Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 20120002883 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a s... | 01/05/2012 |
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| 20110235858 | Grouping Digital Media Items Based on Shared Features Methods, apparatuses, and systems for grouping digital media items based on shared features. Multiple digital images are received. Metadata about the digital images is obtained either by analyzing the digital images or by receiving metadata from a source separate from t... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110150292 | Object Information Derived from Object Images Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back loc... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110116719 | Media Identification System for Efficient Matching of Media Items Having Common Content To identify a media item from a database of media items that have common content, a region of interest is defined to include a plurality of frames of a test fingerprint that correspond to different segments of a media item. A media identification system queries a databa... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110096246 | Visual Identifier for Images on an Electronic Display A system and method for displaying images or video on an electronic display. A unique identifier may be embedded within the frames of images or video and detected by a light sensor. The data from the light sensor is analyzed to determine if the proper image or video was... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096996 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING VASCULAR STRUCTURE IMAGES A method (100) of processing clinical 3D imaging of blood vessels in order to enable an analysis of the shape of blood vessels of a person, a statistical analysis of the shape and properties of blood vessels in a group of individuals, and the detection and quanti... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110026839 | ARTISTIC DIGITAL TEMPLATE FOR IMAGE DISPLAY A system storing digital templates for an image display. The template has a plurality of digital openings for displaying digital images and each opening has at least one corresponding required attribute that is digitally stored in association with its corresponding open... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100329574 | MIXED MEDIA REALITY INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL FOR REPEATED CONTENT A system and method for indexing and retrieval of document images in an MMR system having repeated content is described. The system provides one or more hierarchical shared content indices that produce faster and/or more accurate search results. The system is also advan... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100254613 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUPLICATE TEXT RECOGNITION A system for duplicate text recognition includes a first means for dividing an electronic text into a plurality of phrase segments; a second means for converting each of the phrase segments into a unique and fixed-length bit string; a third means for storing a plurality... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100232715 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND PORTABLE MEDIUM FOR AUTHENTICATION An authentication system includes: a measuring portion that radiates terahertz waves to a portable medium for authentication including materials having a characteristic oscillation frequency in a terahertz frequency band, measures a spectrum, and outputs a measurement s... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100208997 | Image-Based Advertisement Platform Described is an image centric advertisement platform and technology in which input images are matched to advertisements based on actual visible content (e.g., corresponding to features) within the image. Advertisers upload and bid on advertiser-provided images that corr... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100202704 | SYSTEM FOR ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION VIA INTERACTIVE SURFACE A system for anonymous communication between a user and a software application is provided, via interaction of an optical imaging device with an interactive surface to generate interaction data. The device has a unique identity which is associated with the user's identi... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100194679 | GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF A gesture recognition system includes an image pick-up device, a processor, an operation engine, an optimal template selection means, and a display terminal. The image pick-up device is for capturing an image containing a natural gesture. The processor is for finding ou... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189367 | BLURRING BASED CONTENT RECOGNIZER Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying regions of interest in an image and identifying a barcode in a degraded image are provided. A region of interest is identified by pre-processing an image, generating a binary image bas... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100172590 | Combined Image and Text Document A combined image and text document is described. In embodiment(s), a scanned image of a document can be generated utilizing a scanning application, and text representations of text that is included in the document can be generated utilizing a character recognition appli... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100134318 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING IMAGE DATA IN CONNECTION WITH CONFIGURING A UNIVERSAL CONTROLLING DEVICE A user provides to an image recognition system an image that is intended to be used to identify one or more appliances that are to be controlled by a universal controlling device. The image recognition system has access to a database of images that have been cross-refer... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100091020 | Computer arrangement for and method of matching location Data of different sources A computer arrangement is disclosed, including a processor and a memory that stores a computer program, object data originating from a first source and including object location data, and laser samples originating from a second source, including a sub-set of laser sampl... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100080471 | System and method for paper independent copy detection pattern Systems and methods for detecting copies of documents are described. In one example, a system and method for detecting copies of documents utilizes multiple authentication tests performed using original and scanned copy detection patterns. The system captures a CDP that... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100067806 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLEOGRAPHIC RECOGNITION, MATCHING, AND IDENTIFICATION OF IMAGES AND OBJECTS The inventive data processing system and method enable recognition, matching, and/or identification of images and/or of objects, utilizing at least one novel pleographic data processing technique.... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100039533 | Method and Apparatus for Sharing Information Using a Handheld Device A method and apparatus for sending information to a data processing apparatus for identifying a document to share with a recipient. A handheld device is capable of communicating with the data processing apparatus. Information is captured from the document and stored in ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100034468 | Object Information Derived from Object Images Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back loc... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090324100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINDING A DOCUMENT IMAGE IN A DOCUMENT COLLECTION USING LOCALIZED TWO-DIMENSIONAL VISUAL FINGERPRINTS An image management method and system provides for storing, indexing, searching, and/or retrieving image data. Keypoints are identified in images, including keypoints in a query image of a query document, and keypoints in potential target document images of a collection... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090304267 | IDENTIFICATION OF ITEMS DEPICTED IN IMAGES In an example embodiment, a method of identifying an item depicted in an image is provided. In this method, the image depicting the item is accessed; in addition, other images and their item identifiers are also accessed. A match of the image with one of the other image... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090274298 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SECURITY FEATURE ON A FLAT SUBSTRATE A security feature is produced on a flat substrate, e.g. on paper or board. Particles—forming a cryptographic random pattern—are applied, preferably scattered on, to the substrate or incorporated into the substrate. Flexible pieces of wire or fiber, in particular th... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090214088 | TISSUE SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS A method an apparatus for identifying slides is disclosed, where samples such as tissue sample mounted to slides are labeled with information, and an image of the information is captured by a processing instrument. The image is analyzed, for example using optical charac... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090202137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE GENERATION The present invention provides a technique to generate an accurate connected image even in a monotonous pattern using design data as constrained conditions. A reference position is roughly determined through matching between the design data and image data, matching betw... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090161552 | Method for Testing a Communication Network by Means of a Terminal The invention relates to a method for testing a communication network by means of a terminal, which is provided with a screen and is used for exchanging information via a telecommunication network. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a step for periodica... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090116752 | ALBUM CREATING APPARATUS, ALBUM CREATING METHOD AND ALBUM CREATING PROGRAM An album creating apparatus for crating an album by automatically selecting an appropriate image to be laid out in an image layout frame arranged in a template and laying out the selected image in the image layout frame is provided. The album creating apparatus accordin... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090016615 | Invisible Junction Feature Recognition For Document Security or Annotation The present invention uses invisible junctions which are a set of local features unique to every page of the electronic document to match the captured image to a part of an electronic document. The present invention includes: an image capture device, a feature extractio... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090010550 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING IMAGES A method for matching images is disclosed. The method includes selecting a template image and a target image from a batch of images and sampling the template image so as to obtain a template-sampled image, and sampling the target image so as to obtain a target-sampled i... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080292194 | Method and System for Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Tumors and Associated Edema (Swelling) in Magnetic Resonance (Mri) Images A method and system for segmenting an object represented in one or more input images, each of the one or more input images comprising a plurality of pixels. The method comprising: aligning the one or more input images with one or more corresponding template images each ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080285792 | Form Data Extraction Without Customization A form processing method for extracting data items from a form previously digitized in the form of a digital image, the method comprising prompting a user to indicate a location of one or more physical fields each physical field relating to a data item of specific type;... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080247639 | Data Matching Method, Data Matching Apparatus and Data Matching Program The purpose is to execute the matching of a data after state change from a data before state change, or the matching of a data before state change from a data after state change. The component analyzing unit realized by software analyzes an input data by using a configu... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080205770 | Generating a Multi-Use Vocabulary based on Image Data Functionality is described for generating a vocabulary from a source dataset of image items or other non-textual items. The vocabulary serves as a tool for retrieving items from a target dataset in response to queries. The vocabulary has at least one characteristic that... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080089590 | Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium There is provided an album whose contents of images is well balanced. An album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing a plurality of images, an image sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per event... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20070127779 | System and method for range measurement of a preceding vehicle A system for determining range and lateral position of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a camera and a processor. The camera is configured to view a region of interest, including the vehicle, and generate an electrical image of the region. The processor is in ... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070110285 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF A HUMAN EYE Apparatus and methods for determining whether a live, human eye is presented for iris-based recognition. An image is presented on a computer screen and reflected back from the eye. The reflected image is captured and processed to determine whether the reflection was con... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20060269145 | Method and system for determining object pose from images A method and system for identifying an object or structured parts of an object in an image. A set of templates are created for each of a number of the parts of the object and the templates are applied to an area of interest in an image where it is hypothesised that an o... | 11/30/2006 |
