Image analysis inventions 04/06

20060088185 - Data embedding scheme for duplex color laser printer: A data embedding technique that adds a watermark in the form of embedded data in the RGB domain in a duplex color laser printer. The data embedding algorithm employs a two-color (cyan and magenta) patch based coding scheme. Each bit of raw data is coded by a rectangular patch (“data...

20060088186 - Method for controlling creation of stereoscopic image: The target of stereoscopic processing for creating a stereoscopic image from an original image is restricted to specific original images. An authentication image creation device changes the pixel data of a target pixel within an original image into update data that are created from the pixel data of pixels adjacent...

20060088187 - Method and apparatus for situation recognition using optical information: A situation recognition apparatus includes: an optical information acquisition unit configured to acquire optical information; a storage configured to store a plurality of pieces of optical information; a processing unit configured to match a plurality of the pieces of optical information stored in the storage and optical information newly acquired...

20060088188 - Method for the detection of an obstacle: The invention concerns a method for the detection of an obstacle located in a path of a motor vehicle, in particular a person, in which by means of a camera a first image and, with a time interval from the latter, a second image of the environment of the vehicle...

20060088189 - Statistically comparing and matching plural sets of digital data: The present invention is embodied in a system and method for statistically comparing a first set of digital data to at least a second set of digital data and matching the first set of digital data to appropriately corresponding portions of the second set of digital data. The first or...

20060088190 - Driving support system and method of producing overhead view image: A driving support system which includes: at least two cameras to take images of areas around a vehicle, whose ranges of field of view partially overlap with each other; a control unit performing a predetermined coordinate transformation on the images taken by the cameras and joining the transformed images together...

20060088191 - Video content understanding through real time video motion analysis: Methods and integrated systems for camera motion analysis and moving object analysis and methods of extracting semantics mainly from camera motion parameters in videos and video segments without shot changes are described. Typical examples of such videos are a home video taken by a digital camera and a segment, or...

20060088192 - Identification system: A system and a method for the secure identifying of persons and for permitting or denying of a logical and/or physical access to a target means is provided. The system comprises a portable ident medium having at least one biometric sensor, at least one input element and at least one...

20060088193 - Method and system for generating a combined retina/iris pattern biometric: A method and system generates correlated biometric information by capturing an image of a retinal vessel pattern and simultaneously capturing an image of an iris minutia pattern. Retinal biometric data and iris biometric data are generated from the images. The retinal biometric data and the iris biometric data are then...

20060088194 - Apparatus for online signature verification using pattern transform technique and method therefor: In an apparatus for online signature verification, a signature data input unit digitalizes a locus of a user signature and reads the locus as a sequence of points. A first and a second pattern transform unit performs a speed equalization and a velocity transform on the signature sequence and generates...

20060088195 - Finger sensing device for navigation and related methods: A finger sensing device may include a finger sensing area to receive a user's finger moved in a sliding motion, and a controller cooperating with the finger sensing area for generating successive image samples at least some of which are separated by different time intervals. The controller may generate finger...

20060088197 - Apparatus and method for analyzing component using microscopic regions: An apparatus for and a method of analyzing components using microscopic regions. The apparatus includes: an image obtainer obtaining an image of a part of a living body; a color information generator generating color information of an image having a matrix pattern from a size of the microscopic regions and...

20060088196 - Embedded imaging and control system: A stand alone imaging system is disclosed that captures undistorted, high resolution, stop-action images of objects (e.g., medicine pills) moving at automation speeds, processes the images in real time, and then performs real-time I/O based control that is a function of the image processing results. The imaging system has a...

20060088198 - Calibration of tissue densities in computerized tomography: A hybrid calibration method uses a calibration phantom (exterior reference) scanned simultaneously with the patient, and one or more known tissues of the subject (interior reference) to create a hybrid calibration reference that improves the measurement of tissue densities throughout the body. In addition, the calibration method is used to...

20060088199 - Magnetic ink character recognition apparatus and magnetic ink character recognition method: Column misalignment between a character string recognized by a MICR and a character string recognized by optical character recognition is corrected to improve character recognition reliability. A magnetic data reading unit detects the magnetism of a character string printed in magnetic ink and outputs the detected magnetic data. An image...

20060088200 - Method and apparatus for photomask image registration: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that computes translational differentials between a database-image and a scanned-image of a photomask. During operation, the system receives a noise-free database-image and a scanned-image that is generated by an imaging process. Next, the system determines whether the database-image has complex geometry...

20060088202 - Method of filtering an image for high precision machine vision metrology: A structured morphology filtering method is disclosed for filtering an image for high precision machine vision metrology using specifically-determined structuring elements to precisely preserve the location of specific features in the filtered image. A selected structuring element shape generally exhibits geometric similarity with at least a portion of the feature...

20060088201 - Smear-limit based system and method for controlling vision systems for consistently accurate and high-speed inspection: A machine vision inspection system and method for generating a workpiece image acquisition/inspection program, which can be shared by different machine vision systems having different hardware capabilities. Each system includes a movable stage for scanning and measuring selected workpiece features, and preferably includes strobe lighting to control the effective exposure...

20060088204 - Cleaner with security function and travel device with security function: Disclosed herein is a travel device with a security function, which can always monitor a suspicious person. When charging of a battery is performed, electric power supplied from a charger device is supplied to both the buttery and a suspicious person-detecting section, and four pyroelectric sensors of the suspicious person-detecting...

20060088203 - Method and apparatus for machine-vision: A system and method facilitate machine-vision, for example three-dimensional pose estimation for target objects, using one or more images sensors to acquire images of the target object at one or more positions, and to identify features of the target object in the resulting images. A set of equations is set...

20060088205 - Apparatus and method for describing 3-dimensional image data and apparatus and method for retrieving 3-dimensional image data: Provided is an apparatus and method for describing three-dimensional, image data, an apparatus and method for retrieving three-dimensional image data, and a computer-readable recording media for recording the programs. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for describing three-dimensional image data, and a computer-readable...

20060088206 - Image processing apparatus, image pickup device and program therefor: CPU 10 generates from original image data representing an image, a right eye image and a left eye image mutually having a parallax. CPU 10 also specifies the 3D transformation parameter depending on the indication by a user, and stores the specified 3D transformation parameter in storage device 13 in...

20060088207 - Object recognizer and detector for two-dimensional images using bayesian network based classifier: A system and method for determining a classifier to discriminate between two classes—object or non-object. The classifier may be used by an object detection program to detect presence of a 3D object in a 2D image (e.g., a photograph or an X-ray image). The overall classifier is constructed of a...

20060088208 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and medium on which image processing program is recorded: In order to the monochromatic conversion of an image, in an image processing apparatus (1a), the color used within the image inputted from an image inputting section (2) is determined by a color analyzing section (3), the mixing-ratio of the color components of the image is defined based on the...

20060088211 - Image processing apparatus and method: A surrounding pixel reference unit reads out and stores image data having a predetermined size from a line buffer. A color judgment unit detects the color of the image (reference image) stored in the surrounding pixel reference unit. A parameter determination unit determines parameters used in an individual noise removal...

