102 results about "Mobile vision" patented technology

Systems, methods, devices and computer program products which relate to utilizing a camera of a mobile terminal as a user interface for search applications and online services to perform visual searching are provided. The system consists of an apparatus that includes a processor that is configured to capture an image of one or more objects and analyze data of the image to identify an object(s) of the image. The processor is further configured to receive information that is associated with at least one object of the images and display the information that is associated with the image. In this regard, the apparatus is able to simplify access to location based services and improve a user's experience. The processor of the apparatus is configured to combine results of robust visual searches with online information resources to enhance location based services.

A device for switching between code-based searching, optical character recognition (OCR) searching and visual searching is provided. The device includes a media content input for receiving media content from a camera or other element of the device and transferring this media content to a switch. Additionally, the device includes a meta-information input capable of receiving meta-information from an element of the device and transferring the meta-information to the switch. The switch is able to utilize the received media content and the meta-information to select and/or switch between a visual search algorithm, an OCR algorithm and a code-based algorithm.

A system for conducting a virtual audio-visual conference between two or more users comprising two or more client stations each acting as a signal source and destination for each respective user, having a user interface for audio-visual input and output including audio signal reception and generation means for receiving and generating audio signals, one or more servers, and a network coupling the client stations and the servers, wherein each user is represented as a corresponding movable visual symbol displayed on the user interfaces of all coupled client stations and the audio signal of all users is generated at each client station with an attenuation according to the spatial position of the respective symbols on the user interfaces and according to the direction in which each movable visual symbol of each signal source is oriented on the user interface.

Methods of and systems for entering ambiguous text input via a linear character selection display are provided. A system for entering an alphanumeric string includes presentation logic for displaying on a presentation device an alphabet arranged into a row of letters and indication logic for presenting visual cues grouping a series of letters of the row into a cluster. The system also includes navigation logic for receiving user actions to move the visual cues along the row of letters to change the letters grouped into the cluster. The visual cues move along the row of letters in variable offsets based on a rate of input of the user actions. The system further includes selection logic for receiving user actions to select the cluster of letters to cause at least one of the letters of the selected cluster to be displayed in a string field.

Implementations relate to systems and methods for real-time image recognition and mobile visual searching. A mobile device, such as a cellular phone, acquires an image and pre-processes the acquired image to generate a visual search query based on objects detected in the acquired image. The visual search query includes the acquired image or a query image extracted therefrom and metadata associated with the detected objects. The mobile device wirelessly communicates the visual search query to a remote server, and in response to the visual search query, the remote server recognizes an object in the query image based on the associated metadata. The remote server then generates information content based on the recognized object and communicates the information content to the mobile device to be presented via the mobile device.

A visual commerce engine can provide information related to an object based on an image of the object. The visual commerce engine receives from a user device an image of an object and a location within the image associated with the object, and analyzes the image to detect potential objects depicted in the image. From this set a detected object can be selected based on the received location's proximity to any of the detected potential objects. A description of the detected object can then be determined and compared with a library of objects to identify similar, identical, or related objects.

An apparatus and method for using a mobile computer device for graphically displaying and modifying information in a manner to enhance comprehension of the information and allowing for the mobile and decentralized management of information to be accomplished, wherein such information may be related to bed management and patient placement information and, furthermore, enabling the information of interest to be organized, sorted, and used in various useful and novel ways.

An information providing device provided in a vehicle includes an object detecting unit for detecting an object outside the vehicle; a providing unit for providing, outside of the vehicle, visual information which is visually perceptible; and a controlling unit for controlling the providing unit. The providing unit is usually caused to provide the visual information to indicate a heading direction of the vehicle. In contrast, when the detected object is determined to include a danger to advancement of the vehicle or an indication of stopping the vehicle, the providing unit is caused to then move the visual information to indicate a direction towards the detected object.

