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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
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| 8189913 | Method for detecting shadow of object A method for detecting a shadow of an object in an image is provided. A moving object in a plurality of continuous images is detected. A histogram of a color variation of the moving object in each of the images is calculated. The histograms of the color variation ar... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8139858 | System and method for identifying arthropods in color-digital image information A color-based imaging system and method for the detection and classification of insects and other arthropods are described, including devices for counting arthropods and providing taxonomic capabilities useful for pest-management. Some embodiments include an image s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131074 | Specific emitter identification using histogram of oriented gradient features In one embodiment, a method for specific emitter identification includes receiving a signal from an emitter indicative of a hardware characteristic of the emitter. A computer-readable representation of the received signal is generated. A plurality of gradients for e... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126266 | Video signal processing method, program for the video signal processing method, recording medium recording the program for the video signal processing method, and video signal processing apparatus Provided is a video signal processing method of measuring a noise level of an input video signal, the method including the steps of: setting a plurality of areas in the input video signal and extracting a characteristic amount which is an index of the noise level of... | 02/28/2012 |
| RE42999 | Method and system for estimating the accuracy of inference algorithms using the self-consistency methodology The present invention provides a method for measuring the self-consistency of inference algorithms. The present invention provides a method for measuring the accuracy of an inference algorithm that does not require comparison to ground truth. Rather, the present inv... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8045797 | Image processing method, recording medium with recorded image processing program and image processing apparatus An image processing method for carrying out predetermined correction processing with respect to one or more items regarding the quality of color images and the image processing method comprises a judgment step for judging the necessity/nonnecessity of correction wit... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8009908 | Area testing method for image processing A method for deciding correctly a type of a specific area of an image having inclination includes the steps of generating an edge image based on a target image to be a target of image processing, generating a first histogram indicating the number of edge pixels exis... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7949186 | Pyramid match kernel and related techniques A method for classifying or comparing objects includes detecting points of interest within two objects, computing feature descriptors at said points of interest, forming a multi-resolution histogram over feature descriptors for each object and computing a weighted i... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7929761 | Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not performed for an image different from the image picture. An image proc... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917540 | Nonlinear set to set pattern recognition Variations in the states of patterns can be exploited for their discriminatory information and should not be discarded as noise. A pattern recognition system compares a data set of unlabeled patterns having variations of state in a set-by-set comparison with labeled... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912284 | Methods and apparatus for filtering video packets for large-scale video stream monitoring A method of filtering video packets for video stream monitoring is provided. A video packet of a video stream is received. One or more features are extracted from a specified frame of the video packet via one or more histograms and frequency domain coefficients of t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7860308 | Approach for near duplicate image detection A content-based approach is provided for detecting near duplicate images. The approach generally involves analyzing the content of images to be compared and generating color and texture histogram descriptor data for each image. The images may then be compared based ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7840067 | Color matching and color correction for images forming a panoramic image A method for color matching a first image and a second image, wherein a first region of the first image and a second region of the second image overlap, includes removing overlapping pixels in the first and the second regions that have pixel values are too different... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7805002 | Smoke detection method and apparatus A smoke detection method and system, which uses the effects of the diffusion of light to identify the presence of smoke in a monitored area, are disclosed. This method comprises the steps of: (1) electronically capturing a sequence of images of a light source in the... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7778461 | System and/or method for image tamper detection The subject matter disclosed herein relates to techniques for detecting tampering of digital image data. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7760939 | Method for automatically generating a background mask for images with noisy background areas, applications to that end and a nuclear magnetic resonance tomography apparatus for carrying out the method A method is disclosed for the generation of a background mask from an intensity-value-coded image with a noisy background area. The method includes generating an intensity value histogram of the image; fitting a model curve to a subarea of the intensity value histog... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760940 | Method, apparatus, and program for detecting objects in digital image In a method of detection of different objects in an input image by application, to partial images cut at different positions in the input image, of a plurality of weak classifiers that evaluate whether a detection target image is an image of a predetermined object b... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7738700 | Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program The horizontal and vertical projection histograms of an image to be processed are calculated. The autocorrelation values of the calculated horizontal and vertical projection histograms are calculated, and horizontal and vertical object sizes until the autocorrelatio... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7724951 | Signal processing method, signal processing apparatus, and image reading apparatus Upon processing a visible light image signal and infrared image signal respectively obtained by illuminating a transparent document with light beams coming from a visible light lamp for mainly emitting visible light and an infrared lamp for mainly emitting infrared ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715624 | Recognizing or reproducing a character's color A method, apparatus and system, each capable of recognizing or reproducing a character color, are disclosed. An original image is divided into a character image and a background image. The color information of the character image is obtained to generate a color pale... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702152 | Non-linear quantization and similarity matching methods for retrieving video sequence having a set of image frames A method for constructing a database having digital video data information representing a plurality of video sequence is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) partitioning each image frame of each video sequence into L number of sub images; b) generating L... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7676087 | Method for identifying vehicles in electronic images A method for identifying objects in an electronic image is provided. The method includes the steps of providing an electronic source image and processing the electronic source image to identify edge pixels. The method further includes the steps of providing an elect... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672510 | Vehicle environment monitoring device A vehicle environment monitoring device identifies objects from an image taken by an infrared camera. Object extraction from images is performed in accordance with the state of the environment as determined by measurements extracted from the images as follows: N1 bi... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668369 | Using camera metadata to classify images into scene type classes In one aspect, a metadata-based classification result is obtained based on metadata associated with an image. A histogram-based classification result is determined based on a histogram of intensity values derived from the image. The image is classified into a scene ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7657089 | Automatic classification of photographs and graphics A method and system for classifying an image as a photograph or a graphic based on a ranked prevalent color histogram feature or a ranked region size feature is provided. The prevalent color histogram feature contains counts of the colors that are most prevalent in ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653241 | Signal detection method, signal detection system, signal detection processing program, and recording medium recorded with program thereof A signal detection system of the invention comprises: a target signal feature quantity calculation section which derives a feature quantity series from a target signal; a stored signal feature quantity calculation section which derives a feature quantity series from... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7627170 | Process for the identification of objects The invention is a process for identifying an unknown object. In detail, the process includes the steps of: 1) compiling data on selected features on a plurality of segments of a plurality of known objects; 2) illuminating the unknown object with a laser radar syste... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7593570 | Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not performed for an image different from the image picture. An image proc... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7583840 | Methods and systems for detection of repeating patterns of features Methods and system for automatic identification of repeating patterns of slanted stripe features (marks) on an item. ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7545978 | Methods and apparatus for filtering video packets for large-scale video stream monitoring A method of filtering video packets for video stream monitoring is provided. A video packet of a video stream is received. One or more features are extracted from a specified frame of the video packet via one or more histograms and frequency domain coefficients of t... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7532755 | Image classification using concentration ratio Methods and systems of classifying an image by use of a concentration ratio that indicates the smoothness of the distribution of a population of elements in the image or portions thereof. Alternate embodiments may include determining the concentration ratio based on... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7496228 | Method and system for detecting and classifying objects in images, such as insects and other arthropods A color-based imaging system and method for the detection and classification of insects and other arthropods are described, including devices for counting arthropods and providing taxonomic capabilities useful for pest-management. Some embodiments include an image s... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7466858 | Methods for slide image classification A method of classifying images as slide images or non-slide images can be done by capturing a video stream, analyzing an image of the video stream and determining whether the image is a slide image. The analyzing can be based on text height and/or edge region(s) of ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463771 | Method for retrieving original intact characteristics of heavily polluted images and its image processing A method for retrieving original intact characteristics of images heavily polluted by Gaussian impulse noises is based on the fuzzy automata theory retrieves the characteristics of images heavily corrupted by Gaussian impulse noises. The retrieved characteristics ar... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463770 | Methods and systems for detection of repeating patterns of features Methods and system for automatic identification of repeating patterns of slanted stripe features (marks) on an item. ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7454059 | Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not performed for an image different from the image picture. An image proc... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444003 | Method and apparatus for identifying objects depicted in a videostream The present invention relates to an apparatus for rapidly analyzing frame(s) of digitized video data which may include objects of interest randomly distributed throughout the video data and wherein said objects are susceptible to detection, classification, and ultim... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444018 | Method and apparatus for shot detection A system identifies an abrupt transition in content between two frames, and determines whether the abrupt transition was caused by a shot boundary between the two frames or by a flashlight event. Identification of the abrupt transition in content includes calculatin... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439989 | Detecting doctored JPEG images Systems and methods for detecting doctored JPEG images are described. In one aspect, a JPEG image is evaluated to determine if the JPEG image comprises double quantization effects of double quantized Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients. In response to results of ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436999 | Data analysis device and data recognition device The data analysis device 100 includes: difference calculation means (S2) for, with respect to an image, carrying out a calculation of calculating a difference between intensity values at an arbitrary point in the image and a point located in the vicini... | 10/14/2008 |
