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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189953 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a thinning-out section generating thinned-out line data of thinned-out data constituted by a plurality of the thinned-out line data, the thinned-out data being obtained by thinning o... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189954 | System and method for performing optical navigation using enhanced frames of image data A system and method for performing optical navigation uses a spatial noise pattern estimate of the spatial noise pattern in captured frames of image data caused by contamination on at least one component of the system to substantially remove the spatial noise patter... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189956 | Optical device for correcting geostationary satellite imagery for earth curvature effects An optical adapter for an imaging system correcting images of spherical or near spherical bodies such as the earth during satellite image collection. An imaging system includes an image collector that collects a two-dimensional image of the body from a distance abov... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189955 | Noise suppression method using multiple digital A noise suppression method using multiple digital images performs a de-noising process with the multiple digital images. First, a feature weighting procedure and an image feature compensation of a target pixel are performed on each digital image, and then a cross re... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189952 | Image noise reduction method based on local correlation A method for reducing image noise includes calculating a first pixel amount of pixels that are similar to each other in a first number neighbor of a center pixel in a motion window, determining whether the first pixel amount of pixels that are similar to each other ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184926 | Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs is described. In one implementation, a system combines a blurred image with a corresponding noisy image of the same subject to create a high-quality deblurred image. The blurred/noisy image pair can be acquired by an i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184927 | System and method for reduction of speckle noise in an image The present invention includes methods for the reduction of speckle noise in an image and methods for segmenting an image. Each of the methods disclosed herein includes steps for analyzing the uniformity of a pixel within a plurality of pixels forming a portion of t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180173 | Flash artifact eye defect correction in blurred images using anisotropic blurring A method and apparatus for providing defect correction in blurred images is disclosed. For one embodiment of the invention, a digital image is acquired. One or more candidate defect regions in the image are identified. The candidate defect regions are corrected and ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175411 | Methods and systems for estimation of compression noise Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the compression noise present in an image or frame in a video sequence. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170365 | Image processing device, image processing method, and computer readable medium An image processing device includes, a pixel information output section that reads an image along a predetermined direction and outputs saturation information and lightness information, a dust pixel extraction section that extracts dust pixels that are candidates fo... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165422 | Method and system for reducing effects of undesired signals in an infrared imaging system Effects of undesired infrared light are reduced in an imaging system using an infrared light source. The desired infrared light source is activated and a first set of imaging data is captured during a first image capture interval. The desired infrared light source i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165421 | Method and apparatus for image processing by using stored image Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting an image under conditions where degradation of an image occurs. The method includes receiving an input image; comparing the input image with a stored image related to the input image, according to a predetermined st... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165423 | Portable device having vibration reduction function and vibration reduction methode thereof A portable device includes a central processing unit, a vibration sensor to sense vibration of the portable device, an image processing unit to process image data, and a memory unit storing a vibration reduction module. The vibration reduction module includes a vibr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165420 | Noise reduction circuit and image processing device A representative-value calculator calculates a representative value of signal values of pixels included in each of divided regions of a neighboring region of a pixel of interest. The divided regions are obtained by dividing the neighboring region into the predetermi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160385 | Correction of blotches in component images Blotches may be identified and processed to reduce or eliminate the blotch. The blotch may be in just one of several separations and multiple separations may be used, for example, to identify the blotch. An implementation (i) compares a first component image of an i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160384 | Methods of suppressing ringing artifact of decompressed images A suppression method that provides adaptive (i.e., selective) processing of an input picture to generate an enhanced output picture with ringing-like areas of the input picture suppressed. For each window in the input picture, if the window is detected as around a r... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160386 | Reducing noise in digital images A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference di... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155476 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes a noise reduction unit configured to nonlinearly convert a signal obtained by subtracting a value of a subtraction image signal, which is read from a memory, from that of a current-frame image signal, to generate a noise-reduce... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155477 | Image processing method, carrier medium carrying image processing program, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus A proposition is to provide an image processing method, a carrier medium carrying an image processing program, an image processing apparatus, and an imaging apparatus capable of attaining line reproducibility and magnification distortion reduction in a well-balanced... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150204 | Noise reducer for video signals A noise reducer for a signal determines a direction of correlation for each picture element (pixel) by calculating sums of absolute differences between a block centered on the pixel and neighboring blocks centered on surrounding pixels and choosing the direction of ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145008 | Non-uniform image defect inspection method A non-uniform image defect inspection method includes steps of inputting an original two-dimensional image; separating a non-uniform background image from the original two-dimensional image by Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to obtain a residual image without the no... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145009 | Apparatus for removing ringing noise and apparatus for removing noise Provided are an apparatus for removing ringing noise and an apparatus for removing noise. The apparatuses includes a representative value setting block dividing pixel data in one block including a plurality of pixel data into two groups through a K-means algorithm a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135233 | Method and apparatus for the restoration of degraded multi-channel images An imager and method for operating the imager. The imager comprises a pixel array for producing an image signal and an image processor configured to restore images degraded by inter-channel degradations and intra-channel degradations in all channels of the image sim... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135234 | Method and apparatus for edge-based spatio-temporal filtering There are provided methods and apparatus for edge-based spatio-temporal filtering. An apparatus for filtering a sequence of pictures includes a spatial filter, a motion compensator, a deblocking filter, and a temporal filter. The spatial filter is for spatially filt... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131111 | Device of processing dead pixel A dead pixel processing device is disclosed. The dead pixel processing device separates an inputted Bayer pattern image into corresponding component data; calculates the distribution (pattern) of pixels based on the median of each data; calculates a comparing value ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126286 | Method for correcting distortion of image projected by projector, and projector A method for correcting distortion of an image projected by a projector includes: a first detection image data producing step which produces first detection image data containing marker images; a first detection image displaying step which displays a first detection... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126287 | Camera with image enhancement functions Imaging apparatus (20, 44) includes an array (22) of optical sensing elements (24), characterized by a pitch, which is adapted to generate a signal in response to optical radiation that is incident on the elements. Objective optics (26, 46 | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116585 | Background noise detection on rendered documents A method of detecting background noise in a rendered electronic image derived from an electronic image includes capturing a rendered image to generate captured image data. From the captured image data, a subset of the image data corresponding to a region of interest... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116586 | Estimating and removing distortion from an image Some embodiments provide a method of editing images with distortion caused by a camera lens. The method identifies a set of geometries on a set of images taken by the camera lens. The method finds transformations for applying on the set of identified geometries to r... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107765 | Block-based image restoration system and method A block-based image restoration system and method is provided. The image restoration system, including: an edge processing unit to perform a color shifting in an edge of an image and process the edge of the image; a restoration parameter extraction unit to segment t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107766 | Method and system for straightening out distorted text-lines on images In one embodiment, a method for correcting distortions in a scanned image of a page is disclosed. The method comprises identifying at least one set of collinear elements in the scanned image; and generating a corrected image based on the scanned image including for ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107764 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program In order to accurately remove an unnecessary periodic noise component from an image, a reconstruction unit generates a reconstructed image without a periodic noise component by fitting to a face region detected in an image by a face detection unit a mathematical mod... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103121 | Systems and methods for determination of a camera imperfection for an image Methods and systems for creating an image filter is described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first plurality of images captured by an at least one camera with a same setting as a first camera. The method further includes creating an averaged image... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103123 | Method and apparatus for image improvement A method and an apparatus for improving the image quality. The method comprises steps of producing image correcting information to decrease errors in the image to be produced by a camera module (109, 111, 112) by comparing the image taken by said camera modul... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103122 | Feature adapted beamlet transform apparatus and associated methodology of detecting curvilinear objects of an image A method of detecting a curvilinear object of a noisy image. The method includes filtering the noisy image in accordance with a two dimensional line profile. The line profile is selected within a class of steerable filters. A beamlet coefficient is calculated in acc... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098954 | Distorted aberration correction processing apparatus A distorted aberration correction processing apparatus includes DRAM and SRAM for storing an object image from an optical system. Further, the distorted aberration correction processing apparatus includes: a first address control circuit for reading out a pixel in t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094967 | Image analysis This invention concerns image analysis of video signals or data in order to detect prior, block-based processing, and to quantify block-related picture impairments. Adjacent samples of video data are high pass-filtered, rectified and auto-correlated to form an auto-... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094965 | Image processor A system and method for making an image processor. A system for processing an image may include a target image processing element, a distorted image calculating element coupled to the target image processing element, an eccentricity estimator coupled to the distorte... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094966 | Image processing method and apparatus, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium This invention can perform a developing process or editing process, with a high response, for raw image obtained by image sensing by a digital camera or the like. When, therefore, raw image data is input, an extraction area in the raw image data is determined on the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090214 | Method for automatic detection and correction of halo artifacts in images A method of automatically detecting and correcting halo artifacts within a processed image is described. The method computes a two-dimensional (2D) gradient field of the original image and a 2D gradient field of the processed image. Each gradient field includes a gr... | 01/03/2012 |
