摘要:
A new calibration method for a spectrophotometer or a color sensor is provided using multiple color tiles with known reflectances. This procedure uses multiple reference standard tiles, in addition to, the standard white tile and substitutes a wavelength dependent adjustment constant instead of the dark noise reading. The constant is computed using measurements of multiple reference tiles with known reflectance spectra, and its purpose is to weight the sensor readings in order to avoid ill-posed scaling caused by physical limitations such as less than ideal light sources. A scaling factor may be calculated and also used to compute the reflectance of an arbitrary object. A device for carrying out the method is also provided.
摘要:
Apparatus and methods are provided for implementing a full width array material scanning spectrophotometer by integrating a Fabry-Perot cavity filter with a silicon photodetector and a light focusing device (an optical guide or a SELFOC® lens). The material to be scanned is illuminated by a broad band illumination source (white LEDs or a fluorescence light source). The Fabry-Perot cavity gap can be tuned electromechanically to get multiple measurements to resolve the spectral distribution of the transmitted light signal. The array spectrophotometric architecture facilitates an elongated, substantially linear band detection and the associated spectral reconstruction technique resolves spectral distribution in the presence of multiple resonant peaks.
摘要:
An optical switch for routing signals includes a latch receiver connected to a waveguide that routes the signals and an actuator that includes an upper plate, a lower plate and a latch connected to the lower plate, the lower plate of the actuator moving vertically when power is applied to the lower plate, causing the latch to move vertically and engage the latch receiver. A latching system includes a switch that includes a latch formed to include an extension on one end of the latch, the latch being driven by power, a latch receiver that is formed to receive the latch and a controller that controls the extension of the latch to engage the latch receiver when the power is applied to the latch, and controls the extension of the latch to lock in place against the latch receiver when the power is removed from the latch.
摘要:
An image quality control apparatus controls quality of xerographic images formed by a xerographic imaging system onto a recording medium when at least one sensor which is operative to provide signals to the xerographic imaging system for quality control malfunctions. The image quality control apparatus includes a controller device in communication with the xerographic imaging system. The controller includes a data collection device, a determining device and an input generating device. The data collection device collects and processes sensor data received from the at least one sensor while the at least one sensor is operative. The determining device determines whether the at least one sensor malfunctions. The input generating device generates a controller input signal by using the sensor data collected by the data collection device and provides the controller input signal to the xerographic imaging system to control quality of the xerographic images when the determining device determines that the at least one sensor has malfunctioned. A method for controlling quality of a xerographic print after malfunction of a quality control sensor is also described.
摘要:
An online printing parameter establishment apparatus is used with a xerographic printing device for printing high quality prints given a target value. The xerographic printing device is capable of producing at least one print control patch on a photoreceptor and is capable of sensing a value of the at least one print control patch. The xerographic printing device has a plurality of sets of inherent performance characteristic values. The online printing parameter establishment apparatus includes a controller device and a switch device. The controller device is operative to produce a first database of different ones of the sensed values. Each sensed value is associated with a respective one of the plurality of sets of inherent performance characteristic values based upon the target value. The controller device is also operative to produce a second database of a plurality of control values. Each one of the control values is extracted from a respective one of the sensed values and the associated set of inherent performance characteristic values. Further, the controller device selects one of the control values which is closely comparable to the target value. A method for online establishment of print control parameters to render high quality prints using a xerographic printing process is also described.
摘要:
In an imaging machine including an imaging member, operating components including a toner dispense system including a source of toner material and a dispenser for transferring toner material from the source to a developer device to replenish the developer device with toner material, and a control to provide images on copy sheets, a smart sensor system including a sensor, a toner concentration reference, and a filter. The sensor provides signals representing the toner concentration and the filter interconnected to the sensor and to the toner concentration reference reduces error in the signals representing the toner concentration. A comparator responding to the toner concentration reference and the filter signals provides an error signal to the control system in turn providing a toner dispense signal.
摘要:
What is disclosed is a system and method for selecting the optimal wavelength ban combination for a multi-band infrared camera system which is optimized for skin detection. An objective function is constructed specifically for this application from classified performance and the algorithm generates wavelengths by maximizing the objective function. A specific wavelength band combination is selected which maximizes the objective function. Also disclosed is a 3-band and 4-band camera system with filters each having a transmittance of one of a combination of wavelength bands optimized to detect skin in the infrared band. The camera systems disclosed herein find their intended uses in a wide array of vehicle occupancy detection systems and applications. Various embodiments are disclosed.
摘要:
A video-based vehicle headlight state monitoring method and system. A vehicle image can be captured by an image-capturing unit and converted to a grayscale image. The grayscale image can be processed to locate a front license plate and identify a position of a headlight region in front of the vehicle utilizing an algorithm. An average digital count with respect to brightness of the headlight region can be compared with average digital count with respect to brightness of several parts of the vehicle and a background region to determine the vehicle headlights ON/OFF status. The headlights can be considered ON if the digital count level of the headlight region is higher than the digital count of the several parts of the vehicle and the background region. A warning signal can be initiated to turn the headlights on during a special situation utilizing a signal generator.
摘要:
What is disclosed is a system and method which addresses the problem of inheriting color management intent from a fleet color management LUT into a 4-to-4 cascaded LUT. The LUT is updated starting with a set of patches that either form a uniform or non-uniform grid of the LUT or can be projected to a uniform or non-uniform grid in the CMYK space using, e.g., PCA. A set of L*a*b* target as well a variable that serve the purpose of preserving the GCR and other elements of the fleet profile is obtained by passing the set of CMYK values to the fleet printer model. By iterating on the printer (or the printer model of the engine at the moment of the engine change) and converging to the targets, the engine device cmyk set is obtained. The LUT is formed between the uniform or non-uniform gridded CMYK and the device cmyk.
摘要翻译:公开的是一种系统和方法,其解决将车队颜色管理LUT的颜色管理意图从继承到4对4级联LUT的问题。 LUT以从LUT的统一或非均匀网格形成的一组补丁开始更新,或者使用例如PCA将其投影到CMYK空间中的均匀或非均匀网格。 通过将一组CMYK值传递给车队打印机模型,获得一组L * a * b *目标以及用于保存GCR和船队简档的其他元素的变量。 通过在打印机(或发动机更换时刻的发动机的打印机型号)上迭代并收敛到目标,获得发动机装置cmyk组。 LUT在均匀或不均匀的网格CMYK和设备cmyk之间形成。
摘要:
A filter array for a multi-resolution multi-spectral camera system is described which not only captures 2D images at multiple wavelength bands simultaneously but also at a spatial resolution that meets the demand for spatial feature extraction. The present system optimizes filter bands that provide high image contrast at the highest possible resolution to enable spatial feature extraction and other wavelength bands at lower resolution to achieve maximum number of wavelength bands (e.g. spectral resolution) for multi-spectral analysis. After determining the required spatial resolution and number of wavelength bands for spectral analysis, multiple filters are arranged in a geometric pattern with each filter being designed to have specified wavelength and spatial resolution. Physical sizes of filters differ within each filter group. This maximizes the detector usage while optimizing the trade-off between spatial resolution and spectral resolution. Filter gaps are fixed or tuned to wavelengths of interest.