Abstract: A scanning microscope includes: a photodetector that detects light from a sample; a sampling circuit that samples an output signal of the photodetector; and a processor. The processor performs an operation including at least integration on a plurality of items of sampling data sampled by the sampling circuit, determines whether a result of the operation is noise or a signal, and generates pixel data based on a result of the operation and a result of the determination.

Abstract: A spectrometer with a lens, a dispersive element, and a detector, wherein a measuring light guided onto the lens is projected by way of the lens onto the dispersive element, is reflected back to the lens by the dispersive element in a spectrally dispersed manner, and is guided onto the detector by way of the lens, is designed and developed with regard to high performance given a compact structural size with structurally simple means such that the lens is a single lens or individual lens having at least one non-spherical surface for influencing the imaging. Furthermore, a corresponding distance measurement system and a corresponding method for operating a spectrometer are specified.

Abstract: A sample and hold readout system and method for ramp analog to digital conversion is presented in which an optical array is read out using a sample and hold circuit such that each sample is used to charge a sample and hold capacitor and is read out during a hold phase using an amplifier that drives an ramp analog to digital converter. The sample and hold circuit transitions to a tracking phase wherein the optical array input drives an amplifier that drives the sample and hold capacitor then transitions to a sample phase where the sample and hold capacitor is connected to the optical array output directly.

Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a frame; a display fixed to the frame; a door covering the display; and a sliding module for opening and closing the door, wherein the door can be formed of a plastic sheet and a fabric sheet covering the plastic sheet.

Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure describe an imaging system comprising: a camera including multiple image sensors that are spaced apart, each of the image sensors to capture an image of a respective sample location of multiple sample locations of a sample; and a fiber bundle comprising multiple fiber cores, each of the fiber cores to emit a light beam that is projected on a respective one of the sample locations.

Abstract: In the information processing device, the acquisition means receives reflected light corresponding to irradiation light and acquires a measurement data. The detection means detects a pair of areas for which symmetry of the measurement data becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined level. The estimation means estimates a height of a middle of the pair of areas as a ground height.

Abstract: The disclosure proceeds from a method for operating a control and monitoring device for a rotating laser, wherein in one method step, a laser power of a laser unit of the rotating laser is controlled as a function of a rotational speed of a rotating head of the rotating laser by means of a control or regulating unit of the control and monitoring device. By means of a further control or regulating unit of the control and monitoring device, the rotational speed of the rotating head and at least one operating parameter of the laser unit is interrogated and adjusted in order to emit a signal for influencing a laser beam that can be emitted by means of the laser unit.

Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed at a vehicle and a camera having a CMOS imaging sensor operable to capture image data. The ECU includes (i) a data processor and (ii) a DC power supply. A coaxial cable carries DC power from the DC power supply of the ECU to the camera. Image data captured by the camera is conveyed from the camera to the ECU via the coaxial cable. Calibration data may be conveyed from the camera to the ECU via the coaxial cable. The camera is in bidirectional communication with the ECU over the coaxial cable. The camera includes a data serializer and the ECU includes a data deserializer. The camera may include a front camera, a rear-viewing camera or an internal cabin surveillance camera.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a photoelectric conversion unit including a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, and a third semiconductor region forming a p-n junction with the second semiconductor region, and a control circuit for switching a voltage of a reverse bias voltage applied between the first and the second semiconductor regions between first and second voltages. The photoelectric conversion device performs a period in which the reverse bias voltage is set to the first voltage to accumulate signal charge in the third semiconductor region, and a period in which the reverse bias voltage is set to the second voltage to enable transfer of signal charge to the first semiconductor region, and avalanche multiplication at the p-n junction between the first and second semiconductor regions. The control circuit switches between the first voltage and the second voltage by changing the reverse bias voltage to a rectangular shape.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a blind spot assistance display system including a camera module, a display control module, and a display module. The camera module installed on an exterior of a vehicle acquires a first image within a preset range including a blind spot obscured by an A-pillar. The display control module connects to the camera module, receives the first image and outputs a display control signal. The display module, installed inside the vehicle, displays images based on the display control signal. When an obstacle is detected within a preset distance from the vehicle, the display module activates; and when no obstacle is detected within the first image, or when an obstacle is detected within the first image beyond the preset distance from the vehicle, the display module deactivates.

Abstract: A hybrid projector architecture combines steered light with unsteered light. In some embodiments the steered light is narrowband light and the unsteered light is broadband light. Splitting between the steered and unsteered light may be determined based on luminance level. For example, the unsteered light may contribute a large proportion of the light for luminance levels up to a threshold. The steered light may contribute an increasing proportion of the light as luminance values rise above the threshold.

