Abstract: A trading interface is provided for displaying market data related to a tradeable object being traded at an electronic exchange. According to one example embodiment, market data related to a tradeable object is displayed in relation to a value axis, such as a price axis. As new market data is received, the displayed market data is updated and may be repositioned so that a trader can view current market conditions in a viewable portion of the interface. The interface also includes a number of market movement indicators that assist a trader in tracking market movement. These viewable references allow a trader to navigate and immediately understand the “real” direction of the market activity despite any underlying adjustment of the viewable area of the trading interface.

Abstract: Systems and methods for routing trade orders based on exchange latency are disclosed. An example method includes measuring a first latency associated with a first exchange based on a processing time of a first trade order; and routing a second trade order from a trading device to one of the first and a second exchange based on the first latency.

Abstract: In one example, a method includes generating a first digital code that represents a content of a document created by a first user; and notarizing the creation of the document by triggering a plurality of remittances from a first account associated with the first user to a second account, with each of the plurality of remittances time-stamped and a respective amount of each of the plurality of remittances indicating a corresponding portion of the first digital code.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed herein for maintaining an inventory of assets located at an insured property covered under an insurance policy based on data received from IP-addressable devices located at the property. The system includes an inventory database for storing inventory information about assets located at an insured property, a communication interface for receiving registration and operational data associated with an IP-addressable device, and a business logic computer. The business logic computer creates a data structure for storing inventory information about assets located at the insured property in the inventory database for each insured property. The business logic computer determines, for the insured property, the inventory information about the insured property's assets based on registration and operational data received from its IP-addressable devices located at the property.

Abstract: Provided are computer program product, system, and method for providing access to documents in an online document sharing community in a network environment including a plurality of participant computers operated by participants in the online document sharing community and a storage system. Document content is processed to add search terms for the document and a document identifier to a search index accessible through a search engine over the network to participants not under an obligation of confidentiality to the owner with respect to the document. Access is provided to the content of the document to the participants in the online document sharing community. A determination is made of a publication time the document was included in the search index and made accessible to the participant computers operated by participants not under the obligation of confidentiality to the owner of the document content.

Abstract: In a method for creating a social networking check-in location for social networking applications, a computer receives a geographic location for each user computing device in a plurality of user computing devices. The computer determines a portion of the plurality of user computing devices that exhibit an area density exceeding a threshold. The area density is defined as a number of user computing devices per unit area. The computer receives two or more social networking messages from the portion of the plurality of user computing devices. The computer determines a common subject between the two or more social networking messages. The computer creates a social networking check-in location.

Abstract: A system uses an intelligent load controller for managing use of a consumable resource at an associated load. The controller has a resource measuring component for measuring the rate of use of the resource by the associated load, including measuring at least one of an instantaneous usage rate and a usage rate over an integration period and a load status component for receiving load status data for the associated load. The controller also has a communication component for receiving control messages from and sending load status messages to other associated controllers; a memory for storing a load control goal set; and a load control computer program responsive to the resource measuring component, the load status component, the control messages from other associated controllers and the load control goal set, to determine a load operating level for, and provide control commands to, the associated load.

Abstract: A system and method to preemptively adjust power generation of one or more non-solar power generators based on near term solar generation capability, spinning reserve margin, and/or power grid spinning reserve forecast requirements to offset solar power generation based on geospatial regional solar conditions.

Abstract: A method and system is provided for facilitating the review of electronic documents such as patent, trademark and design documents. Example embodiments of methods provide a business context for performing the review, a role within the business context together with the event that is the reason for the review to be requested.

Abstract: Methods disclosed for lead generation relate to matching prospective applicants with educational institutions. Prospective applicants provide personal information and educational background information which are used to find matching educational institutions. Methods include enhancing connections between education institutions and prospective applicants by setting up mutually agree appointments. Systems and apparatuses are also disclosed to implement the disclosed methods.

