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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128248 | REGION SPECIFICATION METHOD, REGION SPECIFICATION APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, SERVER, AND SYSTEM Disclosed is a region specification method of specifying a subject region including a subject from a subject exiting image in which a background and the subject exist, the region specification method including: calculating an image boundary pixel number of an image boun... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127297 | DIGITAL MICROSCOPY WITH FOCUS GRADING IN ZONES DISTINGUISHED FOR COMPARABLE IMAGE STRUCTURES Digital image quality is assessed, especially focus accuracy for a microscopic pathology sample image, using quality assessment criteria that differ among zones distinguished by a structural classification process. An image or area is divided into sub-regions such as ad... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128239 | IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT TO MERCHANDISE AN ITEM Image-based features may be significantly correlated with click-through rates of images that depict a product, which may provide a more formal basis for the informal notion that good quality images will result in better click-through rates, as compared to poor quality i... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128247 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image processing system includes a first image processing apparatus and a second image processing apparatus. The first image processing apparatus includes a first image obtaining module, a first image extraction module, a first density extraction module, a first feat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106823 | Systems and Methods for Computer Aided Analysis of Images Certain embodiments of the present technology provide systems, methods and computer instructions for computer aided analysis of images. In certain embodiments, for example, such a method includes: isolating a motion area in an image; segmenting the image; utilizing a su... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106843 | FIGURE PROCESSING APPARATUS, FIGURE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM When an image including a composite figure made of a predefined figure and a free-form figure is scanned, the position and shape of the free-form figure and the predefined figure are appropriately adjusted. The composite figure is separated into a predefined figure and ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106785 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRE-PROCESSING TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FILES TO BE CONVERTED TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FILES Disclosed herein are methods and systems of efficiently, effectively, and accurately preparing images for a 2D to 3D conversion process by pre-treating occlusions and transparencies in original 2D images. A single 2D image, or a sequence of images, is ingested, segmente... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106844 | SKEW DETECTION Presented is a skew detection apparatus. In one form, the apparatus estimates skew based on the locations of a set of foreground content pixels or a set of edge pixels that are nearest to the side of an image of a document. In another form, the apparatus includes a skew... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106782 | Detector for chemical, biological and/or radiological attacks This specification generally relates to methods and algorithms for detection of chemical, biological, and/or radiological attacks. The methods use one or more sensors that can have visual, audio, and/or thermal sensing abilities and can use algorithms to determine by be... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082372 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT IMAGE EXTRACTION AND COMPARISON Systems and methods are described that extract and match images from a first document with images in other documents. A user controls a threshold on the level of image noise to be ignored and a page range for faster processing of large documents.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120070075 | IMAGE PROCESSING BASED ON VISUAL ATTENTION AND REDUCED SEARCH BASED GENERATED REGIONS OF INTEREST A system for complexity reduction in images involving concepts of visual attention based most probable region detection for object presence and perspective-view based reduced scale-search approaches. Visual attention concept in context uses gradient and contrast of an i... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070085 | MOBILE TERMINAL, ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA USING THE SAME Provided are a mobile terminal, an electronic system, and a method of transmitting and receiving data using the same for effectively transmitting and receiving data between the mobile terminal and external electronic devices.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051641 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REVERSIBLE, INCREMENTAL IMAGE SHREDDING Systems and methods for reversible, incremental image shredding in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. One embodiment of the invention includes determining shredding parameters, generating a shredding map, where the shredding map is a grid of ele... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051640 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing apparatus includes an approximate value calculating unit that calculates an approximate value that becomes consecutive inside an examination area for a pixel value of each pixel of the examination area based on the pixel value inside an image, a vali... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051639 | ANGLE INVARIANT VISUAL ANALYSIS Technologies are generally described for performing image analysis of an image using a repeating geometric sequence. In some examples, a computing system accesses image data that defines an image for image analysis. The computing system determines a repeating geometric ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045128 | Method and apparatus for performing an in-painting process on an image A method and apparatus of in-painting an image using prioritized graph cut optimization is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes examining an image comprising a plurality of pixels that form a source region and a target region, wherein the source region comp... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039534 | COMPRESSION SCHEME SELECTION BASED ON IMAGE DATA TYPE AND USER SELECTIONS Disclosed is a processor-implemented method for processing image data comprising a plurality of pixels and system for performing the method. The method includes the following acts: determining at least one type of data represented by the plurality of pixels, determining... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038786 | Decreasing Image Acquisition Time for Compressive Imaging Devices Mechanisms for increasing the rate of acquisition of compressed/encoded image representations are disclosed. An imaging system may deliver subsets of a modulated light stream onto respective light sensing devices. The light sensing devices may be sampled in parallel. Sa... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039535 | LIVE COHERENT IMAGE SELECTION Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, featuring receiving user input defining a sample of pixels from an image, the image being defined by a raster of pixels. While receiving the user input, the following actions are performed one or more... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033886 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS EMPLOYING IMAGE COMPRESSION A system for processing an image includes a an image data input port, a compressed image data output port or a compressed image data storage node, a non-transitory memory component storing a set of executable instructions, and a scalable tile processing device. The exec... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033875 | PRECEPTUAL SEGMENTATION OF IMAGES Method and system embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated identification of regions within digitally-encoded images that correspond to objects and features of scenes captured in the digitally-encoded images, a process referred to as ‘perceptual ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027297 | Object Segmentation at a Self-Checkout Techniques for segmenting an object at a self-checkout are provided. The techniques include capturing an image of an object at a self-checkout, dividing the image into one or more blocks, computing one or more features of the image, computing a confidence value for each... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027298 | Method and Apparatus for Direct Detection, Location, Analysis, Identification, and Reporting of Vegetation Clearance Violations A method and system for processing digital image data taken from a three-dimensional topographic area including terrain and a right of way including a first and a second object to establish a clearance surface to define clearance violations within a boundary area. Waypo... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027293 | AUTOMATED MULTIPLE IMAGE PRODUCT METHOD A computer implemented method for receiving a selection of first and second dates to define a date range and receiving a selection of a theme. A plurality of digital images is accessed that includes digital images captured within the date range. The digital images are s... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027300 | CONNECTIVITY SIMILARITY BASED GRAPH LEARNING FOR INTERACTIVE MULTI-LABEL IMAGE SEGMENTATION A system and method of connectivity-based image processing to identify and extract objects in image data. Variations on the method may include iterative local smoothing operations and various algorithmic solutions to improve real-time processing. Variations may also inc... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027272 | IMAGE SEGMENTATION According to one embodiment there is provided a method of selecting a plurality of M atlases from among a larger group of N candidate atlases to form a multi-atlas data set to be used for computer automated segmentation of novel image data sets to mark objects of intere... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027299 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIENCE DIGITAL MONITORING Aspects of the present invention allow for real-time people monitoring method and system for estimation of the size and flow density of a given group of people located in a given area of space. The method and system may be used to monitor live or recorded camera input, ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020560 | METHOD AND SYSTEM ARRANGED FOR FILTERING AN IMAGE A method and a system, the system includes: a memory unit, an image region definer, a spectral analyzer, a determination module, and an image processor. The spectral analyzer is arranged to divide a frequency spectrum of each image region into at least three image regio... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020559 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SPECIFY REGIONS OF INTEREST IN VIDEO FRAMES Methods and apparatus to specify regions of interest in video frames are disclosed. An example disclosed method comprises determining an initial template region to represent a region of interest whose location is based on a first point selected in a graphical presentati... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014601 | HANDWRITING RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE A handwriting recognition method and a handwriting recognition device are provided to recognize a character sequence continuously inputted by a user for convenience. The present method comprises steps of calculating various features of the inputted character sequence wh... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110317888 | LIVER LESION SEGMENTATION A method for segmenting a first object from a bounding object within a digital image identifies pixels between first and second endpoint pixels. A volume of interest is defined spanning at least a portion of the object. Pixels within the volume of interest are partition... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317920 | APPROACH FOR RESOLVING OCCLUSIONS, SPLITS AND MERGES IN VIDEO IMAGES Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for resolving an occlusion in a video image. Specifically, an embodiment of the present invention provides an environment in which portions of a video image in which occlusions have occurred may be determined and analy... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317009 | Capturing Events Of Interest By Spatio-temporal Video Analysis A computer implemented method and system for capturing events of interest by performing a spatio-temporal analysis of a video are provided. A continuous video stream containing a series of image frames is acquired over time. Each of the image frames is represented by ho... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317921 | INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM The invention relates to information processing equipment and method and an information processing system, and specifically to information processing equipment and method and an information processing system that can realize interactive communications with improved vide... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317910 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS An image analysis method includes acquiring images of spatially different analysis regions. Each of the images of the analysis regions is constituted by pixels including a plurality of data acquired simultaneously or time-serially. The method further includes obtaining ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310267 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS The image processing apparatus includes an area dividing part that divides an input image produced by an image pickup system into plural image areas whose evaluation values are mutually different. The evaluation value is obtained by using a response function of the imag... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311138 | BACKGROUND SEPARATED IMAGES FOR PRINT AND ON-LINE USE In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for producing background separated product images for print and on-line display. An image formation system provides lighting of a product to facilitate acquiring images that can be automatically... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311137 | HIERARCHICAL FILTERED MOTION FIELD FOR ACTION RECOGNITION Described is a hierarchical filtered motion field technology such as for use in recognizing actions in videos with crowded backgrounds. Interest points are detected, e.g., as 2D Harris corners with recent motion, e.g. locations with high intensities in a motion history ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311136 | CROSS-DOMAIN BROWSER PRE-FETCHING THROUGH DATA TRANSCODING Browser application programs may be prevented from performing cross-domain retrieval of anything other than image files. To enable browsers to pre-fetch resources utilizable by code executing in a browser-based programmatic environment, without having to wait for the en... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311139 | AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION TUNER A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically segmenting input document images into regions of black text, white space, and image content. A set of scanned training documents representing the range of text and images to be processed is co... | 12/22/2011 |
