Abstract: An experiment information management system includes a first experiment apparatus configured to generate first experiment result information and first log data; a recording apparatus configured to record the first experiment result information and the first log data generated in the first experiment apparatus; and an experiment note generation apparatus configured to generate an experiment note being a record of an experiment, according to at least the first experiment result information and the first log data recorded in the recording apparats.

Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for performing unconstrained appearance-based gaze estimation. The method includes the steps of identifying an image of an eye and a head orientation associated with the image of the eye, determining an orientation for the eye by analyzing, within a convolutional neural network (CNN), the image of the eye and the head orientation associated with the image of the eye, and returning the orientation of the eye.

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for monitoring a video are provided. For example, the video may be rendered within a canvas overlaying a webpage within a web browser. The video may comprise an opaque portion (e.g., a bike) and a transparent portion (e.g., a transparent background such that the bike appears to be driving across the webpage as the video plays). User input associated with the canvas may be evaluated to determine whether the user input occurs over the opaque portion or the transparent portion. Responsive to the user input occurring over the opaque portion, the web browser may be transitioned from the webpage to a biking website linked to by the video. Responsive to the user input occurring over the transparent portion, the canvas may be closed to terminate the video.

Abstract: The disclosure is an information processing device including: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and performing operations. The operations includes: generating, based on a target image including a target and a standard image not including the target, a target structure image indicating a shape feature of an object included in the target image and a standard structure image indicating a shape feature of an object included in the standard image, in each of a plurality of imaging conditions; calculating an individual difference being a difference between the target structure image and the standard structure image, and a composite difference based on the individual differences; calculating an individual smoothness being a smoothness of the target structure image, and a composite smoothness based on the individual smoothness; and generating a silhouette image of the target, based on the composite difference and the composite smoothness.

Abstract: A system receives digital images of a geographic location, associates each digital image with ground control points in a set of reference stereo images, and associates each digital image to each other digital image via image to image tiepoints. The system updates a geometry of each image via a bundle adjustment, and uses a prioritized stacking order to establish piecewise linear seam lines between each of the images. The system finally builds a prioritized map in a mosaic space specifying the source image pixels that are used in each region of the output mosaic, and forms the mosaic image using the prioritized map.

Abstract: A garment assembly such as a uniform, a military uniform and a military combat uniform is presented. The garment assembly includes a helmet or head cover being cut from a fabric having a first camouflage pattern with a first set of intermixed colored blotches thereon. The colors of the first set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a first group of colors including an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color.

Abstract: A method for controlling a display system is a method for controlling a display system including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a display apparatus that displays an image on a screen, and the method includes transmitting first transmission data representing a first image from the first terminal to the display apparatus and transmitting second transmission data representing a second image from the second terminal to the display apparatus. In a case where the display apparatus displays the first image on the screen based on the first transmission data but does not display the second image on the screen based on the second transmission data, the display apparatus controls at least one of the first and second terminals in such a way that the first transmission data has a larger communication traffic volume than the second transmission data.

Abstract: A CPU of a PC executes display control processing that displays, on a display, a print image superimposed on a photographic image of a fabric captured by a camera, specified area processing that specifies, as a specified area, a predetermined area of the photographic image, and overlap deleted print image formation processing that forms an overlap deleted print image obtained by deleting an overlapping section from the print image that overlaps the specified area. The CPU projects the overlap deleted print image onto an object to be printed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing digital augmented reality content in a distribution network using physical distribution items as triggers for the Augmented reality content. An interface allows a sender of a physical item to provide augmented reality content to a distribution network, and the distribution network can provide the augmented reality content to a recipient of the physical distribution item.

Abstract: A system and method for fitting pacifiers and other implements to a particular child. One or more images of the child are used to determine anthropometric data that can be used to properly size a pacifier bulb and properly fit other implements.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display for outputting a screen and a processor operatively connected to the display. The processor is configured to receive a user input associated with movement of a screen output on the display, detect a screen movement speed corresponding to the user input associated with the screen movement, determine an amount of screen tilt compensation corresponding to the screen movement based on the screen movement speed, when the screen movement speed is included in a first interval, and keep the amount of screen tilt compensation based on the screen movement speed constant, when the screen movement speed is included in a second interval faster than the first interval.