The invention discloses an intelligent entertainment mobile robot. Two guide wheels are arranged on two sides of the front part of a frame; two driving wheels are arranged on two sides of the rear part of the frame; and the wheels are driven by a driving motor with a speed reducer. The intelligent entertainment mobile robot also comprises a power module for providing electric power for the whole machine, a monitoring module, a man-machine interaction module, a communication module, a master control module and a motion control module. The intelligent entertainment mobile robot is positioned and controlled by a method of combining a photopotential pose sensor and an infrared label-based mobile vision positioning mode, solves the problems that the conventional recreation facility has low intelligent level, single equipment function and low security coefficient, and also solves the problems of low robot loading capacity, high manufacturing cost and difficult commercial popularization in the conventional mobile robot research technology.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for flexible creation of auto-layout compliant diagrams. Visual feedback is provided to a user to assist the user with adding, deleting, and moving visual elements in diagrams in compliance with auto-layout constraints. Visual feedback is provided prior to adding, deleting, and moving a visual element so a user has an indication of what diagram's layout is to be after adding, deleting, or moving the visual element. Visual feedback can include shape guides that correspond to auto-layout compliant locations where a visual element can be added to a diagram. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention provide a user experience that approaches the flexibility of free form editing but retains the benefits of auto-layout mechanisms.

The invention discloses a visual target plate device for calibrating a component mounting attitude and a calibration method, and designs a visual target plate consisting of a visual target surface, an extending rod and a matched fixture. According to the visual target plate, a whole calibration method for a relative position relation of target points in the visual target plate as well as a visual target surface and matched fixture geometric relation is provided. The calibration method comprises the following steps of: calibrating the relative position relation of the optical target points on the target point by a single-camera photographing and measuring method through auxiliary target points which is formed by precision movement and have determined distances; and then controlling the visual target plate to do specific movement by a precisely controlled moving platform, and calibrating relative attitudes of a target surface coordinate system and matched fixture coordinates according to positions of the moving visual target points in the camera by a multi-point perspective algorithm. According to the designed and calibrated visual target plate device provided by the invention, the attitude of a mounting base in a machine body complex mechanism can be measured; and a requirement for flexible automatic site assembling of airplanes can be met.

A method, apparatus and computer program product for monitoring the motion and/or image quality associated with a captured image are provided. Various actions may be taken in response to the detected motion and corresponding image quality associated with a captured image. In particular, the motion and image quality monitor may, for example, only allow captured images to be used in conjunction with an image matching application, such as a mobile visual search application, when the image features of the captured image have stabilized (i.e., little to no motion is detected between consecutive frames of the captured image). The detected changes in motion and/or image quality may further be used for energy saving purposes, for example, by switching on or off various applications and/or components operating on the mobile device depending upon the amount of motion detected and/or the quality of the image captured.

A gaming system for playing a wagering game includes an input device for receiving a wager to play a wagering game, a display, and a controller. The controller is configured to display a three-dimensional view of at least a portion of a gaming environment and one or more movable visual elements disposed within the gaming environment. The controller is further configured to dynamically retain within the field of view a center point of a selected set of the movable visual elements.

A content presentation system implemented as a web browser, electronic book reader, etc., can initiate multi-dimensional auto-scroll movement in response to a single instance of user input (e.g., a gesture on a touchscreen). Once initiated, such a system can move visual information in more than one dimension, without further user input, to present content to a user. For example, a content presentation system can move visual information from right to left across a display area and, when the right end of the text has been reached, shift the visual information vertically, return to a starting horizontal alignment, and begin the right to left movement again, thereby performing movement that mimics left-to-right, top-to-bottom movement of human eyes, as would occur when reading text in many languages, such as English. A user can engage, accelerate, decelerate, and disengage multi-dimensional auto-scrolling, and set limits on scrolling ranges to focus on important content.

The invention discloses a space-movable visual sensor array system and an image information fusion method. The space-movable visual sensor array system consists of a plurality of visual sensor nodes, a plurality of first-stage ground stations and a second-stage ground station, wherein the visual sensor nodes mainly consist of flight control modules, flight management modules, cameras, digital transmission radio stations, wireless network cards and micro-miniature rotor wing unmanned aerial vehicle bodies; and the first-stage ground stations and the second-stage ground station are both computers. The real-time image information fusion method realized by the system and provided by the invention comprises the steps of: initialization of a visual sensor array, image capturing of the visual sensor nodes, and image information fusion. According to the space-movable visual sensor array system and the image information fusion method, the real-time fusion of image information captured by the multiple micro-miniature rotor wing unmanned aerial vehicles is broken through, the effect and the efficiency of aerial photographing are improved, the large visual field visual coverage can be realized, and the space-movable visual sensor array system and the image information fusion method can be applied to situations required to carry out high-efficient and high-quality aerial photographing and instant image displaying on specific regions.

