The red eye detecting and correcting method detects red eye that occurred in an image during photographing and correcting the thus detected red eye to a specified color of pupil. Parameters employed in red eye detection and correction are altered in accordance with at least one of conditions as follows: type of the image, a camera model with which the image was recorded, a processing space for ima...

In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, methods and apparatuses are provided according to a seamless bitstream switching scheme. The seamless switching scheme can be used with scalable video bitstreams, and can take advantage of both the high coding efficiency of non-scalable bitstreams and the flexibility of scalable bitstreams. Small bandwidth fluctuations can be accommodate...

A method for segmenting magnetic resonance (MR) images of an anatomical body of interest, for example the brain, comprises classifying a plurality of selected structures within the body of interest based on a plurality of image processing computations wherein the computations are adapted to relate respective T2 relaxation times corresponding to each of the structures. Thereafter, the method compri...

A testing system operable to accurately position a plurality of contact electrodes relative to a plurality of electrical contacts is disclosed. For one embodiment, the testing system comprises a first imaging system coupled to a wafer chuck. The wafer chuck is used to place the electrical contacts of a wafer in contact with the plurality of electrodes. To facilitate accurate positioning between th...

In order to improve character edge reproducibility in reproducing a color document image, a boundary between a character and a background is detected in color image data. Further, if the detected edge exists at the side of a character, it is decided as a true edge, and the image data are subjected to edge emphasis. Then, when an image is reproduced, undesirable partial whitening in characters in t...

In a digital image, for each pixel to be thresholded, a threshold is selected from a set of thresholds.

Hydro-activated and/or oxygen activated aqueous, enzymatic, antimicrobials denture adhesive compositions are stabilized against enzymatic action prior to oral application of the adhesive by incorporating a thickener into the adhesive formulation so as to provide the forrmulation with an enzyme immobilizing viscosity which inhibits enzymatic action during processing and in the adhesive package. An ...

The present invention relates to methods for detecting chemical moieties that may serve as the core or scaffold of a potential drug that is directed to a target. The invention further relates to a chemical library of drug cores and the use of that library to identify useful drug cores for a particular target protein.

A secure programable timer allows connections to the internet via a phone line or a network during a programmed specific time range. A timer is set to close the connection from a computer (or telephone) to the phone line or network during a programmed time span. The computer is not connected to the phone line or network outside of the programmed time span. A timer motor rotates a timer that has pr...

The present invention provides according to a first of its aspects, new compounds that have a flexible scaffold with various degrees of conformational restriction and accordingly are useful as drug candidates. These compounds may be used to produce new combinatorial libraries that will permit to screen for and select drug candidates for a variety of uses in human medicine, veterinary medicine and ...

A method and apparatus to detect irregular heart activity and estimate heart rate. In one embodiment, the heart rate estimation apparatus includes a group of six RR storage structures that receives an input of six successive RR interval values. The apparatus also includes a probability engine coupled to the group of RR storage structures, the probability engine is operable to calculate and output ...

A system and method for automatically reducing false-positive nodule candidates associated with airways includes receiving a nodule candidate, testing for airway cavities connected to the candidate, and recognizing the candidate as a false-positive nodule candidate if it is connected to an airway cavity; where the testing may include perpendicular testing for airways that are relatively perpendicu...

A method and apparatus are provided for improving the detection of certain cardiac rhythms by combining dual chamber interval-related detection methods with electrogram morphology analysis. A prioritized set of rules are defined wherein each rule is directed at identifying a particular arrhythmia or type of arrhythmia. Each rule includes clauses that may be related to sensed event intervals and in...

The present invention includes a system and method for computerized analysis of a patient's electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded by electrodes placed on the scalp, for the purpose of predicting patient response to medications and therapeutic agents commonly used in psychiatric practice. The prediction of the responses to medications (adverse, no effect, favorable outcome) is an important problem in...

Implant compositions are disclosed consisting of a biocompatible carrier medium such as a saline or dextran solution and particles of collagenous material dispersed therein. The collagenous material is derived from tissue which has been milled to provide fragments of collagen fibres which preserve the architecture of the original fibres and their molecular structure. The collagenous material is al...

The present invention provides a method for the production of bounded non-wovens carriers. The method includes providing a glass staple fiber containing non-woven which is pre-consolidated with a binder. The glass staple fiber non-woven is placed adjacent to one or more non-wovens of synthetic fibers and hydro-dynamically needling at a water beam pressure in the range of 100 to 400 bar.

The hub drive includes an outer rotor motor, in which the rotor casing is connected with the vehicle wheel and the stator sits on a stationary axis which is unilaterally mounted at the vehicle frame or similar. The one-sided suspension is achieved by a carrying shield (6) connected with the axis (14), which comprises a peg (7) projecting into a drill hole (15) of the axis in the interior of the hu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce load stores and paths for processing a large amount of the number of data efficiently by scheduling the processing of image data.

SOLUTION: The device is equipped with a plurality of computing pipelines for computing input image data, a switching channel that switches data transferring paths for making the computed result that is output from the plurality of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an infrared image processor for performing the binarization of an image corresponding to the brightness histogram variation of the image photographed with a camera.

SOLUTION: An image processing unit performs the binarization of an image obtained currently using the brightness threshold value ITH decided by the former processing (S34). Then, the binarization...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for activating the painting-out of a graphic object.

SOLUTION: Though the sequential lettering of pixels can solve the problems, there are page describing languages depending on whether a lusterizing rule for rounding an edged position is activated or not. In order to activate the painting-out, a plurality of edge records in relation to the edge of ...