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9691402

15446553

1. A method for reconstructing a wideband audio signal, the method comprising: decomposing a lowband audio signal into a plurality of complex subband signals with an analysis filterbank, each of the plurality of complex subband signals representing a frequency channel of the analysis filterbank; generating a highband audio signal by patching a number of consecutive complex subband signals, wherein the generating includes: frequency translating a complex subband signal in a source area channel of the lowband audio signal having an index i to a reconstruction range channel having an index j of the highband audio signal, and frequency translating a complex subband signal in a source area channel of the lowband audio signal having an index i+1 to a reconstruction range channel having an index j+1 of the highband audio signal; adjusting a spectral envelope of the highband audio signal to a desired level; combining the lowband audio signal and the highband audio signal with a synthesis filterbank to generate the wideband audio signal, wherein the lowband audio signal has frequency components below a crossover frequency and the highband audio signal has frequency components above the crossover frequency, and wherein the analysis filterbank and the synthesis filterbank each have L channels, and L is an integer value.

8380588

12687871

1. A method comprising: receiving a configuration specifying which components and which attributes of components of a first multilevel bill of material and a second multilevel bill of material are to be compared, where a component may include internal items used to manufacture an end part and an association to the internal item, where the association may be manufacturer parts and/or file attachments, and where an attribute is information about a component used to identify whether the components match; comparing, by a computer processor, attributes of one or more internal items of the first and second multilevel bills of material to determine differences between the attributes of one or more internal items in the first multilevel bill of material and attributes of corresponding internal items in the second multilevel bill of material to identify an internal item in the first multilevel bill of material that matches an internal item in the second multilevel bill of material; comparing, by the computer processor, attributes of one or more associations for identified matched internal items of the first and second multilevel bills of material to determine differences between the one or more associations of the identified matched internal item in the first multilevel bill of material and the one or more associations of the identified matched internal item in the second multilevel bill of material; generating a report showing a side-by-side result of comparing the one or more internal items and comparing the one or more associations, wherein the report shows which internal items of the first multilevel bill of material are not matched with internal items of the second multilevel bill of material and shows which of the one or more associations of the identified matched internal item of the first multilevel bill of material are not the same as the one or more associations of the identified matched internal item of the second multilevel bill of material; and outputting the report.

8036492

12851230

1. A method of orienting an object in an image represented by a digital signal representation into a desired orientation comprising the steps of: deriving orientation of said object relative to a reference entity, and subjecting the digital signal representation of said object to an orientation modifying geometric transformation to yield said desired orientation, wherein said desired orientation is obtained by calculating mathematical moments of the digital signal representation relative to different reference entities, and obtaining a decision on the orientation of the radiographic image on the basis of an extreme value (maximum, minimum) of the calculated moment(s).

20100232434

12404140

1. An apparatus comprising: matching logic configured to concurrently evaluate packet header information against respective entries of a rule set coded in storage; and a hash generator for calculating a hash result relative to the evaluated packet information, the hash generator including intermediate and final portions and a filtration stage coupled therebetween, wherein the intermediate portion is configured as a chain of hash-intermediate stages each coupled to calculate a rule entry evaluation-specific contribution for possible inclusion in the hash and, for lower-order ones of the hash-intermediate stages, for possible propagation down chain and inclusion in a next higher-order hash-intermediate stage contribution, and wherein the filtration stage is selective for a rule entry-specific contribution from a particular one of the hash-intermediate stages for supply to the final portion for use in completing calculation of the hash result.

9245120

13942360

1. A system for intelligently rescanning files previously identified as having a benign, unknown, or malicious disposition, comprising: a plurality of clients and a server which are capable of communicating with each other either directly or indirectly; wherein each client is configured to: identify files of interest from a plurality of files on a file system based upon activity of the files including creating, moving, copying or executing the files; extract meta-data from the files of interest, including the files of interest that have previously been assigned a benign, an unknown or a malicious disposition, and provide the server with the files of interest and an identifier for each of the files of interest indicating respective clients on which the files of interest are located as well as the associated meta-data for each of the files of interest, and wherein the server is configured to: log the files of interest and the associated meta-data into log files, and periodically scan the log files to identify a subset of files whose characteristics indicate a probable disposition change; rescan the identified files against information stored at the server at a time of rescanning to determine whether a disposition change has occurred for each of the identified files; and identify the respective clients corresponding to the rescanned files having a disposition change.

20080100858

11931697

1. An image processing device comprising: a reflectance-component calculating portion that calculates a reflectance component based both on a pixel value of a subject pixel in an original image and on an average luminance of peripheral pixels around the subject pixel, the reflectance component being indicative of brightness of the subject pixel relative to the peripheral pixels; and a first pixel-value generating portion that generates a pixel value of an output image when the reflectance component indicates that the subject pixel is darker than the peripheral pixels, the first pixel-value generating portion comprising: a first lower-range generating portion that generates the pixel value of the output image based on a first nonlinear function in a first lower range where the pixel value of the subject pixel is lower than a first predetermine value; and a first upper-range generating portion that generates the pixel value of the output image based on a first monotonically increasing function in a first upper range where the pixel value of the subject pixel is greater than or equal to the first predetermine value, the pixel value of the output image increasing toward a first maximum output luminance value as the pixel value of the subject pixel increases, the first maximum output luminance value being greater than a luminance value obtained by correcting a maximum pixel value of the original image based on the first nonlinear function, the first maximum output luminance value being proximate to the maximum pixel value of the original image.

20160210339

14967580

1. A similarity determination apparatus, comprising: a processor that executes a process comprising: counting a number of appearances of each keyword included in a piece of document information; deleting any arrangement including a keyword having the number of appearances less than a threshold under a condition where a number of types of keyword arrangements included in a certain range of the piece of document information is equal to or greater than a certain number; extracting, as features, a plurality of keyword arrangements from the piece of document information; and determining a similarity between the different pieces of document information by comparing the features extracted from pieces of document information different from each other.

20070203430

11678763

1. A method of assessing cartilage damage or disease in a joint comprising cartilage and accompanying bone on either side of the joint, which method comprises (a) obtaining a three-dimensional map of cartilage of said joint in which said map demonstrates thickness or biochemical contents or relaxation time of both normal and damaged or diseased cartilage of said joint, and (b) determining at least one margin between damaged or diseased cartilage and normal cartilage in said three-dimensional map.

20090073033

11857425

1. A method for inferring activities associated with a user, the method comprising: receiving at least one location trace and corresponding contextual information; deriving a set of venues based on the location trace based on a venue database, wherein a respective hypothetical visit is associated with the contextual information corresponding to the location trace; deriving a set of activity types associated with a context based on the venues, the corresponding context indicated by the location trace, and a venue-to-activity mapping; receiving a user query context; identifying a number of activity types of which the associated contextual information is similar to the user query context; weighting a respective identified activity type based on its associated context's similarity to the user query context; normalizing weights associated with each identified activity type; and producing an activity-type probability distribution, thereby facilitating inferring activities associated with the user.

9020804

11756684

1. An alignment method comprising: with a computing device, for a source sentence in a source language, prior to word level alignment of the source sentence with a target sentence in a target language, identifying whether the sentence includes at least one candidate term comprising a contiguous subsequence of words of the source sentence; aligning the target sentence in the target language with the source sentence, comprising: developing a probabilistic model which models conditional probability distributions for alignments between words of the source sentence and words of the target sentence; and generating an optimal alignment based on the probabilistic model, including, where the source sentence includes the at least one candidate term, enforcing a contiguity constraint which requires that all the words of the target sentence which are aligned with an identified candidate term form a contiguous subsequence of the target sentence.

9665543

11689370

1. A method for supporting links within a document containing text, the method comprising: identifying representations embedded within a word processor document of links to sources external to the word processor document, the word processor document produced using a word processor program running on a computing system and configured to create, edit and display both text and hyperlinks within the word processor document; appending the word processor document to include initial content representations comprising all content of each external source; identifying a current validity status automatically for each identified link representation during creation of the word processor document, at an initial time of publication of the word processing document and at a later time after initial publication, the validity status comprising accuracy of the link representation, functionality of the link representation, accessibility of the external sources and content of the external sources; expressing the identified current validity status of one or more of the identified link representations using aspects of the document other than the identified link representations; and providing notification to an author and readers of the word processor document of the current validity status.

20150235101

14181861

1. A camera system including: an image sensor; and a pre-processing circuit adapted to associate weights respectively with cells of a grid, wherein the cells respectively include a plurality of contiguous picture elements of the image sensor; wherein the pre-processing circuit is configured to adaptively change the weights responsive to changes in the scene being imaged by the image sensor.

5432331

08255019

1. A focus detecting system for detecting the focus condition of a constantly moving image in an optical system, comprising: a) means for detecting the sharpness of a plurality of sub-images formed along a plurality of sight lines by said optical system said detecting means including a plurality of detectors arranged in a plane tilted with respect to an image plane of said optical system and said detectors aligned with a direction of motion of the image formed by said optical system such that said sub-images are detected at a plurality of positions in the vicinity of best focus of the optical system; b) means for providing a time delay between said sub-images such that the sub images represent the same portion of a scene being imaged by said optical system; and c) means responsive to said sub-images for computing a position of best focus for said optical system.

