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An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a mirror reflective element and a video display device operable to display video information that is viewable by a driver of the vehicle through said mirror reflective element and at a display region of said mirror reflective element. The video display device may be operable to display a directional heading at a compass display portion of the display region, and means may be provided to adjust the directional heading display to limit image sticking of the displayed directional heading. The mirror assembly may have a touch zone having at least one touch pad established at a perimeter border band of the reflective element, and may have another touch sensor to detect a touch of a user away from the touch zone to determine when a detected touch at the touch zone is an unintentional touch.

An imaging apparatus using a solid-state image sensor that reads out a signal of each pixel by an XY address method to capture an image includes a mechanical shutter configured to block light incident on a light receiving surface of the solid-state image sensor; and control means for simultaneously resetting the pixel signals for all rows in the solid-state image sensor to start exposure to the solid-state image sensor, closing the mechanical shutter after a predetermined exposure period is elapsed, and sequentially reading out the pixel signals for every row of the solid-state image sensor with the mechanical shutter being closed.

An electronic endoscope system, which is adapted to observe a fluorescence image of autofluorescence emitted from a body cavity wall irradiated with excitation light as well as a normal image of the body cavity wall illuminated with white light on a display device, includes a display controller whereby the aspect ratio of at least one of a plurality of images to display is converted so that the plurality of images are displayed in conformity with the shape of a display area of the display device when the plurality of images including the normal image and the fluorescence image are displayed on the display device. In the electronic endoscope system, the display controller converts the aspect ratio of at least one of the plurality of images by cutting both horizontal ends of the image to convert.

A semiconductor wafer is placed into a probe fixture with a front side of the wafer facing up. Power and signal probes are then placed on an integrated circuit (IC) formed on the front side of the wafer. The probe fixture is retained at a test station either in a upright or an inverted position for testing and optical failure analysis. The probe fixture includes a position adjustment mechanism to locate the entire probe above the wafer and to more precisely position a tip of the probe on the IC. Optical failure analysis techniques are performed on the front side or the back side of the wafer while the wafer is retained in the test fixture and the probes are connected to the IC.

A medical imaging system generates 3D anatomical images from acquired 2D anatomical images. The system includes a synchronization processor for providing a synchronization signal identifying a particular phase of heart operation of a particular patient. An image acquisition device acquires 2D anatomical images of a patient heart in angularly variable imaging planes over multiple different heart cycles at the particular phase of heart operation in response to the synchronization signal and in response to recorded data indicating imaging previously being performed at particular imaging plane angles. An image processor stores the recorded data to prevent imaging overlap at the particular imaging plane angles and to prevent unnecessary radiation exposure of the patient. The image processor processes 2D images acquired by the image acquisition device of the patient heart in multiple different imaging planes having relative angular separation, to provide a 3D image reconstruction of the patient heart

Embodiments for a method and system for the display of virtual image edits are disclosed. Source / linked image(s) (201a) in a web or other computer device (100a) environment may be virtually edited and / or combined with one another (102), by individual users, in collaboration with others or an automated program. Only the virtual edit alteration code, including the source image location information, are displayed (108) and saved (410), eliminating image redundancy, as the source images are not truly edited, copied or resaved, but instead remain stored at the copyright holder's disclosed location. Just as the House Of Mirrors in an amusement park changes ones reflection without changing the person, separating the image(s) from the virtual edits improves image load speeds and saves storage space. The said display is dynamically affected should the image copyright holder change or delete one of the source images.

A system and method are provided for imaging job authorization. The method comprises: an authorization server receiving a request from a first node print subsystem to communicate an imaging job; in response to analyzing imaging job information, sending an access inquiry to a second node; the authorization server receiving an authorization, including a one-time use public encryption key, from the second node; sending a confirmation, including the public key, to the first node print subsystem; the first node encrypting the imaging job using the public key; sending the encrypted imaging job to the second node from the first node; and, the second node decrypting the imaging job using a private key corresponding to the public key. The analyzed imaging job information used for access control may include user ID, job content, first node ID, first node communication address, imaging job access control, time / date, imaging job size, or imaging job options.

