1337 results about "Static image" patented technology

Methods and apparatus to create and display stereoscopic and panoramic images are disclosed. Apparatus is provided to control the position of a lens in relation to a reference lens. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a stereoscopic or a panoramic image. An image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a stereoscopic or a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A panoramic video wall system is also disclosed.

Methods and apparatus to create and display panoramic images on a mobile device are disclosed. Such a mobile device can be a mobile phone. Apparatus is provided to control the position of a lens in relation to a reference lens. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a panoramic image. A panoramic image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A panoramic camera is applied in a computer gaming system.

A system improves the design of artificial implant components for use in joint replacement surgeries. The system includes an anthropometric static image data analyzer, an implant model data generator, a kinematic model simulator, and a dynamic response data analyzer. The implant model data generator may also use image data of a joint in motion for modification of the implant model data used in the kinematic simulation. Dynamic response data generated by the kinematic model simulation is analyzed by the dynamic response data analyzer to generate differential data that may be used to further refine the implant model data.

A digital video recorder can be used to allow users to fast forward through segments of a recorded video signal, such as commercial breaks, while still allowing the advertiser a limited opportunity to present an advertising message. Frames from the commercial recorded with the video signal are electronically tagged. When the processor of the digital video recorder finds a tagged frame or frames during a fast forward operation, the processor may display the tagged frame as a static image during the fast forward operation or may play the series of tagged frames at normal speed as a condensed video clip during the fast forward operation. Thus, through a static image or a condensed video clip, an advertiser can present an advertising message, while the user may still skip the full-length commercials as quickly as before.

The present invention is generally related to image enhancement and augmented reality (“AR”). More specifically, this invention presents a method and an apparatus for static image enhancement and the use of an optical display and sensing technologies to superimpose, in real time, graphical information upon a user's magnified view of the real world.

A system improves the design of artificial implant components for use in joint replacement surgeries. The system includes an anthropometric static image data analyzer, an implant model data generator, a kinematic model simulator, and a dynamic response data analyzer. The implant model data generator may also use image data of a joint in motion for modification of the implant model data used in the kinematic simulation. Dynamic response data generated by the kinematic model simulation is analyzed by the dynamic response data analyzer to generate differential data that may be used to further refine the implant model data.

A system for displaying at a user device output produced by an application program executing on a server includes an application server executing an application program. A proxy server receives data from the application server that represents a screen of graphical display output produced by the application program. A user device executes a client application. The client application receives from the proxy server static image data representing the screen of graphical display output produced by the application program.

A power monitoring section detects the interruption of AC electric power from a power line, and switches operating power within a camera to power from a battery. A control section sets control of the camera to a different mode at the power stopping time. The operation is controlled to pick-up one static image at constant time intervals, and sequentially stores the static image to a data storage section. A voice section stops collecting sounds. The control section stops communication with a master set. When the AC electric power is restored the operating power is switched to the electric power from the power line. When a user utilizing the master set knows the restoration of the power, the user gives commands for reading image information stored during the power stoppage to the camera, and monitors the state during the interruption of the AC electric power.

Various techniques are described to facilitate controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and viewing feedback received from a UAV. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided that allows a user to view a display window. The display window may indicate structures or portions of structures in which additional image data is desired by highlighting these portions within the display window. Static imagery may be leveraged to provide smooth and consistent feedback transitions. When a delay exists between the time the UAV sends live video data and the time it may be displayed in the GUI, the static images may be shown in the display window initially until the live video data may be displayed. The opacity of structures included in an initial display window may also transition to a greater opacity over time, with the live video eventually being displayed.

