773 results about "Transmission image" patented technology

The registering method and apparatus read out contents associated with a modification pattern modifying a transmission image to be displayed on a second image display unit of a second communication device when a first communication device including a first image display unit of a first person in communication is communicating with the second communication device of a second person in communication through a relay center, copy the modification pattern from the contents, and register the modification pattern in such a manner that the first person in communication or the first communication device is capable of using the modification pattern. The reproducing method and apparatus reproduce the registered modification pattern.

An autostereoscopic multi-user display comprising a sweet-spot unit which is directionally controlled by a tracking and image control device (160), wherein an illumination matrix (120) is provided with separately activatable illuminating elements (11 . . . 56), in addition to an imaging device used to alternatingly image active illuminating elements, for making expanded sweet spots (SRI / SR2) visible to various eye positions (EL1 / ERI, EL2 / ER2) of viewers observing alternating images or a stereoscopic image sequence on a transmissive image matrix (140) with the aid of directed beams (B1R . . . B5L). According to the invention, the imaging device comprises an imaging matrix (110) provided with a plurality of lens elements (111 115) whose focal length is small in order to image the active illuminating elements in an enlarged manner onto the sweet spots (SRI / SR2), and a field lens (171), which follows the imaging matrix (110), in order to keep the distances of the activated illuminating elements between adjacent beams (B1, B2,B4, B5) as constant as possible and in order to assist selection of the directions (D1. . . D5) with the illumination matrix (120) for the beams.

The invention discloses an automatic image defogging method based on dark primary color, which is used for solving the problem of information loss because the traditional defogging method highlights details by improving foggy day image contrast. The method provided by the invention comprises: A. calculating the dark primary color of the primary fog images and relevant atmosphere light value; B. according to the luminance component image of the original fog image, calculating a transmission image reflecting local fog concentration in an atmospheric scattering model; and C. determining the defogged primary image according to the fog image, the transmission image and the atmosphere light value in the atmospheric scattering model. Because of being built on the basis of a physical model, the invention can process various fog images in a self-adaption mode; and defogged images have favorable edge details and ideal contrast, and the clarifying effect is superior to the traditional defogging method based on image enhancement.

A system is described that permits high-speed, high-resolution mapping of thicknesses (or other properties) of layers on patterned semiconductor wafers. The system comprises one or more spectrometers that each simultaneously image a plurality of spatial locations. In one example, the spectrometer comprises a two-dimensional CCD imager with one axis of the imager measuring spectral data and the other axis measuring spatial data. Spectral reflectance or transmission of the patterned wafer under test is obtained by passing the wafer under (or over) the imaging spectrometer(s) and taking sequential reflectance or transmission images for successive pluralities of spatial locations. The resulting spectral reflectance or transmission map can then be analyzed at discrete locations to determine the thicknesses or other properties of the layers at those locations.

An improvement in a method for quantitative modulated imaging to perform depth sectioned reflectance or transmission imaging in a turbid medium, such as human or animal tissue is directed to the steps of encoding periodic pattern of illumination preferably with a fluorescent excitation wavelength when exposing a turbid medium to the periodic pattern to provide depth-resolved discrimination of structures within the turbid medium; and reconstructing a non-contact three dimensional image of the structure within a turbid medium. As a result, wide field imaging, separation of the average background optical properties from the heterogeneity components from a single image, separation of superficial features from deep features based on selection of spatial frequency of illumination, or qualitative and quantitative structure, function and composition information is extracted from spatially encoded data.

A terminal distinction circuit distinguishes the terminal type. When the terminal is a PC, moving image data is sent directly from a moving image buffer memory to a transmission image memory. The transmission image memory sends moving image data together with a synchronization signal to the terminal via a broadband modem. When the terminal is a cellular phone or a PDA, an animation generating circuit reads images of every three picture frames from moving image data having thirty picture frames per second. The animation generating circuit scales down an image of each picture frame according to the display capability of the terminal, and then subtracts the number of color. Image data of ten picture frames is converted into one animation GIF file. The animation GIF file is sent to viewer's terminal via the broadband modem.

A low profile holographic sight includes a base having a mounting mechanism and a body mounted on the base for housing a laser diode, an associated electronic control and power source, and optical elements including a collimator, a transmission image hologram of the reticle pattern, and a reflective diffraction grating, wherein the optical elements are arranged within the body to direct and fold the laser beam in a substantially generally horizontal path, and is insensitive to drift in laser wavelength. The optical elements superimpose an image of the reticle pattern over the direct view of the target scene in a generally parallel and close relationship with the barrel of a firearm, such as a shotgun or a rifle, upon which the sight is mounted.

