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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8050502 | Two-Dimensional code generation method, two-dimensional code, two-dimensional code recognition method, and image recognition device A two-dimensional code in which given data is encoded as a two-dimensional image. The two-dimensional code includes as image elements: points each of which is placed at point placement reserved position in a two-dimensional region based on a binary data string uniqu... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7856146 | Image processing device, image forming device, image processing method and program An image processing device has a division determination unit. The division determination unit determines the partition number of an image in input image data. The division determination unit calculates the image features of the image in the image data, the features ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853084 | Method of detecting feature images It is an object of the present invention to detect an image correction method from corrected images, in order to grasp a correction method of a correctly corrected images as a guideline for correction of a harmful image, and to present an image correction proposal t... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848575 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus has the function of an optical zoom which optically converts the magnification of an image and the function of an electronic zoom which changes the size of an image by electrical signal processing. The function of the electronic zoom at least op... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7822276 | Method and apparatus for analyzing body fluids A system and method for analyzing a specimen containing particles that can be difficult to differentiate. The system and method determines a first collective count of a selected group of particles in the specimen, treats at least a portion of the specimen to alter a... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7756340 | Method and apparatus for identifying and/or removing combs from scanned images Methods and apparatus for detecting the presence of combs, determining their shape and removing the combs from a scanned form in an automated manner are described. Horizontal and vertical line feature analysis is combined with knowledge of the usual size, shape, and... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7620246 | Method and apparatus for image processing The type of an object included in an image is automatically recognized. An image is divided into object regions and into block regions each having a predetermined number of pixels and smaller than any one of the object regions. The types of the respective block regi... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7599560 | Embedded interaction code recognition In accordance with embodiments of the invention, embedded interaction code (EIC) symbols are recognized. EIC dots are generated based on effective EIC symbols, which have been generated by processing an image containing the EIC symbols, by obtaining graylevels of se... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7551781 | Active matrix acquisition and targeting system The present invention is a system and method of acquiring airborne objects utilizing a plurality of acquisition systems. The present invention is an active matrix acquisition system which includes several different types of acquisition systems, such as radar, infrar... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7437002 | Image recognition system utilizing an edge image and a binary image An image processing apparatus processes an input image, in which an edge image is created by executing an extracting operation on the input image, and a binary image is created by performing a thresholding operation on the input image. A first partial thresholding u... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421120 | Apparatus correcting image by luminance histogram An apparatus and method for selectively increasing contrasts of bright and dark regions and automatically determining an appropriate degree of correction such that the image has a corrected luminance that is closer to an estimated optimal average luminance (EOAL) de... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7405845 | Image processing apparatus Dot characteristic points are first extracted from M-level image data by the dot characteristic point extracting device. A dot area identifying device subsequently identifies a dot area based on the results of the extraction carried out by the dot characteristic poi... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397936 | Method and system for wavelet based detection of colon polyps A method of identifying colon polyps in a digital volume, wherein the volume includes a plurality of values corresponding to a domain of points in a 3D space, is provided. The method includes selecting a mother wavelet scaling function that corresponds to a polyp; p... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382920 | Analyzing apparatus, model creating method, and computer product A mesh is placed over an image of an element thereby dividing the image (element) into a plurality of solids. Each of the solids is then divided equally into the even number of parts. Inclusion-ratio determination-points, which are points where the straight lines an... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370059 | Model of documents and method for automatically classifying a document A method for automatically creating a model of documents representing a class of documents. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of documents separated into different classes; and determining at least one potential identifying tag within one docume... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359553 | Image identification system Methods and procedures for improving the performance and reliability of image analysis within an image identification system include a series of image qualification functions designed to quickly process a fraction of available image data and to provide feedback to a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352900 | Apparatus and method for processing particle images and program product for same A method for processing particle images are described that include: receiving image information obtained by capturing an image of a particle; determining the circumferential length and number of inflection points in the contour of a particle image based on the recei... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340092 | Image processing device, image processing method, program for executing image processing, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is stored An image processing device extracts graphic areas, for example, firstly from image data received, and then extracts other remaining areas, i.e., photographic and character areas. The areas that are extracted firstly can be photographic or character areas. This preve... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336812 | System for microvolume laser scanning cytometry The present invention provides an improved integrated system for biological marker identification. The system uses Microvolume Laser Scanning Microscopy (MLSC) in order to measure patterns of expression of biological markers in biological fluids. The system includes... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324247 | Image processing apparatus, image processing program and storage medium storing the program An image processing apparatus includes a reduced image generating part generating a reduced image having a lower resolution than that of an original digital image. A first extracting part distinctly extracts a first foreground image and a first background image from... