Image analysis inventions 02/06

20060039581 - Digitally watermarking holograms: The present invention relates to digital watermarks integrated into holograms, watermarked hologram structures, and related applications as an authentication technique. One method creates a watermark image, and then embeds the watermark image into a holographic structure. The holographic structure is carried by a smart card. The smart card includes additional...

20060039580 - Method and system for watermark detection: A system and method of detecting and authenticating a watermark on a document such as a check which is supposed to include a watermark having known characteristics to verify the authenticity of the document. A digitized image of the document is stored and processed through tranformation which generates a frequency...

20060039579 - Method for coding and decoding digital data stored or transmitted according to the pixels method for transmitting prioritised pixels: A method for coding and decoding digital data stored or transmitted according to the pixels method for transmitting prioritized pixels. The content of the information to the coded or decoded consists of individual pixel groups. Each pixel group comprises a place value, at least one pixel value and a priority...

20060039582 - Watermark embedding and extracting method and embedding hardware structure used in image compression system: A watermark and extracting method and a watermark hardware structure used in an image compression system. A series of data is generated by random variables, such that duplication is avoided. According to characteristics of the human vision system, weighted value of each block is analyzed by classification in the frequency...

20060039583 - Method for recording a charcteristic of at least one object: The invention relates to a method for recording a characteristic of at least one object (28, 56, 68). According to the invention, a) a luminous radiation that is influenced by the object (28, 56, 68) is fed to an image sensor (6), b) at least two different partial images (32,...

20060039584 - Motion detection method and device, program and vehicle surveillance system: Based on an input image from an imaging device and a preset background image, a digitized image is generated for each frame. The digitized images are compared. Then, an increased region, a decreased region, and an overlap region, which are adjacent to each other, are extracted as a single integrated...

20060039585 - System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in...

20060039586 - Information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods, and programs: The present invention provides an information-processing apparatus including detection means, recognition means, and meta-information generation means. The detection means detects conditions surrounding the user and generates sensing data revealing the conditions surrounding the user. The recognition means recognizes the conditions surrounding the user on the basis of the sensing data....

20060039588 - Live print scanner with holographic platen: This invention relates to the use of holographic optical elements in the design and application of biometric scanning instruments used typically for capturing biometric information such as fingerprints and handprints. A live print scanning system for generating a high contrast print image is presented. The system includes a flatbed scanner...

20060039587 - Person tracking method and apparatus using robot: A person tracking method and apparatus using a robot. The person tracking method includes: detecting a person in a first window of a current input image using a skin color of the person; and setting a plurality of second windows in a next input image, correlating the first window and...

20060039589 - Accumulation imaging: A system for improving the display of ultrasound imaging of tissue structures. A set of N image frames is used to produce a peak image display. Multiple peak image displays are produced by discarding the oldest image frame in the set of N image frames and replacing the discarded image...

20060039590 - Edge adaptive image expansion and enhancement system and method: An edge adaptive system and method for image filtering. The method maps each output pixel onto input image coordinates and then prefilters and resamples the input image pixels around this point to reduce noise and adjust the scale corresponding to a particular operation. Then the edge in the input image...

20060039592 - Back projection method in image reconstruction: A back projection method in CT image reconstruction method in which projection data obtained by irradiating a subject with electromagnetic wave and detecting the electromagnetic wave transmitted through the subject are back-projected onto a CT image reconstruction region virtually set on a region of interest of the subject, said back...

20060039591 - Method and apparatus for metal artifact reduction in 3d x-ray image reconstruction using artifact spatial information: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reducing metal artifact in image reconstruction. In at least one embodiment, the method for reducing metal artifacts in image reconstruction comprises collecting at least one uncalibrated image (an X-ray or fluoroscopic image for example) and calibrating the at least one...

20060039593 - Methods and systems for imaging cells: The invention generally provides methods and systems for determining characteristics of cellular structures. The methods include non-invasive, non-perturbing, automatable, and quantitative methods and may be applied to the examination of cells such as stem cells, embryos, and egg cells....

20060039594 - Early error detection during fabrication of reticles: The reticle fabrication system of the present invention includes a first preparatory processor, a second preparatory processor, a comparison/determination unit, a first converter, and a second converter. The first preparatory processor performs preparatory processing for converting CAD data to plotting data, and the second preparatory processor carries out preparatory processing...

20060039597 - Method for correcting a mask pattern, system for correcting a mask pattern, program, method for manufacturing a photomask and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device: A computer implemented method for correcting a mask pattern includes: predicting a displacement of a device pattern by using a mask pattern to form the device pattern and a variation of a process condition; determinating an optical proximity correction value so that the displacement falls within a displacement tolerance of...

20060039595 - Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements: An overlay mark for determining the relative position between two or more successive layers of a substrate or between two or more separately generated patterns on a single layer of a substrate is disclosed. The overlay mark includes a plurality of coarsely segmented lines that are formed by a plurality...

20060039596 - Pattern measuring method, pattern measuring apparatus, photo mask manufacturing method, semiconductor device manufacturing method, and computer program product: A pattern measuring method includes preparing a substrate comprising a pattern, extracting a place to be measured on the substrate based on a simulation using pattern data relating to the pattern as input data, generating measurement information for measuring a physical quantity of the place to be measured by a...

20060039598 - Method and apparatus for inspecting substrate pattern: A method of inspecting an inspection pattern using a statistical inference function is disclosed. The inference function is generated in relation to optical reference signal data and reference pattern characteristic data for a plurality of reference patterns formed by a unit process of interest on reference substrates....

20060039600 - 3d object recognition: A method, device, system, and computer program for object recognition of a 3D object of a certain object class using a statistical shape model for recovering 3D shapes from a 2D representation of the 3D object and comparing the recovered 3D shape with known 3D to 2D representations of at...

20060039599 - Method of and system for detecting anomalies in projection images generated by computed tomography scanners: A method of and a system for detecting anomalies in projection images generated by CT scanners are provided. One type of anomaly of particular interest is bright or/and dark dots in projection images, which correspond to streak artifacts in the CT images. The method for detecting such bright or/and dark...

20060039601 - Geometric pattern matching using dynamic feature combinations: A geometric pattern matching method to locate instances of a template image in a target image using a plurality of models with different feature combinations. A learning phase involves learning geometric information about the template image and creating a model for each of a plurality of different respective parent features....

20060039602 - Data driven color conversion: A system for data driven color conversion is disclosed. The system may include a plurality of interconnected processors. At least one of the processors may include a first processing unit to perform a first portion of a color conversion scheme to generate first intermediate pixel data from pixel data, and...

20060039603 - Automated color classification for biological samples: The present inventors have developed a way to assign and quantify color in biological samples in an automated environment. The present invention allows for the processing and analysis of a large number of biological samples while providing objective rules for color assignment and quantification within each sample. Methods and systems...

20060039604 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and storage medium: A histogram of density difference between each pixel and an adjacent pixel is prepared from the image data obtained by pre-scanning an original. Then an approximation function for the density difference histogram is generated, and the kind of the original is discriminated as text/photograph/other based on the coefficient of the...

20060039605 - Method and apparatus for recognition of character string in scene image: A character recognition method that is robust under an unknown illumination condition is provided. An apparatus for realizing such robust character recognition includes plural different binarization, means for synthesizing character sub-image candidates that have been obtained from the binarization units, and means for analyzing character sub-image candidates and for recognizing...

20060039606 - Business form processing program, method, and device: A business form processing program to cause a computer to execute a character box-image reading step for reading by a scanner all colors of a business form with blank character boxes and storing them as character box images, a business form reading step for reading by a scanner a recognized...

20060039608 - Background area extraction in document layout analysis: An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting a background area of a document image. The background area of the document image may be extracted by repeating recursively the acts of: extracting a set of white rectangles from a processed area of the document image; dividing...

