664 results about "Region selection" patented technology

A method for providing a local cordless-type service comprises the steps of receiving subscriber neighborhood zone selection input so that a mobile telephone equipped subscriber may place or receive calls for a fixed rate, for example, per month without having to pay radio frequency air time charges any time they are located within their selected subscribed-to zones. If the subscribed-to zones are adjacent to one another and the mobile subscriber roams from one zone to another, the subscriber may continue their free call uninterrupted and without paying air time charges. However, when the subscriber roams outside their subscribed-to zones they may be switched from the present local cordless-type services to conventional personal communications services and pay air time charges. However for an active call, no air-time charges are incurred as the user transitions between the cellular/DPCS environment and the local cordless service environment. Associated apparatus comprises an IBS for automatically changing radio frequency channels as the subscriber roams within a subscribed-to neighborhood zone, roams to another subscribed-to zone or roams outside a subscribed-to zone. Subscribers may choose to use their mobile identification number, their current directory telephone number for wired public switched telephone service or obtain a new directory number. Subscribers can actuate their service over-the-air automatically without service personnel assistance from their home neighborhood zone.

A system for automatically capturing an event of interest in a venue is disclosed, comprising a plurality of cameras for capturing video images of the event; and at least one processor communicatively connected to said plurality of cameras and con figured to execute a plurality of modules, said modules comprising a rectification module for combining the video images to form a wide-angle view; at least one of a motion analysis module configured for tracking salient blobs that are not part of a background of the wide-angle view, an activity analysis module configured for extracting temporal and spatial patterns from the wide-angle view, and a shape and appearance module configured for selecting one or more objects in the wide-angle view based on descriptors that are scale and rotational invariant; and a region of interest selector for selecting a viewpoint from the wide-angle view based on output from at least one of the motion analysis module, the activity analysis module, and the shape and appearance module, wherein the region of interest selector outputs the selected viewpoint for display. The system further comprises at least one audio recording device for capturing audio from the event; and means for synchronizing the video images and audio.

The present invention provides a method for generating a high-resolution virtual-focal-plane image which is capable of generating a virtual-focal-plane image with an arbitrary desired resolution simply and rapidly by using multi-view images.

The method of the present invention comprises a disparity estimating process step for estimating disparities by performing the stereo matching for multi-view images consisting of multiple images with different capturing positions and obtaining a disparity image; a region selecting process step for selecting an image among multi-view images as a basis image, setting all remaining images as reference images, and selecting a predetermined region on the basis image as a region of interest; a virtual-focal-plane estimating process step for estimating a plane in the disparity space for the region of interest based on the disparity image, and setting the estimated plane as a virtual-focal-plane; and an image integrating process step for obtaining image deformation parameters used for deforming each reference image to the basis image for the virtual-focal-plane, and generating the virtual-focal-plane image by deforming multi-view images with obtained image deformation parameters.

A vehicle user interface system comprises a vehicle location determining component, a jurisdiction determining component, a user input component, and a controller. The vehicle location determining component is configured to determine a current location of the vehicle. The jurisdiction determining component is configured to determine a current jurisdiction based on the current location of the vehicle, and to select a policy setting based on the current jurisdiction. The user input component is configured to receive information used by the vehicle user interface system to perform system operations. The controller is configured to control availability of the system operations for performance by the vehicle user interface system based on the selected policy setting.

A method and system for creating a digital, virtual slide having optimum image quality characteristics. Multiple regions of a physical slide are identified as well as at least two focus z-positions z1, and z2. Each region of the physical slide is scanned (imaged) at the first z position, so as to produce a first set of digital images of each defined region. Each region of the physical slide is also scanned (imaged) at the second z position, so as to produce a second set of digital images of each defined region. Each image of each set is evaluated against a focus quality metric and, for each region, either the first or second image, corresponding to that region, is selected that exhibits a focus quality metric corresponding to a desired focus quality. These images are then merged into a digital virtual slide. Additional focus z-positions may be included, and the multiple z-positions may be scanned seriatim, sequentially, and/or in overlapping fashion.

