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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120070101 | ESTIMATING 3D STRUCTURE FROM A 2D IMAGE A method for estimating three-dimensional structure from a two-dimensional image (502) includes obtaining first and second vanishing points (120, 122); comparing image patches (202) along first and second virtual lines (204, 208) extending fr... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110170799 | TECHNIQUES FOR DENSITY MAPPING Techniques in a data processor for drawing a density surface on a map in a manner that more accurately accounts for projection distortion in the map. According to one embodiment, data is maintained that represents a geotagged event. A map plane is divided into a plurali... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110123135 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF MAPPING AND LOCALIZATION METHOD USING THE SAME A mapping method is provided. The environment is scanned to obtain depth information of environmental obstacles. The image of the environment is captured to generate an image plane. The depth information of environmental obstacles is projected onto the image plane, so a... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110097014 | SELF-POSITIONING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF A self-localization device and a method thereof are provided. The self-localization device has a movable carrier, a first laser image-taking device and a processor. The movable carrier can be moved and rotated on a plan. During the motion of the movable carrier, the fir... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096182 | Error Compensation in Three-Dimensional Mapping A method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) map of an object, including illuminating the object from a light source so as to project a pattern onto the object, capturing an image of the pattern using an array of detector elements, and processing the captured image so ... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110074925 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING PRE-EXISTING IMAGE LAYERS OF A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE TO CREATE A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE Implementations of the present invention involve methods and systems for converting a 2-D multimedia image to a 3-D multimedia image by utilizing a plurality of layers of the 2-D image. The layers may comprise one or more portions of the 2-D image and may be digitized a... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110037761 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TIME-RESOLVED, THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY A method for generating time-resolved 3D medical images of a subject by imparting temporal information from a time-series of 2D medical images into 3D images of the subject. Generally speaking, this is achieved by acquired image data using a medical imaging system, gene... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110002128 | LIGHTING FIXTURE AND METHOD FOR CREATING VISUAL EFFECTS AND METHOD FOR CREATING A DISTORTED IMAGE A lighting fixture and method for creating visual effects include a light box having an interior, a reflective inner surface and an opening, a plate covering the opening, a 3-dimentional image on the plate having a first depth, at least one light source disposed in the ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002557 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD Disclosed are an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for producing a three-dimensional image frame. The image processing method includes: applying an offset value to an object abstracted from a two-dimensional image frame; obtaining image informati... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100322535 | IMAGE TRANSFORMATION METHOD ADAPTED TO COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE An image transformation method for use in a computer program product and an image display device is provided. In the image transformation method, a two dimensional image and a corresponding depth image are acquired first. A motion process is performed on the two dimensi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316284 | Three-dimensional image generation apparatus and method using region extension of object in depth map A three-dimensional (3D) image generation apparatus and method using a region extension of an object in a depth map is provided. The 3D image generation apparatus may include a discontinuity preservation smoothing filtering unit to apply a discontinuity preservation smo... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100275018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF GRAPHICAL OBJECTS A system for converting a first digital representation of a graphical object defined in two dimensions, such as a floor plan of a building such as a house or an apartment, into a second digital representation of said graphical object, said second digital representation ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100266220 | FEATURES-BASED 2D-3D IMAGE REGISTRATION An image registration apparatus comprises: a features detector (34) configured to extract a two-dimensional set of features (36) from a two-dimensional image (30) and to extract a three-dimensional set of features (38) from a three-dimensiona... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100254627 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND C0MPUTER PROGRAM The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for compressing image data used in an image generating apparatus for generating a free-viewpoint image. According to the invention, the apparatus has a selecting unit that selects one image as a first image,... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100232727 | CAMERA POSE ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTED REALITY IMAGING An apparatus for providing an estimate for a 3D camera pose relative to a scene from 2D image data of 2D image frame provided by said camera. A candidate 2D key points detector determines candidate 2D key points from the 2D image frame. A detected 3D observations detect... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100225740 | METADATA GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING METADATA A metadata generating method including: receiving sub-region dividing information to divide an object into a plurality of sub-regions; and generating sub-region indicating information to indicate each of the plurality of sub-regions divided according to the sub-region d... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100214291 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A 3D GEOMETRIC MODEL For generating a 3D geometric model (44) and/or a definition of the 3D geometric model from a single digital image of a building facade (4), a facade structure is detected from the digital image by dividing the facade (4) along horizontal lines into... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100182400 | Aligning Images Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for aligning images are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an inaccurate three-dimensional (3D) position of a physical camera, where the physical camera captured a photographic imag... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100166338 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR An image processing method, including extracting compensation information comprising one from among a depth compensation value and a depth value compensated for by using the depth compensation value; when the compensation information comprises the depth compensation val... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100142852 | Image Analysis System and Image Analysis Program There is provided an image analysis system which captures image data of an arbitrary pair of a first image RI and a second image LI among images obtained by color-photographing a single object from different positions into an analysis computer, wherein the computer incl... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100135596 | DIFFUSION-BASED INTERACTIVE EXTRUSION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS Methods and systems for creating three-dimensional models from two-dimensional images are provided. According to one embodiment, a method of creating an inflatable icon involves a vectorizing module polygonizing an input image to produce an inflatable image by represent... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100134487 | 3D FACE MODEL CONSTRUCTION METHOD A 3D face model construction method is disclosed herein, which includes a training step and a face model reconstruction step. In the training step, a neutral shape model is built from multiple training faces, and a manifold-based approach is proposed for processing 3D e... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100124368 | Method and apparatus of reconstructing 3D image from 2D images An apparatus and method of reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) image from two-dimensional (2D) images are disclosed. Three dimensional (3D) data may be reconstructed in an x-ray generation tube at a limited angle, and repeatedly updated for each pixel. A median from... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100119156 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus includes a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region in an image, an image dividing section that divides the image into the characteristic region and a background region other than the characteristic regio... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100118125 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE DATA A method of generating three-dimensional (3D) image data from first and second image data obtained by photographing the same subject at different points of time, the method including generating third image data by adjusting locations of pixels in the second image data s... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100111444 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAST DENSE STEREOSCOPIC RANGING A stochastic method and system for fast stereoscopic ranging includes selecting a pair of images for stereo processing, in which the pair of images are a frame pair and one of the image is a reference frame, seeding estimated values for a range metric at each pixel of t... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100104219 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS An image processing method including: obtaining points on left-eye and right-eye images to be generated from a two-dimensional (2D) image, to which a predetermined pixel of the 2D image is to be mapped, by using the sizes of holes to be generated in the left-eye and rig... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100092105 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus comprises a data conversion unit for converting second 3D image information, to which first image information can be pasted, into 3D photo frame data including three-dimensional object information representing a three-dimensional shap... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100080489 | Hybrid Interface for Interactively Registering Images to Digital Models The first image may be displayed adjacent to the second image where the second image is a three dimensional image. An element may be selected in the first image and a matching element may be selected in the second image. A selection may be permitted to view a merged vie... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100034439 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A projected image generating unit generates a projected image of a two-dimensional image that expresses three-dimensional information, based on three-dimensional data stored in an original image storing unit. A position information storage unit records therein three-dim... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100014781 | Example-Based Two-Dimensional to Three-Dimensional Image Conversion Method, Computer Readable Medium Therefor, and System An example-based 2D to 3D image conversion method, a computer readable medium therefor, and a system are provided. The embodiments are based on an image database with depth information or with which depth information can be generated. With respect to a 2D image to be co... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100002910 | Method and Apparatus for Developing Synthetic Three-Dimensional Models from Imagery A method and apparatus for modeling an object in software are disclosed. The method includes generating a three-dimensional geometry of the object from a plurality of points obtained from a plurality of images of the object, the images having been acquired from a plural... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090304265 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS FROM TWO- DIMENSIONAL IMAGES In one embodiment, a system and method for modeling a three-dimensional object includes capturing two-dimensional images of the object from multiple different viewpoints to obtain multiple views of the object, estimating slices of the object that lie in parallel planes ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090297061 | REPLACING IMAGE INFORMATION IN A CAPTURED IMAGE Described herein are systems and methods for expanding upon the single-distance-based background denotation to seamlessly replace unwanted image information in a captured image derived from an imaging application so as to account for a selected object's spatial orientat... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090290175 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING DOCUMENT INCLUDING OBJECT TO WHICH PREDETERMINED EFFECT IS APPLIED Provided are a printing method and apparatus. The printing method includes receiving data regarding a document to be printed from a host, applying a predetermined effect to an object included in the document to be printed, and printing the document including the object ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090290811 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE A system and method for generating a multi-dimensional image of an object in a scene is disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a spectral estimation module configured to convert a two-dimensional (2D) high-resolution light intensity image of the scene to a spectral-au... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090274350 | System and method for image segmentation in generating computer models of a joint to undergo arthroplasty Systems and methods for image segmentation in generating computer models of a joint to undergo arthroplasty are disclosed. Some embodiments may include a method of partitioning an image of a bone into a plurality of regions, where the method may include obtaining a plur... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090274391 | INTERMEDIATE POINT BETWEEN IMAGES TO INSERT/OVERLAY ADS The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates simulating a portion 2-dimensional (2D) data for implementation within a 3-dimensional (3D) virtual environment. A 3D virtual environment can enable a 3D exploration of a 3D image constructed ... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090252436 | Method for visualization of multidimensional data The method provides a visualization technique for rendering multidimensional data points as 2D curves on a 3D plot with the third dimension representing their order in the multidimensional data set. The technique uses colour palettes to render individual data curves, wh... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090245691 | ESTIMATING POSE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES IN 3D EARTH MODEL USING HUMAN ASSISTANCE The pose of a photographic image of a portion of Earth may be estimated using human assistance. A 3D graphics engine may render a virtual image of Earth from a controllable viewpoint based on 3D data that is representative of a 3D model of at least a portion of Earth. A... | 10/01/2009 |