A system and method of providing sender customization of multi-media messages through the use of inserted images or video. The images or video may be sender-created or predefined and available to the sender via a web server. The method relates to customizing a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message having an animated entity audibly presenting speech converted from text created by the sender. The method comprises receiving at least one image from the sender, associating each at least one image with a tag, presenting the sender with options to insert the tag associated with one of the at least one image into the sender text, and after the sender inserts the tag associated with one of the at least one images into the sender text, delivering the multi-media message with the at least one image presented as background to the animated entity according to a position of the tag associated with the at least one image in the sender text. In another embodiment of the invention, a template is provided to the sender to create multi-media messages using predefined static images or video clips. The method comprises providing the sender with a group of customizable multi-media message templates, each template of the groups of templates including predefined parameters comprising a predefined text message, a predefined animated entity, a predefined background, predefined background music, and a predefined set of emoticons within the text of the message. The sender is further provided with options to accessorize the animated entity with various additional features such as glasses and the like for more creative presentation of the multi-media message.

A system for displaying video data in a vehicle. The system intelligently replicates one or more portable device displays on one or more vehicle displays. Each vehicle display may be shared or dedicated to a specific portable device. The image from each portable device is intelligently replicated and provided to the vehicle integrated video system via a wireless communication link for display. The wireless communication link can provide the image to the vehicle integrated video system in real time to support both static images and dynamic images.

Systems and methods of producing video data and / or audio-photos from a static digital image are disclosed. One such method, among others, comprises receiving input from a user indicating sequentially, in real time, a plurality of regions of the static digital image. The method also includes processing the user input to determine the visual content of each of a sequence of video frames and generating output data representative of the sequence of video frames. The sequence and composition of the video frames are determined such that the visual content of the video frames is taken from the static digital image. For each region of the static image indicated by the user, a video frame is composed such that the said region occupies a substantial part of the video frame. The sequence of video frames shows the regions indicated by the user in sequential correspondence with the sequence in which the user indicated the regions and substantially in pace with the time in which the user indicated the regions.

A plurality of cameras are controlled to follow a common moving target in a three dimensional environment such that each camera generates a video feed comprising a plurality of video segments captured sequentially. Each video segment comprises a static image of the target at a respective point in time. A resulting video is generated by selecting a sequence of video segments which may include video segments from different cameras and at the same or different points in time to create various video effects. The recorded video segments are categorized for later recall according to camera identification and point in time to allow for instantaneous recall for producing video replays from a variety of camera angles during a live event. Auxiliary video segments can be computer generated for insertion between video segments captured by the cameras for smoothing the appearance of the resulting video.

Methods and apparatus to create and display screen stereoscopic and panoramic images are disclosed. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a stereoscopic or a panoramic image. An image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a stereoscopic or a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A plurality of lens / sensor units is placed on a carrier. Lens / sensor units are rotationally aligned. A controller rotationally aligns images of lens / sensor units that are rotationally misaligned. The camera is enabled to communicate via a wired or via a wireless connection, with a separate, mobile, ultrathin, ultralight, display with a large display screen not smaller than 25 by 20 cm in a first embodiment of the present invention and not smaller than 20 by 15 cm in a second embodiment of the present invention to provide color images including video images in real-time. A compact controllable platform to hold and rotate a device with a lens / sensor unit is also provided.

A virtual space control data receiving apparatus comprises stream data receiving means for receiving a plurality of stream data for controlling a dynamic virtual space, according to the type of each stream data; manual data input means for inputting control data for an object to be controlled in the virtual space; and control data output means for outputting the control data input by the manual data input means, for the object controlled by the manual data input means, and outputting the stream data received by the stream data receiving means, for the other objects. Therefore, in a dynamic virtual space represented by 3-dimensional CG, static image, dynamic image, audio, and text which are based on a network such as the Internet, the virtual space can be reproduced in real time, and the viewer can selectively control an object.

The invention is directed to systems and Methods for immersive advertising on a wide area network, such as the Internet or World Wide Web. Immersive advertisements are customized presentations developed and imbedded within the body of web content. They can take the form of non-static images imbedded within a configurable primary image model or they can be a non-configurable, highly stylized, and animated component imbedded within the content of a web page.

