摘要:
The invention is directed to single crystal alkaline earth metal fluoride optical elements having an adhesive, hermetic coating thereon, the coating being chemically bonded to the surface of the metal fluoride optical element with a bonding energy ≧4 eV and not merely bonded by van de Walls forces. The materials that can be used for coating the optical elements are selected from the group consisting of SiO2, F—SiO2, Al2O3, F—Al2O3, SiON, HfO2, Si3N4, TiO2 and ZrO2, and mixtures (of any composition) of the forgoing, for example, SiO2;HfO2 and F—SiO2/ZrO2. The preferred alkali earth metal fluoride used for the optical elements is CaF2. Preferred coatings are SiO2, F—SiO2, SiO2/ZrO2 and F—SiO2/ZrO2.
摘要:
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a system for stylizing video, such as interactively transforming video to a cartoon-like style. Briefly stated, the techniques include determining a set of volumetric objects within a video, each volumetric object being a segment. Mean shift video segmentation may be used for this step. With that segmentation information, the technique further includes indicating on a limited number of keyframes of the video how segments should be merged into a semantic region. Finally, a contiguous volume is created by interpolating between keyframes by a mean shift constrained interpolation technique to propagate the semantic regions between keyframes.
摘要:
A method for saving instant messages includes: determining a session saving policy; sending the session saving policy to a server; and saving, by the server, instant messages in a session in accordance with the session saving policy. A client, server and system are also provided.
摘要:
A sawtooth generator adapted to produce a sawtooth voltage, a method of operating the same, and a power converter employing the sawtooth generator and method. In one embodiment, the sawtooth generator includes a current source, coupled to a clock with a clock frequency, configured to produce a reference current proportional to the clock frequency. The sawtooth generator also includes an active network including a switch and a capacitor coupled to the current source and configured to provide a sawtooth voltage with a waveform slope produced across the capacitor substantially proportional to the reference current.
摘要:
A controller for, related method of controlling a switch of, a power converter and a power converter employing the same. The controller is employable with a power converter including a switch of a power train configured to conduct for a duty cycle and provide a regulated output characteristic at an output thereof. In one embodiment, the controller includes a sparse analog-to-digital converter configured to determine a difference between the output characteristic and a desired characteristic and provide an error signal representing the difference in discrete steps. A magnitude of the discrete steps is small when the difference is small and the magnitude of the discrete steps is larger when the difference is larger. The controller also includes a duty cycle processor configured to provide a digital duty cycle signal to control the duty cycle of the switch as a function of the error signal.
摘要:
The invention is directed to improved coated metal fluoride single crystal optical elements suitable for use in below 250 nm optical lithography, and particularly below 200 nm lithography. The coated elements of the invention can be lenses, windows, prisms and other elements used in lithographic methods, including the laser sources used therein. The invention is also directed to a method of removing the quasi-Bielby layer formed when a shaped optical element is polished. Removal of the quasi-Bielby layer prior to coating results in improved durability and optical transmission characteristics of the coated lenses. The coating material can be any material that does not impede the transmission of below 250 nm electromagnetic radiation. Fluorine doped silicon dioxide is the preferred coating material.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of inhibiting a rejection response by a primate to a transplanted organ. One exposes the primate to a mutant diphtheria toxin linked to anti-CD3 antibody so as to largely eliminate the host's peripheral blood T cell lymphocyte population. At the same time as, or after, the exposure step one administers to the primate's thymus gland donor lymphocytes. Transplantation of the organ follows. The primate is tolerized to the transplanted organ.
摘要:
Techniques are disclosed relating to lens modeling. In one embodiment, a lens model may be generated based on reference images of a pre-determined, known geometric pattern. The lens model may represent a spatially variant blur pattern across the image field of the lens used to capture the reference images. In one embodiment, the lens model may include Gaussian approximations of the blur that may minimize the difference between a location within a reference image and a corresponding location of a pre-determined, known geometric pattern. In one embodiment, the generated lens model may be applied to deblur a new image.
摘要:
Various embodiments of methods and apparatus for face fitting are disclosed. In one embodiment, sets of two-dimensional local feature points on a face in each image of a set of images are identified. The set of images includes a sequence of frames a video stream. A three-dimensional face model for the face in the each image is generated as a combination of a set of predefined three-dimensional face models. In some embodiments, the generating includes reducing an error between a projection of vertices of the set of predefined three-dimensional face models and the two-dimensional local feature points of the each image, and constraining facial expression of the three-dimensional face model to change smoothly from image to image in the sequence of video frames.
摘要:
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for subspace video stabilization. A subspace video stabilization technique may provide a robust and efficient approach to video stabilization that achieves high-quality camera motion for a wide range of videos. The technique may transform a set of input two-dimensional (2D) motion trajectories so that they are both smooth and resemble visually plausible views of the imaged scene; this may be achieved by enforcing subspace constraints on feature trajectories while smoothing them. The technique may assemble tracked features in the video into a trajectory matrix, factor the trajectory matrix into two low-rank matrices, and perform filtering or curve fitting in a low-dimensional linear space. The technique may employ a moving factorization technique that is both efficient and streamable.