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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116575 | System for anomaly detection using sub-space analysis Described is a system for anomaly detection to detect an anomalous object in an image, such as a concealed object beneath a person's clothing. The system is configured to generate a subspace model for a normal class using training images. The normal class represents... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111927 | Shape clustering in post optical character recognition processing Systems, methods and computer program products for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process. Clip images defined in a received OCR output are classified into a plurality ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107740 | Apparatus and method for efficient indexing and querying of images in security systems and other systems A method includes receiving one or more query images and identifying multiple features associated with an object or an activity using the one or more query images. The method also includes accessing a sparse representation index using the identified features. The sp... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094948 | Photo classification using optical parameters of camera from EXIF metadata A method of classifying and organizing digital images utilizing optical metadata (captured using multiple sensors on the camera) may define semantically coherent image classes or annotations. The method defines optical parameters based on the physics of vision and o... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086049 | Iterative fisher linear discriminant analysis An exemplary method includes receiving an image data set that comprises a multidimensional property space and data classifiable into data classes, determining a projection vector for data of the data set wherein the projection vector maximizes a ratio of between-cla... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086048 | System to compile landmark image search results This patent discloses a system to compile a landmark image search result. The system may determine a rank of each image within a visual cluster according to at least one of a low-level self-similarity score, a low-level discriminative modeling score, and a point wis... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086047 | Method and system for image evaluation data analysis A method is provided for operating a computer to analyze image evaluation data from electronic survey respondents to evaluate preferences related to two dimensional and three dimensional images. Data files, which include designated area data, image attributes, and s... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073265 | Image managing apparatus and image display apparatus An image managing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes image information storage means that stores image information corresponding to captured image data, and cluster managing means that manages the image information by hierarchical clusters that include a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8041125 | Data visualization device and method A data visualization device comprises a focal attribute calculator for calculating a focal value of each of a plurality of data input items, and for categorizing each of the plurality of data input items as either non-cluster blobs or second blobs. The device furthe... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036468 | Invariant visual scene and object recognition A method for performing image recognition is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a collection of pixels and grouping at least some of the pixels into a set of cluster features based on gradient magnitude. For each cluster feature in the set, statistical variabl... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8009919 | Image managing apparatus and image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes: an image information storage that stores image information including locations where images are captured as information corresponding to captured image data; a cluster managing section that manages the image information with hier... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7983492 | System and method for generating cluster spine groupings for display A system and method for generating cluster spine groupings for display is provided. A set of spines is obtained. Each spine in the set includes a grouping of clusters that share a common concept and are arranged linearly along a vector. Those spines that are unique ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974476 | Flexible MQDF classifier model compression A memory footprint of an Modified Quadratic Discriminant Function (MQDF) pattern recognition classifier is reduced without resulting in unacceptable classification accuracy degradation. Covariance matrices for multiple classes are clustered into a smaller number of ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961957 | Diffusion bases methods for segmentation and clustering Methods for dimensionality reduction of large data volumes, in particular hyper-spectral data cubes, include providing a dataset Γ of data points given as vectors, building a weighted graph G on Γ with a weight function wε, wherein wε corre... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7936929 | Image processing method and apparatus for removing noise from a document image Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which vector data from which noise has been removed and amount of data reduced can be generated in ideal fashion with regard to an illustration area selected from a document image. The document image is input to the appa... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7920745 | Method and apparatus for performing constrained spectral clustering of digital image data A method and an apparatus process digital images. The method according to one embodiment accesses element data representing a plurality of elements belonging to a plurality of digital images; performs a similarity analysis between the elements from the plurality of ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917504 | Indexing system and method for nearest neighbor searches in high dimensional data spaces Vectors representing objects in n-dimensional space are approximated by local polar coordinates on partitioned cells of the data space in response to a query, e.g., a query data vector entered with a request to find “k” nearest neighbors to the query vector. A s... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903883 | Local bi-gram model for object recognition A local bi-gram model object recognition system and method for constructing a local bi-gram model and using the model to recognize objects in a query image. In a learning phase, the local bi-gram model is constructed that represents objects found in a set of trainin... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7885468 | System and method for grouping cluster spines into a two-dimensional visual display space A system and method for grouping cluster spines into a two-dimensional visual display space is provided. Clusters of concepts, each extracted from documents, are obtained. Spines are formed by placing the clusters sharing at least one of the concepts along a spine. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885467 | Systems and methods for automatically determining object information and systems and methods for control based on automatically determined object information An image of high-aspect-ratio objects is analyzed to locate linear features within the image. The gradient direction for each pixel is determined, and connected pixels having similar gradient directions are grouped into line support regions. A linear feature is dete... