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Tomography limitations in vivo due to incomplete, inconsistent and intricate measurements require solution of inverse problems. The new strategies disclosed in this application are capable of providing faster data acquisition, higher image quality, lower radiation dose, greater flexibility, and lower system cost. Such benefits can be used to advance research in cardiovascular diseases, regenerative medicine, inflammation, and nanotechnology. The present invention relates to the field of medical imaging. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to methods, systems, and devices for imaging, including tomography-based and MRI-based applications. For example, included in embodiments of the invention are compressive sampling based tomosynthesis methods, which have great potential to reduce the overall x-ray radiation dose for a patient. To name a few, compressive sensing based carbon nano-tube based interior tomosynthesis systems, tomography-based dynamic cardiac elastography systems, cardiac elastodynamic biomarkers from interior MR imaging, exact and stable interior ROI reconstructions for radial MRI, and interior reconstruction based ultrafast tomography systems are provided.

Disclosed is an intubation imaging stylet for intubating a patient by use in a tube / imaging stylet combination, said imaging stylet comprising: a malleable stylet having a longitudinal axis and a proximal end and a distal end; a flexible image guide having a longitudinal axis and a proximal end and a distal end, said image guide being connected to said stylet such that a portion of said image guide runs parallel to a portion of said stylet along the longitudinal axis of said stylet and such that the distal end of said image guide is co-extensive with the distal end of said stylet; and at least one flexible illumination fiber having a proximal end and a distal end, said illumination fiber being connected to said stylet such that a portion of said illumination fiber runs parallel to a portion of said stylet along the longitudinal axis of said stylet and such that the distal end of said illumination fiber is co-extensive with the distal end of said stylet; such that in use, said imaging stylet is disposed within a tube for intubating a patient thereby forming an imaging stylet / tube combination which in use is held by gripping the tube in a pen-like fashion. The imaging stylet / tube combination is thus in use held in one hand, freeing the other hand of the user for other tasks if necessary, as well as permitting intubation in the conventional manner. To facilitate this, the center of gravity of the imaging stylet / tube combination is located in essentially the same location along the tube as with a conventional stylet / tube combination.

A portable, lightweight digital imaging device uses a slit scanning arrangement to obtain an image of the eye, in particular the retina. The scanning arrangement reduces the amount of target area illuminated at a time, thereby reducing the amount of unwanted light scatter and providing a higher contrast image. A detection arrangement receives the light remitted from the retinal plane and produces an image. The device is operable under battery power and ambient light conditions, such as outdoor or room lighting. The device is noncontact and does not require that the pupil of the eye be dilated with drops. The device can be used by personnel who do not have specialized training in the eye, such as emergency personnel, pediatricians, general practitioners, or volunteer or otherwise unskilled screening personnel. Images can be viewed in the device or transmitted to a remote location. The device can also be used to provide images of the anterior segment of the eye, or other small structures. Visible wavelength light is not required to produce images of most important structures in the retina, thereby increasing the comfort and safety of the device. Flexible and moderate cost confocal and fluorescent imaging, multiply scattered light images, and image sharpening are further functionalities possible with the device.

The image processing apparatus and the photoprinter include a condition setting section for setting image processing conditions by analyzing image data, an image processing section for executing image processing in accordance with the image processing conditions set in the condition setting section, a mode setting an section including a plurality of operation modes, setting a operation mode from among the plurality of operation modes and changing at least one of a processing content in the condition setting section and a content of the image processing executed in the image processing section in accordance with the thus set operation mode, and optionally a selection device for selecting the operation mode.

A method for automated image quality based diagnosis of a document printing system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving image data to be printed on a document; printing an image on the document based on the image data; scanning the printed image on the document with a sensor; analyzing the scanned printed image with an image quality analysis module to identify one or more defects in the printed image; automatically generating test pattern image data based on the one or more identified defects; and printing and analyzing a test pattern image based on the test pattern image data.