20060088209 - Video image quality: Video image quality may be improved by correcting exposure levels and/or enhancing contrast amounts on each frame. One or more of the following phases may be implemented: skin-color model building, face detecting, exposure level correcting, and contrast enhancing. In a described implementation, a Gaussian skin-color model is built for each...

20060088210 - Video image quality: Video image quality may be improved by correcting exposure levels and/or enhancing contrast amounts on each frame. One or more of the following phases may be implemented: skin-color model building, face detecting, exposure level correcting, and contrast enhancing. In a described implementation, each pixel of an image frame is re-exposed...

20060088212 - Data analysis device and data recognition device: The data analysis device 100 includes: difference calculation means (S2) for, with respect to an image, carrying out a calculation of calculating a difference between intensity values at an arbitrary point in the image and a point located in the vicinity of the arbitrary point in a first direction as...

20060088213 - Method and device for dividing target image, device for image recognizing process, program and storage media: According to a region dividing device, a region dividing member generates a plurality of primary region groups, each of which includes a plurality of primary regions. Each of the plurality of primary regions is characterized by each measured value of feature values. A basic region group generating member generates a...

20060088214 - System and method for identifying and labeling fields of text associated with scanned business documents: A system for electronically distilling information from a business document uses a network scanner to electronically scan a platen area, having a business document thereon, to create a bitmap. A network server carries out a segmentation process to segment the scan generated bitmap into a bitmap object, the bitmap object...

20060088216 - Apparatus, method, and program for handwriting recognition: A handwriting recognition apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment the apparatus comprises an input device having a handwriting input area and configured to input a plurality of strokes constructing a plurality of characters written successively on the handwriting input area, and a recognition device configured to recognize the characters based...

20060088215 - Handwriting recognition system: In order to improve the accuracy of recognition of hand-written input using a stylus, output signals from a plurality of accelerometers representing x and y axis acceleration and deceleration are sampled at a predetermined rate and passed through a digital bandpass filter to remove high frequency components and dc components...

20060088217 - Mapping-data analyzing method and apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a mapping-data analyzing method that can display a map in which sufficient information is extracted from the spectra of obtained mapping data to enable objective analysis. The mapping-data analyzing method of the present invention is used for analyzing mapping data...

20060088218 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: When the edge magnitude of an image-block of interest is larger than both that of the image-block of interest after movement and that of an image-block which neighbors the image-block of interest in the moving direction (S7110, S7120), the edge magnitude and direction of the image-block of interest are updated...

20060088219 - Object classification method utilizing wavelet signatures of a monocular video image: A stream of images including an area occupied by at least one object are processed to extract wavelet coefficients, and the extracted coefficients are represented as wavelet signatures that are less susceptible to misclassification due to noise and extraneous object features. Representing the wavelet coefficients as wavelet signatures involves sorting...

20060088220 - Graphics to video encoder: A graphics to video encoder is disclosed. The encoder comprises a client image constructor that receives client input and constructs client image frames based on the client input. A scene integrator is coupled to the client image constructor. The scene integrator accesses base image frames and integrates client image frames...

20060088221 - Method and device for randomly accessing a region of an encoded image for the purpose of decoding it and a method and device for encoding an image: A method for accessing a region of an encoded image comprising a plurality of segments that are encoded and put in order of encoding. The method includes the following steps applied to encoded segments and by going through the segments in the opposite direction to their order: comparing the position...

20060088222 - Video coding method and apparatus: A video coding method and apparatus are provided for improving compression efficiency or video/image quality by selecting a spatial transform method suitable for characteristics of an incoming video/image during video/image compression. The video coding apparatus includes a temporal transform module for removing temporal redundancy in an input frame to generate...

20060088223 - Image processing apparatus, printer and control method of the image processing: When data of one block is subjected to Huffman decoding (S100 to S120), inverse quantization processing is executed on the decoded data (S130), and when a present block is a starting point block, starting point restoring information (file pointer, decoding intermediate information and DC component) for restoring the image file...

20060088224 - Method for coding and decoding moving image: Provided is a method of coding and decoding a moving image, which can optimize the coding rate and reduce the time required for decoding the first image frame during an operation of displaying the image. The coding method includes receiving an image, determining the number of frames in a GOP...

20060088225 - Comparison: A method of simulating the effect of distortion on a representation of a marker, such as a fingerprint is provided. The method is useful for generating data for use in various processes concerned with fingerprints and particularly avoids the need to manually generate and collect such data. The method includes...

20060088226 - Image reader: A CCD camera 10 picks up multiple adjacent targeted portions on a document 2, and to obtain distance information, a distance measurement unit 11 calculates the distances to the targeted portions of the document 2. Based on the distance information, a synthesization controller 16 prepares perspective information for the images,...

20060088228 - Image scaling arrangement: Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred automatically and/or selectively to another display device for example a TV,...

20060088227 - Time-lapsing data methods and systems: Time-lapsing mirror methods and related systems....

20060088229 - Picture displaying method, picture displaying program, and editing apparatus: A picture displaying method of arranging mapping corresponding to the whole or a part of a material that has a time concept in time series on a screen is disclosed. Gradation is set to the mapping of the whole of the material. Gradation that is set to a region corresponding...

20060088230 - Recording and communication of handwritten information: A hand-held user unit, which can be part of a network-based information management system, allows for the writing down and recording of handwritten information. The user unit has a memory for storing the recorded information. The memory comprises a first memory part located in the user unit and a second...

20060083404 - Electronic device and information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium: Parameters to be set in an electronic device are generated with a simple operation, and further, safely in terms of security. For this purpose, upon generation of setting parameters for an electronic device having a radio LAN function and an image sensing function, first, parameters necessary for radio LAN communication...

20060083403 - Watermark embedding and detecting methods, systems, devices and components: Method determining lookup table (“LUT”) for embedding watermark. For each quantization cell, calculating probabilities that signal point falls into cell. Selecting cell by probabilities. Setting LUT value to watermark value with largest probability, subject to run constraint. For remaining cells, repeating selecting and setting steps. Other method determining quantization ensemble...

20060083405 - Statistically comparing and matching plural sets of digital data: The present invention is embodied in a system and method for statistically comparing a first set of digital data to at least a second set of digital data and matching the first set of digital data to appropriately corresponding portions of the second set of digital data. The first or...

20060083406 - Communication device and distance calculation system: A communication device (e.g., an vehicle-mounted device) comprises a transmitter that transmits a distance-calculation signal with which to calculate a distance to a partner communication device (e.g., a mobile device), a detector that receives the distance-calculation signal returned from the partner communication device and detects a phase difference between the...

20060083407 - method for motion estimation: A method for motion estimation of sequences of images is proposed, wherein for consecutive frames (f1, f2) respective corresponding consecutive Fourier transformed frames (F1, F2) are determined, and wherein motion parameters for translation, rotation and/or for scaling are derived based on a phase relationship between said respective corresponding consecutive Fourier...

20060083408 - Biometric tokenless electronic rewards system and method: Disclosed is a system and method for processing tokenless electronic consumer rewards between a reward provider and a recipient using an electronic identicator comparator and at least one recipient biometric data. The process uses apparatus for creating an electronic registry of a reward provider's products or services each having a...

