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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6748112 | Method and apparatus for finding shape deformations in objects having smooth surfaces The present invention is directed to an imaging apparatus for examining an object having smooth surfaces to determine shape deformations in the surface of object. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging device for obtaining a scanned image of the object to be exam... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6658145 | Fast high-accuracy multi-dimensional pattern inspection A method and apparatus are provided for identifying differences between a stored pattern and a matching image subset, where variations in pattern position, orientation, and size do not give rise to false differences. The invention is also a system for ana... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6563949 | Character string extraction apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus The connected elements of an input image are obtained and grouped based on the relative positions of the connected elements and the similarity in thickness. Then, the character recognition level of a group is obtained by performing a character recognizing... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6563950 | Labeled bunch graphs for image analysis A process for image analysis which includes selecting a number M of images, forming a model graph from each of the number of images, such that each model has a number N of nodes, assembling the model graphs into a gallery, and mapping the gallery of model... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6556713 | Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium A search result of a search target object is displayed at a high speed. By dividing an image into a plurality of areas and allocating attribute information to each area, only the area including the attribute information showing the search target object is... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6546134 | System for assessment of fine motor control in humans A biometric machine method for instantaneous assessment of the fine motor control of a human individual through analysis of that individual's handwriting dynamics in which the dynamic data concerning forces, accelerations, and the like, of a scriber, is c... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542640 | Data compressing apparatus, reconstructing apparatus, and its method A dictionary in which a character train serving as a processing unit upon compression has been registered is stored into a character train dictionary storing unit. In a character train comparing unit, the registration character train in the character trai... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6535632 | Image processing in HSI color space using adaptive noise filtering Adaptive noise filtering is applied to an image frame of HSI data to reduce and more uniformly distribute noise while preserving image feature edges. An adaptive spatial filter includes a plurality of averaging kernels. An appropriate kernel is selected f... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6535646 | Discrete cosine transform method and apparatus A linear transform apparatus for implementing a linear transform on input data values to produce linear transformed output data, the apparatus comprising: input means for inputting input data values one after another to each of a series of multiplication ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6535639 | Automatic video summarization using a measure of shot importance and a frame-packing method A measure of importance is calculated for segmented parts of a video. The segmented parts are determined by segmenting the video into component shots and then merging by iteration the component shots based on similarity or other factors. Segmentation may ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6532303 | Line direction deciding device, image inclination detecting device and image inclination correcting device A line-direction deciding device that can decide the direction of lines in an image having a complicated layout of characters as well as line directions other than vertical and horizontal line directions. The present invention provides a line-direction de... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6532305 | Machine learning method A method of machine learning utilizing binary classification trees combined with Bayesian classifiers in which a training component includes creating nodes, utilizing the expectation maximization algorithm to create statistical kernels and mixtures for le... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6529619 | Inspection data analyzing system The present invention provides data analysis stations respectively for a probing tester and an automatic particle inspection machine. And in the data analysis station, the coordinates on which the disposition of the chips are described on a product basis ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6510244 | Method and system for acquiring a three-dimensional shape description Method for acquiring a three-dimensional shape or image of a scene, wherein a predetermined pattern of lines is projected onto the scene and the shape is acquired on the basis of relative distances between the lines and/or intersections of the lines of th... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6507678 | Apparatus and method for retrieving character string based on classification of character A character string retrieval apparatus classifies a plurality of characters following a prefix of a registration character string into a plurality of groups, and registers those following characters in an array structure using a different displacement amo... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6501856 | Scheme for extraction and recognition of telop characters from video data A scheme for detecting telop character displaying frames in video image which is capable of suppressing erroneous detection of frames without telop characters due to instability of image features is disclosed. In this scheme, each input frame constituting... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6501857 | Method and system for detecting and classifying objects in an image This disclosure provides a system for classifying images, used in image detection, image recognition, or other computer vision. The system processes directory images to obtain eigenvectors and eigenvalues, and selects a set of "smooth" basis vectors forme... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6501854 | Information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a medium Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus comprising: an image acquiring means for acquiring an objective image; an identification information recognizing means for recognizing, of the objective image acquired by said image acquiring means, ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6490375 | Methods for finding peaks in a characteristic surface of an image An efficient and reliable method that identifies possible reference sites in an image is disclosed. The method emphasizes customizing the identification of reference sites for each application by providing for initialization of various parameters, such as... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6490370 | System and method for describing multimedia content A video processing device and method for generating a descriptor data structure representative of a feature that has been selected from among of plurality of features including visual, conceptual, textual and graphical of a visual animated data file inclu... