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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189940 | Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes a parameter setting unit which sets a noise reduction processing parameter for use in noise reduction processing for applying onto an original image signal including a plurality of color components; a correlation arithmetic pro... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189937 | Line-scanning confocal microscope apparatus A confocal microscope apparatus is capable of obtaining a high confocal effect while detecting an image of a specimen line by line. The confocal microscope apparatus may include an illuminating optical system which illuminates a line-shaped area on a specimen plane ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189938 | Enhanced infrared imaging system A vision system has an infrared detector that adjusts the amount of filtering based on the thermal content of a scene being imaged. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189939 | Method and apparatus for enhancing signals with multiscale grouping bandelets A method and apparatus for enhancing a d-dimensional digital signal by taking advantage of regular geometrical structures. The invention comprises a multiscale redundant grouping lifting (102), which iteratively computes grouping arrays and bandelet signals w... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184919 | Representing and reconstructing high dynamic range images A high dynamic range image can be recovered from a full-resolution lower-dynamic-range image and a reduced-resolution higher-dynamic-range image. Information regarding higher spatial frequencies may be obtained by extracting high spatial frequencies from the lower-d... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180167 | Model-based error resilience in data communication Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to use a model-based technique for image error recovery in data communication. A low-dimensional representation is constructed of an image that contains errors. A manifold comprising image representations and a statis... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175406 | Method for dynamically adjusting the images A method for dynamically adjusting an image taken by a webcam. After providing a first threshold value, an environmental reference value is calculated according to an exposure time and an average brightness value. The environmental reference value is compared with t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175405 | Adaptive MPEG noise reducer The disclosed technology provides a system and a method for adaptive MPEG noise reduction. In particular, the disclosed technology provides a system and a method for reducing blocking artifacts and mosquito noise in an MPEG video signal. An overall MPEG noise detect... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170360 | Method and system for enhancing images using multi-resolution histogram shaping A method for enhancing an image is provided. The method generates a plurality of Gaussian images from the image, and generates a first plurality of Laplacian images from the generated Gaussian images, the plurality of Laplacian images constituting a Laplacian pyrami... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170361 | Video window detector The invention provides for automatically identifying the location of a displayed video window based upon a characterization of selected portions of the image for realness based upon a distribution of luminance values for the selected portions. The image is then sear... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165413 | Optimizing bounds checking in neighborhood processes A computer-implemented method for optimizing bounds checking in a structured lattice having a regular pattern of neighboring nodes, includes the steps of: visiting a node in the lattice in a determined order, including bounds checking the node and performing a neigh... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161368 | Distributed processing when editing an image in a browser Methods, apparatus, computer program products and systems are provided for editing an image. In one method a selection of an image for editing is received at a server, the image being presented in a browser of a client device. Edit data is received at the server to ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155465 | Image processing method, medium, and system An image processing method, medium, and system. The image processing method includes classifying an input image into predetermined image categories based on a feature of a brightness histogram of the input image, and adjusting a brightness of the input image based o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155466 | Methods and apparatus for reducing noise in images A method for enhancing images of an object includes registering a fixed image with cine images of the same object. Next, the fixed image and the cine images are transformed into frequency space representations thereof. A central portion of the frequency space cine i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150189 | Image generating apparatus and method There are provided an image generating apparatus and an image generating method, which are capable of generating an image with only a noise portion reliably deleted. A reduced image is generated by reducing the multi-valued image, smoothing processing is executed on... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150188 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes an imaging section, a subject extracting section, and an image processing section. The imaging section captures an object image and generates data of an image. The subject extracting section extracts a main subject from the image. The i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145004 | System and method for generating a photograph A camera assembly for generating high resolution photograph includes a sensor assembly that has two regions of different effective resolution. Image data from multiple images that are captured with the sensor assembly are combined to generate output image data in th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145005 | Method for discriminating textures regions and homogeneous or flat regions in an image and methods for estimating noise in an image sequence A method for discriminating textured regions and homogeneous or flat regions in an image. A multi-scale or multi-resolution measurement is performed with respect to the image. Alternatively or additionally, the image is analyzed by using a prior measured noise value... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139883 | System and method for image and video encoding artifacts reduction and quality improvement Reducing artifacts and improving quality for image and video encoding is performed in one pass to preserve natural edge smoothness and sharpness. To reduce artifacts and improve quality, several steps are implemented including spatial variation extraction, determini... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135227 | Apparatus and method for augmenting sight A method of augmenting sight in an individual. The method comprises obtaining an image of a scene using a camera carried by the individual; transmitting the obtained image to a processor carried by the individual; selecting an image modification to be applied to the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135228 | Apparatus and method for immersion generation An apparatus and method of generating an immersion is provided. The apparatus for generating the immersion includes: a foreground/background separation unit to separate an input image into a foreground area and a background area using lightness information of the in... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131098 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing system, program, storage medium, and integrated circuit The present invention executes color correction that improves the feeling of depth of a 2D image with ease and by using a preexisting device. Input image data is first converted into brightness information by a brightness information calculation portion. The interes... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131097 | Method and apparatus for extended depth-of-field image restoration A method and apparatus are disclosed for restoring an image captured through an extended depth-of-field lens. Preprocessed data relating to image degradation is stored and used during an image restoration process. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131099 | Image processing apparatus and method of controlling image processing apparatus A noise elimination method capable of handling even beat noise occurring in an oblique direction is proposed. In an image processing apparatus that is provided with a correcting unit that subtracts cyclic data of beat noise from effective pixel data included in inpu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126284 | Method and apparatus for resolution improvement in digital capturing A method and apparatus for enhancing the resolution of digital images. For each image a white balanced image is generated, which takes into account the differences in the colors of the sensor cell upon which the values are generated. Edge detection filters are then ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121430 | Digital image processing using face detection and skin tone information A technique for processing a digital image uses face detection to achieve one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that corresponds to a face image within the digital image. A skin tone is detected for the face image by determ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121429 | Image processing apparatus, image-capturing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a characteristic parameter indicating the characteristics of a filter process; a detection unit configured to detect, on the basis of the characteristic parameter input by the input unit, a pha... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116582 | Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents Techniques for positioning images in an electronic document. The images may encode information that can be decoded by devices configured to read the images. An area within the electronic document for positioning the image and a set of one or more colors to be used f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111936 | Method and device for processing of images using a digital filter A system, device and a method to perform bilateral filtering using linear convolution by way of an FFT or a recursive sequence method. Proper selection of functions for the photometric and spatial components of a bilateral filter may reduce the computational cost of... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111935 | Image processing methods and image processing apparatus utilizing the same An image processing method applied in an image processor for processing an image including first pixels each having a pixel value, a first reference pixel value representing a mean value of the pixel values of the first pixels, the pixel values of the first pixels b... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107757 | Data correction method, apparatus and program Natural images which are similar to each other contained in a page represented by page description data are corrected so that they have natural appearance to the eye. To achieve this object, an image recognizing unit recognizes images in a page represented by page d... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107756 | Digital image tone remapping method and apparatus A digital image tone remapping method is disclosed. The method includes computing an average luminance value of a digital image; generating a preliminary tone mapping function according to the average luminance value; generating a luminance statistic of the digital ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094959 | Efficient detection of camera shake At least two sites in a frame of pixels are specified. The sites are arranged in a particular spatial distribution and correspond with the pixel locations of a block of pixels. Block parameters are calculated for each pixel block of first and second frames. The bloc... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094960 | Spectral calibration of image pairs using atmospheric characterization A system (100) for processing remotely acquired imagery is provided. The system (100) includes a storage element for receiving imagery data defining a first image of a panchromatic image type using a sensor characterized by a panchromatic spectral resp... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094957 | Method of modifying brightness of color pixels An apparatus includes an extractor, a first subtractor, a second subtractor, a third subtractor, an offset generator and an adder. The extractor receives the color pixel and to provides a first, a second, and a third image value, wherein the first, the second, and t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094958 | Apparatus and method for sharpening blurred enlarged image Provided is an apparatus for sharpening a blurred enlarged image, including a digital image output unit for outputting a digital image input through a digital image input unit. The apparatus includes a digital image processing unit for calculating a primary edge dir... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086061 | Image processing device and image processing method An image-data reading unit reads image data stored after radiation irradiation is performed from a radiation detector. An offset-data reading unit reads offset data in a case in which no radiation irradiation is performed from the radiation detector. After radiation... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086059 | Sub-raster registration using non-redundant overwriting Sub-raster registration errors are compensated for through non-redundant overwriting. Data from adjacent rasters is written to a particular output raster so that the adjacent rasters share an influence at a point actually written to by a rendering device, thereby co... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086058 | Extended depth of field using a multi-focal length lens with a controlled range of spherical aberration and a centrally obscured aperture An extended depth of field is achieved by a computational imaging system that combines a multifocal imaging subsystem for producing a purposefully blurred intermediate image with a digital processing subsystem for producing a recovered image having an extended depth... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086060 | Systems and methods for three-dimensional enhancement of two-dimensional images Systems and methods for three-dimensional enhancement of two dimensional images are disclosed. One method includes the steps of selecting a first selection and a second selection within an image, the image including a plurality of pixels; calculating a scaling facto... | 12/27/2011 |