The present invention relates to a defect review system, and / or particularly, to an apparatus and method of defect review sampling, review method and classification on a semiconductor wafer or a pattern lithography reticle during integrated circuit fabrication. These objects are achieved in comparing a reviewed image with a reference image pick-up through a smart sampling filter. A clustering computer system base on high speed network will provide data cache and save operation time and memory. A smart review sampling filter automatically relocate abnormal pattern or defects and classify the device location extracted from design database and / or from golden die image on the same substrate. The column of the present defect review system is comprised of the modified SORIL type objective lens. This column provides solution of improving throughput during sample review, material identification better image quality, and topography image of defect. One embodiment of the present invent adopts an optical auto focusing system to compromise micro height variation due wafer surface topography. And another embodiment adopts surface charge control system to regulate the charge accumulation due to electron irradiation during the review process.

Embodiments of the present invention include apparatuses, systems and methods for multi-patch based super-resolution from a single video frame. Such embodiments include a scale-invariant self-similarity (SiSS) based super-resolution method. Instead of searching HR examples in a database or in LR image, the present embodiments may select the patches according to the SiSS characteristics of the patch itself, so that the computational complexity of the method may be reduced because there is not any search involved. To solve the problem of lack of relevant examples in natural images, the present embodiments may employ multi-shaped and multi-sized patches in HR image reconstruction. Additionally, embodiments may include steps for a hybrid weighing method for suppressing artifacts. Advantageously, certain embodiments of the method may be 10˜1,000 times faster than the example based SR approaches using patch searching and can achieve comparable HR image quality.

A video compression method compresses the capture video raw data into the 1st compression format and records the image patter complexity of each frame of a predetermined amount of video frames. The information of the image pattern complexity is used to determine the bit rate of each frame for the 2nd time of the video compression. For saving the image buffer size and speeding up the accessing time, a lossless and near lossless video compression algorithm is applied to the 1st video compression algorithm.

To provide a magnetic toner which has superior low-temperature fixing performance and pressure roller anti-staining properties even in various forms of use, has been kept from image defects such as image non-uniformity even during long-time image reproduction and can achieve high-level image quality. In a magnetic toner having toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, the activation energy Ea (kJ / mol) that is determined from a shift factor aT120 in a master curve of the toner, prepared when 120° C. is set as reference temperature, and the activation energy Eb (kJ / mol) that is determined from a shift factor aT150 in a master curve of the toner, prepared when 150° C. is set as reference temperature, satisfy Expression (1), and the Ea is 110 kJ / mol or less:1.00≦Ea / Eb<1.20  (1).

The disclosure describes a technique for medical imaging, referred to herein as the Rapid Interleave Overlap Technique (RIOT), wherein image data is acquired as a plurality of series sequences in a manner that allows for unlimited overlap. RIOT involves interleaving and overlapping 2D image slices of multiple series of image data of the same ROI into a composite data set from which MPR and 3D reconstructions exhibiting excellent resolution properties and crisp image quality can be generated.

The ability to remove a watermark from an encoded image opens the possibility of various novel applications. Several such applications are detailed. One employs a reversible watermark in conjunction with a second (robust) watermark. In this arrangement, the payload of the reversible watermark conveys information about the robust watermark (e.g., encoding parameters, or an error signal), permitting removal of the robust watermark from an uncorrupted encoded image. By such arrangements, the encoded image can be fully restored to its pristine, unencoded state even if several different watermarks have been applied.

In order to obtain a satisfactory image by making a peak luminance of an image to be displayed large and suppressing an occurrence of unnecessary period, there is provided a display driving method for driving a display with a plurality of scanning wirings and a plurality of modulation wirings, comprising: a step of supplying a scan selection signal to a scanning wiring selected out of the plural scanning wirings for each horizontal scanning period; and a step of supplying a modulation signal modulated in accordance with image data to the plural modulation wirings for each horizontal scanning period, in which the selection period of the scan selection signal varies between at least two horizontal scanning periods in a vertical scanning period.

