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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098959 | Method and system for frame rotation within a JPEG compressed pipeline A system and methods for rotating and compressing digital image data is presented. The system includes an image sensor that vertically and horizontally flips a digital image, an image processor that converts the image into the YCbCr color space, reorder buffers that... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8036493 | Method for correcting orientation of patent figures A method for correcting orientation of patent figures for efficiently reviewing and analyzing a patent document (e.g. patent application, published patent document or patent). The method for correcting orientation of patent figures includes acquiring a patent image ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019181 | Image generation apparatus, image processing apparatus, computer readable medium and computer data signal An image generation apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires information to be embedded in each of a plurality of partitions on a recording medium. The generation unit generates an image in which first pattern image... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7961984 | Image processing apparatus, computer readable medium and computer data signal An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section, a combination detection section and an angle detection section. The image acquisition section acquires a code pattern image from a surface of a recording medium on which the code pattern is formed.... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7738735 | Image processing apparatus for resizing of images, image processing method for resizing images, program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus configured to obtain a resized image of a suitable size in a case where a plurality of image data are enlarged or reduced, while keeping a vertically long or horizontally long state of the image. Thus, a matched state between a resize o... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7421129 | Image compression and synthesis for video effects An encoder compresses a set of still images and parameterizes (with effect parameters) additional images synthesized from the set of still images. A decoder decompresses the set of still images and synthesizes the additional images using the effect parameters. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7409105 | Panoramic maker engine for a low profile system A method for generating a panoramic image includes receiving a first image, dividing the first image into a first portion and a second portion, rotating the first portion of the first image, saving the rotated first portion of the first image in a nonvolatile memory... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7376287 | Method for intelligent auto-orientation of digital images A method for re-orientating digital images in an image-editing environment where images are loaded in landscape mode by default, with the aim of unburdening users from the inconvenience of manual correction of image orientation. Intelligent re-orientation of digital... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372469 | Image transforming method The present invention provides a method for rotating YUV4:2:0 image in a digital display device, such as TV image system. A YUV4:2:0 image is separated to a Y division matrix and a U and V division matrix. Then the Y division is performed a rotation matrix calculati... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7348998 | Method for orienting a digital image on a display of an image display device The method of capturing a digital image for viewing from a stream of digital images on a touch display of a digital imaging device includes accessing a stream of digital images comprised of a plurality of individual digital images, selecting an individual image from... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336268 | Point-to-point display system having configurable connections An exemplary point-to-point display system comprises a host system, a timing controller, and a display. The host system is configured to provide data for display. The timing controller is configurable to provide data swapping, bus swapping, bit swapping, and combina... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327887 | Increasing accuracy of discrete curve transform estimates for curve matching System and method for estimating a rotational shift between a first discrete curve and a second discrete curve, where the second discrete curve is a rotationally shifted version of the first discrete curve. First and second discrete curves are received. A rotational... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321890 | Database and method for organizing data elements A database system and method for organizing data elements according to a Hilbert curve, said data elements being representable by a plurality of coordinates, said database system comprising: first means for generating a plurality of bitblocks by bitwise inter... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312889 | Facsimile machine and transmission method of scanned image A facsimile machine includes a facsimile communication unit, an Internet facsimile communication unit, and a controller that sets to rotate a scanned image by 90 degrees. When the controller sets to rotate the scanned image by 90 degrees, the facsimile communication... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307635 | Display rotation using a small line buffer and optimized memory access A frame buffer stores X pixels per line and Y lines and is read using a burst of B pixels. The un-rotated image is rotated by 90 degrees for display by writing and reading pixels from a line buffer. The line buffer stores a block of B*Y pixels. The frame buffer is l... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305664 | Apparatus, method, software and medium storage for performing the tasks of detecting specified marks A technique is disclosed to detect a specified mark that has been rotated by an unknown number of degrees. To make the detection efficient, the dictionary stores the specified marks in predetermined formats including the coordinate conversion table and the polar coo... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305089 | Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing different from that at which the image of the subject is captured. The reco... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305619 | Image processing method, device and storage medium therefor The invention significantly improves operability by automatically discriminating a plurality of image orientations, which are not assured of always being fed in common orientations, and reduces possible burdens to operators by eliminating efforts required to arrange... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286718 | Method and apparatus for determination of text orientation The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the “open” portions of text characters to determine in which direction the open portions face. By de... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277600 | Skew detection Skew angle in a document image is estimated using operators known from mathematical morphology. Skew angle in a document image (A) is estimated by run-length smoothing the image and then producing a plurality of eroded run-length-smoothed images. The run-length-smoo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274832 | In-plane rotation invariant object detection in digitized images In methods, systems, and computer program products for locating a regularly configured object within a digital image, a plurality of primary rotated integral images of the digital image are computed. Each primary rotated integral image has a different in-plane rotat... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268912 | Rendering processing apparatus, rendering processing method, computer-readable memory medium, and program Band rendering processing time in the case where the raster scanning direction of inputted output information and that of a print mechanism are different can be remarkably reduced, and rendering processing efficiency of each page is improved. To expect the further i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259876 | Image processing apparatus, and, control method and control device therefor A first storage stores input image data. A second storage stores image data read from the first storage. A control part determines, with respect to a timing at which data transfer of image data into the first storage, a data transfer of the said image data from the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248751 | Algorithmic technique for increasing the spatial acuity of a focal plane array electro-optic imaging system A system for enhancing images from an electro-optic imaging sensor and for reducing the necessary focal length of a sensor while preserving system acuity. This system uniquely reduces the necessary focal length and enhances images by collecting a video sequence, est... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7233327 | Subdividing rotation in a character using quaternion interpolation for modeling and animation in three dimensions Subdividing rotation between two poses in three dimensions may be accomplished in three parts. First, data defining the two poses is obtained from the animation or modeling interface. Second, a path associated with the two poses is determined. Third, using quaternio... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221811 | Method and apparatus for conveying image attributes Attributes of a digital image are conveyed using the case of letters in an extension of a file name associated with the digital image. The technique is applicable to a wide variety of image attributes, including orientation. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7196818 | Printer having image correcting capability A printer in which difference in color tone or contrast between a picture displayed on a display and a picture printed by the printer device is suppressed to a minimum. The display is preferably integrated with the printer. The printer includes an image data inputti... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197272 | Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading method, and image forming method There is disclosed an image reading process has determining an estimated size of an original based on a width of the original, securing a memory region, the memory region having capacity to hold a maximum image data associated with the estimated size, generating an ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7176915 | Subdividing rotation in a character using quaternion interpolation for modeling and animation in three dimensions Subdividing rotation between two poses in three dimensions may be accomplished in three parts. First, data defining the two poses is obtained from the animation or modeling interface. Second, a path associated with the two poses is determined. Third, using quaternio... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177447 | Real-time multi-stage infrared image-based tracking system A multi-stage infrared (IR) image-based tracking system is provided that accurately identifies and tracks targets across a variety of different situations and environmental conditions. The system includes primary and secondary trackers. The secondary tracker support... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164489 | Rectangular partitioning in printing rotated images A rotated representation of an image is printed by using a coordinate system to assign tile divisions to the image. The size of the tile divisions are selected to maintain their area equal to, or less, than a predetermined maximum. Each segment of the image, as defi... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164433 | Display device, display method, program recording medium, and program A display device comprising a CPU 53, displays section 67 and a video memory 70. The video memory 70 stores data about the character data and image data that the application software processes in an absolute coordinate system. The display... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151860 | Document image correcting device and a correcting method A line orientation determining unit determining whether the line orientation of an input document image is either vertical or horizontal, a character image extracting unit extracting a character image from the input document image, a character orientation detecting ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151849 | Efficient block transform including pre-processing and post processing for autostereoscopic displays Image data processing techniques utilizing multiple processes operating on one or more processors of one or more computer systems can be used to efficiently rearrange or reparameterizing image data to form hologram element (hogel) images which can then be used to pr... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7146053 | Reordering of compressed data Apparatus and methods are provided for encoding independently decodable pieces of compressed data to accommodate reordering of the pieces of compressed data before or after manipulation. Encoding can occur before or after manipulation of the source information. For ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7127080 | Method of processing image data to reorient an image represented by the image data in an image-based item processing system and an apparatus therefor A method of processing image data elements derived from lifting an image of an item to reorient the image data elements comprises the steps of (a) selecting a first portion of the image data elements, (b) reorienting the first portion of the image data elements sele... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120317 | Method and system for a programmable image transformation A method and system for a programmable image transformation is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transforming an image comprises rotating an image by a predetermined angle. The image is copied from a first memory location associated... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120382 | Image forming apparatus and control method for rotating image data based on sheet type and orientation To obtain proper output results regardless of the type of recording sheets and obtain the user's desired output results without having the user perform cumbersome operations, the user operates an operating section to select a sheet feeding stage, gives an instructio... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116439 | Scanner system and scanner driver A scanner system having an image scanner and a control device for controlling the image scanner. The control device has a scanner driver installed thereinto. The operator can carry out entering for setting a reading size and a direction of an original on the operati... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7106904 | Form identification method A form identification method which can identify forms without errors even if a form is inputted from a scanner in different direction or the form is enlarged/shrunk. A form registration method which enables change/modification of forms when form types are pre-regist... | 09/12/2006 |