A projector includes an image capture device that captures an image in a capture region larger than a projection region of a projection image; an image determining unit that compares and determines the projection image projected by the corresponding projector with another projection image projected in the capture region on the basis of capture information acquired from the image capture device; a transmission image display unit that projects and displays a transmission image indicating that the corresponding projector is ready to perform a tiling projection when the image determining unit determines that the projection image projected by the corresponding projector is the same as the another projection image; a transmission image determining unit that determines whether or not another projector projecting the another projection image has projected the transmission image; and a process parameter creating unit that creates a process parameter which processes display information of the projection image on the basis of a determination result of the transmission image determining unit.

A data providing system including a data providing apparatus having a provision image data generating device for generating data of a provision image that is reusable by inlaying an advertisement image into a template image into which a user image is inlaid and a providing-side transmitting device for transmitting the provision image data via a network. A data acquisition apparatus has an acquiring-side receiving device for receiving the provision image data via the network, a transmission image data generating device for generating data of a transmission image for displaying the provision image onto a display device, inlaying the user image into the template image of the provision image, and displaying the user image with the template image in preference to the advertisement image until the user image is detached from the template image, and a acquiring-side transmitting device for transmitting the transmission image data to a destination.

An apparatus for and method of analyzing hematologic samples deposited within a capillary tube is provided. The method includes the steps of: a) imaging a region of sample centrifuged within a capillary tube using a first analysis device, which region is defined by substantially all of the radial width and axial length of the sample residing within the internal cavity of the tube where the float resides after centrifugation, and producing signals representative of the image; b) communicating the signals representative of the image to a second analysis device independent of, and remotely located from, the first analysis device; c) processing the signals representative of the image using the second analysis device and producing analysis data based on the signals; and d) displaying the image of the region of the sample using the second analysis device.

An improvement in a method for quantitative modulated imaging to perform depth sectioned reflectance or transmission imaging in a turbid medium, such as human or animal tissue is directed to the steps of encoding periodic pattern of illumination preferably with a fluorescent excitation wavelength when exposing a turbid medium to the periodic pattern to provide depth-resolved discrimination of structures within the turbid medium; and reconstructing a non-contact three dimensional image of the structure within a turbid medium. As a result, wide field imaging, separation of the average background optical properties from the heterogeneity components from a single image, separation of superficial features from deep features based on selection of spatial frequency of illumination, or qualitative and quantitative structure, function and composition information is extracted from spatially encoded data.

Disclosed are an X-ray target having a micro focus size and capable of producing X-rays of high intensity, and apparatuses using such an X-ray target. The X-ray target (1) has a structure in which a first cap layer (21), a target layer (22), and a second cap layer (23) are successively laminated, wherein the first and second cap layers (21and 23) are each composed of a material which is lower in electron beam absorptivity than that of which the target layer (22) is composed. An X-ray generator using the X-ray target (1) can generate highly intense and nanofocus (several nm) X-rays (17). Using the X-ray generator, an X-ray microscope allows obtaining a high resolution transmission image, an X-ray diffraction apparatus allows obtaining an X-ray diffraction image of a very small area, and a fluorescent X-ray analysis apparatus allows making the fluorescent X-ray analysis of a minute area.

PCT No. PCT / JP96 / 03778 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 17, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 17, 1998 PCT Filed Dec. 25, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO98 / 11456 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 1998This invention provides a contaminant-detecting apparatus having high selectivity and high sensitivity against a contaminant. A product (1) is conveyed to a point where it is irradiated by x-rays from source (3). An x-ray detector (4), having a predetermined detection unit width in a direction perpendicularly intersecting the conveying direction, then detects the x-rays transmitted through the product. A storage unit (5) stores a two-dimensional distribution of x-ray intensity detected by the x-ray detector as a transmission image in units of pixels. An average calculation unit (7) performs a sum-or-product operation of a kernel, which is equal to or larger than 7x7 pixels, (9x9 or 11x11), and equal to or smaller than (a pixel count corresponding to +E,fra 1 / 2+EE the predetermined x-ray detection unit width)x(pixel count corresponding to +E,fra 1 / 2+EE the predetermined x-ray detection unit width), and includes a target pixel, in units of pixels of the transmission image stored in the storage unit by using a predetermined coefficient matrix, thereby calculating the weighted average over the kernel. A difference calculation unit (8) calculates the difference between the x-ray intensity of the target pixel of the transmission image stored in the storage unit and the weighted average over the kernel of the target pixel which is calculated by the difference calculation unit. A determination unit (9) compares the difference calculated by the difference calculation unit with predetermined criteria, thereby determining presence / absence of a contaminant in the product to be tested.

