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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7355742 | Apparatus and method for controlling page break position This invention has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus and method which can reliably and appropriately insert a page break by a simple process. To accomplish this, it is checked if the number of lines transferred to a printer is smaller than a pag... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352897 | Method and means for dividing an image into character image lines, and method and apparatus for character image recognition A method for dividing a character image into lines, comprising the following steps: segment-dividing step for, in term of pixels, dividing a character image into a plurality of character image segments arranged sided by side, each segment having a predetermined widt... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352898 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program product therefor An image processing apparatus includes: a reference object discriminating unit that discriminates a reference object from a digital image that is taken by capturing an object together with the reference object; a size information extracting unit that extracts size i... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352901 | Contour inspection method and apparatus Defects in the contour of a target object is detected by obtaining an digital variable-density image of the contour and edges are extracted from the image of the contour so as to sequentially represent the contour. Their directions are measured and the direction of ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352917 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention aims to recognize the mixture state of images. An area specifying unit 103 specifies a mixed area in which foreground object components which form a foreground object and background object components which form a background object are mi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349569 | Method and device for forming an isolated visualization of body structures The invention relates to a method of forming an isolated visualization of body structures from a 3D image data set, which method includes the steps of forming a binary data set in which all image elements contained in the 3D image data set are classified as image el... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349477 | Audio-assisted video segmentation and summarization A method segments a compressed video by extracting audio and visual features from the compressed video. The audio features are clustered according to K-means clustering in a set of classes, and the compressed video is then partitioned into first segments according t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349563 | System and method for polyp visualization A system and method for determining a location and a direction for viewing a protrusion, comprising: casting a plurality of rays in an outward direction from a point, wherein the point is inside a protrusion; selecting at least one of the plurality of rays for deter... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349571 | Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346381 | Method and apparatus for medical intervention procedure planning An imaging system for use in medical intervention procedure planning includes a medical scanner system for generating a volume of cardiac image data, a data acquisition system for acquiring the volume of cardiac image data, an image generation system for generating ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345233 | Apparatus and method for grouping temporal segments of a piece of music For grouping temporal segments of an audio piece, which is structured into main parts repeatedly occurring in the audio piece, into various segment classes, at first a similarity representation for the segments is provided, wherein the similarity representation for ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346203 | Methods and apparatus for processing image data to aid in detecting disease A method for detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, and/or tracking of a disease includes providing analysis software configured to detect, quantify, stage, report, and/or track a disease utilizing images of a patient. The analysis software is executable on a p... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346205 | System and method for rapidly identifying pathogens, bacteria and abnormal cells The present invention achieves rapid identification of pathogens, bacteria, cancer cells and other abnormal human and animal cells. In one embodiment, the system of the present invention comprises a first subsystem that obtains and processes images of specimens of p... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346212 | Automatic frame selection and layout of one or more images and generation of images bounded by a frame A method is disclosed of analyzing an image to identify “must exclude” regions and of determining the best fit of an image outline so as to generate an image boundary that excludes the majority of “must exclude” regions. The method is applicable to the autom... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346856 | Apparatus and method for distributing portions of large web images to fit smaller constrained viewing areas A methodology for displaying a website on a hand held display device (HHDD) is disclosed. The present invention comprises an Image Modification Program (IMP) and a Navigation Program (NP). The IMP analyzes the webpage HTML to determine if an image is present and if ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343046 | Systems and methods for organizing image data into regions The image data is initially processed in a manner that is similar to that used to convert the image data into 3-layer mixed raster content format. After the image data is initially processed through a first stage of the three-layer segmentation process, rather than ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343272 | System and method for detecting generalized space-time clusters A system for detecting clusters in space and time using input data on occurrences of a phenomenon and characteristics at a plurality of locations and times comprises an expectation generation module determining expected occurrences of a phenomena, and an occurrence ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343044 | Interpolation image generating method and apparatus An interpolation image generating method includes dividing each of the first reference image and the second reference image into reference regions each including pixels, executing a correlation operation between the first reference image and first destination images... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340081 | Using statistical process control (SPC) to demonstrate solution convergence in a technician guided segmentation system A method and apparatus for generating a computer model from scan data from a patient, comprising: (1) acquiring the scan data from the patient; (2) selecting a plurality of key frames from the scan data; ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340151 | High-speed search of recorded video information to detect motion A system and methods are described for high speed searching of digital video data 20 to find regions that have motion, for example in a scene monitored by a security camera system. Conventional video motion detection is used to find zones 28,29 and/or ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340094 | Image segmentation by means of temporal parallax difference induction An image compositing and compression method based on the creation and processing of parallax differences in motion photography. A parallax scanning MOE lens creates discrete parallax differences in the objects in the recorded scene that are perceived by the viewer a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339585 | Method and apparatus for visualization of biological structures with use of 3D position information from segmentation results A data processing methodology and corresponding apparatus for visualizing the characteristics of a particular object volume in an overall medical/biological environment receives a source image data set pertaining to the overall environment. First and second contour ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340092 | Image processing device, image processing method, program for executing image processing, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is stored An image processing device extracts graphic areas, for example, firstly from image data received, and then extracts other remaining areas, i.e., photographic and character areas. The areas that are extracted firstly can be photographic or character areas. This preve... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340106 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus The present invention allows the amount of movement indicating the movement of an object within an exposure period to be obtained. An estimated-mixture-ratio processor 401 calculates an estimated mixture ratio for each pixel and an estimated motion vector by ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336826 | Method for finding optimal threshold for image segmentation A method for finding the optimal threshold for image segmentation in image recognition is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) gaining histogram distribution of an image; b) computing entropy values corresponding to gray levels in the histogram; and c) ga... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336400 | Transforming an input image to produce an output image An input image is transformed to produce an output image. Pixels occurring at edges that represent detail within the input image are detected to produce an intermediate image. Background fill representing textures of the input image is generated. The background fill... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336805 | Docking assistant Many day-to-day driving situations require that an operator of a motor vehicle guide the motor vehicle along a specific course and bring the vehicle to a stop at a specific location, for example in a parking bay or at a loading platform. To assist a vehicle operator... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333675 | Method and device for extracting a subset of data from a set of data A method for extracting a subset of data from an ordered set of bi-dimensional matrices (data arrays) such as a sequence of pictures or a multi-dimensional matrix, for instance, is implemented by dedicated hardware that may be used each time it is necessary to extra... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333672 | Image processing system/network which performs recognition process only upon regions having higher high spatial frequency content An image recognition process applied to a photograph is preceded by a pre-processing step which identifies parts of the image which are in focus. The recognition process is then limited to those parts. The pre-processing typically operates by creating a measure of h... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333656 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing method comprises forming a histogram of an entire image, determining a ratio between a reference luminance value and a reference threshold value at a maximum frequency, dividing the image into local areas, forming a histogram of each local area, ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333676 | Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333085 | Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood tha... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333644 | Systems and methods for providing automatic 3D lesion segmentation and measurements Systems and methods are provided for automatic 3D segmentation of abnormal anatomical structures such as colonic polyps, aneurisms or lung nodules, etc., in 3D medical imaging applications. For example, systems and methods for 3D lesion segmentation implement a cent... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330606 | Method and system for extracting data from surface array deposited features A method for evaluating an orientation of a molecular array having features arranged in a pattern. An image of the molecular array is obtained by scanning the molecular array to determine data signals emanating from discrete positions on a surface of the molecular a... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330584 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and an image processing method, applied to e.g. a TV conference system or a TV telephone system, in which an image to be transmitted or received is captured and reconstructed into a virtual view point image which may appear as if it is ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330588 | Image metrics in the statistical analysis of DNA microarray data Expression profiling using DNA microarrays is an important new method for analyzing cellular physiology. In “spotted” microarrays, fluorescently labeled cDNA from experimental and control cells is hybridized to arrayed target DNA and the arrays imaged at two or ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330589 | Image partitioning apparatus and method An image processing apparatus sets an image reference position in an input image, calculates a distribution of weights from the image reference position, sets a starting position in the input image, and partitions the input image into areas by working outward from t... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330593 | Segment based image matching method and system An image matching method and system for use with multiple images of a scene captured from different angles. Image matching is performed by identifying a plurality of segments within at least two images, determining an initial disparity values for pixels in the image... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7327881 | Image reading apparatus A labeling process unit groups a continuous black pixel area as one group in the binary image data read by an image input device, and extracts the group bounding rectangle information about the group. A row extracting process unit extracts row rectangle information ... | 02/05/2008 |
