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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| 20130121612 | PREVENTING PIXEL MODIFICATION OF AN IMAGE BASED ON A METRIC INDICATING DISTORTION IN A 2D REPRESENTATION OF A 3D OBJECT A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for distortion-based mask generation. A respective distortion metric may be determined at each location of a plurality of locations in a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional object. Th... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130121613 | Methods and Apparatus for Directional Texture Generation Using Image Warping Methods and apparatus for directional texture generation using image warping. An image warping directional texture generation method may, for example, be used to design hair or hairstyles. The method may obtain one or more user strokes via a provided brush or other user... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130121587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LARGE SCALE, HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SEARCHES Methods and systems for fast, large scale, high-dimensional searches are described. In some embodiments, a method comprises transforming components of a high-dimensional image descriptor into transformed components in a transform domain, allocating one or more bits avai... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130101233 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, LINE NOISE REDUCTION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus performs first filter processing to combine pixels of an image along a predetermined direction. A line noise image is extracted by executing second filter processing for the processed image along a direction different from the predete... | 04/25/2013 |
| 20130094764 | Methods, Systems and Apparatus for Correcting Perspective Distortion in a Document Image Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for correcting artifacts in a camera-captured document image and, in particular, to methods, systems and apparatus for correcting perspective distortion in the camera-captured document image.... | 04/18/2013 |
| 20130089246 | TASK ORIENTED NOISE SUPPRESSION IN MEDICAL IMAGES A method for noise suppression in a 3-D volume image, executed at least in part on a logic processor, obtains the 3-D volume image, applies diffusion to the volume image according to a parameter that relates to image scale and is specified in an operator instruction, an... | 04/11/2013 |
| 20130089272 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing method includes a step of extracting an inner circle and an outer circle from an annular image, a step of obtaining the center for the extracted inner circle and the extracted outer circle respectively, and a step of moving a processing center servin... | 04/11/2013 |
| 20130088721 | MIRROR IMAGE SUPPRESSION METHOD A mirror image suppression method adapted to an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system is provided. The mirror image suppression method includes the following steps: obtaining a tomography image of an object to be tested by using the OCT system; calculating one real ... | 04/11/2013 |
| 20130084023 | MULTISTEP CORRECTION FOR ANGLE CONSISTENT ARTIFACTS IN RADIAL SAMPLED DATASETS This document discloses, among other things, a method for removing a bullseye artifact from a radial image generated using magnetic resonance and using a swept frequency pulse.... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130084026 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD This invention provides an image processing apparatus including a unit which generates index image data, a unit which obtains a position of thumbnail image data in the index image data, a unit which divides the index image data so as to prevent overlap of the thumbnail ... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130077890 | Metadata-Driven Method and Apparatus for Constraining Solution Space in Image Processing Techniques Methods and apparatus for constraining solution space in image processing techniques may use the metadata for a set of images to constrain an image processing solution to a smaller solution space. In one embodiment, a process may require N parameters for processing an i... | 03/28/2013 |
| 20130077889 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to generate a processed image by processing a plurality of band limit signals based on a parameter for adjusting the band limit signal, and a control unit configured to control the parameter so that an ... | 03/28/2013 |
| 20130070125 | Registration of Distorted Images An image registration method involves computing horizontal and vertical integral projection vectors for first and second distorted or partially distorted images or distortion-corrected images, or both. The images are registered by applying a translation, rotation and/or... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130070126 | Registration of Differently Scaled Images An image registration method involves computing horizontal and vertical integral projection vectors for first and second distorted or partially distorted images. The images are registered by applying a scale factor estimation between the first and second images on the h... | 03/21/2013 |
| 20130064449 | METHOD FOR REDUCING ROW AND COLUMN NOISE IN IMAGING SYSTEMS A method for the reduction of noise in an image including identifying neighboring pixel values in pixels proximate to a subject pixel; comparing the neighboring pixel values to a preset tolerance range; using neighboring pixel values within the tolerance range to calcul... | 03/14/2013 |
| 20130050539 | IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a process for causing a computer to execute a method including the steps of acquiring optical transfer function information corresponding to an image pickup condition of a picked-up image (S102), generating... | 02/28/2013 |
| 20130051665 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image signal correction section that performs an image correction process. The image signal correction section performs a direction determination process of detecting a direction having a minimum pixel value gradien... | 02/28/2013 |
| 20130044230 | ROLLING SHUTTER REDUCTION BASED ON MOTION SENSORS This disclosure pertains to devices, methods, and computer readable media for reducing rolling shutter distortion effects in captured video frames based on timestamped positional information obtained from positional sensors in communication with an image capture device.... | 02/21/2013 |
| 20130039597 | Comfort Noise and Film Grain Processing for 3 Dimensional Video Noise, either in the form of comfort noise or film grain, is added to a three dimensional image in accordance with image depth information to reduce human sensitivity to coding artifacts, thereby improving subjective image quality.... | 02/14/2013 |
| 20130039598 | CORRECTING PAGE CURL IN SCANNED BOOKS A computer implemented method for correcting distortion in an image of a page includes identifying a set of high quality (HQ) words in undistorted regions of one or more images of pages having content related to the content of the page. At least one distorted word in th... | 02/14/2013 |
