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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7317558 | System and method for image processing of multiple images A plurality of images are read in, two line segments which need be inherently parallel with each other in each of the images are designated, and a planar projective transform matrix is obtained from coordinates of end points of the line segments for parallelizing th... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7164779 | Privacy-enhanced display device A method displays an image only to an authorized user by generating a mask image from a data image. The data and mask image are then displayed periodically in an alternating manner on a display device by a select signal. The opening end shutting of an optical shutte... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154540 | System for enhancing video Pan, tilt and zoom sensors are coupled to a broadcast camera in order to determine the field of view of the broadcast camera and to make a rough estimate of a target's location in the broadcast camera's field of view. Pattern recognition techniques can be used to de... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7062092 | System, method, and computer software product for gain adjustment in biological microarray scanner Systems, methods, and computer program products are described for adjusting the gain of a scanner. The scanner includes one or more excitation sources, an emission detector having a first gain, and a variable gain element having a second gain. One described method i... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054492 | Fast regular shaped pattern searching An accumulation method for fast pattern search can accurately locate regular shaped patterns of interest. The method can be used for invariant search to match patterns of interest in images where the searched pattern varies in size or orientation or aspect ratio, wh... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054488 | Method for determining transparency in images extraction A method for determining transparency in image extraction creates a first mask bitmap by combining a first image and a second image, wherein the first image and the second image have the same size and are the same except for transparent areas. A second mask bitmap i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7031501 | Image collation method and apparatus and recording medium storing image collation program An image collation apparatus includes a collation unit, minimum coincidence ratio extraction unit, and determination unit. The collation unit obtains a coincidence ratio between first and second images within a printing element range for each collation unit by colla... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027663 | Masking tool A method and system of masking comprising: positioning a masking tool over a masked portion of an image; applying an effect onto the image outside the masked portion; and dynamically moving the masking tool while applying the effect wherein the masked portion change... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6950563 | Method and system for relocating hidden objects in images The invention relates to a method for relocating objects in images. An object reference is correlated with image values. When the object is partially covered in the image, the image values which are located within the covered area in the image are replaced by grey s... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6873720 | System and method of providing mask defect printability analysis A simulated wafer image of a physical mask and a defect-free reference image are used to generate a severity score for each defect, thereby giving a customer meaningful information to accurately assess the consequences of using a mask or repairing that mask. The def... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6836558 | Method, system and computer readable medium for identifying chest radiographs using image mapping and template matching techniques A method, system and computer readable medium for a computer-automated method for identifying given image data, including obtaining template image data corresponding to said given image data; calculating correlation values between the given image data and said templ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6654487 | Character recognition, including method and system for processing checks with invalidated MICR lines An automated analysis method and tool for a digitally imaged financial item can digitally recognize a plurality of characters across an area of a digital image containing character indicia at predetermined positions in the area and also possibly containin... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6259535 | Print image-forming method and device There are provided a print image-forming method and device. Print image data of a dot matrix is formed in which print portions are represented by positive dots and blank portions are represented by negative dots. Basic image data formed in a manner such t... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6084989 | System and method for automatically determining the position of landmarks in digitized images derived from a satellite-based imaging system A system and method for determining offset errors between line and pixel coordinates of landmarks in a digitized image generated by an imaging system disposed on a spacecraft and line and pixel coordinates predicted by a mathematical model of the imaging ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6026187 | System for automatically filling an original form A printing system for automatically print-filling in an original form includes a scanner, a printer unit, an operator input unit, a display unit, a main processor and unit controllers. The original form is scanned to create a bitmap thereof that is stored... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5974174 | Picture-information processing apparatus In a picture-information processing apparatus, information of an edge in a picture is generated from information of luminances in the picture. Data of a mask corresponding to the edge is generated from the information of the edge. Information of feature p... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5867610 | Method for identifying objects using data processing techniques A method for identifying the size, shape, and location of objects in a specimen where the image of the specimen is represented by image data and where the image data is processed to provide mask data representing a mask where the mask identifies the size,... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5835634 | Bitmap comparison apparatus and method using an outline mask and differently weighted bits A bitmap comparison technique that is able quickly to compare two bitmap images while discounting differences between the images likely due to noise. The bitmap comparison technique includes the operations of: comparing the first and second bitmaps, produ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5361311 | Automated recongition of characters using optical filtering with positive and negative functions encoding pattern and relevance information A method and apparatus is described for recognition of hand printed characters using pairs of positive and negative correlative functions (PNCFs), the PNCFs including both pattern and relevance information, implemented by optical elements. A set of optica... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5245672 | Object/anti-object neural network segmentation The system of the present invention applies self-organizing and/or supervd learning network methods to the problem of segmentation. The segmenter receives a visual field, implemented as a sliding window and distinguishes occurrences of complete character... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5063602 | Image correlation calculation apparatus In an image correlation calculation apparatus for optically calculating correlations between reference patterns and an image such as a character or any other figure, the image such as the character or any other figure subjected to correlation calculations... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4995090 | Optoelectronic pattern comparison system A system for comparing a subject image against a reference image for determining the closeness of match, or against a plurality of reference images for determining the one of the reference images which corresponds to the closest match. The closest match i... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4887303 | Character reading method The identity of an unknown character is determined by comparing matrices representing the unknown character with matrices representing known dictionary characters and determining the deviation between matrices for the unknown and the dictionary characters... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4510617 | Character recognition system utilizing pattern matching method A character recognition system is disclosed in which an input character is compared to a plurality of standard characters. Each standard character is stored with respect to its black meshes in a first character memory area, and with respect to its white m... | 04/09/1985 |
