Patents Issued in January 15, 2008
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Patent number: 7319761Abstract: The invention describes a graphical method for detecting and adjusting audio overload conditions. The graphical user interface provides a user complete playback control of several audio tracks, detection of overload conditions such as audio clipping, and graphical methods to correct the overload conditions. The graphical interface provides drag handles which the user can use to adjust the various characteristics of an audio file. The characteristics, such as amplitude and temp, may be adjusted as a function of time.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Curt Bianchi, Nikhil Bhatt, Christopher Moulios
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Patent number: 7319762Abstract: A headphone system is provided with two earbud headphones and a control module, each fitted with a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The LEDs may be of many different colors and flash to the beat of the music. Patterns, colors, and intensity may be adjusted based on a user's preferences. The intensity, frequency, and light patterns of the LEDs may change when a threshold level is reached.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Andrea Electronics CorporationInventors: Douglas J. Andrea, Qunsheng Liu
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Patent number: 7319763Abstract: A power amplifier for a parametric loudspeaker system which utilizes switch-mode power conversion to increase efficiency. The power amplifier is configured to coordinate the switching frequency of the amplifier with the carrier frequency of the parametric loudspeaker system, so a lower switching frequency may be used even though the power amplifier must amplify ultrasonic signals. The amplifier can be further optimized to counteract the reactance of the transducer load at the carrier frequency.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: American Technology CorporationInventors: Jeevan G. Bank, James J. Croft, III
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Patent number: 7319764Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for controlling the volume of an audio track. This method represents the volume of an audio track with a graph. This graph is defined along two axes, with one axis representing time and the other representing the volume level. A user can adjust the graph at different instances in time in order to change the volume level in the audio track at these instances. Different embodiments use different types of graphs to represent volume. For instance, some embodiments use a deformable line bar.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Glenn Reid, James Brasure
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Patent number: 7319765Abstract: A parameter setting device includes faders 15a to 15c to which a plurality of parameters are respectively allotted. The plural parameter values are respectively set in accordance with the operation positions of faders 15a to 15c. When scene selection switches 24 to 26 are operated, the plural parameter values are gradually changed in accordance with the lapse of time towards the final values represented by scene data. During this change of the parameter values, faders 15a to 15c are driven by a motor and move in correspondence with the parameter values. When invalidation switches 12a to 12c, 21 are operated during this movement of faders 15a to 15c, the movement of faders 15a to 15c is controlled to be stopped, and the parameter values are instantaneously changed to the final values according to the scene data.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Akio Suyama, Kenji Ikeya
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Patent number: 7319766Abstract: An improved in-wall speaker assembly providing better performance and less intrusion than prior art speakers. The speaker assembly is oriented such that the driver fires vertically, parallel to the wall studs, rather than horizontally and perpendicular to the wall studs. The cone and surround of the speaker assembly are generally rectangular and/or conform to the area available between studs. Additionally, the cone is not attached to the voice coil, but is connected to the voice coil by a shaft which transmits the energy from the voice coil to the cone. In another aspect of the invention, the cabinet or housing includes two housings.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Velodyne Acoustics, Inc.Inventors: David S. Hall, Chris Kallai, Richard Yoder, Felix E. Stephens
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Patent number: 7319767Abstract: A line array electroacoustical transducing system includes at least first and second line arrays detachably secured in electrical and mechanical coupling relationships. The assembly may be detachably secured to a base having an amplifier in electrical and mechanical coupling relationships.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Paul Fidlin, Clifford A. Henricksen, Kenneth Dylan Jacob, Hilmar Lehnert, Peter C. Santoro
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Patent number: 7319768Abstract: A method for detecting and automatically selecting an input signal in a hearing aid in which at least two analog input signals are available, comprises the steps of analyzing the analog input signals and detecting, for each analog input signal, whether it comprises a relevant signal, selecting, according to results of said analysis, at least one selected input signal that comprises a relevant signal for further processing, and controlling a signal routing means to selectively route each one of the at least one selected input signals to further processing means. A hearing aid according to the invention comprises means to perform the above method.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Phonak AGInventor: Gerard van Oerle
