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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7974499 | Method and apparatus for efficient computation of morphology operations Disclosed is an algorithm for applying a morphological operation to an image. In one embodiment, the morphological operation is iteratively applied to a focal pixel of the image and to another pixel of the image. The other pixel is located at an offset with respect ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7756363 | System and method for image processing In image processing, parallel and synchronous pixel processing elements have a pixel value register, a neighbor value register, and a processor receiving adjacent pixel and neighbor values for four adjacent pixels. In a series of iterations, the neighbor value regis... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7606445 | Methods and systems for ultrasound inspection Methods and systems for measuring indications in an image are provided. The method includes acquiring image data that includes a potential indication, processing the data such that features of the indication are enhanced, thresholding the data such that the indicati... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7382941 | Apparatus and method of compressing dynamic range of image An apparatus to compress a dynamic range of an image, and a method of compressing the dynamic range. The apparatus includes a periphery value production unit to calculate periphery information about peripheral pixels on a polyhedron-by-polyhedron basis using summed ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7359542 | Method and apparatus for detecting anomalous shadows A method and apparatus for accurately detecting the anomalous shadows occurring within an interimage image based on two or more images obtained of the same subject, wherein the artifacts occurring in the interimage image are reduced, is provided. A temporal subtract... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359536 | Automated method for image analysis of residual protein An automated method for evaluating the amount of residual protein levels following treatment of cellular specimens. Particular methods include the measurement of maternal neutrophil alkaline phosphatase after treatment with or without urea or heat, measurement of le... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7330609 | MTF measuring method and system A method of measuring a modulation transfer function (MTF) includes detecting the center of a line spread function (LSF) image in order to calculate an MTF. For this purpose, an enlarged image of a portion of an image containing the LSF image is created, and binary-... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321676 | Automatic determination of the long axis of the left ventricle in 3D cardiac imaging A diagnostic imaging apparatus generates a three-dimensional diagnostic image representation. The image representation is converted into an image representation of the patient's heart. A left lower posterior point of the heart image representation is selected as a f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313254 | Method for extracting object region The present invention discloses a method for extracting an object region in a motion picture, which can extract the object region of a current frame using different methods based on a degree of motion of the object. Especially, when the object has many motions, an o... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310437 | Image processing method and system, and storage medium An image processing method and system in which the artifacts occurring in an interimage-difference image obtained based on two or more diagnostic images taken of the same subject are reduced. An image processing procedure is performed by which the artifacts occurrin... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7295234 | DC level control method, clamp circuit, and imaging apparatus A dc level control method for holding a dc level of a clamp portion in an electric signal to be a prescribed value is disclosed, wherein the method comprises the steps of: comparing a dc level of a sampling interval in said electric signal with a predetermined refer... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277600 | Skew detection Skew angle in a document image is estimated using operators known from mathematical morphology. Skew angle in a document image (A) is estimated by run-length smoothing the image and then producing a plurality of eroded run-length-smoothed images. The run-length-smoo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278117 | Image segmentation and warping for specialized display viewing A method, program product and system for warping image data, the method comprising in one embodiment: receiving image data for an image; segmentation of the image into a plurality of regions based on regional classification of the image; obtaining a set of warping r... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269294 | Foreground erosion method and system for Multiple Raster Content (MRC) representation of documents A foreground erosion method is used to meet thin (but unbroken) text requirements using linear YCC segmentation. The method uses a fixed value subtracted from a gray selector signal, thereby thinning/eroding the foreground. In cases where the pixel would be converte... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268916 | Digital image sharpening system A system and method for sharpening a digital image (38) having one or more image parameters, for printing with one or more print parameters, and for viewing at one or more viewing parameters, the method comprising the steps of preparing sharpening radius info... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263228 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256381 | Driving an image sensor with reduced area and high image quality An image sensor includes a set of at least two pixels each sensing light of a same color coupled to a signal converter. A driver simultaneously turns on a respective switching element for transferring a respective photocurrent from a respective photodiode within eac... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245322 | Imaging apparatus The invention provides an imaging apparatus in which when a difference in sensitivity between two photosensitive elements having different sensitivities is used to achieve a wide dynamic range, a correction amount of a low sensitivity portion is determined from info... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242794 | Method and apparatus for detecting abnormal pattern candidates Processing, in which a first shape-dependent filter in accordance with a shape of a microcalcification pattern is utilized, is performed on an object image, and a fine structure image, which illustrates a fine structure area embedded in the object image, is formed. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231071 | Abnormal shadow detecting system In an abnormal shadow detecting system, a characteristic value on the shape and/or the density of a prospective area of a micro calcification shadow set in an image of an object is extracted on the basis of image data representing the image of the object, and whethe... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209186 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for high speed real-time processing The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. The image processing apparatus includes: a first to a fourth writing FIFO unit and a first to a fourth reading FIFO unit (hereinafter referred to as “FIFO units”) for te... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7174050 | Space-optimized texture maps A method, system, and computer program product for adjusting a unit image area within an input image according to information importance within the unit area. An image receiver configured to receive the input image. An image warper is coupled to an importance map as... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167200 | CMOS image sensor oversaturation protection circuit An oversaturation protection circuit is provided within a CMOS image sensor. A detector is arranged to monitor an output column line that is associated with a pixel to determine whether the pixel is oversaturated after being reset. If the pixel is oversaturated afte... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7155041 | Anomalous shadow detection system An improved anomalous shadow detection system enables more reliable and efficient image diagnosis of an image of a suspected anomalous shadow etc. outputted by image output means. The image output means displays values of standard parameters concerning the suspected... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142732 | Unsupervised scene segmentation A method of segmenting objects in an image is described. The method applies a Top Hat algorithm to the image then constructs inner and outer markers for application to the original image in a Watershed algorithm. The inner marker is constructed using binary erosion.... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130483 | Method for enhancing a digital image while suppressing undershoots and overshoots A method is provided for enhancing the details of an image while suppressing or preventing shoots that would otherwise occur during a prior art enhancement process. The enhancing method is based on recognizing that Shoots are likely to occur at edges of an image to ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126383 | High speed source synchronous signaling for interfacing VLSI CMOS circuits to transmission lines A system of the present invention uses small swing differential source synchronous voltage and timing reference (SSVTR and /SSVTR) signals to compare single-ended signals of the same slew rate generated at the same time from the same integrated circuit for high freq... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123768 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123783 | Face classification using curvature-based multi-scale morphology An image classification system uses curvature-based multi-scale morphology to classify an image by its most distinguishing features. The image is recorded in digital form. Curvature features associated with the image are determined. A structuring element is modulate... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7106895 | Method and apparatus for inspecting reticles implementing parallel processing Disclosed is an apparatus for analyzing a plurality of image portions of at least a region of a sample. The apparatus includes a plurality of processors arranged to receive and analyze at least one of the image portions, and the processors being arranged to operate ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102793 | Image filtering method A method of filtering an input image is provided. In a creating action, a boolean tone map is created based on the input image and an array of tone nodes. In a determining action, it is determined whether or not a target pixel is in a tone region by examining the ta... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091995 | Method for morphing geometric shapes based upon direction map The present invention provides a method for morphing different geometric shapes while not using algebraic characteristics and overcoming inefficiency of Minkowski sum computation. The method for geometric shape morphing by using direction map so as to smoothly morph... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7076318 | Method and system for managing semiconductor manufacturing equipment A management method capable of making an accurate decision about a malfunction of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment includes sampling a plurality of data of at least one parameter under normal operating conditions of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7062100 | System for selecting a compression method for image data In an image-data processing system, as would be found in a digital copier or scanner, a relatively quick calculation is performed to estimate a compression ratio or compression time resulting from applying a compression algorithm to an image data set. If the estimat... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7046284 | CMOS imaging system with low fixed pattern noise A CMOS imager system including an active pixel sensor having an access supply which provides distributed feedback, a column buffer (having gain and FPN suppression), and an A/D converter co-located with the sensor such that the effective transmission path between th... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043066 | System for computerized processing of chest radiographic images A method, system and computer readable medium for computerized processing of chest images including obtaining a digital first image of a chest (S100); producing a second image which is a mirror image (S300) of the first image; performing image warping ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027665 | Method and apparatus for reducing image acquisition time in a digital imaging device A method and apparatus is provided for reducing the image acquisition time in a digital imaging device by processing segments of the image through an image processing pipeline and storing the processed image segments. Processing segments of the image allows the digi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027649 | Computing the Euler number of a binary image An Euler number representation of a binary image is calculated. The binary image is considered as a series of partial images. The Euler number for each partial image is calculated using properties of runs of zeros and ones in the pixel matrix, and the results are co... | 04/11/2006 |
