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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051630 | IMAGING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An imaging apparatus controls an input/output path of a memory differently for normal image generation and for wide dynamic range image generation. For normal image generation, image signals are stored into and read from a memory after image correction. For wide dynamic... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051668 | Consolidating Information Relating to Duplicate Images Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for resolving duplicate images. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a selection of a single image from among a plurality of duplicate images. Each dup... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045098 | ARCHITECTURES AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND REPRESENTING TIME-DEPENDENT IMAGERY The present invention pertains to geographical image processing of time-dependent imagery. Various assets acquired at different times are stored and processing according to acquisition date in order to generate one or more image tiles for a geographical region of intere... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039547 | VARIABLE RESOLUTION IMAGES In accordance with one or more aspects, a variable resolution image is displayed at an initial resolution. The variable resolution image has multiple portions, at least two of which have different resolutions. A request to display one of the multiple portions of the var... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039546 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND SHARING PHOTO STORIES A system and method are described for creating, managing and sharing photo stories. For example, one embodiment of a computer implemented method for selecting among a plurality of different photo story templates comprises: receiving a plurality of new photos from a user... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120027178 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ARCHIVING X-RAY FLUOROSCOPY IMAGES Methods and apparatus for archiving x-ray fluoroscopy images are provided. One method includes receiving fluoroscopic images from a fluoroscopic imaging system and storing all of the received fluoroscopic images during an image acquisition scan by the fluoroscopic imagi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020576 | INTERACTIVE IMAGE SELECTION METHOD A method for browsing a collection of digital images on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of digital images; interactively user selecting a digital image using a user interface; determining a plurality of subsets of the digital images, wherein each ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013641 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An information processing apparatus that compares content to stored information identifying a plurality of words, identifies words from the content that match words included in the stored information, retrieves information based on the identifying, and generates an imag... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008875 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MNEMONIC CONTACT IMAGE ASSOCIATION The present invention pertains to method and a communication device (100) for associating a contact record pertaining to a remote speaker (220) with a mnemonic image (191) based on attributes of the speaker (220). The method comprises receivi... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008876 | EVALUATING SUBJECT INTERESTS FROM DIGITAL IMAGE RECORDS A method of evaluating a user subject interest is based at least upon an analysis of a user's collection of digital image records and is implemented at least in part by a data processing system. The method receives a defined user subject interest, receives a set of cont... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002892 | Viewing Digital Slides Virtual slide image data and corresponding information are stored in a data storage area on a virtual slide image server. A client viewer requests image data at a particular resolution. The image server obtains corresponding image data from the data storage area at a re... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317885 | Automatic and Semi-automatic Image Classification, Annotation and Tagging Through the Use of Image Acquisition Parameters and Metadata A method for characterizing image contents automatically or semi-automatically using image acquisition parameters and metadata is presented. The method establishes probabilistic and deterministic relationships between different types of metadata and the semantic attribu... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110307684 | Image Processing Address Generator An image processing system including a vector processor and a memory adapted for attaching to the vector processor. The memory is adapted to store multiple image frames. The vector processor includes an address generator operatively attached to the memory to access the ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110293201 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT OF IMAGE RECORDING An image recording device includes: a recording unit that records into a first image file that contains a plurality of sets of image data, common information that can be set by a user as information commonly applicable to all sets of image data in the first image file a... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110255803 | PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGE STORAGE CONTROL UNIT, PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGE STORAGE CONTROL METHOD, PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGE STORAGE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHED IMAGE STORAGE CONTROL PROGRAM A movement quantity calculation unit 102 calculates an image movement quantity between a new frame and a previous frame, each including image data in frame units comprising a dynamic image photographed one after another by a camera 1, based on difference i... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249913 | IMAGE REGISTRATION SYSTEM An image registration server which can communicate with a client device, includes an image data receiving device for receiving image data transmitted from the client device, an image data generation device for generating image data representing the same image as an imag... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249912 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHOTOGRAPH FINDING Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an embodiment of the invention, distinctive markers are distributed to aid ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110242362 | TERMINAL DEVICE In the case where a plurality of types of attribute information and a plurality of types of menu screen information of different formats are recorded on a nonvolatile recording medium by a plurality of types of terminal devices, the display device cannot determine which... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243478 | SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION A system for digitizing a set of documents, the documents belonging to a domain. The system includes an input module for providing documents in electronic form, a digitization module for digitizing the documents provided by the input module, an image repository and digi... | 10/06/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110229057 | Image data processing device An image data processing device includes: a basic image data acquisition device that acquires basic image data; a simplified image data generation device that generates simplified image data corresponding to the basic image data which has been acquired, a size of the si... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110211772 | SIMILAR IMAGE RETRIEVING DEVICE A similar image retrieving device (1) comprises: an image database (21) for storage of sets of image data, and sets of keywords each associated with a corresponding image data; a cluster classification section (11) to read the sets of image data, pr... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205396 | APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING, REPRODUCING, OR STORING IMAGE FILE INCLUDING MAP DATA An image processing method includes obtaining image data, obtaining location information regarding a location where the image data has been captured, obtaining map data presenting a map of a location corresponding to the location information, and generating an image fil... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110191346 | DYNAMICALLY-CREATED PYRAMID TO DELIVER CONTENT Dynamically-created content may be rendered in the form of a virtual image pyramid, and tiles of the pyramid may be provided for display. In one example, a user interacts with a server-based application, and the application dynamically generates visual content to be sho... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110182504 | MODULAR COLOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE Color management converting source-side color images into destination-side color images. A module library includes module entries corresponding to function modules implementing color processing functionalities. Each module entry includes a module locator and input and o... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110176747 | METHOD AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A method and portable electronic device for processing images are provided. Images are stored electronically at a remote server as attachments to message data, message data received at the portable electronic device with indicators identifying corresponding attachments ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176748 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY GENERATING AND DISTRIBUTING DICOM-COMPLIANT MEDIA VOLUMES A system for generating digital image media volumes includes a digital image terminal for receiving, processing, and transmitting digital image data, and being adapted for processing the digital image data into one or more discrete DICOM-standard data objects. The syste... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110170774 | IMAGE MANIPULATING SYSTEM AND METHOD An image information acquiring system obtains a group of relative values to describe the image. A pixel value of each pixel in the image is acquired. Ratios between the pixel value of each pixel and a pixel value of each other pixel which is adjacent to the pixel are ob... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110170800 | RENDERING A CONTINUOUS OBLIQUE IMAGE MOSAIC A plurality of images may be combined around a central image to form one image. In one example, aerial photographs of a geographic area are taken and stored in a database, and a user requests to see some geographic region. The photo whose center is closest to the user's... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164833 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus for image signal processor (ISP) realization may include a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) for each function module. A unified SRAM to store at least one line data of an input image for each of... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110158558 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating content-based image retrieval. A method may include determining a selected target image. The method may further include generating a candidate region of interest set including one or more regions of interest within t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158557 | IMAGE SERVER AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF An image server including a storage unit and a processing unit is disclosed. The storage unit stores at least one image and sub-images corresponding to each image. Each sub-image is assigned with a priority value. The processing unit includes an image searching module, ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110150366 | IMAGE ORGANIZING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE ORGANIZING PROGRAM An organizing condition for organizing a plurality of inputted images based on at least one of a content of each inputted image and an associated attribute of each inputted image is stored for each user. When a plurality of newly inputted images are organized, the store... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110148857 | FINDING AND SHARING OF DIGITAL IMAGES BASED ON SHARED FACE MODELS Systems and methods are described herein for finding and sharing digital images of a user, such as digital photographs of the user, that are located in collections of digital images belonging to others. In accordance with at least one implementation, a face model of a f... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150344 | CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD Disclosed are a content based image retrieval apparatus and a content base image retrieval method. The content based image retrieval apparatus includes: a query image converter converting an inputted query image to a black/white image and normalizing the size of the que... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150365 | SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING AND CERTIFYING ROI-BASED IMAGE IDENTIFY TECHNOLOGY The present invention relates to a system for certifying an image identify technology. The system for certifying an image identify technology according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a test image DB that stores still images and moving images; a modif... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110113382 | ACTIVITY TRIGGERED PHOTOGRAPHY IN METAVERSE APPLICATIONS A system, method and program product for collecting image data from within a metaverse. A system is provided that includes: a graphical user interface (GUI) for allowing a user to install and administer a camera within the metaverse; a system for collecting image data f... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110103684 | Managing Raw and Processed Image File Pairs Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for managing image files. In one aspect, a method includes displaying, at a data processing device, a preview of images available for import from a storage device, wherein each image is ass... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110085696 | IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM Image data are each related to identification information on an image-capturing location and an image-capturing apparatus, and a CPU, upon issuance of an image data transfer instruction, determines a non-image-capturing location on the basis of the image-capturing locat... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085055 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, ALBUM CREATING APPARATUS, ALBUM CREATING METHOD, ALBUM CREATING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that ... | 04/14/2011 |