20060039609 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method for confirming electronic data character quality, and computer program therefor: According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus comprises scanning unit that converts a original image into image data; extraction unit that extracts an area that contains characters of every character size from the image data scanned by the scanning unit; and display unit that displays images of the...

20060039607 - Method and apparatus for extracting feature information, and computer product: An apparatus for extracting feature information from each of a plurality of electronic documents that constitutes a group of documents, for each of a plurality of viewpoints includes an extracting unit that extracts feature information from each of the electronic documents for each of the viewpoints, a calculating unit that...

20060039610 - System and method for automating document search and report generation: A method for processing a customer request comprises receiving a request, sending the requests to a data provider; receiving a document image from the data provider, performing pattern data extraction on the document image, and preparing a customized report. Additionally, a system for processing customer requests comprises a receiving module...

20060039611 - Border matting by dynamic programming: Techniques are disclosed to provide more efficient and improved border matting for extracted foreground images, e.g., without requiring excessive user interaction. Border matting techniques described herein generate relatively continuous transparency (or alpha values) along the boundary of the extracted object (e.g., limiting color bleeding and/or artifacts)....

20060039612 - Selection of elements strongly related to a predetermined reference element: Selection devices, methods and systems for selecting, among a plurality of elements, a nearest neighbor set which is a set of elements each having a relation to a predetermined reference element, a degree of the relation meeting a predetermined condition. A selection device includes: a nearest neighbor set candidate selection...

20060039616 - Amplitude coding for clustered transform coefficients: A method, apparatus, and carrier medium to encode a series of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes identifying runs of one or more non-zero-valued coefficients, and for each such run, identifying events of a run of one or more amplitude-1 coefficients followed by a single coefficient of amplitude greater than...

20060039615 - Joint amplitude and position coding for photographic image and video coding: A method, apparatus, and carrier medium to encode a series of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes identifying clusters of at least one non-zero-valued coefficients, and for each such cluster, identifying at least one position event that defines the relative position and runlength of the cluster of non-zero coefficients and...

20060039617 - Method and assembly for video encoding, the video encoding including texture analysis and texture synthesis, and corresponding computer program and corresponding computer-readable storage medium: The invention relates to a method and assembly for video coding comprising a texture analysis, texture synthesis, corresponding computer program and a computer-readable recording medium. Said invention can be used, in particular for reducing a data rate during a video data transmission. An analysis of video scene texture by an...

20060039613 - Methods and apparatus for generating and using lists of coefficients to be coded: Improved methods and apparatus for implementing JPEG 2000 MQ encoding operations are described. The following features of the invention may be used alone or in combination to implement JPEG 2000's coefficient bit modeling 1) Lists of coefficients to be processed in one or more subsequent coding passes are generated as...

20060039614 - Methods and apparatus for implementing jpeg 2000 encoding operations: Improved methods and apparatus for implementing JPEG 2000 MQ encoding operations are described. The following features of the invention may be used alone or in combination to implement JPEG 2000's coefficient bit modeling 1) Lists of coefficients to be processed in one or more subsequent coding passes are generated as...

20060039618 - Method for reducing binary image update package sizes: A system and method for reducing the update package size used to convert an original image into a new image based on the differences between the two images. From comparison of original and new images, an update package is generated which includes ADD and COPY operations. This design introduces a...

20060039619 - Image compression using a color visual model: A system for coding images, and more particularly, to a system for compressing images to a reduced number of bits by employing a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) in combination with a visual model....

20060039621 - Two-dimensional variable length coding of runs of zero and non-zero transform coefficients for image compression: A method, apparatus, and carrier medium to encode a series of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes identifying events that each includes a run of zero-valued coefficients preceding a run of one or more non-zero-valued coefficients, and for each such event, jointly encoding the run lengths of the preceding run...

20060039620 - Video coding using multi-dimensional amplitude coding and 2-d non-zero/zero cluster position coding: A Method, apparatus, and carrier medium to encode a series of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes identifying events that each includes a run of one or more non-zero-valued coefficients, and for each such event, encoding the event with a codeword that for at least some events, relatively more likely-to-occur...

20060039623 - Scaling of raster images without blurring of edges: Edges are detected in a raster image and generate parametric curves from the detected edges. The parametric curves are used to render a scaled version of the raster image. Some embodiments may allow edge locations within a raster image to retain a satisfactory level of sharpness when the raster image...

20060039622 - Sharpness enhancement: A two-dimensional enhancement function (HEF; VEF) determines a peaking factor (CX; CY) for an input signal (L(m,n)) based on the output signals of both a first edge detector (HHP; VHP) and a second edge detector (HBP; VBP) which both operate in the same first spatial direction. In this manner, all...

20060039625 - Imaging apparatus evaluation method, image correction method, and imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus evaluation method of the present invention comprises obtaining an output function of original image data by comparing a plurality of sets of image data which are obtained by imaging the same spatial brightness distribution surface with different exposure times....

20060039624 - System and method for fuzzy filtering images: An invention provides a system and method for filtering pixels in an image using only fixed-point and summation operations. First, a filtering window is centered on an input pixel. Based on a difference between the intensity of the input pixel and its neighboring pixels, fuzzy filter weights are obtained. A...

20060039626 - Data transformation apparatus and method: Next, it determines E1 by adding integer data smaller than half a divisor {1+a2} to D1 and determines correction data E0, E2, and E4 by adding a value equal to half the divisor to the rest of the data D0, D2, and D3. Next, it divides E0 to E4 by...

20060039628 - Detecting skew angle in a scanned image: Detecting skew and determining skew angle using the front of a document by determining background-to-document transitions. Incoming scanlines are interval sampled in the fast scan direction every nth pixel. The samples are collected and organized into a two dimension array comprised of scanline based rows and interval based columns. The...

20060039629 - Document registration and skew detection system: Disclosed methods and systems perform electronic registration of digitally captured images in real-time and performs accurate and robust digital image processing by analyzing the entire digitally captured image....

20060039627 - Real-time processing of grayscale image data: In a digital reproduction system incorporating a single pass scanner, accurate image processing results from processing a subset of grayscale image data. More specifically, scanlines that correspond to the leading edge of a document are stored and processed to detect skew and to obtain an appropriate correction. The lead edge...

20060039630 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus configured to obtain a resized image of a suitable size in a case where a plurality of image data are enlarged or reduced, while keeping a vertically long or horizontally long state of the image. Thus, a matched state between a resize object image and a...

20060039631 - Intra-field interpolation method and apparatus: An intra-field interpolation method and apparatus for generating a target pixel value. The method includes the following steps of: receiving a plurality of pixel values of an image field; generating a first pixel difference set from the received pixel values using a first pixel difference algorithm; generating a second pixel...

20060034482 - Apparatus and method for displaying images: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a device for displaying images. It is known to inlay a pattern of watermark type into the sequence of images to be displayed so as to combat the copying of images by picture-taking. This inlaying consists in modulating the intensity of the...

20060034483 - Methods and apparatus for hiding data in halftone images: We propose methods for generating a halftone image, in which each pixel takes one of two tone values. The generated image contains hidden data, which is present at data storage pixels chosen using a pseudo-random number generator. In a first case, the data is hidden within an existing halftone image...

20060034484 - Method for traffic sign detection: A method for detecting and recognizing at least one traffic sign is disclosed. A video sequence having a plurality of image frames is received. One or more filters are used to measure features in at least one image frame indicative of an object of interest. The measured features are combined...

20060034486 - Passive touch system and method of detecting user input: A passive touch system includes a passive touch surface and at least two cameras associated with the touch surface. The at least two cameras acquire images of the touch surface from different locations and have overlapping fields of view. A processor receives and processes images acquired by the at least...

