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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184923 | Image analysis method, image analysis program, pixel evaluation system having the image analysis method, and pixel evaluation system having the image analysis program In the case where a digital camera is used for evaluating a display quality of an image display panel, moire is generated due to a shift of a pixel pitch between a pixel of a panel and a pixel of a digital camera, and thus, a great influence is given as measurement ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8094962 | Image analysis method, image analysis program, pixel evaluation system having the image analysis method, and pixel evaluation system having the image analysis program In the case where a digital camera is used for evaluating a display quality of an image display panel, moire is generated due to a shift of a pixel pitch between a pixel of a panel and a pixel of a digital camera, and thus, a great influence is given as measurement ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081837 | Image sensor array leakage and dark current compensation Apparatus, systems and methods for image sensor leakage and dark current compensation are disclosed. In one implementation, a system comprises an imaging device including imaging pixels and two or more dark pixels, processing logic coupled to the imaging device, and... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8014625 | Method of performing measurements on digital images A first and a second image are expressed in a common coordinate system by applying a geometric transformation to the second image so as to map a structure in the second image onto a corresponding structure in the first image in a common coordinate system. Starting f... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7970232 | Image analysis method, image analysis program, pixel evaluation system having the image analysis method, and pixel evaluation system having the image analysis program In the case where a digital camera is used for evaluating a display quality of an image display panel, moire is generated due to a shift of a pixel pitch between a pixel of a panel and a pixel of a digital camera, and thus, a great influence is given as measurement ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7415163 | Method of reducing noise in images An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce both block noise and mosquito noise without deterioration of the image quality is provided. The method includes creating a first luminance component image data with the boundaries of the blocks thereof smoothen... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7405845 | Image processing apparatus Dot characteristic points are first extracted from M-level image data by the dot characteristic point extracting device. A dot area identifying device subsequently identifies a dot area based on the results of the extraction carried out by the dot characteristic poi... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7391920 | Image processing method, apparatus, and program If an edge is detected between each pair of two mutually adjacent pixels among three serially adjacent pixels in a digital image, a candidate pixel selection unit in an intermediate value pixel judgment unit selects a pixel located at the middle among the three pixe... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382929 | Spatial scan replication circuit In an image replication circuit, the improvement of replicating a given element at a certain location with the most similar of surrounding sets of image elements. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379210 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method It is intended to provide an image processing apparatus capable of precisely discriminating a halftone dot region and a figure such as a character arranged on the halftone dot region and applying appropriate image processing to the halftone dot region and the charac... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7355744 | Image processing method for superimposing high-resolution character data on low-resolution image data 600 dpi binary character shape data is created from 600 dpi character data inputted by a PC and written sequentially to a memory. The 600 dpi character data inputted from the PC and 300 dpi image data are stored as 300 dpi 8-bit graphics data. Next, 600 dpi 8-bit mu... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7339714 | Variable blazed grating based signal processing A light processing system includes an array of optical signal processing devices. The array of processing devices are operable to receive at least some of a first signal part and to modulate the first signal part based at least in part on a control signal received f... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336396 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus extracts a contour pixel of a binary input image signal in a contour pixel extraction portion, and calculates a line thinning amount from the extracted contour pixel based on a preset parameter in a line thinning amount calculation port... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330601 | Method of describing pattern repetitiveness of image A method for describing pattern repetitiveness which may exist within an image, is provided. The method of describing pattern repetitiveness of an image comprises: (a) projecting an image on a predetermined axis having a predetermined direction, (b) decomposing the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327898 | Reducing boundary effects for images with screen patterns A method is disclosed which reduces the boundary effects on an image based on maintaining local gray. The image is first halftoned and an adjustment is then made at the boundary region to minimize the brightness deviation of the halftone from the original contone. T... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7231096 | Screening method for overlapping sub-images A method and system for reproducing an image on a carrier, the method includes: generating a conjoined first and second sub-image, each representative for a portion of the image; defining an overlap region where both sub-images give a contribution to the internal op... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7164806 | Creating image-sharpening profiles Methods and apparatus implementing image-sharpening profiles. In one aspect, the invention provides a method that includes creating an image-sharpening profile and storing the image-sharpening profile as a separate file external to any electronic image. An image-sha... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7064759 | Methods and apparatus for displaying a frame with contrasting text An area within a frame is defined in which text or an image is to be generated. The text or image may also include an optional border surrounding and adjacent to the text or image. In accordance with one embodiment, in order to increase the contrast between the text... