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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170380 | Method and apparatus for importing, exporting and determining an initial state for files having multiple layers A method, apparatus and computer program product for importing, exporting and determining an initial state for files having multiple layers is presented. A file having a plurality of layers is imported, the file in a first format and wherein each layer of the plural... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160402 | Document image processing apparatus An image of a character string composed of M pieces of characters is clipped from a document image, and the image is divided character by character, and image features of each character image are extracted. On the basis of the image features, N (N>1, integer) pieces... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150217 | Image processing apparatus, method and program An image processing apparatus, comprising: a master image acquisition part for acquiring a master image that is the multiple viewpoint image data taken from two or more viewpoints; a recording part capable of recor... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7961987 | Efficient processing of non-reflow content in a digital image A computer system and method for efficiently processing a digital image into reflow content is presented. The method comprises each of the following as executed on a computer. A digital image is obtained for processing. The digital image includes at least some conte... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7860348 | Systems and methods for improving image quality using digital signal processing techniques A compensating technique, implemented as an image processing block inserted in a chain of sequential image processing blocks, is used to achieve custom tuning at an end-user site to provide a customer a desired image quality (IQ) different from the factory calibrate... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7849398 | Decision criteria for automated form population A method is provided for selecting fields of an electronic form for automatic population with candidate text segments. The candidate text segments can be obtained by capturing an image of a document, applying optical character recognition to the captured image to id... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7720315 | System and method for displaying and using non-numeric graphic elements to control and monitor a vision system This invention provides a system and method for employing GUI-based non-numeric slide buttons and bar meters to setup and monitor operating parameters of a vision system (the term “vision system” as used herein including the above-described vision detector). Suc... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7684654 | System and method for fault detection and recovery in a medical imaging system A system and method for fault detection and recovery in a medical imaging system are provided. The method includes monitoring operations of a plurality of subsystems of the medical imaging system and determining if an error has occurred in a subsystem based on the m... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7643706 | Image management tool with calendar interface Techniques are provided for automatically organizing and presenting photographs based on the date information associated with photographs. In one embodiment, a calendar-like user interface is provided. By interacting with the user-interface, the user can select spec... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7620271 | Image processing apparatus and method of controlling same, computer program and computer-readable storage medium The invention displays an image that conforms to an editing parameter set by the user and, depending upon the editing parameter requested, shortens the time required for the image to be displayed, thereby enhancing usability. To achieve this, the invention has a pro... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7606446 | Apparatus, method, or storage medium for image processing The present invention provides an image printing apparatus in which the consistency between image files and a print information file can be held and also the efficiency of user operation can be enhanced. When an instruction to delete the relevant one of image files ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7480422 | Systems and methods for information content delivery relating to an object A method is provided for delivering information content relating to an object. A first image of a pattern on the object is received. An outer border of the first image is detected, and a second image framed by the outer border is located. The second image is decoded... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7433064 | Printing apparatus, printing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, printing program, image processing program, and storage medium A printing apparatus includes: a unit that generates test pattern data considering visual characteristics, on the basis of a test pattern grayscale value determined on the basis of visual sensitivity; an N-value conversion unit that converts the test pattern data ge... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433548 | Efficient processing of non-reflow content in a digital image A computer system and method for efficiently processing a digital image into reflow content is presented. The method comprises each of the following as executed on a computer. A digital image is obtained for processing. The digital image includes at least some conte... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432983 | Moving-picture processing method and moving-picture processing apparatus with metadata processing A moving-picture processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire metadata including information about each temporal region in an input moving picture with a plurality of temporal regions, a decision unit configured to determine a cutout regio... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433547 | Image signal processing apparatus An object of the invention is to greatly downsize the physical circuit size by achieving balance correction between the divided areas of an image sensing area by a digital signal process for A/D-converted digital data from a CCD. There is provided an image signal pr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424171 | Image processing method and apparatus, computer program, and computer readable storage medium A developing process or editing process is performed with a high response, for raw image obtained by image sensing by a digital camera or the like. When, therefore, raw image data is input, an extraction area in the raw image data is determined on the basis of the s... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7382380 | On demand techniques for using data associated with a digital image suitable for rasterization at any resolution A mechanism that allows an image object to maintain state information that provides on-demand rasterization of its content to meet the needs of a specific application or output device is described. A modified resultant proxy image is linked with its original content... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372993 | Gesture recognition A gesture related to portions of handwritten text is recognized. Furthermore, an action is performed against the portions of the handwritten text. The action is associated with the recognized gesture. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370066 | System and method for offline editing of data files A system and method that enables a user to edit a data file offline is described. This system and method can enable a user to edit a data file without the user having to discover or deploy a solution application governing the data file. For security, this system and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362468 | Image sensing device and image processing method An image sensing apparatus comprising an image sensor that senses an image of a subject, a parameter setting unit that sets a parameter used for a predetermined developing processing, and an image processing unit that selects raw data from the image sensing unit or ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363290 | Item capture research system An item capture research system having an item capture subsystem, a transaction data archive subsystem, an image data archive subsystem and a research engine. The item capture subsystem captures and stores transaction data and image data for items, such as checks. T... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363279 | Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page A method and system for identifying the importance of information areas of a display page. An importance system identifies information areas or blocks of a web page. A block of a web page represents an area of the web page that appears to relate to a similar topic. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356204 | Image processing apparatus and method of controlling same, computer program and computer-readable storage medium The invention displays an image that conforms to an editing parameter set by the user and, depending upon the editing parameter requested, shortens the time required for the image to be displayed, thereby enhancing usability. To achieve this, the invention has a pro... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7346193 | Method for detecting object traveling direction An object of the invention is to provide a target travel direction detecting method capable of detecting the travel direction of efficiently detecting the travel direction of a target by using a small amount of information. The target travel direction detecti... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336838 | Pixel-data selection device to provide motion compensation, and a method thereof A pixel-data selection device providing motion compensation, and a method thereof. A first and a second storage parts store a current frame/field including first pixel-data and a previous frame/field including second pixel-data, respectively, corresponding to at lea... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337399 | Apparatus, system, and method for editing a region of a document intersecting multiple content component types in a single operation An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for editing a region of a document intersecting multiple content component types in a single operation. The apparatus includes an input module, a function module, an identification module, a document editing module, and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332887 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a stepping motor that drives a rotor by rotating in accordance with an input of a drive pulse, a drive pulse profile storage portion that stores the drive pulse profiles corresponding to temporal changes of the drive pulse inputte... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333966 | Systems, methods, and software for hyperlinking names Hyperlinking or associating documents to other documents based on the names of people in the documents has become more desirable. Although there is an automated system for installing such hyperlinks into judicial opinions, the system is not generally applicable to o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330610 | System and method for updating a sign-on logo image file in a computer A system for updating a sign-on logo image file in a computer includes: a storage medium (7) for storing image files; application software (1) for loading a selected image file, converting the selected image file into a designated format image file, an... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324712 | Quality factor The present invention concerns the discrimination of good measurement results measured by a computer vision system from bad results. By the method of the invention, values calculated from the observation vectors of several measuring devices can be discriminated into... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317563 | Printing method and system for making a print from a photo picture frame and a graphic image written by a user An image of a picture frame photographed on a photo film is displayed on a screen of an image input device, or is printed out as a hard copy. A graphic image is written by a user in the image of the picture frame, and graphic data of the graphic image is detected fr... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310823 | Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304482 | Characterization of the nonlinearities of a display device by adaptive bisection with continuous user refinement A method for measuring and characterizing the nonlinearities of a display device by adaptive bisection using human perception for measurement. This method makes no assumptions about a display device's characteristics and can characterize any type of display device w... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305131 | Extracting graphical bar codes from an input image Systems and methods for extracting a graphical bar code (i.e., an image that contains inconspicuous graphical modulations that encode embedded information) from an input image are described. In one aspect, estimates of position coordinates for a detected graphical b... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305435 | Internet access via smartphone camera A mobile device, system, method, and software for communicating with the internet utilizing a written universal resource locator (URL). A camera unit is used to receive a raw visual light image containing a written URL, the raw visual light image is converted to an ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302116 | Method and apparatus for reduced size image Reduced size images may be generated by separating dimensions that span the original image into a plurality of groups so that data in each group of one or more dimensions may be processed differently from data of other groups. For example, for two-dimensional images... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293023 | Method for evaluating data in elements of a communications network A method, computer-program product, and user interface are provided for verifying correct translations data network elements. Translation-verification commands are executed in batch to receive a group of data sets, which are stored in a capture file. A benchmark fil... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292795 | Image forming apparatus with carbon based fixing material An image forming apparatus has a fixing unit for fixing a toner image formed on a recording material, and a heater, for heating the fixing unit, made of a carbon-based material. In order to detect and expect the life of the heating unit with good accuracy, the image... | 11/06/2007 |