A parameter evaluation system comprising a boundary input device for setting boundaries in a variation range of one or more parameters, thereby to define regions within said variation range, a label input device for associating labels with said regions, a rule input device for setting rules to associate at least one of a plurality of output recommendations with each of said regions and with combinations thereof and an output device to present a user with an output recommendation associated with a region or combination thereof corresponding to at least one measured parameter input to said system. The input device is a parameter value region selection and categorization input device for setting boundaries in the variation range of the parameter, defining regions therebetween and categorizing the regions. The device comprises a visual representation of the variation range as a linear continuum, a continuum divider for visually dividing the continuum at user selectable points therealong, the points corresponding to values of the parameter, thereby to define regions therebetween and a category definer for defining categories for association with the regions. The device has an application in a patient monitoring kit under remote supervision of a physician.

A color correction device (1) including: color set information storage portions (11) which store color set information inclusive of source colors and reference colors; region selection portions (6) which select specific source regions from source images picked up by two cameras 2 respectively; region color decision portions (7) which decide source region colors as colors representative of the source regions; color set update portions (10) which update source colors in color sets by using the source region colors; and color correction portions (8) which calibrate colors in ranges similar to the source colors in the two source images to reference colors by using the color sets. It is possible to eliminate the necessity of holding information of color sets unnecessary for color correction, so that it is possible to reduce the load imposed on calculation and adapt to a change of lighting environment in real time.

A graphical user interface on an electronic device presents one or more selectable graphical objects, enables a selection of one or more of the graphical objects, generates a menu list on the graphical user interface upon selection of one of the graphical objects. The menu list includes one or more selectable options, detects a selection of one of the selectable options from the menu list, detects a substantially continuous selection of areas along a path on the graphical user interface, and executes an action corresponding to the selected option in each area along the path on the graphical user interface.

The invention relates to a video auto-focusing system based on an embedded media processor. The system comprises a video collection module, an image acquisition and processing module, a focusing search module and a focusing execution module, wherein the acquisition and processing module is used to perform noise processing to the obtained original video image data and extract Y-component in the data, wherein the induction area selection algorithm based on region segmentation is adopted to extract focus area, the Tenengrad function based on Sobel gradient operator is adopted to calculate definition; the focusing search module is used to determine the moving direction of the camera lens and calculate the required step length (mov_step = step*level) of the lens; the position corresponding to the maximum definition value is used as focus position; and the focusing execution module is used to transmit control signals to a stepping motor used for driving the lens so as to adjust the position of the lens, according to the determined moving direction and step length of the lens in the focusing search module. By using the video auto-focusing system, the focusing accuracy and stability can be effectively increased, and the smoothness is improved.

A method and device for limbic system control to provide medical treatment for emotions and instinct. The method comprises selecting neuro-electrical coded signals from a storage area that are representative of limbic brain structure function. The selected neuro-electrical coded signals are then transmitted to a treatment member, which is in direct contact with the body, and which then broadcasts the neuro-electrical coded signals to a specific nerve or organ to modulate the limbic system functioning. A control module is provided for transmission to the treatment member. The control module contains the neuro-electrical coded signals which are selected and transmitted to the treatment member, and computer storage can be provided for greater storage capacity and manipulation of the neuro-electrical coded signals.

A method for monitoring the condition of a bridge includes:

• • stably positioning a video camera at a selected location with an unobstructed view of a selected portion of the bridge structure;
  • collecting a video file of the structure over a selected total time interval;
  • using a data processing system to analyze the video and calculate a physical parameter related to movement of the selected portion as a function of time, wherein the data processing system is controlled through a graphical user interface (GUI) having the following features:
    • a display of a single video frame corresponding to a selected time;
    • a movable area selector in the video frame to indicate the selection of an area of the structure for analysis; and,
    • a display of displacement versus time for the selected area over the total time interval.

The processor may perform some tasks, e.g., area selection, autonomously or via predetermined rules.

Provided are a method and apparatus for selecting a region on a screen of a device. The method includes recognizing a signal due to dragging from outside of the screen of the device, and determining a selection region based on a location where the drag is released.

A statistical framework for identifying regions of discrimination between two groups of imaged objects involves determining a weight map defining the regions of discrimination by minimizing the sample size required to discriminate the two groups in a numerical optimization scheme.

