1485 results about "Background light" patented technology

A solid-state image sensor of a charge sorting method used in a time-of-flight measurement method, in which noise derived from background light, which is caused by the reflection light from the subject derived from background light is eliminated, reflection light from the subject derived from a predetermined light source, which is previously set in the solid-state image sensor, is effectively extracted as a signal component to achieve high sensitivity and low noise, which is a solid-state image sensor that is equipped with a plurality of charge-storage sections, discriminates photoelectrons generated by incoming light on the incoming timing and sort to the above-described plurality of charge-storage sections, and measures the timing of the incoming light, in which the sensor has: a plurality of capacitors that capable of conducting to the plurality of charge-storage sections; and a control section that controls a conducted state between the above-described plurality of charge-storage sections and the above-described plurality of capacitors, in which by selectively conducting the above-described plurality of charge-storage sections and the above-described plurality of capacitors by the control of the above-described control section, the difference component of charge stored in the above-described plurality of charge-storage sections is extracted.

A distance image sensor for removing the background light and improving the charge transfer efficiency in a device for measuring the distance to an object by measuring the time-of-flight of the light.In a distance image sensor for determining the signals of two charge storage nodes which depend on the delay time of the modulated light, a signal by the background light is received from the third charge storage node or the two charge storage nodes in a period when the modulated light does not exist, and is subtracted from the signal which depends on the delay time of the two charge storage nodes, so as to remove the influence of the background. Also by using a buried diode as a photo-detector, and using an MOS gate as gate means, the charge transfer efficiency improves. The charge transfer efficiency is also improved by using a negative feedback amplifier where a capacitor is disposed between the input and output.

A distance image sensor for removing the background light and improving the charge transfer efficiency in a device for measuring the distance to an object by measuring the time-of-flight of the light. In a distance image sensor for determining the signals of two charge storage nodes which depend on the delay time of the modulated light, a signal by the background light is received from the third charge storage node or the two charge storage nodes in a period when the modulated light does not exist, and is subtracted from the signal which depends on the delay time of the two charge storage nodes, so as to remove the influence of the background. Also by using a buried diode as a photo-detector, and using an MOS gate as gate means, the charge transfer efficiency improves. The charge transfer efficiency is also improved by using a negative feedback amplifier where a capacitor is disposed between the input and output.

PCT No. PCT / DE98 / 00827 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 17, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 17, 1998 PCT Filed Mar. 20, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98 / 43277 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 1998A flat fluorescent lamp (1) has a discharge vessel (2) having a base plate (7), a top plate (8) and a frame (9) which are connected to one another in a gas-tight fashion by means of solder (10). Structures resembling conductor tracks function in the interior of the discharge vessel as electrodes (3-6), in the feedthrough region as feedthroughs, and in the external region as external supply leads (13; 14). Flat lamps of the most different sizes can thereby be produced simply in engineering terms and in a fashion capable of effective automation. Moreover, virtually any electrode shapes can be realized, in particular optimized with regard to a uniform luminous density with a reduced drop in luminous density towards the edges of the flat lamp. At least the anodes (5, 6) are covered in each case with a dielectric layer (15). The lamp (1) is preferably operated by means of a pulsed voltage source and serves as background lighting for LCDs, for example in monitors or driver information displays.

The present invention provides a two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus and the method thereof. Said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus has the ability of displaying images, and capturing images, and comprises: a flat display panel 2, which is non-transparent when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus displays images and is transparent when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus captures images (the image of the user can pass through said flat display panel 2); a background light source module 4 located at the backside of said flat display panel 2, which is turned on when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus displays images and is turned off when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus captures images; a flat display controller 14, which is used to receive image files from a main controller 8 and display said image files on said flat display panel 2; an image capturer 6 located at the backside of said flat display panel 2, which is turned off when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus displays images and is activated to capture image of the user when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus captures images; and a main controller 8 used to control the image display and image capture of said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus, which transmits pre-stored image files to said flat display controller 14 and controls said background light source module 4 to open when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus displays images and turns on said background light source module 4 and activates said image capturer 6 when said two-in-one image display / image capture apparatus captures images.

