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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165424 | Method and device for video transformations A system and method use a video transform to produce an intermediate pixel transform file representative of a video effect. The intermediate pixel transform file is applied to a frame of one or more input video streams to generate a frame for a streaming video with ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7636497 | Video rotation in a media acceleration engine The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enhancing the performance of video display devices by improving the utilization of memory resources used to process video data. In the system of the present invention, a display is configured to generate a vi... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7623731 | Direct method for modeling non-rigid motion with thin plate spline transformation A system and a method model the motion of a non-rigid object using a thin plate spline (TPS) transform. A first image of a video sequence is received, and a region of interest, referred to as a template, is chosen manually or automatically. A set of arbitrarily-chos... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7561754 | Image transformation apparatus for image transformation of projected image by preventing distortion An image transformation method to be implemented by a computer carries out an image transformation process, by transforming a picked up image that is picked up by a pickup unit having an optical axis tilted by an arbitrary angle with respect to a reference plane int... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7440609 | Method of segmenting a three-dimensional structure The invention relates to a method for segmentation of a three-dimensional structure in a three-dimensional data set, especially a medical data set. The method uses a three-dimensional deformable model, wherein the surface of the model consists of a net of polygonal ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7373015 | Image processing device and method In an image processing method for reducing an input image while preventing moire without deterioration of image quality, presence/absence of periodicity is detected for each pixel on the input image, and if there is periodicity, an image period is detected (S4 | 05/13/2008 |
| 7360093 | System and method for authentication of JPEG image data A system and method for authentication of JPEG image data enables the recipient to ascertain whether the received image file originated from a known identified source or whether the contents of the file have been altered in some fashion prior to receipt. A unique ha... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339699 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first sensor having a plurality of reading elements arranged in the primary scanning direction, a second sensor disposed in parallel with the first sensor and by a predetermined lines in the secondary scanning direction, an i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330607 | Apparatus and method for controlling an auto-zooming operation of a mobile terminal An apparatus and method for controlling an auto-zooming operation of a mobile terminal. The apparatus and method for controlling an auto-zooming operation of a mobile terminal can automatically adjust the size of a target subject captured by an image capture device ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7317840 | Methods for real-time software video/audio compression, transmission, decompression and display The invention presents new methods of compression, transmission, and decompression of video signals providing increased speed and image quality. Methods based on wavelet transformation with decimation and time stamping can provide one-pass encoding of signals in whi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315661 | Directional interpolation method using DCT information and related device The invention provides a method for interpolating a pixel within an image. The image has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix format. The method includes detecting if there is an edge in a block of the image according to a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) data ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308028 | Apparatus and method for generating mosaic images The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating mosaic images, wherein photographed content is displayed as a still image by a digital TV display or video monitor for an extended period of time. The apparatus of the present invention includes... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305089 | Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing different from that at which the image of the subject is captured. The reco... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286724 | Method and apparatus for searching, browsing and summarizing moving image data using fidelity for tree-structure moving image hierarchy A method and apparatus for searching, browsing and summarizing moving image data using the fidelity of a tree-structured moving image hierarchy, which can partition or divide the moving image data into predetermined units, extract a key frame or representative frame... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283684 | Spectral compression algorithms for the analysis of very large multivariate images A method for spectrally compressing data sets enables the efficient analysis of very large multivariate images. The spectral compression algorithm uses a factored representation of the data that can be obtained from Principal Components Analysis or other factorizati... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274811 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing corresponding landmarks among a plurality of images Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for automatically synchronizing multiple images. Multiple image sets of a single object are converted into a one dimensional data stream used to synchronize multiple image sets. A common refere... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7228003 | Flat-field, panel flattening, and panel connecting methods A plurality of panels are assembled into a single image. Each of the panels may have different intensities throughout the panel, as well as non-uniformities between panels. The panels are modified using flat-field calibration, panel flattening, and panel connecting ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7203374 | Two-dimensional orthogonal transformation and quantization method and its device and program In a process of resolving the two-dimensional orthogonal transformation into the one-dimension orthogonal transformations in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, with respect to each signal vector within the block memory to be orthogonal-transformed in a... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184071 | Method of three-dimensional object reconstruction from a video sequence using a generic model In a novel method of 3D modeling of an object from a video sequence using an SfM algorithm and a generic object model, the generic model is incorporated after the SfM algorithm generates a 3D estimate of the object model purely and directly from the input video sequ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181077 | Image decompression from transform coefficients An image decompressing system includes the processes of: a) determining a size of a decompressed image; b) determining a decomposition level to which decomposition-level-type inverse wavelet transform is performed; and c) decompressing given wavelet transform coeffi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174020 | System and method for real-time secure communication based on multi-level transform and encryption A stream of data is encoded by applying a multilevel transform to the stream of data, each level of the transform producing one or more transform coefficients for each block of a sequence of blocks in the stream of data. Encryption is applied to at least a subset of... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167520 | Transcoder A transcoder for resizing video data and outputting the resized video data to a reproduction apparatus. The reproduction apparatus reproduces the resized video data by repeating a display period and a non-display period alternately. The transcoder includes: a resizi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161614 | Device and method for converting two-dimensional video to three-dimensional video There is provided parallax correction means for correcting a parallax for each area calculated by parallax calculation means in accordance with the magnitude of a motion vector for the area detected by motion vector detection means in order to prevent the three-dime... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7152161 | Watermarking methods of embedding and detecting a watermark in an information signal (x(n), y′(n)) which are robust against sampling rate conversions of the watermarked signal (y(n)) adapts frame lengths used by an embedder and the detector, respectively, so as to preserve a c... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7124022 | Feature mapping between data sets The present invention relates to data mapping and involves the mapping of at least one feature from one data set to a corresponding feature in a second data set. Individual points of the features are initially mapped and an transformation for mapping the entire feat... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110620 | Apparatus for processing digital image and method therefor An apparatus which processes a digital image and a method therefor which can reduce an error when calculating an output value obtained by interpolating pixel values of the input digital image. The apparatus includes an interpolation processing unit which interpolate... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7098924 | Method and programmable device for triangle interpolation in homogeneous space A method and apparatus for obtaining an attribute in homogenous space. After obtaining the vertices of a triangle, the world space coordinates and the attribute of each vertex are transformed to homogeneous coordinates and an attribute in viewer space. Then a set of... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079279 | Methods and apparatus for producing a lenticular novelty item at a point of purchase A composite image generator for producing a lenticular novelty item at a point of purchase is disclosed. The composite image generator receives a theme selection and a captured digital image. Images associated with the selected theme and the captured digital image a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072510 | Adjusting data representing image pixel color A method, apparatus and programmed computer system provides the ability to process image data as picture screen elements having color components. A three-dimensional space is generated that represents a color spectrum containing the color conponents. A plurality of ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7039216 | Automatic sketch generation An example-based facial sketch system and process that automatically generates a sketch from an input image depicting a person's face. Sketch generation is accomplished by first training the system using example facial images and sketches of the depicted faces drawn... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027069 | Program for automatic picture formation and storage medium storing the program A making person stores the objects (5) in the element stock (4), makes the pallet (6), takes out the objects (5) from the element stock (4) in accordance with the rule of the making person at first and arranges it, thereafter paint... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7015935 | Apparatus for reference image rotation, and computer software product and method for reference image rotation In an apparatus for displaying reference images of patients and slices to be measured in a displayed reference image for assisting the positioning of slices in preparation for a slice-by-slice measurement and a computer software product and corresponding method, a s... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006112 | Method for scaling image frame A method for scaling an image frame by an off-screen technology is provided. An image frame consisting of n rows and m columns of data is stored into a storage device. The image frame is divided into a plurality of image portions. Then, the plurality of image portio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6961472 | Method of inverse quantized signal samples of an image during image decompression Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of inverse quantizing quantized signal samples of an image during image decompression includes the following. A process to transform the signal samples from a first domain to a second domain is ap... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6894827 | Optical linear processor An optical signal processor for transforming a first vector into a second vector comprising: a plurality of linear light sources each of which provides light having an intensity responsive to a different component of the first vector, a spatial light modulator compr... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6856707 | Image processing method and apparatus The image processing method and apparatus acquire input image data from the image recorded optically with a taking lens, acquire the information about the lens used to record the image and perform image processing schemes on the input image data using the acquired l... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6839468 | Scaling of multi-dimensional data in a hybrid domain A method, system, and data structure for the scaling of data is provided. An exemplary use of the disclosed embodiments involves the scaling up in size or the scaling down in size of computer images. n-dimensional transformed data representing some original n-dimens... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6782138 | Method and system for processing multidimensional data A method and system for processing multidimensional data. A method of forming multiresolution representations of data includes partitioning the data in a first dimension at a first rate, and partitioning the data in a second dimension at a second rate, wherein the f... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6760037 | Systems and methods for providing improved two pass resampling Systems and methods are provided for improved two pass resampling in a computing system. The systems and methods address both bottleneck problem(s) and aliasing problem(s) to improve upon prior art two pass resampling techniques. In view of both bottleneck problem(s... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6731991 | System for projecting light on a work surface to produce an image for tracing A method and system of projecting light on a planar surface to produce an image for tracing is disclosed. The system includes a projector that has a light source and a signal conditioner that is operably connected to the projector. A computer is operably connected t... | 05/04/2004 |
