Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer products facilitate access to historical data via a real-time tunnel within an architectural framework that encompasses an operational technology (OT) network, a de-militarized zone (DMZ), and an information technology (IT) network. Real-time data is retrieved from a data source using a first connector, which comprises a first tunneller, a first history-writer, and a first history-tunneller. The mechanisms involve interleaving real-time data and historical data over a first tunnel connection, a first firewall, and a second firewall by (a) executing pull replication of the historical data, (b) daisy-chaining the historical data, or (c) a combination of both (a) and (b). Subsequently, the real-time data is written to a first historian.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer products facilitate access to historical data via a real-time tunnel within an architectural framework that encompasses an operational technology (OT) network, a de-militarized zone (DMZ), and an information technology (IT) network. Real-time data is retrieved from a data source using a first connector, which comprises a first tunneler, a first history-writer, and a first history-tunneler. The mechanisms involve interleaving real-time data and historical data over a first tunnel connection, a first firewall, and a second firewall by (a) executing pull replication of the historical data, (b) daisy-chaining the historical data, or (c) a combination of both (a) and (b). The first tunnel connection is established from the first tunneler to a first DMZ tunneler by an outbound connection request from the OT network including the first tunneler to the DMZ including the first DMZ tunneler.

Abstract: Various implementations present a representation of a communication session involving multiple devices in different presentation modes based on spatial transforms between a physical environment and the representation of the communication session. For example, a representation of a communication session is presented based on the position of a first device within a first physical environment and a second spatial transform between the first physical environment and the representation of the communication session, in accordance with a determination to switch the first presentation mode to a second presentation mode. Then the representation of the communication session is presented based on the position of the first device within the first physical environment and the first spatial transform in accordance with a determination to switch the second presentation mode back to the first presentation mode.

Abstract: Provided are a system and method for generating an image implemented in the same style as a style of a single image sample based on a result of learning the single image sample, the system including: an image learning unit configured to train a deep learning network model based on an image sample of a specific style to generate a same style generative model network; and an image generating unit configured to input a layout image to the same style generative model network to generate an image having the same style as the specific style image sample while conforming to a layout structure of the layout image.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for digital indoor navigation. An embodiment may include determining an area type for each distinct area depicted within the digital indoor mapping image based on an identified color used as a fill for each distinct area. In response to receiving a request for indoor navigation comprising a starting point and a destination point within the image, an embodiment may include determining a navigation path from the starting point to the destination point based on analysis of the request and the determined area types, wherein the navigation path traverses one or more distinct areas depicted within the image based on the identified color.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for calibrating a camera comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: activating a subset of a plurality of light sources according to a plurality of activation schemes, wherein each activation scheme indicates which of the plurality of light sources to activate; capturing an image for each activation scheme using the camera; and calibrating the camera based on the captured images.

Abstract: A wearable device for use in immersive reality applications is provided. The wearable device has a frame including an eyepiece to provide a forward-image to a user, a first forward-looking camera mounted on the frame, the first forward-looking camera having a field of view within the forward-image, a sensor configured to receive a command from the user, the command indicative of a region of interest within the field of view, and an interface device to indicate to the user that a field of view of the first forward-looking camera is aligned with the region of interest. Methods of use of the device, a memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to cause the device to perform the methods of use, are also provided.

Abstract: A color aligning method of display for a computer system having a processing unit, a display and a server includes determining, by the server, a color information file of the display according to a related information of the display; downloading, by the processing unit, the color information file of the display from the server; and enabling, by the processing unit, the color information file according to a preset mode of the display.

Abstract: Techniques for nonlinear representations for vector objects are described that support construction of a nonlinear vector graph to represent a vector object. In an implementation, a user input is received including a plurality of points and at least one primitive. A content processing system then generates a vector object by constructing a nonlinear vector graph that specifies a nonlinear connection of the plurality of points with the at least one primitive. In some examples, the vector object is edited by applying an edit to the nonlinear vector graph. Once generated, the content processing system then outputs the vector object for display, e.g., in a user interface.

Abstract: A method for generating color conversion information including providing a user with color sample information for determining a color sample of which color characteristic information is known, receiving, from the user, an image including the color sample determined by the color sample information in a lighting environment, and generating color conversion information which corresponds to the lighting environment and is correlated with the user, based on the image and the color characteristic information of the color sample determined by the color sample information. The color conversion information converts between color information and color characteristic information, the color information is information which corresponds to a lighting environment and indicates colors of an object in the lighting environment, and the color characteristic information indicates color characteristics of the object.

