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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094969 | Discrete fractional fourier numerical environments for computer modeling of image propagation through a physical medium in restoration and other applications A system for numerically modeling evolution of an image propagating through a medium includes image using image data and a propagation medium model. The propagation medium model aligns a propagation centerline of the propagation medium model relative to the center o... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8005315 | Spectrum spreading signal demodulation method and apparatus A spread spectrum signal demodulating method whereby spread-code synchronous acquisition and carrier synchronous acquisition are performed using FFT at high speed, wherein a received signal, of which the carrier wave is modulated with a signal obtained by spectrum-s... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995860 | Spectrum spreading signal demodulation method and apparatus A spread spectrum signal demodulating method whereby spread-code synchronous acquisition and carrier synchronous acquisition are performed using FFT at high speed, wherein a received signal, of which the carrier wave is modulated with a signal obtained by spectrum- ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7957609 | System for extended high frame rate imaging with limited-diffraction beams The present invention provides a method and a system for producing an image using an imaging system by weighting: i) the signals transmitted from at least one element of a transducer array to form limited diffraction transmitted beams or the transmitted beams are st... | 06/07/2011 |
| RE42187 | Iterative approximation environments for modeling the evolution of an image propagating through a physical medium in restoration and other applications Image processing utilizing numerical calculation of fractional exponential powers of a diagonalizable numerical transform operator for use in an iterative or other larger computational environments. In one implementation, a computation involving a similarity transfo... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885481 | Authenticity proving optical structure, authenticating proof recording medium and authenticity certifying method An optical structure 3 having a plurality of minute optical unit areas 4 is formed on a base 2. Each of the minute optical unit areas 4 has a plurality of minute areas A and B storing depth information representing multiple-valued phase i... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7756357 | Microscope system for obtaining high and low magnification images A host system defines a plurality of partial areas for a observation object which is a sample, obtains a partial image of an observation object in the partial area captured using a TV camera at the interval of the depth of focus of an objective lens in the depth-of-... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7664339 | Image processing method for object recognition and dynamic scene understanding Provided is a method for digital image representation based upon Discrete Projective Fourier Transform (DPFT) constructed in the noncompact (DNPFT) and compact (DCPFT) realizations of geometric Fourier analysis on SL(2,C) groups. Novel characteristics are that the m... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7627195 | Focus correction using fractional fourier transform operator approximations A computer-implemented method for correcting misfocus in original image data using at least one approximation of a fractional Fourier transform operation. Original image data may comprise a light image, an electron beam image such as produced by an electron microsco... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7502526 | Filtering artifact from fMRI data using the stockwell transform The present invention relates to a method for filtering time-varying MR signal data prior to image reconstruction. A one-dimensional FT is applied to the time-varying MR signal data along each frequency-encode line of k space. The phase p of each complex pair (R,I) ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7486839 | Efficient method for MR image reconstruction using coil sensitivity encoding SENSitivity Encoding (SENSE) has demonstrated potential for significant scan time reduction using multiple receiver channels. SENSE reconstruction algorithms for non-uniformly sampled data proposed to date require relatively high computational demands. A Projection ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7444032 | Demodulation and phase estimation of two-dimensional patterns A method (100) of demodulating a real two-dimensional pattern (110) is disclosed. The method (100) estimates (120, 130) a quadrature two-dimensional pattern from the real two-dimensional pattern (110) using a smooth phase only tran... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7421139 | Reducing errors in performance sensitive transformations The invention provides a method, data compression system, apparatus, and article of manufacture which reduce the error in transform equations in which constants are replaced by approximations. According to the invention transform constants are replaced with approxim... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417797 | Image correction using individual manipulation of microlenses in a microlens array A system constructs a composite image using focus assessment information of image regions. ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418125 | Position detection technique An apparatus for detecting a position of a region, corresponding to a mark, in image data, as a mark position, the mark including periodically arranged patterns. A first unit obtains a real-space energy distribution which corresponds to an energy spectrum distributi... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415152 | Method and system for constructing a 3D representation of a face from a 2D representation A method and system for generating 3D images of faces from 2D images, for generating 2D images of the faces at different image conditions from the 3D images, and for recognizing a 2D image of a target face based on the generated 2D images is provided. The recognitio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415164 | Modeling scenes in videos using spectral similarity A computer implemented method models a scene in a video acquired by a camera. For each pixel in each frame of the video, a time series of intensities of the pixel is acquired. A harmonic series is extracted from samples of each time series using a sliding window. Di... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409091 | Human detection method and apparatus A human detection method and apparatus are provided. In the method, a person is detected from an image provided by a digital video camera. The method includes (a) initializing parameters used for a user detection; (b) determining a current mode; (c) when it is deter... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7386729 | Method of inserting/detecting digital watermark and apparatus for using thereof For the purpose of designing watermark to be robust against image modification such as geometric modification (rotating, cutting, enlarging/shrinking, etc.), compression, and blurring, the watermark is embedded in frequency domain after formed as 2 dimensional shape... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379599 | Model based object recognition method using a texture engine A geometric hashing method usable by a machine vision system for model-based recognition of an object. More specifically, in a computer having a texture engine, a method of pattern matching for recognition of objects within an image. The method comprises the followi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356196 | Adaptive multistage wiener filter A computationally efficient, adaptive multistage Wiener filter employs two modules, a linear filter module that operates at the input data rate and an update module that operates at a plurality of rates but performs many calculations at only the update rate. This fi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349555 | Documents and apparatus to encode documents The present invention relates generally to documents, e.g., such as legal tender, currency and identification documents, and apparatus for encoding documents. One claim recites: a physical document including a machine-detectable hidden signal. Presence of the hidden... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7327902 | Optimizing image alignment Optimizing an alignment of a first image having a first set of points and a second image having a second set of points includes selecting at least one point in the first set of points; selecting at least one point in the second set of points, each selected point in ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324199 | System and deconvolution process for an optical filtering device based on WGM resonance A system and method for detecting the optical spectrum of an optical input signal. The system includes a tunable optical filter having a microresonator that is tunable across a plurality of states and a processor. The input signal is coupled into the microresonator,... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323862 | Apparatus and method for detecting photon emissions from transistors A system, apparatus, and method for analyzing photon emission data to discriminate between photons emitted by transistors and photons emitted by background sources. The analysis involves spatial and/or temporal correlation of photon emissions. After correlation, the... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315650 | Image processor (1) Orthogonal transformation is applied to sample images based on the images of a normalized orthogonal system, and component groups are determined. A plurality of comparison target images are selected from an input image, and a partial normalized orthogonal system... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315636 | Generation of reconstructed images A method and system are presented for fast generation of one or more 2D DRRs of an object. 3D scan data of the object (such as CT scan data) are generated. A 3D fast Fourier transform F(u,v,w) is computed for a 3D scan volume f(x,y,z) within the 3D scan data, the sc... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313250 | Method and system for frequency domain watermarking using a phase based filter signature The present invention is a digital watermarking technique Phasemark⢠for image authentication. Using a signature extracted from the original image, the present invention hides an encoded version of the signature back into the original image, forming the watermarke... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7302100 | Method for increasing detectable light energy without changing shape content in radial and angular or rotational analysis of images for shape content and matching A segmented radial spatial light modulator has an active optic area comprising a plurality of radially extending active optic modulators disposed at various angular orientations with respect to a central axis. The segmented radial spatial light modulator is used in ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298882 | Generalized measure of image quality in medical X-ray imaging A method for defining image quality characteristics of X-ray based medical projection imaging devices is provided. A spatial frequency-dependent signal-to-noise ratio function includes image quality parameters of spatial resolution, object contrast and noise. The de... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295693 | Methods and software for self-gating a set of images Methods and software for self-gating a set of images. In exemplary embodiments, a fundamental heart frequency of the patient can be measured without the use of an ECG signal. In one method, the fundamental heart frequency can be determined by analyzing the size of t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286717 | Image data processing device processing a plurality of series of data items simultaneously in parallel In a data conversion device, a plurality of series of data to be converted is input from a buffer memory device to a data processor. The data processor processes a plurality of the series of the data to be converted, simultaneously in parallel, and outputs a plurali... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280694 | Apparatus and method for identifying an organ from an input ultrasound image signal This invention discloses an apparatus and method for identifying an organ within a human body by calculating the distances of an input ultrasound image signal and the ultrasound image signals classified by the predetermined types of organs in a database, which is ba... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277597 | Partial k-space reconstruction for radial k-space trajectories in magnetic resonance imaging A modified projection on convex sets (POCS) algorithm and method for partial k-space reconstruction using low resolution phase maps for scaling full sets of reconstructed k-space data. The algorithm can be used with partial k-space trajectories in which the trajecto... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274831 | High quality anti-aliasing An antialiasing method and apparatus suitable for antialiasing a variety of image types, including fonts, large images, and very small images. The antialiasing technique may represent the edge of a line, curve or region as a series of line segments. These line segme... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274442 | Closed-loop wavefront sensor using field programmable gate array A system capable of determining wavefront characteristics, such as air induced wavefront aberrations, includes a field programmable gate array (FPGA) device executing a phase diversity algorithm. The FPGA device can be a stand-alone device or comprise multiple FPGAs... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266494 | Method and apparatus for identifying noise environments from noisy signals A method and apparatus are provided for identifying a noise environment for a frame of an input signal based on at least one feature for that frame. To identify the noise environment, a probability for a noise environment is determined by applying the noisy input fe... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263227 | Activity detector A system and method facilitating activity (e.g., dithering/half toning and/or noise) detection is provided. The invention includes an activity detection system having a connected component analyzer and an activity detector. The invention provides for the quantity of... | 08/28/2007 |