10078895

15389872

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer control the computer to perform a method for predicting recurrence of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the method comprising: accessing an image of a region of tissue demonstrating NSCLC, where the region of tissue includes a cell; defining a segmented cell by segmenting a cell represented in the image from the background of the image; extracting a set of morphological features from the segmented cell, where the set of morphological features includes a shape feature or a color feature; classifying the segmented cell as a tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) or as a non-TIL based, at least in part, on the set of morphological features; constructing a graph of TIL spatial architecture represented in the image; computing a set of TIL density statistical features based on the graph; providing the set of TIL density statistical features to an automated classifier; receiving, from the automated classifier, a probability that the region of tissue will experience NSCLC recurrence; and controlling a computer aided diagnosis (CADx) system to classify the region of tissue as a non-recurrence region or a recurrence region based, at least in part, on the probability or the graph.

7715605

11507383

1. A method, comprising: automatically displaying curvature of a spine as a line in an image of the spine; wherein automatically displaying the curvature of the spine comprises: improving contrast of the image of the spine by generating a mask of the spine and improving the contrast of vertebrae of the spine, wherein generating a mask of the spine comprises finding a region of interest, wherein finding a region of interest comprises: dividing the image into a plurality of slices, wherein a width of each slice is equal to a width of the image; and a height of each slice is a predetermined number of times smaller than a height of the image; for each slice, equalizing a histogram to spread the intensity distribution and applying a threshold of a predetermined percentage of a maximum intensity to raise the contrast; shifting each of the slices by one tenth of the height of the slice; repeating the steps of dividing, equalizing and shifting a predetermined number of times, obtaining a set of results; and calculating a mean of the set of results.

20160100811

14976075

1. A periodontal disease testing apparatus comprising: an X-ray CT scanner photographing a portion including a tooth, a gingiva, and alveolar bone within an oral cavity to generate volume data of the portion; region setting means setting a related region of a subject tooth based on the volume data; defining means defining a principal axis of the subject tooth; correcting means correcting the related region so as to align the principal axis of the subject tooth with a normal direction of a cross-section of an X-ray CT image; multi-planar reconstruction image generating means generating a multi-planar reconstruction image of the corrected related region; means for generating developed image and the like transforming a coordinate of the related region to generate a developed image and a rotated image; and navigating means indicating correspondences of a spatial coordinate among the multi-planar reconstruction image, the developed image, and the rotated image.

20150285913

14671197

1. A method for optically scanning and measuring a scene by a three-dimensional (3D) measurement device in which multiple scans are generated by the device, and the multiple scans are then registered in a joint coordinate system of the scene, comprising: generating at least one cluster from at least one scan of the multiple of scans; registering additional scans from the multiple of scans for test purposes in a coordinate system of the generated at least one cluster; confirming the registering of the additional scans if specified quality criteria are fulfilled; and joining clusters generated from the additional scans by selecting at least two clusters and registering the at least two clusters for test purposes and confirming the registering, wherein the clusters to be joined are visualized for supporting user selection of the at least two clusters.

20170300166

15470669

1. A system comprising: a substrate; a resistive touch sensor arranged across the substrate and comprising an array of sense electrode and drive electrode pairs; a force-sensing layer arranged over the resistive touch sensor opposite the substrate and comprising a force-sensitive material exhibiting variations in local bulk resistance responsive to local variations in applied force; a first shield electrode coupled to the force-sensing layer, extending across a first region of the force-sensing layer, and electrically coupled to the substrate; and a controller coupled to the substrate and configured to: during a first resistance scan cycle in a first sampling period: drive the first shield electrode to a virtual reference potential; and read resistance values across sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the resistive touch sensor; and during a first processing cycle succeeding the first resistance scan cycle within the first sampling period: release the first shield electrode from the virtual reference potential; and transform resistance values read from sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the force-sensing layer into a force touch image, the force touch image representing locations and force magnitudes of objects applied over the force-sensing layer.

20090182694

12346965

1. A method for performing acid fracturing operations of an oilfield, comprising: obtaining a plurality of historical data of acid fracturing treatments of the oilfield; generating a neural network based on the plurality of historical data; identifying, in the neural network, a stimulation parameter associated with optimal performance of the acid fracturing treatments; establishing a best practice procedure for performing the acid fracturing operations based on the stimulation parameter; and storing the best practice procedure in a repository.

20130147866

13323939

1. A method of printing a digital image, comprising: receiving compressed image data having spatial compression, relative to corresponding uncompressed image data, in a direction of relative movement between a print medium and a printhead, the printhead having plural spaced-apart lines of nozzles to emit a same colorant, the lines orthogonal to the direction; and printing the compressed image data using a single one of the lines of nozzles to form a printed image without the spatial compression.

20130006641

13616331

1. A method of generating answers to questions, comprising: receiving an input query; decomposing the input query into a plurality of different subqueries; conducting a search in one or more data sources to identify at least one candidate answer to each of the subqueries; for each of the candidate answers for each of the subqueries, applying a candidate ranking function to determine a ranking for said each of the candidate answers; for each of the subqueries, selecting one of the candidate answers to the subquery based on the ranking of said one of the candidate answers; and applying a logical synthesis component to synthesize a candidate answer for the input query from the selected ones of the candidate answers to the subqueries.

20140280181

14213906

1. An apparatus for generating a playlist, comprising: a processor coupled to a memory operable to function as: an application programming interface (API) operable to receive a request to generate a playlist, the request including a set of rule-primitives; and a playlist engine evaluator operable to: evaluate a rule corresponding to each rule-primitive in the set of rule-primitives across a catalog of media content; calculate a cost associated with each item in the catalog of media content; and generate a playlist based on the items of the catalog having the lowest costs.

9344738

14282848

1. A decoding method of a decoding device, comprising: obtaining, by the decoding device, a motion vector difference for a current block in a current picture from an input bitstream; obtaining, by the decoding device, a motion vector of a neighboring block of the current block, wherein the neighboring block is in the current picture and wherein the motion vector of the neighboring block is used to decode the neighboring block according to a reference picture of the neighboring block; interpolating, by the decoding device, the motion vector of the neighboring block of the current block based on a distance between the reference picture of the neighboring block and the current picture and a distance between a reference picture of the current block and the current picture to generate an interpolated motion vector, wherein the refrence picture of the neighboring block is different from the reference picture of the current block; predicting, by the decoding device, a motion vector of the current block based on the interpolated motion vector to generate a predicted motion vector; and adding, by the decoding device, the predicted motion vector and the motion vector difference to generate the motion vector of the current block.

20080079655

11797848

1. An image processing system comprising: a display that displays a still image and a moving image to move over the still image; a snapshot-image producing unit that produces the snapshot image of the moving image; and an arranging unit that arranges the snapshot image on the still image.

9489401

14741186

1. An object identification method comprising: providing one or more databases which contain: a corpus of reference images, each reference image comprising an identifiable reference object and being associated in the database with a corresponding text description of the reference object; and a plurality of image query resolution data structures, each comprising a collection of records wherein each record includes an image descriptor of one of the reference images, and wherein each data structure is searchable using a corresponding one of a set of predetermined search algorithms to identify a closest match record within the data structure based upon the image descriptors, populating the corpus of reference images, at least in part, by one or more crawler processes, each configured to traverse a corresponding selected subset of the internet, to identify and extract reference images comprising reference objects, and to analyze image-associated content to determine the corresponding text description of the reference object comprised within each extracted reference image; updating the image query resolution data structures to incorporate records for the extracted reference images; receiving a query comprising an input image which includes a query object; for each of one or more applicable search algorithms selected from the set of predetermined search algorithms, generating a query image descriptor of the input image and searching the corresponding image query resolution data structure to identify a closest match record corresponding with the query image descriptor; selecting a best available match record from the closest match records identified in the image query resolution data structures; retrieving the text description associated with the reference image corresponding with the best available match record; and providing, as an output object identification, the retrieved text description.

9515889

13096773

1. A method for determining a derived geographic location of a target Internet host, the method including: identifying plural landmark Internet hosts communicatively coupled with each other and with the target Internet host by a packet-switched network; identifying a geographic area of interest that includes the landmark Internet hosts; determining the landmark Internet hosts by searching for one or more entities having the landmark Internet hosts and geographic locations located within the area of interest; verifying that one or more of an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a domain name of a website or an email exchange server for each of the landmark Internet hosts is associated with one or more computers disposed at the landmark geographic location of the landmark Internet host; sending first probe packets to the target Internet host and to each of the landmark Internet hosts from plural vantage points; measuring first network latencies of the first probe packets transmitted to the target Internet host and to each of the landmark Internet hosts along different network pathways in the network; calculating relative distances between the target Internet host and one or more of the landmark Internet hosts based on the first network latencies; comparing the relative distances; determining the landmark Internet host that has a smallest relative distance from the target Internet host; obtaining a geographic location of the landmark Internet host that has the smallest relative distance from the target Internet host; and determining the derived geographic location of the target Internet host: without at least one of receiving an actual geographic location of the target Internet host from a third party or having administrative access to the target Internet host and at least one of the landmark Internet hosts, and by setting the derived geographic location to the geographic location of the landmark Internet host that has the smallest relative distance from the target Internet host; and wherein measuring the first network latencies includes: identifying at least one common node in the network that is disposed along each of a first network pathway that extends from a first vantage point of the plural vantage points to the target Internet host and a second network pathway that extends from the same first vantage point to one of the landmark Internet hosts; determining a network latency of a first leg of the first network pathway between the at least one common node and the target Internet host; determining a network latency of a second leg of the second network pathway between the at least one common node and the one of the landmark Internet hosts; and calculating a derived network latency for a derived network pathway by summing the network latencies of the first and second legs, wherein the derived network pathway extends from the one of the landmark Internet hosts to the target Internet host via the at least one common node, wherein the relative distance of the one of the landmark Internet hosts is based on the derived network latency.

20030231348

10393327

1. An image processing method that puts input image data represented by multi-value pixels into gradation representation of dots having binary data of plural minute pixels while performing error diffusion processing, comprising: a first step that, when a dot is formed which corresponds to correction image data produced by adding correction data to multi-value image data of a multi-value target pixel, only in the case where the dot is to be formed so as to be adjacent to a dot formed for a proper adjacent multi-value pixel, forms the dot even if it has less than k (2 or greater integer) number of minute pixels, and in other cases, forms only a dot having k number of minute pixels or more.

8306712

12409649

1. A method of determining an adhesive condition of a surface of a vehicle road using a statistical pattern recognition technique, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of probability distribution functions for a plurality of road surfaces which represent respective adhesive effects between the vehicle tire of a driven vehicle and the vehicle road; (b) obtaining a steering wheel angle, a vehicle speed, and a yaw rate of the driven vehicle; (c) calculating an index which represents a vehicle understeer characteristic for a vehicle traveling on a current road that is a function of the steering wheel angle input, the vehicle speed, and the yaw rate; (d) applying a probability analysis for each of the road surface adhesive conditions as a function of the index; (e) recursively updating the probability analysis for each respective road surface adhesive condition; (f) determining a likelihood factor for each road surface adhesive condition as a function of each respective recursively updated probability analysis, each respective road surface adhesive condition having a respective likelihood factor that identifies the likelihood of the road surface having the respective adhesive condition as a function of the index; (g) selecting the respective road surface adhesive condition having a highest likelihood factor among each of the determined likelihood factors; and (h) a vehicle control system adjusting control operations as a function of the selected road surface adhesive condition for enhancing vehicle stability of the vehicle.

8965053

14118887

1. Method for remotely determining an absolute azimuth of a target point (B) in which: a first series of images is acquired (S 1 ) by means of a first piece of equipment ( 1 ), comprising at least one image of a first visual environment from a first location (P 1 ), the location coordinates of which are known; the elements of said images are associated (S 2 ) with absolute azimuth values in a frame of reference centred on said first location (P 1 ); a first image database is constituted (S 3 ), associated with the location coordinates of the first location (P 1 ); said first image database is transferred (S 4 ) to a second piece of equipment ( 2 ), said second piece of equipment ( 2 ) storing said first image database; a second series of images is acquired (S 5 ) by means of said second piece of equipment ( 2 ), comprising at least one image of a second visual environment from a second location (P 2 ), the location coordinates of which are known and from which the target point (B) is visible; at least one point of correspondence is determined (S 6 ) between the first image database and at least one image of the second series of images, said at least one point of correspondence corresponding to a common element (A) shared by both the first and second visual environment; an absolute azimuth (θ 2 ) is attributed (S 7 ) to the common element (A) in a frame of reference centred on the second location (P 2 ); a relative azimuth (θ 3 ) of the target point (B) is determined (S 8 ) in relation to said common element (A), in the frame of reference centred on the second location (P 2 ); an absolute azimuth (θ B ) of the target point (B) is determined (S 9 ) in the frame of reference centred on the second location (P 2 ) by exploiting the absolute azimuth (θ 2 ) in the frame of reference centred on the second location (P 2 ) attributed to the common element (A) and the relative azimuth (θ 3 ) of the target point (B) in relation to said element in the frame of reference centred on the second location (P 2 ).

20160078647

14483266

1. A method for reducing metal artifacts in a volume radiographic image, the method executed at least in part on a computer and comprising: reconstructing a first 3-D-image using measured projection images; forming a 3-D image metal mask that contains metal voxels in the first 3-D image; for each measured projection image, forming a projection metal mask that contains the pixels that are a projection of the 3-D image metal mask; forming a 3-D prior image that contains the voxels of the first 3-D image that are within the 3-D image metal mask and replacing voxel values of the first 3-D image that are outside the 3-D image metal mask with a value that is representative of air or soft tissue; iteratively modifying one or more of the non-metal voxels of the 3-D prior image according to a difference between a pixel value related to the nonmetal voxel in at least one measured projection image at a projection angle and the corresponding pixel value in at least one calculated projection image that is generated for the projection angle according to the 3-D prior image; forming a plurality of composite projection images, wherein each composite projection image is formed by replacing measured projection image data for pixels within the projection metal mask with calculated projection image data for the corresponding pixels; and reconstructing and displaying a metal artifact reduced 3-D image from the plurality of composite projection images.

9613450

13099387

1. A computer-implemented method for generating photo-realistic facial animation synchronized with speech, comprising: storing, in a computer storage device, a statistical model of audiovisual data over time, based on acoustic feature vectors from actual audio data and visual feature vectors of lips images extracted from real sample images of a head and facial features of an individual during a set of utterances by the individual; storing, in an image library, the real sample images of the individual's head and facial features during the set of utterances, including storing for each of the stored real sample images the visual feature vectors obtained from the lips image extracted from the real sample image as used to generate the statistical model; receiving an input set of acoustic feature vectors for the speech with which the facial animation is to be synchronized; using a computer processor, applying the received input set of acoustic feature vectors to the statistical model, the statistical model thereby generating a visual feature vector sequence; selecting, using a computer processor, a sequence of real sample images of the individual's head and facial features from the image library, such that the selected sequence matches the visual feature vector sequence generated using the statistical model by comparing visual feature vectors in the visual feature vector sequence with visual feature vectors associated with the real sample images in the image library: and using a computer processor, applying the selected sequence of real sample images to the three dimensional model of a head to provide the photo-realistic facial animation synchronized with the speech.

7581194

11413184

1. In a computer system having a display screen, a graphical user interface, and a user interface selection device, a method of selecting actions performable with regard to an ink object having an associated representation on the screen, comprising: receiving a user request for a display of menu options corresponding to the actions performable with regard to the ink object; displaying a first context menu; successively displaying second and third context menus, the first, second and third context menus forming a cascade, wherein each of the context menus has a set of menu options, at least one of the menu options in at least one of the context menus corresponding to an action performable with regard to the ink object, each of the context menus in the cascade remains at least partially visible, the second context menu is displayed in response to selection of a menu option from the first context menu, the second context menu is displayed in close proximity to, but without obscuring, the first context menu option selected to cause display of the second context menu, the third context menu is displayed in response to selection of a menu option from the second context menu, the third context menu is displayed in close proximity to, but without obscuring, the second context menu option selected to cause display of the third context menu, at least one of the second and third context menus obscures options in the immediately preceding context menu; receiving a repeat selection of an option from the first or second context menu; and in response to the repeat selection, discontinuing display of all context menus succeeding the context menu from which the repeat selection was made while continuing display of the context menu from which the repeat selection was made.

9816809

14405428

1. A system for obtaining three-dimensional information about a surface having a set of at least one reference target, each reference target being provided at a fixed position one of on an environment of said surface and on said surface, said system comprising: a sensing device having: a pattern projector for providing a projected pattern on said surface; a camera for acquiring a 2D image of said surface from a viewpoint, said camera cooperating with said pattern projector, wherein at least one target of said set of reference targets and at least a portion of said projected pattern is apparent on said 2D image; a storage for calibration data, said calibration data including extrinsic and intrinsic parameters of said camera and said pattern projector; an image processor for extracting 2D image coordinates of surface points of the projected pattern and target contours from said 2D image; a 3D surface point calculator for calculating 3D coordinates of the surface points from said 2D image coordinates of said surface points using said calibration data; a 3D target calculator for calculating, from said 2D image coordinates of said target contours, using said 3D coordinates of the surface points and said calibration data, at least one of a 3D position and an actual orientation for said reference target; said system being adapted to perform the steps of: identifying neighboring surface points located around said target; calculating 3D coordinates of the neighboring surface points; fitting a surface section model on said 3D coordinates of said neighboring surface points; and at least one of: refining an estimated 3D position into the 3D position; and identifying the actual orientation of said target.

20160189011

15065122

1. (canceled)

7760241

11395548

1. An image capturing apparatus capable of shooting still images during a moving image shooting, the apparatus comprising: a still image shooting unit adapted to perform a still image shooting to obtain a still image; a generating unit adapted to generate an alternate image corresponding to a period of the still image shooting performed by the still image shooting unit, wherein the alternate image includes at least one frame of a plurality of frames included in a moving image; a setting unit adapted to set respective white balance control values for the still image and the alternate image in accordance with a recording mode set by a user interface; and an image processing unit adapted to perform an image processing on the still image and the alternate image using the white balance control values set by the setting unit, wherein both the still image to be processed and the alternate image to be processed correspond to same still image data obtained by the still image shooting unit, wherein when the recording mode is set to a first moving image recording mode by the user interface, the setting unit sets a white balance control value for the moving image to both that for the alternate image and that for the moving image accepting the alternate image and when the recording mode is set to a second moving image recording mode by the user interface, the setting unit sets the white balance control value for the still image to that for the still image and uses the white balance control value for the still image to obtain a white balance control value for the alternate image.