Abstract: A method generates an image processing model to calculate a virtually stained image from a microscope image. The image processing model is trained using training data comprising microscope images as input data into the image processing model and target images that are formed via chemically stained images registered locally in relation to the microscope images. The image processing model is trained to calculate virtually stained images from the input microscope images by optimizing an objective function that captures a difference between the virtually stained images and the target images. After a number of training steps, at least one weighting mask is defined using one of the chemically stained images and an associated virtually stained image calculated after the number of training steps. In the weighting mask, one or more image regions are weighted based on differences between locally corresponding image regions in the virtually stained image and in the chemically stained image.

Abstract: The model generation system may generate texture maps for a texture based on a material image. A material image is an image of a physical material that describes the color (e.g., red-green-blue (RGB) color system model) of the physical material. The model generation system may identify a material class for the physical material depicted in the material image by applying a machine-learning model to the material image. The model generation system may then identify a texture map model that generates texture maps for the physical material based on the material image. The texture map model is a machine-learning model that is trained to generate texture maps for material images of a particular material class. The texture maps generated by the texture map model may include texture maps of standard texture values, such as metalness and roughness.

Abstract: An image processing method including the following steps is provided. An image information of an image is received, wherein the image includes a plurality of blocks and the image information includes a plurality of pixel information of each block. A dual gamma correction is performed on a first group of blocks of the image to obtain one or more corrected blocks and the dual gamma correction is skipped on a second group of blocks of the image to obtain a plurality of uncorrected blocks. A first encoding process is performed on the one or more corrected blocks to obtain a plurality of first encoded blocks. A second encoding process different from the first encoding process is performed on the plurality of uncorrected blocks to obtain a plurality of second encoded blocks.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller and a data driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The driving controller generates an age compensation value using a sensed age generated based on sensing data of the pixel and an accumulated age generated based on accumulated grayscale values of input image data, generates a final age based on the age compensation value, and compensates a grayscale value of the input image data based on a final age to generate a data signal. The data driver converts the data signal to a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concern methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products for determining and displaying pedigrees based on IBD data. Some implementations use a probabilistic relationship model to obtain various likelihoods of various potential relationships based on pairwise IBD data and pairwise age data. Some implementations build large pedigrees by combining smaller pedigrees. Some implementations display pedigree graphs with various features that are informative and easy to understand.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and displaying heat maps are provided. A heat map generation computing device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is programmed to receive trap data for a plurality of pest traps in a geographic location, the trap data including current and historical pest pressure values at each of the plurality of pest traps, receive weather data for the geographic location, receive image data for the geographic location, apply a machine learning algorithm to generate predicted future pest pressure values at each of the plurality of pest traps, generate a first heat map for a first point in time and a second heat map for a second point in time, and transmit the first and second heat maps to a mobile computing device to cause a user interface on the mobile computing device to display a time lapse heat map.

Abstract: A method for adapting text message communications in electronic financial transactions to accommodate users with color vision deficiency. During a registration process, a primary account number, a selection of an enrollment in a color vision deficiency accommodation service, a selection of a preferred critical text color, and an electronic device identifier are received from a user. During a subsequent electronic card present transaction process, the primary account number and the electronic device identifier are received from the user via a payment gateway webpage. During an adaptation process, a text of a message containing a critical text element communicated to the user regarding the transaction is adapted by presenting the critical text element in the preferred critical text color previously selected by the user. The message may be adapted within a template, or the message may be dynamically adapted by searching the message and identifying the critical text element.

Abstract: A display control device includes processing circuitry configured to store index setting information indicating combinations of a plurality of indexes and importance of each of the indexes, and visual variable setting information indicating a visual variable used when a value of the index of the importance is displayed for each importance on a heatmap, calculate values of the indexes collectively on a display basis on the heatmap, specify the combinations of the plurality of indexes and the importance of each of the indexes with reference to the index setting information, and determine a visual variable which is allocated to each of the indexes based on the visual variable setting information and the importance of each of the indexes specified.

Abstract: The medical image diagnosis support device includes an image reception unit, an information reception unit that receives information corresponding to the received image, an extraction unit that extracts one or more applications corresponding to the received information and analyzing the received image, an activation unit that activates at least one of the extracted applications, and a display control unit that displays, in a case where a result of analysis executed in the past by the activated application exists for the received image, the result of analysis on a display unit.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and an apparatus for generating and running a creative tutorial algorithm for creating a visual artwork may include obtaining data defining a creative objective and identifying the creative objective based on the data defining the creative objective, and obtaining information about at least one targeted artistic style and identifying the at least one targeted artistic style based on the information about the at least one targeted artistic style, and accessing a plurality of predetermined artistic styles and identifying, based on the plurality of predetermined artistic styles, at least one predetermined artistic style matching the at least one targeted artistic style, thereby specifying at least one targeted predetermined artistic style, and generating the creative tutorial algorithm. The creative tutorial algorithm is configured to include instructions on how to reproduce the creative objective in terms of the at least one targeted predetermined artistic style.