20060034485 - Point location in multi-modality stereo imaging: A multimodal point location method can include the steps of acquiring at least two different images of a target object with cameras of different imaging modalities, including acoustic and optical cameras, and matching point coordinates in each of the two different images to reconstruct a point in a three-dimensional reconstructed...

20060034487 - Method and device for adjusting an image sensor system: A method and a device for adjusting at least one parameter of an image sensor of a stereo camera in a motor vehicle. The stereo camera has two image sensors which record essentially the same scene. If an error occurs in one of the image sensors, at least one parameter...

20060034488 - Displacement sensor having a display data output: A method of displaying sensed displacement is such as to collect single dimension light distribution data using a single dimensional imaging device; transmit the light distribution data to a processor; and display the light distribution data as a line bright wave form on a display using software implemented by the...

20060034490 - Image recognition method and apparatus: An image recognition apparatus has an image capture section for capturing a range image, an image deformation section for deforming the range image captured by the image capture section, and a recognition section for recognizing the presence/absence of three-dimensional motion of an object by comparing the deformed image obtained by...

20060034489 - Method and apparatus for a velocity detection system using optical growth rate: The present invention is a velocity detection system and method. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a series of still images of moving automobiles are taken at known intervals. An Image processor algorithm is used to determine local features of the moving automobile and in conjunction with known...

20060034491 - System for visualising a surface structure: The present invention provides a system for visualising a surface structure of an object. The system includes a camera for taking a plurality of images of the object and a location monitor for monitoring a respective location associated with each image that the camera takes. The system also includes a...

20060034492 - Hand recognition system: A hand recognition system....

20060034493 - Organism recognition system: A response signal generating unit (3) applies a predetermined supply signal (2S) to a detection element (1) and outputs, as a response signal (3S), a signal which has changed in accordance with the impedance of an object (10) with which the unit is in contact through the detection element (1)....

20060034494 - Personal identity data management: Systems, methods and apparatus for personal identity data management permit individuals to manage their criminal background, credit history, employment, demographic and educational information, for example, to establish their credentials and to help protect their good names. All access to this personal identity data, including the biometrics that uniquely establish the...

20060034495 - Synergistic face detection and pose estimation with energy-based models: A method for human face detection that detects faces independently of their particular poses and simultaneously estimates those poses. Our method exhibits an immunity to variations in skin color, eyeglasses, facial hair, lighting, scale and facial expressions, and others. In operation, we train a convolutional neural network to map face...

20060034496 - Information management system with authenticity check: A product comprising at least one authentication writing area is provided. The product is adapted to receive handwritten authentication information from a user and is provided with a position-coding pattern. The pattern codes coordinates for a plurality of points on an imaginary surface. The pattern allows digital recording and reproduction...

20060034498 - Fingerprint identification data accessing device: A fingerprint identification data accessing device comprises a fingerprint detector for detecting the fingerprint applied thereon as inputted the fingerprint data; a memory unit; a verification and coding module having a verification unit for verifying the inputted fingerprint data with the predetermined fingerprint data, if the inputted fingerprint data is...

20060034499 - Information processing device: An information processing device including a personal authentication function by reading a fingerprint. The device has a detection structure having an improved detection function. The information processing device (mobile telephone device 2) has a fingerprint read function and a case (4) having a window (20), a fingerprint sensor (22) arranged...

20060034497 - Protometric authentication system: A device and method for matching fingerprints and granting or denying access is disclosed. Fingerprints of each potential user are captured by a fingerprint sensor, processed and saved in the device memory. Each fingerprint is converted to a digital image, all fingerprint ridges are thinned and all features except bifurcation...

20060034501 - Image processing method and apparatus of same: Image processing method and apparatus of same are provided. An image processing method includes a first step of processing first image data obtained by capturing an image of a predetermined region including a blood vessel pattern of a biological entity so as to enhance the image corresponding to the blood...

20060034500 - Method and device for image registration: The present invention relates to a method of computing the transformation for transforming two images (10, 10′), in particular medial MR- or CT-images of a patient, one into the other. The motion pattern at tissue boundaries shows an abrupt change of local transformation parameters that can not be described by...

20060034502 - Image processing system and image processing method: This invention relates to a system, a method and a program for processing image information, by which image information of a subject is gradation-converted by using a gradation conversion curve. The system for processing image information, includes: an input section for inputting image information of a subject; a setting section...

20060034503 - Medical image processing system: A medical image processing system having an image generation unit; an image quality inspection terminal; and an image interpretation terminal is provided. The system is capable of determining whether additional imaging or the like is required and the type objectively and rapidly prior to an image interpretation to be performed...

20060034504 - Spray data analysis and characterization system: A method of and system for analyzing image data representative of a sequential set of images of a spray plume, each of the images being representative of a density characteristic of the spray plume (i) along a geometric plane that intersects the spray plume, and (ii) at a predetermined instant...

20060034505 - Method and apparatus for deblurring mask images: The invention comprises processes for determining and applying a deblurring filter that reduces inspection system distortion, of mask inspection images, by compensating for the non-uniform frequency response of the inspection system. In particular, an adaptive filter is determined empirically for an inspection system: one or more training images are obtained...

20060034506 - Machine vision analysis system and method: A machine vision inspection system captures images of placed components and generates defect data. The defect data indicates defect components together with associated confidence scores. The confidence scores are generated according to factors such as the number of sides of a component lead at which paste has been detected (attribute...

20060034507 - A method, process and computer program to automatically create a customized three-dimensional nail object by library reference: The invention is a method, process and computer program to automatically create a customized three-dimensional artificial nail object by library reference based upon an actual/existing digitized nail surface. This particular invention generates the overall desired three-dimensional nail object by taking measurement reference points of the digitized nail surface and selecting...

20060034508 - Computer system and method for medical assistance with imaging and genetics information fusion: By inputting genetic and imaging information into a trained classification system, a second opinion diagnosis, a prognosis, clinical trial qualification or similar case information are output to assist a user. Consistent analysis may be provided using image based measurements in combination with pharmacogenomics studies. Fusing imaging, genetics and other information,...

20060034509 - Color remapping: A method and apparatus for gamut color remapping and compensation is provided. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving input image data. The method further includes determining relationships between the input image data and known correction values. The method also includes interpolating corrections to the...

20060034510 - Method for abstracting histogram of hsv color: A method for abstracting a HSV histogram from an input image saved YCbCr in a YCbCr model is disclosed, which includes a) forming a LUT divided into a plurality of sections which can print out a quantified index value by receiving an input YCbCr and in which the quantified index...

20060034512 - Adaptive image improvement: A method includes analyzing an input image at least to determine locations of human skin in the input image and processing the input image at least to improve, on a per pixel basis, the areas of human skin of the input image. Another method included in the present invention includes...

20060034511 - Method and apparatus for visualization of biological structures with use of 3d position information from segmentation results: A data processing methodology (and corresponding data processing apparatus) for visualizing the characteristics of a particular object volume in an overall medical/biological environment comprises the following computer operated steps: receiving a source image data set as pertaining to the overall environment; establishing a first contour surface within the environment, and...

20060034513 - View assistance in three-dimensional ultrasound imaging: Standardized or preset views for a given application are used to assist in volumetric scanning and diagnosis. By displaying one or more images of a standard view during acquisition, the scan is guided to assure proper positioning of the volumetric scan. The location of a user identified view within the...

20060034514 - Device, system, and method for reducing image data captured in-vivo: A device, system, and method for reducing image data using spatially varying reduction are described. Images may be captured from an in-vivo device, while the reduced images may be transmitted via wireless communications. Reduction may be achieved by selecting a spatial area of interest on an image frame, dividing the...