Abstract: A reconfigurable computation device for image processing, the device including a neighborhood-based computation matrix, generating pairing sub-scores between pairs of pixels resulting from a first series of operations configurable via a configuration register; a flexible reduction tree, carrying out a second series of operations configurable via the configuration register, on neighborhoods of pixels configurable via the configuration register; and an analysis matrix, carrying out computations configurable via the configuration register on the results arising from the flexible reduction tree.

Abstract: A pixel matrix is arranged in line of pixels. Each pixel is either in a first state or in a second state. The matrix mainly contains pixels in the second state. Each line of pixels is tested in order to determine whether it contains or not a pixel in a first state. The result from this test for each line is sent into a receiver. The lines including at least one pixel in the first state are more accurately analyzed in order to determine the position of this or these pixel in the line.

Abstract: Disclosed are method and apparatus for storing information of a picture. The method includes presenting a picture file to be edited, which at least includes original picture data; editing the picture file with an interface engine; integrating rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format; and storing the original picture data and the rendering information. According to the invention, the interface engine is improved, and thus may directly edit a picture in use, and integrate the rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture format. Therefore, during development, it is not required to store rendering information of a picture into codes, so that no programmer is required to intervene in rendering and setting of the picture. An art-designer may directly operate on the interface engine to change rendering effects, meanwhile, final rendering effects may be observed without running a program.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a method of processing a mosaicked image. First, the mosaicked image is up-sampled along a first direction to generate a first intermediate image. Then, the first intermediate image is resized along the first direction to generate a second intermediate image. Next, the second intermediate image is up-sampled along a second direction to generate a third intermediate image. Afterward, the third intermediate image is resized along the second direction to generate a resized and partly demosaicked image.

Abstract: In some implementations, a method rotates images based on image content to correct image orientation. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining one or more identifications of content depicted in an image and determining a current orientation of the content depicted in the image. The current orientation is determined based on the one or more identifications of the content. An amount of rotation for the image is determined that orients the content closer to a predetermined reference orientation than to the current orientation. The image is rotated by the determined amount.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an edge identifying portion that generates an edge image in which an edge is identified at each pixel in an input image; a mask-image generating portion that distinguishes an edge direction at a pixel of interest in the input image, that calculates a difference between pixel values of pixels that are positioned perpendicular to the edge direction and that are positioned symmetrically to each other, with the pixel of interest located at a center thereof, and that generates a mask image in which a pixel value of the pixel of interest is increased as that difference decreases; an enhancement-filter image generating portion that generates an enhancement-filter image by multiplying pixel values of pixels of the edge image by pixel values of the mask image; and a combining portion that generates an output image by combining the input image and the enhancement-filter image.

Abstract: Aspects of an edge smoothing block filter and combinations of the filter with a motion compensated temporal filter are described. In one embodiment, edge smoothing block filtering includes selecting a current pixel to be filtered and selecting a candidate pixel within a search area about the current pixel. The edge smoothing block filtering generally seeks to identify candidate pixels having surrounding pixels similar to pixels surrounding the current pixel. The edge smoothing block filtering further computes a cost difference between pixels within a candidate pixel neighborhood and pixels within a current pixel neighborhood, and filters the current pixel based on the cost difference. Aspects of the filters and filter element combinations may preserve edges and textures adaptively based on image content. For example, diagonal or curved image edges may be filtered along edges while texture is preserved along the edges.

