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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7444034 | Systems and methods for image enhancement in multiple dimensions A multi-dimensional data enhancement system can be embedded within a video cable for providing enhanced video images from a video signal source to a display. The multi-dimensional data enhancement system can also be provided in a switching box that allows a user to ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7312796 | Perpendicular view three dimensional electronic programming guide A method and apparatus of displaying an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG). In one embodiment, an EPG is constructed of a three dimensional virtual mesh, in which independent objects representing television programs are situated. The virtual mesh is displayed perpen... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7272252 | Automated system for combining bright field and fluorescent microscopy A method and apparatus for automated analysis of transmitted and fluorescently labeled biological samples, wherein the apparatus automatically scans at a low magnification to acquire images which are analyzed to determine candidate cell objects of interest. Once can... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271831 | Image input apparatus and method An image input apparatus is provided which is capable of taking a still image with high quality and with easy operations. The image input apparatus disclosed herein has a video camera and an expansion board mounted on a personal computer. The video camera has a lens... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268832 | Special effect device, key signal control device and key signal control method A key signal control unit for controlling the level of a key signal corresponding to an arbitrary position within a frame area to a level corresponding to a minimum distance from an inner edge of the frame area on the basis of the level of a key signal on the inner ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269301 | System and method providing subpixel-edge-offset-based determination of opacity A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to determine a foreground value (F) and opacity value (α) for each pixel on the se... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7236645 | Image synthesizing apparatus and method An α value in a desired shape in a desired position can be rewritten to a desired value in a desired range. α value rewriting units for rewriting an α value showing an opaqueness degree of an image are provided. When the desired position comes, an area setting si... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233366 | Method and apparatus for sending and receiving and for encoding and decoding a telop image To allow a telop image to be displayed appropriately even when color information and transparency information for the telop image are transmitted over a network, the present invention provides a telop image sending/receiving system comprising a telop image sending a... | 06/19/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7230633 | Method and apparatus for image blending Methods and apparatuses for blending two images using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to blend two images includes: loading a vector of keys into a vector register; converting the vector of keys into a first vector of blendi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7191103 | Predominant color identification in digital images At least one predominant color in a digital image is identified by applying a detection rule to randomly-selected pixels in the image. The detection rule includes testing specific colors to reduce the probability of at least one of a false-positive outcome and a fal... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177454 | Automated detection of objects in a biological sample A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automated light microscopic for detection of proteins associated with cell proliferative disorders. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167600 | Drawing method for drawing image on two-dimensional screen A value for expressing distance from a virtual viewpoint is set to every predetermined compositional unit of a first image; a second image is generated; a coefficient is defined corresponding to the value for expressing the distance set to every predetermined compos... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162077 | Palette-based image compression method, system and data file A system and method involving the compression of palette-based color images. Compression is based upon coding for boundaries that exist in the original uncompressed image, where such boundaries effectively define a character of binary color differentiation between n... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154540 | System for enhancing video Pan, tilt and zoom sensors are coupled to a broadcast camera in order to determine the field of view of the broadcast camera and to make a rough estimate of a target's location in the broadcast camera's field of view. Pattern recognition techniques can be used to de... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151996 | System and method for generating a model of the path of a roadway from an image recorded by a camera A road skeleton estimation system generates an estimate as to a skeleton of at least a portion of a roadway ahead of a vehicle. The road skeleton estimation system includes an image receiver and a processor. The image receiver is configured to receive image informat... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7110600 | Document identifying device and method The invention relates to a document discriminating apparatus and a discriminating method for use in processing documents at financial institutions. A characteristic portion inherent in an optional format is cut out from image data read from a document in the optiona... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102637 | Method of seamless processing for merging 3D color images A method of seamless processing for merging 3D color images is disclosed. By transferring the images to a different color space, it separates the brightness from the color information. The seams are smoothed according to the brightness, and the result is transferred... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099500 | Automated detection of objects in a biological sample A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automated light microscopic for detection of proteins associated with cell proliferative disorders. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7091993 | Computer-implemented digital video object compositing A system and method are disclosed for digitally compositing an object from an input image onto a destination image. The object is composited from an image having an arbitrary or non-uniform colored background containing some non-static elements onto a destination im... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091989 | System and method for data assisted chroma-keying The invention illustrates a system and method of displaying a base image and an overlay image comprising: capturing a base image of a real event; receiving an instrumentation data based on the real event; identifying a visual segment within the base image based on t... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7075556 | Telestrator system A telestrator system is disclosed that allows a broadcaster to annotate video during or after an event. For example, while televising a sporting event, an announcer (or other user) can use the present invention to draw over the video of the event to highlight one or... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7061509 | Method and apparatus for keying of secondary video into primary video Apparatus for inserting an externally supplied video image into a computer graphics image. A TV card (131), responsive to synchronization signals, is connected to a video source to receive and convert an input video stream and also connected to provide a scal... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050112 | Method and device for displaying at least two images within one combined picture A device for processing a first video signal and a second video signal that contain image data which overlap within a combined picture includes a processing element and a controller. The processing element receives the first video signal containing first image pixel... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7034849 | Method and apparatus for image blending Methods and apparatuses for blending two images using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to blend two images includes: loading a vector of keys into a vector register; converting the vector of keys into a first vector of blendi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034842 | Color characteristic description apparatus, color management apparatus, image conversion apparatus and color correction method A process is provided for developing and converting a lookup table (hereinafter called a “LUT”) composed of only characteristic points of the characteristic of a color device and having a volume smaller than that of a multidimensional LUT into a multidimensional... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034850 | Displaying method, displaying apparatus, filtering unit, filtering process method, recording medium for storing filtering process programs, and method for processing images A line image which comprises one line parallel to the juxtaposing direction of light-emitting elements is extracted from a three-time image, and a work region is determined, in which, in the juxtaposing direction, an M sub-pixel is added to the front side of the lin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7015978 | System and method for real time insertion into video with occlusion on areas containing multiple colors A system, method and computer program product for real-time insertion of indicia (e.g., an advertisement) into a live (or taped) broadcast. Typically, the invention allow insertion with occlusion onto surfaces such as tennis courts, the wall behind home plate on a b... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6987520 | Image region filling by exemplar-based inpainting An example-based filling system identifies appropriate filling material to replace a destination region in an image and fills the destination region using this material, thereby alleviating or minimizing the amount of manual editing required to fill a destination re... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6970508 | Image coding and decoding using mapping coefficients corresponding to class information of pixel blocks It is possible to produce a decoded image with a high image quality from data of the lowermost hierarchy obtained during hierarchical coding operation. An image of a first hierarchy equal to an original image is successively thinned in thinning units so that an imag... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6950130 | Method of image background replacement A method for background replacement. The method takes an input image of one or more frames of video, or a still image, and performs an initial classification of the pixels (14) as foreground or background pixels. The classification is refined (16) usin... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6931511 | Parallel vector table look-up with replicated index element vector Methods and apparatuses for looking up vectors in parallel using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to look up a plurality of data items indexed by a vector of indices includes: generating a second vector of indices in a vector... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6927803 | Video mixing apparatus and method of mixing video A video mixing apparatus carries out a chromakey process producing less degradation of picture quality by generating a key signal which separates a foreground object component from a screen component by using luminance information. In a three-dimensional color space... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924821 | Processing pipeline responsive to input and output frame rates An image processing system processes image data in response to a sequence of image processing steps defined by a process tree (800). The process tree comprises a plurality of interconnected nodes (801-813), including input nodes (801-804) and at... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6919929 | Method and system for implementing a video and graphics interface signaling protocol A method and system for interfacing video and graphics data. Specifically, the present invention discloses a method and system for displaying video and graphics data of different formats and image frequencies onto the same display line. A master device that is conti... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6915011 | Event clustering of images using foreground/background segmentation An event clustering method uses foreground and background segmentation for clustering images from a group into similar events. Initially, each image is divided into a plurality of blocks, thereby providing block-based images. Utilizing a block-by-block comparison, e... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909451 | Method for generating video programs, variants, and system for realizing this method The invention relates to television, interactive television, user interfaces, video conferences and may be used in the creation of video programs with interactive interaction between participants of video programs and objects generated by a computer program. The tec... | 06/21/2005 |
