Abstract: A food scale system and method are presented. The connected food scale system comprises a digital food scale and a plurality of mobile devices able to connect to the scale. A plurality of food logs within the scale are linked to a plurality of user identifiers. Each mobile device may contain one of the user identifiers to uniquely identify the mobile device to the scale. When a mobile device connects to the digital food scale, the scale receives the mobile device identifier and transfers food log data for the identified user to the mobile device. A physical dock for a mobile device is fixedly-attached to the food scale. A wide-angle lens is incorporated into the dock and allows a digital camera within the mobile device to capture an image of food on a weighing surface of the scale.

Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same. A mobile terminal includes a display, a first camera configured to perform omnidirectional photographing and a controller configured to convert at least some region of a ring-shaped image, captured by the first camera, into a rectangular image and display the rectangular image on the display. In accordance with the present invention, an omnidirectional still or moving image can be captured by an omnidirectional camera embedded in the mobile terminal, and an interface that can be conveniently used by a user can be implemented.

Abstract: Provided are an ultrasound system and method that can provide improved storage efficiency of a storage unit by storing only some of a plurality of ultrasound images needed to produce a panoramic image in the storage unit. The ultrasound system includes: an ultrasound data acquisition unit for sequentially acquiring ultrasound data corresponding to a living body; a processor for producing a plurality of ultrasound images by using the ultrasound data, setting a region of interest (ROI) on each of the ultrasound images, performing motion estimation between the plurality of ultrasound images to estimate motion of the ROI, and extracting ultrasound images needed for forming a panoramic image from the ultrasound images based on the estimated motion; and a storage unit for storing the extracted ultrasound images.

Abstract: A method of processing a multi-view image, and a multi-view image processing apparatus for performing the method are provided. The multi-view image processing apparatus includes a first video codec module which is configured to output first image processed data as a result of processing a first image signal provided from a first image source, and to generate sync information at each predetermined time, and a second video codec module which is configured to output second image processed data as a result of processing a second image signal provided from a second image source, using part of the output first image processed data according to the sync information. The first image processed data and the second image processed data are combined into a multi-view image.

Abstract: An encoding method and an encoding device for 3D video are provided. The method includes the following. Pixel data of a first macro block in a first frame to be encoded is loaded, wherein the first frame belongs to a first view angle. Pixel data of a search window in a reference frame is loaded. A first motion estimation is executed according to the pixel data of the search window and the first macro block. Pixel data of a second macro block in a second frame to be encoded is loaded, wherein the second frame belongs to a second view angle different from the first view angle. A second motion estimation is executed according to the pixel data of the search window and the second macro block, thereby sharing the pixel data of the search window with the first motion estimation. Accordingly, the demand for a memory bandwidth is decreased.

Abstract: A method and device for coding interlaced video data. The method includes coding interlaced video data captured from a plurality of different positions, the interlaced video data including data for a top field and a bottom field for at least one interlaced video scan, the top field including every other line starting with a top line of a frame and the bottom field including interposed lines in the frame.

Abstract: A method for enriching digital photographs, the method comprising: receiving a digital photograph and video data captured before a time at which the digital photograph is captured until after said time, wherein the video data comprises a sequence of video frames; processing the digital photograph and the video frames to layer the digital photograph and the video frames into a plurality of layers thereby creating a plurality of video layer sequences; defining an order of the plurality of layers; generating playback guidance, the playback guidance defining how to combine the video layer sequences during playback; and transmitting the order, the video layer sequences and the playback guidance to a display device for playback.

Abstract: To enable favorable depth control of graphics superimpose-displayed on stereoscopic images. A container of a predetermined format including a video stream is received. Obtained from this video stream are left eye image data and right eye image data configuring a stereoscopic image, and disparity information of the other as to one of a left eye image and right eye image for each partition region of each picture in image data. The image data and disparity information are correlated and transmitted to an external device. For example, single pictures worth of disparity information are sequentially transmitted in increments of single pictures, or multiple pictures worth of disparity information are sequentially transmitted in increments of multiple pictures. The external device can favorably perform depth control of graphics superimpose-displayed on stereoscopic images, based on the disparity information.

