Determining a future portion of a currently presented media program

MJ Conrad, GJ Hulten, KJ Krum, UA Mendhro… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for determining a future portion of a
currently presented media program. The techniques and apparatuses can receive current …

High-contrast subcutaneous vein detection and localization using multispectral imaging

F Wang, A Behrooz, M Morris… - Journal of biomedical …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Multispectral imaging has shown promise in subcutaneous vein detection and localization in
human subjects. While many limitations of single-wavelength methods are addressed in …

Determining audience state or interest using passive sensor data

MJ Conrad, GJ Hulten, KJ Krum, UA Mendhro… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for determining an audience's state
or interest using passive sensor data. The techniques receive sensor data that measures an …

Controlling a media program based on a media reaction

GJ Hulten, UA Mendhro, KJ Krum, MJ Conrad… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
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Feature enhancement of medical images using morphology-based homomorphic filter and differential evolution algorithm

J Oh, H Hwang - International Journal of Control, Automation and …, 2010 - Springer
In this paper, we present a new morphology-based homomorphic filtering technique for
feature enhancement in medical images. The proposed method is based on decomposing …

Hyperspectral venous image quality assessment for optimum illumination range selection based on skin tone characteristics

A Shahzad, MN Saad, N Walter, AS Malik… - Biomedical engineering …, 2014 - Springer
Background Subcutaneous veins localization is usually performed manually by medical staff
to find suitable vein to insert catheter for medication delivery or blood sample function. The …

3D and multispectral imaging for subcutaneous veins detection

VC Paquit, KW Tobin, JR Price, F Mériaudeau - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The first and perhaps most important phase of a surgical procedure is the insertion of an
intravenous (IV) catheter. Currently, this is performed manually by trained personnel. In …

User interface presenting an animated avatar performing a media reaction

KJ Krum, MJ Conrad, GJ Hulten… - US Patent 8,635,637, 2014 - Google Patents
This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling a user interface for
presenting a media reaction. The techniques receive media reactions of a person to a media …

Enhancement of vein patterns in hand image for biometric and biomedical application using various image enhancement techniques

RD Prasanna, P Neelamegam, S Sriram, N Raju - Procedia Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
Captured hand image needs better enhancement technique to detect the vein patterns, due
to existence of indistinct state and unwanted noise in hand image which result in false …

Radiation optimization and image processing algorithms in the identification of hand vein patterns

S Crisan, IG Tarnovan, TE Crisan - Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2010 - Elsevier
Vein pattern recognition is one of the newest biometric techniques researched today. While
the concept behind the method is simple, there are various challenges to be found …