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Patent number: 7319769Abstract: A method to adjust parameters of a transfer function of a hearing device is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of extracting features of an input signal fed to the hearing device, classifying the extracted features into one of several possible classes, selecting a class corresponding to a best estimate of a momentary acoustic scene, adjusting at least some of the parameters of the transfer function in accordance with the selected class representing the best estimated momentary acoustic scene, and training the hearing device to improve classification of the extracted feature or the best estimate of the momentary acoustic scene, respectively, during regular operation of the hearing device. As a result, the hearing device does not only improve its behavior when new data is presented lying outside of known training data, but the hearing device is also better and faster adapted to most common acoustic scenes, with which the hearing device user is confronted.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Phonak AGInventors: Silvia Allegro-Baumann, Nail Cadalli, Stefan Launer, Valentin Chapero-Rueda
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Patent number: 7319770Abstract: A method of processing an acoustic input signal into an output signal in a hearing instrument includes converting the acoustic input signal into a converted input signal, and applying a gain to the converted input signal to obtain the output signal. According to the invention, the gain is calculated using a room impulse attenuation value being a measure of a maximum negative slope of the a converted input signal power on a logarithmic scale. The calculation of the gain may include evaluating a signal power development value being a measure of the actual converted input signal power attenuation or signal power increase, evaluating a signal-to-reverberation-noise ratio from the signal power development value and the room impulse attenuation value, and calculating, based on a gain rule, said gain from said signal-to-reverberation-noise ratio.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Phonak AGInventors: Hans-Ueli Roeck, Manuela Feilner
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Patent number: 7319771Abstract: A vibrator for a bone conduction type hearing aid device. The vibrator includes a coil for generating a dynamic magnetic field and two permanent magnets for generating a static magnetic field. The two permanent magnets are working independently from each other in the magnetic circuit and an arranged in such a way that the static and dynamic magnetic fields are substantially separated from each other, but coinciding in the air gaps formed between the coil and magnet arrangement and the casing, whereby the vibrator provides an axial force.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: P & B Research ABInventor: Kristian â„«snes
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Patent number: 7319772Abstract: A speaker device for improving mid/high-range frequencies includes a magnetic base, a frame annularly mounted to the magnetic base, a cone mounted to an inner side of the frame, a voice coil mounted to the cone and suspended in a gap of the magnetic base, and a deadening phase plug mounted on a central portion of the magnetic base. The magnetic base includes a T-iron, a magnet, and a pole plate. The deadening phase plug is made of a sound-absorbing material for absorbing and eliminating sound waves generated by the voice coil and the cone.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Inventor: George Chang
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Patent number: 7319773Abstract: The present invention relates to a subminiature bone conduction speaker by using a vibrating plate and a mobile phone having the subminiature bone conduction speaker.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignees: Phicom Corporation, Olewolff Uniwell Acoustics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Oug-Ki Lee, Joo-Bae Kim
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Patent number: 7319774Abstract: A speaker includes: a speaker unit; a baffle fitted with the speaker unit; a cabinet fixed to the baffle, the cabinet covering a back of the speaker unit; a plurality of mounting bosses projected from at least one of the baffle and the cabinet; and a packing having elongated mounting holes, the packing located at an abutting part between the baffle and the cabinet, the packing sealing the abutting part. The abutting part includes a plurality of similar sealing areas, which are substantially common in size and shape as a whole except that at least one projecting position of the mounting boss is slightly shifted. The elongated mounting holes of the packing is used for the similar sealing areas. The elongated mounting holes of the packing correspond to the at least one projecting position of the mounting boss and compensate a position shift between the similar sealing areas.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Electric CorporationInventor: Tatsuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 7319775Abstract: A wavelet domain watermark encoder and decoder embed and detect auxiliary signals in a media signal, such as a still image, video or audio signal. A watermark orientation signal is embedded in a wavelet decomposed signal to facilitate detection of the watermark in a geometrically distorted version of the embedded signal. In some configurations, the watermark signal forms a pattern in a transform domain used to perform synchronization of the watermark. The pattern has attributes used to determine orientation of the watermark in a geometrically distorted version of the media signal. The attributes carry two or more auxiliary message symbols in the watermark, and the attributes both carry the two or more auxiliary message symbols and form the pattern used to perform synchronization of the watermark.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2001Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Ravi K. Sharma, Adnan M. Alattar, Farid Ahmed, Geoffrey B. Rhoads