Abstract: There is provided methods, apparatuses and computer program products for image processing in which a pair of images may be downsampled to lower resolution pair of images and further to obtain a disparity image representing estimated disparity between at least a subset of pixels in the pair of images. A confidence of the disparity estimation may be obtained and inserted into a confidence map. The disparity image and the confidence map may be filtered jointly to obtain a filtered disparity image and a filtered confidence map by using a spatial neighborhood of the pixel location. An estimated disparity distribution of the pair of images may be obtained through the filtered disparity image and the confidence map.

Abstract: A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar system and images from a video system to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target and generate a three-dimensional image of the target. The system may refine the three-dimensional image by reducing the stochastic components in the transformation parameters between video frame times.

Abstract: A camera lens is formed with a casing and a lens stack having at least one lens element, the lens stack arranged within the casing. A spring arrangement is pre-compressed to exert a clamping force between the casing and the lens stark basically in a direction of an optical axis of the at least one lens element.

Abstract: Virtual access control may include detecting entry of a person into a virtual controlled zone, and counting and/or identifying people including the person entering into the virtual controlled zone. Virtual access control may further include determining an authorization of the person to continue through the virtual controlled zone based on a facial identification of the person, and alerting the person to stop, exit from, or continue through the virtual controlled zone based on the determined authorization. An alarm may be generated if the person violates directions provided by the alert.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a projection unit configured to project a projection pattern onto an object, an imaging unit configured to capture an image of the object on which the projection pattern is projected, and a derivation unit configured to derive a three-dimensional shape of the object based on the image captured by the imaging unit. The projection pattern projected on the object by the projection unit includes a first pattern including a continuous luminance variation repetitively arranged at certain distances in a predetermined direction, and a second pattern having information for identifying the position of the measurement pattern in the captured image in an area between peaks in the measurement pattern.

Abstract: “Natural 3D Motion” is created by the use of moving the camera in a lateral direction with foreground and background elements, at a consistent speed, throughout a scene, in such a way that it allows the viewer time to perceive three dimensional depth and experience immersion in the scene without the use of 3D glasses, 3D Projectors or 3D Video Displays. Its beneficial affects, depending upon the nature of the video/film/movie, including enhancing a sense of calm, especially when the scenes comprise peaceful images beyond the traditional film or movie experience. Additionally, the presentation of “Natural 3D Motion” film/movies can be viewed without the need for the viewer to sit through an entire film/movie as the experience of three dimensional depth can capture the viewer's imagination and provide a calming effect while viewing even a portion of a full “Natural 3D Motion” film or movie.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to sub-diffraction limit image resolution and other imaging techniques, including imaging in three dimensions. In one aspect, the invention is directed to determining and/or imaging light from two or more entities separated by a distance less than the diffraction limit of the incident light. In some cases, the position of the entities can be determined in all three spatial dimensions (i.e., in the x, y, and z directions), and in certain cases, the positions in all three dimensions can be determined to an accuracy of less than about 1000 nm. In some cases, the z positions may be determined using one of a variety of techniques that uses intensity information or focal information (e.g., a lack of focus) to determine the z position. Non-limiting examples of such techniques include astigmatism imaging, off-focus imaging, or multi-focal-plane imaging.

Abstract: A stereoscopic picture generating apparatus comprising: a storage unit to get stored with a first image containing partial images and a second image containing partial images corresponding respectively to the partial images contained in the first image; and an arithmetic unit to extract a first position defined as an existing position of a first partial image contained in the first image and a second position defined as an existing position of a second partial image contained in the first image, to calculate a first differential quantity defined as a difference between the first position and the second position, to calculate a third position defined as a new existing position of a third partial image contained in the second image that corresponds to the first partial image based on the first differential quantity, and to generate a third image based on the third position of the third partial image.

