Image analysis inventions 05/06

20060110006 - Content recognizer via probabilistic mirror distribution: An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the recognition of content of digital goods. At least one implementation, described herein, derives a probabilistic mirror distribution of a digital good (e.g., digital image or audio signal). It uses the resulting data to derive weighting factors (i.e., coefficients) for the...

20060110005 - Encoding apparatus and method: An encoding data processing apparatus is arranged to generate a marked copy of an image by introducing a code word into a copy of the image. The apparatus comprises a code word generator operable to generate the code word having a plurality of code word coefficients. The encoding apparatus includes...

20060110004 - Method and system for deterence of unauthorised reuse of display content: A system for generating a plurality of noise-deteriorated images from an image displayable on a computer display for deterring unauthorized reuse of the image is disclosed. The system relates to transforming an image displayable on a computer display into a plurality of frequency components, and generating a noise sequence for...

20060110008 - Method and apparatus for calibration-free eye tracking: A system and method for eye gaze tracking in human or animal subjects without calibration of cameras, specific measurements of eye geometries or the tracking of a cursor image on a screen by the subject through a known trajectory. The preferred embodiment includes one uncalibrated camera for acquiring video images...

20060110007 - Method for detecting linear image in planar picture: A method for detecting a linear image in a planar picture is provided whereby the positions of a linear image can be determined by devising suitable processing of image data, even if a linear image traced by a moving object, such as space debris, a meteor, or the like, does...

20060110009 - Systems and methods for detecting image quality defects: Systems and methods for detecting image quality defects in images rendered by a rendering device. Original image data is rendered by an image rendering device, and the rendered image is captured by an image capturing device. Regions of interest may be identified to provide information indicating where image quality defects...

20060110013 - Apparatus and method for inputting characters using fingerprint identification in portable wireless terminal: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for inputting character using fingerprint identification in a portable wireless terminal. The apparatus includes a memory for storing a first database, in which a plurality of fingerprints are previously registered and a plurality of characters corresponding to the fingerprints are stored, and a second...

20060110010 - Human body: scanning, typing and profiling system: A body scanning measurement, typing and profiling apparatus and method utilizing microwave energy. Microwaves are used to measure the size and shape of an individual. An array of miniaturized transmitting antennas direct RF energy to a similarly sized array of receiving antennas. Microwaves are directed toward an object, such as...

20060110011 - Method and apparatus for producing a biometric identification reference template: In an enterprise biometric identification/authentication and migration system, a method and apparatus is disclosed for providing an identification reference image of a user by determining two or more Image Quality Index scores of a biometric identifier of the user based on two or more respective images received from two or...

20060110012 - Method and user device for reproducing a data file: A method and a user device (1) for projecting a data file through a user device (1) are disclosed. The user device (1) has a reproducing device (1.7 ), means for identifying the user device (1) in a mobile radio network (5 ), and biometric recording means. The user is...

20060110014 - Expression invariant face recognition: An identification and/or verification system which has improved accuracy when the expression on the face of the captured image is different than the expression on the face of the stored image. One or more images of a person are captured. The expressive facial features of the captured image are located....

20060110016 - Fingerprint scanner auto-capture system and method: A system and method of capturing an acceptable fingerprint image is disclosed herein. The method includes a step of capturing an initial fingerprint image at a nominal image integration time. Once this initial fingerprint image is captured, a first intermediate fingerprint image at a first intermediate image integration time is...

20060110015 - Systems and methods for improved biometric feature definition: Methods and systems are provided for performing a biometric function. A purported skin site of an individual is illuminated under distinct optical conditions during a single illumination session for a fixed position of the purported skin site. Light from the purported skin site is received for each of the optical...

20060110017 - Method for spinal disease diagnosis based on image analysis of unaligned transversal slices: A method for spinal disease diagnosis based on image analysis of unaligned transversal slices, reconstructing a 3D image of a bone structure. At least one transverse slice is extract from the 3D image. Vertices of a triangulated isosurface are obtained from the transverse slice. The vertices are transformed to correct...