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Patent number: 7319776Abstract: An overall image obtained by successively imaging different imaging regions a plurality of times during an image period using an imaging device is separated into a plurality of partial images respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of imaging operations. In cases where the object of imaging consists only of a static object, all of the partial images show more or less the same data. However, in cases where the object of imaging includes a moving object in addition to a static object, differences are generated in the partial images, which have different imaging timing. Accordingly, a judgement as to whether or not a moving object is contained in the overall image produced by synthesizing the plurality of partial images can be made by comparing the partial images.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Katsumi Ide, Hideo Kamata, Yasunao Izaki, Shunji Sakane, Satoshi Kataoka, Kazumasa Komatsu
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Patent number: 7319777Abstract: An Image analysis system uses a multiple-region light detector for detecting light received from the receiving optics, wherein different regions of the light detector can be actuated separately. Control electronics synchronises the timing and direction of illumination of the light source and the actuation of the light detector. The time of light of light signals from the light source to the actuated portion of the detector for all illuminated directions is measured, and distances are derived. A warning is generated if the derived distance is less than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2002Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Instro Precision LimitedInventor: Christopher John Morcom
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Patent number: 7319778Abstract: An image processing apparatus for detecting a desired image-element from a given image, includes: a storing unit for storing a plurality of first templates indicating the desired image-element and a plurality of second templates stored corresponding to the first templates, each of the second templates indicating a part of a corresponding one of the first templates; the first comparing unit for selecting any of the first templates and comparing the selected first template with the given image; and the second comparing unit for comparing a second template corresponding to the selected first template selected by the first comparing unit with the given image; and a detecting unit for detecting the desired image-element from the given image based on the comparison results by the first and second comparing units.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Shuji Ono
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Patent number: 7319779Abstract: The present invention includes a method and system for automatically extracting the multi-class age category information of a person from digital images. The system detects the face of the person(s) in an image, extracts features from the face(s), and then classifies into one of the multiple age categories. Using appearance information from the entire face gives better results as compared to currently known techniques. Moreover, the described technique can be used to extract age category information in more robust manner than currently known methods, in environments with a high degree of variability in illumination, pose and presence of occlusion. Besides use as an automated data collection system wherein given the necessary facial information as the data, the age category of the person is determined automatically, the method could also be used for targeting certain age-groups in advertisements, surveillance, human computer interaction, security enhancements and immersive computer games.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: VideoMining CorporationInventors: Satish Mummareddy, Rajeev Sharma
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Patent number: 7319780Abstract: An image capture method is provided. In accordance with the method, an image of the scene is captured and affective information is collected a capture. The scene image and affective information are transmitted to an image receiver. An imaging system is also provided having an image capture system adapted to capture an image of a scene and a memory which stores the captured image. A set of sensors is adapted to collect affective signals from the user at capture. A processor is adapted to determine affective information based upon the affective signals and to associate affective information with the captured image. A transmitter sends the scene image and the affective information to a receiver.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2002Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Serguei Endrikhovski, Kenneth A. Parulski, Carolyn A. Zacks, Karen M. Taxier, Michael J. Telek, Frank Marino, Dan Harel
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Patent number: 7319781Abstract: A digital image processing method for multiple passes diagnostic alignment of in vivo images, comprising the steps of: acquiring images using an in vivo video camera system; forming an in vivo video camera system examination bundlette; transmitting the examination bundlette to proximal in vitro computing device(s); processing the transmitted examination bundlette; automatically identifying abnormalities in the transmitted examination bundlette; and setting off alarm signals to a local site provided that suspected abnormalities have been identified for each pass forming a registration bundle; selecting identification elements of an image from the registration bundle of one pass; and retrieving corresponding images from another pass.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Shoupu Chen, Lawrence A. Ray, Nathan D. Cahill, Marvin M. Goodgame
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Patent number: 7319782Abstract: A sub-surface imaging system includes a broadband set of coherent beams with low divergence angle. It further includes an optical processing system which provides a probe and a reference beam, applies the probe beam to the target to be analyzed, recombines the beams interferometrically and varies the relative temporal relationship of the coherence phase of the two beams at a frequency compatible with video display rates. It further includes control and processing systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Inventor: Josh N. Hogan