First image data including a first pixel value according to the intensity of background light is obtained by means of only exposure. Second image data including a second pixel value according to the intensity of the light reflected or scattered by an object is obtained by so controlling light emission and exposure as to receive part of the reflected or scattered light over the whole exposure period. The part of the reflected or scattered light corresponds to the flat period of emitted pulsed light. Third image data including a third pixel value according to the distance to the object is obtained by so controlling light emission and exposure as to receive the part of the reflected or scattered light for a time according to the distance. The first pixel value is subtracted from each of the second and third pixel values so that the influence of the background light can be excluded. The ratio between the subtraction results is calculated so that the influences of factors that vary the intensity of the reflected or scattered light can be cancelled.

A system and method can mitigate or prevent contrast ratio issues due to bright light (e.g., light saturation) in a head up display (HUD). The head up display can include a waveguide combiner (or non-waveguide combiner) and a mitigator disposed to prevent or reduce bright light from being provided through the combiner. The bright light can be direct lunar light, direct solar light, or solar / lunar reflections. The mitigator dynamically selects and reduces bright background light which results in an increase of contrast ratio.

A cost effective illumination control system calculating motion and daylight or surrounding light inputs, particularly in large structures where the light distribution is not uniform across time. The system divides the structure into zones each having input capability with regard to occupation and background light levels. Each zone being able to make independent decisions with regard to control of lighting levels in the zone, yet the zones being able to cooperate in a coordinated fashion to provide uniform lighting to the structure as a whole.

The invention discloses a liquid crystal display screen, a display device and a quantum dot layer graphical method. A plurality of pixel units are arranged in a liquid crystal panel; each pixel unit comprises a plurality of subpixel units capable of displaying different colors; and a monochromatic quantum dot layer is arranged at the position corresponding to at least one color of subpixel unit of each pixel unit. The embodiment of the invention substitutes the quantum dot layer for the conventional resin to serve as a color filter for converting background light into monochromatic light, the emission spectrum of the quantum dots is narrow and the luminous efficiency is high, and the background light can be efficiently converted into monochromic light, so the color gamut of the liquid crystal display screen can be improved, the color saturation is enhanced and the display quality of the display screen is improved. The monochromic quantum dots are dispersed by a high-molecular polymer network, so accumulation of the quantum dots can be avoided, the quantum yield is increased, the quantum excited lighting effect can be improved, contact of the monochromic quantum dots and oxygen can be avoided, and the service life of the quantum dots is prolonged.

The invention discloses a method and device for using a mobile terminal to carry out self photographing, which are used for the mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of: (S1) opening a front camera in the mobile terminal; (S2) sensing the light intensity of the current environment by a light sensor of the mobile terminal; (S3) adjusting the brightness of a screen of the mobile terminal according to the light intensity of the environment; and (S4) utilizing light rays emitted from the screen of the mobile terminal as a light source in self photographing, and using the front camera to carry out self photographing. The invention has the advantages that when the user starts the front cameras of mobile equipment such as a mobile phone and a flat computer under the environment with poorer light for self photographing, the brightness of the backlight of the screen can be automatically adjusted by the light sensor, more light-source environments are provided for the human face, and simultaneously the preferred background light sources can be selected according to the willing of the user, so that the photographing effect is improved to a certain extent and the user experience is enhanced.

A display system (1) having improved viewability and reduced in size and manufacturing cost has a display device (10) which includes an image forming layer (111) capable of emitting display light toward both front and back sides, and which can produce a display on a first surface (11) by a display light portion emitted toward the back side and produce a display on a second surface (12) at the back of the first surface by a display light portion emitted toward the back side. The display also has an optical transmission control device (20, 21) which is placed along at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and which can control transmission of at least one of background light from a position at the back of the second surface as viewed from the first surface side and background light from a position at the back of the first surface as viewed from the second surface side.

The invention relates to an underwater image enhancement method based on dark channel prior algorithm and white balance. The method achieves better image enhancement through the modification of background light, improves the image definition and contrast, and achieves the purpose of image optimization. The employed technical scheme is that the method comprises the following steps: A, background light processing step; B, dark channel prior step: 1, obtaining a fined transmissivity t(x) after image cut and a defogged image through employing the dark channel prior algorithm; 2, exporting a depth map d(x) through the transmissivity t(x); 3, obtaining a needed mask; 4, extracting an AOI (area of interest); C, white balance step. The method is mainly used in an occasion of underwater image enhancement.