20060083409 - Attention calling apparatus and method and information processing system: An attention calling apparatus includes: a measurement unit for measuring at least one first job related physical quantity related to a performance status of a first job of a user; and an attention calling processing execution unit for executing processing for calling user's attention so as to perform a second...

20060083412 - Fingerprint image collator: An image collator includes a first region disposing unit which disposes plural first regions on a first fingerprint image in a fixed positional relation, a first maximum correlation region detecting unit which detects a maximum correlation region whose correlation with image data of each of the first regions becomes maximum...

20060083411 - Fingerprint sensing assemblies and methods of making: A fingerprint sensing module includes a sensor substrate having a sensing side and a circuit side, an image sensor including conductive traces on the circuit side of the sensor substrate, and a sensor circuit including at least one integrated circuit mounted on the circuit side of the sensor substrate and...

20060083410 - Method of binarizing images containing linear structures: In a method of binarizing images containing linear structures, and particularly images of prints from the skin, areas are determined that are each distinguished by a preset approximate direction of the structures. The areas of the image that are determined are each filtered with a Gabor filter adapted to the...

20060083414 - Identifier comparison: A method of comparing a first representation of an identifier with a second representation of an identifier, for instance two fingerprints is provided. The method includes selecting a plurality of features in the first representation of an identifier, such as minutia, and linking each feature to one or more of...

20060083413 - Identifier investigation: A method of processing a representation of an identifier, such as a fingerprint, is provided to improve subsequent processing of the representation. The method includes obtaining a representation of an identifier, the representation including one or more components, such as ridges. A part of the representation of the identifier is...

20060083415 - Factor analysis in medical imaging: A method for processing image data includes estimating initial factor images from image data, transforming the estimated initial factor images by a transformation variable to obtain transformed factor images, providing an objective function that is a function of the transformed factor images, and minimizing the objective function to obtain unique...

20060083416 - Medical-use image data analyzing apparatus and method of analysis using the same: A medical-use image data analyzing apparatus, aiming for detecting with a simple operation, presence or extent of difference in timing of movements among local portions as to facilitate diagnosis of diseases such as cardiac infarction, includes: an image input unit configured to input an image data of a test subject;...

20060083417 - User interface for computed tomography (ct) scan analysis: An enhanced image is based on an original image. For instance, the original image can be processed using a filter to provide the enhanced image. The original and enhanced images can be displayed side by side or alternately to facilitate a comparison of the original and enhanced images. A user...

20060083418 - Image analysis: A method for the automated analysis of digital images, particularly for the purpose of assessing nuclear pleomorphism from images of histological slides for prognostication of breast cancer. The method includes the steps of identifying the locations of objects within the image which have intensity and size characteristics consistent with epithelial...

20060083419 - Systems and methods for isolating parts: A part isolation system of one embodiment includes an identification surface, a loader assembly having a drop point located above the identification surface and a vision system. The loader assembly may be configured to release a plurality of parts from the drop point onto the stationary identification surface for separation...

20060083420 - Inspection system and inspection method: The inspection system arbitrarily selects from among a plurality of optical conditions to change a distribution of reflected or diffracted light component from an object being inspected. The inspection system has a one- or two-dimensional optoelectric conversion image sensor, optically acquires an image of the object by scanning a stage...

20060083421 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method, applied to e.g. a TV conference system or a TV telephone system, in which an image to be transmitted or received is captured and reconstructed into a virtual view point image which may appear as if it is captured by a...

20060083422 - Three-dimensional modeling of the oral cavity: A method for creating three-dimensional models of intra-oral scenes and features. The intra-oral scene is illuminated by a two-dimensional array of structured illumination points, with anti-aliasing achieved by using stored two-dimensional patterns of pixels for anti-aliasing. Using a single camera to form images reduces the amount of apparatus necessary to...

20060083423 - Method and apparatus for object normalization using object classification: Methods and apparatus are provided for normalizing objects across a plurality of image viewpoints. A set of classification results are obtained for a given object class across a sequence of images for each of a plurality of viewpoints. The classification results are each comprised of a position of one of...

20060083424 - Overlay of tinted images for visualizing change in serial radiologic images: A method for combining serial radiological images includes the projection of each of the images onto a line in a color space, the evaluation of a vector sum of the resulting projections; and the generation of a composite image from the vector sum....

20060083425 - Adaptive contrast enhancement: Disclosed is a method for generating transfer curves for adaptive contrast enhancement. Given an input image, a luminance histogram is generated based on a set of predefined input luminance ranges. The luminance histogram is then expressed as a weighted sum of a set of predefined “primitive” histograms. Each primitive histogram...

20060083426 - Method and apparatus for reading film grain patterns in a raster order in film grain simulation: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for reading film grain patterns in a raster order in film grain simulation including establishing a pseudo-random starting position, repeating the pseudo-random starting position for each line of a group of film grain blocks, and using a different pseudo-random starting position for...

20060083427 - System and method for extracting corner point in space using pixel information, and robot using the system: A system and method extracting a corner point in a space using pixel information obtained from a camera are provided. The corner point extracting system includes a light generation module emitting light in a predetermined form (such as a plane form), an image acquisition module acquiring an image of a...

20060083428 - Classification of pixels in a microarray image based on pixel intensities and a preview mode facilitated by pixel-intensity-based pixel classification: One disclosed embodiment is a method based on an iteratively employed Bayesian-probability-based pixel classification, used to refine an initial feature mask that specifies those pixels in a region of interest, including and surrounding a feature in the scanned image of a microarray, that together compose a pixel-based image of the...

20060083430 - Identifier comparision: A method of comparing a first representation of an identifier with a second representation of an identifier is provided. The method includes providing an expression of the first representation, such as a fingerprint, and considering the expression of the first representation against a probability distribution based on the variation in...

20060083429 - Search of similar features representing objects in a large reference database: This invention is a method dedicated to pseudo-invariant features retrieval and, more particularly, applied to content-based copy identification. The range of a query is computed during the search according to deviation statistics between original and observed features. This approximate search range is directly mapped onto a Hilbert's space-filling curve allowing...

20060083431 - Electronic device and method for visual text interpretation: An electronic device (700) captures an image (105, 725) that includes textual information having captured words that are organized in a captured arrangement. The electronic device performs optical character recognition (OCR) (110, 730) in a portion of the image to form a collection of recognized words that are organized in...

20060083434 - Coding system, coding method and coding apparatus: The video-coding apparatus 1 is provided that includes: an apparatus registration block 13 which, when an external apparatus 2 is connected, acquires apparatus information 103 from the connected external apparatus 2 and automatically registers the external apparatus; a coding block 10 that encodes programs in a file format appropriate for...

20060083433 - Jpeg2000 encoder: The image quality value of the code block currently processed is monitored, and when it falls below a threshold, encoding of the code block is terminated (in other words, encoding in the subsequent passes is omitted for the code block) to shift to encoding of the next code block....

20060083432 - System and method for encoding mosaiced image data employing a reversible color transform: A new color space that maps image pixel values in a mosaiced sampling pattern (such as that generated by a Bayer color filter array) into four color channels that correspond to rectangular sampling patterns. Because these new channels correspond to a rectangular sampling grid, they are much more amenable to...

