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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189950 | Image enhancement method using local gain correction The present invention relates to a method for image enhancement. The method includes the steps of: replacing a value of a pixel of a digital image with a maximum one of values of red, green and blue sub-pixels of the pixel; selecting a specific pixel from pixels of ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189955 | Noise suppression method using multiple digital A noise suppression method using multiple digital images performs a de-noising process with the multiple digital images. First, a feature weighting procedure and an image feature compensation of a target pixel are performed on each digital image, and then a cross re... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189951 | Video signal display device, video signal display method, storage medium, and integrated circuit A technical problem is to inhibit variation in the correction between frames of a moving image while maintaining a correction amount of the overall image. The video signal display device has an attraction point determination portion (104), a corrected center ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184865 | Method and apparatus for producing land-surface image data An object of the invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for producing land-surface image data, which can correct, with relatively high accuracy, cloud image data included in satellite image data into land-surface image data that would emerge in the absenc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170355 | Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided, in which one of color component images forming an image is predicted from a different color component image using a correlation between the color component images. A first color component image selected f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165418 | Image processor In an image processor, a reduced image forming unit forms a reduced image by reducing an original image. The reduced image peripheral average value generating unit generates a peripheral average value for each pixel of the reduced image. The reduced image reflectanc... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160385 | Correction of blotches in component images Blotches may be identified and processed to reduce or eliminate the blotch. The blotch may be in just one of several separations and multiple separations may be used, for example, to identify the blotch. An implementation (i) compares a first component image of an i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150179 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an encoder, a decoder, and a display unit. The encoder performs scalable encoding to encode input image data to obtain code data to be stored in a storage unit. The decoder decodes the code data stored in the storage unit to ob... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150178 | Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus Provided are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, in which one of a plurality of color component images is predicted from a different color component image reconstructed using a correlation between the plurality of color component images. Using a reconst... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139859 | Method for automatic detection of data in in-vivo images A method for detecting, in single time-point, in-vivo imaging data related to artifacts in the imaging of objects, includes acquiring at least one in-vivo image with imaging apparatus. A background image corresponds to imaged air of the in-vivo image. The background... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139858 | System and method for identifying arthropods in color-digital image information A color-based imaging system and method for the detection and classification of insects and other arthropods are described, including devices for counting arthropods and providing taxonomic capabilities useful for pest-management. Some embodiments include an image s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135223 | Image processing apparatus and method of image processing An image processing apparatus that generates a code stream that encodes image data and includes a dividing unit that divides the image data into at least one rectangular area, a conversion unit that converts data of the rectangular area into conversion data, an orde... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131049 | Breast tomosynthesis with display of highlighted suspected calcifications Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of size, shape, presence in selected slice images, distribution of pixels th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131091 | Method and apparatus for compressing text and image Provided is a method and apparatus for compressing a text and an image. When compressing the text and image, it is possible to group valid lines with data into each line having a common element, and compress and encode the data of the valid lines. Accordingly, it is... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116580 | Embedded high frequency image details A system, method, and process for embedding low frequency image details and high frequency image details into a final digital image file. A digital image file is stored with embedded low and high frequency image details that are accessible with a compatible digital ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107727 | Document processing apparatus, document processing method, and computer program product In a document processing apparatus, a first character information extracting unit extracts, for a first area that is an area determined to be a character extractable area in divided areas of a document information, first character information from the area; a second... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103110 | System and method for Bayesian text classification A method for classifying text comprises receiving data containing text and parsing a plurality of tokens out of the text. A plurality of metatokens are generated for each token, wherein the metatokens comprise strings of text and groupings of strings of text. The me... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098932 | Color correction method and apparatus of display apparatus The invention discloses a color correction method for adjusting the color performance of a display apparatus. The color correction method first displays a plurality of images on a panel of the display apparatus and measures the chromatic value and the luminance of e... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094885 | System and method for tracking an electronic device A system for tracking a spatially manipulated user controlling object using a camera associated with a processor. While the user spatially manipulates the controlling object, an image of the controlling object is picked-up via a video camera, and the camera image is... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094912 | Cardiac function display apparatus and program therefor Using first voxel data of a three-dimensional medical image obtained by photographing a subject, a functional image representing a function of a heart in at least one position is generated, and using a portion of second voxel data of a three-dimensional medical imag... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094947 | Image visualization through content-based insets A method and a system for forming an inset image are disclosed. The method includes identifying a region of interest in an original image. An inset is generated, based on the region of interest. A region of low interest is identified in the original image. The inset... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090152 | Road lane boundary detection system and road lane boundary detecting method A road lane boundary detection system includes a detection region setting unit that sets a certain region in a road image, as a target detection region to be searched for detection of a road lane boundary, and a detecting unit that processes image data in the target... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086036 | Approach for resolving occlusions, splits and merges in video images A solution for resolving an occlusion in a video image which provides an environment in which portions of a video image in which occlusions have occurred may be determined and analyzed to determine the type of occlusion. Furthermore, regions of the video image may b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086029 | Automatic image adjustment Automatic image adjustment is described, including performing a principal component analysis (PCA) for a plurality of values to determine a principal component, normalizing the principal component to obtain a normalized principal component, and generating an image b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078002 | Matte-based video restoration Matte-based video restoration technique embodiments are presented which model spatio-temporally varying film wear artifacts found in digitized copies of film media. In general, this is accomplished by employing residual color information in recovering of artifact ma... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073271 | Method and device for condensed image recording and reproduction A method for reproducing image data in a recording medium, and including selecting one or more camera digital data streams for reproduction, the one or more camera digital data stream including intra coded image data and/or predictive coded image data, the intra cod... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068644 | System for seeing using auditory feedback The invention is a system whereby a video image can be converted into an audio signal. A portable apparatus is described which allows a visually blind person to hear the images and thus ‘see’. This does not require expensive equipment nor does it require surgery... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068648 | Method and system for registering a bone of a patient with a computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system A method and system for registering a bone of a patient with a computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system includes retrieving an image of the bone having indicia of the position of a magnetic source coupled thereto, determining first data indicative of the positio... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050508 | Detecting method and system of compression-related noise levels A detecting system and method of compression-related noise levels is provided to produce a compressed index of an image. A line buffer temporarily stores a pixel (i, j) and neighboring pixels. An edge filter calculates an edge index for the pixel (i, j). A line filt... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050499 | Image-processing apparatus, image-processing method, and computer program used therewith The present invention is intended to generate data optimal for both display and reuse from an image. From an input image, vector data of a display foreground layer, vector data of a non-display foreground layer, and a display background layer in which a portion of t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050514 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method In order to perform appropriate image correction considering the moving image region and static image region of image data forming a moving image, the image data forming the moving image is input in a unit of frame, the image data is divided into a moving image regi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045822 | Correction of image distortion An image sensor captures an image of a scene. This captured image has a pincushion distortion relative to an undistorted image of the scene. The distortion is corrected based on an approximation of the distortion D which satisfies the following equation for a given ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036459 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus enhances contrast without producing color balance distortion or color collapse by generating a gradation-scale correction table from a distribution of a characteristic quantity of an input image signal, using the gradation-scale correct... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036465 | Method of text interaction using chirographic techniques Disclosed herein is a system for operating chirographic devices. The system may support a spatial chirographic sign reader, a spatial character recognition technique, a chirographic text character writer, a chirographic text character setter, a chirographic text cha... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036485 | Systems and methods for measuring loss of detail in a video codec block Picture quality measurement systems and methods are provided for measuring DC blockiness within video blocks. Block boundaries are located within a test video frame. The relative AC differences within each block are measured using a reference video frame, a statisti... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031979 | Method and device for verifying multimedia entities and in particular for verifying digital images The method of verifying multimedia entities according to the invention to determine whether a first multimedia entity matches a second multimedia entity, is characterized in that it comprises a step of selecting from a plurality of second multimedia entities, by a c... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023762 | Apparatus for removing noise of video signal An apparatus for removing a noise of a video signal is discussed, by which a noise level can be effectively estimated to enhance an image quality of the video signal, by which the noise can be removed in a manner of effectively estimating a noise level though motion... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023752 | Decompression of 16 bit data using predictor values Systems and methods compress and decompress 16 bit data. The 16 bit data may be signed or unsigned and represented in a fixed point or floating point format. A fixed block size of data is compressed into a fixed length format. Data compressed using a medium quality ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023715 | Automatic currency processing system having ticket redemption module An apparatus for currency discrimination comprises first and second stationary scanheads, disposed on opposite sides of a bill transport path, for scanning respective first and second opposing surfaces of a bill traveling along the bill transport path and for produc... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023761 | Apparatus for removing noise of video signal An apparatus for removing a noise of a video signal is disclosed, by which a noise level can be effectively estimated to enhance an image quality of the video signal, by which the noise can be removed in a manner of effectively estimating a noise level though motion... | 09/20/2011 |