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6480627 | Image classification using evolved parameters An evolutionary algorithm evolves alternative architectures and parameters for an image classification system. In a preferred embodiment, a learning system is employed, and during the training period of the learning system, the architecture of the learnin... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6477275 | Systems and methods for locating a pattern in an image In one aspect the invention provides processes for locating a pattern within an image that can comprise the acts of providing a template representative of the pattern to be located within an image. The image can be subdivided into a plurality of sub-image... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6473525 | Method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image A method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image. A pixel within a support region is selected for processing. The differences between pixel values in the region and the selected pixel are computed to form a current difference map. Whether the ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6466694 | Document image processing device and method thereof A processing device performs region identification of an input image, and then performs an intra-region recognition process. The type code of each region and the individual code of a recognition result are then displayed, so that a user can modify both of... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6466695 | Procedure for automatic analysis of images and image sequences based on two-dimensional shape primitives The invention provides an apparatus, and related method, for providing a procedure to analyze images based on two-dimensional shape primitives. In the procedure, an object representation is created automatically from an image and then this representation ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6459810 | Method and apparatus for forming variant search strings An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method for forming variant search strings. The method includes receiving a search string and parsing the search string to locate a mistaken search string character. A mistaken search string character is a char... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6459824 | Method of retrieving moving pictures using joint points based on pose information There is disclosed a method of retrieving moving pictures using joint point based moving information for allowing an user to retrieve pictures including a desired person object or the pose of the person object for still picture/moving picture data of mult... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6459821 | Simultaneous registration of multiple image fragments Method and apparatus for aligning more than two fragments of an image to assemble the image while providing high alignment quality between each pair of overlapping image fragments. Image registration operations are performed rapidly. The disclosed method ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6459809 | Searching and filtering content streams using contour transformations Methods and systems are provided for locating objects within a content stream, by transforming prospective objects and evaluating the results to identify meaningful semantic values. Transformation is accomplished using various contour transformations, pos... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6456740 | System and method for identifying form type in a handwriting recognition based form completion system The system of the present invention includes a form design component, a form description repository, and a forms processing component Each form used with the system has a layout including a form identifier field with a common location space for each given... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6445820 | Method for conducting analysis of handwriting A method for electronic analysis of handwriting samples. A digital bit-map of handwriting samples created, using a digital camera or electronic scanner. The bit-map is then marked at selected points using a cursor to obtain measurements, such as the slant... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6430314 | Method and apparatus for entering data strings including hangul (Korean) and ASCII characters Described are methods for entering and editing data strings that are inputted into cellular telephones having a screen. In one method, all basic Hangul consonants and some of the compound Hangul consonants are included in a candidate consonant list and al... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6418245 | Dynamic range expansion method for image sensed by solid-state image sensing device An image sensing device senses an image of an object in a first luminous exposure in a predetermined image sensing position to obtain image data of the image, and a second luminous exposure which is different from the first luminous exposure is determined... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6408107 | Rapid convolution based large deformation image matching via landmark and volume imagery An apparatus and method for image registration of a template image with a target image with large deformation. The apparatus and method involve computing a large deformation transform based on landmark manifolds, image data or both. The apparatus and meth... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6404925 | Methods and apparatuses for segmenting an audio-visual recording using image similarity searching and audio speaker recognition Methods for segmenting audio-video recording of meetings containing slide presentations by one or more speakers are described. These segments serve as indexes into the recorded meeting. If an agenda is provided for the meeting, these segments can be label... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400846 | Method for ordering image spaces to search for object surfaces A method determines a surface of an object in a sequence of images. The method begins by estimating a boundary of the object in each image of the sequence using motion information of adjacent images of the sequence. Then, portions of each image of the seq... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6396951 | Document-based query data for information retrieval To obtain a query for use in information retrieval, a document is scanned. The resulting text image data define an image of a segment of text in a first language. Automatic recognition is then performed on at least part of the text image data to obtain te... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6396954 | Apparatus and method for recognition and apparatus and method for learning Different types of data including voice data of a user, image data produced by picturing the mouth of the user, and ambient noise data are provided through an input unit 10. Those data are analyzed by preprocessors 20 to 23 respectively to determine chara... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393159 | Multiscale characterization and analysis of shapes An adaptive multiscale method approximates shapes with continuous or uniformly and densely sampled contours, with the purpose of sparsely and nonuniformly discretizing the boundaries of shapes at any prescribed resolution, while at the same time retaining... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6393138 | Method of creating registration signature data for computerized signature collation scheme A method of creating registration signature data for a computerized signature collation scheme. A plurality of signature data sets are averaged in order to calculate a candidate set of registration signature data. The candidate set of registration signatu... | 05/21/2002 |
