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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189916 | Image processing method, system, and computer readable medium Provided is a method of generating a set of cropped images from an image selection comprising: generating a plurality of sets of crops from the image selection; calculating a cropping risk for each set of crops in ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189915 | Method for segmentation in an n-dimensional feature space and method for classifying objects in an n-dimensional data space which are segmented on the basis of geometric characteristics A segmentation method includes several steps wherein a single data space is selected by the user in an n-dimensional feature space in a first step. This selected data space is basically interpreted by the system as containing at least two classes of objects to be se... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189917 | Methods and systems for locating text in a digital image Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for locating text in a digital image. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180151 | Method for segmenting structures in image data records and image processing unit for carrying out the method In the method according to at least one embodiment of the invention, a first segmentation of a structure in an image data record is firstly carried out, and a first final segmentation result is obtained therefrom. A region in the image data record is selected based ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175384 | Method and apparatus for discriminative alpha matting Method and apparatus for creating foreground masks, or mattes, in images including complex images. A discriminative matting technique may generate accurate alpha mattes for textured images or objects with spatial-varying color distributions. Given an input image and... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175385 | Foreground/background segmentation in digital images with differential exposure calculations A digital segmentation method and apparatus determines foreground and/or background within at least one portion of a captured image. The determining includes comparing a captured image to a pre-captured or post captured reference image of nominally the same scene. O... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160357 | Image segmentation According to one embodiment there is provided a method of selecting a plurality of M atlases from among a larger group of N candidate atlases to form a multi-atlas data set to be used for computer automated segmentation of novel image data sets to mark objects of in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155443 | Image extracting apparatus, image extracting method and computer readable medium An image extracting method includes: acquiring a scan image; generating a binary image of the acquired scan image and detects connected pixels in the generated binary image; setting up a circumscribed rectangle for the detected connected pixels; performing, in each ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150155 | Multi-mode region-of-interest video object segmentation The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic segmentation of a region-of-interest (ROI) video object from a video sequence. ROI object segmentation enables selected ROI or “foreground” objects of a video sequence that may be of interest to a viewer to ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144988 | Document-image-data providing system, document-image-data providing device, information processing device, document-image-data providing method, information processing method, document-image-data providing program, and information processing program In a document-image-data providing device, a document image inputting unit is configured to input document image data. An area recognition unit is configured to recognize respective areas of document image elements which constitute the document image data. An elemen... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144987 | Method, a system and a computer program for segmenting a surface in a multi-dimensional dataset A method is arranged to segment a surface in a multi-dimensional dataset comprising a plurality of images. Data processing and data acquisition steps can be temporally or geographically distanced, so that the results of a suitable data segmentation are accessed. Nex... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139860 | Retrieving and sharing electronic documents using paper In an embodiment of the invention, an electronic document (e-document) can be searched and found by capturing an image of the printed document. Instead of typing in a file name or searching through multiple directories, the user simply takes a picture of the documen... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135216 | Systems and methods for unsupervised local boundary or region refinement of figure masks using over and under segmentation of regions An initial figure mask estimation of an image is generated using a figure ground segmentation system, thereby initially assigning each pixel in the image with a first attribute value or a second attribute value. A JigCut region segmentation of the image is generated... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131078 | Imprint lithography An imprinting method is disclosed that, in embodiment, includes contacting first and second spaced target regions of an imprintable medium on a substrate with first and second templates respectively to form respective first and second imprints in the medium and sepa... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131076 | Editing of pre-segmented images using seeds derived from contours A method for processing an object in image data includes the steps of drawing a contour on a pre-segmentation of an object in image data, generating at least one seed point on the pre-segmentation from an intersection of the contour and the pre-segmentation, providi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131075 | Fast 4D segmentation of large datasets using graph cuts A method for segmenting at least a pair of regions of an image. High resolution data is obtained of the image. Each one of the pair of the regions in the image is marked. Graph cuts are used on the downsampled data to obtain first voxels along an outer boundary of a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131077 | Systems and methods for segmenting an image based on perceptual information Systems for segmenting an image based on perceptual information and methods for making and using same. According to one embodiment, input channels from an image are derived and analyzed by heuristic metrics to create categorical estimates. Examples of categorical es... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126269 | Method and device for continuous figure-ground segregation in images from dynamic visual scenes A method for segregating a figure region from a background region in image sequences from dynamic visual scenes, comprising the steps of: (a) acquiring an image; (b) determining local motion estimations and confidences for each position of the image; (c) modifying a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126268 | Edge-guided morphological closing in segmentation of video sequences A method of image processing, includes receiving at least one video frame of a video sequence, the at least one video frame including at least one foreground subject and a background, and processing the at least one video frame so as to separate the at least one for... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121407 | Method and apparatus for localized labeling in digital images Methods and apparatus for localized labeling in digital images. A region is obtained within which a global labeling solution for an image lies. The region is covered with a set of multiple overlapping tiles. A labeling function is applied to each tile in two or more... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121408 | Image processing method and apparatus for face image An image processing method for a face image is provided. A skin area of a face is segmented from the face image. A brightness histogram of the skin area is generated. A skin shadow point and an eyeball point of the face are extracted from the skin area, the shadow p... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111918 | Segmentation for three-layer mixed raster content images A method for improving image quality of edge pixels, when separating an image signal into a set of image planes is provided. The method includes searching for a minimum value and a maximum value within at least one predefined neighborhood pixel window centered on a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111917 | Method for segmenting and computing the pattern of a road The present invention relates to a method for subdividing the road pattern in digital road maps into segments, in which, starting from the digital road maps in which the road pattern is subdivided into successive segments, new segment borders are established via new... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107727 | Document processing apparatus, document processing method, and computer program product In a document processing apparatus, a first character information extracting unit extracts, for a first area that is an area determined to be a character extractable area in divided areas of a document information, first character information from the area; a second... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107726 | System and method for class-specific object segmentation of image data Systems and methods for processing an image to determine whether segments of the image belong to an object class are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving digitized data representing an image, the image data comprising a plurality of pixels, s... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098933 | Method and apparatus for partitioning an object from an image A method and apparatus for partitioning an object from an image, such that substantially the entire object is contained in the partitioned region, includes pre-setting a reference width for the object; extracting a shadow underneath the object from the image and det... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094936 | Method and apparatus to segment motion area in real-time to detect motion in surveillance camera system A method and apparatus to segment a motion area in real-time to detect motion in a surveillance camera system are provided. The method includes updating a background image by using a previous input image from among an input image sequence, generating a difference im... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090201 | Image-based code A computer-readable medium may include one or more instructions for providing sub-images, one or more instructions for receiving selection of a plurality of sub-images, one or more instructions for constructing a first image, the first image being a unified image in... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086036 | Approach for resolving occlusions, splits and merges in video images A solution for resolving an occlusion in a video image which provides an environment in which portions of a video image in which occlusions have occurred may be determined and analyzed to determine the type of occlusion. Furthermore, regions of the video image may b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086037 | Tiling and merging framework for segmenting large images Described is a technology by which a large image is processed into a seamless, radiometric mean image containing meaningful image objects. A large source image is tiled into non-overlapping tiles, which are each segmented into regions and merged via their regions. S... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081821 | Chroma keying Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, involve receiving reference data and source data. The reference data includes a portion of a background image, and the background image includes an image of a backgrou... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081820 | Method for partitioning a pattern into optimized sub-patterns A method is provided for dividing a pattern into a plurality of sub-patterns, each sub-pattern being adapted for use with an image search method that can provide a plurality of sub-pattern search results. The method represents the pattern as a plurality of feature p... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077969 | Contour finding in segmentation of video sequences A method of image processing includes: receiving at least one video frame of a video sequence, the at least one video frame including at least one foreground subject and a background; and processing the at least one video frame so as to separate the at least one for... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073253 | Machine learning based triple region segmentation framework using level set on PACS Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for triple region image segmentation. Certain embodiments provide a method for triple region image segmentation on a picture archiving and communication system. The method includes forming an i... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073252 | Sparse volume segmentation for 3D scans A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for sparse volume segmentation for 3D scan of a target. The method including learning prior knowledge, providing volume data comprising the target, selecting ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073254 | Methods and systems for detecting objects of interest in spatio-temporal signals Methods and systems detect objects of interest in a spatio-temporal signal. According to one embodiment, a system processes a digital spatio-temporal input signal containing zero or more foreground objects of interest superimposed on a background. The system compris... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068669 | Text and graphic separation method and text enhancement method The present invention provides a text and graphic separation method and a text enhancement method. The text and graphic separation method is used for separating texts and graphics of an image and comprises coarse classification and advanced classification. The metho... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068670 | Image analysis of biological objects Systems and methods are described for performing image analysis. A computer-implemented method for analyzing images may include quantitatively analyzing image data to identify image objects relative to a background portion of the image according to predefined object... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064694 | Nonhuman animal integument pixel classification Systems and methods of classifying pixels into a nonhuman animal integument class are described. In one aspect, values of features in a discriminant space are determined for respective pixels of the input image. The pixels are classified into a nonhuman animal integ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064695 | Dark scene compensation in a background-foreground module of a video analysis system Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comp... | 11/22/2011 |
