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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7283648 | Method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284200 | Organization of handwritten notes using handwritten titles A system and method for associating an ink title with a note is described. A user may hand write a title for a document or note and have the handwritten ink title be displayed when interacting with the system when, for example, viewing the contents of a directory, r... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280234 | Image processing device If the width of a rectangle to be drawn by a drawing command is less than or equal to a first reference value that is previously determined dependently on the length of one record of cache memory, the drawing command for the rectangle is held in a rectangular drawin... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280673 | System and method for searching for changes in surveillance video Systems and methods for determining when a change has occurred in an area-of-interest included in an image region are disclosed. The system and methods may perform a specially modified background subtraction method. The systems and methods may initialize a backgroun... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280675 | Method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280676 | Personal identification device and method The invention aims at providing personal identification in environments where non-contact is required, with high accuracy even though using a finger vein pattern images unclear and susceptible to positional deviations, wherein it has: a means for acquiring finger ve... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280159 | Method and apparatus for cross color and/or cross luminance suppression A method and apparatus for cross color and/or cross luminance suppression. The apparatus checks for three conditions in determining the stillness of an image. Similarity between two frames, which are one frame apart, is examined. Similarity between two adjacent fram... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280697 | Unsupervised learning of object categories from cluttered images Unsupervised learning of object category from images is carried out by using an automatic image recognition system. A plurality of training images are automatically analyzed using an interest operator which produces an indication of features. Those features are clus... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277584 | Form recognition system, form recognition method, program and storage medium A plurality of binary images are obtained from one form image by binarizing the form image by using a plurality of binarizing threshold values for improving a recognition rate of the search form irrespective of a state of the inputted form image, and format data are... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277560 | Method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277598 | Image processing apparatus, certification photograph taking apparatus, and certification photograph creation system A certification photograph creation system includes a certification photograph taking apparatus, an image input apparatus to input a photographed image, an image processing apparatus and a printer to output an image that has been subjected to the image processing as... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277589 | Image retouching method, apparatus, and program storage medium, image correcting method, apparatus, and program storage medium, and eye detecting and correcting method apparatus, and program storage medium The present invention provides an image retouching method including the steps of: detecting a local defect in an original image and distinguishing the type of the defect on the basis of image data representing the original image; displaying the defect detected at th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277723 | Method for inputting and permuting original scripts to external mobile phone and the device for performing the same An external device of a mobile phone for inputting and permuting original script comprises a handwriting sensing device for sensing handwriting script and generating script coordinates or displacement data; a transmission interface for transmitting the script coordi... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277187 | Overhead dimensioning system and method A system and method for dimensioning large or palletized freight of one or more pieces determines the dimensions of a rectangular prism having the smallest volume which would contain the freight. The system is capable of being positioned remotely from the freight. T... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274826 | Image information compressing method, image information compressing device and image information compressing program The present invention provides an image information compressing apparatus of high coding efficiency with little deterioration in picture quality, capable of effectively extracting feature components from an image in an image information feature-extraction and coding... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274380 | Augmented reality system An augmented reality system includes a video source, and a database. The video source resides at a location and produces an image. At least one encoded marker resides within the image. A marker detector is coupled to the video source and is adapted to derive encoded... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274806 | Service system for selecting personal goods to wear or carry, and program product therefor A service system for selecting personal goods to wear or carry, comprising a memory unit configured to memorize information on personal goods associated with types of each of decomposed body components with respect to a number of customers; an extracting unit config... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274741 | Systems and methods for generating a comprehensive user attention model Systems and methods to generate an attention model for computational analysis of video data are described. In one aspect, feature components from a video data sequence are extracted. Attention data is generated by applying multiple attention models to the extracted ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271850 | Method and apparatus for cross color/cross luminance suppression According to embodiments of the present invention, a method for processing an image in a video data is disclosed. The video data comprises at least a first frame and a second frame. The first frame is composed of a first even field and a first odd field, while the s... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269292 | Digital image adjustable compression and resolution using face detection information A method of adjustable spatial and/or temporal compression of an image including a face includes identifying a group of pixels that correspond to a face within a digitally-acquired image. A first compression portion of the image including the group of pixels is dete... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269516 | Systems and methods for monitoring behavior informatics A system and method used to assess animal behavior includes a module having sensors that collects a variety of physical and biological data from a test subject. Interpretation of the data is provided to assess the test subject's behavior, neurology, biochemistry and... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269276 | Method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269285 | Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image A method of representing an object appearing in an image, the method comprising deriving a plurality of view descriptors of the object, each view descriptor corresponding to a different view of the object, and associating the two or more view descriptors, the method... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269284 | Method and apparatus using dual bounding boxes as dynamic templates for cartridge rack identification and tracking A method and apparatus using dual bounding boxes as dynamic templates for cartridge rack identification and tracking is disclosed. An imaging tape cartridge picker system includes a picker assembly, illumination sources disposed at the front of the picker assembly f... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266251 | Method and apparatus for generating models of individuals A communications system is described in which a plurality of mobile phones are provided, each including means for generating a user interface for enabling users to identify points in images as feature points. All of the phones are then operable to utilise points ide... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266242 | Methods and systems for complexity-based regional process selection Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and selective complexity-based image processing. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266473 | Fast microarray expression data analysis method for network exploration A method for feature selection is provided. The method includes the steps of selecting a predictor set of features, adding at least one complementary feature to the predictor set based on a quality of prediction, checking to see if all of the features of the predict... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266253 | Methods and systems for complexity-based process selection Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and selective complexity-based image processing. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266222 | Method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266769 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink A pen-based computing system supports organizing, editing, and rendering handwritten digital ink. A given page of text may include several word flows, but the flows may be prevented from overlapping one another, and each word and stroke may be assigned to only one f... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266223 | Personal identification device and method The invention aims at providing personal identification in environments where non-contact is required, with high accuracy even though using a finger vein pattern images unclear and susceptible to positional deviations, wherein it has: a means for acquiring finger ve... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263202 | Watermarking to control video recording Video programs are identified by watermark data subliminally conveyed within the picture data. By reference to such program identification data, video recording devices can automatically identify desired programs, and respond accordingly. For example, if a desired t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263230 | Narrow field abstract meta-data image compression An image compression technique in which patterns identified, the means of separating the image components, the parameterization of the patterns, and the lower level numerical encodings are all designed around a narrow class of images, such as two-dimensional project... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263214 | Computer aided diagnosis from multiple energy images A method, system, and storage medium for computer aided processing of dual or multiple energy images includes employing a data source, the data source including a dual or multiple energy image set, defining a region of interest within one or more images from the dua... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263226 | Method and system for detecting anomalies in multispectral and hyperspectral imagery employing the normal compositional model A computer program product for detecting anomalies from multidimensional data comprises: a) receiving multidimensional data; b) estimating background parameters of a normal compositional model from the multidimensional data; c) estimating abundance values of the nor... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260259 | Image segmentation using statistical clustering with saddle point detection A system and method for image segmentation using statistical clustering with saddle point detection includes representation means for representing the image data in a joint space of dimension d=r+2 that includes two special coordinates, where r=1 for gray-scale imag... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260276 | Methods and systems for complexity estimation and complexity-based selection Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and complexity-based image processing. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260241 | Image surveillance apparatus, image surveillance method, and image surveillance processing program An image surveillance apparatus includes: an imaging section including a convex mirror having a shape of a body of rotation, the imaging section obtaining an image of an omniazimuthal region and generating image data of the omniazimuthal region; a surveillance regio... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259752 | Method and system for editing electronic ink A computer-implemented method and system for erasing and editing an electronic document. A goal for computing devices that support the use of a stylus that can record handwriting strokes and present them in an electronic document is to present electronic ink that be... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260245 | Method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 08/21/2007 |
