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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189868 | Vehicle periphery monitoring device A vehicle periphery monitoring device is operable to report a high contact possibility between a vehicle and an object at an appropriate time or frequency according to the type of the object. When the object is determined to be a human being and the position of the ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189866 | Human-action recognition in images and videos The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products applying a plurality of low-level feature detectors to an image where each low-level feature detector produces a respective low-level feature vector that represents a detectio... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189864 | Composite image generating apparatus, composite image generating method, and storage medium A plurality of items of shot image data obtained by temporally continuous shooting are analyzed. Marking data indicating that replaced graphic data is to be combined is added to image data corresponding to an actor and the resulting data is displayed. When a preset ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189869 | Method of motion detection and autonomous motion tracking using dynamic sensitivity masks in a pan-tilt camera A method of identifying motion within a field of view includes capturing at least two sequential images within the field of view. Each of the images includes a respective array of pixel values. An array of difference values between corresponding ones of the pixel va... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189865 | Signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus for displaying an input image in the sate in which a part of the image is enlarged, displays an enlarged image obtained by enlarging a part of a designated object in the input image so that the enlarged image is superimposed at a positi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189867 | Learning method for article storage facility A learning method is disclosed for an article storage facility having an article storage rack including article storage units arranged in a rack lateral width direction and a vertical direction, a vertically movable lift, and a horizontal travel carriage associated ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184854 | Method and system for evaluation of the behavior of users of a digital image information system In a method of evaluation of the user behavior of users of a digital image information system during the viewing and/or assessment and/or processing of at least one image object presented on at least one display device, at least one selectable indicator of the user ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184857 | Moving object recognizing apparatus The moving object recognizing apparatus includes a data acquisition unit for acquiring image data obtained in time series by an imaging device, a recognition unit for recognizing a moving object by executing a plurality of image processing operations on two of the i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184855 | Three-level scheme for efficient ball tracking A three-level ball detection and tracking method is disclosed. The ball detection and tracking method employs three levels to generate multiple ball candidates rather than a single one. The ball detection and tracking method constructs multiple trajectories using ca... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184858 | System and method for linking real-world objects and object representations by pointing A system and method are described for selecting and identifying a unique object or feature in the system user's three-dimensional (“3-D”) environment in a two-dimensional (“2-D”) virtual representation of the same object or feature in a virtual environment. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184853 | Method of triggering a detector to detect a moving feature within a video stream Detectors capable of accurately detecting and tracking moving features of such as faces within a video stream are sometimes too slow to be run in real-time. The present invention rapidly scans video footage in real-time and generates a series of preattemptive trigge... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184856 | Method and apparatus for assessing driver head pose with a headrest-mounted relative motion sensor A relative motion sensor mounted in the headrest of a vehicle driver seat is used to assess the head pose of a vehicle driver and adjust the headrest position to optimize both the safety of the driver and the sensitivity of the relative motion sensor. At the beginni... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180105 | Classifier anomalies for observed behaviors in a video surveillance system Techniques are disclosed for a video surveillance system to learn to recognize complex behaviors by analyzing pixel data using alternating layers of clustering and sequencing. A combination of a self organizing map (SOM) and an adaptive resonance theory (ART) networ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180106 | Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method In an image capturing apparatus, a video input unit (2) captures the image of an object and sequentially acquires image data associated with the image capturing, a model data memory (6) stores model data associated with the first feature quantity calcu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180103 | Image determining method, image determining apparatus, and recording medium having recorded therein program for causing computer to execute image determining method In an image determining apparatus, a subject-shape presuming unit extracts a shape of a specified subject to be determined based on subject-area position information and structure/surface-height map information, a subject-feature-point extracting unit extracts a fea... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180107 | Active coordinated tracking for multi-camera systems A method and system for coordinated tracking of objects is disclosed. A plurality of images is received from a plurality of nodes, each node comprising at least one image capturing device. At least one target in the plurality of images is identified to produce at le... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180104 | Tracking method and tracking apparatus According to an embodiment of the present invention, a tracking method includes detecting a mobile unit within a space, tracking the detected mobile unit, making a position determination of the mobile unit to be tracked to obtain positional data, and making a moveme... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175331 | Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, method, and program A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, method, and program capable of reducing a possibility of overlap between a detection object and a background object in a standard image when detecting objects around the vehicle from images obtained by a plurality of imag... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175335 | Content adaptive detection of images with stand-out object Content adaptive detection of images having stand-out objects involves block variance-based detection and determining if an object includes a stand-out object. The images with a stand-out object are further processed to isolate an object of interest. The images with... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175336 | Target tracker For a tracking of a target object in a time series of frames of image data, a tracking object designation acceptor accepts a designation of a tracking object, a target color setter sets a color of the designated tracking object as a target color, and a particle filt... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175334 | Vehicle environment recognition apparatus and preceding-vehicle follow-up control system A vehicle environment recognition apparatus includes stereo-image taking means for outputting a reference image of the surroundings of a subject vehicle, stereo matching means for correlating a parallax with each pixel block in the reference image by stereo matching... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175332 | Upper troposphere and lower stratosphere wind direction, speed, and turbidity monitoring using digital imaging and motion tracking A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for monitoring wind direction, speed, and turbidity. The visible sky is monitored by a set of cameras for contrails produced by a high-altitude aircraft. In response to identifying a contrail, th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175333 | Estimator identifier component for behavioral recognition system An estimator/identifier component for a computer vision engine of a machine-learning based behavior-recognition system is disclosed. The estimator/identifier component may be configured to classify an object being one of two or more classification types, e.g., as be... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170276 | Object detection system based on a pool of adaptive features A method, system and computer program product for detecting presence of an object in an image are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for detecting a presence of an object in an image comprises: receiving multiple training image samples; determining a se... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170277 | Automatic tracking apparatus and automatic tracking method An automatic tracking apparatus is provided, which is capable of solving a failure occurred in an automatic tracking operation in connection with a zooming operation, and capable of tracking an object in a stable manner, while a zooming-up operation, or a zooming-do... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170283 | Video surveillance system configured to analyze complex behaviors using alternating layers of clustering and sequencing Techniques are disclosed for a video surveillance system to learn to recognize complex behaviors by analyzing pixel data using alternating layers of clustering and sequencing. A video surveillance system may be configured to observe a scene (as depicted in a sequenc... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170280 | Integrated systems and methods for video-based object modeling, recognition, and tracking The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for modeling, recognizing, and tracking object images in video files. In one embodiment, a video file, which includes a plurality of frames, is received. An image of an object is extracted from a particular frame... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170279 | Adaptive match metric selection for automatic target recognition An automatic target recognition system with adaptive metric selection. The novel system includes an adaptive metric selector for selecting a match metric based on the presence or absence of a particular feature in an image and a matcher for identifying a target in t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170282 | Technique for ship/wake detection An automated ship detection technique includes accessing data associated with an image of a portion of Earth. The data includes reflectance values. A first portion of pixels within the image are masked with a cloud and land mask based on spectral flatness of the ref... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170281 | Detecting and tracking objects in images According to one disclosed method, coordinates in a multi-dimensional space are determined for an image point characterizing a particular object. An equation describing a model in the space is provided. The model is characteristic of a set of training images of one ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170278 | System and method for detecting and tracking an object of interest in spatio-temporal space The present invention provides a system and method for detecting and tracking a moving object. First, robust change detection is applied to find initial candidate regions in consecutive frames. These initial detections in consecutive frames are stacked to produce sp... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165349 | Analyzing repetitive sequential events Techniques for analyzing one or more sequential events performed by a human actor to evaluate efficiency of the human actor are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more segments in a video sequence as one or more components of one or more sequential ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165348 | Detecting objects crossing a virtual boundary line An approach that detects objects crossing a virtual boundary line is provided. Specifically, an object detection tool provides this capability. The object detection tool comprises a boundary component configured to define a virtual boundary line in a video region of... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165347 | Visual tracking eye glasses in visual head and eye tracking systems The invention relates to the application area of camera-based head and eye tracking systems. The performance of such systems typically suffers when eye glasses are worn, as the frames of the glasses interfere with the tracking of the facial features utilized by the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165344 | Image processing apparatus, moving image encoding apparatus, information processing method and information processing program The information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs moving image data of frames; a reference information acquisition unit which acquires reference information in accordance with the moving image data of one of the frames inputted to the input ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165345 | Method, system, and computer program for detecting and characterizing motion A method for motion detection/characterization is provided including the steps of (a) capturing a series of time lapsed images of the target, wherein the target moves between at least two of such images; (b) generating a motion distribution in relation to the target... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160299 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a moving image file storage unit operable to store a moving image file; an area selection receiving unit operable to receive a selection of a predetermined area corresponding to one of a plurality of frames forming the moving i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160297 | System for processing an image of a surrounding of a vehicle A system for processing an image of a surrounding of a vehicle is provided. The system includes an image generator that is configured for generating an image, the image having at least a first and a second portion. The first and second portions of the image differ f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160298 | Display device A display device includes a display panel and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control a display condition of the display panel by successively switching a plurality of frames, thereby to display a pointer image indicating a pointer and a path image... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160296 | Change analyst A method of determining change in a state of an object using images of the object, the method including providing a first image and a second image of the object, the first image and the second image being spaced apart in time, performing a plurality of pixel-based c... | 04/17/2012 |