Abstract: The existence position of the virtual object displayed by the virtual reality or augmented reality is easily grasped. In a head-mounted information processing apparatus 100, a virtual object generation processor 122 generates a virtual object. An input operation unit 121 sets and inputs information. A camera 111 captures a real space. A display unit 130 displays a photographed image captured by the camera 111 and the virtual object generated by the virtual object generation processor 122. The controller 125 controls the virtual object generation processor 122 and the display unit 130. The controller 125 displays the virtual objects generated by the virtual object generation processor 122 in a batch within a display visual field screen of the display unit 130 in accordance with virtual object display instruction information for instructing display of the virtual object input from the input operation unit 121.

Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a multiview system, method and display for rendering multiview content, and viewer localisation system, method and device therefor. In one embodiment, a multiview system is operable to interface with a mobile device of a given viewer, and comprises: a MultiView Display (MVD); a network-interfacing content-controller; one or more emitters disposed and operable to emit a respectively encoded time-variable emission in each of distinct viewing directions; and a mobile application operable on the mobile device of the given user to capture a given one of the encoded time-variable emissions when the mobile device is located so to intersect a corresponding one of the distinct directions so to self-identify the mobile device as being substantially in line with a corresponding one of the distinct viewing directions.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes receiving region information from a stationary region detection process for a video. A processor performs a flat region ghosting artifact removal process that updates the region information with a flat region indicator utilizing the region information and the video. The processor further performs a region based luminance reduction process utilizing the updated region information with the flat region indicator for display ghosting artifact removal and burn-in protection.

Abstract: A content replacement system and method for simultaneously updating a plurality of images of visual designs on an electronic display of an electronic device using synchronized client- and server-side visual design object models by representing visual objects in visual designs using a keyed attribute and associated attribute value comprising a visual object specification.

Abstract: Augmenting a presentation includes a presenter wearing clothing having specific visual characteristics, obtaining an image of the presenter, detecting the specific visual characteristics in the image of the presenter, creating an augmented image of the presenter by adding to the image one or more virtual components that vary according to the specific visual characteristics, and presenting the augmented image to a plurality of participants of the presentation on computer screens that are viewed by the participants. The specific visual characteristics may include a special pattern, an emblem, a sticker, fashion style, and/or color. Adding one or more virtual components may include superimposing different clothing onto the image of the presenter. The different clothing may alter color, patterns, textures, fit, fashion, character type, and/or material properties of original clothing of the presenter. Adding virtual components may include adding one or more external components that are separate from the presenter.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display driving method, a display driver chip and a liquid crystal display device. The display driving method includes: within a display duration of a first bit-plane data, controlling the display device to display the first bit-plane data; when a loading duration of a single bit-plane data is longer than the display duration of the first bit-plane data, after completing the display of the first bit-plane data, controlling a pixel liquid crystal layer corresponding to the first bit-plane data in the display device to return to a target state, and completing loading of a second bit-plane data while maintaining the pixel liquid crystal layer corresponding to the first bit-plane data in the target state. Based on the above method, the cost of data driving can be effectively reduced, and the display effect of the liquid crystal display device can be improved.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a device for eliminating a brightness mura defect of a liquid crystal display, and relates to the technical field of liquid crystal displays. The method disclosed by the present application includes the following steps: acquiring an image to be displayed, wherein the image to be displayed includes a plurality of pixels; determining a compensation coefficient corresponding to each channel of each of the pixels according to an original gray scale value corresponding to each channel of each of the pixels; calculating a compensation gray scale value corresponding to each channel of each of the pixels according to the original gray scale value and the compensation coefficient corresponding to each channel of each of the pixels; and outputting and displaying the image to be displayed according to the compensation gray scale value corresponding to each channel of each of the pixels.

Abstract: A process includes, responsive to a computer platform being in a pre-operating system mode of operation, a first controller receiving serial data from a first external communication connector of the computer platform and the first controller providing a video output based on the serial data; and routing the video output of the first controller to a display device connector. The process includes, determining whether a video driver of the computer platform is communicating with a second controller via a second external communication connector of the computer platform. The video driver is associated with an operating system mode of operation of the computer platform. The process includes, in response to determining that the video driver is communicating with the second controller, routing a video output of the second controller to the display device connector in place of the video output of the first controller.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method of modifying an appearance of hair in an image of a head of a subject is disclosed.

