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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20120082354 | ESTABLISHING A CONTOUR OF A STRUCTURE BASED ON IMAGE INFORMATION A system for establishing a contour of a structure is disclosed. An initialization subsystem (1) is used for initializing an adaptive mesh representing an approximate contour of the structure, the structure being represented at least partly by a first image, and ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081402 | VIRTUAL LEVEL FOR A DIGITAL CAMERA A method of and apparatus for generating a reference line or a virtual level enables tilt correction of an image. A user is able to utilize the reference line to see how an image should be oriented for the objects within the image to be level. The user is able to then c... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082386 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINE SEGMENT EXTRACTION A method for extracting line segments from an edge image comprises receiving a digital image comprising a plurality of edge pixels, and processing the plurality of edge pixels using a breadth first search to determine a plurality of breadth first search pixels in a brea... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082367 | METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DETECTING A DEFECT OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE BY USING THE IMAGE FORMING METHOD A method forms an ultimate or final image of a sample by selecting some of a plurality of image frames and integrating the selected frames. The method includes providing a semiconductor device including a region of interest and a peripheral region; obtaining a plurality... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082385 | EDGE BASED TEMPLATE MATCHING A method for image processing includes decomposing a model image into at least one lower resolution image and determining generally rotation invariant characteristics of a model object of the lower resolution image and an object orientation of the model object of the lo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120070088 | PICTURE IMAGE PROCESSOR, METHOD FOR PROCESSING PICTURE IMAGE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PICTURE IMAGE A picture image processing apparatus includes a candidate detection unit that detects a lateral boundary line candidate and a paint-blank boundary line candidate from the picture image information acquired, and a verification unit that verifies whether or not the latera... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070064 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MASK OPERATION ACTIVITIES A method and system arrangement for controlling and determining mask operation activities. Upon obtaining chip physical layout design data and running resolution enhancement technology on the chip physical layout design to generate mask features which may include any su... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069222 | Foreground/Background Separation Using Reference Images A technique involves distinguishing between foreground and background regions of a digital image of a scene. First and second images are captured of nominally a same scene. The first image is a relatively high resolution image taken with the foreground more in focus tha... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051653 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus which performs boundary line extraction for raster image data, comprises: a detection unit configured to detect a color region formed from a plurality of pixels having an 8-neighbor connection in the image data; a determination unit configu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051654 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM An apparatus includes a calculating unit that calculates gradient strength of respective pixel values based on an intraluminal image, an extracting unit that extracts a closed region from the image, and a detecting unit that detects an abnormal portion of the closed reg... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051655 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Function approximation performed when a raster image is converted into a vector image is performed in a simple manner with high accuracy, without using feedback. When anchor points are extracted from a coordinate point sequence obtained from the raster image, and functi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045122 | Image Processing Device, Method, and Program A device for processing an input image may include a degree-of-symmetry calculation unit, which may be configured to receive the input image and calculate a degree of symmetry of the input image. The device may also include a parting line detection unit, which may be co... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120033073 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING FOREGROUND FROM BACKGROUND Provided are apparatuses and methods for separating an image into a foreground and a background. The apparatus includes: an edge image generating unit which generates an edge image for an original image, wherein the original image includes the background and the foregro... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027307 | Image Measurement Device, Method For Image Measurement, And Computer Readable Medium Storing A Program For Image Measurement An image measurement device capable of recognizing a relative position and easily identifying a measurement result is provided, the device including: a measurement configuration data storage section that holds characteristic amount information, information for portions ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026352 | EDGE DETECTION WITH ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD Systems and methods are provided for detecting edges in an image. In an example method, the image is smoothed using a filter. A gradient magnitude and angle are determined for each pixel of the image. A non-maximum suppression is performed on the resulting image data. A... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020569 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A pixel output order pattern selecting section selects the first pixel output order pattern set by the pixel output order pattern setting section when the edge detecting section detects the edge portion in the pixel block, and selects any of the plurality of second pixe... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120002868 | METHOD FOR FAST SCENE MATCHING A method for identifying digital images having matching backgrounds from a collection of digital images, comprising using a processor to perform the steps of: determining a set of one or more feature values for each digital image in the collection of digital images, whe... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317924 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing apparatus including: an edge detection processing section configured to generate an edge image by performing edge detection processing on a detection target image from which a target object is to be detected; a segment area setting section configured... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110305397 | Systems and methods for retargeting an image utilizing a saliency map Systems for retargeting an image utilizing a saliency map are disclosed, with methods and processes for making and using the same. To create a contextually personalized presentation, an image may be presented within a target area. The desired location within the target ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110293175 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD Provided is an image processing apparatus. When a plurality of images acquired by photographing different directions is input, a region search unit of the image processing apparatus may search for an overlapping region within the plurality of images. An outlier removal ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293192 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a boundary detection unit, a correlation value calculation unit, and a region detection unit. The boundary detection unit detects an inner boundary and an outer boundary in each of local regions in an image including an object and ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293191 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING EDGES OF IMAGE Provided are an apparatus and method for more accurately extracting edge portions from an image in various conditions. The apparatus includes: a brightness calculation unit calculating a representative brightness value of the neighborhood of a current pixel; a threshold... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286672 | TRANSLUCENT IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS, TRANSLUCENT IMAGE EDGE DETECTION APPARATUS, TRANSLUCENT IMAGE DETECTION METHOD, AND TRANSLUCENT IMAGE EDGE DETECTION METHOD A translucent image edge detection apparatus is provided with a detector that detects isolated point pixels in an image, the isolated point pixels being pixels having a density higher than that of neighboring pixels adjacent to the isolated point pixels; a determination... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286671 | EDGE DETECTION TECHNIQUE HAVING IMPROVED FEATURE VISIBILITY A method for determining edge features of an image comprising filtering at least a portion of the image to attenuate high frequency signals of the image to an extent greater than low frequency signals of the image. Performing a one-dimensional search in a two different ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286673 | METHOD SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED MODULES AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS FOR PROVIDING IMAGE SENSOR BASED HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACING Disclosed is an image based human machine interface which comprises an image acquisition assembly which may acquire one or more of two-dimensional images of a user, wherein substantially each image may be associated with a different point in time. The human machine inte... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110287811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN AUGMENTED REALITY X-RAY An approach is provided for generating an augmented reality X-Ray composite image. A visual saliency is determined of one or more features of a first image, a second image, or a combination thereof. The one or more features of the first image occlude, at least in part, ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110261231 | DISPLACEMENT DETECTION DEVICE AND DISPLACEMENT DETECTION METHOD THEREOF A displacement detection method includes the steps of: acquiring an image frame; calculating a characteristic index of the image frame; maintaining the image frame when the characteristic index is larger than a threshold value; and adding a fixed pattern to the image fr... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258344 | REGION OF INTEREST-BASED IMAGE TRANSFER Image data of an image is transmitted from a first computer to a second computer over a network. A region of interest in the image is identified by a first computer by calculations using image data. Coordinates for the region of interest are transmitted from the first c... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255791 | Accelerating Bitmap Remoting By Identifying And Extracting Patterns From Source Bitmaps Through Parallel Processing Techniques Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for accelerating bitmap remoting by extracting patterns from source bitmaps. A server takes a source image, and performs an edge-detection operation on it. From this edge-detected image, connected segmen... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255792 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects, as edge pixels, a plurality of pixels in a contour of a head of a person in an image in which the head appears; a determination unit that, for each of the edge pixels, determines, as ellipse ca... | 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 |
| 20110249901 | Anti-Aliasing System and Method A system to reduce aliasing in a graphical image includes an edge detector configured to read image depth information from a depth buffer. The edge detector also applies edge detection procedures to detect an object edge within the image. An edge style detector is confi... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249902 | Tracking Workflow in Manipulating Media Items A computer-implemented method is described including receiving input specifying an image frame from among a series of image frames, and automatically detecting one or more points in the specified image frame that would be suitable for tracking a point in the series of i... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235922 | EDGE NEIGHBORHOOD DESCRIPTOR System for generating an edge neighborhood descriptor for describing the surrounding of an interest point according to the closest edges includes a sector determiner, a closest edge determiner, and an edge neighborhood descriptor constructor, the closest edge determiner... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235921 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CODING ARTIFACTS IN AN IMAGE The present invention relates to a method and a corresponding apparatus for detecting coding artifacts in an image. The proposed apparatus comprises an edge position detector that detects an edge position of an edge in said image, a border position detector that detects... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235906 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a storage that stores, therein, edge position data indicating the position of a first edge image that represents a first edge of a first object image representing an object in a first image, a determination portion that detects a s... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110226045 | LIQUID ANALYSIS SYSTEM Method and apparatus for analysing a fractionated liquid sample received in a vessel having a reference feature, the method comprising capturing an image of the reference feature and an image of a first boundary of a first fraction within the sample, and analysing the c... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110222779 | Edge orientation for second derivative edge detection methods An improved algorithm for edge detection is provided that utilizes the second order derivative of the intensity distribution function of an image to provide edge orientation information for the detected edges. An exemplary embodiment of the improved algorithm includes d... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110222780 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A BLOCK RASTER The present invention describes a method for the detection of a block raster in an image that has a plurality of pixels, to each of which at least one pixel value is assigned and which are situated one next to another along horizontal and vertical pixel boundaries (x 09/15/2011 | |
