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| 8184110 | Method and apparatus for indirect interface with enhanced programmable direct port Device, apparatus and methods for implementing a direct address mode to directly access registers by passing an indirect interface includes a display controller. A plurality of direct access registers for bypassing indirect interface is defined within the display co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170332 | Automatic red-eye object classification in digital images using a boosting-based framework Automatic red-eye object classification in digital images using a boosting-based framework. In a first example embodiment, a method for classifying a candidate red-eye object in a digital photographic image includes several acts. First, a candidate red-eye object in... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167481 | Timepiece wheel train and timepiece A timepiece wheel train includes a rotating body with a shaft unit, a bearing unit that rotatably supports the shaft unit of the rotating body, and a lubricating oil in which powder from a diamond-like carbon film is dispersed disposed between the shaft unit and the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167425 | Method of printing an indication of defective printing, an inkjet printer, a printer driver, and a defective printing notification method A method of printing an indication of defective printing can print a defective printing mark indicating that printing was not completed normally on a printout containing unprinted or missing dots. When printing one page of print data on recording paper is completed ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8139093 | Thermal printer A thermal printer enables both duplex printing and simplex printing. A double-sided thermal printer 1 has a first arm 31 and a second arm 32 that opens and closes in conjunction with the first arm 31. A first platen roller 21 is mo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134720 | Multiple font management system and method A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to pr... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131110 | Reducing signal overshoots and undershoots in demosaicking An image processing method that demosaicks a mosaic input image to generate a full color output image. The image processing method calculates both vertical and horizontal luminance-chrominance difference components for each pixel of the mosaic input image. Next, the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131067 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable media for attaining image processing An image processing apparatus that receives mosaic image data having settings of only one color component, R, G, or B, in each pixel and subjects the received mosaic image data to a series of image processing to generate color image data with settings of all the thr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130845 | Method and apparatus for estimating and compensating for jitter in digital video A method of estimating and compensating for jitter between two video frames in a digital video sequence comprises comparing a pixel subset in one video frame to candidate matching pixel subsets within a search area in the other video frame to obtain a preliminary ma... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8118505 | Label printer with a label peeling mechanism and a control method for the same A label printing apparatus having a label peeling mechanism determines the appropriate time to run a process for setting the paper. Paper having a plurality of labels continuously affixed to a web liner is loaded inside the label printing apparatus when a main cover... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111299 | Demosaicking single-sensor camera raw data An image processing method that demosaicks a mosaic input image of R, G, and B components to generate a full color output image. The image processing method calculates both vertical and horizontal luminance-chrominance difference components for each pixel of the mos... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098333 | Phase shift insertion method for reducing motion artifacts on hold-type displays A method and system for displaying frames on a hold-type display to reduce perceived blur are disclosed. One example method includes detecting a parameter associated with an object in an input frame and filtering the input frame to generate at least two filtered sub... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094971 | Method and system for automatically determining the orientation of a digital image A method of automatically determining orientation of a digital image comprises extracting features of the digital image and processing the extracted features using diverse classifiers to determine orientation of the digital image based on the combined output of the ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094959 | Efficient detection of camera shake At least two sites in a frame of pixels are specified. The sites are arranged in a particular spatial distribution and correspond with the pixel locations of a block of pixels. Block parameters are calculated for each pixel block of first and second frames. The bloc... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086073 | Non-uniform image resizer A method for producing a scaled output image by manipulating image data from an input image is disclosed. The scaled output image can have non-uniformly scaled regions and a uniformly scaled region. The method includes an operation that defines pixel locations withi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078007 | Enlarging a digital image Enlarging a digital image. In one example embodiment, a method for enlarging a digital image includes various acts. First, an enlargement factor λ is selected for an input image. Next, a pixel in the input image is selected. Then, a supporting window is placed over... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073291 | Center based image resizer A method for resizing image data from a first size image to a second size image is disclosed. In one operation of the method, a scale factor is determined based on a number of gaps between pixels in the first size image and a number of gaps between pixels in the sec... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072844 | Electronic timepiece with internal antenna An electronic timepiece with an internal antenna has an antenna that has an elongated magnetic core formed from a magnetic body and a coil wound around the magnetic core, and can receive external wireless information, the magnetic core having a coil winding part to ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064729 | Image skew detection apparatus and methods Methods and apparatus for detecting skew in a document image, such as a check image, to produce a de-skewed image are described. One example method includes detecting one or more lines in the image and determining whether the one or more lines are reliable. Reliabil... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063910 | Double-buffering of video data Data is written to one of two frame buffers in write access cycles having write and non-write sub-periods. Data is read out to a display device from the other of the two frame buffers in read access cycles having read and non-read sub-periods. The writing of data an... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050787 | Recording medium production control device, recording medium production control method A recording medium production control device, recording medium production control method, and program instructions stored on a tangible computer-readable medium acquire the operating status of the existing data recording device, printer, and other devices in the rec... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045006 | Method and apparatus for determining the best blending of overlapped portions of projected images A best blending function from among a plurality of blending functions is determined. Each of the plurality of blending functions smoothes an overlap region of at least two projected images. The overlap image is captured and a processing unit analyzes the stored over... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035698 | Joint automatic demosaicking and white balancing Joint automatic demosaicking and white balancing. In one example embodiment, a digital image processing method includes several acts. First, directional color correlation signals, global gains, and orientations of edges are calculated in a CFA input image. Next, mis... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020771 | Media processing device Swinging open the upstream-side cover part (31) and downstream-side cover part (32) of the check scanning apparatus (1) on a common support pivot (33) opens a U-shaped check transportation path (5). The check transportation path ( | 09/20/2011 |
| 8004588 | Image processing procedure for receiving mosaic image data and calculating vertical and horizontal-direction color difference components for each pixel An image processing procedure receives mosaic image data and calculates vertical and horizontal-direction color difference components for each pixel. The image processing procedure subsequently selects an R pixel or a B pixel from the mosaic image data, and compares... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995840 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for attaining image processing The image processing procedure of the invention receives mosaic image data and calculates a vertical-direction color difference component with regard to each of pixel columns in the mosaic image data in a vertical direction and a horizontal-direction color differenc... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983486 | Method and apparatus for automatic image categorization using image texture A method of automatically categorizing an input image comprises extracting texture features of the input image and generating a signature vector based on extracted texture features. The generated signature vector is processed using at least one classifier to classif... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983480 | Two-level scanning for memory saving in image detection systems A method and system for scanning a digital image for detecting the representation of an object, such as a face, and for reducing memory requirements of the computer system performing the image scan. One example method includes identifying an original image and downs... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7962412 | Apparatus and method for processing a check, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a check processing control program A check processing method involves capturing at a first compression rate certain portions of a received check, and evaluating, based on that captured image data, whether certain information of the check can be reproduced by image data at a second compression rate th... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7950766 | Printer and printing system A printer 240 calculates the amount of ink used only for printing as a number of discharged ink shots, and sends this shot count with the printer serial number and ink cartridge ID to a server 220. The server 220 saves the shot count, printer se... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945901 | System and method for facilitating software profiling procedures A system and method for facilitating software profiling procedures in a target device includes a target CPU that executes software instructions from target routines of the target device to perform various processing tasks. A program counter of the target device is p... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945075 | Converting a digital image from color to gray-scale Converting a digital image from color to gray-scale. In one example embodiment, a method for converting a digital image from color to gray-scale is disclosed. First, an unconverted pixel having red, green, and blue color channels is selected from the color digital i... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940744 | System, apparatus and method for automated wireless device configuration A method and system for automatically configuring a plurality of wireless peripheral devices within a network environment. The method includes identifying a plurality of wireless peripheral devices, including one existing networked wireless device. The existing netw... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940280 | System and method for color format conversion in a graphics environment A method of converting an input color codeword from a first color format to a second color format comprises providing a reference format having reference bit positions and comparing the first bit positions associated with the first color format to the reference bit ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7916969 | Varying the exposure of a digital image by region Methods and apparatus for creating a digital image in which exposure varies by region of the image are described. The image may be created from first and second images. In one embodiment, a method comprises writing pixels of the first image that are within a first r... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913097 | Fiscal data recorder programmed to write only non-blank values to memory A fiscal data recorder for storing transaction related data in a point of sale system is provided with a processing unit receiving the transaction related data. Memory in communication with the processing unit is operable to store the transaction related data. A pro... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903289 | Printing data generating method and generator determining color loss in color printer A management label has a color loss determination area that enables easy determination of color loss. An identification color printing area 11 where an inventory control color for managing products and a color loss determination area 15 for determining... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889245 | Automatic white balancing of a digital image Automatic white balancing of a digital image. In one example embodiment, a method for automatic white balancing of a full-color input image includes several acts. First, pixels of the input image are selected according to one or more predetermined criteria. Next, gl... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7887282 | Media transportation mechanism and media processing device having the media transportation mechanism A media transportation mechanism and a media processing device enabling carrying media without transportation errors or picking errors by accurately detecting if media is present. A media transportation mechanism 31 has a gripping mechanism 130 for hol... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873233 | Method and apparatus for rendering an image impinging upon a non-planar surface The present invention is directed to a method and system to render an image that impinges upon a non-planar surface to attenuate, if not abrogate, distortions introduced by the surface that features mapping the image as a plurality of spaced-apart planar cells to co... | 01/18/2011 |