Abstract: A sensor calibration system is provided that includes a sensor apparatus including an event-driven vision sensor including a sensor array configured with sensors that generate event signals upon detection of a change in incident light intensity, and a display apparatus including a display section configured to change luminance of a planar region instantaneously with a predetermined spatial resolution as per a calibration pattern of the sensors.

Abstract: A method including receiving, by a companion device from an optical display, a distortion information associated with a geometric distortion associated with rendering an image on a display of the optical display, distorting, by the companion device, the image using the distortion information, preprocessing, by the companion device, the distorted image based on compression artifacts, compressing, by the companion device, the distorted image, and communicating, by the companion device, the compressed image to the optical display

Abstract: A system controller may provide a shared clock source to multiple illumination peripherals and multiple wearable vision obstruction devices having shutters. The multiple illumination peripherals may selectably turn on and off during different timeslots and the shutters of the multiple wearable vision obstruction devices may selectably occlude and un-occlude vision of users during the different time slots. By modulating the illumination peripherals and the shutters, different users may perceiver different sensory inputs in a shared environment. For instance, users may experience brighter or dimmer illumination, or may experience different types of illumination. One user may view a movie on an LCD screen while the LCD screen appears blank to another user. In this manner, a passenger cabin of an aircraft may provide individualized sensory experiences to different passengers sharing the aircraft cabin.

Abstract: The present application discloses a target detection method and device for a high-resolution remote sensing image, which comprises: acquiring an original high-resolution remote sensing image from a sensor; acquiring target information of an area and an expanded area of the area expanding around by a predetermined distance; adaptively partitioning the original high-resolution remote sensing image to obtain different cluster areas to be detected, and obtaining an area required to be detected and an area not required to be detected; selecting a model of the area required to be detected and generating a target detection scheme; executing the target detection scheme to obtain a detection result; determining whether a computing platform has extra computing resources to detect the area not required to be detected, if so, performing dynamic partition detection for the area to obtain a detection result, and merging the detection results into a target detection result.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an image sensor including a color filter having a plurality of color channels, a memory storing a plurality of color conversion matrices and instructions, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain noise information of a color image captured by the image sensor, select a target matrix from among the plurality of the color conversion matrices based on the obtained noise information, and generate a color converted image by applying the selected target matrix to the color image.

Abstract: A display device comprises pixels including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, a fourth sub-pixel, and a fifth sub-pixel, each sub-pixel including an emission area, wherein the first sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel emit light of a first color, the second sub-pixel and the fifth sub-pixel emit light of a second color, the third sub-pixel emits light of a third color, a first emission area of the first sub-pixel, a second emission area of the second sub-pixel, a fourth emission area of the fourth sub-pixel, and a fifth emission area of the fifth sub-pixel surround a third emission area of the third sub-pixel, and the third emission area of the third sub-pixel has four interior angles equal to or greater than about 180 degrees, and another four interior angles equal to or less than about 90 degrees.

Abstract: This is an approach to the prediction of soil density and subsoil crop growth. The approach may include subsoil sensor which can monitor changes in soil pressure and moisture conditions. The sensor data can be sent to a computer module which can process the data using a machine learning model predicting the soil density around a subsoil crop and the yield of the subsoil crop. A soil maintenance plan can be generated from the soil density prediction and/or the crop yield prediction. The soil maintenance plan can be sent to soil management robots, which can execute the soil maintenance plan.

Abstract: A video transmission method according to the present disclosure includes: generating a transmission signal including, in a time series, first video data having a first luminance dynamic range and second video data having a second luminance dynamic range wider than the first luminance dynamic range; and transmitting the transmission signal generated. In the generating of the transmission signal, a signal level corresponding to a luminance value is limited to a value lower than a limit value that is predetermined, in a transition period provided for switching from one of the first video data and the second video data to the other.

Abstract: A system includes a unit for handling color assignment within a complex document and for maintaining a perceived brightness difference between elements on a discreet-pixel-depth-display. The unit includes a user interface to facilitate modification by a user of at least one first color to at least one second color within a previously chosen color scheme for a component of the document having principal colors and associated subordinate colors per principal color, a color handler to modify the chosen color scheme to produce an updated color scheme to match a perceived brightness of the at least one second color throughout at least a portion of the updated color scheme, a brightness handler to calculate the perceived brightness of said at least one second color and a subordinate color overrider configured to calculate an actual color to be assigned from the existing subordinate color and the new color requested by the user.

