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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189942 | Method for discriminating focus quality of image pickup device A focus-quality judging method includes the following steps. Firstly, a comparing object including a target area is provided. A reference image pickup device is provided to shoot the comparing object to obtain a standard image including a standard target area image.... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189941 | Image processing device, display device, image processing method, and program An image processing device includes a detector for detecting a linear-interpolation-applicable area and an expansion corrector for performing a gradation expanding process on the linear-interpolation-applicable area detected by the detector. When a detector 11 | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184920 | Microscope system A microscope system is constructed by a light guiding optical system 20 having an objective lens 21 and beam splitters 27a and 27b for splitting an optical image of a sample S, a photodetector 31 for acquiring an imag... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175407 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and program for clustering data A clustering unit calculates, for clusters in a descending order of the number of pixels belonging thereto, a distance from a feature vector of a processing object pixel and a representative feature vector of an object cluster, and compares the distance with a first... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165414 | Vector transformation for indexing, similarity search and classification A feature vector is encoded into a sparse binary vector. The feature vector is retrieved, for example from storage or a feature vector generator. The feature vector represents a media object or other data object. One or more permutations are generated, the dimension... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160378 | Apparatus, method and system for image processing An apparatus, method, and system for image processing are provided, each capable of consecutively capturing a plurality of images of an object, and selecting a mostly focused image from the plurality of images while compensating for the shift in the position of the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155467 | Image data processing method and imaging apparatus An image data processing method for sharpening a captured image; the method defines a first transformation equation to change the pixel values of a defocused image into a focused image using the coordinates of the defocused image and the focused image as arguments, ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150190 | Printing device, image data file processing device, method of selecting image data file, and computer program product With a minimal process load, to determine level of the image of an image data file, for image data files of a format that saves images in the form of coefficients of discrete frequency components. Image data that includes a plurality of coefficients representing the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150191 | Method and system for calculating blur artifacts in videos using user perception threshold A method and system for calculating a blur artifact in a video are disclosed. The video includes a series of frames captured at a predefined interval of time. The frames include one or more pixels. Calculating the blur artifact in the video includes identifying a fo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139884 | Blur image adjusting method A blur image adjusting method includes the following steps. Firstly, a blur image in YCbCr color space is obtained. The Y component of the blur image is extracted so as to obtain a Y component blur image. A blur area is extracted from the Y component blur image by a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8116583 | Light modulation panel and imaging lens A light modulation panel is inserted into an optical path of an imaging lens composed of an image-forming optical system to make the imaging lens function as a depth-of-field-extended optical system. The light modulation panel has power that makes a peak position of... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111937 | Optimized image processing for wavefront coded imaging systems An image processing method includes wavefront coding a wavefront that forms an optical image, converting the optical image to a data stream and processing the data stream with a color-specific filter kernel to reverse effects of wavefront coding and generate a final... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111938 | System and method for fast approximate focus Fast approximate focus operations providing an approximately focused image that is sufficiently focused to support certain subsequent inspection operations. The operations are particularly advantageous when used to provide images for successive inspection operations... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103116 | Estimating pixel variances in the scenes of staring sensors A technique for detecting changes in a scene perceived by a staring sensor is disclosed. The technique includes acquiring a reference image frame and a current image frame of a scene with the staring sensor. A raw difference frame is generated based upon differences... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098948 | Method, apparatus, and system for reducing blurring in an image A method of processing an image includes obtaining the image; determining a point spread function for the image; applying a filter, based on the point spread function, to at least a portion of the image to form a filtered image; and generating a processed image by b... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094961 | Generation of image data with correction for optical misfocus utilizing fractional powers of the fourier transform operator Fractional Fourier transform properties inherent in lens systems and other light and particle-beam environments may be exploited to correct optical system misfocus utilizing fractional Fourier transform approximations rendered by numerical methods. The corrective fr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081834 | Image processing method and related partial PSF estimation method thereof An image processing method includes (a) performing edge detection to an image to obtain a plurality of the edge pixels of the image; (b) performing partial PSF estimation to each of the edge pixels to generate a plurality of partial PSF estimation results; and (c) g... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073280 | Image processing apparatus and image processing program for correcting image degradation An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a feature extracting portion that extracts a feature of a frequency characteristic of an input image, a correction amount calculating portion that calculates a correction amount of the frequen... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068687 | Object recognizing apparatus and method An object is identified by detecting an object area image of an object to be recognized from a degraded image, converting the object area image to a frequency area, extracting a feature vector which indicates the amount of blur, comparing the feature vector and a cl... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068688 | Device and method for estimating defocus blur size in an image A method for estimating a defocus blur size (520) in a defocused blurred input image (14) includes the steps of removing at least a portion of any content correlation (464) from the input image (14) to generate a decorrelated image, and c... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055090 | Digital image processing using face detection information A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of on... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055089 | Apparatus and method of restoring image Provided are an apparatus for and method of restoring an image, by which when the focus of an image is blurred, an image can be restored using the characteristic of a lens. The apparatus includes: an estimation unit estimating field information and focus blur of an ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050507 | 3D depth generation by local blurriness estimation A system of generating three-dimensional (3D) depth information is disclosed. A color and object independent local blurriness estimation unit analyzes blurriness of each pixel of a two-dimensional (2D) image. Subsequently, a depth assignment unit assigns depth infor... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036481 | Image processing apparatus and image restoration method and program An image processing apparatus is provided which performs image restoration as necessary while a computing processing burden based on an image restoration algorithm is reduced. RAW data of a blurred image is input to an RGB interpolation section. The RGB interpolatio... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036482 | Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including, a distortion correction processor for generating a distortion-corrected output image from a distorted wide-field-of-view image, and a selected area setting unit for setting a selected area in the output im... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027548 | Microscope system A microscope system is constructed by a light guiding optical system 20 having an objective lens 21 and beam splitters 27a and 27b for splitting an optical image of a sample S, a photodetector 31 for acquiring an imag... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023759 | Focus monitoring method According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of monitoring a focus position on a surface of a wafer for an exposure apparatus which transfers by exposure a pattern formed on a mask onto the wafer, including tilting at least one of the ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023758 | Surface mesh matching for lens roll-off correction A two-dimensional (2D) mesh is applied over a distortion surface to approximate a lens roll-off distortion pattern. The process to apply the 2D mesh distributes a plurality of grid points among the distortion pattern and sub-samples the distortion pattern to derive ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7995853 | Optimized image processing for wavefront coded imaging systems An image processing system includes a wavefront coding element that codes a wavefront forming an optical image, a detector for converting the optical image to a data stream and an image processor for processing the data stream with a reduced set filter kernel to rev... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995852 | Imaging device and imaging method An imaging device, comprising: an image pickup device which images a subject; and a motion estimating device which estimates a motion of the subject and a motion of the imaging device based on a dynamic image or a ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7961969 | Artifact removal from phase encoded images PSF coding has become well known in recent years. Although it enables significant increases in the depth of field, defocus introduces artifacts in images that are a major detraction from the final image quality. A method is described that enables the deduction or de... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961970 | Method and apparatus for using a virtual camera to dynamically refocus a digital image One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that dynamically refocuses an image to simulate a focus plane and a depth-of-field of a virtual camera. During operation, the system receives an input image, wherein the input image includes depth information... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7945108 | Microscope apparatus control method and microscope apparatus The present invention provides a control method for a microscope apparatus, comprising: a first step for recognizing a type of a specimen retention member retaining a specimen; a second step for obtaining a first image including the whole image of a specimen retenti... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940993 | Learning device, learning method, and learning program A motion-setting section (61) sets a motion amount and a motion direction for obtaining processing coefficients. A student-image-generating section (62) generates student images obtained by adding a motion blur to a teacher image not only based on the ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936939 | Microinjection apparatus and automatic focal point adjustment method A microinjection apparatus, which injects an object into a cell with a needle, acquires a first image that is an image of the cell at a first focal position and a second image that is an image of the cell at a second focal position, and decides a state of the cell b... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933464 | Scene-based non-uniformity correction and enhancement method using super-resolution A scene-based non-uniformity correction method super-resolution for eliminating fixed pattern noise in a video having a plurality of input images is disclosed, comprising the steps of warping each of the plurality of images with respect to a reference image to obtai... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7899264 | Method of determining a measure of edge strength and focus The method of determining a focus measure from an image includes detecting one or more edges in the image by processing the image with one or more first order edge detection kernels adapted to reject edge phasing effects. A first measure of the strength of each of t... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7860332 | Method and system for determining an indication of focus of an image A method for determining an indication of how well-focused an image is. An image is divided into a plurality of blocks. At least one local measure is determined for at least one block of the plurality of blocks. At least one global figure-of-merit is determined for ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848588 | Method and apparatus for judging direction of blur and computer-readable recording medium storing a program therefor Without use of special hardware such as an angular rate sensor, a direction of blur can be judged with high accuracy. A parameter acquisition unit obtains weighting parameters for principal components representing directions of blur in a predetermined structure in a... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7813579 | Microscope system A microscope system is constructed by a light guiding optical system 20 having an objective lens 21 and beam splitters 27a and 27b for splitting an optical image of a sample S, a photodetector 31 for acquiring an imag... | 10/12/2010 |
