Image analysis inventions 01/06

20060018506 - Digital asset management, targeted searching and desktop searching using digital watermarks: The present invention provides methods and systems to improve network searching for watermarked content. In some implementations we employ keyword searching to narrow the universe of possible URL candidates. A resulting URL list is searched for digital watermarking. A system is provided to allow customer input. For example, a customer...

20060018507 - Digital watermarking methods, programs and apparatus: The present invention provides steganographic and digital watermarking methods and apparatus. In a first implementation, we provide methods and apparatus for steganographically conveying data in a facial image by subtly altering facial features relative to statistical norms. In a second implementation, we convey data through different patterns of a diffraction...

20060018508 - Method and system for a processor controlled illumination system for reading and analyzing materials: A method and system are described for illuminating a document, such as passports, identity documents or other types of documents, using illumination means under control of a processor to effectively control the angle and direction of light on such documents to expose optically variable devices such as holograms, intaglio printing...

20060018505 - Method, system and software for enhanced data protection using raw device backup of copy-on-write snapshots: The present disclosure provides a method, system and software to backup a data volume containing snapshots using a block copy process and a raw data enabled device. In addition, the present disclosure provides a method, system and software for restoring snapshots to a snapshot volume that then allows system volume...

20060018510 - Data storing device and method: The invention relates to a device for data storing with a compression coding and/or decoding device for the storing of picture data in a compressed or decompressed data format in a data memory. The compression coding and decoding device is adapted to mark or label and subsequently specific retrieve picture...

20060018509 - Image generation device: In a device for generating one viewpoint conversion image based on a plurality of image data, a first unit including two cameras with different viewpoints, for acquiring one of the image data, and a second unit, including two cameras with different viewpoints, which is arranged in line with the first...

20060018511 - System for controlling vehicle equipment: A system and method of automatically controlling vehicle equipment includes an image sensor and a controller to generate control signals. The control signals are derived based on information obtained from the image sensor as well as other detected parameters pertaining to the detected light source(s), the vehicle having the inventive...

20060018512 - Vehicle automatic exterior light control: A system and method of automatically controlling vehicle exterior lights including an image sensor and a controller to generate headlamp control signals....

20060018513 - Stereo vehicle-exterior monitoring apparatus: A stereo vehicle-exterior monitoring apparatus includes a stereo camera including a pair of infrared cameras and floodlight lamp and infrared lights. The Infrared lights light up a more distant place than that is lighted up by the floodlight lamp, or light up a closer place and wider angle of lighting...

20060018514 - Surface profiling apparatus: Light is directed along a sample path towards the sample surface and along a reference path towards a reference surface such that light reflected by the sample surface and light reflected by the reference surface interfere. Relative movement is effected between the sample surface and the reference surface along a...

20060018515 - Biometric data collating apparatus, biometric data collating method and biometric data collating program product: In collation determination of an input biometric data and a plurality of reference data stored in advance, when a biometric data collating apparatus according to the invention determines that the reference data matching with the biometric data is present, the biometric data collating apparatus updates a current reference order ordidx...

20060018517 - Image processing methods and apparatus for detecting human eyes, human face, and other objects in an image: For a subset of pixels in an image in which it is desired to detect a human face if one is present, a first variable is derived from the gray-level distribution of the image, and a second variable is derived from a preset reference distribution that is characteristic of the...

20060018516 - Monitoring activity using video information: Apparatus and methods for monitoring activity use video information to track activity of a target at a given location. In an embodiment, the target is segmented into portions and a value of a biometric attribute is associated with the target and compared against values of a biometric attributes of corresponding...

20060018520 - Biometric-supported name-based criminal history background checks: A method and apparatus for conducting biometric-supported name-based criminal history background investigations is disclosed as a means of eliminating both false-positive and false-negative results. Each of the embodiments disclosed employ the cooperative efforts of a professional background screening company, a database compiler, a trusted independent third-party evaluator of biometric data,...

20060018519 - Hand-held personal identification device with distributed control system: A hand-held personal identification device is provided. The hand-held personal identification device includes a sensor system for gathering biometric information from individuals, a profiler system for developing profiles of individuals based on biometric information gathered from the sensor system, and a personal data assistant or similar computing device with a...

20060018518 - Method and device for determining the three-dimension position of passengers of a motor car: The invention relates to a method for determining a three-dimensional position of passengers of a motor vehicle. The inventive method consists in observing the passengers of the vehicle with the aid of at least two cameras (1, 2, 1′, 2′) which are disposed in such a way that they can...

20060018521 - Object classification using image segmentation: A method represents a class of objects by first acquiring a set of positive training images of the class of objects. A matrix A is constructed from the set of positive training images. Each row in the matrix A corresponds to a vector of intensities of pixels of one positive...

20060018522 - System and method applying image-based face recognition for online profile browsing: A computer-implemented method provides an online dating service in which users browse profiles of other participants using face recognition. The method comprises: inputting a model image including a face of a person, the model image representing a profile browsing preference for a user; accessing a plurality of profile images, the...

20060018523 - Enrollment apparatus and enrollment method, and authentication apparatus and authentication method: An input unit receives the input a fingerprint image of a user. A classification unit classifies the fingerprint image inputted by the input unit into any of a plurality of groups defined on the basis of individual differences of the fingerprint. Based on the classification result of fingerprint width, namely,...

20060018524 - Computerized scheme for distinction between benign and malignant nodules in thoracic low-dose ct: A system, method, and computer program product for classifying a target structure in an image into abnormality types. The system has a scanning mechanism that scans a local window across sub-regions of the target structure by moving the local window across the image to obtain sub-region pixel sets. A mechanism...

20060018525 - Method and system for temporal spectral imaging: A method for imaging functional states of tissue associated with provocation dependent tissue-vascular responses is described. In its preferred embodiment the method combines dynamic near infrared optical tomographic imaging with feature extraction methods to produce a composite image whose particulars can serve to differentiate healthy tissue from diseased, monitor tissue...

20060018526 - Methods and apparatus for noise reduction filtering of images: A method for reducing noise in images includes utilizing an original image to generate a segmentation mask and a filtered image, and utilizing the filtered image, the original image, the segmentation mask and separate blending parameters for structural and nonstructural portions of the filtered image to generate a blended image....

20060018527 - Radiographic image composition and use: The present invention concerns the blending of plural x-ray images to form a blended composite image wherein in blending the images, a stitching boundary adjustment is determined for use in adjusting boundary pixels of the composite image, and an adjustment for other pixels that are located at some distance from...

20060018528 - Imaging, diagnostic, and therapeutic devices and methods of use thereof: The present invention relates to devices and methods for imaging, characterizing, diagnosing, monitoring a treatment, and treating junctions between internal body areas. In particular, the devices of the present invention are useful in distinguishing normal, non-hernia, reflux, and hernia patients for diagnostic purposes, drug screening, and selecting and monitoring appropriate...

