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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175393 | Multi-phenomenology object detection Method and system for utilizing multiple phenomenological techniques to resolve closely spaced objects during imaging includes detecting a plurality of closely spaced objects through the imaging of a target area by an array, and spreading electromagnetic radiation r... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170343 | Method and system for searching images with figures and recording medium storing metadata of image A method and a system for searching images with figures and a recording medium storing metadata of image are provided. The searching method is divided into an image analysis stage and an image search stage. In the image analysis stage, figures between images are com... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8121414 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus The number of pixels in an identified pixel region is counted, a feature point of the pixel region is extracted and the number of the feature points is counted when the number of the pixels counted has been determined to be equal to or higher than a first threshold ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111925 | System and method for identifying object in image According to one aspect, a method for identifying an object in an image includes steps of determining a center of the object; calculating a radius for scanning the image; scanning along a scan circle defined by the center and the radius; and identifying the object a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098937 | Image processing apparatus and image processing program product for discriminating dot region in image To accurately discriminate a dot region within an image, the image processing apparatus includes first through fourth isolated dot discriminating portions each judging, for each of a plurality of pixels included in the image, whether the pixel corresponds to a cente... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090204 | Method and system for line segment extraction A method for extracting line segments from an edge image comprises receiving a digital image comprising a plurality of edge pixels, and processing the plurality of edge pixels using a breadth first search to determine a plurality of breadth first search pixels in a ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068674 | UPC substitution fraud prevention A system and method for detecting fraudulent identification tags, such as Universal Product Codes (UPC) applied to goods to be purchased is disclosed. Images of the goods to be purchased and corresponding feature models are stored in a database. When a customer desi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8000535 | Methods and systems for refining text segmentation results Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for refining text segmentation results. Non-text, line elements in a text map may be detected and removed from the text map. Pixels associated with vertical and/or horizontal lines may be identified in t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7912293 | Image processing system and image judgment method and program An image processing system and image judgment method able to suitably judge whether or not an image includes an image of a predetermined subject to be captured as the image and a program run in the image processing system are provided. Edges of a captured image are ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7876962 | Multi-gain photodetection system for array analysis Methods for evaluating a pixel signal produced during scanning of a chemical array are provided. In general, the methods involve producing at least two analog signals for a pixel using a multi-gain signal detection system, integrating at least one of these signals, ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7860316 | Image forming apparatus that automatically creates an index and a method thereof An image forming apparatus capable of automatically creating an index, and a method for the same. The image forming apparatus includes a scan unit to scan a document, a text/image separation unit to separate the scanned document into a text area and an image area an... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7792364 | Image processing apparatus and image processing program product for discriminating dot region in image To accurately discriminate a dot region within an image, the image processing apparatus includes first through fourth isolated dot discriminating portions each judging, for each of a plurality of pixels included in the image, whether the pixel corresponds to a cente... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7680338 | Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus and image recording apparatus An image processing apparatus for receiving image data composed of a plurality of pixels, extracting an area from an image based on the received data and detecting a type of an image included in the extracted area, includes means for calculating the ratio of pixels ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7657097 | Picture reproduction system and method utilizing independent picture elements A system and method of producing an image using a plurality of independent pixel devices, each of which includes one or more light emitting or polarizing elements. The pixel devices are fixed (e.g. on the side of a building) or are moving (e.g. on water or falling i... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7440614 | Method of extracting contour of image, method of extracting object from image, and video transmission system using the same method An object extraction method comprising the steps of comparing each portion of first image data obtained by capturing an extraction object with another portion of the first image data or second image data, thereby generating shape data as an image representing a prov... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7419230 | Test chart geometrical characteristic analysis system geometrical characteristic analysis method printer and ink-jet printer A format storage unit stores a predetermined geometric property format. A chart data creating unit creates chart data based upon the geometric property format, and a printing unit creates a test chart by printing mark groups on a recording medium such as a paper she... | 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 |