The invention discloses a region-level and pixel-level fusion saliency detection method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). The research object of the method is a static image of which the content can be arbitrary, and the research goal of the method is to find a target striking the eyes of a person from images and assign different saliency values to the target. An adaptive region generation technology is mainly proposed, and two CNN structures are designed and used for pixel-level saliency prediction and saliency fusion respectively. The two CNN models are used for training a network model with the image as input and the real result of the image as a supervisory signal and finally outputting a saliency map of the same size as the input image. By means of the method, region-level saliency estimation and pixel-level saliency prediction can be effectively carried out to obtain two saliency maps, and finally the two saliency maps and the original image are fused through the CNNs for saliency fusion to obtain the final saliency map.

A video contents display apparatus include a display generation unit for: generating a predetermined number of static images by considering a time of lapse from information about recorded video contents; converting a static image other than at least one specified static image into an image reduced in a predetermined format from the predetermined number of generated static images; and displaying a sequence of images by arranging the at least one static image and the other static image along a predetermined path on a screen by considering the time of lapse.

A system and a method are provided for visualizing virtual objects on a mobile device. A computing device is in communication with the mobile device. The computing device generates a 3D virtual world of one or more virtual objects corresponding to one or more physical objects in a real world. The computing device then associates information with the one or more virtual objects and generates one or more static images based on the 3D virtual world. The mobile device receives the one or more static images and the associated information associated from the computing device, and then displays the one or more static images.

In an electro-optical device for performing image display using an n-bit (where n is a natural number, n>=2) digital image signal, nxm (where m is a natural number) volatile memory circuits, and nxk (where k is a natural number) non-volatile memory circuits are contained in every one pixel. The electro-optical device has a function for storing m frame portions of the digital image signal in the volatile memory circuits, and k frame portions of the digital image signal in the non-volatile memory circuits. By performing display of a static image in accordance with repeatedly reading out, for each frame, the digital image signal stored once in the memory circuits and performing display, drive of a source signal line driver circuit can be stopped during that period. Further, a digital image signal stored in the non-volatile memory circuits is stored even after a power source is cut off, and therefore display is possible immediately when the power source is next turned on.

A method detects edges of an object in a scene by first acquiring a static image of the scene when the scene is static, and a live image of the scene including the object. A reference image is constructed from the static image. Then, image gradients of the reference image are compared with image gradients of the live image to identify edges of the object in the live image.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of information and provides a method and device for adjusting the refreshing rate of a screen. The method includes the steps that a screen image of a current frame is obtained, whether the screen image of the current frame is the same with a screen frame of a previous frame or not is judged; if the screen image of the current frame is different from the screen image of the last frame, the current screen refreshing rate is adjusted to a first preset value; if the screen image of the current frame is the same with the screen image of the previous frame, the current screen refreshing rate is adjusted to a second preset value, and the second preset value is smaller than the first preset value. According to the method and device for adjusting the refreshing rate, when a dynamic image is displayed on a screen, the high screen refreshing rate is set to ensure the display fluency of the dynamic image, when a static image is displayed on the screen, the current screen refreshing rate is reduced, and therefore under the premise that the display effect of the screen is ensured, power consumption is lowered.

The invention provides several embodiments of a system and method of securely distributing and using digital content that protects the content owner's copyrights as well as the content user's right of fair use. Digital content may be any work that can be encoded in digital form, e.g. literature, music, software applications, static images, and video, etc. Various embodiments act by implementing public key infrastructure to encrypt digital content in such a way that only a licensed user may access the content. Embodiments enable licensed users to access the content via multiple playback devices and from various locations, regardless of whether they are connected to a publicly accessible, traditional MAN or WAN.