20060083436 - Adaptive encoding and decoding of bi-level images: A system and process for encoding and later decoding of bi-level images that does not use arithmetic coding, but whose performance is close to that of state-of-the-art coders such as JBIG, JBIG-2, and JB2. In general, the present bi-level coder (BLC) uses two context-based adaptive modules: 1) an adaptive predictor...

20060083435 - Apparatus and method for calculating the prediction value of the high frequency and low frequency components of an image: An apparatus and method is provided for calculating the prediction value of the high frequency and low frequency components of a MPEG4 or DivX image format. The apparatus comprises a prediction parameter table, a look-up table parameter calculation circuit, a multiplier, a control circuit, and an adder. The present apparatus...

20060083437 - Three-dimensional image display apparatus: A three-dimensional image display apparatus is provided which uses a multi-facet flat mirror which includes an image pickup unit and an image display unit. The image pickup unit includes a first beam splitter changing paths of beams incident from a three-dimensional object, a first multi-facet flat mirror forming a concave...

20060083438 - Sharpness adjustment method and program and electronic endoscope apparatus: The sharpness of an image obtained by an endoscope is adjusted. A sharpness enhancement amount is determined for each pixel based on the value of each pixel which forms a luminance distribution image. Further, a portion contributing to adjustment of brightness and a portion contributing to adjustment of saturation in...

20060083439 - \"don't care\" pixel interpolation: A system and method facilitating image smoothing is provided. The invention includes an image processor having an image receptor and an image smoother. The invention provides for the image smoother to alter the value of a don't care pixel based, at least in part, upon a weighted average of care...

20060083440 - System and method: A machine-implemented image processing method includes segmenting a scene into a background scene portion and a foreground scene portion, forming a mosaic for the background scene portion, enhancing the foreground scene portion, and constructing a composite of the background mosaic and the enhanced foreground....

20060083441 - Method for intelligent auto-orientation of digital images.: A method for re-orientating digital images in an image-editing environment where images are loaded in landscape mode by default, with the aim of unburdening users from the inconvenience of manual correction of image orientation. Intelligent re-orientation of digital images is realized by analyzing an image in order to determine if...

20060083442 - Image archiving system and method: An image archiving system includes imaging modalities, an acquisition workstation and a number of PACS networks. Each PACS network includes storage access points that access and provide medical image meta-data from a clinical database and image data files from temporary and permanent storage areas and to a plurality of clients....

20060083443 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Distances between a query image and registered images are calculated for respective feature amounts, and weight values for the calculated distances are calculated on the basis of statistical amount of the feature amounts of the query image (S507). Similarities between the registered images and query image are calculated on the...

20060078160 - Information providing system and identification information adding device: To achieve this object, when the HTTP server (203) transmits prescribed image data, identity information meeting the access from the terminal unit (30) is generated in the identity information adding process (205), and added to prescribed image data. The corresponding relationship between the identity information and the image data containing...

20060078159 - Method and apparatus for embedding electronic watermark, and computer product: In an apparatus for embedding an electronic watermark, a determining unit determines whether a specified area that is specified is present in image data. A text/non-text detecting unit detects a text area and a non-text area in the image. The specified area is at least one of the text area...

20060078155 - Method of detecting blocking artefacts: The invention relates to a method of detecting blocking artefacts within a sequence of digital images. The method comprises a step of high-pass filtering (110) a portion of a digital image, intended to supply at least one card of discontinuity pixels. It also comprises a step of detecting (120) blocking...

20060078157 - Perceptible reversible watermarks: The invention relates to methods, devices and a signal, where an encoder compresses a first piece of information in the form of at least a first limited part of an image, provides perceptible additional information (38) related to the image, and provides the compressed first piece of information (40) in...

20060078156 - System and method for segmenting: A segmentation system (100) for segmenting a first image feature (214) in a first video image from an adjacent second image feature (216) in the first video image on basis of motion and on an image property like color or luminance. The segmentation system (100) comprises; a block-based motion estimator...

20060078158 - Viewing masked images: For displaying a target image contained in a sequence of first images (11) interspersed with second images (12) constituting a masking image, a display device is arranged for substantially exclusively displaying the first images and suppressing the second images in response to a key (13). The display device may be...

20060078161 - Method for determining the change in position of an object in an item of luggage: The invention relates to a method for determining the change in position of an object (200, 210) in an item of luggage (100) by means of two X-ray images, individual feature points (1-15) being allocated in each X-ray image and the features being extracted such that a set of points...

20060078163 - Mode- based multi-hypothesis tracking using parametric contours: A system and method for object tracking using probabilistic mode-based multi-hypothesis tracking (MHT) provides for robust and computationally efficient tracking of moving objects such as heads and faces in complex environments. A mode-based multi-hypothesis tracker uses modes that are local maximums which are refined from initial samples in a parametric...

20060078162 - System and method for stabilized single moving camera object tracking: A system including a moveable camera adapted to obtain a sequence of video images of an object, a determiner adapted to identify an object border in a current video image of said sequence of video images, said determiner being adapted to determine an object area and a background area based...

20060078166 - Apparatus and method for detecting adaptive motion direction: In an adaptive motion direction detecting apparatus, an image input unit inputs two-dimensional pixel data of an object. A response output unit includes a plurality of response element arrays each having different time phases, and each of the response element arrays includes a plurality of response elements. Each of the...

20060078164 - Measurement method using blurred images: A speed measurement method using blurred images is for calculating the speed of moving objects being detected. By an image-capturing device, a blurred image of the detected object is obtained. The blurred image is used to create a deblurred image and obtain a blur extent. The speed of the detected...

20060078165 - Motion detection apparatus and motion detection method: A motion detection device includes a feature extracting section 2 extracting a feature area of an object from among frame images clipped by an image pickup section 1, a feature standardizing section 3 standardizing a size of a feature area extracted by the feature extracting section 2, a balloting section...

20060078168 - Equipment for inspecting quality of printed matter: Printed matter (1) printed by a sheet-fed printer is illuminated on an impression cylinder (2) by illuminating means (13) and is pressed by air injection means (15) against the impression cylinder (2). When the light reflected on the printed matter (1) is detected by the photographing means (14) to import...

20060078167 - Method and apparatus for on-line monitoring print quality: An apparatus and a method for measuring print quality in a printing press used in newspaper production, wherein the measuring apparatus measures several parallel reflection profiles extending in the longitudinal direction simultaneously across the entire width of a paper web and the measurement results of the measuring apparatus are used...

20060078169 - Method of evaluating image, device for supporting evaluation of image, and image processing apparatus: A method of evaluating an image, including: (a) obtaining evaluation-image data of an evaluation image to be evaluated, the evaluation-image data including coordinate-position data indicative of coordinate positions in the evaluation image and optical-characteristic-value data indicative of optical characteristic values at respective coordinate positions; (b) identifying, based on the evaluation-image...

20060078171 - Biometric convolution using multiple biometrics: Method and apparatus for securing biometric data using multiple biometrics. The method includes the steps of: a) converting a first biometric to an irreversibly altered biometric using a parameterized non-convertible transform function and b) prior to said conversion parameterizing a non-convertible transform function using at least one additional biometric. The...

