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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189925 | Geocoding by image matching Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods and computer storage media for associating a known geographic location with a known identity. Feature matching, of at least two images, is performed in at least two iterations. The iterations are based ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189924 | Phishing abuse recognition in web pages A method of identifying potential phishing abuse images includes: producing a first color map that represents a subset of color values and pixel locations within a base image; producing a second color map that represents color values and pixel locations within a tar... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184912 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method There are provided: a pattern detection process section for extracting a partial image made of pixels including a target pixel from input image data; a rotated image generating section for generating a self-rotated image by rotating the partial image; and a matching... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180159 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method There are provided: a pattern detection process section for extracting a partial image made of pixels including a target pixel from input image data; a displaced image generation section for generating a self-displaced image by displacing at least a part of the part... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8135219 | Method of detecting and compensating fail pixel in hologram optical storage system A method of detecting and compensating fail pixels in a holographic storage system. The method includes steps of: providing a plurality of image frames to show on a data plane for all pixels on the data plane being capable of outputting a light state or a dark state... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7792366 | Method of measuring amount of eccentricity An optical element to be measured is irradiated with the light which has passed through an indicator, thereby to form an indicator image on an image pick-up surface. Maximum peak coordinates are specified and stored as a position of the indicator image relating to t... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7529410 | Local localization using fast image match A technique is disclosed for determining a portion of a document corresponding to a captured image. A user employs a pen to create a stroke in a document, and images are captured by a camera mounted on the pen. The locations of some of the images are determined by, ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7442930 | Method for correcting distortions in electron backscatter diffraction patterns A method is provided for correcting magnetic field distortions in an electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) pattern. An EBSD pattern is firstly generated from a sample placed within an electron microscope. A predetermined representation of a magnetic field in the m... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437017 | Image processing method In accordance with an image processing method, a data region is detected from input image data. The input image data is rotated in accordance with inclination of an image. Determination is made whether the data region of rotated image data protrudes from an image ar... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428336 | Efficient detection of constant regions of an image A technique that improves image analysis efficiency by reducing the number of computations needed to detect constant regions. Constant region detection according to the present techniques includes determining whether an image analysis window at a current position co... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7409090 | Handwritten character input device and handwritten character input processing method The present invention provides a handwritten character input device and handwritten input character processing method enabling easy selection of a text input area and reliable input of handwritten characters, regardless of where the text input area is located. The h... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7362892 | Self-optimizing classifier A method and computer program product are disclosed for determining an optimal classifier model for a pattern recognition system and updating the determined model to recognize new output classes. An initial plurality of classifier models are selected from a set of g... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352910 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image enlarging method An interpolated image obtained by enlarging and interpolating an image (IN) is subjected to predetermined vector transformation to calculate an image feature vector. Also, a characteristic of a subject is obtained to calculate a physical characteristic parameter of ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349567 | Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has an assumed pose. The projection sums are calculated for a range of an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333630 | Method and apparatus for detecting film image using grouping Provided is a method and apparatus for determining whether an input mage is a film image. The method includes (a) receiving a predetermined number of similarity values of two adjacent fields of the same kind from an image having interlaced fields, (b) classifying th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330604 | Model-based dewarping method and apparatus An apparatus and method for processing a captured image and, more particularly, for processing a captured image comprising a document. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a camera to capture documents is described. In another embodiment, a method for processi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327887 | Increasing accuracy of discrete curve transform estimates for curve matching System and method for estimating a rotational shift between a first discrete curve and a second discrete curve, where the second discrete curve is a rotationally shifted version of the first discrete curve. First and second discrete curves are received. A rotational... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324710 | Method and device for determining nominal data for electronic circuits by capturing a digital image and compare with stored nominal data A method and a corresponding device for determining nominal mechanical data for an electronic device by automatic image processing of a digital image of a specimen of said electronic device. In the method, an object in said digital image, which object corresponds to... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317835 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing method and apparatus which efficiently detect an image input direction, from an image with much differential information to an image with little differential information. The direction of an image including a character area, inputted into a compu... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315311 | Radiographic image processing apparatus, radiographic image processing method, computer program for achieving radiographic image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium for recording computer program A radiographic image processing apparatus comprises: an input means for inputting a corresponding point and a corresponding direction with respect to each of plural radiographic images respectively having mutually overlapping areas; a parallel shift means for parall... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305131 | Extracting graphical bar codes from an input image Systems and methods for extracting a graphical bar code (i.e., an image that contains inconspicuous graphical modulations that encode embedded information) from an input image are described. In one aspect, estimates of position coordinates for a detected graphical b... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302084 | Statistically comparing and matching plural sets of digital data The present invention is embodied in a system and method for statistically comparing a first set of digital data to at least a second set of digital data and matching the first set of digital data to appropriately corresponding portions of the second set of digital ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301547 | Augmented reality system A virtual reality system surveys a real-world environment, generates 3D data that defines the real-world environment, renders a virtual 3D environment using the 3D data, retrieves a virtual object from a database comprised of pre-stored virtual objects, renders the ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298907 | Target recognizing device and target recognizing method A target recognizing device that creates a template concerning a target by itself is provided. The device comprises a robot camera for creating continuous images showing a target and an arithmetic operation unit for controlling the robot camera. A robot camera acqui... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296184 | Method and system for masking dynamic regions in a user interface to enable testing of user interface consistency A system and method for masking dynamic regions of a user interface that assist in testing of the static user interface layout. The masking regions are used to eliminate the regions of the user interface layout that are expected to change during a verification proce... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7274812 | Image processing device and method In an image processing device capable of collectively estimating an object based upon results of plural times of inspection, regions (1(1)) and (1(2)) to be photographed are defined on opposite end portions of an object (w). When an image... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272260 | Image recognition-processing device and method using pattern elements A image recognition device using pattern elements is disclosed. The device comprises an image recognition device, a recording medium, and an image processing device which is be capable of executing recognition processing accurately and evaluating an input image even... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269286 | Discrete curve symmetry detection System and method for detecting symmetries of discrete curves. A mapping operator is applied to a first discrete curve to amplify its features, generating a first mapped discrete curve. A correlation of the first mapped discrete curve with each of a plurality of rot... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263228 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7242806 | Methods, functional Data, and Systems for image feature translation Methods, functional data, and systems are provided for image feature translation. An image is decomposed into sub images, each sub image having its features identified by feature attributes. The feature attributes are used to identify a particular feature within eac... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242717 | Wavelet domain motion compensation system Motion estimation for interframe coding of digital video is performed by matching blocks of transform coefficients representing a frame to be predicted with a phase-allocated array of coefficients representing a reference frame. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231315 | Distribution goodness-of-fit test device, consumable goods supply timing judgment device, image forming device, distribution goodness-of-fit test method and distribution goodness-of-fit test program A distribution goodness-of-fit test device for testing whether measured data matches an estimated probability distribution has a counting section determination unit, a counting unit and a goodness-of-fit test unit. The counting section determination unit determines ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228428 | Method and apparatus for embedding encrypted images of signatures and other data on checks Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide a check validation scheme wherein a payor's signature is digitized, encrypted and embedded on the front of the check using glyphs. When the payor seeks to convert a blank c... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221778 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention allows detection of an exposure time of an image that has already been captured. A motion detector 102 detects an amount of inter-frame movement of a foreground object in a designated frame based on the designated frame and a frame prece... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215816 | Pattern matching method using a pyramid structure search, image detecting device, and computer-readable medium An image detecting device for executing a pattern matching using a pyramid structure search, comprises an input image storing portion for receiving image data from an external device to hold, a pattern image storing portion for storing a pattern image to be searched... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203363 | String extraction method for image based on multiple stroke width patterns matching A string extraction method for an image based on multiple stroke width patterns matching is provided. The string extraction method includes matching each possible stroke width pattern with an input image for obtaining the similarities between the width patterns and ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184595 | Pattern matching using projection kernels Pattern matching apparatus for comparing signal samples with a pattern to find signal samples substantially matching said pattern, the apparatus comprising: a projector for projecting said signal samples over a tree of projection vectors of successively increasing f... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171049 | Method and apparatus for alphanumeric recognition A method and apparatus for recognizing alphanumeric characters in which a set of unknown characters is received from an imaging system and a set of known characters from a storage device. A first set of pairs of characters is created from the set of unknown characte... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162071 | Progressive self-learning defect review and classification method A progressive self-learning (PSL) method is provided for enhancing wafer or mask defect inspection review and classification by identifying a plurality of wafer or mask defects, and by classifying each of the plurality of defects according to an extent of resemblanc... | 01/09/2007 |
