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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160389 | Method for overlapping visual slices Image editing tools are commonly used to assist with manipulating and saving visual compositions. Many image editing tools provide slicing functionality to create images slices (sub-images) of the visual composition. As provided herein, a slice representation of a v... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150208 | Image pickup apparatus having stability checker for specific object feature value, and program and method for control of image pickup including checking stability of specific object feature value A digital still camera includes a CCD image sensor for photographing an object image by photoelectric conversion, to obtain image data. A face detector determines a face feature value of a human face at an object image by image recognition according to the image dat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8107768 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program An image processing apparatus which makes it possible to automatically defining a processing area in which image processing is to be performed according to the type of image processing, to thereby improve user friendliness. A starting point and an ending point are d... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098955 | Efficient selection and application of regions of interest in digital imaging An imaging device has a plurality of predefined regions of interest. The predefined regions of interest may be selected or deselected. Image data from selected regions of interest is transmitted to a host. In some embodiments the regions of interest comprise tiles. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8055096 | Method and system for incremental patching of binary files An incremental patch is generated as a set of delta files or sector-specific patches, intended to be applied incrementally to an old binary image. Each sector-sized patch takes into account changes to the binary image made by previous patches in the series, such tha... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045824 | Wavelet transformation-based image encoder, decoder and method for generating thumbnail image Disclosed are a wavelet transformation-based image encoder, decoder and method for generating a thumbnail image. In the present invention, an original image is tiled according to a preset tiling scheme, and wavelet transformation is performed for each tiled image. A... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031970 | Method of restoring closed-eye portrait photo The present invention is to provide a method of restoring closed-eye portrait photo, which comprises the steps of detecting the locations and range of the eyes of a portrait photo being taken, retrieving a patch of a designated range of the eyes area and its neighbo... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019176 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus A CG image having a transparency parameter is superimposed on a shot image, which is an image picked up by an image-pickup device, to obtain a combined image. The combined image is displayed in a combined-image-display region. In the combined image, a mask region of... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019175 | Region-of-interest processing for video telephony The disclosure is directed to techniques for region-of-interest (ROI) processing for video telephone (VT) applications. According to the disclosed techniques, a recipient device defines ROI information for video information transmitted by a sender device, i.e., far-... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014630 | Method and apparatus for representing image data using digital filtering and adaptive parameterization In one embodiment, a method for encoding source data includes defining a source polygon using a parametric representation associated with the source data, and identifying one or more portions of the source polygon. The method further includes passing a filter throug... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7974493 | Personalizing a video Processes and apparatus for personalizing video through partial image replacement are disclosed. Personalization may include partial or full replacement of the image of an actor, an object or both. Personalization may also include insertion or replacement of an obje... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970238 | Method and apparatus for acquiring image of internal structure, and computer product An apparatus for acquiring an internal-structure image of an object from a plurality of images of the object photographed by a photographing unit includes a control unit that controls the photographing unit to obtain the images under different photographing conditio... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7945116 | Computer-assisted image cropping for book scans Methods and systems for cropping images of book pages are disclosed according to one embodiment of the invention. A method may include identifying reference images and receiving cropping rectangles for the reference images. These cropping rectangles associated with ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7899268 | Method and apparatus for acquiring image of internal structure, and computer product An apparatus for acquiring an internal-structure image of an object from a plurality of images of the object photographed by a photographing unit includes a control unit that controls the photographing unit to obtain the images under different photographing conditio... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7865037 | Memory load balancing An inspection system for detecting anomalies on a substrate. A first network is coupled to a sensor array and communicates data. Process nodes are coupled to the first network, and process the data to produce reports. Each process node includes memory sufficient to ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7813588 | Adjusting source image data prior to compressing the source image data Embodiments of image processing are described that include receiving source image data including a range of values having endpoints, adjusting the source image data by treating at least one subset of endpoint data differently from data having midrange values, where ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7706630 | Method and device for extracting a subset of data from a set of data A method for extracting a subset of data from an ordered set of bi-dimensional matrices (data arrays) such as a sequence of pictures or a multi-dimensional matrix, for instance, is implemented by dedicated hardware that may be used each time it is necessary to extra... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7689062 | System and method for virtual content placement An apparatus and method for embedding artwork into a video in several phases. Initially, a segment suitable for artwork placement is identified and marked within an original video, and a container is implanted therein to determine the appropriate position and video ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680358 | Image processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program When the data is divided into blocks each having a set block size, and image data includes an object which extends over a plurality of blocks, the object is divided based on object information associated with the object. The object information of the divided object ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7643701 | Imaging apparatus for correcting a distortion of an image A document camera (1) detects a figure of a known shape on a stage (13) and acquires the coordinates of the figure, and acquires image processing area and projection correction parameter. The document camera (1) extracts image data of the image ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643700 | Processing of coded data according to user preference An image processing apparatus for processing coded data of still images or moving pictures includes a code selection controlling unit to select, from the coded data, codes that match classifications provided in a code selecting list, in which the classifications are... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7602993 | Image processing and display using a plurality of user movable viewer areas The image processing method includes specifying an original image to be processed, displaying the specified original image, dividing the image into a plurality of movable or transformable areas, selecting one of the divided areas, specifying image processing to be p... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7577312 | Image sequence enhancement system and method Motion picture scenes to be colorized are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined separately into single frame representations of multiple frames which becomes a visual reference database... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7529427 | Zoom algorithm Methods to zoom a region of interest from a digital image have been achieved. The methods invented support according to the scale of zooming the decrease or the increase of the resolution of digital images. The region of interest to be zoomed is variable; the destin... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7515769 | Mapping-data analyzing method and apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a mapping-data analyzing method that can display a map in which sufficient information is extracted from the spectra of obtained mapping data to enable objective analysis. The mapping-data analyzing method of the p... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7483589 | Method for copying objects A method for copying objects smaller than a background defined by a scanner of an apparatus includes scanning a plurality of objects to acquire image data associated with the plurality of objects and the background; cropping the image data to remove object data for ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7457479 | Image playback apparatus To provide an image playback apparatus that enables an image picked up and recorded with a wide dynamic range to be changed to the exposure desired by a viewer. An apparatus that performs image playback by outputting, to a monitor or printer, image data stored in an... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457480 | Bright line plot processing method and computer program product for bright line plot processing A method of plotting a bright line which starts from the pixel at a bright point in an image where a more natural mode of a cross filter effect can be applied to any digital photographic image. The bright line plot processing method includes steps of generating an i... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454085 | Method and apparatus for the creation of textures and borders for digital images First and second digital images are provided. A user is given the choice of using the first image as a texture or a border for the second digital image. A portion of the first image may be selected for use as the texture or border. As necessary, the first and second... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7440621 | Attractive facial image determining system An attractive facial image determining system, including a first detecting section for detecting lateral angle points of both eyes in a facial image; a second detecting section for detecting oral angle points; a constructing section for constructing a rectangle whic... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436408 | Computer program for generating pictures First and second areas are designated in a source picture. A start picture is generated from a portion of the source picture which extends in the first area. An end picture is generated from a portion of the source picture which extends in the second area. At least ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436411 | Apparatus and method for rendering a video image as a texture using multiple levels of resolution of the video image A method and apparatus to generate one or more graphics textures of a video image, wherein graphics textures have differing resolutions, and to render the video image as a graphics texture using the one or more graphics textures of differing resolutions. The one or ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428344 | System and method for detecting obstacle A computer readable storage medium storing instructions of a computer program which when executed by a computer results in performance of steps including inputting a first image and a second image from two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a tra... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425958 | Perspective editing tools for 2-D images Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, to provide an image editing application including a perspective editing tool for performing edits in regions of an image having perspective. The perspective editing tool enables the user to iden... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424147 | Method and system for image border color selection An exemplary method for selecting a color of a border surrounding an image, includes segmenting the image into regions, selecting a region not containing any color that is present at an outer edge of the image in an amount exceeding a threshold value, and selecting ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421149 | Object detection A system and associated methodology of detecting objects using multiple sets of object probability data relating to different respective expected object sizes relative to the image size. A list of locations in an image where an object has been detected is stored, th... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421154 | Image processing method The image searching method extracts or recognizes specific information for an image that exists in the image and/or accompanies it, allows either the specific information itself or related information thereof to be appendant to image data for the image, stores the i... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421125 | Image analysis, editing and search techniques Disclosed is a method for characterizing the content of a digital image. A component of the method is the homogeneity measure, which calculates a value or values based on the local similarity of portions of a sample area. A further component is a means of optimally ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415160 | Terminal and method for transporting still picture Terminal and method for transporting a still picture uses a moving picture terminal after extraction of a frame unit of still pictures, for example, from a moving picture. The extracted still picture frames can be encoded in a fixed quantizing value and stored befor... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415165 | Red-eye detection device, red-eye detection method, and red-eye detection program A red-eye detection device includes a red-eye candidate detection section, a red-eye pair specification section, and an isolated red-eye candidate check section. The red-eye candidate detection section detects a red-eye candidate that can be estimated to be a red-ey... | 08/19/2008 |
