Abstract: An imaging device capable of detecting differences with low power consumption is provided. The imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion element and a transistor; an analog processing circuit; and a digital processing circuit. The imaging device is operated in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the analog processing circuit detects a difference between first imaging data taken by the pixel and second imaging data taken by the pixel and generates a trigger signal on the basis of the value of the difference. In the second mode, the digital processing circuit converts third imaging data taken by the pixel into digital data. Switching from the first mode to the second mode is performed on the basis of the trigger signal.

Abstract: An example apparatus for encoding immersive video includes a view optimizer to receive a plurality of input views from a source camera and select basic views and additional views from the plurality of input views. The apparatus also includes a view pruner to prune the additional views based on a comparison with the basic views. The apparatus further includes a patch packer to generate atlases based on the pruned additional views and the basic views. The apparatus includes a metadata composer to generate metadata including additional metadata. The apparatus also further includes a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream including the encoded video and the metadata.

Abstract: A storage part retains: screen positioning data indicating a position, orientation, and shape of the screen in a reference coordinate space; image capture part positioning data indicating the position and orientation of the user space image capture parts in the reference coordinate space; and three-dimensional data representing a three-dimensional object in the reference coordinate space. A processing part: identifies a user viewpoint position on the basis of the image capture part positioning data and the user space images; generates, on the basis of the user viewpoint position, the screen positioning data, and the three-dimensional data, a display image of the three-dimensional object being viewable as though the three dimensional object had been seen in a virtual space from the user viewpoint position via the screen; and causes said display image to be displayed on the screen of a display.

Abstract: An intelligent door lock system is coupled to a door at a dwelling. A door status device is at the dwelling. The door status device is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at the door. The lock device is coupled to the door status device and includes a bolt. Near field communication (NFC) is used to identify a lock device via an RF protocol. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A camera is coupled to or part of the intelligent door lock system. The camera is configured to record in response to door lock status.

Abstract: A photo-detecting apparatus includes an image sensor and a 3D image generator. The image sensor having a plurality of 3D photodetectors is configured to output a raw data. The 3D image generator having a storage medium for storing a calibration data is configured to output a 3D image according to the raw data and the calibration data. The calibration data includes at least one of an IQ-mismatch calibration data, a non-linearity calibration data, a temperature calibration data and an offset calibration data.

Abstract: A supervisory control system for a well construction rig operable to perform well construction operations to construct a planned well at a wellsite. The supervisory control system may be installable in association with the well construction rig. The supervisory control system may comprise a supervisory controller communicatively connectable with a central controller of a rig control system of the well construction rig. The rig control system may be communicatively connected with and operable to control well construction equipment of the well construction rig. The supervisory controller may be operable to control the well construction equipment via the rig control system to cause the well construction equipment to perform the well construction operations. The central controller may be operable as an I/O interface for matching inputs and outputs of the supervisory controller with corresponding inputs and outputs of at least one piece of the well construction equipment.

Abstract: An imaging system is provided, the imaging system is configured to generate video streams of a moving target in a predefined area, the imaging system comprising: first and second image capture devices configured to be movable and to capture first and second video streams of the moving target from a first direction; third and fourth image capture devices configured to be movable and to capture third and fourth video streams of the moving target from a second and third directions, the second and third directions being substantially opposite to one another and substantially perpendicular to the first direction; a fifth image capture device configured to be stationary and to capture a fifth video stream of the moving target from a fourth direction, the fourth direction being substantially perpendicular to the first to third directions; and a controller configured to move the first to fourth image capture devices along with the moving target in the predefined area.

Abstract: Disclosed are an inter prediction mode-based image processing method and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for processing an image on the basis of inter prediction may comprise the steps of: determining whether a motion vector scale adaptation is applied to a block; up-scaling a down-scaled MVD (Motion Vector Difference) when the motion vector scale adaptation is applied to the block; deriving a MV (Motion Vector) for the block, using the up-scaled MVD and a MVP (Motion Vector Predictor); and generating a predictive block of the block, using the derived MV.

Abstract: An optical module for endoscope includes an optical element, an optical fiber, a ferrule including a first principal surface, a second principal surface, and a side surface, an opening of an insertion hole being present on the first principal surface, the insertion hole having a bottom surface made of a transparent material, the optical fiber being inserted into the insertion hole, the optical element being bonded to the second principal surface, an opening of a groove connected to the insertion hole being present on the first principal surface, the grove having a bottom surface made of the transparent material, and transparent resin disposed in the insertion hole and the groove of the ferrule.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed that, in some aspects, provide for the determination of alarm events or non-alarm events based on data received from various sensors monitoring one or more entry points of a premises. Non-alarm events may, for example, include a seismic event or a knock event. Determining whether the data received from the various sensors is an alarm or non-alarm event may be based on data received from two or more sensors monitoring two or more entry points of the premises. Further, data related to the non-alarm event that occurred at the premise may be compared to data related to non-alarm events that occurred at other premises and, based on the comparison, one or more authorities may be alerted to the non-alarm event.

