306 results about "Spatial relation" patented technology

A method for classifying input to a multi-touch sensitive digitizer that is obtained from a body part as inputs invalid for user interaction and inputs valid for user interaction comprises: identifying a plurality of discrete regions of input to a digitizer sensor; determining spatial relation between at least two of the regions; and classifying one of the at least two regions as either valid input region or invalid input region based on the spatial relation determined between the at least two regions.

Methods and apparatuses for guiding the positioning of a device with a position tracking sensor and pre-recorded images. At least one embodiment of the present invention uses pre-recorded time-dependent images (e.g., anatomical images or diagnostic images) to guide the positioning of a medical instrument (e.g., catheter tips) using real time position tracking during diagnostic and/or therapeutic operations with pre-recorded images. In one embodiment of the present invention, predetermined spatial relations are used to determine the position of a tracked medical instrument relative to the pre-recorded images.

A computer based system and method of visualizing a region using multiple image data sets is provided. The method includes acquiring first volumetric image data of a region and acquiring at least second volumetric image data of the region. The first image data is generally selected such that the structural features of the region are readily visualized. At least one control point is determined in the region using an identifiable structural characteristic discernable in the first volumetric image data. The at least one control point is also located in the at least second image data of the region such that the first image data and the at least second image data can be registered to one another using the at least one control point. Once the image data sets are registered, the registered first image data and at least second image data can be fused into a common display data set. The multiple image data sets have different and complimentary information to differentiate the structures and the functions in the region such that image segmentation algorithms and user interactive editing tools can be applied to obtain 3d spatial relations of the components in the region. Methods to correct spatial inhomogeneity in MR image data is also provided.

Provided are a method and device for motion estimation and compensation to be performed on a panorama image. The motion estimation and compensation are performed on a panorama image with a 360° omni-directional view based on that the spatial relation between left and right borders of the panorama image is very high. Accordingly, it is possible to improve image quality through effective and precise estimation and compensation for the motion of a panorama image. In particular, it is possible to improve the image quality at the right and left edges of the panorama image.

A system and method for increasing the amount of oxygen in a kiln chamber is disclosed. The radial surface of a rotatable kiln is provided with at least one oxidant injection port extending through the radial surface into the kiln chamber. A cam is connected to the radial surface adjacent the oxidant injection port. A valve assembly including a valve chamber in fluid communication with an oxidant supply is mounted adjacent the kiln substantially in fixed spatial relation with the rotatable kiln body. The valve assembly includes a follower member adapted to contact a surface to the cam to actuate the valve assembly. Rotation of the kiln body brings the cam into contact with the follower member, thereby actuating the oxidant injection assembly, and injecting oxidant through the injection port into the kiln chamber.

A system and method to generate an illustration of a cardiac region of interest of an imaged subject is provided. The method includes generating a three-dimensional model from a series of acquired images of the cardiac region of interest; measuring a series of values of at least one functional parameter of the cardiac region of interest; generating a map of a spatial relation of the plurality of values of the functional parameter in spatial relation to the three-dimensional model of the cardiac region of interest; generating a three-dimensional model of a vessel structure leading to the cardiac region of interest; generating an output image that includes combining the three-dimensional model of the cardiac region of interest, the map of the series of values of the functional parameter, and the three-dimensional model of the vessel structure in spatial relation to one another relative to a common coordinate system.

A system to navigate an imaged subject in relation to an acquired image of the imaged subject is provided. The system includes an intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) imaging system having a transducer operable to acquire image data so as to create a four-dimensional image model of the imaged subject. The model is defined in spatial relation and orientation relative to an image coordinate system. A tracking system is operable to track movement and orientation of the transducer through the imaged subject relative to a tracking coordinate system. A controller is electrically connected in communication with the imaging system and the tracking system. The controller is operable to register the image coordinate system with the tracking coordinate system, and to calibrate the image coordinate system and the tracking coordinate system relative to a common reference having fiducials of known spatial relation.

This invention relates to a hardware tool for interacting with an “intelligent device” such as a “smart phone,” e.g., Apple Corporation's “iPhone”, or other devices with certain comparable capabilities, such as the Apple “iPad” tablet computer, and to a method for authorizing transactions based on successful interaction. More specifically, the invention relates to employment of a hardware tool having contact members for contacting the touch-sensitive screens of such devices at plural locations in specific spatial relation to one another. The device, running an application program or “app”, then detects the locations at which the screen has been thus contacted, and compares those locations to stored locations specific to a particular type of transaction, and, if the detected locations match a set of stored locations, authorizes the transaction to proceed.

The invention discloses a white blood cell image accurate segmentation method and system based on a support vector machine. The method comprises performing nucleus initial positioning and segmenting, performing rough expansion so as to obtain a substantial area labeled graph of cells, and accurately segmenting the cells by using color characteristics and the classifier of the support vector machine. According to the method provided by the invention, on one hand, according to a mankind visual saliency attention mechanism, the sensitivity of human eyes to the change of image edges are simulated, and a nucleus area can be accurately and rapidly segmented by using the clustering of edge-color pairs; and on the other hand, the adopted classifier of the support vector machine has excellent stability and anti-interference performance, and at the same time the space relationship of color information and pixel points are fully utilized so that the training sample sampling mode of the classifier of the support vector machine is improved, thus the accurate segmentation of white blood cells in a cell small image can be realized.

