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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20120128254 | MARKER GENERATION DEVICE, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION SYSTEM, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION DEVICE, MARKER, MARKER GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR Provided is a marker generation device which has a feature comparison means and a marker pattern generation means. The feature comparison means disposes feature points extracted from an image in a predetermined space, sets parts in which the number of feature points in ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PRODUCT INFORMATION USING PRODUCT IMAGES A method and system for determining product information from a logo are disclosed. In one embodiment, an image of a logo may be captured by a portable image capture device. The captured image may be analyzed to recognize the logo. The product may then be identified base... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128253 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image block generator, a pixel extractor, a correction parameter calculator and a corrector. The image block generator enlarges an image block including a plurality of pixels to generate an enlarged ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEXING OBJECT IN IMAGE The present invention relates to a system for providing a supplementary service by identifying an object in an image and comprises: an image service server and a user terminal. The image service server provides image information and includes a database that manages meta... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105668 | REGION OF INTEREST EXTRACTION An example image capture device determines a region of interest using a first image captured while a light source is powered off and a second image captured while a light source is powered on and uses the region of interest to automatically set configurations. In one ex... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING REPRESENTATIVE FEATURE A representative feature extraction system which selects a representative feature from an input data group includes: occurrence distribution memory means for memorizing an occurrence distribution with respect to feature quantities assumed to be input; evaluation value c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081533 | REAL-TIME EMBEDDED VISION-BASED EYE POSITION DETECTION One aspect provides an image capture device which, in one embodiment, includes a camera, image processor, and interface. The image processor is configured to determine a location of at least one eye of a presenter in a captured image captured by the camera. The image pr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082377 | RECOGNIZING A FEATURE OF AN IMAGE INDEPENDENTLY OF THE ORIENTATION OR SCALE OF THE IMAGE One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for recognizing a feature of an image independently of the orientation or scale of the image. During operation, the system receives an image. Next, the system identifies a feature within the image. The system the... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082384 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A feature point detection unit (153) and feature amount extraction unit (154) extract a plurality of features of an object from input image data. When there are unextracted features of the plurality of features, a weight setting unit (155) sets weig... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082370 | MATCHING DEVICE, MATCHING METHOD AND MATCHING PROGRAM Provided is a matching device capable of improving the accuracy of the degree of similarly in the calculation of the degree of similarly between data sets. Element selection means 41 selects elements corresponding to each other between a first vector including a ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069383 | Image Processing System and Imaging Object Used for Same An imaging technology having high reproducibility of a document and making image correction possible, without being influenced by a way of placing the document or a position of a camera, and irrespective of paper color and despite of damage of a corner portion. By print... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070069 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a difference calculation unit, an intensity calculation unit, and an enhancing unit. The difference calculation unit calculates, for each partial area of an input image, a difference between a depth val... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070084 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing apparatus calculates luminances for pixels that make up an image and calculates the average luminance of the calculated luminances. From among pixels of the calculated luminances, the image processing apparatus identifies each of the luminances that ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072012 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD According to one embodiment, sheet processing includes feature-amount extraction unit configured to extract feature amount from image obtained, standard pattern storage unit configured to prestore standard pattern group for each different soil level, standard pattern gr... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072939 | System and Method for Measuring Audience Reaction to Media Content A system and method of measuring audience reaction to media content includes obtaining images or other information of each individual of the audience as the individual views the content and analyzing the images or other information with software to generate emotional re... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051646 | OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS, RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An apparatus extracts a first dictionary information associated with a first category from among multiple categories included in a dictionary and second dictionary information associated with a second category from among multiple categories included in the dictionary or... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051599 | AUTOMATIC LIGHTING SYSTEM An automatic lighting system for a vehicle includes a control and an imaging device having a forward field of view. The control is operable to process image data captured by the imaging device to determine if an object imaged by the imaging device is an object of intere... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051644 | DETECTING RECURRING EVENTS IN CONSUMER IMAGE COLLECTIONS A method of detecting recurring events in a digital image collection taken over a pre-determined period of time is disclosed. The method uses a processor for analyzing the digital image collection to produce a two-dimensional representation of the distribution of image ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051645 | Recognition of digital images Recognition of numerical characters is disclosed, including: extracting a subimage from a received image comprising information pertaining to a plurality of numerical characters, wherein the extracted subimage is associated with one of the plurality of numerical charact... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045130 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MATCHING IMAGES In an electronic device and method of matching an image A and an image B, grayscale centers of the image A and the image B are computed. The image A is divided into n equal parts Dk(k=1˜n) according to the grayscale center, and a grayscale density Vk 02/23/2012 | |
