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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189920 | Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program A technique that can contribute to a reduction in an operation burden in managing a processing result of semantic determination processing applied to objects included in an image is provided. An object included in an image of image data is extracted. A semantic of t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189878 | Multifactor multimedia biometric authentication A device may receive a request to authenticate a user, automatically establish a multimedia session with the user in response to receiving the request, and capture a group of biometric identifiers for the user from the multimedia session. The device may further perf... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189931 | Method and apparatus for matching of bracketed patterns in test strings A method and system are disclosed for matching input character sequences in a set of input patterns. The method comprises the steps of analyzing the set of input patterns, creating a pattern cluster look-up table (PCLT) based on said input patterns, and defining an ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189919 | Method and system for container identification A method and system for container identification are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of digital images of a character sequence on the container, extracting the character sequences from the images, combining the character sequences into at least... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184866 | Living body guidance control method for a biometrics authentication device, and biometrics authentication device A biometrics authentication device identifies characteristics of the body from captured images of the body and performs individual authentication. The device guides a user, at the time of verification, to the image capture state at the time of registration of biomet... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184911 | Flexible matching with combinational similarity Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for flexible matching with combinational similarity are described. In embodiments, an object image is received, a query image is received, and the query image is compared with the object image. In various embodiments mat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184872 | One time password generating method and apparatus The invention relates to a one-time password generating method and an apparatus. The method includes steps of collecting fingerprint images, extracting fingerprint feature data from those fingerprint images, and comparing the fingerprint feature data with one or mor... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180141 | Wafer repair system A system for wafer repair, comprising an inspection tool being capable of extracting a wafer image of a semiconductor wafer; a direct-writing tool being capable of locally exposing the semiconductor wafer; and an information processing module configured to compare t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175388 | Recognizing text at multiple orientations Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, involve identifying text in an electronic document. An electronic document that includes an image object is received. In a first region of the image object, a first se... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170342 | Image recognition of content Techniques are described to employ image recognition techniques to content. In an implementation, one or more images are identified in content using a signature derived from the one or more images. Metadata associated with the content is then supplemented based on t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170323 | Card shoe with card block A playing card delivery shoe is used in the play of the casino table card game of baccarat or blackjack or any game where cards are pulled one at a time from the shoe. The apparatus comprises a reader or an imager that scans lines bisecting the image at spaced inter... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170294 | Method of detecting redeye in a digital image A method for detecting redeye in a digital image comprises initially examining the image to detect redeyes, examining the image to detect face regions and, from the results of the preceding examinations, identifying those detected face regions each including only on... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170326 | Multi parallax exploitation for omni-directional imaging electronic eye Techniques and systems are disclosed for electronic target recognition. In particular, techniques and systems are disclosed for performing electronic surveillance and target recognition using a multiple parallax exploitation (MPEX) electronic eye platform. Among oth... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165353 | Computer system and method for calculating straightness of facial A computer system and a method for calculating straightness of facial are provided. In the method, an image is processed to obtain a facial area and eyes locations. The facial area is divided into two sub-areas. Then, each of the sub-area and the corresponding symme... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155426 | Inspection of wood surface roughness The invention relates to a method for optical inspection of the hirsuteness of a surface. The method comprises directing a light beam (B) to the surface (2) of a wooden piece (1) under study in a direction (D), which deviates from the normal to the sur... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150157 | Card shuffler with card rank and value reading capability using CMOS sensor A device for forming a random set of playing cards comprises a card in-feed area, a shuffling system, a card removal area, and a card reading system located within the device, the card reading system employing a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150158 | Unique sensing system and apparatus for reading playing cards A sensing apparatus is provided for the determination of at least one of rank or suit of a playing card. The sensing apparatus includes an imaging array capable of sensing at least an area of a playing card that represents rank and or suit. A position sensor is prov... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144945 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an orientation independent face detector A method for providing orientation independent face detection may include generating multiple mosaic images from an input image in which each of the multiple mosaic images has a different scale, employing a plurality of differently oriented edge detectors to perform... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139825 | Authentication apparatus and authentication method An authentication apparatus includes: a first determination section that determines whether a condition for determining that there is a possibility of an erroneous determination is satisfied based on information indicating the similarity between the shape of a biolo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139862 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. An integrated pixel value is obtained by integrating pixe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139861 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. A pixel value integration evaluation value is obtained by... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135218 | Character recognition device, mobile communication system, mobile terminal device, fixed station device, character recognition method and character recognition program Words possibly included in a scene image shot by a mobile camera can be efficiently extracted using a word dictionary or a map database. Positional information acquiring means 101 measures a current position of the device to acquire positional information. Di... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8116567 | Digitizing documents Techniques for performing page verification of a document are provided. The techniques include performing a recognition technique on a document to recognize one or more objects in the document, excluding the one or more recognized objects from the document, and perf... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107705 | Systems and methods for minimizing aberrating effects in imaging systems A biometric optical recognition system includes optics, including a wavefront coding mask, for imaging a wavefront of object to be recognized to an intermediate image, and a detector for detecting the intermediate image. A modulation transfer function detected by th... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107755 | Information processing apparatus and method An information processing apparatus for encoding image data includes: a rearranging unit for rearranging coefficient data divided for each frequency band in order of executing synthesis processing for synthesizing the coefficient data of multiple sub-bands divided i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103089 | Method and apparatus for generating projecting pattern A pattern generating apparatus includes a sequence generating unit and an image data generating unit. The sequence generating unit generates a sequence formed by terms having M-value numeric values. The image data generating unit generates the image data by converti... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094891 | Generating music playlist based on facial expression A method may include playing a first song on a device, capturing an image of a user, performing facial expression recognition of the user based on the image, and selecting a second song based on a facial expression of the user. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090193 | Mobile robot There is disclosed a mobile robot including an image processor that generates recognition information regarding a target object included in a taken image, and a main controller integrally controlling the robot based on this recognition information. The image process... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081840 | Appliance for controlling transparent or reflective elements The invention relates to an appliance for measuring or controlling an optical element (3) comprising illumination means (1) and an associated artificial vision system (2), in which the optical element (3) can be inserted between the illum... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077977 | Image processing system, image processing method, computer readable medium and computer data signal An image processing system includes an area extracting unit, an area relation extracting unit, a relation analyzing unit and an image display unit. The area extracting unit extracts areas from an input image. The area relation extracting unit extracts a relation bet... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077978 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077984 | Method for computing similarity between text spans using factored word sequence kernels A computer implemented method and an apparatus for comparing spans of text are disclosed. The method includes computing a similarity measure between a first sequence of symbols representing a first text span and a second sequence of symbols representing a second tex... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077964 | Two dimensional/three dimensional digital information acquisition and display device A two dimensional/three dimensional (2D/3D) digital acquisition and display device for enabling users to capture 3D information using a single device. In an embodiment, the device has a single movable lens with a sensor. In another embodiment, the device has a singl... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073204 | Hybrid multi-sensor biometric identification device An improved fingerprint sensing device is provided with multiple sensing apparatus, two or more of which operating on different sensing principles. For example, a capacitive sensor may be integrally formed with an optical sensor on a single substrate. Ideally, the m... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073207 | Method for displaying face detection frame, method for displaying character information, and image-taking device An aspect of the present invention provides a method for displaying a face detection frame in an image-taking device, which obtains an image signal representing a subject continuously at a predetermined cycle, displays a live video preview on a display device based ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073194 | Video entity recognition in compressed digital video streams A method and system for detection of video segments in compressed digital video streams is presented. The compressed digital video stream is examine to determine synchronization points, and the compressed video signal is analyzed following detection of the synchroni... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055056 | Method of detecting defects of patterns on a semiconductor substrate and apparatus for performing the same In a method of detecting defects of patterns on a semiconductor substrate and an apparatus for performing the method information on positions of reference defects influencing an operation of a circuit including the patterns when the patterns are formed on the semico... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050464 | Image taking apparatus and image taking method An image taking apparatus according to an aspect of the invention comprises: an image pickup device which picks up an object image and outputs the picked-up image data; a face detection device which detects human faces in the image data; a face-distance calculating ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041082 | Inferring the gender of a face in an image The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a plurality of images having human faces. The method further includes generating a data structure having representations of the fac... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036468 | Invariant visual scene and object recognition A method for performing image recognition is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a collection of pixels and grouping at least some of the pixels into a set of cluster features based on gradient magnitude. For each cluster feature in the set, statistical variabl... | 10/11/2011 |
