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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8090219 | Systems and methods for socially-based correction of tilted images Systems and methods for socially-based correction of tilted images. In an embodiment, the present invention levels tilted images by (1) receiving an image; (2) rotating the image by a random angle; (3) requesting at least one user rotate the image to level the image... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081844 | Detecting orientation of digital images using face detection information A method of automatically establishing the correct orientation of an image using facial information. This method is based on the exploitation of the inherent property of image recognition algorithms in general and face detection in particular, where the recognition ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8036492 | Method of detecting the orientation of an object in an image A method of detecting the orientation of a radiographic image represented by a digital signal representation wherein mathematical moments of the digital signal representation are calculated relative to different reference entities and wherein a decision on the orien... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023772 | Rendering images under cylindrical projections Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for forming composite images. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a set of component images for forming a composite image, defining a projecti... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7995866 | Rotation angle detection apparatus, and control method and control program of rotation angle detection apparatus A rotation angle detection apparatus which detects a rotation angle with respect to a reference disposition position of an object included in a detection subject image, includes: a plurality of kinds of pixel extraction pattern for extracting a plurality of pixels w... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995867 | Image processor and method of image rotation A method of rotating a digital image includes performing a first pass to process a selected image tile of a source image. The first pass includes copying a set of pixels of the selected image tile from a first memory to a processor memory, where the set of pixels co... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7876977 | Image processor and method of image rotation A method of rotating a digital image includes performing a first pass to process a selected image tile of a source image. The first pass includes copying a set of pixels of the selected image tile from a first memory to a processor memory, where the set of pixels co... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7844135 | Detecting orientation of digital images using face detection information A method of automatically establishing the correct orientation of an image using facial information. This method is based on the exploitation of the inherent property of image recognition algorithms in general and face detection in particular, where the recognition ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835593 | Apparatus and method of video transformation in video encoder An adjusting apparatus for adjusting a sensed image from a first angle to a second angle is provided. The adjusting apparatus includes a first memory module, a first calculating module, an encoding module, and an output module. The first memory module is used for re... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822292 | Rendering images under cylindrical projections Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for forming composite images. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a set of component images for forming a composite image, defining a projecti... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7796839 | Method of detecting the orientation of an object in an image A method of detecting the orientation of a radiographic image represented by a digital signal representation wherein mathematical moments of the digital signal representation are calculated relative to different reference entities and wherein a decision on the orien... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7783133 | Rotation compensation and image stabilization system An image processing system is arranged to provide rotation compensation and image stabilization in a video scope system such as in endoscopy and laparoscopy systems. The image processing functions may operate at real-time frame rates so that the resulting processed ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773830 | Image processing apparatus and method Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which, when processing speed is deemed important, as when performing frame-advance playback or a scrolling display, a low-resolution display is presented using an image reduced to a size smaller than the display size. Wh... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765466 | Information processing apparatus that stores a plurality of image data items having different data-formats and communicates with an external apparatus via a network, and method therefor An information processing method for providing a communication terminal with a service. When editing in a lump of a plurality of held data to which the services are to be applied is received an instruction from the communication terminal, data capable of undergoing ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764847 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and recording material An image processing apparatus which forms an image on a recording medium by alternately driving a plurality of heaters linearly arranged in a main scanning direction alternately replaces even-numbered pixels and odd-numbered pixels of first image data in the main sc... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7747106 | Method and system for filtering, registering, and matching 2.5D normal maps An iterative approach to vector median filtering wherein the resulting median vector need not be a member of the original data set. The iterative vector median filtering allows for fast convergence for complex computations and an output which is approximate to the m... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7583858 | Image processing based on direction of gravity A method of processing a digital image to produce an improved digital image, includes receiving the digital image captured with a camera; determining a first vanishing point associated with the digital image; determining a second vanishing point associated with the ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7565030 | Detecting orientation of digital images using face detection information A method of automatically establishing the correct orientation of an image using facial information. This method is based on the exploitation of the inherent property of image recognition algorithms in general and face detection in particular, where the recognition ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7512287 | Method and apparatus for efficient image rotation The invention is generally directed to a method and apparatus for efficient rotation of an image. The image is preferably defined by an image matrix in which each datum of the image corresponds to a particular image row and a particular image column of the image mat... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7474804 | Method for automatically correcting skew image A method for correcting skew images. The method first groups a scanned image into blocks with N*N pixels, and detects all the blocks to find out the edge areas with the larger luminance or chrominance difference afterward. Next, gradient angles of the edge areas are... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7442930 | Method for correcting distortions in electron backscatter diffraction patterns A method is provided for correcting magnetic field distortions in an electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) pattern. An EBSD pattern is firstly generated from a sample placed within an electron microscope. A predetermined representation of a magnetic field in the m... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438231 | Method for detecting forged barcodes A method of printing a two-dimensional barcode by tilting the print head, which results in tilted barcode, and methods of detecting various types of attempts to forge the tilted barcode including: (i) a low level forgery that consists of a simple scan and reprint of... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437019 | Apparatus and method for image processing, image processing program and recording medium storing the image processing program An image processing apparatus has an image processing section for synthesizing image information in the form of digital signals and template information. The apparatus stores in advance the template information having a reference posture set to correspond to either ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433543 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image sensing apparatus An image processing method is for processing image data that has been captured by an image sensing apparatus having an image sensing device in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arrayed two-dimensionally for outputting an electric signal in a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423540 | Method of detecting vehicle-operator state A method of detecting the state of an operator of a vehicle utilizes a low-cost operator state detection system having no more than one camera located preferably in the vehicle and directed toward a driver. A processor of the detection system processes preferably th... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415168 | Image reading device An image reading apparatus has a data calculation unit (31,32) to calculate moving average data and second derivative data for a plurality of samples made of multivalued data, a position detection unit (41, 42) to detect first and second positions at w... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412095 | Preprocessing of multi-line rotated electronic ink An electronic ink object is preprocessed for improving handwriting recognition results. An electronic ink object, possibly having multiple lines of non-horizontal ink, is preprocessed by segmenting or separating the electronic ink object into one or more lines, comp... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411593 | Image rotation with substantially no aliasing error A system, method and program product for rotating a first image in an image buffer such that the resulting, rotated image is substantially free of an aliasing error, i.e., broken lines, stair stepped edges, etc., is disclosed. An algorithm is applied to the first im... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409106 | Image generating device, image generating method, and image generating program Designed to determine a number of frames of data for acquisition from video data on the basis of image quality setting data that allows image quality to be set for an image output by an image output device; and to acquire from the video data the determined number of... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409109 | Apparatuses and methods for incorporating a border within an image by defining a portion of the border A hardware implemented method for incorporating a border region within an image region is provided. In this method, a portion of the border region is stored in memory. Thereafter, a determination is made as to a relative position of a pixel within the image region. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409105 | Panoramic maker engine for a low profile system A method for generating a panoramic image includes receiving a first image, dividing the first image into a first portion and a second portion, rotating the first portion of the first image, saving the rotated first portion of the first image in a nonvolatile memory... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400782 | Image warping correction in forming 360 degree panoramic images A method for creating a 360 degree panoramic image from multiple images includes (1) computing a gross rotation error ΔR between a first image and a calculated first image rotated to be stitched to a last image, and (2) spreading the gross rotation error ΔR to eac... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394563 | Image forming apparatus that executes an image trimming process with priority over other commands, method therefor, and storage medium storing a program therefor An image forming apparatus processes data described in a predetermined descriptive language. A module interprets a storage location of image data of an image described according to the predetermined descriptive language and a module obtains the image data based on t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391892 | Universal digital subtraction phantom and analysis system and method According to one embodiment, the present technique provides a phantom for testing imaging device. The exemplary phantom includes a first portion having groups of vessels, which are filled with a radiographically opaque substance (i.e., a contrast agent). The each gr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386191 | Decoding and error correction in 2-D arrays A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repeating array in which the array is unique for every sub window of a given size. The image of the sub window m... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386160 | System and method for determining image resolution using MICR characters A system and method for determining the image resolution of a check image using MICR characters. The disclosed system includes an extracting system for extracting a magnetic ink code recognition (MICR) code line from the document image, wherein the extracting system... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376289 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus Image data having a total number of pixels being H×V is written in SDRAM having an enough number of recording domains capable of storing all the pixel data of the image data and the number of Column addresses set therein at 2n (4≦n) in the order of lin... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376285 | Method of auto-deskewing a tilted image A method of auto-deskewing a titled original image is provided. Frist, obtain an original image by scanning to acquire values of pixels in the original image. Next subject the original image to a binarization process. And, set a datum line in the original image. The... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376286 | Block-based rotation of arbitrary-shaped images An apparatus, program product and method for rotating image data using a block-based approach, wherein for each of a plurality of blocks of image data that define an image, a translation vector is applied to the block to translate the block a desired angle of rotati... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7359098 | System and method for testing scan and fax jobs A system and method for testing scan and fax jobs includes receiving a job request from a user to scan or fax an image, the job request including one or more parameters, providing a test image based on the one or more parameters for the job request, generating a tes... | 04/15/2008 |
