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Disclosed is an apparatus for forming a high contrast image of a patterned object, such as a fingerprint, including a first lens having a light receiving surface and a viewing surface and a second lens adjacent to the viewing surface of the first lens. A light source projects incident light into the first lens between the viewing surface and imaging surface such that at least a portion of the incident light undergoes total internal reflection. In this way, an image of the patterned object is generated by substantially all scattered light from the imaging surface.

Highly efficient, low energy, low light level imagers and photodetectors are provided. In particular, a novel class of Della-Doped Electron Bombarded Array (DDEBA) photodetectors that will reduce the size, mass, power, complexity, and cost of conventional imaging systems while improving performance by using a thinned imager that is capable of detecting low-energy electrons, has high gain, and is of low noise.

A video super-resolution method that combines information from different spatial-temporal resolution cameras by constructing a personalized dictionary from a high resolution image of a scene resulting in a domain specific prior that performs better than a general dictionary built from images.

An inkjet ink set comprising a cyan ink, a magenta ink and a yellow ink, wherein each of said cyan, magenta and yellow inks individually comprises at least 65% water, between 1% and 5% by weight of a dispersed pigment colorant, a surfactant that reduces static surface tension, a dynamic surface tension reducing agent distinct from the surfactant, and at least one humectant distinct from the surfactant and the dynamic surface tension reducing agent; wherein said surfactant, said dynamic surface tension reducing agent and said humectant can be the same or different between said cyan, magenta and yellow inks; and wherein each of said cyan, magenta and yellow inks is characterized by exhibiting a viscosity normalized dynamic surface tension at surface refresh ages of 0.01 s of less than 23.0 mN/(m*cP); and wherein the average viscosity normalized dynamic surface tension at a surface refresh age of 0.01 s for said cyan, magenta and yellow inks taken together is less than 22.0 mN/(m*cP).

This invention relates to systems and methods for imaging sample materials within a microfluidic device during an assay reaction process. In accordance with certain aspects of the invention, images are formed with a pixel array and a region of interest (“ROI”) is defined within the pixel array. Image values, such as fluorescent intensity, can be computed as averages of individual pixel values within the ROI. Where the ROI is subject to non-uniform conditions, such as non-uniform heating, the ROI can be divided into sub-ROIs which are sufficiently small that the condition is uniform within the sub-ROI.

There is provided an image album creating system for creating an image album by receiving high image-quality images used for creating the image album after creating an image album sample by using low image-quality images, having a low image-quality image receiving section for receiving the low image-quality images of original images whose image quality has been lowered by an orderer of the image album from an image album orderer's apparatus, an image information receiving section for receiving image information concerning the original image that can be specified from the original image or in capturing the original image and cannot be specified from the low image-quality image by correlating with each one of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section, an image selecting section for selecting the low image-quality image to be allocated to the image album out of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section by analyzing the low image-quality image and the image information and a selected image notifying section for notifying the orderer of the image album of the low image-quality image selected by the image selecting section.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a display device is disclosed which performs a divided-screen active driving, and which allows (i) its emitting region to be divided into smaller units, irrespective of the smallest module unit of a light source; and (ii) minimizing increase in costs for a driving system and manufacturing of an area light source, a display device of the present invention includes: a display panel having unit display pixels; an area light source arranged on a back surface of the display panel, the area light source having an emitting region which is divided into divided emitting regions; and a controlling section for controlling luminance of each of the divided emitting regions of the area light source, based on luminance information of video signals input, wherein the area light source includes: unit emitting pixels which controls light emission of the divided emitting regions through a matrix driving; the unit emitting pixels each having an electron emitting element for emitting an electron, and a fluorescent substance which emits light by being excited by the electron emitted from the electron emitting element, the unit emitting pixels each occupying an area which is equivalent to an area of plural pixels out of the unit display pixels.

An optical interconnection apparatus including waveguide arrays such as waveguide lenses, waveguide gratings and star couplers, has improved efficiency realized using a periodic array combined with an arrangement of matching sections. The array is connected to a slab region containing the array focal point and the purpose of the matching sections is to minimize unwanted radiation by the array outside the central zone of the array. This unwanted radiation is primarily caused by two particular unwanted modes excited at the array junction with the slab, and the resulting loss is minimized by properly choosing the average phase shift applied by each section to said unwanted modes.

