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A moving image brightness variation compensation method for encoding digital moving images for transmission and storage, and for image processing when editing moving images, the moving image brightness variation compensation method comprising a step of compensating for overall brightness variations by correcting a luminance value x of each pixel according to the formula DC.x+DB, wherein DB is a parameter indicating a gain change and DC is a parameter indicating a contrast change, the parameters representing overall luminance changes between a reference image plane and an image plane being processed.

Methods and devices and systems for determining an analyte value are disclosed.

Conventionally there has been a case that the direct mode cannot be applied effectively depending on the block. With such being the case, information indicating whether a backward reference frame set by default can be utilized in the direct mode is provided to a decoder. A switching procedure to switch to a compensation method applicable when a collocated block has no forward motion vector for effective use, and the compensation method are also provided to the decoder. Thus, it is possible to clearly determine whether the reference frame can be used in the direct mode. Further, when the frame number has no time information, it is possible to effectively send information indicating the relationship between the reference frame and the current frame. Furthermore, the alternative mode and its switching procedure of the present invention make it possible to improve the prediction performance when the direct mode cannot be applied.

An insertion-based error concealment method and apparatus are provided whereby, instead of directly inserting white noise, a filter is created to shape the white noise. The filtered white noise is then used to replace lost data. The method of the present invention is implemented by first estimating the power spectrum of the previous frame; then designing a filter with transfer function H(f), where |H(f)|²=the estimated power spectrum; and finally generating the replacement packet using noise which has been spectrally modified by the filter. The resulting filtered noise has the same power spectrum as the previous packet but is not highly correlated with it.

Methods and apparatus for power supply load dump compensation according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a power stage system, such as a power stage system comprising a bootstrapped driver circuit and a power stage responsive to the driver circuit. The power stage system may further include a load dump compensation circuit connected to the driver circuit, wherein the load dump compensation circuit is configured to remove a bias current generated by the bootstrapped driver circuit. Various aspects of the present invention may be implemented in conjunction with any appropriate power supply, such as a switching regulator, for example a buck converter.

Methods and apparatus for compensating the effects of display signal propagation delay in a display panel are disclosed. The apparatus comprises circuitry in addition to conventional display driver circuitry for delaying display line timing signals by an amount approximating the delay found in corresponding display lines. By delaying display line timing signals, for example in a column driver, by an time approximately equal the delay experienced in a corresponding row enable signal line, capacitors associated with the display pixels charge more fully resulting in a more vivid display image. Methods for compensating the effects of display signal propagation delay involve generating a plurality of delayed display timing signals and activating display lines in response to those delayed timing signals.

The picture coding apparatus (300) includes a motion vector estimation unit (302) that select one of methods for deriving a motion vector of a block to be motion-compensated, depending on a motion vector of a block located in a corner of a decoded macroblock among a group of blocks that compose the decoded macroblock corresponding to the current macroblock to be coded and determines the motion vector derived by the selected method for derivation to be a candidate of the motion vector of the current macroblock to be coded and a motion compensation unit (303) that generates a predictive image of the block to be motion-compensated based on the estimated motion vector.

<heading lvl="0">Abstract of Disclosure</heading> A computer assisted compensation method is provided. The compensation method comprises sending a message from a first party to a second party, wherein the message includes a link to a processor and the link has a sponsor identifier, having the second party select the link to contact the processor, correlating the first party with the second party, and providing credit to the first party for an activity of the second party. A compensation system and an apparatus that performs a compensation function are also provided. A computer assisted marketing method is also provided. The computer assisted marketing method includes identifying a referrer, correlating a referred consumer and the referrer that referred the consumer, receiving referred consumer purchase information, calculating compensation due to the referrer for referred consumer activity, transferring consumer activity related data to a merchant storage device, and transferring consumer activity related data to a non-merchant storage device. A marketing system and an apparatus that performs a marketing function are also provided.

