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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189926 | Method and system for automatically analyzing categories in a physical space based on the visual characterization of people The present invention is a method and system for automatically analyzing a category in a plurality of the categories in a physical space based on the visual characterization, such as behavior analysis or segmentation, of the persons with regard to the category. The ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189927 | Face categorization and annotation of a mobile phone contact list A method of face categorization and annotation of a face image library includes automatically cropping a face within an acquired digital image or removing one or more non-facial items from the digital image, or both, and thereby generating a full-size face image. Th... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184915 | Device and method for fast computation of region based image features A device and method for efficient computation of statistical information, such as a mean, co-variance, or histogram of the image pixels, over discrete image regions. The computation employs integral computations to determine the statistical information over image re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184916 | Method for creating and using affective information in a digital imaging system An image file for storing a still digital image and metadata related to the still digital image, the image file including digital image data representing the still digital image, and metadata that categorizes the still digital image as an important digital image, wh... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180160 | Method for character recognition The present invention generally describes a method for classifying a line segment of a handwritten line into a reference feature set, wherein said handwritten line comprises one or several curves representing a plurality of symbols. First, sample data representing s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180161 | Image classification device and image classification program An image classification device includes a characteristic value set calculation unit 11 that calculates a characteristic value set of the whole image for each of multiple sets of image data in an image database 51, detects an edge of the set of the imag... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170350 | Foreground/background segmentation in digital images An analysis and classification tool compares at least a portion of a captured image and a reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the captured and reference images is taken with flash and the other is taken without flash. The tool provides a measure of t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165409 | Mobile device identification of media objects using audio and image recognition A method obtains media on a device, provides identification of an object in the media via image/video recognition and audio recognition, and displays on the device identification information based on the identified media object. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165406 | Interactive concept learning in image search An interactive concept learning image search technique that allows end-users to quickly create their own rules for re-ranking images based on the image characteristics of the images. The image characteristics can include visual characteristics as well as semantic fe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165405 | Leveraging temporal, contextual and ordering constraints for recognizing complex activities in video A system (and a method) are disclosed for recognizing and representing activities in a video sequence. The system includes an activity dynamic Bayesian network (ADBN), an object/action dictionary, an activity inference engine and a state output unit. The activity dy... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165410 | Bags of visual context-dependent words for generic visual categorization Category context models (64) and a universal context model (62) are generated including sums of soft co-occurrences of pairs of visual words in geometric proximity to each other in training images (50) assigned to each category and assigned to a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165407 | Visual attention and object recognition system Described is a bio-inspired vision system for object recognition. The system comprises an attention module, an object recognition module, and an online labeling module. The attention module is configured to receive an image representing a scene and find and extract ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165408 | Image recognition apparatus utilizing plurality of weak classifiers for evaluating successive sub-images extracted from an input image The position of a face image within an input image is detected based on results from applying a plurality of weak classifiers in sequence to each of sub-images extracted from the input image. A decision whether to interrupt the sequence and reject a currently extrac... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150168 | Electronic apparatus and image display control method of the electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus extracts face images of persons from video content data and outputs timestamp information indicating time points at which each extracted face image appears in the video content data, and displays face images in ea... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135220 | Face recognition system and method based on adaptive learning A face recognition system based on adaptive learning includes a specific person detection and tracking unit for detecting and tracking a specific person from a moving image. A facial feature extraction unit extracts a plurality of facial feature vectors from the det... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135221 | Video concept classification using audio-visual atoms A method for determining a classification for a video segment, comprising the steps of: breaking the video segment into a plurality of short-term video slices, each including a plurality of video frames and an audio signal; analyzing the video frames for each short-... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126274 | Visual language modeling for image classification Systems and methods for visual language modeling for image classification are described. In one aspect the systems and methods model training images corresponding to multiple image categories as matrices of visual words. Visual language models are generated from the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116573 | Category weight setting apparatus and method, image weight setting apparatus and method, category abnormality setting apparatus and method, and programs therefor When images are classified into categories, which of the categories has important images can be understood easily without a burned on a user. For this purpose, a category weight calculation unit statistically calculates a weight of each of the categories obtained by... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116574 | Result filter and method for selecting the result data of an application for automatic pattern recognition A method is disclosed for automatically classifying and graphically visualizing image objects that are segmented and, given undershooting of a prescribed distance and compliance with a similarity criterion, are combined to form clusters. In at least one embodiment, ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103109 | Recognizing hand poses and/or object classes There is a need to provide simple, accurate, fast and computationally inexpensive methods of object and hand pose recognition for many applications. For example, to enable a user to make use of his or her hands to drive an application either displayed on a tablet sc... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103110 | System and method for Bayesian text classification A method for classifying text comprises receiving data containing text and parsing a plurality of tokens out of the text. A plurality of metatokens are generated for each token, wherein the metatokens comprise strings of text and groupings of strings of text. The me... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094947 | Image visualization through content-based insets A method and a system for forming an inset image are disclosed. The method includes identifying a region of interest in an original image. An inset is generated, based on the region of interest. A region of low interest is identified in the original image. The inset... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086045 | Image processing device with classification key selection unit and image processing method An image processing device is disclosed that classifies images in an image database and displays the classified images for searching, and is able to easily narrow a range of candidate images and improve operability. The image processing device includes a first class... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086046 | Image analysis device and image analysis method An image corresponding to image data obtained by imaging by a camera is divided into a plurality of image pieces and each of the image pieces is subjected to a color analysis process, a fractal dimension analysis process, and an artificial object amount recognition ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073264 | Image-based techniques for shredded document reconstruction An image-based technique for shredded document reconstruction includes the steps of: employing an image processing process to obtain shred images of the shredded document, and then extracting several features of shred images for reconstruction with two similarity me... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073263 | Multi-classifier selection and monitoring for MMR-based image recognition A MMR system that uses multiple classifiers for predicting, monitoring, and adjusting index tables for image recognition comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a pre-processing server or MMR gateway, and an MMR matching unit, and may include an MMR publisher. The ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068676 | Intelligent fashion exploration based on clothes recognition One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for recognizing and classifying clothes. During operation, the system captures at least one image of a clothing item. The system further determines a region on the captured image which corresponds to a torso ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068677 | System and method for hierarchical image processing Video processing in general and image processing in particular is a very complex process. This is more so when the analysis is required to extract information from the images for providing of the same directly or indirectly to the users. This additional complexity i... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068678 | Electronic apparatus and image processing method According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a grouping module, an attribute determination module, a grouping attribute setting module, a group selection module, and a video generating module. The grouping module classifies contents, to which time i... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055082 | Photo classifying system and method for digital photo frame A photo classifying method for digital photo frame (DPF), includes recording a creating date of the photo and a current date of the DPF, and presetting at least one reference browsing rate, calculating the total browsing time of the photo, calculating the browsing r... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055081 | Image classification using capture-location-sequence information Classification of a group of temporally related images is disclosed, wherein a capture-location sequence is identified from the group of temporally related images. The capture-location-sequence information, which is associated collectively with the capture-location ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055080 | Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium An album generating apparatus that stores a plurality of images, sorts the plurality of images stored per event based on image capturing environments, selects a main image that is to be a primary image in the album out of the plurality of images stored per event sor... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041124 | Identifying computer graphics from digital photographs Computer graphics may be detected in digital images by extracting a first set of features from an input digital image, extracting a second set of features from a prediction-error image derived from the input digital image, and applying a classification algorithm to ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036467 | Method for creating and using affective information in a digital imaging system An image file for storing a still digital image and metadata related to the still digital image, the image file including digital image data representing the still digital image, and metadata that categorizes the still digital image as an important digital image, wh... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8009918 | Visual background extractor The present invention relates to a Visual Background Extractor (VIBE) consisting in a method for detecting a background in an image selected from a plurality of related images. Each one of said set of images is formed by a set of pixels, and captured by an imaging d... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995846 | Form display method, apparatus, and storage medium storing a program for an information processing apparatus, that determine form types corresponding to obtained electric image data A form display method which enhances convenience for an operator who corrects a result of form recognition on electronic image data obtained from documents of unknown type, so that the operator can properly perform correction. Electronic images are acquired, and for... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991234 | Apparatus and method for image-classifying, and recording medium storing computer-readable program for the same An image information-inputting unit inputs image information including position information indicating a position where an image was captured. A reference distance-calculating unit calculates a reference distance from a predetermined reference position utilizing the... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983491 | Method and system for classifying image elements A method, system, and machine-readable medium for classifying an image element as one of a plurality of categories, including assigning the image element based on a ratio between an unoccluded perimeter of the image element and an occluded perimeter of the image ele... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983490 | Adaptive Bayes pattern recognition A system and method for classifying input patterns into two classes, a class-of-interest and a class-other, utilizing a method for estimating an optimal Bayes decision boundary for discriminating between the class-of-interest and class-other, when training samples o... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978917 | Method and system for processing video data including foreground extraction In an intelligent video surveillance system, video processing software performs a number of operations on video data received from a camera, including foreground extraction, shadow removal and object tracking. The foreground extraction stage classifies each pixel of... | 07/12/2011 |
