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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175413 | Video identification through detection of proprietary rights logos in media Proprietary rights logos are detected in a video. The video is divided into a plurality of regions that are analyzed for generic proprietary rights logo features. A confidence mask is generated that comprises a plurality of scaling factors, each scaling factor corre... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160390 | Minimal artifact image sequence depth enhancement system and method Motion picture scenes to be colorized/depth enhanced (2D→3D) are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined into composite frame which becomes a visual reference database that includes dat... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8073288 | Rendering a mask using coarse mask representation A method, system and computer program product for rendering a mask are disclosed. A method of rendering a mask may comprise: providing an initial mask design for a photolithographic process, the initial mask design including polygons; initially rendering the initial... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8050517 | Method and apparatus for modulating sub-channel pixel in multi grayscale monochrome output apparatus Provided is a method and apparatus for modulating sub-channel pixels in a multi grayscale monochrome output apparatus, more particularly, a method and apparatus for modulating sub-channel pixels in a multi grayscale monochrome output apparatus that can represent a h... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8023768 | Universal front end for masks, selections, and paths A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for editing a digital image with automatic conversion of region modalities. Input comprising an instruction to perform an operation on a first portion of the digital image may be received. The firs... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8009928 | Method and system for detecting and recognizing text in images Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, system and computer program product for detecting and recognizing text in the images captured by cameras and scanners. First, a series of image-processing techniques is applied to detect text regions i... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005316 | System and method for editing image data for media repurposing The present invention is directed to a system and method which allow for the automatic cropping and file generation of images from an existing image for display on multiple devices. An image, such as a video image, is provided to an Integrated Development Environmen... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7961978 | Masking tool A system for controlling effects performed on an image includes a digital camera having a display that displays the image. A masking tool positions a graphical representation on the display, the graphical representation defining a portion of the image that is altere... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7929799 | Deformation of mask-based images An image processing method is described that allows a user to manipulate regions of interest (ROIs) in a mask based image. The user defines a stretch vector for example by ‘clicking and dragging’ a mouse pointer and an algorithm deforms the ROI according to a ro... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7848592 | Image fusion for radiation therapy An image fusion method for medical applications, comprising: a. acquiring a first image with a planned radiation region; b. acquiring a second image with actual radiation region; c. determining if ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7831108 | Universal front end for masks, selections, and paths A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for editing a digital image with automatic conversion of region modalities. Input comprising an instruction to perform an operation on a first portion of the digital image may be received. The firs... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826683 | Directional feathering of image objects This specification describes technologies relating to directional feathering of an image object. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes obtaining an image object and directional informat... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7742656 | Observation system to display mask area capable of masking privacy zone and method to display mask area An observation system for masking a privacy zone and method thereof are provided. The observation system has a camera part that photographs a certain observation area. An operation part receives a user-set command for selecting a privacy zone among the observation a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7587100 | Masking tool A system for controlling effects performed on an image includes a digital camera having a display that displays the image. A masking tool positions a graphical representation on the display, the graphical representation defining a portion of the image that is altere... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583856 | Method for determining optimal chamfer mask coefficients for distance transform The coefficients of a chamfer mask are, to within a multiplicative scale factor making it possible to give them an integer value, approximations of the Euclidian distances separating the pixels covered by the mask, from the pixel under analysis placed at the center ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7432937 | System and method for concave polygon rasterization An apparatus and method to render concave polygons. In some embodiments, the method includes setting an alpha buffer of a hardware rasterizer to zero, generating an alpha mask by rendering the concave polygon as a plurality of convex polygons of connected vertices, ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7415150 | Photomask image registration in scanning electron microscope imagery One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that computes translational differentials between a “perfect” image (henceforth called a database-image) and a scanned-image of a photomask. During operation, the system receives a noise-free database-ima... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403641 | Object recognition system An object recognition system utilizes a mask locator for extracting a mask area (M) from within a subject image in order to recognize the mask area (M) with a subject image. The mask locator (40) refers to density gradient directional images respectively conv... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397952 | “Don't care” pixel interpolation A system and method facilitating image smoothing is provided. The invention includes an image processor having an image receptor and an image smoother. The invention provides for the image smoother to alter the value of a don't care pixel based, at least in part, up... