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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175411 | Methods and systems for estimation of compression noise Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the compression noise present in an image or frame in a video sequence. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175168 | Methods and systems for picture up-sampling Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for picture up-sampling using direct interpolation. Some aspects of the present invention provide an up-sampling procedure designed for the Scalable Video Coding extension of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175158 | Methods and systems for inter-layer image prediction parameter determination Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for predicting a prediction parameter which may be used in the prediction of high dynamic range image elements from low dynamic range image data. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171404 | Methods and systems for disassembly and reassembly of examination documents Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for manipulating documents. According to one aspect of the present invention, the responses, from multiple examinees, to a question on an examination may be combined to form a combined document ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160365 | Methods and systems for identifying digital image characteristics Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for determining image characteristics in a digital image. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156547 | Methods and systems for device-independent portable session synchronization Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for device-independent portable session synchronization between multiple devices connected to a server system. Some aspects relate to the use of a real-time-request (RTR) database construct for managing ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150166 | Methods and systems for identifying text in digital images Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for detection of text in an image using an initial text classification result and a verification process. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144989 | Methods and systems for identifying text orientation in a digital image Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for determining text orientation in a digital image. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144006 | Methods and systems for message-alert display With a growing number of personal and shared devices that may be connected to the Internet, the number of devices on which a person may receive a message increases. Privacy in message delivery may become an issue when a message may be received on a shared device, fo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134762 | Methods and systems for characterizing regions of substantially-uniform color in a digital image Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for characterization of background regions of substantially-uniform color in a digital image. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a histogram of the first-channel values of a plurality ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8121403 | Methods and systems for glyph-pixel selection Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for detecting glyph pixels in a digital image. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8023770 | Methods and systems for identifying the orientation of a digital image Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the orientation of an electronic document image. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023741 | Methods and systems for detecting numerals in a digital image Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the location of numerals in an electronic document image. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023569 | Methods and systems for block-based residual upsampling Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for block-based residual upsampling. Some embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for residual upsampling for spatially scalable video coding. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014596 | Methods and systems for background color extrapolation Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for determining a background color in a digital image. A background color value for a pixel in an image may be determined by summarizing the color values in a color buffer, wherein the color values ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8001236 | Methods and systems for content-consumption device monitoring and control Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for remote monitoring and control of a content-consumption device. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000535 | Methods and systems for refining text segmentation results Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for refining text segmentation results. Non-text, line elements in a text map may be detected and removed from the text map. Pixels associated with vertical and/or horizontal lines may be identified in t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000390 | Methods and systems for efficient prediction-mode selection Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for efficient prediction-mode selection. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991019 | Methods and systems for combining media inputs for messaging With the growing number of, both personal and shared, devices that may be connected to the Internet, the number of possible media sources that may provide input for a message increases, as does the complexity of message preparation. Additionally, with the introducti... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978618 | Methods and systems for user interface customization Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for user interface customization. ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7935617 | Method to stabilize carbon in SiGeClayers A method of providing a layer in a semiconductor device, wherein the layer includes Si1-x-yGexCy, and wherein the carbon in the layer is in a stable condition, includes preparing a silicon substrate; preparing a SiGeC precursor; form... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7889932 | Methods and systems for detecting regions in digital images Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for detection of image regions of various content types using a masking condition and an entropy measure. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7876959 | Methods and systems for identifying text in digital images Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for detection of text in an image using an initial text classification result and a verification process. In particular, a support region of a candidate text pixel in a text-candidate map may be... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7864365 | Methods and systems for segmenting a digital image into regions Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for segmenting a digital image into regions. A frequency-of-occurrence of image values may be determined excluding a portion of pixels in a digital image. An image value associated with a peak in the fre... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856142 | Methods and systems for detecting character content in a digital image Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for detecting glyph pixels in a rasterized image. ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7811913 | Method of fabricating a low, dark-current germanium-on-silicon pin photo detector A method of fabricating a low, dark-current germanium-on-silicon PIN photo detector includes preparing a P-type silicon wafer; implanting the P-type silicon wafer with boron ions; activating the boron ions to form a P+ region on the silicon wafer; forming a boron-do... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7800148 | CMOS active pixel sensor A CMOS active pixel sensor includes a silicon-on-insulator substrate having a silicon substrate with an insulator layer formed thereon and a top silicon layer formed on the insulator layer. A stacked pixel sensor cell includes a bottom photodiode fabricated on the s... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792359 | Methods and systems for detecting regions in digital images Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for detection of image regions using a masking condition and an entropy measure. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7727897 | Method of etching a TE/PCMO stack using an etch stop layer A method of etching a top electrode/ferroelectric stack using an etch stop layer includes forming a first layer of a first dielectric material on a substrate; forming a bottom electrode in the first layer of a first dielectric material; depositing an etch stop layer... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720467 | User notification for digital mobile phones A method of notifying a user to set an internal clock in a mobile communication device having a visual display therein includes powering-up the mobile communication device; determining whether digital services are available, and, if not, activating notification indi... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715027 | Method and apparatus for embedded driver download using raw imaging protocol A communication-associated structure and process utilizing (a) a client device, (b) a communication port, and (c) an imaging device which includes an embedded driver and related configuring information. The process, employing these structural elements, involves comm... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7625595 | Method of monitoring PCMO precursor synthesis A method of monitoring synthesis of PCMO precursor solutions includes preparing a PCMO precursor solution and withdrawing samples of the precursor solution at intervals during a reaction phase of the PCMO precursor solution synthesis. The samples of the PCMO precurs... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7595911 | Methods and systems for descreening a digital image Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for descreening a digital image. ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7554696 | Dot-gain reduction method for multi-level halftoning A method for minimizing color-image halftone dot-gain in the output of a multi-level halftone color-imaging output device. The method includes characterizing that device's halftone output, on a per-color basis, regarding pixel-pattern-specific dot gain which can be ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7531466 | Metal organic deposition precursor solution synthesis and terbium-doped SiOthin film deposition A method of making a doped silicon oxide thin film using a doped silicon oxide precursor solution includes mixing a silicon source in an organic acid and adding 2-methoxyethyl ether to the silicon source and organic acid to from a preliminary precursor solution. The... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531207 | MOCVD PGO thin films deposited on indium oxide for feram applications Methods of forming depositing a ferroelectric thin film, such as PGO, by preparing a substrate with an upper surface of silicon, silicon oxide, or a high-k material, such as hafnium oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, and lanthanum oxide, depositing an indium ox... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7519035 | Method to negotiate consumed power versus medium occupancy time in MIMO based WLAN systems using admission control A method of selectively providing MIMO transmission/reception in a WLAN system includes using a TSPEC reservation and signaling mechanism to instantiate and tear down, dynamically, multi-channel operation in a WLAN; providing an inference algorithm to determine the ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518958 | GPS-assisted mobile phone clock for use in non-digital service coverage areas A method of setting an internal clock in a GPS-equipped mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is not in a digital service area includes determining whether digital service is available, including determining whether digital service is avai... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7506042 | Hierarchical ad hoc network organizational method involving with proxy networking An ad hoc network organizational method which is employable with a collection of plural nodes in a setting where there is available a current overall network topology map containing at least the identities of, and the inter-nodal communication link qualities and cap... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7443833 | Ad hoc network topology discovery Disclosed herein is a method for performing ongoing ad hoc network topology discovery with regard to a collection of plural participating nodes. The method features the steps of (a) defining an appropriate topology-discovery condition to be associated with such node... | 10/28/2008 |