Abstract: Techniques for improving image co-registration. One aspect relates to improving Mutual Information techniques by making the histogram bin widths used therein depend on the amount of signal noise. Another aspect relates to populating the bins by integrating the signal probability in each bin. A third aspect relates to converting top-of-the-atmosphere image data to surface reflectance data, and then using surface reflectance data in the Mutual Information technique for determining a correlation surface. The fourth aspect relates to registering higher-resolution images with lower-resolution images by down-sampling the higher-resolution image. The last aspect relates to a technique for determining the accuracy of the co-registration by synthesizing a perfectly-registered image in a second wavelength band from an image in a first wavelength band and then using Mutual Information between the two images to create a correlation surface.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for a computer device with two pointer devices and/or a mouse filter driver and/or a hub configured to convert certain messages from the pointer devices into movement sequences. The method includes the steps of: (b) allowing the operating system to display the native mouse cursor; (d) providing a message processor to process raw input messages from the pointer devices; (e) maintaining a first and second position according to movements of the first and second pointer device; (f) adjusting a position of the native mouse cursor according to movements of the first or second pointer device which was moved or operated most recently; and g) detecting and converting the movement sequences into a corresponding command.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a corresponding point obtaining unit configured to obtain corresponding points that are feature points of an object associated between a first image and a second image; a first deformation obtaining unit configured to obtain first deformation that is based on the corresponding points; a second deformation obtaining unit configured to obtain second deformation that is performed between the first image and the second image, and in which a degree of coincidence of corresponding points is lower than the first deformation; and a combining unit configured to combine the first deformation and the second deformation, regarding positions in at least one image of the first Image and the second image, based on distances between the corresponding points and the positions.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for driving the same are provided. The display apparatus includes: a timing control circuit; a display source, configured to generate a light having first display information and a light having second display information, under control of the timing control circuit, during mutually alternate first and second timings, respectively; a polarizer, configured to, under control of the timing control circuit, convert the light having the first display information into a first linearly polarized light during the first timing, and convert the light having the second display information into a second linearly polarized light during the second timing; and an optical path controller, configured to receive the first linearly polarized light and the second linearly polarized light from the polarizer, and to project the first linearly polarized light and the second linearly polarized light, spatially separate from each other, into a user's eyes.

Abstract: A monitoring system assesses the position of at least one target within an area. The monitoring system comprises a processing unit adapted to receive, from a camera, at least a frame depicting a scene of the area. The frames generated by the camera have a first resolution. The processing unit comprises: a database module storing, for each at least one target, a corresponding reference image, each reference image having a second resolution lower than the first resolution; a segmentation module configured to segment a received frame into frame segments, each frame segment having a resolution corresponding to the second resolution; a search module configured to implement a visual search procedure between each frame segment and a reference image comprising a depiction of the at least one target; and a position and translation module for calculating the position of the at least one target within the received frame.

Abstract: Weaknesses may be exposed in image object detectors. An image object is overlaid onto a background image at each of a plurality of locations, the background image including a scene in which the image objects can be present. A detector model is used to attempt detection of the image object as overlaid onto the background image, the detector model being trained to identify the image object in background images, the detection resulting in background scene detection scores indicative of likelihood of the image object being detected at each of the plurality of locations. A detectability map is displayed overlaid on the background image, the detectability map including, for each of the plurality of locations, a bounding box of the image object illustrated according to the respective detection score.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for aligning at least one part of a second digital image with at least one part of a first digital image comprising: dividing the at least one part of the first digital image into a plurality of tiles t_fi; dividing the at least one part of the second digital image into a plurality of tiles t_si; creating a plurality of correlation images fci; determining the position of a global maximum correlation value p_?? for each of the plurality of correlation images fci_??; calculating a plurality of first offset vectors fov, the offset vector fov_?? representing the offset between the tile t_si?? and the corresponding tile t_fi??; and aligning the at least one part of the second digital image with the at least one part of the first digital image by applying the corresponding first offset vectors fov.

Abstract: A medical imaging system includes a gantry, a display device, and a control circuit. The gantry includes detector arms circumferentially spaced apart along a perimeter of a bore and radially movable towards and away from a subject. The control circuit generates a subject shape outline of the subject within the bore based on obtained contour image data of the subject. The control circuit determines designated scan positions of the detector arms based on the subject shape outline. The control circuit displays the subject shape outline on the display device within a gantry visualization that is a graphical representation of the gantry showing the bore. The control circuit displays a set of graphical detector arms on the display screen within the gantry visualization. The graphical detector arms are displayed at the designated scan positions relative to the gantry of the gantry visualization to show a subject-gantry geometric relationship.