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881540 | Method and apparatus for detection using cluster-modified graph cuts A method and an apparatus process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including an object; clusters pixels of the image to obtain clusters; generates a graph with pixels of the image and cluster membership... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7831599 | Addition of new images to an image database by clustering according to date/time and image content and representative image comparison A database has chronologically ordered images classified into event groups based upon a time difference threshold, and into subgroups based upon a similarity measure. In a method and system for combining new images into such a database, new images are ordered into c... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7813561 | Automatic classification of objects within images A system for automatically classifying an object of a target image is provided. A classification system provides a collection of classified images along with a classification of the dominant object of the image. The classification system attempts to classify the obj... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7778470 | Moving picture processor, method, and computer program product to generate metashots A moving picture processor includes a similarity calculator which calculates a similarity between shots, which refer to temporal parts of a moving picture, into which the moving picture is divided at a point where a content of the moving picture changes over, a simi... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7778469 | Methods and systems for discriminative keyframe selection Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for discriminatively selecting keyframes that are representative of segments of a source digital media and at the same time distinguishable from other keyframes representing other segments of the digit... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769236 | Marker and method for detecting said marker This invention discloses marker detectable by visual means comprising; a polygonal border having of at least four non collinear salient points. The marker has on it a pattern in binary digital code. The binary code data contains information data, checksum and error ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764840 | System, method and apparatus for clustering features using an expansion shape A computer-implemented method, system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying a boundary of a cluster in a bitmap, the bitmap having at least one initially set bit, for applying an expansion shape to each of the initially set bits in the bitmap and ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7747083 | System and method for good nearest neighbor clustering of text An improved system and method for clustering text or content described by text is provided. Each text in a set of texts may be represented as a dimensional vector of words. Singleton texts that may not be similar to another text may be excluded from the set of texts... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724962 | Context adaptive approach in vehicle detection under various visibility conditions Adaptive vision-based vehicle detection methods, taking into account the lighting context of the images are disclosed. The methods categorize the scenes according to their lighting conditions and switch between specialized classifiers for different scene contexts. F... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724963 | Apparatus for performing fast closest match in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for determining a closest match of N input patterns relative to R reference patterns using K processing units. Each of a set of input patterns are loaded into the K processing units. One of the Reference patterns is sequentially loaded into ea... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720292 | System and method for grouping thematically-related clusters into a two-dimensional visual display space Concepts are extracted from content of documents. Clusters each include one or more of the concepts. A theme is identified in each of the clusters and includes at least one such concept within the cluster. Spines of the clusters that share at least one theme in comm... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720291 | Iterative fisher linear discriminant analysis An exemplary method includes receiving an image data set that comprises a multidimensional property space and data classifiable into data classes, determining a projection vector for data of the data set wherein the projection vector maximizes a ratio of between-cla... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715635 | Identifying similarly formed paragraphs in scanned images A system and method for identifying and/or categorizing similarly formed paragraphs in a digital image is set forth. An exemplary system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores executable components which when direct the system to perform the following:... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7697765 | Learning method and device for pattern recognition In learning for pattern recognition, an aggregation of different types of object image data is inputted, and local features having given geometric structures are detected from each object image data inputted. The detected local features are put through clustering, p... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697764 | Similar pattern searching apparatus, method of similar pattern searching, program for similar pattern searching, and fractionation apparatus Respective components of a leukocyte particle size pattern that includes a plurality of cellular component fractions are separated by performing a mixture density approximation using an EM algorithm, and characteristic parameters of each fraction are clustered. A si... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697766 | System and method to determine awareness A system for measuring the awareness of a subject including an imaging device adapted to acquire data representative of an image of the subject, and an awareness processor connected to the imaging device, wherein the awareness processor is adapted to classify the aw... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7664329 | Block-based Gaussian mixture model video motion detection A method for the detection of motion in video data is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method uses a background technique for the motion detection. In another embodiment, a Gaussian Mixture Model is applied to a neighborhood or block of pixels within an image frame, t... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7650034 | Method of locating a human eye in a video image A human eye is detected in a video image by identifying potential eye candidates using horizontal and vertical projection filtering on a specified portion of the image, coupled with rudimentary appearance-based testing. The identified eye candidates are clustered an... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650035 | Optical character recognition based on shape clustering and multiple optical character recognition processes Techniques for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process. ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646921 | High resolution replication of document based on shape clustering Techniques for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process. ... | 01/12/2010 |
