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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120045127 | PORTABLE BACKSCATTER ADVANCED IMAGING TECHNOLOGY SCANNER WITH AUTOMATED TARGET RECOGNITION A portable backscatter advanced imaging technology scanner with automated threat or target recognition including: a floor assembly having a cantilever drive assembly for rotating the floor assembly, the floor assembly being able to be partitioned into multiple parts for... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120027296 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING TARGET, AND RECORDING MEDIA STORING PROGRAM PERFORMING THE METHOD Provided are an apparatus and a method for extracting a target related to an algorithm separating the target and a background by using statistical characteristics of the target and the background among target extracting methods required in a weight value center tracking... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110304729 | Method for Automatically Ignoring Cast Self Shadows to Increase the Effectiveness of Video Analytics Based Surveillance Systems One of the challenges in video surveillance system is the detection of unwanted intruders in secure zones. These zones may be in large facilities such as airports, train stations, port facilities or warehouses. Because many of these locations are outdoors, the presence ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110254950 | VISUAL TRACKING OF OBJECTS IN IMAGES, AND SEGMENTATION OF IMAGES A method is discussed of tracking objects in a series of n-D images (102) that have objects (106, 108) appearing in a background (110, 112), that method comprises using a probabilistic model of the appearance of the objects and of the appearance of ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249886 | IMAGE CONVERTING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME An image converting device includes; a downscaling unit which downscales a two-dimensional image to generate at least one downscaling image, a feature map generating unit which extracts feature information from the downscaling image to generate a feature map, wherein th... | 10/13/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110229032 | Detecting And Labeling Places Using Runtime Change-Point Detection A system and method are disclosed for detecting and labeling places recognized in a video stream using change-points detection. The system includes a segmentation module and a label learning module. The segmentation module is configured to receive a video stream compris... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110229033 | Image Processing Method, and Program An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a run-length encoding unit for performing run-length encoding processing on input data and outputting a data value of each element constituting the data and a frequency of the element having the d... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110211732 | MULTIPLE EXPOSURE HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE CAPTURE Techniques for creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image within a consumer grade digital camera from a series of images of a scene captured at different exposure levels, and displaying the HDR image on the camera's built-in display are provided. The approach employs mix... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110194769 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS An image processing method includes segmenting a series of obtained images, calculating a central point of each segment, and obtaining a target object based on movement variance of the central points of segments in the series of images.... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110194768 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT MODELS AND ACCOUNTS WITH ANOMALOUS REVENUE FROM COLOR IMPRESSIONS Methods and systems for identifying device models or accounts exhibiting outlying behavior are disclosed. For a method of identifying a device model exhibiting outlying behavior, a processor may receive a color impression count, a monochrome impression count and either ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110052056 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD This invention provides an image processing apparatus including a unit which generates index image data, a unit which obtains a position of thumbnail image data in the index image data, a unit which divides the index image data so as to prevent overlap of the thumbnail ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110013836 | MULTIPLE-OBJECT TRACKING AND TEAM IDENTIFICATION FOR GAME STRATEGY ANALYSIS A method for automatically tracking multiple objects from a sequence of video images that may extract raw data about participating elements in a sporting, or other event, in a way that does not interfere with the actual participating elements in the event. The raw data ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100329557 | Automatic exposure estimation for HDR images based on image statistics A method of segmenting regions of an image wherein a number of partitions are determined based on a range of an image histogram in a logarithmic luminance domain. Regions are defined by the partitions. A mean value of each region is calculated by K-means clustering wher... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329558 | DIGITAL IMAGE EXPOSURE CORRECTION Techniques are disclosed for correcting the exposure of a digital image. An exposure predictor may be generated based on a set of images for which ground truth data are known. After identifying an optimal set of features, the exposure of the digital image may be correct... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100310169 | EMBEDDED GRAPHICS CODING FOR IMAGES WITH SPARSE HISTOGRAMS Processes for compressing images with sparse histograms are disclosed. The image is divided into blocks, and a bit budget is assigned for each block. The pixels of a block are converted and coded bit-plane by bit-plane, starting from the Most Significant Bit (MSB) and g... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310115 | Image-based techniques for shredded document reconstruction An image-based technique for shredded document reconstruction includes the steps of: employing an image processing process to obtain shred images of the shredded document, and then extracting several features of shred images for reconstruction with two similarity measur... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100290702 | Image processing device and image correction device An image processing device includes a dividing unit which divides a brightness histogram of an input image into a plurality of value regions according to gradation, a ratio computing unit which computes the number of pixels of each value region divided by the dividing u... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100183209 | HISTOGRAM-BASED COMPOUND OBJECT SEPARATION Certain imaging systems, such as automatic explosives detection systems, employ techniques that utilize image processing, feature extraction and decision making steps to detect threats in images. Such techniques use segmentation as a first algorithmic step, which extrac... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100166276 | PROBABILISTIC SEGMENTATION IN COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION Described herein is a method and system for facilitating segmentation of images. A difference image is received and processed to extract at least one histogram (402). A noise component is determined by fitting a symmetric Gaussian distribution to the extracted hi... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158372 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for separating a foreground and a background. The apparatus includes a background model creation unit for creating a code book including a plurality of code words in order to separate the foreground and the background, and a f... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100128982 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ELASTIC-WAVE ATTENUATION OF ROCK FORMATIONS USING COMPUTER TOMOGRAPIC IMAGES THEREOF A method for estimating at least one elastic-wave-related property of a porous material from a sample thereof includes making a three dimensional tomographic image of the sample of the material. The image is segmented into pixels each representing pore space or rock gra... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100111400 | Non-Linear Histogram Segmentation for Particle Analysis Systems and methods for non-linear histogram segmentation for particle analysis are provided. In one embodiment, a method for analyzing particles comprises creating an initial two-dimensional histogram based on two selected parameters of the particles, filtering the ini... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100086207 | CONTENT AWARE IMAGE RESIZING FOR TEXT AND CONTONE IMAGES A method, computer readable medium, and computing device for resizing images. A digital image arranged in a rectangular array of pixels is received for resizing in either a horizontal direction or a vertical direction. An energy value is computed for each of the pixels,... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100080460 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF DATA IN IN-VIVO IMAGES A method for detecting, in single time-point, in-vivo imaging data related to artifacts in the imaging of objects, includes acquiring at least one in-vivo image with imaging apparatus. A background image corresponds to imaged air of the in-vivo image. The background ima... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100061631 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACE IMAGE An image processing method for a face image is provided. A skin area of a face is segmented from the face image. A brightness histogram of the skin area is generated. A skin shadow point and an eyeball point of the face are extracted from the skin area, the shadow point... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100054587 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes an attribute information generation unit configured to generate attribute information about each pixel of input image data, a division unit configured to divide the input image data into a plurality of blocks of a predetermined siz... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100027887 | Image processing system and image processing method A histogram preparer reads image data scanned from an original sheet by the line, preparing a histogram of pixel numbers of respective background densities of a read line, a background density estimator estimates a background density of the read line as a density at a l... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090324077 | Patch-Based Texture Histogram Coding for Fast Image Similarity Search Techniques for identifying copied images based on an original image are described. The identifying copied image is based on creating unique and identifiable features that in turn are used to generate multiple histograms. The histograms are generated by patches of the im... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090290793 | SIGNAL SEARCH IN THREE DIMENSIONAL BITMAPS A method for automated searching of signal characteristics represented in a bitmap of an RF test and measurement device is provided. The bitmap is populated via sampling of a time-varying signal, where a first signal characteristic is reflected by an X-axis of the bitma... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090245635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPAM DETECTION IN IMAGE DATA A method of detecting and processing messages that include SPAM images by comparing a concentration of grayscale frequencies in a subject image to known concentration of grayscale frequencies in other SPAM messages. The image may be further evaluated for classification ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090238457 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION OF DENSE CELL POPULATIONS Systems and methods for segmenting images comprising cells, wherein the images comprise a plurality of pixels; one or more three dimensional (3D) clusters of cells are identified in the images; and the 3D clusters of cells are automatically segmented into individual cel... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090214110 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOSAIC IMAGE A method and apparatus for generating a mosaic image by mosaic processing of an image are provided, in which an object to be used in a mosaic is acquired from a received image, the object is stored in a storage medium, a target image to be mosaic-processed is received, ... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090190811 | Method and system for left ventricle endocardium surface segmentation using constrained optimal mesh smoothing A method and system for left ventricle (LV) endocardium surface segmentation using constrained optimal mesh smoothing is disclosed. The LV endocardium surface in the 3D cardiac volume is initially segmented in a 3D cardiac volume, such as a CT volume, resulting in an LV... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090180691 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS In a preferred embodiment, an image-combining apparatus 212 includes a photographing unit 201, a composition unit 202, an input unit 204, a creation unit 206, an adjustment end instruction unit 208, and a display 211. An ... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090174595 | SAR ATR treeline extended operating condition A synthetic aperture radar acquires an image of one or more objects and identifies them as targets. The objects are located in the proximity of clutter within the image such of trees, or a tree line. The radar acquires a SAR image having pixels descriptive of the clutte... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090161952 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The image processing apparatus is provided with a scanner unit that reads a document and generates image data; an edge vicinity pixel detection unit that detects pixels in the vicinity of the edge of the document based on luminance values of the image data generated by ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090129670 | Identifying Steganographic Data in an Image Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for embedding and/or extracting data from images. In embodiments, an image may be segmented into regions, and characters or other image groups within a segmented region may be determined to be embedding sites. A data vect... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090041351 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A data distribution system in which distribution data is generated by a distribution data generation portion, a second range is specified by a specifying portion, the second range is mapped to a first range by a mapping portion, and third image data is generated by perf... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090003698 | SEGMENTATON OF DIGITAL IMAGES Methods and systems for segmenting a digital image are disclosed. In one embodiment, the image can be segmented based on adding parameters to the feature data of a pixel that representative of the location of the pixel. In another embodiment, the image can be divided in... | 01/01/2009 |
