Abstract: An apparatus includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to (i) receive an image in a raster order, where the image has a plurality of data values arranged in a plurality of raster lines, and (ii) set a flag corresponding to a current value among the data values in a current line of the raster lines to indicate that the current value is a maximum value in a one-dimensional window in the current line. The second circuit may be configured to reset the flag based on one or more previous lines of the raster lines to indicate that the current value is not the maximum value in a two-dimensional window around the current value. The third circuit may be configured to generate an output value in the current line based on the flag.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for ordering vertices in an image frame within a data stream, wherein the image frame corresponds to Earth-viewing data. A point of intersection of a primary pair of lines is determined and loaded into computer memory, and interrogated as to a sign of a signed remainder with respect to each of two secondary lines defined by the pairwise ordered sets of vertices. In the case of opposite remainder sign with respect to the two secondary lines, two provisional indices are swapped to obtain a rectified index for each of the four vertices. The process is repeated with respect to the signed remainder of the intersection point of the secondary lines relative to the primary lines. The four vertices are then fit, in accordance with index ordering, into a tiling of the surface of the Earth based on the rectified index of each of the four vertices.

Abstract: An information processor includes a reception part configured to receive user identification information identifying a user from an apparatus that causes the user to input billing destination identification information identifying a billing destination with respect to use of a function in response to reception of a request to execute the function from the user, an obtaining part configured to obtain one or more of items of the billing destination identification information from a storage part, the one or more of the items of the billing destination identification information being stored in the storage part in correlation with the user identification information received from the apparatus, and a response returning part configured to return the obtained one or more of the items of the billing destination identification information to the apparatus as available choices for selection that the user is caused to make by the apparatus.

Abstract: A document printing system may include a print engine, a controller and a communication port. The communication port can read a portable memory device, which stores an electronic secure file for authorizing the print engine. The portable memory device may store data such as the creation date for the electronic secure file. The portable memory may also store the device identification code and/or the vendor identification code. The electronic secure file may also store the creation date for the file itself, and the device identification code, the vendor identification code, or a balance amount. The system may authorize a print engine by comparing the data in the electronic secure file and data stored on the portable memory device. If the comparison of data finds a mismatch, the system may determine that the print engine is not authorized; or determine that the service is authorized if otherwise.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for calculating dimensions of objects on loaded or partially loaded pallets for purposes of billing in shipping and transportation applications using depth-sensing imaging devices. A plurality of depth maps of an object are retrieved from one or more imaging devices. The depth maps are filtered and transformed into a world co-ordinate system based on calibration of the imaging devices. A point cloud is generated and a minimum volume bounding box is determined. The edge lengths and height of the object are calculated, and a volume may be determined to associate a volume with the object.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first authenticator, a second authenticator, and an apparatus authenticator. The first authenticator is configured to perform first authentication. The second authenticator is configured to perform second authentication. The apparatus authenticator is configured to permit a user who has been authenticated in both the first authentication and the second authentication to use the image forming apparatus, and cancel the permission of use of the image forming apparatus for the user when the authentication of the user is canceled in at least one of the first authentication and the second authentication.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to detecting a user's facial expressions in real-time using a head-mounted display unit that includes a 2D camera (e.g., infrared camera) that capture a user's eye region, and a depth camera or another 2D camera that captures the user's lower facial features including lips, chin and cheek. The images captured by the first and second camera are processed to extract parameters associated with facial expressions. The parameters can be sent or processed so that the user's digital representation including the facial expression can be obtained.

Abstract: An apparatus for editing information about a parameter for capturing a medical image includes a storage device configured to store at least one piece of group information including information about a change to the parameter for capturing the medical image and information about an associated parameter to be changed together with the parameter; a display configured to display a parameter change history including the at least one piece of group information; and a controller configured to control the display and the storage device, wherein the at least one piece of group information is arranged based on an order in which a parameter in the at least one piece of group information is changed.

Abstract: A 3D profiling system of a semiconductor chip is provided and includes a storage unit that receives scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of a plurality of semiconductor devices having respective data with respect to a plurality of different components and gray levels of each SEM image. An extraction unit that performs principal component analysis (PCA) on the gray level of the SEM image and separates principal components from among the plurality of different components is also part of the system. Additionally, a calculation unit receives provision of actually measured values of the plurality of semiconductor devices, and applies a multiple linear regression to the principal components based on the measured values to complete a 3D profile of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A method is provided for detecting a movement of a body between acquisition times of at least two acquisition data sets, wherein, for virtual sectional planes of the body, a first intermediate function value of attenuation values of all the body elements lying in the sectional plane is determined based on a first acquisition data set, and a second intermediate function value of the attenuation values is determined based on a second acquisition data set. For each sectional plane, a difference value is determined from the intermediate function values. A total error value for the two acquisition data sets is calculated by combining the difference values of all the sectional planes. The virtual sectional planes have a common line of intersection, and for the particular acquisition time, the difference between pairs of the sectional lines is at least one pixel.