20060034515 - Safety souvenir: A method for preventing child abductions from a group of individuals seeking admittance to a controlled access environment including the steps of: imaging a first group of individuals; creating a visual representation of the first group; providing at least one member of the first group with the visual representation; allowing...

20060034516 - Preprocessing of multi-line rotated electronic ink: An electronic ink object is preprocessed for improving handwriting recognition results. An electronic ink object, possibly having multiple lines of non-horizontal ink, is preprocessed by segmenting or separating the electronic ink object into one or more lines, computing a writing angle of each line, and rotating each line so that...

20060034517 - Method and apparatus for face description and recognition: A face recognition method, apparatus and system uses an architecture comprising multiple dual Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) transformations applied to coefficients of a frequency-based transformation applied to the facial image and its components. This new method significantly reduces extraction complexity compared to prior art and also offers increased robustness to...

20060034519 - Background maintenance of an image sequence: An image background maintenance system and method for maintaining a background model of an image sequence by processing on multiple spatial scales. These multiple spatial scales include a pixel scale, a regional scale and a frame scale. The image sequence undergoes pixel processing that determines a current background model and...

20060034520 - Background maintenance of an image sequence: An image background maintenance system and method for maintaining a background model of an image sequence by processing on multiple spatial scales. These multiple spatial scales include a pixel scale, a regional scale and a frame scale. The image sequence undergoes pixel processing that determines a current background model and...

20060034518 - Method of creating a subset of images from a library of images: A method of creating a subset of images from a library of images is provided. There are a set of image prints of the images in the library and associated with each print is a memory tag with the digital data of the image stored within. The method includes the...

20060034521 - Computer program product and method for analysis of medical image data in a medical imaging system: The present invention relates to a computer program product for analysis of a source medical image data set in a medical imaging system, being operable to: identify a user identity; identify at least one role linked to the user identity; load a source medical image data set; allow the user...

20060034525 - Digital image encoding device, digital image encoding program, digital image encoding method, digital image decoding device, digital image decoding program, and digital image decoding: A digital image encoding device, which encodes digital image data using a discrete wavelet transform, includes a coefficient bit shift processing unit that performs bit shift processing on a wavelet coefficient after the discrete wavelet transform. The coefficient bit shift processing shifts the wavelet coefficient to a lower bit side...

20060034526 - Image coding device and method thereof and image decoding device and method thereof: A predetermined area of input image data (100) is read and stored into a memory section (1). As soon as data is stored in the data read memory section (1), wavelet conversion filtering is performed on the image area, in the horizontal or vertical direction, by a wavelet conversion section...

20060034524 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: A plurality of band-limited images is produced from an original image. A transformed image is produced by processing each pixel value in the band-limited images so that the absolute value of an output value does not exceed that of an input value. The processing is non-linear transformation processing. If the...

20060034523 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an icosahedron panorama image: A method of and apparatus for efficient encoding and decoding by reconstructing an icosahedron panorama image are provided. The method includes: dividing patches forming a top part and a bottom part, respectively, in development figure of an icosahedron panorama image, from patches forming a middle part; reconstructing the divided patches...

20060034522 - Method and system for equalizing video quality using selective re-encoding: In a video processing system, a method and system for equalizing video quality using selective re-encoding are provided. Increasing the occurrence frequency of intra-coded pictures may improve video encoding quality by optimizing a target bit-budget for a specified group-of-pictures structure. Selected predictive and/or bidirectional-predictive pictures may be re-encoded as virtual...

20060034527 - Method for encoding co-ordinates of a video image moving along the display of a computing device: The method consists in displaying a videoframe having at least one image of a visual object (VO) on a monitor screen and in dividing said videoframe with the VO into X×Y cells. According to said method, an intraframe encoding is carried out by selecting characteristic cells which coincide with VO...

20060034530 - Method and device for making virtual image region for motion estimation and compensation of panorama image: A method of and apparatus for setting a virtual image region is provided in order to efficiently perform motion estimation and compensation of a panorama image including 360-degree omni-direction image information. The method includes the steps of searching a previous panorama image for reference data corresponding to all or part...

20060034529 - Method and device for motion estimation and compensation for panorama image: Provided are a method and device for motion estimation and compensation to be performed on a panorama image. The motion estimation and compensation are performed on a panorama image with a 360° omni-directional view based on that the spatial relation between left and right borders of the panorama image is...

20060034528 - System and method for non-iterative global motion estimation: A fast non-iterative Global Motion Estimation (GME) algorithm is disclosed for estimating the perspective transform global motion parameters from the Motion Vectors (MV) obtained from the block matching process that includes grouping a plurality of motion vectors in the input video stream into a predetermined number of groups of motion...

20060034531 - Block noise level evaluation method for compressed images and control method of imaging device utilizing the evaluation method: The technique of the invention converts an object RGB image into an image in a YIQ color space, calculates a luminance variation at each target pixel from Y channel values of the target pixel and an adjacent pixel adjoining to the target pixel, and computes a smoothness degree of luminance...

20060034532 - Parameter selection in data compression and decompression: Apparatus and method for selecting an appropriate parameter at decompression are disclosed. In particular, when adaptive block size discrete cosine transform compression is used to compress data, different combinations of sub-blocks can be generated. To decompress the different combinations of sub-blocks, the appropriate parameter is selected based on block size...

20060034533 - System and method for producing a higher resolution still image from video information: A method and system are provided for creating a higher resolution still image from a multiple video frames having a lower resolution. The system includes a sampling mechanism for extracting multiple video frames captured by a video recording device and an output mechanism for outputting a single high resolution still...

20060034534 - Transformation to increase the lempel-ziv compressibility of images with minimal visual distortion: A transformation system for increasing the compressibility of digital images. In one embodiment, the pixels of a digital image are examined, one at a time. The color of the examined pixel is compared to that of its neighbors. If the difference in color from either of the neighboring pixels is...

20060034537 - Human body detecting device and human body detecting method: A human body detecting device for detecting whether a person is included in a photographed image, including: near infrared ray light sources having different wavelengths; an imaging lens which converges light to form a subject image; an imaging element which forms a subject picture; a storing unit which stores the...

20060034535 - Method and apparatus for enhancing visibility to a machine operator: A method and apparatus for providing a view of a work area. The method and apparatus includes capturing a first image of a first desired portion of the work area, removing at least one object from the image, and providing the first image with the at least one object removed...

20060034536 - Systems and methods relating to magnitude enhancement analysis suitable for high bit level displays on low bit level systems, determining the material thickness, and 3d visualization of color space dimensions: Systems and methods, etc., comprising magnitude enhancement analysis configured to display intensity-related features of high-bit images, such as grayscale, on low-bit display systems, without distorting the underlying intensity unless desired, measuring the thickness of materials, and/or enhancing perception of saturation, hue, color channels and other space dimensions in a digital...

20060034538 - Method and system of automating echocardiogram measurements and reporting: A system for generating measurements and calculations on an image previously generated during a procedure. In one embodiment, the system includes an image display application configured to display the image previously generated during the procedure and a supplemental measurement tool configured to display one or more measurement types to a...

20060034539 - Bi-selective filtering in transform domain: Methods, machines, and computer-readable media for processing an input image with a bi-selective filter in a transform domain are described. In one aspect, a forward transform of an input image is computed. A bi-selective filter smoothes image regions with low magnitude coefficients and sharpens image regions with high magnitude coefficients....

20060034540 - Method and apparatus for removing uneven brightness in an image: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for reducing uneven brightness in an image from a particle based image system. This uneven brightness is most often seen as regions of shadow, but may also be seen as regions of over brightness. In cases where the uneven brightness is in...

