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Techniques for navigating multiple video streams

Techniques for poster-thumbnail and / or animated thumbnail development and / or usage to effectively navigate for potential selection between a plurality of images or programs / video files or video segments. The poster and animated thumbnail images are presented in a GUI on adapted apparatus to provide an efficient system for navigating, browsing and / or selecting images or programs or video segments to be viewed by a user. The poster and animated thumbnails may be automatically produced without human-necessary editing and may also have one or more various associated data (such as text overlay, image overlay, cropping, text or image deletion or replacement, and / or associated audio).
Owner:VIVCOM INC

Speckle-image-based optical position transducer having improved mounting and directional sensitivities

A speckle readhead includes a light source that outputs light towards an optically rough surface. Light scattered from this surface contains speckles. The scattered light is imaged onto an image detector, captured and stored. Subsequently, a second image is captured and stored. The two images are repeatedly compared at different offsets in a displacement direction. The comparison having the highest value indicates the amount of displacement between the readhead and the surface that occurred between taking the two images. An optical system of the readhead includes a lens and an aperture. The aperture can be round, with a diameter chosen so that the average size of the speckles is approximately equal to, or larger than, the dimensions of the elements of the image detector. The dimension of the aperture in a direction perpendicular to the direction of displacement can be reduced. Thus, the imaged speckles in that direction will be greater than the dimension of the image detector elements in that direction. Such a readhead is relatively insensitive to lateral offsets. The lens can be a cylindrical lens that magnifies the relative motion along the direction of displacement but does not magnify relative motions in the direction perpendicular to the direction of displacement. The optical system can also be telecentric. Thus, the readhead is relatively insensitive to both separation and relative motions between the readhead and the surface. The light source can be modulated to prevent smearing the speckles across the image detector. The light source can be strobed to freeze the image.
Owner:MITUTOYO CORP

Display device comprising multifunction glass, production method, and optical element having a fresnel structure

A display device including a holding device that can be placed on the head of a user, an image generating module fixed to the holding device and generating an image, and a multifunction glass that is fixed to the holding device and has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and extracted via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling in area has a Fresnel structure causing a folding of the beam path when the image is injected into the multifunction glass, said structure having an imaging property.
Owner:TOOZ TECH GMBH

Apparatus, method and program for editing images

When a user who once ordered generation of a photo album of an event such as a wedding orders generation of another photo album of the same event by using a different template, image editing can be carried out efficiently. In each order, the template ID used in the order and image specification information identifying selected images are recorded. Correspondence between image insertion areas in templates is recorded as correspondence information. When the order using the differential template is placed, the image specification information and the correspondence information is referred to, and an image editing screen is displayed by inserting the selected images used in the previous order in the image insertion areas in the template used in the present order.
Owner:FUJIFILM HLDG CORP +1

Method and apparatus for measuring user access to image data

InactiveUS20030163370A1Improve measurementMinimized data collectionAdvertisingDisplay meansImage ViewCollections data
A method and apparatus for allowing the collection of information regarding visits to the pages of a data network such as the Internet, and the number of separate images viewed is described. The described method overcomes various prior art limitations including providing for improved accuracy in reporting the number of times a banner image, such as an advertisement, is viewed; providing improved methods and apparatuses for efficiently identifying unique banner images viewed; providing an improved method and apparatus for configuring a network user's computer so that interference from the data collection process with the normal operation of the computer is minimized; providing an improved method and apparatus for efficiently calculating a checksum to allow unique identification of a banner image viewed by a network user; and providing an improved method and apparatus for determining whether the network user used the browser BACK button to view a page and, if so, to count the banner images viewed.
Owner:NETRATINGS

Reflective projection lens for EUV-photolithography

A projection lens for imaging a pattern arranged in an object plane onto an image plane using electromagnetic radiation from the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) spectral region has several imaging mirrors between its object plane and image plane that define an optical axis of the projection lens and have reflective coatings. At least one of those mirrors has a graded reflective coating that has a film-thickness gradient that is rotationally symmetric with respect to a coating axis, where that coating axis is acentrically arranged with respect to the optical axis of the projection lens. Providing at least one acentric, graded, reflective coating allows designing projection lenses that allow highly uniform field illumination, combined with high total transmittance.
Owner:CARL ZEISS SMT GMBH

