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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6687400 | System and process for improving the uniformity of the exposure and tone of a digital image A system and method for manipulating a set of images of a static scene captured at different exposures (i.e., "bracketed" images) to yield a composite image with improved uniformity in exposure and tone. In general, the aforementioned goal can be achieved... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6606404 | System and method for computing rectifying homographies for stereo vision processing of three dimensional objects The present invention is embodied in a system and method for computing rectifying homographies for stereo vision processing of three dimensional (3D) objects. In general, the system and method of the present invention computes 2D projective transforms or ... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6600491 | Video-based rendering with user-controlled movement A system and process for generating a video animation from the frames of a video sprite with user-controlled motion is presented. An object is extracted from the frames of an input video and processed to generate a new video sequence or video sprite of th... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6559846 | System and process for viewing panoramic video The primary components of the panoramic video viewer include a decoder module. The purpose of the decoder module is to input incoming encoded panoramic video data and to output a decoded version thereof. The incoming data may be provided over a network an... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6540121 | Collapsible garment hanger A collapsible garment hanger including a hook, first and second supporting arms, at least one spring element, and in some versions, a base. The first and second supporting arms are each connected to the hanger by means of integrally molded hinges. Each sp... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6535642 | Approximate string matching system and process for lossless data compression A system and process for lossless data compression employing a unique approximate string matching scheme. The encoder of the system characterizes source data as a set of pointers and associated blocks of residual data. Each pointer identifies a location e... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6532301 | Object recognition with occurrence histograms This invention is directed toward an object recognition system and process that identifies the location of a modeled object in a search image. This involves first capturing model images of the object whose location is to be identified in the search image.... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6487304 | Multi-view approach to motion and stereo A system and process for computing motion or depth estimates from multiple images. In general terms this is accomplished by associating a depth or motion map with each input image (or some subset of the images equal or greater than two), rather that compu... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6477280 | Lossless adaptive encoding of finite alphabet data An encoder reorders quantized wavelet coefficients to cluster large and small wavelet coefficients into separate groups without requiring the use of data-dependent data structures. The coefficients are then adaptively encoded based on a run-length code wh... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6477272 | Object recognition with co-occurrence histograms and false alarm probability analysis for choosing optimal object recognition process parameters This invention is directed toward an object recognition system and process that identifies the location of a modeled object in a search image. This involves first capturing model images of the object whose location is to be identified in the search image.... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6476803 | Object modeling system and process employing noise elimination and robust surface extraction techniques A system and process for computer modeling of an object involving first capturing images of the object that collectively depict all the object's surfaces which are to be modeled. A series of 3D reconstructions are then derived from the images. Each of the... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6469710 | Inverse texture mapping using weighted pyramid blending A system and method for inverse texture mapping in which given a 3D model and several images from different viewpoints, a texture map is extracted for each planar surface in the 3D model. The system and method employs a unique weighted pyramid feathering ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6437823 | Method and system for calibrating digital cameras A digital camera is calibrated by establishing the coordinates of at least four feature points of a pattern mounted on a planar surface. At least two, and preferably three or more, images of the planar pattern are captured at different, non-parallel orien... | 08/20/2002 |
