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An X-ray imaging machine is configured such that a three-dimensional blood-vessel information creating unit creates information concerning a three-dimensional blood-vessel core line and a position of a plaque in a subject blood vessel based on three-dimensional volume data obtained from an image taken by an X-ray computed tomography apparatus. A plaque-depth information image creating unit creates a plaque-depth information image on which the plaque is differently displayed in accordance with whether the plaque is present in front of or in the back of the three-dimensional blood-vessel core line with respect to a projection direction, based on the created information concerning the three-dimensional blood-vessel core line and the position of the plaque. An X-ray image display unit displays the created plaque-depth information image over an X-ray image in a superimposed manner.

The application relates to a system and a method for the phase-contrast imaging by use of X-ray gratings. The system comprises an X-ray device, a first absorption grating, a second absorption grating, a detection unit, a data processing unit and an imaging unit, wherein the X-ray device transmits an X-ray bundle to a detected object; the first and second absorption gratings are positioned in the direction of the X-ray bundle; the X-ray refracted by the detected object forms an X-ray signal with variable intensity through the first absorption grating and / or the second absorption grating; the detection unit receives and converts the X-ray with variable intensity into an electrical signal; the data processing unit processes and extracts refraction-angle information in the electrical signal, and utilizes the refraction-angle information to figure out pixel information; and the imaging unit constructs images of the object. In addition, the system and the method can also realize CT imaging by using a rotating structure to rotate the object so as to obtain refraction angles in a plurality of projection directions and the corresponding images, and use CT reconstruction algorithm to figureout refraction-index fault images of the detected object. According to the invention, the phase-contrast imaging of approximate decimeter-magnitude viewing fields under incoherent conditions can be realized by use of common X-ray machines or multi-seam collimator such as source gratings, as well as two absorption gratings.

The present invention, when used to backed-up a trailer, indicates which direction and how much to steer to steer. The present invention is a method for rapidly determining the predicted direction where the vehicle and trailer become generally in-line. Servomechanisms can be incorporated to enable the vehicle to steer itself while the driver indicates the direction travel desired for the trailer, otherwise a pointer would indicate, for the current position of the vehicle's steering wheel, the predicted direction of the trailer. To back-up the trailer, the driver would turn the vehicle's wheel such that the pointer is kept pointing in the direction of the intended trailer destination. Furthermore, the present invention will indicated the projected directions of the left and right limits to control the direction of the trailer, particularly when maneuvering complex paths.

There is described a system for carrying out and monitoring minimally-invasive interventions with an x-ray device, in which at least one x-ray emitter and a x-ray detector are attached to one or more robot arms of one or more multi-axis articulated-arm robots, with which they are able to be moved for recording images from different projection directions on a predeterminable path around a patient support facility. The system includes a control and evaluation unit with interfaces for catheters and devices for carrying out the minimally-invasive intervention. The control and evaluation unit is embodied for the processing of measurement and / or image data which it receives from the catheters and devices and for control of the catheters and devices for recording the measurement and / or image data. With the proposed system the workflow is covered completely and seamlessly from the examination to the therapy, especially in the treatment of tachycardial arrythmias.

An image projection apparatus according to the present invention includes a light source for outputting laser light and a mirror section for reflecting and projecting the laser light having been output from the light source, and displays an image with at least a portion of the projected laser light. The image projection apparatus includes a detection section for detecting at least a portion of the laser light returning from a projection direction of the laser light, and a calculation section for determining an image displayable region based on the detected light. The mirror section reflects at least a portion of the laser light returning from the projection direction of the laser light so as to be led into the detection section.

A presentation system comprises a screen, a laser pointer operated by a user to project laser beam on the screen, and an infrared light projector for emitting infrared light on the entire surface of the screen. The laser pointer comprises an infrared light receiving section directed in the same direction as a projection direction of laser beam for receiving infrared light projected from the infrared light projector and reflected from the screen, and a control section for causing the laser pointer to project laser beam only while the infrared light receiving section is receiving infrared light.

