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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8447069 | Apparatus and method for moving object detection An apparatus and method for moving object detection computes a corresponding frame difference for every two successive image frames of a moving object, and segments a current image frame of the two successive image frames into a plurality of homogeneous regions. At ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447068 | Method for characterizing the exhaust gas burn-off quality in combustion systems A method for characterizing a flue gas burnout quality of a combustion process in a combustion system having a gas burnout zone includes optically detecting in a visible wavelength range, in a flow cross section of the gas burnout zone, low-soot combustion regions, ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447072 | Inattention determining device An inattention determining device includes range changing unit and inattention determining unit. When a curve detection result is output from curve detector, the range changing unit changes a first predetermined range to a second predetermined range by the predeterm... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447070 | Approaches for device location and communication An electronic device can utilize image capture technology to detect the presence and location of another device. Using this information, the electronic device can display, in a user interface, a graphical element representing a detected device, along with identity i... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447071 | Method of automatically tracking and photographing celestial objects and photographic apparatus employing this method A method of automatically tracking and photographing a celestial object, includes inputting latitude information, photographing azimuth angle information and photographing elevation angle information of a photographic apparatus; inputting star map data of a certain ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8442268 | Video analysis apparatus and method for calculating interpersonal relationship evaluation value using video analysis An image analysis apparatus comprising: an identification unit operable to, in each of a plurality of scenes, identify one or more persons who appear in the scene; a scene evaluation value calculation unit operable to calculate a scene evaluation value for, among th... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442271 | Laser detection device and laser detection method A laser detection method and apparatus for detection of laser beams can each perform operations for producing an interference image from detected light radiation, recording the interference image, and processing the recorded interference image in order to detect las... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442270 | Object detecting method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an object detection program An object detecting method includes dividing a standard pattern into two or more areas radially from a central point; selecting, in each divided area of the standard pattern, a standard pattern pixel position at the maximum distance from the area dividing central po... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442272 | Post-BLOB analysis method and article of manufacture An article of manufacture and method for performing post-BLOB analysis. ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442267 | Apparatus and method for detecting upper body posture and hand posture Provided are an apparatus and method which detect a user's upper body posture and the user's hand postures through at least two cameras to configure a user interface such as computers and home appliances. An apparatus for detecting upper body posture and hand postur... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442269 | Method and apparatus for tracking target object A method and apparatus for tracking a target object are provided. A plurality of images is received, and one of the images is selected as a current image. A specific color of the current image is extracted. And the current image is compared with a template image to ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8437504 | Imaging system and imaging method An imaging system comprises a whole image read out unit for reading out a whole image in a first resolution from an imaging device, a partial image region selecting unit for selecting a region of a partial image in a part of the whole image which is read out, a part... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437502 | General pose refinement and tracking tool Per one embodiment, a method is provided for refining a pose estimate of a model. The model is coarsely aligned with a run-time image, and it represents a 2D pattern. The pose estimate includes at least one pose estimate parameter. The model has a plurality of model... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437507 | Information processing device, information processing method, and program An information processing device includes a learning image input unit configured to input a learning image, in which a tracked object is captured on different shooting conditions, together with the shooting conditions, a feature response calculation unit configured ... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437503 | Method for detecting a moving object in an image stream The invention relates to a method for detecting a moving object in a stream of images taken at successive instants, of the type comprising, for each zone of a predefined set of zones of at least one pixel of the image constituting a current image, a step of determin... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8438175 | Systems, methods and articles for video analysis reporting A macro video analysis system including a first connection to a first persistent database of a first video analysis system monitoring a first remote location, a second connection to a second persistent database of a second video analysis system monitoring a second r... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437505 | Detection of local motion between image frames A system and method for detecting local motion between image frames are presented. Each image frame may include a plurality of pixels. A first image frame and a second image frame may be received. Values of a first plurality of pixels at first pixel locations of the... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8437506 | System for fast, probabilistic skeletal tracking A system and method are disclosed for recognizing and tracking a user's skeletal joints with a NUI system. The system includes one or more experts for proposing one or more skeletal hypotheses each representing a user pose within a given frame. Each expert is genera... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8433095 | Drowsiness detector A drowsiness detector detects the drowsiness by measuring a distance of an eyebrow at three points from a reference line defined by an inner eye corner and an outer eye corner. The three distances of the eyebrow from the reference line are respectively standardized ... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8433097 | Subject tracking device, subject tracking method, subject tracking program product and optical device A subject tracking device includes: a tracking zone setting unit that sets an area where a main subject is present within a captured image as a tracking zone; a tracking unit that tracks the main subject based upon an image output corresponding to the tracking zone;... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8433096 | Operation control map, display unit, and white line detection apparatus An operation control map of a white line detection apparatus, including a white line detection portion that detects a white line on a road based on a captured image of the road surface, that references the operation control map to determine whether to allow operatio... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8433098 | Method and system for generic object detection using block features Disclosed is a method and system for generic object detection using block-based feature computation and, more specifically, a method and system for massively parallel computation of object features sets according to an optimized clock-cycle matrix. The method uses a... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8433094 | System, method and article of manufacture for detecting collisions between video images generated by a camera and an object depicted on a display A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for detecting collisions or any other type of interactions between video images and an object depicted on a display. First, video images generated by a camera are received. Upon receipt, a first collision dete... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8428306 | Information processor and information processing method for performing process adapted to user motion A positional data acquisition unit of an action detector acquires positional data indicating the position of an image of a light-emitting part of a light-emitting device held by a user in an image frame at each time step, and also acquires curve data for the head co... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8428304 | Retrieving scenes from moving image data A computer system, method and computer program that retrieves, from at least one piece of moving image data, at least one scene that includes moving image content to be retrieved. The computer system includes a storage unit that stores a locus of a model of the movi... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8428305 | Method for detecting a clear path through topographical variation analysis A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle wherein the detecting includes a fusion of a plurality of analyses including monitoring an image from a camera device includes analyzing the image through clear path detection analysis to determine a clear ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8422736 | Method of and apparatus for producing lane information A method of producing lane information for use in a map database is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes acquiring one or more source images of a road surface and associated position and orientation data, the road having a direction and lane ma... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8422737 | Device and method for measuring a parking space A device for measuring a parking space as a vehicle drives past the parking space includes a depth-measuring line scan camera movable together with the vehicle for acquiring individual images of the environment surrounding the vehicle transverse to a longitudinal di... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8422735 | Imaging apparatus for detecting a scene where a person appears and a detecting method thereof An imaging device for detecting a scene where a person appears, and a detecting method thereof, are provided. The imaging device compares a representative image of a person, with persons detected in the generated images, to detect scenes where the person appears. In... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8422738 | Adaptive automated synthetic aperture radar vessel detection method with false alarm mitigation A method involves adapting a vessel detection algorithm based upon received synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data and associated metadata, detecting one or more vessels within an image tile of the SAR image data by iteratively applying the adapted vessel detecti... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8422739 | Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device A database includes an identifier and associated parameters for each of a number of faces to be recognized. A new acquired image from an image stream is received potentially including one or more face regions. Face detection is applied to at least a portion of the a... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8416990 | Hierarchical video sub-volume search Described is a technology by which video, which may be relatively high-resolution video, is efficiently processed to determine whether the video contains a specified action. The video corresponds to a spatial-temporal volume. The volume is searched with a top-k sear... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416987 | Subject tracking apparatus and control method therefor, image capturing apparatus, and display apparatus A subject tracking apparatus extracts a subject region which is similar to a reference image on the basis of a degree of correlation with the reference image for tracking a predetermined subject from images supplied in a time series manner. Further, the subject trac... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416988 | Systems and methods for analyzing facial expressions, identifying intent and transforming images through review of facial expressions Methods of analyzing a plurality of facial expressions are disclosed that include: identifying a subject person, utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target, removing at least one distracter expression from the target image to form a revised ta... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416985 | Method, system and computer program product for providing group interactivity with entertainment experiences The present invention provides a system and method system for providing group interactivity. The system includes a module that determines a size of an audience in an image provided by an image acquisition device and a module that controls interaction in a small audi... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416986 | Methods and systems for processing data using non-linear slope compensation Systems and devices for processing image or other data using non-linear methods to compensate for localized slopes are described. In one implementation, the slope of the sample values in an image or other dataset is estimated in one or more directions using a non-li... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416989 | Image processing apparatus, image capture apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. First and second images are photographed from different points of view. A block division unit divides the first image into blocks. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarities between blocks in ... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8411900 | Device for detecting/judging road boundary There is provided a road boundary detection/judgment device resistant to environmental change and capable of detecting even a road boundary demarcated by a three-dimensional object in the distance. The device is provided with: an image acquisition section having two... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8406465 | Aircraft contrail detection Concepts and technologies described herein provide for the detection of aircraft contrails through the identification of contrail shadows in real time imagery provided during a flight. According to one aspect of the disclosure provided herein, aircraft flight data i... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8406466 | Converting aircraft enhanced vision system video to simulated real time video A method for overcoming image latency issues of a synthetic vision system include generating (602, 704) a video comprising a plurality of images (300, 400, 500) of a target (208, 212) viewed from a moving platform (202), enhancing (604... | 03/26/2013 |