20060018529 - Mask pattern correction device, method of correcting mask pattern, light exposure correction device, and method of correcting light exposure: In view of realizing a lithographic process which makes it possible to estimate and correct flare with an extremely high accuracy, and causes only an extremely small dimensional variation in width, over the entire portion not only of a single shot region, but also of a single chip region, a...

20060018530 - Pattern inspecting method: The present invention is to allow rapid detection of such a defect as buried in a pixel positional deviation, expansion/contraction noise or sensing noise on an image. A relationship between an inspection reference pattern image and a pattern image to be inspected is identified during inspection to construct a mathematical...

20060018532 - Method and apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor device: A method and apparatus for inspecting a wafer in which a focused charged particle beam is irradiated onto a surface of a wafer on which patterns are formed through a semiconductor device fabrication process, a secondary charged particle image of a desired area of the wafer is obtained by detecting...

20060018531 - Methods of and apparatus for inspecting substrate: Inspection apparatus are used to inspect a substrate as solder is printed, components are mounted and the substrate is heated for a soldering process. Images of the substrate are taken both before and after a production process such as the component mounting process and the soldering process and their differences...

20060018533 - Segmentation technique of an image: The present invention provides a technique to improve reliability of area segmentation result of an image into a plurality of image areas. A plurality of representative colors and a weight associated with each of the representative colors are determined. A weighted color difference index values associated with the representative colors...

20060018534 - Technique for detecting a defect of an object by area segmentation of a color image of the object: The present invention provides a technique to prevent increase in defect detection processing volume due to the shape of an object subject to the defect detection. An image of an object under inspection with a plurality of color regions is divided into areas by area segmentation according to colors. From...

20060018535 - Color duplication method and apparatus: Method and apparatus for duplicating a target color and changing a color of an object to match the target color. A first color sensor measures the target color. A color projection mechanism selectively changes the color of the object. A color matching mechanism is coupled to the first color sensor...

20060018536 - Embedded gamut mapping algorithm: A color management module which accepts input color image data and transforms the input color image data into output color image data based on information contained in at least one color profile, wherein the color management module includes an interface to an externally provided, pluggable gamut mapping module which is...

20060018538 - Histogram generation apparatus and method for operating the same: Histogram circuitry is provided to increment a tonal value tally corresponding to received pixel data without immediately writing the incremented tally back to a histogram table within a main memory. Instead, the tonal value and corresponding incremented tonal value tally are stored in a temporary memory of the histogram circuitry....

20060018537 - Video auto enhancing algorithm: A method for enhancing a video includes applying a linear histogram stretch, a gamma correction, and sigma row, column, and temporal filters to the video....

20060018539 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing program: An image region dividing section (105) partitions each of input images into a small regions, and a small region synthesized image generation section (106) generates a base image of each small region, which is an image including only diffuse reflection, from each input image. An image interpolation section (107) generates...

20060018540 - Surface region identification by image area segmentation: The present invention provides a technique to identify layout of surface regions of an object by image area segmentation. A plurality of images is acquired by imaging an object under a plurality of mutually different illumination conditions. By performing area segmentation on this plurality of images, the layouts of the...

20060018541 - Adaptation of exponential models: A method and apparatus are provided for adapting an exponential probability model. In a first stage, a general-purpose background model is built from background data by determining a set of model parameters for the probability model based on a set of background data. The background model parameters are then used...

20060018543 - Image decoder and image decoding method: An image decoder, which separates luminance data and color difference data from image data in a format in which, while based on ITU-R656, the luminance data (Y), color difference data (Cb/Cr), synchronization data (XY), and identification codes (FF and 00) are at twice the rate of the transmission clock, includes...

20060018544 - Method and apparatus for detecting an orientation of characters in a document image: An apparatus and method for extracting a predetermined number of consecutive characters from a document image; converting the consecutive characters into a set of symbols using layout information obtained from the consecutive characters; and detecting an orientation of the consecutive characters using occurrence probabilities of the set of symbols....

20060018542 - Method and apparatus for photograph finding: Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an embodiment of the invention, distinctive markers are distributed to aid in the identification of particular subject matter. Facial recognition may...

20060018545 - User interface and database structure for chinese phrasal stroke and phonetic text input: The invention provides a stroke and phonetic text input entry system that has substantially the same definition of stroke match as that used in T9, where the input is a phrasal input rather than a character input. The invention solves the problem of Chinese phrasal stroke and phonetic text input...

20060018546 - Gesture recognition: A gesture related to portions of handwritten text is recognized. Furthermore, an action is performed against the portions of the handwritten text. The action is associated with the recognized gesture....

20060018547 - Image processing device and a method for the same: An image processing device identifies the plurality of subject images which are overlapped partially, by recognizing a relative positional relationship of the plurality of subject images. The device separates into one or more blocks to segment the same area for each of the overlapped subject images the overlapping part of...

20060018548 - Method, system, and computer software product for automated identification of temporal patterns with high initial enhancement in dynamic magnetic resonance breast imaging: A method, system, and computer software product for analyzing medical images, including obtaining image data representative of a plurality of medical images of the abnormality, each medical image corresponding to an image of the abnormality acquired at a different time relative to a time of administration of a contrast medium,...

20060018549 - System and method for object characterization of toboggan-based clusters: A method for characterizing an object in a digitized image includes providing a digitized volumetric image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in an N-dimensional space, forming a toboggan cluster from a subset of contiguous points in said image, said toboggan cluster including a concentration...

20060018550 - Apparatus and system for testing an image produced by a helmet-mounted display: The present invention relates to a system and method for allowing quality of an image to be tested. For example, the present invention may be utilized to test the quality of an image produced by a helmet-mounted display such as an Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS). In at...

20060018551 - Phrase identification in an information retrieval system: An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phrase extensions are also identified. Phrases in a query are identified and used...

20060018557 - Apparatus and method for filtering blocking effect in an image: Provided is an apparatus and method for filtering a blocking effect in an image, which removes the blocking effect that may occur in an image that is compressed in block units in compression and/or decompression of a moving image. The apparatus and method for filtering a blocking effect in an...

20060018554 - Block-based motion estimation method: A motion estimation method for determining a resultant motion vector. The motion estimation method includes: performing a first searching operation starting from an initial motion vector to determine an intermediate motion vector, wherein the first searching operation is performed according to a first searching principle; and performing a second searching...

20060018553 - Controlling apparatus and method for bit rate: Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling a bit rate. The apparatus and method comprise a buffer for storing information as to a bit rate of a frame immediately preceding a frame to be compressed; a bit rate controller for generating a target bit rate and an expected...

20060018552 - Efficient rate control techniques for video encoding: This disclosure describes rate control techniques that can improve video encoding. In particular, the described rate control techniques exploit relationships between the number of bits encoded per frame and the number of non-zero coefficients of the video blocks after quantization. The number of number of non-zero coefficients of the video...

20060018558 - Image processing apparatus and image processing program: An image processing apparatus reduces a distortion that occurs at a tile boundary (tile distortion) when an image is compressed or expanded on a tile-by-tile basis. It is equipped with a tone jump detecting section, a slope calculating section, and a slope correcting section. The tone jump detecting section calculates...

