4564 results about "Acquisition apparatus" patented technology

A distortion corrected panoramic vision system and method provides a visually correct composite image acquired through wide angle optics and projected onto a viewing surface. The system uses image acquisition devices to capture a scene up to 360° or 4π steradians broad. An image processor corrects for luminance or chrominance non-uniformity and applies a spatial transform to each image frame. The spatial transform is convolved by concatenating the viewing transform, acquisition geometry and optical distortion transform, and display geometry and optical transform. The distortion corrections are applied separately for red, green, and blue components to eliminate lateral color aberrations of the optics. A display system is then used to display the resulting composite image on a display device which is then projected through the projection optics and onto a viewing surface. The resulting image is visibly distortion free and matches the characteristics of the viewing surface.

Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determined of one or more image attributes of at least some portion of the digital image. Values of one or more camera acquisition parameters are determined. Groups of pixels are identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digitally-captured image. Corresponding image attributes to the groups of pixels are determined. One or more default image attribute values are compared with one or more captured image attribute values based upon analysis of the image of the face. Camera acquisition parameters are then adjusted corresponding to adjusting the image attribute values.

An image acquisition sensor of a digital image acquisition apparatus is coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images. Images acquired by the sensor are stored. A motion detector causes the sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of movement in acquiring the image exceeds a threshold. A controller selectively transfers acquired images for storage. A motion extractor determines motion parameters of a selected, stored image. An image re-constructor corrects the selected image with associated motion parameters. A selected plurality of images nominally of the same scene are merged and corrected by the image re-constructor to produce a high quality image of the scene.

An image acquisition sensor of a digital image acquisition apparatus is coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images. Images acquired by the sensor are stored. A motion detector causes the sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of movement in acquiring the image exceeds a threshold. A controller selectively transfers acquired images for storage. A motion extractor determines motion parameters of a selected, stored image. An image re-constructor corrects the selected image with associated motion parameters. A selected plurality of images nominally of the same scene are merged and corrected by the image re-constructor to produce a high quality image of the scene.

A speaker array and microphone arrays positioned on both sides of the speaker array are provided. A plurality of focal points each serving as a position of a talker are set in front of the microphone arrays respectively symmetrically with respect to a centerline of the speaker array, and a bundle of sound collecting beams is output toward the focal points. Difference values between sound collecting beams directed toward the focal points that are symmetrical with respect to the centerline are calculated to cancel sound components that detour from the speaker array to microphones. Then, it is estimated based on totals of squares of peak values of the difference values for a particular time period that the position of the talker is close to which one of the focal points, and the position of the talker is decided by comparing the totals of the squares of the peak values of the sound collecting beams directed to the focal points that are symmetrical mutually.

Embodiments of methods for multimedia annotation with sensor data (referred to herein as Sensor-rich video) includes acquisition, management, storage, indexing, transmission, search, and display of video, images, or sound, that has been recorded in conjunction with additional sensor information (such as, but not limited to, global positioning system information (latitude, longitude, altitude), compass directions, WiFi fingerprints, ambient lighting conditions, etc.). The collection of sensor information is acquired on a continuous basis during recording. For example, the GPS information may be continuously acquired from a corresponding sensor at every second during the recording of a video. Therefore, the acquisition apparatus generates a continuous stream of video frames and a continuous stream of sensor meta-data values. The two streams are correlated in that every video frame is associated with a set of sensor values. Note that the sampling frequency (i.e., the frequency at which sensor values can be measured) is dependent on the type of sensor. For example, a GPS sensor may be sampled at 1-second intervals while a compass sensor may be sampled at 50 millisecond intervals. Video is also sampled at a specific rate, such as 25 or 30 frames per second. Sensor data are associated with each frame. If sensor data has not changed from the previous frame (due to a low sampling rate) then the previously measured data values are used. The resulting combination of a video and a sensor stream is called a sensor-rich video.

An efficient method and system to enhance digital acquisition devices for analog data is presented. The enhancements offered by the method and system are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes. The quality enhancements of the acquired digital data are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition. The method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of the analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality. The method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data. In some embodiments, one or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources. The acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and / or requirements. The preferred processing settings and attributes are determined interactively in real time as well as non real time, automatically and a combination thereof.