Apparatus and methods for encoding panoramic content, such as by a wide field of view and large image size. In one implementation, a panoramic image may be mapped to a cube, equirectangular or any other projection e.g., icosahedron or octahedron. Projection may be selected adaptively based on evaluation of the panoramic content. Content evaluation may include obtaining rate distortion cost metric for a given projection configuration including projection type, projection arrangement, and projection orientation. Projection configuration with the lowest cost may be selected as target projection for encoding content. As content composition changes (e.g., object motion, texture presence and / or location) projection may be adaptively selected to match changes in the content. Adaptive content selection methodology may provide for a lower encoded bitrate for a given encoded quality and / or higher quality for a given bitrate.

A semiconductor device includes an SiC substrate, a normal direction of the substrate surface being off from a <0001> or <000-1> direction in an off direction, an SiC layer formed on the SiC substrate, a junction forming region formed in a substantially central portion of the SiC layer, a junction termination region formed to surround the junction forming region, and including a semiconductor region of a conductivity type different from the SiC layer formed as a substantially quadrangular doughnut ring, having two edges facing each other, each crossing a projection direction, which is obtained when the off direction is projected on the upper surface of the SiC layer, at a right angle, wherein a width of one of the two edges on an upper stream side of the off direction is L1, that of the other edge on a down stream side is L2, and a relation L1>L2 is satisfied.

In an image post-processing method and apparatus for 3D visualization of 2D / 3D fused image data for use in catheter angiography in an endovascular interventional procedure, upon forward movement of a micro-catheter through blood vessel in the interventional procedure, x-ray images are acquired from different projection directions and are subjected to a pattern recognition algorithm for edge-based segmentation of the image regions filled by the micro-catheter, with all remaining image regions being masked out. The segmented projection exposures are prepared by a 3D reconstruction algorithm to obtain an image data set for (pseudo-) three-dimensional representation of the micro-catheter. This image data set are intraoperatively registered and fused with an image data set acquired from an angiographic pre-examination for three-dimensional visualization of the vessel topography. The reconstructed 3D representation of the catheter is mixed into the three-dimensionally prepared representation of endovascular blood vessel sections to be treated.

The invention provides a method and device for detecting a polarization extinction ratio of an optical polarizer. The detection method comprises the following steps of: making linear polarized light incident along a principal axis of an optical polarizer to be detected, and obtaining two light signals on two orthogonal optical axes at an outgoing end due to polarization crosstalk; interfering and carrying out photoelectric conversion and data acquisition on interfering light signals to obtain one group of discrete voltage signal values reflecting the interfering light intensity signals; and calculating coupling intensity h at each coupling spot based on a formula (1), and calculating an extinction ratio of the optical polarizer to be detected based on a formula (2). The device sequentially comprises a light source, an isolator module, a polarization module, the optical polarizer to be detected, a projection direction regulating module, an interferometer module, a data acquisition module and a central processor module. The invention has the advantage that the coupling intensity of the coupling spots is detected to induce the polarization extinction ratio, so that the measurement result is accurate. The invention is suitable for various optical polarizers, such as polarization maintaining fibers, polarization maintaining fiber couplers, polarizers and the like and has certain universality.

A distribution unit has a power circuit section including a plurality of bus bars with electronic parts mounted on at least some of the bus bars. Ends of specific bus bars are projected from a main body section of the power circuit section in a adjacent manner to form fuse connection terminals. Each of the fuse connection terminals has a tip placement part to place a fuse terminal. An insulating case made of an insulating material for covering the power circuit section is opened in the projection direction of the fuse connection terminals to enable the fuse terminal to be placed in the tip placement part of the fuse connection terminal from the outside of the insulating case. The insulating case has a short-circuit prevention section intervening between the fuse connection terminals for preventing a short circuit between the fuse connection terminals.

A method for determining a range map for a scene comprising: projecting a sequence of binary illumination patterns onto a scene from a projection direction; capturing a sequence of binary pattern images of the scene; projecting a sequence of periodic grayscale illumination patterns onto the scene, each periodic grayscale pattern having the same frequency and a different phase, the phase of the grayscale illumination patterns each having a known relationship to the binary illumination patterns; capturing a sequence of grayscale pattern images of the scene; analyzing the sequence of captured binary pattern images to determine coarse projected x coordinate estimates for a set of image locations; analyzing the sequence of captured grayscale pattern images to determine refined projected x coordinate estimates for the set of image locations; and forming a range map according to the refined projected x coordinate estimates.

