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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190634 | Image display controlling apparatus, method of controlling image display, and storage medium An application program package (APP) in a Web server extracts attribute information about an image file registered in a public folder (for example, subject feature information about a subject appearing in the image file). The APP calculates a reference value of the ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189880 | Interactive photo annotation based on face clustering An interactive photo annotation method uses clustering based on facial similarities to improve annotation experience. The method uses a face recognition algorithm to extract facial features of a photo album and cluster the photos into multiple face groups based on f... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184869 | Digital image enhancement Methods and systems for enhancing a digital image include analyzing the digital image to determine if the digital image includes a facial component. Facial characteristics of the facial component are determined for each image that does include at least one facial co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184870 | Apparatus, method, and program for discriminating subjects A characteristic amount calculating means calculates first characteristic amounts, which do not require normalization, and normalized second characteristic amounts. A first discriminating portion discriminates whether a candidate for a face is included in the target... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180117 | Individual identification data register for storing components and projection matrices The individual identification data register of the present invention includes: a storage device storing projection matrix data showing a projection matrix generated from plural image data showing plural persons' faces and individual identification data showing a com... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180116 | Image pickup apparatus and system for specifying an individual Disclosed is an electronic imaging apparatus which has different drive modes of an image pickup device for image shooting between an image for detecting the face of a subject and an image for detecting a feature value for specifying an individual based on the detect... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175343 | Imaging device, image processing device, control method, and program An imaging device supports the taking of an image with a suitable composition without requiring user operation. The imaging device detects, using a face detection circuit, face regions of faces in an image input from the image input unit. When a plurality of face re... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170299 | Image output method, image output device, and image output program Provided is an image output method of outputting predetermined image data from plural pieces of image data, the method including: acquiring a group including plural pieces of image data which are similar to each other; detecting a face turning angle with respect to ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170298 | Method for detecting facial expression and repairing smile face of portrait photo A method for detecting a facial expression and repairing a smile face of a portrait photo includes the steps of: detecting a location and a range of a mouth region in an inputted portrait photo; capturing a patch in the mouth region and a predetermined peripheral ra... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170296 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes a face-image storage unit storing a face image of a predetermined face as a registered face image; a color storage unit storing face-color information, which is information regarding a face color of the registered face image; a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170297 | Face authentication system and face authentication method A face authentication system includes: a data processing section for performing a predetermined data processing operation; a first data input section for inputting three-dimensional data on a face area of a subject to the data processing section; and a second data i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165353 | Computer system and method for calculating straightness of facial A computer system and a method for calculating straightness of facial are provided. In the method, an image is processed to obtain a facial area and eyes locations. The facial area is divided into two sub-areas. Then, each of the sub-area and the corresponding symme... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165354 | Face recognition with discriminative face alignment The present invention relates to systems and methods for face recognition. In an embodiment, a system for face recognition includes a face alignment module, a signature extractor and a recognizer. In another embodiment, a method for face recognition is provided. The... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160311 | System and method for detecting facial gestures for control of an electronic device A control system enables a user to control an electronic device by moving parts of the face, including the eyes. Optical emitters and optical detectors are used to reflect light from the relevant parts of the user's face. Pattern matching or approximation of a point... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160309 | Method, apparatus, and system for object recognition and classification A method of face recognition includes generating a recognition database for at least one identified face by obtaining multiple images for each identified face; selecting a subset of distinctive features for each identified face from a set of features, where each of ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160310 | Image processing method and apparatus for processing an image by using a face detection result An image processing apparatus determines, when white balance correction is executed on an image signal of a face area detected by face detection unit, based on a first white balance correction value obtained by detecting white pixels, whether the corrected image sig... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160312 | Perfecting the effect of flash within an image acquisition devices using face detection Within a digital acquisition device with a built in flash unit, the exposure of an acquired digital image is perfected using face detection in the acquired image is provided. Groups of pixels that correspond to plural images of faces are identified within a digitall... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155396 | Method, apparatus, and program for detecting faces An apparatus detects a predetermined number of facial images from detection target images. An inclination order setting means utilizes the correlative relationships among correlative data obtained by a correlative data obtaining means and the inclinations of faces t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155399 | Generic face alignment via boosting There is provided a discriminative framework for image alignment. Image alignment is generally the process of moving and deforming a template to minimize the distance between the template and an image. There are essentially three elements to image alignment, namely ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155401 | Perfecting the effect of flash within an image acquisition devices using face detection Within a digital acquisition device with a built in flash unit, the exposure of an acquired digital image is perfected using face detection in the acquired image is provided. Groups of pixels that correspond to plural images of faces are identified within a digitall... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155400 | Facial recognition and the open mouth problem A method of cropping a representation of a face for electronic processing, said method comprising: selecting a first geodesic contour about an invariant reference point on said face, setting a region within said first geodesic contour as a first mask, selecting a se... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155397 | Face tracking in a camera processor A method operable in a digital image acquisition system having no photographic film is provided. The method comprises receiving a relatively low resolution image of a scene from an image stream, wherein the scene potentially includes one or more faces. At least one ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155398 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program An image processing apparatus includes an image conversion section that receives an input of a face image to be identified, executes an image conversion on the input face image, and performs a normalization processing into an image. The image conversion section obta... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150854 | Image search apparatus and image search method An image search apparatus has: a dimension reducing unit for reducing dimensions of multidimensional feature data to be produced as approximate data; an approximate-data storing unit for storing the produced approx... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150109 | Large volume face recognition apparatus and method A face recognition apparatus and method. The face recognition apparatus includes: a face database (face DB) which stores information of a plurality of registered persons and which stores a plurality of facial images of each registered person; a face retrieval unit w... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144945 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an orientation independent face detector A method for providing orientation independent face detection may include generating multiple mosaic images from an input image in which each of the multiple mosaic images has a different scale, employing a plurality of differently oriented edge detectors to perform... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144944 | Image sharing system and method An image capture device, includes a body; an image sensor in the body; a lens configured to focus a scene onto the image sensor; a communications interface in the body; an image processor coupled to receive an image from or to send an image to the communications int... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144946 | Method of identifying symbolic points on an image of a person's face A method for identifying symbolic points on the image of a face including images of a right eye, left eye and mouth, includes: detecting and identifying elements with strong contrasts such as the irises, nostrils, or mouth; ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144943 | Apparatus and method for detecting specific subject in image A plurality of collation patterns having different resolutions are generated from an original collation pattern which includes a plurality of local regions. Subject reliabilities for individual local regions are calculated based on local features of the local region... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139826 | Device and method for creating photo album A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming refer... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135182 | Method for creating photo cutouts and collages A method for automatically producing a new digital image from a first digital image that includes regions of interest, includes obtaining a main subject belief map including an array of belief values indicating the location and relative importance of subject matter ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135183 | Head pose assessment methods and systems Improvements are provided to effectively assess a user's face and head pose such that a computer or like device can track the user's attention towards a display device(s). Then the region of the display or graphical user interface that the user is turned towards can... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135184 | Method and apparatus for detection and correction of multiple image defects within digital images using preview or other reference images A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image acquiring one or more preview or other reference images without a flash. Any red regions that exist within the one or more reference images are determined. A main image is acquired with a flash of approxima... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131022 | Surveillance recorder and its method A surveillance recorder (10) comprises: a picture input unit (12) for inputting a surveillance picture; a moving object detection unit (18) for detecting a moving object from a surveillance picture inputted by the picture input unit (12);... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131023 | Monitoring system for acquiring a facial image and performing monitoring processing, method, information processing device, and program thereof The present invention decreases the processing load of a server related to a collation processing system which is implemented by a server which performs collation processing with a registered facial image. An image acquisition section acquires the facial image of an... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131024 | Apparatus and method of image capture for facial recognition An image capture apparatus includes a first imaging device operable to capture an image feedback image. A generator generates a feedback image from a captured image for output to a display. A facial recognition unit operates to determine the position of a face withi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126221 | Interactive device and method for transmitting commands from a user According to the present invention, it is provided an interactive device comprising a display, a camera, an image analyzing means, said interactive device comprising means to acquire an image with the camera, the analyzing means detecting at least a human face on th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126220 | Annotating stimulus based on determined emotional response A method of annotating audio-visual data is disclosed. The method includes detecting a plurality of facial expressions in an audience based on a stimulus, determining an emotional response to the stimulus based on the facial expressions and generating at least one a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126219 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and imaging apparatus An image processing apparatus includes: image acquiring means for acquiring an image; search-window-size setting means for setting a size of a search window; search-range setting means for setting a search range in the image in relation to the set size of the search... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121358 | Method of grouping images by face A method of browsing face regions in digital images in a photo displaying system includes detecting a plurality of face regions from a plurality of images, grouping the face regions into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the face regions, determining ... | 02/21/2012 |