Abstract: For each pixel of an input image, a direction toward which variation in pixel value between the relevant pixel and its peripheral pixels is largest and an amount of the variation in pixel value are computed, where a direction unit vector that indicates the direction toward which the variation is largest and a variation vector that represents the amount of the largest variation in the pixel value are computed. For each pixel, a regularization strength is computed utilizing the direction unit vector, the variation vector, and a regularization strength computing formula so that the larger the amount of the variation in pixel value toward a direction indicated by the direction unit vector, the less the regularization strength. An optimization function is determined based on the input image and the regularization strength for each pixel thereof and assigns a value for each pixel, by which the determined optimization function has the minimum value, to the corresponding pixel of a restored image to be generated.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for processing an image to remove fog from the image. The apparatus for processing an image includes: a transmission estimation unit configured to calculate a transmission of an input image by synthesizing pixel-based transmissions of current pixels of the current image including a fog component, and block-based transmissions of a plurality of blocks of a previous image, each block including a plurality of pixels; an airlight estimation unit configured to calculate airlight of the input image; and an image restoration unit configured to generate, based on the transmission and the airlight, a restored image in which the fog component is removed from the current image.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an OSD processing section that displays a test pattern, which includes a plurality of index lines arranged in one of horizontal and vertical directions with respect to a pixel area of a liquid crystal light valve at regular intervals, in the pixel area, an input operation section that sets at least one of the plurality of index lines as a reference index line, and adjusts the intervals of the index lines of the test pattern so as to increase or decrease as a distance from the reference index line increases with respect to the direction of the arrangement of the index lines taking the reference index line as a reference, and an image correction section that corrects linearity of the image based on the intervals of the index lines adjusted by the input operation section.

Abstract: A method for correcting a distorted input image comprises determining a local region of an image to be displayed and dividing said region into an array of rectangular tiles, each tile corresponding to a distorted tile with a non-rectangular boundary within said input image. For each tile of the local region, maximum and minimum memory address locations of successive rows of said input image sufficient to span said boundary of said distorted tile are determined. Successive rows of the distorted input from between said maximum and minimum addresses are read. Distortion of the non-rectangular portion of said distorted input image is corrected to provide a tile of a corrected output image which is stored.

Abstract: A method of large-radius edge-preserving low-pass filtering a digital signal having data points, including computing weighted averages of a signal layer at vertices in at least two grids, the vertices in each grid being a different subset of the data points such that in each grid an amount of the vertices is less than an amount of the data points; and producing, for each of the data points, a large-radius edge-preserving low-pass filtered signal based on the weighted averages of the signal layer at vertices in the at least two grids neighboring the data point.

Abstract: Gas visualization in an image depicting a scene, for an example embodiment comprises capturing a first IR image depicting the scene at a first time instance and a second IR image depicting the scene at a second time instance; performing image processing operations on image data derived from said first IR image and from said second IR image, to generate a collection of data representing the location of gas in one of the first or second IR images; and generating a third image by adjusting pixel values in an image depicting the scene, dependent on pixel values of said collection of data. According to various embodiments, there is further provided further processing of the collection of data, and/or gas detection, before generation of the third image with adjusted pixel values.

Abstract: An image is partitioned into a foreground area, a background area, and optionally a transitional area. The partitioning may be pre-defined, or it may be based on user inputs and configuration data. The partitioning may also be refined based on an initial partitioning. Blur measures are determined respectively for the partitioned areas. A blur measure for the whole image can then be determined from a weighted average of the blur measures for the partitioned areas. The blur measure for the image can be used in a video quality monitor.

Abstract: The charged particle beam apparatus automatically judges the good or bad of an observation object on the basis of information obtained from an image of the observation object on a wafer; displays a judgment result on a screen; displays the observation object, extracted from the judgment result, that requires to be corrected on the basis of the good or bad of the observation object from a user; and corrects the judgment result to the extracted and displayed observation object on the basis of an instruction from the user.

Abstract: A method for a rapid automated presentation of at least two radiological data sets of a patient, comprising, (a) automatically registering the data sets in 3D space; and (b) concurrently presenting substantially matching anatomical regions in each data set.