Abstract: A display driving method and a display device. The display driving method includes: scanning a plurality of subpixels arranged in an N×M array one row by one row or multiple rows by multiple rows to turn on each row of scanned subpixels, so that two adjacent rows of sub-pixels are simultaneously in an on-state for a duration greater than or equal to twice a unit scanning time, the unit scanning time is a time required to scan one row of sub-pixels, wherein N and M are both integers greater than 1; applying data signals to at least two rows of sub-pixels that are simultaneously in the on-state, such that at least a portion of rows of sub-pixels are applied with data signals for a duration greater than the unit scanning time.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a normal image formation mode and a wide color gamut image formation mode in which an amount of a developer per unit area of a developer image of at least a color that differs from a prescribed color among a plurality of colors is increased as compared to the normal image formation mode. Image data is generated such that an image portion formed in the prescribed color in an image formed on a recording material is formed solely by a developer image of the prescribed color in the normal image formation mode, but formed by superimposing a developer image of a color that differs from the prescribed color on a developer image of the prescribed color or formed solely by a developer image of a different color in place of a developer image of the prescribed color in the wide color gamut image formation mode.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying an image are disclosed. The apparatus includes independently-controllable microLED unit cells including sets of microLEDs each emitting light and at least one lens to control an emission angle and emission profile of the light emitted by the microLED unit cells. A display controller controls an intensity distribution of the microLED unit cells in accordance with a video data signal such that a first portion of the emitted light is emitted at a first emission angle with a first emission profile and a second portion of the emitted light is emitted at a second emission angle with a second emission profile. The first and second light portions form three-dimensional stereoscopic images.

Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.

Abstract: A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus.

Abstract: A display including a display panel and a backlight arranged behind the display panel, with a light guide with edge coupling, wherein the backlight is designed so the light intensity of the backlight is lower in a peripheral region of the display panel than in a central region of the display panel.

Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels to receive data voltages based on converted grayscales; and a grayscale converter to: calculate first compensation offsets based on positions of the pixels and input grayscales for the pixels; convert the first compensation offsets into second compensation offsets according to a maximum luminance weight based on an input maximum luminance; and calculate the converted grayscales by applying the second compensation offsets to the input grayscales.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining a Bayer input image. The method also includes generating, using at least one processing device of an electronic device, multiple YUV image frames based on the Bayer input image using non-linear scaling, where the YUV image frames are associated with different exposure settings. The method further includes generating, using the at least one processing device of the electronic device, a fused image based on the YUV image frames. In addition, the method includes applying, using the at least one processing device of the electronic device, global tone-mapping to the fused image in order to generate a tone-mapped fused image, where the global tone-mapping is based on a first cubic spline curve.

Abstract: The application discloses a correction method, correction device and correction system for free full-screen splicing. According to the application, influence of reasons such as an external light source and a camera angle is eliminated based on curved surface simulation over color information data of multiple pixels, so that free full splicing may be implemented when a spliced display screen, after being used, is disassembled and transferred to another site for re-splicing.

Abstract: A display device includes a first gain provider which controls a first gain value during a first display period in which a still image is displayed, a second gain provider which controls a second gain value during a second display period in which a moving image including a still area is displayed, and a grayscale converter which applies the first gain value or the second gain value to an input image and generates an output image. The first gain provider linearly or exponentially increases the first gain value to a maximum gain value based on a load of the still image from a first time point when the second display period changes to the first display period to a second time point at which the first gain value starts to decrease from the maximum gain value.

Abstract: A system for communicating images, comprises an imaging device configured to capture and image and generate a digital image file, the imaging device comprising a device identifier; a set of routines configured to label the digital image file, associated account information with the digital image file, associate the device identifier with the digital image file, and communicate the digital image file to a server; a server configured to receive digital image files and process the digital image file according to at least one of a label associated with the digital image file, account information associated with the digital image file, and a device identifier associated with a device that captured the digital image file.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing viewers of streamed video content with the option to view alternative video content in which alternative tone maps are applied to respective regions of interest. In some embodiments, the streamed video content is divided into slices, and alternative tone maps are applied to respective regions of interest within the slices. When a server receives a request from a client for alternative tone mappings of different regions, slices with the appropriate mapping may be assembled on demand and delivered to the client in a single video stream. Tone mappings may be used, for example, to highlight particular objects, such as players in a sporting event captured in the streamed video content.