System and method for recording and preparing statistics concerning live performances
In one aspect, the present invention provides a method for creating video clips of activities occurring during a performance, and creating a corresponding database of information relating to the video... Read More
Inventors: Skelley, Jr., John F.;, Assignee: New Jersey Devils, LLC (East Rutherford, NJ) |
Fiber optic imaging device and methods
OF THE FIGURES FIG. 1 shows a fiber optic imaging device or viewer 10 which employs a conventional fiber optic bundle 12 and light pipe 14. The fiber optic bundle 12 has an objective end 16 for recei... Read More
Inventors: Field, Jr., Robert J.; Toch, Peter L.;, Assignee: ITT Corporation (New York, NY) |
Optical system for obtaining separate and simultaneous near-infrared and visible light images
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION A quartz-halogen lamp 1 directs light into a light transmissive ring member 3 via fiber-optic bundle 5, which illuminates a given area 7 containing the afor... Read More
Inventors: Zana, Lawrence J.; Breakey, Gerald A.;, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air (Washington, DC) |
Method and apparatus for contrast enhancement
What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus for generating an enhanced visual image from an electronic representation of an original image, said apparatus comprising: decomposing means for decomposing said el... Read More
Inventors: Vuylsteke, Pieter P.; Schoeters, Emile P.;, Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert (Mortsel, BE) |
Infrared aided method and apparatus for venous examination
What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus for aiding a user injecting the tip of a hypodermic needle into a subcutaneous vein in the flesh of a patient, said apparatus comprising: light source means for pro... Read More
Inventors: Esparza, Joel; Bahuguna, Ramendra D.; Williams, Gareth T.;, Assignee: |
Optical functional mamoscope
The apparatus of the present inventions overcomes the disadvantages of the apparatus described above. It is characterized by an increased information volume and determines the patients physiological s... Read More
Inventors: Godik, Eduard E.;, Assignee: Dynamics Imaging, Inc. (Devon, PA) |
Confocal imaging through thick dermal tissue
Accordingly, it is the principal object of the present invention to provide and improve clinical dermatological imaging system. It is another object of the invention to provide an improved confocal im... Read More
Inventors: Zavislan, James M.; Eastman, Jay M.;, Assignee: Lucid Technologies, Inc. (Henrietta, NY) |
Method of living organism multimodal functional mapping
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The method of the present invention involves recording the spatial-temporal distributions of one or several parameters (dynamic maps) of physical fields and radiations, pr... Read More
Inventors: Godik, Eduard E.;, Assignee: Dynamics Imaging, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ) |
Automatic background recognition and removal (ABRR) in projection digital radiographic images (PDRI)
The present invention is a novel method and/or system for automatically recognizing and removing background signals in digital radiography images caused by X-ray collimation during projection radiogra... Read More
Inventors: Huang, H. K.; Zhang, Jianguo;, Assignee: The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA) |
Apparatus for enhanced visual venous examination
We claim: 1. An apparatus for presenting to a user a video view of a venous structure underlying skin in an area of a patient's body while simultaneously permitting direct visual and manual access to ... Read More
Inventors: Dawson, Jr., Fredric O.; Esparza, Joel;, Assignee: |
Method and apparatus for detecting electro-magnetic reflection from biological tissue
S OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An imaging system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention is shown in FIG. 1, and includes a light source 2 radiating a beam of incident l... Read More
Inventors: Flock, Stephen T.; Fink, Louis; Waner, Milton;, Assignee: University of Arkansas (Little Rock, AR) |
Three-dimensional infrared imager for subcutaneous puncture and study of vascular network
Accordingly, it is a principal object of the present invention to overcome the problems associated with the prior art and provide a novel three-dimensional infrared imager with a proper illumination s... Read More
Inventors: Svetliza, Eduardo;, Assignee: |
System and method for enhanced visualization of subcutaneous structures
What is claimed is: 1. A system for enhancing the visualization of veins, arteries and other subcutaneous natural or foreign structures in the body, comprising: (a) a light source for illuminating a p... Read More
Inventors: Crane, Robert L.; Edmonds, Byron P.; Lovett, Charles C.; Johnson, Walter E.;, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air (Washington, DC) |
Handheld imaging microscope
Accordingly, it is the principal object of the present invention to provide and improve clinical dermatological imaging system. It is another object of the invention to provide an improved confocal im... Read More
Inventors: Zavislan, James M.; Eastman, Jay M.;, Assignee: Lucid, Inc. (Henrietta, NY) |
Apparatus and method for determining a location of an anatomical target with reference to a medical apparatus
Frameless stereotaxy is widely used in the field of neurosurgery. It involves the quantitative determination of anatomical positions based on scan data taken from a CT, MRI or other scanning procedure... Read More
Inventors: Cosman, Eric R.;, Assignee: Sherwood Services AG (Shaffhausen, CH) |
Method and system for physiological gating of radiation therapy