Within a digital acquisition device with a built in flash unit, the exposure of an acquired digital image is perfected using face detection in the acquired image is provided. Groups of pixels that correspond to plural images of faces are identified within a digitally acquired image, and corresponding image attributes to the group of pixels are determined. An analysis is performed of the corresponding attributes of the groups of pixels. It is then determined to activate the built-in flash unit based on the analysis. An intensity of the built-in flash unit is determined based on the analysis. Alternatively based on similar analysis, a digital simulation of the fill flash is performed on the image.

A method automatically corrects dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital acquisition device including a lens assembly. Multiple original digital images are acquired with the digital acquisition device. Probabilities that certain pixels correspond to dust artifact regions within the images are determined based at least in part on a comparison of suspected dust artifact regions within two or more of the images. Probable dust artifact regions are associated with extracted parameter values relating to the lens assembly when the images were acquired. A statistical dust map is formed including mapped dust regions based on the determining and associating. Pixels corresponding to correlated dust artifact regions are corrected within further digitally-acquired images based on the associated statistical dust map.

In order to characterize the optical characteristics of a device, a source of light having a variable frequency with a polarization state which varies linearly with frequency is provided as an input to the device under test. The input light is also passed through a known reference path and is added to the light output from the device under test in a beam combiner. The combined light for the frequencies of interest is split into two orthogonal polarizations which are then detected in a spectral acquisition apparatus and supplied to a microprocessor. The spectral measurements are digitized and curve-fitted to provide optical power versus optical frequency curves. Fourier transforms of each of the curves are calculated by the microprocessor. From the Fourier transforms, the four arrays of constants are calculated for the Jones matrix characterizing the device under test.

Within a digital acquisition device with a built in flash unit, the exposure of an acquired digital image is perfected using face detection in the acquired image is provided. Groups of pixels that correspond to plural images of faces are identified within a digitally acquired image, and corresponding image attributes to the group of pixels are determined. An analysis is performed of the corresponding attributes of the groups of pixels. It is then determined to activate the built-in flash unit based on the analysis. An intensity of the built-in flash unit is determined based on the analysis. Alternatively based on similar analysis, a digital simulation of the fill flash is performed on the image.

The invention discloses an ATM security certificate and a pre-warning method based on face recognition. The invention introduces face recognition and video detection into the applications of ATM and bank card business for the first time, which can obviously improve the security of ATM financial system, effectively reduce and overawe various ATM fraud and criminal activities. The complete system operation process in the method of the invention is: firstly, registering the face information of a holder at a service window which arranges an infrared face acquisition equipment or with the registration by the users themselves on ATM in bank, and saving the encrypted face information to a bank database and a bank card. Then, determining whether the ATM operator to be recognized is the holder of the bank card or not through verifying the user's identity by a face recognition engine; determining and recognizing whether existing behaviors that threaten ATM and the users though a behavior monitoring engine; and determining whether to trigger corresponding pre-warning mechanism or not according to the recognition result. The invention can extend to the applications of bank book business, public security monitoring and pursuing escaped criminals, etc.

A teleconference device includes a loudspeaker array and microphone arrays arranged at the both sides of the loudspeaker array. A plurality of focal points are set in front of the respective microphone arrays and symmetrically with respect to the center line of the loudspeaker array. A flux of sound collection beams toward the focal points is outputted. By calculating a difference between the sound collection beams toward the focal points symmetric with respect to the center line, a sound component coming into the microphone from the loudspeaker array SPA is cancelled. Furthermore, a total of squares of wave height value of the difference value for a particular time is used to estimate which of the set focal points is the nearest. Furthermore, by comparing the totals of squares of the wave height values of the sound collection beams toward the focal points symmetric to each other, it is possible to judge the position of the speaker.