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Patent number: 7319783Abstract: A method for reducing optical distortion within an optical system employing adaptive optics, includes modifying phase of a wavefront of the optical system with a wavefront coding element. Image data of the optical system is post-processed to remove phase effects induced by the wavefront coding element, to reduce optical distortion caused by the adaptive optics and associated with one or more of quilting, stuck actuator and piston error.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: CDM Optics, Inc.Inventors: Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr., Kenneth Scott Kubala, Alan Eugene Baron
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Patent number: 7319784Abstract: The goal was to automate and optimize the shaping and positioning of a shape-specific/conformal voxel that conforms to any volume of interest, such as a cranial lesion, to allow conformal voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy (CV-MRS). We achieved this by using a computer program that optimizes the shape, size, and location of a convex polyhedron within the volume of interest. The sides of the convex polyhedron are used to automatically prescribe the size and location of selective excitation voxels and/or spatial saturation slices. For a spherically-shaped, phantom-simulated lesion, CV-MRS increased the signal from the lesion by a factor of 2.5 compared to a voxel completely inside the lesion. CV-MRS reduces the voxel prescription time, operator subjectivity, and acquisition time.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: National Research Council of CanadaInventors: Lawrence N. Ryner, Garrett Westmacott, Peter Latta, Norman E. Davison
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Patent number: 7319785Abstract: A technology that increases bill discrimination precision, wherein a bill discriminating apparatus detects the thickness distribution of a bill P that is subject to discrimination, and by comparing this thickness distribution data and the reference thickness distribution data that shows the thickness distribution of an authentic note held in advance, performs discrimination processing that includes double feed detection, tape detection, and authenticity discrimination. Then, authenticity discrimination is performed on areas for which the difference between the thickness distribution data and the reference thickness data is within a specified range.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions, Corp.Inventors: Akira Mori, Muneharu Nakabayashi
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Patent number: 7319786Abstract: The inventive image processing apparatus takes steps of 1) dividing an image to be processed into numerals of blocks; 2) determining whether a block is a color block or not; 3) determining whether the image is a color image or not based on the rate of color blocks to the entire blocks. Thereby, valid color pixel rate can be obtained at blocks belonging to a color region even though an image is almost monochrome but partially colored. Accordingly, the inventive image processing apparatus can appropriately determine whether the image is a color image or not.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Hirota, Katsuhisa Toyama, Shoji Imaizumi, Hideyuki Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Ishiguro
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Patent number: 7319787Abstract: A method of automatic contrast correction comprises providing digital image data, representing the data in the form of a brightness histogram, determining a measure of central tendency for said histogram, adding a shift value to the measure of central tendency to provide an adjusted measure of central tendency, using the both the determined and adjusted measures of central tendency to determine the exponent of a tone reproduction curve, and applying the tone reproduction curve to the brightness values of the image. Additionally, the method may provide further correction by applying to the brightness values of the image an S-shaped tone reproduction curve that does not change a measure of central tendency of the brightness histogram.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Corel CorporationInventors: Mikhail Ivanovich Trifonov, Olga Vadimovna Sharonova, Kryzstof Antoni Zaklika
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Patent number: 7319788Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for visualizing ST data based on principal component analysis. ST data indicative of a plurality of local S spectra, each local S spectrum corresponding to an image point of an image of an object are received. In a first step principal component axes of each local S spectrum are determined. This step is followed by the determination of a collapsed local S spectrum by projecting a magnitude of the local S spectrum onto at least one of its principal component axes, thus reducing the dimensionality of the S spectrum. After determining a weight function capable of distinguishing frequency components within a frequency band a texture map for display is generated by calculating a scalar value from each principal component of the collapsed S spectrum using the weight function and assigning the scalar value to a corresponding position with respect to the image.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Calgary Scientific Inc.Inventors: J. Ross Mitchell, T. Chen Fong, Hongmei Zhu
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Patent number: 7319789Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and property information. Properties may be associated globally with the ink strokes and/or with each stroke individually. Aspects include a data structure that supports ink for multiple applications. Using the storage system, method, and data structure, various applications may expand on ink to include additional attributes while permitting the ink to be used in applications not supporting the additional attributes. When encountering an unknown tag, the applications will skip past the end of the tag and its associated data to start reading the next tag.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Donald D. Karlov, Subha Bhattacharyay, Patrick Haluptzok