An imaging system and method for imaging an object, where an objective lens directs light to the object, a coupling lens receives light reflected from a surface of the object and transmitted through the objective lens, and focuses the reflected light as an image of the object, and an annular light emitter arranged concentrically with an optical axis of the objective lens and the coupling lens emits to the objective lens the light directed to the object.

An image capture module and an image capture method are provided. The image capture module includes an image signal processor, a preview interface module, and an image temporary storage module. The image signal processor receives an image data stream and processes the stream to generate a preview image stream and an output image stream, which will be respectively sent to the preview interface module and the image temporary storage module. The preview image stream has a first preview image frame while the output image stream has a first output image frame corresponding to the first preview image frame. When an image capture command is generated after the preview interface module receives and outputs the first preview image frame, the image temporary storage module will output the first output image frame from the buffer memory unit.

An imaging system and method for imaging an object, where an objective lens directs light to the object, a coupling lens receives light reflected from a surface of the object and transmitted through the objective lens, and focuses the reflected light as an image of the object, and an annular light emitter arranged concentrically with an optical axis of the objective lens and the coupling lens emits to the objective lens the light directed to the object.

Three-Dimensional Defocusing Particle Image Velocimetry (3DDPIV) allows for measurement of three-dimensional velocities within a volume. In the disclosed embodiment, a mask with a plurality of apertures is disposed with a lens between the test section and a color camera. The field-of-view is backlit and the test section is seeded with black particles. This configuration allows for a lower power light source as compared to conventional 3DDPIV. Color-coded particle images are formed on a white background, wherein each of the color images is generated from light that travels through the filters not blocked by the imaged particle, thereby producing a color image that is of a color different from the color of any of the filters. A color space linear transformation is used to allow for accurate identification of each pinhole exposure when the color filters' spectrum does not match those of the 3-CCD color camera.

The usage amount of a pool area is avoided from becoming equal to 100%, thereby preventing all snapshot images from being crashed. There is provided a disk-array apparatus including a control processor. Here, the control processor controls a data reading / writing from / into a first logical volume created using a memory area of plural disk drives, and controls past data such that the past data is written into a second logical volume as differential data on each generation basis, the past data being stored into the first logical volume, and manages the differential data. If the amount of the differential data stored into the second logical volume has exceeded a first predetermined value, the control processor determines a generation of the differential data to be deleted from among the differential data written into the second logical volume. The control processor deletes the differential data of the generation determined.

Digital television having improved channel surfing ability. At least the “I” and “P” frames of an MPEG transport stream are buffered for as many program streams as memory permits. A pointer tracks where the last “I” frame of each program stream is in memory. Since the last “I” frame and subsequent “P” frames of a program stream are available, channel changes within the current MPEG transport stream are speed up by allowing any “P” frame to start a newly selected program stream. Extra memory enables buffering of all of the “I”, “P” and “B” frames of a program stream. Extra tuners can enable selection of multiple MPEG transport streams. Intelligent choices of MPEG transport streams can speed surfing across transport streams.

An electronic endoscope system includes an electronic endoscope having a CMOS image sensor on the tip of an insertion section, a light source device for illuminating the interior of a patient's body, and a processing device for reading out image signals from the CMOS image sensor. The electronic endoscope system can operate with a standard imaging mode and a special imaging mode. When the time taken to read out the image signals from all the pixels in the standard mode is defined as T, the light source device in the special imaging mode emits illumination light in every first half period T / 2 while switching a wavelength of the illumination light between two different wavebands. In every second half period T / 2, the processing device reads out the image signals from the half of the pixels.

Disclosed is a method, circuit and system for transmission and reconstruction of a video block. A video stream may be composed of sequential video frames, and each video frame may be composed of one or more video blocks including a set of pixels. Prior to transmission of the data associated with a video block, the video block data may be transformed into a set of transform (e.g. frequency) coefficients using a spatial to frequency transform such as a two dimensional discrete cosine transform. Selection of the subset of transform coefficients to be transmitted may be based on a characteristic of the video block.

Transillumination uses light to image tissues and organs, specifically the veins within the tissue. Strong ambient light hinders the imaging of veins and often, transillumination must be done in a dark or dim room. To enhance the capabilities of a transilluminator, a light shield is placed over the viewing area of the transilluminator so that turning off or dimming of ambient light is not necessary. For pediatric care, a frustroconical adapter attached to the bottom of the transilluminator. The adapter reduces the size of the viewing area.