An image encoding apparatus includes a calculation unit for calculating complexity from pixel values of an input image, the complexity representing a code amount generated by prediction encoding each block included in a prediction target region of the input image, and an allocation unit for allocating a code amount to each block based on the calculated complexity of each block and an allowable code amount previously set for the prediction target region. The apparatus further includes a determination unit for determining an encoding parameter corresponding to each block based on the complexity of each block and the code amount allocated to each block, and an encoding unit for encoding each block by using the determined encoding parameter of each block. Finally, the apparatus includes a resetting unit for resetting the allowable code amount for a next prediction target region based on an occupancy amount of a buffer.

A compressive sensing-based multispectral video imager comprises a beamsplitter, a first light channel, a second light channel, and an image reconstruction processor; the beamsplitter is configured to divide the beam of an underlying image into a first light beam and a second light beam; the first light beam enters the first light channel, processed and sampled in the first light channel, to obtain a first mixing spectral image which is transferred to the image reconstruction processor; the second light beam enters the second light channel, processed and sampled in the second light channel, to obtain a second mixing spectral image which is transferred to the image reconstruction processor; the image reconstruction processor is configured to reconstruct the underlying spectral image based on the first mixing spectral image and the second mixing spectral image by using non-linear optimization method.

A driving method of a liquid crystal display is described. The driving method of liquid crystal display firstly detects the maximum grayscale of all pixel of liquid crystal display, and adjusts the out-put brightness of back-light modules in order to provide the corresponding brightness to the pixels of the maximum grayscale. Meanwhile, adjust all grayscale values of all pixels to map a new grayscale value, and drive each pixel. This driving method of this crystal display provides a sharp display quality when displaying darker image, and further reduces power consumption, particularly when displaying low brightness images.

CT scanner is disclosed for providing an image of a region comprising: at least one X-ray cone beam for illuminating mthe region with X-rays; a plurality of rows of X-ray detectors that generate signals responsive to line attenuation of X-rays from the at least one controller that controls providing an image of a region comprising: at least one X-ray cone beam for illuminating the region with X-rays; a plurality of rows of X-ray detectors that generate signals responsive to line attenuation of X-rays from the at least one X-ray source that pass through the region; a controller that controls the at least one X-ray cone beam to acquire line attenuation data for the region for different view angles of the region; and a processor that receives the signals and: a) determines low spatial frequency components of the image from the data; b) generates a first spatial image of the region from the low high spatial frequency components of the image from the data; d) generates a second spatial image of the region from the high frequency components; and e) combines the first and second images to generate the image.

The present invention provides a transparency antistatic multilayer sheet prepared by extrusion sheet molding that is favorable in appearance and retains its antistatic action consistently, and a production method of producing a thick antistatic multilayer sheet reliably by extrusion sheet molding, while preventing generation of contamination of the polishing roll surface and also damage of the sheet appearance. Specifically, it relates to an antistatic multilayer sheet, comprising coat layers constituted of a transparent resin A, said coat layers substantively do not contain a polymeric antistatic agent, and at least one antistatic layer constituted of a transparent resin B and a polymeric antistatic agent, wherein the antistatic layer is in contact with the inside of the coat layer and the coat layers are placed on the outermost faces of the multilayer sheet, wherein the multilayer sheet has a distinctness of image of 60% or higher and an initial electrostatic potential in electrostatic half-life measurement of 2.5 kV or lower, and a production method thereof.

A novel approach to magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed. Blood flowing through a living system is prepolarized, and then encoded. The polarization can be achieved using permanent or superconducting magnets. The polarization may be carried out upstream of the region to be encoded or at the place of encoding. In the case of an MRI of a brain, polarization of flowing blood can be effected by placing a magnet over a section of the body such as the heart upstream of the head. Alternatively, polarization and encoding can be effected at the same location. Detection occurs at a remote location, using a separate detection device such as an optical atomic magnetometer, or an inductive Faraday coil. The detector may be placed on the surface of the skin next to a blood vessel such as a jugular vein carrying blood away from the encoded region.

To provide a toner, which contains: a binder resin; a colorant; and wax, wherein the toner has Ta of 30° C. to 55° C., and Tb—Ta of 8° C. to 25° C., where Ta is a glass transition temperature of the toner determined from a constant heating component of a DSC curve of the toner obtained in a second heating process of temperature modulated differential scanning calorimetry, and Tb is a glass transition temperature of the toner determined from a constant heating component of a DSC curve of the toner obtained in a first heating process of temperature modulated differential scanning calorimetry.