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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6784927 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus for correcting the position of a specific object included in a moving image formed by a plurality of successive images to a predetermined position on the frame, sets a reference point on the object included in the first image of the plu... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6778171 | Real world/virtual world correlation system using 3D graphics pipeline A method of tracking objects that allows objects to be tracked across multiple scene changes, with different camera positions, without losing track of the selected object. In one embodiment, a method of tracking an object using a computer, a display device, a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775014 | System and method for determining the location of a target in a room or small area A system is provided for locating a target, such as a person, relative to a projection screen, the system including two infrared light sources for casting separate shadows of the target on a translucent screen, such as those commonly used for back-projection display... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6766036 | Camera based man machine interfaces Disclosed herein are new forms of computer inputs particularly using TV Cameras, and providing affordable methods and apparatus for data communication with respect to people and computers using optically inputted information from specialized datum's on objects and/o... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6765569 | Augmented-reality tool employing scene-feature autocalibration during camera motion An augmented reality tool makes use of autocalibrated features for rendering annotations into images of a scene as a camera moves about relative to the scene. The autocalibrated features are used for positioning the annotations and for recovery of tracking, correspo... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6757397 | Method for controlling the sensitivity of a microphone A method for controlling the sensitivity of at least one microphone in which video data of a sound source, in particular a speech source, is recorded by a camera. The camera is located in a predetermined position relative to the at least one microphone. A position o... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757008 | Video surveillance system A linescan camera is used in conjunction with a mechanical scanning mechanism to acquire high-resolution images of an area under video surveillance. The video signal from the linescan camera is converted into a digital data stream, compressed, and stored in a digita... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6753904 | Solid-state imaging apparatus for motion detection A solid-state imaging apparatus for motion detection that detects motion based on differences between pixel frames to make external image comparison processing unnecessary and to reduce erroneous detection of motion is disclosed. The solid-state imaging apparatus in... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754389 | Program classification using object tracking A content-based classification system is provided that detects the presence of object images within a frame and determines the path, or trajectory, of each object image through multiple frames of a video segment. In a preferred embodiment, face objects and text obje... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6750900 | Method and apparatus for computing motion tracking parameters A method and apparatus is provided for efficient computing of perspective transformation motion tracking parameters in a sequence of images. More specifically, a set of initial positions for N points defined as (xi yi) for i=1 to N corresponding to at least one inpu... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6744461 | Monitor camera system and method of displaying picture from monitor camera thereof In a monitor camera system comprising a monitor camera making 360-degree panning rotation and more-than 90-degree tilting rotation and a control unit for controlling the monitor camera, for masking a privacy zone in a picture taken by the monitor camera, the control... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6741725 | Motion tracking using image-texture templates Image templates are extracted from video images in real-time and stored in memory. Templates are selected on the basis of their ability to provide useful positional data and compared with regions of subsequent images to find the position giving the best match. From ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738012 | Protecting commercial airliners from man portable missiles A commercial airliner (10) carries a sensor that detects a characteristic (21) associated with a man portable missile (20). Raw sensor data is transmitted via a wireless data-link (41) to ground stations (31-33) that process the ai... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6734911 | Tracking camera using a lens that generates both wide-angle and narrow-angle views A tracking system that provides high resolution images and a low tracking dropout rate is disclosed. The system uses a camera equipped with a dual-angle lens (or another dual-angle focusing system) to obtain both a wide-angle image and a narrow-angle image of a scen... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728394 | Dynamic measurement of object parameters Method of dynamically measuring movement of objects is disclosed which uses image processing. In a first step a sequence of images is received and stored. Then, at least a first and second reference point within a first image is determined and identification areas a... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6718049 | Near-infrared disguise detection Detection of a person disguised with one or more artificial materials includes detecting reflection from at least one portion of a head of a human body in at least a portion of an upper band of the near infrared spectrum. The presence of an artificial material assoc... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6717612 | Tracking camera device An integrated data detecting circuit 14 integrates digital data for each of detecting blocks set within a movement detecting area. A tripod-head control circuit 16 detects a correlation value for this integrated data to previously-registered integrated... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6714660 | Image processing device and method, and distribution medium To make it possible to accurately track a prescribed part, a low-resolution overall image is taken in from an input image, and a medium-resolution image, whose center is the head part, is extracted from it. When it is possible to extract a medium-resolution image in... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711278 | Tracking semantic objects in vector image sequences A semantic object tracking method tracks general semantic objects with multiple non-rigid motion, disconnected components and multiple colors throughout a vector image sequence. The method accurately tracks these general semantic objects by spatially segmenting imag... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6707487 | Method for representing real-time motion A system 100 for tracking the movement of multiple objects within a predefined area using a continuation of overhead X-Y tracking cameras 24 with attached frequency selective filter 24f. Also employed are perspective Z filming cameras set... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6707486 | Directional motion estimator An alarm system automatically monitors activity and directional motion in a predetermined area. When the system detects a particular movement in an area, an alarm is triggered which ultimately notifies a system operator or allows the system to initiate some other au... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6707488 | Method of detecting a moving target using background radiation A method and apparatus are provided for detecting a moving target in an observed environment wherein the observed environment includes the moving target and a scattering background. In the method, radiation is transmitted at the observed environment, and radiation i... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6704433 | Human tracking device, human tracking method and recording medium recording program thereof A human tracking device according to the present invention stably tracks a human with good perception of the distance to a human with high resistance against disturbance. A camera image is divided into a human region and a background region. Then, each ar... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6704048 | Adaptive electronic zoom control An adaptive electronic zoom system is described which includes an electronic camera having an image sensor with pixels, a controller communicating with an address generator to select in response to an external input or feedback signals from the electronic... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6697103 | Integrated network for monitoring remote objects Integrated imaging and GPS network monitors remote object movement. Browser interface displays objects and detectors. Database stores object position movement. Cameras detect objects and generate image signal. Internet provides selectable connection betwe... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6690825 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method in which voice information is input to specify an object contained in a moving picture, the input voice information is recognized and analyzed, parameters representing the object to be extracted are generated based... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6690413 | Tractor-trailer viewing system This invention relates to motor vehicles, and, more particularly, to a rear viewing system for tractor-trailer vehicles. An automated, universal trailer rear viewing system that is integrated in its entirety on the head or pulling portion of a pivotally c... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6690374 | Security camera system for tracking moving objects in both forward and reverse directions A surveillance system that includes a number of camera subsystems. Each camera subsystem includes a number of single lens cameras pointing in different directions which simultaneously capture images. Each camera subsystem covers a particular theater of in... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6690841 | Method and apparatus for image registration A machine vision system includes an apparatus for registering an input image of an object, such as an aircraft engine blade, to a reference image comprising ideal specifications for the object in order to detect flaws in the object. The system includes on... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6686952 | Surveillance security system A surveillance security system for detecting and monitoring movement upon one's property. The surveillance security system includes a base housing being adapted to be mounted upon a bracket which is attached to a building structure; and also includes a su... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6683968 | Method for visual tracking using switching linear dynamic system models A target in a sequence of measurements is tracked by modeling the target with a switching linear dynamic system (SLDS) having a plurality of dynamic models. Each dynamic model is associated with a switching state such that a model is selected when its ass... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6680745 | Videoconferencing method with tracking of face and dynamic bandwidth allocation A videoconferencing method automatically detects, within an image generated by a camera, locations and relative sizes of faces. Based upon the detection, a control system tracks each face and keeps a camera pointed at and focused on each face, regardless ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6678413 | System and method for object identification and behavior characterization using video analysis In general, the present invention is directed to systems and methods for finding the position and shape of an object using video. The invention includes a system with a video camera coupled to a computer in which the computer is configured to automaticall... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678394 | Obstacle detection system A three-dimensional (3-D) machine-vision obstacle detection solution involving a method and apparatus for performing high-integrity, high efficiency machine vision. The machine vision obstacle detection solution converts two-dimensional video pixel data i... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6674877 | System and method for visually tracking occluded objects in real time The present invention is embodied in a system and method for digitally tracking objects in real time. The present invention visually tracks three-dimensional (3-D) objects in dense disparity maps in real time. Tracking of the human body is achieved by dig... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6674925 | Morphological postprocessing for object tracking and segmentation An object mask and a set of control points defined for a given frame are subjected to morphological processing to remove false edge points and provide a more robust mask for use in tracking the object in a next frame. The morphological processing is perfo... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6671390 | Automated collection, processing and use of sports movement information via information extraction from electromagnetic energy based upon multi-characteristic spatial phase processing A system and method for tracking movement of a sports participant or a sports object associated with a sports activity, wherein in one example the system includes an article associated with the sports participant. The article provides a known spatial phas... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668070 | Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing device for calculating the motion direction of each pixel in a predetermined screen of interest from among a plurality of time series screens. The image processing device includes a score calculator for calculating a score correspondin... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6661450 | Automatic following device Shootings for automatic following are previously registered in a memory of a pan head controller. When the automatic following is started, a CPU of the pan head controller chooses a shooting among the shootings registered in the memory according to a cent... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661907 | Face detection in digital images The present invention discloses the detection of faces in digital images. Rather than subjecting the entire image (1) to computationally intensive face detection analysis, the image is instead segmented into regions (2) each of which has a substantially h... | 12/09/2003 |