Abstract: A comprehensive and intelligent system for managing traffic and emergency services, which includes a plurality of 3D cameras positioned throughout a city, specifically at traffic intersections, which are capable of determining traffic conditions throughout the city's roads and transmitting it to emergency service providers so that better emergency response routes may be planned, and live video from an emergency scene may be transmitted to the emergency service providers, a plurality of 3D cameras positioned on vehicles driving on the city's roads, which are operative to alert drivers to an imminent accident so that drivers may respond accordingly and avoid the accident, and a plurality of location determination means positioned on or near traffic signals and vehicles, which are used to determine the relative speed and position of vehicles from traffic signals, and inform drivers as to whether or not they should proceed through an intersection given the time until a traffic signal turns red and the position an

Abstract: An image generation device that enhances visual recognizability between a recognized 3D (three-dimensional) object and a substitute image synthesized in an area of a 3D object image which is a photographed image of the 3D object includes an image synthesis section that recognizes a 3D object present in the peripheral area of a vehicle and outputs 3D object attribute information indicative of attributes of this 3D object, determines a 3D object image area as an image area of the 3D object in the photographed image based on position information included in the 3D object attribute information, outputs at least one of a substitute image of the 3D object applied with a color based on the color information and a substitute image of the 3D object under a specified directional posture of the 3D object specified based on type information and directional posture information and generates a bird's-eye view image with a substitution image in which the substitution image outputted from a substitution image output section

Abstract: This document describes various apparatuses and techniques for changing perspectives of a microscopic-image device based on a viewer's perspective. Various embodiments of these techniques sense a change to a viewer's perspective based on the viewer's head position and control a microscopic-image device effective to display images of an object based on the change to the viewer's perspective.

Abstract: There are provided an electronic device and a stereo camera image depth calculating method using the same. The stereo camera image depth calculating method includes: receiving first and second sample images obtained by simultaneously imaging an object with a stereo camera configured of first and second cameras; scanning the first and second sample images to calculate disparities in respective points of the object in a reference direction; and selecting a value equal to or smaller than a minimum value among the calculated disparities as a relative movement value.

Abstract: The present invention tracks or locates small moving objects, or generates a 3-D frame of data by using 3-D focal plane arrays with low laser energy and few mechanically moving parts. The invention may be used to determine the direction of a laser designating a target, for target tracking, used as a 3-D movie/video camera or used to provide data for autonomous navigation.

Abstract: To obtain various types of information on an observed portion such as a body tissue, white halation is effectively generated in images obtained by imaging the observed portion with a plurality of image sensors. A stereoscopic endoscope system including: a light illuminating unit which irradiates an observed portion with illumination light; an endoscope which has an objective optical system including a plurality of image sensors for receiving reflected light from the observed portion; an image analyzing unit which analyzes images obtained by the objective optical system; and a light amount distribution control unit which controls a light amount distribution of the illumination light based on an analysis result of the images.

Abstract: A camera module and an apparatus for calibrating position of the camera module are provided, the camera module according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a first sensor unit configured to obtain a first image; a second sensor unit configured to obtain a second image; and a third sensor unit configured to obtain a third image, wherein the second sensor unit is spaced apart from the first sensor unit at a predetermined distance, and the third sensor unit is spaced apart from the second sensor unit at a predetermined distance.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus which captures an image used for obtaining depth data indicating a depth of a captured scene and restored image data with a reduced optical blur, includes: an optical device which causes an optical blur having a rotationally asymmetric shape; an actuator which rotates a part or a whole of the optical device; and an imaging unit configured to capture the image each time the optical device is rotated, to generate a plurality of captured image data items.

