Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127296 | FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION METHOD A fingerprint authentication apparatus and a fingerprint authentication are provided. The fingerprint authentication apparatus is configured to prevent infection from viruses or bacteria and quickly and accurately perform fingerprint authentication. The fingerprint auth... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127295 | MIRROR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING BIOMETRIC DATA A system and method for obtaining biometric imagery such as iris imagery from large capture volumes is disclosed wherein a substantially rotationally symmetric mirror such as a cone or sphere is rotated at a constant velocity about a central axis.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105615 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASSIGNING SOURCES AND SINKS TO ROUTES OF INDIVIDUALS A method for assigning a source or a sink to a route of an individual has the steps: defining source/sink location data indicating possible sources and/or sinks in a monitored compound, monitoring a route of a moving individual in the monitored compound, generating rout... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105614 | OPTICAL FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION SYSTEM An optical fingerprint recognition system has a finger board. The finger board has a plurality of micro-structures, and a plate face of the finger board is to be in contact with a finger, and the other plate face of the finger board has an image capturing element and at... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105616 | LOADING OF DATA TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An image is displayed on a display of an electronic device. The image includes a control element, e.g., a web link. Further, front camera images are received from a front camera of the electronic device. The front camera is arranged to face toward a user of the electron... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105586 | LATENT FINGERPRINT DETECTORS AND FINGERPRINT SCANNERS THEREFROM An automatic fingerprint system includes an optical sensor having a first light source that provides a collimated beam for interrogating a first sample surface, and a camera including a lens and a photodetector array having a camera field of view (FOVCAMERA) ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105613 | ROBUST VIDEO-BASED HANDWRITING AND GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR IN-CAR APPLICATIONS A method of receiving input from a user includes sensing a first trajectory of a center of mass of a hand of the user during a gesture made by the hand. A second trajectory of a finger tip of the hand of the user during the gesture made by the hand is also sensed. An al... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081532 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND EXAMINATION SYSTEM The illumination apparatus includes a first light source and a second light source configured to generate light in wavelength bands required for at least two illumination modes; a dichroic mirror configured to transmit light in a predetermined band from the first light ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081531 | System And Methods For Providing Performance Feedback Systems and methods provide feedback to at least one participant in a field of play. A performance analysis device determines performance information of each participant in the field of play, where the performance information is based upon at least one of determined loc... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069169 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image capturing unit 12 captures an image of a finger 31 of a user performing a press operation within a virtual input device area associated with a predetermined input device, the virtual input device being formed on a top surface of a desk or the like... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069168 | GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR TV CONTROL A gesture recognition system using a skin-color based method combined with motion information to achieve real-time segmentation. A Kalman filter is used to track the centroid of the hand. The palm center, palm bottom, as well as the largest distance from the palm center... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050010 | Restricting the Operation of a Motor Vehicle A camera (402) is provided for receiving a candidate image of a portion of a driver's upper limb, such as a palm, emphasising patterns of blood transferring pathways, such as veins, within the exposed portion of the driver's palm. A candidate image is compared wi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050514 | IMAGE ACQUISITION AND DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE CAPTURING AND DISPLAY APPARATUS Identifying, based on a special image, a prescribed region of interest in a special image, determining a boundary line of an area which includes a region in an ordinary image corresponding to the identified region of interest and a predetermined margin added to the regi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044337 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING AN IMAGE IN A VEHICLE A motor vehicle virtual vanity mirror display system includes an a input device that provides a virtual vanity mirror control signal, and a camera that is adapted to capture an image of an occupant sitting on a seat of the vehicle in response to the virtual vanity mirro... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044335 | MAKEUP SIMULATION SYSTEM, MAKEUP SIMULATION APPARATUS, MAKEUP SIMULATION METHOD, AND MAKEUP SIMULATION PROGRAM The present invention relates to a makeup simulation system, a makeup simulation apparatus, a makeup simulation method and a makeup simulation program and, more particularly, to a makeup simulation apparatus, a makeup simulation method and a makeup simulation program fo... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044336 | Generic Threat Detector A device including at least one threat detector, which estimates the level of threat represented by an individual based on measurements taken when the individual enters a measurement zone. The device has application to protection of infrastructures.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUDIO REPRODUCTION A wearable loudspeaker unit comprises a loudspeaker, an audio reproduction processor, a wireless communications unit operable to communicate wirelessly with a base unit using a protocol that distinguishes the wearable loudspeaker unit from any other wearable loudspeaker... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038762 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE STREAM A system and method may display an image stream, where an original image stream may be divided into two or more subset images streams, each subset image stream being displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously. The images may be displayed fused. The images ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033063 | Method and device for recognition of natural skin during contact-free biometric identification of a person A contact-free biometric identification apparatus includes a housing, a first light-emitting diode (LED) positioned in the housing having a first predetermined wavelength to illuminate a portion of skin, a second LED positioned in the housing having a second predetermin... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026309 | MEDIA DISPLAY SYSTEM AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREFOR An adjustment method for a media display system includes a time-of-flight (TOF) camera capturing an image of a scene in front of an electronic billboard and obtaining data about distances between a number of points in the scene and the TOF camera. Building a three dimen... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026308 | System and method for using a video monitoring system to prevent and manage decubitus ulcers in patients A video monitoring system captures image frames of a patient in various positions. The captured image frames are analyzed by the system for changes in a patient's position or movement, frames in which the system detects one or both of patient movement and repositioning ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027226 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FOCUSED DIRECTIONAL SOUND IN AN AUDIO SYSTEM A system and method for providing focused directional sound in an audio system where the system effectively uses regular speakers on servo stands with satellite speakers adapted to rotate on two axes. The system allows for the tracking of the speakers to focus the sound... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025989 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A FALLEN PERSON USING A RANGE IMAGING DEVICE A method and system for detecting a fallen person is described. An initial range image corresponding to a field of view of a DAS is generated. Further, a reference plane disposed in the field of view is identified. Additionally, one or more regions in the initial range ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027252 | HAND GESTURE DETECTION A method for detecting presence of a hand gesture in video frames includes receiving video frames having an original resolution, downscaling the received video frames into video frames having a lower resolution, and detecting a motion corresponding to the predefined han... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022890 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SELF-SERVICE KIOSK SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND REPORTING BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL A method and an apparatus is provided for a self-service breathalyzer kiosk system for collecting and reporting blood alcohol level information. The system and method enables a user to submit a report containing the user's current blood alcohol level at the time the rep... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019643 | Passive Demographic Measurement Apparatus A passive demographic measurement apparatus, comprising an interface for coupling to a Microsoft Kinect®-type sensor, a network interface for sending information to remote device via a network, storage for storing information characteristic of sensed individuals and in... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020639 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPRATUS A first acquisition unit acquires images from a first image pickup unit for picking up moving images for use in recording. A second acquisition unit acquires images from a second image pickup unit for picking up the image of a person taking the moving images. A decision... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019644 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND MONITORING TERMINAL A monitoring system has a plurality of monitoring terminals communicably connected to each other. Each monitoring terminal has an imaging portion for imaging a monitoring area allocated to an own-terminal, a tracing portion for processing an imaged image of the imaging ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013723 | Support System and Method for Viewer-Dependent Positioning and Alignment of a Display Unit A support system (10) and method for the viewer-dependent positioning and alignment of a monitor (20) is disclosed. The support system (10) comprises a central support column (14), a first arm (16) having an adjustable length L, wherei... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013724 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING BIOMETRIC INFORMATION An apparatus, method and system are provided for sensing at least one biometric measure of an individual. A low voltage pulsed electrical charge is applied to a transparent electrode plate, which is dimensioned to receive a portion of an individual's dermal surface havi... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013725 | PORTABLE PAN-TILT CAMERA AND LIGHTING UNIT FOR VIDEOIMAGING, VIDEOCONFERENCING, PRODUCTION AND RECORDING The present invention is a portable camera and lighting unit for standalone use in videography to create a high-resolution well-illuminated video feed from a vast array of camera angles and positions, the illumination source always inherently tracking with the camera. T... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120009555 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNITION OF PATIENT ACTIVITIES A medication confirmation method and apparatus. The method of an embodiment of the invention includes the steps of capturing one or more video sequences of a user administering medication via a medication administration apparatus, storing the captured one or more video ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007975 | PROCESSING IMAGE DATA Systems and methods are provided for identifying an image having a target individual therein. An example system includes an image capture system that generates image data representing a set of a captured images of a predetermined area, an image database that stores the ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007976 | BIOMETRIC DATA ACQUIRING DEVICE AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE An organism information acquisition device is provided with an imaging part which images a user' s hand opened and the user' s hand bent to acquire a first image and a second image respectively; a dark line extraction part which extracts dark lines from the first image ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002027 | INATTENTION DETERMINING APPARATUS An inattention determination device includes a sight direction detecting unit that detects a sight direction of a driver, and an inattention determining unit that measures an inattention continuation time from a time point when the sight direction is a predetermined ina... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316995 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING A PERSON The invention concerns a method for inspecting a person by using a detector (100), the detector (100) including a gate (110) and an image capturing device (120) for imaging the person (P) passing through the gate (110), the method comp... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316996 | CAMERA-EQUIPPED LOUDSPEAKER, SIGNAL PROCESSOR, AND AV SYSTEM An AV system includes a camera-equipped loudspeaker provided with a camera. The camera is united with a loudspeaker body, and captures an image in a direction in which the loudspeaker body outputs a sound. The recognition unit recognizes a location of a listener from an... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313821 | Anti Fare Evasion System A system for monitoring passengers on a vehicle includes one or more detectors for detecting passenger data including one or more passenger identification properties. A computer system receives data from the detectors and uniquely identifies each passenger based on the ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309932 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING BREATH ALCOHOL TESTING PROGRAMS, USUALLY FROM A FIXED POINT LOCATION, SUCH AS A HOME The invention relates to devices, systems and methods for thwarting attempts to circumvent breath alcohol level testing and monitoring programs. In-home monitoring systems as well as ignition interlock systems are described. Accelerometers and/or compasses are used to d... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310237 | Facial Expression Recognition Systems and Methods and Computer Program Products Thereof A facial expression recognition system includes a facial database, an image capture unit, an expression recognition data generation unit and an expression recognition unit. The facial database includes a plurality of expression information and expression features of opt... | 12/22/2011 |