20060018556 - Method, apparatus and system for data block rearrangement for lz data compression: A technique for rearranging an input data stream for LZ data compression system to achieve a higher data compression. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by receiving an input data stream of a sequence of data blocks. Each of the received data blocks is then compared with each of...

20060018555 - System and method for cache-friendly volumetric image memory storage: t

20060018559 - Method and apparatus to transform/inverse transform and quantize/dequantize color image, and method and apparatus to encode/decode color image using it: A method and an apparatus for transforming/inverse transforming and quantizing/dequantizing a color image and a method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding a color image using the method and the apparatus. The method of transforming and quantizing the color image includes: transforming a color image into a frequency domain image; differently...

20060018560 - Exposure device and exposure method: An exposure device includes a distance measurement section, which measures heights of positions of an exposure surface of a photosensitive material, a hole position identification section, which determines positions of holes in the exposure surface of the photosensitive material, a hole co-ordinate measurement section, which identifies hole positions at the...

20060018561 - Method/system for estimating the orientation of a segment of digital ink: The invention provides a method/system for estimating the orientation of a segment of digital ink using pen orientation information. In one form, the invention is a method of estimating the orientation of a segment of digital ink, the method including the steps of: measuring the azimuth of the pen at...

20060018564 - Interpolation pixel generation circuit: In an interpolation pixel generation circuit, M pairs and N pairs (N<M) of correlation judgment pixels are generated from pixels on at least two scanning lines which adjoin a pixel to be interpolated, using one pair of pixels being in symmetric with respect to the pixel to be interpolated. A...

20060018562 - Video image processing with parallel processing: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods that track overall time for processing operations such that the processing time can be shared among the resources in an efficient manner. Processing time can be shifted to image processing where the time will provide the most benefit to image quality....

20060018563 - Video image processing with processing time allocation: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods that track overall time for processing operations such that the processing time can be shared among the resources in an efficient manner. Processing time can be shifted to image processing where the time will provide the most benefit to image quality....

20060018566 - System and method for adding spatial frequency into an image: Software operable to add spatial frequency to an image is operable to identify a higher resolution, course grain material image. The software is typically further operable to generate a sensor image using the material image and to add spatial frequency to the sensor image using a high frequency image to...

20060018565 - System and method for infrared sensor simulation: Software for generating a sensor simulation image comprises computer-readable instructions and identifies a visual image with a first resolution and identifies a material image with a second resolution, with the material image spatially correlated with the visual image. The software then generates a second material image with the first resolution...

20060013435 - Background watermark processing: Various improvements to steganographic systems, and applications therefore, are disclosed. Among these are analyzing content data (e.g., audio, image data) in a computer memory automatically, without user intervention, so as to detect steganographically embedded information. The results of such analysis can be used to alter an aspect of the computer...

20060013436 - Data authoring device: A data authoring device sets predetermined relevant information for an information presenting apparatus which outputs the predetermined relevant information by use of spatial orientation information meant by an object of the real world and/or a previously decided marker with respect to the object and/or the marker. A spatial orientation information...

20060013434 - Matching of digital images to acquisition devices: In a digital image matching method, reference calibration data associated with one or more reference digital image files is ascertained. The reference digital image files each have reference calibration data that is hidden metadata and can also have public metadata that is readable by a different procedure. A test digital...

20060013440 - Gesture-controlled interfaces for self-service machines and other applications: A gesture recognition interface for use in controlling self-service machines and other devices is disclosed. A gesture is defined as motions and kinematic poses generated by humans, animals, or machines. Specific body features are tracked, and static and motion gestures are interpreted. Motion gestures are defined as a family of...

20060013441 - Image monitoring method, image monitoring apparatus and storage media: In order to precisely detect abnormal objects by use of a low-cost arrangement at high speeds while avoiding unwanted influence of variations of a light source and/or regularly vibrating objects in the environment concerned, there are provided a means 4200 for subdividing an image being input from a camera into...

20060013437 - Method and apparatus for determining camera pose: A method and apparatus for determining camera pose characterized by six degrees of freedom (e.g., for use in computer vision systems) is disclosed. In one embodiment an image captured by the camera is received, and at least two constraints on the potential pose are enforced in accordance with known relations...

20060013438 - Obstacle detection apparatus and a method therefor: An apparatus of detecting an object on a road surface includes a stereo set of video cameras mounted on a vehicle to produce right and left images, a storage to store the right and left images, a parameter computation unit to compute a parameter representing road planarity constraint based on...

20060013439 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A system for realizing support of safety driving or automatic driving is provided, in which a vehicle-mounted stereo camera is used to detect obstacles on a road surface such as vehicles going ahead and pedestrians with a high accuracy even in a situation in which a reflected image of an...

20060013442 - Bare earth digital elevation model extraction for three-dimensional registration from topographical points: A method (300) for extracting a digital elevation model from a plurality of raw topographical points representing a plurality of frames representing a plurality of perspectives of a multi-dimensional object comprising a surface and above-surface obstructions, comprises steps or acts of: finding the surface (304) by filtering out data points...

20060013443 - Method and system for simultaneously registering multi-dimensional topographical points: A method for registering multi-dimensional topographical data points representing a multi-dimensional object, comprises: a) receiving a plurality of points representing a plurality of overlapping frames of a surface of the multi-dimensional object; b) finding for each point in a first frame a corresponding closest point in each of a plurality...

20060013444 - Text stitching from multiple images: A reading machine has processing for detecting common text between a pair of individual images. The reading machine combines the text from the pair of images into a file or data structure if common text is detected, and determines if incomplete text phrases are present in the common text. If...

20060013448 - Biometric data collating apparatus, biometric data collating method and biometric data collating program product: In a biometric data collating apparatus according to the invention, when a reference data matching with a biometric data is present, each of collation order determination values is multiplied by a FREQFIX value. One is further added to the collation order determination value corresponding to the reference data matching with...

20060013447 - Hand-held personal identification analysis device and methods of use: A hand-held personal identification analysis device is provided. The hand-held personal identification analysis device includes a scanning system for gathering biometric information from individuals, a profiler system for developing profiles of individuals based on biometric information gathered from the scanning system, and a personal data assistant or similar computing device...

20060013445 - Method and apparatus for electro-biometric identiy recognition: A method and apparatus for electro-biometric identity recognition or verification, producing and storing a first biometric signature that identifies a specific individual by forming the difference between a representation of the heartbeat pattern of the specific individual and a stored representation of common features of the heartbeat patterns of a...

20060013446 - Mobile communication device with real-time biometric identification: A personal information management device includes a memory for storing a personal information management database containing contact information pertaining to personal contacts of the user. The contact information includes identification data identifying one or more personal contacts and biometric signatures of the contacts. A biometric sensor discreetly captures biometric data,...

