Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050013502 | Method of improving image quality A method of improving image quality of a reproduced image, the method including converting red, green, and blue color data of a subject pixel into color data having brightness and chroma components; identifying the subject pixel as a background pixes, a picture pixel, o... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050013503 | Apparatus for image enhancement and method of using the same An image enhancing apparatus and method in which a PDF calculation unit calculates a probability density function according to a distribution of a luminance value with respect to each pixel of an input image. An average brightness calculation unit calculates average bri... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050013501 | System and process for generating high dynamic range images from multiple exposures of a moving scene A system and process for generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image from a bracketed image sequence, even in the presence of scene or camera motion, is presented. This is accomplished by first selecting one of the images as a reference image. Then, each non-reference i... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050008211 | Lung contrast normalization on direct digital and digitized chest images for computer-aided detection (CAD) of early-stage lung cancer A method of processing x-ray images in digital form comprises: (a) inputting an x-ray image in digital form; (b) determining one or more normalization factors based on the pixels of the input x-ray image; (c) performing normalization on the input x-ray image by applying... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008246 | Image Processing method The image processing method applies image processing to an inputted image data. The method registers predetermined image processing conditions for each specific person in advance, extracts a person in the inputted image data, identifies the extracted person to find if t... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008245 | Image processing method, image processor, image forming apparatus and memory product Image data is transformed into spatial frequency components, the transformed spatial frequency components are quantized, a modification process of changing spatial frequency components in a predetermined frequency domain is performed on the quantized spatial frequency c... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008244 | Apparatus and method for processing an image An enhancing degree for sharpness enhancing is determined as a parameter for enhancing the sharpness of the input image by using at least one of information about a subject included in the input image and information about the display for displaying the input image. By ... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008243 | Automatic image quality adjustment according to brightness of subject The image processing device performs image processing using image data generated by an image generating device, and image generation record information associated with the image data where the image generation record information includes at least operating information a... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008242 | Method and system for producing formatted information related to defects of appliances A method and a system for producing formatted information related to defects of appliances of a chain of appliances. To produce the formatted information related to the defects of an image-capture appliance of the chain, the method includes a first calculation algorithm... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008207 | Flat field, panel flattening, and panel connecting methods A plurality of panels are assembled into a single image. Each of the panels may have different intensities throughout the panel, as well as non-uniformities between panels. The panels are modified using flat-field calibration, panel flattening, and panel connecting tech... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050002585 | Privacy filter The invention relates to a method for reversibly rendering at least one object in an image unrecognizable, whereby each object to be rendered unrecognizable is automatically detected in an original image and at least one data set is generated comprising image informatio... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050002587 | Microscope system A host system defines a plurality of partial areas for a observation object which is a sample, obtains a partial image of an observation object in the partial area captured using a TV camera at the interval of the depth of focus of an objective lens in the depth-of-focu... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050002546 | Medical viewing system and method for enhancing structures in noisy images A viewing system and method for enhancing objects of interest represented on a moving background in a sequence of noisy images and for displaying the sequence of enhanced images, comprising extracting means (11) for extracting features related to an object of int... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050002586 | Method and system for providing formatted data to image processing means in accordance with a standard format A method and system for providing, in accordance with a standard format, formatted information to an image-processor, especially software and/or components. The formatted information is related to defects of a chain of appliances including an image-capture appliance and... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050002064 | Apparatus and methods for de-screening scanned documents Apparatus and methods for de-screening an image signal utilizing a bank of filters to provide several increasingly blurred versions of the original image signal is disclosed. At any given time, one or more of the blurred versions are created, on a pixel-by-pixel basis. ... | 01/06/2005 |