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064865 | Image processing method and apparatus for detecting characteristic points An image processing method and device includes the steps of detecting a crossing point that has a largest density value among pixels aligned in one direction and a smallest density value among pixels aligned in another direction, the directions being perpendicular t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064793 | Method and apparatus for measuring the noise contained in a picture To determine the noise contained in a picture, it is proposed first to determine homogeneous picture regions of the picture (100-102) and then to measure the high-frequency signal component in these homogeneous picture regions (BR). The measurement of the hig... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057764 | Color image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium A full-color image input from an external apparatus can undergo an optimal adaptive process using an image area separation circuit mounted in a color copying machine main body, and also attribute map information, thus providing a higher-quality image. When a color c... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7034892 | Spatio-temporal filter unit and image display apparatus comprising such a spatio-temporal filter unit Noise reduction is an important feature in consumer television. This is realized by spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal filters. Spatial filters require pixels from within one image, while temporal filters require samples from two or more successive images. The spa... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7009622 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program An image processing apparatus includes a command analyzing unit obtaining color information of each endpoint of an object by analyzing a drawing command, a draw processing unit obtaining the color information of successive scanned points inside the object through in... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6993190 | System and method for detecting text edges in digital document images A system and method for detecting text edges in digital document images utilizes filters that process the luminance and/or chrominance values within a selected region of the image to determine whether a given pixel of the selected image region is a text edge. The fi... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6971072 | Reactive user interface control based on environmental sensing Methods and apparatus for reactively controlling one or more user interfaces associated with a device based on sensed conditions in an environment associated with at least one of the user interfaces are provided. A method of controlling at least one user interface a... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6925203 | Position detection apparatus and exposure apparatus A position detection apparatus for detecting a position of a mark on an object includes a camera which captures an image of the mark, an extraction section which extracts a plurality of edge positions of the mark based on a signal derived from the image of the mark,... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6903782 | System and method for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image There is disclosed an apparatus for performing segmentation-based enhancements of a video image. The apparatus comprises: 1) an input buffer for storing video frames of an incoming video signal; 2) a segmentation controller capable of segmenting a first stored frame... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6894702 | Dropout control in subpixel rendering The present invention relates to dropout control in which one or more samples are added to adjacent samples that fall within an image outline. The samples are used in sub-pixel rendering to compensate for unnaturally thin or faint object stems. Horizontal dropout co... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891549 | System and method for edge enhancement of images A method for generating an enhanced image includes the steps of: (a) receiving a matrix of pixels representative of an image; (b) generating a gradient image representative of a difference between values of adjacent pixels; (c) calculating a center of mass for each ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6870964 | Spatial scan replication circuit In an image replication circuit, the improvement of replicating a given element at a certain location with the most similar of surrounding sets of image elements. ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6864923 | Edge correction circuit In an edge correcting circuit of an image to be represented by a digitized image signal, a high-frequency signal extracting circuit (5) extracts a high-frequency signal of the image by calculation based on a signal of a target pixel, a signal of a pixel shift... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6690837 | Screening method for overlapping sub-images For the reproduction of originals, images are generated on an image carrier, for example by printing. The imaging device that generates the image is usually not capable to cover at once the complete image area on the carrier. If the device is capable to c... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6668100 | Image processing method and device An image processing device and method for convert multi-value image data having light and dark information per pixel into binary data for pseudo half-tone representation. A binarization results delay unit holds binarized data near the pixel of interest ob... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6665454 | Dot adjacency compensation in optical storage systems using ink dots A method of accurately detecting the value of a dot of sensed image data, said image data comprising an array of dots and said sensed image data comprising a sampling of said image data at a rate greater than the pitch frequency of said array of dots so a... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6661929 | Controlling an imaging array not having black cells using an array controller that is adapted to imaging arrays having black cells An imaging system that uses an array controller which is adapted to imaging arrays having black cells to control an imaging array not having black cells. The imaging system includes an array controller that is adapted to process a scan line that includes ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6606099 | Display device for creating intermediate gradation levels in pseudo manner and image signal processing method A display device for creating intermediate gradation levels includes a detection circuit for generating a control signal when a change in gradation of one gradation level is detected between adjacent image data, and when it is detected that the numbers of... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6590617 | Edge emphasis device, image forming apparatus, image signal processing method, and image forming method This invention can suppress overshoot/undershoot, and can maintain the improvement effect of the leading edge of an edge portion. For this purpose, a second derivative signal generator (1) generates a second derivative signal (s5) on the basis of time-ser... | 07/08/2003 |
