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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7260258 | Methods for multisource color normalization A method for improvement of the consistency of color and brightness across boundaries of multicamera and/or multidisplayed overlapping or near overlapping composite images, reduction of objectionable artifacts at overlapping image seams of composite images, adjustme... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260593 | Device for determining the rank of a sample, an apparatus for determining the rank of a plurality of samples, and the irank ordered filter A rank-determining device determines the rank of a particular sample value from a set of digital sample values by utilizing two different thresholders that are implemented by comparators. The rank of the sample value is decomposed by thresholding the sample value wi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260268 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method, recording medium and program An input signal is accurately separated into a component in which a change in signal level is sharp and having a large edge, and the other components. A narrow band non-linear filter extracts an edge component in a relatively narrow frequency band from an inp... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257276 | Digital image interpolation method A digital image interpolation method is disclosed which a projection point (x, y) of the original image corresponding to a pixel of the transformed image first is determined. According to neighboring pixels (m, n) of the projection point, Gauss weights Wi | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257252 | Voting-based video background mosaicking For each pixel in a video background mosaic, intensity values associated with corresponding pixels in multiple video frames are collected, and an intensity value associated with the majority of the corresponding pixels is selected. The selected intensity value defin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257271 | Noise reduction in color digital images using pyramid decomposition A method of removing noise from a color digital image, including receiving an original color digital image including a plurality of pixels represented in a primary-color space; producing at least one residual digital image and at least one base digital image from th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253836 | Digital camera, storage medium for image signal processing, carrier wave and electronic camera A CCD captures a subject image having passed through a taking lens and an image processing circuit performs various types of image pre-treatment including gamma correction and white balance on image data corresponding to n lines×m rows output by the CCD. The image ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254277 | Image processing with minimization of ringing artifacts and noise A method of reducing ringing artifacts in image data that has been filtered with a high frequency emphasis filter. For each filtered data value, a local variance is calculated from data values at neighboring filter taps. This variance is compared to a threshold, and... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254283 | Image processor processing image data in parallel with a plurality of processors In order to efficiently process image data in a circuit dividing single image data into a plurality of data and processing the data with a plurality of MPUs in parallel with each other, the MPUs process image data input through an input image data in parallel with e... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250984 | VDT stress mitigating device and method, VDT stress risk quantifying device and method, and recording medium The aim of the present invention is to provide a VDT stress mitigating device and method capable of mitigating VDT stress caused by a regular spatial pattern and VDT stress caused by flicker generated by an interlaced format, a VDT stress risk quantifying device and... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251373 | Multi-point predictive foveation for bandwidth reduction of moving images A scene of an image sequence is compressed using a number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the first scene. Another scene of the image sequence is compressed using a diffe... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251053 | Image processing apparatus and method The sharpness of a digital image is enhanced by an edge enhancement process in which the edge adjustment range is adjusted. The image processing apparatus of the present invention determines the edge enhancement range by calculation using a weighting matrix. Specifi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248745 | Differential image adjustments Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for adjusting images. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving input defining an adjustment to be applied to a differential representation of a source image, calculating the differ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248749 | Method and apparatus for signal-to-noise ratio dependent image processing Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a signal-to-noise ratio dependent image processing system. The method includes computing at least one SNR for at least one region of an image, determining a filter parameter for at least one region based on the ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245308 | Display control device and display device A display control device is provided which includes characteristic value-calculating unit for calculating a characteristic value based on an input image signal, a conversion characteristic-calculating unit for determining a conversion characteristic from the charact... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245780 | Group average filter algorithm for digital image processing This present invention discloses a system and method for enhancing images of barcodes and other similar objects taken by the digital camera connected to or embedded in a mobile device. This filter works by converting the image into its equivalent gray scale. The alg... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245781 | Applying a tone scale function to a digital image A method of applying a tone scale function that is compressive, expansive or a combination of both to a digital image, the method including decomposing the tone scale function into two or more composite functions that can be applied sequentially to the digital image... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245782 | Spatial smoothing process and device for dark regions of an image The invention relates to a process, to a device for smoothing dark regions of images and to a coding system. a noise level is associated with each image and a luminance value is associated with each pixel, a thresh... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246102 | Method of improving the lookup performance of three-type knowledge base searches A decision tree, representing a knowledge base, is segmented into at least two decision tree portions. The lower portion includes the tree entry point and is stored in a memory element with a faster access time than the upper portion, which includes the terminating ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245400 | Method and device for proofing raster print data while maintaining the raster information The screened printing data are subjected to a filtering method, the raster information being maintained. Intermediate tonal values are produced by the filtering method, using the binary tonal values, the intermediate tonal values being configured in such a way that,... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245776 | Image processing apparatus and its method, program and storage medium An object of this invention is to efficiently attain noise removal. In order to achieve the object, the discrete wavelet transforms of an input image are computed to output wavelet coefficients of respective subbands (S301). Appropriate threshold values are r... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242816 | Group average filter algorithm for digital image processing This present invention discloses a system and method for enhancing images of barcodes and other similar objects taken by the digital camera connected to or embedded in a mobile device. This filter works by converting the image into its equivalent gray scale. The alg... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242408 | 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... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239424 | Wavelet-based image processing path A system is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an image processing path and a print engine coupled to the image processing path. The image processing path processes an input image in a wavelet domain. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239430 | Binary halftone detection A method to detect frequency and angle of a binary halftone pattern. The method employs an exclusive-or operation which is applied locally to a region of a binary bit map and its spatially shifted version. The resulting bits from the exclusive-or operation are summe... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237721 | Image processing for pattern detection The present invention relates to an image pre-processing method for a pattern detection system, such as a bar code detection system. The method comprises the steps of: detecting a start point and an end point of a pattern on the basis of image data of at least a por... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239422 | Color gamut mapping using a cost function A method of generating a reduced color gamut boundary for a color output device using three or more colorants, wherein the amount of each colorant is controlled by a colorant control signal vector, including determining a forward device model for the color output de... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236643 | System and method for filtering and binarization of images in the presence of specular noise In order to render information contained in images more detectable in the presence of noise, the present invention discloses a system and method to binarize the images in the presence of noise. The method of this invention comprises the steps of applying a dynamic r... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235373 | System for cell-based screening The invention relates to an optical system for determining the distribution, environment, or activity of fluorescently labeled reporter molecules in cells for the purpose of screening large numbers of compounds for specific biological activity. The invention involve... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233566 | Five-by-three wavelet transform apparatus In a 5×3 wavelet transform apparatus, a function-A module (11) calculates equations A1 and A2, a function-B module (12) calculates equations B1 and B2, function-C0 module (13) calculates an equation C0, and a function-C1 module (14) calc... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233707 | Image processing system, projector, program, information storage medium, and image processing method A projector includes a projection section which projects an all-white image and an all-black image onto a screen, a sensor which generates first sensing information by sensing the all-white image and generates second sensing information by sensing the all-black imag... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231091 | Simplified predictive video encoder In a video coding method, it is determined to code input video data according a technique selected from the group of: (a) intra-coding, (b) inter-coding without a residual and (c) inter-coding with a residual, wherein inter-coding codes the input video data with ref... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231072 | Image processing method and image converting apparatus There is described an image processing method and an image converting apparatus for performing the image processing for recording the medical image information. The apparatus includes an image converting section to convert the image in respect to the original image ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228000 | Image data generation with reduced amount of processing An image data generator for generating data on a size reduced image of an original image. In one embodiment, the image data generator includes: an inverse wavelet transform unit to perform on inverse wavelet transform on wavelet coefficients; and a coefficient selec... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228002 | Inverse halftoning process Performing inverse halftoning on a halftoned image includes smoothing the halftoned image using a two-dimensional filter to produce a smoothed image, detecting edge areas in the smoothed image, performing lowpass filtering on non-edge areas of the smoothed image, an... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227991 | Method for improving the quality of a digital image A method for improving the quality of a digital image acquired with a non-optimal exposure. In one embodiment, the method, which is applied directly to the image in CFA (Color Filter Array) format, identifies the regions of the image that are most important from the... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228004 | Method for sharpening a digital image A method of sharpening a digital image having image pixels values includes the steps of: determining a Dmin value, representing a value corresponding to a minimum possible exposure for a system that produced the digital image; for each pixel value in the ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224371 | Picture signal processor, picture signal processing method, and picture signal processing program product The invention provides a picture signal processor comprising: a sampling circuit that receives picture signals of a plurality of standard colors separated from a video signal and samples the picture signals of the plurality of standard colors in turn repeatedly; and... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225404 | Method and apparatus for determining forces to be applied to a user through a haptic interface A method and apparatus for determining forces to be applied to a user through a haptic interface. The method includes the steps of generating a representation of an object in graphic space, sensing the position of the user in real space and calculating a force to be... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224848 | Method and arrangement for FPN correction in an image signal from an image sensor In order to correct for fixed pattern noise in the signals of an image sensor, image signal values are read out from the pixels of the sensor. Individual correction values are added as analogue quantities to the image signal values via a signal path having a defined... | 05/29/2007 |
