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Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7711186 | System and method for automated correction of digital images A system and method are provided for correcting an image captured by a digital image capturing device. The method includes calculating a log of a desired correction value based on sample point and a target value for that point and calculating an approximation to the... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7636472 | Image quality correction apparatus and image quality correction method A count judgment unit judges whether or not a luminous value and color-difference values calculated by a luminous color-difference calculation unit are those of a pixel as a component of a character area, and outputs only luminous values of pixels other than pixels ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7627177 | Adaptive OCR for books A system is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determine... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623685 | Biometric signatures and identification through the use of projective invariants Techniques, systems and methods for obtaining biometric signatures and identification are described. Broadly stated, embodiments of the present invention utilize specified geometric principles to provide means for accurate biometric identification using projective i... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620219 | Pattern-based interchange format An approach for the compression of images such as fingerprints may involve a resolution reduction of an image before forming a cellular representation of the resulting resolution-reduced image. A given fingerprint image is divided into a number of finger pattern cel... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616838 | Edge-directed images sharpening method An apparatus includes an edge width detection circuit which detects an edge portion of image data and outputs an edge width of the detected edge portion, a ratio control amount generation circuit which generates a ration control amount in accordance with the edge wi... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7612847 | Generation of pattern data with no overlapping or excessive distance between adjacent patterns A device is disclosed for generating pattern data for unevenness that is randomly arranged on the surface of the reflective substrate of a reflective liquid crystal display device. The number of coordinates, a basic pitch, a movable range, and a dot diameter are ent... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609882 | Image compression and decompression method capable of encoding and decoding pixel data based on a color conversion method An image compression and decompression method encodes and decodes pixel data based on a color conversion method. Base on the relationships of corresponding color components of two adjacent pixels, the corresponding color components are encoded either by a white and ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606444 | Multimodal access of meeting recordings A meeting recorder captures multimodal information of a meeting. Subsequent analysis of the information produces scores indicative of visually and aurally significant events that can help identify significant segments of the meeting recording. Textual analysis can e... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606397 | Visual language classification system Disclosed are a method and system for automated classification of a digital image. The method analyzes the image for the presence of a human face. A determination is then made regarding the size of the located face compared to the size of the image to classify the i... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599570 | Multiscale sharpening and smoothing with wavelets A method and apparatus for processing image data are described. In one embodiment, a method of processing image data comprises decomposing the image data into multiple decomposition levels by applying a wavelet transform to the image data, and modifying coefficients... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599565 | Method and device for transform-domain video editing A method and device for editing video data to achieve a video effect in a video sequence. From an encoder, transform coefficients of part of the video sequence are obtained. The transform coefficients are mixed with other transform coefficients in a combining module... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596284 | High resolution image reconstruction A technique of reconstructing a high resolution image from at least one image sequence of temporally related high and low resolution image frames wherein each of said high resolution image frames includes a low spatial frequency component and a high spatial frequenc... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596245 | Process of storage of biometric features The invention discloses a process of recoding biometric features in recordable medium comprising several steps. Raw biometrics feature such as finger prints, palm prints, iris image, retina image and other biometrics feature or a combination thereof are extracted. T... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596256 | Computer assisted detection of lesions in volumetric medical images A computer-assisted detection method is provided for detecting suspicious locations of lesions in the volumetric medical images. The method includes steps of features extraction and fusion. The first step is computing gradient feature for extraction of the layer of ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7583835 | Process for gripping an object by means of a robot arm equipped with a camera A reconnaissance process for taking successive images (7, 10) of an object using a camera by pairing optimally points (A, B) into a single movement (Δm) compatible with the movement of the camera that has taken two images to calculate the position of the obj... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580575 | Image processing apparatus and method, program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes an image reader for reading an image. A display controller displays the read image on a display device. A determination unit receives an area specified by an operation performed on the image displayed on the display device so a... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577310 | Image processing method The image processing method applies image processing to an inputted image data. The method registers predetermined image processing conditions for each specific person in advance, extracts a person in the inputted image data, identifies the extracted person to find ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574050 | Image page search for arbitrary textual information The approach of the present invention is called optical word recognition (OWR). The present invention advantageously uses techniques to search for arbitrary textual information contained in imaged documents. The result is a significant advance in high-speed search f... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570836 | Backlit image judgment A CPU 200 analyzes inner region pixels IP and outer region pixels OP independently; compares an inner luminance distribution characteristic i.e. a luminance distribution characteristic regarding the inner region pixels IP with a reference inner luminance dist... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567255 | Color adjustment for clipped pixels A control module for use in an image display system includes a gain module operable to amplify a signal received by the control module and to communicate an amplified signal having at least one clipped pixel. The at least one clipped pixel is capable of generating a... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7565004 | Fiducial designs and pose estimation for augmented reality Novel fiducial designs that are based on a plane circle are Disclosed. These fiducial designs can provide five or six degree of freedom poses with a single fiducial using efficient closed form solutions. A novel pose estimation method is used to select the appropria... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561732 | Method and apparatus for three-dimensional shape estimation using constrained disparity propagation A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for three-dimensional shape estimation using constrained disparity propagation are presented. An act of receiving a stereoscopic pair of images of an area occupied by at least one object is performed. Next, patt... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561725 | Image segmentation in a three-dimensional environment A method (100) for image segmentation in a three-dimensional environment includes receiving scan data (112), selecting a viewing vector relative to the scan data (114), rendering the scan data as a 3D image about the viewing vector (116),... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558419 | System and method for detecting integrated circuit pattern defects There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for inspecting integrated circuits, including, for example, patterns projected, provided or formed on a wafer using photomasks,... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558442 | System and method for anti-moire' imaging in a one dimensional sensor array A device and process which eliminates potential moiré patterns in digitized images by employing a one-dimensional sensor array and a sampling method of the sensor signals which produces a data set of non-uniformly spaced sensor positions. This allows the spacing of... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555137 | Method of watermarking a color image by vectorial approach, method of detecting a mark of watermarking, corresponding devices, image and computer programs A method of watermarking a color image that has at least three components is provided. Such a method of watermarking includes an insertion step of a mark of watermarking, on at least one point of the image, according to an insertion rule taking into account the rela... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555157 | System and method for transforming graphical images A system and a method for transforming graphical images. Graphical images are adapted by the present invention to be applied to a three-dimensional topography of a substrate. After the image is applied to the substrate, the image then appears in proportion and confo... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7545971 | Method and apparatus for measuring the crepe of a moving sheet An image-based measurement technique that directly measures the crepe pattern on a moving sheet employs a suitable arrangement of illumination, optical elements, and an imaging device to obtain digital images of the sheet surface. The image resolution is sufficient ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545973 | Image matching system using 3-dimensional object model, image matching method, and image matching program Even when only a small number of reference images are available for each object, it is possible to search at high speed a reference image stored in a database from an input image of an object imaged with a different pose and a different illumination condition. A ref... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542595 | Virtual organ unfolding for visualization A system and method for organ image unfolding for feature visualization are provided, where the system includes a processor, an imaging adapter in signal communication with the processor for receiving organ scan data, a modeling unit in signal communication with the... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539340 | Apparatus and method for three-dimensional coordinate measurement A three-dimensional coordinate measuring apparatus has a first and second incident angle adjusting sections for adjusting the attitude of the object in the directions of first and second neutral axes, respectively, to adjust the incident angle of the beam projected ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536038 | Method and arrangement for assessing the quality of skin print images In a method and an arrangement for assessing the quality of skin print images, and particularly fingerprint images, provision is made for gradients to be formed for the individual picture elements (pixels) of the skin print image, for a mean value to be formed from ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7529418 | Geometry and view assisted transmission of graphics image streams Geometry and view data relating to a image sequences is transmitted from a server to a client computer. Such enables reconstruction of images by a client with reduced bandwidth for the image stream transmission. A previous-image mesh of coordinates and depth values ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526120 | System and method for providing intelligent airbag deployment A sensor system is provided for determining a deployment level of an airbag in a vehicle. A light source of the sensor system emits light onto a region around a vehicle seat. An array of light-sensitive pixels which capture reflected light from the scene, including ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7519236 | Image retrieval A method for searching an image database includes capturing an image of a photograph and a background, determining a boundary of the photograph in the image, cropping the photograph from the image, correcting the perspective of the photograph, compensating colors of... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515735 | Image recognition system and image recognition program An image recognizing device for recognizing the motion of a player on the basis of a content containing a sport in which players play in zones demarcated with an obstacle such as a net, including a video information acquiring section for acquiring video information ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515739 | Face detection A face detection apparatus associated methodology is provided to generate an output indicating a likelihood of a region of an image containing a face. The apparatus includes a comparing device for comparing the region with face data that indicates a presence of the ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515752 | Sketch recognition and enhancement A drawing assistance system enhances a sketch drawn by a user in an electrical document on a computer system by collecting stroke data from one or more strokes of a sketch as a user draws the sketch. The stroke data includes time-based information and features of ea... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512261 | System and method for calibrating multiple cameras without employing a pattern by inter-image homography Interactive multi-view video presents new types of video capture systems, video formats, video compression algorithms, and services. Many video cameras are allocated to capture an event from various related locations and directions. The captured videos are compresse... | 03/31/2009 |