20060034541 - Reducing differential resolution of separations: Certain disclosed implementations use digital image processing to reduce the differential resolution among separations or images in film frames, such as, for example, red flare. A location in the red image may be selected using information from another image. The selected location may be modified using information from that other...

20060034542 - Image generation method, image generation apparatus, and image generation program: A reverse-aging image representing a skin part of a person in reverse aging is generated from an image of the skin part of the person at a predetermined age. Wrinkle component extraction means of an image generation unit extracts wrinkle components in frequency bands of a face image of the...

20060034543 - Method and apparatus of mechanical stage positioning in virtual microscopy image capture: A method and apparatus for creating a magnified composite image of a microscope specimen comprises making error corrections for imprecise movements of the specimen relative to an objective lens when capturing data for first and second images. A correction offset is computed based on a comparison of data for overlapped...

20060034544 - Distinctness of image processing: A distinctness of image processing system comprising a portable unit having an imaging portion and a processing portion means associated with said imaging portion for projecting a edge upon to an image surface located substantially on a bottom plane of said unit and further including means for sensing said image...

20060034545 - Quantitative analysis, visualization and movement correction in dynamic processes: The invention relates to the quantitative analysis and/or visualization (virtual or real) of moving processes and to the detection, description, correction and the comparison of global movements inside the image space. The invention particularly relates to a method and device for precisely and, while being limited to few parameters, quantitatively...

20060034546 - System, method, and computer program product for performing transformation of rotations to translations during finite element stiffness formulation: A system, method, and computer program product for transformation of rotations to translation degrees of freedom in structural analysis during finite element formulation....

20060034547 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus subjects, to image processing for reproduction, input compressed image data or compressed image data read from a recording medium, and the apparatus includes an expansion processing unit which subjects the compressed image data to expansion processing to obtain expanded image data. A storage unit stores the...

20060034548 - Apparatus and method for scanning an object: A scanner has a plurality of cameras positioned around an object to be scanned. The object is illuminated by unstructured light and the object is covered by a textured surface. The cameras can be arranged as pairs and each camera pair is supported on a single support. The scanned object...

20060034549 - Camera system, camera head and camera main frame: A plurality of sorts of camera heads being different from one another in specification of the imaging device is each provided with JPEG compression section so that the camera head outputs an image signal, which is subjected to a JPEG compression in compression rate of the mode “fine”, in form...

20060034550 - Optical recognition device and method thereof: An optical recognition device for recognizing a certain type of sheets, e.g. money, includes at least one light source, at least one diverge device, at least two optical sensors, and a recognition circuit. The diverge device changes the course of light emitted from the light source into two separate lights...

20060029250 - Electronic display system, electronic paper writing device, electronic paper and method for manufacturing the same: Aspects of the invention provide an electronic paper display system that can include an electronic paper and the writing device. The writing device transmits power and baseband signals by using an electromagnetic coupling between a coil of the writing device and a coil of the electronic paper. The baseband signals,...

20060029252 - Image display methods and systems with sub-frame intensity compensation: Image display methods and systems are provided wherein only portions of a still image of a motion picture, generated for display during an image time interval, are displayed during respective sub-intervals of the image time interval. A still image is thereby separated into portions and displayed separately during corresponding sub-intervals....

20060029251 - Image processing system and image tampering assesment method and control program of the same: The present invention provides an image processing system, which can reduce calculation time by alleviating a calculation load in assessing the occurrence of tampering of an image. For example, the image processing system of the present invention first identifies a type of a form of an image to be assessed...

20060029253 - Apparatus and method for processing video data: An apparatus and methods for processing video data are described. The invention provides a representation of video data that can be used to assess agreement between the data and a fitting model for a particular parameterization of the data. This allows the comparison of different parameterization techniques and the selection...

20060029254 - Methods and computer-readable medium for navigating between a plurality of discrete images: In a computer system, methods and computer-readable medium are disclosed for tracking motion of a subject in an activity captured by camera. The camera supplies pluralities of discrete images of the subject to a computing system environment. An event window, displayed on a monitor, has at least two cells for...

20060029256 - Method of generating image and device: A device for generating a viewpoint conversion image based on image data supplied from one or a plurality of imaging units arranged in a vehicle comprises a supplementary light source for illuminating an area to be imaged by the imaging units, and a control unit for selecting the casting directions...

20060029255 - Monitoring apparatus and method of displaying bird's-eye view image: A monitoring apparatus for providing the driver with the image of blind-spot areas of a moving body. The monitoring apparatus includes: at least one of fish-eye camera mounted on a moving body, to image fish-eye image around the moving body; a dewarping unit configured to convert at least part of...

20060029257 - Apparatus for determining a surface condition of an object: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for determining a surface condition of an inspected object. A potential region having an intensity different from the other regions by more than a predetermined threshold value in an object image captured by an imaging device is detected. An inspected region...

20060029258 - System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in...

20060029259 - System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in...

20060029260 - System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in...

20060029261 - Tokenless electronic transaction system: The invention as described provides a method and system for tokenless authorization of commercial transactions between a buyer and a seller using a computer system. The method comprises the steps of registering a buyer, wherein the buyer registers with the computer system a PIN, at least one registration biometric sample,...

20060029264 - Detection apparatus and information management method on object of analysis: The invention provides a detection apparatus for detecting an amount of an object of analysis in a fluid present in an eye or on an eye surface, including a detector which detects an amount of the object of analysis in the fluid, and a detector which recognizes an iris pattern...

20060029262 - Eye image input unit, authentication equipment and image processing method: The eye image pickup device includes an eye image pickup unit for capturing an eye image, a display image formation unit for forming a display image almost too low in quality to be used for authentication by degrading an at least iris-containing area in the eye image, and a display...

20060029263 - Method, apparatus and storage medium for processing an image: The present invention provides a method of processing an image, characterized by comprising steps of: identifying a face region in said image; identifying a candidate for rod eye region within said face region; selecting a geometric figure which at least partly covers said candidate for red eye region and has...

20060029265 - Face detection method based on skin color and pattern match: A face detection method based on a skin color and a pattern match. A face detection method includes: detecting skin color pixels using color information of an image; calculating a proportion of the skin color pixels occupying each predetermined sub-window of the image; selecting ones of the predetermined sub-windows as...

20060029266 - System and method for finding regions of interest for microscopic digital montage imaging: A system for processing a thumbnail image from a microscope slide to determine tissue locations on the slide. The system comprises an image cropping component, a tissue finding component, and a scan control component. The image cropping component crops the thumbnail image and removes portions of the image that fall...

20060029267 - Method and apparatus for reading reporter labeled beads: Combinatorially-synthesized deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) oligonucleotides attached to encoded beads that are hybridized to amplified and labeled genomic DNA or ribonucleic acid (RNA) are analyzed using a flow imaging system. Oligonucleotides and corresponding reporters are bound to the surfaces of a plurality of small beads such that different beads bear different...

20060029269 - Apparatus, program and method for motion analysis in internal body: When a motion in an internal body is analyzed by employing a tomographic image, a relative motion in an internal body is analyzed by moving a viewing point to an arbitrary place. The present invention is composed of: a tomographic image acquisition device 1 for acquiring a tomographic image of...

20060029268 - Image displaying apparatus, image displaying method, computer readable medium and computer program product: An image displaying apparatus includes a storage unit which stores data associated with an imaging area including a breast of a subject to be examined, a processing unit which generates, from the data, a plurality of images respectively corresponding to a plurality of divided areas in the imaging area divided...

20060029271 - Image generation method and device: An image generation method for generating a viewpoint-modified image is carried out based on camera information sensed by one or a plurality of image sensing unit sensing an image around an image sensing unit-disposed object. The image generation method comprises displaying an image sensing unit-disposed object model on the viewpoint-modified...

