748 results about "Darkness" patented technology

The method and device help avoid traffic accidents and violations through significant enhancing safety and convenience of driving by providing a far better rear and side observation including in darkness, and reliably prevent, if an accident/violation occurs, from misjudging, owing to an unbeatable legal evidence through recording the objective pattern of the accident/violation . It is accomplished by positioning into a vehicle an onboard digital camera having at least one lens with a photo-receiver, shooting permanently the surroundings at an predetermined frequency, showing images captured on at least one onboard screen, and making the running sequence of images through digital memory so that a latest image captured is recorded and stored in digital memory expelling an oldest one and the overall amount of the images and, hence, duration of time recorded does not change. When responding to an accident/violation, at the instant of occurrence plus a predetermined delay, shooting stops (either automatically by an impact of a collision, or manually), and digital memory retains the congealed sequence of images just before, during, and shortly after the event.

A person-portable object tracking system for identifying a location of a tracked person-portable object such as a security tracking bag, money pack or other container by a location identifier powered by a portable power source, the location transmitted to a central processor by a communicator. The location identifier preferably uses the global positioning satellite system or a radio frequency identification tag. An event detector sends a signal by way of the communicator to the central processor, the signal indicating the occurrence of a predetermined event such as a change from darkness to light, movement of a handle or the like and/or opening of an enclosure, cutting, motion and/or exceeding a distance from a desired location. Using plural event detectors in logical AND combination prevents unwanted event indications. The central processor archives a history of locations of the tracked person-portable object. An embodiment further includes a wireless local network with a cluster of tracked person-portable objects and a local communicator.

A system and device for insuring the integrity of an automatic garage door has a sensor to determine the status of the door with respect to a predetermined position and a programable actuator which provides a positive signal for automatically activating a warning or alert system when the door is in predetermined position when the programmable actuator is activated and the sensor indicates that the door is at other than the predetermined position. Preferably the programmable actuator is a timer and the predetermined position is closed. The timer can be remotely programmable. The actuator can also be triggered by a sensor of an event such as darkness. Remote means are provided for manually activating the door to return to the desired position by an RF frequency transmitter.

An apparatus carries out measurements of blood glucose in a repeatable, non-invasive manner by measurement of the rate of regeneration of retinal visual pigments, such as cone visual pigments. The rate of regeneration of visual pigments is dependent upon the blood glucose concentration, and by measuring the visual pigment regeneration rate, blood glucose concentration can be accurately determined. This apparatus exposes the retina to light of selected wavelengths in selected distributions and subsequently analyzes the reflection (as color or darkness) from a selected portion of the exposed region of the retina, preferably from the fovea.

A visible and infrared light powered retinal implant is disclosed that is implanted into the subretinal space for electrically inducing formed vision in the eye. The retinal implant includes a stacked microphotodetector arrangement having an image sensing pixel layer and a voltage and current gain adjustment layer for providing variable voltage and current gain to the implant so as to obtain better low light implant performance than the prior art, and to compensate for high retinal stimulation thresholds present in some retinal diseases. A first light filter is positioned on one of the microphotodetectors in each of the image sensing pixels of the implant, and a second light filter is positioned on the other of the microphotodetectors in the image sensing pixel of the implant, each of the microphotodetectors of the pixel to respond to a different wavelength of light to produce a sensation of darkness utilizing the first wavelength, and a sensation of light using the second wavelength, and a third light filter is positioned on a portion of the voltage and current gain adjustment layer that is exposed to light, to allow adjustment of the implant voltage and current gain of the device by use of a third wavelength of light.

The deterioration (darkness) of image quality due to a reduction in the brightness of a single color as a result of the conversion from RGB pixels to RGBW pixels is prevented and a reduction in the power is achieved. A processing portion for conversion from RGB to RGBW 106 is formed of a W generating circuit 201, which is the same as in the prior art, a sub-pixel rendering circuit 202, a W intensity calculating portion 203 which transmits a W intensity setting value 205 to a W generating circuit 201, and a low power backlight control circuit 204 which expands data on the basis of the RGBW pixels generated by the sub-pixel rendering portion 202 and lowers the backlight in accordance with the amount by which the data is expanded. The inputted RGB data is used as the RGBW data with the W intensity calculated by the W intensity calculating portion 203. A backlight control signal is generated in accordance with the amount of data expansion in the sub-pixel rendering portion 202.

Systematic use of infrared imaging characterizes marks made on items and identifies the particular marking tool with better accuracy than use of visual imaging. Infrared imaging performed in total darkness eliminates shadows, glint, and other lighting variations and artifacts associated with visible imaging. Although normally used to obtain temperature measurements, details in IR imagery result from emissivity variations as well as thermal variations. Disturbing an item's surface texture creates an emissivity difference producing local changes in the infrared image. Identification is most accurate when IR images of unknown marks are compared to IR images of marks made by known tools. However, infrared analysis offers improvements even when only visual reference images are available. Comparing simultaneous infrared and visual images of an unknown item, such as bullet or shell casing, can detect illumination-induced artifacts in the visual image prior to searching the visual database, thereby reducing potential erroneous matches. Computer numerically controlled positioning of the toolmark relative to imaging sensors which use fixed focus optics with shallow depth of focus, varying focus distance and orientation systematically to construct a sequence of images, maximizes reliability of resulting images and their comparisons.

