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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8031957 | Rewritable lossy compression of graphical data A computer-implemented method can provide compression of a digital representation of an object. The digital representation can include a graphical data structure with graphical data defining the object in terms of a definition of respective faces of the object. Each... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7876967 | Icosahedral modified generalized balanced ternary and aperture 3 hexagon tree A method for assigning path address-form location codes to objects represented using aperture 3 hexagon discrete global grid systems in both vector systems and bucket and raster systems in which hexagons in a first resolution are given a linear code and hexagons in ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7715641 | Graphics engine for high precision lithography The present invention includes a method to use a phase modulating micromirror array to create an intensity image that has high image fidelity, good stability through focus and good x-y symmetry. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7440588 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428316 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428317 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426286 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7418156 | Domain of definition in warper/morpher An efficient way to perform rendering operations in an image processing environment includes a warping engine having a warping module and a domain of definition (DOD) module. When an object is warped, a new DOD for the image is determined by the warping engine by co... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7400747 | Method and apparatus for representing moving objects in a sequence of images A method of representing motion of an object appearing in a sequence of images comprises deriving for each image a set of representative points representing the location of the object, deriving an approximate function representing the trajectory of a representative ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7379561 | Method and system for differentially and regularly modifying a digital image by pixel Th invention relates to a method and system for modifying a digital image (100) consisting of pixels. Said digital image is divided into areas (103). At least one area value is assigned to each area Zi (103). At least one parameter value Vpij ( | 05/27/2008 |
| 7346219 | Methods and devices for encoding and decoding images using nested meshes, programme, signal and corresponding uses The invention concerns a method for encoding at least a source image using a hierarchical mesh defining at least two nested spaces corresponding each to a decomposition level of said meshing, which consists, at least at a decomposition level n (except the first deco... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7327888 | Geometric hashing method for model-based recognition of an object A method of pattern matching for recognition of objects within an image, uses a model defined by a set of one or more model primitives representative of large scale structures of an archetype. The image is analyzed to derive at least one target primitive representat... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321680 | Graphic contour extracting method, pattern inspecting method, program and pattern inspecting system A graphic contour extracting method includes: acquiring an image of a graphic form to be inspected; defining an inspection region for the image of the graphic form to be inspected by an inspection graphic form including at least one of a circle, an ellipse, a rectan... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320035 | Object mutation determination for incremental state saves A client-server system may include a distributed store configured to maintain a primary state of session data. The system may also include one or more application servers that each may include a client state of the session data. The session data may include one or m... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7305011 | Periodic broadcast and location of evolving media content with application to seminar and stroke media Techniques are provided for broadcasting history or coarse representations or both of stroke media and other media. Levels are created for media, and the levels are periodically broadcast. The levels segment the media and allow the media to be examined with details ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302106 | System and method for ink or handwriting compression A system and method for compressing digital pen stroke data utilizing curve simplification. Digital pen stroke images (ink images) generate a relatively large amount of data to preserve the ink image generated on a device. Current ink compression algorithms utilize ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7277591 | Edge smoothing on raster images A method of edge-smoothing in raster images includes: selecting an object in a raster image, the object including an edge having a plurality of edge pixels; finding all of the edge pixels of the object and generating a polygon having a plurality of vertices, each of... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263211 | Information processing apparatus and method, computer-readable memory, and program An information processing apparatus detects the sampling rate of a coordinate input device, and standardizes the writing data which is input from the coordinate input device based on the detected sampling rate. The standardized writing data is further used for signa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259753 | Classifying, anchoring, and transforming ink Methods for classifying, anchoring, and transforming ink are disclosed. Ink drawings and ink annotations are captured and stored with additional information that allows the various described methods to associate the ink with one or more displayed elements. During re... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248257 | Low bandwidth transmission of 3D graphical data A graphical data-compressor for compressing received arbitrary graphical data for subsequent transmission; where the graphical data-compressor comprises an input for receiving the received arbitrary graphical data, the input being linked to an analyzer for analysis ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242813 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7221804 | Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing images A method and apparatus for encoding (622) digital image data wherein a region of interest (606) can be specified either before the encoding process has begun or during the encoding process, such that the priority (616) of the encoder outputs are... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219034 | System and methods for display of time-series data distribution A system and methods for displaying data distribution information for time-series data is described. The methods include computing a condensed quantile function that may be used to generate approximate histograms for the time-series data, while decreasing the data s... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7181617 | Remote virtual medical diagnostic imaging viewer A image and data application service provider system provides a way of remotely viewing and manipulating images and data for diagnostic and visualization purposes by users unconstrained by geography. Images and data are stored on one or more servers running applicat... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174050 | Space-optimized texture maps A method, system, and computer program product for adjusting a unit image area within an input image according to information importance within the unit area. An image receiver configured to receive the input image. An image warper is coupled to an importance map as... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162087 | Method and apparatus for recording of electronic handwriting According to a method for recording of electronic handwriting, a handwriting movement is digitized into a sequence of points along a writing curve that corresponds to the handwriting movement. The sequence of points is resampled by eliminating those points that are ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158675 | Interfacing with ink The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one ma... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146046 | Method and apparatus for scale independent cusp detection An apparatus and a processor-implemented method are provided for determining a cusp within a stroke of electronic ink. Curvature at each of a plurality of points on the stroke is estimated. Based on the estimated curvature at each of the plurality of points, a neigh... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133043 | Computer graphics methods and apparatus for ray intersection Ray-intersection methods and apparatus that greatly facilitate processing associated with computer graphics are described. In the described embodiment, a collection of shapes are defined that approximate an object. The described shapes are polygons, with exemplary p... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130347 | Method for compressing and decompressing video data in accordance with a priority array A method for compressing and decompressing video data consisting of an array of individual image points (pixels). Each pixel has a pixel value that changes with time and that describes the colour or luminosity information of the pixel. A priority is allocated to eac... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127104 | Vectorized image segmentation via trixel agglomeration A computer implemented method transforms an image comprised of pixels into a vectorized image specified by a plurality of polygons that can be subsequently used to aid in image processing and understanding. The pixelated image is processed to extract edge pixels tha... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104453 | Unitary package identification and dimensioning system employing ladar-based scanning methods A fully automated package identification and measuring system (300), in which an onmidirectional holographic scanning tunnel (100) is used to read bar codes on packages entering the tunnel, while a package dimensioning subsystem (500, 600) is us... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098916 | Connectivity encoding and decoding of polygon meshes Methods of connectivity encoding polygonal mesh representations of objects are described, along with methods of decoding encoded connectivity information for polygonal mesh representations of objects. In the encoding process, an active vertex queue is initialized wi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093197 | Method, apparatus, and program for processing signature, and storage medium therefor A signature processing method determines, when displaying an input signature on a display unit, whether a predetermined condition is satisfied. When it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied, the signature on the display unit is displayed in a m... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7061980 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing method, and video processing apparatus An object-region-data describing method for describing object region data relating to a time-series variation of an object region in video data including a plurality of frames, the method comprising obtaining a conversion parameter representing conversion from a ref... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7046401 | Camera-based document scanning system using multiple-pass mosaicking A camera-based document scanning system produces electronic versions of documents, based on a plurality of images of discrete portions of the documents. The system compares each pair of consecutive images and derives motion parameters that indicate the relative moti... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043055 | Method and apparatus for locating objects using universal alignment targets A method and apparatus for locating objects by means of machine vision alignment using cooperative targets. Novel cooperative targets are used that have substantial performance advantages. Alignment methods having non-translation alignment capabilities are used, suc... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043063 | Non-rigid motion image analysis A method of analysing a sequence of images of a deformable object in non-rigid motion involves modeling the boundary using a non-rigid contour. A representation of movement of the contour through the sequence of images is calculated using a tracking space shape. The... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027651 | Geometric hashing method for model-based recognition of an object A method of pattern matching for recognition of objects within an image, uses a model defined by a set of one or more model primitives representative of large scale structures of an archetype. The image is analyzed to derive at least one target primitive representat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7016544 | Digital image encoding and decoding method and digital image encoding and decoding device using the same A method for decoding a bitstream data obtained by encoding a target image comprises the steps of: (a) extracting from the bitstream data, coordinates point date indicating frame coordinates points of the reference image, coordinat... | 03/21/2006 |