A liquid crystal display device include: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, the first and second substrate including pixel regions; a first alignment layer on the first substrate; a black matrix on the second substrate; a first sloped side of the black matrix that is less steep than a second sloped side of the black matrix; a color filter layer on the black matrix; a second alignment layer on the color filter layer; a liquid crystal material interposed between the first and second alignment layers; and a rubbing direction of the second alignment layer corresponding to a first direction from the first sloped side to the second sloped side.

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer device to transfer a toner image formed on an image bearing member onto a recording medium, a sheet separation device to separate the recording medium from the image bearing member, a sheet separation bias application device to apply to the sheet separation device a sheet separation bias in which an alternating current (AC) component is superimposed on a direct current (DC) component, and a transfer bias application device to selectively apply to the transfer device one of a DC transfer bias having a DC component and a superimposed transfer bias in which an AC component is superimposed on a DC component. Upon application of the superimposed transfer bias to the transfer device, the sheet separation bias applied to the sheet separation device is changed from the sheet separation bias applied upon application of the DC transfer bias to the transfer device.

In an encoding method of moving pictures which generates a predictive picture for a current picture based on a reference picture and a motion vector, a macroblock is divided into subblocks. In each of the plurality of subblocks, an initial value of the motion vector is set and an evaluated value E on a difference between the current picture and the reference picture is calculated along a steepest descent direction to determine the minimum value. Then, the smallest evaluated value is selected among the minimum values obtained on the plurality of subblocks to determine the motion vector based on the pixel position of the smallest value.

A projection display may include a frame rate conversion section selectively performing a first frame rate conversion process or a second frame rate conversion process, an image process section selectively performing a black insertion process or a pair-frames gamma process, and outputting a result as a pair of consecutive image frames, a projection display section projecting and displaying an image on the basis of the video signal processed by the frame rate conversion section or the image process section, and a control section controlling the frame rate conversion section or the image process section according to a selected operation on a menu screen, where the control section performs the user interface function so that the black insertion process or the pair-frames gamma process by the image process section is selected with priority over the first frame rate conversion process by the frame rate conversion section.

The present invention relates to a charged particle beam apparatus which employs a scanning electron microscope for sample inspection and defect review.The present invent provides solution of improving imaging resolution by utilizing a field emission cathode tip with a large tip radius, applying a large accelerating voltage across ground potential between the cathode and anode, positioning the beam limit aperture before condenser lens, utilizing condenser lens excitation current to optimize image resolution, applying a high tube bias to shorten electron travel time, adopting and modifying SORIL objective lens to ameliorate aberration at large field of view and under electric drifting and reduce the urgency of water cooling objective lens while operating material analysis.The present invent provides solution of improving throughput by utilizing fast scanning ability of SORIL and providing a large voltage difference between sample and detectors.

A lubricant application device 12 capable of shaving a solid lubricant evenly and lubricating an image carrying member evenly has a solid lubricant 25 formed by solidifying a lubricant for lubricating the surface of an image carrying member 8 which carries images composed of a developer, and a brush roller 24 rotating while abutting against the solid lubricant 25 and the image carrying member 8, wherein the brush roller 24 has looped bristles 23 implanted in an endless state and is rotated in a direction of the rotation following the rotation of the image carrying member 8, and has a circumferential velocity of the rotation of the brush roller 24 is faster than 56% of the circumferential velocity of the image carrying member 8 and slower than 80% of the circumferential velocity of the image carrying member 8.

Provided is an optical tomographic imaging apparatus including: a unit for creating a measuring beam and a reference beam from beam of a light source, and generating interference light by combining a return beam resulting from the measuring beam and the reference beam; a unit for detecting the interference light to generate a detection signal; a unit for forming an image of the object based on the detection signal; a unit for designating a specific area in the image; a unit for setting a calculation index and a determination reference range used for determining image quality of the specific area; and a unit for applying calculation processing to a luminance value of the specific area based on the calculation index, determining whether a calculated value obtained as a result of the calculation processing is within the determination reference range, and outputting a detection result.

