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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184910 | Image recognition device, image recognition method, and image scanning apparatus having image recognition device An image recognition device has a first resolution converter 202 that lowers resolution of an input image, an area reader 203 that reads out a processing area from an output of the first resolution converter 202, a second resolution converter | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184911 | Flexible matching with combinational similarity Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for flexible matching with combinational similarity are described. In embodiments, an object image is received, a query image is received, and the query image is compared with the object image. In various embodiments mat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8155451 | Matching apparatus, image search system, and histogram approximate restoring unit, and matching method, image search method, and histogram approximate restoring method A matching apparatus and method compares a set of feature points of two objects projected to an N-dimensional space and determines the similarity between the objects and includes mapping the set to a one-dimensional space, creating a set of pairs of a feature point ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144994 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and recording medium A plurality of type identifiers are stored that contains one or a plurality of image identifiers each for identifying each of a plurality of reference images and thereby identifies a type of a document. Then, it is determined whether each of a plurality of obtained ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139868 | Image processing method for determining matching position between template and search image An inspection apparatus and method outputs an accurate matching position even if a search image contains a pattern similar to a template. An image search unit includes a relative position comparing unit which compares the relative position of a template in a templat... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132096 | Image composition evaluation In a method of evaluating compositional quality of a layout orientation of an image, image saliency data is received for an image to be presented in a viewing region. A layout orientation for presenting the image in the viewing region is received. A composition temp... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8094946 | Image processing system and image tampering assessment method and control program of the same The present invention provides an image processing system, which can reduce calculation time by alleviating a calculation load in assessing the occurrence of tampering of an image. For example, the image processing system of the present invention first identi... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090206 | Systems and methods for matching images A method for matching images is disclosed. The method includes selecting a template image and a target image from a batch of images and sampling the template image so as to obtain a template-sampled image, and sampling the target image so as to obtain a target-sampl... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081826 | Change image detecting device, change image detecting method, computer program for realizing change image detecting function, and recording medium recorded with the computer program Change image detecting devices and methods are disclosed. In one example, a change image detecting device includes a change image detecting unit that selects a reference image and an image to be processed and a determination unit that compares an Na-th (‘Na’ is ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077980 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus enables image data to be handled easily after photography. A server apparatus patterns images and controls information in correspondence with user identifiers. A digital camera photographs a subject, obtains a pattern image and a piece ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077981 | Providing virtual inserts using image tracking with camera and position sensors Camera registration and/or sensor data is updated during a live event by determining a difference between an estimated position of an object in an image and an actual position of the object in the image. The estimated position of the object in the image can be based... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073261 | Camera tampering detection A method and a module for identifying possible tampering of a camera view. The method comprising receiving an image for analysis from an image sequence, converting the received image into an edge image, generating a similarity value indicating a level of similarity ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055079 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus Based on an area detection signal, a layer separation section outputs a text component of a document, to a feature point calculating section, and generates four layers from a pictorial component of the document to output the generated layers to the feature point cal... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055078 | Filter for blocking image-based spam A network device and method are directed towards detecting and blocking image spam within a message by employing a weighted min-hash to perform a near duplicate detection (NDD) of determined features within an image as compared to known spam images. The weighting fo... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050503 | Systems and methods for computer vision using curvelets Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for computer vision including a plurality of images, a signature processor adapted to generate a signature based at least in part on a curvelet transform, and a matching processor adapted to receive a que... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041123 | Template matching processing apparatus and method, hologram reproducing apparatus and method, and computer program A template matching processing device includes: first calculation means for calculating a plurality of correlation values indicating the correlation between an inputted detection image and a predetermined template image for each pixel unit while shifting the templat... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027543 | Method and system for searching a database of graphical data A method and system for searching a database of graphical data are described. Embodiments of the invention use accelerated image-comparing techniques based on an adaptation of the Levenshtein algorithm for matching or searching one-dimensional data strings for use w... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023744 | Pattern matching system and targeted object pursuit system using light quantities in designated areas of images to be compared A pattern matching system that outputs an likeness values, comprising a designation block, a comparison block, a calculation block and an output block, is provided. The likeness value shows how much a first and second image compares to each other. The designation bl... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014610 | Method of multi-path block matching computing Disclosed is a multi-path method of block matching computing for image processing, which comprises: determining a searching pattern with a center pixel point and a plurality of surrounding pixel points to perform a block searching operation; computing a plurality of... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005301 | Method of difference sensing through optical coherent change detection A method of difference sensing. A first step involves producing a reference image using temporal averaging and spatial averaging. A second step involves producing a test image. A third step involves computationally comparing the reference image with the test image t... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7974475 | Adaptive bayes image correlation This invention relates generally to a system and method for correlating two images for the purpose of identifying a target in an image where templates are provided a priori only for the target. Information on other objects in the image being searched may be unavaila... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974473 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus This invention consists in an image processing method in which the similarity between a first pixel and a second pixel constituting an image is numerically given by statistical testing, and the values of the first and second pixels are averaged when the similarity n... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974474 | Method for matching images, image matching device, image data output apparatus, and recording medium An image matching device includes a section calculates feature points on an input document image, a section that calculates features of the input document image in accordance with a relative position between the calculated feature points, and sections for comparing ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961953 | Image monitoring system In an image monitoring system, an image data acquisition unit takes in video signals from a camera to acquire image data. An image recognition unit carries out image recognition processing using an inputted image obtained from the image data acquisition unit. A refe... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961952 | Method and system for detecting and tracking objects in images Invention describes a method and system for detecting and tracking an object in a sequence of images. For each image the invention determines an object descriptor from a tracking region in a current image in a sequence of images, in which the tracking region corresp... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961954 | Sub-pixel accuracy and valid correlation signal detection by forward and reverse correlation Improved correlation techniques employ data from forward (template-to-reference) and reverse (reference-to-template) correlation to identify valid correlation peaks, enforce symmetry in correlation peaks, and/or combine forward and reverse correlation data. In embod... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957596 | Flexible matching with combinational similarity Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for flexible matching with combinational similarity are described. In embodiments, an object image is received, a query image is received, and the query image is compared with the object image. In various embodiments mat... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949191 | Method and system for searching for information on a network in response to an image query sent by a user from a mobile communications device Image-based searching for information on a network is provided in response to an image query sent by a user. The image query includes an image captured using a mobile communications device with a camera. The image is processed to detect any text present in the image... | 05/24/2011 |
| RE42367 | Method for illumination independent change detection in a pair of registered gray images A method for illumination-independent change detection in a pair of original registered gray images based on blob extraction. Blobs are extracted from the two original images and their negatives, using an enhanced blob extraction algorithm based on connectivity anal... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945099 | System and method for use of images with recognition analysis An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its location on a network, and at least one of (i) a second information i... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7925095 | Pattern matching method and computer program for executing pattern matching A pattern matching method which is capable of selecting a suitable measurement object pattern, even on a sample containing a periodic structure, and a computer program for making a computer execute the pattern matching. In a pattern matching method which executes ma... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912296 | Coverage mask generation for large images A computer-implemented method is described. The method includes generating a coarse resolution image from a finer resolution image, generating a coarse coverage mask that identifies valid and non-valid data in the coarse resolution image, and determining whether dat... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7894676 | Diagnosis support apparatus and control method therefor A diagnosis support apparatus includes a storage unit which stores pieces of image feature information and finding sentences as interpretation results in correspondence with each other. This apparatus acquires image feature information of a target area designated on... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889931 | Systems and methods for automated vehicle image acquisition, analysis, and reporting The present invention relates to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing automated vehicle image acquisition, analysis, and reporting. One embodiment of the invention includes a method for providing vehicle damage information to an interested party. The meth... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873221 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program for image processing method, and recording medium which records program for image processing method An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition section which acquires an original image; a resolution conversion section which converts the resolution of the original image acquired by the image acquisition section and generates a plurality of reduced ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865019 | On optimizing template matching via performance characterization The performance of template matching is characterized by deriving the distribution of warp parameter estimate as a function of the ideal template, the ideal warp parameters and a given perturbation or noise model. An expression for the Probability Mass Function of t... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7848576 | Image matching method, image matching apparatus, and program To provide an image matching method, an image matching apparatus, and a program able to perform a matching images at a high accuracy. A Hough transform unit 15 performs a Hough transform processing to a registered image AIM and an image to be matched RIM, in ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7817861 | Detection of image spam A method of detecting spam images in electronic objects such as emails includes compressing images extracted from the electronic object into a common representation using a lossy compression function and determining if the compressed forms of the extracted images ar... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813558 | Template matching method, template matching apparatus, and recording medium that records program for it There is provided a template matching method having a small amount of calculation and high detection accuracy. The amount of calculation is reduced while minimizing the degradation of the detection accuracy by calculating the similarity between a template image regi... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7783113 | Partition pattern match and integration method for alignment A partition pattern template generation method for alignment receives a learning image and performs partition template generation using the learning image to generate a plurality of partition template result output. A partition template acceptance test is performed ... | 08/24/2010 |