20060013449 - Facial image processing methods and systems: In the described embodiment, methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that illuminates a face with illumination that is sufficient to enable the simultaneous capture of both structure data, e.g. a range or depth map, and...

20060013450 - Method and apparatus for recognizing 3-d objects: A method and apparatus for recognizing an object, comprising providing a set of scene features from a scene, pruning a set of model features, generating a set of hypotheses associated with the pruned set of model features for the set of scene features, pruning the set of hypotheses, and verifying...

20060013451 - Audio data fingerprint searching: Methods and apparatus are described for matching a set input fingerprint blocks, each fingerprint block representing at least a part of an information signal, with fingerprints stored in a database that identify respective information signals. The method includes selecting a first fingerprint block of the set of input fingerprint blocks...

20060013452 - Method, device and computer program for detecting point correspondences in sets of points: A method, device and computer program for detecting point correspondences in sets of points and in particular for fingerprint verification. Points of note on fingerprint lines in a scanned fingerprint are compared with corresponding points of note on fingerprint lines in a reference fingerprint and matching pairs are formed from...

20060013453 - Spinning disk ultrasonic transducer array and method: The invention relates to a fingerprint scanning system and a method of scanning a fingerprint. A system according to the invention may have (a) an imaging surface capable of receiving a finger, (b) a rotatable disk, the disk having a pivot-location about which the disk rotates, (c) an ultrasound transducer...

20060013458 - Application development system for a medical imaging system: A workstation is programmed to operate as an application development system for a medical imaging system. Objects programmed in an object-oriented language are selected from a component library using a visual component assembler which enables them to be dragged from a framework area on a display to a workspace area....

20060013455 - Image analysis: A method for the automated analysis of digital images, particularly for the purpose of assessing mitotic activity from images of histological slides for prognostication of breast cancer. The method includes the steps of identifying the locations of objects within the image which have intensity and size characteristics consistent with mitotic...

20060013457 - Method for optimizing procedures in radiological diagnostics: In a method for optimization of procedures in radiological diagnostics on the basis of digital images (present on a computer of an image workstation) of the same or different modalities in radiological diagnostics, procedure-specific and/or other image processing steps are implemented with using an image processing program on the basis...

20060013456 - Self-improving identification method: A self-improving identification method classifies specimens based on class identifiers. The system stores specimen profiles in a database that is updated with additional specimen profiles and with follow-up data that corrects classification of specimens that were initially incorrectly classified. Algorithms use the updated database to discover new class identifiers, modify...

20060013454 - Systems for identifying, displaying, marking, and treating suspect regions of tissue: The invention provides systems for automatically localizing areas of disease within a tissue sample using fluorescence spectra, reflectance spectra, and video images obtained from the sample. The invention further provides systems for displaying, marking, and treating the identified areas so that healthy surrounding tissue suffers minimal impact upon treatment and/or...

20060013459 - Organ-specific backprojection: The invention relates to a method for the selective imaging of body structures, in which method—a first image data set is acquired by means of a first tomography method,—a second image data set is acquired by means of a second tomography method which has a resolution which is higher than...

20060013460 - Quantification of coronary artery calcification: Coronary artery calcification is quantified based on a computed tomography (CT) scan image. A calcified region is identified. The partial calcium content of each pixel in the calcified region can be estimated. For example, expectation maximization of a statistical model of the calcified and background material can be used to...

20060013461 - Image display method and method for performing radiography of image: CT images are interpreted while being displayed in order (STEP S16), and when a CT image is observed in which the presence of a lesion is suspected, an “Add Marker” button is clicked to add a marker to that CT image (STEPS S18, S20). By means of the click operation,...

20060013462 - Image display system and method: An image display system and method includes a tiling module, a closure module, a retiling module, and a mirroring module. Image display system displays studies on primary and supplemental displays in response to commands received from a user workstation. Display entities are displayed on display areas of primary and supplemental...

20060013465 - Imaging apparatus, control method thereof, and program: Radiation image data obtained by an imaging unit in a radiation irradiation state is stored. Reference image data obtained by the imaging unit in a radiation non-irradiation state is stored. Reduced radiation image data and reduced reference image data as reduced image data of the radiation image data and the...

20060013463 - System and method for identifying objects of interest in image data: A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of dynamic discontinuity in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the chemical properties of the imaged objects. Using the system and...

20060013464 - System and method for identifying objects of interest in image data: A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of dynamic discontinuity in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the chemical properties of the imaged objects. Using the system and...

20060013466 - Image processing and analysis of array data: Disclosed are methods of processing images, and in particular aligning and orienting grids from a fluorescent array of signal sources, by linking nearest neighbor sources to form a hexagon, and then using the hexagon lines for alignment and orientation of the grid. Also disclosed are methods and algorithms for aligning...

20060013467 - Inspection method of electric part, inspection apparatus of electric junction box and inspection apparatus of terminal fittings: An inspection apparatus of an electric junction box is provided, by which improper mounting of electric parts can be detected. The inspection apparatus 1 has a CCD camera 5, an image-processing device 7 and a control device 8. The CCD camera picks up images of fuse 14 in the electric...

20060013468 - Method and control device for determining a register error: A method and control device for determining a register error, whereby at least one register mark is printed and at least one sensor records the register mark, whereby the sheet edge of the sheet is recorded by the sensor, and the register error is determined from the sensor data and...

20060013470 - Device for producing shape model: A device for producing a shape model used for a matching process of an object to be worked in a robot system. The shape-model producing device includes a shape-data obtaining section for obtaining three-dimensional shape data of the object; a viewpoint setting section for setting, in a coordinate system to...

20060013469 - Mobile robot with a head-based movement mapping scheme: A robotic system that includes a mobile robot and a remote input device. The input device may be a joystick that is used to move a camera and a mobile platform of the robot. The system may operate in a mode where the mobile platform moves in a camera reference...

20060013473 - Data processing system and method: A powerful, scaleable, and reconfigurable image processing system and method of processing data therein is described. This general purpose, reconfigurable engine with toroidal topology, distributed memory, and wide bandwidth I/O are capable of solving real applications at real-time speeds. The reconfigurable image processing system can be optimized to efficiently perform...

20060013472 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit that inputs binocular stereoscopic image data including plane image data for both eyes from an arbitrarily set viewpoint, a plane-image creating unit that creates plane image data based on the binocular stereoscopic image data, a distance determining unit that determines distances...

20060013471 - Method for storing layers' information of a layers-made object: A method for storing and displaying a layers' information of a layer-made object, comprising: (a) forming a layer-image of each layer of said object layers, wherein said layer image is a real perpendicular view image of said layer; (b) aligning each of said layer-images in a common two-dimensions axis, wherein...

20060013474 - Stereo image measuring device: The present invention discloses a stereo image measuring device capable of carrying out high-speed and highly reliable three-dimensional measurement for a stereo image, easily correcting any omitted measurement, measurement errors or the like, and achieving a much higher speed, efficiency and reliability for measurement as a whole. A survey instrument...

