Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189034 | Combined exchange of image and related depth data A method of combined exchange of image data and related depth data is disclosed. The method comprises: converting an input image signal, representing the image data, comprising a predetermined number of input color components (R,G,B) into an output image signal comp... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8169465 | 3D video processor and 3D video processing method A 3D video processor that outputs a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be superimposed on main video includes: a left-eye object processing unit that outputs the left-eye image; a right-eye object processing unit that outputs the right-eye image; and an image o... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154585 | Processing multiview video Decoding a multiview video signal comprises: receiving a bitstream comprising encodings of multiple views of the multiview video signal. Each view comprises multiple pictures segmented into multiple segments. The decoding also comprises extracting flag information a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8120643 | Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method According to one embodiment, an image generator converts an input video signal to first and second divided signals to be displayed in first and second areas on one screen. First and second divided signal controllers receive the first and second divided signals, adju... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111283 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video data to implement local three-dimensional video Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video data. The video data decoding method includes decoding a first video stream to generate 2D video data for two-dimensionally displaying video content and decoding a second video stream to generate 3D vid... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098276 | Stereo vision system and control method thereof Provided are a stereo vision system and a control method thereof. A stereo vision system includes an image information extracting unit receiving left and right images of the left and right stereo cameras to extract color information for a brightness control of the i... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089507 | Recording medium, playback device, system LSI, playback method, glasses, and display device for 3D images A recording medium in which a left-view video stream and a right-view video stream are recorded in an interleaved transport stream file. The interleaved transport stream file is identified by a combination of (i) an equivalent identification number being equivalent ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7907166 | Stereo telestration for robotic surgery In one embodiment of the invention, a robotic surgical system includes a master control console having a stereo viewer to view stereo images; a surgical manipulator having a stereo endoscopic camera coupled to a robotic arm to generate the stereo images of a surgica... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7817181 | Method, medium, and apparatus for 3-dimensional encoding and/or decoding of video A method, medium, and apparatus for 3-dimensional encoding and/or decoding of videos, including adapting to temporal and spatial characteristics of the videos. Methods include performing temporal estimation on videos taken by a camera located in a centerly position ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7746377 | Three-dimensional image display apparatus and method A three-dimensional image display apparatus is provided that can integrate and visualize 3D measurement data obtained from a stereo image with an image of a measuring object to which stereoscopic texture is applied. The apparatus includes: an orientation section for... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7440585 | Autonomous vehicle and motion control therefor There are provided an autonomous vehicle, and an apparatus and method for estimating the motion of the autonomous vehicle and detecting three-dimensional (3D) information of an object appearing in front of the moving autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle measur... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7417664 | Stereoscopic image picking up and display system based upon optical axes cross-point information A stereoscopic video image pick-up and display system having a stereoscopic video image pick-up device including two video image pick-ups for outputting video information from the pick-ups; a stereoscopic video image display device for displaying different video ima... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7372987 | Three-dimensional image evaluation unit and display device using the unit A three-dimensional image evaluation unit (100) for evaluating an input image. The parallax statistic is calculated by measuring the parallax included in the input image by a parallax measuring means (3), the static parallax evaluation value for the ca... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365779 | Image processing apparatus for selectively storing specific regions of an image The invention provides an image processing apparatus that can reduce the memory capacity of a memory forming part of the image processing apparatus and can correct the optical axis misalignment of a video camera in a simple manner. The image processing apparatus ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355724 | Three-dimensional measurement system The invention relates to a three-dimensional measurement system comprising a hardware part and a software part, in which the hardware part includes a mobile two-axis assembly (12) associated with a remote measurement device (13) installed on a fixed pa... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353447 | System and method for representing compressed information The present invention provides a system and method for storing re-synchronization, error correction and/or error detection data within an existing communication protocol, while still maintaining full compliance to a standard, such as the MPEG-2 AAC standard. By doin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342721 | Composite dual LCD panel display suitable for three dimensional imaging A three-dimensional imaging system and related methods is provided that utilizes a composite transmissive LCD panel. The composite LCD panel contains at least two layers of stacked liquid crystal cells positioned on top of one another relative to the imaging directi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342586 | System and method for creating and playing a tweening animation using a graphic directional indicator A system and method for creating and playing tweening animations allows a user to simply draw a graphic directional indicator, e.g., an arrow, in a computer environment to associate graphic objects with the graphic directional indicator and generate a tweening anima... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339156 | Method of creating a color profile for color measurement system A method of creating a color profile. The method includes measuring the color of a first object to create a first measurement; measuring the color of a second object to create a second measurement; and generating a color profile from the first measurement and the se... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330194 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324687 | Color segmentation-based stereo 3D reconstruction system and process A system and process for computing a 3D reconstruction of a scene from multiple images thereof, which is based on a color segmentation-based approach, is presented. First, each image is independently segmented. Second, an initial disparity space distribution (DSD) i... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321668 | Object detection apparatus, object detection method and computer program product An object detection apparatus is provided that detects a target object correctly without decreasing a process speed so much even if there is a change in a shooting environment. The human body detection apparatus for detecting a human body in an image includes an ima... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319720 | Stereoscopic video Methods, devices, systems and/or storage media for stereoscopic video. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7305618 | Methods for multimedia content repurposing Comprehensive multimedia content re-purposing relating to wireless communications employs content constructs that are compact representations of the content information. For video content, the constructs are content operators that represent 2D image regions and/or 3... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305032 | Image matching device and method for motion pictures A matching section performs motion estimation upon a predetermined processing unit of input video (p) by, e.g., an iterative gradient method. A motion vector (v) obtained by the iterative gradient method is obtained by the expression v=α·Δv+v0 (wherein... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301547 | Augmented reality system A virtual reality system surveys a real-world environment, generates 3D data that defines the real-world environment, renders a virtual 3D environment using the 3D data, retrieves a virtual object from a database comprised of pre-stored virtual objects, renders the ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289539 | Synchronization of stereo glasses in multiple-end-view environments Methods and apparatus for synchronizing a stereo viewing device in a multiple end-view environment. Two or more video streams and a corresponding number of signals, each synchronous with one of the video streams, are provided. Each of the video streams may have a di... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289157 | Method for detecting saturation of a motion vector field The process is characterized in that it performs: counting of the number of motion vectors, at least one component of which is greater than a predetermined value less than the maximum value, comparision of this num... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7279765 | Transparent electrode made from indium-zinc-oxide and etchant for etching the same A pixel electrode employs a transparent electrode made from indium-zinc-oxide (IZO) that is capable of preventing damage and bending thereof. In a liquid crystal display device containing pixel electrodes, the transparent electrode is made from indium-zinc-oxide (IZ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277118 | Method and system for compensating for parallax in multiple camera systems A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped to a common coordinate system and the disparity between overlapping ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272256 | System and method for progressive stereo matching of digital images Method and a system for correlating pixels between two digital images. In general, the present invention uses a progressive iterative technique that finds generally unambiguous pixel matches by beginning with a few reliable pixel matches and finding progressively mo... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262806 | System and method for aligned compression of interlaced video A method and system are disclosed for vertically phase shifting fields of at least one interlaced frame of video into at least two vertically aligned frames of video. The at least two vertically aligned frames of video are compressed, transmitted or stored, decompre... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262789 | Method of creating a virtual window The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and mapping the pixels of those outputs to the pixels of a display screen by ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260311 | Apparatus, method, program and recording medium for program recording and reproducing In recording and reproducing a program contents, a first difference between a desired playback start time and a time corresponding to a desired recorded video position of said program is calculated, then a second difference between the desired start time of the prog... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260254 | Comparing images Comparing first and second images taken on different imaging systems and under different exposure conditions is achieved by the steps of: applying a model to the data representing the first image, which model simulates at least one process step in the creation of sa... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254264 | Method and device for generating 3D images The invention relates to a method and to a device for generating 3D images, according to which an image of a second sequence of images is generated in addition to an image of a first sequence of 2D images at an interval that can be determined via an approximation va... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248287 | Method for examining shooting direction of camera apparatus, device thereof and structure for installing sensor In a test method in which an image photographed by a camera apparatus 1 attached to a body of a vehicle is displayed on a display device 17 and an examiner examines compliance or non-compliance of the shooting direction of the camera apparatus 1... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242422 | Circuit and method for decoding color code of a 3D display A circuit and a method for decoding a color code of a 3D display. The color code decoding circuit is built into an on-screen display of a circuit in a display. The color code decoding circuit has several comparators, several recording buffers, a register, a first co... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236622 | Method for forming a depth image A computer vision/image processing method generates a depth map. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of forming a relative depth map from at least three x-ray images of a patient taken from different perspectives. The method includes the steps... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227526 | Video-based image control system A method of using stereo vision to interface with a computer is provided. The method includes capturing a stereo image, and processing the stereo image to determine position information of an object in the stereo image. The object is controlled by a user. The method... | 06/05/2007 |
