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| 7142689 | Image processing apparatus for determining specific images An image processing method is provided. This method comprises: a first information extraction step of extracting first information, including a registration signal used to correct the geometrical distortion of an image; a determination step of employing results obta... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133566 | Method of filling exposed areas in digital images A method of reconstructing a previously occluded area of a video image frame exposed by the motion of a segment within said image frame. In one embodiment the method involves approximating the color values of the pixels in the newly exposed area from the color value... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130821 | Method and apparatus for product comparison A method of comparing products is disclosed. The method includes selecting a first configuration representing a first product with a first attribute, selecting a second configuration representing a second product with a second attribute, and displaying the first att... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127104 | Vectorized image segmentation via trixel agglomeration A computer implemented method transforms an image comprised of pixels into a vectorized image specified by a plurality of polygons that can be subsequently used to aid in image processing and understanding. The pixelated image is processed to extract edge pixels tha... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120872 | 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... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103209 | Method for extracting objective image Noted portions of an image, such as a pin point hole in an isolated area or a pattern contour that forms a continuous boundary area, are clearly displayed by first erasing background noise by acquiring information regarding differences between an image detection sig... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7079687 | Method and apparatus for segmentation of compound documents A method for segmenting a compound document initiates with receiving image data, followed by processing the image data at both a first scale and a second scale. Next, region types of the compound document are determined according to a combination of processing outpu... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076099 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium The objective of the present invention is to provide a simple and accurate process for extracting an object from an image, which is used to impose a great load for an operator. According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus comprises an object ext... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072513 | Method of segmenting handwritten touching numeral strings having non-vertical segmentation line Disclosed is a method of segmenting handwritten touching numeral strings having a non-vertical segmentation line. The method comprises the steps of: receiving an image of the handwritten touching numeral strings having the non-vertical segmentation line extracted fr... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068821 | Information processing method and apparatus An input coordinate sequence is acquired by sampling a handwritten input pattern at predetermined intervals, and a pattern expressed by this input coordinate sequence is approximated by coupling a plurality of line segments to attain line segment conversion. Adjacen... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062099 | Image processing method and apparatus using self-adaptive binarization The present invention provides a unique method, apparatus, system and storage medium for image binarization process, wherein an image to be processed is divided into a plurality of sub-images and an binarization threshold for each of the sub-images is determined bas... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059695 | Print engine for a pagewidth inkjet printer A print engine for a pagewidth inkjet printer includes a processor component for programming data transfer. A bus writes and reads data to and from various components of the print engine. A page data interface component is connected to the bus for writing compressed... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050653 | Identification of virtual raster pattern A method aims to identify a virtual raster pattern in an image of a surface that is provided with a plurality of position-coding marks. Each mark is associated with a respective intersection of raster lines belonging to the raster pattern. By means of the method, th... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7035466 | Process and device for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image in which the contour points of said image are identified A process for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image (m, n) in which the contour points of said image each defined by the modulus and the orientation θ of their gradient in relation to a horizontal axis a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035426 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and a computer program product for judging whether image data include specific information related to copy protection The present invention relates to image processing in which an image resolution of input image data is compared to information of predetermined standard resolution, and the image data is judged to determine whether it includes specific information related to copy pro... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034822 | System and method for producing 3D video images A method and system generates 3D video images from point samples obtained from primary video data in a 3D coordinate system. Each point sample contains 3D coordinates in a 3D coordinate system, as well as colour and/or intensity information. On subsequently renderin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031526 | Reshaping freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document The invention improves the appearance of freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document by first recognizing freehand drawn lines and shapes and generating a line made up of sequential straight line segments for the freehand drawn line when the line does ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031527 | Automatic digitization of garment patterns The present invention relates to a system and method for digitizing shapes especially for garment styles by using image scanning techniques. ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028040 | Method and system for incrementally maintaining digital content using events A method and system are provided for incrementally maintaining digital information using change notifications. A content store provides change notifications corresponding to changes to the data within the store to an event broadcaster. One or more modules store a su... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024042 | Word recognition device, word recognition method, and storage medium The capacity of a character feature dictionary is reduced, and stored as a feature dictionary. The capacity is reduced by clustering feature vectors in units of columns or rows for character features, by making m column vectors represent the column or row features, ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020343 | Method and apparatus for enhancing discrete pixel images by analyzing image structure A technique for enhancing discrete pixel images includes blurring or smoothing image data, and identifying structural features based upon the blurred image data. Identification of structural pixels is based upon a scaling factor which may be adjusted by an operator,... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016521 | Image processing method and system, and medical examination apparatus, for extracting a path following a threadlike structure in an image An image processing method of extracting the points of a path following a threadlike structure in an image (IP) formed by a grid of Potential points. A first processing step (4) implements a first path-tracking operation using a front marching technique denot... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015839 | Mapping method utilizing look-up table and related apparatus A method includes utilizing the look-up table to store a plurality of basic values and a plurality of delta value sets, wherein each of the delta value sets represents a difference between a corresponding basic value and another basic value adjacent to the correspon... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010166 | Character recognition system and method using spatial and structural feature extraction A character recognition system and method implement a classification system according to which each character of a set of characters is identifiable at least partially on the basis of a set of character feature types indicative of the identity of the character, the ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006694 | System and method for pattern identification A system and method for pattern identification are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method for locating a pattern includes the steps of (1) providing a pattern image corresponding to the pattern to be located; (2) extracting a pat... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006693 | Object recognition method The object of the present invention is to quickly and easily recognize the position, quantity, and kind of the object, which takes unspecified forms according to the angle in which the object is positioned. Points are arranged at regular intervals on an image. For e... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6993189 | System and method to facilitate pattern recognition by deformable matching A system and method to facilitate pattern recognition or matching between patterns are disclosed that is substantially invariant to small transformations. A substantially smooth deformation field is applied to a derivative of a first pattern and a resulting deformat... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980309 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image producing section produces a character or pattern image indicative of the input conditions of a color scanner section. The input conditions include data on the resolution, the sampling rate, etc. An image synthesis section synthesizes the produced image wit... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6972868 | Image data compression method A method of compressing a set of image data organized into a matrix of pixels includes selecting a multi-pixel block portion of the data, then performing a mathematical function on the multi-pixel block portion to generate a first result. The multi-pixel block porti... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970165 | Method and system for optimizing a finite element mesh Computer-implemented method and system for optimizing a finite element mesh. Computing devices are configured to calculate a quality score for at least one original element in a finite element mesh based upon two or more quality attributes simultaneously. A quality ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6965693 | Image processor, image processing method, and recorded medium A feature region is extracted from the image region of an object, in accordance with the luminance distribution of pixels adjacent to a predetermined pixel that exists in the image region of the object (S31 to S34). A gravity-center correlation value i... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965694 | Motion information recognition system A motion information recognition system takes time-series images of an object in motion and generates image vectors that are analyzed to produce a plurality of eigenvectors that are then stored. Inner product operations are performed between image vectors of a recog... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963664 | Segmentation of digital images A method for segmenting a digital image composed of pixels, including determining hard border fragments in the digital image by means of an edge detection process, determining respective sides of each of said hard border fragments, and forming segments by determinin... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6958714 | Encoding method and encoding apparatus, and computer program and computer readable storage medium This invention re-encodes encoded data (e.g., PackBits encoded data), which is expressed by a data format of a runlength code part indicating the runlength of the same data and a data part indicating the data, and a runlength code part indicating the runlength of a ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6947586 | Multi-neural net imaging apparatus and method A multi-neural net imaging apparatus and method for classification of image elements, such as biological particles. The multi-net structure utilizes subgroups of particle features to partition the decision space by an attribute or physical characteristic of the part... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937741 | Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium therefor An average of pattern scores of a target binary image is obtained based upon the target binary image and first principal component vectors of a reference pattern, and the average of pattern scores of the target binary image is compared with a reference-pattern score... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6917782 | Original document image scanning and printing device An original document image scanning and printing device includes a scanning unit that scans an image of an original document, a printing unit that prints out the image, an image processing unit that rotates the image and a control unit that controls rotating and sca... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912309 | Method and system for identifying objects in an image Methods and apparatus for identifying objects in an image include processing the image with a gradient operator to produce a gradient magnitude and direction for each pixel. A number of different gradient directions in a portion of the processed image is determined.... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912316 | Data compression and reconstruction methods and apparatuses for hard copy device Data compression and reconstruction methods and apparatuses for a hard copy device are provided. The data compression method of compressing source image data, which is used for hard copying a bilevel screened image and stored in a memory in units of bytes, for a har... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909525 | Facsimile machine and image margin adjustment method A facsimile machine detects transition points in image data, and adjusts the image data accordingly. Preferably, the image data are run-length data, from which image margins are detected, and the image data are adjusted to avoid overflow of printing margins. The adj... | 06/21/2005 |
