoding media content based on network quality of service parameters. A system configured to practice the method determines quality of service parameters for a network between a media server and a media client. The system selects an encoder based on a list of decoders available at the media client and the quality of service parameters, and encodes at least a portion of the media via the encoder. The system can further determine settings for the encoder based on a media type, and encode the media via the encoder according to the settings. The system can detect when the media client moves to a new network, detect new quality of service parameters, and select a new encoder based on the list of decoders available at the media client, the media type, and the new quality of service parameters.

Abstract: A method and system for supplying a digital video signal from a source to a sink are described. The digital video signal includes digital video data for three different colors and a pixel clock signal, such as DVI and HDMI. The digital video data and the pixel clock signal are received at a transmitter which sends a signal representative of the frequency of the pixel clock signal over a cable connecting the transmitter and a receiver. Digital video data for three different colors is sent over three different twisted wire pairs of the cable to the receiver. A local pixel clock signal is generated at the receiver using the signal representative of the frequency of the pixel clock signal. The local pixel clock signal is used to process the received digital video data and recovered digital video data and the local pixel clock signal are output.