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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110243476 | Inspection of Hidden Structure An inspection apparatus determines information indicative of structure that may be hidden behind an obscuring boundary, such as a wall. A processor collects measurements of properties characterizing the hidden structure and measurements of location of the apparatus. The... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110226019 | Automatic core-alignment for fusion splicing double-clad fibers In aligning ends of optical fibers, e.g. ends of large mode area double-clad fibers (LMA-DCFs), in a fiber optic fusion splicer the best position of the object plane of the optical system for observing images of the cores of the fiber ends are first determined by maximi... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110150363 | DISPLACEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD A displacement detection method includes the steps of: capturing a first frame and a second frame; selecting a first block with a predetermined size in the first frame and selecting a second block with the predetermined size in the second frame; determining a displaceme... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20100246997 | Object Tracking With Regressing Particles Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a system for tracking an object from a training image to a target image. The training image and the target image are elements of a sequence of images. The object in the training image is represented by an object state. F... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100239185 | Accelerated Data Structure Optimization Based Upon View Orientation A circuit arrangement, program product and method utilize the known view orientation for an image frame to be rendered to optimize the generation and/or use of an Accelerated Data Structure (ADS) used in physical rendering-based image processing. In particular, it has b... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100239186 | Accelerated Data Structure Positioning Based Upon View Orientation A circuit arrangement, program product and circuit arrangement utilize the known view orientation for an image frame to be rendered to reposition an Accelerated Data Structure (ADS) used during rendering to optimize the generation and/or use of the ADS, e.g., by transfo... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100150462 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus detecting, from an input image, a still-zone area disposed at an edge of the input image and displaying a same image continuously, the apparatus including: a difference calculation mechanism calculating a difference between pixel values of ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100129005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SCAN PLANNING USING SYMMETRY DETECTION AND IMAGE REGISTRATION A method of determining an anatomically consistent scan protocol for an object of interest includes obtaining a volumetric image of an object of interest to be imaged, transforming the volumetric image, estimating the position and orientation of the object using the vol... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100074556 | METHOD OF DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A DRILL HOLE TO BE DRILLED ON AN OPHTHALMIC LENS Method of determining the position of a target drill hole to be drilled in a target corrective lens having an expected target outline after shaping, the position being determined from a reference lens having a reference outline and at least one reference drill hole, the... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100074557 | Image Processing Device And Electronic Appliance An image processing device has: a main subject detector that detects the position of a main subject in an input image; a clipping region setter that determines a clipping region including the position of the main subject detected by the main subject detector; and a clip... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20090296982 | FUSION OF IMAGE BLOCK ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE GENERATION OF A GROUND CONTROL NETWORK A method for fusion of image block adjustments for the generation of a ground control network constituting a Metric Information Network (MIN). Utilizing the subject. fusion algorithm it is possible to duplicate the results of an extremely large simultaneous image block ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090202109 | Terrain map updating system A terrain mapping system is disclosed. The system has at least one sensor configured to gather a plurality of current points defining a current surface of a site and a database containing a plurality of previously-gathered points defining a previous surface of the site.... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090185236 | IMAGE BINARIZATION USING DYNAMIC SUB-IMAGE DIVISION Image binarization methods and devices for converting a grayscale image into a black and white binary image are provided. The grayscale image is divided into sub-images dynamically created from pixel to pixel containing a given pixel as well as neighboring pixels. The c... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090141987 | VISION SENSORS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS A single chip vision sensor of an embodiment includes a pixel array and one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to search an image for one or more features using a model of the one or more features. A method of an embodiment in a single chip vision... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141939 | Systems and Methods for Analysis of Video Content, Event Notification, and Video Content Provision A method for remote event notification over a data network is disclosed. The method includes receiving video data from any source, analyzing the video data with reference to a profile to select a segment of interest associated with an event of significance, encoding the... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090074326 | METHOD FOR ALIGNING POINT CLOUDS A method for aligning point clouds is disclosed. The method includes inputting point cloud data of a reference object and a to-be-measured object, and confirming an original position of point cloud of the to-be-measured object. The method further includes determining a ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080253607 | LINE POSITION CALCULATING METHOD, CORRECTION VALUE OBTAINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREON A line position calculating method is a method for calculating a position, in a second direction, of a line along a first direction in an image, based on image data of the image constituted by a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form in the first direction and in... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080181487 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION AND VISUALIZATION OF OCCLUDED TARGETS USING LADAR DATA A method and apparatus for high-resolution 3D imaging ladar system which can penetrate foliage and camouflage to sample fragments of concealed surfaces of interest is disclosed. Samples collected while the ladar moves can be integrated into a coherent object shape. In o... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080131026 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION USING FRACTAL MAPS A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determined... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080069477 | Result filter and method for selecting the result data of an application for automatic pattern recognition A method is disclosed for automatically classifying and graphically visualizing image objects that are segmented and, given undershooting of a prescribed distance and compliance with a similarity criterion, are combined to form clusters. In at least one embodiment, for ... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080056068 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POSITION, AND TOUCH PANEL USING THE SAME An apparatus and a method for detecting position, and a touch panel using the same are provided. The apparatus for detecting position includes a frame, a plurality of first signal sources, a plurality of first signal receivers, a plurality of second signal sources, a pl... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080049268 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM A system (100) and a method (500) are described for determining a two-dimensional position of a location in an image. The method (500) starts by imaging (510) a two-dimensional pattern (440). The two-dimensional pattern comprises a plu... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080050041 | Method and apparatus for filtering an image Objects are detected in an image using a spatially variant filter. The size of the filter is adjusted based on the portion of the image being processed by the filter. Portions of the image which are closer to an imaging device which captured the image are processed usin... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080050040 | Lithographic apparatus, a device manufacturing method and a device manufactured thereby A method of forming images on a lithographic substrate is disclosed, the method including grouping a plurality of image regions together to form a combined image, determining or receiving a location at which the combined image is to be positioned on the substrate, calcu... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080037901 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS Indices in an image of a physical space on which a plurality of indices are allocated are identified, and the positions and orientations, on the physical space, of all or some identified indices are calculated (S142). ... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070253641 | Image Data Processing Device, Image Data Processing Method, and Image Data Processing Program For example, when displaying the advertising web page based on the page data Dp supplied from the product sales server SV2, the client terminal 2 does not perform a horizontal-to-vertical ratio adjustment process to the image data D2 because the cor... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070223840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OBSTACLE A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a tra... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070183686 | Method and apparatus for estimating object part location in digital image data using feature value analysis A method and an apparatus estimate an object part location in a digital image using feature value analysis. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing a region including an object part of a digital image; accesses reference data incl... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070183654 | Method and apparatus for localizing an object part in digital image data A method and an apparatus localize an object part location in a digital image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data containing an object part; obtains an initial position estimate for object part location of the object part; extracts a sub-... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070165967 | Object detector An object detector detects an object with a camera and calculates position data showing its direction and distance. A laser radar obtains an front image and recognizes an identified image in the front image. Coordinates of this identified image are calculated and conver... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070127808 | Method and apparatus for identifying three dimensional coordinates on a tire A method and apparatus for identifying 3-D coordinates of a target region on a tire includes: taking a digital image of a tire; finding an edge of a tire bead using pixel brightness values from the tire image; calculating tire bead circle center and radius using a plura... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070116326 | Image processing program and image processing device A video game device calculates an angle of an object 71, etc., with respect to a reference direction in a three-dimensional space. Then, the video game device defines a virtual cylindrical model for each of a plurality of objects so that a bottom surface of each ... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070076983 | System and Method for Re-locating an Object in a Sample on a Slide with a Microscope Imaging Device A method of re-locating an object in a sample is provided for a previously-scanned slide having determined objects each with corresponding stored coordinates and a stored image, the objects being mapped relative to each other. The slide is positioned on a microscope sta... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070071324 | Method for determining corners of an object represented by image data A method for determining corners of an object represented by image data includes determining edge data associated with the object; finding estimated corners for the edge data; determining segment data of the edge data by ignoring data within a predetermined distance fro... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070053610 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR An image processing apparatus and method include providing a same label number to adjacent black pixels that form a group of black pixels, the label number provided to each group of black pixels being unique, the black pixels being included in binary read data, determin... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070047839 | Object recognition apparatus In an object recognition apparatus, a first division unit and a second division unit each partitions an image into a plurality of regions. A first calculation and a second calculation unit each derives, for each of the plurality of regions partitioned. A first compariso... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070025641 | Decoding and Error Correction In 2-D Arrays A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repeating array in which the array is unique for every sub window of a given size. The image of the sub window may b... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20060239505 | Methods, apparatus, computer program and storage medium for position decoding A method, in an apparatus for position decoding, operates to extract a sequence of positions from a sequence of images of a position-coding pattern, as recorded by a sensor. The method, which may be embodied as a computer program on a computer-readable storage medium, i... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060239506 | Line textured target detection and tracking with applications to "Basket-run" detection A method of video surveillance may include pre-processing video data to obtain foreground edge information for at least one frame of said video data. The method may perform line segment detection on said foreground edge information to obtain one or more line segments. T... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060239507 | Method for determining the lateral offset of an XYZ stage A method for determining the lateral offset of an XYZ stage includes, by shifting the XYZ stage in the Z direction, acquiring a series of images. In the last image acquired in the series of individual images, a feature of interest is searched for and is positioned at th... | 10/26/2006 |
