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| 8189964 | Matching an approximately located query image against a reference image set Aspects of the invention pertain to matching a selected image/photograph against a database of reference images having location information. The image of interest may include some location information itself, such as latitude/longitude coordinates and orientation. H... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189963 | Matching advertisements to visual media objects Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for matching a visual media object to an advertisement are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving un-categorized visual media objects, automatically categorizing received visual media objects in... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185543 | Video image-based querying for video content An information retrieval system is provided for processing queries for video content. A server receives a query for video content and returns video articles, as received from broadcast systems or other content providers. Queries are formulated using text, video imag... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175419 | Image search apparatus, image search method, and storage medium storing a program for causing a search apparatus to execute a search method In an image search apparatus, a data manager responds to an instruction for a first search condition issued via a user interface to manage data of a target model acquired from a database and generates an image to be displayed on a user interface. A determination pro... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175418 | Method of and system for enhanced data storage A method of and system for enhanced storage allows more data to be backed up than would otherwise be possible. Instead of storing uncompressed base images and incremental images, differentials of non-current base images are compressed and stored. Furthermore, increm... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170379 | Image processing apparatus and image retrieval method A plurality of feature points are extracted from an inputted image, and a feature amount is computed with regard to the feature point thus extracted. A prescribed plurality of alterations, i.e., a rotation, an enlargement, or a reduction, are applied to the inputted... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165427 | Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method therefor There are provided a data processing apparatus which makes an I/F for data processing modules (processors) versatile to facilitate addition/modification on a data processing module basis in accordance with processing contents, an image processing apparatus, and a me... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165426 | Workflow-based management of medical image data A method, an arrangement and a product are disclosed, where a multiplicity of nodes are provided which are designed for processing medical image data. Following determination of the specific workflow for processing the image data in at least one embodiment, local, r... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165995 | Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor An image forming apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of performance when the log data is outputted to an external device. An output unit outputs an operation condition about image forming as log data to an external device. A changing unit changes a detai... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160400 | Navigating images using image based geometric alignment and object based controls Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs.... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160401 | Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page comp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155482 | Selecting wider bandwidth channels in a wireless network Techniques are provided for selecting channels for a wider bandwidth operation mode of a wireless network, such as wireless network that operates in accordance with the IEEE 802.11n amendment. Alignments of so-called primary and secondary channels are selected to mi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150216 | Methods and apparatus for automated true object-based image analysis and retrieval The present invention is an automated and extensible system for the analysis and retrieval of images based on region-of-interest (ROI) analysis of one or more true objects depicted by an image. The system uses a ROI database that is a relational or analytical databa... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145016 | System for the environmental viewing of an outdoor ad space A system whereby a potential advertiser can see a motorist's view of an outdoor ad space without the need to actually drive past the outdoor ad space. A video image is recorded of the outdoor ad space from a vehicle driving past the outdoor ad space using a video re... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145015 | Device, system, and method for indexing digital image frames A method, apparatus and system for, for each of a plurality of image frames, assigning a pattern number to each of a set of pixel neighborhoods within the frame and assigning a relationship number to each of a plurality of sets of pattern numbers based on a probabil... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139900 | System and method for providing objectified image renderings using recognition information from images An embodiment provides for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a library of images. For each image in the collection, a captured image may be analyzed to recognize information from image data contained in the capture... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135239 | Display control apparatus, display control method, computer program, and recording medium A display control apparatus may include a calculating unit for calculating the degree of similarity of each of a plurality of second images to a selected first image, a display control unit for controlling displaying of the second images in the order of similarity, ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135240 | Image searching device, method and recording medium An image searching device including a database, a user interface, a search unit, and an output unit. The search unit includes a data management unit configured to manage data on a model to be searched and acquired from the database and create an image to be displaye... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131118 | Inferring locations from an image Systems and methods are disclosed for determining the location where an image was captured. In general, a device such as a smartphone may capture one or more images from a location, such as images of buildings, street signs and the like, and a central system may com... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126294 | Video structuring device A video structuring device includes: character string extraction means for determining whether or not a character string is present in a frame image, and if it determines that a character string is present, generating character string position information for the ch... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121437 | Method and apparatus of searching for images A method for searching images includes applying a color resolution reduction process to at least part of a first image such that a total number of colors in the first image is reduced, forming a plurality of color planes, each color plane containing only image eleme... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116597 | Information display device and information display method In order to prevent interception of information through leakage electromagnetic waves when transmitting the information using an image display unit, an image converter generates plural converted images, stores the generated converted images in an image storage, an i... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116596 | Recognizing image environment from image and position A method of recognizing the environment of an image from an image and position information associated with the image includes acquiring the image and its associated position information; using the position information to acquire an aerial image correlated to the pos... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116598 | Location-referenced photograph repository A photograph repository system includes data storage for storing photographs in the form of digital data files and a search feature that provides for searching for photographs by location and optionally by other search criteria. In one embodiment, a photograph repos... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111951 | Apparatus and method for detecting target image The present invention relates to a target image detecting apparatus and a method thereof. According to the present invention, the target video detecting apparatus calculates a video index for each frame of an input broadcasting signal, and compares a video index of ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8090222 | Selection of an image or images most representative of a set of images Implementations consistent with the principles described herein relate to ranking a set of images based on features of the images determine the most representative and/or highest quality images in the set. In one implementation, an initial set of images is obtained ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090223 | Method and apparatus for alignment, comparison and identification of characteristic tool marks, including ballistic signatures Systematic use of infrared imaging characterizes marks made on items and identifies the particular marking tool with better accuracy than use of visual imaging. Infrared imaging performed in total darkness eliminates shadows, glint, and other lighting variations and... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086077 | Method for storing and retrieving large images via DICOM Systems and methods that acquire digital slides and other large images and store these images into commercially available PACS systems using DICOM-standard messaging are provided. A digital slide or other large two-dimensional image is acquired and each separate res... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068701 | Image-processing apparatus, image-processing method and image-processing program Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus which may include an image holding section configured to store an input image; an image division section configured to divide the input image stored in the image holding section into a plurality of image portions hav... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068702 | System, method and computer instructions for aiding image analysis Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer instructions for aiding analysis of an image used in a medical examination. For example, in an embodiment, an image analysis system used in a medical examination comprises: an input m... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064735 | Recording and reproducing system for image data with recording position information and a recording and reproducing method therefor An image data recording and reproducing system comprises an image data input unit, an ID generator generating an ID inserted to image data from the image data input unit, a plurality of image data recorders for recording the image data, and an output unit for output... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064736 | Method and system for providing targeted documents based on concepts automatically identified therein A system and method for providing a graphical document are provided. A graphical document is processed to identify one or more ideas associated with the graphical document. The identified ideas may be used to determine concepts to associate with the first electronic... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065611 | Method and system for mining image searches to associate images with concepts A system and method for associating a document with a concept are provided. One or more idea-electronic document associations is identified, wherein each idea-electronic document association is based on a user performance criteria relative to the electronic document... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055103 | Object-based image search system and method The present invention discloses an object-based image search system and method, whereby a user may visually specify query objects for retrieving relevant images without using any image-segmenting software tool. The method of the present invention comprises: specifyi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041155 | Image display apparatus and computer program product A comprehensive degree of relevance of other moving picture contents with respect to a moving-picture content to be processed is calculated by using any one of or all of content information, frame information, and image characteristics, to display a virtual space in... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041154 | Information processing apparatus, method and program An information processing apparatus includes clustering means for performing clustering on multiple images so as to more strongly connect the images at a closer distance based on the distances determined by metadata of the images, and grouping means for grouping the... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036497 | Method, program and apparatus for storing document and/or image using invariant values calculated from feature points and method, program and apparatus for retrieving document based on stored document and/or image A document/image retrieval method for retrieving a document/image corresponding to a captured digital image from a database by comparing features calculated based on feature points of the captured digital image with features preliminarily calculated based on feature... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031979 | Method and device for verifying multimedia entities and in particular for verifying digital images The method of verifying multimedia entities according to the invention to determine whether a first multimedia entity matches a second multimedia entity, is characterized in that it comprises a step of selecting from a plurality of second multimedia entities, by a c... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031981 | Method and systems for generating a subset of biometric representations A system and method for enabling analysis of enrolled biometric data is presented. A plurality of vectors each having a plurality of score values representative of the relationship between individual ones of the enrolled biometrics with a plurality of biometric repr... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031980 | Image processing apparatus and information processing system A disclosed image processing apparatus includes process components configured to input, process, or output image data; and a registration unit configured to obtain a list of the process components available in the image processing apparatus, to display on a display ... | 10/04/2011 |