A self illuminated belt buckle comprising a housing with a symbol shaped opening in the front and an opening in the bottom of the housing. The housing containing at least one power source, and at least one light source such as an LED which may be connected to a switch. The at least one power source providing power to the light source which provides background lighting through the symbol shaped opening and through the opening in the bottom of the housing. The light source and power source not being visible from outside of the housing. The housing further being connected to an attachment device such as a belt buckle or brooch pin. The housing also being formed from diamond plate.

Optical apparatuses are provided that use near-field light, where high spatial resolution and high sensitivity are made compatible. Highly intense near-field light is generated in a narrow area using localized plasmons that are produced in a metal pattern 106 in a shape that bears anisotropy and is made to irradiate a measured subject. The direction of polarization 104 of incident light 103 is modulated and signal light is subjected to synchronous detection, so that background light is removed and high sensitivity is achieved.

The invention discloses a device and a method for measuring square wave modulated photoelectric volume pulse wave. A microprocessor outputs square waves which have different frequencies and form a double ratio relationship; the square waves drive at least two light-emitting diodes; the light from the light-emitting diodes are received by a photosensitive device after passing through tested finger; the photosensitive device converts the light into a voltage signal; the voltage signal is converted into a predefined amplitude value voltage signal by a current / voltage conversion amplifier; an analogue-to-digital converter converts the predefined amplitude value voltage signal into a digital signal; the microprocessor processes the digital signal to obtain photoelectric volume pulse wave and valley value and peak value thereof, and gets spectrum value by the valley value and the peak value. The measurement method comprises the following steps of: separating the digital signal to obtain the photoelectric volume pulse wave and removing interference of background light by the microprocessor; getting the valley value and the peak value according to the photoelectric volume pulse wave; and calculating the valley value and the peak value to obtain light absorbance difference, and obtaining the spectrum value by the light absorbance difference. The accurate measurement, simple circuit and low cost are realized.

The invention relates to a method for detecting the defects of chain belts of a zipper on the basis of digital image processing, belonging to a novel technology in the technical field of appearance quality inspection of zippers in the hardware industry. According to the method, a detection device consisting of a target positioning and triggering device, an image acquisition sensor, a conveyor belt driving device, a background light source device, a feed belt, a sorting device and a PC (Personal Computer) machine or an embedded control system is utilized to carry out detection; and a zipper product to be detected is fed into a feed belt platform of the detection device and is then fed to a detection region under the drive of the driving device, then the zipper product is subjected to target positioning by the target positioning and triggering device, a chain belt digital image of the zipper is acquired by the image acquisition sensor, the image is transmitted to the PC machine or the embedded control system, the target image is processed by the PC machine or the embedded control system, and whether a chain belt region of the zipper has the defects is compared and judged according to a processing result and the judgment standard. The method has the characteristics of simple detection process, high detection speed, high detection accuracy and the like.

The invention provides an automatic tracing identification system for artificial neural control. The system comprises a fixed viewing field video acquisition module, a full-functional variable viewing field video acquisition module, a video image identification and judgment algorithm module, an artificial neural control module, a moving object track tracing module, a database comparison and alarm judgment module, a monitoring characteristic entering and rule setting module, a light monitoring and controlling module, a background light source module, an alarm output, display and storage module and a safety monitoring sensor. The system fully solves the problems of unclear doubtful target characteristics, single function, low intelligence degree and the like in post processing and images of the prior image monitoring system, uses the artificial neural control, biological identification technology and intelligent image identification algorithm, and has the characteristics of high intelligence degree, precaution, clear doubtful object images, high cost performance and the like.

The invention provides an automatic exposure method based on an analogous column diagram, which has favourable exposure effect on various situations, such as dark background light target, target size uncertainty and the like in deep space exploration. An automatic exposure control system is a closed loop control system and mainly comprises three modules: target gray level statistics, comparative judgment with expected values and exposure time calculation; data statistics analysis is carried out by gray scale region division, gray scale value weighting average calculation and the like so as to determine exposure required by shooting. Because of having low requirement on hardware, the invention can be suitable for different hardware platforms by slightly modifying, and can balance calculation speed, logic resource use, system time sequence requirement and the like according to the practical situation so as to choose different control modes.