20060029272 - Stereo image processing device: A stereo image processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an imaging device for taking a pair of images of an object for stereo image processing purpose; a stereo processor for correlating the pair of images for each small area thereof to thereby perform stereo matching processing for identifying corresponding...

20060029270 - System and method for efficiently performing a depth map recovery procedure: A system and method for efficiently performing a depth map recovery procedure includes an imaging device that is implemented in a single-lens stereo-shutter configuration for simultaneously capturing overlaid images corresponding to a photographic target. A depth map generator is configured to analyze the overlaid images to determine disparity values corresponding...

20060029273 - Physician communication system: The disclosure is directed to a computer sever including a processor, communication circuitry accessible to the processor and configured to communicate with a data network and computer readable memory accessible to the processor. The computer readable memory includes computer implemented instructions operable by the processor to provide a medical data...

20060029274 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An image processing apparatus creates a pixel value histogram of an objective image, and approximates a predetermined range of the created histogram by a bended line formed from two straight lines. Then the apparatus extracts a pixel value at a boundary between a predetermined region and another region of the...

20060029276 - Object image detecting apparatus, face image detecting program and face image detecting method: An object image detecting apparatus for determining whether an object image exists in a detection target image includes: an image reading unit reading a predetermined region of the detection target image as a detection target region; a feature vector producing unit dividing an image included in the detection target region...

20060029275 - Systems and methods for image data separation: A method includes receiving a first set of one or more data nodes specified by a user using a first specification mode, receiving a second set of one or more data nodes specified by a user using a second specification mode, and automatically identifying a data node to be separated...

20060029277 - Change information recognition apparatus and change information recognition method: A change information recognition apparatus comprises a series information storing device for storing series information about a recognition object (a motion picture taken by an image taking device, or the like), and a basic change information storing device for preliminarily storing basic change information corresponding to changes of the series...

20060029280 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program and storage medium therefor: An image processing apparatus comprises: a histogram calculation unit for calculating a histogram that is consonant with an input image; a binary threshold value calculation unit for calculating a binary threshold value, based on the histogram, with which a predetermined area in the input image is blurred; a binarizing unit...

20060029279 - Method and apparatus for compressed sensing: The invention provides a method and apparatus for making reduced numbers of measurements compared to current practice and still give acceptable quality reconstructions of the object of interest. In one embodiment, a digital signal or image is approximated using significantly fewer measurements than with traditional measurement schemes. A component x...

20060029278 - Systems and methods for authenticating objects using multiple-level image encoding and decoding: A method of producing a digital multiple-level encoded image is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digital authentication image, obtaining a first encoding parameter set comprising one or more encoding parameters, and constructing a first encoded image. The first encoded image is constructed using a first encoding methodology, the digital...

20060029281 - Digital image processing method for low-rate applications: The present invention relates to a method of processing digital images (30) comprising data blocks, said method including a step of determining (31) a homogeneous region containing two adjacent blocks (Bj, Bk) whose continuous components (Lj, Lk) differ by a value lower than a predetermined threshold. It also includes a...

20060029282 - Image blocking artifact reduction via transform pair: An apparatus using a compact blocked and Wavelet transform pair suppresses block artifacts in image compression systems by re-purposing one or more block transform coefficients with Wavelet coefficients. A general architecture and class of transforms is disclosed including integer types having Wavelet features but which can be processed one block...

20060029283 - Method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding moving pictures: A method of encoding moving pictures using a plurality of quantization matrices. The method involves selecting one of the plurality of quantization matrices in consideration of an at least one characteristics of an input image; transforming the input image; and quantizing the transformed input image using the selected quantization matrix....

20060029284 - Method of determining a measure of edge strength and focus: The method of determining a focus measure from an image includes detecting one or more edges in the image by processing the image with one or more first order edge detection kernels adapted to reject edge phasing effects. A first measure of the strength of each of the edges, and...

20060029286 - Image processing method: An image processing method is disclosed. The method comprises capturing a plurality of images of a sample using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The method further comprising computing a mean value for each pixel location in the plurality of images and forming an integrated image with the mean values. The...

20060029285 - Method for helical windmill artifact reduction with noise restoration for helical multislice ct: A method of removing an imaging artifact in a medical image, including obtaining a first plurality of images, the first plurality of images collectively defining a first image volume; filtering the first plurality of images to create a second plurality of images, each image in the second plurality of images...

20060029287 - Noise reduction apparatus and method: Noise reduction processing in accordance with frequency band is executed. To accomplish this, a image data dividing circuit divides image data into image data having frequencies in a low-frequency region, image data having frequencies in a low- to intermediate frequency region and image data having frequencies in a low- to...

20060029288 - Deblocking filter process with local buffers: A system and method that optimizes a de-blocking filter process using local buffers. The local buffers may be off of the memory unit in which image data may be stored. The data associated with the image may be loaded into the local buffers. The data may be then fed into...

20060029289 - Information processing apparatus and method for detecting scene change: An information processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit that performs image processing for video data; and a detection unit that detects a scene change point where available to start or to cancel the image processing by the image processing unit based on a brightness signal in the video data...

20060029290 - System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode: A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software program may then produce a cohesive combined panorama image from the...

20060029291 - Multimodal image registration using compound mutual information: In a digital image registration method, a second digital image is transformed to be more like a first digital image using a modification function, resulting in a modified second digital image. A set of first features of each of the first and modified second digital images is determined. Zones are...

20060029292 - Image processing apparatus and method, and image sensing apparatus: Disclosed is an image processing method for processing image data that has been captured by an image sensing apparatus having an image sensing device in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arrayed two-dimensionally for outputting an electric signal in accordance with an incident amount of light. According to...

20060029293 - Image processing system, image forming apparatus, control method for the same, and program for implementing the control method: An image processing system that can remove unnecessary blank parts in print data, thereby achieving sheet saving and efficient print output at the time of printing and copying. Data is inputted to an information processing apparatus of the system, and at least one object is extracted from the data. Out...

20060029294 - Image interpolation method and apparatus therefor: An image interpolation method and apparatus by which to quickly generate and display motion pictures using a small amount of data. An image input unit inputs a first image and a second image. A matching processor computes a pixel matching between those images so that a corresponding point is obtained...

20060029295 - Scanned beam display having compensation for pattern dependant heating of a light source: A MEM s scanning device has a variable resonant frequency. In one embodiment, the MEMs device includes a torsion arm that supports an oscillatory body. In one embodiment, an array of removable masses are placed on an exposed portion of the oscillatory body and selectively removed to establish the resonant...

20060029296 - Data capture from rendered documents using handheld device: A portable device having scanning, imaging or other data-capture capability is described. In some cases, the portable device can indicate to the user when enough information has been captured to uniquely identify a source document. In some cases, the portable device calculates timestamps and location-stamps indicating when and where a...

20060023913 - Digital watermark detecting device and method thereof: A digital watermark detecting device comprises a sequence generator which generates a predetermined sequence of numbers corresponding to a watermark which is to be detected, a shift circuit which shifts the digital content in unit of a predetermined part of data in predetermined directions, and obtain a predetermined number of...

20060023915 - System and method for presence detection: THE present invention discloses a system and method for automatically detecting the presence of a user in a presence application connected to a video conference endpoint. The presence detection is provided by active detection mechanisms monitoring the localities near the endpoint or terminal connected to the application. The presence information...

20060023914 - System and method for tracking motion of an object image: A system, method and computer readable medium are disclosed for tracking motion of an object image, by receiving an input image and correlating the input image with a reference image by computing differences between the input image and the reference image. A motion vector is generated for a subimage of...

20060023916 - Visual tracking using incremental fisher discriminant analysis: Visual tracking over a sequence of images is formulated by defining an object class and one or more background classes. The most discriminant features available in the images are then used to select a portion of each image as belonging to the object class. Fisher's linear discriminant method is used...

