171 results about "Defined Imaging" patented technology

A method, computer-readable medium, and system for provisioning computing resources across multiple cloud providers and / or data centers are disclosed. A graphical user interface is used to select a plurality of computing resources and at least one cloud provider and / or at least one data center for providing the plurality of computing resources. Scripts associated with the at least one cloud provider and / or at least one data center are accessed, where each script is capable of automatically setting up a computing resource on an associated cloud provider or associated data center. The scripts are then used to automatically allocate and / or configure the computing resources on the at least one cloud provider and / or at least one data center. As such, computing resources can be automatically provisioned using a generic graphical user interface and without a user having skills or credentials specific to each cloud provider and / or data center.

Image templates are extracted from video images in real-time and stored in memory. Templates are selected on the basis of their ability to provide useful positional data and compared with regions of subsequent images to find the position giving the best match. From the position data a transform model is calculated. The transform model tracks the background motion in the current image to accurately determine the motion and attitude of the camera recording the current image. The transform model is confirmed by examining pre-defined image templates. Transform model data and camera sensor data are then used to insert images into the live video broadcast at the desired location in the correct perspective. Stored templates are periodically updated to purge those that no longer give valid or significant positional data. New templates extracted from recent images are used to replace the discarded templates.

An image search and retrieval system and method of operation within such a system are disclosed. The image search and retrieval system includes a search engine coupled to an image analyzer, an input system, an output system and an image database. The image search and retrieval system includes one or more feature modules which define particular regions of an image and particular measurements to make on pixels within the define image region as well as the measurements to make on neighboring pixels in neighboring image regions for a given application and communicate this application specific information to the image analyzer thereby allowing rapid comparisons of images.

A system and method for generating custom geospatial information maps and precision corrected images allows real-time interactive production of a desired output image by incorporating user selectable parameters that define various image synthesizing operations. A graphical user interface allows a user to specify parameters that define the desired output image via a remote computing device over a public access network such as the Internet. The parameters define image synthesizing operations such as area, projection, datum, fusion, masking, blending, mosaiking, resampling, and others. The desired output image is processed by an image assembly server according to the parameters and a variety of geospatial image data sources, and electronically delivered to a user via a public access network. The geospatial information may also be correlated with non-georeferenced data such that relevant associations between non-georeferenced data and the geospatial data are integrated in the output information product.

A method and apparatus for comparing portions of data from a digital raster signal to a plurality of scan blocks of data, where each scan block in the plurality describes either a defined image area or entire image frame is disclosed. Included are a hashing function that calculates hash codes for spatially-defined segments of an incoming raster signal; a recent scan hash table containing hash codes for scan blocks received within a specified time period; a comparator for comparing calculated hash codes for the spatially-defined segments of the incoming raster signal with hash codes stored in the recent scan hash table; a pixel capture and timing module for capturing a digital raster signal; and an output selector for selecting for transmission a compressed form of a scan block, a hash code index, or no data if a scan block exists in a remote frame playout buffer.

In particular, the present invention provides a method and system for conferencing, including the steps of connecting at least two sites to a conference, receiving at least two video signals and two audio signals from the connected sites, consecutively analyzing the audio data from the at least two sites connected in the conference by converting at least a part of the audio data to acoustical features and extracting keywords and speech parameters from the acoustical features using speech recognition, and comparing said extracted keywords to predefined words, then deciding if said extracted predefined keywords are to be considered a call for attention based on said speech parameters, and further, defining an image layout based on said decision, and processing the received video signals to provide a video signal according to the defined image layout, and transmitting the composite video signal to at least one of the at least two connected sites.

A system to navigate an object traveling in an imaged subject is provided. The system includes a four-dimensional (4D) imaging system to create a first three-dimensional model of the acquired imaged data correlated relative to a time reference and defined relative to a first image coordinate system. A second imaging system creates a second three-dimensional model of the imaged subject defined relative to a second image coordinate system. A tracking system tracks movement and orientation of the object relative to a tracking coordinate system. A controller includes program instructions in combination with the processor operable to register the first and second image coordinate systems and the tracking coordinate system relative to a world coordinate system, and to combine the three-dimensional model created by the 4D imaging system with the three-dimensional model created by the second imaging system with a tracked location of the object relative to the world coordinate system.

Systems and methods are provided by which a mammography imaging system offers X-ray and ultrasound imaging that allows sharing of common hardware such as the computer and display. Small regions of interest are imaged with X-ray at higher image quality by using a second sensor with higher DQE than the full-field sensor can obtain. In some embodiments a specialized chamber is provided for securing the anatomy to a fixed location, ultrasound image data is collected along with ultrasound probe location and orientation data from sensors on a handheld probe from which data images can be viewed directly, or used to reconstruct tomographic images of any desired cross-section, or used for various “3-D” image visualization methods. An imaging schedule defined by location and orientation of an ultrasound probe is used to generate a three-dimensional ultrasound image.

