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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7430303 | Target detection method and system A method and system detects candidate targets or objects from a viewed scene by simplifying the data, converting the data to gradient magnitude and direction data which is thresholded to simplify the data. Horizontal edges within the data are softened to reduce thei... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430338 | 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... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7428334 | Methods and systems for 3D segmentation of ultrasound images A method for three dimensional (3D) segmentation of an object is provided. The method obtains a volumetric data set containing object data and non-object data in proximity to the object data, the object data having a reference axis extending through the object data.... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418112 | Pedestrian detection apparatus A pedestrian detection apparatus of the present invention extracts a whole-body region and a prospective head region based on a pattern matching between an input image picked up by an infrared camera and whole-body/head model images stored in a model-image storage u... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418139 | Contour extraction apparatus, contour extraction method, and contour extraction program To provide a contour extraction apparatus which can perform much more quickly the contour division when required while reducing the cost for computing. In contour extraction unit 32: a plurality of nodes are located on a periphery of the target object by the ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418140 | Method for auto-cropping a scanned image The present invention provides a method for dynamically refine the threshold values of R(Red), G(Green), B(Blue) colors for determining a borderline pixel in response to the values of a background image, thereby to precisely determine the borderlines of the Area of ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412096 | Method and system for interpolator direction selection during edge detection A system and method that determines the direction of an edge in a video image using a gradient of the edge in a first direction and a gradient of the edge in a second direction. The system uses the sign of the product of the gradient in the first direction and the g... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411592 | Graphical processing of object perimeter information A technique for graphically processing perimeter information includes determining a polar representation of the perimeter of an object to define polar perimeter information, storing the polar perimeter information, retrieving the stored polar perimeter information u... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412097 | 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... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409075 | Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium In each of frames of specified image data, a covered background area or an uncovered background area is detected. In an image in the first frame, a user inputs the contour of an object in the covered background area. In an image in the last frame, the user inputs th... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409086 | Segmentation of image data In an image processing system, successive segmentation steps are carried out. In the case of a “hole” in the segmentation result, which is defined as a small area of one type (such as black) within a slightly larger “island” of another type (such as white), ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409092 | Method and apparatus for the surveillance of objects in images Object detection and tracking operations on images that may be performed independently are presented. A detection module receives images, extracts edges in horizontal and vertical directions, and generates an edge map where object-regions are ranked by their immedia... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408672 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming method When a print key on a console panel is depressed, a main CPU confirms enlargement/reduction rate information input via the console panel, and then, performs line thinning by setting a line thinning parameter according to the same magnification, an enlargement rate o... | 08/05/2008 |