Abstract: A display apparatus including display or projector, means for tracking position and orientation of user's head, and processor coupled to display or projector and said means. The processor or external processor communicably coupled to processor is configured to obtain head-tracking data indicative of position and orientation; process head-tracking data to determine current position and orientation of user's head and velocity and/or acceleration with which position and orientation is changing; predict first and second position and orientation of user's head at time t1 and t2, respectively; determine first and second projection matrices to be applied to three-dimensional image data of given frame, respectively; and apply first and second projection matrices to said image data to generate first image frame and second image frame, respectively. Processor is configured to render first and second image frame at time t1 and t2, respectively.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media to detect matrixed codes. A matrixed code may comprise a plurality of colors, an infrared layer, and an ultraviolet layer. The matrixed code may be a fiducial marker for conveying spatial information. The spatial information may stem at least in part from the ultraviolet layer.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media to detect matrixed codes. A matrixed code may comprise a plurality of colors, an infrared layer, and an ultraviolet layer. The matrixed code may be a fiducial marker for conveying spatial information. The spatial information may stem at least in part from the infrared layer.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media to detect matrix barcodes. The matrix barcode may comprise a plurality of colors, an infrared layer, and an ultraviolet layer. The matrix barcode may be a fiducial marker for conveying spatial information. The spatial information may stem at least in part from the infrared layer and the ultraviolet layer.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying an entity within a selected plurality of video frames that includes one or more missing portions; determining a three-dimensional (3D) model for the entity; and filling in the one or more missing portions of the entity within the selected plurality of video frames, utilizing the 3D model.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying an entity within an image that includes one or more missing portions; determining a three-dimensional (3D) model for the entity; and filling in the one or more missing portions of the entity within the image, utilizing the 3D model.

Abstract: Pixels in a visual representation of an object that includes one or more perspective view images may be mapped to a standard view of the object. Based on the mapping, a portion of the object captured in the visual representation of the object may be identified. A user interface on a display device may indicate the identified object portion.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated unmanned aerial vehicle recognition. A multiplicity of receivers captures RF data and transmits the RF data to at least one node device. The at least one node device comprises a signal processing engine, a detection engine, a classification engine, and a direction finding engine. The at least one node device is configured with an artificial intelligence algorithm. The detection engine and classification engine are trained to detect and classify signals from unmanned vehicles and their controllers based on processed data from the signal processing engine. The direction finding engine is operable to provide lines of bearing for detected unmanned vehicles.

Abstract: A mobile terminal in which an imaging unit is provided on a front surface side and a display unit and a sensor are provided on a back surface side includes a signal processing unit which, from a signal output by the imaging unit, generates information to be displayed by the display unit, and a control unit into which a signal from the sensor is input and which controls the signal processing unit. A display state of the display unit based on the control performed by the control unit includes a first display state for display in a first display region if no detection signal is being input from the sensor, and a second display state for display in a second display region if a detection signal is being input from the sensor.

Abstract: A system for aggregating media is provided which includes a server equipped with a processor and memory and having an event database associated with it which contains a plurality of events, wherein each of the plurality of events has a temporal window and geofence associated with it; and a plurality of users, each having associated therewith a mobile technology platform equipped with a display and a memory which communicates with the server.

Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems allowing a company to market and advertise its brands, products and/or services in a mobile platform by use of an application converting a user input into a corresponding branded icon, logo or image and displaying the same. The user input is in the form of a text entry containing a pre-defined term corresponding to one or more branded images, icons or logos. By allowing a user to select one of the displayed branded images or logos, the application is able to trigger a number of third party applications associated with the selected branded image, icon or logo.

Abstract: A method is provided for constructing a composite image. The method comprises illuminating an object with light of a particular spectral band, capturing a digital image of the illuminated object using a monochromatic image sensor of an imaging device to obtain a monochrome image, repeating the steps of illuminating and capturing to obtain a plurality of monochrome images of the object illuminated by light of a plurality of different spectral bands, processing the plurality of monochrome images to generate image data for one or more output channels, and generating a color composite image from the image data. The color composite image comprises the one or more output channels.