The invention relates to a laser radar coaxial transmitting and receiving system and a coaxial adjustment method thereof and belongs to the technical field of laser radar, and the method can be used for solving the problem that the coaxial adjustment period of a laser radar receiving and transmission light path is long. The laser radar coaxial transmission and receiving system is composed of a laser device, a transmission telescope, a first reflecting mirror, a second reflecting mirror, a receiving telescope, a concave lens, a convex lens, a beam splitter, an optical fiber, a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera, a computer and a motor rotation control system. The coaxial adjustment method based on the system comprises the following steps: adjusting the visual field definition of the receiving telescope; when the receiving telescope receives background light, obtaining a standard centroid position acquired by the CCD camera; starting the laser device, calculating the real-time centroid position of an image acquired by the CCD camera in real time, and calculating the deviation between the two centroid positions; and controlling the pitching and bearing of the first reflecting mirror until the deviation reaches an error tolerance, thus realizing the coaxial adjustment. The method provided by the invention is applicable to the coaxial adjustment of a laser radar receiving and transmission system.

A method of operating an optical navigation system which includes disabling a light source to measure the ambient or external light level, comparing the measurement to a threshold level to determine whether the ambient light would cause false detection and light induced motion, and adjusting sensing parameter(s) to mitigate the effect of the ambient light.

To transfer signal charges generated by a semiconductor photoelectric conversion element in opposite directions, the center line of a first transfer gate electrode and that of a second transfer gate electrodes are arranged on the same straight line, and a U-shaped first exhausting gate electrode and a second exhausting gate electrode are arranged to oppose to each other. The first exhausting gate electrode exhausts background charges generated by a background light in the charge generation region, and the second exhausting gate electrode exhausts background charges generated by the background light in the charge generation region. The background charges exhausted by the first exhausting gate electrode are received by a first exhausting drain region and the background charges exhausted by the second exhausting gate electrode are received by a first exhausting drain region.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transparent display assembly, including a transparent display panel which has a light emitting face for displaying an image and a back face opposite to the light emitting face. The transparent display assembly further includes a light adjustment structure arranged on a side of the back face of the transparent display panel; in a display mode, the light adjustment structure blocks an background light and prevents the background light from entering the transparent display panel through the light adjustment structure; in a non-display mode, the light adjustment structure allows the background light to enter the transparent display panel through the light adjustment structure.

The invention proposes an interference cancellation method of a visible light communication system. The visible light communication is most vulnerable to be interfered by the environmental light, the invention adopts an optical space division method to separate an interference source and a communication light source on a photoelectric sensor, then a background interference value is obtained by using the time-related sampling and the space-related sampling, after that, the background interference value is subtracted from the output of the data signal according to the function weight, so as to offset the impact of the background light.

The invention relates to the technical field of optical instruments, in particular to an underwater video camera system based on polarization identification and a method thereof. The technical scheme is that the underwater video camera system comprises an underwater light source, a polarization modulation part and an image acquisition and processing part, wherein the underwater light source comprises a semiconductor laser, an optical filter, a polarizer, a polarization rotator and a beam expander; the polarization modulation part comprises an analyzer, a stepper motor, a stepper motor controller and an infrared detector; and the image acquisition and processing part comprises a high-frequency CCD (Charge Coupled Device) video camera, an image acquisition system and a computer. The underwater video camera system has the benefits that with the adoption of the underwater camera system and the method, the contrast degree and the definition of target imaging as well as the target detectionand the identification efficiency can be effectively improved; the polarization imaging can utilize the differences of different target back polarizations to eliminate the interference of background light; and as a means for identifying the target from messy background is provided, the method has remarkable advantage as compared with the commoner method for imaging and identifying the target by using light intensity.

A method of operating an optical navigation system which includes disabling a light source to measure the ambient or external light level, comparing the measurement to a threshold level to determine whether the ambient light would cause false detection and light induced motion, and adjusting sensing parameter(s) to mitigate the effect of the ambient light.

