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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150192 | System and method for feature score mapping and visualization of medical images A system to collect and analyze medical image data is applicable for multi-modality medical imaging systems, such as x-ray, MRI, and the like. Medical image data is collected and analyzed to determine one or more regions of interest. A selected region of interest is... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131100 | Representing high-resolution media content in a lower resolution system Representing high-resolution media content in a lower resolution system is disclosed. For a first portion of a high-resolution media content which is associated with a content boundary that does not align with an interval boundary of the lower resolution system, a n... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8059906 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a counting unit and an information embedding unit. The extraction unit extracts a circumscribed figure of a pixel block in an image. The counting unit counts contact portions between the circumscribed figure... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7702172 | Particle extraction for automatic flow microscope A method and apparatus for locating the boundary of an object. An electronic image of the object is formed, having a plurality of image pixels. Groups of the image pixels are identified that represent edge segments of the object. Patches are formed around the image ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697779 | Ultrasonic image processing apparatus An ultrasonic image processing apparatus allowing an ultrasonic image of an inspection object to be displayed using echo data in a three-dimensional region constructs a three-dimensional image based on the echo data by an image construction section. An image operati... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7672528 | Method of processing an image to form an image pyramid A method of processing an image to form an image pyramid having multiple image levels includes receiving a base level image comprising pixel values at pixel locations arranged in rows and columns; determining sample locations for a next level image in the pyramid su... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7634149 | Method for dynamically updating a planar topology A CAD/GIS system that dynamically updates planar topologies through incremental updating techniques. Rather than batch processing all of the changes to every geometrical feature in a given site map, the changes are made in incremental fashion and only enclosures or ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7587098 | Pixel data generating method A method of generating pixel data of a missing block in an image frame is disclosed. Edge points are detected from neighboring image side adjacent to the missing block. A direction is calculated for each edge point. Edge lines are formed from edge points based on th... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7539351 | Model-based line width control Image object adjustment is achieved without lookup tables or templates. Cross sections of image objects are modeled. Parameters of the modeled cross-section are adjusted in accord with a desired effect. For example, a width of the modeled cross section is change. Th... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7418131 | Image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image An image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image are described. First, a first image is input. Then, a control module determines if an unwanted object processing step is needed, and obtains a result. If the result is no, the first image is d... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7370976 | Projection type image display device The device has flexure correcting means for operating to rotate a first eccentric cam provided at a central part of a first side of a reflecting mirror, thereby moving up and down the central part of the first side to correct the flexure of the reflecting mirror, to... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362806 | Object activity modeling method An object activity modeling method which can efficiently model complex objects such as a human body is provided. The object activity modeling method includes the steps of (a) obtaining an optical flow vector from a video sequence; (b) obtaining the probability distr... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7327880 | Local watershed operators for image segmentation We propose local watershed operators for the segmentation of structures, such as medical structures, from an image. A watershed transform is a technique for partitioning an image into many regions while substantially retaining edge information. The proposed watershe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7295346 | Methods and apparatus for antialiasing using selective implementation of logical and averaging filter operations Methods and apparatus for antialiasing images that contain one or more image objects such as colored text, line art, and graphical objects, such that the edge pixels of an antialiased image object will exhibit relatively uniform values, and the appearance of the ima... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7270422 | Image processing system, projector, program, information storage medium, and image processing method A projector includes an image projection section, a sensor that senses a projected first calibration image at a low resolution and generates first sensing information, senses the first calibration image at a high resolution and generates third sensing information, a... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268916 | Digital image sharpening system A system and method for sharpening a digital image (38) having one or more image parameters, for printing with one or more print parameters, and for viewing at one or more viewing parameters, the method comprising the steps of preparing sharpening radius info... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7231097 | Lens defect correction Methods and systems related to: (a) capturing a primary image of a subject with a lens at a primary position, the lens having at least one deviation that exceeds a first tolerance for a target optical property; (b) capturing another image of the subject with the len... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231089 | Image encoding/decoding method, apparatus thereof and recording medium in which program therefor is recorded In an image decoding method, a DC image, corresponding to each block mean value per B pixel from encoding data with respect to the HVQ system, is reproduced. A part of the DC image is made a DC nest. Image data of a target block is reproduced by synthesizing, to the... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224827 | Method for matching and registering medical image data An automatic method for the registration of prone and supine computed tomographic colonography data is provided. The method improves the radiologist's overall interpretation efficiency as well as provides a basis for combining supine/prone computer-aided detection r... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221810 | Method and device for recording of information A device and a method for recording of text by imaging the text on a light-sensitive sensor (8). The device converts the images (14–17, 47–49) into a set of characters (50, 51) each using character recognition, and then assembling the acts o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221790 | Processing for accurate reproduction of symbols and other high-frequency areas in a color image In an image processing apparatus, color image data is binarized, and a symbol area in the color image data is detected. There are obtained, from N colors that form a symbol in the symbol area, M colors that are equal to or smaller than N in number. A symbol cutting ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7206453 | Dynamic filtering for lossy compression An encoder dynamically filters information for lossy compression so as to control bitrate or quality with few sudden, dramatic changes to perceptual quality of the compressed information. For example, a video encoder regulates the level of a buffer (e.g., how full o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193750 | Image processing method and apparatus, and storage medium therefore Disclosed is an image processing method. According to the present invention, the image processing method, whereby a multi-value bit map development area, in which is stored a multi-value bit map that represents an output image, and a plurality of pattern planes, eac... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190805 | Method of and system for edge watermarking of an image A method according to one aspect of the invention includes data into an image including a detecting an edge in the image, identifying a portion of the image having a known spatial relationship with the edge, and applying a transform to the portion of the image to pr... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173734 | Intercolor bleed reduction in liquid ink printers A system and method for detecting edge locations where intercolor bleeding would likely be a problem, and reducing the amount of ink printed at those locations. The method operates on image data including a set of pixels with each pixel having multiple separation va... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167583 | Image processing system for use with inspection systems An inspection system includes a plurality of models are applied in a way that enhances the effectiveness of each type of model. In one embodiment, a printed circuit board inspection system includes an image model, a structural model and a geometric model to inspect ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162065 | Prostate boundary segmentation from 2D and 3D ultrasound images A fast semi-automatic prostate contouring method is provided using model-based initialization and an efficient Discrete Dynamic Contour (DDC) for boundary refinement. The user initiates the process of the preferred embodiment by identifying four (4) points on the pr... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7155069 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program A first image enlargement processing section enlarges an original image to a specified size to generate an initial enlarged image. A domain block extraction section extracts a domain block image from the original image. A range block extraction section extracts a ra... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139442 | Template matching applied to selector planes for multiple raster content (MRC) representation of documents A method and a system for separating an image signal into a set of image planes are disclosed. The system comprises a way to perform resolution conversion from low resolution to high resolution binary images either for synthetic or scanned imagery by using template ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7120197 | Motion compensation loop with filtering Techniques and tools for processing reference frames in a motion estimation/compensation loop or motion compensation loop are described. For example, a video encoder or decoder filters reference frames to reduce discontinuities at block boundaries, improving the eff... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116830 | Spatial extrapolation of pixel values in intraframe video coding and decoding Techniques and tools for spatial extrapolation of pixel values in intraframe video encoding and/or decoding are described. For example, to predict the pixel values for a block of pixels, a video encoder or decoder uses spatial extrapolation from the pixel values of ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110147 | Image processing method and apparatus A decorated character image is formed by arranging at least one decorated character formed by providing a desired character decoration on at least one arbitrary character, on an arbitrary background, with a character color being set to a character portion correspond... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7084889 | Digital picture scaling A method for scaling a digital picture to generate a scaled picture including following steps:(a) scaling a portion of the digital picture instead of the whole digital picture in a first direction; (b) scaling part of the data produced in step (a) in a second direct... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7061642 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and image information printing system A printing system simultaneously prints both images and related information which is recorded together with the images. The print output may be unsuitable for use, depending on the combination of the image layout and positions where the related information is printe... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058233 | Systems and methods for constructing an image having an extended depth of field Systems and methods are provided for constructing a composite image having an extended depth of focus from a plurality of spatially congruent source images of lesser depth of focus. The systems and methods are relatively fast, preserve detail, provide robust results... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7027650 | Dynamic computing imagery, especially for visceral osteopathy and for articular kinetics Computerized method for studying alterations in the location of an object, said method comprising the steps of computing successive shapes by means of a dynamic contour model algorithm, whereby the dynamic contour model algorithm develops successive shapes and deter... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024040 | Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus and method wherein consecutive image data is input, the image data is divided into blocks each constituted of a plurality of pixels, a motion vector of each block is detected, a border block is judged in accordance with the detected mot... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7010152 | Radiographic image composition and use The present invention concerns the blending of plural x-ray images to form a blended composite image wherein in blending the images, a stitching boundary adjustment is determined for use in adjusting boundary pixels of the composite image, and an adjustment for othe... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6993170 | Method for quantitative analysis of blood vessel structure We disclose quantitative geometrical analysis enabling the measurement of several features of images of tissues including perimeter, area, and other metrics. Automation of feature extraction creates a high throughput capability that enables analysis of serial sectio... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993174 | Real time interactive segmentation of pulmonary nodules with control parameters Segmentation of pulmonary nodules from digital volumetric image includes segmenting, automatically, the pulmonary nodule from attached anatomical structures by analyzing a structure of interest, and providing a template according to an analyzed structure of interest... | 01/31/2006 |
