We present a new optical system design for a projector with a single digital micromirror device (Texas Instruments Digital Micromirror Device) that improves on previous designs in terms of optical efficiency, uniformity, and contrast while yielding a low-profile and compact system. A rod integrator is incorporated with a compact relay system to maximize light efficiency and to increase illumina...

The electrical characteristics,charge collection eeciency and energy resolution of a GaAs detector made out of LEC material have been studied. A matrix of 36 square pixels was deposited on a 70 m thick crystal; each pixel had an area of 200x200 m 2 with 20 m spacing between adjacent pixels. This detector showed a charge collection eeciency uniformity among the pixels better than 88% when expose...

This paper represents a new region-based active contour model that can be used to segment images with intensity non-uniformity and high-level noise. The main idea of our proposed method is to use Gaussian distributions with different means and variances with incorporation of intensity non-uniformity model for image segmentation. In order to integrate the spatial information between neighboring ...

This work describes a different image analysis approach to characterize the uniformity of objects in agglomerates by using the propagation of normal wave fronts. The problem of width uniformity is discussed and its importance for the characterization of composite structures normally found in physics and biology highlighted. The methodology involves identifying each cluster (i.e., connected comp...

Abstract This paper investigates in-situ thermographic imaging of a CMP pad during polish to extract spatial endpoint uniformity and polish rate uniformity across the wafer. IR images of the pad contain subtle temperature gradients masked by noise, making endpoint detection difficult. Also effects such as slurry flow, head oscillation, camera angle, and a baseline temperature increase in the pa...

This report describes a quantification method for luminance non-uniformity of a large LED backlight. In experiments described herein, participants subjectively evaluated artificial indistinct Mura images that simulated luminance non-uniformity of an LED backlight. We measured the luminance distribution of the Mura images. Then, the measured luminance distribution was converted into S-CIELAB, in...

This deals with the problem of recovering a high-resolution digital image from one low resolution digital image and proposes a super-resolution algorithm based on the mixed l0/l1 norm minimization. Introducing some assumptions and focusing the uniformity and the gradation of the image, this paper formulates the colorization problem as a mixed l0/l1 norm minimization and proposes the algorithm b...

In this work a glass micromodel which its grains and pores are non-uniform in size, shape and distribution is considered as porous medium. A two-dimensional random network model of micromodel with non-uniform pores has been constructed. The non-uniformity of porous model is achieved by assigning parametric distribution functions to pores throat and pores length, which was measured using ima...

This manuscript describes a number of sources of nonuniformity for spin echo images at 1.5 T. Both coil tuning and crosstalk can have significant effects on image nonuniformity. For short repetition times, nonuniformity increases with decreasing TR, possibly due to gradient eddy currents. In sections of RF coils with poor RF uniformity, image nonuniformity varies with both echo time and the num...

Yarn hairiness is one of the key parameters influencing the quality of yarn.It is observed that yarn quality has been deduced based on yarn length and diameter only. But these parameters do not provide much information about yarn quality. Thus it is proposed to derive more yarn quality parameters like yarn hairiness, uniformity of yarn and its thickness. In textile industry, image processing is...