20060110018 - Automatic abnormal tissue detection in mri images: A pattern recognition method for automatic abnormal tissue detection and differentiation using contrast enhanced MRI images. The method includes the steps of acquiring a plurality of MRI breast image sets; aligning the plurality of MRI breast images with respect to spatial coordinates; differencing the plurality of MRI breast image sets...

20060110022 - Automatic image contrast in computer aided diagnosis: A method for adjusting contrast level for displaying an image, particularly for computed aided diagnosis. The method includes the steps of: masking one or more portions of the image to obtain a cropped image; forming a histogram of pixel intensity values from the cropped image using a plurality of bins,...

20060110019 - Digital image processing of medical images: A method of processing an input digital medical image for viewing on a display. The method includes the steps of: accessing the input digital medical image; displaying the input digital medical image at a first size in an image display area of the display; displaying the input medical image within...

20060110021 - Method for recognizing projection views of radiographs: A method for recognizing the projection view of radiographs comprising the steps of correcting the orientation of the input radiograph, locating a region of interesting in the radiograph, recognizing the projection view of the radiograph....

20060110020 - Transforming visual preference terminology for radiographic images: A method for transforming visual preference terminology into a set of fundamental image-quality attributes, and using these attributes to produce a display ready radiographic image that meets the desired appearance. The visual preference terminology can be specified in a hierarchical structure providing a flexible and configurable interface to a radiographic...

20060110023 - Document validation device: A device and method for validating a document having magnetic ink thereon after determining the existence of a document having magnetic ink thereon. The ink is magnetized and thereafter to a media reader sensor spaced from the document by a predetermined gap to verify the existence of a magnetic signal...

20060110024 - Surface inspection method and apparatus: There have been disclosed a surface inspection method and a surface inspection apparatus for inspecting the surface of an article, the surface being almost flat and continuous and having non-flat parts with convex shapes and concave shapes provided based on specifications, capable of inspecting for defective parts in the non-flat...

20060110025 - Method for inspecting mask defects: A method for inspecting mask defects comprises a step of providing an image including a simulated mask pattern, at least one simulated defect and a simulated die array (or a simulated cell array), which are superimposed together, and a step of inspecting the location of the simulate defect on the...

20060110027 - Rapid computer modeling of faces for animation: Described herein is a technique for creating a 3D face model using images obtained from an inexpensive camera associated with a general-purpose computer. Two still images of the user are captured, and two video sequences. The user is asked to identify five facial features, which are used to calculate a...

20060110026 - System for generatingthree-dimensional electronic models of objects: An image generation system for developing three-dimensional electronic models of objects includes a scanner and a computing system. The scanner may be selectively positioned adjacent to an object in different geographic positions. The scanner may provide scanner position information and image data representative of the object to the computing system....

20060110028 - Method and system for generating a classifier using inter-sample relationships: A method and system for generating a classifier to classify sub-objects of an object based on a relationship between sub-objects is provided. The classification system provides training sub-objects along with the actual classification of each training sub-object. The classification system may iteratively train sub-classifiers based on feature vectors representing the...

20060110030 - Method, medium, and apparatus for eye detection: A method, medium, and apparatus for eye detection. The apparatus for eye detection may include an image pre-processing unit pre-processing an input face image to divide it into a left image and a right image, an eye candidate extraction unit applying a morphology operator to each of the left and...

20060110029 - Pattern recognizing method and apparatus: A pattern recognizing method and apparatus are arranged to detect one or more objects with its own individuality belonging to the same category, such as a vehicle or a human's face, by using incremental signs in a manner to correspond with an apparent change caused by the posture variation of...

20060110032 - Method and an apparatus for detecting the base concentration of a photographic film: A method of detecting the base concentration of a film is provided comprising the steps of generating a concentration histogram from the film image in each of the RGB color components read out with an image pick up device, shifting and stretching the histograms in the other colors towards the...

