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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8041141 | Method and software for shape representation with curve skeletons Embodiments of the invention utilize a variational framework for computing curve skeletons (CS) of objects whose cross section is not necessary tubular. Embodiments utilize an energy function, which is proportional to some medialness function, such that the minimum ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7835583 | Method of separating vertical and horizontal components of a rasterized image A method of separating an image is provided. The method comprises: running a bitmap image of at least one polygon comprising a plurality of pixels through a distance filter; skeletonizing the polygon formed after filtering by modulo arithmetic; logically ANDing the ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7412360 | Method and apparatus for shape deformation and placement A method for deforming a plurality of shapes is described wherein each of the shapes comprises a set of parametric curves. The method comprises: providing a parametric surface, and forming a deformed shape for each of the shapes by performing a symbolic composition ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7372983 | Method for automatic branch labeling The present invention relates to a method of analyzing an object data set in which a tubular structure having a plurality of branches and bifurcations occurs, wherein the object data set assigns data values to positions in a multi-dimensional space, which data value... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7343032 | Method and apparatus for automatic and dynamic vessel detection A method and an apparatus automatically detect vessels in a diagnostic image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing a diagnostic image; detects vessel candidates in the diagnostic image by processing the diagnostic image dat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7308112 | Sign based human-machine interaction Communication is an important issue in man-to-robot interaction. Signs can be used to interact with machines by providing user instructions or commands. Embodiment of the present invention include human detection, human body parts detection, hand shape analysis, tra... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295211 | Method of automatic image processing Method is disclosed for the automatic creation of images in a “van Gogh” style. The method comprises locating portions of detail in an image an utilising the areas of detail to propagate brush strokes into areas of the image having lesser details. A number of mo... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295714 | Image processing circuit and image processing method that prevent problems occurring in image reduction An image processing circuit reduces binary data of an original image. At least one line buffer stores data of each line of the original image. At least one line buffer stores data of each line of a reduced image. An operation part performs a logical operation based ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7280683 | Method, code, and system for assaying joint deformity A method, machine-readable storage medium embodying computer-readable code and automated system for assaying or monitoring the extent of joint or bone deformity reported by a summarized score that may include joint space narrowing, bone erosion and periarticular ost... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7263228 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7242799 | Method of generating painted or tile mosaic reproduction of a photograph or graphic image A method for creating a hand colorable panel with a set of indicia for guiding the user in coloring to create the image. The method includes providing an image in digital form into a memory in a programmable computer, assigning pixel locations to the image, assignin... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7202839 | Resolution reduction technique for displaying documents on a monitor A method of generating an output image having a lower resolution than that of a source image is provided. A thinned image is generated by discarding outer pixels of the source image. In parallel with generation of the thinned image, an averaged image is generated, s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187785 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an image correcting section. When an image of an object is input, the image correcting section performs correction processing for the input image including the object image and outputs the corrected image as an image required f... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177480 | Graphic processing method and device There is disclosed a graphic processing method in which a first figure skeleton apart from an outline of a figure by each equal distance in a central direction of the figure is calculated using at least one of a medial axis and a chordal axis with respect to a figur... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171444 | Remote desktop protocol compression system Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a remote desktop communication protocol that includes spatial and temporal compression techniques. Multimedia presentation data is generated at a server from a source. A compression facility modifies the presentat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159780 | Method for reading a symbol having encoded information Methods and apparatuses are provided for imaging and decoding symbols such as two-dimensional relief formed symbols and in particular, symbols wherein one or more edges of any number of data cells within the symbols are at least partially discernable. In one aspect ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7139432 | Image pattern matching utilizing discrete curve matching with a mapping operator System and method for determining the presence of an object of interest in a target image. Regions of a target image may be located that match an object of interest, e.g., in a template image, with respect to various information, e.g., luminance, color and/or other ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123768 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7023441 | Shape descriptor extracting method A method for extracting from an image a shape descriptor which describes shape features of the image is provided. The shape descriptor extracting method includes: (a) extracting a skeleton from an input image, (b) obtaining a list of straight lines by connecting pix... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6980689 | Pattern recognition The present invention relates to a system and a method for recognizing a prescribed object, having a storage device for storing attribute information relating to the prescribed object, detecting means for detecting attributes in a detection range and for outputting ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6970599 | Chinese character handwriting recognition system A handwritten Chinese character input method and system is provided to allow users to enter Chinese characters to a data processor by adding less than three strokes and one selection movement such as mouse clicking or stylus or finger tapping. The system is interact... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6962289 | Method of and system for producing high-resolution 3-D images of 3-D object surfaces having arbitrary surface geometry Methods of and systems for illuminating objects using planar laser illumination beams having substantially-planar spatial distribution characteristics that extend through the field of view (FOV) of image formation and detection modules employed in such systems. Each... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6948659 | Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) device A hand-supportable linear-type planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based device comprising a linear image formation and detection (IFD) module having a linear array of image detection elements and also image formation optics having a field of view (FOV) fo... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6906718 | Method and system for efficiently evaluating and drawing NURBS surfaces for 3D graphics The present invention comprises a computer implemented process and system for rendering curves or surfaces as 3D graphics on a display. The system of the present invention includes a computer system having a processor, a bus, and a 3D graphics rendering pipeline. Th... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901168 | Method for segmenting and identifying a document, in particular a technical chart The object of the invention is a method of processing information contained in an image, including: a first processing (1-4), for defining an area of interest of the image (8), effecting an ada... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6894694 | Producing automatic “painting” effects in images Method is disclosed for the automatic creation of images in a “van Gogh” style. The method comprises locating portions of detail in an image an utilizing the area of detail to propagate brush strokes into areas of the image having lesser details. A number of mod... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6882740 | System and method for determining a seed vigor index from germinated seedlings by automatic separation of overlapped seedlings A system and method for automatically determining a seed vigor index for a lot of seeds by analysis of a scanned image of a plurality of seedlings grown from lot of seeds, including automatically separating and analyzing overlapped seedlings. According to one aspect... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6775418 | Image processing device and processing method An image processing device detects the correlation between a pixel to be removed in thinning pixel blocks generated by using a delay in horizontal and vertical directions and an adjacent pixel. The device then determines a coefficient corresponding to the correlatio... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6763127 | Apparatus and method for fingerprint recognition system A fingerprint recognition method includes iterative gamma correction that compensates moisture effect, feature extraction operations, directional morphological filtering that effectively links broken ridges and breaks smeared ridges, adaptive image alignment by loca... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6754396 | Method of processing of a single raster element of a skeletonized binary image through the use of tiles A process for producing a skeleton from a raster image by overlaying a plurality of tiles on the raster image, wherein each of the tiles identifies a sub-region of the raster image comprised of a plurality of pixels. The sub-regions are selectively skeletonized and ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6504953 | Method for the automatic removal of image errors In a method for automatic removal of image errors in digital image data, for example which have arisen due to scratches, hairs, etc., a contour mask is generated with a contour filter and a color mask is additionally generated that covers the image areas ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6427024 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC OPTICAL INSPECTION OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARDS, WAFERS AND THE LIKE FOR DEFECTS, USING SKELETAL REFERENCE INSPECTION AND SEPARATELY PROGRAMMABLE ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE AND DETECTION PARAMETERS A novel wafer or circuit board automatic scanning optical inspection system and technique using the reference comparison principle for finding defects in scanned sample images, that enables a new degree of universality in finding all defects including ver... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6393159 | Multiscale characterization and analysis of shapes An adaptive multiscale method approximates shapes with continuous or uniformly and densely sampled contours, with the purpose of sparsely and nonuniformly discretizing the boundaries of shapes at any prescribed resolution, while at the same time retaining... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6377710 | Method and apparatus for extracting the skeleton of a binary figure by contour-based erosion A method and apparatus for performing thinning, or skeletonization, of binary images or figures are provided. More particularly, a method is implemented in a system for encoding a figure using a mid-crack boundary representation to identify the boundary c... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6259821 | PDL operator overloading for line width management of lines that intersect filled objects A method and apparatus for overloading operators in Page Description Language (PDL) defined graphics redefines the graphic, such as to compensate for certain undesirable line growth characteristics of a target printer or display device. Line width can be ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6252996 | Systems and methods for image conversion useful in the transformation of photographic pictures into templates for painting Methods and computer executable instructions are provided for converting original images such as photographic pictures into various other formats such as drawings by reducing the amount of data contained in the original images. It is a feature of this inv... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6175655 | Medical imaging system for displaying, manipulating and analyzing three-dimensional images A method and device for generating, displaying and manipulating three-dimensional images for medical applications is provided. The method creates a three-dimensional images from MRI or other similar medical imaging equipment. The medical imaging system al... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6157750 | Methods of transforming a basic shape element of a character The present invention relates to an outline font. The purpose lies in supplying a transforming and rendering method in the shape where the important form of the shape, such as the thickness of the stroke, will be maintained from the basic shape, and at th... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6134353 | Digital image processing method for automatic extraction of strip-shaped objects A digital image (Jo) processing method for automatic extraction of strip-shaped objects, includes a skeletonization operation with steps for forming smoothed images (Ji) at several scales (ςi), and, in each smoothed image... | 10/17/2000 |