20060078170 - Biometrics authentication system registration method, biometrics authentication system, and program for same: A biometrics authentication system utilizes information of the palm of the hand of a body to perform individual authentication. A processing unit obtains an image of the palm of the hand of the same body a plurality of times from an image capture unit, judges the degrees of similarity among...

20060078172 - 3d face authentication and recognition based on bilateral symmetry analysis: There is provided a novel approach for automatic human face authentication. Taking a 3D triangular facial mesh as input, the approach first automatically extracts the bilateral symmetry plane of the face surface. The intersection between the symmetry plane and the facial surface, namely the Symmetry Profile, is then computed. By...

20060078173 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, comprising: a taken image input section which inputs a taken image in which face portions of persons are recorded; a detection section which detects the face portions of persons; a face selection section which accepts selection of desired face portions from among...

20060078174 - System for and method of determining pressure on a finger sensor: The present invention discloses a system for and method of calculating pressure differences using a finger sensor. A finger sensor system in accordance with the present invention comprises a finger sensor for capturing first and second of sets of image data by contacting the finger sensor and means for providing...

20060078177 - Biometric information authentication device, biometric information authentication method, and computer-readable recording medium with biometric information authentication program recorded thereon: For personal authentication using biometric information, to allow for unfailing authentication without increasing verification time even for an authentication object that is not supported only by a minutia matching method, the present invention provides a biometric information authentication device comprising: a first verifying section for verifying first to-be-verified data against...

20060078176 - Biometric information input device, biometric authentication device, biometric information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium recording biometric information processing program: The invention is a biometric information input device including biometric information collection means for reading a relatively-moving living body site and successively collecting a plurality of partial images of the living body site as biometric information, movement direction detection means for detecting a movement direction of the living body site...

20060078175 - Hand-held diagnostic display unit including biometric characteristic security system: A vehicle diagnostic display unit including a case, a display screen disposed within a front portion of the case, and a main support coupled to a side of the case and having a finger compartment for receiving a user's fingers to allow the user to lift the vehicle diagnostic display...

20060078178 - Swipe sensor: A sensor for obtaining fingerprint images comprising a row of sensing elements for obtaining a plurality of snapshots of a fingerprint as a finger passes the sensor and at least one reference grid, wherein comparisons made upon images obtained from the reference grid are used to control the rate at...

20060078179 - Fingerprint identification apparatus: A fingerprint identification apparatus comprises a contact image sensor (CIS) module, a keyswitch and a restoring unit. The keyswitch has a transparent plate for finger-tactility. The user put his finger on the transparent plate to move the transparent plate such that the keyswitch has relative movement with respect to the...

20060078181 - Image compounding based on independent noise constraint: A method and system for improving image quality by compounding a plurality of images to mitigate the effects of image noise. The method utilizes the independency between noise components for multiple image compounding. An effective measurement is designed to regularize the independency between noise in a traditional generative model based...

20060078182 - Methods and apparatus for analyzing ultrasound images: A method of analyzing an ultrasound image of a target volume having therein at least two types of substances is disclosed. The method comprises: dividing a region-of-interest of the image to a set of mini-segments. The method further comprises, for each mini-segment, calculating at least two representative intensity values, respectively...

20060078183 - Methods for physiological monitoring training, exercise and regulation: Computer executable software and device for guiding brain activity training comprising: logic which takes data corresponding to activity measurements of one or more internal voxels of a brain and determines one or more members of the group consisting of: a) what next stimulus to communicate to the subject, b) what...

20060078180 - Video filtering for stereo images: An image processing system generates an output image from an input image through a depth-dependent transformation. The images are represented as respective pixel arrays. An input 1110 receives for each input pixel an associated input pixel value and input pixel depth. Each input pixel is associated with a respective reconstruction...

20060078184 - Intelligent splitting of volume data: A system and method for intelligent splitting of volume data are provided, including an adapter for receiving group order scan data or whole body scan data, a feature detector in signal communication with the adapter for detecting global features in the received scan data and for defining separation lines relative...

20060078185 - Methods and apparatus for image reconstruction: Methods and apparatus for producing an image of an object with a multi-slice imaging apparatus having a row of detectors are provided. The method includes generating a first partial image using projection data acquired at a first imaging position in a step-and-shoot imaging mode, generating a second partial image using...

20060078186 - Magnetic detection system for use in currency processing and method and apparatus for using the same: A magnetic detection system for authenticating a document includes a first magnetic scanhead adapted to create a first magnetic field for saturating the magnetization of an area on each of the bills. The magnetic detection system further includes a second magnetic scanhead with an electromagnet. The electromagnet is capable of...

20060078187 - Multi-layer electronic component aggregate board and multi-layer electronic component fabricating method: A multi-layer electronic components aggregate board according to the present invention is a multi-layer electronic components aggregate board which enables extracting plural multi-layer electronic components by cutting and includes a trimming pattern 122b formed on a predetermined insulation layer out of plural insulation layers and recognition marks formed on the...

20060078191 - Apparatus and method for detecting defect on object: In a defect detection apparatus, data of an inspection image and that of a reference image are inputted from an image pickup part (3) to an operation part (50), and a differential image is thereby generated in a differential image generation part (52) and an image representing a defect inclusion...

20060078190 - Method and apparatus for inspecting defects: In order to detect defects without reducing the inspection speed, even when inspection is made by acquiring a high magnification image, defect inspection method is provided in which a surface of a sample is illuminated, via an illumination optical system, with light emitted by an illumination light source, an image...

20060078189 - Method and apparatus for inspection: To make it possible to produce inspection conditions for optimizing various inspection conditions by extracting DOIs efficiently and instructing them reliably in a state where a few DOIs are hidden among a large number of nuisances. According to the present invention, a semiconductor wafer is inspected, images of defects detected...

20060078188 - Method and its apparatus for classifying defects: In an automatic defect classifying method, defects not reviewed are assigned with defect classes having the same definitions as those of reviewed defects in order to effectively use information on defects not reviewed, the defects not reviewed occupying most of defects on a wafer. Defects not reviewed are assigned defect...

20060078192 - Partition pattern match and integration method for alignment: A partition pattern template generation method for alignment receives a learning image and performs partition template generation using the learning image to generate a plurality of partition template result output. A partition template acceptance test is performed using the plurality of partition template results to generate partition templates or failure...

20060078193 - Method of visually inspecting turbine blades and optical inspection system therefor: An optical inspection system is for visually inspecting the blades of a turbine at turning gear operation. The inspection system includes an imager for capturing images of the blades, an optical passage coupled to the imager and structured to provide maximum viewing area of the blades through an inspection port...

20060078196 - Distributed apexes for 3-d ultrasound scan geometry: Multiple apexes or intersections of scan lines are used to control the desired scan region for three dimensional scanning. Where a two dimensional transducer array is not square or circular or if the element spacing in azimuth and elevation is unequal, multiple apexes allow for optimization of the scanned volume...

20060078197 - Image processing apparatus: At the time of installing an image processing apparatus using a stereo camera, the plane estimation process cannot be executed in the case where the reference plane is crowded with moving objects. The three-dimensional moving vector of a plurality of feature points extracted from an object moving on the plane...

