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| 8111917 | Method for segmenting and computing the pattern of a road The present invention relates to a method for subdividing the road pattern in digital road maps into segments, in which, starting from the digital road maps in which the road pattern is subdivided into successive segments, new segment borders are established via new... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111918 | Segmentation for three-layer mixed raster content images A method for improving image quality of edge pixels, when separating an image signal into a set of image planes is provided. The method includes searching for a minimum value and a maximum value within at least one predefined neighborhood pixel window centered on a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107726 | System and method for class-specific object segmentation of image data Systems and methods for processing an image to determine whether segments of the image belong to an object class are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving digitized data representing an image, the image data comprising a plurality of pixels, s... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107727 | Document processing apparatus, document processing method, and computer program product In a document processing apparatus, a first character information extracting unit extracts, for a first area that is an area determined to be a character extractable area in divided areas of a document information, first character information from the area; a second... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098933 | Method and apparatus for partitioning an object from an image A method and apparatus for partitioning an object from an image, such that substantially the entire object is contained in the partitioned region, includes pre-setting a reference width for the object; extracting a shadow underneath the object from the image and det... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094936 | Method and apparatus to segment motion area in real-time to detect motion in surveillance camera system A method and apparatus to segment a motion area in real-time to detect motion in a surveillance camera system are provided. The method includes updating a background image by using a previous input image from among an input image sequence, generating a difference im... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090201 | Image-based code A computer-readable medium may include one or more instructions for providing sub-images, one or more instructions for receiving selection of a plurality of sub-images, one or more instructions for constructing a first image, the first image being a unified image in... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086036 | Approach for resolving occlusions, splits and merges in video images A solution for resolving an occlusion in a video image which provides an environment in which portions of a video image in which occlusions have occurred may be determined and analyzed to determine the type of occlusion. Furthermore, regions of the video image may b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086037 | Tiling and merging framework for segmenting large images Described is a technology by which a large image is processed into a seamless, radiometric mean image containing meaningful image objects. A large source image is tiled into non-overlapping tiles, which are each segmented into regions and merged via their regions. S... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081821 | Chroma keying Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, involve receiving reference data and source data. The reference data includes a portion of a background image, and the background image includes an image of a backgrou... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081820 | Method for partitioning a pattern into optimized sub-patterns A method is provided for dividing a pattern into a plurality of sub-patterns, each sub-pattern being adapted for use with an image search method that can provide a plurality of sub-pattern search results. The method represents the pattern as a plurality of feature p... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077969 | Contour finding in segmentation of video sequences A method of image processing includes: receiving at least one video frame of a video sequence, the at least one video frame including at least one foreground subject and a background; and processing the at least one video frame so as to separate the at least one for... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073253 | Machine learning based triple region segmentation framework using level set on PACS Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for triple region image segmentation. Certain embodiments provide a method for triple region image segmentation on a picture archiving and communication system. The method includes forming an i... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073252 | Sparse volume segmentation for 3D scans A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for sparse volume segmentation for 3D scan of a target. The method including learning prior knowledge, providing volume data comprising the target, selecting ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073254 | Methods and systems for detecting objects of interest in spatio-temporal signals Methods and systems detect objects of interest in a spatio-temporal signal. According to one embodiment, a system processes a digital spatio-temporal input signal containing zero or more foreground objects of interest superimposed on a background. The system compris... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068669 | Text and graphic separation method and text enhancement method The present invention provides a text and graphic separation method and a text enhancement method. The text and graphic separation method is used for separating texts and graphics of an image and comprises coarse classification and advanced classification. The metho... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068670 | Image analysis of biological objects Systems and methods are described for performing image analysis. A computer-implemented method for analyzing images may include quantitatively analyzing image data to identify image objects relative to a background portion of the image according to predefined object... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064694 | Nonhuman animal integument pixel classification Systems and methods of classifying pixels into a nonhuman animal integument class are described. In one aspect, values of features in a discriminant space are determined for respective pixels of the input image. The pixels are classified into a nonhuman animal integ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064695 | Dark scene compensation in a background-foreground module of a video analysis system Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comp... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059894 | System and associated methods of calibration and use for an interactive imaging environment In various embodiments, the present invention provides a system and associated methods of calibration and use for an interactive imaging environment based on the optimization of parameters used in various segmentation algorithm techniques. These methods address the ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059893 | Method for single pass blob image analysis A method and electronics circuit for processing very high resolution images or very high frame rate images in real time. Each pixel within a frame of pixels is compared to the neighboring pixels within the frame to determine if the pixel is part of a blob group. If ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055073 | System and method for enabling meaningful interaction with video based characters and objects The present invention provides a system and method for enabling meaningful body-to-body interaction with virtual video-based characters or objects in an interactive imaging environment including: capturing a corpus of video-based interaction data, processing the cap... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050498 | Live coherent image selection to differentiate foreground and background pixels Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, featuring receiving user input defining a sample of pixels from an image, the image being defined by a raster of pixels. While receiving the user input, the following actions are performed one or ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050499 | Image-processing apparatus, image-processing method, and computer program used therewith The present invention is intended to generate data optimal for both display and reuse from an image. From an input image, vector data of a display foreground layer, vector data of a non-display foreground layer, and a display background layer in which a portion of t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045798 | Features generation and spotting methods and systems using same An image partitioner is configured to find a partition point that divides a received image into four sub-images each having a pre-selected activated pixel count. A recursion processor is configured to (i) apply the image partitioner to an input image to generate a f... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045799 | System and method for generating a photograph with variable image quality Image data for a digital photograph is segmented into a first portion and a second portion. The image data of the second portion is processed to have a quality lower than the image data of the first portion. An image file for the scene is stored where the image file... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045800 | Active segmentation for groups of images Systems and methods of segmenting images are disclosed herein. The similarity of images in a set of images is compared. A group of images is selected from the set of images. The images in the group of images are selected based on compared similarities among the imag... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041115 | Method and apparatus for determining a classification boundary for an object classifier In a method and apparatus for determining a classification boundary between an object, such as a vehicle, and a background, using an object classifier, a trained classifier is configured to classify and recognize each of a plurality of object images and a plurality ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041112 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, computer-readable storage medium for storing the image processing program with segmentation and density correction optimization The image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a segmentation process section for performing a segmentation process with respect to image data corresponding to an image to be processed; first and second input tone correction sections eac... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041114 | Optimizing pixel labels for computer vision applications Computer vision applications often require each pixel within an image to be assigned one of a set of labels. A method of improving the labels assigned to pixels is described which uses the quadratic pseudoboolean optimization (QPBO) algorithm. Starting with a partia... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041113 | Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program product A first area extracting unit extracts a first document area from document image data by dividing the document image data in units of a document area. A language determining unit determines a type of a language used in the document image data. A second area extractin... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041116 | Identifying stale background pixels in a video analysis system Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comp... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036462 | Automated segmentation of image structures Methods and systems for segmenting images, wherein the image pixels are categorized into a plurality of subsets using one or more indexes, then a log-likelihood function of one or more of the indexes is determined, and one or more maps are generated based on the det... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036461 | Method of graphical objects recognition using the integrity principle The present invention discloses a method to increase reliability, correctness of objects recognition processing by performing a recognized object description as a set of special standard elements along with the spatial and parametrical correlation thereof. The said ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027535 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus This invention relates to an image processing method and image processing apparatus for improving the image quality of the boundary part of an image cutout or deletion area. According to this method, an area specified by a user as a cutout or deletion target area is... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027536 | System and method for image fog scene detection The subject application is directed to a system and method for image fog scene detection. Electronic image data is first received and divided into image regions, with each region consisting of a plurality of pixels. Next, a comparison matrix is generated correspondi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023735 | Image processing apparatus for extracting representative characteristic from image data and storing image data to be associated with representative characteristic Image data is displayed on an image display unit. An information input unit specifies a characteristic extracting range corresponding to the image data. An image-characteristic extracting unit extracts a representative characteristic from the specified range within ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023736 | Color correction method and color correction apparatus A color correction method in which an input image is corrected to generate an output image with an illumination condition different from that in the input image includes: detecting a region of a particular subject from the input image to extract color information on... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023737 | Method and device for the segmentation of regions and related computer program product A method for segmentation of locally-defined regions is provided. The input data obtained for the image region under investigation is separated into a foreground mask and a background mask, two different filter operations are applied to the input data to determine s... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019157 | Method of vehicle segmentation and counting for nighttime video frames Vehicle segmentation and counting method based on the property of color variation and headlight information combining change detection in nighttime traffic environment (one-way road with coming direction) is provided. The goal is to reduce the effect of ground-illum... | 09/13/2011 |
