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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189918 | Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page comp... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180154 | Method and apparatus for region-based segmentation image processing using region mapping Object detection in an image using an image processing approach in which the image is updated based on an energy function. In one aspect, the exemplary image update process attempts to homogenize each region by associating each pixel with a particular region such th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160360 | Image processing apparatus and method and a non-transitory computer readable medium with computer executable instructions stored thereon for performing an image processing method Image processing apparatus and methods perform effective labeling of objects in an image while advantageously requiring only a small memory. The apparatus and methods practicably and effectively implement various applications, in particular, a detection technique fo... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160359 | Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page comp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8126271 | Information processing apparatus, remote indication system, and computer readable recording medium An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring portion, a deciding portion, a controlling portion, a determining portion, and a transmitting portion. The acquiring portion acquires attribute information of an object. The deciding portion decides identific... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111919 | Feature encoding system and method for connected component labeling Embodiments disclosed include methods and systems for encoding one or more region features in connected components labeling including associating one or more labels for an object with a memory structure, the memory structure including the one or more region features... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8094937 | System and method for labeling feature clusters in frames of image data for optical navigation A system and method for labeling feature clusters in frames of image data for optical navigation uses distances between feature clusters in a current frame of image data and feature clusters in a previous frame of image data to label the feature clusters in the curr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086040 | Text representation method and apparatus A text-like data representation technique and a text-like data representation apparatus are disclosed that may: acquire image data from a scanned image; segment text regions from the image data; further extract each connected component in the text regions; form clus... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8014605 | Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page comp... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009912 | Image-processing apparatus which has an image region distinction processing capability, and an image region distinction processing method In an image-processing apparatus having a capability of performing region distinction processing and an image region discrimination processing method, a first region distinction unit uses a previously set threshold value for an image region distinction to perform a ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7974471 | Method of generating a labeled image and image processing system with pixel blocks To identify pixels constituting image elements for generating a labeled image in which pixels are labeled with identification information, a pixel block including four pixels adjacent to one another in two dimensions is inputted as a unit from data including pixels ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7925089 | Optimization of multi-label problems in computer vision A method of labeling pixels in an image is described where the pixel label is selected from a set of three or more labels. The pixel labeling problem is reduced to a sequence of binary optimizations by representing the label value for each pixel as a binary word and... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912286 | Image processing apparatus and method of image processing capable of effective labeling A method of labeling of image data includes reading the image data sequentially with units of two successive pixels and providing one label to a target unit of two successive pixels in the image data when a preliminary label is to be assigned to at least one of the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907778 | Segmentation-based image labeling Systems and methods for segmenting an image into at least two layers, a foreground and a background layer include rough labeling or segmenting at least a portion of the image into foreground and background pixels. The rough labeled pixels may be refined by using loc... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7881532 | Imaging device with improved image segmentation An improved image segmentation algorithm is provided that identifies each object in an image. Pixels of the image are sorted based on a range of attribute values of the image. These pixels are then added to a labeling image one by one starting with an extreme point ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881531 | Error propogation and variable-bandwidth mean shift for feature space analysis The present invention comprises using error propagation for building feature spaces with variable uncertainty and using variable-bandwidth mean shift for the analysis of such spaces, to provide peak detection and space partitioning. The invention applies these techn... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7853080 | System and method for identifying and labeling cluster pixels in a frame of image data for optical navigation A system and method for identifying and labeling cluster pixels in a frame of image data for optical navigation determines whether a current pixel of the frame of image data is a cluster pixel and uses neighboring pixels of the current pixel to label the current pix... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7801358 | Methods and systems for analyzing data in media material having layout The present invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing media material having a layout. A media material analyzer includes a segmenter and an article composer. The segmenter identifies block segments associated with columnar body text in the media materia... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7747077 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program An image processing apparatus that are capable of reducing the time required for image formation processing to generate image data from drawing data. A block segmentation section determines an encompassing region encompasses an object to be drawn and determines whet... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7707488 | Analyzing lines to detect tables in documents Various technologies and techniques detect tables in vector graphics based documents and use them in meaningful ways. The system detects at least one table in a vector graphics based document using a set of rules. The rules include analyzing a set of content represe... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7697759 | Split-remerge method for eliminating processing window artifacts in recursive hierarchical segmentation A method, computer readable storage, and apparatus for implementing recursive segmentation of data with spatial characteristics into regions including splitting-remerging of pixels with contagious region designations and a user controlled parameter for providing a p... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689038 | Method for improved image segmentation An improved image segmentation algorithm is provided that identifies each object in an image. Pixels of the image are sorted based on a range of attribute values of the image. These pixels are then added to a labeling image one by one starting with an extreme point ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7643682 | Method of identifying redundant text in an electronic document A method of identifying redundant text fragments, which create artificial artifacts only, in an electronic page description language document includes a) providing a page having a plurality of text fragments, each text fragment comprising at least one glyph, the doc... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7627176 | Apparatus, method, and computer program for analyzing document layout A document layout analysis program capable of extracting an appropriate set of text blocks from a given document image even in the case where the document layout is so complicated that conventional extraction methods with a single extraction condition would not work... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623712 | Image processing method and apparatus Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which vector data from which noise has been removed and amount of data reduced can be generated in ideal fashion with regard to an illustration area selected from a document image. The document image is input to the appa... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7606420 | Method and apparatus for improving the speed of belief propagation One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that efficiently performs a belief-propagation (BP) operation. During this process, for each node i in a BP graph, the system iteratively performs the following operations. First, the system receives incoming... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7580569 | Method and system for generating contone encoded binary print data streams A method and system to convert an image described in a page description language to a contone image. The contone image is halftoned and encoded to generate image data including edge tag data and image data. A tagged state value of each pixel of image data within a p... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7567710 | Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page comp... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7551778 | Business form processing program, method, and device A business form processing program to cause a computer to execute a character box-image reading step for reading by a scanner all colors of a business form with blank character boxes and storing them as character box images, a business form reading step for reading ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7532757 | Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program Vector data corresponding to a scanned original image is generated. An edit image of the original image corresponding to the display resolution of a display is generated on the basis of the vector data, and display of the edit image on the display is controlled.... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529408 | System and method for electronically processing document images The system and method facilitate the control and management of information and actions related to the computerized scanning, categorization, processing, storage, and retrieval of paper documents and electronic document images for the purposes of creating electronic ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7492944 | Extraction and tracking of image regions arranged in time series Methods and apparatus for effectively identifying the occlusion of objects, such as persons, having a high degree of freedom. In an example embodiment, after initialization, an image is input, and an image region is extracted from image data. The distance is employe... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7460709 | System and method for multi-label image segmentation A system and method for multi-label image segmentation is provided. The method comprises the steps of: receiving image data including a set of labeled image elements; mapping a change in intensities of the image data to edge weights; determining potentials for each ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460710 | Converting digital images containing text to token-based files for rendering A computer-implemented method is provided for converting a scanned-in electronic image into a token-based file. The method includes generally five steps. First, various tokens (i.e., graphical units) are identified in the electronic image. Second, the identified tok... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444019 | System and method for GPU acceleration of push-relabel algorithm on grinds A method of segmenting an image includes representing an image by a grid with a plurality of nodes, terminals, and edges, the terminals including a source and a sink. The edges include n-links and t-links, where each n-link connects a pair of nodes, and the t-links ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433072 | Print controller, print control method and computer program A print controller for making a print device print in such a manner that a grouping for each record included in printed matter can be easily recognized is provided. A print control program stored on computer readable storage media for outputting a business form by s... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433517 | Image processing apparatus and method for converting image data to predetermined format An image processing apparatus includes: a reading unit adapted to read an image and to generate image data representing the image; a separating unit adapted to separate the image data obtained by the reading unit into a plurality of objects corresponding to attribut... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433103 | Selective flattening of page description files to support color correction An imaging technique permits selective flattening of objects within page description files. The selective aspect of the flattening may pertain to the selection of particular objects to be flattened, selection of the degree of flattening to be applied to objects, or ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428331 | Page background estimation using color, texture and edge features An algorithm for estimating which pixels belong to the background of a scanned page. The algorithm is particularly designed to handle situations in which the page background varies in color/intensity, as is case when bleed-through artifacts from the reverse side of ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7391905 | Method for secure component labeling in images A method processes an input image securely. An input image is acquired in a client and partitioned into a set of overlapping tiles. The set of overlapping tiles is transferred to a server. In the server, motion pixels in each tile that are immediately adjacent to ot... | 06/24/2008 |