Abstract: An information processing device that communicates with a server on Internet over a local network, having: a session establishing part that establishes a session that enables a communication with said server over said local network; a periodic communicating part that establishes periodic communications at a predetermined time interval with said server to maintain said session; a power controller that stops a power supply to said periodic communicating part if a predetermined condition to enter sleep mode is met; and a substitute requesting part that requests another device installed on said local network to establish the periodic communication with said server that should be established by said periodic communicating part for said periodic communicating part when said power controller enables said information processing device to enter sleep mode.

Abstract: Provided is a color scheme evaluation apparatus including a color range storage unit and a color scheme evaluation unit. The color range storage unit configured to store information about a color range of a color scheme for an evaluation target object constituting an evaluation target screen. The color scheme evaluation unit configured to create an evaluation criterion usable for evaluating a color scheme for the evaluation target object, by interpreting a relationship of a group into which the evaluation target object is classified, on the basis of evaluation target object information including information about the color scheme for the evaluation target object and information about the group, and group relationship information including the relationship about the group, and to evaluate the color scheme for the evaluation target object on the basis of the evaluation criterion by referring to the information about the color range.

Abstract: A device for removing haze from an image includes an image decomposer that decomposes a near-infrared (NIR) image to generate an NIR detail layer image and decomposes an RGB image to generate an RGB detail layer image and an RGB base layer image, a weight generator that generates a mixing weight value based on a similarity between high frequency (HF) components of the NIR image and the RGB image, a detail layer mixer that mixes the NIR detail layer image and the RGB detail layer image based on the mixing weight value to generate a mixed RGB detail layer image, a base layer dehazer that removes haze from the RGB base layer image to generate a compensated RGB base layer image, and an adder that adds the mixed RGB detail layer image and the compensated RGB base layer image to generate an output RGB image.

Abstract: Due to different formats for print jobs, in particular different means of identifying users, it is a problem how to handle a print job submitted to a cloud printing service, in which a user is identified by first user credentials, for processing by an authenticated printing system for which the user is identified by second user credentials. This problem is solved by a method comprising the steps of: i. obtaining the print job from the cloud printing service, the print job comprising print job metadata comprising the first user credentials, ii. obtaining the second user credentials based on the first user credentials, iii, adding the second user credentials to the metadata, and iv. forwarding at least the print job metadata comprising the second user credentials, to the authenticated printing system for the processing. A system for performing the method is also provided.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays a print setting screen based on configuration setting information of a selected device type. The printing setting information set via the print setting screen is used along with print data to generate a print job that is sent to a selected printer.

Abstract: Approaches are provided for processing scan data based on a scan process definition (SPD) that defines a set of instructions for acquiring image data based on one or more printed documents. An SPD may include extension data that is used to store additional data in association with the scan data. An SPD may include rights management data that is used to provide security to the scan data that is generated based on the SPD. An SPD may be used as a print process definition for dictating how print operations are to be performed. An SPD may be associated with data that identifies one or more scan devices that are prohibited from using the SPD. An SPD may be associated with access delegation data that indicates one or more users who have been delegated access to the SPD.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first unit as a main body of the information processing apparatus; a second unit openable and closable relative to the first unit; a third unit openable and closable relative to the second unit; and a controller programmed to control operations of the first unit. The second unit includes a first detector configured to detect whether the third unit is opened or closed relative to the second unit. When the second unit is in an opened position relative to the first unit, the first detector detects that the third unit is opened. The controller controls at least one of the first unit, the second unit, and the third unit based on a result of the detection by the first detector.

Abstract: An image processing device that is capable of executing a job by working together with a server, having: an application that establishes a connection that enables a communication with the server, and establishes periodic communications with the server at predetermined time intervals to maintain the connection; a periodic communication managing part that manages the periodic communication with the server by the application; and a power controller that includes a timer that measures a time elapsed after the application establishes the periodic communication, the power controller starting again a power supply to the application when the timer measures the time interval after the power supply to the application is stopped if a predetermined condition is met. The periodic communication managing part enables the application to establish the periodic communication with the server and resets the measured time before the power supply to the application is stopped by the power controller.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image filtering method and a CT (Computed Tomography) system.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus of an embodiment including a resolution converting unit, a color information calculating unit, and a color pixel determining unit. The resolution converting unit decreases image resolution of read image data. The color information calculating unit calculates color information that is used in determination of whether a pixel is a color pixel or a non-color pixel, based on a value of an RGB signal of the pixel which configures the image data. The color pixel determining unit determines whether the pixel is either the color pixel or the non-color pixel, based on the color information, and changes a criterion of selecting the color pixel based on the color information.