20060013475 - Computer vision system and method employing illumination invariant neural networks: Objects are classified using a normalized cross correlation (NCC) measure to compare two images acquired under non-uniform illumination conditions. An input pattern is classified to assign a tentative classification label and value. The input pattern is assigned to an output node in the radial basis function network having the largest...

20060013476 - 10-bit per pixel processing using 8-bit resources: This invention relates to an imaging device that extends the processing of resources to data having a greater bit-depth. A signal having data at the first bit-depth is received, and at least a portion of the data at the first bit-depth is converted into an estimated value that is at...

20060013477 - System and method for color correction for electronic printing: This invention is directed to a system and method for setting output characteristics of an image rendering device. Image data encoded relative to a red-green-blue color space is received in a vector format D, such that each value of D corresponds to a red component value, a blue component value...

20060013478 - Image processing device: An image processing apparatus of correcting the color of a specific range of a pixel signal for each pixel included in an input image signal, comprises an intensity determination means of generating a correction intensity that is small on the periphery of the color region of the specific range on...

20060013479 - Restoration of color components in an image model: This invention relates to a method for improving image quality of a digital image captured with an imaging module comprising at least imaging optics and an image sensor, where the image is formed through the imaging optics, the image consisting of at least one colour component. In the method degradation...

20060013480 - Moving obstacle detecting device: An aspect of the present invention provides a moving obstacle detecting device installed in or on a moving body for detecting moving obstacles in the vicinity of the moving body, the moving obstacle detecting device that includes an image capturing unit configured and arranged to capture an image of the...

20060013481 - Non-linear quantization and similarity matching methods for retrieving video sequence having a set of image frames: A method for constructing a database having digital video data information representing a plurality of video sequence is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) partitioning each image frame of each video sequence into L number of sub images; b) generating L number of edge histograms for each image...

20060013482 - System and methods of organ segmentation and applications of same: A method for segmentation of an organ of a living subject with a variable shape and boundary and surrounded by structures and tissues in connection with an image containing the organ. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of initializing a contour inside the organ in the image, introducing...

20060013483 - Gesture processing with low resolution images with high resolution processing for optical character recognition for a reading machine: A portable reading machine that operates in several modes and performs image preprocessing to prior to optical character recognition. The portable reading machine receives a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene and processing the low resolution image to recognize a user-initiated gesture using a gesturing...

20060013484 - Character recognition method, method of processing correction history of character data, and character recognition system: A handwritten character of each writer may have two or more characteristics and the characteristics are not always identical to those of a character in a correction history registered in the past. Thus, handwritten characters may not be recognized only by conventional character recognition. In the present invention, correction history...

20060013485 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, semiconductor device, and electronic apparatus: In a solid-state imaging device with an AD converter mounted on the same chip, to enable an efficient product-sum operation while reducing the size of the circuit scale and the number of transmission signal lines. A pixel signal during an n-row readout period is compared with a reference signal for...

20060013486 - Identification of acquisition devices from digital images: In an identification method, an analysis region in a test digital image is identified and values of a test parameter at a grid of locations in the analysis region are determined. A reference model of fixed pattern noise is associated with the test image. The reference model has an array...

20060013487 - Disambiguating ambiguous characters: In one general sense, information may be presented to a user by receiving one or more ambiguous characters that may be resolved to one of at least two disambiguated characters, exchanging at least one of the ambiguous characters with a host, receiving, from the host, results that reflect disambiguated terms...

20060013490 - 3d video coding using sup-sequences: A stereo-view image sequence is coded in an H.264-based sub-sequence coding by coding a first view of the stereo-view image sequence into a base layer of a sub-sequence coding. The second view of the stereo-view image sequence is coded into an enhancement layer of the sub-sequence coding. Accordingly, the sub-sequence...

20060013494 - Image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, image communications system and coded bit stream converting apparatus: An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a...

20060013488 - Information-embedding apparatus, encoder, tamper-detecting apparatus, information-embedding method, tamper-detecting method, and recording medium having program recorded therein for executing both of the methods: A digital image signal is transformed in frequency, thereby providing partitioned frequency components. Characteristic information is calculated in accordance with a coefficient at a first frequency domain that is selected from among the partitioned frequency components. A coefficient at a second frequency domain is handled in accordance with predetermined rules,...

20060013493 - Method, system and computer program product for optimization of data compression: A sequence of n coefficients is compressed by determining a cost-determined sequence of n coefficient indices represented by a cost-determined sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs under a given quantization table and run-index derivative coding distribution, wherein each sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs defines a corresponding sequence of coefficient...

20060013489 - Methods of representing a color with a compressed code: The methods according to the invention include converting the three digit decimal red, green, and blue values (000-255) to two digit decimal values (00-25), representing each two digit decimal value as an alpha character, and encoding the alpha character using the standard UPC alpha character codes. A rounding algorithm is...

20060013491 - Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with linear scanning: Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with linear scanning, wherein detected image data that correspond to three dimensional probe regions are detected and stored to memory, wherein data compression ensues in that the data of images lying next to one another...

20060013492 - Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with punctiform light source distribution: Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with punctiform light source distribution, wherein detected image data that correspond to three dimensional probe regions are detected and stored to memory, wherein data compression ensues in that the data of images lying next to...

20060013495 - Method and apparatus for processing image data: A network camera apparatus is disclosed including an image requisition unit which obtains an analog signal of an image and converts this into digital format; an image compression unit which utilizes standard image compression techniques (JPEG, MJPEG) to decrease the data size; an image processing unit which analyzes the compressed...

20060013496 - Compression device and decompression device: In a compression device, a central processing unit acquires data containing a plurality of element points for specifying the shape of an object composing the map image, and thereafter calculates a second-order differential value of a predetermined one of the plurality of element points acquired. The second-order differential value is...

20060013497 - Method, system and computer program product for optimization of data compression: A method, system and computer software product for improving rate-distortion performance while remaining faithful to JPEG/MPEG syntax, involving joint optimization of Huffman tables, quantization step sizes and quantized coefficients of a JPEG/MPEG encoder. This involves finding the optimal coefficient indices in the form of (run, size) pairs. By employing an...

20060013498 - Method and apparatus for predicting discrete cosine transform coefficients: A method of and an apparatus for predicting discrete cosine transform coefficients. A discrete cosine transform coefficient prediction method and apparatus performs a discrete cosine transform on a row and column of pixel blocks nearest to a transform coefficient to be predicted in a discrete cosine transform block to be...

20060013499 - Converting the resolution of an image using interpolation and displaying the converted image: An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of converting a resolution of an image using an interpolation method. The interpolation method determines a pixel value of an interpolated pixel based on a weighting factor, which is generated based on a pixel value and a distance value of...

20060013500 - Method and apparatus for super montage large area spectroscopic imaging: The disclosure relates to Method and Apparatus for Super Montage Large area Spectroscopic Imaging. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for producing a spectroscopic image of an object includes the steps of (a) irradiating the object with light to thereby produce from the object scattered and/or emitted light...