The invention relates to a target retrieval system applied to a moving platform and belongs to the image processing field. The target retrieval system applied to the moving platform aims to provide a grading significance information method applied to the moving platform, can not only improve discrimination capability for characteristics in a significance area, but also can reserve retrieval content in a non-significance area. The method comprises steps that, pre-processing on images in an image database in a server is carried out, grading significance areas are extracted according to a significance model based on the graph theory and a two-dimensional maximum entropy rule, a global histogram with significance labels is generated by utilizing a word bag model, SIFT characteristics of the images are calculated and queried, the global histogram is generated by utilizing the word bag model, first 1000 retrieval image sequence numbers having shortest distances are recorded, and first 10 images in the final retrieval result are returned to a mobile terminal and are displayed. The target retrieval system is a relatively rapid and effective mobile visual searching system and can detect error coupling with more robustness.

The invention discloses a system and method for intelligent movable detection of cutter damage, applied to a workshop or a production line. The system comprises a machine tool cleaning environmental cleaning system, an online early warning system, a movable visual diagnosis system and a server, wherein the online early warning system is used for real-time detection of a main shaft power/current signal of each machine tool in the workshop or the production line and wireless transmission of the signal to the server; the movable visual diagnosis system can realize position and navigation to a machine tool detection working station and collect an image of the cutter damage; the server can judge whether the main shaft power/current value of each machine tool in the workshop is abnormal and canreport abnormal machine tool information to the movable visual diagnosis system; and the movable visual diagnosis system is controlled to collect the image and process the image, so the type and the degree of the cutter damage can be further judged. The system and method disclosed by the invention have the beneficial effects that the movable visual diagnosis system is arranged in the workshop or the production line, and the online early warning system is used for assistance, so high-precision, efficient and intelligent cutter damage detection is realized for the multiple machine tools in the workshop or the production line.

The invention discloses a camera angle self-adaptive adjustment method for an intelligent inspection robot. The camera angle self-adaptive adjustment method comprises the following steps: establishinga monocular mobile vision measurement model; acquiring internal reference calibration data of the camera; according to a target point position of the robot initial image, determining image target points acquired by the robot at different subsequent moments; and solving a homography matrix, searching an image matching point corresponding to the target point in the initial image, realizing three-dimensional pose information of the same target point in a camera coordinate system acquired by the robot at different moments by utilizing a triangulation principle, and finally obtaining a deflectionangle of the camera. The camera angle self-adaptive adjustment method solves the problem that the target deviates from the visual field center of the robot camera when the intelligent inspection robotworks, can adjust the angle of the camera in a self-adaptive mode under the condition that robot positioning errors and pan-tilt rotation errors exist, can realize accurate positioning and accurate recognition of a target, and can complete intelligent inspection, fault diagnosis, recognition and early warning of the robot target.

The invention discloses mobile vision inspecting equipment and method for detection of electric instruments. The equipment comprises a monitoring center and a mobile device, wherein the mobile device is divided into a visual information acquisition unit, an information processing and control unit, a wireless network communication unit, a positioning device and a power device; the mobile device moves through sliding rails which are pre-paved; when the mobile device moves to electrical equipment, the information of the instruments or switch state information is collected through the visual information acquisition unit, the information is sent to the information processing and control unit for information processing, and the wireless network communication unit sends the processed information to the monitoring center for information regulation, so that the purposes of inspecting a large-scale electric instrument group and quickly and accurately determining failure sites are realized. According to the mobile vision inspecting equipment and method disclosed by the invention, massive tedious equipment failure monitoring operations are omitted, so that the working efficiency is improved, and automatic monitoring of the failure of the large-scale electric instrument group is realized.

The invention provides a mobile visual focus based image vision salient detection method. The mobile visual focus based image vision salient detection method includes inputting an original image, applying an image based partitioning algorithm to partitioning the original image into K areas, performing quantization and high-frequency color screen on the original image, using a partition image to obtain partition areas corresponding to a quantization image, performing area comparison and calculation to obtain a salient value of some area so as to obtain an initial salient image, using an image center as an initial visual focus to perform weighting calculation on the initial salient image, using a salient attraction module to calculate a moving distance and a moving direction of a visual focus so as to obtain the next visual focus until the current focus distance and the last focus distance are smaller than 1, and using a final visual focus to weight a salient image obtained by a visual focus prior to the final visual focus so as to obtain a final salient image. Compared with image vision salient detection methods in the prior art, the mobile visual focus based image vision salient detection method has the advantages of being high in accuracy of the salient image, and capable of evenly highlighting salient objects and well inhibiting image backgrounds.