20060110031 - Method and apparatus for adjusting color profiles to meet a desired aim: A system and method for generating an adjusted profile for a device in response to a specified aim, where the aim may include parameters established in response to a user's specifications, for device emulation, etc....

20060110033 - Photograph image-processing method and device thereof: A photograph image-processing method, comprising steps of entering a film image for reading a film image by an image pickup device and generating color image data, generating concentration histograms for each of RGB color components from the color image data, relative-stretch-processing the concentration histograms, calculating and deriving a relative stretch...

20060110034 - Image capture and identification system and process: An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses image characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The image is broken down into parameters such as a Shape Comparison, Grayscale Comparison, Wavelet Comparison, and Color Cube Comparison with object...

20060110036 - Automated radiograph classification using anatomy information: A method for automatically classifying a radiograph. A digital radiographic image is acquired, wherein the image is comprised of a matrix of rows and columns of pixels. The digital image is segmented into foreground, background, and anatomy regions. A physical size of the anatomy region is classified. An edge direction...

20060110035 - Method for classifying radiographs: A method for classifying radiographs. The method includes the steps of: accessing a radiograph; categorizing the radiograph into pre-determined classes based on gross characteristics of the radiograph, and recognizing the image contents in the radiograph....

20060110039 - Adaptive segmentation of television images: A method (100) and system (600) for adaptively segmenting pixel elements in an image frame is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of segmenting pixel elements into at least one first region based on a selection criteria (110), refining the selection criteria (150) based on information associated with each of...

20060110038 - Image processing: Video data is segmented by representing the pixel location, RGB values and other features such as motion vectors, as points in a multidimensional segmentation space. Initialized segments are represented as locations in the segmentation space and segment membership then determined by the distance in segmentation space from the data point...

20060110037 - Simultaneous segmentation of multiple or composed objects by mesh adaptation: Deformable models are used for the segmentation of structures in 3D images. The basic principle of such methods consists of the adaptation of flexible meshes to the image. However, the simultaneous segmentation of multiple or composed objects often causes problems in that spatial relationships between the objects are violated, or...

20060110040 - System and method facilitating pattern recognition: A system and method facilitating pattern recognition is provided. The invention includes a pattern recognition system having a convolutional neural network employing feature extraction layer(s) and classifier layer(s). The feature extraction layer(s) comprises convolutional layers and the classifier layer(s) comprises fully connected layers. The pattern recognition system can be trained...

20060110041 - Segmentation-based recognition: A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprises selecting core points among a sequence of detected points of the handwritten pattern. The core points are selected for use in segmenting and recognizing the handwritten pattern. The method further comprises determining features of each core point, and comparing the handwritten...

20060110042 - Pattern matching method, program and semiconductor device manufacturing method: A pattern matching method includes: detecting an edge of a pattern in a pattern image obtained by imaging the pattern; segmenting the detected pattern edge to generate a first segment set consisting of first segments; segmenting a pattern edge on reference data which serves as a reference for evaluating the...

20060110046 - Method for automatic shape classification: A method for classifying 2D shape comprising: creating a training dataset for the shape under study with the similar shape group and the dissimilar shape group; computing an average shape from the similar shape group; aligning all shapes in the database to the average shape; classifying shapes into two clusters...

20060110045 - System and method for validating graphical components of images: A system and method for improved validation of images is provided. Validation of any target image may be performed by creating a model of graphical components of a source image or a reference model and comparing the model of graphical components of the source image or reference model with a...

20060110043 - System and method for validating graphical components of images by analysis: A system and method for improved validation of images is provided. Validation of any target image may be performed by creating a model of graphical components of a source image or a reference model and comparing the model of graphical components of the source image or reference model with a...

20060110044 - System and method for validating graphical components of images by synthesis: A system and method for improved validation of images is provided. Validation of any target image may be performed by creating a model of graphical components of a source image or a reference model and comparing the model of graphical components of the source image or reference model with a...

