Abstract: A system and method of locating the display area of a user interactive, computer controlled display including a computing device for generating image data corresponding to a plurality of selected images, a display area for displaying the plurality of selected images, an image capture device for capturing a plurality of images within its capture area each captured image including one of the selected images and a display area locator for locating the display area within the capture area by deriving constructive and destructive feedback data from image data corresponding to the plurality of captured images.

Abstract: A system and method of identifying a point of interest of an object located in front of a computer controlled display area captured by an image capture device is performed by capturing an image of the display area within the capture area of the image capture device. Pixels within the captured data are identified that correspond to the object within the display area and to the peripheral boundary of the display area within the capture area. Pixels are identified and stored that correspond to the common subset of the object pixels and the peripheral boundary pixels. A search is performed using the common pixels and the object pixels to determine a pixel corresponding to the point of interest of the object in the display area within the capture area.

Abstract: A method determines a surface of an object in a sequence of images. The method begins by estimating a boundary of the object in each image of the sequence using motion information of adjacent images of the sequence. Then, portions of each image of the sequence are ordered to produce an ordered sequence of images. The ordered portions are exterior to the estimated object boundary. Edges in each ordered image are filtered using the motion information, and each ordered image of the sequence is searched to locate the filtered edges to form a new boundary outside the estimated boundary. The filtering and searching are repeated, while projecting the new object boundaries over the sequence of images, until the new object boundaries converges to a surface of the object.

Abstract: A method represents a shape of an object in an image. Portions of the image interior to a boundary of the object are ordered. A medial axis for the ordered portions of the image is derived. The medial axis is segmented to produce an ordered tree. The ordered tree is transformed to a partial ordered tree to represent the shape of the object.

Abstract: A coarse magnetic template pattern is transferred to a data storage surface of a disk by magnetic printing techniques. As printed, the template pattern essentially provides clocking and may provide radial position information. The disk is then assembled into a completed and enclosed disk drive. The template pattern is then used by the disk drive to self-write highly resolved product embedded servo patterns onto storage surfaces of each data disk including the surface having the printed template pattern.

Abstract: A method detects a boundary in a sequence of two-dimensional images where each image has multiple intensity value points. Filtering and motion analysis is applied on each image to produce motion enhanced images. Initial search parameters are determined from a dynamic snake model applied to the motion enhanced images. Each motion enhanced image is searched for a potential boundary using the search parameters. The potential boundary is projected into the motion enhanced image of a previous, current, and next image, and the search parameters of the previous, current, and next images are updated. The searching, projecting, and updating repeat until a predetermined level of convergence is reached.

Abstract: A flash memory cell and the making thereof is disclosed where the cell has a damascene-like stacked gate. The stacked gate is formed not by blanket depositing a first polysilicon layer and then subtractively etching to form a floating gate followed by the depositing of a second polysilicon layer separated by an intervening inter-gate dielectric layer over the floating gate. On the contrary, a trench is formed in a nitride layer formed over a substrate using a modified damascene process. The first polysilicon layer is conformally deposited into the damascene-like trench to form the floating gate of the disclosed cell. Then, a layer of inter-gate dielectric layer is formed over the first polysilicon layer in the trench, followed by the forming of a second polysilicon layer over the dielectric layer, thus forming the damascene-like stacked gate of this invention.