| 20120045131 | Method of and apparatus for processing images Ruled lines are extracted and fitted into a real 2-D space. Correspondence between fitted cells and template cells of a ruled line template is determined. For each pair of cells corresponding to each other, the position of each pixel in the template cell is mapped into ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120039538 | MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided a moving image processing apparatus, including a similarity determination unit configured to determine a degree of similarity between a subsequent cut and first and second cut groups based on feature amounts generated from extraction images of the firs... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033889 | IMAGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND METHOD An image determination apparatus includes a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a calculation unit, and a correction unit. The first extraction unit extracts a first set from an image including linear components that are line-shaped components. The first se... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033896 | Visual Motion Processing with Offset Downsampling An algorithm for removing visual motion from a sequence of two or more images is disclosed. This algorithm may be performed with a camera system having an image sensor capable of downsampling the raw pixel image according to downsampling grid offset by a raw pixel amoun... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033863 | ASSESSING FEATURES FOR CLASSIFICATION Among other things, a degree is determined to which values of a feature that characterizes cases correctly predict classes to which cases belong, the degree depending on a combination of at least two factors that include: (a) uncertainty about the values that the featur... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033850 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTICAL ASSET RECOGNITION AND LOCATION TRACKING A method for managing assets associated with a platform is described. The method includes receiving an optical image of an asset associated with the platform, comparing, using an optical recognition program, the optical image of the asset to images of assets within a li... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033888 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Provided is an image processing system for correcting an optical response of an image capturing optical system with low cost. The image processing system includes: a feature value extracting section that extracts feature values from each of images captured in different ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120027303 | AUTOMATED MULTIPLE IMAGE PRODUCT SYSTEM A computer system for making a multi-image product comprising a server connected to one or more remote clients through a network. Several software portions executable by the server or client, or any combination thereof, are provided for selecting first and second dates ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027304 | SEMANTIC PARSING OF OBJECTS IN VIDEO The invention provides an improved method to detect semantic attributes of human body in computer vision. In detecting semantic attributes of human body in computer vision, the invention maintains a list of semantic attributes, each of which corresponds to a human body ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SUBJECTS OF INTEREST A system captures images of monitored subjects in a monitored area, and gives numbers to the monitored subjects according to specific features of the monitored subjects. The specific features of the monitored subjects are obtained by detecting the captured images. Only ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014607 | METHOD AND CAMERA FOR DETECTING A REGION HAVING A SPECIFIC SHAPE A method of detecting a region having a specific shape in a camera is provided. The method includes processing input image data in a camera and detecting the region having the specific shape. The method includes calculating gradation differences between a central pixel ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014604 | Blur Estimation A method and apparatus for removing blur in an image is disclosed. The blur in the image is caused by relative motion between the imaging device and the object being imaged. A set of differences between the pixel values in the image is calculated. The set of differences... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014606 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM To improve the precision of a motion vector of a pixel included in an image by appropriately performing region division of the image. A plurality of images is obtained, any of the plurality of the obtained images is analyzed and a feature point of the image is extracted... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014605 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM In region division of an image by a plurality of feature points, there is such a problem that a triangle with an extremely large distortion appears depending on arrangement of feature points when performing triangulation so that each region does not overlap one another.... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011220 | INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS An information search system is connected to a search server that searches for information. The information search system includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus selects a particular image from among images displayed on the second apparatu... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008865 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING BUILDING NUMBERS A system and method is provided for automatically recognizing building numbers in street level images. In one aspect, a processor selects a street level image that is likely to be near an address of interest. The processor identifies those portions of the image that are... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008008 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, IMAGING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing device includes: an image generating unit that generates third image data on the basis of first image data and second image data different in exposure condition from the first image data; a subject recognizer that recognizes a predetermined subject o... | 01/12/2012 |
