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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184928 | Combining seam carving an image resizing A method for resizing an input digital image to form an output digital image with an output aspect ratio, comprising: determining a number of rows or columns that need to be reduced from the input digital image; determining an image energy map for the input digital ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180178 | Autocropping and autolayout method for digital images The present invention is a method for manipulating acquired digital images in a computer system, comprising creating a crop cost array for each of a set of input images with a set of associated aspect ratios, wherein the cost crop array operates and is stored on the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180177 | Seam-based reduction and expansion of images using parallel processing of retargeting matrix strips Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for resizing images using seam carving techniques may access a pre-computed retargeting matrix for an input image that associates each pixel of the input image with a cost order of a horizontal and/or vertical se... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175415 | Image processing device and computer-accessible recording medium containing program therefor An image processing device changes a size of original image represented by an original image data to create size-changed image data representing a size-changed image and outputs the size-changed image data to an output device. The image processing device has an imag... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170375 | Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same An image processing apparatus includes an input unit receiving an encoded image data stream; a decoding processor decoding the stream to obtain image data; a first storage storing the image data; a second storage storing the image data and having a storage area stor... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160398 | Independent resizing of multiple image regions A system and method for expansion and reduction of images may apply resizing techniques independently to different regions of an input image to produce a resized version of the image having a specified target size and/or ratio. A content-aware resizing technique may... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145013 | Multi-purpose scaler A multi-purpose scaler utilizes a vertical scaler module and a moveable horizontal scaler module to resample a video signal either vertically or horizontally according to a selected scaling ratio. The moveable horizontal scaler module resides in one of two slots wit... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139897 | Detecting tilt in an image having different resolutions in different directions An image processing device includes an acquiring unit that acquires, from image data, processing image data having a first resolution in a first direction and a second resolution in a second direction different from the first direction; a receiving unit that receive... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139896 | Tracking moving objects accurately on a wide-angle video A method and a system for tracking the motion of moving objects accurately on the entirety of a wide-angle video is disclosed. The method includes using a non-uniform scaling to selectively enhance pixel density, preferably in preparation for other image processing.... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126292 | Apparatus and method for processing image signal without requiring high memory bandwidth An image signal processor for processing an input image signal to output an output image signal includes an input unit receiving the input image signal, a noise removal unit removing noise from the input image signal, and a scaler reducing, maintaining or magnifying... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121434 | Multi-pass image resampling Multi-pass image resampling technique embodiments are presented that employ a series of one-dimensional filtering, resampling, and shearing stages to achieve good efficiency while maintaining high visual fidelity. In one embodiment, high-quality (multi-tap) image fi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116593 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for determining a zoom area for a displayed zoom image An image processing apparatus includes display means for displaying a zoom image resulting from enlargement of a certain area in an original image to a zoom area; important object determining means for determining whether the absolute value of the difference in pixe... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107771 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a taken-image acquisition section configured to acquire a taken image; and a to-be-processed area setting section configured to carry out an analysis on a taken image acquired by the taken-im... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103129 | System(s), and method(s) for non-linear scaling of source pictures to a destination screen Presented herein are system(s), and method(s) for non-linear scaling of source pictures to a destination screen. In one embodiment, there is presented a monitor for displaying a source picture. The monitor comprises a screen and a circuit. The screen comprises a plu... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103130 | Automated image processing Automated electronic document design systems and methods for appropriately sizing and positioning uploaded user images into predefined image areas in a product design being created in a Web environment. For an image that is not to be cropped when incorporated into t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094973 | Content aware image resizing for text and contone images A method, computer readable medium, and computing device for resizing images. A digital image arranged in a rectangular array of pixels is received for resizing in either a horizontal direction or a vertical direction. An energy value is computed for each of the pix... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086073 | Non-uniform image resizer A method for producing a scaled output image by manipulating image data from an input image is disclosed. The scaled output image can have non-uniformly scaled regions and a uniformly scaled region. The method includes an operation that defines pixel locations withi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081845 | Method and device for scaling-up or scaling-down images with the same hardware An image processing device is provided, which scales-up or scales-down images with the same hardware. The device of this invention comprises a line buffer, a first variable, a second variable and a scaler. The scaler practices a scaling-down procedure to scale-down ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081846 | System and method for scaling digital images Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements. ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073291 | Center based image resizer A method for resizing image data from a first size image to a second size image is disclosed. In one operation of the method, a scale factor is determined based on a number of gaps between pixels in the first size image and a number of gaps between pixels in the sec... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068698 | System and method for resizing images prior to upload There is disclosed a system and method for resizing an image on a handheld mobile communication device prior to uploading to an image repository. In an embodiment, the method comprises: determining the size of an original image; determining any upload size restricti... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068699 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus includes imaging means for imaging an image at a first aspect ratio, and image processing means for converting an original image at the first aspect ratio, which is imaged by the imaging means, to a converted image at a second aspect ratio, whic... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059919 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method including averaging processing, screen processing, and resolution converting processing Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, including: an averaging processing unit to periodically execute an averaging processing of applying an averaging pattern to a processing target image and replacing each pixel value in a pixel group corresponding to the ave... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050522 | Video processing apparatus and video processing method thereof Provided are a video processing apparatus and a video processing method thereof. The video processing apparatus includes: an input unit which receives a broadcasting signal which may include zoom-in information having regional information on a part of a video image;... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8031974 | Imaging apparatus, image editing method and program An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device; a first storage section storing image data including an image obtained by the imaging device; a display section displaying the image data stored in the first storage section; an image-effect specification section spe... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031973 | Data processing device capable of executing retinex processing at high speed An original image is converted into a reduced image, based on which a peripheral average luminance image is obtained through a filtering processing. A Retinex image having a smaller size than the original image is obtained from the peripheral average luminance image... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031972 | System for dynamically resizing information handling system images A system for dynamically resizing information handling system images which dynamically resizes information handling system images and enables presentation of images (such as product images) at multiple sizes in a consistent compression/quality ratio without having t... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014631 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable medium for generating a reduced image An image processing apparatus that generates a reduced image from input image data, which includes: a reducing process dividing section that divides a reducing process applied to get the reduced image from input image data into a first and second reducing process; a... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005318 | Weight-adjusted module and method A weight-adjusted method applied in adjusting a weighting coefficient in an image scaling process. First, an absolute difference is obtained by taking an absolute value of a difference between a first pixel value and a second pixel value of an image. Next, the absol... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986858 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image enlarging apparatus includes: a luminance data calculation unit configured to set a reference frame from a video image, and to calculate first luminance data for a high resolution video image; a position calculation unit configured to set target pixels in a... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978934 | Method and device for selecting optimal transform matrices for down-sampling DCT image Down-sampling of an image may be performed in the DCT domain. Transform matrices are obtained for down-sampling a DCT image of size M×N to a down-sampled DCT image of size I×J. The transform matrices may be used to down-sample the DCT image directly in the DCT dom... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978935 | Method for changing the dimensions of an electronically stored image The invention relates to a method for changing the dimensions of an electronically stored image which is composed of individual objects that are arranged below or next to one another or that fully or partially overlap one another, in which the image is changed in at... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974496 | Digital image drop zones and transformation interaction A portion of a digital image is displayed where the portion that is displayed depends upon a mask. After the portion of the digital image is displayed, a change to the mask is received. It is determined, based at least in part on the received change to the mask, a t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7949204 | Image scaling interpolation for reduced pictures A method for processing original images that are stored in the form of pixels and need to be output at a reduced scale, where all original pixels are weight-added, based upon area pixels. A mutual overlap (gi) of the pixels is determined, and intensity va... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945118 | Image processing apparatus and control method thereof This invention makes it possible to obtain an enlarged image while suppressing noise and maintaining the sharpness of an original image only by setting a simple enlargement ratio without no special knowledge. Original image data (Ia) is enlarged in accordance with a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941002 | Apparatus and methods of producing photorealistic image thumbnails Methods, systems, and machine-readable media for processing an input image are described. In one aspect, respective visual features of local input image regions of an input image having a first pixel resolution are analyzed to produce a result. Based on the result o... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941001 | Multi-purpose scaler A multi-purpose scaler utilizes a vertical scaler module and a moveable horizontal scaler module to resample a video signal either vertically or horizontally according to a selected scaling ratio. The moveable horizontal scaler module resides in one of two slots wit... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7929805 | Image-based CAPTCHA generation system In a system and method for the generation of attack-resistant, user-friendly, image-based CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), controlled distortions are applied to randomly chosen images and presented to a user for annotat... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925118 | Image processing apparatus and method thereof An image processing apparatus having an image sensing unit and a subject detection unit for performing a process of detecting a subject in an image inputted from said image sensing unit, has a detection size operation unit that sets a resolution of a target object t... | 04/12/2011 |
| RE42257 | Computationally efficient modeling of imagery using scaled, extracted principal components A computationally efficient modeling system for imagery scales both the original image and corresponding principal component tiles in the same proportion to be able to extract scaled principal components. The system includes recovery of feature weights for the image... | 03/29/2011 |