A light emitting safety wrap or sleeve worn by people and/or pets engaged in activities, or attached to objects during periods of limited visibility with flashing or blinking lights so as to be visible in darkness; powered by direct current; having three optional capabilities: (1) remote on-off switch and/or (2) digital voice/sound message and/or (3) Infared (IR) signaling lights.

A color management system for image reproduction and rendering. Images are rendered to appear perceptually accurate, rather than merely calorimetrically accurate. For example, an image reproduced by a color printer will be perceived as an accurate reproduction of the same image displayed on a computer screen, or that an image displayed on a computer screen is perceived as an accurate reproduction of the same scanned image or photographed image, even though the reproductions may be constrained by other factors, such as paper or substrate darkness, or a limited color gamut of the reproduction process.

Self-glowing phosphorescent blends comprises of silicates, phosphate, and their compounds with aluminates (e.g. alumino-silicates and alumino-phosphate) phosphors are disclosed. These blends can be optically charged by exposure to sunlight or artificial light sources, and are able to emit visible light for hours in darkness without the need of electricity or consumption of materials. Such optical charging-discharging cycles can be repeated at least 1000 times. These blends can be used to form many commercial products and used in many applications such as: self-glowing paints or coating blends, self-glowing adhesive tapes, self-glowing foils, self-glowing glues and sealants, self-glowing ceramic glazes, self-glowing writing and printing inks, self-glowing papers and stickers, self-glowing textiles and cloth, self-glowing glasses, and self-glowing plastic composites. The “self-glowing” refers to the ability to emit visible light or photon, without simultaneously being externally excited, or consumption of energy (like lamps) or materials (like candle) at the same time. These self-glowing blends or composites can glow in the darkness without consuming electricity and can be utilized in the following applications:

• • 1. Self-glowing marking, labeling, decoration, film coating, and paintings on the body of bicycles, automobiles, ships, and aircrafts. Such utility will display the contour, the location, and color of the subject's body at night or in darkness with the benefits of decoration and safety of traveling.
  • 2. Self-glowing marking, labeling, decoration, film coating, and paintings on the walls, the swimming pools, stairs, steps, and other outstanding objects inside or outside of a building. Beside apparent decoration utility in the darkness, they can also show the contour or locations of the objects in the darkness to avoid injury related liability.
  • 3. Low-level lighting source, i.e. “Electric less” lamps. By applying the blend on artificial lamp surfaces, they can self-glow in the darkness for hours after lamp is turned off. When lamp is back on, they can be optically excited and charged up, while shifting the lamp color to longer wavelength and warmer appearance.
  • 4. The blends can be utilized in many other special self-glowing products to save electricity and pollution and prevent safety hazards in darkness. For example, self-glowing paper and ink will allow people to write in the darkness without need for lamps. Self-glowing paint, tapes, ceramic glaze, and labels will allow people to act in the darkness without the need for electric lamps. Self-glowing glass and plastic articles will decorate or display at night without need for electric lamps. Besides conserving electricity and environment, self-glowing products may be used to direct traffic and prevent injury associated with power outage or electric lamps failure. These products also provide convenient safety measures in products such as self-glowing textiles that pedestrian and bicyclists can wear at night, without the need for electric lamps.

The invention relates to an automatic adjusting color temperature illumination system based on a visual perception of human eyes. The system comprises: a mode selection circuit, a digital power supply circuit, a microcontroller, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a brightness sensor, a timer circuit, an artificial scene geography information selection and color temperature brightness setting circuit, a light source driving circuit and an RGB three primary color light source. The temperature sensor, the brightness sensor and the timer circuit are all connected with the microcontroller. External environment signals are sent to the microcontroller. The microcontroller controls the light source driving circuit through processing the signals so as to control the color temperature and light and darkness of the RGB three primary color light source. The invention has the following advantage: combining influences of the light source color temperature on human physiology and mentality to control the color temperature and the brightness of the light source so that human comfort can be satisfied maximally by the light source and indoor illumination can become more humanized.

Motor vehicle windshields and safety glazing material, suitable for use as motor vehicle windshields and safety glazing material for automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, locomotives. sport utility vehicles, all terrain vehicles, and vans. The motor vehicle windshields and safety glazing material contains Neodymium Oxide, a rare earth compound. The Neodymium Oxide filters out the yellow portion of the spectrum, reducing glare. Incorporation of yellow light in the spectrum desaturates colors and reduces contrast. Improvement in contrast and a reduction in glare permits, for example, a motor vehicle driver to better discriminate the contrast of objects when there is no daylight and the only illumination is artificial. For drivers, in particular, elimination of the yellow light lessens eye strain currently resulting from light emitted by the conventional headlights of oncoming vehicles during hours of darkness. Neodymium Oxide can also be added to safety glazing materials for use in bullet resistant shields.

Two embodiments of a connector that can be mated without regard for its orientation are disclosed. One embodiment is mated and demated autonomously as part of a system for recovering, docking with, recharging and re-launching unmanned aerial vehicles. Another embodiment is employed on the decks of vessels to facilitate mating and demating of various equipment providing different functions to reconfigure the vessel. Because both embodiments are configured for connection irrespective of angular orientation over 360°, they are especially suited for harsh environments including autonomous operation, rough seas, darkness and the like.

A back light device realizing improvement in hotspots and bright line in the region of light incidence and of darkness arising in between light sources is provided by forming the reflective surface of the reflector as a structured face comprising an iteration of prism elements of trapezoidal section.