An optical probe for measuring features of an object comprises two or more viewing directions and two or more projection directions. A method of measuring the features of an object comprises configuring an optical probe into two or more optical groups, wherein an optical group comprises one or more viewing directions and one or more projection directions, wherein at least one viewing direction and at least one projection direction is different between the optical groups, and wherein data obtained by the viewing directions is generated only from patterns projected by the projection directions of the same optical group. The method further comprises collecting data from each optical group while scanning the object.

A rod-shaped retrofit lamp may have a mechanical sensing unit, and a current path has a plurality of electrically conductive sub-segments of which a first sub-segment is connected to the associated pin and of which a sub-segment is connected to the lamp's electronics unit, wherein the mechanical sensing unit is elastically pushed in counter to its projection direction from a released condition into an engaged condition and interacting with two current paths in such a way that the respective current path's first and second sub-segment will have been galvanically mutually coupled when the sensing unit is in the engaged condition so that the respective current path will have been closed and associated pin thereby electrically connected to the internal electronics unit.

A lens system including one or more insertable lenses that are secured from movement relative to a protective transparent media that itself is securable to a lighting enclosure with a light source in the lighting enclosure. The insertable lenses can be removable or alternately oriented to alter the distribution of light or the projection direction of light, respectively.

The invention discloses a method for actively tracking and monitoring infants, which firstly detects movement regions; then extracts smaller candidate regions including human face and hand or the like, and then detecting human faces. The method matches the detected faces, extracts the contour of the human face to be detected, and calculates the distance d between the middle point of the central connecting line of eyes of the contour and the geometric center of the chin and the area s of the surrounding region of the nose contour. A linear resolution analysis method is utilized to find out the best projection direction w capable of distinguishing between infant faces and non-infant faces. The distance d and the area s are projected in the direction w, and according to the projected points the baby value which expresses the human faces to be detected close to the infant characteristic is obtained. A middle point of two individual central connecting lines is taken as a threshold value K which distinguishes non-infant face and infant face. Whether the target to be detected is an infant or not is judged through comparing the baby value with the threshold value, if so, then taking the target as a track object. The invention also provides an embedded realization system for actively tracking infants.

An information processing apparatus includes a video obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of items of video data captured by a plurality of image-capturing devices; a position information obtaining unit configured to obtain position information including an orientation and an angle of view of each of the image-capturing devices; a reproduction position calculation unit configured to calculate a reproduction position of each item of the video data so that a projection direction and an angle of view of the item of the video data matches the orientation and the angle of view of a corresponding one of the image-capturing devices by using the position information; and a reproduction controller configured to reproduce each item of the video data at the corresponding reproduction position.

An image generation system includes a first image generation section for generating images IL1 and IR1 for the left eye and the right eye, a second image generation section for generating images IL2 and IR2 for the left eye and the right eye by performing correction processing to remove perspective of images in the IL1 and IR1 at a base surface, and a stereoscopic image generation section for generating a stereoscopic image based on the IL2 and IR2. It further includes an image generation section for generating an image IL for the left eye by rendering a projection of each point of a graphic object onto a base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the left eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB, and for generating an image IR for the right eye by rendering a projection of each point of the graphic object onto the base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the right eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB, and the stereoscopic image generation section for generating a stereoscopic image based on the IL and IR.

The invention relates to an online updating method of a principal component analysis monitoring model. The method comprises the following steps that: 1) A model online updating system comprising data acquisition equipment and a monitoring computer is arranged in industry field; 2) A traditional principal component analysis (PCA) modeling module uses historical data to establish a PCA initial monitoring model; 3) After the monitoring begins, a mean value variance updating module calculates a mean value and a standard deviation sigma' of a new model according to real-time process data and the current PCA model; 4) A projection point calculation module calculates a residual vector of a new sample and transmits to a residual determination module; 5) The residual determination module determines an updating method of a projection direction according to a size of a residual vector die; if the residual is large, a principal component space adjusting module is called; if the residual value is small, a principal component direction fine adjusting module is called; finally a load vector P' nk and a characteristic value matrix lambda' kk of the new model is obtained; 6) A control limit updating module carries out control limit and updating on statistical magnitude of the model; the system finally outputs the new model omega' which is used for online monitoring and fault diagnosis during an industrial process.