Abstract: An optical measurement method for determining 3D coordinates of a plurality of measurement points on a measurement object surface. The measurement object surface is illuminated with a pattern sequence of different patterns by a projector, an image sequence of the measurement object surface illuminated with the pattern sequence is recorded with a camera system, and the 3D coordinates of the measurement points are determined by evaluating the image sequence, in particular wherein a succession of brightness values for identical measurement points on the measurement object surface is ascertained in respective images of the recorded image sequence.

Abstract: To provide a stereoscopic video receiver that generates a stereoscopic video with a sense of stereoscopy and a powerful impression even when a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen are displayed on a small-sized display, a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen shot by a stereo camera to be displayed on a display having a width narrower than that of a virtual display are displayed so as to be displaced in a direction of separating these screens away from each other, and left and right fields of vision are matched with each other at a position away from the display and a distance between left and right corresponding points of an infinite distance subject image is set to be shorter than an interpupillary distance of a viewer.

Abstract: In a system and method of viewer centric depth adjustment, a sensor measures viewing distance of a viewer from a screen; and a depth remapping unit receives a color image, a depth map and the viewing distance, and accordingly remaps depth values of the depth map such that the viewer perceives same depth at different viewing distances.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling stereoscopic display. The method includes a collection device obtaining a position variation between a space position of a viewer at the current time and a space position of the viewer at the previous time, wherein the position variation is an offset of parallel translation of the space position of the viewer relative to a display panel. The method also includes an adjusting device adjusting a stereoscopic display apparatus based on the space position of the viewer at the current time and the position variation.

Abstract: A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display unit, a rendering processor, a a first controller, and a second controller. The display unit displays a stereoscopic image by displaying a parallax image group. The rendering processor generates the parallax image group by applying a volume rendering process to volume data from a plurality of viewpoints including a reference viewpoint as center. The first controller receives positions of a plurality of reference viewpoints as a position of the reference viewpoint, and causes the rendering processor to generate a parallax image group based on each of the reference viewpoints. The second controller controls to assign and display each of a plurality of parallax image groups to and on corresponding one of a plurality of sections that are divided parts of a display area of the display unit.

Abstract: An image display device includes an image display, an image separator and a controller. The image display displays a plurality of parallax images. The image separator performs optical separation such that the plurality of parallax images which are displayed are viewed as a stereoscopic image. The image separator includes a light-transmitting region (region 0), a light-masking region (region 1) and an intermediate region (region 2) which is located between the light-transmitting region (region 0) and the light-masking region (region 1). The controller controls light-transmittance of the intermediate region (region 2).

Abstract: A method of operation of a display system includes: determining a correction profile for adjusting an intended image based on a viewing aide; and generating an adjusted output image based on the correction profile for displaying on a device and for perceiving the intended image through the viewing aide.

Abstract: A naked eye type and glasses type switchable stereoscopic display device includes a display panel and a switching module. The display panel provides first display image and second display image. The switching module includes a first transparent electrode, a second transparent electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and an electric field uniforming layer. The electric field uniforming layer is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second transparent electrode. The liquid crystal layer is driven by the second transparent electrode through the electric field uniforming layer to form liquid crystal lenses under a naked eye type stereoscopic display mode; the switching module provides a first phase retardation mode and a second phase retardation mode under a glasses type display mode. The first phase retardation mode provides a first polarization state to the first display image; the second phase retardation mode provides a second polarization state to the second display image.

Abstract: A display apparatus, a glasses apparatus and a control method are provided. The display apparatus includes a display which displays a plurality of contents, an audio signal processor which generates a single audio signal by signal-processing a plurality of audio data which correspond to each of the plurality of contents, and a communicator which transmits the signal-processed single audio signal to a glasses apparatus.

