公开(公告)号：US10600162B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-24

申请号：US15846643

申请日：2017-12-19

Applicant: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.

Inventor： John Randall Christ

IPC: G06T5/00 ,  G06T3/40

Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a system are disclosed to compensate for bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). The method including selecting an area of a landscape to be imaged; obtaining a plurality of aerial images of the selected area from a sensor or camera, wherein each of the plurality of aerial images comprises a plurality of pixels; combining the plurality of pixels from each of the plurality of images to form a plurality of superpixels, each of the plurality of superpixels comprising the plurality of pixels from one or more of the plurality of aerial images, and wherein each of the superpixels has a same resolution; combining the plurality of the superpixels into a single image, which simulates a satellite image; and performing a BRDF correction on one more of the obtained aerial images to adjust and/or change an intensity of the plurality of pixels.

公开(公告)号：US20190306989A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-03

申请号：US15942047

申请日：2018-03-30

Applicant: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.

Inventor： John Randall Christ ,  Jun Amano ,  Leiming Wang

IPC: H05K3/22 ,  B41M3/00 ,  H05K3/12 ,  G01R31/28

Abstract: A method is provided for detecting faults in a conductive circuitry. The method includes: printing the conductive circuitry on top of a substrate using a printing head; heating the conductive circuitry with a heat source; scanning the heated conductive circuitry with a non-contact thermal detector; detecting, with the non-contact thermal detector and concurrently with the printing of the conductive circuitry, the faults where the printing head failed to print; and reprinting the faults with the printing head.

公开(公告)号：US10089766B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-02

申请号：US15128224

申请日：2015-03-26

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC.

Inventor： John Randall Christ ,  Po-Chieh Hung

IPC: G06T3/40 ,  G06T7/30 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T7/33 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a system are disclosed for stitching aerial data using information from at least one previous image. The method includes capturing a plurality of images of the landscape; obtaining, image metadata for each of the captured images; generating, for each of the captured images, a set of transformed images based on the image metadata, comprises: setting a variable for each of the parameters; preparing a plurality of sets of transformed image metadata by applying the variables to the parameters; and preparing the set of transformed images from the captured image based on the plurality of sets of transformed image metadata, respectively; identifying, for each set of transformed images, one of the transformed images by calculating quality of fit to the top level image for each of the transformed images; and assembling a new aerial image based on the plurality of the identified transformed images.

公开(公告)号：US10339639B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-02

申请号：US15025137

申请日：2014-09-24

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC.

Inventor： John Randall Christ ,  Po-Chieh Hung

IPC: H04N7/18 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G01J3/28 ,  G06T7/80 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N17/00 ,  G01J1/42

Abstract: A method and system of calibrating multispectral images from a camera on an aerial vehicle, the method including: capturing multispectral images of an area at a plurality of intervals with a multispectral imaging camera; simultaneously or at an arbitrary time capturing sunlight radiance data for each of the captured images; correlating the images with the sunlight radiance data; and calibrating the multispectral images based on the sunlight radiance data to normalize the multispectral images to one or more previous images of the area.