9607243

14591256

1. A method for generating and providing time-lapsed sequences of images, the method comprising: identifying, by one or more computing devices, a set of images of a physical location; selecting, by the one or more computing devices, a representative image of the set of images; filtering, by the one or more computing devices, the set of images by comparing each image of the set of images to the representative image; aligning, by the one or more computing devices, the images of the filtered set of images to the representative image; generating, by the one or more computing devices, a time-lapsed sequence of images based on the aligned filtered set of images; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a first value for the time-lapsed sequence of images based on changes in pixel values from one image in the sequence to the next image in the sequence at corresponding pixel locations; and in response to a request from a user computing device for a time-lapsed image representation of the physical location, providing, using the one or more computing devices, the time-lapsed sequence of images when the first value exceeds a threshold.

20050021528

10622542

1. A computer-based method for computation of similarity matrices of objects in a high-dimensional space of attributes with the purpose of clustering by method for evolutionary transformation of similarity matrices, allowing for fusion of different attributes (parameters) on a dimensionless basis, comprising the steps of: a) computation of similarity matrices for each of attributes (parameters) individually, such matrices being monomer similarity matrices; and b) hybridization of all monomer similarity matrices into one hybrid matrix which is further used in clustering process.

9576401

13980906

1. A method of creating an interlaced composite image, comprising: receiving a plurality of images selected for generating an interlaced composite image by interlacing a plurality of image strips from each said image; providing a filter created by a plurality of separating strips calculated by combining between pixel color values of one of said plurality of images and respective pixel color values of an inverse version of another of said plurality of images, said filter is a function of an approximate inverse transform of an undesired distortion dataset representing at least one estimated undesired distortion caused by an autostereoscopic display element when a user views said interlaced composite image via said autostereoscopic display element; applying said filter on said plurality of images for generating a reduced artifact interlaced composite image by interlacing said plurality of image strips with said plurality of separating strips; and outputting said reduced artifact interlaced composite image.

9610043

13507222

1. A method comprising the steps of: generating a first parametric map, the first parametric map being based upon at least a portion of each of at least two optoacoustic images, each of the at least two optoacoustic images reflecting at least a portion of an optoacoustic response of a volume of tissue to a different light event, at least one of the different light events having a shorter predominant wavelength than at least one other of the different light events, the first parametric map being reflective of areas within at least a portion of the volume of tissue, which areas have a difference in absorption in response to the longer wavelength light event compared to the shorter wavelength light event; generating a second parametric map, the second parametric map being based upon at least a portion of each of the at least two optoacoustic images, the second parametric map being reflective of areas within at least a portion of the volume of tissue having stronger absorption in response to the longer and shorter wavelength light events than to other areas within the at least a portion of the volume of tissue; generating a mask reflective of a combination of information in the first parametric map and information in the second parametric map, the mask used to exclude areas of an image, the generating comprising (i) generating a mathematical function of the first parametric map to produce a Boolean value; (ii) generating a mathematical function of the second parametric map to produce a Boolean value; and (iii) combining the results of the mathematical function of the first parametric map and the mathematical function of the second parametric map by performing an intersection between the mathematical function of the first parametric map and the mathematical function of the second parametric map; generating a masked parametric map by applying the mask to an auxiliary map, thus forming a new parametric map, the auxiliary map being selected from the group consisting of: the first parametric map, the second parametric map, an additional parametric map, and an image; and outputting the masked parametric map.

20100053304

12553902

1. A method for navigating through a data space, the method comprising: detecting a gesture of a body from gesture data received via a detector, wherein the gesture data is absolute three-space location data of an instantaneous state of the body at a point in time and physical space, the detecting comprising identifying the gesture using only the gesture data; translating the gesture to a gesture signal; navigating through the data space in response to the gesture signal, wherein the data space is a data-representational space comprising a dataset represented in the physical space; and rendering the dataset in a plurality of coplanar data frames that are graphical depictions of a plurality of regions of the data space and displaying each data frame as a visible frame on a display.

9760558

15284793

1. A computer program product for identifying information in a document, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to: scan a document using optical character recognition; analyze the scanned document for a text block within the scanned document, wherein the text block contains a structure element, wherein said structure element is a position, font attribute, or text character, and wherein a plurality of label and value pairs within the scanned document are identified based on the contents of the text block within the structure element; apply a rule based analysis on the text block to identify a label and a field containing a value, wherein data in a text block identified as a header, footer, title, heading, or paragraph is not included in any label and value pair; wherein in response to a first word in the text block being bold and a second word in the text block being non-bold, then the first word in the text block is the label and the second word in the text block is the value; wherein in response to the first word in the text block being non-bold and the second word in the text block being bold, then the first word in the text block is the label and the second word in the text block is the value; wherein in response to the first word in the text block containing only lower case characters and the second word in the text block containing only upper case characters, then the first word in the text block is the label and the second word in the text block is the value; wherein in response to the first word in the text block being followed by a separator character, and there being a second word after the separator character, then the first word in the text block is the label and the second word in the text block is the value; wherein in response to a first line in the text block containing a first word in bold followed by a separator character, and a second line in the text block containing a second word in non-bold, then the first line in the text block is the label and the second line in the text block is the value; and identify said label and said value as a label and value pair in the document.

20090058684

12230605

1. An onboard display device comprising: a pickup unit that picks up nighttime environment to acquire a nightview image; a display that can display the nightview image together with a map image; and a display control unit that displays an information-providing image that is different from the map image and the nightview image on the display and controls a display of the map image and the nightview image, when the information-providing image has to be displayed in a state in which the map image and the nightview image are displayed on the display.

20130091080

13646377

1. A method for model checking of deployed systems, comprising: learning an interval discrete-time Markov chain (IDTMC) model of a deployed system from system logs; and checking the IDTMC model with a processor to determine a probability of violating one or more probabilistic safety properties, comprising: splitting the probability into a linear part and a non-linear part; and calculating the linear part exactly using affine arithmetic; and over-approximating the non-linear part using interval arithmetic.

20140078285

14074892

1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a spectroscopic measurement section configured to measure a spectral characteristic of a subject; a spectral image capture section configured to capture a subject image separated into a plurality of colors through color separation to create a plurality of spectral images; and a color separation characteristic determining section configured to determine a color separation characteristic to be used for image capturing of the spectral image capture section, based on the spectral characteristic of the subject measured by the spectroscopic measurement section, wherein the color separation characteristic determining section determines a count of color separations in the image capturing of the spectral image capture section and respective spectral bands corresponding to each of the color separations.

20030194049

10063356

1 ] A method of constructing a three dimensional (3D) image of an object from a plurality of two dimensional (2D) views of the object, comprising the steps of: filtering said plurality of 2D views of the object; and order statistics-based backprojecting said filtered 2D views into the 3D image of the object.

20040076257

10065457

1. A method for generating a plurality of clinically useful images in a short time frame using a single imaging system, the method comprising: generating a scout image configured to prescribe a target image; processing said scout image to generate an enhanced scout image; and displaying said enhanced scout image and said target image, wherein said enhanced scout image and said target image are clinically useful images for diagnostic purposes provided by the single imaging system.

20100284620

12775260

1. A method for determining a matching score between a first set of n 1 feature points, and a second set of n 2 feature points, the method comprising the procedures of: producing a triple-wise affinity tensor, including the affinity score of assignments of triplets of feature points of said first set of feature points and triplets of feature points of said second set of feature points; determining a leading eigenvector of said triple-wise affinity tensor; iteratively producing a binary optimal assignment vector by discretization of said leading eigenvector; and determining a matching score between said first set of feature points and said second set of feature points according to said triple-wise affinity tensor and according to said optimal assignment vector.

20150333100

14807992

1. An image sensor, comprising: a substrate including a spaced apart photoelectric conversion region and floating diffusion region therein, the photoelectric conversion region and the floating diffusion region comprising a first conductivity type; a device isolation region comprising an insulating material layer in the substrate adjacent a boundary of the photoelectric conversion region; a first well region of a second conductivity type in the substrate extending between the boundary of the photoelectric conversion region and the device isolation region; and a second well region of the second conductivity type in the substrate adjacent the floating diffusion region, the second well region having a dopant concentration less than that of the first well region.

20140267770

13804643

1. A method for managing applications associated with a mobile device, the method comprising: obtaining an image of an object in view of a camera associated with the mobile device; initiating an object identification procedure to identify the object in the image based on attributes of the object extracted from the image; identifying an application associated with the object based on the object identification procedure; and automatically launching the application on the mobile device.

20030212519

10424837

1. A database management system for in-database clustering, comprising: a first data table and a second data table, each data table including a plurality of rows of data; means for building a clustering model using the first data table; means for building a probabilistic model using the clustering model; and means for applying the probabilistic model using the second data table to generate apply output data.

20060195475

11069662

1. A method for automatically grouping related images, comprising: inputting a set of unordered images containing a collection of unordered and unorganized images; analyzing metadata associated with each image in the unordered image set to determine the related images; and generating a potential image subset containing the related images based on results of the metadata analysis.

8260033

12599127

1. A method for determining the relative overlay shift of stacked layers, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing a reference image including a reference pattern that comprises first and second pattern elements; b) providing a measurement image of a measurement pattern, which comprises a first pattern element from a first one of the layers and a second pattern element from a second one of the layers; c) weighting the reference or measurement image such that a weighted first image is generated, in which the first pattern element is emphasized relative to the second pattern element; d) determining the relative shift of the first pattern element on the basis of the weighted first image and of the measurement or reference image not weighted in step c); e) weighting the reference or measurement image such that a weighted second image is generated, in which the second pattern element is emphasized relative to the first pattern element; f) determining the relative shift of the second pattern element on the basis of the weighted second image and of the measurement or reference image not weighted in step e); g) determining the relative overlay shift on the basis of the relative shifts determined in steps d) and f).