20060023917 - Object detection method for vehicles: An object detection method for vehicles, which employs at least one sensor S for cyclically detecting a vehicle's surroundings whose measured values M are projected into a freely definable grid G and are combinable into grid-based segments that can be assigned to identified objects O, and, in accordance with which,...

20060023918 - Method for determining the current position of the heads of vehicle occupants: The invention relates to a method for determining the current position (A, B, C, D) of a head (9) of an occupant (8) in the passenger compartment (2) of a motor vehicle (1), said head moving toward an automatic dynamic disabling zone (6) in front of an airbag module (5)....

20060023921 - Authentication apparatus, verification method and verification apparatus: An input unit inputs respectively a plurality of partial images corresponding to a user to be authenticated. An extraction unit extracts feature points of a fingerprint respectively from the plurality of partial images inputted. A generation unit synthesizes the feature points extracted respectively from the plurality of partial images and...

20060023919 - Guidance screen control method of biometrics authentication device, biometrics authentication device, and program for same: In a biometrics authentication device which uses biometrics information to authenticate individuals, guidance is provided such that image capture of biometrics information is performed appropriately. An image capture device is caused to perform a plurality of image capture operations (including distance measurement) at short intervals. And when image capture NG...

20060023922 - Identity authentication device: An identity authentication device is stylus-shaped. A processor is disposed within the device. The stylus-shaped device includes a scanner-type device component for capturing within the processor memory a written signature generated by the stylus while the stylus is writing upon a surface. A fingerprint sensor is disposed within the grip...

20060023920 - Method and apparatus for matching individuals based on their mental connection: Method and apparatus for matching individuals based on their mental connection. A repository for maintaining user identity and choice data is created. A plurality of images are provided to each of a group of individuals, where a different user identity is associated with each individual and is stored in the...

20060023923 - Method and system for a three dimensional facial recognition system: A computer automated 3D sketch artist process for generating a computer 3D image of an individual includes the steps of generating a morphable head model as a starting point to develop a composite 3D like picture of the individual by analysis of a prerecorded data base of 3D face pictures,...

20060023924 - Method and apparatus for visualizing deposits in blood vessels, particularly in coronary vessels: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for visualizing deposits in blood vessels, particularly in coronary vessels. In such a method, 2D slice images may be reconstructed from the measurement data, with image data of the 2D slice images being post-processed for local determination of brightness values and/or of default...

20060023926 - Optimizing image signal interpretation for analog image signals from medical image recording devices: A method for optimizing the interpretation of analog image signals or sequences of image signals output by medical image recording devices. The correlation of consecutively recorded image signals is tested and, based on the test, the image signals are identified as depicting the same or different images. More specifically, if...

20060023925 - System and method for tree-model visualization for pulmonary embolism detection: A system and method for tree-model visualization for detecting an abnormality in an anatomical tree structure are provided. The method comprises: fitting a tree-model to an anatomical tree structure; converting branches of the tree-model into first two-dimensional branch images; and arranging the first two-dimensional branch images in a hierarchical order...

20060023927 - Ggn segmentation in pulmonary images for accuracy and consistency: A method and system for ground glass nodule (GGN) segmentation. The invention comprises methods and systems for GGN segmentation using adaptive intensity models in conjunction with Markov random field (MRF) based modeling. The adaptive intensity model overcomes problems associated with low-contrast GGN images. Vessels included by MRF segmentation are removed...

20060023928 - Method for automatic sorting and representation of medical data sets: In a method for automatic sorting and representation of medical data sets, each data set originates from a medical examination and has at least two features. All data sets that have a determinable identical value of a first of the features and a non-identical value of a second of the...

20060023929 - Method for computer recognition of projection views and orientation of chest radiographs: A method for identifying a projection view and an orientation of a chest radiograph. The method includes the steps of: providing an input digital image of the chest radiograph; preprocessing the input digital radiographic image; classifying the view of the input digital radiographic image; and determining the orientation of the...

20060023930 - Device for digitizing and processing checks in accordance with the check 21 act and for reading and decoding optical codes: An integrated platform is provided for digitizing checks and other documents, including the processing of the digitized checks in accordance with Check 21 standards and requirements, and for reading and decoding optical codes. The integrated platform includes a document scanner or digitizer for digitizing checks and other documents, and a...

20060023931 - System for evaluating a design of a mask, exposure system, method for evaluating a design of a mask, method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and mask: A system for evaluating a design of a mask includes: an inspection data memory storing initial inspection data of an initial wafer fabricated by an initial mask; a design tool designing a modified mask based on the initial inspection data; a group of manufacturing tools forming an initial mask chip...

20060023933 - Pattern evaluation method, method of manufacturing semiconductor, program and pattern evaluation apparatus: A pattern evaluation method includes: acquiring an image of a pattern to be evaluated, detecting edge points of the pattern from the image, creating a parameter curve having the detected edge points as control points thereof, and evaluating the pattern based on the created parameter curve....

20060023932 - System and method for generating a set of test patterns for an optical proximity correction algorithm: A system and method of synthesizing layout patterns to test an optical proximity correction algorithm. The method comprises the steps of: embodying Walsh patterns in a set of Walsh pattern matrices; processing groups of matrices from the set of Walsh pattern matrices to form a set of test matrices; mapping...

20060023934 - Component edge detecting method, component edge detecting program and component inspection apparatus: A method for detecting an edge of a component mounted on a substrate, comprising: a first edge detecting step detecting an edge of the component from image data of the component based on a predetermined first characteristic; and a second edge detecting step detecting an edge of the component from...

20060023935 - Printed circuit substrate appearance inspection method, printed circuit substrate appearance inspection program and printed circuit substrate appearance inspection apparatus: A printed circuit substrate appearance inspection method comprising: an inspection area defining step defining a predetermined inspection area on an image of a printed circuit substrate including a component mounted on the printed circuit substrate; and an appearance inspection step carrying out appearance inspection of the component by analyzing image...

20060023936 - Film detection apparatus for detecting organic film formed on printed circuit board, inspection system, and method of inspecting printed circuit board: Functional elements including a data processing part and a detection part are implemented by a computer. The data processing part accepts inputs including threshold information obtained by experiment from an acceptable printed circuit board and a sample printed circuit board and information for identifying an inspection region to generate characteristic...

20060023937 - Method of measuring occluded features for high precision machine vision metrology: A method of measuring occluded features in machine vision metrology. The method allows for high precision measurement of features that are partially obscured by an extraneous object (e.g., an overlay grid of a flat panel display screen mask). The method first roughly locates the edge points of the feature to...

20060023938 - Method of and device for re-calibrating three-dimensional visual sensor in robot system: A re-calibration method and device for a three-dimensional visual sensor of a robot system, whereby the work load required for re-calibration is mitigated. While the visual sensor is normal, the visual sensor and a measurement target are arranged in one or more relative positional relations by a robot, and the...

20060023939 - Method of and apparatus for image processing: A monochromatic image signal is made from a color image signal. Values of brightness of pixels in a color border region of a type where two color regions which are small in brightness difference and large in chromaticity difference are positioned side by side are changed to new values different...

20060023940 - Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus: A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by...

20060023941 - Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data: The present invention provides for a method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method of compressing a color cell comprises the steps of: defining at least four luminance levels of the color cell; generating a bitmask for the...

20060023943 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus is provided wherein, regardless of the color of a character, color shift that occurs at a contour portion is corrected, and even with a background other than white, a clear image can be output for which color shift at the contour...

20060023942 - Methods and systems for correcting color distortions: A color distortion correction is obtained by calculating a color shift of a first color channel with respect to a second color channel along each pixel column of a scanned calibration image. The color shift defines a correction for the color distortions and the correction is then applied to subsequent...

