1. A belt type continuously variable transmission, comprising:
a drive pulley having a fixed pulley half and a movable pulley half;
a driven pulley having a fixed pulley half and a movable pulley half; and
a metal belt having:
a metal ring assembly including a plurality of endless metal rings laminated on one another; and
a plurality of metal elements supported on the metal ring assembly, wherein
the metal belt is wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley, and
wherein the movable pulley half of the drive pulley has a flexural stiffness higher than a flexural stiffness of the fixed pulley half of the drive pulley.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
Claims
1. An apparatus for searching for an image, comprising:
an image restoring ratio determination unit to determine an image restoring ratio;
an image element extracting unit to partially restore the image;
an image restoring unit to partially restore image data, corresponding to the partially restored image, according to the image restoring ratio; and
a comparing unit to compare the partially restored image data and the image.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
an image data base to store the image data; and
a search unit to retrieve the image data from the image data base corresponding to the partially restored image.
3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the comparing unit generates a result, and the image restoring ratio determination unit adjusts the image restoring ratio when the result is not a desired result.
4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image element extracting unit further comprises:
a compression unit to compress the image using a transform linear equation;
a determining unit to determine a frequency of generation of fixed points of the transform linear equation according to values of decision elements of a matrix in an equation from which the fixed points are generated; and
an extracting unit to extract the partially restored image according to a desired probability, wherein the frequency of generation of the fixed points corresponds to the probability.
5. An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein corresponds to the values of the decision elements so that a probability of a transform linear equation is,
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6. An apparatus for searching for an image, comprising:
an image restoring ratio determination unit to determine an image restoring ratio;
a dominant image element extracting unit to extract a dominant image element from the image, using fractal image compression;
an image data base to store image data;
a search unit to retrieve the image data from the image data base corresponding to the extracted dominant image element;
an image restoring unit to partially restore the retrieved image data from the search unit according to the image restoring ratio; and
a comparing unit to compare the partially restored image data and the image.
7. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the comparing unit generates a result, and the image restoring ratio determination unit adjusts the image restoring ratio when the result is not a desired
result.
8. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the dominant image element extracting unit further comprises:
a compression unit to compress the image using transform linear equations;
a determining unit to determine a frequency of generation of fixed points of the transform linear equations according to values of decision elements of a matrix in an equation from which the fixed points are generated; and
an extracting unit to extract the dominant image element according to a desired probability, wherein the frequency of generation of the fixed points corresponds to the probability.
9. An apparatus according to 8, wherein corresponds to the values of the decision elements so that a probability of a transform linear equation is
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10. A method of searching for a video image from a plurality of image data stored in a data base, comprising the steps of:
searching and retrieving from the data base one of the stored image data similar to the image;
determining an image restoring ratio of retrieved video image data;
partially restoring the one retrieved image data in accordance with the image restoring ratio; and
comparing and evaluating the partially restored one retrieved image data with the image.
11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of:
extracting a dominant image element from the video image, wherein the one retrieved image data corresponds to the extracted dominant image element according to the determined image restoring ratio.
12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the extracting step further comprises the steps of:
compressing the video image through transform linear equations;
determining a frequency of generation of fixed points of the linear equations according to values of decision elements of a matrix in an equation from which the fixed points are generated; and
extracting the dominant image element according to a desired probability.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the step of comparing and evaluating generates a result, and the method is repeated with the determining step determining an alternate image restoring ratio when the result is not a desired result.
14. An apparatus for searching an image from a plurality of image data stored in a data base, comprising:
a search unit to search and retrieve from the data base one of the stored image data similar to the image;
an image restoring ratio determination unit to determine an image restoring ratio;
a restoring unit to partially restore the one retrieved image data in accordance with the image restoring ratio; and
a comparator to compare the partially restored one retrieved image data with the image.
16. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the comparator generates a result and the image restoring ratio determination unit adjusts the image restoring ratio when the result is not a desired result.
17. An apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising an image element extracting unit to extract a dominant image element from the image, wherein the search unit searches the data base for image data similar to the extracted dominant image element.
18. An apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the image element extracting unit further comprises:
a compression unit to compress the image using a transform linear equation; and
a determining unit to determine a frequency of generation of fixed points of the transform linear equation according to values of decision elements of a matrix in an equation from which the fixed points are generated, wherein the dominant image element is extracted from the image element extracting unit according to a desired probability, and the frequency of generation of the fixed points corresponds to the probability.
19. An apparatus according to 18, wherein corresponds to the values of the decision elements so that a probability of a transform linear equation is
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20. A video image searching apparatus, comprising:
means for partially restoring an image; and
means for partially restoring image data corresponding to the partially restored image using a predetermined image restoring ratio.
21. An apparatus for searching for an image, comprising:
an image element extracting unit to partially restore a portion of the image;
an image restoring unit to partially restore image data retrieved from an image database, corresponding to the partially restored image, according to an image restoring ratio; and
a comparing unit to compare the partially restored image data and the image.
22. The apparatus according to claim further comprising an image restoring ratio determination unit to determine the image restoring ratio,
wherein the image restoring ratio compares the content of the image to the content of the partially restored image, and the image element extracting unit partially restores the image by restoring only a portion of the image.
23. An apparatus for searching for an image, comprising:
an image restoring ratio determination unit to determine an image restoring ratio;
an image element extracting unit to partially restore the image;
an image restoring unit to partially restore image data retrieved from an image database, corresponding to the partially restored image, according to the image restoring ratio; and
a comparing unit to compare the partially restored image data and the image;
wherein the partially restored image is substantially the same size as the image.
24. A method according to claim wherein corresponds to the values of the decision elements so that a probability of a transform linear equation is
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25. An apparatus to search an image from a plurality of image data stored in a data base, comprising:
a search unit to search and retrieve from the data base one of the stored image data similar to the image;
a restoring unit to partially restore the one retrieved image data;
a comparator to compare the partially restored one retrieved image data with the image; and
an image element extracting unit to extract a dominant image element from the image, the search unit searching the data base for image data similar to the extracted dominant image element, wherein the image element extracting unit further comprises:
a compression unit to compress the image using a transform linear equation, and
a determining unit to determine a frequency of generation of fixed points of the transform linear equation according to values of decision elements of a matrix in an equation from which the fixed points are generated, wherein the dominant image element is extracted from the image element extracting unit according to a desired probability, and the frequency of generation of the fixed points corresponds to the probability, and
corresponds to the values of the decision elements so that a probability of a transform linear equation is
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26. A method to search for a video image from a plurality of image data stored in a data base, comprising:
searching and retrieving from the data base one of the stored image data similar to the
image;
partially restoring the one retrieved image data;
comparing and evaluating the partially restored one retrieved image data with the image;
determining an image restoring ratio of retrieved video image data; and
extracting a dominant image element from the video image, wherein one retrieved image data corresponding to the extracted dominant image element according to the determined image restoring ratio,
wherein the extracting the dominant image further comprises:
compressing the video image through transform linear equations,
determining a frequency of generation of fixed points of the linear equations according to values of decision elements of a matrix in an equation from which the fixed points are generated, and
extracting the dominant image element according to a desired probability, and
corresponds to the values of the decision elements so that a probability of a transform linear equation is
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