A system and method of dynamic compensation for providing content recommendations. When a content recommendation is received from a first user, a first value of the content may be determined at the time related to receipt of the recommendation. A second value of the content may be determined after a first predetermined time period and a third value may be determined that is based on a difference between the first and second values. The third value may be paid to the first user. The first and second values may be indicative of demand over different time periods. Thus, recommenders may be compensated according to the individual success of the content they recommend, as measured by the increase in valuation of the content from the time of recommendation to a later time when the content reaches a threshold valuation or increases a predetermined amount.

A software compensation method that allows a touch sensitive display to be built using low-cost FSR force sensors The compensation method comprises an array of functional compensation modules including filtering, voltage conversion, temperature compensation, humidity compensation, sensor calibration, sensor reading linearization, auto calibration, positioning determination and finally end-user and mechanical calibration. The array of compensation modules can bring system accuracy from a non-compensated average positioning error in the 25% to 50% range, down to aN end-user acceptable range of 0% to 5%. The increased positioning accuracy makes it possible to use FSRs as opposed to traditional piezoresistive based touch screen sensors.

A disparity prediction stage and a motion prediction stage predict a disparity vector and a motion vector by extending a MPEG-2 structure into a view axis and using spatial/temporal correlation. A disparity/motion compensation stage compensates an image reconstructed by the disparity prediction stage and the motion prediction stage by using a sub-pixel compensation method. A residual image encoding stage performs an encoding to provide a better visual quality and a three-dimensional effect of an original image and the reconstructed image. A bit rate control stage controls a bit rate for assigning an effective amount of bit to each frame on the reconstructed image according to a bit rate. An entropy encoding stage generates a bit stream on multi-view video source data according to the bit rate.

The present invention represents a procedure for compensating the heave movement of offshore cranes. The dynamic model of the compensation actuator (hydraulically operated winch) and the load hanging on a rope are derived. Based on this model, a path-tracking control unit is developed. To compensate the movement of the ship/watercraft caused by waves, the heave movement is defined as a time-varying disturbance and is analyzed with respect to uncoupling conditions. With a model expansion, these conditions are satisfied, and an inversion-based uncoupling control law is formulated. To stabilize the system, an observer is used for reconstructing the unknown state by means of a force measurement. Furthermore, the compensation efficiency can be improved by predicting the heave movement. There is proposed a prediction method in which no ship/watercraft models or properties are required. The simulation and measurement results validate the heave compensation method.

The present invention provides an S-shaped acceleration and deceleration control method for changing speed and position of an object on line. The method comprises the acceleration phase speed planning, the deceleration phase speed planning, the constant speed phase speed planning, the real speed reduction point predication, the maximum speed processing, the surplus distance compensation, the online object speed changing algorithm and the online object position changing algorithm. An acceleration and deceleration discretization speed planning method is employed and the user input parameters are combined to calculate the operation time of a seven-phase speed planning phase. It is determined whether the maximum acceleration and the maximum speed can reach the criterion or not, the integration problem of a sampling period Ts according to the acceleration/deceleration acceleration, the acceleration/deceleration speed and the final position L after discretization is considered, and the real reachable acceleration/deceleration acceleration, the acceleration/deceleration speed and the feed rate are corrected. The S-shaped acceleration and deceleration control method for changing speed and position of the object on line greatly simplifies an original calculation formula and saves lots of operation time of a computer, and the surplus distance employs a one-time compensation method in the speed reduction process.

A method and an apparatus adapted to a capacitive touch panel for drift compensation are provided, wherein the touch panel includes a plurality of sensors. In the method for drift compensation, a plurality of capacitances respectively sensed by each of the sensors are extracted. Whether the touch panel is in a proximity state is determined upon a slope of the sensed capacitances and a slope parameter. Whether each of the capacitances is drifted is determined upon the capacitance and an allowable noise range. When the touch panel is not in the proximity state and each of the capacitances is drifted, each of the capacitances is compensated according to a drift error of each of the capacitances after a first presetting time has passed.

