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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7653262 | Collision detection having cylindrical detection regions A video game device calculates an angle of an object 71, etc., with respect to a reference direction in a three-dimensional space. Then, the video game device defines a virtual cylindrical model for each of a plurality of objects so that a bottom surface of e... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646934 | Method and apparatus for detecting an image of a reflective object A method of detecting an image of a reflective object includes the steps of capturing an exposure image by an image sensor while an LED is ON; down-sampling an exposure image signal from the image sensor to a first digital signal by comparing the level of the first ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7634155 | Hybrid optical cylinder position sensor Consistent with an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of locating a position of a movable member is provided. The movable member is movable along a path and has a surface with a plurality of markings provided thereon. The method includes sensing an image of ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630582 | Rendering optimization method and system A method includes receiving a plurality of objects included within a print job. A first object of the plurality of objects and a second object of the plurality of objects are processed to define a first overlapping region between the first and second objects. The fi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627197 | Position measurement method, an apparatus, a computer program and a method for generating calibration information A method for measuring a position of an object according to an image of the object captured by a camera unit. The method includes the following steps: calculating a discrepancy of an incident beam of light penetrating a lens system of the camera unit relative to an ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7602996 | Microscope system and method A microscope system and method is described for determining a position of an area of an object within the complete object, wherein the image of the area of the object is contained within a field of view of a microscope. Image data representing a low magnification im... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7587101 | Facilitating computer-assisted tagging of object instances in digital images One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates computer-assisted tagging of objects in a digital image. During operation, the system receives locations for one or more objects-of-interest in the digital image. Next, the system determines ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587102 | Method and apparatus for performing a sensor fusion to provide a position of a target-of-interest A method and apparatus are disclosed for estimating a position of a target of interest using a plurality of position detection sensors wherein for at least one of the sensors, a corresponding time-variant detection probability profile is combined with the detection ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7519234 | Apparatuses and methods for incorporating a border region within an image region A hardware implemented method for incorporating a border region within an image region is provided. In this hardware implemented method, a position of a pixel along a line within the image region is first computed. The position of the pixel is then compared with an ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515773 | Facial parts position detection device, method for detecting facial parts position, and program for detecting facial parts position A facial parts position detection device which includes an image inputting device for inputting a captured face image, an ends position detecting device for detecting right and left ends position of the face on the basis of the image, a facial parts region setting d... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7492966 | Image mapping method and image mapping program An image mapping method comprising the steps of acquiring a captured image as well as positional information of an image object in the captured image and positional information of an image taking position, reading map data containing the position of the image object... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7477798 | Specified image position estimating apparatus and method, specified image position estimating program, and specified image position estimating program recorded computer-readable recording medium, medium, game system, and transaction apparatus According to the present invention, in a specified image position estimating apparatus, for, even if an original image varies in size to vary a size of a mark, detecting the mark in the original image fast and accurately to securely estimate the position of a specif... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7463790 | Calculation module A calculation module for calculating the position of a mechanical element, the calculation module being operable to receive an input signal, detect a first plurality of corresponding features in the input signal, calculate the spacing between successive features of ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460732 | Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7447381 | Method and apparatus for filtering an image Objects are detected in an image using a spatially variant filter. The size of the filter is adjusted based on the portion of the image being processed by the filter. Portions of the image which are closer to an imaging device which captured the image are processed ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440589 | Video analysis using segmentation gain by area Video segmentation methods and systems are described wherein scene images of subjects and background are captured by video and are automatically segmented according to subject content, as by system determination of the nature of subjects. Segmentation transformation... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436982 | Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, includes: an infrared imaging device that captures an image; a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object by binarizing the image; an extraction region setting device that sets, as an extraction r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433510 | Information presentation apparatus and information presentation system using the same A three-dimensional position posture relation detection unit detects a relation of relative three-dimensional position and posture between an image input unit and a target object using the image of the target object in a real space input from the image input unit. A... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430304 | Object velocity measuring apparatus and object velocity measuring method An object velocity measuring apparatus of this invention for measuring an object velocity in a photographic field from a plurality of photographic frames made up of a plurality of pixels comprises an object area extracting unit configured to extract, as an object ar... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424174 | Image processing device An image processing device comprises an image acquisition apparatus configured to acquire an image of an object, a feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature portion from a visual field of the image acquired by the image acquisition apparatus, a weighti... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421149 | Object detection A system and associated methodology of detecting objects using multiple sets of object probability data relating to different respective expected object sizes relative to the image size. A list of locations in an image where an object has been detected is stored, th... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421093 | Multiple camera control system A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program running on a computer is provided. The tracking system includes two or more video cameras arranged to provide different viewpoints of a region of interest, and are operable to produce a se... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418126 | Image distortion correcting method and apparatus, and storage medium An image distortion correcting apparatus is provided with an image input section to input an image of a flat rectangular paper surface imaged by an imaging section, as an input image, an imaging position estimating section to estimate a relative imaging position of ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406193 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus for making luminance correction An image processing method of making luminance correction on the basis of a luminance histogram showing luminance level distribution of image data expressing an image by a numerical value. A luminance average value, a luminance standard deviation, and a peak distanc... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403669 | Land mark, land mark detecting apparatus, land mark detection method and computer program of the same The present invention provides a land mark detecting apparatus simultaneously used with a land mark comprising plural mark primitives. The land mark detecting apparatus comprises a set of cameras and a land mark detector which includes an image signal interface unit... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403638 | Method and system for monitoring breathing activity of a subject A method and system for monitoring breathing movement of a subject is disclosed. A method and system for detecting and predictably estimating regular cycles of breathing movements is disclosed. Another disclosed aspect of the invention is directed to detect and repo... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400746 | System and method for detecting obstacle A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras of three or more cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transfor... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397970 | Automatic scene correlation and identification Computer software for and a method of determining location of a target image within a two-dimensional input image by employing a three-dimensional reference image comprising determining object edge points in the input image; given estimated seeker line-of-sight orie... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397931 | Human identification apparatus and human searching/tracking apparatus A human identification apparatus, which can judge for identification of human images even in temporally-distant frames or frames shot with different cameras, judges whether or not persons represented by human images respectively included in different image sequences... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394918 | Image recognition method and apparatus An image recognition apparatus has an image capture section for capturing a range image, an image deformation section for deforming the range image captured by the image capture section, and a recognition section for recognizing the presence/absence of three-dimensi... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394917 | Apparatus for measuring a trajectory An apparatus comprises a first camera (1), a second camera (2) and a third camera (3). The first camera (1) photographs a golf ball (B) from behind, the second camera (2) photographs the golf ball (B) from a head, and the third cam... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391883 | System and method for detecting obstacle A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389000 | System and method for detecting obstacle A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379622 | Information-inputting device inputting contact point of object on recording surfaces as information An information-inputting device is provided, which includes a plurality of photographing units photographing an area on a plane. An object located on the plane is then extracted from an image that includes the plane and the object, and it is determined whether the o... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372996 | Method and apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle seat Systems and methods are provided for editing an image of a vehicle interior to isolate the occupant of a vehicle seat. An image generator (102) generates an image of a vehicle interior. A contour generator (104) produces a contour image from the genera... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373017 | System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software pr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373018 | Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366595 | Vehicle drive assist system A vehicle drive assist system comprises a camera for picking up an image of an area existing in an advancing direction of a vehicle; display means for displaying the image picked up by the camera; steering angle detecting means for detecting a steering angle for ste... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365779 | Image processing apparatus for selectively storing specific regions of an image The invention provides an image processing apparatus that can reduce the memory capacity of a memory forming part of the image processing apparatus and can correct the optical axis misalignment of a video camera in a simple manner. The image processing apparatus ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366333 | Method and apparatus for selecting regions of interest in optical imaging There is provided a method and system for positioning a mammal for optical imaging in which a digital image of the mammal is obtained using a camera and a region of interest is selected using the digital image. The selected region is registered with an optical imagi... | 04/29/2008 |