A portable basketball training device and method for creating visual distractions adjacent to an elevated transparent basketball backboard in the vicinity of the rim to facilitate increasing a player's concentration, focus, skill and accuracy in goal shooting. The device includes a housing mounted on the backboard that contains a motorized reciprocating member, and a plurality of movable vision distracters disposed on a back side of the backboard suspended from the reciprocating member having body portions extending downwardly from the housing in the vicinity of the rim which swing or bounce from side behind the backboard in the vicinity of the rim. This motion tends to distract the player's attention and cause them to lose their concentration on making the shot. However, over time, a player will learn to increase their concentration and focus to overcome this distraction, and thereby enhance their skill and accuracy in goal shooting.

A computer implemented method of mobile visual assistance to allow users to rapidly distinguish distances to and shapes of multiple objects. 3D images of the environment are obtained using a plurality of user worn video sensors, such as head mounted video cameras. The users are often equipped with a glove like device comprising pointing direction sensors and various haptic transducers. As the user moves though the environment, computer processors use the video sensors to detect various objects in front of the user and report these using secondary or coarse level haptic transducers. The user can use the glove-like device to point at various objects of specific interest, and the system can report further information such as shape or texture data using primary haptic transducers, allowing the user the haptic version of a sharper narrow field of view superimposed on a haptic version of a wider peripheral field of view.

The invention relates to a pest image detection method based on a crop identification cascade technology. Compared with the prior art, the defect that pest detection results are influenced by cross correlation among different types of pests is overcome. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a basic data image; constructing and training a multi-layer perception information identification network; constructing and training a multi-projection detection model; acquiring to-be-detected pest images; detecting the pest images. The invention provides a two-stage cascade pest detection method based on mobile vision, the method can be applied to large-scale various pest data, the method is assessed in a newly established large-scale data set grain crop field pest data set, and sufficient experimental results show that the method is superior to a traditional advanced object detection method.

The invention discloses a digital humanities-oriented mobile visual retrieval method. The method comprises: firstly, constructing a deep hashing-based image semantic extraction model; initializing parameters of all processing layers of the model through pre-training; constructing a loss function suitable for use in the field of digital humanities; collecting digital-humanities image samples, and constructing a model training data set and a verification set; pre-processing the image samples; using the constructed loss function and the digital-humanities training set to train the model to optimize the model parameters; and using the model, of which training is completed, to extract image semantic feature vectors, and completing an image retrieval process. For two major challenges of image deep-semantic-feature extraction and data transmission size limitation in mobile visual retrieval of the digital humanities, the invention provides the deep hashing-based mobile visual search (MVS) method of the digital humanities by combining deep learning and a hashing method, and the mobile visual search method has outstanding performance on the data sets of the field of the digital humanities.

The present invention describes cross-window animation. The animation can be used across different window. These may include cross-window animation transition animation animation window and / or window. Window animation for cross-window element animations. Window transition is used to move the window / / the window is resized animated window display / hide the window. In order to perform these animated Overlay Window covering at least a part of the animation area comprises two different window. The layers can be used, which means that can be used as part of the animation moving images or visual elements. These layers can be placed the animation overlay of window, a mobile visual elements across the bottom window. Instructions supported the bottom of the window during the animation content directly pulled coverage map window. When the bottom of the window is not supported, the bottom of the picture window is pulled animation overlay window, so that the bottom of the window to be included in the animation. When the animation is complete, the animation coverage map is removed.

A robotic system is provided that includes a base, an articulable arm, a visual acquisition unit, and a controller. The articulable arm may extend from a base and is movable toward a target. The visual acquisition unit can be mounted to the arm or the base and to acquire image data. The controller is operably coupled to the arm and the visual acquisition unit, and can derive from the image data environmental information corresponding to at least one of the arm or the target. The controller further can generate at least one planning scheme using the environmental information to translate the arm toward the target, select at least one planning scheme for implementation, and control movement of the arm toward the target using the at least one selected planning scheme.