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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6718058 | Picture generating apparatus When a car turns, a visual point position CP and a sight line direction T are moved (from CP′ to CP and from T′ to T) in accordance with a turning angle of the car, and a displacement u of the visual point position (CP″) is made different from a displacement v... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6714680 | Method and apparatus for image positioning processing Radiation images recorded serially on a plurality of sheets overlapping partially are positioned accurately. An image positioning processing apparatus comprises overlap area detection means for detecting an overlap area between two radiation images overlapping parti... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711304 | Method and apparatus for measuring angular rotation of an object A system is disclosed for determining the rotational orientation of an object. An image of the object is digitally captured. The digital image is filtered through an edge detection operation to enhance the edge information contained in the image. The filtered image ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6687419 | Automatic image montage system A system is provided for creating a larger montage image 8 of an object from a series of smaller source images 7 of different views of an object through, say, a microscope which forms an imaging means for providing images of an object. A data storage mean... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6687420 | Image reading apparatus In an image reading apparatus in which a document is read with scanning by a image pickup device, a height of the document and an outline of the document are detected. Based on the detected height and outline data, together with a calculating of a documen... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6678070 | System for producing photo layouts to match existing mattes using distance information in only one axis The present invention is a system that coordinates the printing of a page of photos that match the layout of a pre-existing matte. The matte layout can be created from a physical matte. When creating an electronic layout or template from a physical matte,... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6674904 | Contour tracing and boundary detection for object identification in a digital image An edge detection algorithm may use contour tracing followed by boundary detection to improve the accuracy of the detected boundaries and to enable the detection of boundaries in cases where the image is either distorted or subject to the effects of noise... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6671422 | Apparatus and method for detecting rough position of two-dimensional code A computer readable program product for detecting the rough position of a two dimensional code included in image data, wherein the proportion of two dimensional code in each of small areas is determined by dividing the image data, and the small areas are ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6671417 | Character recognition system A reference line detecting step 4 assumes two reference lines dividing a character row image into three, i.e., upper, intermediate and lower areas to be quadratic curves independent of one another, and obtains parameters determining the two reference line... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668082 | Image processing apparatus In an apparatus and method for creating a three-dimensional model of an object, images of the object taken from different, unknown positions are processed to identify the points in the images which correspond to the same point on the actual object (that i... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6665451 | Image processing method and apparatus Upon forming a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, an original image of the mosaic image is segmented into M×N areas. The image characteristics of these segmented areas are calculated, and a material image corresponding to each segm... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6665452 | Correction conversion circuit for converting to image data skew of which is corrected and skew quantity correction method According to an image data correction conversion circuit and a skew quantity correction method respectively according to the present invention, image data for predetermined lines is stored, the quantity of skew of the stored image data is measured, the nu... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6654508 | Correction and interpolation of position encoders The present invention provides a method for referencing the position of a moving component. The method includes generating a first signal in response to the relative movement between a first sensor and encoder strip having a repeating pattern of fiducial ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6650764 | Device for calculating positional data of standard points of a photogrammetric target A first points range of high brightness and a second points range of high brightness in a photographed image are selected. It is checked if an identical end point is shared by the three and four points range selected. A first straight line, connecting a c... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6647148 | Boundary line detecting method In detecting a boundary line between areas different in light reflectance, it has so far been impossible to specify the boundary line at a distance shorter than the arrangement pitch of photodetectors (pixels) arranged in the camera. In the present invent... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6643414 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and data storage media In an apparatus performing object-by-object coding by using coordinate position information (FMJpos) which indicates the positional relationship between a composite image coordinate system and an object coordinate system, and area position information (OB... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6633663 | Method and system for determining component dimensional information A method and system for determining component dimensional information in a component placement system. The component information is derived from the pick and place equipment which is used to place the components on the substrate. The component is grasped ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6633686 | Method and apparatus for image registration using large deformation diffeomorphisms on a sphere An apparatus and method for image registration of a template image with a target image with large deformation. The apparatus and method involve computing a large deformation transform based on landmark manifolds, image data or both. The apparatus and meth... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6628803 | Device for calculating positional data of standard points of photogrammetric target A three points range of high brightness and a four points range of high brightness in a photographed image are selected. It is checked if an identical end point is shared by the three and four points range selected. It is checked if a center of gravity co... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6625332 | Computer-implemented image registration In order to perform image registration of first and second images using block matching wherein the first image is divided into a plurality of blocks, the plurality of blocks are classified into a plurality of block groups, using block matching results, su... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6625300 | Car sensing method and car sensing apparatus Disclosed are a car sensing method and a car sensing apparatus, which are cable of sensing a car surely in spite of an image with poor contrast. Image inputting means photographs a rear portion of another car running ahead of a car mounting a car sensing appar... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6621928 | Image edge detection method, inspection system, and recording medium An inspection system which includes a memory for storing image data provided by picking up an image of a workpiece, a monitor for displaying the image data stored in the memory on a display screen with pixels arranged in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis d... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6621939 | Scene description generating apparatus and method, object extracting method, and recording medium A scene description generating apparatus and method, an object extracting method, and a recording medium extract an object from an input image. Positional information on the extracted object is output. Based on the positional information, scene descriptio... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6608913 | Self-contained mapping and positioning system utilizing point cloud data A self-contained mapping and positioning system for underground mining is provided that is capable of mapping the topography of a region, such as a mine tunnel, and further being able to use the mapped data to determine the position of an object, such as ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6606397 | Face image processing apparatus for extraction of an eye image based on the position of the naris The present invention provides a face image processing apparatus capable of preventing the error extraction of the eye when extracted, and improving reliability in the open/close detection through a two-dimensional feature of the eye area. This face image... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6587597 | Image input method, image input apparatus, and recording medium When compositing a plurality of acquired partial images, the effects of differences in viewpoint contained in the partial images can be reduced, and a high quality wide-viewfield image is inputted. An image input apparatus for photographing parts of a fie... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584174 | Registering image information The invention relates to a method for registering image information by means of a medical navigation system, wherein: current image information, in particular a current x-ray image of a patient to be registered using the navigation system, is produced; the pos... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6577758 | Image position detection technique in which input parameters can be easily determined A position detection tool in a machine vision system finds the position of target objects in a digital image using the length and width of the target object as parameters. The input length and width dimensions are measured by the developer as the length a... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6573039 | 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 invent... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574360 | Accelerated occlusion culling using directional discretized occluders and system therefore An occlusion culling method for image processing and system therefor. The culling method first determines which polygons are hidden, or occluded, by other objects. These hidden or occluded polygons will not contribute to the final scene and, therefore, ne... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574366 | Line and curve detection using local information An image detection method is disclosed wherein local edge information within an image is utilized for accurately detecting lines and curves of the images. The method can more accurately determine the location and orientation of a pattern and thus provides... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6567078 | Handwriting communication system and handwriting input device used therein The present invention relates to a handwriting communication system, a handwriting input device and a handwriting display device used in the system, which can communicate by handwriting among a plurality of computers connected via a network. The communica... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6563937 | Method and apparatus to detect watermark that are resistant to arbitrary deformations A method and/or apparatus for detecting a watermark among a plurality of reproduced frames of data, the reproduced frames of data having been derived from respective original frames of data, includes the capability of: adding at least some of the reproduc... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6556722 | Position determination In the preferred implementation, the position of an object, for example a studio camera is determined by means of a camera which views several markers disposed about a studio ceiling, the markers being patterened as a series of light and dark rings to enc... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553296 | Vehicular occupant detection arrangements An arrangement in a vehicle for determining vehicle occupant position relative to a fixed structure within the vehicle including an array which receives an image of a portion of the passenger compartment in which the occupant is likely to be situated and ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6553152 | Method and apparatus for image registration An apparatus and method for image registration involves computing a first transform based on landmark manifolds, using a distance measure, computing a second transform from the distance measure and the first transform. Registering the images is accomplish... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549650 | Processing of image obtained by multi-eye camera There is disclosed a binocular camera which can realize panoramic view and stereoscopic view during image sensing. There is also disclosed a binocular camera which has two image sensing optical systems, a circuit for synthesizing right and left sensed par... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6542621 | Method of dealing with occlusion when tracking multiple objects and people in video sequences This invention employs probabilistic templates, or p-templates, which probabilistically encode the rough position and extent of the tracked object's image. The p-templates track objects in the scene, one p-template per object. They can be used to incorpor... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6529627 | Generating 3D models by combining models from a video-based technique and data from a structured light technique A 3D modeling system employing a commercially available structured light source is disclosed. The light source projecting a light stripe is swung manually across an object or a particular area of interest on the surface of the object. Under the illuminati... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6529613 | Motion tracking using image-texture templates Image templates are extracted from video images in real-time and stored in memory. Templates are selected on the basis of their ability to provide useful positional data and compared with regions of subsequent images to find the position giving the best m... | 03/04/2003 |