A 3D image acquisition apparatus comprises a pattern projection section which projects a pattern on an object to be measured, an imaging section which is disposed at a distance from the pattern projection section and images the object on which the pattern has been projected, and a depth calculation section which detects the projection pattern projected on the object on the basis of an image acquired by the imaging section, collates the detected pattern and the projected pattern, and calculates a depth of respective parts of the object on the basis of the correspondency of the collation. The projected pattern is stripes / matrix formed by alternately arranging areas with local maximum / minimum luminance values. Thus, stripes / matrix boundaries can be exactly extracted from the pattern projection image, and correct decoding is performed from the encoded projection image even where the object is not a white-based color one or a low-saturation color one.

The embodiment of the invention provides a system, a method and an apparatus for remote representation, the system comprises: a plurality of displays for displaying remote images; an audio output apparatus for outputting information of a remote audio; a multimedia communication terminal for processing and controlling locally- and remotely-obtained audio / video information; a plurality of video cameras for taking local video images and sending the taken video images to the multimedia communication terminal for being processed; an audio acquisition apparatus for acquiring local audio information and sending the acquired audio information to the multimedia communication terminal; and a plurality of user locations that are corresponding to the plurality of video cameras one by one and have an approximate vertical relationship with respect to optic axes of cameras of the plurality of video cameras, respectively. Using the inventive technical proposal solves the problems of lacking consistence of conference experience and poor experience effect in multimedia communication.

A medical imaging system generates 3D anatomical images from acquired 2D anatomical images. The system includes a synchronization processor for providing a synchronization signal identifying a particular phase of heart operation of a particular patient. An image acquisition device acquires 2D anatomical images of a patient heart in angularly variable imaging planes over multiple different heart cycles at the particular phase of heart operation in response to the synchronization signal and in response to recorded data indicating imaging previously being performed at particular imaging plane angles. An image processor stores the recorded data to prevent imaging overlap at the particular imaging plane angles and to prevent unnecessary radiation exposure of the patient. The image processor processes 2D images acquired by the image acquisition device of the patient heart in multiple different imaging planes having relative angular separation, to provide a 3D image reconstruction of the patient heart

The invention discloses a real-time facial animation method based on a single video camera. The method includes the steps of using the single video camera, tracking three-dimensional positions of facial feature points in real time, parameterizing face posture and facial expression according to the three-dimensional positions, and finally mapping parameters on a substitute so as to drive facial animation of a cartoon character. A real-time speed can be reached only with an ordinary video camera of a user without need of an advanced acquisition device. The real-time facial animation method based on the single video camera can accurately process various wide-angle facial rotations, facial shifting and various exaggerated facial expressions and can further work in the environments with different illumination and background conditions, including indoor environment and sunny outdoor environment.

The invention provides a student state determination method, device and system. The method is applied to an online network teaching scene. A student side terminal of a network is equipped with a modality acquisition apparatus. The modality acquisition apparatus comprises a camera, an eye tracker and a body feeling instrument. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining data collected by the modality acquisition apparatus through the student side terminal, the data comprising expression data collected by the camera, eye data collected by the eye tracker and body state data collected by the body feeling instrument; based on image recognition technology, carrying out analysis processing on the expression data and the eye data to obtain emotion state information and fatigue and concentration degree state information of each student; and carrying out joint analysis on the body state data, the emotion state information and the fatigue and concentration degree state information to obtain state information of each student, wherein the state information comprises a high attention state, a low attention state and a dependence attention state. The student state determination method, device and system help teachers to know the learning state of each student clearly in network teaching.

An automated system and method for individually processing multiple specimens of particulate matter-containing liquid in respective containers. The containers are transported seriatim along a processing path to present them to, at least, a preprocessing apparatus (e.g., a mixing head), and then to a specimen acquisition apparatus, which removes preprocessed specimen fluid from the container for subsequent analytical testing or evaluation. Each apparatus is actuated in response to presentation of a container thereto so as to carry out its respective operation independently. An exemplary system can include, in sequential order, stations for container loading and unloading, container uncapping and cap disposal, specimen mixing, filter loading, specimen acquisition (e.g., by aspiration, and then slide printing), filter disposal, and container resealing. The system is capable of unattended operation for many hours at a time, and can interface with an integrated data management system to provide fully integrated specimen and information management in a complete diagnostic laboratory system.

