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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7139006 | System and method for presenting and browsing images serially A method presents a set of input images on a display device. First, a set of display images is selected from the set of images. A 3D layout is assigned to each selected image, and a 3D trajectory is assigned to a virtual camera. A set of active images of the set of ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7137707 | Projector-camera system with laser pointers A rigidly-coupled projector-camera system is augmented with laser pointers. The projector-camera system and lasers can be used to determine homography between the projector and a display surface, so that a projection of any desired geometry can be made on the displa... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136786 | Method and system for modeling interaction of objects A method is described for modeling interactions between models. A first adaptively sampled distance field having a first spatial hierarchy for a first model is generated, and a second adaptively sampled distance field having a second spatial hierarchy for a second m... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133048 | Variable multilinear models for facial synthesis A method constructs a variable multilinear model representing a class of deformable surfaces. First, meshes of deformable surfaces are acquired. The meshes include vertices. The meshes have different identities and different expressions. The meshes can be obtained f... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123271 | Method and apparatus for antialiasing a set of objects represented as a set of two-dimensional distance fields in image-order A method and apparatus determine an antialiased intensity of a component of a pixel. A set of objects is represented by a set of two-dimensional distance fields. For each distance field, a corresponding set of sample points is associated with the component and a cor... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110458 | Method for summarizing a video using motion descriptors A method measures an intensity of motion activity in a compressed video. The intensity of the motion activity is used to partition the video into segments of equal cumulative motion activity. Key-frames are then selected from each segments. The selected key-frames a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106332 | Method for converting two-dimensional pen strokes to distance fields A method generates a two-dimensional distance field from a pen stroke. A pen state is sampled during the pen stroke to generate an ordered list of pen states along the pen stroke. The pen state includes a location of the pen stroke. A set of boundary descriptors is ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106907 | Adaptive error-resilient video encoding using multiple description motion compensation A method estimates bit rates for sets of coding parameters, based on characteristics of a channel, and an end-to-end distortion is estimated based on signal statistics of the video. A particular set of coding parameters that satisfies an available bit rate of the ch... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103818 | Transforming generalized parity check matrices for error-correcting codes A method transforms a generalized parity check matrix representing a linear block binary code. First, an input generalized parity check matrix is defined for the linear block binary code. Auxiliary sets are formed from the input generalized parity check matrix and o... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103109 | Randomly inverting pulse polarity in an UWB signal for power spectrum density shaping A method eliminates spectral lines in a time hopping ultra wide bandwidth signal. First, a train of pulses is generated from input symbols. The pulses are then modulated in time according to symbols. The modulation can use pulse position modulation and time hopping.... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103227 | Enhancing low quality images of naturally illuminated scenes A method enhances images of a naturally illuminated scene. First, a set of images Ii(x, y) is acquired of a scene. Each image is acquired under a different uncontrolled illumination. For each image Ii(x, y), intensity gradients ∇Ii... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103229 | Image simplification using a robust reconstruction filter A method simplifies a data structure representing physical measurements of a real-world phenomena, such as an image of a scene of an object. Input data are first acquired, sensed, or measured. If the data are acquired with a camera, then measurement errors for data ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103825 | Decoding error-correcting codes based on finite geometries A method decodes a received word for a binary linear block code based on a finite geometry. First, a parity check matrix representation of the code is defined. The received word is stored in a channel register. An active register represents a current state of the de... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102638 | Reducing texture details in images A method generates an image with de-emphasized textures. Each pixel in the image is classified as either a silhouette edge pixel, a texture edge pixels, or a featureless pixel. A mask image M(x, y) is generated, wherein an intensity of a given pixel (x, y) in the ma... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103222 | Pattern discovery in multi-dimensional time series using multi-resolution matching A method discovers patterns in unknown multi-dimensional data. A time-series of the multi-dimensional data is generated and a point cross-distance matrix is constructed by self-correlating the time-series. All minimum cost paths in the point cross-distance matrix ar... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103326 | Adaptive transmit diversity with quadrant phase constraining feedback A method increases transmit diversity gain in a wireless communication system. In the wireless network, a transmitter has multiple antennas and a receiver has one antenna. A phase of each of received signal is measured. One signal is selected as a reference signal. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099277 | Dynamic optimal path selection in multiple communications networks A method and system connects a first terminal via multiple networks to a second terminal. An environment description is acquired and parsed by a description parser into cost parameters using a set of rules. An objective function evaluates the cost parameters to dete... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092442 | System and method for adaptive field and frame video encoding using motion activity A method adaptively encodes a video including a sequence of images, where each image is a picture of two fields. Each image is first separated into a top-field and a bottom-field. Motion activity is extracted from the top-field and the bottom-field, and each image i... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092436 | Expectation-maximization-based channel estimation and signal detection for wireless communications systems A system and method detect symbols of a modulated signal received via a plurality of channels of a wireless communications system. A symbol transmitted via the channels is initially estimated based on the channel estimate from either pilot symbol or previously estim... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088387 | Video recording device responsive to triggering event A compact video image recording device for recording video images before and after a triggering event and which utilizes no moving parts is disclosed. The recording device includes at least one camera wherein each camera comprises a lens and a video image sensor. Ea... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088780 | Video transcoder with drift compensation A method compensates for drift in macroblocks of a partially decoded input bitstream. The macroblocks include intra-mode and inter-mode macroblocks, and each macroblock includes DCT coefficients, and at least one motion vector. An estimate of drift is measured in th... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7075972 | Intra-cell interference cancellation in a W-CDMA communications network A multi-path interference canceller cancels interference in a signal received by a receiver in a wideband CDMA communications system. A first stage of the canceller has as input the received signal. Each next stage has as input a delayed version of the input of the ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076473 | Classification with boosted dyadic kernel discriminants A method learns a binary classifier for classifying samples into a first class and a second class. First, a set of training samples is acquired. Each training sample is labeled as either belonging to the first class or to the second class. Pairs of dyadic samples ar... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072587 | Communication using bi-directional LEDs An optical communications transceiver includes an LED coupled in series with a resistor. A microprocessor has one I/O pin connected to the LED. In a first mode or transmit mode, the LED is periodically driving in forward bias to emit light to transmit data. In a sec... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068274 | System and method for animating real objects with projected images A computer implemented method animates a 3D physical object by first acquiring a 3D graphics model of the object. The model is edited with graphics authoring tools to reflect a desired appearance of the object. The edited model is rendered as an image considering a ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050954 | Tracking noise via dynamic systems with a continuum of states A system and method reduces noise in a time series signal. A primary signal including stationary and non-stationary noise is modeled by a dynamic system having a continuum of states. A secondary signal including time series data is added to the primary signal to for... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050969 | Distributed speech recognition with codec parameters A method extracts speech recognition features from a speech signal coded as a bitstream. First, the bitstream is decoded to recover linear predictive coding filter parameters, and a residual signal. Then, the linear predictive coding filter parameters and the residu... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043084 | Wheelchair detection using stereo vision A method classifies an object in a scene as either an ambulatory person or a wheelchair user. Images of the scene are acquired with a set of stereo cameras. Moving objects in the scene are segmented from the background using detected edges. A 3D reconstruction of th... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042458 | Methods for generating an adaptively sampled distance field of an object with specialized cells A method generates a distance field for a region of a shape descriptor representing an object. The distance field includes a set of cells for which cell types are defined. A configuration of a set of cells for the region is generated. Each cell of the configuration ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038185 | Camera for directly generating a gradient image A camera includes a set of sensing elements. Each sensing element is arranged at an image plane in an energy field to measure a magnitude and sign of a local gradient of the energy field. Each sensing element includes at least two energy intensity sensors. Each ener... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039369 | Transmit diversity gain for wireless communications networks A method and system that increases transmit diversity gain in a wireless communication system. The system includes a transmitter with 2N transmit antennas, where N is greater than one, and a receiver with one or more receive antenna. The transmitter inclu... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039000 | Timing synchronization for OFDM-based wireless networks Timing in a receiver is synchronized to an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signal transmitted over a channel. The OFDM signal includes multiple training symbols, including long and short training symbols. The first half of the training symbols are cor... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034822 | System and method for producing 3D video images A method and system generates 3D video images from point samples obtained from primary video data in a 3D coordinate system. Each point sample contains 3D coordinates in a 3D coordinate system, as well as colour and/or intensity information. On subsequently renderin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034818 | System and method for converting range data to 3D models A method converts range data of an object to a model of the object by first generating an adaptively sampled distance field from the range data. The adaptively sampled distance field is then edited to produce the model. The range data can include a plurality of rang... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034830 | Method for generating a two-dimensional distance field within a cell associated with a corner of a two-dimensional object A method generates a two-dimensional distance field within a cell associated with a corner of a two-dimensional object. A set of boundary descriptors for the two-dimensional object is determined. A corner point in the cell is identified from the set of boundary desc... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034845 | Method for antialiasing an object represented as a two-dimensional distance field in image-order A method and apparatus determine an antialiased intensity of a component of a pixel from a two-dimensional distance field representing an object. A set of sample points in the two-dimensional distance field is associated with the component of the pixel. A distance i... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035677 | System and method for reducing power consumption in a wireless communications network A system and method reduce power consumption in a multi-hop wireless communications network. A signal is received from a source node in an intermediate node. The signal includes a request to relay a message to a destination node. The request includes information on ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031499 | Object recognition system A method recognizes an object in an image. Gallery images include identified objects, and a probe image includes an unidentified object. The probe image is paired with each gallery image to generate pairs of images. First filters are applied to the probe image of ea... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030881 | Method for converting two-dimensional objects to distance fields A method converts a two-dimensional object to a two-dimensional distance field. The object is represented as a set of boundary descriptors and a fill rule. The set of boundary descriptors is preprocessed and a spatial hierarchy is constructed from the preprocessed s... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031525 | Edge detection based on background change A method detects edges of an object in a scene by first acquiring a static image of the scene when the scene is static, and a live image of the scene including the object. A reference image is constructed from the static image. Then, image gradients of the reference... | 04/18/2006 |