Abstract: A method for moving viewing positions of a stereoscopic image display system is disclosed. Each cylindrical lens is tilted relative to vertical lines. A data stripe for left eye and a data stripe for right eye making up stereoscopic image data are alternately set to correspond to the cylindrical lenses. At a home position, a long axis of the cylindrical lens agrees with the center of each data stripe, thus concentrating light at a predetermined concentrating position. When setting stereoscopic image data at a different position of sub-pixels that is shifted vertically downward from the home position, the center of the data stripe is shifted relative to the long axis by 0.5 times the length of the sub-pixels horizontally to the left thus concentrating light at a concentrating position moved from the home position in the left-right direction.

Abstract: An imaging device including an element having at least a reflective sphere portion wall, a converging lens, and an image detection array, wherein the lens and the array are fixedly assembled with respect to each other on a mount, said mount being hinged with respect to said element.

Abstract: A medical image recording apparatus includes: a storage unit that records, at a first compression rate, moving image data acquired by a modality apparatus; a control section that determines degrees of importance of individual frame images constituting the moving image data; and a compression processing section that, if a situation of the moving image data recorded in the storage unit satisfies a prescribed condition, (i) compresses the moving image data at a second compression rate that is smaller than the first compression rate and (ii) compresses each frame image of the moving image data at a compression rate that is smaller than the first compression rate and larger than the second compression rate and that decreases as the degree of importance decreases.

Abstract: In an oxygen saturation level measurement mode, a color image sensor images an internal body portion alternately irradiated with measurement light and normal light. A normal image is produced from image data obtained under irradiation with the normal light. An oxygen saturation level is calculated from image data obtained under irradiation with the measurement light. Based on the oxygen saturation level, a hyperoxic region and a hypoxic region are determined in the normal image. A color balance process and a color enhancement process are applied to the hyperoxic region to improve visibility of depressions and projections of internal body tissue and a blood vessel pattern. A gain process is applied to the hypoxic region to make distinct color variations according to the degree of the oxygen saturation level.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for conversion of signals from a first type of image sensor to a second type of camera control unit is presented. A first interface is provided for enabling electrical communication between the conversion module and an image sensor, the image sensor being interchangeable between a Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) and a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensor. A second interface is provided for enabling electrical communication between the conversion module and a camera control unit (CCU). Also provided is conversion circuitry in communication with the first interface and the second interface, the conversion circuitry receiving signals of a first type from the first interface, converting the signals of a first type to signals of a second type and providing the signals of a second type to the second interface.

Abstract: An endoscope with a USB signal transmission includes an exploring tube, a lens, an image sensing element and a USB chip. The image sensing element has an output circuit for outputting a series signal. The USB chip is coupled to an image sensing element. The series-to-universal series unit converts the series signal into a universal series bus signal. The power supply circuit supplies electric power to the image sensing element. The data transmission circuit transmits a universal series bus signal. The USP chip integrates the output circuit into a power supply circuit and a data transmission circuit of a USB specification and converts the series signal into the universal series bus signal.

Abstract: A medical imaging system is provided that includes a system controller that is configured to control operation of a medical imaging system. The system controller is configured to receive a user profile from a profile-storage system that is at a distinct location with respect to the medical imaging system. The user profile includes predetermined operational settings that are associated with the operator. Each of the predetermined operational settings is selected from a plurality of potential operational settings that control operation of the medical imaging system. The system controller is configured to load the predetermined operational settings of the user profile, wherein the predetermined operational settings affect at least one of acquisition of a medical image during the imaging session or how the information is displayed to the operator during the imaging session.

Abstract: A method and device for digital measuring and ordering a custom orthopedic device includes an interactive method intended to assist clinicians select, measure and submit precise specifications for patients requiring custom orthopedic devices. The method includes a plurality of menus permitting the clinician to input specifications and submit orders electronically with the specifications and other data packaged together. The method and device include visualization indications to appropriately ensure image capture of a limb from various angles, including posterior, anterior, lateral and medial angles.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a detection unit configured to detect a face area and an eye area from images that are sequentially input; a motion vector calculation unit configured to calculate, between two of the images, a first motion vector in the face area and second motion vectors in a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing the eye area; a similarity calculation unit configured to calculate, for each pair of the images, a value relevant to a similarity between the first motion vector and each of the second motion vectors; and a determination unit configured to determine whether blinking has occurred based on the value relevant to the similarity.

