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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105486 | CALIBRATION FREE, MOTION TOLERENT EYE-GAZE DIRECTION DETECTOR WITH CONTEXTUALLY AWARE COMPUTER INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION METHODS Eye tracking systems and methods include such exemplary features as a display device, at least one image capture device and a processing device. The display device displays a user interface including one or more interface elements to a user. The at least one image captu... | 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 |
| 20120081533 | REAL-TIME EMBEDDED VISION-BASED EYE POSITION DETECTION One aspect provides an image capture device which, in one embodiment, includes a camera, image processor, and interface. The image processor is configured to determine a location of at least one eye of a presenter in a captured image captured by the camera. The image pr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120050516 | PUPIL DETECTION DEVICE AND PUPIL DETECTION METHOD A pupil detection apparatus and pupil detection method are provided that enable a high-accuracy detection result to be selected and output even when a gray scale image using near-infrared light is used. In a pupil detection apparatus (100), based on a calculated ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050515 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A fundus camera, having a first light source for observing an object, a second light source for photographing the object and an image pickup element, determines a light intensity of the second light source based on first image data obtained by illuminating an eye to be ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044338 | VISUAL AIDING SYSTEM BASED ON ANALYSIS OF VISUAL ATTENTION AND VISUAL AIDING METHOD FOR USING ANALYSIS OF VISUAL ATTENTION Disclosed are a visual aiding system and a visual aiding method using analysis of user's visual attention. In the visual aiding system and method, by tracking user's pupil of eyes, user's focus information which is tracking information is matched (integrated) with an ex... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120026276 | Manner of ranging items on the computer monitor screen surface, especially key words for the requirements of web browser users The manner of measuring the location of user's eyesight fixation point on the computer screen surface based on illuminating the eye surface, monitoring the eye with a camera and analysing light reflecting from the pupil surface is characterized by the fact that sources ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026310 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS The ocular fundus of an eye under examination is stereo-photographed via an ocular fundus photographing optical system with a predetermined parallax (S100). The photographed stereo ocular fundus images are subjected to color separation (S101) when a proces... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019646 | VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEMS Various embodiments of the present invention arc directed to video display systems. In one embodiment, a video display system comprises a display screen; and a video capturing system. The video capturing system is configured to capture line-of-sight video images of a vi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019645 | Unitized, Vision-Controlled, Wireless Eyeglasses Transceiver A device allowing a user to inconspicuously send and receive wireless messages, often short text messages, including the capability to capture and transmit still images and/or video. The device may have an outward appearance resembling standard eyeglasses or sun glasses... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120008092 | Information System and Method for Providing Information Using a Holographic Element An information system and a method for providing information in correlation with light that is incident on an eye includes a holographic element disposed in front of the eye and a device capable of recording optical signals which detects light that is incident on the ey... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002028 | FACE IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE There is provided a face image pick-up apparatus for a vehicle including an image pick-up unit installed in a vehicle having a steering wheel disposed in front of a driver's seat of a vehicle interior and a tilt mechanism adjusting a tilt angle with respect to a vertica... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316997 | ATM INCLUDING ENHANCED PRIVACY FEATURES A method for minimizing glare and/or increasing privacy for a user of a self-service device is provided. The method may include mechanical means such as a fixed visor and/or hood or a user operated hinged glare reducing overlay screen. The method may further include as ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310238 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING COORDINATES USING EYE TRACKING Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for inputting coordinates using eye tracking. The apparatus includes a pupil tracking unit, a display tracking unit, and a spatial coordinate conversion unit. The pupil tracking unit tracks the movement of a user's pupil base... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304721 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IRIS IMAGE CAPTURE According to one example embodiment, a process and system include a camera used to capture a sequence of illuminated images of an subject, wherein the images are stored in frames. The focus point is changed for each image captured so that the focus point sweeps from a f... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298913 | PUPIL HIDDEN STATE DETECTING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED CAMERA EMPLOYING THE SAME Provided is a pupil hidden state detecting apparatus which can detect directly a hidden state of a pupil without detecting a hiding object. The pupil hidden state detecting apparatus 20 is comprises: a visual line direction detecting section 22 operable to... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298912 | WAVEFRONT SENSING FOR BIOMETRIC IMAGING Devices and approaches for addressing wavefront corruption in biometric applications. A biometric imaging system may have a laser, a wavefront sensor, and an optical system. The laser may be configured to project a laser spot onto a skin portion of a human face, and the... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110285836 | Multimodal Ocular Biometric System A multimodal biometric identification system captures and processes images of both the iris and the retina for biometric identification. Another multimodal ocular system captures and processes images of the iris and/or the from both eyes of a subject. Biometrics based o... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279666 | DETECTION OF GAZE POINT ASSISTED BY OPTICAL REFERENCE SIGNAL A gaze-point detection system includes at least one infrared (IR) signal source to be placed in a test scene as a reference point, a pair of eye glasses to be worn by a person, and a data processing and storage unit for calculating a gaze point of the person wearing the... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273554 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM Interlace noises of the image of an iris included in the image of an eye picked up through an interlaced scheme are corrected precisely within a short time. An image processing apparatus (30) corrects a digital image P based on only low-brightness pixels configur... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267447 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image of the iris contained in an image of an eye is accurately specified. An image of the iris contained in a digital image (P) of an eye is accurately specified. In view of low-intensity pixels of the digital image (P) of the eye, and high-intensity pixels having a... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267446 | Calibrating Laser Beam Position and Shape Using an Image Capture Device The present invention provides improved methods and systems for laser beam positioning, shape profile, size profile, drift, and/or deflection calibration using an image capture device, such as a microscope camera, for enhanced calibration accuracy and precision. The met... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110242306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DETECTION OF AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION AND OTHER RETINAL ABNORMALITIES A system and method for automated detection of age related macular degeneration and other retinal abnormalities which may have a retinal scanner capable of obtaining retinal data from a subject. The retinal scanner may be coupled to a central processing unit (CPU) which... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234785 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An imaging apparatus that captures an object that changes temporally includes: first acquisition means for acquiring an overview image of the object; determination means for determining a reference part in the overview image in which there is less temporal change than i... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110234786 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD AND OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS An optical tomographic imaging method of picking up a cross-sectional image of an object comprises scanning a predetermined region of the object with spots of a plurality of measurement lights in the same direction so as to irradiate different positions of the object wi... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216181 | DROWSINESS DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM An image is captured of a region including an eye of a driver using an image capture device 12, and the degree of eye openness is detected with a degree of eye openness detection section 24. A standard closed eye threshold value, a large value closed eye t... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211056 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPATIALLY CONTROLLED SCENE ILLUMINATION A scene illumination system is provided that produces spatially uniform or controlled brightness levels for machine vision applications. The system includes a camera, multiple light sources that preferentially illuminate different regions within the camera's field-of-vi... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211057 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing unit obtains information indicating continuity of tomograms of a subject's eye, and a determining unit determines the image capturing state of the subject's eye on the basis of the information obtained by the image processing unit.... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205350 | OPEN-EYE OR CLOSED-EYE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, DEGREE OF EYE OPENNESS ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM An open-eye or closed-eye determination apparatus is provided with: an image capture section 11 for capturing an image of a region including the eye of an investigation subject; a width of eye opening measurement section 12 for detecting top and bottom eye... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110205148 | Facial Tracking Electronic Reader Facial actuations, such as eye actuations, may be used to detect user inputs to control the display of text. For example, in connection with an electronic book reader, facial actuations and, particularly, eye actuations, can be interpreted to indicate when the turn a pa... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199475 | CUSTOMER SERVING SYSTEM A customer serving system comprises a detection device, a display device and a control unit. The detection device is arranged for detecting customers within a monitoring area. The display device is coupled to the detection device for starting to display a greeting messa... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110187844 | IMAGE IRRADIATION SYSTEM AND IMAGE IRRADIATION METHOD To provide an image irradiation system and an image irradiation method which can make an image information in an outdoor side of a vehicle be recognized by a driver precisely without widely moving a view point of the driver. An image irradi... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187845 | SYSTEM FOR IRIS DETECTION, TRACKING AND RECOGNITION AT A DISTANCE A stand-off range or at-a-distance iris detection and tracking for iris recognition having a head/face/eye locator, a zoom-in iris capture mechanism and an iris recognition module. The system may obtain iris information of a subject with or without his or her knowledge ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181541 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH AUTOMATIC BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT AND THE METHOD THEREOF A electronic device and method regulates a display brightness of the electronic device. The electronic device can create relationships between the external environment brightness of the electronic device and the brightness of the display of the electronic device. Furthe... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110175992 | FILE SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A file selection system includes a display unit, a camera, and a processing unit. The camera captures an image. The processing unit examines the image to find a face, eyeballs, and eye sockets, and determining a location of the face in the image and a location of an eye... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110170066 | NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE, ELECTRO-OCULOGRAPHY MEASURING DEVICE, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS DEVICE, EYE-GAZE TRACKING DEVICE, WEARABLE CAMERA, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, ELECTRONIC EYEGLASSES, NOISE REDUCTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A noise reduction device includes: a saccade information obtaining unit that obtains saccade information from an electro-oculography original signal that indicates an electro-oculogram resulting from an eye movement of a user, the saccade information relating to a sacca... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110169935 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING AN IMAGE OF AN OCULAR FEATURE A method, apparatus and software containing instructions for obtaining an image of an ocular feature are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments include at least the steps of defining one or more selection criteria which are related to an ocular feature of interest. The se... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110161163 | WEARABLE ADVERTISING RATINGS METHODS AND SYSTEMS A wearable advertising ratings method and system is disclosed. The location of a advertising media can be identified and a human eye can be located and tracked when the user of the ratings system, such as a pedestrian, is wearing eye polarity-sensing earphones. The earp... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157347 | UNINTRUSIVE BIOMETRIC CAPTURE DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOGICAL ACCESS CONTROL An unintrusive and unobtrusive biometric capture device, system and method is described for providing logical access to users via biometric identification or authentication. When a user positions himself/herself in front of a computing device the biometric capture devic... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110141259 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING,IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A brightness information generation unit 13 generates brightness profiles, serving as brightness information, from each Sobel image formed by an image transformation unit. A feature point detection unit 14 extracts feature points from the generated brightn... | 06/16/2011 |