The invention relates to a machine vision technology based method for rapidly detecting egg internal quality, belonging to non-destructive testing technologies for agricultural and animal products. According to the method, a machine vision technology is used for acquiring characteristics on three aspects including a color space, an eggshell shape and an egg density from an egg transmission image so as to comprehensively judge the freshness characteristic of the egg. The machine vision technology based method specifically comprises the steps: acquiring the transmission image of an egg under a certain illumination condition, transmitting the transmission image to a computer through image acquisition equipment, acquiring the information on the three aspects including the color space, an egg yolk area and the egg density from the acquired egg image, fusing and screening the information on the three aspects, and finally obtaining a detection result of the egg freshness by means of a multi-variable analysis model in a standard library, wherein the information on the three aspects including the color space, the egg yolk area and the egg density is in one-to-one correspondence to three phenomena of diluted concentrated egg white, enlarged egg yolk area and raised gas cell height which are expressed under an egg freshness drop condition. In addition, grading can be carried out according to standards so that the egg freshness can be detected more objectively and accurately.

The invention discloses a paper money discrimination method and a device. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a transmission image of a region with window-open type safety line indentation characteristics on paper money, wherein the region is transmitted by light beam; and analyzing and recognizing the indentation characteristics in the image so as to determine the authenticity of the paper money. The method and the device of the invention have advantages of good adaptability to various currencies, low hardware cost, a high detection and recognition rate, stable and reliable performance, etc.

A low profile holographic sight includes a base having a mounting mechanism and a body mounted on the base for housing a laser diode, an associated electronic control and power source, and optical elements including a collimator, a transmission image hologram of the reticle pattern, and a reflective diffraction grating, wherein the optical elements are arranged within the body to direct and fold the laser beam in a substantially generally horizontal path, and is insensitive to drift in laser wavelength. The optical elements superimpose an image of the reticle pattern over the direct view of the target scene in a generally parallel and close relationship with the barrel of a firearm, such as a shotgun or a rifle, upon which the sight is mounted.

A method and apparatus for illuminating a subject with deep UV light and detecting 2-dimensional image information, e.g., a transmission image, fluorescence image, reflected light image, etc. The subject may be illuminated with a light pulse having a duration of 2 seconds or less and one or more components with a wavelength of between about 150 nm to about 300 nm. The light pulse may be arranged so as to minimize or eliminate any detrimental effect on the functioning of the subject, e.g., on a living cell. A concentration, mass, quantum yield, absorbance or other characteristics of one or more compounds in the subject may be determined based on one or more 2-dimensional images obtained of the subject. An illumination beam having left and right circularly polarized components may be generated, e.g., for circular dichroism analysis of a subject.

The present invention provides a method for producing a bonded dielectric separation wafer in which an auto-alignment can be carried out with reference to the orientation flat of a supporting substrate wafer after the wafer bonding step, and also an apparatus to be used for bonding wafers. When wafers are placed one upon another, the silicon wafers 10, 20 are irradiated with transmission light in order to capture the transmission images thereof. The positions of the pattern of dielectric isolation grooves 13 in the silicon wafer 10 and the orientation flat 20a of the silicon wafer 20 are determined from the images and the bonding position of the wafers 10, 20 is determined based on the determined positions. Auto-alignment of the bonded dielectric separation wafer can thereby be carried out with reference to the orientation flat 20a of the silicon wafer 20 after the wafer bonding step.

Methods, systems and software for determine an optical surface model for an optical tissue system using Fourier transformation algorithms. A method of reconstructing optical tissues of an eye comprises transmitting an image through the optical tissues of the eye. The surface gradients from the transmitted image are measured across the optical tissues of the eye. A Fourier transform algorithm is applied to the surface gradients to reconstruct an optical surface model that corresponds to the optical tissues of the eye.

A new and useful method and projection system for projecting an image from an object plane to an image plane is provided. The method and system is designed to operate at a 1× magnification, a relatively high NA, with a relatively large instantaneous scanning field, and to achieve sub-micron resolution at high optical throughput. An object plane is scanned across an instantaneous rectangular field at least 40 mm in the direction of scan and at least 132 mm in a direction that is perpendicular to the scan, and the scanned image is projected onto the image plane through a catadioptric projection system configured for a 1× magnification and a numerical aperture of at least 0.23. The catadioptric projection system includes (i) a first field lens group configured to transmit an image ray bundle from the object plane, (ii) a first plane reflector configured to reflect and redirect the image ray bundle projected from the first field lens group, (iii) a second lens group in the optical path of the reflected, redirected image ray bundle, and a concave reflector following the second lens group, the concave reflector configured to reflect and return the reflected image ray bundle through the second lens group, (iv) a second plane reflector configured to reflect and redirect the returned image ray bundle, and (v) a third field lens group configured to receive and project the reflected, returned image ray bundle onto the image plane.

