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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180175 | Reshaping a camera image Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for altering a camera image, in which the source image may be angularly displaced from a camera image. A plurality of points on the camera image is located and a mesh is generated. Compensation information based on the displa... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170372 | System and method to find the precise location of objects of interest in digital images The present invention is a method and system to precisely locate objects of interest in any given image scene space, which finds the presence of objects based upon pattern matching geometric relationships to a master, known set. The method and system prepares images... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170371 | Method of image pre-analyzing of a machine-readable form of non-fixed layout A method for pre-recognition processing of forms with non-fixed fields. One or more objects that are present on a form can be reliably identified after conversion of the form into an electronic state. Objects are preliminarily assigned to act as reference points for... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8107770 | Microscope system and method A microscope system and method is described for determining a position of an area of an object within the complete object, wherein the image of the area of the object is contained within a field of view of a microscope. Image data representing a low magnification im... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103127 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus of calculating position and orientation of target objects located in image Indices in an image of a physical space on which a plurality of indices are allocated are identified, and the positions and orientations, on the physical space, of all or some identified indices are calculated. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103128 | Graphic object collision detection with axis-aligned bounding regions calculated from inclination angle A video game device calculates an angle of an object 71, etc., with respect to a reference direction in a three-dimensional space. Then, the video game device defines a virtual cylindrical model for each of a plurality of objects so that a bottom surface of e... | 01/24/2012 |
| RE42794 | Information-inputting device inputting contact point of object on recording surfaces as information An information-inputting device is provided, which includes a plurality of photographing units photographing an area on a plane. An object located on the plane is then extracted from an image that includes the plane and the object, and it is determined whether the o... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7953294 | Reshaping a camera image Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for altering a camera image, in which the source image may be angularly displaced from a camera image. A plurality of points on the camera image is located and a mesh is generated. Compensation information based on the displa... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7916972 | Landmark-based form reading with declarative language A form reader includes a landmarks extractor configured to select textboxes of a converted document as form landmarks based on textual characteristics. A set of positional constraints constrain the form entries relative to the identified form landmarks. A constraint... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907796 | Alignment of tape cartridge accessor A method for aligning a tape cartridge accessor with cartridges in cells of a tape cartridge magazine is provided. IR illumination is applied to an object expected to include a desired physical feature. Specular reflections are received from the illuminated object t... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7889946 | Facilitating computer-assisted tagging of object instances in digital images One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates computer-assisted tagging of objects in a digital image. During operation, the system receives locations for one or more objects-of-interest in the digital image. Next, the system determines ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7869662 | System architecture for sensing an absolute position using a target pattern A location system and a location system on a chip (LCoS) and method are described. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860344 | Tracking apparatus and methods using image processing noise reduction Improved apparatus and methodology for image processing and object tracking that, inter alia, reduces noise. In one embodiment, the methodology is applied to moving targets such as missiles in flight, and comprises processing sequences of images that have been corru... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860345 | Position and orientation measurement method and position and orientation measurement apparatus The first values of position and orientation of an image sensing device are obtained by using positions of all indices in a frame image. Indices having the same inherent information between a first index group (FIG) in the frame image and a second index group (SIG) ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844131 | Lithographic apparatus, a device manufacturing method and a device manufactured thereby A method of forming images on a lithographic substrate is disclosed, the method including grouping a plurality of image regions together to form a combined image, determining or receiving a location at which the combined image is to be positioned on the substrate, c... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7796838 | Imaging apparatus, processing method of the apparatus making computer execute the methods of selecting face search directions specific to a display mode and capture mode of operation An imaging apparatus includes face detection means for searching image data from at least one direction to detect a face portion in the image data; capture mode search direction instruction means for instructing a search direction of the image data to the face detec... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7738734 | Image processing method In accordance with an image processing method, a data region is detected from input image data. The input image data is rotated in accordance with inclination of an image. Determination is made whether the data region of rotated image data protrudes from an image ar... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7653262 | Collision detection having cylindrical detection regions A video game device calculates an angle of an object 71, etc., with respect to a reference direction in a three-dimensional space. Then, the video game device defines a virtual cylindrical model for each of a plurality of objects so that a bottom surface of e... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646934 | Method and apparatus for detecting an image of a reflective object A method of detecting an image of a reflective object includes the steps of capturing an exposure image by an image sensor while an LED is ON; down-sampling an exposure image signal from the image sensor to a first digital signal by comparing the level of the first ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7634155 | Hybrid optical cylinder position sensor Consistent with an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of locating a position of a movable member is provided. The movable member is movable along a path and has a surface with a plurality of markings provided thereon. The method includes sensing an image of ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630582 | Rendering optimization method and system A method includes receiving a plurality of objects included within a print job. A first object of the plurality of objects and a second object of the plurality of objects are processed to define a first overlapping region between the first and second objects. The fi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627197 | Position measurement method, an apparatus, a computer program and a method for generating calibration information A method for measuring a position of an object according to an image of the object captured by a camera unit. The method includes the following steps: calculating a discrepancy of an incident beam of light penetrating a lens system of the camera unit relative to an ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7602996 | Microscope system and method A microscope system and method is described for determining a position of an area of an object within the complete object, wherein the image of the area of the object is contained within a field of view of a microscope. Image data representing a low magnification im... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7587102 | Method and apparatus for performing a sensor fusion to provide a position of a target-of-interest A method and apparatus are disclosed for estimating a position of a target of interest using a plurality of position detection sensors wherein for at least one of the sensors, a corresponding time-variant detection probability profile is combined with the detection ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587101 | Facilitating computer-assisted tagging of object instances in digital images One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates computer-assisted tagging of objects in a digital image. During operation, the system receives locations for one or more objects-of-interest in the digital image. Next, the system determines ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7519234 | Apparatuses and methods for incorporating a border region within an image region A hardware implemented method for incorporating a border region within an image region is provided. In this hardware implemented method, a position of a pixel along a line within the image region is first computed. The position of the pixel is then compared with an ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515773 | Facial parts position detection device, method for detecting facial parts position, and program for detecting facial parts position A facial parts position detection device which includes an image inputting device for inputting a captured face image, an ends position detecting device for detecting right and left ends position of the face on the basis of the image, a facial parts region setting d... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7492966 | Image mapping method and image mapping program An image mapping method comprising the steps of acquiring a captured image as well as positional information of an image object in the captured image and positional information of an image taking position, reading map data containing the position of the image object... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7477798 | Specified image position estimating apparatus and method, specified image position estimating program, and specified image position estimating program recorded computer-readable recording medium, medium, game system, and transaction apparatus According to the present invention, in a specified image position estimating apparatus, for, even if an original image varies in size to vary a size of a mark, detecting the mark in the original image fast and accurately to securely estimate the position of a specif... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7463790 | Calculation module A calculation module for calculating the position of a mechanical element, the calculation module being operable to receive an input signal, detect a first plurality of corresponding features in the input signal, calculate the spacing between successive features of ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460732 | Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7447381 | Method and apparatus for filtering an image Objects are detected in an image using a spatially variant filter. The size of the filter is adjusted based on the portion of the image being processed by the filter. Portions of the image which are closer to an imaging device which captured the image are processed ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440589 | Video analysis using segmentation gain by area Video segmentation methods and systems are described wherein scene images of subjects and background are captured by video and are automatically segmented according to subject content, as by system determination of the nature of subjects. Segmentation transformation... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436982 | Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, includes: an infrared imaging device that captures an image; a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object by binarizing the image; an extraction region setting device that sets, as an extraction r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433510 | Information presentation apparatus and information presentation system using the same A three-dimensional position posture relation detection unit detects a relation of relative three-dimensional position and posture between an image input unit and a target object using the image of the target object in a real space input from the image input unit. A... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430304 | Object velocity measuring apparatus and object velocity measuring method An object velocity measuring apparatus of this invention for measuring an object velocity in a photographic field from a plurality of photographic frames made up of a plurality of pixels comprises an object area extracting unit configured to extract, as an object ar... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424174 | Image processing device An image processing device comprises an image acquisition apparatus configured to acquire an image of an object, a feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature portion from a visual field of the image acquired by the image acquisition apparatus, a weighti... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421093 | Multiple camera control system A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program running on a computer is provided. The tracking system includes two or more video cameras arranged to provide different viewpoints of a region of interest, and are operable to produce a se... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7418126 | Image distortion correcting method and apparatus, and storage medium An image distortion correcting apparatus is provided with an image input section to input an image of a flat rectangular paper surface imaged by an imaging section, as an input image, an imaging position estimating section to estimate a relative imaging position of ... | 08/26/2008 |
