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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128244 | DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER FILTER FOR LOW-LIGHT NOISE REDUCTION In general, in one embodiment, low-light noise is removed from an image by separately filtering luma and chroma components of the image, by adaptively filtering the image based at least in part on a Gaussian distribution of the image, and/or by dividing the image into s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120051660 | Multi-Surface Optical 3D Microscope A method of detecting multi-surfaces of an object includes providing an imaging system capable of detecting surfaces of the object. After system parameters are set up, two-dimensional images of the object at multiple Z steps can be acquired. Each surface of the object c... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045143 | Apparatus and method for high speed filtering of image for high precision Provided are an apparatus and a method for high speed filtering of an image for high precision that may include a coordinate determining unit to determine coordinates (P, Q) on a screen with respect to a first pixel to be filtered, a pixel determining unit to determine ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039544 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING SPATIO-TEMPORAL COLUMN OR ROW NOISE An image processing method and to an arrangement for implementing the method. The method includes filtering the original image with a low-pass filter for forming a low-pass filtered image, creating a high-pass filtered image by subtracting the low-pass filtered image fr... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120020530 | MOTION ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION OF FEATURE-MOTION DECORRELATION The subject disclosure relates to motion estimation and compensation of feature-motion decorrelation. In an aspect, coupled filtering can be employed to solve feature-motion decorrelation problems. In further aspects, a linear convolution model can be employed to model ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014616 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING IMAGE QUALITY USING SPATIAL MODULATION PER BAND A method and apparatus for enhancing and improving image quality are provided. The method includes separating an input image into at least one low frequency component and at least one high frequency component; modulating the low frequency components in a block unit by d... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014617 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-SCALE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING WAVELETS Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for reconstructing an image. A system practicing the method receives a corrupted image, such as a blurred image or a still frame from a video, to reconstruct, isolates a set of spa... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002897 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM A filter coefficient calculating unit 81 sets as a filter window a range, which contains plural coordinates including an attention coordinate “p” in an initial alpha map, and uses a pixel value Ip at a coordinate of an original image corresponding to a coordi... | 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 |
| 20120002876 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AN ENHANCED RANK ORDER VALUE OF A DATA SET The value of a median or other rank of interest in a dataset is efficiently determined. Each active bit of the dataset is serially processed to compute one bit of the output value from each bit of the input dataset. If any sample in the dataset has an active bit that di... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE IN AN IMAGE A system and method of reducing noise are disclosed. In one embodiment a system comprises an input configured to receive an input image, a filter configured to filter the input image to generate a filtered image, a weight generator configured to generate one or more edg... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110304773 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes: n input receiving means for receiving input image signals representing images to be displayed as video images on n divided screens obtained by dividing a screen of a display into n areas having the same number of pixels; n accumul... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299768 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR SPECTRAL IMAGE SAMPLING The present invention relates to spectral image sampling. An image is projected onto an array of optical transformation devices. Image intensity values transmitted by said array of optical transformation devices are detected at each sensor element of an image sensor. Th... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110285879 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING THE SAME An image processing device capable of obtaining a high precision image while aberration asymmetry is corrected. An image processing device includes image obtaining means configured to obtain an input image, image restoration means configure... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110274366 | DEPTH MAP CONFIDENCE FILTERING An apparatus and method for filtering depth information received from a capture device. Depth information is filtered by using confidence information provided with the depth information based an adaptively created, optimal spatial filter on a per pixel basis. Input data... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274367 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Video Data In one embodiment of the invention, the invention my concern a method including receiving digital images, each image including object pixels and non-object pixels; and filtering the non-object pixels from the object pixels. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274368 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing device includes: an upsampling section; a motion compensated image generating section; a blend processing section; and an output image generating section.... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273554 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM Interlace noises of the image of an iris included in the image of an eye picked up through an interlaced scheme are corrected precisely within a short time. An image processing apparatus (30) corrects a digital image P based on only low-brightness pixels configur... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110268368 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus creates a basic-structure component image representing an image that an input image except edge is smoothed while preserving the edge in the input image; and creates a detail component image representing an image that the basic-structure co... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110255606 | SPATIAL NOISE REDUCTION CIRCUIT AND APPROACH THEREFOR Video data is processed according to grid-based characteristics. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, regions of an image centered on a horizontal and/or vertical grid are identified. For each of these regions, video data representing central sub... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110254968 | HYBRID IMAGING WITH VISIBLE AND QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IMAGES A hybrid image of a scene is formed by obtaining a visible light image and a quantum entanglement image of the scene. Light intensity channel information is extracted from the visible light image of the scene, and a ghost image of the scene is constructed by cross-corre... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110235936 | ROUTABLE IMAGE PIPELINE DEVICE An image pipeline device is used for processing an image. The device comprises an external memory, a direct memory access (DMA), an image pipeline controller, and a filter layer. The image pipeline controller comprises a physical memory allocation (PMA) having a physica... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235935 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING QUALITY OF IMAGE REPRESENTING A FINGERPRINT PATTERN A method for evaluating quality of image representing a fingerprint pattern is provided, the method including performing a filtering process on a region of the image including a digital filtering of the selected region successively performed a certain number of times. A... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216984 | IMAGE DENOISING DEVICE, IMAGE DENOISING METHOD, AND IMAGE DENOISING PROGRAM A gradient direction detection unit 12 detects a gradient direction of values of pixels contained in an area consisting of N×N pixels including a target pixel at the center of the area, where N is an odd number no less than 3; a selecting unit 13 selects ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216986 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMAGE DATA X-ray beam detectors in one model can individually differ from one another. This can lead to differences in the amount of noise in an image recorded with the aid of the respective X-ray beam detector. In the present case, a variable is derived using an empty image, whic... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216985 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PICTURE RESIZING System, method, and computer program product to adaptively blend the interpolation results from an 8-tap Lanczos filter and the interpolation results from a bilinear filter, according to the local transitions of the input content. Artifacts may occur, which may be ident... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211753 | Automatic processing of pre-selected filters that are associated with each photo location within the template in relation to creating the photobook Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a Photo Book using digital images based on pre-assigned templates and filters designed for a particular type of an event, such as weddings and portraits. The placement of the photos and subsequent processing of the photos... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211766 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS There are provided a first intermediate image generating means (1) for generating a first intermediate image (D1) by extracting a component in a vicinity of a particular frequency band in an input image (DIN), a second intermediate image generating means (... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211095 | Two Stage Detection For Photographic Eye Artifacts A digital image acquisition device is for acquiring digital images including one or more preview images. A face detector analyzes the one or more preview images to ascertain information relating to candidate face regions therein. A speed-optimized filter produces a firs... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110206292 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF This invention makes it possible to obtain an enlarged image while suppressing noise and maintaining the sharpness of an original image only by setting a simple enlargement ratio without no special knowledge. Original image data (Ia) is enlarged in accordance with a set... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110200269 | Fast Approximation For Bilateral Filter Multiple filters of a bilateral filter are decoupled to form into multple linear filtering operations, which permits faster processing. The bilateral filter is re-presented as an approximate bilateral filter, and subjected to a logarithm whose resultant components are f... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200270 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE SAME In an aspect of an image processing technique according to the present invention, a high-frequency component is extracted from a low-resolution image z which is a restoration target, and a high-frequency image z′ is generated (#20). Interpolation filter coeffic... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199650 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS,IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus performs filtering on block image data that is a predetermined region of original image data using a filter having a main scanning width of N and a sub-scanning width of M. Using a register that can shift image data in a plurality of direct... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110194614 | De-Blocking Filtering Control First and second filter decision values are calculated for a pixel block in a video frame. The first filter decision value is representative of how smooth pixel values in a first line of pixels in the block and in a corresponding first line of pixels in a neighboring pi... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110188773 | Fast Depth Map Generation for 2D to 3D Conversion A method for generating a depth map for a 2D image includes receiving the 2D image; analyzing content of the received 2D image; determining a depth map based on a result of the content analysis; refining the determined depth map using an edge-preserving and noise reduci... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110188772 | IMAGE SCALING METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH ENHANCEMENT OF IMAGE QUALITY An image scaling apparatus and method, with enhancement of image quality. The method includes generating a plurality of intermediate pixels positioned near a plurality of resultant pixels to be generated to scale an input image using pixels of the input image; determini... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110188771 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing device that recognizes an object present in an image includes a filter calculation unit configured to obtain a plurality of filter outputs by applying a plurality of directional selectivity filters, which respectively correspond to different directio... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110182527 | CONTEXTUALIZING NOISY SAMPLES BY SUBSTANTIALLY MINIMIZING NOISE INDUCED VARIANCE A system for contextualizing noisy samples by substantially minimizing noise induced variance may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory is operative to store exemplars. The processor is operative to receive, via the interface, a sample which includ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170796 | Method And System For Increasing Signal-To-Noise Ratio Methods and systems for increasing the signal-to-noise ratio for satellite sensor data or signals, such as hyperspectral imageries (also referred to as datacubes due to their 3-dimensional nature). This is done by reducing the noise in the data or signals by first eleva... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110170795 | FILTER DEVICE AND FILTER METHOD A filter device according to the present invention comprises a filter processing section configured to execute a filtering process of data at arbitrary data positions included in a filtering region, the filtering process having a dependency on a filtering order and the ... | 07/14/2011 |