9153014

13091137

1. An image correction method, for outputting a corrected image according to an image to be corrected, the corrected image comprising a plurality of corrected pixel blocks, the image to be corrected being captured by a fisheye lens camera, the image correction method performing a plurality of pixel value computations, each pixel value computation being utilized for generating a pixel value of each corrected pixel within a corrected pixel block, and comprising: establishing a coordinate transformation relation between the image to be corrected and the corrected image, such that a first coordinate value of each corrected pixel within the corrected pixel block corresponds to a second coordinate value within the image to be corrected, wherein the coordinate transformation relation is determined by at least a perspective distortion correction coordinate transformation, and in the perspective correction distortion coordinate transformation, an angle parameter corresponding to an object plane and an image plane is determined by an incidence angle of an incident beam corresponding to the image to be corrected, where the incident beam passes through an optical center of the fisheye lens; according to the coordinate transformation relation, determining a pixel block to be corrected including a plurality of pixels, which corresponds to the corrected pixel block, and selecting a pixel block to be processed which comprises at least the pixel block to be corrected from the image to be corrected; and utilizing the second coordinate value corresponding to the corrected pixel for determining a plurality of specific pixels to be processed that correspond to the corrected pixel, and generating a pixel value of the corrected pixel by performing an interpolation computation upon a plurality of pixel values of the specific pixels to be processed.

20140341442

13894384

1. A method comprising: identifying one or more face regions of an image, the one or more face regions including pixels that depict at least a portion of one or more corresponding faces of one or more persons, wherein identifying the one or more face regions is based on identifications of facial landmarks of the one or more faces; determining an associated face mask for each of the one or more faces based on the one or more face regions, wherein each face mask indicates which pixels in the image depict the corresponding face; selecting the pixels of the image outside the one or more faces by inversely applying the one or more face masks; and providing the selected pixels to a processing operation for adjustment of the selected pixels.

20140245123

13781446

1. A computer-implemented method for synchronizing annotations between a printed document and an electronic document, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, an image of a printed document portion having a printed text portion, wherein the printed document portion includes an annotation in proximity to the printed text portion; accessing at least a portion of the electronic document from a memory device, wherein the electronic document comprises an electronic version of the printed document; identifying an electronic text portion within the electronic document that corresponds to the printed text portion; detecting the annotation in the printed document portion; and facilitating insertion of a digital annotation into at least one of the electronic document and a copy of the electronic document, the digital annotation corresponding to the detected annotation, wherein the digital annotation is inserted in proximity to the identified electronic text portion at a location that at least substantially corresponds to a location of the detected annotation in the printed document portion.

9519489

13724193

1. A device, comprising: a processor; and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: host a new image on a virtual machine operating on the device; modify the hosted image based on a configuration of a main image operating the device; and boot the device from the modified image, wherein the hosted image is modified while the main image is running on the device, and the device is in downtime only while booting.

20170254768

15060246

1. An electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) system comprising: a plurality of ECT sensor heads, each ECT sensor head including: a plurality of electrodes disposed about a measurement region, first circuitry configured to measure mutual capacitance between a plurality of pairs of electrodes of the plurality of electrodes and obtain a plurality of mutual capacitance measurements, and a first wireless transceiver coupled to the first circuitry and configured to transmit the plurality of mutual capacitance measurements; and an ECT reader including: a second wireless transceiver configured to selectively communicate with each of the ECT sensor heads to receive the plurality of mutual capacitance measurements, and second circuitry including a fuzzy logic image synthesizer configured to process the received plurality of mutual capacitance measurements and produce an image corresponding to contents included in the measurement region.

20160093048

14865565

1. A method for similarity metric learning for multimodal medical image data, the method comprising: receiving a first set of image data of a volume, wherein the first set of image data is captured with a first imaging modality; receiving a second set of image data of the volume, wherein the second set of image data is captured with a second imaging modality; aligning the first set of image data and the second set of image data; training a first set of parameters with a multimodal stacked denoising auto encoder to generate a shared feature representation of the first set of image data and the second set of image data; training a second set of parameters with a denoising auto encoder to generate a transformation of the shared feature representation; initializing, using the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters, a neural network classifier; and training, using training data from the aligned first set of image data and the second set of image data, the neural network classifier to generate a similarity metric for the first and second imaging modalities.

9125622

13035471

1. A diagnosis assisting apparatus, comprising: one or more processors configured to: obtain a plurality of sets of volume data imaged by one or more imaging modalities, each of which represent the state of a beating heart of a single patient in different phases in one cardiac cycle; extract a plurality of coronary artery regions from at least two sets of volume data from among the obtained sets of volume data; set a plurality of analysis points at the same anatomical positions in each of the extracted coronary artery regions, which have been extracted from the at least two sets of volume data representing the state of the heart of the single patient at different phases, and establish correlations among the plurality of analysis points, which are set at the same anatomical positions among each of the coronary artery regions; calculate index values that indicate a character of plaque at each of the plurality of analysis points that have been set within each of the plurality of coronary artery regions; evaluate the index values, by integrating the index values, which are calculated at the plurality of analysis points that have been set in each of the coronary artery regions, by performing weighted calculations on the index values; and output the evaluated index values correlated with information regarding the anatomical positions.

20140165198

14060933

1. A method, comprising: specifying multiple features, which are present in communication transactions held in a computer network and which are indicative of whether the transactions are exchanged with a malicious software; representing a plurality of malware transactions by respective elements in a multi-dimensional space, whose dimensions are spanned respectively by the features, so as to form one or more clusters of the elements; and identifying whether an input communication transaction is malicious by measuring respective distance metrics between an element of the multi-dimensional space representing the input communication transaction and the clusters, and evaluating a criterion with respect to the distance metrics.

20100092104

12515428

1. Process for enhancing detail visibility in an input image comprising a step of applying a first transfer function ( 11 ) to the input image, thereby generating an intermediate image; a step of performing a statistical measurement ( 12 , Mmt 2 ) on the intermediate image; a step of applying a second transfer function ( 14 ) to the intermediate image, thereby generating an output image; a step of performing a statistical measurement ( 15 , Mmt 3 ) on the output image, a step of determining gain parameters (gg, gk) for the first and the second transfer function ( 11 , 14 ) on basis of the statistical measurement results ( 8 , 12 , 15 , Mmt 1 , Mmt 2 , Mmt 3 ).

5485531

08123750

1. A character-feature extraction device characterized in that boundary features of character patterns are broken down into a plurality of vectors and stored in a plurality of memory regions by vector direction wherein each vector is propagated into a respective direction with picture elements and wherein collisions among the vectors are detected via propagation processing, and wherein collision positions in each vector direction are extracted for the number of propagations to provide three-dimensional pattern features, which comprises: a motion-flag memory having regions each corresponding to the respective pattern for each vector direction; a stopping-flag memory having regions corresponding to the patterns for each vector direction; a means for converting the vector extraction positions on the patterns into flags according to their directions, and storing the flags in corresponding regions of the motion-flag memory; a means for moving flag values in the motion-flag memory via propagation processing into their respective vector directions; a means for reading the flag values sequentially from a first address to a final address in the motion-flag memory and in the stopping-flag memory after the propagation processing, and determining whether there are flag values representing the existence of vectors in the flag values of said addresses in the flag memory regions with other vectors having a phase difference of more than 90 degrees, and in addresses of the upper, lower, right, and left parts thereof; a means for resetting the flag values in said addresses in the region of the motion flag memory, and at the same time, setting the flags in said addresses in the regions of the stopping-flag memory with its vectors in the same direction, if there are vector flag values in said addresses of other flag memory regions; and a means for converting the flag values in each stopping-flag memory region and each motion-flag memory region into vector values via determination processing after propagation processing, and outputting the vector values as three-dimensional features.

20040190759

10397100

1. A system for positively identifying a patient, comprising: an eye illumination source; a sensor that can detect data relating to the patient's eye; an optical system for transferring the patient's eye data to the sensor; means for capturing the data from the sensor connected to the system; means for analyzing the captured data; an information storage/retrieval component connected to the system having stored therein a plurality of historical Iris Feature Vectors (IFVs) representing identification indicia of a plurality of patients; and a contemporaneous IFV representing an identification indicia of a particular patient generated by the system; wherein the analyzing means is suitably programmed for comparing the contemporaneous IFV to the plurality of stored, historical IFVs, and determining a similarity relationship between the contemporaneous IFV and the historical IFVs.