20060013501 - Method and apparatus for image processing: A method for image processing comprising the steps of processing an image comprising a plurality of pixels each having an intensity to produce an image processed image comprising a plurality of pixels, applying a preservation filter to the image to produce at least one preservation value corresponding to at least...

20060013502 - Dithered encoding and decoding information transference system and method: Methods for encoding transitions between low-intensity regions and high-intensity regions such that the transitions are more readily detectable in a digital image captured by a digital image capture device. The encoding applied to the transitions act to retard and minimize blooming effects and ISI that can occur in the digital...

20060013503 - Methods of preventing noise boost in image contrast enhancement: An adaptive contrast enhancement method and device provide video signal contrast enhancement with reduced noise amplification. The video signal has a plurality of temporally ordered digital pictures, each one of the digital pictures represented by a set of samples, wherein each one of the samples has a gradation level. A...

20060013504 - Multi-resolution image enhancement: A method for image enhancement includes performing a multi-resolution decomposition of an input image, thereby generating multi-resolution transform components associated with different image scales, comprising at least first and second image scales. A multi-resolution reconstruction is performed to generate an enhanced image by applying filter coefficients to the multi-resolution transform...

20060013505 - Analysis of geometric surfaces by comformal structure: A method for analyzing, classifying, and recognizing geometric surfaces is disclosed. Geometric surfaces are treated as Riemann manifolds and the conformal structure corresponding to the surfaces is calculated. The conformal structure of the surface contains the intrinsic geometric information about the surface, but in a much more compact format as...

20060013506 - Inverse transform method, apparatus, and medium: An inverse transform apparatus included in a moving-image codec, and more particularly, an inverse transform method, apparatus, and medium unrestricted by a size or a type of input data is provided. The inverse transform apparatus included in the moving-image codec may include a plurality of ROM tables separately included according...

20060013510 - Glazing inspection: A method and apparatus for inspection of the optical quality of a glazing is provided. A greyscale image is generated digitally, and reflected off or transmitted through a glazing, and captured using an image capture device. Preferably, the generation of the greyscale pattern and the capturing of the reflected or...

20060013507 - Image pickup apparatus and synchronization signal generating apparatus: An image signal generation portion 11 generates an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. A signal generation control portion 24 drives the image signal generation portion 11 and generates image pick-up setting information IF to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with a generated image signal DVd....

20060013509 - Method of estimating disparity for 3d object recognition: There is provided a method of estimating disparity for 3D object recognition. The method includes obtaining a plurality of images having different resolutions for the stereo image, estimating a disparity map for a lowest-resolution level image, estimating a coarse disparity map for an upper resolution level image by using the...

20060013508 - Projection apparatus and image acquisition method: A projector (1) is provided with a digital camera section (16) and is constructed in such a way that a memory card (4) is attachable to and detachable from the projector. During projection of a document, the image of a screen (S) in a document-projected state is picked up in...

20060013511 - Method and apparatus for identifying optical media: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for identifying optical storage media comprising: means for capturing an image of an identification ring disposed upon an optical media disc; means for unwrapping the ring to form a flat band; means for searching of the flat band to locate a...

20060008115 - Authentic document and method of making: A method and system is disclosed for printing an authenticatable image having an embedded image into a receiver having a discernible physical characteristic, such that the printed image can be used to authenticate the receiver which includes scanning the receiver to produce information related to the discernible physical characteristic of...

20060008113 - Image processing system and image processing method: This invention provides an image processing system and image processing method which can appropriately provide vector data permitted to reuse by inhibiting information, whose reuse is inhibited or which should not unnecessarily be manipulated from the viewpoint of copyright protection, from being provided to a third party as vector data....

20060008114 - Image processing system and image processing method: This invention provides an image processing system and image processing method which allow a user to easily confirm conversion result information when image information is converted into vector data. Image information input from an input device (113) is vectorized by a data processing device (115). Vector data which has successfully...

20060008112 - Low visible digital watermarks: The present invention relates to digital watermarking. In a preferred embodiment, media is embedded with one or more digital watermark components. The media includes a blue color plane, a red color plane and a green color plane. The digital watermark component is embedded in the blue color plane, and scaled...

20060008120 - Contact time calculation apparatus, obstacle detection apparatus, contact time calculation method, and obstacle detection method: Two arbitrary points belonging to a single object in an image captured by an camera installed in a vehicle body are extracted as evaluation points, the absolute value representing the difference between the coordinate values of the extracted two points, which are taken in reference to an arbitrary coordinate axis...

20060008116 - Flight parameter measurement system: A portable flight parameter measurement tracks the surface of an object in motion, e.g., a ball, and determines speed, trajectory, a spin axis, and a spin rate around that axis. The measurement system is particularly suited for analyzing the path of a ball in flight which is affected, in great...

20060008118 - Image processing apparatus and image monitoring system: In an image processing apparatus 1, easy-to-monitor images, in which monitoring-unnecessary-moving objects, such as rainfall or snow, have been eliminated, can be displayed to the monitoring operator, because a monitoring-unnecessary-moving-object-eliminating unit 3 processes each of pixel values of consecutive images that have been continuously photographed and stored in image storing...

20060008117 - Information source selection system and method: An arbitrary information source is selected from a plurality of information sources. To that end, a client comprises a pointing device 226 for receiving movement information on a movement in a virtual space, a presence provider 222 for sending the movement information received by the pointing device 226, a space...

20060008119 - Visual object recognition and tracking: This invention describes a method for identifying and tracking an object from two-dimensional data pictorially representing said object by an object-tracking system through processing said two-dimensional data using at least one tracker-identifier belonging to the object-tracking system for providing an output signal containing: a) a type of the object, and/or...

20060008121 - Incremental motion estimation through local bundle adjustment: An incremental motion estimation system and process for estimating the camera pose parameters associated with each image of a long image sequence. Unlike previous approaches, which rely on point matches across three or more views, the present system and process also includes those points shared only by two views. The...

20060008122 - Image evaluation for reading mode in a reading machine: A portable reading machine detects poor image conditions for performing optical character recognition processing. The portable reading machine receives an image of sufficient resolution to distinguish lines of text but not necessarily of sufficient resolution to distinguish individual characters and processes the image to determine imaging conditions from the image....

20060008123 - System and method for providing a visual language for non-reading sighted persons: A method and system for supporting and augmenting a non-reading sighted person's capabilities to interact with her environment using visual language hieroglyphics and computer sensory perception. This invention provides navigational support by displaying orientation hieroglyphics in a dialog with the user similar to that of a “seeing-eye” dog and visually-disabled...

20060008124 - Iris image-based recognition system: The present invention is to identify an individual from his or her iris captured from an imaging system. Basically the system can be divided into two processes, which are enrollment and verification. Each process consists of four steps. Both processes share the three beginning steps, which are image acquisition, image...