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Patent number: 7319790Abstract: An image comparing apparatus for comparing a particular inspect image with a search image containing a subject shown on the inspect image, including a search-image supplying unit storing therein a plurality of search images, an image acquisition unit acquiring information characterizing the subject image, the image acquisition unit selectively extracting at least one search image from the search image supplying unit according to the acquired information, and an image specifying unit specifying a particular search image by comparing the inspect image with each of the search-images extracted by the image acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shuji Ono
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Patent number: 7319791Abstract: A method for recognizing an object in a target image using model primitives comprising an additive primitive and a subtractive primitive; weights are assigned to the additive and subtractive primitives; a target primitive is derived for the object; associations are determined between the target primitive and the model primitives; a similarity score is computed for the target primitive with respect to the model primitives; the similarity score is increased for each association between the target primitive and the additive primitive and decreased for each association between the target primitive and the subtractive primitive; the weights determine an amount by which the similarity score is increased or decreased for each of the associations.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Matrox Electronic Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Stephane Baldo, Djamel Yahia Meddah
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Patent number: 7319792Abstract: An image processing device is provided to increase processing speed with a simple configuration and without increasing required memory capacity when editing a compressed image. The image processing device includes an image dividing unit, an encoding unit, and an editing unit. The image dividing unit divides an input image into image sections. The encoding unit encodes individual image sections independently, and generates a code stream; the code stream includes code sections corresponding to the image sections. The editing unit edits an individual code section, for example, deletes or extracts an image section, or replaces an image section with another image, and outputs the resulting code stream.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Hara, Taku Kodama, Shousaku Tokuda
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Patent number: 7319793Abstract: A video image capturing and displaying method for a web camera is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: capturing a video image consisting of a time series of image frames, at an adaptive frame rate, each image frame comprising a plurality of sequential lines of pixels; compressing the captured video image with one of at least a first compressing mode and a second compressing mode; decompressing the compressed video image corresponding to the compressing mode; storing, in a buffer, the decompressed video image which is not displayed in time; and displaying the video image based on the stored video image and the decompressed video image, wherein the adaptive frame rate in the capturing step is determined according to the display quality of the video image being displayed in the displaying step.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventors: Tzu-Yi Chao, Chih-Hung Lu, Chuan-Hsin Lee
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Patent number: 7319794Abstract: An image decoding unit comprises a decoding unit, a data memory unit, a reconstruction unit, and a frame memory. The decoding unit includes an entropy decoder, a motion compensator, an inverse quantizer, and an inverse DCT unit. The data memory unit includes a data memory A and a data memory B. In the middle of the data transfer from the data memory unit to the frame memory, the reconstruction unit that inputs intermediate data of decoding and outputs reconstructed image data is provided; thereby, the processing of generating the reconstructed image data and the processing of storing the reconstructed image data into the frame memory can be performed in parallel. By the structure, a high-speed processing of image reconstruction can be performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mana Hamada, Shunichi Kurohmaru
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Patent number: 7319795Abstract: A system and method for encoding dynamic image information for an image generated by a computer application executing on a processor. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining a first set of information describing a reference image. A second set of information may be determined for describing an image, wherein the second set of information comprises information indicative of movement between the image and the reference image. For example, a set of primary movement directions may be determined based at least in part on the computer application generating the image. Such set of primary movement directions may be utilized for analyzing the image relative to the reference images. The difference between the image and the reference image may, for example, be analyzed using at least one of the set of primary movement directions. A movement direction may, for example, be utilized to describe the image.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, James D. Bennett
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Patent number: 7319796Abstract: A method is disclosed herein for compressing spectral data corresponding to an image comprising a plurality of pixels. The method includes the step of creating a set of potential endmembers. A first plurality of the potential endmembers are identified as a first set of endmembers based upon their respective correlations with a first spectral signature of a first of the plurality of pixels. The first pixel is then represented as a combination of the first set of endmembers. Processing of the image preferably continues by identifying a second plurality of the potential endmembers as a second set of endmembers based upon their respective correlations with a second spectral signature of a second of the plurality of pixels. The second pixel is then represented as a combination of the second set of endmembers.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventor: Mary Sharp