9372974

14976193

1. A method for determining if a user of a computer system is a human, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, by one or more processors, an indication that a computer security program is needed, and in response, acquiring, by one or more processors, at least one image depicting a first string of characters including at least a first set of one or more characters, and a second set of one or more characters; wherein each character of the first set of one or more characters is an alphanumeric character; and wherein each character of the second set of one or more characters is illegible; assigning, by one or more processors, a first substitute character to be used as input for each of the second set of one or more characters, wherein the first substitute character is a different character than any of the second set of one or more characters; presenting, by one or more processors, the at least one image, an indication of the first substitute character, and an indication of when to use the first substitute character to the user, wherein presenting the at least one image, an indication of the first substitute character, and an indication of when to use the first substitute character to the user comprises: presenting, by one or more processors, the at least one image, a description of the first substitute character, and an indication of when to use the first substitute character to the use; and receiving, by one or more processors, a second string of characters from the user; determining, by one or more processors, whether the second string of characters substantially matches, within a predetermined threshold, the first string of characters based on the first substitute character assigned to each of the second set of one or more characters, wherein the determination further comprises: comparing, by one or more processors, each character of the second string of characters to a respective character within the first string of characters, according to character locations within each string of characters; and associating, by one or more processors, a weighting factor to each character of the second string of characters based on the comparison and the set of one or more characters within which the respective character of the first string of characters is a member; and determining, by one or more processors, that the second string of characters substantially matches, within a second predetermined threshold, the first string of characters, based on the weighting factor associated with each character within the second string of characters, and responsive to determining that the second string of characters substantially matches, within a second predetermined threshold, the first string of characters, based on the weighting factor associated with each character within the second string of characters, determining, by one or more processors, that the user of the computer system is a human.

10027871

15217746

1. A display control apparatus for displaying an image from an imaging unit by changing a viewing angle, the display control apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image captured by the imaging unit; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to turn on displaying, on the captured image, at least one panning direction guide indicating that a viewing angle of the imaging unit changes along the at least one panning direction guide by changing panning angle of the imaging unit if the viewing angle moves close to a panning rotation center of the imaging unit, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to turn on displaying the at least one panning direction guide if an angle between direction of the imaging unit and the panning rotation center is less than a predetermined angle value.

8289283

12042309

1. A method comprising: presenting a virtual keyboard corresponding to a first alphabet in a first region of a touch-sensitive display of a device; receiving an input on the virtual keyboard representing a phonetic string; presenting the phonetic string in a second region of the touch-sensitive display; identifying one or more candidate representations based on the phonetic string, wherein the candidate representations correspond to a second alphabet different from the first alphabet; presenting a candidate tray including at least a subset of the candidate representations; receiving an input of a selected candidate representation of the candidate representations; and replacing the entered phonetic string with the selected candidate representation.

9509792

13812110

1. A method comprising facilitating a processing of and/or processing (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal, the (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal based, at least in part, on the following: an input from a device specifying one or more criteria to determine a context-based user group from among a plurality of other devices, the one or more criteria specifying one or more context parameters; at least one determination of one or more context values of the one or more context parameters associated with the plurality of other devices; at least one determination of the context-based user group based, at least in part, on the context values and the one or more criteria; at least one determination of one or more updates to the context values of the one or more context parameters; at least one update to the context-based user group in response to the one or more updates to the context values of the one or more context parameters; at least one determination of one or more actions available at the device relevant to the context-based user group; at least one determination to present a user interface for initiating at least one of the one or more actions, wherein the one or more updates to the context values occur while the one or more context parameters remain unchanged, and the at least one update to the context-based user group occurs in real-time with the one or more updates to the context values; and at least one determination of one or more structured queries based, at least in part, on the one or more criteria, wherein the determining of the context-based user group is based, at least in part, on application of the one or more structured queries to the context values.

9888971

14987107

1. A system for medical image processing, the system comprising: a data storage device storing instructions for medical image processing; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method including: receiving one or more non-invasively produced images of at least a blood vessel of a patient; segmenting the images to identify an ischemic region of interest of the blood vessel and generating a three-dimensional geometric model of the identified ischemic region of interest of the blood vessel; identifying a vessel region of interest in the identified ischemic region of interest; identifying a stenosis in the vessel region of interest based on a pressure index computed using a first simulation of blood flow through the geometric model of the blood vessel; determining a connection position to connect a bypass vessel that diverts blood flow around the identified stenosis, wherein the connection position is determined using a subsequent simulation of blood flow; and displaying the determined connection position on a display.

7734069

12358939

1. An image processing method comprising: using an image processing apparatus to perform the following steps: a first step of detecting an iris region of an eye of a person from an original image; a second step of performing a predetermined image conversion to the iris region detected in the first step; and a third step of outputting the original image the iris region of which the predetermined image conversion has been performed to; wherein the predetermined image conversion is image conversion in which an image of the iris region is replaced with a predetermined iris pattern image which is an iris pattern image of a person different from the person or an artificial iris image artificially generated, the predetermined iris pattern image having been processed so that at least one of size, color and shape thereof is the same as the image of the iris region.

8238632

12924894

1. An imaging system, comprising: a cryomicrotome having a microtome chamber configured to house a sample, the cryomicrotome being configured to produce a slice from the sample; an episcopic imaging device configured to acquire an episcopic image of the sample while it is housed in the microtome chamber; a second imaging device configured to acquire a second non-episcopic image of one or more of, the sample, and the slice; and a register logic configured to register the episcopic image with the second non-episcopic image, the second imaging device being one of, a histological imaging device configured to acquire a histological image, an autoradiographic imaging device configured to acquire an autoradiographic image, a mass spectrometry imaging device configured to acquire a mass spectrometric image, a Raman spectroscopy device configured to acquire a Raman spectroscopic image, and a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) device configured to acquire an FTIR image.

9466090

13922404

1. A computer-implemented method for providing compression in graphics rendering comprising: determining, via a graphics processing unit comprising a graphics data compression module, a plurality of color values associated with individual pixels of a tile of pixels; generating, via the graphics data compression module of the graphics processing unit, a subset of the plurality of color values, wherein the subset of the plurality of color values is generated so as to include only distinct color values without duplication from the plurality of color values associated with the individual pixels across the entire tile of pixels; associating, via the graphics data compression module of the graphics processing unit, an index value with each color value of the subset of the plurality of color values so that each non-duplicative distinct color value is associated with a corresponding non-duplicative distinct index value; determining, via the graphics data compression module of the graphics processing unit, for each of the individual pixels across the entire tile of pixels, an associated pixel index value to generate a plurality of pixel index values associated with the individual pixels of the tile of pixels; storing, in memory, graphics data comprising the subset of the plurality of color values, the associated index values, and the plurality of pixel index values; determining, via the graphics data compression module of the graphics processing unit, a number of bits for the graphics data associated with the subset of the plurality of color values, the associated index values, and the plurality of pixel index values; determining, via the graphics data compression module of the graphics processing unit, a bit budget, wherein the bit budget comprises one of a plurality of available bit budgets including a tile-based bit budget component based at least in part on the number of bits for the graphics data associated with the tile and a system-based bit budget component based at least in part on a memory bandwidth limitation associated with the system; comparing, via the graphics data compression module of the graphics processing unit, the number of bits for the graphics data associated with the subset of the plurality of color values, the associated index values, and the plurality of pixel index values with the bit budget, and if the number of bits for the graphics data associated with the subset of the plurality of color values, the associated index values, and the plurality of pixel index values is less than or equal to the bit budget, storing, in memory, the graphics data associated with the subset of the plurality of color values, the associated index values, and the plurality of pixel index values; and if the number of bits for the graphics data associated with the subset of the plurality of color values, the associated index values, and the plurality of pixel index values is greater than the bit budget, storing, in memory, second graphics data comprising the plurality of color values associated with the individual pixels of the tile of pixels.

20020061134

09981928

1. A method for monitoring an area of interest having a border and an interior region, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring at least a portion of the border region of the area of interest for breach by an object; and monitoring at least a portion of the interior region of the area of interest for the object after the object breaches the border.

20150254882

14640197

1. A system, comprising: a processor; a computer readable memory in circuit communication with the processor; a computer readable storage medium in circuit communication with the processor; at least one image capture device in circuit communication with the processor; at least one display screen in circuit communication with the processor; and wherein the processor executes program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium via the computer readable memory and thereby: displays via the at least one display screen, in a first layer at first level of opacity, an image of current surroundings of the system from image data captured by the at least one image capture device from the current surroundings of the system; displays via the at least one display screen, in a second layer at a second level of opacity, an image of another environment that differs from the current surroundings of the system as a function of time or of place, wherein the second layer is located coextensive with the first layer; and selects the first level of opacity to present image data of the image within the first layer as: transparent relative to image data of the image within the second layer; or opaque relative to image data of the image within the second layer.

4162482

05858311

1. Apparatus for machine recognition of hand-written or machine printed characters comprising: means for scanning said character; means for generating a matrix of black and white points from said scanned character, said matrix being stored in a storage shift register; means for non-iteratively thinning said matrixed character to generate a centerline representative of said matrixed character; means for removing isolated points in said thinned character matrix; means for filling in discontinuities appearing in said centerline of said matrixed character; means for removing spurious points adjoining said centerline of said matrixed character; means for partitioning said thinned character matrix into a plurality of regions; means for scanning a plurality of areas of said regions, each of said areas comprising a plurality of subregions, wherein said scanned areas overlap a plurality of said regions and wherein said areas each have a center point; means for detecting a pattern of black and white points in each of said scanned areas; means for generating a unique coded value representative of said detected pattern in each of said scanned areas; means for comparing said coded value with a known set of values corresponding to geometrical stroke features until a match is detected; means for generating an output signal indicative of the detection of one of said stroke features, in each of said scanned areas; means for assigning said detected stroke feature to said area containing said center element of each of said scanned areas; means for detecting sequentially said assigned stroke features for each of said plurality of regions; means for comparing said sequentially detected stroke features with a known set of sequences corresponding to characters previously identified; and means for assigning said matrixed character to said previously identified character having stroke sequences most closely corresponding to those detected form said matrixed character.

