Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105918 | AUGMENTING PAGE ORIENTATION DIRECTION DETECTION IN A DIGITAL DOCUMENT PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT What is disclosed is a novel system and method for augmenting present methods used for determining the orientation direction automatically being detected of digital pages of a plurality of scanned documents in a digital document processing environment. The present metho... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120045149 | OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An omnidirectional image processing apparatus is provided that enables the visibility of a specified monitoring object in an omnidirectional image to be improved while maintaining the continuity of that omnidirectional image. An omnidirectional image processing apparatu... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110194789 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME The present invention provides an image processing apparatus for performing image processing of image data in which information specifying, on a first coordinate system, a position of a portion of interest in an image is recorded, including an image processing unit conf... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110156887 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING SURROUNDING SEAMLESS BIRD-VIEW IMAGE A method and system for forming a surrounding seamless bird-view image by processing a plurality of surrounding images associated with a carrier captured by different imaging devices is provided in the present invention. During the process, the surrounding images are co... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110142297 | Camera Angle Compensation in Iris Identification An iris biometric image is analyzed to determine the apparent angle of the eye in the image, relative to an arbitrarily selected reference axis. The angle information is stored for use by the matching engine and/or the image data is modified to normalize the angle relat... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110110606 | System and method for rotating images A system and method for rotating a source image by a first non-zero angle is provided. The method includes: defining a template for the source image, the template representing a rotation of the source image about an axis of the source image by second angle, where the se... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110110607 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND METHOD OF IMAGE ROTATION A method of rotating a digital image includes performing a first pass to process a selected image tile of a source image. The first pass includes copying a set of pixels of the selected image tile from a first memory to a processor memory, where the set of pixels compri... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110064329 | DETECTING ORIENTATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES USING FACE DETECTION INFORMATION A method of automatically establishing the correct orientation of an image using facial information. This method is based on the exploitation of the inherent property of image recognition algorithms in general and face detection in particular, where the recognition is b... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110052094 | Skew Correction for Scanned Japanese/English Document Images Bit data is encoded into characters in an input image by providing different darkness levels for pixels in either half of a text character. In order to detect document skew angle error prior to attempting to extract an encoded message, the orientation angle of text line... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044561 | OPTOELECTRONIC ANGLE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A ROTATIONAL ANGLE ABOUT AN AXIS The invention relates to an optoelectronic angle sensor (1a) for determining a rotational angle about an axis (6), comprising a circular disk (2a) that can be rotated about the axis. Said circular disk comprises a coding, essentially o... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20100310193 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AND/OR DISPLAYING IMAGES OF PERSPECTIVE VIEWS OF AN OBJECT AT A COMMUNICATION DEVICE In one embodiment, a processor-readable medium can store code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to receive a set of images where each image from the set of images represents a perspective view of an object. A plurality of im... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100254617 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO ROTATE AN IMAGE Image processing systems and methods are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving image data of an image. The image data includes a plurality of image blocks. The method further includes calculating a first differential DC val... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100246910 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY CORRECTING MIS-ORIENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES This invention relates to a method and image processing apparatus for automatically correcting mis-orientation of medical images. One or more image processing software modules are used to extract (101) anatomical areas from the medical images. It is determined (<... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100209017 | METHOD FOR ROTATING IMAGE, PROGRAM FOR ROTATION, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ROTATION DEVICE A method for rotating an image with which the image can be rotated with a small memory area, a program for rotation, a recording medium and a rotation device are provided. A memory area for storing image data is sectioned into a plurality o... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100194907 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing device that rotates an image according to the inclination of a line segment included in the image, includes an evaluation unit 106 that evaluates a plurality of line segments whose inclinations are different, on the basis of each of a pluralit... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195933 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKEW DETECTION OF A SCANNED DOCUMENT USING CONNECTED COMPONENTS ANALYSIS A method and system for skew detection is provided using connected components analysis. The methodology includes extracting connected components corresponding to the image and analyzing the image based on said connected components for determining skew of the image... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100172598 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM WITH IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROCESSOR When an image is captured by an imaging apparatus such as a wearable terminal that is not on the premise that the image is captured in an upright state, it is not possible to estimate objects included in the captured image is like in order to correct a tilt of the captu... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100158411 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING TRANSFORMATION MATRICES TO PROCESS RASTERIZED IMAGE DATA A method and system render rasterized data by receiving non-rasterized page description language data and a corresponding transformation matrix representing transformation operations to be performed. The non-rasterized page description language data is rasterizing to cr... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100111387 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND MONITORING CHANGES OF A SUSPECT AREA OF A PATIENT A device for acquiring first and subsequent images of a suspect area on a patient and methods for monitoring or detecting changes of the suspect area over time and providing notification when the changes exceed a threshold. The device may be an imaging device, such as a... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100104220 | Systems and Methods for Socially-Based Correction of Tilted Images Systems and methods for socially-based correction of tilted images. In an embodiment, the present invention levels tilted images by (1) receiving an image; (2) rotating the image by a random angle; (3) requesting at least one user rotate the image to level the image; (4... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100103468 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR PROCESSING SCREEN-PROCESSED IMAGE A multi-value code image generation part generates a multi-value code image by assigning first code information, which is obtained by encoding a dot pattern in a specific area, to each growth core. A multi-value code image affine transformation part performs affine tran... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100054595 | Automatic Image Straightening Tilt is reduced or eliminated in captured digital images. Edges in a first image are detected. Angles corresponding to the detected edges are determined. A dominant angle is selected from the determined angles. The first image is rotated according to the selected domina... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054606 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT An image processing apparatus includes an operating unit that calculates a tangent-line direction of an edge and a normal-line direction of the edge by using a vertical-direction derivative value and a horizontal-direction derivative value of a pixel value of a pixel in... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100021083 | STATIC IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD A static image presentation method is disclosed. The static image mentioned above has as least one human face pattern. The static image presentation method includes: firstly, identifying the human face pattern on the static image to obtain a human face pattern center an... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100002075 | DRIVER'S STATE MONITORING SYSTEM USING A CAMERA MOUNTED ON STEERING WHEEL The status of a driver is monitored by facial images captured by a camera mounted on the steering wheel of a vehicle. The captured image is tilt corrected by a steering angle. The status of the driver can be monitored efficiently.... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090310858 | Image processing An image processing technique comprises the steps of: (a) stretching an original image in the Y-direction (vertical) by a factor falling within the range of 2-10%; selecting a fixation point and disordering operation around the fixation point; and rotating the image thr... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090297027 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PRODUCING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PRODUCING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM An electronic document producing device has a correcting unit for correcting distortion of a first image to obtain a correction image, and a character recognition unit for executing character recognition processing on a plurality of character images contained in the cor... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090245693 | DETECTING ORIENTATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES USING FACE DETECTION INFORMATION A method of automatically establishing the correct orientation of an image using facial information. This method is based on the exploitation of the inherent property of image recognition algorithms in general and face detection in particular, where the recognition is b... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090220174 | CHEST IMAGE ROTATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING-MEDIUM STORED THEREIN PROGRAM A chest image rotation apparatus includes a chest image input unit that is used to input a chest image, a vertebral-body region extraction unit that extracts a vertebral-body region from the input chest image, a vertebral-body direction calculation unit that calculates,... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090220128 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM An authentication apparatus for authenticating an authentication target of a user's face includes: a display configured to display an image to authentication target; a camera arranged in the vicinity of the display to take an image of the authentication target; an assis... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090214125 | Image Processing Method and Image Processing Apparatus An image processing method has the steps of: scanning respective pages in a document; generating respective pieces of image data corresponding to the pages; identifying respective orientations of isolated images contained by each of the pages according to a result of ch... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090214135 | CORRECTING AXIAL TILT BASED ON OBJECT POSITIONS IN AXIAL SLICES OF THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE A computer-implemented process is provided for reorienting a three-dimensional (3D) scan image of an object. The object has a generally flat surface. The image is constructed from image data obtained during rotation of the object about a rotation axis, which intersects ... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090161991 | AUTOMATIC DOMINANT ORIENTATION ESTIMATION IN TEXT IMAGES BASED ON STEERABLE FILTERS Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an image processing system is capable of receiving an image containing text, applying optical character recognition to the image, and then audibly reproducing the text via text-to-speech synthesis. Prior to optical ch... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090154835 | Method for Rotating An Image and Digital Cameras Using The Same A method for rotating an image and digital cameras using the same are disclosed. The method comprises: determining whether to auto-rotate an original image according to a rotate initial instruction; if yes, calculating a slope angle of the original image to rotate a fir... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090123037 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM According to the present invention, the face of a subject person can be rapidly detected. An image input unit inputs an image to be processed. A photographing-position input unit inputs photographing-position information attached to the processed image. An angle-range i... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090087124 | RADIATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION A method includes obtaining a first image, obtaining a second image, determining a deformation field using the first and second images, and determining a transformation matrix using the deformation field. A computer product having a set of instruction, an execution of w... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090040308 | IMAGE ORIENTATION CORRECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM A system for correcting the rotational orientation of a targeting area provided by a weapon-mounted image sensor and an orientation sensor that detects the rotational orientation of the weapon. Measurements from the orientation sensor are used to transform the image dat... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090022426 | Method And Device For Generating Character Data, Method And Control Device For Displaying Character Data, And Navigation Apparatus A device includes a character-data rotating section that rotates a regular-position character by a predetermined angle with respect to a reference point that is the center point of the background area of the regular-position character by using regular-position character... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080317384 | PROCESS FOR TAG IMAGING AND DECODING OF MACHINE READABLE CODED DATA Provided is a process for tag imaging and decoding of machine readable coded data which comprises a plurality of layouts. Each layout has at least order n rotational symmetry, where n is at least two. The layout encodes a first codeword comprising a sequence of at least... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080232717 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND IMAGE ROTATING METHOD An image recognition device for generating an output rotation image from input original image data, including a memory section being capable of storing data of a line including pixels of the original image data to be processed, an angle-to-sine/cosine converting section... | 09/25/2008 |