The invention relates to a dynamic object modulation transfer function measuring method and a device thereof, pertaining to the optical property measurement field. The invention aims at providing a dynamic object modulation transfer function measuring method and a device thereof which can carry out the dynamic object modulation transfer function measurement under different fields of view, namely, uniform linear motion, uniformly-accelerated rectilinear motion, simple harmonic motion, but also can measure static target modulation transfer function and separate the static target modulation transfer function from whole machine modulation transfer function. The device consists of a light source, a collimating lens, a pupil coupling system and an electro-optical imaging system which are arranged along the ray propagation direction in sequence; the electro-optical imaging system carries out imaging towards the light source moving along the guide rail direction and line spread function is obtained from the image and carried out one-dimensional Fourier transformation so as to obtain the dynamic object modulation transfer function. The method and the device of the invention are not only suitable for static image evaluation field but also for the image evaluation field of dynamic object imaging by a time-delay electro-optical imaging system.

The invention relates to a method for identifying multi-class facial expressions at a high precision based on Haar-like features, which belongs to the technical field of computer science and graphic image process. Firstly, the high-accuracy face detection is achieved by using the Haar-like features and a series-wound face detection classifier; further, the feature selection is carried out on the high-dimension Haar-like feature by using the Ada Boost. MH algorithm; and finally, the expression classifier training is carried out by using the Random Forest algorithm to complete the expression identification. Compared with the prior art, the method can reduce training and identifying time while increasing the multi-class expression identification rate, and can implement the parallelization conveniently to increase the identification rate and meet the requirement of real-time processing and mobile computing. The method can identify the static image and the dynamic image at a high precision, is not only applicable to the desktop computer but also to the mobile computing platforms, such as cellphone, tablet personal computer and the like.

The invention discloses a method for extracting a video interested region based on a visual attention. The interested region extracted by the method combines a static image domain visual attention, amotion visual attention and a depth perception attention, and the method efficiently restrains the internal unicity and inaccuracy of each visual attention extraction and solves the problem of noisescaused by a complex background in the static image domain visual attention and the problem that the motion visual attention can not extract an interested region with small local motion and motion amplitude, thus the method improves the calculation accuracy, enhances the algorithm stability and extracts an interested region from a background with complex veins and the motion environment; furthermore, the interested region obtained by the method accords with the depth perception feature interesting on an object having a strong depth perception or a short distance in the stereovision and the semantic characteristic of human eye stereovision besides according with the vision feature of human eye interesting a static grain video frame and interesting a motion object.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for minimizing motion clutter in image-generation devices. Temporally-interleaved image-subtraction reduces the magnitude of motion clutter and has no adverse effect on the desired ambient-light cancellation of static images. Embodiments of image-generation devices employing temporally-interleaved image-subtraction include single, double, triple, and series accumulator configurations. All four embodiments allow synchronization with scene illuminators and may be implemented on a single electronic chip. Temporally-interleaved image-subtraction is particularly well suited for use in video eyetracking applications where ambient light and scene motion can cause significant problems.

The invention relates to a method for navigation during medical interventions on tubular organ structures, characterized in that, before the intervention, static image data of the tubular organ structures are recorded and stored, the tubular organ structures are extracted from the image data and their course is converted into a geometric description used during the medical intervention for instrument / organ recording, and the instrument that is spatially localized by a tracking system is successively corrected in relation to the static data, by a transformation that is preferably defined by an optimization method, taking into account the geometric description and information on the previous distance covered by the instrument, or, conversely, the static data are successively corrected in relation to the instrument position, and thus the position of the instrument is associated with the anatomical structures in the static image data.

A program switching device and a method thereof which can prevent a disorder of images and an invisible state of the image when a channel (program) is switched. When it is instructed to switch a program to the other program in the state where the image of a program of a predetermined channel is displayed, at step SP111, the image of the program currently received is converted into a static image to mute the sound. Then, at step SP212, the receiving processing of channel is started after switching. At step SP113, the process waits until the processing of channel switching is terminated, and when it is terminated, the static image set at step SP111 and the mute are released at step SP114.