20160029121

14809137

1. A system for processing audio data comprising: a linear demixing system operating on a processor and configured to receive a plurality of sub-band audio channels and to generate an audio output and a noise output; a spatial likelihood system operating on the processor and coupled to the linear demixing system, the spatial likelihood system configured to receive the audio output and the noise output and to generate a spatial likelihood function; a sequential Gaussian mixture model system operating on the processor and coupled to the spatial likelihood system, the sequential Gaussian mixture model system configured to generate a plurality of model parameters; a Bayesian probability estimator system operating on the processor and configured to receive the plurality of model parameters and a speech/noise presence probability and to generate a noise power spectral density and spectral gains; and a spectral filtering system operating on the processor and configured to receive the spectral gains and to apply the spectral gains to noisy input mixtures.

20140156176

13705025

1. A method for managing vehicles on a road network, the method comprising: accessing a matrix of vehicle parameters including vehicle performance parameters of a plurality of communicating vehicles on the road network; representing the plurality of communicating vehicles in a graph with a plurality of nodes corresponding to the plurality of communicating vehicles and edges corresponding to the vehicle parameters; partitioning, with a processing device, the graph to reduce disruptions to the road network below a threshold level to support safe and efficient traffic flow; assigning one or more exclusion zones within the road network to each partition of the graph by associating the vehicle parameters for each vehicle; and establishing, based on analysis of the vehicle parameters of the plurality of communicating vehicles, a set of security requirements for additional vehicles to join the plurality of communicating vehicles on the road network.

9940514

15204307

1. A method for creation of a plurality of mosaic layers of a mosaic image for different zoom levels of a geographic area covered by the mosaic image, comprising: first generating a first mosaic image layer having a first spatial resolution, wherein the first mosaic image layer comprises a plurality of source geospatial images; and second generating at least a second mosaic image layer having a second spatial resolution that is of a lower spatial resolution than the first spatial resolution, wherein the second mosaic image layer comprises downsampled versions of the plurality of source geospatial images used to generate the first mosaic image layer; first calculating first image metadata for at least a portion of the first mosaic image layer, wherein the first image metadata is independent of the spatial resolution of the first mosaic image layer; second calculating second image metadata for at least a portion of the second mosaic image layer, wherein the second image metadata is independent of the spatial resolution of the second mosaic image layer; determining a normalization function based on a comparison of the first image metadata for the first mosaic image layer and the second image metadata for the second mosaic image layer, and applying the normalization function to at least a portion of the second image to normalize the second mosaic image layer relative to the first mosaic image layer.

9830511

15068433

1. A camera system, comprising: an object detection module operable to receive image data produced by at least one image capturing device, the image data representing multiple images of a field of view of the at least one image capturing device, and the object detection module operable to detect objects appearing in one or more of the multiple images; an object tracking module connected to the object detection module and operable to temporally associate instances of objects detected by the object detection module, wherein each detected object has a signature representing features of the detected object from the multiple images; and a match classifier connected to the object tracking module and operable to match object instances by analyzing data derived from the signature of each detected object based on matching parameters and non-matching parameters to indicate if two or more of the detected objects correspond to a same physical object.

20070103713

11552017

1. An apparatus comprising: an original-document-attribute determining unit that determines attribute of an original document image; a form-attribute determining unit that determines attribute of a form image; and a compositing unit that performs sequence of compositing of the original document image, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image, and the form image, the sequence of compositing being determined based on the determined attribute of the original document image and the determined attribute of the form image.

20170024867

15100201

1. A method for analyzing a multispectral image, said multispectral image comprising a plurality of spectral images of the same scene but corresponding to different spectral ranges, each spectral image assigning an intensity value to each pixel located at an intersection of a row and a column of a matrix of the multispectral image, and an origin point being defined at a corner of the peripheral boundary of the matrix; wherein a detection image is constructed by assigning a display value to each pixel of a working area of the matrix, said display value being obtained from a signal-to-noise ratio calculated for said pixel; the method comprising the steps of: /1/ for each spectral image, calculating a first-order integral image by assigning to each calculation pixel an integral value equal to the sum of the intensity values of said spectral image for all pixels contained within a rectangle having two opposite vertices respectively located on the origin point and on the calculation pixel; and for each pair of spectral images obtained from the multispectral image, calculating a second-order integral image by assigning to each calculation pixel another integral value equal to the sum, for all pixels contained within the rectangle having two opposite vertices respectively located on the origin point and on said calculation pixel, of products of the two intensity values relative to the same pixel but respectively assigned by each spectral image of the pair; /2/ defining a fixed window frame and a mask internal to the frame, said mask defining a target area and a background area within the frame; and /3/ for each pixel of the working area of the matrix: /3-1/ placing the window at a position in the matrix that is determined by the pixel, the window being delimited by the frame defined in step /2/; /3-2/ determining a Fisher factor, in the form of a vector associated with a Fisher projection which increases a contrast of the multispectral image in the window between the target area and the background area; and /3-3/ calculating from the integral values read from the first- and second-order integral images: two mean vectors, for the target area and for the background area respectively, each having a coordinate, for each spectral image, which is equal to the mean of the intensity values of said spectral image, calculated for the pixels of the target area or of the background area respectively; a mean matrix, having a factor for each pair of spectral images which is equal to the mean of the products of the two intensity values relative to each pixel but respectively assigned by each spectral image of the pair, calculated for the pixels of the background area; /3-4/ then calculating: two mean Fisher values, mF T and mF B , for the target area and for the background area respectively, each equal to the dot product of the Fisher factor and of the mean vector for the target area or for the background area respectively; a Fisher variance over the background area, VarF B , equal to the quadratic product of the mean matrix and of the Fisher factor, decreased by the square of the Fisher mean for the background area; and /3-5/ calculating the signal-to-noise ratio for the pixel of the working area, equal to [(mF T −mF B ) 2 /VarF B ] 1/2 ; and wherein the display value is obtained from the signal-to-noise-ratio for each pixel in the detection image, using one or a combination of the following methods: comparing the signal-to-noise ratio to a threshold, and the display value is set to zero if this signal-to-noise ratio is below the threshold, otherwise the display value is set to said signal-to-noise ratio; or applying a linear scale conversion to the signal-to-noise ratio, and the display value is set to a result of this conversion.

20140362905

13914670

1. A method of decoding video from a bitstream of encoded video using a video decoder, the video including a picture partitioned into blocks, the method comprising: determining an activity rank for a block, based on a block size of the block and an intra-coding mode for the block; calculating a normalization value based on the activity rank divided by an average activity rank determined over a plurality of previously-decoded blocks; and dequantizing a set of decoded quantized coefficients for the block using a quantization step size adjusted by the normalization value.

6097023

09135565

1. A vehicle headlamp control useful with a vehicle having a cabin and a windshield for controlling the vehicle's headlamps in response to sensing headlights of oncoming vehicles and taillights of leading vehicles, said headlamp control comprising: a headlamp control assembly including a solid-state light sensor array comprising a plurality of sensors arranged in a matrix on at least one semiconductor substrate, a spectral separation filter to apply particular spectral regions to particular ones of said sensors, a lens directing light onto said sensor array and a control means for identifying headlights of oncoming vehicles and taillights of leading vehicles; wherein said headlamp control assembly is positioned in the vehicle cabin with said imaging array and said optical lens positioned to view scenes forward of the vehicle through a portion of the windshield.

9479945

14769759

1. A method for determining network parameters to be used by a wireless terminal, the method being performed by a network node, the method comprising: acquiring network traffic history data, each entry of which relating to network parameters of traffic flows between a network node and a wireless terminal; determining a number of clusters to be used for representing the network traffic history data, wherein the clusters comprise grouped sets of the network traffic history data based on a generic utility function representing at least one network parameter of said network parameters of traffic flows; associating each entry of the acquired network traffic history data with one of said number of clusters by performing constrained clustering of the acquired network traffic history data, wherein the constrained clustering is constrained using a biased distance measure between the network parameters of traffic flows of the acquired network traffic history; and associating each cluster of the clusters with network parameters to be used by a wireless terminal based on the network traffic history data associated with each cluster of the clusters.

8036834

12496549

1. A method of determining whether an individual has an expression profile that indicates health, or an expression profile that indicates disease condition, comprising measuring the expression levels of the plurality of molecules in a specimen from said individual, and assessing whether the expression levels of a plurality of molecules in said specimen fall within health-associated reference expression regions for said plurality of molecules, wherein expression levels within said health-associated reference expression regions indicate health and wherein expression levels outside said health-associated reference expression regions indicate disease condition.

20140247985

14343134

1. A method of processing a digital image, comprising: (a) obtaining a plurality of images; (b) converting the plurality of images into histograms; (c) setting one of the plurality of images as a reference image and another of the plurality of images as a comparison target image; (d) adjusting a distribution of the histogram of the reference image to be similar to a distribution of the histogram of the comparison target image to produce an adjusted reference image; (e) comparing a difference between the adjusted reference image and the comparison target image to produce a masking image; (f) applying the masking image to the comparison target image to produce an adjusted comparison target image; and (g) combining the reference image and the adjusted comparison target image to produce a high dynamic range (HDR) image.

