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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189957 | View projection for dynamic configurations A method and system for compensating for a moving object placed between a projector and a projection scene is shown. The method/system dividing a movement pattern of the moving object into N discrete position states, and for each of said N position states determinin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180174 | Means for using microstructure of materials surface as a unique identifier A method and apparatus for the visual identification of materials for tracking an object comprises parameter setting, acquisition and identification phases. The parameter setting phase comprises the steps of defining acquisition parameters for the objects. The acqui... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170366 | Image processing using optically transformed light Processing image information includes receiving light having image information. A first optical transform is performed on the light to yield a first optically transformed light, and a second optical transform is performed on the light to yield a second optically tra... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170367 | Representing flat designs to be printed on curves of a 3-dimensional product A design image is transformed into a projection design image comprising the design image as it will appear when projected onto a physical 3-dimensional (3-D) curved object. In an embodiment, pixels of the design image are mapped into corresponding mapped pixels in a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170368 | Correcting device and method for perspective transformed document images This invention provides a correcting device and a correcting method for perspective transformation of document images. The correcting device comprises a horizontal vanishing point determining unit, for detecting a horizontal vanishing point of the perspective transf... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160387 | Image processing method and computer software for image processing The invention provides a method of image correction processing which comprises altering area image intensity values of an image according to an dynamic range compression image transform. The output image intensity of an area is altered, compared to the input image i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160388 | Spatially selective transformation of a spatially varying optical characteristic of an image in an array of pixels A method and system for selectively transforming a spatially varying optical characteristic (F) of an image in a pixel array. The pixel array is segmented into stripes of contiguous rows. A two-dimensional convolution C(x, y) of F is determined at only selected pixe... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155479 | Automated panning and digital zooming for robotic surgical systems In one embodiment of the invention, a digital zoom and panning system for digital video is disclosed including an image acquisition device to capture digital video images; an image buffer to store one or more frames of digital video images as source pixels; a displa... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155478 | Image creation with software controllable depth of field A method of controlling depth of field of an image by a computer after the image has been taken based on the data acquired while taking the images including, acquiring multiple images from the same perspective with different focal points, selecting parameters for pr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150205 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and data configuration An image processing apparatus comprises a first and a second eyes-and-mouth detecting units, a first and a second skin model generating units, an inside-of-mouth model generating unit, an eyeball model generating unit, a first and a second deformation parameter gene... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145010 | Image processing system and method An image processing system includes a first memory for storing a first image data, the first image data having a plurality of pixels; a second memory for storing at least one mapping table, the mapping table recording the mapped positions of at least a portion of pi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135235 | Pre-processing method and apparatus for wide dynamic range image processing Provided are method and apparatus of pre-processing in WDR (wide dynamic range) image processing, the method of pre-processing of WDR image processing including: (a) receiving luminance and chrominance signals having different exposure times, and analyzing the corre... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8121432 | System and method for semantic video segmentation based on joint audiovisual and text analysis System and method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units where each semantic unit relates to a generally complete thematic topic. A computer implemented method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units wherein each semantic unit rela... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116587 | Method and apparatus for high-speed and low-complexity piecewise geometric transformation of signals A method and system for high-speed and low-complexity geometric transformation of signals are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an input patch consisting of a window of pixels from an input image. The system may further comprise a transformation sel... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103124 | Registration apparatus, registration method and program A registration apparatus includes: a calculation section that calculates a positional difference between a part of a physical trait on a first image that is processed and a corresponding part of the physical trait on a second image that was processed earlier than th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094968 | Image creating method and image creating system For a halftone representation of a grayscale data of an original image of P tones, an output resolution, a screen ruling frequency, and a screen angle are based to set a basic array of L×L pixels, where L is an integer greater than 1, and a number N of tones reprod... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090217 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and printing apparatus An image processing apparatus that creates a still image from a motion picture. A storage section has a storage region for correction required when a target image with a predetermined determination size is corrected by using a plurality of images. A size determining... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086069 | Data-generating apparatus, method, and program for image forming A data-generating apparatus comprising a bitmap data-generating unit to generate binary bitmap data indicating an image-formed area and an image-excluding area based on the figure information in response to the figure-describing data being inputted, a judging unit t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086070 | Image processing apparatus using alpha plane and method thereof In an image processing apparatus and method, image data includes both color and alpha components. During processing, only the color component of the image data is stored in a memory. Display image data are then generated in response to the color component data retri... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078004 | Geometric registration of images by similarity transformation using two reference points A method for registering a first image to a second image using a similarity transformation. The each image includes a plurality of pixels. The first image pixels are mapped to a set of first image coordinates and the second image pixels are mapped to a set of second... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078003 | Biometric image processing apparatus, biometric image acquisition method, and biometric authentication program The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which acquires an image of quality desired for an object located in a biological body; sets up exposure values of a plurality of stages for an image pickup means; extracts the contour of an object in image... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068692 | Methods and apparatuses for pixel transformations Methods, apparatuses, systems, and machine readable media for pixel transformations. One exemplary method includes: determining a state of a pixel format transformation, wherein a pixel format includes a predetermined number of pixel data components and a predetermi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064723 | Method and apparatus for fast volume rendering of 3D ultrasound image The invention provides a method and apparatus for fast volume rendering of 3D ultrasound image, comprising a dividing step, a calculating step, a determining step, a morphological closing operation step and a filling step, wherein each flat grid can be entirely fill... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064722 | Method and system for analyzing signal-vector data for pattern recognition from first order sensors A method and system of analyzing signal-vector data from first order sensors including providing a training data set, adjusting the training data set using a background adjustment technique, normalizing and transforming the training data set into wavelet coefficient... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064724 | Apparatus, and associated method, for displaying data using data painting of an asymmetrical facial image An apparatus, and an associated methodology, by which to display multi-dimensional data. Data of a plurality of dimensions is mapped onto visualization dimensions of an asymmetrical facial image. The resultant image is of characteristics permitting a viewer of the i... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064725 | Distortion of digital images using spatial offsets A method for distortion of a digital image comprising determining one or more sets of pixel characteristics, receiving for each pixel characteristic set, a spatial offset, providing a mixing function algorithm embodied on a computer-readable medium for distorting th... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059914 | Method and apparatus for preprocessing ultrasound imaging The present invention provides a method and module for preprocessing ultrasound imaging. The method comprises a calculation step for constructing a multivalue vector field and a smoothing step for smoothing the whole volume data. The method further comprises a judge... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055094 | Apparatus and method of motion adaptive image processing An image processing apparatus includes a first motion detector, a second motion detector and a conversion selector. The first motion detector detects motion to a first level of spatial frequency sensitivity. The second motion detector detects motion to a second leve... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055095 | Parallel and adaptive signal processing A method and apparatus for parallel and adaptive signal reconstruction from a multitude of signal measurements. Algorithms and hardware are disclosed to denoise the measured signals, to compress the measured signals, and to reconstruct the signal from fewer measurem... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050516 | Methods and systems for determining a baseline during image processing A method of determining a plurality of positions associated with a plurality of reaction chambers of a microfluidic device includes a) providing a baseline image; b) providing a template image of a reaction chamber; and c) selecting a region of the baseline image. T... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045823 | Method and apparatus for text layout across a region The present invention displays text within a region by identifying text boxes within the region. To identify the text boxes, the invention uses scan lines that are spaced at intervals that are smaller than the text height of the text to be placed in the boxes. These... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031969 | Fourier transform optimized anisotropic filtering Methods and apparatuses for selecting appropriate anisotropic filtering levels for images. An image is obtained, that image is Fourier transformed into its frequency components, and then those frequency components are normalized. The Fourier transformed into its fre... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014629 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus capable of reducing frame loss and smoothly playing back vector data-based images is provided. A determination unit determines an intermediate rendering size smaller than a display rendering size by using vector data and its frame rate.... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000559 | Method of correcting image distortion and apparatus for processing image using the method A method of correcting image distortion and an apparatus for processing an image using the method are provided, where the method can overcome the disadvantages of the conventional methods of correcting lens distortion and can minimize image quality degradation at ou... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000557 | Method for generating an image and an image generator An image is generated by receiving a first image that is acquired during a first exposure period and defining the first image as a reference image; defining multiple reference regions of interest within the reference image, wherein an aggregate number of pixels with... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000558 | Thumbnail generating apparatus and image shooting apparatus Based on, for example, the image at the start of a movie, a thumbnail image is tentatively generated and is stored in a header file. If a predetermined triggering condition is fulfilled during movie shooting, a thumbnail image is generated from the frame image at th... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7986856 | Method and apparatus for increasing brightness of image captured in low light An exemplary method for increasing brightness of an image captured in low light includes: transforming the captured image into an original image that has a brightness component; copying the brightness component of the original image as a brightness image; inverting ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978928 | View projection for dynamic configurations A method and system for compensating for a moving object placed between a projector and a projection scene is shown. The method/system dividing a movement pattern of the moving object into N discrete position states, and for each of said N position states determinin... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974492 | Image data reproducing apparatus with changing proportions of combined enlarged images, method of controlling same and control program therefor When a transition is made from display of one image of a subject to display of another image of a subject in a slideshow, the transition is made in a natural manner. A first enlarged image is obtained by cropping and enlarging a portion of a subject image so as to i... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970236 | Image transform apparatus and image transform program An image transform apparatus includes: a resolution device performing wavelet resolution based on an image representing distribution of psycho-physical color to generate sub band images at one resolution level or more; a transform device transforming values of pixel... | 06/28/2011 |