Abstract: Delivery parcel detection systems can include a doorbell having a first wireless communication system and a parcel holding system configured for placement in an entryway. The doorbell can be communicatively coupled to the parcel holding system. The parcel holding system can comprise a sensor configured to detect a delivery parcel located on the parcel holding system. Systems can include a first communication sent from the parcel holding system to the doorbell in response to the parcel holding system detecting an arrival, a movement, or a removal of the delivery parcel. Systems can also include a second communication sent from the doorbell to a remote computing device in response to the doorbell receiving the first communication.

Abstract: A wireless access system at a building is provided. A door lock system includes: a lock status device configured to be coupled to the drive shaft of a lock device, the lock status device assisting in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device. A processor is coupled to the door lock system. An image capture device at the building is configured to be in communication with the door lock system and capture an image of an object in the vicinity of the building. A light source assembly is in communication with the image capture device.

Abstract: A plurality of high speed tracking cameras is pointed towards a routine hovering area of an in-the-field sports participant who routinely hovers about that area. Spots within the hovering area are registered relative to a predetermined multi-dimensional coordinates reference frame (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw) such that two-dimensional coordinates of 2D images captured by the high speed tracking cameras can be converted to multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A body part recognizing unit recognizes 2D locations of a specific body part in the 2D captured images and a mapping unit maps them into the multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A multi-dimensional curve generator then generates a multi-dimensional motion curve describing motion of the body part based on the mapped coordinates (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw).

Abstract: Processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a block from a coded video bitstream. The block is a non-square block and the prediction information of the block is indicative of a wide angle intra prediction mode in a specific number of wide angle intra prediction modes with angles that are outside a range of directional modes from a bottom-left diagonal mode to a top-right diagonal mode for a square block. The wide angle intra prediction modes are in a first set of intra prediction modes associated with the block. The directional modes are in a second set of intra prediction modes associated with the square block. The specific number of the wide angle intra prediction modes is a function of an aspect ratio of the block. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least one sample of the block according to the wide angle intra prediction mode.

Abstract: A device, system and method for intelligently dropping frames in a congested wireless network. Video frames from a video encoder may be received and queued in an ordered sequence of outgoing video frames in a transmission queue to be transmitted as data packets by a wireless communication circuit. When network congestion is detected, a relative contextual importance level of an incoming frame received from the video input channel may be compared relative to at least one frame in the transmission queue. The compared frame that has a lower relative contextual importance level may be dropped or omitted from the transmission queue, thereby transmitting data packets of the frames in the transmission queue without the dropped or omitted frames.

Abstract: A method and system for a scalable multi-sense user experience are disclosed. A three-dimensional (“3-D”) display is disposed behind a slit plane comprising slits and ultrasonic transducers. Light from the 3-D display passes through the slits in the slit plane to generate a 3-D image. The ultrasonic transducers on the front of the slit plane, i.e., opposite the side where the 3-D display is disposed, generate directed acoustic field and/or a formed tactile field. Because the generating components for all three senses, i.e., visual, audio, and tactile, are coplanar, units may be tiled and thereby scaled to generate larger multi-sense experiences.

Abstract: A camera system includes a plurality of cameras configured to capture images in different directions. The camera system rotates the plurality of cameras in a predetermined direction. The plurality of cameras are configured such that, even during rotation, one of the cameras captures an image of a preset specific region. The camera system acquires parallax information regarding an object present in the specific region on the basis of a plurality of captured images of the specific region.

Abstract: Image sensors are positioned around a rig floor. An on-site edge or fog computing gateway is communicably coupled to the image sensors. The on-site edge or fog computing gateway includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing programming instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The programming instructions instruct the one or more processors to do the following: receive an image stream form at least one of the plurality of image sensors; generate, from the image stream, an operating condition; determine that an automation rule includes the operating condition generated from the image stream; in response to determining that an automation rule includes the operating condition, send an instruction to drive a controllable device; and, in response to sending an instruction to drive the controllable device, drive the controllable device.

Abstract: A method for decoding a bitstream comprising: (a) decoding at least one pictures from the bitstream; and (b) partitioning each of the at least one pictures into a plurality of slices, wherein each of the plurality of slices includes at least one coding units, wherein (c) palette table predictor size of a coding unit of the at least one coding units is set equal to 0 at start of a slice of the plurality of slices.

Abstract: In order to be able to appropriately control whether to generate a wide-angle image in accordance with control of an imaging range of the plurality of imaging units, an imaging device includes: a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit, each of which is movable in a predetermined direction; a combination processing unit configured to combine a first image obtained by the first imaging unit and a second image obtained by the second imaging unit to generate a wide-angle image; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to generate the wide-angle image by the combination processing unit, based on a relation between an imaging range of the first imaging unit and an imaging range of the second imaging unit, or a position relation between the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit in the predetermined direction.