20040161161

10368058

1. A method of segmenting an image comprising: generating a fractal map of the image; and segmenting the image based on the fractal map.

7788085

11013366

1. A method to replace a source string in a document with a target string, comprising: preprocessing textual content via a computer by: 1) tokenizing text in said document 2) collecting information concerning morphological information, part-of-speech disambiguation, syntactic dependencies, anaphoric dependencies and semantic relationships in the textual content and 3) labeling the document with such information, wherein said tokenizing includes multiword tokenization wherein textual input is tokenized into non-isolated units; selecting a target string that is placed at one or more locations within the document via the computer; selecting a source string to replace the target string via the computer; morpho-syntactically disambiguating textual content of the document via the computer; identifying a set of string dependencies, via the computer, to detect grammatical or anaphoric dependencies, or both, between the strings in the textual content of the document; disambiguating one or more of gender, number, or part of speech and prompting user- specified disambiguation, via the computer, if the source string or the target string have more than at least one of one possible meaning, gender, and number; identifying occurrences of the source string in the document that satisfy the user specifications via the computer; identifying string relations from the set of string dependencies that define direct or indirect links, or both, to the source string via the computer; assessing whether replacing the source string with the target string is semantically coherent via the computer; replacing each occurrences of the source string in the document that satisfy the user specifications with the target string via the computer; correcting grammatical and anaphoric inconsistencies beyond the phrase level, via the computer, in the string relations in the document that are introduced when the source string is replaced with the target string; and outputting the document.

9529984

14043230

1. A method for verifying an identity of a user accessing a user device, comprising: receiving a request to verify the identity of the user accessing the user device; receiving a current set of multimedia identification signals from the user device in accordance with the verification request; querying a deep-content-classification (DCC) system to find a match between at least one pre-stored concept structure associated with the user to be verified and the current set of received multimedia identification signals, wherein the at least one concept structure is created during a sign-in procedure and is based on a grouping of associated clusters, wherein each cluster includes a compressed set of similar signatures generated from an initial set of previously received multimedia identification signals received during the sign-in procedure; and sending an authentication notification to the user upon finding a match between the at least one concept structure and the current set of received multimedia identification signals.

20120230541

13411445

1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a first acquisition unit configured to obtain identification information for a plurality of blocks of an image, a second acquisition unit configured to obtain information to be used for image processing from a pixel value of a region of the image determined based on the identification information, and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing of the image based on the information obtained by the second acquisition unit.

20140062456

13598359

1. A method of identifying multi-phase devices in a time trace disaggregation process, the method comprising: detecting a multi-phase transition; identifying at least one multi-phase device based on the detecting, wherein the at least one multi-phase device is separate from at least one single-phase device; and processing the at least one multi-phase device separate from the at least one single-phase device.

20140081079

13993994

1. A medical image displaying apparatus that, by using a three-dimensional image of the tubular body, is capable of displaying a virtual endoscopic image in a tube based on a viewpoint set inside the tube of the tubular body, comprising: a capsule endoscopic image storage that stores capsule endoscopic images acquired by a capsule endoscope passing inside the tube; and a display controller that displays the capsule endoscopic images based on the location of the viewpoint.

8341008

11602498

1. A demand forecasting apparatus comprising: a demand data storage which stores demand values of commodities in association with an identifier of each commodity; an accumulation trend calculator which calculates accumulation trend based on demand values stored in the demand data storage; a trend function calculator which calculates a trend function representing a demand trend based on the accumulation trend; a periodic-change determinate which determines whether there is a periodic change in the demand trend or not based on the difference between the demand trend and the trend function; a demand trend ratio calculator which calculates a demand trend ratio representing a ratio of the demand trend to the trend function; a periodic-change model calculator which calculates a periodic-change model by calculating monthly average of the calculated demand trend ratio as static value; a seasonal change forecaster which calculates a forecast value of seasonal change by combining the periodic-change model and the calculated trend function; wherein the periodic-change model calculator comprises: a logarithmic value calculator which calculates a natural logarithmic value of the demand trend ratio; and a periodic function fitter which performs fitting of the calculated natural logarithm of the demand trend ratio using a periodic function, and the periodic-change model calculator calculates the periodic-change model of a normal scale by converting the logarithm scale to a normal scale for the periodic function having undergone the fitting.

8553941

13742386

1. An image composition analyzer, comprising: a web based forum module adapted to receive ratings of a first set of images, from viewers within a web based forum; a rule creating module adapted to create or modify one or more sets of image-composition-parameter rules based on an analysis of the received ratings and the composition parameters of the first set of images; receiving circuitry adapted to receive image data of a given photographic image; an automatic image composition analyzing module (ACA) comprising composition-analyzing logic adapted to: (a) automatically identify objects within the given photographic image; (b) automatically extract composition parameters relating to the identified objects; and (c) compare the extracted composition parameters to the one or more sets of image-composition-parameter rules.

20160171301

14963856

1. A method by which a tracking apparatus tracks a target object in an image, the method comprising: acquiring a first tree structure indicating an order of analyzing a plurality of frames, each frame including a tracking area in which the target object is located; acquiring a plurality of frame groups, each frame group consisting of two frames, from the plurality of frames, and acquiring a distance evaluation value of each frame group; acquiring a second tree structure based on the first tree structure and the distance evaluation values; and tracking the target object based on the acquired second tree structure, wherein each distance evaluation value is determined based on at least one of locations of tracking areas included in two frames belonging to each frame group and pixel values in the tracking areas.

20060256302

11128678

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: generating, by multiple projectors, multiple composites of an image such that each projector generates a respective composite of the multiple composites, each composite including multiple vertical slices of the image, each vertical slice representing a respective portion of the image for projection by a specific projector that generated the composite onto a particular area of multiple areas on a screen, a size of the particular area being a function of a width of a viewpoint of multiple viewpoints, the viewpoint being linearly positioned with the particular area and the particular projector; and wherein the multiple projectors are arranged into an array for projecting, by respective ones of the multiple projectors, corresponding ones of the multiple composites onto the screen.

20120054039

12869372

1. One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions for deriving advertising targeting metrics for a user from images associated with the user, the computer-executable instructions performing steps comprising: obtaining user identity information associated with the user; searching image-centric sites for public images associated with the user by referencing the obtained user identity information; filtering images obtained from the searching to retain only those images that are determined to comprise the user or that are determined to have been taken by the user; deriving advertising targeting metrics for the user by identifying physical attributes of the user from the filtered images; deriving advertising targeting metrics for the user by deducing the user's preferences from the filtered images; and storing the derived advertising targeting metrics for the user with the obtained user identity in a user store.

8918417

13851034

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: obtaining a group of query pairs, each query pair including a first query and a second query; determining, using one or more computers, a quality score for each query pair in the group of query pairs; determining a diversity score for each query pair in the group of query pairs having a quality score satisfying a quality threshold; and associating, for each query pair having a quality score satisfying the quality threshold and a diversity score satisfying a diversity threshold, the second query of the query pair with the first query of the query pair as a candidate refinement for the first query; selecting a group of candidate refinements associated with a candidate query, the group of candidate refinements ordered according to an order; processing one or more of the candidate refinements according to the order and determining, for at least one additional candidate refinement in the one or more processed candidate refinements, that the additional candidate refinement has an intra-suggestion diversity score satisfying an intra-suggestion diversity threshold, the intra-suggestion diversity score estimating diversity between a first group of top documents responsive to the additional candidate refinement and a group of seen documents; associating the additional candidate refinement with the candidate query as a confirmed refinement; and adding the first group of top documents to the group of seen documents.

20130091081

13649823

1. A computer implemented method of structured latent factor analysis comprising: by a computer: learning latent factors of a set of data; modeling pairwise relationships among them and determining structural relationships through the use of a sparse Gaussian graphical model; and outputting an indication of the latent factor relationships; wherein said pairwise relationship modeling is performed according to the following pairwise Markov Random Field (MRF) prior on a vector of factors sε K : p ( s  μ , Θ ) = 1 Z ( μ , Θ ) exp ( - ∑ i = 1 K μ i s i - 1 2 ∑ i = 1 K ∑ j = 1 K θ ij s i s j ) ( 4 ) with parameter μ=[μ i ], symmetric Θ=[θ ij ], and partition function Z(μ, Θ) which normalizes the distribution.

7657844

10836883

1. A method of dynamically configuring an accessible editor, comprising using computer-readable program code executing on a computer to perform steps of: providing a plurality of selectable editing functions; specifying, in computer-readable storage media for a particular instance of the accessible editor, selected ones of the provided editing functions that are to be available in this editor instance; and upon activating the editor instance, processing the specification from the computer readable storage media to determine the selected ones and dynamically making the determined selected ones available for selection in the editor instance.

20110292668

13173039

1. An adaptive forward lighting system for a vehicle, said adaptive forward lighting system comprising: an imaging sensor, said imaging sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of light sensing photosensor elements, said imaging sensor monitoring a scene forward of the direction of travel of the controlled vehicle; a control, said control processing image data from said imaging sensor; wherein adjustment between a first beam pattern and a second beam pattern of a vehicle headlamp of the controlled vehicle is responsive, at least in part, to said processing of said image data; and wherein said control receives trajectory data indicative of a vehicle trajectory of the controlled vehicle via a vehicle communication bus, and wherein said control adjusts between a first beam pattern and a second beam pattern of a vehicle headlamp of the controlled vehicle responsive, at least in part, to said trajectory data.