The invention puts forward an image registration method based on an inertial sensor and a camera. The camera and the inertial sensor are synchronously controlled to operate to simultaneously acquire the color image and depth image of the same scene and the three-axis motion angular velocity and three-axis motion acceleration of the camera; Kalman filtering is utilized to carry out filtering on the three-axis motion angular velocity and the three-axis motion acceleration, the Eulerian dynamics equation is used for converting the three-axis acceleration into a Eulerian angle, the uniformly accelerated motion formula is used for converting the three-axis angular velocity into three-axis displacement, and thereby an external reference matrix of the camera is obtained; by utilizing the affine transformation relation between the color image and the depth image and the proportional relation between depth image grey value and pixel depth information, the depth information of angular points in the depth image is solved; an OFCM (Orthogonal Frequency-division Multiplexing) model is used for calculation to obtain image background optical flow; the RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) algorithm is used for completing image registration. The calculation load of the method is low, both the real-timeness and the precision are high, and the method is applicable to hand-held devices and mobile devices.

The invention discloses an indoor visible positioning method and system based on camera shooting frame analysis. The system comprises a plurality of LED light sources, wherein the LED light sources are used for emitting modulated visible light with ultra-long sequence information; and an indoor positioning device which is used for taking a series of images corresponding to the visible light emitted by the LED light sources, obtaining and recognizing the bright and dark stripes in the images, eliminating the background light of the image, demodulating the binary information in each image, jointing the information demodulated from each image to form a needed ultra-long sequence, obtaining the identity information of the light sources, searching the position information, corresponding to the identity information, in an indoor map, and obtaining the current position. The system can carry out the high-speed and large-capacity modulation, coding and image processing, can eliminate the background light in photographing, and can improve the image processing precision.

The invention discloses a sine-wave modulation photo plethysmo graphy measuring device and method. A microprocessor is used for outputting sine waves which are at different frequencies and are in a twifold rate relation; the sine waves are used for driving at least four light-emitting diodes; light emitted by the light-emitting diodes is received by a light-sensitive device after passing through a tested finger; the light-sensitive device is used for converting the received light into a voltage signal; the voltage signal is converted into a preset amplitude voltage signal by using a current / voltage conversion amplifier; an analog to digital converter is used for converting the preset amplitude voltage signal into a digital signal; the microprocessor is used for processing the digital signal to obtain photo plethysmo graphy and a valley value and a peak value of the photo plethysmo graphy; and a spectrum value is obtained according to the valley value and the peak value. The method comprises the following steps of: performing phase locking computation and separation processing on the digital signal to obtain photo plethysmo graphy and eliminating the interference of background light by using the microprocessor; acquiring the valley value and the peak value according to the photo plethysmo graphy; and computing the valley value and the peak value to obtain an absorbency difference value and obtaining a spectrum value according to the absorbency difference value. A circuit is simple, and the digital signal is concise.

An imaging system and method that captures compressive sensing (CS) measurements of a received light stream, and also obtains samples of background light level (BGLL). The BGLL samples may be used to compensate the CS measurements for variations in the BGLL. The system includes: a light modulator to spatially modulate the received light stream with spatial patterns, and a lens to concentrate the modulated light stream onto a light detector. The samples of BGLL may be obtained in various ways: (a) injecting calibration patterns among the spatial patterns; (b) measuring complementary light reflected by digital micromirrors onto a secondary output path; (c) separating and measuring a portion of light from the optical input path; (d) low-pass filtering the CS measurements; and (e) employing a light power meter with its own separate input path. Also, the CS measurements may be high-pass filtered to attenuate background light variation.

An optical detection method and system are provided. Sample light is delivered into an anatomical structure having a target voxel, whereby a portion of the sample light passing through the target voxel is scattered by the anatomical structure as signal light, and another portion of the sample light not passing through the target voxel is scattered by the anatomical structure as background light that is combined with the signal light to create a sample light pattern. The sample light pattern and the reference light having an M number of different phases are concurrently combined to respectively generate an M number of interference light patterns. The M number of interference light patterns are detected. M pluralities of values representative of spatial components of the respective M number of interference light patterns are generated, and a physiologically-dependent optical parameter of the target voxel is determined based on the M pluralities of values.