Disclosed herein is an apparatus for compensating for vibration of an image capturing device. The apparatus includes a y-axis stage installed in a support structure so as to be movable in y-axis direction. An x-axis stage is installed on the y-axis stage so as to be movable in x-axis direction on an xy plane. An image sensor is mounted on the x-axis stage. The apparatus is provided with a y-axis driver and an x-axis driver for driving the y-axis stage in the y-axis direction and the x-axis stage in the x-axis direction respectively. A control unit is installed in the image capturing device. The control unit operates to sense vibration of the image capturing device through a separate vibration sensor and to drive the y-axis driver and the x-axis driver to vibrate the image sensor in a way to compensate for the vibration of image capturing device.

A video transmitting apparatus includes: an error receiver that receives, from a video receiving apparatus for receiving a bit stream resulting from encoding of video data including pictures, error information indicating that an error is detected; an encoding-mode selector that selects a propagation-prevention encoding mode as an encoding mode when the error receiver receives the error information; and an encoder that encodes the video data in accordance with the selected encoding mode. In the propagation-prevention encoding mode, intra coding is executed on a forced intra block; a search range is set for a reference encoding unit so as not to include correspondent pixels from a boundary line serving as a boundary between the forced intra block and another block, the correspondent pixels corresponding to the number of adjacent pixels; and a restriction is set on deblocking-filter processing through a change in deblocking-filter setting information.

A display apparatus including a display panel connected to a plurality of data lines, a data driver configured to generate a plurality of data voltages, and to apply the plurality of data voltages to the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of feedback lines disposed in a fan-out region between the display panel and the data driver, wherein the data driver is further configured to applies a first signal to each of the plurality of feedback lines, wherein delays by the fan-out region are obtained based on the first signal, the delays being associated with the plurality of data lines, and wherein the data driver is further configured to controls output times of the plurality of data voltages based on the delays.

A patient clinical image data processing system, comprising a processor, an acquisition interface for acquiring patient medical image data and meta data from one or more medical imaging sources; and a middle-tier server to verify content of the patient medical image data to a predefined DICOM format; and a conversion unit which converts the patient medical image data format which complies with the predefined DICOM format; a comparator configured to process quality checks on the defined DICOM format of the patient medical image based on a reference standards and protocols; a data storage unit, operable for storing the patient medical image data and meta data; a user interface module for providing a custom user interface for interacting with the patient medical image data and meta data to visualize the patient medical image data and meta data from a remote location; a processing interface for providing various tracking and analysis of the patient medical image data and meta data with user privileges.

A multiple-axis imaging system having individually-adjustable optical elements and a method for individually adjusting optical elements of the system. The system comprises a plurality of optical elements having respective optical axes and being individually disposed with respect to one another to image respective sections of an object, and a plurality of individually-operable positioning devices corresponding to respective optical elements for positioning the optical elements with respect to their respective optical axes. The positioning devices are specifically adapted to adjust the axial position, lateral position and angular orientation of the optical elements with respect to their respective optical axes. The system is particularly adapted for use as a microscope array, and the positioning devices may be micro-actuators.

A test pattern is moved on a screen 5 subject to measurement with the field of view of an image sensor pursuing the motion of the test pattern so as to observe BEW. Subsequently, the field of view 33 of the image sensor is moved at the same velocity vc as in the foregoing observation to capture an image of a static pattern PE, and a blur width W along the scrolling direction that appears in a distribution profile of the captured image is observed. Based upon the blur width W and the exposure time of the image sensor for capturing the image of the static pattern PE, the moving velocity of the test pattern at the time of observation of the BEW is estimated, and by using the moving velocity, the BEW is normalized. Evaluation of the moving image quality of the screen is carried out by using the normalized N BEW. The moving velocity of the original test pattern can thus be estimated easily and accurately, and accordingly, the moving image quality of the screen can be evaluated accurately.