The invention discloses an intelligent express mail sending access system and solution scheme based on Internet of things and a two-dimensional code technology. The intelligent express mail sending access system provided by the invention is realized in such a way that the intelligent express mail sending access system is composed of a user mobile phone, an equipment host, a system background server, a courier hand-held terminal and an express delivery carrier background server, wherein the equipment host comprises a mainframe box, a power source, a touch screen control apparatus, a video image acquisition apparatus, a two-dimensional code reading apparatus, an identity card information acquisition apparatus, a printing / sealing apparatus, a weighing apparatus, an information display apparatus, and an industrial control PC which is connected with the aforementioned function parts and the background server and has equipment control, instruction execution, information interaction and storage functions.

The invention relates to an intelligent advertising system having functions of audience characteristic perception and counting and belongs to the technical field of computer vision. The system consists of a camera, computing equipment and an electronic advertisement screen provided with a memory, wherein the camera is responsible for acquiring an image and sending acquired image information to the computing equipment; and the computing equipment is a computer or an embedded microcomputer system which is responsible for performing processing and an operation on the image acquired from acquisition equipment and controlling the electronic advertisement screen according to an operation result so as to realize the memorizing, the displaying, the playing and the switching of an advertisement content. The system provided by the invention is simple in structure, low in cost and convenient in operation, so that the problem that the conventional billboard performs only one-way pushing without consideration of the information of current advertisement audiences is solved; the value of the billboard relative to other billboards can be obtained according to the function of counting, and extremely referable data is provided for an advertiser; and the speed and the correction rate of face detection and face tracking are improved by utilizing a background modelling technology.

Provided are a rolled fingerprint acquisition apparatus and method for automatically detecting the start and end of registration and synthesis to acquire an accurate fingerprint. The rolled fingerprint acquisition apparatus compares at least one of fingerprint characteristic information and the amount of variation between the fingerprint characteristic information to reference fingerprint characteristic information to determine whether to start or end registration and synthesis, wherein the fingerprint characteristic information is information about fingerprints included in rolled fingerprint frames that are sequentially acquired, and registers and synthesizes the rolled fingerprint frames according to the result of the determination.

A computer-implemented system and method for deploying a graphical program onto an image acquisition (IMAQ) device. The method may operate to configure an image acquisition (IMAQ) device to perform image processing or machine vision functions, wherein the device includes a programmable hardware element and / or a processor and memory. The method comprises first creating a graphical program which implements the image processing or machine vision function. A portion of the graphical program may be converted into a hardware implementation on a programmable hardware element, and a portion may optionally be compiled into machine code for execution by a CPU. The programmable hardware element is thus configured utilizing a hardware description and implements a hardware implementation of at least a portion of the graphical program. The CPU-executable code may be executed by a computer coupled to the IMAQ device, or by a processor / memory on the IMAQ device.

A method based on Structure from Motion for processing a plurality of sparse images acquired by one or more acquisition devices to generate a sparse 3D points cloud and of a plurality of internal and external parameters of the acquisition devices includes the steps of collecting the images; extracting keypoints therefrom and generating keypoint descriptors; organizing the images in a proximity graph; pairwise image matching and generating keypoints connecting tracks according maximum proximity between keypoints; performing an autocalibration between image clusters to extract internal and external parameters of the acquisition devices, wherein calibration groups are defined that contain a plurality of image clusters and wherein a clustering algorithm iteratively merges the clusters in a model expressed in a common local reference system starting from clusters belonging to the same calibration group; and performing a Euclidean reconstruction of the object as a sparse 3D point cloud based on the extracted parameters.

