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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6160900 | Method and apparatus for reducing the processing time required in motion vector detection A data processing method investigates second data series of a second data group relative to a first data series in a first data group to reduce processing requirements of motion vector detection. The method includes a first step for selecting an area incl... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6081616 | Method and apparatus for character recognition A method for cutting character images from a line segment of pixel image data includes a first cutting layer step in which nontouching and nonoverlapping characters are cut from a line segment, and a second cutting layer step in which touching characters ... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6044166 | Parallel-pipelined image processing system Apparatus for image processing a sequence of images containing a parallel-pipelined image processor comprised of image memories, a pyramid processing circuit, an arithmetic logic unit, a crossbar switch for video routing through the various components of ... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6035054 | Visual axis detection apparatus and optical apparatus provided therewith The invention relates to a visual axis detection apparatus and the like which is constituted by light receiving device for receiving image of an observer's eye, read-out device for reading out the photoelectric conversion signals from the light receiving ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6026184 | Image processor for restoring bi-level pixel data to multi-level pixel data When a multi-level image is recovered from a pseudo-half-tone bi-level image, a smoothing component and an edge emphasis component obtained on pixels around a specified pixel to be recovered is mixed. The edge emphasis is performed only when the monority ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6023526 | Apparatus of optically reading character and method thereof A multi color image of a total of a sheet of paper is read by a color scanner and a designated color image consisting of a designated color component is extracted from the multi color image by a designated color filter, blocks having the designated color ... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6009208 | System and method for processing space-time images A methodology is disclosed for processing image data to extract image information of interest from aggregate image information containing other interfering information. Application of the methodology also leads to significant compression in the data, whic... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5974164 | Computer-aided visualization and analysis system for sequence evaluation A computer system (1) for analyzing nucleic acid sequences is provided. The computer system is used to perform multiple methods for determining unknown bases by analyzing the fluorescence intensities of hybridized nucleic acid probes. The results of indiv... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5960097 | Background adaptive target detection and tracking with multiple observation and processing stages A computationally efficient missile detection and tracking system, operating on data samples from a focal plane assembly (FPA) of an electro-optical sensor which is observing the earth and space, detects missiles, aircraft, resident space objects or other... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5960102 | X-ray image processing method and device for performing that method in which a portion corresponding to an x-ray absorption filter is selectively processed An image processing method is provided to remove areas from an image made by x-irradiation, said areas corresponding to absorption filters in the x-ray beam. Because such filters, also known as x-ray shutters, are inserted into the x-ray beam from the out... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5949921 | Image processing apparatus for reading an image by hand scanning A scanner for reading an original image by hand scanning usually detects scanning positions of the reading sensor on the original image sequentially and stores read image data into image memory according to said scanning positions. However, an area in whi... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5940523 | Method of moment estimation and feature extraction for devices which measure spectra as a function of range or time The computation system of the present invention comprises an improved method of moment estimation for devices which measure spectra as a function of range or time. The preferred embodiment of this system is illustrated as part of an automated meteorologic... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5937080 | Computer controlled method and apparatus for meat slabbing A computer controlled method and apparatus for meat slabbing according to updated information from the meat product and/or the slab cut from the meat product. Such information may include the weight and fat content of the cut slab. This information may be... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5933540 | Filter system and method for efficiently suppressing noise and improving edge definition in a digitized image A filter system and associated method efficiently suppress noise and improve edge definition in a digitized image. The filter system has a statistical noise determination mechanism which initially determines a baseline noise level of the image. The baseli... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5917924 | Postage metering system A postage meter system including a postage meter is provided with recognition means to recognise a personal characteristic. The recognition means is operated in an initial phase to read a personal characteristic of a person and generates and stores a pers... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5909512 | Method and apparatus to reduce scintillation in dithered display systems An image processor includes a quantizing unit which quantizes input image data to data of at least three or more levels. A memory stores the quantized data on a picture unit basis, and an output unit outputs the stored image on the picture unit basis. The... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5909502 | Software loading system for a currency scanner An apparatus and method for loading software changes into a currency discrimination machine. In one embodiment, a flash card having a memory remotely programmed with a second software code is adapted to be removably electrically coupled to the currency di... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5909514 | Image processing method and image processing device An image processing method and device computes the image quality as an evaluation value, determine the image quality based on this evaluation value, and employ a restoration process in accordance with image quality when this image quality is poor. The ima... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5903681 | Reducing edge artifacts on a digital printer An arrangment is disclosed for reducing edge artifacts produced when printing a digital image on a digital printer, which printer is capable of producing multiple output levels, said digital image being represented as a rectangular array of pixels. In thi... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5892847 | Method and apparatus for compressing images A system and method is disclosed that compresses and decompresses images. The compression system and method includes an encoder which compresses images and stores such compressed images in a unique file format, and a decoder which decompresses images. The... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5889881 | Method and apparatus for automatically detecting malignancy-associated changes A method for detecting malignancy-associated changes. A sample of cells is obtained and stained to identify the nuclear DNA material. The sample is imaged with a digital microscope. Objects of interest are identified in the sample of cells based on the in... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5887077 | Method for the recognition and evaluation of defects in reflective surface coatings The recognition and evaluation of locally limited colour defects in a reflective surface coating on a glass plate are carried out by digital data processing of an image delivered by a colour video camera. To this end, the coated glass plate (1) is illumin... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5883986 | Method and system for automatic transcription correction A method and system for automatically modifying an original transcription produced as the output of a recognition operation produces a second, modified transcription, such as, for example, automatically correcting an errorful transcription produced by an ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5867584 | Video object tracking method for interactive multimedia applications A system for automatically tracking objects through a video sequence uses a method which automatically tracks an object by estimating the location of the object in a subsequent frame, comparing test windows in the subsequent frame with an object window en... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5867588 | Method and apparatus for analyzing facial configurations and components There is disclosed herein: (1) overlay systems which define a face, in frontal and lateral views, which are comprised of mathematically inter-related pentagons and parts of those pentagons and which establish a reference system to analyze human faces for ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5862252 | Shape measuring apparatus An image processing method and apparatus using the method, allows a target object to be displayed in a 3-D manner. A number of types of shape data with different resolutions for displaying the object are provided and the resolution of shape data used the ... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5859934 | Method and apparatus for transforming coordinate systems in a telemanipulation system In a telemanipulation system for manipulating objects located in a workspace at a remote worksite by an operator from an operator's station, such as in a remote surgical system, the remote worksite having a manipulator with an end effector for manipulatin... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5850484 | Text and image sharpening of JPEG compressed images in the frequency domain The text and image enhancing technique according to the invention is integrated into the decoding or inverse quantization step that is necessarily required by the JPEG standard. The invention integrates the two by using two different quantization tables: ... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5850488 | Character generating method and apparatus using discrimination of stored font data In the invention, a plane region to which characters are output is divided into lattice-like elements (orthogonal lattice, triangular lattice, hexagonal lattice, etc.). In each element, an area ratio of the area to be output to the element is previously s... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5848202 | System and method for imaging and coding documents A system and method for coding of documents, such as in a litigation support setting, uses machine readable indicia to increase the speed and accuracy of coding operations. For example, bar codes can be used on the documents to represent document numbers ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5845010 | Compression enhancement in graphics system Disclosed is an arrangement which lessens the effects of compression artifacts resulting from the compression of graphic images having high spatial frequency components. Such graphic images are typically text related in view of the high contrast required ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5841907 | Spatial integrating optical correlator for verifying the authenticity of a person, product or thing A method of verifying the authenticity of an object is disclosed employing a spatial integrating optical correlator. An unreadable and hence non-counterfeitable mask (e.g., a. complex mask or a phase mask) is coupled to the object and the optical correlat... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5841883 | Method of diagnosing a plant automatically and device for executing method thereof An automatic plant diagnostic device and method are provided to inform disease conditions of the plant easily and early. An image memory of the device reads a color image of a plant and controls a display so as to display the image. An background color de... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5841889 | Ultrasound image texture control using adaptive speckle control algorithm A method for controlling the contrast resolution and the tissue texture of ultrasonic images employs a signal processing algorithm to adjust an image by changing the tissue texture (speckle grain size). The algorithm increases the image contrast by alloca... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5835633 | Concurrent two-stage multi-network optical character recognition system A multi-stage multi-network character recognition system decomposes the estimation of a posteriori probabilities into coarse-to-fine stages. Classification is then based on the estimated a posteriori probabilities. This classification process is especiall... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5835632 | Image processing method and an image processing apparatus An image processing system includes entering a predetermined sample character, comparing characteristic data for the sample character with characteristic data for a predetermined reference character, extracting characteristic data inherent to the entered ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5828776 | Apparatus for identification and integration of multiple cell patterns A biological specimen classification strategy employs identification and integration of multiple cell patterns. An automated microscope acquires an image of a biological specimen such as a Pap smear and provides an image output to biological classifiers. ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5828775 | Method and apparatus for adjusting read-out conditions and/or image processing conditions for radiation images , radiation image read-out apparatus, and radiation image analyzing method and apparatus A first image signal representing a radiation image of an object is obtained by exposing a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which the radiation image has been stored, to stimulating rays, which cause the stimulable phosphor sheet to emit light in proportion ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5825922 | Methods and apparatus for centroid based object segmentation in object recognition-type image processing system A digital signal processing system which uses an input image including a plurality of pixels to establish boundaries of objects in the input image. Each of the pixels has a gradient value and the object includes a centroid. Using a segmentation process, t... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5818969 | Intelligent start for motion estimation search An intelligent start for a block-matching search is employed. Motion vectors which have been calculated for immediately adjacent blocks in the same image and for corresponding blocks in previous images are used. If the region upon which motion estimation ... | 10/06/1998 |
