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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6704465 | Image processing apparatus and its processing method, storage medium, and image file format To simplify the file operation of images recorded as a group of panorama images or the like. A character (ST) showing that it is included in a group, alphanumeric character assigned in order in each group, and characters showing file numbers in order of p... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6704041 | Image processing method, apparatus and memory medium therefor There is provided an image combining apparatus comprising an image input unit for entering photographed images, an image memory for temporarily storing the entered images, a corresponding point extracting unit for extracting the corresponding point inform... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6701030 | Deghosting panoramic video A system and process for deghosting mosaiced images created by stitching together images of a scene captured from different viewpoints is presented. When images are mosaiced, which were captured by different cameras at different viewpoints, the possibilit... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6700711 | Panoramic viewing system with a composite field of view Cameras are positioned so that at least a portion of the field of view of at least one camera is redirected by a reflective surface. Images from these cameras are merged to produce a composite image while disregarding at least a portion of a camera's fiel... | 03/02/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6687771 | Parallel processing of multiple data values within a data word An input data word contains multiple abutting input data values An. The input data word is split into two intermediate data words into which respective high order portions and low order portions of the data values are written spaced apart by vacant portio... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6687036 | Multiplexed optical scanner technology High speed optical scanner systems and methods using optical multiplexing of wavelengths and spatial codes. In one form, a wavelength multiplexed optical scanner (W-MOS) is disclosed, wherein tuning the wavelength or selection of wavelength accomplishes a... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6677982 | Method for three dimensional spatial panorama formation A method, a system, and a computer program product for deriving a three-dimensional panorama from a plurality of stereo image pairs of a scene generated from a plurality of cameras, that includes acquiring a plurality of stereo image pairs of the scene, w... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6677981 | Motion play-back of still pictures comprising a panoramic view for simulating perspective A system for play-back of a still image comprising an image generator for generating a panoramic image by stitching together a plurality of images; memory space allocated for storing the panaoramic image generated by the image generator; and motion playba... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6665003 | System and method for generating and displaying panoramic images and movies Systems are disclosed for generating left and right panoramic mosaic images for use in facilitating panoramic stereoscopic viewing of a scene, and for displaying stereoscopic panoramic images to a viewer. The left and right panoramic image generators gene... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6661455 | Electronic photographing device for panoramic photographing and editing According to this invention, an electronic photographing device in which image information corresponding to one set of images photographed by panoramic photographing can be recorded on a recording medium includes: a rotation direction setting device for s... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6657667 | Method and apparatus for capturing a multidimensional array of overlapping images for composite image generation A method and apparatus for capturing a multidimensional array of overlapping images for composite image generation using a camera that includes a viewfinder. This is accomplished by providing a composite image format comprising an N×M array of overlappin... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654063 | Image inverting device An image inverting device includes an objective mirror which reflects an image light, incident on a rotation axis from a side of the rotation axis, in the direction of the rotation axis, and an inverting unit on which the image light reflected by the obje... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6654019 | Panoramic movie which utilizes a series of captured panoramic images to display movement as observed by a viewer looking in a selected direction Movement through multi-dimensional space is simulated using a series of panoramic images which are projected or displayed in sequence. The user's direction of view, that is the selected view window, is maintained as the series of images is projected or di... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6644816 | Display device having a cylindrical projection surface such that an image projected onto the inside is visible on the outside The invention relates to a display device for displaying visual information, comprising: at least one image-forming element; at least one light source for generating a light beam, which in cooperation with the image-forming element produces an illuminated... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6639625 | Image sensing device High resolution composite images and ultra wide composite images are produced in a digital camera which combines a plurality of images to form a composite image on a single sheet. An image sensing unit includes a movable image sensing optical unit having ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6628897 | Camera system A camera system is provided for acquiring an image of a scene with a wide angle such as an omni-directional scene with a high resolution and for acquiring an image of a dynamic object. The camera system includes a reflecting mirror, a first imaging unit, ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6621516 | Panoramic pipe inspector A system for securing image data of an environment including a camera having a panoramic lens mounted on a cart. In one embodiment, the motor mounted on the cart is battery operated so that the cart is self contained. In one embodiment, the cart is mounte... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6611282 | Super wide-angle panoramic imaging apparatus A system for capturing super wide-angle panoramic images. In particular, a two-reflector system is disclosed which is substantially self-correcting in which optical aberrations are substantially eliminated, such as field curvature, astigmatism and the lik... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6611629 | Correcting correlation errors in a composite image The invention, in one embodiment, is a method for correcting errors in the correlation of a first constituent image and a second constituent image transferred into a composite image at a first and a second correlation offset, respectively. The method incl... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6603502 | System for omnidirectional image viewing at a remote location without the transmission of control signals to select viewing parameters A system for achieving perspective-corrected views at a location removed from the site of the creation of a distorted wide angle image without the transmission of control signals to the site of image creation. Angles of tilt, pan and rotation, as well as ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6577335 | Monitoring system and monitoring method A first camera 12 having a fish-eye lens 13 and a second camera 14 having a fish-eye lens 15 are disposed with the respective fish-eye lenses faced with each other. An image pick-up range of the first camera 12 and an image pick-up range of the second cam... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6575643 | Camera apparatus The camera apparatus includes a camera main body and a convex mirror. A picture reflected by the convex mirror is taken by the camera main body. Even if the angle of view of a camera lens is set small and the camera main body is made compact, a picture ha... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6563529 | Interactive system for displaying detailed view and direction in panoramic images A method and system for indicating the camera position, direction, and field of view in a map or panoramic image comprises a map image window which displays a map or panoramic image of the site to be studied (house, apartment, city, etc.). A detailed view... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6560413 | High-precision panoramic imaging system A panoramic imaging system includes multiple cameras and mirrors. The field of view of each camera is directed radially outward from a central axis of the imaging system by one of the mirrors, the target alignment planes for the mirrors being defined by a... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6550921 | Three hundred sixty degree viewable tactical display A tactical display unit having a set of abutting viewing screens with each of the viewing screens located at an angle of at least 60 degrees to each other and each having an identical image thereon with the screens positioned either above or below a later... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6545702 | Method and apparatus for panoramic imaging Methods and apparatus for mapping images obtained using a multiple-viewpoint imaging system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for projecting an image using a panoramic imaging device which includes a first camera in... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6545701 | Panoramic digital camera system and method A digital panoramic camera system for producing digital panoramic images includes a camera body forming a linear optic path and which is rotatably mounted to a motor. An infrared cutoff filter is also provided along the optic path for filtering light whic... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542637 | System for deciding the contents of a picture frame An image scanning part scans, for example, a film with a CCD. Then it forms image data indicating an image on the film from the output of the CCD, and it outputs this image data to a computation control part. The computation control part inputs the image ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6539547 | Method and apparatus for electronically distributing images from a panoptic camera system An electronic image distribution apparatus for distributing panoramic images is disclosed. The central feature of the system is a panoramic image server coupled to a source of panoramic image information. The source of panoramic image frames may be a pano... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6539162 | Photographing a panoramic image produced from a captured digital image Apparatus for processing a stored panoramic digital image includes a panoramic digital imager adapted to capture a predetermined panoramic digital image of a scene and a storage arrangement coupled to the panoramic digital imaging apparatus for storing a ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6532036 | Generalized panoramic mosaic A method for combining a sequence of two-dimensional images of a scene to construct a panoramic mosaic of the scene has a sequence of images acquired by a camera with relative motion to the scene. The relative motion gives rise to an optical flow between ... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6532037 | Camera system wherein recording medium in camera stores information on angle of view of photographing of image necessary for cylindrical conversion A camera system comprises a camera and a panoramic image synthesizing apparatus. The camera includes a photographing device for photographing an object, and a recording medium for storing divisional images of the object photographed by the photographing d... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6504957 | 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... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6493032 | Imaging arrangement which allows for capturing an image of a view at different resolutions The invention provides a method of viewing an image. Light is projected from the image. The projected light is split into first and second bundles of light focusing over a first and a second focal region respectively. The light at the first focal region i... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6473118 | Imaging systems An imaging system comprises an image-data collection station (1) having a platform (2) which is rotatable about an azimuthal axis. Several image sensors (3) are mounted on and rotate with the platform (2). A static monitoring station (7) includes a comput... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6470498 | Personal computer system, compact disk and method for interactively viewing the earth Abstract of the Disclosure A method of interactively viewing the Earth including the steps of: selecting satellite viewpointd of a region of the Earth; reading prestored imaged of the region of the Earth from the satellite viewpointd; displaying the prest... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6466253 | Still image producing method and still image capture system A method is disclosed for producing a still image of an object using an image pickup element, which captures an image as a plurality of pixels. The method includes calculating relative displacement amounts between positions of the object on a plurality of... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6466254 | Method and apparatus for electronically distributing motion panoramic images This patent discloses an electronic image distribution apparatus for distributing motion panoramic images. The main portion of the apparatus is a motion panoramic image server that has a source of motion panoramic images. The source of panoramic image fra... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6466262 | Digital wide camera A digital wide camera is capable of forming, in real time, a wide view still image from a dynamic sequence of images generated during a recording operation by panning the camera to capture a scene. The camera shoots each frame of the sequence with a certa... | 10/15/2002 |