20060078194 - Image processing system for automatic adaptation of a 3-d mesh model onto a 3-d surface of an object: An image processing system having means of automatic adaptation of 3-D surface Model to image features, for Model-based image segmentation, comprising: dynamic adaptation means for adapting the Model resolution to image features including locally setting higher resolution when reliable image features are found and setting lower resolution in the opposite...

20060078195 - Method and system for registering 3d models of anatomical regions with projection images of the same: An imaging system for use in a medical intervention procedure is disclosed. A first image acquisition system of a first modality employing a catheter at an anatomical region of a patient is configured to produce a first image of the anatomical region using fluoroscopy, the first image comprising a set...

20060078198 - Apparatus and method for imager device color calibration using spectral light source: A method and apparatus for color calibrating an imager device is disclosed. The imager device is subjected to a plurality of light sources. Color channel responses are obtained from the imager device and the color calibrating coefficients are determined....

20060078199 - Method for collecting data for color measurements from a digital electronic image capturing device or system: A method for providing an intensity or brightness measurement using a digital image-capturing device comprising: selecting a target area within a field of view of the image-capturing device, the target area containing pixels; determining the brightness of pixels in the target area; accumulating the brightness values of the pixels in...

20060078200 - Apparatus, method and storage medium storing program for recognizing characters: An apparatus for recognizing characters includes a text structure analyzing unit that analyzes an input image of text composed of mixed typed and handwritten characters and separates the input text image into predefined text imaging regions, a character clipping unit that clips characters one by one in each of the...

20060078201 - Method, medium, and apparatus for person-based photo clustering in digital photo album, and person-based digital photo albuming method, medium, and apparatus: A person-based digital photo clustering method, medium, and apparatus and a person-based digital photo albuming method, medium, and apparatus. The clustering method may include detecting a face area from photo data, extracting predetermined content-based face feature value information from the detected face area, obtaining person-based photo clustering hint information, and...

20060078202 - Handwriting layout analysis of freeform digital ink input: Electronic ink layout analysis systems and methods provide flexibility and efficiency in organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink. These layout analysis systems and methods allow users substantial freedom in entering electronic ink into a pen-based computer system. Using these systems and methods, a user's input digital ink is not constrained...

20060078203 - Realistic machine-generated handwriting with personalized fonts: There are provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of particular individuals. The handwriting includes an appropriate degree of randomness so as to be realistic in appearance. In a...

20060078204 - Image processing apparatus and method generating binary image from a multilevel image: An information processing apparatus extracts a plurality of strokes from a multilevel image, and generates a stroke binary image. Next, the image processing apparatus extracts feature amounts indicating the thickness and the smoothed graylevel of a stroke in a neighboring region of a target pixel by using each pixel belonging...

20060078205 - Detecting roads in aerial images using feature-based classifiers: A method detects roads in an aerial image of ground topology by determining low-level features, such as intensities and gradients, for each pixel in the aerial image, determining middle-level features, such as an orientation for each pixel from the low-level features, and determining high-level features from the middle-level features. Each...

20060078206 - Image matching apparatus, method of matching images, and computer program product: An image matching apparatus includes a numerical analyzing unit that solves an equation of motion numerically. The equation of motion is formulated as an image matching state transition model representing a mapping relation between a source image and a destination image. The equation of motion represents a force applied on...

20060078207 - Method and system for character recognition: Character recognition is described. In one embodiment, it may use matched sequences rather than character shape to determine a computer-legible result....

20060078208 - System and method for progressively transform coding digital data: The present invention is embodied in a system and method for compressing image data using a lapped biorthogonal transform (LBT). The present invention encodes data by generating coefficients using a hierarchical LBT, reorders the coefficients in a data-independent manner into groups of similar data, and encodes the reordered coefficients using...

20060078209 - Image coding apparatusa and method: An image coding apparatus includes an image characteristic determination unit configured to divide input image data into image blocks each including a plurality of pixels, and to determine a characteristic of each image block, a loop filter configured to perform a filtering process on each image block in a locally...

20060078210 - Tarp filter: Systems and methods for performing adaptive filtering are disclosed. The present invention generates probabilities that can be used in an encoder, such as an arithmetic encoder and generates those probabilities in a computationally efficient manner. Probabilities of previously encoded coefficients are employed, effectively, in generating probabilities of the coefficients without...

20060078211 - Methods and systems for rate control in image compression: Methods and systems for compressing an image are described. A plurality of transformed and quantized values associated with a block of image data is accessed. The block corresponds to a position within the image. A count of the number of bits encoded during run-length encoding of the block is made....

20060078212 - Embedding a watermark in a coded signal: Method and arrangement for water(re)marking a compressed video signal by modifying selected DCT coefficients. To avoid that the bitrate is thereby reduced too much, selected variable-length codewords are represented by escape codes. In order to avoid that ESC codes increase the bitrate too much (an ESC code is 7-21 bits...

20060078213 - Approximations used in performance sensitive transformations which contain sub-transforms: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for performing a transform equation in which at least two sub-transform equations can be identified. According to the invention, each sub-transform is considered separately and the constants of each sub-transform are replaced with an approximation which is a function of...

20060078216 - Image correction apparatus, method and program: An identification-data memory is connected to a light-source identifying circuit. Data representing a type of characteristic quantity to be used in making an identification and identification points are stored in the identification-data memory with regard to each type of a plurality of light sources. Based upon input image data, a...

20060078214 - Image processing based on direction of gravity: A method of processing a digital image to produce an improved digital image, includes receiving the digital image captured with a camera; determining a first vanishing point associated with the digital image; determining a second vanishing point associated with the digital image corresponding to a direction orthogonal the first vanishing...

20060078215 - Image processing based on direction of gravity: A method of processing a digital image to produce an improved digital image, includes receiving the digital image captured with a camera; providing a gravity detection device integral with the camera; using the gravity detection device to determine the direction of gravity relative to the coordinate system of the camera...

20060078218 - Image correction apparatus, image correction program storage medium, image correction method, and image correction system: The present invention has an object to provide an image correction apparatus which can correct image blur properly, a storage medium storing an image correction program which makes a computer operate as such an image correction apparatus, an image correction method for correcting the blur properly, and an image correction...

20060078217 - Out-of-focus detection method and imaging device control method: The technique of the invention calculates an edge gradient magnitude a(x,y) at each pixel position (x,y) and an edge width w(x,y) from luminance values of an object image, and computes an out-of-focus evaluation value M(x,y) at each pixel position (x,y) from the calculated edge gradient magnitude a(x,y) and edge width...

20060078220 - Image processing based on degree of white-background likeliness: An image processing device includes a filtering unit which filters an input image with variable frequency characteristics, an edge detection unit which detects magnitudes of edges appearing in the input image, and a degree-of-white-background-likeliness detection unit which detects degrees of white-background likeliness in respect of local areas of the input...

20060078219 - Image viewing and method for generating filters for filtering image feaures according to their orientation: Image processing system for generating a multidimensional adaptive oriented filter to process image data in a number d of dimensions, comprising product means for producing weighted scalar coefficients [W1(r), . . . Wi(r), . . . Wd(r)] of a number d of vectors of an oriented basis of vectors by...