The invention discloses a method for automatically extracting road information in a vehicle-mounted laser scanning point cloud. The method for automatically extracting the road information in the vehicle-mounted laser scanning point cloud comprises the steps that all scanning lines are extracted from the discrete point cloud according to the information, such as the traveling track, the laser point scanning angle and the scanning time, which is recorded by a vehicle-mounted system, and a half scanning line index suitable for data processing is established; the spatial relation between two adjacent points is analyzed, laser point generation clustering is conducted, and dynamic window point sets which can describe the type characteristics of certain types of ground objects are generated; the main geometrical characteristic factors, comprising elevation difference factors and horizontal projection distance factors, of the different ground object window point sets are analyzed; window starting point types are judged according to the main geometrical characteristic factors of the window point sets, movement type dynamic window classification is conducted from a central angle point to the two sides according to the half scanning line index until a non-road-surface point is found; clustering and denoising are conducted on roadside points according to the distribution relation of bottom points of roadside stones and by the adoption of the principle of consistency between the scanning angle and the distance.

Methods, and a program storage device for executing such methods, for performing model-based optical proximity correction by providing a mask matrix having a region of interest (ROI) and locating a plurality of points of interest within the mask matrix. A first polygon having a number of vertices representative of the located points of interest is computed, followed by determining a spatial relation between its vertices and the ROI. The vertices of the first polygon are then pinned to boundaries of and within the ROI such that a second polygon is formed on the ROI. The process is repeated for all vertices of the first polygon such that the second polygon is collapsed onto the ROI. This collapsed second polygon is then used to correct for optical proximity.

A method of locating a reference calibration patch on a photographic element, that includes the steps of: exposing the photographic element to form a latent image of a reference calibration target having a two dimensional barcode symbol with a finder feature and a reference calibration patch having a known spatial relation to the finder feature of the two-dimensional barcode symbol; processing the photographic element to form a density image from the latent image; scanning the density image to produce a digital image; locating the finder feature of the two-dimensional barcode symbol in the digital image; and locating the reference calibration patch relative to the finder feature in the digital image.

A probe for touch sensing to determine the position of a workpiece in a robot welding system using a robot driven welding gun for advancing a welding wire in a given direction toward a workpiece. The gun is movable by a robot controlled arm in a selected weld path and the probe comprises a rigid, elongated feeler with a touch tip which feeler is carried by a mechanism fixed with respect to the gun and movable by the mechanism between a retracted position and a known extended position wherein the feeler extends from the mechanism a fixed distance having an outermost contact point for the touch tip where the point has a known spatial relation to the gun. A detector detects when the contact point touches the workpiece to locate the workpiece. Several touches are used to determine the orientation of the workpiece for automatic welding.

The invention discloses a high-resolution remote sensing image search method fused with spatial relation semantics and the method comprises two parts, namely the off-line treatment of remote sensing image and the on-line search of the remote sensing image. In the off-line treatment part, the visual features of the remote sensing image is firstly extracted and the visual feature, spatial object semantic and spatial relation semantic features are stored in relational database. In the on-line search part, the searching is performed according to the object semantic feature of the image to obtain a rough search result; then a template image is selected from the rough search result, further searching is performed to the rough search result according to the visual feature of the template image and the spatial relation semantic feature to return to the visual feature and the spatial semantic feature and assemble with the similar images of the selected template image, and the searching process is completed. As the method comprehensively uses the visual feature of image and the spatial object semantic and spatial relation semantic features, higher search precision can be obtained.

An improved copy and paste experience includes capturing information about open applications including a screenshot of each of the open applications shown in a viewable area of the open applications; in response to receiving a copy command while the user is interacting with a first application, presenting the screenshots of the other open applications to the user for selection; in response to the user selecting one of the screenshots corresponding to a second application, displaying visual content segments from the second application; in response to receiving a user selection of two or more of the visual content segments, copying the selected visual content segments; and inserting the selected visual content segments into the first application such that original spatial relations between the visual content segments from the second application are maintained when the visual content segments are inserted into the first application.

The invention relates to a Revit platform based continuous-girder-bridge parametric modeling method. The method includes: 1), leading in numerical values of coordinate points of box-girder sections ofa continuous girder bridge to generate a box-girder contour model; 2), adding datum lines, size markers and parameter constraints of the box-girder sections and establishing parametric three-dimensional box-girder component models; 3), according to instance data of a box girder, generating box-girder instance models of the entire bridge according to the parametric three-dimensional box-girder component models established in the step 2), and modifying names of the instance models of box-girder components according to actual needs; 4), establishing rebar models of the box-girder components; 5),establishing component models of bridge piers, bearing platforms and pile foundations. Automatic generation of statistic of work amount and drawings is achieved, and a good data platform foundation is provided for operation and maintenance of later bridge BIM (building information modeling); problems that two-dimensional drawings are repeated in data input, non-universal in data, dispersing in spatial relation, non-parametric, informative linkage forbidden in parameter design and the like are solved.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional reconstruction method of a panoramic image in a mixed vision system. The mixed vision system comprises an RGB-D (Red Green Blue-Digital) camera and a panoramic camera. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, calibrating the mixed vision system, thereby obtaining internal and external parameters of the mixed vision system; secondly, determining a common field of view of the mixed vision system according to a space relation and the internal and external parameters of the mixed vision system; then obtaining characteristic matching points of the common field of view of the mixed vision system on the basis of SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform)+RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus); and finally, on the basis of depth information of the RGB-D camera, carrying out three-dimensional reconstruction on the matching characteristic points in the panoramic camera. The three-dimensional reconstruction method has the advantages that three-dimensional information of characteristic points in the common field of view in the panoramic image in the mixed vision system can be obtained, and three-dimensional reconstruction of the panoramic image with low complexity and high quality can be realized.