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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120039532 | METHOD OF GATHERING STATISTICS OF GRAY DISTRIBUTION OF IMAGE A method of gathering statistics of gray distribution of an image in an image processing device is provided. The method includes determining gray information of a plurality of data of an input image, wherein each piece of information corresponds to a count value. In add... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033884 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING EDGE AREAS OF DIGITAL IMAGE There are provided an apparatus and a method for estimating edge areas of pixels in a digital image to thereby prevent an edge sharpening algorithm from being applied to non-edge area of the digital image. Therefore, the apparatus can accurately determine whether each p... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033885 | APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING SHARPNESS OF IMAGE There is provided an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image, which may prevent occurrence of distortion of an image in an edge enhancement process of the image by applying an active weight in accordance with a two-dimensional (2D) high pass filtering value of... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033874 | Learning weights of fonts for typed samples in handwritten keyword spotting A wordspotting system and method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a keyword and, for each of a set of typographical fonts, synthesizing a word image based on the keyword. A keyword model is trained based on the synthesized word images and the respective weig... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120002875 | Methods and Systems for Image Data Processing Methods, storage mediums, and systems for image data processing are provided. Embodiments for the methods, storage mediums, and systems include configurations to perform one or more of the following steps: background signal measurement, particle identification using cla... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317881 | FLOW SOUND IN X-RAY EXAMINATION The invention relates to the representation of blood flow-related information using an X-ray image acquisition device. In order to provide an improved method in an X-ray imaging system for representing the blood flow, for vessel analysis purposes for example, a device a... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317759 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR LOSSLESS VIDEO COMPRESSION Methods and systems to improve the efficiency of video processing. Compression/decompression efficiency for a current frame may be enhanced by using an appropriate coding parameter. To choose an appropriate coding parameter, a histogram of the previous frame's symbols m... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317919 | PRODUCING STRUCTURE-BASED ASCII PICTURES Provided are methods and devices for producing an ASCII picture from a vector outline image. The method comprises rasterizing the vector outline image into a plurality of grid cells, at least one of which has a reference image; matching each reference image with an ASCI... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110299774 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND TRACKING HANDS IN AN IMAGE A method and system for detecting and tracking hands in an image. The method for detecting and tracking hands in an image comprises the steps of calculating a first probability map comprising of probabilities that respective pixels in the image corresponds to skin based... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292246 | Automatic Tone Mapping Curve Generation Based on Dynamically Stretched Image Histogram Distribution An apparatus, method, computer useable medium, and processor programmed to automatically generate tone mapping curves in a digital camera based on image metadata are described. Rather than having a static tone mapping curve for all images, the curve can be varied automa... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110268358 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM In an image processing technology, an original image is inputted by accepting an input of an original image to be image-processed; a local area is set, with a pixel of which brightness is to be converted being a center of the local area, from the original image; a local... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262016 | COMPOSITE IMAGES FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURES Medical imaging often involves the collective use of information presented in multiple images of an individual, such as images generated through different imaging modalities (X-ray, CT, PET, etc.) The use of a composite of these images may involve image registration to ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261261 | IMAGE CORRECTION PROCESSING CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND IMAGE CORRECTION PROCESSING DEVICE The image correction processing device (100) disclosed in the description is configured by integrating a first external terminal (CAMDI) [7:0] to which digital input image data is inputted from outside of the device, an image correction processing circuit (200... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110249004 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MEDIA THUMBSCAPES Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating a visualization of video content. The method includes receiving video content, receiving user input associated with the received video content, extracting each frame... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110243440 | ADAPTIVE LIGHT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW POWER ARCHITECTURES Embodiments of an apparatus, system and method are described for an adaptive light method for low power architecture. A histogram with a plurality of bins may be determined based on luminance for an image. A tone differential may be decreased based on a sum of pixel cou... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243441 | Image Transient Improvement Apparatus An image transient improvement apparatus for suppressing aliasing patterns in an image is disclosed. The image transient improvement apparatus includes a limit detector for detecting a maximum gray level and a minimum gray level of a plurality of pixels of a sub-zone of... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110229029 | SELECTIVE DIFFUSION OF FILTERED EDGES IN IMAGES An edge-preserving diffusion filter maintains the sharp edges in images while smoothing out image noise. An edge-preserving diffusion filter applies an edge-preserving smoothing filter to an image to form a filtered image. The modified image is then blurred by a blurrin... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228342 | Methods and Systems for Estimation of Document Skew in an Image Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining a skew angle associated with a document image. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a rotation vector may be estimated for at least one layer in a vertical-edge buffer a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110229019 | Scene Adaptive Brightness/Contrast Enhancement A method for brightness and contrast enhancement includes computing a luminance histogram of a digital image, computing first distances from the luminance histogram to a plurality of predetermined luminance histograms, estimating first control point values for a global ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110229028 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a decoder, a first sharpening module, and a second sharpening module. The decoder decodes an encoded image to obtain a decoded image. The first sharpening module performs first sharpening on the decoded... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110221920 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A digital photographing apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and a computer readable storage medium, the method including obtaining a first image captured from an optical signal received via a first optical system; obtaining a second image captured from an optic... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110222766 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE An edge code histogram of a model generated in a model image is registered. A target region with respect to the input image is set. An edge code histogram, for the target region is generated. A relative positional relationship between the edge code histogram of the mode... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110216956 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Collapsing Volume Data to Lower Dimensional Representations Thereof Methods of collapsing volume data to a lower dimensional representation of the volume data are provided. The methods include collapsing volume data to a lower dimensional representation of the volume data using histogram projection. Related systems and computer program ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110212791 | DIAGNOSING METHOD OF GOLF SWING AND SILHOUETTE EXTRACTING METHOD In a method capable of diagnosing quality of a swing without circumstance, a camera 10 photographs a golf player swinging a golf club to hit a golf ball and the golf club. Image data is obtained by photographing. A calculating part 16 extracts a frame from... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110206280 | IMAGE BRIGHTNESS CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF Provided are an image brightness control device and an image brightness control method for improving the definition of brightness of the entire image and/or improving the definition of brightness of local areas using local brightness information. The image brightness co... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199489 | METHOD FOR THE EXTRACTION OF AN IR-IMAGE AND THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA A thermal imaging camera (1) which, in order to extract IR-images (2) from a stream of crude data (12) of crude IR-images (3), performs a compensation (21) of pixel measurements (6) of the crude IR-images (3) with pixel-b... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200251 | BAND WEIGHTED COLOUR HISTOGRAMS FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL A method of image retrieval from a target image collection, including segmenting a query image into two or more bands, obtaining weighted colour histogram vectors for the two or more bands in the query image, and obtaining weighted colour histogram vectors for two or mo... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110194766 | Image processing device, image processing method and program An image processing device calculates a frequency of a pixel value for each block, generates a first histogram formed by N bins, mixes the first histogram of a high luminance block and the first histogram of each block, and thereby generates a second histogram for each ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110193987 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY OF A SIGNAL VIA MODULATION OF THE SIGNAL Methods, apparatus and systems for determining a power spectral density (PSD) of a signal, in which modulation of the signal is employed to facilitate determination of one or more PSD values over a wide range of frequencies. In some implementations, the signal may repre... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110194767 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR An encoding unit separates converted coefficients obtained by frequency conversion into the upper-bit portion that is higher than a bit position specified by a boundary bit position determined when the previous macro block is encoded and the lower-bit portion, performs ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110149115 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PRESENTATION APPLICATION FILE An electronic device and method for operating a presentation application file includes acquiring a histogram of each of a plurality of designated objects, and defining an operation corresponding to each of the plurality of designated objects. The electronic device and m... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141353 | METHOD OF REALISM ASSESSMENT OF AN IMAGE COMPOSITE In a method of realism assessment of an image composite, the foreground and the background are transformed into a color space, such as YCbCr, followed by projecting the foreground and the background to a subspace represented by the axes representing chromatic informatio... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110133510 | SATURATION-BASED SHADE-LINE DETECTION A system and method for detecting a sun-shade line on a vehicle driver's face so as to automatically position a sun blocker at the appropriate location to block the sun. The method includes providing a detected image of the vehicle driver using, for example, a camera. A... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134344 | DYNAMIC ILLUMINATION CONTROL FOR LASER PROJECTION DISPLAY A method for improving image contrast for a display apparatus obtains a frame of image data having one or more code values for each pixel in the frame of image data, analyzes the frame of image data to identify a distribution of dark regions therein. The method further ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110129149 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL IMAGE SIGNAL, RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON THE METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL IMAGE SIGNAL Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a digital image signal, and a recording medium having recorded thereon the method, in which an image including a subject is generated, a subject region is formed by detecting the subject from the image, the subject regi... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110123112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE STABILITY OF HISTOGRAM CORRELATION ALGORITHM A method and apparatus for improving stability of histogram correlation based image and video processing algorithms. The method includes computing a histogram for target signal and reference signal for generating a target histogram and a reference histogram, performing ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110110589 | Image Contrast Enhancement The subject application is directed to a system and method for image contrast enhancement. Input image comprised of digitally encoded image data is received into a data processor, including an associated data storage, and histogram data is generated corresponding to rec... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110103687 | Image Processing Method an Imaging Device Module There are provided an image processing method and an imaging device module capable of properly calculating a black level when brightness on the positive maximum value side in a brightness histogram of an optical black region are clipped to an upper limit brightness, tha... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103685 | Image Adjustment Using Extended Range Curves A digital image having associated tonal data, including tonal data in an extended range above a normalized value of 1.0, can be accessed. An extended range curve tool corresponding to the digital image can be instantiated, the extended range curve tool including a curve... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110096988 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUSES UTILIZING THE SAME An image enhancement apparatus is provided. The image enhancement apparatus includes a global contrast curve generator, a local contrast curve generator and an image generator. The global contrast curve generator generates a global contrast curve for an input image acco... | 04/28/2011 |