20060023944 - Method and device for measuring similarity between images: The method performs, for each image, the following steps: segmentation of the image, classification of the segments as a function of their orientation to give classes, calculation of a histogram of the number of segments as a function of class, calculation of a histogram of the number of pixels belonging...

20060023945 - Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices: Embodiments of the disclosed innovations provide systems and methods for locating data associated with rendered documents. Some embodiments support the use of a handheld document data capture device....

20060023946 - Image description system and method thereof: In a picture description system, a memory unit stores description schemes defined for every category of picture. When a picture is specified, a control unit specifies features extractable from the specified picture with reference to a description scheme in the memory unit associated with category of the specified picture. A...

20060023947 - Use of hausdorff distances in the earth mover linear program: A method and apparatus for comparing data is described. In one embodiment, an exemplary method includes receiving a first set of data pertaining a first object and a second set of data pertaining to a second object, and comparing the first object with the second object using an earth mover's...

20060023948 - Hypersensor-based anomaly resistant detection and identification (hardi) system and method: A method for anomaly resistant detection and identification of an object signature in hypersensor data includes processing hypersensor data using a multi-dimensional matched filter to distinguish spectra that produce anomaly-generated false alarms from target spectrum, and suppressing the spectra that produce anomaly-generated false alarms....

20060023949 - Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method, recording medium, and program: The present invention provides an information-processing apparatus for communicating an image of a user to an other information-processing apparatus by way of a network. The apparatus includes input means for carrying out an operation to take an image of a user and inputting a user image obtained as a result...

20060023955 - Image data processing circuit and image processing apparatus including the same: An image data processing circuit including: an input section for inputting image data; a plurality of compressing sections which are capable of compressing the input image data solely or in parallel; a plurality of decompressing sections which are capable of decompressing the compressed image data solely or in parallel; an...

20060023957 - Image encoding apparatus and method, computer program, computer-readable storage medium, and image forming apparatus: According to this invention, the encoded data amount of an image and its area attribute information can be encoded to a target amount or less by one input operation of image data, and an input image can be efficiently encoded in accordance with the property of the image. For this...

20060023954 - Image processing system: In an image processing system, an image-input-processing unit divides an original image into portions so as to generate divided original images, and writes the divided original images in an encoder-side memory so that luminance data and chrominance data of each of the divided original images are stored in different storage...

20060023952 - Method and apparatus for transforming the dimensions of an image: The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for transforming the dimensions of an image represented by block-interleaved data. The method comprises: (a) storing a first minimum coded unit of the image data in a first memory; (b) dimensionally transforming the first minimum coded unit; and (c) storing a...

20060023950 - Method and appratus for encoding a digital video signal: The present invention relates to a method and an encoder for encoding a digital video sequence, said digital video sequence comprising some sets of images including a disparity map, said disparity map being used to reconstruct one image of a set of images from another image of said set of...

20060023951 - Method and system for processing an input image and generating an output image having low noise: A method for processing an input image and generating an output image having low noise is provided. At least a homogeneous region in the input image is determined, and a mask which is indicative of the homogeneous region is generated. The input image is compressed, and both the compressed input...

20060023953 - Methods and apparatus for communicating and displaying compressed image data: Methods and apparatus are provided for creating one or more compressed image tiles based on a compressed file that describes a digital image. In particular, the compressed image tiles are created without fully decompressing the compressed file. Each compressed image tile includes data corresponding to a portion of the digital...

20060023958 - System and method for progressively transforming and coding digital data: A system and method facilitating progressively transforming and coding digital pictures is provided. The present invention via employment of a multi-resolution lapped transform provides for progressive rendering as well as mitigation of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts as compared to many conventional compression systems. The invention includes a color space...

20060023956 - Systems and methods for information storage: A product with stored non-sequential data may be provided using a method that codes the data to a coding pattern using at least one sequence with symbols. The coding pattern may be configured such that an arbitrary subsequence of a predetermined magnitude of the sequence unambiguously defines the position of...

20060023959 - Circuit for computing sums of absolute difference: A circuit for computing sums of absolute difference (SAD) is provided. The circuit has an absolute difference circuit, a first adder, a first register and a first selective circuit. The absolute difference circuit receives a first data PMi,j and a second data PSi,j and output a absolute difference data ADi,j,...

20060023960 - Systems and methods for processing image data prior to compression: Systems and methods provide data processing before data compression. The data processing includes contrast enhancement and/or custom color mapping....

20060023963 - Compression and decompression system with reversible wavelets and lossy reconstruction: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data that includes generating transformed signals in response to input data. In one embodiment, the transformed signals are generated using a reversible wavelet transform. The present invention also includes a method and apparatus for compressing the transform signals into data representing a...

20060023962 - Method for encoding images according to object shapes: A method for encoding images according to object shapes is provided. The method enables reduced usage of storage space when an image encoding system encodes a received image frame. The method uses a bottom-up and sequential approach for encoding coefficients. The coefficients in each subband are numbered using a tree...

20060023961 - Methods and apparatus for testing a component: A method for inspecting a component. The method includes generating a scan plan of a component to be inspected, coupling a side-mount probe to an eddy current inspection system, inducing an eddy current into the component, measuring the eddy current in the component to generate a plurality of scan data,...

20060023964 - Terminal and method for transporting still picture: Terminal and method for transporting a still picture uses a moving picture terminal after extraction of a frame unit of still pictures, for example, from a moving picture. The extracted still picture frames can be encoded in a fixed quantizing value and stored before transmission, or the stored frame unit...

20060023965 - Adjusting pixels by desired gains and factors: A low frequency value for a pixel value is adjusted by a desired gain. A first high frequency value for the pixel value is calculated. A second high frequency value is generated for the first high frequency value. The second high frequency value is the first high frequency value adjusted...

20060023966 - Method and system for producing interactive, three-dimensional renderings of selected body organs having hollow lumens to enable simulated movement through the lumen: A method and system are provided for effecting interactive, three-dimensional renderings of selected body organs for purposes of medical observation and diagnosis. A series of CT images of the selected body organs are acquired. The series of CT images is stacked to form a three-dimensional volume file. To facilitate interactive...

20060023967 - Multi-gradation monochromatic image display method, multi-gradation monochromatic image display device, computer, monochromatic display device, re-conversion adapter, and video card: A monochromatic image of which the number of gradation levels (for example, 1024 levels) is greater than that (for example, 256) of a monochromatic image viably handled by an operating system (OS) (13) is converted into a color image which is then received by the OS (13). The color image...

20060023968 - Image size reduction method and system: A system and method for reducing a size of an image. The invention comprises a system for rotating the image in a first direction using a rotation algorithm to generate an intermediate reduced image; a system for rotating the intermediate reduced image in a direction opposite the first direction using...

20060023969 - Collaboration and multimedia authoring: The present invention relates generally to the field of computing in resource-poor environments, such as mobile and/or wireless computing systems, and, more particularly, to a system and a method for adaptation-aware editing and/or progressive update propagation that enable authoring multimedia content and/or collaborative work on mobile and/or wireless computing systems...

20060023972 - Method and apparatus for reading signals through a line: Circuits, methods, and systems are disclosed in which a current is provided to compensate for spurious current while receiving signals through a line. For example, the spurious current can be sensed and the compensating current can be approximately equal to the sensed spurious current. The spurious current could include photocurrent...

20060023970 - Optical tracking sensor method: The present invention is a method of optical tracking sensing using block matching to determine relative motion. The method includes three distinct means of compensating for non-uniform illumination: (1) a one-time calibration technique, (2) a real-time adaptive calibration technique, and (3) several alternative filtering methods. The system also includes a...

20060023971 - Scanning optical system: e