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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128258 | DESIGN METHOD OF CIPHER AND PICTURE CIPHER SYSTEM A design method of cipher is provided. First, a database with a plurality of picture units is provided. Then, a part of the picture units of the database are selected to form a passing picture, and the passing picture is transferred to an encoder. The encoder selects at... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128228 | Method for Matching of Patterns A method for matching of two detailed patterns is disclosed in which abstracts of each of the detailed patterns are created, where the abstracts are less complex than the detailed patterns. The abstracts are then compared to determine if the detailed patterns may possib... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING VIDEO PROGRAM MATERIAL OR CONTENT VIA DIFFERENTIAL SIGNALS A system for identification of video content in a video signal is provided by providing a difference signal between an input signal and the delayed input signal. An alternative embodiment includes providing frequency coefficients from one or more video frames along a cu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106852 | BURST MODE IMAGE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION Modified compression/decompression and metadata in burst mode images reduce the storage space consumed by burst mode images. Metadata is added to image files (e.g., EXIF files) to establish links between images in a burst mode image series. A series of linked burst mode... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106853 | IMAGE SEARCH Image search techniques are described. In one or more implementations, images in a search result are ordered based at least in part on similarity of the images, one to another. The search result having the ordered images is provided in response to a search request.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106848 | System And Method For Assessing Photgrapher Competence A method for automatically assessing the competence of a photographer includes assigning a competency level to the photographer based on a statistical comparison of image features between a collection of the photographer's images and a collection of high competency imag... | 05/03/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120070090 | MOVING INFORMATION BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES A computer-implemented method for moving information between computing devices includes capturing a digital image of a display of a first computing device using a camera of a second computing device, transmitting, to the first computing device, data that corresponds to ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069167 | MARKER-FREE TRACKING REGISTRATION AND CALIBRATION FOR EM-TRACKED ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEM A system and method for image-based registration between images locating (304) a feature in a pre-operative image and comparing (307) real-time images taken with a tracked scope with the pre-operative image taken of the feature to find a real-time image th... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051657 | CONTAINMENT COEFFICIENT FOR IDENTIFYING TEXTUAL SUBSETS Similarity is determined between documents based on a method for identifying documents that are likely to be based on another document. The method can include the determination of a containment coefficient, which can indicate when a template document is a subset or subs... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051634 | System for Computationally Quantifying Similarities Between Images Systems and methods provide for quantifying the similarity between images that appear similar. Given a set of images, one image is selected as the base image, to which the remaining images are compared. One or more portions of the base image are selected for comparison ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120033892 | Systems and Methods for Identifying Matching Images of Digital Documents A user interface and interactive application for redacting digital documents are disclosed. This technology allows an operator to perform document recognition and redaction on a small number of representative files and receive feedback on the accuracy of these processes... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027250 | DATA DIFFERENCE GUIDED IMAGE CAPTURING Methods and apparatuses are disclosed. Previously stored images of one or more geographic areas may be viewed by online users. A new low-resolution image may be acquired and aspects of the new low-resolution image may be compared with a corresponding one of the previous... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020562 | CAMERA-VISION SYSTEMS, USED IN COLLABORATION WHITEBOARDS, FOR PRE-FORMATTED, REUSABLE, ANNOTATABLE, MOVABLE MENUS AND FORMS. Systems and devices for, and methods of, image-based processing where a device embodiment comprises: (a) a processor; (b) an addressable memory, the memory comprising a set one or more image references, and where the set of image references comprises a rule of interpret... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020576 | INTERACTIVE IMAGE SELECTION METHOD A method for browsing a collection of digital images on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of digital images; interactively user selecting a digital image using a user interface; determining a plurality of subsets of the digital images, wherein each ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020572 | HAND-HELD MOBILE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF QUCKLY DISPLAYING ONLINE COMMUNITY FRIENDS' IMAGES APPLICABLE THERETO A hand-held mobile apparatus and method of quickly displaying online community friends' images applicable thereto are disclosed. The hand-held mobile apparatus includes a network communication module for linking to an online community server; a comparison module for com... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020574 | VIDEO EVALUATION APPARATUS, SPATIO-TEMPORAL FREQUENCY ANALYZING APPARATUS, VIDEO EVALUATION METHOD, SPATIO-TEMPORAL FREQUENCY ANALYZING METHOD, VIDEO EVALUATION PROGRAM, AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL FREQUENCY ANALYZING PROGRAM A video evaluation apparatus and video evaluation method capable of appropriately evaluating a video including of a plurality of frame images, using an objective standard. A reference characteristic, which is a predetermined spatio-temporal frequency characteristic abou... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020575 | AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION SYSTEM FOR VIDEO PLAYBACK APPARATUS An automatic verification system for a video playback apparatus includes: a continuous-shoot recording/storage section configured to capture a video output of the video playback apparatus continuously and store a plurality of captured images; an image comparison section... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020573 | IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS USING NON-LINEAR DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND METHODS USING SAME Described herein are image analysis systems that utilize a non-linear data processing algorithm for overlaying and comparing time sequence images. The image analysis systems can include at least one image collection device, an image processing device operating a non-lin... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014612 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A document processing apparatus includes a comparison source data acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of comparison source data each including a plurality of comparison source descriptions that are acquired from a comparison source document and ordered; a compari... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008848 | Method and Device for Digital Image Templating Methods and devices for orthopedic templating are presented. In an example embodiment, a template object is displayed on an output device that is also displaying a target object and a reference object. The target object may be displayed at an unknown magnification level... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIDEO CONTENT Video files stored in a data store are managed by analyzing the semantic relationship of at least one associated descriptive tag of a given video file to tags associated with video files in the data store. The results of the analysis are used to select a set of video fi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002886 | IMAGE DATA TEST UNIT, IMAGE APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF TESTING IMAGE DATA USING THE SAME An image data test unit includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data having individual frames, an image data temporary storage unit configured to receive the acquired image data from the data acquisition unit to store a certain amount of the image d... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002885 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE In an image processing device, a lowpass filter extracts a low-frequency component of 8-bit input image data VI1 to obtain 10-bit image data LP1 expanded in the course of an operation during the extraction of the low-frequency component. Two less significa... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320240 | VIDEO-BASED ANALYSIS WORKFLOW PROPOSAL TOOL Video of work being performed in a place of business can be analyzed. Patterns can be identified and scored within the work when analyzing the video. The identified patterns can be correlated with business processes of a business process management system of the busines... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317884 | AUTOMATIC APPEAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM An appeal estimation system for estimating a personal appeal of a candidate individual to an observer including a digital image capture device and a soft-copy display. The system further includes a data processing system configured to implement the steps of designating ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311135 | METHOD FOR TWO-STEP TEMPORAL VIDEO REGISTRATION The invention relates to a method for temporal video registration of a target video with a master video comprising steps of automatic selection a plurality of key frames for target video and a plurality of key frames for master video; sparse registration of a plurality ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312309 | Method and Apparatus for Locating Information from Surroundings An apparatus includes at least one a processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to determine that an input definin... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314049 | PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANT AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER IN PHOTOGRAPHING LANDMARKS AND SCENES A method and system to help photographers to take better quality pictures of landmarks and scenes are disclosed. A user is guided with examples of existing quality images, which are extracted from a database, of the same or similar landmarks or scenes. The method includ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110295693 | Generating Tailored Content Based On Scene Image Detection A method for generating tailored content for a user based on analyzing images of a scene is provided. Images from a scene captured by a capture device of a target recognition and analysis system are received. The images are analyzed to detect one or more brand identifie... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293190 | IMAGE PROCESSING FOR CHANGE DETECTION Image data defining a reference image and each input image in a sequence of images is processed to detect changes in the images. A value is calculated for each pixel defining the spatial rate of change of homogeneity of the image data at that pixel. Different regions of... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286628 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION USING A LARGE DATABASE A method of organizing a set of recognition models of known objects stored in a database of an object recognition system includes determining a classification model for each known object and grouping the classification models into multiple classification model groups. E... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282665 | METHOD FOR MEASURING ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS FOR MULTI-MODAL FUSION Provided is a method for measuring environmental parameters for multi-modal fusion. The method for measuring environmental parameters for multi-modal fusion, includes: preparing at least one enrolled modality; receiving at least one input modality; calculating image rel... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274311 | SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD A sign language recognition method includes a camera capturing an image of a gesture from a signer, comparing the image of the gesture with a number of gestures to find out the meanings of the gesture, and displaying or vocalizing the meanings of the gestures.... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267172 | TRIGGERING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION SCAN USING IMAGE RECOGNITION A system and method for triggering a radio frequency identification, RFID, scan using image recognition includes; storing (300) image attributes of inventoried RFID-tagged items in a database along with information associated with the RFID-tagged items, capturing... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110268364 | METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING SIMILARITY BETWEEN NODES IN GRAPH A computer-implemented method, program, and system for calculating similarity between nodes in a graph by computer processing. The method includes: calculating a new label value of a node on the basis of a label value of a node adjacent to the node with respect to each ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262044 | ENERGY SAVING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE An energy saving method for electronic devices is revealed. At least one reference image and a plurality of temporal images are set up by capturing a temporal scene in front of an electronic device. Compare the reference image with each temporal image to check if the us... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110262028 | IMAGE COMPARISON Method and systems for comparing two images with an image processing system is disclosed. A target image and a selected image are aligned. The selected image is divided into a plurality of image regions, and properties of predetermined regions are combined. A primary im... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261213 | REAL TIME VIDEO PROCESS CONTROL USING GESTURES Method and apparatus of interaction with and control of a video capture device are described. In the described embodiments, video are presented at a display, the display having contact or proximity sensing capabilities. A gesture can be sensed at or near the display in ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110262045 | IMAGE MATCH-POINT DETECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCH-POINT DETECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image match-point detection apparatus has a pattern detection part, a pattern storage part, a characteristic-point extraction part and a match-point detection part. The match-point detection part determines whether the pattern numbers of the pattern information extra... | 10/27/2011 |