The invention relates to a method and an examination apparatus (10) for the observation of a catheter (43) in a vessel system. First, a 3D model of the vessel system is reconstructed with the help of differently oriented X-ray projections (P1A, . . .) generated by a C-arm system (20) during the injection of a contrast agent. Next, a movement corridor (M) of the catheter (43) is determined from the 3D model. During an examination procedure, current projections (P) are generated showing an image (43′) of the catheter that can be registered with the reconstructed 3D model and / or the movement corridor (M). Based on the known current location (43″) of the catheter in the 3D model of the vessel geometry or the movement corridor (M), an optimal projection direction (dopt) can be determined and assumed by the C-arm system (20) for the next projections to be generated.

The invention discloses an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a display device, which can solve the problems such as complicated, high cost, time-consuming process in the prior art, and increase the storage capacitance. In the array substrate, data lines and a common electrode line are provided in the same layer on the base substrate and below an active layer, the data lines and the common electrode line are provided separately, the common electrode is provided with a connection part which partly overlaps with the common electrode line in an orthographic projection direction, and the common electrode is electrically connected to the common electrode line through a first via between the connection part and the common electrode line.

A method of reconstructing an image function on the basis of a plurality of projection profiles corresponding to a plurality of projection directions through a region of investigation, each projection profile including a series of value positions, wherein measured projection values corresponding to projection lines parallel to the respective projection direction are assigned to respective value positions and a plurality of remaining value positions are empty, comprises the steps of (a) assigning first interpolation values to the empty value positions for constructing a plurality of interpolation profiles on the basis of the projection profiles, wherein the first interpolation values are obtained from a first interpolation within a group of measured projection values having the same value position in different projection profiles, and (b) determining the image function by applying a predetermined reconstruction algorithm on the interpolation profiles.

A system for monitoring a fetus during gestation comprises an input for receiving a plurality of electric signals measured on a surface of a maternal body; and means for providing a fetal electrocardiogram based on the received electric signals and based on an orientation of the fetus, wherein the fetal electrocardiogram represents a projection of a fetal cardiac potential vector according to a predetermined projection direction that is fixed with respect to the fetus. The fetal vector electrocardiogram is projected according to the projection direction. An at least partial representation of a fetal vector electrocardiogram is provided in dependence on the plurality of electric signals and indicative of a time path of an electrical field vector generated by a fetal heart of the fetus.

The invention relates to a method and device for reconstructing a 3D image data set of a moving object from a set of projection images, which were recorded at least partially one after the other from different projection directions. The projection images are hereby assigned by ECG gating to a motion phase of the object in each instance and an incomplete 3D image of the object is computed in this motion phase from these few projection images using local tomography. Motion fields are determined from these 3D images and are used during the final 3D image reconstruction for motion corrections.

An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining section for obtaining medical images (axial images), which are imaged in advance, that represent transverse cross sections of a subject; a center line calculating section, for calculating a center line that connects the centers of subject regions within the medical images; a pseudo three dimensional medical image generating section, for generating a planar exploded pseudo three dimensional medical image, by executing an intensity projection method on image data constituted by at least a plurality of the subject regions from the center line radially outward toward the surface of the subject's body such that thoracic bones in the front to back direction of the projection direction of the subject are not displayed in an overlapping manner; and a display section, for displaying at least one of the pseudo three dimensional medial image and the plurality of medical images.

An illumination device of a lamp base improvement of a street lamp to change the projection direction is disclosed. A lamp base formed a plurality of brackets inside. Bottoms of the brackets are longitudinally set to be slanted. Lighting modules corresponding to the brackets are disposed along the bottoms. A transparent mask is combined to the lamp base to cover those lighting modules. Whereby, it can provide an LED street lamp which can change the projection direction.