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391929 | Masking tool According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of masking comprises an operation of selecting a masking tool based on operations performed on a digital camera by a user. The masking tool is positioned over a masked portion of an image and an effect is applie... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391444 | Image pickup apparatus capable of selecting output according to time measured by timer In an image pickup apparatus, timer 2 starts a time measuring operation when a shutter button is pressed. When a time T1 is measured by timer 2, the image from CCD 1 is output as a background image to a background image buffer 4. I... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385729 | Optimization techniques during processing of print jobs Methods for processing print jobs in rendering devices include constructing display list objects for to-be-printed objects and determining if two or more sequential objects are combinable. If so, a masked indexed image replaces the objects and has dimensions matchin... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386190 | Method for image cropping A method to crop image from an irregularly shaped region. A top-left corner of the best cropping rectangle are determined by sequentially scanning the rows of the irregularly shaped region to find out the largest bounding area. By rolling back the largest bonding ar... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382936 | Surveillance camera apparatus having a selecting operation of image information in a receiving side A surveillance camera apparatus which has an image signal transmission apparatus transmitting an image signal and an image signal reception apparatus receiving an image signal from the image signal transmission apparatus. The image signal transmission apparatus has ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369285 | Method of processing image An attentional portion to be corrected in gradation of an image is specified, and a gradation corrective function with respect to a density of the specified attentional portion is generated. Preset gradation conversion characteristics are corrected with the gradatio... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359567 | Signal processing apparatus for eliminating ringing signal and method thereof, record medium, and program Image quality degrading components can be eliminated from a contour correction signal of high frequency region that is used for contour correction. A filtering section extracts a high frequency region signal from a signal inputted from a VLPF. A mask generating sect... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356183 | Segmentation method and system for multiple raster content (MRC) representation of documents A method and a system for separating an image signal into a set of image planes in accordance with a control signal. The system comprises a selector module, an edge processing module and a foreground/background separation module. The selector module receives the con... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349571 | Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349557 | Electronic transaction verification system An electronic transaction verification system for use at a location where a transaction token is presented for payment. The electronic transaction verification system digitizes various indicia of the token, and transmits the transaction information data to a central... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349583 | Global motion estimation image coding and processing The invention provides methods for global motion estimation, determining a coarse estimation, and refining a coarse estimation. Embodiments of the invention provide a fast and robust global motion estimation algorithm based on two-stage coarse-to-fine refinement str... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349578 | System and method for editing digital images A system and method for editing digital images are described. The system for editing digital images forms an image template containing a selected record of one or more image editing operations performed on a first image to obtain a first edited image. The image temp... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343617 | Method and apparatus for interaction with hyperlinks in a television broadcast A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast in which an interactive content icon is used. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a re... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340482 | Preview function in a digital data preservation system A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336809 | Segmentation in medical images A method and system of volume segmentation is disclosed. To address throughput speed and accuracy requirements, the segmentation is divided into two stages: presegmentation and detailed segmentation. In presegmentation, a digital image volume is processed to identif... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333636 | Funduscopic image processing unit and method To determine the presence or absence of an aperture mask in a funduscopic image output by a fundus camera, and to combine the funduscopic image with an aperture mask image formed in an aperture mask-forming section so as to correspond to a determination result. When... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333670 | 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... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321688 | Image processor for character recognition In image processing of a document having image data of a document including an image with character images on a background image, the character images and the background image thereof are separated. First, areas in correspondence to the character images from the ima... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7305612 | Systems and methods for automatic form segmentation for raster-based passive electronic documents Systems and methods for automatically extracting form information (document structure, elements, format, etc.) from electronic documents such as raster-based passive documents, and storing such form information in a file in accordance with a predetermined DTD (docum... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295700 | Object extraction based on color and visual texture Method and apparatus for segmenting a first region and a second region. A method for defining a boundary separating a first region and a second region of a digital image includes determining using a learning machine, based on one or more of the color arrangements, w... | 11/13/2007 |