Abstract: The invention relates to the adaptation of a 3D-surface model to boundaries of an anatomical structure, especially the right ventricle. A first viewing plane is defined corresponding to a default view, especially a four chamber view. A long axis is defined. Then a second, third and optionally a fourth viewing plane are represented intersecting the axis in predefined distances from the starting point and end point thereof. On the viewing planes different markers are represented, controlled and, if required, the position thereof is adapted, especially the position of the intersection points of the axis with the second and third viewing planes, as well as the position of a characteristic line, which together with the end point of the axis spans a characteristic plane of the structure. The 3D-surface model is adapted to the structure by way of the long axis and the position of the characteristic plane.

Abstract: Provided is an image diagnostic device with which the start and end of the in-flow of a contrast medium are automatically assessed. An image diagnostic device assesses the start and end times of the in-flow of a contrast medium into organs in a lifeform which is a subject.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical report writing support system comprises an analyzing unit which analyzes a difference regarding at least one of a change in key images between a first report and a second report regarding a predetermined patient and a change in hyperlinks, and acquires an analyzed result, and a difference information generation unit which generates difference information based on the analyzed result.

Abstract: Methods for image segmentation are provided herein. A method includes creating an anatomical model from training data comprising one or more imaging modalities, generating one or more simulated images in a target modality based on the anatomical model and one or more principles of physics pertaining to image contrast generation, and comparing the one or more simulated images to an unlabeled input image of a given imaging modality to determine a simulated image of the one or more simulated images to represent the unlabeled input image.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using imagery depicting a timekeeping device to determine a clock offset for a particular image capture device. The clock offset can be used to correct timestamps associated with one or more images captured by such image capture device. One example method includes analyzing imagery depicting at least in part a timekeeping device to determine a first time displayed by the timekeeping device in the imagery. The method includes determining whether the first time comprises a 12-hour value or a 24-hour value. The method includes, when it is determined that the first time comprises a 12-hour value, determining a corresponding 24-hour value for the 12-hour value based at least in part on information contained within a plurality of images. The method includes determining a clock offset between the 24-hour value and the first timestamp. One example system includes a timestamp correction engine for correcting timestamps.

Abstract: Generating three-dimensional information can include obtaining multiple different images of an object taken by camera(s), each image having a near-planar surface depiction of the object; registering the images in two-dimensions by identifying one or more features of each image and generating a two-dimensional representation of each feature; selecting first and second images from the registered images; generating one or more correspondences between one or more features of the first and second images; estimating a camera parameter set for each of the first and second images within respective ones of the identified features; reconstructing a three-dimensional structure of the object in Euclidean space responsive to the one or more correspondences and the estimated camera parameter sets; refining the estimated camera parameter sets using the three-dimensional structure; and refining the three-dimensional structure using the refined camera parameter sets.

Abstract: A procedure for image segmentation on three-dimensional (3D) medical images, and a system, apparatus, and computer program that operate in accordance with the procedure. The procedure includes generating a projection including an anatomic structure, tracing a curve corresponding to the anatomic structure, extracting a curved volume of interest based on the curve and the projection, and extracting a segmentation of the anatomic structure. Also provided is a procedure for aligning anatomic structures in images, and a system, apparatus, and computer program that operate in accordance with the procedure. The procedure includes determining part of a biliary system in a first image, determining part of a hepatic portal vein or a hepatic artery in a second image, determining a gallbladder in the images, determining a cost function, and aligning the biliary system and the hepatic portal vein or hepatic artery by maximizing the cost function.

Abstract: An image registration system an endoscope (12) and an endoscope controller (22). In operation, the endoscope (12) generates an intra-operative endoscopic image (14) of a vessel tree within an anatomical region including a plurality of branches of the vessel tree visible within the intra-operative endoscopic image (14) as an indication of a furcation of the vessel tree invisible within the intra-operative endoscopic image (14). The endoscope controller (22) image registers the intra-operative operative endoscopic image (14) of the vessel tree to a pre-operative three-dimensional image (44) of the vessel tree. The image registration includes an image matching of a graphical representation of the furcation of the vessel tree as indicated by the branches of the vessel tree visible within the intra-operative endoscopic image (14) of the vessel tree to a graphical representation of the furcation of the vessel tree visible within the pre-operative three-dimensional image (44) of the vessel tree.