| 20130038722 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING An image processing apparatus and method includes a light source that beams light toward a subject, a first camera that is spaced apart from the light source by more than a predetermined distance and senses light reflected from the subject, and a calculation unit that g... | 02/14/2013 |
| 20130034311 | Denoising and Artifact Removal in Image Upscaling Methods and systems for denoising and artifact removal in image upscaling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a low frequency band image intermediate is obtained from an input image. An upsampled image intermediate is obtained from the input image by upsampling. A result ... | 02/07/2013 |
| 20130034288 | DISTORTION COMPENSATED IMAGING Certain aspects can relate to responsive to the at least some input compensating information, imaging the at least the portion of the individual in a manner to limit at least some distorting effects of the at least the portion of the at least one distorting feature asso... | 02/07/2013 |
| 20130028536 | METHODS FOR REDUCING MOTION ARTIFACTS IN SHEAR WAVE IMAGES Methods and non-transitory computer readable media that store executable instructions to perform a method for reducing motion artifacts in shear wave measurements are presented. Accordingly, reference pulses are delivered to a common motion tracking location (CMTL) and ... | 01/31/2013 |
| 20130028537 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer program, visually remove low-frequency noise contained in image data. Image data containing low-frequency noise is input from an input terminal. A window unit designates a window made up of a pixe... | 01/31/2013 |
| 20130016918 | Wide-Angle Lens Image Correction A system for correcting distortion effects in a distorted image includes a memory controller for reading pixels (corresponding to a subset region in a destination image) of the distorted image from a system memory to local memory. A look-up table stores an offset and in... | 01/17/2013 |
| 20130011077 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes first and second computation portions, a selection portion, a projection portion, and a weighted averaging portion. The first computation portion is configured to obtain magnitudes of correlations betwe... | 01/10/2013 |
| 20120321216 | Straightening Out Distorted Perspective on Images Methods for correcting distortions in an image including text, or an image of a page that includes text, are disclosed. The methods include identifying reliable and substantially straight lines from elements in the image. Vanishing points are determined from the lines. ... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120320427 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SCANNER An image processing method generally includes: obtaining a vanishing point on a curved surface in a two-dimension image; extracting all the straight line segments between a top contour line and a bottom contour line of the curved surface by the vanishing point; removing... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120314972 | RELATIONSHIP MAINTENANCE IN AN IMAGE PROCESS In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer ... | 12/13/2012 |
| 20120314104 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM In accordance with an object desired to be brought into focus, aliasing is canceled, and the resolution of an output image data is increased. When a plurality of pieces of image data captured at multiple viewpoints is synthesized at a predetermined focus position, a wei... | 12/13/2012 |
| 20120288194 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Provided is an image processing device capable of performing appropriate noise reduction without causing blurring of edges and details of the image. The image processing device: specifies, on a normal distribution representing a noise model of the image, a reference ran... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288215 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF An image processing device and the processing method thereof are provided. The device includes an image correcting module, an object-motion detection module and an image blending module. The image correcting module estimates a plurality of local motions of the non-selec... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288214 | Coherence Switching A first image may be obtained using locked (relative) phases. A second image may be obtained using unlocked (e.g., randomized) phases. Data of the second image may be subtracted from data of the first image. The result may then undergo further processing, if desired, e.... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288187 | ADDITION RATIO LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM There is provided an addition ratio learning apparatus including a noise adding unit that adds noises to data of an image input as a teacher image, a motion compensating unit that sets an image where time addition noise reduction processing is executed as an NR screen a... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120288196 | REMOVAL OF IMAGE ARTIFACTS FROM SENSOR DUST Removal of the effects of dust or other impurities on image data is described. In one example, a model of artifact formation from sensor dust is determined. From the model of artifact formation, contextual information in the image and a color consistency constraint may ... | 11/15/2012 |
| 20120263395 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING SPECKLES IN A CAPTURED IMAGE A method for reducing specular reflection in an image. The method includes capturing a first exposure of a scan surface using a first of a plurality of light sources, capturing a second exposure of a scan surface using a second of a plurality of light sources, determini... | 10/18/2012 |
| 20120250995 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present technology relates to an image processing device including: a reducing section configured to generate a plurality of reduced images by reducing an input image at a plurality of reduction ratios; a noise removal processing section configured to generate noise... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120243801 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes an image reducing section generating at least one reduced image by generating a reduced pixel with reference to pixel values by each predetermined area of a target image being a process object, a noise extracting section extracting... | 09/27/2012 |
| 20120236169 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING MOTION ADAPTIVE HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE Disclosed is an apparatus and method for obtaining a motion adaptive high dynamic range image, in which a motion degree of a first image and a second taken using different exposure times is calculated. The motion calculation intensity is adjusted based on the calculated... | 09/20/2012 |