20060078221 - Texture error recovery method using edge preserving spatial interpolation: A method of recovering texture information for an error block in a video stream includes applying an edge detection spatial filter on blocks surrounding an error block to detect texture edges, each block containing a plurality of pixels, and identifying first pixels surrounding the error block having texture data above...

20060078222 - Apparatus and method of compressing dynamic range of image: An apparatus to compress a dynamic range of an image, and a method of compressing the dynamic range. The apparatus includes a periphery value production unit to calculate periphery information about peripheral pixels on a polyhedron-by-polyhedron basis using summed area tables produced form an analog pixel stream of a previous...

20060078223 - Masking tool: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of masking comprises an operation of selecting a masking tool based on operations performed on a digital camera by a user. The masking tool is positioned over a masked portion of an image and an effect is applied. The effect is...

20060078224 - Image combination device, image combination method, image combination program, and recording medium containing the image combination program: An image combination device acquires a first object image, a second object image, and a background image by first object image acquiring means (1), second object image acquiring means (3), and background image acquiring means (2) and by using one of the three images as a standard image, generates two...

20060078225 - Method for collecting data for color measurements from a digital electronic image capturing device or system: A method for providing an intensity or brightness measurement using a digital image-capturing device comprising: selecting a target area within a field of view of the image-capturing device, the target area containing pixels; measuring the intensity or brightness of pixels in a target area; accumulating the intensity or brightness values...

20060078228 - Information processing device and program: An information processing device includes an input screen information storage unit 11 which stores input screen information configured to correlate at least an input screen identifier, with an input field identifier, and with a first display size and a second display size, a primary screen data generation unit 15 which...

20060078226 - Magnification and pinching of two-dimensional images: In one embodiment, an embedded device is provided which comprises a region of interest defining mechanism to define a region of interest (ROI) within an image. A transformation mechanism of the embedded device applies a nonlinear magnification or pinching transformation to the region of interest such that magnification or pinching...

20060078227 - Method and apparatus for scaling image block: An image scaling method for calculating a pixel value of a target pixel within a scaled image block is disclosed. The method includes selecting a plurality of reference pixels from the image block, wherein each reference pixel has a pixel value and corresponds to a transparency parameter; respectively setting a...

20060078229 - Interpolation method for generating pixel color: An interpolation method for generating pixel color is used for color generating of an array composed of red, green, and blue pixels so that each pixel has red, green, and blue components. After signals of the pixel array are received, the signal trends in the horizontal and vertical directions around...

20060078230 - Apparatus, method, or storage medium for image processing: The present invention provides an image printing apparatus in which the consistency between image files and a print information file can be held and also the efficiency of user operation can be enhanced. When an instruction to delete the relevant one of image files which are already stored in a...

20060072778 - Encoding invisible electronic information in a printed document: Substantially invisible elements of an electronic code can be embedded in a document independent of the layout of the image being displayed to provide document related data. Generally, code elements are printed in a color that has luminance values that do not vary substantially from the luminance of the location...

20060072781 - Encoding invisible electronic information in a printed document: A printed image can be redundantly encoded by printing a visible image using a colorant with a luminance that contrasts with that of the output sheet and printing a redundant image using a colorant with a luminance that varies only slightly from that of the output sheet. Accordingly, the visible...

20060072783 - Geographically watermarked imagery and methods: An image is digitally watermarked to convey position data about the subject of the image, such as latitude, longitude and elevation of a point depicted therein. Additional information, e.g., about camera attributes, camera angle, and 3D warp-characterizing polynomial coefficients, can also be included. In another implementation, a method includes receiving...

20060072782 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit to extract watermark data from image data of an image; a generating unit to generate a watermark image based on the watermark data; and a superimposing unit to superimpose the watermark image on the image....

20060072784 - Information processing apparatus, method, program and storage medium: Provided are an information processing apparatus, method, program and storage medium whereby prescribed additional information such as a digital watermark can be embedded directly in encoded data, and later extracted, without decoding data that has been compressed and encoded by the JPEG scheme, etc. First, encoded data, which is information...

20060072779 - Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents: Techniques for positioning images in an electronic document. The images may encode information that can be decoded by devices configured to read the images. An area within the electronic document for positioning the image and a set of one or more colors to be used for the image are determined....

20060072785 - Watermark encoding and decoding: The disclosure details methods and systems for watermark encoding and decoding. In one implementation a method is provided to detect steganographic indicia embedded in a streaming media signal. The method includes receiving a streaming media signal; caching selected portions of the streaming media signal; detecting steganographic indicia from cached portions...

20060072786 - Watermarking and fingerprinting digital content using alternative blocks to embed information: A method of embedding information in digital content representing media streams. The method includes (1) selecting a set of locations within that digital content reprensenting the media stream to embed information, (2) selecting a set of possible alterations to make at those locations, and (3) making a subset of the...

20060072780 - Watermarking scheme for analog video: Determining a chrominance portion to be watermarked employs a perception-based table that indicates for various pixel values which of the chrominance portions, if any, should be selected for watermarking. Only the Y, U, and V values of a pixel are needed to access the table and determine which chrominance portion...

20060072787 - Inventory control: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for inventory control of items in a location are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises a surveillance system comprising a plurality of cameras and at least one display, at least one identification tag, at least one identification tag reader configured to read the...

20060072788 - Monitoring system for monitoring surroundings of vehicle: A monitoring system for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle by displaying images taken by a plurality of cameras provided at the vehicle on a display apparatus provided in a vehicle compartment includes an image processing portion. The image processing portion includes a boundary-determining portion for determining a boundary of the...

20060072789 - Image authenticating methods: To authenticate images taken by image capturing elements (3) of offending vehicles, for example, when exceeding the authorized speed, provided elements are provided for allowing informative data on the offence to be supplied, such as the speed of the vehicle, the date, the time and the place of the offence...

20060072790 - Background motion vector detection: A selector (502) for selecting a background motion vector for a pixel in an occlusion region of an image, from a set of motion vectors being computed for the image, comprises: computing means (510) for computing a model-based motion vector for the pixel on basis of a motion model being...

20060072792 - Driver monitoring system for vehicle: A driver monitoring system for a vehicle includes an image capturing means for capturing an image of a driver's seat, and a controlling means for performing a face identification determination, and an inattentive and drowsy driving determination of a driver based on an image captured by the image capturing means,...

20060072791 - Method and system for automatically controlling a personalized networked environment: Using known methods of face recognition, appliances can be automatically initiated and/or adjusted as a user enters an environment, such as a home or a room. The environment is networked such that there is a communication link between a camera monitoring the entrance to the environment, a face recognition system,...

20060072793 - Security alarm notification using iris detection systems: Biometric iris detection systems are adaptable for control of alarm conditions through the systems scanner or reader by physical actions of a user's eye and/or eye lid. An alarm condition can be set in a biometric iris detection system following a predetermined blinking pattern by a user's eyelid. An alarm...

