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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110316877 | DISPLAY AREA CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY AREA CONTROL METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT The present invention provides a display area control apparatus which makes a user feel less uncomfortable when displaying a screen component takes much time. A display area control apparatus (100) includes: a display unit (109); a data storage unit (10... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310119 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM There is provided an image display apparatus including an acquisition unit for acquiring image data of an original image and cut frame information for designating a range of a cut image cut from the original image, a calculation unit for calculating a length of a perpen... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110298821 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING IMAGES A method of displaying images on an electronic device includes the following blocks. A first image is displayed on a display. The first image has a first edge and a second edge opposite to the first edge. A second image is decoded and loaded to a virtual position behind... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110221764 | LAYING OUT AND CROPPING IMAGES IN PRE-DEFINED LAYOUTS A layout definition file is created that stores data defining image layouts. An application program provides a user interface for laying out images and associated text using the contents of a layout definition file. The user interface includes a canvas onto which a user... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110181618 | Realistic Real-Time Simulation of Brush Behavior A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for simulating brush behavior. In one embodiment, user input may be received to modify an image using a brush model, wherein the brush model comprises data stored in a memory of a computer system. The ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110141101 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HEAD APPARATUS A method for producing a three-dimensional likeness of a real-life subject from a two-dimensional image. The method includes uploading a digital image including facial features of a real-life subject from local memory storage to storage in a remote server. A user of the... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110125526 | MULTIPLE MODALITY MAMMOGRAPHY IMAGE GALLERY AND CLIPPING SYSTEM A system and method for analyzing and retrieving images of breast tissue abnormalities obtained from multiple sources. Providing a tool for a radiologist that includes a convenient region-of-interest association of mammogram, or other anatomical images, of an individual... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110109647 | PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE, PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A program generation device (11) for generating a control program for causing a display device (30) to display an image in different display sizes comprises: a determination unit (116) that determines a conversion image size based on the different d... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110090246 | MOVING IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE GENERATION METHOD A moving image generation apparatus includes an image display unit, a partial image specification unit, a partial image cutout unit, and a moving image generation unit. The image display unit displays an image. The partial image specification unit specifies a partial im... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090247 | PARTICLE IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS A particle image analyzing method is adapted so that while raising image-reviewing efficiency at a cropped image level of particle components in a sample, the entire sample can be observed without significantly changing a related apparatus configuration. Prior to image ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANTI-ALIASING CLIPPED POLYGONS AND POLYLINES A method for rendering static graphics in a mobile device in applications such as map applications. Panning increments are received for panning a previously rendered frame to a panned frame. A rendering region is defined based on the panning increments and the rendering... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110081083 | GESTURE-BASED SELECTIVE TEXT RECOGNITION An image is displayed on a touch screen. A user's underline gesture on the displayed image is detected. The area of the image touched by the underline gesture and a surrounding region approximate to the touched area are identified. Skew for text in the surrounding regio... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110080424 | IMAGE PROCESSING A method of processing a plurality of images comprises receiving a plurality of images, defining a set of images for processing, from the plurality of images, aligning one or more components within the set of images, transforming one or more of the aligned images by cro... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110069085 | Generating Slideshows Using Facial Detection Information Methods and systems are presented for automatically generating a slide associated with a slideshow. In one aspect, a method includes selecting an image for inclusion in a slideshow, where the image has associated facial detection information. A face location is determin... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110050722 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM A display control apparatus controls an input unit that inputs pieces of captured image data, an acquisition control unit that controls consecutive acquisition of a plurality of pieces of image data, a memory control unit that buffers in the memory unit the plurality of... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044512 | Automatic Image Tagging A method of automatic tagging of images on an image hosting website includes receiving at least one image, locating faces and/or people in the received image, recognizing features of the located faces and/or people, and automatically tagging the located faces and/or peo... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110013049 | USING A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY TO CONTROL MAGNIFICATION AND CAPTURE OF DIGITAL IMAGES BY AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic device includes a touch sensitive display device, a camera device, and a processor that executes computer readable program code embodied in a computer readable storage medium. Some of the computer readable program code is configured to control magnificatio... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100289913 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR An image processing apparatus for cropping and outputting a plurality of partial images from an image, includes: an acquisition unit adapted to acquire object areas for a plurality of objects included in an image to be processed; an analysis unit adapted to analyze a di... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100280829 | Photo Management Using Expression-Based Voice Commands A system and method are provided for photo management using expression-based voice commands. The method interfaces a photo-image discovery device, having no dedicated display, to a display monitor. Expression-based user voice prompt are received and used to access a pho... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100260421 | TAGGING METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PORTABLE TERMINAL A tagging method and apparatus of a portable terminal is in which if particular content is edited, only second tag information corresponding to the edited content is extracted and then automatically tagged to the edited content. The second tag information is part of the... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100238191 | Method of Browsing Photos Based on People To browse images grouped by person on a photo displaying system, a plurality of facial regions are generated from a plurality of images of a plurality of albums. The facial regions are grouped into a plurality of clusters of faces based on similarity between the facial ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100201707 | Digital Mapping System Various methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing aspects of a digital mapping system are disclosed. One such method includes sending a location request from a client-side computing device to a map tile server, receiving a set of map tiles in response to the loca... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100194781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROPPING AND ANNOTATING IMAGES ON A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention is a system and method for cropping and annotating images on a touch sensitive display device or other handheld device, including the following steps: (a) displaying an image of the image file to be cropped/annotated; (b) receiving an first input f... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100165369 | IMAGE CROPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose to re... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100153833 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING QUOTATIONS FROM A REFERENCE DOCUMENT ON A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention is a system and method for generating quotations from a reference document on a touch sensitive display device or other handheld device, including the following steps: (a) providing a reference document; (b) displaying the reference document; (c) c... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100128063 | RENDERING FOR IMPROVED DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE CONSISTENCY A networked system for rendering diagnostic image data for display has at least one diagnostic imaging apparatus that obtains digital image data for a patient and is in communication with a computer network. At least one consistency control module executes at a networke... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100123715 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING VOLUMETRIC IMAGES Navigating volumetric images with reference to an anatomic structure is disclosed. The systems and methods include navigating a volumetric image with reference to an axis corresponding to an anatomical structure. The anatomical structure may be a cardiovascular structur... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100123735 | TV screen text capture A method of processing television images consistent with certain implementations involves receiving a command from a television user interface to capture a television image; capturing and storing a frame of the television image to a frame memory device; receiving comman... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100110104 | EFFECTS APPLIED TO IMAGES IN A BROWSER Methods, apparatus, computer program products and systems are provided for editing an image in a browser. One method includes receiving crop data at a server including information defining a crop size and location associated with a cropping operation to be applied to an... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100103193 | IMAGE MONITOR APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE MONITOR PROGRAM An image monitor apparatus includes a recognition process section that recognizes a process area in an original image which is inputted, a display image process section that generates and outputs an image for display by subjecting a process for display according to a us... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100103192 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing method And Electronic Apparatus A clipping processing portion is provided with: a subject detection portion that detects a main subject and a sub-subject from an input image; a degree-of-relationship calculation portion that calculates the degree of relationship between the main subject and the sub-su... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100091035 | Combined Segmentation And Registration Framework For Parametric Shapes Progress monitoring of lesions is done automatically by segmentation and registration of lesions in multi-phase medical images. A parametric level-set framework includes a model optimization for any number of lesions. The user specifies lesions in a baseline volume by c... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100066759 | System for Extracting a Fingerprint Data From Video/Audio Signals A system for extracting a fingerprint data from video/audio signals, comprising a frame buffer for storing the video frame images, which accepts a new video frame image and discards the oldest video frame image in a first in first out (FIFO) fashion; a sub-sampler for s... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100053210 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZED POSITION ADJUSTMENT METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD A sound processing apparatus includes: sound image localization processing means for performing a sound image localization process on a sound signal to be reproduced; a speaker section placeable over an ear of a user and supplied with the sound signal to emit sound in a... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090322785 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR INTERACTIVE SHAPE MANIPULATION A method and apparatus for interactively manipulating a shape of an object, comprising selecting an object to be manipulated and rendering the object in dependence of a manipulation type. The method provides a smart object adapted interaction, manipulation and visualiza... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090295829 | Methods and Apparatus for Full-Resolution Light-Field Capture and Rendering Method and apparatus for full-resolution light-field capture and rendering. A radiance camera is described in which the microlenses in a microlens array are focused on the image plane of the main lens instead of on the main lens, as in conventional plenoptic cameras. Th... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090295826 | System and method for interaction of graphical objects on a computer controlled system A user interface method and system for performing sensemaking tasks using visual information objects. The present invention provides techniques for the system to perform operations for creating, rearranging visual information objects, reallocating display space and scal... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090267944 | METHOD FOR DISPLAY OF DIGITAL IMAGES A method of displaying and manipulating a digital image is presented. The system extracts information from an image and from the display and display drivers to determine presentation parameters. The user may select various functions to present the image in a desired man... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090256858 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing device includes: a clipping unit configured to subject a plurality of images to clipping processing for clipping a part of an image as a partial image to clip a partial image from each of the plurality of images; a size correcting unit configur... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090244093 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVE VIDEO PRESENTATION An adaptive video presentation method for automatically presenting a video with stream-embed information based on content analysis of the video on a smaller display with a limited screen size is provided. The method comprises steps of determining a salient object group ... | 10/01/2009 |
