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| 8184902 | Image combining apparatus and control method for the same An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175379 | Automatic video image segmentation A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for automatic segmentation of a video sequence. A segmentation shape prediction and a segmentation color model are determined for a current image of a video sequence based on existing segmentation information fo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165391 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method to correct color misregistration near a boundary If a pixel of interest on a line of interest is located in an attribute region different from that in which a pixel immediately preceding the pixel of interest is located, the luminance value and color difference values of the pixel of interest are recorded in this ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150150 | Method and system of extracting a perceptual feature set A method and system of extracting a perceptual feature set for image/video segmentation are disclosed. An input image is converted to obtain a hue component and a saturation component, where the hue component is quantized into a number of quantum values. After weigh... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150149 | Automatic determination of exciting segments from a video A method is provided to automatically determine “exciting” segments from a video. The method includes calculating image features of each frame in the video, determining a difference for each pair of adjacent frames, calculating a sum of differences for each grou... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144978 | System and method for identifying complex tokens in an image In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of identifying token regions in the image, each token reg... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144980 | Method and apparatus for selecting an object in an image A boundary in an image is identified by identifying a search region within the image. The process continues by determining image gradients in the search region and determining multiple color regions within the search region. An active contour representing the bounda... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144979 | Automatic color contrast analyzer A computerized method and apparatus to analyze color contrast are provided. In an example embodiment, a computer readable storage medium is provided that comprises executable instructions. When executed, the instructions access data associated with a visual represen... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139851 | System and method for local value adjustment In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for local value adjustment are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a hue, saturation, and brightness value for each pixel of an image, determining whether the hue... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139850 | Constraint generation for use in image segregation In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image, organizing spatio-spectral information ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8121403 | Methods and systems for glyph-pixel selection Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for detecting glyph pixels in a digital image. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8103093 | Image segmentation of foreground from background layers Segmentation of foreground from background layers in an image may be provided by a segmentation process which may be based on one or more factors including motion, color, contrast, and the like. Color, motion, and optionally contrast information may be probabilistic... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8073247 | Minimal artifact image sequence depth enhancement system and method Motion picture scenes to be colorized/depth enhanced (2D->3D) are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined into composite frame which becomes a visual reference database that includes data... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055067 | Color segmentation A method of skin segmentation of a digital image is operable in an acquisition device. An image is acquired. A value indicative of a redness of a pixel of said image is compared with a face skin pixel redness criterion. The pixel is identified as a face skin pixel i... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8014596 | Methods and systems for background color extrapolation Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for determining a background color in a digital image. A background color value for a pixel in an image may be determined by summarizing the color values in a color buffer, wherein the color values ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009902 | Image processing apparatus and method for detecting a background color based on data chrominance distribution A background color of a document is detected based on image data of a colormetric system in which brightness and color components are separated. A color plane is divided into color areas, and the number of elements of image data belonging to each color area is count... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7991224 | Segmenting digital image and producing compact representation A method (100), an apparatus, and a computer program product for automatically producing a compact representation of a colour document are disclosed. In the method, a digital image of a colour-document page is segmented (110) into connected components ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986831 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program An image processing apparatus for extracting pictures-in-picture information contained in an image, includes an image segmentation unit segmenting an input image into regions, and a region extraction unit extracting a pictures-in-picture region containing the pictur... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986832 | Image combining apparatus and control method for the same An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a w... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978911 | Method of classifying colors of color based image code Provided is a method of classifying colors of a color based image code. The colors of each cell forming the color based image code are classified by sampling a predetermined number of pixels from each cell and then applying a max channel based clustering method, a w... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978910 | Method and apparatus for adaptively filtering input image in color domains A method and apparatus for adaptively filtering an input image are provided. The method includes dividing an input image into a plurality of color domains according to a distribution of colors in the input image, respectively calculating a plurality of filter coeffi... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7953273 | Apparatus and method for modifying arrangement of colors An apparatus and method for modifying an arrangement of colors of an input image to satisfy a user preference in consideration of color composition of the input image, the apparatus including: an extraction unit extracting one or more dominant colors from an input i... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949181 | Segmentation of tissue images using color and texture The present techniques provide for the processing of color tissue images based on image segmentation. In an exemplary embodiment, the color and texture features of pixels in a tissue image are used to generate a matrix of feature vectors. A subset of feature vectors... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7929755 | Planar map to process a raster image A planar map to process a raster image is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of tracing a raster image includes generating a planar map having at least one region and applying the planar map to the raster image to create a traced image. The method may include re... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7853075 | Image segmentation apparatus and image segmentation method A pixel-value detecting circuit (1) detects RGB values of each pixel of an input image and outputs the detected RGB values to a connection weight determining circuit (2). When both of two adjacent pixels have achromatic color, the connection weight det... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848567 | Determining regions of interest in synthetic images An algorithm for finding regions of interest (ROI) in synthetic images based on an information driven approach in which sub-blocks of a set of synthetic image are analyzed for information content or compressibility based on textural and color features. A DCT may be ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7813545 | Backlit subject detection in an image An image window is subdivided into a plurality of sub-windows arranged in a rectangular grid pattern. The average brightness of the window and each sub-window is determined. A sub-window is tagged as dark if its average brightness is a predetermined percentage of th... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7773803 | Effective coding of page boundary for MRC/MECCA segmentation A method and system is provided for segmenting scanned image data in accordance with mixed raster content processing for more efficient processing of non-uniform color page borders. A first processing method partitions the border so that resulting segments can be co... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7756328 | Color chart processing apparatus, color chart processing method, and color chart processing program A color chart processing apparatus includes a spectrum calculating unit for receiving information regarding a spectral reflection factor of each color contained in a predetermined color chart and information regarding determination illumination light, and determinin... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738696 | Image processing apparatus and method for extracting a document area An image processing apparatus and method include providing a same label number to adjacent black pixels that form a group of black pixels, the label number provided to each group of black pixels being unique, the black pixels being included in binary read data, dete... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7724946 | Software carrier containing corrected blotches in component images Blotches may be identified and processed to reduce or eliminate the blotch. The blotch may be in just one of several separations and multiple separations may be used, for example, to identify the blotch. An implementation (i) compares a first component image of an i... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724947 | Removal of background image from whiteboard, blackboard, or document images Methods and apparatus for removing a background image from a captured image are provided. The background is removed by computing a set of representative values (e.g., median values) based on component values of pixels within a portion of interest of the captured ima... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720279 | Specifying flesh area on image A CPU 411 divides image data GD into a plurality of areas (pixel data groups), analyzes the data in image data area units, and determines the color value and dispersion value of the image data areas. When the determined color value is within a flesh toned col... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7689036 | Correction of blotches in component images Blotches may be identified and processed to reduce or eliminate the blotch. The blotch may be in just one of several separations and multiple separations may be used, for example, to identify the blotch. An implementation (i) compares a first component image of an i... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676081 | Image segmentation of foreground from background layers Segmentation of foreground from background layers in an image may be provided by a segmentation process which may be based on one or more factors including motion, color, contrast, and the like. Color, motion, and optionally contrast information may be probabilistic... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672507 | Image processing methods and systems Systems and methods according to the present invention provide techniques to reliably detect edges, lines and quadrilaterals, especially those with low local contrast, in color images. Edges can be detected using a color gradient operator is based on color distance ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668367 | Image processing for generating a representative color value indicative of a representative color of an image sub-area A method of processing successive images of a video signal to generate a representative color value indicative of a representative color of an image sub-area. The method includes detecting a color property of the image sub-area in a current image, generating a filte... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668366 | Mosaic image data processing A method having a corresponding apparatus and computer program comprises receiving a mosaic image comprising a plurality of pixels; separating the mosaic image into a plurality of color channels each comprising only the pixels having a corresponding one of a plurali... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7657087 | Method and computer-readable medium for detecting flesh-tone pixels This invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for detecting flesh-tone regions in pictures, images, and videos. First, a flesh-tone axis is defined in a color space coordinate system, the flesh-tone axis passing through both the center of a flesh-ton... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7630544 | System and method for locating a character set in a digital image A method of locating a character set in a digital image comprises examining pixels of the digital image to detect pixels having specified color attributes. Regions of the detected pixels are identified and the identified regions are clustered according to color simi... | 12/08/2009 |