Abstract: In an apparatus that synthesizes a plurality of frames, a deviation of display contents is not generated and reduction in a frame rate is suppressed. A first frame generation section generates a first frame whenever a period of a predetermined synchronizing signal has elapsed. A second frame generation section in turn generates a predetermined number of second frames. A synthesis section synthesizes, in a case in which a present frame that is the predetermined second frame is generated by specific timing, the present frame and the first frame and synthesizes, in a case in which the present frame is not generated by the specific timing, as a past frame, the second frame prior to the present frame with the first frame.

Abstract: An operation verifying apparatus of a first embodiment acquires a log indicating the content of a sequence of operations performed on a predetermined device, identifies corresponding functions from the log, and automatically generates a program based on the identified functions. Input data, which is to serve as an argument of each of these functions, is set. Execution sets as well as test scenarios are each structured by combining a program and input data. Then each execution set is continuously executed. As a result, an operation test using a test program is executed.

Abstract: An image processing device is configured to: acquire a first image photographed from a first position; acquire a second image photographed from a second position; identify an edit target area where a first shadow or a first shielding object is shown in the first image; decrease a resolution of the second image so as to match with a photographed object shown in the first image, and identifying a photographed part area where a second shadowed part or a second shielded part is shown in a low-resolution second image; identify a similar area in at least one of the first image and the second image, the similar area being similar to the photographed part area; and edit the edit target area in the first image, based on the similar area.

Abstract: A server including a processor to receive an electronic photo having at least one face from a user and compare the electronic photo with a template having a design element, and a computer implemented algorithm. The processor compares the electronic photo to the template and determines if the face is overlapped by the design element or if the face is cropped out of the photo slot. The processor presents the template combined with the electronic photo to the user only if the design element of the template does not overlap the face in the electronic photo. Multiple templates are compared to the electronic photo, and the templates are displayed based on a priority using criteria.

Abstract: A system for locating therapeutic remedies. The system includes a computing device that includes a k-means clustering module. The k-means clustering module is configured to receive at least a therapeutic constitutional inquiry, locate a user vibrancy record containing a plurality of user vibrancy datums, select at least a user vibrancy datum as a function of the at least a therapeutic constitutional inquiry, receive a clustering dataset that includes a plurality of unclassified cluster data entries, generate a k-means clustering algorithm using the clustering dataset, calculate a degree of similarity index value and select a classified data entry cluster.

Abstract: A method of adjusting texture coordinates based on control regions in a panoramic image is disclosed. The method comprises determining warping coefficients of a plurality of control regions in a panoramic image; retrieving two selected warping coefficients out of the warping coefficients for each of a plurality of camera images with respect to each vertex from a first vertex list according to two coefficient indices for each camera image in its data structure; calculating an interpolated warping coefficient for each camera image with respect to each vertex according to the two selected warping coefficients and a coefficient blending weight for each camera image in its data structure; and, calculating modified texture coordinates in each camera image for each vertex according to the interpolated warping coefficient and original texture coordinates for each camera image in its data structure to form a second vertex list.

Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a biometric input sensor is described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and related computer program products for processing and displaying computer-aided detection (CAD) information associated with medical breast x-ray images, such as breast x-ray tomosynthesis volumes, are described. An interactive graphical user interface for displaying a tomosynthesis data volume is described that includes a display of a two-dimensional composited image having slabbed sub-images spatially localized to marked CAD findings.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch performed on a display unit, a specifying unit configured to specify a target of specification in a predetermined region of the display unit according to a touched position, and a display control unit configured to control an object identification mark to be displayed in the predetermined region so as to indicate a first axis and a second axis that makes the target specified by the specifying unit based on the touched position of the touch become an intersection point with the first axis in response to the touch performed in the predetermined region, and control the object identification mark to be hidden when the touch is released.

Abstract: A method and system for generating an augmented reality experience without a physical marker. At least two frames from a video stream are collected and one of the frames is designated as a first frame. The graphical processor of a device prepares two collected frames for analysis and features from the two collected frames are selected for comparison. The central processor of the device isolates points on a same plane as a tracked point in the first frame and calculates a position of a virtual object in a second frame in 2D. The next frame from the video stream is collected and the process is repeated until the user navigates away from the URL, webpage or when the camera is turned off. The central processor renders the virtual object on a display of the device.

