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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8041118 | Pattern recognition filters for digital images In an exemplary embodiment, a pattern is recognized from digitized images. A first image metric is computed from a first digitized image and a second image metric is computed from a second digitized image. A composite image metric is computed as a function of the fi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031942 | Matching device A matching device includes a first storing unit, a second storing unit, and a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a control unit and a circuit unit. In the circuit unit, a first circuit including distance calculating circuits that calculate dista... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027537 | Visual object identification by computational majority voting A method of distinguishing an object in an image. The method including the steps of detecting an image with an optical device where the image includes at least one object. Identifying at least one object using a central processing unit (CPU) that includes a central ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027538 | User interface for high dynamic range merge image selection Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for creating high dynamic range images. One method includes actions of establishing a current set of digital image; displaying a high dynamic range image and information identifying the current ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023740 | Systems and methods for notes detection To perform notes detection, candidate reference marks are identified in a document. A starting note zone is identified in the document. A pair of similar reference marks is identified from the candidate reference marks including a first reference mark in the note zo... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023739 | Processes, data structures, and apparatuses for representing knowledge Processes, data structures, and apparatuses to represent knowledge are disclosed. The processes can comprise labeling elements in a knowledge signature according to concepts in an ontology and populating the elements with confidence values. The data structures can c... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019159 | Method and apparatus for informing user of image recognition error in imaging system Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for informing a user of an image recognition error in an imaging system. The method includes detecting environmental factors causing errors of image recognition when image recognition is requested by the user, calculating analy... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014606 | Image discrimination apparatus An image discrimination apparatus includes an inter-frame distance calculating unit 2 for calculating an inter-frame distance which is a distance between features from the feature of a current frame extracted by a feature extracting unit 1 and the feat... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009913 | System, method, apparatus and computer program product for capturing human-readable text displayed on a unit dose package A system, method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for capturing human-readable text displayed on a unit dose package. In particular, identification information associated with a unit dose package may be used to determine a location and/or a forma... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000530 | Computer-implemented expert system-based method and system for document recognition and content understanding A system and process for recognizing documents by type and understanding at least a portion of the contents thereof. The process includes the steps of providing a document in electronic form, determining a set of facts, data and information about the document, provi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991230 | Modeling micro-structure for feature extraction Exemplary systems and methods use micro-structure modeling of an image for extracting image features. The micro-structure in an image is modeled as a Markov Random Field, and the model parameters are learned from training images. Micro-patterns adaptively designed f... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986838 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of preventing deterioration of judgment accuracy when performing document matching process. To be more specific, when selecting feature points in the neighborhood of a target feature point, a prede... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983484 | Pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program A pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program capable of increasing the accuracy in computing the false acceptance probability and capable of ensuring a stable security strength are provided. Pattern recognition systems | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970209 | Holographic data storage using oversampling and balanced codewords There is provided an optical information detecting method. The method includes: detecting an image of a source data page coded with balanced codewords by the use of 1:N (where N is greater than 1) excessive detection pixels; determining a distribution pattern of val... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961947 | FACS cleaning in motion capture A method of cleaning facial marker data, the method comprising: decimating frames of survey facial marker data into representative frames of key facial poses; generating a facial pose matrix using the representative frames of key facial poses; and cleaning incoming ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961946 | Method and system for background estimation in localization and tracking of objects in a smart video camera Aspects of a method and system for change detection in localization and tracking of objects in a smart video camera are provided. A programmable surveillance video camera comprises processors for detecting objects in a video signal based on an object mask. The proce... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953278 | Face recognition method and apparatus A face recognition that is robust to external illumination variations is provided. The face recognition apparatus includes a face localizer extracting a predetermined number of feature points from a facial region extracted from an input image, a Gabor filter unit ap... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949188 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus is disclosed which processes moving images each divisible into a plurality of shots, the image processing apparatus including: a holding unit configured to hold discrimination models acquired by learning beforehand a first rule and a se... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945095 | Line segment detector and line segment detecting method A line segment detector comprises a vertical line detecting part, a horizontal line detecting part, a left-to-right downward slanting line detecting part, a left-to-right upward slanting line detecting part, and a line-segment detecting/synthesizing section that cal... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945096 | Apparatus for discriminating the types of recording material and an apparatus for forming image The present invention provides an apparatus for discriminating the type of recording material. The apparatus comprises a component irradiating a piece of recording material with light, a sensor picking up an image of the recording material surface by receiving light... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940986 | User interface system based on pointing device The user interaction system comprises a portable pointing device (101) connected to a camera (102) and sending pictures to a digital signal processor (120), capable of recognizing an object (130) and a command given by the user (100 | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933448 | Card reading system employing CMOS reader A method and an apparatus determines at least one of rank or suit of a playing card. The apparatus has at least one two-dimensional complementary metal oxide semiconductor imaging system that provides a signal when playing cards are moved over the system. The signal... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933449 | Pattern recognition method According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a pattern recognition method of approximating distribution of a set of vectors and a class boundary in a vector space based on basis functions. The method includes defining directional basis fun... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929763 | Determination of portrait against back light A CPU 200 compares a luminance distribution characteristic of image data with a reference luminance distribution characteristic, and then confirms that the image data GD is a backlit portrait image data if similarity degree Sv between the luminance distributi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925090 | Method of determining photo mask, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and computer program product A method of determining a photo mask, includes specifying a mask pattern for a photo mask for a first exposure apparatus, specifying a plurality of exposure conditions allowed to be set for a second exposure apparatus, predicting a projection image of the mask patte... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916947 | False alarm recognition in hyperspectral gas plume identification According to one embodiment, a method for analyzing hyperspectral data includes collecting first hyperspectral data of a scene using a hyperspectral imager during a no-gas period and analyzing the first hyperspectral data using one or more gas plume detection logics... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912289 | Image text replacement Image text enhancement techniques are described. In an implementation, graphically represented text included in an original image is converted into process capable text. The process capable text may be used to generate a text image which may replace the original tex... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912287 | Distributed document processing A method for document processing including decomposing an image of a document into at least one data entry region sub-image, providing the data entry region sub-image to a data entry clerk available for processing the data entry region sub-image, receiving from the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912290 | Energy minimization for classification, pattern recognition, sensor fusion, data compression, network reconstruction and signal processing A data analyzer/classifier comprises using a preprocessing step, and energy minimization step, and a postprocessing step to analyze/classify data. ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912288 | Object detection and recognition system During a training phase we learn parts of images which assist in the object detection and recognition task. A part is a densely represented area of an image of an object to which we assign a unique label. Parts contiguously cover an image of an object to give a part... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903877 | Radical-based HMM modeling for handwritten East Asian characters Exemplary methods, systems, and computer-readable media for developing, training and/or using models for online handwriting recognition of characters are described. An exemplary method for building a trainable radical-based HMM for use in character recognition inclu... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899252 | Object information derived from object images Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899251 | Balancing out-of-dictionary and in-dictionary recognition scores Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve handwriting recognition operations. A balancing factor is calculated that can be used in recognition mode to compare out-of-dictionary recognition scores with in-dictionary recognition scores. Correct in... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889925 | Method, system and computer program for encoding and decoding a pixelized target graphic symbol Method, system and computer program product for encoding a pixelized target graphic symbol by obtaining an encoded pixel cluster that is encoded with a code that is characteristic of the target graphic symbol and pixelizing the target graphic symbol using at least o... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881533 | Microinjection apparatus and microinjection method A microinjection apparatus of the present invention includes a needle-position polarity detecting unit that detects a position of the needle in the vertical direction at which a value of a differential aggregate distribution becomes the maximum in the situation in w... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865017 | Selection of regions within an image Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise a first input circuit to receive first data describing a first region of an image, the first region identified based on user markups of the image; a second input circuit to receive second da... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860314 | Adaptation of exponential models A method and apparatus are provided for adapting an exponential probability model. In a first stage, a general-purpose background model is built from background data by determining a set of model parameters for the probability model based on a set of background data... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856143 | Unauthorized copy preventing device and method thereof, and program The pattern (pattern characteristic quantity) extracted from the pattern image carried by original printing paper is stored on the original printing paper and the validity of the original printing paper is verified according to the pattern stored on code-added print... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853081 | Identifying data patterns Methods and systems for identifying data patterns from data comprising at least one data object, said data having at least one existing pattern class associated therewith, said data object being represented by a base feature vector, at least one of said base feature... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840072 | Method and system for pattern matching Pattern matching can be achieved by considering only the position numbers of a source pattern and a target pattern within ordered sequences of possible source patterns and target patterns respectively. The position numbers of source patterns containing the target pa... | 11/23/2010 |