A digital image processing-based system and method for quantitatively processing a plurality of nucleic acid species expressed in a microarray are disclosed. The microarray is a grid of a plurality of sub-grids of the nucleic acid species. The system includes a scanner that has a digital scanning sensor that scans the microarray and transmits from an output a digital image of the microarray, and a computer that receives the digital image of the microarray from the scanner and then processes the digital image, identifying each of the microarray's sub-grids. The computer identifies the position of each of the sub-grids by (a) identifying regions in the digital image that each contains one of the sub-grids, (b) identifying rows and columns in each region where nucleic acid species are expressed to form a set of candidate sub-grids in each region, (c) selecting for each region a probable sub-grid from the set of candidate sub-grids in each region, and (d) comparing the positions of the probable sub-grids from each region to finalize the sub-grid positions.

An image processing apparatus includes a moving image file storage unit operable to store a moving image file; an area selection receiving unit operable to receive a selection of a predetermined area corresponding to one of a plurality of frames forming the moving image file; a template image generating unit operable to generate as a template image an image of the selected area; an image matching unit operable to obtain the frames from the moving image file storage unit, and to match each of the frames against the template image to search for a matching frame containing an image similar to the template image; and a scene change detecting unit operable to detect a start and an end of a scene containing the matching frame.

The invention provides an image processing model training method and device and a storage medium, an image processing model comprises a backbone network, a regional candidate network and a detection network, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the feature extraction of a sample image containing a target object through the backbone network, and obtaining a feature map of the sample image; performing region selection on the feature map through a region candidate network, and determining a candidate region; performing target object detection on the candidate area through a detectionnetwork to obtain category parameters and position parameters of a target object, the category parameters including classification results corresponding to the target object, and the position parameters including a bounding box, a segmentation mask and a key point mask corresponding to the target object; determining a value of a target loss function of the image processing model based on the category parameter and the position parameter of the target object; and updating the model parameters based on the value of the target loss function. According to the invention, the target object in the image can be accurately positioned, and the target detection precision is improved.

The present invention provides a region-selection-based image registration method for estimating motions between an image of interest in an image sequence and a reference image in the image sequence which can be applied to the registration of the object having every geometry and by which the high-precision image registration with robustness to illumination variation and occlusion can be conducted.

An image registration method for conducting a high-precision image registration between a reference image in an image sequence capturing an object and an image of interest in said image sequence, the method characterized in that a predetermined region on the reference image is set as a region of interest, when conducting the high-precision image registration, a motion parameter is estimated based on pixels of a mask image representing a region where the registration is performed precisely by a predetermined transformation within the region of interest that is set. The mask image is generated by utilizing the similarity evaluation between images.

There is provided with a video display apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a composite video image generated from a plurality of video sources; a display unit configured to display the received composite video image; an area manager configured to store area information pieces; a position specification unit configured to specify a position on the composite video image; an area selection unit configured to select an area information piece from the area information pieces; an area display unit configured to provide information indicating the area represented by the selected area information piece to the display unit so as to superpose the information on the displayed composite video image; an area change unit configured to change the information; an area information update unit configured to update the selected area information piece; and a transmission unit configured to transmit an update control signal containing the area information piece after update.

An image transmitting apparatus transmits an image based on image frame information including encoded data of a plurality of areas obtained by dividing an image frame and a header including configuration information of each area. The apparatus includes an area selecting unit selecting one area or a plurality of areas from among the plurality of areas of one image frame or a plurality different image frames, an information processing unit extracting encoded data of the area selected by the area selecting unit from encoded data of the plurality of areas included in the image frame information of the one image frame or the plurality of different image frames and creating a header including configuration information of each area selected by the area selecting unit to generate new image frame information, and an image transmitting unit transmitting the image frame information generated by the information processing unit to a receiving end.

The three dimensional visual game control-system comprises the marking device, synchronic image acquisition device, two dimensional and three dimensional feature acquisition device, visual abstraction and conversion device and the control interface. It comprises the parameter calibration of the camera, pre treatment of the acquired image, local selection and feature abstraction of the space information and its relevance, acquiring the three dimensional location and figure information, and mapping to be the game control order, with the system and the game controlling the interface, realizing the timely control of the imitated figure and field. It is used to replace or assist the traditional keyboard and the mouse. Through camera device capturing the posture and movement of the player for computer analysis and identification, combined with the installation location of the camera, it realizes the direct control for the scene and people in the play to replace or assist the traditional game interactive mode.