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| 8116564 | Crowd counting and monitoring This document discusses, among other things, methods and systems for determining the number of members in a group as well as changes over a period of time. Using an image of the scene, an overlap area is calculated by projecting portions of the image onto spaced apa... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7903874 | Ruled-line-projection extracting apparatus, ruled-line projection extracting method, and computer product A set of straight lines that associate a top parallel geodesic projection positioned at an upper end with a bottom parallel geodesic projection positioned at a lower end, among sets of parallel geodesic projections, is extracted as a set of ruled-line candidate proj... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7809191 | Image processing system and image processing method for aerial photograph In order to increase the recognition rate of a shadow area contained in the image of an aerial photograph, a central control portion performs the processes of: comparing a shadow-produced angle with the angles of segments constituting the polygons generated by a pol... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7760943 | Method to speed-up Retinex-type algorithms An apparatus, and a corresponding method, are usable for speeding up Retinex processing of an input image. The apparatus includes a down sample module having a sub-sampling algorithm, where sub-sampled images of the input image are produced, and a non-linear illumin... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7693331 | Object segmentation using visible and infrared images A method tracks an object. A sequence of visible images and a sequence of infrared images are acquired concurrently of a scene. A visible background image is maintained from each current visible image, while an infrared background image is maintained from each curre... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693330 | Anti-piracy image display methods and systems with sub-frame intensity compensation Image display methods and systems are provided wherein only portions of a still image of a motion picture, generated for display during an image time interval, are displayed during respective sub-intervals of the image time interval. A still image is thereby separat... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7596268 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing d... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7365862 | Methods and apparatus for inspecting an object A method for generating a mask for use with a light measurement system that includes a light source for projecting light onto an object, and an imaging sensor for receiving light reflected from the object. The method includes determining a profile of the object to b... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362901 | Systems and methods for biometric identification using handwriting recognition A biometric handwriting identification system converts characters and a writing sample into mathematical graphs. The graphs comprise enough information to capture the features of handwriting that are unique to each individual. Optical character recognition (OCR) tec... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7336396 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus extracts a contour pixel of a binary input image signal in a contour pixel extraction portion, and calculates a line thinning amount from the extracted contour pixel based on a preset parameter in a line thinning amount calculation port... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336825 | Segmenting a composite image via minimum areas A method and device are provided for segmenting an image of pixels into a number of fields. First the method finds field separators using the background of the image, in particular white areas between, for instance, text fields. The segmenting includes constructing:... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333676 | Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321688 | Image processor for character recognition In image processing of a document having image data of a document including an image with character images on a background image, the character images and the background image thereof are separated. First, areas in correspondence to the character images from the ima... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321687 | Apparatus and method for image processing to label an object in a binary image This disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus or an image processing method, and takes as its technical problem the fact that conventionally it is difficult to perform a process of carving out a rectangle with high precision in a noisy environment. | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317829 | Background color estimation for scanned images A background color estimation system and method for estimating a background color of a scanned image. The background color estimation method includes generating a list of candidate background colors present in the image, determining the most common candidate color f... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305617 | Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling forced grid line spacing. The height of text consisting of a plurality of characters to be arranged within a current line in a grid displayed on a display d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305129 | Methods and apparatus for populating electronic forms from scanned documents A computer-implemented method and apparatus are provided for populating an electronic form from an electronic image. The method and apparatus identify a size, orientation and position of an object within the electronic image, and identify information elements from p... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302098 | Character segmentation method and apparatus An electronic device (1100) and a method for character segmentation (100) includes an image analyzer (1110) that generates individual character images. The image analyzer binarizes (115) a gray scale image (200) of a horizontal row... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295694 | MICR-based optical character recognition system and method A character recognition system and method. The system comprises an (OCR) optical character reader system for collecting character data by electro-optically scanning printed characters; a conversion system for converting the character data to a Magnetic Ink Character... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7278117 | Image segmentation and warping for specialized display viewing A method, program product and system for warping image data, the method comprising in one embodiment: receiving image data for an image; segmentation of the image into a plurality of regions based on regional classification of the image; obtaining a set of warping r... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274365 | Graphical processing of object perimeter information A technique for graphically processing perimeter information includes determining a polar representation of the perimeter of an object to define polar perimeter information, storing the polar perimeter information, retrieving the stored polar perimeter information u... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268897 | Print control apparatus and method In this invention, when a printer driver uses data obtained by referring to a table, the printer driver searches a first table of two, first and second tables to obtain a search condition of the second table. The printer driver searches the second table using the ob... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262884 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method A white background determination section performs a white background determination on the basis of a white threshold calculated by a white threshold calculation section and an area size selected by an area size determination section. A character discrimination secti... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257253 | Apparatus and method of analyzing layout of document, and computer product In an apparatus for analyzing a layout of a document, a character candidate element generator generates character candidate elements from black pixel linkage components of a document image. A horizontally oriented line rectangle generator sets a plurality of charact... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251349 | Automatic table locating technique for documents Table-like structures in documents are located by analysis of sub-regions (crops) on the document. The analysis involves determining the location of lines having lengths above a certain threshold and assigning these lines to groups. A set of adjacent lines is assign... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7221810 | Method and device for recording of information A device and a method for recording of text by imaging the text on a light-sensitive sensor (8). The device converts the images (14–17, 47–49) into a set of characters (50, 51) each using character recognition, and then assembling the acts o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7203363 | String extraction method for image based on multiple stroke width patterns matching A string extraction method for an image based on multiple stroke width patterns matching is provided. The string extraction method includes matching each possible stroke width pattern with an input image for obtaining the similarities between the width patterns and ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203766 | Gateway server in which picture contents can be displayed in small terminal, and processing speed is fast, and manufacturing cost is cheap, and method of obtaining contents A gateway server includes a convert section and an output section. The convert section converts a first contents into a second contents. The first contents is received from a contents server in response to a request of a small terminal. The second contents correspon... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203903 | System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a memory. The memory includes means for spacing ink stroke representatio... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187343 | Image projection with display-condition compensation A method of projecting a compensated principal image may include projecting a principal image onto a surface and projecting an intended calibration image onto a calibration area of the surface. The intended calibration image may be projected when the principal image... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7168038 | System and method for scaling and repositioning drawings A computer system and method relating to editing an electronic document having both text and drawings is disclosed. Drawings may be rescaled and/or repositioned responsive to a change in line height or font size of text. The resealing may be done in proportion to th... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167738 | Method for navigating in the interior of the body using three-dimensionally visualized structures A method is described for navigating in the interior of the body using three-dimensionally visualized structures. In a first step of the method, at least two two-dimensional images of the same anatomical object are provided from different perspectives, and also item... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7113305 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method for processing document data having a plurality of objects different in attribution Document data is constituted of a plurality of objects different in attribution, and layout information of the objects. Each object is associated with size information indicating a relation between an output area size and an object size when the document data is out... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106898 | 3D scanning using shadows A system and method of determining 3D information about a 3D scene using shadows that are cast on the 3D object. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103220 | Image processing apparatus, method and program, and storage medium In an image obtained by reading a document or the like, when a round portion is present at a corner of a frame for describing a character, extraction of a region where a character image is described is performed by removing pixels constituting a part of rules or lin... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095894 | Method and computer program product for recognizing italicized text A method and computer program product are disclosed for recognizing italic text in an optical character recognition system. A plurality of digital images of alphanumeric characters are created from a block of text, each comprising a plurality of rows of digital pixe... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095975 | Copying machine and copying method An Flat Bed-Multi Function Device includes an MPU, a reading section, a recording section, an operation section, an image memory, and a ratio changing section. In a reduction copy mode, the reading section reads an extended reading area of a document larger than a r... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7079686 | Systems and methods for content-based document image enhancement A system can include a system processor that is programmed or adapted to classify pixels in a document image, and in some instances, to enhance the document image based upon such classification. Image data including pixels is received. For each pixel in some subset ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7062090 | Writing guide for a free-form document editor Displaying a writing guide for a free-form document editor by detecting electronic ink, classifying the detected ink as corresponding to handwriting or a drawing, and displaying a handwriting guide or a drawing guide in response to classifying the detected ink as ha... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7031553 | Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performa... | 04/18/2006 |
