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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160371 | System for finding archived objects in video data A system includes a motion detection processor, a motion tracking processor, a people detection processor, a controller, a fusion processor, an appearance model generator processor, a database, a fast search processor, and a matching processor. The motion detection ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8131086 | Kernelized spatial-contextual image classification Kernelized spatial-contextual image classification is disclosed. One embodiment comprises generating a first spatial-contextual model to represent a first image, the first spatial-contextual model having a plurality of interconnected nodes arranged in a first patter... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7876965 | Apparatus and method for detecting a particular subject An apparatus and a method for detecting from an image a particular subject corresponding to multiple views of the subject by dividing a particular subject space into a plurality of subject subspaces and further dividing a subject subspace into subject subspaces repr... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7792368 | Monotonic classifier A method and system for generating a monotonic classifier are disclosed. A plurality of feature vectors may be mapped to a plurality of ordered classes. Each feature vector may map to a corresponding class. For each class other than the lowest-ordered class, a binar... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7689044 | Method and apparatus for representing a group of images A method of representing a group of images comprises determining the values of one or more dominant colors for the group of images and deriving a dominant color representation expressing the group of images in terms of one or more of said dominant color values. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7668379 | Image processing defined by a hierarchy of data processing nodes Apparatus for processing image data is provided, comprising first storage means, processing means and manual input means, wherein said first storage means is configured to store said image data and said image data includes a plurality of components defined by a hier... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646922 | Object classification in video images A combination of inter-frame and intra-frame and sequential classification methods provide for robust and flexible object classification. Intra-frame classification determines the object type based on features extracted from a single image. Inter-frame classificatio... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7639881 | Application of grammatical parsing to visual recognition tasks Image recognition is utilized to facilitate in scoring parse trees for two-dimensional recognition tasks. Trees and subtrees are rendered as images and then utilized to determine parsing scores. Other instances of the subject invention can incorporate additional fea... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7596276 | Hierarchical image model adaptation A method of processing digitized picture data includes providing an hierarchical structure graph which is applied to the picture data in that, starting with the lowermost level, at least one node is processed. The provided hierarchical structure graph includes nodes... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7471833 | Method and apparatus for processing image data A method of representing a data distribution derived from an object or image by processing signals corresponding to the object or image comprising deriving an approximate representation of the data distribution and analysing the errors of the data elements when expr... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7428315 | Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals includes receiving a frame of video and/or audio content and identifying a candidate area for a new face region in the frame. One or more hierarchical verification levels are used to verify whether a human fac... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426455 | Optimal boolean set operation generation among polygon-represented regions Performing Boolean operations among two regions; regions and results represented as vector tuples. Establish indexing cells about regions and classify by type of interaction between regions, e.g., (boundary, boundary). For each (boundary, boundary) cell, define pseu... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7379597 | Method and mechanism to reduce handwriting recognizer errors using multiple decision trees An improved method and mechanism for recognizing chirographs (handwritten characters) input into a computer system. A primary recognizer is provided for converting chirographs to code points, and secondary recognizers such as binary CART trees are developed and trai... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369129 | Automated user interface testing Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for testing user interfaces of software application. The techniques include interacting with a user to identify one or more straight lines in a first rendering of a user interface fo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366352 | Method and 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... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366342 | Simultaneous computation of multiple points on one or multiple cut lines Methods, and program storage devices, for performing model-based optical proximity correction by providing a region of interest (ROI) having an interaction distance and locating at least one polygon within the ROI. A cut line of sample points representative of a set... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362909 | Coding device and method and decoding device and method The present invention makes it possible to effectively encode/decode position information of leaves or nodes in tree-structured information by using a less amount of bits. The coding device according to the present invention includes a branching layer discriminating... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362903 | Wavelet-based mesh coding method A method is provided for coding a source mesh (M) representing a three-dimensional object or a scene, using a simple mesh (M0) having a limited number of facets, each defined by vertices and edges, and coefficients in a base of wavelets, corresponding to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362351 | Method, system and device for detecting an object proximate to a water/air type interface A method and system for detecting an object in a zone located proximate to an interface between two liquid and/or gaseous media having different refractive indices, for example of the air/water type. The method and system produce at least a video image of the interf... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349917 | Hierarchical categorization method and system with automatic local selection of classifiers The present invention relates generally to the classification of items into categories, and more generally, to the automatic selection of different classifiers at different places within a hierarchy of categories. An exemplary hierarchical categorization method uses... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343598 | Cache-conscious coallocation of hot data streams Techniques and tools for coallocating objects and/or object fields for the sake of cache performance are described. For example, a tool improves cache performance by coallocating contemporaneously accessed heap objects. The tool analyzes object accesses to identify ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336819 | Detection of sky in digital color images A method of detecting sky in a digital color image having pixels is disclosed. The method includes identifying pixels from the digital color image representing an initial sky region; developing a model based on the identified sky pixels, wherein such model is a math... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336847 | Texture error recovery method using edge preserving spatial interpolation A method of recovering texture information for an error block in a video stream includes applying an edge detection spatial filter on blocks surrounding an error block to detect texture edges, each block containing a plurality of pixels, and identifying first pixels... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324945 | Method of dynamically altering grammars in a memory efficient speech recognition system A method of speech recognition that uses hierarchical data structures that include a top level grammar and various related subgrammars, such as word, phone, and state subgrammars. A speech signal is acquired, and a probabilistic search is performed using the speech ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321686 | Image processing apparatus and method for improving the contract of an image Processing for improving the contrast of an image of interest is executed by an image processing circuit in an X-ray photography apparatus. The image is decomposed into coefficient values of a plurality of frequency bands by a frequency-component decomposition circu... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319779 | Classification of humans into multiple age categories from digital images The present invention includes a method and system for automatically extracting the multi-class age category information of a person from digital images. The system detects the face of the person(s) in an image, extracts features from the face(s), and then classifie... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315303 | Hybrid meshes A method of forming a hybrid mesh representation of an object surface is provided, along with the hybrid mesh representation and data structures corresponding to various polygons in the hybrid mesh representation. The hybrid mesh representation comprises a base mesh... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308133 | System and method of face recognition using proportions of learned model A system and method for classifying facial image data, the method comprising the steps of: training a classifier device for recognizing one or more facial images and obtaining corresponding learned models the facial images used for training; inputting a vector inclu... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292255 | Image data acquisition optimisation A method of creating an image is disclosed. The image is formed by rendering at least a plurality of graphical objects to be composited according to a first hierarchical structure (eg. 4500) representing a compositing expression for the image. The first hiera... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293231 | Data entry for personal computing devices In one aspect of the invention, the user can rapidly enter and search for text through a combination of entering one or more characters (a partial text entry) on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to display a list of selec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286724 | Method and apparatus for searching, browsing and summarizing moving image data using fidelity for tree-structure moving image hierarchy A method and apparatus for searching, browsing and summarizing moving image data using the fidelity of a tree-structured moving image hierarchy, which can partition or divide the moving image data into predetermined units, extract a key frame or representative frame... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283959 | Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammar A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that both represent transitions from a first state. The second transition ent... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278117 | Image segmentation and warping for specialized display viewing A method, program product and system for warping image data, the method comprising in one embodiment: receiving image data for an image; segmentation of the image into a plurality of regions based on regional classification of the image; obtaining a set of warping r... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7254269 | Character recognition system In the prior art, in character recognition of a language having many characters, such as Japanese, a feature vector is extracted from an input pattern, distances between the feature vector and reference vectors are calculated, and a character corresponding to a refe... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251639 | System and method for feature selection in decision trees Selection of certain attributes as output and input attributes is provided so a decision tree may be created more efficiently. For each possible output attribute an interestingness score is calculated. This interestingness score is based on entropy of the output att... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248737 | Page decomposition using local orthogonal transforms and a map optimization Document processing and understanding can be important for a variety of applications such as office automation, creation of electronic manuals, online documentation and annotation, etc. The first step towards this process can involve the decomposition of a page into... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246125 | Clustering of databases having mixed data attributes A computer data processing system. A method for clustering data in a database comprising providing a database having a number of data records having both discrete and continuous attributes. Grouping together data records from the database which have specified discre... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242988 | Adaptive pattern recognition based controller apparatus and method and human-factored interface therefore The need for a more-readily usable interface for programmable devices is widely recognized. The present invention relates to programmable sequencing devices, or, more particularly, the remote controls for consumer electronic devices. The present invention provides a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233413 | Gamut description and visualization This invention pertains to a computer-implemented method and program for the comparison of color gamuts. Using first and second collections of sample color points respective hulls are created in a color space. The set of all of the points disposed on the surf... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224357 | Three-dimensional modeling based on photographic images A system of determining three-dimensional information from the information that is contained into discrete two-dimensional images. The two images may be obtained from two uncalibrated cameras. The information from the two uncalibrated cameras is first rectified, and... | 05/29/2007 |
