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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6982748 | Automatically switched camera system with indicator for notifying the next subject of the camera system An automatically switched camera system includes sensors for providing data of an image scene having subjects who are behaving in a manner which make them potential targets of the camera system, a pre-take indicator for providing an advanced notification to the subj... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980230 | Center of mass detection via an active pixel sensor An imaging system for identifying the location of the center of mass (“COM”) in an image. In one aspect, an imaging system includes a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in a matrix. A center of mass circuit coupled to the photosensitive elements inclu... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980333 | Personalized motion imaging system A personalized motion imaging system, including: a computer; a motion image display device connected to the computer for displaying a motion image sequence to a viewer; a camera connected to the computer for capturing an image of the viewer; and an image processing ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980229 | System for precise rotational and positional tracking A system for tracking a movable structure, comprising: at least one fiducial; and at least one video camera; wherein either the camera or the fiducial is mounted on the movable structure, so that the camera can capture an image of the fiducial as the structure moves... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978053 | Single-pass multilevel method for applying morphological operators in multiple dimensions A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975348 | Focusing method for a moving object A focusing method for a moving object that involves using a gray histogram and a histogram projection drawing to analyze the serial images taken by a photographic instrument, taking a pattern from the images of the serial images, comparing every image of the serial ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975350 | Using atomic commands with an imaging device to prevent the transmission of interleaved sets of commands A method includes generating a first set of commands for an imaging device. The first set of commands are associated with a first task to be performed by the imaging device. A second set of commands are generated for the imaging device during a second time interval ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975748 | Methods and computer-readable medium for navigating between a plurality of discrete images In a computer system, methods and computer-readable medium are disclosed for tracking motion of a subject in an activity captured by camera. The camera supplies pluralities of discrete images of the subject to a computing system environment. An event window, display... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975346 | Method for suspect identification using scanning of surveillance media A method, program and apparatus for criminal suspect identification are provided. Monitoring and video recording are used to collect information at a given location. In response to specific events, such as a criminal act, the system uses real time analysis of the vi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972787 | System and method for tracking an object with multiple cameras An object is tracked with a plurality of cameras, at least one of which is sensitive to both visible and invisible light. An invisible light illuminator attached to the object reflects a target of invisible light. At least one camera processes the invisible light. A... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973200 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium Information such as a camera layout for representation on a map could not be entered while an image of a camera is confirmed on a display. In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides generating means for generating a map having a symbol indicating... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973130 | Compressed video signal including information for independently coded regions In a MPEG or other video system, a “region map” is preferably defined in header information for each frame which indicates for each independently coded region in the frame which “image slices” contain data for that region. Using a system of globally and loca... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970577 | Fast fourier transform correlation tracking algorithm with background correction An FFT correlation tracker that is capable of effectively tracking targets against non-uniform backgrounds in realtime, includes a background correction implemented using a FFT with the 2-dimension sinc function. The tracker tracks an object by effectively computing... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967678 | Moving imager camera for track and range capture A precision motion platform carrying an imaging device under a large-field-coverage lens enables capture of high resolution imagery over the full field in an instantaneous telephoto mode and wide-angle coverage through temporal integration. The device permits automa... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968085 | Document matching and annotation lifting A method for matching an original document image with a copy image is disclosed. The original document image is defined as an ensemble of blocks, each of the blocks having neighboring blocks. A mask is formed for each of the blocks by dilating foreground pixels incl... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967674 | Method and device for detecting and analyzing the reception behavior of people The invention relates to a method and device for detecting and analyzing the reception behavior of people in at last one reception room according to visual, audiovisual and/or auditory messages, actions and/or to the guiding of flows of customers. The method should ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965397 | Measuring camera attitude A system is disclosed for using camera attitude sensors with a camera. A camera assembly includes a tripod base, a tripod head interface mounted on the tripod base, a tripod head mounted on the tripod head interface and a camera mounted on the tripod head. The tripo... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965394 | Remote camera control device A camera system comprising a camera, a monitor, an image detector, a touch screen, and a remote control. The monitor displays a field of view of a lens of the camera. The image detector provides a viewer image to the remote control whereby the remote control can det... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963425 | System and method for locating color and pattern match regions in a target image A system and method for locating regions in a target image that match a template image with respect to color and pattern information. The method may comprise performing a first-pass search using color information obtained in a color characterization analysis of the ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963661 | Obstacle detection system and method therefor An obstacle detection system using stereo cameras mounted on a vehicle, to detect an obstacle existing on a ground plane at a high speed and in a high precision even with the stereo cameras being uncalibrated and with a vibration during a traveling and a change in t... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963792 | Surgical method A teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers (72R and 72L) for control of right and left manipulators (24R and 24L) through use of a servomechanism that includes computer. The teleoperato... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961446 | Method and device for media editing The present media editing device generates media including messages in an easy manner in a communication terminal such as a mobile terminal. Therein, a moving image data storage part stores moving image data recorded by a user. A region extraction part extracts any ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961443 | Occupant sensor An occupant sensor incorporates a 3-D imaging system that acquires a 3-D image of an object. The image is segmented to remove unwanted portions and to identify a region-of-interest, and the content thereof is classified responsive to a plurality of 3-D features. In ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959104 | System and method for scanning a region using a low discrepancy sequence A system and method for scanning for an object within a region using a Low Discrepancy Sequence scanning scheme. The system may comprise a computer which includes a CPU and a memory medium which is operable to store one or more programs executable by the CPU to perf... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956603 | Moving object detecting method, apparatus and computer program product Herein disclosed a moving object detecting method of detecting optical flow segments indicative of loci of one or more moving objects apparently moved in a moving picture sequence including a plurality of picture frames each indicating the one or more moving objects... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954224 | Camera control apparatus and method A camera control apparatus and method, in that angles required for cameras to train on a position designated by an operator, are calculated from the designated position and directions in which the cameras are currently oriented. On the basis of the thus-calculated a... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6953924 | Method for extracting an illuminate zone from a photosensor matrix A method for extracting an illuminated zone from a matrix of photosensors may include: (a) dividing the matrix into a plurality of search zones, (b) searching for the presence of an active photosensor in the search zones, (c) stopping the search as soon as an active... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952224 | Object trackability via parametric camera tuning A method and apparatus are described for improving object trackability via parametric camera tuning. According to one embodiment the improving of object trackability comprises loading prior camera settings if any stored prior camera settings are available. If no sto... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6947601 | Data transmission method, apparatus using same, and data transmission system A data transmission method able to maintain the quality of a transmitted image substantially same as that of one's own image and an apparatus using the method and a data transmission system, transmitting image data accommodated in a frame of a preset frame during co... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6948124 | Graphical user interface utilizing three-dimensional scatter plots for visual navigation of pictures in a picture database A novel graphical user interface (GUI) using metadata, generates three-dimensional scatter plots (100, 200, 300, 400) for the efficient and aesthetic navigation and retrieval of pictures in a picture database. The first and second dimensions (102, 104, 202... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947073 | Apparatus and method for detecting a moving target The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method to detect a moving target. An embodiment of the present invention includes a processor that uses an imaging sensor such as, for example, an electronic camera, and uses images and surveillance system pointing... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944315 | Method and apparatus for performing scale-invariant gesture recognition A gesture recognition process includes tracking an object in two frames of video, determining differences between a location of the object in one frame of the video and a location of the object in another frame of the video, obtaining a direction of motion of the ob... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940540 | Speaker detection and tracking using audiovisual data A system and method facilitating object tracking is provided. The system includes an audio model that receives at least two audio input signals and a video model that receives a video input. The audio model and the video model employ probabilistic generative models ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6940998 | System for automated screening of security cameras The present invention involves a system for automatically screening closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras for large and small scale security systems, as used for example in parking garages. The system includes six primary software elements, each of which performs... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937744 | System and process for bootstrap initialization of nonparametric color models The present invention is embodied in a system and process for automatically learning a reliable color-based tracking system. The tracking system is learned by using information produced by an initial object model in combination with an initial tracking function to p... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937763 | Method and apparatus for processing information of an object Disclosed are a method and apparatus for automatically embedding information of an object in a video picked up by a camera device. A camera device generates imaging position information relating to an imaging position of the video, and view point information relatin... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937266 | Automated online broadcasting system and method using an omni-directional camera system for viewing meetings over a computer network An automated system and method for broadcasting meetings over a computer network. The meeting is filmed using an omni-directional camera system and capable of being presented to a viewer both live and on-demand. The system of the present invention includes an automa... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937255 | Imaging apparatus and method of the same An image apparatus and method of the same use a circular marker having two semicircular portions of first and second color areas separated by a center line. An image of a real space including the marker is acquired and an area of the marker is detected from the imag... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937271 | Camera signal processing device and camera signal processing method A camera signal processor having a motion detection component for dividing an image picked up by an imaging device into a plurality of motion detection areas, and detecting the motion of the image for each or the motion detection areas, an extracting component for e... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937651 | Method and apparatus for compressing image information A system (10) includes an image detector (12) which is a video camera, and which detects and outputs a succession of video images of a selected subject. A technique for processing these images involves preparing compressed image information. The compre... | 08/30/2005 |
