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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 |
| 8189110 | Equalization of noise characteristics of the components of a composite image without degrading subject image quality A visible mismatch in noise characteristics between a portion of a background scene inserted in composite image by a matte generated from a blue screen and a second portion of the same background inserted by a garbage matte is significantly reduced by adding extract... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7852410 | Image superimposing apparatus A deepest part searching means divides each frame of a background image into a plurality of blocks, and searches for a candidate for the deepest part of the background image which is located the deepest in a direction of the depth of the background image, a deepest ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7742108 | Method and system for real time motion picture segmentation and superposition Methods and systems for separating a picture part of interest from an arbitrary background in real time videos are presented. The background may be a moving or still frame. The picture part of interest and background frames may be in or out of focus. One separation ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7636128 | Poisson matting for images An exemplary method includes receiving a trimap for an image that specifies a background region, a foreground region and an unknown region for the image wherein a boundary exists between the foreground region and the unknown region and wherein another boundary exist... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7499108 | Image synthesis apparatus, electrical apparatus, image synthesis method, control program and computer-readable recording medium The image synthesis apparatus 10 includes an anti-aliasing processing circuit 11 for generating a foreground image having a reduced aliasing by blending the color information and blending the alpha information for each dot of the input foreground image... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495709 | Image display apparatus and image display method An image display apparatus includes a background image selection unit for providing image data corresponding to a background image, a synthesis-target-image selection unit for providing image data corresponding to a different image to be superimposed on the backgrou... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7408591 | System and method for defocus difference matting A method extracts an alpha matte from a video acquired of a scene. A set of pinhole or narrow aperture images IP is acquired of the scene with a camera aperture set to a relatively large depth-of-field. The scene includes a background B and a foreground F... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400361 | Method and device for generating a video effect A method for generating a video effect using a video signal processing device. The method comprises generating horizontal and vertical gating base signals. The horizontal gating base signal is combined with a first modulation signal and the vertical gating base sign... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397952 | “Don't care” pixel interpolation A system and method facilitating image smoothing is provided. The invention includes an image processor having an image receptor and an image smoother. The invention provides for the image smoother to alter the value of a don't care pixel based, at least in part, up... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391444 | Image pickup apparatus capable of selecting output according to time measured by timer In an image pickup apparatus, timer 2 starts a time measuring operation when a shutter button is pressed. When a time T1 is measured by timer 2, the image from CCD 1 is output as a background image to a background image buffer 4. I... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7362918 | System and method for de-noising multiple copies of a signal A “composite signal generator” automatically combines two or more copies of a signal to produce a composite that is better than the individual copies. For example, given two or more input images of a scene captured from approximately the same viewpoint, the comp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359547 | Pseudo three dimensional image generating apparatus The pseudo depth information of a subject is generated from multiple images of the subject captured with and without illumination or under various illumination intensities. A pseudo 3D image generating apparatus generates a pseudo 3D image. It includes an image stor... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357640 | Lock-In Training system A Lock-In Training system. The Lock-In Training system can include an appropriately programmed Web site and a user computer. The Lock-In Training system can also include an appropriately programmed stand-alone computer. Some embodiments of the invention allow studen... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359552 | Foreground detection using intrinsic images A temporal sequence of images is acquired of a dynamic scene. Spatial gradients are determined using filters. By taking advantage of the sparseness of outputs of the filters, an intrinsic background image is generated as median filtered gradients. The intrinsic back... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353188 | Product selling system and method for operating the same A product selling system is provided which allows clients with networks accessible to the Internet to contact a service provider network for purchases. The service provider network includes a database with three dimensional (3D) image data for a variety of its produ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343134 | System and method for communicating with students in an education environment A communication system for communicating with students in an education environment includes a plurality of remote units, a base station that receives messages from the remote units, a processor, a memory, and a display simultaneously visible to all users of the remo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340106 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus The present invention allows the amount of movement indicating the movement of an object within an exposure period to be obtained. An estimated-mixture-ratio processor 401 calculates an estimated mixture ratio for each pixel and an estimated motion vector by ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330600 | Image processing device estimating black character color and ground color according to character-area pixels classified into two classes A character area is extracted from an original image, which is a digital image, according to a feature value calculated with respect to the original image. Pixels belonging to the extracted character area are classified into a first class and a second class accordin... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327789 | Decoding apparatus, decoding method, decoding program, and decoding program storage medium A decoding apparatus is provided with a decoder for receiving plural bit streams and decoding the respective bit streams to output decoded bit streams, and a decoding state holder for saving and restoring plural states of the decoder. The decoder selects a bit strea... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324166 | Live actor integration in pre-recorded well known video The apparatus inserts a participant realistically into familiar background media to provide similar results to a completely original movie with multi-camera studio production and editing. An automated and simplified studio has multiple cameras and traditional studio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321886 | Rapid knowledge transfer among workers A system and method enable rapid knowledge transfer, for example between a plurality of experts and a plurality of apprentices located remotely from the experts. The system makes use of unique tools to facilitate transfer of knowledge and collaboration between indiv... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319493 | Apparatus and program for setting video processing parameters A video signal processing apparatus 1 and a video processing parameter setting apparatus 2 comprise a video processing apparatus (visual mixer). A parameter value collectively specifying portion 3 specifies in accordance with the order stored in... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318191 | Automated system and method for dynamically generating customized typeset question-based documents The present invention generally relates to a system and method for dynamically generating customized, typeset publication quality question-based documents, such as examinations, answers and/or worked out solutions in a portable document format. More particularly, th... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310439 | Robot having an imaging capability A robot having an imaging capability includes: an imaging device, and at least one actuator separate from the imaging device for moving at least a portion of the robot. The at least one actuator is controllable in response to a control command, the imaging device be... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302094 | Transparency and/or color processing A system or method of automated image processing that can automatically determine a color and transparency for a pixel with an observed color when given the pixel and a background reference color. A point in a color space can be automatically found by extrapolating ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301666 | Image processing apparatus and method, image synthesizing system and method, image synthesizer and client computer which constitute image synthesizing system, and image separating method An image processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The system includes an image area designating device that designates an area to be extracted of an original image displayed on a display screen. A color changing device changes the color of an area, excluding t... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280158 | Video synthesizing apparatus A data amount of a still image to be synthesized is reduced to shorten a transmission time and to reduce a memory utilization spent by the image. The display position of the still image to be synthesized is easily changed to improve operation efficiency. A video syn... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7268834 | Method and apparatus for combining video signals to one comprehensive video signal Method and apparatus for combining a first video signal and a second video signal. The method comprising the act of replacing data in the second video signal with corresponding, in respect of a position within an image, data from the first video signal when said dat... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7254776 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus is provided that inputs and outputs images of different resolutions. When a resolution of a line drawing input via an interface is lower than the resolution of the monitor and the resolution of an image input via the interface is ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254268 | Object extraction A video sequence is processed to extract one or more objects. The extracted objects are used to create a new video sequence. In particular, a user is able to select a background and/or an audio recording. Alternatively, the object extraction system automatically sel... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251357 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for setting background image When a photograph album is generated by laying out images, a background image is set in accordance with the images. Image data sets representing the images are input to background setting means and area ratio calculation means calculates a ratio of an area where a c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250952 | Forecast weather video presentation system and method A system and method for generating a realistic weather forecast visualization. Realistic weather graphics and animations are combined with a few of view of location of interest to allow weather presentation viewers to visualize future forecast weather conditions as ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240075 | Interactive generating query related to telestrator data designating at least a portion of the still image frame and data identifying a user is generated from the user designating a selected region on the display screen, transmitting the query to the remote information system Methods, apparatuses, and systems enabling an interactive information retrieval system that includes a user interface allowing users to graphically generate information queries for objects of interest found in various media, such as television, video, and print. The... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239314 | Method for 2-D animation A method for approximating the lighting of a 2-dimensional image that is to be incorporated into a live-action scene using an image processing tool. The 2-dimensional image has an interior defined by an edge. The method includes: approximating a plurality of edge no... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230653 | Method and apparatus for real time insertion of images into video The present invention comprises a real time image insertion system for video utilizes a three-dimensional model of at least one target area within a site for identifying the target area within an original video image of the site, and for rendering a target image and... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231651 | System and method for insertion and modification of advertisements Advertisements or commercials are integrated into an entertainment program or display by designating locations or fields in the entertainment program or display into which targeted advertisements or commercials may in inserted and/or modified, so that the advertisem... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228189 | Synchronized streamed playback and recording for personal computers A method is provided for synchronizing an audio capture program with a streamed audio file. The method comprises receiving at least one selection request from a user connected to a server device, the transmission of a program from the server device to the user clien... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227544 | Image data processing using depth image data for realistic scene representation A method for processing video image data for display during interactive game play is provided. During a game play session, processing of one or more images of the game play session is performed to adjust scene representation of objects at a first distance relative t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221778 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention allows detection of an exposure time of an image that has already been captured. A motion detector 102 detects an amount of inter-frame movement of a foreground object in a designated frame based on the designated frame and a frame prece... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222303 | System and method for the dynamic improvement of internet browser navigability A method and system for dynamically providing the on-demand addition of graphic and other information to a web brower's toolbar. The HotbarToolbar comprises a plurality of categorized or rated links, which in the presently preferred embodiment are organized under cu... | 05/22/2007 |