Abstract: A camera-orientation estimation unit estimates the amount of change in camera orientation on the basis of vehicle speed changes obtained from a vehicle-information acquirer. A distance-information update decision unit decides, on the basis of the amount of change in camera orientation, whether to update distance information by computing new distance information in a distance-computation unit or to update distance information using distance information stored in a distance-information memory unit. If the distance-information update decision unit has decided to update distance information by computing new distance information, a display device displays distance information that the distance-computation unit computes from a real-time image. If the distance-information update decision unit has decided to update using past stored distance information, the display device displays past distance information read from the distance-information memory unit.

Abstract: An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a feature selection module for determining subsets of point clouds, the subsets selected based on key points of a three-dimensional object; a feature matching module, coupled to the feature selection module, for generating matched results based on a matching transformation of the subsets; and a point registration module, coupled to the feature matching module, for refining the matched results based on a refinement transformation to optionally align different data sets of the point clouds for displaying the aligned data sets on a device, wherein the refinement transformation includes a refinement error less than a matching error of the matching transformation.

Abstract: According to one aspect, a distance determination system for a vehicle includes a monoscopic imager, and a distance determination module in communication with the monoscopic imager and configured to receive vehicle position data. The distance determination module includes a vehicle position determination sub-module configured to determine a first and second position of the vehicle based on the vehicle position data. A feature identification sub-module is configured to capture a first image at the first position using the monoscopic imager, capture a second image at the second position using the monoscopic imager, identify at least one feature in the first image, and identify the at least one feature in the second image. A distance estimation sub-module is configured to determine a difference between the first and second position of the vehicle, identify a difference in position of the at least one feature, and determine an estimated distance.

Abstract: A method for determining a pose of an object in a scene by determining a set of scene features from data acquired of the scene and matching the scene features to model features to generate weighted candidate poses when the scene feature matches one of the model features, wherein the weight of the candidate pose is proportional to the model weight. Then, the pose of the object is determined from the candidate poses based on the weights.

Abstract: A parallax detection unit generates a parallax map indicating a parallax of each pixel of an image formed by right and left images and generates a reliability map indicating reliability of the parallax. A depth information estimation unit generates a depth information map indicating the depth of a subject on the image based on the right and left images. A depth parallax conversion unit converts the depth information map into a pseudo-parallax map using a conversion equation used to convert depth information to parallax information. A parallax synthesis unit synthesizes the parallax map and the pseudo-parallax map to generate a corrected parallax map based on the reliability map. The present technology is applicable to an image processing apparatus.

Abstract: Technologies are described herein for using linear functions to calculate depth information for scenes illuminated with structured light. Instead of performing matrix operations to determine depth information for each dot of light projected onto a scene, the depth information associated with each projected dot is calculated of light using a linear function.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for extracting an area of a detection target from an image includes an image input section that acquires an image, an image generation section that generates a plurality of images with different resolutions from the image, and a segmentation section that performs segmentation using the plurality of images with the different resolutions. The segmentation section segments an image with a low resolution and then segmenting an image with a high resolution using, as a processing target area, an area in the image with the high resolution corresponding to an area near a boundary resulting from processing of the segmentation of the image with the low resolution.

Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: applying an edge detection algorithm to an image of a document to receive a map of edges from which multiple optional contours of the document in the image are identified; splitting the multiple optional contours into line segments; sorting the line segments into equivalence classes of collinearity representing distinct line segments of the line segments, wherein each one of the classes of collinearity represents a distinct line segment of the distinct line segments; deriving a connectivity graph based on the equivalence classes of collinearity; identifying four vertex polygons in said connectivity graph; evaluating each one of the identified four vertex polygons according to one or more segmentation criterions; and segmenting the document in the image according to the most highly evaluated four vertex polygon of the four vertex polygons.

Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes methods for visual odometry using rigid structures identified by an antipodal transform. One exemplary method includes receiving a sequence of images captured by a camera. The method further includes identifying rigid structures in the images using an antipodal transform. The method further includes identifying correspondence between rigid structures in different image frames. The method further includes estimating motion of the camera based on motion of corresponding rigid structures among the different image frames.

Abstract: Image-matching tracks the movements of the objects from initial camera scenes to ending camera scenes in non-overlapping cameras. Paths are defined through scenes for pairings of initial and ending cameras by different respective scene entry and exit points. For each of said camera pairings a combination path having a highest total number of tracked movements relative to all other combinations of one path through the initial and ending camera scene is chosen, and the scene exit point of the selected path through the initial camera and the scene entry point of the selected path into the ending camera define a path connection of the initial camera scene to the ending camera scene.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and arrangement for texture compression. An image block is divided into two half-blocks which are either living, also referred to as flipped configuration, or standing, also referred to as the non-flipped configuration. An estimate is generated for whether the flipped or the non-flipped configuration provides the best result for compressing a block. Compression is only executed for the configuration that is estimated to give the best result for the block.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to encoding and decoding image information. The encoding comprises receiving a block of pixels; determining a set of potential reference samples for the block of pixels; selecting a subset of the set of potential reference samples to be used as reference samples for the block of pixels; and using the selected reference samples to determine a DC prediction value for the block of pixels. A prediction error is determined for a pixel in the block of pixels on the basis of the DC prediction value. The decoding comprises receiving an encoded block of pixels; determining reference samples for the encoded block of pixels; and using the determined reference samples to define a DC prediction value for the block of pixels. A prediction error is received for a pixel of the encoded block of pixels. The pixel value is reconstructed on the basis of the DC prediction value.

Abstract: A computer-implemented technique includes determining whether to first render an image at a first quality or a second quality based on whether a viewable portion of the image is moving within an image space, a second quality being less than the first quality. The technique further includes first rasterizing the image at the first or second quality based on the determination and first rendering the image at the first or second quality based on the determination. Additionally, the technique includes second rasterizing the image at the other of the first or second quality based on the determination and second rendering the image at the other of the first or second quality based on the determination.

Abstract: The present invention refers to an angiographic image acquisition system and method which can beneficially be used in the scope of minimally invasive image-guided interventions. In particular, the present invention relates to a system and method for graphically visualizing a pre-interventionally virtual 3D representation of a patient's coronary artery tree's vessel segments in a region of interest of a patient's cardiovascular system to be three-dimensionally reconstructed. Optionally, this 3D representation can then be fused with an intraoperatively acquired fluoroscopic 2D live image of an interventional tool.

Abstract: A search apparatus includes a storage device storing for particle data, positional information and a deformation gradient tensor; and a processor configured to generate based on the positional information, circumscribing shape data that circumscribes an influence region of the particle data; set, as a deformation object, the circumscribing shape data or region data; deform the deformation object by the deformation gradient tensor; judge whether an overlap exists between the deformed deformation object and a deformation-exempt object that is among the circumscribing shape data and the region data, and not set as the deformation object; determine particle data in the region data, as a neighbor particle data candidate of the object particle data, upon judging that an overlap exists between the deformed deformation object and the deformation-exempt object; and store to the storage device, a determination result.

Abstract: A method and system for generating a vector graphic from a color/object coded hand-drawn diagram are provided. A digital image of the diagram is generated and the key to the color/object code used to code the diagram is obtained. The digital image is then filtered to create a color-filtered image for each color in the key. Each filtered image is analyzed to determine the object type of objects in the filtered image according to the key, and then data extracted from the analysis of the filtered images is combined into a vector graphic diagram. The use of coded color in the diagram enables the image to be filtered based on color, which in turn aids the automated recognition of components in the diagram and significantly reduces the complexity of identifying each type of shape.