20060008125 - Transaction method and devices suitable therefor: A transaction method, a service center, and a device for carrying out the transaction method. In the transaction method object picture data relating to a transaction object, for example a product or a service, are made visible to a user, for instance by projecting image signals corresponding to the object...

20060008129 - Electronic device with camera and fingerprint security function: For performing a fingerprint security function in an electronic device having a camera unit, a focus of a lens in the camera unit is adjusted to a first focus level when a control signal set indicates a normal photograph mode. Alternatively, the focus of the lens in the camera unit...

20060008128 - Infrared biometric finger sensor including infrared antennas and associated methods: A finger sensor may include an integrated circuit substrate for receiving a user's finger adjacent thereto, and a plurality of infrared sensing pixels on the substrate. Each infrared sensing pixel may include at least one temperature sensor, at least one infrared antenna, and at least one conductive via interconnecting the...

20060008127 - Method and apparatus for enhancing the usability of an electronic device having an integrated fingerprint sensor: The usability of an electronic device that includes an integrated fingerprint sensor is enhanced by mounting the fingerprint sensor rotatably and pivotably. The fingerprint sensor is prevented from moving during normal use, but the fingerprint sensor may be repositioned to accommodate a user's preferences....

20060008126 - Validation of fingerprint-based criminal background check results: A system for employers and other organizations desiring the results of fingerprint-based criminal history background checks to validate that the intended applicants' fingerprints were in fact used for the checks. This system includes: 1. A compatible method for capturing individual applicants' fingerprints for the purpose of conducting fingerprint-based criminal history...

20060008130 - Medical image output system, apparatus and method: In controller 20, upon receipt of the instruction information of the medical image film output from image diagnosis terminal 30, information on the output form of medical image output apparatus 50a or 50b defined as an output destination is read out from an output form table, while information on the...

20060008131 - Image processing method, apparatus and program: There is disclosed an image processing apparatus in which an optimum characteristic amount for use in an image processing can constantly correctly be extracted from an object image, an optimum image processing can therefore be performed, and a satisfactory image can be outputted. To achieve this, a first extraction section...

20060008132 - Method and system for image segmentation: A method for segmenting an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The image is segmented by thresholding the fractal map of the image....

20060008133 - Machine for inspecting glass bottles: A glass container inspection machine is disclosed for inspecting glass stippled bottles for defects. Stippled bottles are supported at an inspection station and are illuminated with a light source. The stippled bottle is imaged a pixel matrix with the pixels of the image varying in intensity from bright to gray...

20060008135 - Semiconductor integrated circuit pattern verification method, photomask manufacturing method, semiconductor integrated circuit device manufacturing method, and program for implementing semiconductor integrated circuit pattern verification method: A semiconductor integrated circuit pattern verification method includes executing simulation to obtain a simulation pattern to be formed on a substrate on the basis of a semiconductor integrated circuit design pattern, comparing the simulation pattern and the design pattern that is required on the substrate to detect a first difference...

20060008134 - Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing system: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate processing apparatus, comprising a housing body mounting unit that is capable of mounting a plurality of housing bodies which can house a plurality of substrates, a processing apparatus main body for processing a substrate extracted from the housing...

20060008136 - 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 object. The points that can be...

20060008137 - Multi-camera inspection of underwater structures: A method, system and apparatus for viewing and imaging an underwater structure from a submersible platform, navigating along the structure and constructing a map of the structure in the forms of a photo-mosaic and a 3-D structural map. The system can include a submersible platform, at least two cameras coupled...

20060008138 - System and method for 3d contour tracking of anatomical structures: A method for three-dimensional contour tracking includes building a plurality of shape models, building a plurality of appearance models, training a learning/classification algorithm using said shape models and appearance models, localizing a contour using the said learning/classification algorithm about an object in a digitized image, and tracking said contour along...

20060008139 - Image processing apparatus, image forming appratus and color image determination method thereof: The inventive image processing apparatus takes steps of 1) dividing an image to be processed into numerals of blocks; 2) determining whether a block is a color block or not; 3) determining whether the image is a color image or not based on the rate of color blocks to the...

20060008140 - Segmentation technique of a color image according to colors: The present invention provides a technique to improve reliability of a segmentation result for a subject image, which is obtained a colored object with the possibility of change in color for each individual items. In a specified color space, existing color areas indicating ranges of colors containable in the subject...

20060008142 - Method and apparatus for automated image correction for digital image acquisition: Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically correcting colors of a digital image. The methods and apparatus create a first digital image of a target test sheet under a predetermined lighting condition, the target test sheet including a plurality of regions, each region including a known color value, the first...

20060008141 - Radiometric calibration from a single image: Radiometric calibration of an image capture device (e.g., a digital camera) using a single image is described. The single image may be a color image or a grayscale image. The calibration identifies and analyzes edge pixels of the image that correspond to an edge between two colors or grayscale levels...

20060008143 - Hierachical image segmentation: An apparatus 1000 includes an input 1010 for receiving an N-dimensional signal, N≧2. A storage 1030 stores a composite model of a composite structure for estimating parameters of the model with respect to the signal. The composite model is based on constituent models 210-290 that each correspond to a constituent...

20060008145 - Image data processing apparatus and method, and image data processing program: When a face image of a character in an image represented by image data fed to a mask data creating apparatus is detected, face image areas of the detected character are respectively extracted by different two types of processing. An appropriate degree is calculated for each of the face image...

20060008146 - Image processing apparatus and method: In order to produce a high-quality output of an image which is a mixture of images having different characteristics, there is provided an image processing apparatus having an image memory storing an entered color image and a feature detector, arranged for detecting a feature signal from the entered color image...

20060008144 - Vectorized image segmentation via trixel agglomeration: A computer implemented method transforms an image comprised of pixels into a vectorized image specified by a plurality of polygons that can be subsequently used to aid in image processing and understanding. The pixelated image is processed to extract edge pixels that separate different colors and a constrained Delaunay triangulation...

20060008147 - Apparatus, medium, and method for extracting character(s) from an image: An apparatus, medium, and method for extracting character(s) from an image. The apparatus includes a mask detector detecting a height of a mask indicating a character(s) region from spatial information of the image created when detecting a caption region including the character(s) region and a background region from the image...

20060008148 - Character recognition device and method: A character recognition device capable of performing accurate character recognition even when positions of characters change or adjacent characters contact or overlap each other. The device includes a character recognition image data creating unit for extracting character string image data from image data generated by using an imaging modality and...

20060008150 - Apparatus for and method of feature extraction for image recognition: An apparatus for and method of performing a most informative feature extraction (MIFE) method in which a facial image is separated into sub-regions, and each sub-region makes individual contribution for performing facial recognition. Specifically, each sub-region is subjected to a sub-region based adaptive gamma (SadaGamma) correction or sub-region based histogram...

20060008152 - Method and apparatus for enhancing and indexing video and audio signals: A method and apparatus for processing a video sequence is disclosed. The apparatus may include a video processor for detecting and tracking at least one identifiable face in a video sequence. The method may include performing face detection of at least one identifiable face, selecting a face template including face...