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Patent number: 7319797Abstract: An adaptive filter according to one embodiment includes an N×N two-dimensional convolution, where N is an odd integer greater than one. Pixels of an image are filtered by moving the N×N kernel across the image. At each pixel location, the kernel coefficients are determined by the image pixels within the N×N region, such that the kernel coefficients may change from one pixel location to the next. Such a filter may be implemented to use a lookup table to approximate a floating-point operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Szepo Robert Hung
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Patent number: 7319798Abstract: A 3-dimensional image is generated from an input 2-dimensional image based upon illuminative characteristics of the input image by filtering the 2-dimensional input image with filters of different orientations, outputting base shading images corresponding to the filters, extracting positive pixel values for each base shading image, calculating a difference between the pixel values of the input image and the extracted positive pixel values, calculating a median value of the calculated difference, selecting the filter to output a base shading image of smallest median, outputting a shading image by filtering the input image with the selected filter, combining the input image with the shading image and outputting the 3-dimensional image based upon the combined image. A previously selected filter for a preceding image can be considered when selecting a filter for a current image, enabling generation of 3-dimensional moving pictures.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Moon-Cheol Kim, Yung-jun Park
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Patent number: 7319799Abstract: A method of recognizing and indexing documents, using a scanner connected to a computer, the method including scanning the documents, then using a pointing device or member of the computer to designate an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the documents, and finally recognizing by OCR the characters in the box so as to store them in a first database connected to the computer to enable documents scanned in this way to be indexed. The designation step comprises a step of searching for and identifying the box of the document containing the point P designated by the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Océ-Industries S.A.Inventors: Stéphane Berche, Laurent Najman
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Patent number: 7319800Abstract: A voltage is applied on a first branch 3a by a first ground electrode 10 and a signal electrode 11, and a voltage is applied on a second branch 3b by a second ground electrode 12A and the signal electrode 11. A first gap 13 is formed between the first ground electrode 10 and the signal electrode 11, and a second gap 14 is formed between the second ground electrode 12A and the signal electrode 11. The first gap 13 and the second gap 14 are divided into voltage applying portions 13a, 14a, feed-through portions and connection portions 13b, 14b therebetween, respectively, and satisfy the formula: G12/G11?G22/G21<G32/G31.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Aoki, Jungo Kondo, Atsuo Kondo, Osamu Mitomi
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Patent number: 7319801Abstract: A chromatic dispersion compensation method is disclosed wherein setting of a dispersion compensation amount with which the quality of a signal to be reproduced at a receiver side is enhanced when compared with that of conventional equipments can be searched readily. In the method, the value to be set as the sum total of residual dispersion amounts remaining after dispersion compensation by a dispersion compensation section provided in each equipments or the sum total of absolute values of the residual dispersion amounts is calculated by arithmetically operating a linear function expression. Then, the dispersion compensation amount to be used in the dispersion compensation section in the equipments is determined based on the derived value to be set as the sum total of residual dispersion amounts or the sum total of absolute values of the residual dispersion amounts.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Kentaro Nakamura
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Patent number: 7319802Abstract: A flexible innerduct structure is configured to contain a cable within a conduit. The innerduct structure includes a pair of adjacent strip-shaped layers of flexible material that are joined along their longitudinal edges to define a channel through which the cable can extend longitudinally through the innerduct structure between the layers. The adjacent layers have differing widths between their longitudinal edges, whereby the wider layer bulges away from the narrower layer to impart an open configuration to the channel. Other features of the innerduct structure relate to the material of which it is formed. Such features includes the structure of the material, such as a woven structure, and further include properties such as melting point, tensile strength, elongation, coefficient of friction, crimp resistance and compression recovery.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2007Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Milliken & CompanyInventor: David D Morris