A method for virtual world advertising and data mining as a part of a marketing and sales program for universal life stage decision support. User profiles created based on virtual world attributes are matched-up to service providers. Service provider-defined images or advertisements are then presented to the matched-up user using heuristics to select and modify the images or advertisements. Pricing for placement of the advertisement is determined in part by online auction and payments can be made to a user for specific user actions taken. Actual user actions taken after presentation of an image or advertisement are recorded and correlated over time, and are then used in measurements, reports and also in the heuristics for determining what advertisements have desired effects on the user.

The invention provides a method of image information input, which comprises the following steps: identifying the category of the images for input according to the pre-defined image template base, determining the image template for the image according to the category identified, segmenting the image for input according to its template and produce image slices, each of which is distributed with slice attribute, choose proper input mode to input the elements of information of the images slices according to their attributes, assembling the input elements of information into a complete image information of the input images. The system carries out slicing the input images according to the pre-defined image templates and effectively prevents the input personnel or check operators from directly obtaining the complete original image, thus protects the private or sensitive information from leaking and enhances the safety and confidentiality of the image data collection.

A method and a system for acquiring information on the basis of a media content (106) is disclosed. The method includes detecting (304) one or more particular image patterns or audio patterns in the media content to correspond to one or more of a plurality of pre-defined image and audio patterns. Further, the method further includes associating (306) a detected image pattern or the audio pattern to a predetermined list of response profiles. Furthermore, the method includes executing (308) one or more associated response profiles.

An image search and retrieval system and method of operation within such a system are disclosed. The image search and retrieval system includes a search engine coupled to an image analyzer, an input system, an output system and an image database. The image search and retrieval system includes one or more feature modules which define particular regions of an image and particular measurements to make on pixels within the define image region as well as the measurements to make on neighboring pixels in neighboring image regions for a given application and communicate this application specific information to the image analyzer thereby allowing rapid comparisons of images.

The invention discloses a touch control system and a touch control method for managing files / folders. The touch control system comprises a touch sensing unit, a touch action parsing unit, a file image moving unit, a management icon display unit and a file management unit. According to the touch control system and the touch control method for managing the files / the folders, predefined gestures are executed on a touch display screen, and defined icons and defined images are displayed on a screen of a portable electronic device. As long as one or more predefined movable file / folder images on the touch display screen are pressed in a touch mode at first, a predefined gesture is executed along a predefined route and in a predefined direction to reach a predefined position, then a defined icon image is pressed in a touched mode, and options and functions can appear. Through the touch control system and the touch control method for managing the files / the folders, operation buttons are led out on the touch display screen through a dragging method, the touch manipulation efficiency can be improved, and the misoperation rate is lowered.

An ophthalmic lens with high definition, wide field of view and high magnification has, in one embodiment, a contact lens, an intermediate field lens and an image lens wherein a real image is formed inside the field lens. At least two of the lenses contribute to the magnification and three surfaces of the ophthalmic lens are aspheric to provide a better defined image. The ophthalmic lens is made disposable with high quality plastic lenses and a plastic holder. A portion of the holder changes appearance in response to change in environment to indicate that the disposable lens has been used.

The invention relates to a method for automatically detecting a pre-defined image pattern in an original picture, wherein pixel data from said original picture are looked through by means of a processing step, including at least one transform, to find said pre-defined image pattern, wherein according to the invention said processing is split up into at least two stages, wherein a first stage with a coarse processing is to detect locations in the original picture imposing an increased likelihood that the pre-defined image pattern, can be found there, and wherein a second stage with a refined processing is applied to the locations to identify the pre-defined image pattern.

A method for defining image quality characteristics of X-ray based medical projection imaging devices is provided. A spatial frequency-dependent signal-to-noise ratio function includes image quality parameters of spatial resolution, object contrast and noise. The detectability of an object embedded into a defined background, such as a cardiac guide wire in a patient is determined. An X-ray system may be defined and set up for obtaining an optimized image quality to determine the best object detectability for a given patient dose.

Floating gates with field enhancement features are produced by a technique that makes possible structures smaller than the lithographically defined image. The floating gates produced having sharp tips for source-side injection flash memory cells. Moreover, the process provides an insulator cap over the floating gate that is self-aligned.

An object-detection system includes a radar sensor, a camera, and a controller. The radar-sensor is suitable for mounting on a vehicle and is used to detect a radar-signal reflected by an object in a radar-field-of-view. The radar-signal is indicative of a range, range-rate, and a direction to the object relative to the vehicle. The camera is used to capture an image of a camera-field-of-view that overlaps the radar-field-of-view. The controller is in communication with the radar-sensor and the camera. The controller is configured to determine a range-map for the image based on the range and the direction of the radar detection, define a detection-zone in the image based on the range-map, and process only the detection-zone of the image to determine an identity of the object.