Abstract: An example device includes a screen, a first light source configured to emit a first light at a first angle during a first time period and a second light source configured to emit a second light at a second angle during a second time period. The second angle is different than the first angle. The second time period is different than the first time period. The device includes a spatial light modulator configured to provide a first view of digital content based on the first angle of the first light emitted during the first time period and a second view of the digital content based on the second angle of the second light emitted during the second time period and projection optics configured to project the first view and the second view for presentation via the screen.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel unit including a photoelectric conversion unit, a count unit, a count control unit for controlling the count unit, and a determination unit for performing a determination processing of determining a change in the amount of light incident. An exposure period includes at least first and second periods. The count control unit controls to output a difference value between a first count value in the first period and a second count value in the second period. The determination unit performs the determination process based on the difference value. When the difference value is not more than a threshold value, the count control unit starts a count operation in a third period from the first count value. The determination unit further performs the determination processing based on a difference value between the first count value and a third count value in the third period.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device, an electronic device, and a distance measurement system for miniaturization of pixels in a device that outputs a luminance signal and an event signal. A device includes: a pixel array unit in which an event pixel that detects that a luminance change exceeds a predetermined threshold and a gradation pixel that outputs a luminance signal of a gradation level according to a light amount of incident light are mixed, in which a color filter of the same color is formed in units of two or more pixels in the gradation pixel, and the event pixel is disposed with a region size in which at least two of the gradation pixels are arranged in a row direction or a column direction. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a distance measurement system or the like that generates image information and distance measurement information.

Abstract: A method for digital printing on a running printing material web (10), wherein repeating motifs (a, b, c) are continually printed on the web and images of the printed motifs are continually recorded with a camera and rendered as still images (a, b, g) on a display (14) for web observation, with the motifs displayed next to one another in a plurality of tracks (A, B, C) and with a repeat that changes from track to track, and in that the images for web observation are recorded track by track and synchronously with the repeat applicable to the respective track.

Abstract: A three-dimensional data generation method includes the following processing. A processor acquires two or more images of a component inside a turbine. The processor detects two or more correspondence regions that are the same regions in at least two images. The processor determines whether at least part of a region of each image is a change region or a non-change region. The processor generates three-dimensional data by using a correspondence region determined to be the change region without using a correspondence region determined to be the non-change region.

Abstract: A video data processing method includes receiving compressed video data that has first resolution, obtaining first texture data having the first resolution based on one or more first video frames in the compressed video data, generating second texture data having second resolution higher than the first resolution based on the first texture data, and generating one or more second video frames having the second resolution through a rendering operation and based on the second texture data.

Abstract: A method of monitoring and reporting aircraft turnaround activities at an airport gate that includes monitoring the airport gate using a first camera that has a first field of view associated with the airport gate; generating, using the first camera, first image data capturing a first activity within the first field of view; receiving, by processor(s), the first image data; identifying, by the processor(s), the first activity captured in the first image data; comparing, using a computer application, aspect(s) of the first activity with a predetermined schedule; and displaying, on a graphical user interface remote from the first camera and using the computer application, an alert indicating that the first activity does not comply with the predetermined schedule; wherein the processor(s) include a machine learning processor.

Abstract: A technique for determining a presence of a person in a room may include an electronic device transmitting an electromagnetic wireless signal of a first sensor. The technique may include receiving an electromagnetic return signal from the electromagnetic wireless signal. The technique may include detecting a potential target in the room based on the electromagnetic return signal. The technique may include determining that the potential target is in the room using a second sensor. Responsive to determining the potential target is in the room, the technique may include saving a training signature of the electromagnetic return signal for training a machine learning model. This technique can be repeated to obtain a set of training signatures corresponding to potential targets. The technique may include training, using the set of training signatures, the machine learning model to detect when a target is in the room using the first sensor.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display element layer having first to third light-emitting regions and a non-light-emitting region, and including light-emitting elements along one direction and corresponding to the first to third light-emitting regions to provide source light; a light control unit on the display element layer, and including a base resin and scatters, and having openings overlapping with the first and second light-emitting regions; light conversion units in the openings, and including quantum dots; and first to third color filters on the light control unit and the light conversion units, and overlapping with the first to third light-emitting regions. The light control unit includes a first portion overlapping with the non-light-emitting region, and a second portion overlapping with the third light-emitting region, that form a step difference with each other; and a width of the first portion is greater than a thickness of the second portion.