Abstract: A microscope system and method empirically determines the boundaries of the depth of field of an objective lens. The system and method are largely automated, with the manipulation of a specimen to be imaged being carried out by processors and associated equipment. Calculations of the empirical depth of field are also likewise automated. Upon empirically determining the boundaries of the depth of field, the specimen, particularly when transparent or translucent, can be accurately imaged at user-defined depths smaller than the depth of field.

Abstract: An apparatus for placement on or in a body of water for hyperspectral imaging of material in the water comprises an artificial light source and a hyperspectral imager. These are arranged so that in use light exits the apparatus beneath the surface of the water and is reflected by said material before re-entering the apparatus beneath the surface of the water and entering the hyperspectral imager. The hyperspectral imager is adapted to produce hyperspectral image data having at least two spatial dimensions.

Abstract: An image-pickup optical system includes a primary imaging optical system configured to form an image of an object, a secondary imaging optical system configured to re-form an image of the object, and a driver configured to drive an optical element included in the secondary imaging optical system and to change an aberration.

Abstract: A motion-compensated confocal microscope includes a laser scanning system, a fiber-optic component having a proximal end and a distal end such that the fiber-optic component is optically coupled to the laser scanning system to receive illumination light at the proximal end and to emit at least a portion of the illumination light at the distal end, and a detection system configured to receive and detect light returned from a specimen being observed and to output an image signal. The light returned from the specimen is received by the distal end of the fiber-optic component and transmitted back and out the proximal end of the fiber-optic component.

Abstract: A touch screen (60) disposed on a display surface of a display means (58) is used as an inputting means so that a variety of actions of a microscope can be controlled with sufficient ease and precision. A variety of actions are controlled based on an operator's various finger gestures used on the touch screen disposed on the display surface of the display means, for example, making contact by a finger (tap), making two consecutive contacts by a finger (double-tap), making contact by a finger, and moving the finger without releasing it (drag), making contact by a finger and maintaining the contact for a predetermined time or longer (touch-and-hold), making simultaneous contact by two fingers, and increasing spacing between the fingers (pinch-out) or decreasing the spacing (pinch-in), and making simultaneous contact by two fingers, and moving the fingers in parallel (double-drag).

Abstract: An optical inspection system for nondestructive internal visual inspection and non-contact infra-red (IR) temperature monitoring of an online, operating power generation turbine. The optical inspection system includes an optical tube having a viewing port, at least one reflective mirror or a mirror array having a reflectivity spectral range from 550 nm to 20 ?m, and capable of continuous operation at temperatures greater than 932 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius), and a transparent window with high transmission within the same spectral range mounted distal the viewing port. The same optical mirror array may be used to measure selectively surface temperature of metal turbine blades in the near IR range (approximately 1 ?m wavelength) and of thermal barrier coated turbine blades in the long IR range (approximately 10 ?m wavelength).

Abstract: An inspection system and methods for remote cleaning and inspection of difficult to access components within complex machinery. The system includes a display screen, a video borescope coupled to the display screen, an insertion tube, a camera head disposed at a distal end of the insertion tube, a feature for capturing an image and/or video with the camera head and displaying the image and/or video on the display screen, and a feature for remotely steering the distal end of the insertion tube as well as a nozzle of a feed tube that is attached to the insertion tube and adapted to apply a cleaning fluid to a surface to be inspected.

Abstract: Camera heads configured to provide digitally articulated images or video, at adjustable resolutions and/or offsets and orientations, to a camera control unit (CCU) or other electronic computing system for display, storage, and/or transmission to other systems are disclosed.