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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160368 | Image feature extraction method and image compression method The image feature extraction method of the present invention includes: the step of performing k2 dividing process at least once on a given image so as to convert the given image into a multi-divided image, where the k2 dividing process comprise... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7889930 | 2-D encoded symbol quality assessment An 2-D symbol orientation guide with parallel and spaced right angle guidelines with chevron-like spaces provided therebetween is selectively displayed in plural selected dispositions on a monitor screen as an overlay for the display on the same monitor screen of a ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7813557 | Tagging detected objects Assigning a tag to an object is disclosed. Assigning includes displaying a set of one or more objects, wherein each object has been detected from an image, receiving an indication to tag an object in the set, and assigning a tag to the object. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7702158 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and record medium for the image processing apparatus Plural window elements are set in one edge window, and edge detection is performed every each the window element, and calculation and determination about its result are made inside an image processing apparatus. A user can freely set a width of the window element an... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7657099 | Method and apparatus for processing line pattern using convolution kernel A method and apparatus for processing a line pattern using a convolution kernel. An apparatus for processing a line pattern, the apparatus including a light source module radiating predetermined light and a camera module capturing an image of an object, onto which t... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7630558 | Direction-sensitive line detection operator for image data A method of detecting lines in an image comprises using one or more masks for detecting lines in one or more directions out of horizontal, vertical, left diagonal and right diagonal, and further comprises one or more additional masks for detecting lines in one or mo... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7587089 | Method and apparatus for image processing An image processing apparatus comprises a characteristic value generator for receiving image data, analyzing neighboring pixels of a to-be-processed pixel and calculating characteristic values comprising average illumination, illumination variability and histogram o... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7529409 | 2-D encoded symbol quality assessment An 2-D symbol orientation guide with parallel and spaced right angle guidelines with chevron-like spaces provided therebetween is selectively displayed in plural selected dispositions on a monitor screen as an overlay for the display on the same monitor screen of a ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7437005 | Rapid visual sorting of digital files and data Described is a system and method including a user interface to manage sets of digital data (e.g., files) such as digital photographs or email messages. The system and method comprise a rapid sort mechanism and an underlying support mechanism that associates metadata... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424462 | Apparatus for and method of pattern recognition and image analysis A method of comparing an input pattern with a memory pattern includes the steps of loading a representation of said input pattern into cells in an input layer; loading a representation of said memory pattern into cells in a memory layer; loading an initial value int... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7412106 | Methods for locating and decoding distorted two-dimensional matrix symbols A method is presented for processing an image of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix symbol having a plurality of data modules and a discontinuous finder pattern, each distorted by “donut effects”. A resulting processed image contains an image of the 2D matrix symbol ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412109 | System and method for filtering artifacts in images A method filters pixels in an image, by first partitioning the image into blocks. Edge block are identified. A variance of an intensity for each pixel in each edge block is determined. Then, each pixel in each edge block is filtered with a filter that is dependant o... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408536 | Device and method for communication A product for electronic transmission of handwritten information, a user unit for recording and sending the information, and a computer program for controlling a user unit are disclosed. The product may include at least one writing area for the handwritten informati... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406181 | Occupant detection system A camera (32) captures successive images of light stripes (22) projected onto an object by a light curtain (18) positioned by a light source positioner (28). A background image is subtracted (616) therefrom, and the resulting image... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400766 | Image edge extraction via fuzzy reasoning A computer-based technique for detecting edges in gray level digital images employs fuzzy reasoning to analyze whether each pixel in an image is likely on an edge. The image is analyzed on a pixel-by-pixel basis by analyzing gradient levels of pixels in a square win... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397948 | System and method for image and video segmentation by anisotropic kernel mean shift Mean shift is a nonparametric estimator of density which has been applied to image and video segmentation. Traditional mean shift based segmentation uses a radially symmetric kernel to estimate local density, which is not optimal in view of the often structured natu... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388987 | Computing dissimilarity measures Methods, machines, and machine-readable media for computing dissimilarity measures are described. In one aspect, a first set of pixel neighborhood values (PNVs) is computed from respective sets of pixel values of a first image corresponding to different spatially-sh... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379561 | Method and system for differentially and regularly modifying a digital image by pixel Th invention relates to a method and system for modifying a digital image (100) consisting of pixels. Said digital image is divided into areas (103). At least one area value is assigned to each area Zi (103). At least one parameter value Vpij ( | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373018 | Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373668 | Methods and circuits for protecting proprietary configuration data for programmable logic devices Described are methods and systems for encrypting and decrypting configuration data for programmable logic devices. An encrypted bitstream of configuration data includes two or more portions, each of which may be encrypted using a different key. Prior to loading, the... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373013 | Directional video filters for locally adaptive spatial noise reduction Spatial noise is reduced in an image having a plurality of pixels by detecting object boundaries and unstructured areas in the image and applying 3-tap high pass filters to each pixel in the image in at least four, but less than eight directions to determine the bes... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369165 | Noise filter for Bayer pattern image data A method of filtering an image filter is disclosed. The filter is provided for a digital camera including image sensors sensitive to light, a color filter placed over sensitive elements of the sensors and patterned according to a Bayer mosaic pattern layout and an i... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369277 | Image processing apparatus, drawing processing method, and computer program A drawing instruction processor refers to a bit map line table that shows whether the bit arrays in the row unit are the same in the order of concentrations. The drawing instruction processor decides whether dither patterns to be used for the adjacent specified draw... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362911 | Removal of stationary noise pattern from digital images A method for removing a stationary noise pattern from digital images uses an adaptive noise estimation algorithm to calculate a prediction of the fixed pattern noise and a confidence estimate for the prediction. In one embodiment, a predicted noise value is obtained... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359565 | Method of filtering pixels in a video encoding process A method and apparatus, particularly suited to SIMD instruction sets, to filter streaming video information encoded under a predictive encoding algorithm specified under video encoding standards, such as MPEG 4 or H.264/AVC. The filtering operation de-blocks or remo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359576 | Using difference kernels for image filtering Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for filtering an image. A filter kernel is received to determine one or more filtered values for each pixel in a sequence of pixels, where adjacent pixels are separated by a characteristic distance in the i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356174 | Contraband detection system and method using variance data A technique is disclosed for detecting contraband by obtaining image data from a computed tomography machine and generating variance data and a variance map from the image data acquired. The method includes obtaining a mean density value and a variation value for ea... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346224 | System and method for classifying pixels in images A method classifies pixels in an image by first partitioning the image into blocks. A variance of an intensity is determined for each pixel, and for each block the pixel with the maximum variance is identified. Then, the blocks are classified into classes according ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340105 | Method and apparatus for image processing A method for image processing includes generating a pixel window of image data and determining whether the pixel window-is stable or unstable. Image enhancement values are then obtained from a look up table for stable windows when the window is stable, and image enh... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336390 | Method and apparatus for reducing multi-bit image data Input pixels are input to a thinning processing circuit. When thinning is performed at the thinning processing circuit, minimum values are selected in order to reduce the pixel data, whereby loss of thin lines is prevented. The thinned image data are input to a bina... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328182 | System and method for prediction of behavior in financial systems A computer-based system and method are provided to determine the minimum number of factors required to account for input data by seeking an approximate minimum complexity model. In an exemplary embodiment, covariance in the daily returns of financial securities is e... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319778 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus for detecting a desired image-element from a given image, includes: a storing unit for storing a plurality of first templates indicating the desired image-element and a plurality of second templates stored corresponding to the first tem... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7298900 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image processing program The present invention relates to an image processing method, an image processing apparatus and an image processing program for dealing with inverted characters (outlined characters) constituted by white pixels on a black ground in a tree structure same as that of no... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7274380 | Augmented reality system An augmented reality system includes a video source, and a database. The video source resides at a location and produces an image. At least one encoded marker resides within the image. A marker detector is coupled to the video source and is adapted to derive encoded... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274801 | Automatic target recognition system with Elliptical Laplacian Pyramid filter Automatic target recognition system and/or method which employs an elliptical Laplacian pyramid based pre-screen image data filter. The filter is a resolution sequence matched filter, where the elliptical Laplacian operator reflects the size, spatial characteristics... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272268 | Registration of separations Separations or images relating to film or other fields may be registered using a variety of features, such as, for example: (1) correcting one or more film distortions; (2) automatically determining a transformation to reduce a film distortion; (3) applying multiple... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268783 | Image alias rejection using shaped statistical filtering Image alias rejection when converting a high resolution rasterized waveform to a lower resolution rasterized waveform for display uses a statistical filter. The statistical filter provides a shaped probability density function either by combining the outputs of mult... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269296 | Method and apparatus for shoot suppression in image detail enhancement A general shoot suppression method and system for image detail enhancement that provides good suppression in shoot areas while preserving the enhancement (with less or no suppression) in non-shoot areas. Asymmetry checker checks the luminance variation of pixels aro... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7254277 | Image processing with minimization of ringing artifacts and noise A method of reducing ringing artifacts in image data that has been filtered with a high frequency emphasis filter. For each filtered data value, a local variance is calculated from data values at neighboring filter taps. This variance is compared to a threshold, and... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254263 | Apparatus and method for defect detection and program thereof A reference mask generating part, inspecting mask generating part, defect detecting part are disposed in a control part of a defect detection apparatus. Based on a captured image of an inspection object substrate (an inspecting image data), the inspecting mask gener... | 08/07/2007 |
