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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7505637 | Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a plurality of numerical values associated with features appearing on the outline of an object starting from an arbitrary poi... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505611 | Apparatus and method of input and finger print recognition on a handheld electronic device An apparatus for input and fingerprint recognition on a handheld electronic device includes (1) a touchscreen having a touch resolution portion and a fingerprint sensor distinct from the touch resolution portion; and (2) a data processor coupled to the touchscreen. ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7463794 | Optical imaging pen having an orthogonal accelerometer The invention provides for an optical imaging pen configured to capture and decode infrared (IR) position tags from a page. The pen includes a force sensor photodiode configured to sense when a nib of the pen is in contact with the page, and an LED configured to pro... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460713 | System for recording and retrieving note taking on notebook form A system for recording and retrieving note taking on a notebook form is provided. The system has a printer for printing information relating to note taking and a plurality of coded tags substantially simultaneously on a surface to generate the form, and a processor ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457432 | Specified object detection apparatus Unlike in the prior art in which the correspondence between a feature and a judgment value in an intended area is obtained by a single threshold value, the correspondence of the judgment value is obtained independently for each feature by use of a look-up table or t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454066 | Extracting method of pattern contour, image processing method, searching method of pattern edge, scanning method of probe, manufacturing method of semiconductor device, pattern inspection apparatus, and program An extracting method of a pattern contour, includes acquiring an image of a pattern to be inspected, calculating a schematic edge position of the pattern from the image, preparing an approximate polygon by approximating a polygon consisting of edges having predeterm... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454053 | System and method for automatically recovering video tools in a vision system Methods and systems for automatically recovering a failed video inspection tool in a precision machine vision inspection system are described. A set of recovery instructions may be associated or merged with a video tool to allow the tool to automatically recover and... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454049 | System and method for intelligent currency validation Currency is validated by comparing identifying information extracted from the currency, such as a serial number associated with the currency, to identifying information in a list corresponding to invalid currency, such as counterfeit currency. If the extracted ident... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450739 | Image processing apparatus and method, red-eye detection method, as well as programs for executing the image processing method and the red-eye detection method An image processing apparatus which processes an input image to detect a specified object of interest that is recorded in the input image is provided. The apparatus has a detection unit and a position determining unit. The detection unit has a plurality of identifyi... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450760 | System and method for capturing and processing business data A method and a system for interpreting information in a document are provided, with the system receiving an image of a document from a remote source and converting it into multiple sets of blocks of characters. Tags indicating likely meaning of blocks are assigned t... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444018 | Method and apparatus for shot detection A system identifies an abrupt transition in content between two frames, and determines whether the abrupt transition was caused by a shot boundary between the two frames or by a flashlight event. Identification of the abrupt transition in content includes calculatin... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440622 | System and method for arranging concept clusters in thematic neighborhood relationships in a shaped two-dimensional visual display space A set of clusters is selected from a concept space including clusters with concepts extracted to visualize document content. A theme is identified in each of the clusters. Each theme includes a concept ranked within the cluster. Unique candidate spines including clu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440620 | Infrared safety systems and methods The present invention relates to an automated safety system having at least one projector to direct electromagnetic energy into a region of space associated with a security, warning, or safety zone. A detector or detectors senses an interruption of the electromagnet... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440603 | Method and system for multi-energy tomosynthesis Briefly in accordance with one embodiment, the present technique provides a multi-energy tomosynthesis imaging system. The system includes an X-ray source configured to emit X-rays from multiple locations within a limited angular range relative to an imaging volume.... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440616 | System and method for recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink input A system and method for recognition of hand-drawn charts in ink input is provided. A chart recognizer may be provided that may recognize a hand-drawn diagram or chart in ink input. The chart recognizer may include a connectivity-based recognizer for recognizing a ha... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440607 | Outlier substrate inspection A method of detecting anomalies in a test image. Test features of pixels within the test image are selected, and reference features of pixels within at least one reference image are also selected. A signal distribution of test features and reference features in a mu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437023 | Methods, systems and computer program products for data gathering in a digital and hard copy document environment A system for easily determining viewership of articles or ads in printed publications and using the determined viewership to determine author compensation, ad rates, or other historical or demographic related information is described. The system receives scan inform... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436992 | Methods and apparatus for testing a component A method for inspecting a component. The method includes generating a scan plan of a component to be inspected, coupling a side-mount probe to an eddy current inspection system, inducing an eddy current into the component, measuring the eddy current in the component... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433494 | Moving body detecting apparatus Provided is a moving body detecting apparatus capable of detecting only a body to be notified without detecting a body similar in feature to the body to be notified. To confirm whether a break-in body appears in static images from a camera, the apparatus sets a moni... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433532 | Max entropy optimized retinal camera An enhanced entropy camera provides enhanced image quality by utilizing a custom analog-to-digital conversion function. The analog-to-digital conversion occurs according to a custom non-linear quantization function that provides enhanced entropy in the digitized ima... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433520 | Nosologic system of diagnosis Nosologic classification of diseases is accessible on line in a computer system. A computer data base has records of discriminating features, consistent features and variable features of known afflictions. The features are in classification domains which include a p... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430338 | Method and device for processing and for searching for an object by signals corresponding to images A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving the peak values in CSS space for the object outline and applying a non-linear transformation to said peak values to arrive at... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430323 | Method and apparatus for 4-dimensional image warping A method of atlas mapping and an apparatus for image mapping are provided. The method includes generating a four dimensional template, linearly transforming the four dimensional representation of a subject to the four dimensional template, generating attribute vecto... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428314 | Monitoring an environment An environment is monitored by capturing image data depicting the environment and analysing the image data to identify moving foreground objects. Upon identifying an object, the movement of said object is tracked, and graphical output data is generated providing a r... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428319 | Identification of a person based on ultra-sound scan analyses of hand bone geometry The invention disclosed provides a method of biometric identification of a person based on ultra-sound scan analyses of hand bones. For the purposes of identification/verification, a three dimensional (3D) ultra-sound scan of an individual's hand bones is acquired t... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428327 | Method and apparatus for utilizing representational images in commercial and other activities In a method and apparatus for performing commercial and other activities using one or more two- or three-dimensional representational images, superimposing a two- or three-dimensional representational image, containing an image of the workpiece in an advanced state ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428341 | Method and apparatus for lossless data transformation with preprocessing by adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding enhancement enhancements A process for improved, lossless data transformation with options for adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding. ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424155 | Two-dimensional code recognition processing method, two-dimensional code recognition processing apparatus, and storage medium A two-dimensional code recognition processing method for recognizing a two-dimensional code made of a plurality of square cells arranged in accordance with predetermined layout rules. The method comprises the steps of: generating binary data from image information a... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424150 | Systems and methods for media summarization A stream of ordered information, such as, for example, audio, video and/or text data, can be windowed and parameterized. A similarity between the parameterized and windowed stream of ordered information can be determined, and a probabilistic decomposition or probabi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421108 | Method and apparatus for detecting a workpiece, and method and apparatus for inspecting a workpiece A tire T as a workpiece mounted on a rotary table 2 is imaged by using floodlight means 10 for applying white slit light and a color CCD camera 20 for imaging a portion illuminated by the slit light while it is turned, the coordinates and bright... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421123 | 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, identificat... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418137 | System and method for accepting disparate types of user input A user interface allows a user to input handwritten, key-press, and spoken text in a seamless, synchronized manner. A text input panel accepts soft keyboard presses and handwritten words, characters, and gestures. A text recognizer/synchronizer integrates textual in... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415162 | Method and apparatus for lossless data transformation with preprocessing by adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding enhancement enhancements A process for improved, lossless data transformation with options for adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412094 | System and method for editing a hand-drawn table in ink input A system and method for editing ink objects recognized in ink input is provided. An ink parser may recognize an ink object in ink input and then an ink editing user interface may edit the ink object recognized by the ink parser. The ink parser may include a chart de... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412080 | Adaptive motion estimation Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of performing motion estimation for an array of image values obtained from a current image. The method starts with an initial estimate of the motion of the current image. The method then determines whether the initi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409107 | Input device, information device, and control information generation method An input device which generates control information by moving an object to be detected, having an image capture section which captures an image of the object to be detected, a feature point extraction section which extracts a feature point of the image captured by t... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409088 | System and method for connectivity-based recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink input A system and method for recognition of hand-drawn charts in ink input is provided. A chart recognizer may be provided that may recognize a hand-drawn diagram or chart in ink input. The chart recognizer may include a connectivity-based recognizer for recognizing a ha... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406192 | Method for determining the change in position of an item of luggage in order to examine a suspect region in this item of luggage The invention relates to a method for determining the change in position of an item of luggage in order to examine a suspect region in this item of luggage. ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400771 | System and method for connected container recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink input A system and method for recognition of hand-drawn charts in ink input is provided. A chart recognizer may be provided that may recognize a hand-drawn diagram or chart in ink input. The chart recognizer may include a connectivity-based recognizer for recognizing a ha... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400769 | Position-code bearing notepad employing activation icons An interactive product is provided. The product comprises a surface having a writing position-code region. The writing position-code region has a first subset of a position-code provided thereon which codes a plurality of positions on the writing position-code regio... | 07/15/2008 |
