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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| 8000505 | Determining the age of a human subject in a digital image The age class of a human subject is ascertained in a digital image. The subject has a redeye defect pair; each defect having one or more defect pixels. In the method, two regions of pixels corresponding to the defects are identified. The distance between the regions... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7924460 | Color correction method with transparent toner insignia images A method for color correction of an image having an insignia portion in a multi-module printer (10). A first color profile is calibrated for a four-color image. A second color profile is calibrated for a four-color image with a transparent toner layer on top ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7911636 | Multi-head press data delivery rate control In a printing method and systems, segments of a first print job are distributed to respective downstream processors and are processed to provide printable frames, which are stored in respective print queues. Each print queue supplies a respective one or more printhe... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903168 | Camera and method with additional evaluation image capture based on scene brightness changes In a method and digital camera, initial evaluation images of a scene are captured with the camera. A change in scene brightness between two or more of the evaluation images is computed. When the scene brightness change is outside a predetermined brightness range, a ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7809197 | Method for automatically determining the acceptability of a digital image A method for automatically determining the acceptability of an input image for a predetermined output operation, such as printing, includes the steps of: (a) identifying one or more important areas in the input image; (b) calculating a salient acceptability feature ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7704000 | Printer dock with two position tray A printer dock for use with a digital data terminal, has a housing having a paper inlet portal, a first tray receiver, and a second tray receiver. The first tray receiver adjoins the paper inlet portal. The second tray receiver is disposed in spaced relation to the ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7636485 | Method and system for enhancing portrait images that are processed in a batch mode A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one o... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7623168 | Method and apparatus to extend the effective dynamic range of an image sensing device An image sensor generates an image signal with a differential response to image light. The image sensor has an array of photosites divided into standard photosites and non-standard photosites. A limiter provides the standard photosites with a predetermined standard ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7593597 | Alignment of lens array images using autocorrelation In a parallax correction method and system, corresponding regions of first and second digital images of the same subject are upsampled to provide a pair of upsampled regions. The corresponding regions have parallax. The upsampled regions are statistically compared a... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7444017 | Detecting irises and pupils in images of humans In an eye detection method, a plurality of candidate eyes are located within a digital image. Pixels of interest having a predetermined characteristic and a predetermined association to respective eyes are found. Pixels of interest associated with each eye are group... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7372597 | Tonescales for geographically localized digital rendition of people In a method and system for processing a photographic image having lightness values, L*, representing one of the colorimetric values of an original scene, the photographic image is transformed. The transformed image has a gamma as a function of CIE 1976 L*, which inc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369273 | Grayscale mistracking correction for color-positive transparency film elements In a color image transformation method and system, a photographic color-positive transparency media bearing a captured image is transmission scanned to provide a scanned image. The scanned image has an overall cyan-blue color balance and has grayscale mistracking re... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7298895 | Method for automatically classifying images into events A method for obtaining and automatically classifying images into events comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a group of images from a digital source, wherein the images are in chronological order; (b) transferring the group of images to a computer system; said com... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289154 | Digital image processing method and apparatus for brightness adjustment of digital images A method of calculating a brightness balance value for a digital image including a plurality of pixels, comprising the steps of: calculating a spatial activity measure in a plurality of local neighborhoods of pixels of the digital image, each local neighborhood incl... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274832 | In-plane rotation invariant object detection in digitized images In methods, systems, and computer program products for locating a regularly configured object within a digital image, a plurality of primary rotated integral images of the digital image are computed. Each primary rotated integral image has a different in-plane rotat... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269345 | Controlling photofinishing using data frame designated photofinishing subchannels In a photographic processing method, an image unit having a plurality of printable image frames is received. The image frames include a data frame having subchannel information. An indicator of the presence of the subchannel information is detected. A bitstream of a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263220 | Method for detecting color objects in digital images A method for detecting an object in a digital image including the steps of performing color quantization on a model image including the object and on a search image that potentially includes the object, generating a plurality of search windows, computing spatial-col... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254256 | Method and computer program product for locating facial features A digital image processing method detects facial features in a digital image. This method includes the steps of detecting iris pixels in the image, clustering the iris pixels, and selecting at least one of the following schemes to identify eye positions: applying ge... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245783 | System and method for estimating, synthesizing and matching noise in digital images and image sequences A method for synthesizing noise in a digital image comprises the steps of (a) estimating noise statistics based on a set of spatial autocorrelation coefficients and a set of spectral correlation coefficients that correspond to the color channels of the image, where ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7212657 | Method and system for enhancing portrait image that are processed in a batch mode A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one o... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7194112 | Three dimensional spatial panorama formation with a range imaging system Deriving a three-dimensional panorama from a plurality of images of a scene generated by a range imaging camera of the type that produces ambiguities in range information includes the steps of: (a) acquiring a plurality of adjacent images of the scene, wherein there... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184578 | Method and system for enhancing portrait images that are processed in a batch mode A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one o... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168865 | Preventing shutter-rebound in camera A normally closed shutter in a camera has at least one blade that is moved to open and close the shutter. A movable blade-driver in the camera has a supporting connection with a fixed support to support the blade-driver for movement, and has a driving connection wit... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7156565 | Driver for opening and closing dual-blade shutter adapted to be reset without re-opening shutter In a camera, a dual-blade shutter has a pair of shutter blades supported for opening and closing movement to uncover and re-cover an exposure aperture, and a shutter driver that projects into respective overlapping slots in the shutter blades and is supported for sh... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149418 | Camera guard with bezel and ring A camera cover assembly has a one-piece front cover and a one-piece guard. The front cover has an outwardly protruding lens hood and an inwardly recessed cup that has a slot defining a resiliently flexible tongue. The tongue has a free margin adjoining the slot and ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127160 | Lens module assembly method and assembly intermediate In a lens module assembly method, a lens holder is placed in a receiver. The lens holder has a nest. A lens element is deposited in the lens holder. During the depositing, the lens element seats in the nest, if the lens element is in a forward-facing orientation. En... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123828 | Camera assemblies having overlapping rocker and link projections A camera assembly has a main member having a mount defining an optical axis. A rocker supported by the mount, is pivotable between first and second positions. First and second taking lenses are movable by the rocker between a first configuration, in which the optica... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120355 | Camera assembly having lens turret and independently movable rocker A camera assembly has a mount defining an optical axis. The mount has opposed first and second stops. A rocker pivots between the stops. An over-center mechanism biases the rocker toward the nearer stop. A lens turret has primary and secondary openings. The lens tur... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120586 | Method and system for segmenting and identifying events in images using spoken annotations A method for automatically organizing digitized photographic images into events based on spoken annotations comprises the steps of: providing natural-language text based on spoken annotations corresponding to at least some of the photographic images; extracting pred... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106962 | Synchronizing shutter and flash in camera with switch closing member capable of elastic deformation A camera with a built-in electronic flash has a spring-driven high energy lever that is pivoted for initiating shutter opening and for translating a switch closing member to close a normally open shutter-flash synchronization switch. When the switch reopens, it tran... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092628 | Photography systems and methods utilizing filter-encoded images In a photography method, a film image is scanned and digitized to provide a digital image. An identifier associated with the film image is read. The identifier points to a group of filter effects. Each filter effect has a preassigned digital modification. The modifi... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7075553 | Method and system for displaying an image A method and system for displaying an image, includes steps and means for: storing image data in a manner that enables retrieval of different spatial regions of an image at different fidelities; determining an viewer's point of gaze on a display; retrieving image da... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7044376 | Authentication method and apparatus for use with compressed fluid printed swatches Authentication systems, apparatus, and methods authenticate an identification marking including a nanocrystalline material. One or more properties of the marking are ascertained to provide a measured profile. The measured profile is compared to at least one member o... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7023478 | Hybrid cameras having electronic image conversion to selected geometric formats and methods In a camera and method, a plurality of image pairs is captured. Each image pair includes an archival image of a scene and an initial electronic image of the same scene. The archival image of each pair has a first geometric format. The initial electronic images are s... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023477 | Camera having electronic images corresponding to current film images automatically excluded from first in-first out overwriting and method A camera and method automatically exclude electronic images corresponding to film images in a loaded film unit from first in-first out overwriting. In the method, a set of latent images are captured in the camera. A first subset of electronic images that correspond ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015957 | Camera that downloads electronic images having metadata identifying images previously excluded from first in-first out overwriting and method A camera, method, and system provide downloaded electronic images that have metadata identifying individual images previously excluded, within the camera, from first in-first out overwriting. In the method, a first plurality of electronic images are captured in the ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015955 | Camera having verification display with viewer adaptation compensation for reference illuminants and method A camera and method are usable for capturing images of scenes illuminated by ambient light. The camera has a body and an electronic imager disposed in the body. The electronic imager captures an ambient light image as a multicolored electronic image. A color detecto... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6988688 | Web winding apparatus having traveling, gimbaled cinch roller and winding method In winding methods, a primary nip formed against a web defines continuing and leading web portions. A secondary nip is formed against and moved along the leading portion, from an outfeed side of the primary nip to an infeed side. The continuing portion and a free en... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6989859 | Camera having user interface ambient sensor viewer adaptation compensation and method The camera has a body and an electronic imager disposed in the body. The electronic imager captures an ambient light image as a multicolored electronic image. Memory is operatively connected to the imager and stores the electronic image as a stored image. The camera... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6985158 | Method and system for displaying an image A method and system for displaying an image, includes steps and means for: storing image data in a manner that enables retrieval of different spatial regions of an image at different fidelities; determining an viewer's point of gaze on a display; retrieving image da... | 01/10/2006 |
