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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463755 | Method for correcting motion vector errors caused by camera panning A method of correcting errors in motion vectors due to camera panning includes identifying an error block that contains an error motion vector out of a plurality of blocks in a current video frame, each block in the current video frame containing a corresponding mot... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457454 | Detailed grey scale inspection method and apparatus A method for inspecting semiconductor wafers and the like is presented. The method comprises initially determining a baseline greyscale difference, such as a greyscale plot or greyscale visual representation, for at least one baseline semiconductor wafer subjected t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7421105 | Method for staining corneocytes, method for preparing corneocytes specimen and skin analysis system A method for preparing corneocites specimen, which comprises stripping off corneocites from the surface of a skin using an adhesive material, staining the corneocites in a solution of stain in solvent containing a water-miscible organic solvent, and mounting the sta... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418117 | Liquid crystal display device performing both image display mode and fingerprint recognition mode Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device of novel construction, in which a fingerprint recognition device is integrally formed with the liquid crystal display device, thereby minimizing the increase in the price and size of a final product. The liquid crystal di... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418124 | Qualifying patterns, patterning processes, or patterning apparatus in the fabrication of microlithographic patterns Methods that include acquiring aerial images of a reticle for different values of a member of a set of lithographic variables are provided. One method also includes determining a presence of an anomaly in a design pattern of the reticle by comparing at least one pai... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7379581 | Method for recognizing a pattern of an alignment mark on a wafer A method for recognizing a pattern of an alignment mark on a wafer includes positioning the wafer on an adjustable wafer stage in an alignment apparatus; capturing images of a key alignment mark by magnifying an alignment mark region of the wafer; deleting image dat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379602 | Extended Isomap using Fisher Linear Discriminant and Kernel Fisher Linear Discriminant A method for representing images for pattern classification extends the conventional Isomap method with Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) or Kernel Fisher Linear Discriminant (KFLD) for classification. The extended Isomap method estimates the geodesic distance of dat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7362918 | System and method for de-noising multiple copies of a signal A “composite signal generator” automatically combines two or more copies of a signal to produce a composite that is better than the individual copies. For example, given two or more input images of a scene captured from approximately the same viewpoint, the comp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362915 | Method for enhancing the contrast of an image The contrast of an image is enhanced by converting pixels of detail images of a multi-scale digital representation of the image according to a conversion function. The conversion function is monotonically increasing and odd and provides maximum amplification within ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359572 | Automatic analysis and adjustment of digital images with exposure problems Techniques and tools for analyzing and adjusting the exposure of digital images are described. For example, a computer processes a digital image by analyzing exposure data, assigning an image classification (e.g., StretchNeeded, UnderExposed, OverExposed, or Normal)... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7317812 | Method and apparatus for robustly tracking objects The present invention pertains generally to the field of computer graphics user interfaces. More specifically, the present invention discloses a video image based tracking system that allows a computer to robustly locate and track an object in three dimensions withi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310446 | Recognition device and method A recognition device which judges whether a target is identical with a predetermined reference, comprising: a holding unit which holds the target; multiple deformation units which deform the target held by the holding unit with at least one degree of flexibility in ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308139 | Method, system, and apparatus for color representation of seismic data and associated measurements The present invention is a method, system, and apparatus for visually displaying digitized information in a way that allows a human operator to detect easily patterns and characteristics within the data. A personal computer is used to extract raw data and to perform... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295710 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including symbolic modeling An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes pre-stored symbolic models to support a three phase symbolic reshaping scheme during the symbol recognition process that includes: (a) deriving dissimilarity level from alphanumeric ID's net topological va... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277584 | Form recognition system, form recognition method, program and storage medium A plurality of binary images are obtained from one form image by binarizing the form image by using a plurality of binarizing threshold values for improving a recognition rate of the search form irrespective of a state of the inputted form image, and format data are... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7242805 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including database modeling An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes multiple representations of each alphanumeric in the database by identifying a finite number of exemplars per alphanumeric symbol. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242807 | Imaging of biometric information based on three-dimensional shapes A device for carrying out of biometric identification by comparing face shapes. The shape of a first face is compared with the shape of a second face. A map can be determined between the shapes. The shape, and hence the comparison, is substantially independent of po... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239749 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including evidence-based technique An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes an evidence-based technique to significantly reduce the alphanumeric candidate symbol list. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236631 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including logical symbols An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes the basis for the system's feature set by identifying (a) a set of logical symbols comprising a finite class of arcpolys (lines and arcs and a point) that to the exclusion of the point, each member class h... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227995 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including spatial reasoning An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes a hierarchical hypothesis-and-verification technique during various stages of the handwriting recognition process, whereby a series of initial assessments are made based on the information availed upon the... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227984 | Method and apparatus for identifying defects in a substrate surface by using dithering to reconstruct under-sampled images A surface inspection apparatus in accordance with the principles of the invention includes an optical system having a plurality of time delay integration (TDI) sensors. The plurality of TDI sensors are arranged to generate a plurality of images of an object so that ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221796 | Character input device, character input method and character input program A character input device for inputting a character by extracting and recognizing a character from an image of a document photographed by a photographing device includes the photographing device. The device stores a recognition result of the extracted and recognized ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218782 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including multi-phase symbolic reshaping An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes a three phase symbolic reshaping scheme during the symbol recognition process that includes: (a) deriving dissimilarity level from alphanumeric ID's net topological variation and the integration of each of... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203368 | Embedded bayesian network for pattern recognition A pattern recognition procedure forms a hierarchical statistical model using a hidden Markov model and a coupled hidden Markov model. The hierarchical statistical model supports a pa 20 layer having multiple supernodes and a child layer having multiple nodes associa... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184580 | Fingerprint scar recognition method and apparatus A method of recognizing an injury pattern on a fingerprint is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing biometric information to a contact imager; imaging and characterizing the biometric information; comparing an image of the biometric information agai... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181049 | Authentication object image-pickup method and device therefor In an iris image pickup method in which an image signal picking up an iris is allowed to pass through a high-pass filter (41L) and a lens position in which an output of the high-pass filter (41L) indicates a peak value is searched by a mountaineering m... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177458 | Reduction of false alarms in PCB inspection A method for automatically optically inspecting an electrical circuit (12), comprising: acquiring at least one optical image of an electrical circuit (12); generating at least one first inspection image from the at least one image and determining regio... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171034 | Method and system for phase/amplitude error detection of alternating phase shifting masks in photolithography A method for detecting phase and amplitude error of an alternating phase shifting mask is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes passing a collimated light beam through a pair of adjacent, phase shifted openings in the phase shifting mask. Then, ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171043 | Image recognition using hidden markov models and coupled hidden markov models An image processing system useful for facial recognition and security identification obtains an array of observation vectors from a facial image to be identified. A Viterbi algorithm is applied to the observation vectors given the parameters of a hierarchical statis... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164798 | Learning-based automatic commercial content detection Systems and methods for learning-based automatic commercial content detection are described. In one aspect, program data is divided into multiple segments. The segments are analyzed to determine visual, audio, and context-based feature sets that differentiate commer... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7149356 | System and method for template matching of candidates within a two-dimensional image The present invention includes a method for matching a stored template with an image of an object. This is a final stage identification device in the at least one candidate array is received from a prescreener and/or intermediate discriminator. The candidate array i... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149343 | Methods for analyzing defect artifacts to precisely locate corresponding defects Described are methods and systems for providing improved defect detection and analysis using infrared thermography. Test vectors heat features of a device under test to produce thermal characteristics useful in identifying defects. The test vectors are timed to enha... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146057 | System and method for image analysis using a chaincode The present invention includes a method for analyzing an image to screen for target candidates wherein an edge-follower detects straight segments within a plurality of longer edges and detects also from the longer edges, contours that go around areas that are the ri... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142699 | Fingerprint matching using ridge feature maps A method for matching fingerprint images is provided. The method includes the steps of acquiring a query image of a fingerprint; extracting a minutiae set from the query image; comparing the minutiae set of the query image with a minutiae set of at least one templat... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139416 | Method for enhancing the contrast of an image The contrast of an image is enhanced by converting the digital signal representation of the image according to a conversion function that is derived from a parameterized conversion function q(x) by giving specific values to the parameters of the function. Specific v... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133560 | Generating processing sequences for image-based decision systems A multilevel Chain-And-Tree (CAT) model provides a framework to facilitate highly effective image analysis and measurement. Methods are described to automatically or semi-automatically create a processing sequence for image based decision applications using the CAT ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130452 | System and method for multi-party validation, authentication and/or authorization via biometrics A system and method for multi-party authentication is described. The multi-party authentication process uses synchronous and persistent biometrics signals received from parties to a transaction, based on a policy, to approve a transaction request. The biometrics sig... | 10/31/2006 |
