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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170373 | Image reconstruction method An image reconstruction method includes: fetching at least two images; calculating a relative displacement between those adjacent images by utilizing a phase correlation algorithm; calculating an absolute displacement between any one of those images and the first im... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170374 | Image reconstruction method An image reconstruction method includes: fetching at least two images; calculating a relative displacement between those adjacent images by utilizing a phase correlation algorithm; calculating an absolute displacement between any one of those images and the first im... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165425 | Interactive manual deformable registration of images An image processing method is described that allows a user to deform an overlay image for the purpose of registration with a source image. The user defines a stretch vector for example by ‘clicking and dragging’ a mouse pointer and an algorithm deforms the overl... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160395 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing corresponding landmarks among a plurality of images A method is provided for synchronizing corresponding landmarks among a plurality of images of an elastic object. The method includes identifying a plurality of landmarks in a first image of the object and a second image of the object, determining a correspondence be... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160397 | Method for automatic alignment of raster data with vector data in a geographic information system The present invention relates to methods for aligning raster and vector data. In an embodiment, a raster/vector aligner receives raster data and an approximate vector of a feature within the raster data. The raster/vector aligner generates an edge signal by e... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160396 | Method and apparatus for touching-up images A method and camera apparatus touches up a source image to produce a target image. The source image is partitioned into non-overlapping tiles of pixels. Each tile is labeled. A probability distribution of the labels is inferred, in which the probability distribution... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150213 | Image data compression method, pattern model positioning method in image processing, image processing apparatus, image processing program, and computer readable recording medium There is provided a data compression method for increasing a reduction ratio, while keeping a sufficient characteristic amount, to seek speeding up of processing, the method being for compressing image data in pattern model positioning in image processing of searchi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145012 | Device and process for multimodal registration of images The invention relates to a device and a process, with which images of different imaging methods can be registered, for example preoperatively obtained 3D X-ray images (A) and intra operatively obtained ultrasound images (B). First transformed images (A′,B′) are ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8131115 | Method for aligning scanned image elements For aligning two or more image elements on separate pages, a position of a common part of the image elements is determined relative to a predetermined reference position. The image elements are then shifted with respect to the reference positions such that each imag... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126902 | Operating method for a computer having sequences of data sets changing over time and corresponding devices Two sequences of data sets having at least two dimensions and referring to an object which changes over time are specified to a computer. Each data set in each sequence is assigned a measure of time which can be used to determine the temporal relationship of the dat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126289 | Device, method and system for automatic montage of segmented retinal images Some embodiments of the present invention may relate to a device and a method of enabling an automatic global matching of a plurality of images to provide a substantially consistent planar representation of a fundus. According to some embodiments of the invention, a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126291 | System and method for dense image registration using Markov Random Fields and efficient linear programming A method for registering digitized images using Markov Random Fields (MRFs) includes providing a source image f and a target image g, defining a deformation grid of control points, defining a coordinate transformation as | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126290 | Method, apparatus and system for color component registration A method, apparatus and system for image processing include a registration device configured to register component images for at least a block of an image to form a registered image. A quality control device is configured to receive the registered image, examine the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121433 | Ortho-rectification, coregistration, and subpixel correlation of optical satellite and aerial images Methods for mapping and resampling images such as satellite or aerial images are presented, including methods to measure relative displacements of images, methods to refine look directions of an aircraft or satellite for aerial or satellite imaging and methods to or... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111948 | Album creating apparatus, album creating method and computer readable medium An album creating apparatus is provided, for creating an album by automatically moving the position of the main object in a page when the main object is overlapped with a fold of the album. The album creating apparatus according to an aspect of the invention include... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111947 | Image processing apparatus and method which match two images based on a shift vector The present invention aims to provide image processing device and method capable of generating a difference image at high speed without occurring misregistration. To achieve this, in the image processing device and method, plural regions of interest are set respecti... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098957 | Shared block comparison architechture for image registration and video coding This disclosure describes an efficient architecture for an imaging device that supports image registration for still images and video coding of a video sequence. For image registration, the described architecture uses block-based comparisons of image blocks of a cap... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098958 | Processing architecture for automatic image registration A system for automatically registering a sensed image with a reference image. A sensor image of a first scene is obtained while the sensor is mounted on a platform, and at least one processing subsystem may be provided. The processing subsystem may be adapted to per... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094972 | Registration of separations Separations or images relating to film or other fields may be registered using a variety of features, such as, for example: (1) correcting one or more film distortions; (2) automatically determining a transformation to reduce a film distortion; (3) applying multiple... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081843 | Image-pickup apparatus An image-pickup apparatus is provided which allows a user to accurately and easily know the out-of-focus amount for various images or objects. The image-pickup apparatus which picks up an image of an object comprises a producing unit for producing a pair of object i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073290 | Method and computer program product for registering biomedical images A method of registering biomedical images to reduce imaging artifacts caused by object movement is disclosed, wherein a certain number of features or landmarks is automatically defined and tracked in a first and second image to be registered to determine the optical... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068696 | Method of restoring movements of the line of sight of an optical instrument A method of estimation of the direction of the line of sight comprising forming at least two images representing one and the same portion of the scene (P) at two successive instants using an instrument mounted on a moving carrier, and the determination of the change... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068697 | Real time video stabilizer A method of correcting a current image taken by a capturing device, the current image captured after a previous image, the method comprising the steps of: determining a noticeable pixel group, such as an edge of an object in the previous image; locating the noticeab... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064731 | Generalized rigid alignment of 3D ear impression models A method for rigid registration of ear impression models, including: extracting a canal region from an undetailed ear impression model, the undetailed ear impression model representing an undetailed surface of an ear canal and outer ear geometry; extracting a canal ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064730 | Device manufacturing method, orientation determination method and lithographic apparatus A method to determine a rotation of a substrate with respect to the patterning device without using a reference mark on the substrate is presented. At least two structures having corresponding features and present on the substrate, e.g. previously projected patterns... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064732 | Field of view calibration for modular nuclear medical imaging system A method and apparatus for correcting misalignment between fields of view of a CT device and a NM device of a modular multimodality medical imaging system, by providing a Field Of View Calibration Matrix (FOV-CM) containing rotational and translational transformatio... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059918 | High accuracy beam placement for local area navigation An improved method of high accuracy beam placement for local area navigation in the field of semiconductor chip manufacturing. This invention demonstrates a method where high accuracy navigation to the site of interest within a relatively large local area (e.g. an a... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059917 | 3-D modeling A system comprising an imaging device adapted to capture images of a target object at multiple angles. The system also comprises storage coupled to the imaging device and adapted to store a generic model of the target object. The system further comprises processing ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055100 | Method and system for image registration quality confirmation and improvement A system and method for confirming the accuracy of an image registration process is provided. The method includes: receiving a first image that depicts a scene area; defining a comparison area within a second image that includes the scene area; obtaining a registrat... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8036491 | Apparatus and method for aligning images by detecting features An image processing apparatus includes a full feature point detection section for detecting as a full feature point a point whose pixel value changes significantly along any line through the point, and a semi feature point detection section for detecting as a semi f... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031971 | Image processing content determining apparatus, computer readable medium storing thereon image processing content determining program and image processing content determining method An image processing content determining apparatus 100, a computer readable medium storing thereon an image processing content determining program and an image processing determining method being capable of determining the content of an image processing with s... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019179 | Hand jitter reduction for compensating for linear displacement The registration of images comprising generating a plurality of projections from a base frame and generating a plurality of projections from a movement frame. Comparing a set of projections from the base frame, with a second set of projections from the movement fram... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019180 | Constructing arbitrary-plane and multi-arbitrary-plane mosaic composite images from a multi-imager A method for constructing arbitrary-plane and multi-arbitrary-plane mosaic composite images from a multi-imager is disclosed. A first homography set is generated for a multi-imager based on a first reference plane. A second homography set is then generated for the m... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009932 | Automatic alignment of video frames for image processing The provided is a method that can automatically align image frames in recorded video clips. Individual frames in video may shift and rotate due to shaking or vibration of a video camera. Unaligned frames make some imaging processing techniques difficult or infeasibl... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000561 | Apparatus, method, and medium for generating panoramic image using a series of images captured in various directions Provided are an apparatus, method, and medium for processing an image. In the apparatus, at least one image selected from images to be stitched so as to make colors of overlapped sections of the images as identical with each other as possible and operating again in ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995864 | Method and system for performing image registration A method for performing image registration is provided. The method comprises obtaining a reference image dataset and a target image dataset and defining an image mask for a region of interest in the reference image dataset. The method further comprises registering a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995865 | Apparatus and method for laying out images and program therefor Images can be laid out easily without a template. Reference areas are set in a background area, and the images are laid out by being inscribed therein. In the case where the image laid out in one of the reference areas has high priority, a similar area is generated ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978933 | Systems and methods for robust video temporal registration A robust video temporal method for registration between test and reference video sequences without a priori knowledge of the respective signal parameters initially produces frame and subimage distillation measurements from the test and reference video sequences. The... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965905 | Device, method and system for automatic stabilization of a series of retinal images Some embodiments of the present invention may relate to a device and a method of enabling the stabilization of a series of retinal angiography images to provide a coherent serial display, the method comprising: locally matching a pair of overlapping images, said loc... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961983 | Generating gigapixel images A gigapixel image is generated from a set of images in raw format depicting different portions of a panoramic scene that has up to a full spherical field of view. Radiometric alignment of the images creates a set of images in radiance format. Geometric alignment of ... | 06/14/2011 |