20060072795 - Fingerprint image pickup device: A fingerprint image pickup device includes a light source that emits light for transmission through a fingertip portion having a fingerprint to be photographed, an image pickup unit that picks up the light from the light source and transmitted through the fingertip portion and acquires a fingerprint image in which...

20060072796 - Fingerprint image pickup device: A fingerprint image pickup device includes a light source that emits a light for transmission through a fingertip portion having a fingerprint to be photographed, an image pickup unit that picks up the light from the light source and transmitted through the subject to acquire a fingerprint image in which...

20060072794 - Method for determining the bearing surface in skin print images: In a method for determining the bearing surface in images of skin prints, the skin having ridges and furrows and the images existing in the form of image data, the image is filtered with a plurality of Gabor filters whose cosine functions are oriented in different directions in the spatial...

20060072799 - Dynamic contrast visualization (dcv): Magnitude enhancement analysis of medical and dental images of tissue or organs such as MRI, PET, CT and x-ray images configured to display intensity-related features of high-bit images, such as grayscale without distorting the underlying intensity unless desired, and/or enhancing perception of saturation, hue, color channels and other space dimensions...

20060072798 - Medical overlay mirror: Medical overlay mirror methods and related systems....

20060072797 - Method and system for structuring dynamic data: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for structuring dynamic data from a plurality of images. Certain embodiments include accessing an image data set including data representing a plurality of images, determining a dynamic or functional attribute in the image data set, associating the dynamic or...

20060072802 - Analysis of multidimensional data: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing a series of images. A contour initializer establishes a plurality of initial contours from respective images within the series of images. A model initializer interconnects the plurality of initial contours into a surface model. A model refiner refines the plurality of initial contours...

20060072800 - Method and system for distributed iterative image reconstruction: A method for performing distributed statistical iterative reconstruction of an image volume using a computed tomography (CT) system is provided. The method comprises partitioning the image volume across one or more computing nodes. Each computing node receives a portion of measured sinogram data corresponding to a portion of the image...

20060072801 - Method and system for iterative image reconstruction: A method for iteratively reconstructing image data acquired by a computed tomography system is provided. The method comprises generating a calculated sinogram from an image estimate and generating an error sinogram based on the calculated sinogram and a measured sinogram. Then, one or more backprojections are performed, each based upon...

20060072803 - Systems and methods for correction of scatter in images: A method for correction of scatter in an image includes receiving data of an image having a scatter characteristic, performing a deconvolution procedure on the data using Hermite expansion technique, and generating modified image data based on a result from the step of performing. A method for correction of scatter...

20060072804 - System and method for image analysis of slides: A method of analyzing images of stained slides on a remote client computer connected to a wide area network such as the Internet includes the steps of scanning a stained slide to produce a digital image file of the stained slide and storing the digital image at a first location....

20060072805 - Method and apparatus for computer controlled cell based diagnosis: A computer controlled method for detecting and diagnosing a rare cell type in a tissue sample is provided, said method comprising treating the tissue sample such that it generates a first signal indicative of the presence at a location of a rare cell, detecting the first signal, treating the location...

20060072806 - Method for inspecting photomask: A method for inspecting a photomask is described. Photomask patterns are transferred onto a wafer, and an abnormal photomask pattern is searched out and coordinates thereof are acquired. A photomask region containing the abnormal photomask pattern is defined, and coordinates thereof are acquired. Next, a shot on the wafer is...

20060072807 - Methods and systems for determining a presence of macro and micro defects on a specimen: Methods and systems for monitoring semiconductor fabrication processes are provided. A system may include a stage configured to support a specimen and coupled to a measurement device. The measurement device may include an illumination system and a detection system. The illumination system and the detection system may be configured such...

20060072808 - Registration of first and second image data of an object: The invention relates to the registration of ultrasound image data of an object and of three-dimensional second image data of the object. It is proposed to support a manual registration by an automatic process. Reference information defining a reference location in the ultrasound image are used, wherein the reference location...

20060072809 - Robot system with vision sensor: A robot system having a vision sensor. The robot system includes a robot; a robot controlling section for controlling an operation of the robot; an imaging section provided on the robot and obtaining image data of a working environment of the robot; an image processing section for processing the image...

20060072810 - Registration of 3-d imaging of 3-d objects: A three-dimensional-based modeling method and system designed for dentistry and related medical (and appropriate non-medical) applications. Data capture means produces a point cloud representing the three-dimensional surface of an object (e.g., dental arch). Three-dimensional recognition objects are provided, particularly within those areas in the image field that have low image...

20060072811 - Face detection: Face detection apparatus generating an output indicative of the likelihood of test regions of a test image containing a face comprises means operable to compare a test region with face data indicative of the presence of a face in such a way as to detect plural respective likelihood value indicative...

20060072812 - Computer based method for finding the effect of an element in a domain of n-dimensional function with a provision for n‘dimensions: The method of the present invention quantifies the effect of an element present and absent in the set. This will enable the user to rate this element and place or rank it at the appropriate location. This enables for using ranking algorithms in vector functions too....

20060072814 - Color interpolation method of an image acquired by a digital sensor by directional filtering: Subdivision per basic color channels of grey level data generated by a color sensor is no longer required according to a novel color interpolation method of an image acquired by a digital color sensor generating grey levels for each image pixel as a function of the filter applied to the...

20060072813 - Moving image processing device and method for performing different image processings to moving object region and still object region: A moving image processing device includes a recognition unit, a parameter control unit, and an image processing unit. The recognition unit recognizes a moving object region or a still object region from a captured image. The parameter control unit determines a parameter for image processing of any of a color,...

20060072815 - Enhanced automatic red eye removal: A method for removing red eyes includes (1) identifying potential red eye pixels in a low resolution image (hereafter “LR red eye pixels”), (2) grouping contiguous LR red eye pixels into red eye regions (herafter “LR red eye regions”); determining working areas around the LR red eye regions (hereafter “LR...

20060072816 - Determining statistical descriptors of a signal from a set of its samples: An entity is subjected to an interrogating signal, and the reflection from the entity is repeatedly sampled to obtain a first set of values each dependent on the intensity of the reflected signal. A logarithmic transformation is applied to the sample values to obtain a second set of values. A...

20060072821 - Direct volume rendering of 4d deformable volume images: A method and system are presented for direct volume rendering of a deformable volume dataset that represent an object in motion. An original 3D image dataset of the object is acquired at an initial stage of the motion, and segmented. Deformed 3D image datasets of the object are acquired at...

20060072819 - Image forming apparatus and method: A method and apparatus of copying a document includes scanning a document and obtaining an image signal from the scanned document. Micro segmentation processing is performed on the image signal, and first data indicative of a type of pixel is output for at least one pixel. Macro segmentation processing is...

20060072818 - Method and system for automatically inscribing noisy objects in scanned image data within a minimum area rectangle: A minimum area rectangle inscription method and system for automatically generating a minimum area rectangle that inscribes and bounds an approximately rectangular object (or “noisy” object) contained within scanned image data. The minimum area rectangle inscription method chooses an interior point located inside the object boundary and determine perimeter points...

20060072817 - Method for robust analysis of biological activity in microscopy images: A robust object segmentation method for analysis of biological activity receives an input image and pe