The invention belongs to the technical field of sound quality prediction in vehicle vibration and noise analysis and control and relates to a time domain dynamic characteristic analysis-based intra-vehicle sound quality prediction method. With the method adopted, the problem of incapability of current intra-vehicle sound quality analysis researches to describe the time domain dynamic characteristics of intra-vehicle sound environment in vehicle regular driving can be solved. The method includes the following steps that: 1, a sound acquisition device is utilized to acquire an intra-vehicle sound signal sample; 2, framing and windowing processing is performed on the intra-vehicle sound signal sample; 3, a subjective evaluation test is performed on the intra-vehicle sound signal sample; 4, sound quality objective psychological acoustic parameters are calculated; 5, the time domain dynamic characteristic indexes of the objective psychological acoustic parameters are calculated, wherein the indexes include the variances of the objective psychological acoustic parameters and the ranges of the objective psychological acoustic parameters; 6, an intra-vehicle sound quality objective comprehensive evaluation model is established; 7, the output value of the sound quality objective comprehensive evaluation model is compared with a subjective evaluation value; and 8, a test sample is utilized to verify the model.

Provided are a three-dimensional (3D) image acquisition apparatus, and a method of generating a depth image in the 3D image acquisition apparatus. The method may include sequentially projecting a light transmission signal, which is generated from a light source, to a subject, modulating reflected light, which is reflected by the subject, using a light modulation signal, calculating a phase delay using a combination of a first plurality of images of two groups, from among a second plurality of images of all groups obtained by capturing the modulated reflected light, and generating a depth image based on the phase delay.

The invention provides a radioactive source on-line monitoring system based on an Internet of Things technology. The radioactive source on-line monitoring system comprises RF (radio frequency) cards, field monitoring terminals, a transmission network and an on-line monitoring informatization management platform, wherein the RF card is fixedly arranged in each monitoring site with a preset distance from a radiation source, unique identity information of a radiation source, approved geographical position information and the standard radiation dose rate are stored in the RF cards, each field monitoring terminal is arranged in the corresponding monitoring site, and comprises an RF card reader-writer, a radiation dose rate measuring instrument, video collecting equipment, a GPS (global positioning system) positioning device, a controller, an in-site warning device, a communication interface and a power supplying power supply, and the processor is respectively connected with the RF card reader-writer, the radiation dose rate measuring instrument, the video collecting equipment, the GPS positioning device, the field warning device, the communication interface and the power supplying power supply. The radioactive source on-line monitoring system has the advantages that the radiation source can be comprehensively monitored, then, through a communication network, the monitoring information can be remotely obtained in time, and the monitoring efficiency is effectively improved.

The invention belongs to a method for quickly confirming a real name identity in an important place and a human image and identity comparison safety inspection system. The method comprises the steps that (1) human image acquisition equipment acquires a human face image or a video steam of passing people or a migrant in real time, and analyzes feature information from the human image and personal information, such as the height and the age; (2) certificate reading assorted equipment reads information, such as an identity card picture and the height, of passing people or the migrant according to a service specification in real time; (3) a management host unit performs on-site or real-time on-line comparison on the face picture or the video stream acquired by the human image acquisition equipment and the certificate information read by the certificate reading assorted equipment, and supports a manual blacklist introduction or on-line blacklist downloading and updating function; and (4) traveling control equipment is controlled according to a comparison result. According to the method and the human image and identity comparison safety inspection system, first-line policemen or workers in important fields can quickly identify and confirm the real identity of passing people or the migrant on site according to a police human image identification comparison service requirement on the basis of an advanced face identification core technology in the industry at present, and an unthinkable massive picture library comparison requirement in the past is met on site.

The invention discloses a projection-type billiard training system and an implementation method thereof. The system comprises a billiard table, an image acquisition apparatus, a billiard lamp, and a projection apparatus, wherein the head end of the image acquisition apparatus mounted in the billiard lamp is flush with the lower end of the lamp, and is suspended at a certain high position above the billiard table to be over against the center of the billiard table; and the projection apparatus is hung beside the billiard lamp and is controlled by a computer. The system implementation method comprises the following steps of: establishing a standard database of training courses and the related video files; reading the above data and files by selecting junior training course to senior training course when the system program runs, and displaying the desired images, such as demonstration video, auxiliary lines, ball positions, aim point and simulated motion trajectory of the cue ball and the target ball through the projection apparatus; and capturing shot video when training according to the video, inputting the shot video to the computer for analysis, and giving suggestions for the next shot by the image acquisition apparatus. The projection-type billiard training system is more scientific, accurate, intuitional and convenient in billiard training, thereby improving the shot accuracy and the cue ball control capability.