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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE41524 | Electronic still camera for capturing and categorizing images An electronic camera captures images representing a variety of subjects and categorizes the image according to subject matter. The camera comprises an image sensor for capturing an image, a converter stage for converting the image into digital image data, and a memo... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7680340 | Method of using temporal context for image classification A method for improving scene classification of a sequence of digital images is disclosed herein. Such a method may include providing a sequence of images captured in temporal succession; (b) classifying each of the images individually based on information contained ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7555165 | Method for semantic scene classification using camera metadata and content-based cues A method for scene classification of a digital image includes extracting pre-determined camera metadata tags from the digital image. The method also includes obtaining estimates of image class based on the extracted metadata tags. In addition, the method includes ob... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7508961 | Method and system for face detection in digital images A digital image processing method for detecting faces in a digital color image comprises the steps of: providing a distributed face detection system having complementary classifiers, wherein the classifiers are complementary in a frequency domain; selecting classifi... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508444 | Electronic camera with quick view and quick erase features An electronic camera includes a sensor for capturing an image, an electronic image display for displaying the captured image, and a user interface for selectively enabling a quick view feature in which the image display is automatically turned on for a set period of... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7382903 | Method for selecting an emphasis image from an image collection based upon content recognition A method for selecting an emphasis image from a collection of images based on facial identification comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a collection of digital images; (b) detecting image patterns indicative of the presence of one or more faces in the digital imag... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7362919 | Method for generating customized photo album pages and prints based on people and gender profiles A method for generating customized photo album pages for a collection of digital images comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a plurality of digital images; (b) automatically grouping the images into one or more image sets based on at least one of grouping by events... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7333654 | Digital image processing system and method for emphasizing a main subject of an image A system and method for automatically altering an image having pixels is disclosed. An image is segmented into regions and various features of the regions are extracted and used to calculate a confidence factor, or belief value, that a particular region is a main su... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327504 | Method of detecting clipped image pixels A method is described for detecting the clipped pixels of a digital color image. The method includes the steps of: (a) producing a uniformity map from the digital color image, where the uniformity map indicates locations within the digital color image that are subst... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327383 | Correlating captured images and timed 3D event data A method for correlating tracking data associated with an activity occurring in a three-dimensional space with images captured within the space comprises the steps of: (a) locating a camera with respect to the three-dimensional space, wherein the camera at a given l... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327390 | Method for determining image correction parameters In order to reduce image degradation due to image capture problems, a method utilizes image data corresponding to a captured image and image capture metadata that refers specifically to information that is associated with capture of the image. A database of correcti... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7212668 | Digital image processing system and method for emphasizing a main subject of an image A system and method for automatically altering an image having pixels is disclosed. An image is segmented into regions and various features of the regions are extracted and used to calculate a confidence factor, or belief value, that a particular region is a main su... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200277 | Method for transcoding a JPEG2000 compressed image A JPEG2000 compressed image is transcoded to a lower bit-rate or lower resolution, or both, without having to decompress the initial JPEG2000 image and then recompress it to a lower bit-rate and/or resolution. Instead, arithmetic decoding is performed only to the ne... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7170552 | Digital imaging system and file format for storage and selective transmission of processed and unprocessed image data An electronic still imaging system employs an image sensor comprised of discrete light sensitive picture elements overlaid with a color filter array (CFA) pattern to produce color image data corresponding to the CFA pattern, an A/D converter for producing digital CF... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171055 | Parametric means for reducing aliasing artifacts A method for reducing the visibility of sub-Nyquist aliasing artifacts in an image, where the image is produced in a scene-to-output imaging system that is represented by a modulation transfer function, includes the steps of: (a) providing a source image signal as a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171058 | Method and computer program product for producing an image of a desired aspect ratio A method for producing a new image of a desired aspect ratio from an original digital image comprises the steps of: (a) determining a cropping window of the desired aspect ratio and a predetermined size; (b) obtaining a main subject belief map including an array of ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164800 | Method and system for constraint-consistent motion estimation A method for determining motion vectors from one point in one image frame of a scene to corresponding points in at least two other image frames of the scene, wherein the frames are obtained in a capture process utilizing one or more cameras, wherein the method emplo... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164807 | Method and system for automatically reducing aliasing artifacts Artifacts in an image introduced by sub-Nyquist aliasing are reduced below a visually perceptible level by a method comprising the steps of: providing an input image having sub-Nyquist aliasing artifacts; using a visual perception algorithm to identify the location ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7148908 | Method and apparatus for generating image transitions A transition in an MPEG sequence including anchor pictures and bidirectionally predicted (B) pictures is encoded by a) coding first and second anchor pictures and b) coding a transition in the sequence by inserting B pictures into the bitstream to create the transit... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139437 | Method and system for removing artifacts in compressed images In a method for removing artifacts in a digital image that has been decoded from a compressed representation of the image, the pixels of the digital image are segmented into low detail pixels, high detail pixels, and boundary pixels, and then a single non-linear fil... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133070 | System and method for deciding when to correct image-specific defects based on camera, scene, display and demographic data A captured image is processed with one or more correction processes selected from a plurality of such processes, each associated with correction of a specific type of image defect, in order to improve the appearance of a viewed image generated from the captured imag... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130474 | Method and system for generating digital image files for a limited display A method for processing a digital color image for display and transmission includes the steps of (a) resizing the image to a lower display resolution to produce a display-sized image, (b) quantizing the display-sized image to a display palette with an error diffusio... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120279 | Method for face orientation determination in digital color images A digital image processing method for determining an orientation of a face in a digital color image generates a mean grid pattern element image from a plurality of sample face images and an integral image from the digital color image. A face is located in the color ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103219 | Population mixture modeling with an indeterminate number of sub-populations A method and apparatus for determining the best fit of a population mixture model to data. In the digital imaging area, the use of histogram data is employed. A plurality of sub-population functions are defined and then optimized to fit the data. An objective functi... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085008 | Digital color image processing method for improved tone scale reproduction A method for adjusting the tone scale reproduction of a color image composed of pixels provided in a plurality of color channels is based on generating a reference image from a combination of the color channels, whereby each spatial coordinate of the reference image... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085007 | Digital color image processing method A method for adjusting the color reproduction of a color image composed of pixels provided in a plurality of color channels is based on generating a reference image from a combination of the color channels, whereby each spatial coordinate of the reference image is c... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082211 | Method and system for enhancing portrait images A retouching method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image involves acquiring a digital image containing one or more faces and detecting a location of facial feature points in the faces, where the facial feature points include points identi... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7068857 | Method and device for presenting digital images on a low-definition screen In order to present digital images on different types of screens, and especially on low definition screens, the system provides a server that is adapted for receiving messages coming from at least one display device, and a table for recognizing the type of display d... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064830 | Dental color imaging system A method for determining visual calorimetric values for an object having particular spectral reflectance characteristics comprises the steps of: (a) photographing an object with an electronic image capture device to form device image values; (b) selecting a transfor... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065243 | Method and system for creating dental models from imagery Creating a dental model from a series of images of an intra-oral object includes the steps of (a) capturing a series of images of an intra-oral object from a plurality of capture positions, where the object includes common surface features and a control target arran... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057639 | Intra-oral camera with integral display A portable intra-oral capture and display system includes: (a) a handpiece elongated for insertion into an oral cavity, said handpiece including a light emitter on a distal end thereof for illuminating an object in the cavity and an image sensor for capturing an ima... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058209 | 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... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050636 | Method and system for improving an image characteristic based on image content In a method of improving a characteristic of an image according to its material content, where the image is comprised of image pixels, a belief map corresponding spatially to the image pixels is generated. The belief map includes belief values indicating the likelih... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039222 | 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... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039239 | Method for image region classification using unsupervised and supervised learning A method for classification of image regions by probabilistic merging of a class probability map and a cluster probability map includes the steps of a) extracting one or more features from an input image composed of image pixels; b) performing unsupervised learning ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035467 | Method and system for processing images for themed imaging services In a method for determining the general semantic theme of a group of images, whereby each digitized image is identified as belonging to a specific group of images, one or more image feature measurements are extracted from each of the digitized images in an image gro... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035461 | Method for detecting objects in digital images A method for detecting objects in a digital image includes the steps of generating a first segmentation map of the digital image according to a non-object specific criterion, generating a second segmentation map of the digital image according to an object specific c... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032182 | Graphical user interface adapted to allow scene content annotation of groups of pictures in a picture database to promote efficient database browsing A graphical user interface (GUI) allows a picture database user to enter metadata serving to annotate digital pictures to promote efficient picture database browsing. The annotation is permitted, not just for individual pictures, but for groups of pictures. The anno... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028253 | Agent for integrated annotation and retrieval of images A method for integrated retrieval and annotation of stored images involves running a user application in which text entered by a user is continuously monitored to isolate the context expressed by the text. The context is matched with metadata associated with the sto... | 04/11/2006 |