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313275 | Method of separating text and graphs in digital image data A method of separating text and graphs in digital image data is used to separate digital image data into graph data and text data. According to a default separating parameter, the digital image data are partitioned into several operating matrices. One then sets a de... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312900 | Method of descreening screened image, method of separating screened image into regions, image processing device, and program A method of performing a descreening process with high accuracy by separating a first region from which a gradation area is to be derived and a second region from which a monotone area is to be derived from each other in a screened image with high accuracy is provid... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310111 | Video monitoring and security system A computer especially suitable for use as a video-based security system includes video inputs, a processor and a network connection. The video inputs are each configured to receive an electronic video signal from a video camera. The processor operates on a digital r... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302082 | Method for detecting motion pixels in image A method for detecting motion pixels in image includes the following steps. The difference image between current image and background image is firstly obtained. Then, a binarization threshold from the distribution of all absolute pixel values in the difference image... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289656 | Systems and methods for determining inconsistency characteristics of a composite structure Systems and methods for determining an inconsistency characteristic of a composite structure, such as inconsistency density-per-unit area. In one implementation, a method is disclosed for determining an inconsistency characteristic of a composite structure. The meth... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283687 | Imaging for virtual cameras Imaging for virtual cameras implemented through a Web site sometimes referred to as an “electronic photo shop.” Embodiments include receiving in an electronic photo shop, from a virtual camera coupled for data communications through a network to the electronic p... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280253 | System for identifying low-frequency halftone screens in image data In a system, such as in a digital copier, for classifying image data derived from an original image, the image data is enhanced before submission to a classification analysis. In the enhancement, portions of the image having a measured roughness (degree of gray leve... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277591 | Edge smoothing on raster images A method of edge-smoothing in raster images includes: selecting an object in a raster image, the object including an edge having a plurality of edge pixels; finding all of the edge pixels of the object and generating a polygon having a plurality of vertices, each of... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7254268 | Object extraction A video sequence is processed to extract one or more objects. The extracted objects are used to create a new video sequence. In particular, a user is able to select a background and/or an audio recording. Alternatively, the object extraction system automatically sel... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7218781 | System and method for chinese input using a joystick A Chinese text entry system and method is provided to allow users to enter a character to a device such as a cellular phone or a PDA by adding a first few strokes required for the character using a joystick or its equivalent. By simply moving the joystick to add one... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218779 | Ink divider and associated application program interface Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to the divide request,... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218756 | Video analysis using segmentation gain by area Video segmentation wherein scene images of subjects and background are captured by video and are automatically segmented according to subject content, as by system determination of the nature of subjects, but segmentation of the subjects can be compromised by visual... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7207004 | Correction of misspelled words A method includes identifying a document corpus, creating a dictionary based on words in the document corpus, identifying a potentially misspelled word in a document, and providing a word from the dictionary as likely to correspond to the potentially misspelled word... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203337 | Adjusted filters A method in image processing for detection of a change in the scene in an area. The method comprises the steps of recording a digital image of the area using a sensor and transforming the recorded image by an operator. The operator is based on a previous modeling of... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203358 | Method and device for measuring similarity between images A method is disclosed for measuring similarity between images, comprising the performance of the following steps for each of the images: segmentation of the image into segments, classification of the segments as a function of their orientation to give classes, calcu... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200268 | Image processing device An image processing device is structured such that an appropriate judgement of an image, at which blurring or disappearance or the like will occur, is possible. When pixels, which form a line image at which there is the possibility that blurring or disappearance wil... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194393 | Numerical model for image feature extraction In one embodiment, the invention is a method for generating geometric patterns from an image having a plurality of ridges and mesh points. The method includes dividing the image into a plurality of local regions with a surface appearance of fluid flow; establishing ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188099 | Texture-based image database browsing and sorting method A texture-based image database browsing and sorting method computes the number of edge pixels of objects in static images, measures textures of the static images by numerating the number of edge pixels thereof and measures a texture of a query image by numerating th... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177445 | Discriminating between changes in lighting and movement of objects in a series of images using different methods depending on optically detectable surface characteristics In a motion detection system, filters are applied to a series of digital images in order to determine whether changes in the properties of pixels between the current image and a reference model are due to motion of objects or to changes in lighting. The filter may b... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167575 | Video safety detector with projected pattern A two-dimensional (2-D) machine-vision safety-solution involving a method and apparatus for performing high-integrity, high efficiency machine vision. A known structured lighting texture pattern is projected upon a target area. A model image of the pattern on an emp... | 01/23/2007 |