Lobster eye X-ray imaging system and method of fabrication thereof

A Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging System based on a unique Lobster Eye (LE) structure, X-ray generator, scintillator-based detector and cooled CCD (or Intensified CCD) for real-time, safe, staring Compton backscatter X-ray detection of objects hidden under ground, in containers, behind walls, bulkheads etc. In contrast to existing scanning pencil beam systems, Lobster Eye X-Ray Imaging System's true focusing X-ray optics simultaneously acquire ballistic Compton backscattering photons (CBPs) from an entire scene irradiated by a wide-open cone beam from one or more X-ray generators. The Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging System collects (focuses) thousands of times more backscattered hard X-rays in the range from 40 to 120 keV (or wavelength λ=0.31 to 0.1 Å) than current backscatter imaging sensors (BISs), giving high sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and penetration through ground, metal walls etc. The collection efficiency of Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging System is optimized to reduce emitted X-ray power and miniaturize the device. This device is especially advantageous for and satisfies requirements of X-ray-based inspection systems, namely, penetration of the X-rays through ground, metal and other material concealments; safety; and man-portability. The advanced technology disclosed herein is also applicable to medical diagnostics and military applications such as mine detection, security screening and a like.
Owner:MERCURY MISSION SYST LLC

System, medium, and method encoding/decoding a color image using inter-color-component prediction

A color image encoding and / or decoding system, medium, and method using inter-color-component prediction in a frequency domain. To encode an original image, including at least two or more image components, frequency domain transform may be performed with of each component of a color image, color component transform of the frequency domain transform coefficients, in frequency domain, may be performed based on the relationship between transform coefficients of the color image components in order to remove redundant information between color components, performing, and entropy encoding the removed redundant information data. According to the method, medium, and system, a color image or video data can be directly compressed effectively without a conventional color transform process. Furthermore, by using the relationship between image components, redundant information between color components varying with respect to the encoding mode may be removed so that the encoding efficiency can be enhanced.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Electronic still camera having photographed image reproducing function

In a digital camera (1), when a “+” key (17a) or a “−” key. (17b) is depressed to select reproduction / display of a panorama image after the reproduction mode is designated, the CPU (36) reads out the selected panorama image data from a flash memory (31), and stores it in a VRAM (26). When the “+” key (17a) or the “−” key (17b) is depressed after the first 1-frame image data of the panorama image data stored in the VRAM (26) is reproduced / displayed on the display screen of the display unit (12), the CPU (36) starts scrolling the displayed image on the display screen of the display unit (12).
Owner:BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD

Lobster eye X-ray imaging system and method of fabrication thereof

A Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging System based on a unique Lobster Eye (LE) structure, X-ray generator, scintillator-based detector and cooled CCD (or Intensified CCD) for real-time, safe, staring Compton backscatter X-ray detection of objects hidden under ground, in containers, behind walls, bulkheads etc. In contrast to existing scanning pencil beam systems, Lobster Eye X-Ray Imaging System's true focusing X-ray optics simultaneously acquire ballistic Compton backscattering photons (CBPs) from an entire scene irradiated by a wide-open cone beam from one or more X-ray generators. The Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging System collects (focuses) thousands of times more backscattered hard X-rays in the range from 40 to 120 keV (or wavelength λ=0.31 to 0.1 Å) than current backscatter imaging sensors (BISs), giving high sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and penetration through ground, metal walls etc. The collection efficiency of Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging System is optimized to reduce emitted X-ray power and miniaturize the device. This device is especially advantageous for and satisfies requirements of X-ray-based inspection systems, namely, penetration of the X-rays through ground, metal and other material concealments; safety; and man-portability. The advanced technology disclosed herein is also applicable to medical diagnostics and military applications such as mine detection, security screening and a like.
Owner:MERCURY MISSION SYST LLC
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