Abstract: A pulse wave analysis apparatus including a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process including extracting, from each of a plurality of captured images of a subject, a plurality of image areas corresponding to each of a plurality of parts of the subject respectively, generating pieces of waveform data corresponding to the plurality of parts based on an image analysis for the plurality of image areas, each of the pieces of waveform data indicating a pulse wave of the subject, calculating a first matching degree between the pieces of waveform data, and determining whether a noise is included in the pieces of waveform data based on the first matching degree.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for dynamically maximizing the contrast between the foreground and background in images and/or image sequences, comprising at least one image capturing device (C1, C2), at least one analysis module (A1, A2) which is connected to the image capturing device (C1, C2) and which is designed to determine a transformation between a two-dimensional coordinate system of the image capturing device (C1, C2) and a two-dimensional coordinate system of a display device (L) and carry out a segmentation in order to determine at least the occlusion of background objects by means of foreground objects in an image; at least one control module (K) which is connected to the analysis module (A1, A2); and at least one display device (L) which is designed to display display information, in particular video clips, wherein the image capturing device (C1, C2) is designed to capture the display information displayed on the display device (L), the analysis module (A1, A2) is additionally designed to asce

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for transforming data provided in a spherical format. A spherical format is created of an image obtained by a camera, the spherical format comprising a notional sphere that has a centre corresponding to the position from which the image was obtained by the camera. A first surface represented in the image had a first orientation and was at a first distance from the camera when the image was obtained. A selected point in said spherical format is obtained, which is defined by spherical coordinates consisting of a yaw angle and a pitch angle defining a line from the centre of the sphere. A plane is identified that has the first orientation and is at the first distance from the centre. A location in a Cartesian coordinate system is calculated where the plane intersects with the line, wherein two of the axes of the Cartesian coordinate system are parallel to the first plane. Thereby, the position of the point on the first surface is identified.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a computer program product for background image replacement in image data. The method includes receiving, from at least one image sensor of a device, frame data. The device generates a first depth map based on the received frame data. The device generates first foreground image data and first background image data, based on the first frame data and the first depth map. The method further includes determining a least used color in the first foreground image data. The least used color is identified as a first background color. The method also includes generating modified frame data by replacing the first background image data with the first background color and storing the modified frame data to a memory of the device.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for acquiring a respective position of a robot arm and a facility, and three-dimensional shape information according to a controller, and for acquiring a position of a worker and eye-gaze direction information acquired through a sensor unit. Furthermore, the controller is provided for calculating a display form of the facility coming into a view of the worker through a display unit of smart glasses on the basis of the aforementioned information. When information of the display form and operation information of the facility are acquired, a portion of the facility coming into the worker is set as a display prohibition region on the display unit and the operation information is displayed in a region excluding the display prohibition region.

Abstract: An original depth-map of a depth-natural image can be generated. The depth-natural image can include image pixels. The original depth-map can include original depths mapping to one or more of the image pixels. An edge in the depth-natural image can be detected. A supplementary depth can be interpolated based on the original depths and the detected edge. The depth-natural image can be blurred based on the interpolated supplementary depth to generate a depth-artificial image.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control unit, including a processor, configured to control a display to display a plurality of objects and receive a selection of one of the plurality of objects by a user as a selected object. The display control unit is configured to control the display to move the selected object when a move command is received from the user. The display control unit is configured to control the display to group additionally selected objects with the selected object when additional objects are selected by the user and a group command is received from the user. The display control unit is configured to control the display to independently move the additionally selected objects with respect to the selected object until the additionally selected objects are grouped with the selected object.

Abstract: An information display system includes a wearable display, a monitoring target information acquiring unit, a display area setting unit, and a display control unit. The wearable display is worn by a user and displays information within a field of view of the user. The monitoring target information acquiring unit acquires monitoring target information that is information related to a monitoring target. The display area setting unit sets a display area for displaying the monitoring target information within the field of view of the user. The display control unit displays the monitoring target information within the display area without scrolling when an amount of information of the monitoring target information fits within the display area, and displays the monitoring target within the display area with scrolling when the amount of information of the monitoring target information does not fit within the display area.

Abstract: A method includes determining a specific or basic vehicle, retrieving a base image or modified base image corresponding to the specific or basic vehicle, and selecting an accessory. The method also includes retrieving an accessory image corresponding to the accessory and animating the accessory image onto the base image or modified base image.