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Patent number: 7319803Abstract: An optical fiber made of quartz or glass and having a core and a cladding includes a microporous silica solution applied to an outer peripheral surface thereof, which is synthesized from a mixture of silicon alcoxide, active alcohol for facilitating hydrolytic action, alcohol, and water, by means of the sol-gel process, followed by baking to form a thin film of microporous silica made chiefly of silicon. Microporous of the thin film of microporous silica have function of cushioning to cushion and restrain that micro cracks much existing in the cladding undergo growth when the optical fiber is bent so that the optical fiber is likely to be broken. And the thin film of microporous silica which made chiefly of silicon has high heat-resistant properties similarly to the optical fiber itself. Accordingly, a heat-resistant optical fiber very excellent in heat-resistant properties is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Totoku Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomio Kaise, Asuka Nakayama, Hidehiko Shimizu, Tatuo Yamaguchi, Masanori Nonomura, Yasushi Murakami
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Patent number: 7319804Abstract: A cable radius limiter having a radius limiting surface that prevents damage to cables due to excessive bending. The cable radius limiter includes mounting structure and cable retaining structure arranged such that the limiter can be operably oriented and mounted to a mounting bracket in both a first mounting orientation and a second mounting orientation. The mounting bracket includes a number of fingers to which a plurality of the cable radius limiters is secured.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. Hruby, Mike Follingstad, Oscar Fernando Bran De Leon
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Patent number: 7319805Abstract: A vision system (10) for a vehicle (14) includes a light source (46) that generates an illumination beam (20). A receiver (62) generates a first image signal and a second image signal. The first image signal is generated in response to a reflected portion of the illumination beam (20). A controller is coupled to the light source (46) and the receiver (62). The controller generates an image in response to the first image signal and the second image signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignees: Ford Motor Company, Lear CorporationInventors: Jeffrey T. Remillard, Kenneth E. Nietering, Willes H. Weber, David J. Scholl, Michael A Marinelli
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Patent number: 7319806Abstract: An audiovisual system receives audiovisual data and includes a system controller and a storage device to store at least a portion of the audiovisual data for later playback. The audiovisual system further includes a marking module to create metadata in response to a control input for marking the program segments. The metadata includes the information regarding the program segments of the stored portion of the audiovisual data. The audiovisual system further includes a display generator to generate a mosaic representation of the program segments. The audiovisual system further includes a program selector to select a program segment in response to a user input. The selected program segment is selected based on the information of the metadata, whereby the audiovisual system selectively plays back selected program segments of the stored portion of the audiovisual data starting from selected program locations, thereby enabling a user to jump to and play back selected program segments.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2001Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Keen Personal Media, Inc.Inventors: Leopold B. Willner, William P. Price
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VCR and optical disk composite medium reproducing apparatus and medium control method using the same
Patent number: 7319807Abstract: A VCR and optical disk composite medium reproducing apparatus include a key input unit for outputting a command signal upon receiving a user's selection command on an operation mode, and a controller that preferably directly selects a reproducing operation according to a new medium insertion and can output a control signal if the new reproducing medium is inserted while one medium is being reproduced in a DVD unit or in a VCR unit corresponding to the command signal of the key input unit. In such a composite medium recording apparatus and method for using same, the medium can be reproduced effectively and conveniently.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Kyoung-Hee Moon -
Patent number: 7319808Abstract: A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a packet signal containing the clock reference and a digitally compressed video signal, a time stamp for a packet is generated using a clock signal in phase with the clock reference and added to the particular packet, and the packet signals with the time stamp added thereto are recorded closely to each other in a data storage element such as a magnetic recording medium. At playback, the packet interval is output by being restored to the original length on the basis of the time stamp added to the packet in store.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroo Okamoto, Kyoichi Hosokawa, Hitoaki Owashi, Hiroaki Tachibana, Takaharu Noguchi
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Patent number: 7319809Abstract: A recording apparatus according to the present invention, comprising a creating means for excerpting excerpt information from each of a plurality of files recorded on a record medium, correlating the plurality of excerpt information with entity data of the plurality of files, and creating an index file that stores the correlated data in a predetermined format, a record medium identification information storing means for storing identification information that identifies the record medium in the predetermined format to the index file, and a recording means for recording the index file to the record medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2002Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaharu Murakami, Kenichiro Aridome, Naoki Morimoto
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Patent number: 7319810Abstract: A program recording apparatus has a program information input unit inputting program information concerning programs; a program recording setting unit setting of the recording of programs; a recording unit writing in, and erasing, data containing the contents of the programs to and from a recording medium; and a management unit storing program information.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Wada, Hiroshi Yasuno