20060008149 - Method of performing shape localization: A method for performing shape localization in an image includes deriving a model shape from a database of a plurality of sample shapes. The model shape is defined by a set of landmarks. The method further includes deriving a texture likelihood model of present sub-patches of the set of landmarks...

20060008151 - Shape feature extraction and classification: System and method for analyzing an image. A received image, comprising an object or objects, is optionally preprocessed. Invariant shape features of the object(s) are extracted using a generalized invariant feature descriptor. The generalized invariant feature descriptor may comprise a generalized invariant feature vector comprising components corresponding to attributes of...

20060008153 - Direction-sensitive line detection operator for image data: A method of detecting lines in an image comprises using one or more masks for detecting lines in one or more directions out of horizontal, vertical, left diagonal and right diagonal, and further comprises one or more additional masks for detecting lines in one or more additional directions....

20060008158 - Data conversion device: The data conversion device of the present invention includes: a coding section for replacing (i) one or more components constituting the display data of each pixel and other one or more components constituting display data of a pixel existing around that pixel on a screen with (ii) one or more...

20060008159 - Image processing apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus, program, and storage medium: When image data which is decoded after being irreversibly compressed is to be displayed, this invention makes it possible to display a histogram close to the exposure conditions perceived by the human sense during photography. This invention includes a histogram acquisition unit which acquires histogram information from input image data,...

20060008155 - Image processing device: This is an image processing device for predicting the lower-order bits of target pixel data, based on one or more pieces of pixel data constituting image data. The image processing device comprises a lower-order bit calculation unit for calculating the lower-order bits of the target pixel data, based on one...

20060008157 - Image protection apparatus, imaging apparatus, and program: An image protection apparatus includes (a) a set-state determining unit that determines a set state regarding a protection function for an image, and (b) a protection process unit that, when the protection function is determined by the set-state determining unit to be in a valid state, selectively performs lossless coding...

20060008156 - Method and apparatus for generating electronic document by continuously photographing document in moving picture: A method for generating an electronic document by continuously photographing a document having many pages as a moving picture includes: photographing the document and generating moving picture data; detecting data of one page of the document by performing motion estimation on the moving picture data, performing document recognition on the...

20060008160 - System and method for image compression, storage, and retrieval: A system and method for compressing and storing image data. The system and method creates for each of a plurality of original images a plurality of resultant images by altering the content of each of the plurality of original images a corresponding plurality of different ways. Each of the resultant...

20060008154 - Video compression and decompression to virtually quadruple image resolution: Compression and decompression of video image data involves removing data (230) representing pixels from a field to leave data representing pixels adjacent and on both sides of the removed pixels in at least two directions. Different pixels are removed from different fields so that over a given number of consecutive...

20060008161 - Sequential decoding of progressive coded jpegs: Progressive scan encoded JPEGS are decoded sequentially on a Minimum Coded Unit (MCU) basis and then the JPEG image is output one row at a time to a frame buffer. Since the entire image does not need to be decoded at once, a huge JPEG buffer is generally not required....

20060008163 - Image processing apparatus: In an image processing apparatus that performs image processing including a plurality of steps that do not need to be executed simultaneously, processing circuits used in steps that do not need to be executed simultaneously are reconfigured in time division using dynamically reconfigurable circuits, implementing a plurality of circuits without...

20060008162 - Pre-compression rate-distortion optimization method for jpeg 2000: A method of optimizing a compression of a still image in JPEG 2000 format, which includes the steps of: (a) dividing an image into a predetermined numbers of tiles each having a predetermined numbers of tile pixels; (b) decomposing each of the tiles into a predetermined number of subbands by...

20060008166 - Apparatus and method for forming a coding unit: An apparatus and a method for forming a data structure that improves error resilience when applied to the coding of hierarchical subband decomposed coefficients, e.g., wavelet transform coefficients. The texture unit is defined as comprising only those AC transform coefficients that are located in one or more slices in a...

20060008165 - Method for image coding by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization and system for effecting same: Methods and systems for encoding, transmitting and decoding digital images by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization are disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving a digital image, transforming the digital image into the wavelet domain generating a pyramid hierarchy, losslessly encoding a top LL subband from the pyramid...

20060008164 - System and method for image coding employing a hybrid directional prediction and wavelet lifting: A system and method that provides an efficient scheme to code images and video by exploiting spatial correlations within an image by employing hybrid directional prediction and lifting wavelet techniques....

20060008167 - Digital camera having picture quality setting: A method of storing an image in a digital camera, comprising the steps of: capturing the image using the selected quantization table. A method of storing an image in a digital camera, wherein the step of selecting a quantization table comprises the steps of: selecting a quality setting; compressing the...

20060008168 - Method and apparatus for implementing dct/idct based video/image processing: Several apparatuses employing a tag table and/or an AC table, and same method are provided. First, a data access apparatus, which comprises a buffer, a tag table and a controller, receives and outputs a plurality of data with at least two distinct categories in a specified sequence. The buffer stores...

20060008171 - Digital photography with flash/no flash extension: A system and method for improving digital flash photographs. The present invention is a technique that significantly improves low-light imaging by giving the end-user all the advantages of flash photography without producing the jarring look. The invention uses an image pair—one taken with flash the other without—to remove noise from...

20060008172 - Image compensating system and method for a mobile terminal imaging device: An image correction system for a mobile communication terminal having a camera is provided. In one embodiment, the image correction system comprises a processing unit for detecting and correcting an undesirable image orientation for an image captured by the camera, wherein the undesirable orientation is calculated according to a first...

20060008169 - Red eye reduction apparatus and method: A method, and an apparatus employing the method, of reducing red eye effect from image data having image attributes. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying image data with a first image attribute having characteristics of red eye pixels, determining a centroid of the identified image data having characteristics of...

20060008170 - System and method for compensating for motion blur in optical navigation: A method and system for compensating for motion blur in optical navigation adds a correction offset to an image navigation value to adjust for varying velocities along a moving web. Reference and comparison images are acquired at different times from a moving web. The instant velocities of the web are...

20060008173 - Device and method for correcting image including person area: A person area is detected from an inputted image, a category to which a person shown in the person area belongs is recognized, a correction area is extracted from the person area, and the correction area is corrected based on the recognized category. Thus, the inputted image is easily corrected...

20060008174 - Count adaptive noise reduction method of x-ray images: A method of adaptively reducing noise within an x-ray image includes receiving raw data (R) representing a detected x-ray signal from an object. A counts-based modulation mask (Mcb) is generated in response to the raw data (R). In one embodiment, a structure dependent noise filtered image (Iblended) is generated in...

20060008175 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: Information such as a camera layout for representation on a map could not be entered while an image of a camera is confirmed on a display. In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides generating means for generating a map having a symbol indicating an installed position of...

20060008176 - Image processing device, image processing method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method thereof, a recording medium, and a program that is able to adjust precisely overlap portion of an omnidirectional picture. By detecting overlap portions of