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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| 7062103 | Method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system A method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises specifying scalar quantization for application to one or more bit planes of luminance information in image data using a human ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058218 | Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data The present invention provides for a method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method of compressing a color cell comprises the steps of: defining at least four luminance levels of... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6983074 | Data compression system and technique Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are used to compress a true color image in such a way that the compressed image may be decompressed by a decompression method according to a dictionary-based compression technique. A color table defines a m... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980671 | Rapid computer modeling of faces for animation Described herein is a technique for creating a 3D face model using images obtained from an inexpensive camera associated with a general-purpose computer. Two still images of the user are captured, and two video sequences. The user is asked to identify five facial fe... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973217 | Method and apparatus for sending additional sideband information in a codestream A method and apparatus for sending additional sideband information in a codestream is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a JPEG 2000 codestream of compressed image data having sideband information hidden therein and decompressing the codest... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6965696 | Image processing device for image region discrimination An image processing device of the present invention is provided with four kinds of sub masks in total including two kinds in a main scanning direction and two kinds in a sub scanning direction, in a main mask constituted by a plurality of pixels including a target p... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6959119 | Method of evaluating cosmetic products on a consumer with future predictive transformation A method kit is provided for demonstrating the effects of a cosmetic product on a consumer's body, especially effects over a period of time. The method includes applying a cosmetic product to the body, capturing an image of the consumer, displaying the image on a mo... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6959098 | Method and system for determining image transformation A watermark decoding method makes use of a line-finding algorithm (e.g., the Radon transform) to determine rotation of an image from an initial orientation. Once rotation has been characterized, differential scaling of the image can readily be determined. ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952484 | Method and apparatus for mark detection Disclosed is a method of detecting a predetermined mark embedded in an image. The mark (29) comprises a predetermined arrangement of a plurality of elements (30), each element having a predetermined colour characteristic and predetermined shape. The me... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6937744 | System and process for bootstrap initialization of nonparametric color models The present invention is embodied in a system and process for automatically learning a reliable color-based tracking system. The tracking system is learned by using information produced by an initial object model in combination with an initial tracking function to p... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6922492 | Video deblocking method and apparatus Digital video imagery is deblocked as a function of horizontal and/or vertically oriented pixels that share a common attribute (such as a corresponding pixel value). In particular, a deblocking filter can be selected from amongst a plurality of candidate deblocking ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6920234 | Method and device for monitoring the interior and surrounding area of a vehicle A method and device for capturing a surrounding area and interior of a motor vehicle are described. The device for performing the method includes a camera device that has a beam path that points in a direction of the surrounding area of the vehicle, in particular a ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6909811 | Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium storing steps realizing such method Hierarchical encoding techniques allowing a good compression efficiency and allowing to quickly recognize the outline of an image from a fraction of encoded data. In order to realize such techniques, an image processing apparatus has a generating unit for generating... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6904178 | Method and apparatus for eliminating flicker by quantizing values based on previous quantization A method and apparatus for eliminating flicker by quantizing values based on previous quantization is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding a first coefficient value in a first frame of a motion sequence and subsequently setting a second coeffi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904162 | Film phantom for three-dimensional dosimetry A method and system for recording and verifying three-dimensional dose distributions a film phantom uses a phantom which includes a cavity for receiving film sheets. A three-dimensional radiation dose described by a stereotactic radiosurgery plan can be delivered to... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904161 | Workflow configuration and execution in medical imaging A computer-implemented method and apparatus is provided for workflow configuration and execution in medical imaging. One method embodiment comprises the steps of creating and storing a workflow template (the workflow template comprising a standard form for entering ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898308 | Method of color quantization in color images A method for assigning a color symbol to an image pixel comprises selecting a luminance value from a discrete set of quantized luminance values; selecting a chrominance value from an ordered discrete set of quantized chrominance values; and composing a color symbol ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898323 | Memory usage scheme for performing wavelet processing A system comprising a memory and wavelet processing logic is described. The memory is sized to include lines to store a band of an image and additional lines. The wavelet processing logic comprises a wavelet transform and access logic. The wavelet transform generate... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898302 | Systems, methods and computer program products for the display and visually driven definition of tomographic image planes in three-dimensional space Apparatuses, methods and computer program products for scan plane geometry definition in tomographic data acquisition via an interactive three-dimensional (3-D) graphical operator interface. The apparatuses, methods and computer program products are initially propos... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898331 | Image fusion system and method A contrast-based image fusion system and method of processing multiple images to form a processed or fused image including regions selected from one or more images. Images are divided into image regions. Portions of the images are filtered if necessary. A contrast m... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898327 | Anti-flicker system for multi-plane graphics Flickering artifacts are removed from a displayed image by storing digital luminance values in a compressed form using disallowed luminance values clipped from a range of luminance values to encode run lengths of identical values of truncated luminance values and bi... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898298 | Installing posture parameter auto extracting method of imaging device, and monitoring system using the imaging device A monitoring system using an imaging device like a TV camera, etc. enhances a monitoring accuracy without involving manual operations and increasing costs for installing the monitoring system. Two lengths of linear components parallel to each other are extracted fro... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891958 | Asymmetric spread-spectrum watermarking systems and methods of use Described herein is an audio watermarking technology for detecting watermarks in audio signals, such as a music clip. The watermark identifies the content producer, providing a signature that is embedded in the audio signal and cannot be removed. The watermark is de... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6891973 | Lossy/lossless region-of-interest image coding A method and apparatus for encoding digital image data wherein region of interest can be specified either before the encoding process has begun or during the encoding process (127), such that the priority of the encoder outputs are modified so as to place mor... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888958 | Method and apparatus for inspecting patterns The difference data between the real patter data Sij, and a 5×5 window with a noticed pixel in the center and the design pattern data Rij obtained by the design pattern data of the window being shifted in a plurality of directions with respect to the design pattern... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885767 | Silhouetting apparatus and method Apparatus and method for producing an image containing only an object of interest, without any background. They are directed at making the background appear so much brighter than the object that the brightness differential can be used to discriminate between the two... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882739 | Method and apparatus for rapid grain size analysis of polycrystalline materials An apparatus and method for performing rapid grain size analysis on a textured polycrystalline material, by generating average grain size and grain size distribution data from x-ray diffraction data of such material. Raw diffraction data is obtained by capturing a p... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6882740 | System and method for determining a seed vigor index from germinated seedlings by automatic separation of overlapped seedlings A system and method for automatically determining a seed vigor index for a lot of seeds by analysis of a scanned image of a plurality of seedlings grown from lot of seeds, including automatically separating and analyzing overlapped seedlings. According to one aspect... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6882755 | Image transmission for low bandwidth with region of interest A system and method of transmitting an image adapted to a first display area size, such as a standard computer screen having a particular pixel-by-pixel resolution, to an apparatus having a smaller second display area size by scaling the image through coefficient cr... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879726 | Image processing method, apparatus and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a wavelet transformation unit for wavelet-transforming input image data on a per-image basis, and an encoder for changing transformation coefficients, which have been obtained by the transformation, to bit planes from higher- t... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879723 | Method and apparatus for encoding frames of image data at a varying quality level A method and an apparatus are provided for encoding frames of image data. Selected blocks one frame in a sequence are encoded with one or more quantization levels in a first range, and selected other blocks in the one frame are bypassed. In a frame that follows the ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879719 | Method for measurement of full-two dimensional submicron shapes A method and apparatus for extracting two-dimensional image shapes from image data on a pixel array. The method comprises the steps of selecting intensity vs. pixel information in a plurality of directions in the vicinity of an edge of the image shape, and recognizi... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879722 | Method and apparatus for statistical text filtering Disclosed herein is a method for automatically filtering a corpus of documents containing textual and non-textual information of a natural language. According to the method, through a first dividing step (101), the document corpus is divided into appropriate ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876758 | Methods and systems for improving a user's visual perception over a communications network Methods and apparatus that provide proper identification of visual and neurological abilities related to defects in the neurological component of the brain, that improve visual and neurological performance, and that develop improved neural performance in the brain a... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6876779 | Method and apparatus of reconstructing audio/video/image data from higher moment data A method and apparatus of reconstructing data from higher moment data. The method and apparatus include performing a finite Radon transform, generating an average function to allow inversion of transform in one step and correlating the transform output at each point... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873711 | Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing device is provided to efficiently embed digital watermark information in a gray scale image while suppressing deterioration in the image quality. The image processing device includes an input unit for inputting gray-scale image data in which each... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6870944 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus embeds information into image data without an overhead. The image processing apparatus includes a selection unit for selecting some of the pixels forming the image data. A changing unit embeds the information into the pixels selected by... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6870966 | Sensing device A sensing device for sensing region identity data and generating movement data when the sensing device is moved relative to a region of a surface, the region identity data being indicative of an identity of the region, the movement data being indicative of the movem... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6868189 | Image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a processing program for permitting a computer to perform image processing routines In order to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method whereby a high quality output image can be consistently obtained, regardless of the order in which an operator sets the parameters for the performance of filtering, (I) a GUI module ( | 03/15/2005 |
| 6868173 | Method for confirming authenticity of sheet The truth of a paper type to be examined is judged by measuring, with respect to each of true paper types previously prepared, a plurality of types of characteristic amounts by a plurality of types of sensors for each of a plurality of portions for examination previ... | 03/15/2005 |