The present invention provides an improved method and system for physiological gating for radiation therapy. According to an aspect, the invention comprises the use of an optical or video imaging syst... Read More
Inventors: Riaziat, Majid L.; Mansfield, Stanley; Mostafavi, Hassan;, Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Method for identifying optical contrast enhancing agents
I claim: 1. A method for identifying optical contrast enhancing agents useful for enhancing the sensitivity of optical detection of a biological material comprising: maintaining at least one sample po... Read More
Inventors: Hochman, Daryl W.;, Assignee: Cytoscan Sciences LLC (Seattle, WA) |
Method and apparatus for extracting a pattern of color from an object using a neural network
It is an object of the present invention to provide a pattern extracting apparatus which is capable of precisely extracting a specific area corresponding to human sense precisely. According to the pre... Read More
Inventors: Nakagawa, Kazuyo; Sato, Toshio;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Image processing apparatus and method
The present invention is made in consideration of the above situation, and has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus and method thereof which can keep the memory capacity necessary fo... Read More
Inventors: Sumiuchi, Kazuyoshi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Electrophotographic element with silicide treated porous Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 sublayer
An object of this invention is to provide a photosensitive material for electrophotography which can be produced by a relatively easy method and which has a high quality and high durability and is ach... Read More
Inventors: Kumano, Masafumi; Shindoh, Yasuyuki; Sano, Yutaka; Haga, Koichi; Fuse, Akihiro;, Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP); Ricoh Research Institute of General Electronics (Miyagi, JP) |
Methods of scene change detection and fade detection for indexing of video sequences
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT. Referring to the schematic diagram of FIG. 1 of the drawing, it can be seen that methods according to a first aspect of the present invention make use of a pr... Read More
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Ito, Hiroshi; Poon, Tommy C.;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) |
Process of compressing a succession of digital data and device for carrying out the same
OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 represents the block diagram of a compression circuit of a succession of words representing the pixels of an image. The words of 8 bits are present in the parallel form and are... Read More
Inventors: Lienard, Jean; Denoize, Xavier; Dessales-Martin, Diane;, Assignee: Thomson-CGR (Paris, FR) |
Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding picture signals which avoids the aforementioned disadvantages of the prior art. Another obj... Read More
Inventors: Tahara, Katsumi;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for reducing correlated errors in subband coding systems with quantizers
The limitations of the prior art techniques are overcome and a technical advance is made in accordance with the present invention based, in part, on a recognition that it is advantageous in subband co... Read More
Inventors: Kovacevic, Jelena;, Assignee: AT&T IPM Corp. (Coral Gables, FL) |
Method and system for encoding images using temporal filtering
The present invention is a method and system for temporally filtering an image having a plurality of image pixels. A reference image having a plurality of reference image pixels is provided. A plurali... Read More
Inventors: Ghoshal, Dhruva;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Motion picture encoding system wherein image quality is maximized using inter-frame and intra-frame encoding
In view of the foregoing, an object of the present invention is to provide a motion picture encoding system with high encoding efficiency and which also permits improvement of the picture quality. To ... Read More
Inventors: Yagasaki, Yoichi;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Motion compensation predicting encoding method and apparatus
The foregoing objects and other objects and advantages will be realized by the present invention in which a motion compensation predicting coding apparatus encodes pixel data of an image signal. The i... Read More
Inventors: Murakami, Tokumichi; Asai, Kohtaro; Kato, Yoshiaki; Yamada, Yoshihisa;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Intra-macroblock DC and AC coefficient prediction for interlaced digital video
In accordance with the present invention, a method and apparatus are presented for selecting predictor coefficients for differentially coding the coefficients of a current INTRA coded block. A method ... Read More
Inventors: Eifrig, Robert O.; Chen, Xuemin; Luthra, Ajay;, Assignee: General Instrument Corporation (Horsham, PA) |
Load and store instructions which perform unpacking and packing of data bits in separate vector and integer cache storage
The problems outlined above are in large part solved by a multimedia extension unit (MEU) of the present invention. The MEU hereof embodies hardware components, and software instructions which optimal... Read More
Inventors: Thayer, John S.; Favor, John G.; Weber, Frederick D.;, Assignee: Compaq Computer Corp. (Houston, TX); Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Digital wireless home computer system
The present invention provides a digital wireless home computer system. One embodiment of the invention includes a computer and an output device communicatively coupled to the computer through a digit... Read More
Inventors: Ghori, Amar; White, John;, Assignee: Sharewave, Inc. (El Dorado Hills, CA) |
Image Analysis 