An image processing server performs haze-removal from images. Global atmospheric light is estimated and an initial transmission value is estimated. In one embodiment, a solver is applied to an objective function to recover a scene radiance value based on the estimated atmospheric light and estimated transmission value. The scene radiance value is used to construct an image without haze. In a simplified method that avoids using a solver, bilateral filtering is performed on the transmission image in order to construct an image without haze.

A tablet inspection device includes a lighting unit configured to emit parallel light to a medicine package enclosing therein a semi-transparent tablet that is capable of transmitting light, a camera unit configured to capture an image of the medicine package irradiated with the parallel light, so as to obtain a transmission image of the medicine package, and an image processing unit configured to detect, as an area of the semi-transparent tablet, an area having a center part and a periphery part which has brightness lower than brightness of the center part, in the transmission image.

A tablet inspection apparatus includes: a transmitted illumination unit configured to emit infrared light to a medicine packet made of two films from a side of the films; a reflected illumination unit configured to emit infrared light from the other side of the two films; a camera unit configured to obtain a transmission image by imaging the medicine packet, in a state where the transmitted illumination unit is emitting infrared light and the reflected illumination unit is not emitting infrared light, and obtain a reflection image by imaging the medicine packet, in a state where the reflected illumination unit is emitting infrared light and the transmitted illumination unit is not emitting infrared light; and a calculation unit configured to generate an inspection image from a difference image between the reflection image and the transmission image.

The invention relates to a CT (Computed Tomography) transmission imaging beam hardening correcting method and particularly relates to a base image TV minimized model based CT beam hardening correcting method. On the basis of establishing a beam hardening correcting model with an adjustable parameter, the base image TV model based CT beam hardening correcting method comprises the following steps: firstly, converting an original projection data through the model pretreatment so as to obtain sets of pretreated projection sequences under different adjustable parameter conditions; respectively reconstructing the pretreated projection sequences, thereby obtaining a series of corrected base images; taking a full-variation function of a target image as a cost function and obtaining an optimal solution of a weighting coefficient according to an iterative method; and lastly, summing the weights of the obtained series of base images, thereby forming a final reconstructed image. Compared with the traditional method, the method provided by the invention has the advantages that the priori knowledge, such as scanning copy material, radiation source condition, and the like, is unnecessary, the method is unlimited by external conditions and is strong in universality, and the linear combination is solved when a weighting coefficient is confirmed, so that the method has the advantages of small computation complexity and short operation time.

This specification discloses a three-dimensional image pickup and display apparatus having a radiation source for applying a radioactive ray to an object, a photographing unit for photographing the transmission image of the object, and a control unit for setting three-dimensional display parameters for observing a three-dimensional image which conforms to a three-dimensional display output device. The control unit changes the position of the radiation source in conformity with the three-dimensional display parameters.

Provided is a polarization laminate that allows a distinct transmission image to be displayed on a translucent screen while maintaining the visibility of a projection image from a projector even in a case where the translucent screen contains a diffusion-polarization plate. A transparent polarization laminate as a member of a translucent projector screen for displaying a projection image from a projector comprises a diffusion polarization layer and an absorption polarization layer, the diffusion polarization layer comprises a continuous phase comprising a first transparent thermoplastic resin and a dispersed phase comprising a second transparent thermoplastic resin and having a refractive index different from that of the continuous phase, and these layers are laminated so that the diffusion polarization layer may have a transmission axis substantially parallel with a transmission axis of the absorption polarization layer. The diffusion polarization layer may comprise a stretched sheet, the continuous phase may have an in-plane birefringence of less than 0.05, the dispersed phase may have an in-plane birefringence of not more than 0.05, and a difference in refractive index for linearly polarized light between the continuous phase and the dispersed phase in a stretching direction may be different from that in a direction perpendicular to the stretching direction.

This specification discloses a three-dimensional image pickup and display apparatus having a radiation source for applying a radioactive ray to an object, a photographing unit for photographing the transmission image of the object, and a control unit for setting three-dimensional display parameters for observing a three-dimensional image which conforms to a three-dimensional display output device. The control unit changes the position of the radiation source in conformity with the three-dimensional display parameters.

This disclosure presents systems for x-ray microscopy using an array of micro-beams having a micro- or nano-scale beam intensity profile to provide selective illumination of micro- or nano-scale regions of an object. An array detector is positioned such that each pixel of the detector only detects x-rays corresponding to a single micro- or nano-beam. This allows the signal arising from each x-ray detector pixel to be identified with the specific, limited micro- or nano-scale region illuminated, allowing sampled transmission image of the object at a micro- or nano-scale to be generated while using a detector with pixels having a larger size and scale. Detectors with higher quantum efficiency may therefore be used, since the lateral resolution is provided solely by the dimensions of the micro- or nano-beams. The micro- or nano-scale beams may be generated using an arrayed x-ray source or a set of Talbot interference fringes.