A support for a camera phone provides a simple way of securely cradling a wide range of camera phone sizes, irrespective of whether the phone is provided with a case. The support also provides a handle assembly for stably supporting the cradled phone by hand, or with an integrated tripod mechanism.

A digital image signal is divided into blocks. Each of the divided blocks is subjected to orthogonal transformation. As a result, the divided blocks are transformed into several frequency components. One or more frequency components are selected in accordance with a characteristic amount that is extracted from the several frequency components. Values of the selected frequency components are operated under a predetermined rule in accordance with an embedment signal that is generated from embedment information.

In an image viewer, a lot of image data files are registered in a database. In each image data file, positional data is attached to image data, indicating a camera location at which the image data is captured. An image arrangement decider gets the positional data from the image data files, and decides a lattice arrangement of registered images based on the positional data, so that the relative positions of the images in the lattice correspond to the correlations between the camera locations of these images. A control device controls a display device to display the images tightly in the decided arrangement on a screen. Information relating to the camera locations of the images, e.g. borders, place names or a map, may be retrieved based on the attached positional data from another database, and displayed in addition to the images.

A security thread for embedding in or on a sheet such as a document, currency or packaging is disclosed, wherein the thread has a thin film interference structure deposited thereon. The structure may be a Fabry-Perot structure in the form of a single filter, or may be plural filters, spaced side-by-side. The thread appears to have separated interference filters deposited thereon. Preferably the thread is first roll coated with oil using an oil-ablation technique to remove deposited material in situ in the coating process. A magnetic layer may be deposited within, behind or in front of the thin film interference structure.

An optical scanning apparatus scans a surface to be scanned in a main scanning direction by simultaneously using a plurality of optical spots formed of a plurality of optical beans emitted from an illuminant, comprising: a light path deflecting part deflecting a light path of at least one of the optical beams, wherein the light path deflecting part is provided in light paths of the optical beams wherein the light path deflecting part may use a liquid crystal deflecting element formed of a liquid crystal element being controllable by an electronic signal to deflect the light path of the one of the optical beams.

An image capturing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element having an object-side surface and an image-side surface which are both aspheric; a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface and an image-side surface which are both aspheric; a fifth lens element having an object-side surface and an image-side surface which are both aspheric; and a sixth lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface which are both aspheric. With such arrangements, the convergent capability is mainly contributed from the object side of the lens assembly for higher portability of the lens system. Additionally, the peripheral image curve can be prevented while correcting the chromatic aberration and the peripheral image focus.

An ocular fundus imager (8) automatically aligns fundus illuminating rays to enter the pupil (P) and to prevent corneal reflections from obscuring the fundus image produced. Focusing the produced fundus image is automatically performed and is based upon the fundus image iself. A head restraint for the patient undergoing examination is in the form of a pair of spectacles which is not only easy to use accurately but significantly reduce the gross alignment between the optical system (8) and the patent's pupil (P).

A driving circuit is provided, which includes multiple shift register units, at least one scan control unit and at least one all-gate-on unit. An operation of the driving circuit includes a driving phase and a discharging phase. During the driving phase, the at least one scan control unit controls the shift register units to output multiple driving signals successively in a first direction or in a second direction, the first direction being opposite to the second direction. During the discharging phase, the at least one all-gate-on unit controls the shift register units to output multiple driving signals simultaneously. An array substrate and a display apparatus each including the driving circuit are further provided.

A biometrical feature inputting apparatus includes a 1-dimensional or quasi 1-dimensional image sensor. When a finger and the image sensor are relatively slid, a finger sliding guide keeps a finger and an effective pixel unit of the image sensor to a constant distance without any contact between them. An image processing section sequentially generates partial images by imaging emission light that is scattered inside the finger and then emitted from a skin surface of the finger by the image sensor during the relative motion of the finger and the image sensor and link the partial images to an image.

A fingerprint detection apparatus, a mobile device using the same and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The fingerprint detection apparatus comprises an image sensing integrated circuit and a spatial filter disposed on the image sensing integrated circuit. The spatial filter has adjacent light tunnels for restricting an incident angle of light to the image sensing integrated circuit to prevent scattered light from entering the image sensing integrated circuit.