The disclosed image browsing method with browser comprises: storing image data by layer / tile with different layer for different image scaling factor, defining image format as TMAP; opening a TMAP file to build required data structure for the browser based on file information; determine current scaling factor selected by user; then selecting the proper layer from file structure; calculating the original-image coordinate for the area selected by user to obtain user-interested area TOI; cleaning current image block sequence, traversing the image block of selected layer to find out the blocks with intersection with ROI, and adding the block information into the sequence when failed; reading data information from the target sequence to decode; sending re-draw view command from the main thread and keeping ready state for other operation. This invention overcomes great data storage difficulty.

In a method and device for medical imaging, a number of input parameters with regard to an image exposure are imported into a controller of the imaging device, that associate a desired image quality with a defined image exposure region. A number of control parameters are determined corresponding to each input parameter. The controller supplies each control parameter to the image acquisition apparatus for acquiring the image exposure of the examination region with the desired local image quality.

When an image signal processing circuit first compresses the image and an image sizing circuit then enlarges the compressed image, the resolution, particularly the vertical resolution, is degraded by the enlarging process and overall image quality thus drops. This problem is solved by an image cropping circuit that crops the photographed image to a defined image area without any image compression when a second zoom switch is operated. This improves the resolution of the output image and eliminates the time needed for image compression and other signal processing operations. An enlarged image can thus be easily and immediately presented.

A method for design and fabrication of holographic optical elements for a compact holographic sight is proposed. The method includes use of ray-trace software to design holographic elements having optical power using an intermediate hologram with parameters obtained through minimization of the merit function defining image quality.

A print configuration engine implemented in software residing on and executable from a digital medium, the print engine integrated with a graphics user interface (GUI) for creating and editing photo-based projects over a data network, the print engine including a communications link to a compatible print server and printer connected to the data network, a print queue for queuing printing tasks, and an image tiling module. The print engine automatically senses if the pixel size of an image is greater than a pre-defined image size threshold for high resolution printing and if so tiles the image and saves the individual image tiles to memory for later reconstitution.

The invention discloses a mobile robot visual servo control method based on a key frame strategy, which comprises the steps of 1) planning a moving path for a robot according to given conditions; 2) converting physical trajectory tracking in a visual navigation task and posture adjustment under the condition that a target is visible into a trajectory in an image feature space; 3) defining image features based on a homography relation between a current image frame and a key frame, and expressing movement conditions of the robot implicitly by the image features; and establishing a mutual relation model of visual control systems based on a robot kinematic model and a camera model, and designing and predicting a controller tracking trajectory. According to the invention, no training is required to be carried out on the robot on a given trajectory in advance, the target is not required to be continuously visible in the movement process, and the navigation accuracy of the robot is ensured to a certain degree.

The present invention is to provide a small-scale diagnosis system for conducting simple and efficient examination, including: an image creating apparatus for creating photographic image data of examination object; a CPU to conduct image processing for creating defined photographic image data from the photographic image data; an input section to input the examination object information to specify the photographed examination object; a CPU to correlate the defined image data created and examination object information corresponding to the defined photographic image data; a server to store the defined photographic image data having been correlated and the examination object information; a display section capable of displaying at least any one of the photographic image data, the defined photographic image data or the examination object information; and a control device having at least the CPU to carry out image processing, the CPU to carry out correlation processing and the display section.

A liquid crystal display (LCD) device with a register-type gamma reference voltage generating unit inside a data driving IC, thus to remove a source block dim phenomenon in a Chip on Glass (COG) cascade structure, and a driving method thereof. The LCD device comprises an LCD panel on which a plurality of gate lines and data lines intersect with each other. A TFT is formed at each intersection, to thus define images. A data driving unit supplies a gradation voltage to the LCD panel through a gamma voltage generating unit. A gate driving unit supplies a gate pulse to each gate line on the LCD panel. A timing controller controls the gate driving unit, the data driving unit and the gamma voltage generating unit.

A method for differentiating areas in a series of digital images, the method comprising the steps of: providing a series of images comprising undetermined marker areas; evaluating every image I for 1<=n<=N according to predetermined selection criteria and defining image marker areas as undetermined marker areas fulfilling the predetermined selection criteria; providing a new image I; and inserting new image marker areas in the new image I, said new image marker areas having the same shape and location as image marker areas present in image I but not in image I, and said new image marker areas being identifiable in lnew by a unique feature. Further, the application discloses a method for visualizing cell populations in tissue sections of a histological sample. Further, the application discloses a method for visualizing three-dimensional distribution of multiple cell populations in a histological sample.

A method for differentiating areas in a series of digital images, the method comprising the steps of: providing a series of images comprising undetermined marker areas; evaluating every image 1n for 1≦n≦N according to predetermined selection criteria and defining image marker areas as undetermined marker areas fulfilling the predetermined selection criteria; providing a new image 1new; and inserting new image marker areas in the new image 1new, said new image marker areas having the same shape and location as image marker areas present in image 1n but not in image 1n−1, and said new image marker areas being identifiable in 1new by a unique feature. Further, the application discloses a method for visualizing cell populations in tissue sections of a histological sample. Further, the application discloses a method for visualizing three-dimensional distribution of multiple cell populations in a histological sample.