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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180157 | Image processing method, image processing system and computer program product Provided is an image processing method for cropping at least first and second images for presentation in a template, the first image having a first feature and the second image having a second feature, the template comprising a first image boundary shape and a secon... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180156 | Method and device for machine-cutting a plate-shaped workpiece In a known method for machine-cutting a plate-shaped workpiece, position and/or geometry and/or dimensions of the workpiece are detected without contact by means of a camera and the corresponding data are subjected to an evaluation by means of image processing. Star... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160367 | Circular intensity distribution analysis for the detection of convex, concave and flat surfaces A method for characterizing a shape of an object surface includes acquiring image data including the object. The image data is analyzed at a locus of points that are at a predetermined distance from a point of interest proximate to the object surface to determine wh... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155448 | Image processing apparatus and method thereof An image processing apparatus sets respective pixel values of a template block which includes a pixel to be determined for each pixel to be determined set in sequence in an image, arranges a plurality of reference blocks so as to surround the template block, obtains... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144993 | Medical image processing method A medical image processing method for image processing of a medical image picking up an image of a living mucous comprises a boundary information detecting step for detecting boundary information corresponding to a boundary portion of a living mucous from the medica... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139867 | Image segregation system architecture In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of generating spatio-spectral information for the image, defin... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131084 | Apparatus for improving sharpness of image Provided is an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image. The apparatus includes an edge detector, an effective edge judging unit, an effective edge classifying unit, an isolated edge judging unit, and a 2-D HPF applying unit. The edge detector calculates an... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121415 | Combining feature boundaries A method of forming a combined feature boundary based on boundaries of first and second overlapping features includes dividing the boundaries of the first and second overlapping features into line segments of known shape, identifying crossing points formed by the li... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111926 | Image processing method for deriving text characteristic image from input image and related apparatus An image processing method for deriving text characteristic images from an input image includes: performing a plurality of edge detecting processes upon the input image to generate a plurality of edge images, respectively, and deriving a first text characteristic im... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103104 | Text extraction and its application to compound document image compression Disclosed are systems and methods to identify text-like pixels from an image by providing an image and classifying line segments of pixels within the image by edge-bounded averaging. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103105 | Object detection device, and object detection device for elevator In an object detecting apparatus for detecting whether or not a detection object is present in a monitoring area by comparing a present image with a background image photographed when the detection target is not present in the monitoring area, a background contour l... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094945 | Method for assessing image quality The invention is a method for assessing image quality value of a distorted image with respect to a reference image. The method comprises the following steps: computing, for each pixel of the distorted image, at least one quality le... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090205 | Method for edge matching in film and image processing A method for edge mapping images for use in image processing. Edge mapping includes identifying base and non-base color components. A search window in the base color component is opened and the non-base color components are compared with the base component picture. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086041 | Pattern evaluation method, pattern matching method and computer readable medium A pattern evaluation method includes: generating first array data from edge data on a pattern to be evaluated, the edge data on the pattern to be evaluated being shape data including edge points of the pattern to be evaluated; generating second array data from edge ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8064705 | Image processing apparatus and control method thereof An image processing apparatus divides an image into a plurality of first image blocks, each of which is a partial area of the image, and further divides each first image block to acquire a plurality of compartments that correspond to filters for determining an edge ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059899 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product An image processing apparatus includes a contour extraction unit and a contour correcting unit. The contour extraction unit ascertains intensity difference between each of the pixels in the original image data and pixels around the pixel, and evaluates sharpness of ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055075 | Method and apparatus of image processing to detect and enhance edges A method for detecting and enhancing edges in an ultrasound image includes the steps of applying an edge detection filter to at least one of a plurality of pixels of an ultrasound image to compute an edge detection value having a magnitude and a direction; and apply... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055074 | Shape representation using fourier transforms A method of approximating the inner or outer boundary of an iris comprises generating an approximate boundary representation (20) comprising a least squares approximation by a Fourier Series of a function of the angle (θ) about a fixed point (A) of the dista... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045807 | Pattern edge detecting method and pattern evaluating method A pattern edge detecting method includes: detecting edge points in an image of an inspection pattern acquired from an imaging device; generating a plurality of edge lines from the edge points using a grouping process; generating a plurality of edge line group pairs,... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036466 | Shape representation using cosine transforms A method of approximating the inner or outer boundary of an iris comprises generating an approximate boundary representation (20) comprising a least squares approximation by a cosine transform series of a function of the angle (θ) about a fixed point (A) of ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031945 | Image-processing device, image-processing method, program of image-processing method, and recording medium recording program of image-processing method An image-processing device including a pulverization-core unit configured to divide input-image data into blocks, generate basic blocks by reducing each of the blocks in size, and arrange the basic blocks into the blocks so that processed-image data including at lea... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031946 | Reduced calculations in determining intra-prediction type method and system The method, system, and apparatus of source statistics based intra prediction type is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes classifying a four-pixel square block in an edge class (e.g., may include a DC edge class, a vertical edge class, a horizontal edge ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031947 | Method and system for rapid matching of video streams Techniques for managing video stream data and portions of video stream data are disclosed. In particular, the present invention enables the user to match portions of video streams against stored, previously characterized video streams using Canny edge detection filt... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023743 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method When a user instructs photographing by operating an operating unit, an image captured by an image sensor is stored as a photographed image in a memory. When a mode for performing color fading correction is set, the CPU instructs an image processing device to extract... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019162 | Methods and apparatus for detecting on-screen media sources Methods and apparatus for detecting on-screen media sources are disclosed. An example method includes monitoring a region of interest of a video signal for a first image, comparing the first image to a stored image, and confirming the media device change when the st... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7991233 | Method and apparatus for dynamic connector analysis A method (1100) of creating an editable document is disclosed. The method analyses a bitmap image to detect at least one bit map representation of a graphical object and a bitmap representation of a line object. The method matches the graphical object with on... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986841 | Method and apparatus for image edge detection An image edge detection method includes: classifying a plurality of candidate directions of an image region into a first direction set and at least one second direction set; computing a gradient for each candidate direction of the first direction set to obtain a fir... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983488 | Systems and methods for image processing A facility is provided for recognizing blank and nearly blank images. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication of an image, creates an analysis image based on the received image by detecting edges, determines an edge ratio for the analysis image, ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983487 | Method and system for locating and picking objects using active illumination A method and system determines a 3D pose of an object in a scene. Depth edges are determined from a set of images acquired of a scene including multiple objects while varying illumination in the scene. The depth edges are linked to form contours. The images are segm... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978915 | Harmonic edge synthesizer, enhancer and methods An edge enhancer for enhancing edges within a video image, forms an edge enhancement signal of odd harmonics of a sinusoid representative of the edge content in an incoming signal. The edge enhancement signal may be added to a version of the incoming signal, thereby... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978914 | Image processing system The invention relates to an image processing system for omnidirectional reading of optical patterns, for example of one-dimensional and two-dimensional codes. One object is to provide an image processing system which ensures high resolution with rapid process... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978916 | System and method for identifying a vascular border A system and method is provided for using a first vascular image, or more particularly a plurality of control points located thereon, to identify a border on a second vascular image. Embodiments of the present invention operate in accordance with an intra-vascular u... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965893 | Method, apparatus and storage medium for detecting cardio, thoracic and diaphragm borders The present invention provides a method of detecting borders in a chest image. The method comprises calculating the gray level difference between neighboring pixels of the chest image to get a differential image; filtering the differential image to reduce noise and ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961951 | Image processing apparatus capable of accurately removing isolated point noise, image processing method, and computer readable medium An isolated point detection portion detects an isolated point in image data input from an image data adjustment portion. An isolated point removal portion makes a replacement of image data at a point of an isolated point detected by the isolated point detection port... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957594 | Outline definition apparatus and outline definition method, and image processing apparatus An outline definition apparatus includes an edge detection unit detecting pixels at edge positions, each of the pixels at the edge positions having a data value between a value representing a first level and a value representing a second level, a pixel extraction un... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7916949 | Method of inspecting granular material and inspection device for conducting that method A method of inspecting granular material and an inspection device for conducting that method, wherein agents (10a, 10b) to be inspected are imaged, the pixel value of each pixel of images thus picked up is digitized, a plurality of refere... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912295 | Method for auto-cropping a scanned image The present invention provides a method for dynamically refine the threshold values of R (Red), G (Green), B (Blue) colors for determining a borderline pixel in response to the values of a background image, thereby to precisely determine the borderlines of the Area ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907781 | System and method for determining geometries of scenes A method and an apparatus determines a geometry of a scene by projecting one or more output image into the scene, in which a time to project the output image is t1. Input images are acquired of the scene, in which a time to acquire each input image is t | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903880 | Image processing apparatus and method for detecting a feature point in an image An apparatus includes: a spatial differential value calculation unit that calculates a primary spatial differential value and a secondary spatial differential value of a brightness value with respect to each of a plurality of directions in each pixel of the image; a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899256 | Method for automatically determining the acceptability of a digital image A method for automatically determining the acceptability of an input image for a predetermined output operation, such as printing, includes the steps of: (a) identifying one or more important areas in the input image; (b) calculating a salient acceptability feature ... | 03/01/2011 |
