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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain a non-control perspective (far/near) method for using a virtual camera and variable frame speed. SOLUTION: The method includes a system initialization step 100, a virtual camera definition step 102 for calculating a projection matrix of a desired virtual camera, a projection step 104 which projects all pixels in a frame to the virtual camera as a target, a blending step 106 which makes a relative weighting composition on a viewpoint as a target, a blockade solution step 108 which fills a remained blockade, a border matching step 110 which hides an artificial unnatural portion by matching the border, and a filter processing step 112 which makes a produced frame real. The method concurrently performs free visual point rendering to both eyes of a viewer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
The method described provides for the following steps: delimiting active areas (81) on a substrate, forming gate electrodes (82, 83, 88) insulated from the substrate on the active areas, and subjecting the front surface of the substrate to several implantation steps with doping ion beams to form source and drain regions with the use of the gate electrodes as masks. The direction of the implantation beam is defined by an angle of inclination to the front surface and by an orientation (45 DEG , 135 DEG , 225 DEG , 315 DEG ) to a reference line (80) on the front surface. To avoid performing numerous implantation steps without foregoing channels of uniform and constant length (L''), the widths of the gate electrode strips (82, 83, 88) are determined at the design stage in dependence on the orientation of the strips to the reference line (80) and on the orientation of the directions of the implant beams.
Abstract:
A method for improving the quality of a digital image acquired with a non-optimal exposure. The method, which is applied directly to the image in CFA (Colour Filter Array) format, identifies the regions of the image that are most important from the perceptive or contentual point of view by means of simple statistical measures. The image is then transformed by inverting the response function in such a manner as to optimize the quality of these regions.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve ESD protection in an electronic element. SOLUTION: A method and circuit structure for improving the effectiveness of ESD protection in circuit structures formed in a semiconductor substrate overlaid with an epitaxial layer (3) include at least one ESD protection lateral bipolar transistor (5) formed on the surface of the epitaxial layer (3). The method and circuit structure consist of formation of a well (4) isolated from the substrate (2) under the transistor (5). The bipolar (5) can be fully isolated from the substrate (2) by first (10) and second (11) N wells which extend from the epitaxial layer (3) down to and in contact with the buried well (4). COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a reduction in the influence of the disturbance components, superimposed on signal components caused by rotation of a gyroscope itself. SOLUTION: A micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope includes a first mass 107, which is able to oscillate along a first axis with respect to a fixed body, and an inertial sensor 6, having a second mass 108, constrained to the first mass so as to oscillate along a second axis, in response to a rotation of the gyroscope. A driving device 103, coupled to the first mass, forms a control loop for maintaining the first mass in oscillation at a resonance frequency. A reading device, which detects displacements of the second mass along the second axis, includes a charge amplifier for converting charge packets (Q RS ) supplied by the inertial sensor into a charge-integration signal, and a low-pass filter. A calibration stage enables modification of the voltage (V B ) between the second mass and the fixed body so as to minimize the component, at a frequency that is twice the resonance frequency in the charge-integration signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an integrated microelectromechanical mechanism, having high sensing efficiency and high design possibilities. SOLUTION: A first sensor mass 16a is connected to a drive mass 3 via an elastic support member 20 so as to make a first sensing motion, in the presence of a first external stress. The drive mass 3 is attached to an anchor 7, disposed along a rotation axis, and makes a rotary motion on the rotation axis z. Installed in the drive mass is a through hole 9a, in which the first sensor mass 16a is disposed. The elastic support member and the anchor cause the first sensor mass 16a to be fixed to the drive mass 3 when a rotational motion is made, and cause the sensor mass 16a to be separated from the drive mass, when a sensing motion is made. A second sensor mass 25a is connected to the drive mass so as to make a second sensing motion in the presence of a second external stress. The first sensing motion is a rotational motion, centered about an in-plane axis, and the second sensing motion is a linear motion along the direction of the in-plane axis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT