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| 7840080 | Motion estimator architecture for low bit rate image communication An adaptable motion estimator architecture for low bit rate image communication 1) to be compatible with image characteristic and bit rate with a reduced hardware size and 2) to optimize performance of the motion estimator by selectively applying a search method sui... | 11/23/2010 |
| 6917706 | Ruled line extracting apparatus for extracting ruled line from normal document image and method thereof A ruled line extracting apparatus obtains circumscribed rectangles of pixel concatenation regions included in an input pattern, and calculates the most frequent value of their heights. Additionally, the apparatus integrates segments by ignoring a wild card segment, ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912318 | Method and system for compressing motion image information A method and system are disclosed for compressing motion image information by means of predictive coding with a high compression ratio while maintaining high image quality. An image in each frame is divided into blocks in advance, and each of all blocks is approxima... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6898326 | Image processing apparatus and method A transformation unit 102 transforms an entered image to multi-resolution space. A quantizer 105 performs vector quantization on a local pattern of an image of a multi-resolution representation. A perspective-order calculating unit 107 extracts ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6873738 | Hierarchical image processor for encoding or decoding, and memory on the same chip A memory apparatus for use with a digital picture signal. The apparatus may comprise a first signal processor for receiving an input digital picture signal and for performing a hierarchical encoding process thereon so as to form hierarchical encoded picture data, a ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6868178 | Method for processing image data In a method for processing image data, at least one section of a form (10) is raster scanned and converted into a digital image with image points (22, 24, 26), the color of each image point (22, 24, 26) being represented as tone H, saturation S,... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6839457 | Bone measuring method This invention relates to a bone measurement method for measuring a bone shape, structure and architecture on the basis of the tomographic images of a test bone or joint, in more detail, to a bone measurement method characterized by having a template image extractio... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6826294 | Block matching motion estimation using reduced precision clustered predictions A block matching motion estimation algorithm uses reduced precision data when comparing pictures in the block to be compressed with pictures in a reference block. This yields a plurality of best match candidates. The average of the best match candidates, excluding t... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6826308 | Method and apparatus for image encoding and decoding using a shape and position map A method and apparatus for decoding an image data comprising decoding a coded map signal indicative of a position and shape of a content in a screen inputted for every block of picture signals, decoding coded orthogonal transform coefficients; performing an inverse ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6819800 | Moving image compression/decompression apparatus and method which use a wavelet transform technique A moving image compression/decompression apparatus and method that uses, for example, a wavelet transform technique in order to improve a compression rate is disclosed. The moving image compression/decompression apparatus includes an A/D converter for converting mov... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816628 | Methods for outlining and filling regions in multi-dimensional arrays A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6816618 | Adaptive variable length image coding apparatus In a system for variable-length coding, when image data of a plurality of documents are compressed and stored in a compression memory, the image data is divided into a plurality of areas. Then, attributes are discriminated for each area, and the result of the attrib... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6810145 | Process for detecting a change of shot in a succession of video images A process comprises a step (2) of creating histograms of an image representing the occurrences of the luminance values as a function of these values. A further step compares (5) a histogram of an image T(t) with a histogram of a previous image T(t− | 10/26/2004 |
| 6807308 | Multi-resolution image data management system and method based on tiled wavelet-like transform and sparse data coding An image is divided into nonoverlapping tiles, and the tiles are processed in a predefined order. Each tile is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. The sets of transfor... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804404 | Shape information coder and decoder dividing shape information into lower-resolution subsets A shape information coder divides the pixels in the shape information into subsets representing different subsamplings of the shape information. Each pixel in each subset is coded with reference to a context which may be derived from reference pixels in more than on... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6801636 | Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus and method for deriving a digital watermark embedded in an image is provided which has a recognizing unit for recognizing a predetermined characteristic area in the image and a deriving unit for extracting the digital watermark from the... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6798921 | Method for image designating and modifying process Images in a plurality of related images are processed such that a specific region of the image in the first frame is designated and a specific image in the specific region is modified while at the same time the information about the image characteristic quantity of ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6798927 | Conversion of pixel data for interpolation or image reduction, using a small memory An image processing apparatus and method capable of decoding and varying at high speed encoded image data having an arbitrary image size by using a memory of a small capacity, and a recording medium storing programs executing such a method are provided. In the image... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6795591 | Image indexing and retrieval method using the rosette pattern for the improvement of retrieval efficiency and performance The present invention relates to an image indexing and retrieval method using the rosette pattern for the improvement of retrieval efficiency and performance, comprising the steps of: (a) defining a rosette pattern corresponding to the size of a subject image from w... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6795565 | Method to detect watermark resistant to resizing and translation A method of detecting a block-based watermark is provided. The method detects the location of the watermark within a frame of content data regardless of whether the watermark has been shifted or resized. ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6795579 | Method and apparatus for recognizing handwritten chinese characters A method for recognizing handwritten Chinese characters based on stroke recognition comprises steps of: recognizing handwritten strokes, updating stroke code sequences; retrieving in dictionaries/lexicons at least one corresponding character/phrase entry so as to ob... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6792151 | Image data compression employing optimal subregion compression An image data compression technique includes division of an image data stream into a plurality of subregions and optimal compression of each subregion. The subregions may represent adjacent pixels in a reconstructed image, and may all be of the same length. The leng... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788805 | Electronic component-recognizing device There is provided an electronic component-recognizing device for taking an image of an electronic component brought to a component-sensing station, for recognition thereof. The component-sensing camera takes the image of the electronic component by utilizing reflect... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788812 | Techniques for selective enhancement of a digital image By automatically compensating for unwanted lighting effects caused by varying ambient light sources, digital still images and video are made to appear more naturally realistic. A set of correction factors based upon an ascertained ambient lighting conditions, such a... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788801 | Cocktail watermarking on images A novel image protection scheme named “cocktail watermarking” improves over current spread-spectrum watermarking approaches. Two watermarks, which play complementary roles, are simultaneously embedded into an original image. The new watermarking scheme has the c... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785404 | Image positional relation correction apparatus, steering supporting apparatus provided with the image positional relation correction apparatus, and image positional relation correction method An image positional relation apparatus is provided, in which coordinate data of a real targed photographed by a CCD camera and coordinate data of a virtual target logically calculated from the predetermined position of the real target are transmitted to a superimpos... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782136 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding subband decompositions of signals An aspect of the present invention includes a method of encoding coefficients of a subband decomposition, to prepare the coefficients for compression. Another aspect of the present invention includes an inverse method of decoding coefficients of a subband decomposit... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6782124 | Three dimensional empirical mode decomposition analysis apparatus, method and article manufacture An apparatus and method of analysis for three-dimensional (3D) physical phenomena. The physical phenomena may include any varying 3D phenomena such as time varying polar ice flows. A repesentation of the 3D phenomena is passed through a Hilbert transform to convert ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6782144 | Document scanner, system and method The document scanner system and method operates in conjunction with a document imprinted with data in a plurality of data image fields and a plurality of form documents adapted to have data imprinted thereon. The system output to a communications port is a delimited... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6782134 | Transmission apparatus of video information, transmission system of video information and transmission method of video information The present invention provides a transmission apparatus for video information that allows wireless transmission of video information at a low rate regardless of differences in OSs. A transmission apparatus for video information according to the present invention has... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778712 | Data sheet identification device A data sheet identification device of the invention includes: a character/graphics extracting section, an identical shape deciding section, a graphics collating section, an identification code/data sheet ID identifying section for collating characters that have been... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6778681 | Analysis and presentation of internal features of logs Systems and methods for non-intrusive analysis and display of internal features of wooden objects are provided. In embodiments of the system, a log is passed through a CT scanner in one continuous motion. One or more x-ray sources revolve around the log generating x... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6771805 | Perspective viewing inspection system Perspective viewing inspection system comprises a stage for holding a printed circuit board (PCB) mounted with electronic parts, teaching means for teaching position data and pose data of the PCB during inspection and also part electrode's addresses on the PCB, mean... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771794 | Electronic watermark generating apparatus, electronic watermark generating method and memory medium therefor In a situation where a data portion is considered as of higher importance in the course of preparation of original data, the designer is enabled to set the electronic watermark in a position that is judged appropriate by the designer. There are provided input means ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771830 | Differential pulse code modulation image compression with varying levels of quantizers A method and apparatus for encoding a digital image is disclosed. A difference is calculated between a first sample from a current scan line and a corresponding second sample from a previous scan line. A quantization table level is selected from a quantization table... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771810 | System and method for estimating the epipolar geometry between images The present invention is embodied in a system and method for estimating epipolar geometry, in terms of a fundamental matrix, between multiple images of an object for stereo vision processing. The fundamental matrix embodies the epipolar geometry between the images. ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6766052 | Character display device, character display method, and recording medium therefor A character display apparatus includes: a display device having a plurality of pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device, wherein: each of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a predetermined direction; a corresponding ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6766053 | Method and apparatus for classifying images and/or image regions based on texture information A document processing system and a method for classifying an input image or region thereof as either a synthetic graphic or a natural picture, is disclosed. The system includes an image input subsystem, a processing subsystem for processing image data provided by th... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6763127 | Apparatus and method for fingerprint recognition system A fingerprint recognition method includes iterative gamma correction that compensates moisture effect, feature extraction operations, directional morphological filtering that effectively links broken ridges and breaks smeared ridges, adaptive image alignment by loca... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6763125 | Image recognition apparatus and image processing apparatus In an image recognition apparatus, a left camera and a right camera are provided so as to produce a parallax. A road surface indication recognizing section recognizes road surface indications contained in a left input image that is supplied from the left camera. An ... | 07/13/2004 |
