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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189873 | Method of motion detection using motion information of neighboring pixels A method of motion detection using motion information of neighboring pixels, adaptive for determining whether a plurality of target pixels in a current field are moving pixels, is provided. First, it is determined whether a neighboring pixel in a previous field corr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189874 | Method for motion detection of horizontal line A method for motion detection of a horizontal line is provided. First, a horizontal motion area of the horizontal line is detected according to differences between corresponding target scan lines in adjacent fields. Next, the horizontal line within a horizontal moti... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189872 | Method for quantifying cell motility and cell migration A method of quantifying cell migration of a cell population is provided. The method includes the step of patterning the cell population within a channel network in a first body. A first image of the cell population is obtained. Thereafter, a second image of the cell... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184863 | Video speed detection system A system and method for measuring vehicle speeds using video sensing. The system comprises a tracking camera that generates accurately time-stamped video sequences of the monitored road at high frame rates and a processing unit that analyzes the video sequences in r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8160303 | Camera device and motion detection method for the same A camera device is capable of detecting a motion scene. The camera device captures a number of consecutive images of the motion scene, calculates characteristic values of the plurality of consecutive images, and stores the characteristic values. The camera device fu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160302 | Image processing apparatus and method for estimating orientation Method of estimating orientation of objects disposed on a plane from video images of a scene taken by a video camera. Includes receiving for each object, object tracking data, providing a position of the object on the plane in the image with respect to time, determi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160304 | Interactive systems and methods employing wireless mobile devices A user gestures with a wireless mobile phone device to control some aspect of its operation, or the operation of a remote system with which the device communicates. (The gestures may be sensed by tracking movement of a feature across a field of view of a mobile phon... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155388 | Image display device and image display method An image display device includes a storage unit storing a plurality of conversion tables respectively expressing relationship of a position on a display area and an enlargement ratio of an image, a judging unit judging entire motion of an image, a selection unit sel... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155389 | Method and system for motion correction in imaging systems A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which perform motion correction of image data. A first set of data and a second set of data of k-space data of an object to be imaged are received. The first set of data and the second set of data inclu... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144935 | Movement detection method and device with a thresholding algorithm per envelope A movement detection method that includes calculating a first mean of a signal designed to be supplied by at least one pixel of a pixel matrix which corresponds to a captured image. The movement detection method further includes calculating a second signal, second m... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144934 | Photographic subject tracking method, computer program product and photographic subject tracking device A photographic subject tracking method comprises calculating similarity levels of images input sequentially to a template image, determining a photographic subject position in each of the input images based upon the similarity levels, tracking the photographic subje... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139823 | Method for capturing images comprising a measurement of local motions A method for capturing a sequence of video images, using an imager including an estimation of the parameters of a model of global motion between successive images. The method may include measurement of local motions on edges of the images, with the estimation of the... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139822 | Designation of a characteristic of a physical capability by motion analysis, systems and methods Motion Analysis is used to classify or rate human capability in a physical domain via a minimized movement and data collection protocol producing a discreet, overall figure of merit of the selected physical capability. The minimal protocol is determined by data mini... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135176 | Method for determining the self-motion of a vehicle A method and a device for determining the self-motion of a vehicle in an environment are provided, in which at least part of the environment is recorded via snapshots by an imaging device mounted on the vehicle. At least two snapshots are analyzed for determining th... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135177 | Motion detection device The invention refers to a device, a method and a computer program product for extracting motion information from a sequence of video frames. Existing solutions for extracting motion information from sequence of video frames need a massive computing power which make ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131019 | Method and system for capturing images moving at high speed An image of a moving object, such as a postage indicium barcode on a mail piece, is captured with the object in motion (e.g., while being transported through a mailing machine). An array of CMOS picture elements is held in a reset condition. A signal asserted on con... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126211 | Pointing device and motion value calculating method thereof A pointing device is provided. A sensor generates a motion detection signal by sensing motion. A calculator receives the motion detection signal, calculates a motion value based on the motion detection signal, calculates a conversion motion value base on an angle of... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126212 | Method of detecting moving object Proposed is a method of detecting a moving object, including: providing an image-set at least including a first image and a second image correlated in a time series, the first image preceding the second image; defining a detecting region and a detecting direction so... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116531 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program product An image processing apparatus includes an edge intensity calculator which calculates an edge intensity of a pixel in an image; and a correlation value calculator which calculates a correlation value between the calculated edge intensity and a bubble model set in adv... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111877 | Image processing device and storage medium storing image processing program An image processing device includes: a motion vector measurement region setting unit for setting a plurality of motion vector measurement regions; a motion vector calculation unit for calculating motion vectors; a motion vector reliability calculation unit for calcu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107687 | System and method for tracking motion of an object image A system, method and computer readable medium are disclosed for tracking motion of an object image, comprising receiving an input image; correlating the input image with a reference image by computing differences between the input image and the reference image; gene... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107686 | Image procesing apparatus and image processing method In an image processing apparatus which processes time-series images picked up by an imaging device in time series, a motion-vector calculating unit calculates a motion vector between plural images constituting the time-series images with respect to plural pixel regi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098898 | Motion detection device, MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor) integrated circuit, and video system A motion detection device includes a current image memory, a reference image memory, a reference image memory control section, and a motion detection section. When the motion detection section detects a motion vector for a first current macroblock image, the referen... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090154 | Video processing apparatus and video processing method thereof There are provided a video processing apparatus and a video processing method. The video processing apparatus includes a first motion correcting part which divides a video frame into blocks of a predetermined unit and corrects a motion with respect to at least some ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090155 | Hand washing monitoring system A hand washing monitoring system (1) comprising a camera (2), a processor (4), the processor being adapted to receive from the camera images of hand washing activity. The processor analyses mutual motion of hands to determine if the hands mutual... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085986 | Image processing apparatus and method for processing images more naturally and sharply There is provided an image processing apparatus including motion vector extracting means for extracting a motion vector on a pixel basis from each of a plurality of input images, direct motion vector generating means for generating a direct motion vector to a pixel ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077926 | Method of motion detection using adaptive threshold A method of motion detection using an adaptive threshold, adaptive for determining whether a plurality of target pixels in a current scan line are moving pixels or not, is provided. First, a first threshold is given for determining whether the target pixels in the c... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077925 | Motion sensing method of sub-pixel level precision The present invention discloses a method for motion sensing of sub-pixel level precision. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a reference image (reference frame) and a sample image (sample frame) of a surface; calculating the correlation between the ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077923 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes a first processing part selecting motion detection points for detecting a motion between images, and acquiring first motion vectors that are local motion vectors at the motion detection points, a second processing part acquirin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077922 | Optical flow sensor An optical flow sensor for generating optical flow measurements based on a visual field is provided. The optical flow sensor comprises a binarized signal generator capable of generating binarized feature signals based on the visual field, a metafeature signal genera... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077924 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An edge map generator/edge weighting coefficient generator performs edge detection for respective blocks that compose a moving image frame Ft, and calculates correlations between the edges of the respective blocks and those of neighboring blocks as edge weighting co... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073203 | Generating effects in a webcam application A system and a method for generating effects in a webcam application are provided. The method includes identifying a first object and a second object in a video image. The method also includes adding a first user-created object to the video image to create an altere... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064644 | Method for estimating motion and occlusion This invention relates to digital image and video processing. It is concerned with determining the motion of pixels between frames in an image sequence. That motion relates to the motion of objects in the scene. The invention determines two kinds of motion informati... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055025 | Motion estimation method A motion estimation method uses a search start point and a plurality of search paths extending from the start point. The method finds an image point along the plurality of search paths that has a minimum comparison value with a reference image block. This image poin... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8036428 | Method and apparatus for detecting motion of image in optical navigator A system and method for determining a motion vector uses both a main block from an image and at least one ancillary block relating to the main block from the image. The main block and ancillary block are then tracked from image to image to provide a motion vector. T... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027516 | Image forming apparatus including position detector An image forming apparatus includes a movable member that moves cyclically in synchronization with an image forming process and a position detector. The position detector includes a scale, an image sensor, a signal processor, and a position computing unit. The scale... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019124 | Robust camera pan vector estimation using iterative center of mass Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for camera pan vector estimation, are disclosed. A camera model is provided for representing motion vectors based on a plurality of parameters. A distribution of the motion... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019123 | Motion estimation apparatus and method An estimation unit calculates an estimated motion vector between a first source region of a plurality of source regions and a first destination region on a destination picture. The first destination region has the highest correlation with the first source region. A ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009872 | Taken-image signal-distortion compensation method, taken-image signal-distortion compensation apparatus, image taking method and image-taking apparatus Disclosed herein is a method of compensating a signal of an image of one screen for distortions in the horizontal and/or vertical directions of a screen of the image. The method includes the steps of: dividing one screen area of the image into a plurality of picture... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000500 | System and method for analyzing of human motion based on silhouettes of real time video stream A system and method for analyzing the motions of an object based on the silhouettes of the object are provided. The system includes a foreground detector, a contour extractor, a model generator, a corner histogram generator, and a value of similarity measuring unit.... | 08/16/2011 |