A solid-state imaging device provides an in situ shading correction value regardless of electronic camera performance variation or type of replacement lens installed, etc. In one implementation, light-receiving region 110 of a solid-state imaging device 100 is divided into an effective pixel part 110A and an available pixel part 110B. Pixels 130 in the available pixel part 110B provide output signals indicating the degree of shading at the effective pixel part 110A. Output signals from pixels 130 are used by a control part 220D of the electronic camera for shading correction of image data obtained by the effective pixel part 110A.

The invention discloses a kind of image-based online detection and compensation method for cutting tools which is used for online detection of the tool wear amount on the machine tool and compensation based on the wear amount, including the following steps: lay out camera equipment, and take the photo of the cutting tools installed on the machine tool through the camera; calibrate the images taken; extract the cutting tool features; convert the cutting tool features into the actual sizes through the camera parameter calibration; compare the actual sizes with the pre-set cutting tool sizes to generate compensation signals; supply the referred compensation signals to the machine tool controller and use machine tool controller to drive the servo motor to compensate for the deviation generated by cutting tool wear.

A method for controlling and compensating aging in an LED device includes measuring a performance change in light output of the LED device. The LED device is controlled with a first compensation algorithm derived from the measured performance change, during a first period, to effect a luminance change over time in the light output of the LED device. Subsequently, a second compensation algorithm, derived from the measured performance change, and different from the first compensation algorithm, during a second period, effects a second luminance change over time in the LED device's light output. The second luminance change over time in the second period is different from the first luminance change over time in the first period. Furthermore, the first and second periods together are less than the lifetime of the LED device.

The application discloses a pixel circuit, a display device and a driving method. The pixel circuit comprises a programming module, a threshold voltage extraction module, a capacitor module and a driver module, wherein the programming module is used for receiving a video signal from a data line under the control of a first scanning control line and transferring the signal to the capacitor module; the threshold voltage extraction module is used for extracting threshold voltage information of the driver module under the control of a first power line and storing the information to the capacitor module; the capacitor module is used for storing the threshold voltage information, receiving the video signal of the programming module, superimposing the threshold voltage information on the video signal to form a driving voltage, and supplying the driving voltage to the driver module; and the driver module is used for receiving the driving voltage supplied by the capacitor module and generating a driving current under the control of a second power line to enable a light emitter to emit light. The pixel circuit, the display device and the driving method provided by the invention have the beneficial effect that through adopting a charging-type threshold extraction mode, good compensating effect on both positive and negative threshold voltages can be achieved; and through adopting a centralized compensation plus dispersed compensation method, the circuit can be applied to a high definition or high frame rate display device without adding a peripheral drive circuit module.

A differential serial communication receiver circuit automatically compensates for intrapair skew between received differential signals on a serial differential communication link, with deterministic skew adjustment set during a receiver training period. Intrapair skew refers to the skew within a pair of differential signals, and is hence interchangeable with the term differential skew in the context of this document. During the receiver training period, a training data pattern is received, such as alternating ones and zeros (e.g., a D10.2 pattern as is known in the art), rather than an actual data payload. The differential serial communication receiver circuit includes a differential skew compensation circuit to compensate for intrapair skew. The differential skew compensation circuit receives a pair of complementary differential input signals including a noninverting input signal and an inverting input signal, and in response generates a skew compensated first differential output signal and a skew compensated second differential output signal. The differential skew compensation circuit compares the relative delay of the skew compensated first differential output signal and the skew compensated second differential output signal, and in response delays at least one of the noninverting input signal or the inverting input signal to reduce intrapair skew.

A thermal deformation error compensation method for a coordinate measuring machine creates thermal deformation and geometric error data at different ambient temperatures including temperatures and machine kinematic parameters to obtain a thermal deformation and geometric error model, and inputs the model into central control unit of the coordinate measuring machine, and converts a 3D error compensation to obtain a thermal deformation and geometric error compensation model, and uses the thermal deformation and geometric error compensation model for performing compensations, so as to complete a thermal deformation and geometric error compensation of the coordinate measuring machine.