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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5255330 | Image acquisition sample clock phase control employing histogram analysis A facility is provided which determines the optimum phase of a sample clock signal that is used to acquire a copy of an image containing text. In particular, the phase of the sample signal is set to an initial value and is thereafter incremented by a pred... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5247587 | Peak data extracting device and a rotary motion recurrence formula computing device The first aspect of this invention relates to a peak data extracting device used in picture processing devices. The peak data extracting device comprises a DDA (data differential analysis) computing unit, an peak filter and a sorting unit. The computing u... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5224177 | High quality film image correction and duplication method and system A method and system for correcting a non-linear characteristic of an image, wherein an input image is digitized to produce digital image data representative of the image and a histogram of the digital image data is produced. At least a first pixel value c... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222154 | System and method for spot color extraction A system and method for finding areas of similar color in electronically captured spot color images and replacing the similar colors with a single dominant color. An original image is first prescanned at low resolution to generate an electronic image. Usi... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5206918 | Color analysis based upon transformation to spherical coordinates A color analysis and evaluation method is disclosed based upon a transformation of three primary color measurements, red, blue and green, from an x,y,z cartesian coordinate system to a rotated spherical coordinate system in which a target color vector in ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5204911 | Inspection method using unique templates and histogram analysis A technique for detecting defects in stationary products or in products moving on a production line (102, FIG. 12) by analyzing their images uses a matrix or line-scan camera (104, FIG. 12) for taking images of products (102). The product's dimensions are... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5204910 | Method for detection of defects lacking distinct edges A method of image processing for visually inspecting a workpiece. The method compares the brightness (15) at each location within an image of the workpiece to the equivalent location within an image of an idealized workpiece. The inspection depends only o... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5185809 | Morphometric analysis of anatomical tomographic data A system for automatically determining the outline of a selected anatomical feature or region (e.g., in a slice of magnetic resonance data) and then making a quantitative determination of a morphometric parameter (such as area or volume) associated with t... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5179597 | Method for determining an image point in an object image A method for determining an image point in an object image comprises the steps of, on the basis of an image signal comprising image signal components representing image information at respective picture elements on a recording medium on which a radiation ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5144566 | Method for determining the quality of print using pixel intensity level frequency distributions A print inspection method in which an area of printed material is optically scanned to obtain image data representing picture elements having variable intensity levels includes counting the number of picture elments at a particular intensity level in the ... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5125036 | Video bond lead locator An image processing system and method are used to ascertain the position of lead frame beams on a semiconductor lead frame prior to the formation of wire bonds to those lead frame beams. The lead frame beams are illuminated by a light source and light ref... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5105469 | Control data array generation apparatus and method Apparatus for generating an array of control data, the array having a number of pixels each of which corresponds to a respective pixel in an image, the apparatus comprising a first store (100) for storing the image data; a second store (17) for storing th... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5101440 | Picture processing apparatus A picture processing apparatus in which edges of an input picture are detected by an edge detecting circuit to form edge detection data, which then are transformed so that a histogram of the edge detection data becomes substantially flat, and in which a s... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5068788 | Quantitative computed tomography system A method for measuring the CT numbers of an in vivo tissues includes the steps of calculating a histogram of a region including the tissue, locating a leading edge of a peak within the histogram, substracting CT numbers assumed to result from background a... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5056146 | Three-dimensional labeling apparatus for two-dimensional slice image information Two-dimensional tomographic image data is binarized by a predetermined threshold value, and two-dimensional labeling numbers are sequentially given to areas formed by binarization. Data of adjacent tomographic images are bit-added to generate data of a do... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5040228 | Method and apparatus for automatically focusing an image-acquisition device Autofocusing of a lens (18) on a television camera (12) is achieved by first processing the image captured by the camera to establish a histogram of the intensity gradients for each of a plurality of small areas (pixels) in the captured image. From the hi... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5024230 | Dual flow/lambda display for xenon enhanced tomography A patient is disposed within a scan circle or examination region (62) of a CT scanner (B). As the patient starts breathing air from a xenon gas supply (A), a flow image and a lambda image are created and stored in a flow image memory (90) and a lambda ima... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5023729 | Method and system for generating a density concurrent matrix An image processing method and apparatus generates a concurrence matrix for identifying characteristics in an image. Pixel density values of an original image are stored, and a shifted image is generated by shifting the pixels of the original image by a p... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4975973 | Image processing device suitable for obtaining the volume and center of gravity of a three-dimensional binary image A first memory stores a divided three-dimensional binary image as image data j of p bits. A second memory, equal to the first memory in size, stores data k of q bits, representing the section number of a corresponding memory section of the first memory. A... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4972359 | Digital image processing system A digital image processing system provides convolution, correlation and normalized correlation functions, without per-pixel multiplication operations, utilizing factorization and moment generation. A first memory array is addressed by image pixel values, ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4955063 | Vector display apparatus A vector display apparatus includes a display panel as a display screen for a vector subjected to discrimination. The display panel comprises display elements arranged in a matrix form. The display elements at positions corresponding to an input vector si... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4926492 | Optical character reading apparatus and method An optical character reader is characterized in that the reader determines accurately the range occupied by the major portion of each character in each character line. This is accomplished by dividing an image read from a document into character lines and... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4922915 | Automated image detail localization method An automated image detail localization system for digital image systems, such as CT, MRI, digital radiograph, includes a calibration phantom having plural reference samples of materials having known, fixed imaging properties. The phantom is positioned wit... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4899194 | Method of and device for detecting image A method of and device for detecting an image relevant for subsequent auto-focusing operation, wherein one focus zone is scanned by an image sensor and a histogram for the one focus zone is made. The presence or absence of an image in the one focus zone i... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4878114 | Method and apparatus for assessing surface roughness A relatively low cost processor based optical system is used to carry out the method. An area of the surface whose roughness is to be assessed is illuminated by a light source, and a reflected light is directed to the lens of the video camera. The analog ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4837841 | Method for realizing high-speed statistic operation processing and image data processing apparatus for embodying the method According to this invention, in image data A and B which are respectively constituted by pixel groups ΣAij and ΣBij consisting of N pixels Aij and Bij (N is a positive integer; i and j respectively indicate a ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4802090 | Histogramming of pixel values on a distributed processing system A method for histogramming the pixel values of image data elements, on a distributed processing system, is disclosed. First, the data elements are formed into a data string. Next, the data string is partitioned into a plurality of homogeneous filaments ea... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4596035 | Methods for enumerating 3-part white cell differential clusters Methods useful for differentiating and enumerating subpopulations of particles in a sample and more particularly relates to the enumeration of leukocyte subclasses. Enumeration is accomplished by utilizing two light scatter parameters and converting these... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4574393 | Gray scale image processor A method for determining the average gray value of a plurality of regions within a digitized electronic video image and for determining the color of the region from the average gray value. Initial image segmentation is accomplished by thresholding a multi... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4535473 | Apparatus for detecting the duration of voice The detection of voice (speech) signal presence in input signal-plus-noise is improved by more accurate determination of the decision threshold, which is determined by first finding a medium-length interval consisting of noise-signal-noise (no-signal, sig... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4514767 | Apparatus for making masks and/or block copies for printing Masks or block copies for printing are fabricated by an apparatus comprising: a picture input device for obtaining through a filter a signal relating to the optical density of the picture of an object to be introduced as input; a picture processing device... | 04/30/1985 |