| 7403234 | Method for detecting bisection pattern in deinterlacing A method for detecting the Bisection pattern for use in conjunction with the deinterlacing is to improve low angle direction detection capability. A method of Bisection pattern detection operates in an interlaced video containing both top and bottom fields. For each... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397951 | Image processing device and image processing method SRAMs A, B, C, and D having pixel data of each small block of each large block, for example a small block Aij for the SRAM A, to simultaneously read out a plurality of pixel data in the small block by specifying an address assigned to each small block, an... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7383156 | Apparatus for inspecting wafer surface, method for inspecting wafer surface, apparatus for judging defective wafer, method for judging defective wafer, and apparatus for processing information on wafer surface It is possible to inspect scratches and staining on a wafer surface on the basis of an LPD map obtained from a particle counter 11, by providing a means 21 for detecting aggregation of clustered point defects (LPD) from two-dimensional distribution inf... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7366978 | Method and system for creating a grid-like coordinate system for addressing data contained in an irregular computer-generated table Methods and systems provide for imposing structure onto a freeform or irregular table so that a subsequent consuming application may use the table, including presentation of the table and location of the data in the table. A generic grid structure is created having ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356416 | Method and system for automated inference creation of physico-chemical interaction knowledge from databases of co-occurrence data Methods and system for automated inference of physico-chemical interaction knowledge from databases of term co-occurrence data. The co-occurrence data includes co-occurrences between chemical or biological molecules or co-occurrences between chemical or biological m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356509 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program recording medium, and data recording medium A management center registers user information that includes user identification information for identifying a user terminal and improvement-information identification information for identifying improvement information recorded in an optical disk and processed by t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349571 | Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346193 | Method for detecting object traveling direction An object of the invention is to provide a target travel direction detecting method capable of detecting the travel direction of efficiently detecting the travel direction of a target by using a small amount of information. The target travel direction detecti... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336824 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus can shorten the verification time when using a plurality of verification use image data stored in a memory for verification, identifically a verification appara... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333657 | Recognizing text in a multicolor image A method and apparatus for identifying and reproducing a background of a pixelmap. The method includes dividing the pixelmap into a grid of tiles, determining for each tile a background component and building a representation of a background in the pixelmap using th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330194 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319549 | Multiple weight error diffusion A method for halftoning includes the steps of defining a first set of weight sets, and defining a second set of weight sets. A first error associated with a first pixel location of a plurality of pixel locations is diffused to a first neighboring at least one pixel ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317563 | Printing method and system for making a print from a photo picture frame and a graphic image written by a user An image of a picture frame photographed on a photo film is displayed on a screen of an image input device, or is printed out as a hard copy. A graphic image is written by a user in the image of the picture frame, and graphic data of the graphic image is detected fr... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305107 | Method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298886 | Counting biological agents on biological growth plates The invention is directed to counting techniques for counting biological agents on a biological growth plate or similar medium. In order to automate the counting of biological agents, a biological growth plate is inserted into a biological scanning unit. Upon insert... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295344 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus, program and recording medium, and image forming apparatus A parameter representing whether an effective density pixel exists in an objective image is calculated. As to each interest pixel in the objective image having one pixel neighboring a downstream side in a first direction, the interest pixel is defined as an effectiv... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295885 | Multi-exposure drawing method and apparatus thereof for dividing an exposing area into exposed zones and un-exposed zones based on odd-numbered and even-numbered vector-graphic data In a drawing method, all information on a pattern to be drawn on a drawing surface, represented by first vector-graphic data of a drawing-coordinate-system, is transmitted to an exposure drawing apparatus having a plurality of optical modulation elements. The first ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283590 | Signal processing approach for channel coding based on inter-symbol-interference insertion An inter-symbol-interference (ISI) coder with mapper and linear filter and a technique of channel encoding deliberately inserts inter-symbol-interference (ISI) into the signal using a non-linear precoder to map map input symbol sequences into sequences of extended s... | 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 |
| 7277576 | Active color correction to compensate for near field color cast A system includes a video display device and an image capture device, such as a miniature camera. The system corrects a real-time video image of an object within a near field region of the video display device, if that display device is displaying a primary image th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262789 | Method of creating a virtual window The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and mapping the pixels of those outputs to the pixels of a display screen by ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251057 | Digital camera A digital camera includes a CCD imager. When a display-use UYV signal is generated on the basis of an RGB signal of an object image photographed by the CCD imager, a CPU detects a color saturation degree of the RGB signal and reduces dynamic range of a U signal and ... | 07/31/2007 |
