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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7379574 | Quantification of vascular irregularity A method to quantify the vascular irregularity of aortoiliac arteries is provided. Inner wall and/or outer wall outlines of a vessel of interest are determined. The cross sectional area is determined for the area outlined by each outline. Using this cross sectional ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7349567 | Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has an assumed pose. The projection sums are calculated for a range of an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343051 | Method of recognizing an object in an image using multi-sensor integration through conditionally optimal geoscene generation and registration A method of recognizing an object in an image using multi-sensor integration through conditionally optimal geoscene generation and registration is provided. At least two images, one of which is a conditionally optimum, ortho-rectified base image, are input and used ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333637 | Biometric identity check A portable data carrier comprises a communication means and a memory with a biometric template which is intended to be compared with a biometric sample for identity check. The biometric template is divided into a private part which is adapted to be exclusively used ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324675 | Quantification of aortoiliac endoluminal irregularity A method to quantify the radial endoluminal irregularity of aortoiliac arteries is provided. Radial endoluminal outlines of a vessel of interest are determined. The cross sectional area is determined for the area outlined by each endoluminal outline. Using this cros... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7302096 | Method and apparatus for low depth of field image segmentation A method for extracting an object of interest from an image is provided. The method initiates with defining an image feature space based upon frequency information. Then, the image feature space is filtered to smooth both focused regions and defocused regions while ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298886 | Counting biological agents on biological growth plates The invention is directed to counting techniques for counting biological agents on a biological growth plate or similar medium. In order to automate the counting of biological agents, a biological growth plate is inserted into a biological scanning unit. Upon insert... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295700 | Object extraction based on color and visual texture Method and apparatus for segmenting a first region and a second region. A method for defining a boundary separating a first region and a second region of a digital image includes determining using a learning machine, based on one or more of the color arrangements, w... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295680 | Embedding and detecting digital watermark in image An apparatus for embedding digital watermark information in an image, includes an image divider dividing the image into a plurality of partial images; and an embedder embedding in each of the partial images a digital watermark which indicates the digital watermark i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289658 | Removal of relatively unimportant shapes from a set of shapes A method for reducing a number of shapes, and a computer readable program code adapted to perform said method. The method forms first and second shape patterns. The second shape pattern includes the first shape pattern and error shapes. The error shapes are extracte... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289645 | Hand pattern switch device A hand pattern switch device recognizes a hand pattern from an image of a hand in an image pickup zone and detects a hand motion. One of controlled objects is selected based on the recognized hand pattern and/or hand motion. In accordance with the selected object, a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289654 | Automatic scoring in digital radiology, particularly in mammography A method and computer program and device for evaluation of the radiographic image quality of a phantom containing cells with two visualizable objects in which: the coordinates of each phantom cell are determined on each phantom image; for each phantom cell containin... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289672 | Methods and systems for image intra-prediction mode estimation Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for estimating a pixel prediction mode to be used in a video encoding or decoding process. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286691 | Devices and methods for biometric authentication The present invention relates to devices and a method for biometric authentication by means of reference data stored in a memory of a portable data carrier. For biometric authentication methods to make their final breakthrough with respect to more widespread ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286690 | Method for imaging of pre-stack seismic data Prestack seismic data is imaged by calculating an individual reflectivity for each frequency in the seismic data. Then, a mean reflectivity is calculating over the individual reflectivities. A variance is calculated for the set of reflectivities versus frequency. A ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283247 | Optical probe system An optical probe system comprises an optical probe that is inserted into a body cavity, a light source that generates light which is irradiated to an object, and a high-magnification observation unit included in the distal section of the optical probe. The optical p... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280705 | Tone correction method using a blending mask A digital imaging system includes an image sensor, a frame buffer and a tone correction circuit. The tone correction circuit computes tone corrected pixel data using one or more tone correction curves. In operation, tone corrected pixel data for a first pixel is com... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277562 | Biometric imaging capture system and method A method of reliably capturing biometric print images includes determining the print quality of a scanned image, detecting prints in the scanned image, and determining whether the scanned image is ready for capture. The method includes filtering the scanned image, b... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277597 | Partial k-space reconstruction for radial k-space trajectories in magnetic resonance imaging A modified projection on convex sets (POCS) algorithm and method for partial k-space reconstruction using low resolution phase maps for scaling full sets of reconstructed k-space data. The algorithm can be used with partial k-space trajectories in which the trajecto... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274825 | Image matching using pixel-depth reduction before image comparison A block-matching method reduces pixel depth prior to match evaluation to drastically reduce the computations required intensive block-matching applications such motion estimation for video compression. Pixel-depth reduction is achieved by analyzing incorporating ima... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274834 | Searching device, searching method and program A searching device includes: a storage section for storing target information; a display section for displaying target images; an instructing section for selecting a target-image among the displayed target images; and a narrowing-down controlling section for narrowi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274802 | Automatic tracking apparatus for reflector The present invention comprises an illumination portion (11), and, a light receiving portion (12) having an image sensor (27) which are disposed in a surveying machine body (8), arithmetic portion (38) for calculating a position of... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274811 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing corresponding landmarks among a plurality of images Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for automatically synchronizing multiple images. Multiple image sets of a single object are converted into a one dimensional data stream used to synchronize multiple image sets. A common refere... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272251 | Method for detecting and classifying a structure of interest in medical images A method to detect and classify a structure of interest in a medical image is provided to enable high specificity without sacrificing the sensitivity of detection. The method is based on representing changes in three-dimensional image data with a vector field, chara... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269300 | Sharpening a digital image in accordance with magnification values A method of processing a digital image having pixels to improve the sharpness of a print generated from the digital image including determining a magnification value representing the magnification of a pixel of the digital image on the print based on the number of i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266218 | Method and system for providing a measure of performance of region of interest identification algorithms A method and system provide measures of the performance of a region of interest identification algorithm. The method includes obtaining known region of interest data for an object. A candidate region of interest for that object is identified using the region of inte... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266224 | Person recognizing apparatus, person recognizing method and passage controller A person recognizing apparatus inputs a face image of a person subject to recognition through a camera and obtains the similarity of this input face image with the registered information stored in the registered information memory pre-storing face images of recogniz... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263204 | Blind watermarking method by grouping codewords for VQ-quantized images A blind watermarking method by grouping codewords for VQ-quantized images is disclosed. Especially there is provided a watermark insertion method in which a codebook is divided into three groups satisfying specific standards and a codeword is allocated based on the ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263227 | Activity detector A system and method facilitating activity (e.g., dithering/half toning and/or noise) detection is provided. The invention includes an activity detection system having a connected component analyzer and an activity detector. The invention provides for the quantity of... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260241 | Image surveillance apparatus, image surveillance method, and image surveillance processing program An image surveillance apparatus includes: an imaging section including a convex mirror having a shape of a body of rotation, the imaging section obtaining an image of an omniazimuthal region and generating image data of the omniazimuthal region; a surveillance regio... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260239 | Information processing method and information processor An information hiding system such as a digital-watermark information system has an embedding side and an extracting side for recognizing an identical character string in which digital-watermark information is embedded, and the extracting side reliably extracts all d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260252 | X-ray computed tomographic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes an index computing unit that computes motion functional indices of a particular organ from volume data of a subject including the particular organ, a polar map generating unit that generates a polar map by developing the indice... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260262 | Display control method, and program, information processing apparatus and optical character recognizer A method for controlling the display of a screen which allows the user to discriminate the scanned image and the recognition result intuitively and easily. The display control method for allowing the user to verify the recognition result of a character on a verifica... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257236 | Methods and systems for detecting and recognizing objects in a controlled wide area Methods and systems are described herein for high-speed observation and recognition of objects or persons within a controlled area using 3D image data and tomography, stereo-photogrammetry, range finding and/or structured illumination. A wide area security system ma... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257246 | Check cashing systems and methods A system for facilitating a check-cashing transaction in accordance with the present invention comprises a check-cashing apparatus and a host system in communication with the check-cashing apparatus. The check-cashing apparatus has input devices for receiving check ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254264 | Method and device for generating 3D images The invention relates to a method and to a device for generating 3D images, according to which an image of a second sequence of images is generated in addition to an image of a first sequence of 2D images at an interval that can be determined via an approximation va... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254268 | Object extraction A video sequence is processed to extract one or more objects. The extracted objects are used to create a new video sequence. In particular, a user is able to select a background and/or an audio recording. Alternatively, the object extraction system automatically sel... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254269 | Character recognition system In the prior art, in character recognition of a language having many characters, such as Japanese, a feature vector is extracted from an input pattern, distances between the feature vector and reference vectors are calculated, and a character corresponding to a refe... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254261 | Signal-adaptive noise reduction in digital radiographic images Signal-adaptive noise reduction in digital radiographic images is described herein. Embodiments comprise methods for signal-adaptive noise reduction in digital radiographic images, comprising the steps of: obtaining raw x-ray image data of an imaged object; processi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254265 | Methods and systems for 2D/3D image conversion and optimization A method that improves compensation for hard cuts and/or vertical motion effects in the conversion of 2D images to 3D images, displays 2D images to one eye and computed images to the other eye. Generating the computed images includes using an approximation variable ... | 08/07/2007 |
