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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107738 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading apparatus and memory product In storing of a document page index of a reference image in association with each hash value calculated for each reference image by the features calculating section, a storage processing section determines whether the number of document page indexes, which have alre... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107739 | System and method for compiling images from a database and comparing the compiled images with known images A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086042 | Weatherization imaging systems and methods Methods and systems for evaluating a performance installment in a building construction include preparing a first image of the building construction, implementing the performance installment in the building construction, preparing a second image of the building cons... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077982 | Image match-point detection apparatus, image match-point detection method and storage medium An image match-point detection apparatus has a pattern detection part, a pattern storage part, a characteristic-point extraction part and a match-point detection part. The match-point detection part determines whether the pattern numbers of the pattern information e... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073262 | Image matching apparatus, image matching method, and image data output processing apparatus In an image matching apparatus of the present invention, only a connected region in which the number of pixels included therein exceeds a threshold value, among connected regions that are specified by a labeling process section, is sent to a centroid calculation pro... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068675 | Devices and methods for identifying and monitoring changes of a suspect area of a patient A device for acquiring first and subsequent images of a suspect area on a patient and methods for monitoring or detecting changes of the suspect area over time and providing notification when the changes exceed a threshold. The device may be an imaging device, such ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050504 | Method and apparatus for measuring motion of a subject using a series of partial images from an imaging system A line scan imager is used to determine the motion of a subject. Each line of image data from the line scan imager is compared with a reference image. The location of a matching line in the reference image reveals the displacement of the subject. The current subject... | 11/01/2011 |
| RE42715 | Vision system and method for process monitoring A method and system to monitor randomly oriented objects on a process line are disclosed. A color camera is used initially to collect a set of reference images of at least one reference object. The reference images represent various spatial orientations of the refer... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7965894 | Method for detecting alterations in printed document using image comparison analyses A document alteration detection method compares a target image with an original image using a two-step process. In the first step, the original and target images are divided into connected image components and their centroids are obtained, and the centroids of the i... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7929774 | Method of inferential analysis of low resolution images Digital image processing of a low resolution source image to produce a high resolution result image may be accomplished by partitioning the low resolution source image into a plurality of low resolution image parts; for each low resolution image part, comparing the ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920744 | Method and apparatus for graphical data compression A system comprising a first computer and a second computer remotely located from the first computer and in communication with the first computer via a network. The second computer comprises an encoder module which encodes and transmits a pixel color datum to the fir... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907783 | Apparatus and method of matching symbols in a text image coding and decoding system An apparatus of a text image coding and decoding system includes a matching unit to compute a first distance between a symbol of a text image with a reference symbol of a symbol dictionary, to determine whether the symbol matches with the reference symbol according ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7885465 | Document portion identification by fast image mapping An efficient technique is provided for determining a portion of a document corresponding to a captured image. Areas of a document in which the pattern is at least partially obscured are identified. A reference pixel in the image is selected, and an offset between th... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7873222 | Fail safe image processing apparatus Methods of capturing image pixel data representing a scene may be practiced using a camera and may be implemented as software, such as an application program executing within the camera. The methods are particularly advantageous where user modification to the camera... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869657 | System and method for comparing images using an edit distance A system and method for comparing images by calculating an edit distance between the images using the results of matching portions of one image to the other. The first image is divided into blocks of pixels. For every block of pixels, a closest match is found in the... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860318 | System and method for comparing documents The present invention relates to a system and a method for comparing information contained on at least two documents belonging to an entity. The present invention includes at least one device configured to receive information from at least one first document and at ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848577 | Image processing methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture Image processing methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes accessing image data of a plurality of images, defining a plurality of regions in individual ones of the i... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840075 | Marine radar system with three-dimensional memory A radar system includes a memory device operable to store radar-return data characterizing at least one geographic region, a database including a set of chart data representing fixed landmarks associated with the at least one geographic region, and a processor coupl... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831099 | Pattern matching device, image encoder, image decoder, image processing system, computer readable media storing programs, and computer data signal A pattern matching device includes a dilated image generating unit that generates a dilated image based on a resultant image obtained by logical operation between a first image pattern and a second image pattern, and a comparing unit that compares the first image pa... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826666 | Methods and apparatus for runway segmentation using sensor analysis Systems and methods for determining whether a region of interest (ROI) includes a runway are provided. One system includes a camera for capturing an image of the ROI, an analysis module for generating a binary large object (BLOB) of at least a portion of the ROI, an... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817862 | Method and apparatus for retrieving pattern, and computer product A pattern retrieving unit includes an acquiring unit that acquires a representative pattern image; a setting unit that sets a use condition of a type of shape feature of the representative pattern image; a receiving unit that receives a query pattern image used as a... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7805009 | Method and apparatus for measuring motion of a subject using a series of partial images from an imaging system A line scan imager is used to determine the motion of a subject. Each line of image data from the line scan imager is compared with a reference image. The location of a matching line in the reference image reveals the displacement of the subject. The current subject... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7773811 | Method and system for searching a database of graphical data A method and system for searching a database of graphical data are described. Embodiments of the invention use accelerated image-comparing techniques based on application of the Levenshtein algorithm for matching or searching one-dimensional data strings to recogniz... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7747081 | Identification of a photoelectric sensor array A photoelectric sensor array is labelled by accumulating charge, preferably charge from a dark current, in at least a portion of the sensor array and reading out the accumulated charge to form an image to determine locations of atypical pixels in the portion of the ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7657101 | Devices and methods for identifying and monitoring changes of a suspect area on a patient A device for acquiring first and subsequent images of a suspect area on a patient and methods for monitoring or detecting changes of the suspect area over time and providing notification when the changes exceed a threshold. The device may be an imaging device, such ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7630561 | Image processing An image processing method for selecting a subset of n (where n is two or more) images representative of a test set of images. The method includes detecting a degree of similarity between images in the test set of images so that the subset of images comprises those ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7620248 | System and method for validating graphical components of images A system and method for improved validation of images is provided. Validation of any target image may be performed by creating a model of graphical components of a source image or a reference model and comparing the model of graphical components of the source image ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620249 | Analysis of patterns A first pattern (A) is represented by a first ordered set of elements (xi) each having a value whilst a second pattern (B) is represented by a second ordered set of element (ui) each having a value. The patterns are analysed by iteratively perf... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616819 | Detecting device and authentication device A detecting device includes: multiple sensors composed with a plurality of sensor circuits arrayed on a plane, each of which generates at least one detected signal that corresponds to a distance from a surface of an object; a selector circuit which selects each of t... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7599562 | Method for transmitting data between different computers Transmitting data between different computers includes selecting data stores in a first computer with a stylus, generating a transmission identification code corresponding to the data selected, transmitting the transmission identification code generated from the fir... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7590290 | Fail safe image processing apparatus Methods of capturing image pixel data representing a scene may be practiced using a camera and may be implemented as software, such as an application program executing within the camera. The methods are particularly advantageous where user modification to the camera... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7574051 | Comparison of patterns A first visual image or other pattern (A) is represented by a first ordered set of elements (xi) each having a value and a second pattern (B) is a represented by a second ordered set of element (ui) each having a value. Iteratively, a compariso... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570815 | Comparing patterns A first image (or other pattern) is represented by a first ordered set of elements A each having a value and a second pattern is represented by a second such set. A comparison of the two involves performing, for each of a plurality of elements x of the first ordered... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7536053 | Method and apparatus for the correction of nonlinear field of view distortion of a digital imaging system Nonlinear distortions of imaging optics within a computer vision system are quantified as corrective values within a viewing window defined by a pixel array. A test artifact is displaced within an object plane through increments of measured distances and the corresp... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7522772 | Object detection Image object detection apparatus in which test regions of a test image are compared with an image property model, a mask defining a subset of pixel positions within a test region, comprises means for comparing pixel properties in the test image defined by the test r... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519225 | Image processing method and apparatus for extracting an image An object of the present invention is to extract an image closest to a reference image from among a plurality of candidate images. A plurality of candidate images similar to the reference image are extracted from a plurality of images by utilizing granulometry. The ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515755 | Method and device for the automated recognition of semi-finished products Semifinished products, especially strand sections that are cut off from continuous cast strands, are marked in steel mills and rolling mills so that individual pieces can be tracked. The marks applied or attached to the pieces have to be machine-readable in a sortin... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515754 | Image control apparatus, image control method and program An image control apparatus having an image database storing plural pieces of image information, for controlling the plural pieces of image information, the image control apparatus including: a first image information acquiring device for acquiring first image inform... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7499590 | System and method for compiling images from a database and comparing the compiled images with known images A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7463773 | Fast high precision matching method An initial search method uses the input image and the template to create an initial search result output. A high precision match uses the initial search result, the input image, and the template to create a high precision match result output. The high precision matc... | 12/09/2008 |
