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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098945 | Method and system for binarizing an image In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for binarizing an image. The method comprises establishing boundaries of image objects of the image and classifying each image object as either suspect or non-suspect. The method further comprises creating a local b... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094954 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program that performs a level conversion on multilevel input image data A binary conversion error value as to neighboring pixels stored in an error value storage portion is added to a pixel density of a subject pixel, which is read from an input image storage portion, at a ratio based on an error distribution matrix, so that a modified ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8031953 | Method and device for encoding image data with a predetermined compression rate in one pass An encoding method to encode image data comprising a sequence of blocks with a predetermined compression rate in one pass is disclosed. The blocks are divided into two sets, a first set and a second set. The blocks in the first set are encoded within the sum of an a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8000544 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and recording medium When generating output image data represented by a reduced number of gray levels from gray level image data, an image processing apparatus subtracts a pixel value of a selected pixel from a pixel value of adjacent pixel, amplifies the reduced value obtained by the s... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7961962 | Method, apparatus and computer program for halftoning digital images A method for generating a halftone image includes the steps of, for each input pixel, adding a previously determined error term to the input pixel value to obtain a modified input pixel value; determining an error diffusion threshold level based on the input pixel v... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7916957 | Line noise eliminating apparatus, line noise eliminating method, and line noise eliminating program To provide a line noise eliminating apparatus and the like, with which the picture quality of the area that has no line noise is not deteriorated, and a line noise having no periodicity can be eliminated. The line noise eliminating apparatus includes: an image binar... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7809201 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program that performs a level conversion on multilevel input image data An image processing apparatus includes a determining device, a mode setting device, a storage device, and a dither matrix selecting device that selects a dither matrix corresponding to the one of the plurality of image output modes set by the mode setting device as ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7729550 | Method for image compression coding A method for image compression coding is provided. According to the method, a plurality of codebooks is created according to the correlation between pixels, and the quantization value of each state is determined by dynamically looking up the codebooks. Therefore, th... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7620255 | Image processor and image processing program for binary processing An image processor for converting input multi-grayscale image data, into binary data for each of the pixels has a binary unit. If a grayscale value of the multi-grayscale image data of a target pixel is lower than a reference value less than ½ of a maximum grayscal... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7545991 | Image data processing method and recording apparatus allowing original image of broad dynamic range to be reproduced An image data processing method transforms a picture signal having a broad dynamic range to another picture signal having a narrow dynamic range. The picture signal having the narrow dynamic range is subjected to inverse transform to thereby output a recovered signa... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7496237 | Image processing for binarization enhancement via fuzzy reasoning A technique for enhancing a gray-scale image to improve conversions of the image to binary employs fuzzy reasoning. In the technique, pixels in the image are analyzed by comparing the pixel's gray scale value, which is indicative of its relative brightness, to the v... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7444027 | Methods, devices, and systems for creating and compressing multi-level halftones Methods, devices and systems for compressing images are provided. One method includes creating halftone mask structures and applying compression coding techniques to arrayed pixels sorted using the halftone mask structures in order to convert an image to a compresse... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444028 | Image processing apparatus for binarizing image data An original of copying, fax, or the like is read by a CCD image sensor and resulting image data are input to a data abnormality detecting section via an A/D converter and correcting unit. A maximum value and a minimum value of the pieces of gradation information of ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440632 | Technique for performing error diffusion A technique to perform error distribution in a graphics system. More particularly, embodiments of the invention include at least one technique to distribute the error resulting from converting computer generated graphics pixels from one pixel depth to another. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7420709 | Dither matrix generation A method for generating a dither matrix for converting a gray scale image having N gray levels into a halftone image, which includes using a parametric filter to generate a dither halftone pattern for each gray level Gi>Gt, where N>2, Gt | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417771 | Error diffusion halftoning system Artifacts of error diffusion halftoning are reduced by selecting a halftone threshold for a current pixel on the basis of an accumulated halftone error for the pixel and its neighbors. ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409079 | Calcium scoring method and system A method of automatically scoring intravascular calcium. The delineation of a body surface is detected in a tomographic image produced by an X-ray CT system. Images of bones are removed from a field encircled with the delineation of the body surface. The delineation... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7397575 | Communication apparatus and method having electronic mail communication function, and program There are provided a communication apparatus and method that enables the retransmission of an electronic mail if an error occurs in the transmission of the electronic mail due to its excessive data size, by reducing the data capacity of the electronic mail without t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382878 | System and method for data encryption A system and method for encrypting and/or compressing an input data string is disclosed. The input data string is divided into a plurality of blocks of data that each contains a plurality of bits of data. A block code is used to identify the size of each of the bloc... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372594 | Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium A pattern which does not appear at a flat portion in normal binarization processing is set as a code pattern, and a code formed from this pattern is attached. At this time, code attachment with little degradation in image quality is implemented by selecting an unnot... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362472 | Color error diffusion A method for multi-toning an input digital image having input pixels with two or more color channels to form an output digital image having modified output levels. The method includes producing an error signal for each color channel, combining the error signals to p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362368 | Perfecting the optics within a digital image acquisition device using face detection Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determine... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359557 | Method of and apparatus for encoding, method of and apparatus for decoding, and image forming apparatus With an encoding section 301 in an encoding apparatus, an image reading section 310 sequentially inputs binary signals by a predetermined bit length; a run counter in a run length processing section 320 outputs a run length determined within the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352373 | Systems and methods for multi-dimensional dither structure creation and application Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for creation, modification and implementation of dither pattern structures. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339619 | Image pickup system and image processing program for performing correction on chroma signal A color signal of a primary color or a color signal of a complementary color is converted from a CCD to signals in a color space having an intensity, a hue and a chroma. Tone conversion is performed on a luminance signal. A chroma correction coefficient is calculate... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340103 | Adaptive entropy encoding/decoding for screen capture content Adaptive entropy encoding and decoding techniques are described. For example, a screen capture encoder and decoder perform adaptive entropy encoding and decoding of palettized screen capture content in screen capture video. The encoder selects between different entr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340482 | Preview function in a digital data preservation system A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336386 | Image processor including a data compression unit having a switch and image processing method thereof The image processor comprises a switch that divides image data into m×n pixels, having n lines with m pixels per one line; a group of line memories that store the divided image; a compression device which batch compresses the image data of m×n pixels. Further, a c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333244 | Method and system for embedding an image into two other images A method of embedding an image into two images by performing a digital halftoning process on a Cartesian product of color spaces to embed the image into the two images. A digital halftoning process includes an iterative isotropic halftoning process. The iterative is... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333656 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing method comprises forming a histogram of an entire image, determining a ratio between a reference luminance value and a reference threshold value at a maximum frequency, dividing the image into local areas, forming a histogram of each local area, ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330191 | System for secure text display Techniques for securely displaying text on a display panel involve destroying spatial and temporal correlations in an otherwise uniform visual field. The techniques render the displayed text secure with respect to attempts to copy the text using a video capture devi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330291 | Dither mask creating method and creating device In a computer generation of a dither mask for conversion of a continuous-tone image into a halftone image, a pixel array having a size in accordance with the dither mask is partitioned into blocks. Initial pixel values are determined such that the occurrences of pix... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327289 | Data-modifying run length encoder to avoid data expansion A method of selectively run length encoding data may include removing a trigger value from one or more data elements if the trigger value is present in the one or more data elements and calculating a run length of the one or more data elements. The method may also i... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328228 | Mapping pseudo-random numbers to predefined number ranges Pseudo-random numbers (PRNs) generated by a PRN generator are mapped to predefined number ranges or target ranges. The target range may be smaller or larger than the range of the PRN generator. Mapping to a smaller target range may include generating PRNs (e.g., int... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324247 | Image processing apparatus, image processing program and storage medium storing the program An image processing apparatus includes a reduced image generating part generating a reduced image having a lower resolution than that of an original digital image. A first extracting part distinctly extracts a first foreground image and a first background image from... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317815 | Digital image processing composition using face detection information A method of automatic or assisted recomposing of digital image processing uses face detection. Pixels that correspond to a face within a digital image are identified. A re-compositioned image is based on spatial or other parameters of the detected image, particularl... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315630 | Perfecting of digital image rendering parameters within rendering devices using face detection Within a digital rendering device, such as printers, hard copy and soft copy display, and copiers, rendering parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image rendering process using face detection within said rendered image to achieve one or more desi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308031 | Video encoding apparatus and video decoding apparatus An alpha-map encoding apparatus includes a first down-sampling circuit (21) for down-sampling an alpha-map signal which represents the shape of an object and the position in the frame of the object at a down-sampling ratio based on size conversion ratio infor... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301673 | Error diffusion processing method An error diffusion processing method includes determining a binary value of an input pixel according to a grayscale level of the input pixel, searching a nearest pixel that has the same binary value as the input pixel, and comparing a measured actual distance with a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301669 | Color printing apparatus A color printing apparatus includes a printer driver for receiving a print instruction of print data issued from an application program, and for rasterizing the print data to produce con-tone/multi-bits bitmap data and bi-tone/single-bit bitmap data; a page memory f... | 11/27/2007 |
