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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7680339 | Image processing method and apparatus for edge detection in an image When the edge magnitude of an image-block of interest is larger than both that of the image-block of interest after movement and that of an image-block which neighbors the image-block of interest in the moving direction (S7110, S7120), the edge magnitu... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676093 | Image reading and processing method and storage medium storing a computer program therefor that detects a contour of an image read at a higher resolution An image reading and processing method which is capable of automatically obtaining image data with high resolution along the proper contour of an original. First image reading is carried out on the original at a first resolution to obtain image data. The contour are... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676094 | Road surface reflection detecting apparatus A road surface reflection detecting apparatus includes a road recognition unit for recognizing a road in a picture taken by a camera of a road existing in front of a vehicle. A road surface reflection detection unit extracts a picture from the road recognized by the... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672514 | Method and apparatus for differentiating pedestrians, vehicles, and other objects A method and apparatus for classifying an object in an image is disclosed. Edges of an object are detected within a region of interest. Edge analysis is performed on a plurality of sub-regions within the region of interest to generate an edge score. The object is cl... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672515 | Opposing edge trapping Apparatus are provided, which include a color image processor, an edge distinguisher, and an edge trapping mechanism. The color image processor processes color images, including a given color image. The given color image includes plural color separations each having... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7664326 | Method and apparatus of image processing to detect and enhance edges A method for detecting and enhancing edges in an ultrasound image includes the steps of applying an edge detection filter to at least one of a plurality of pixels of an ultrasound image to compute an edge detection value having a magnitude and a direction; and apply... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657098 | Method and apparatus for reducing mosquito noise in decoded video sequence A ringing area detector classifies the input image into two regions: a mosquito noise region (i.e. filtering region) and a non-mosquito noise region (i.e. non-filtering region), and uses this classification information to adaptively remove the mosquito noise in a mo... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7646917 | Method and apparatus for detecting corner A method of detecting a corner, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including acquiring a visible light image and an infrared image of a spatial area of interest; and extracting corner information of the spatial area of interest using the acquired vis... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646918 | Systems and methods for recognizing objects in an image An image is analyzed to locate an object appearing in the image. A contour of that object is extracted from the image and normalized. Based on the normalized contour, one or more summation invariant values are determined and compared to templates comprising one or m... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646919 | Graphics engine for high precision lithography The present invention includes a method to use a phase modulating micromirror array to create an intensity image that has high image fidelity, good stability through focus and good x-y symmetry. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636476 | Radiation area extracting method and image processing apparatus A radiation area extracting method for extracting a radiation area from image data includes generating combinations of at least two candidate lines from an area of the image data, an evaluating step of obtaining evaluated values of the combinations of at least two c... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7616818 | Method of determining the orientation of an image The orientation of an image such as a radiographic image is deduced from the digital representation of the image. In one embodiment the curvature is calculated and a decision on the orientation of the image is obtained on the basis of the value of the calcula... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7606423 | Method and apparatus for blocking artifact detection and measurement in block-coded video A method includes detecting vertical edge pixels in an image and analyzing the detected vertical edge pixels by horizontal location in the image to detect a spatial periodicity in the detected vertical edge pixels. The method further includes detecting horizontal ed... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599561 | Compact interactive tabletop with projection-vision The subject application relates to a system(s) and/or methodology that facilitate vision-based projection of any image (still or moving) onto any surface. In particular, a front-projected computer vision-based interactive surface system is provided which uses a new ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596273 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing program Edges are efficiently extracted from digital photographic images. A reduction rate determining means determines reduction rates for images, such that larger images are assigned higher reduction intensities. A reduction executing means reduces an image, employing the... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7590288 | Method and/or apparatus for detecting edges of blocks in an image processing system An apparatus comprising an edge detector circuit, an edge strength detector and an edge strength threshold circuit. The edge detector circuit may be configured to determine a plurality of default directions of a macroblock in response to a plurality of input signals... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7567713 | Method utilizing intensity interpolation for measuring edge locations in a high precision machine vision inspection system A method for operating a video tool to perform precision edge detection in an image. The method includes determining estimated image intensity values corresponding to positions along a straight line aligned with a defined scan line orientation. The location of an ed... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7565015 | Edge pixel identification The teachings provided herein disclose a method for the identification of edge pixels within a digital image. The method operates by generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of neighboring vectors of pixels within a given observation window, and generati... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7542608 | Method for automatically cropping image objects A method for automatically cropping image objects, including: an object contour detecting step, an image dividing step, and an image merging step. The object contour detecting step detects object contours with Modified Laplacian Contour Detector to generate a binary... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539344 | Boundary detection method between areas having different features in image data An image processing device includes a feature emphasis unit for extracting first image frequency information from image data for each first unit area, a boundary provisional determination unit for defining a value obtained by adding a predetermined weight to the fir... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7526131 | Image processing apparatus and methods A method is provided of processing digital image data representing an image of an object to determine data representing a boundary for said object, the method comprising: inputting said image data; initializing a level set function representation of an interface for... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7505628 | Method and device for processing and for searching for an object by signals corresponding to images A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving the peak values in CSS space for the object outline and applying a non-linear transformation to said peak values to arrive at... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7496231 | Color interpolation method Disclosed is a color interpolation method. The present invention decides a precise position of an edge with use of a G value in a unit pixel structure with a size of 3×3, thereby using different color interpolations according to the position of the edge. Also, the ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7489822 | Image processing apparatus and method for detecting a direction of an edge in the vicinity of a pixel of interest and generating all color signals for each pixel by interpolation using color signals of a pixel of interest and its neighbor pixels, and a recording medium having a program recorded thereon for causing the apparatus to perform the method An image processing apparatus comprises a first color signal detection section of detecting a first color signal indicating a color component of a pixel of interest from the pixel of interest, a second color signal detection section of detecting a plurality of secon... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489820 | System for measuring the surface geometry and surface evenness of flat products The invention relates to a device for producing a pattern on a surface for measuring, using a projector and a slide. The invention also relates to various advantageous embodiments of the measuring system. ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489821 | Method, system and program product for representing a perceptual organization of an image Under the present invention, an image is progressively blurred to yield a set of (progressive) scaling levels. Once blurred, the edges of the image are detected so that each image segment can be identified on each scaling level. Once the segments are identified, lik... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7474789 | Method of edge direction detection based on the correlation between pixels of a vector and an edge direction detection system A method for edge direction detection at a selected pixel on a center-line between two lines of an image includes defining two vectors using certain pixels on the two lines. A vector norm is defined which gives an indication of the correlation of between pixels of o... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474787 | Apparatus and method of detecting specified pattern In an apparatus which detects a specified pattern, a binarizing unit converts input image data to bi-level image data, and a storage device stores the converted bi-level image data. A pattern detection unit comprises a plurality of detectors which detect a specified... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474788 | Method and system for enhancing image resolution using a modification vector An image processing system. An input/output device receives information for pixels in an image corresponding to an object, wherein the information specifies optical properties. A storage device stores the information. A processor determines an image of preliminary c... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7454066 | Extracting method of pattern contour, image processing method, searching method of pattern edge, scanning method of probe, manufacturing method of semiconductor device, pattern inspection apparatus, and program An extracting method of a pattern contour, includes acquiring an image of a pattern to be inspected, calculating a schematic edge position of the pattern from the image, preparing an approximate polygon by approximating a polygon consisting of edges having predeterm... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450762 | Method and arrangement for determining an object contour A method is disclosed for determining a sought object contour in a digital microscope image, which includes a plurality of image elements and reproduces a biological material. The method includes assigning edge values to at least a first subset of the image elements... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440616 | System and method for recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink input A system and method for recognition of hand-drawn charts in ink input is provided. A chart recognizer may be provided that may recognize a hand-drawn diagram or chart in ink input. The chart recognizer may include a connectivity-based recognizer for recognizing a ha... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440618 | Apparatus for extracting rules line from multiple-valued image A rather expanded binary image and a rather blurry binary image are generated from a multiple-valued image. A ruled line candidate area is extracted from the rather expanded binary image, and the extracted ruled line candidate area is verified using the rather blurr... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440635 | Method for removing ringing artifacts from locations near dominant edges of an image reconstructed after compression A method to remove ringing artifacts from locations near dominant edges of an image reconstructed after compression. The image is decomposed into blocks small enough so that each would contain only one significant edge. A significant edge is tested as to whether it ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436984 | Method and system for stabilizing video data The invention relates to a method for stabilizing a video recording of a scene made by a video camera and represented by video data, said method comprising the steps of subdividing said video data into a plurality of successive frames themselves divided into a plura... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437002 | Image recognition system utilizing an edge image and a binary image An image processing apparatus processes an input image, in which an edge image is created by executing an extracting operation on the input image, and a binary image is created by performing a thresholding operation on the input image. A first partial thresholding u... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433516 | Method of extracting a textual area in a digital image A method of extracting a textual area in a digital image, in which the digital image is divided into a plurality of blocks, each being computed to obtain a number of edges, each having a higher contrast in the block at a horizontal direction and a vertical direction... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433519 | Bitstream format for compressed image data It is desirable to provide a bitstream format for compressed data that would allow multiple processors to access and decompress different parts of the data in parallel. Compressed images are usually defined in terms of macroblocks that have a width less than the ima... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430321 | System and method for volumetric tumor segmentation using joint space-intensity likelihood ratio test A method for segmenting a digitized image includes providing a digitized volumetric image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in an N-dimensional space, identifying a target structure in said image, forming a window about said t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430320 | Region-guided boundary refinement method A region-guided boundary refinement method for object segmentation in digital images receives an initial object regions of interest and performs directional boundary decomposition using the initial object regions of interest to generate a plurality of directional ob... | 09/30/2008 |