20060110047 - Fuzzy image comparator: A system and method for improved image comparison is provided. An adjustable tolerance level may be set for comparing the images, and filtering may be applied to the images, for example, to suppress high frequencies in the images or to enhance low frequencies in the images. Furthermore, a geometrical transform,...

20060110049 - System and method for animal seizure detection and classification using video analysis: A system and method for analyzing video images including images of an animal to detect and classify seizure behavior of the animal. Seizure-salient features are detected from identified postures and identified movements of body parts of the animal. The seizure-salient features are used to detect and classify the occurrences of...

20060110048 - System and method for characterizing 2-dimensional shapes by compactness measurements: s

20060110050 - Image processing device, image processing system, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus, an image processing system and an image processing method can correct the distortion of an image at a low cost and can generate a high quality image in real time. An image processing apparatus is provided which is an image processing apparatus for correcting an original...

20060110052 - Image signal processing: An image signal is processed by deriving measurements representing the luminance of a signal; calculating values relating to the local mean, the local standard deviation, the local maximum and/or the local minimum; and computing therefrom local standard coordinates such as z-scores which are independent of brightness and contrast....

20060110051 - Image signal, processing device and processing method, coefficient data generation device and generation method used for the same, program for executing the methods and computer readable medium containing the program: The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing an image signal etc. that are well applicable to removal of coding noise from, for example, an image signal. Based on five consecutive frames of an image signal Va, a memory portion 121 outputs as pixel data xi of predictive taps...

20060110053 - Method and apparatus for processing an image data for output: A technique of processing an image data for output on a digital image device that compresses (164) a portion of a received image data to a data frame (110) according to a predefined size that is optimized for output with a processor of the device. The portion of the image...

20060110054 - Method and system for the treatment of multiple-description signals, and corresponding computer-program product: A processing system, such as typically a CPU, is used for converting a digital signal organized in pixels, such as a video signal, between a first format and a second multiple-description format. The system comprises at least one input register and at least one output register, and is configured via...

20060110055 - Recorder and method therefor, player and therefor, program, and recording medium: A recorder operable to compress and code first image data of a moving image, and record the compressed and coded first image data on a data recording medium, including: an extracting mechanism operable to extract second image data to display a still image from the first image data of the...

20060110056 - Deblocker for postprocess deblocking: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for a deblocker for postprocess deblocking. In one embodiment, there is presented a decoder system for deblocking video data. The decoder system comprises a video decoder for decoding video data comprising portions that are predicted from deblocked pictures. The decoder system further comprises...

20060110058 - Method and apparatus for luminance/chrominance (y/c) separation: A method for separating luminance (Y) and chrominance (C) of a composite video signal, the method includes: performing a motion detection on a target location of a target field; performing a motion detection on at least one reference location; and if image of the reference location and the target location...

20060110057 - Method and system for detecting black frames in a sequence of frames: Methods and systems for identifying black frames within a sequence of frames are provided. In one embodiment, the detection system detects black frames within a sequence of frames by fully decoding base frames and then partially decoding non-black, non-base frames in a way that ensures the blackness of each frame...

20060110059 - Efficient macroblock header coding for video compression: The coded block parameters used to code blocks of image samples into structures called macroblocks are compressed more efficiently by exploiting the correlation between chrominance and luminance blocks in each macroblock. In particular, the coded block pattern for chrominance and luminance are combined into a single parameter for the macroblock...

20060110061 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program: There are provided an image processing apparatus and method. In this apparatus and method, high-frequency components are converted by multiple-frequency transformation in accordance with tone conversion used to change the dynamic range, thereby obtaining a high-quality image. For example, an original image undergoes tone conversion on the basis of a...

20060110060 - Method for run-time streak removal: A method for run-time streak removal from a scanned image includes providing a scan line of image data from the scanned image; detecting corrupted data within the scan line; evaluating image data located in a neighborhood before and after the corrupted data on the scan line; if the evaluated image...

20060110062 - Edge adaptive filtering system for reducing artifacts and method: A method includes receiving image information representing at least one image. The image information defines multiple pixels in the at least one image. The method also includes identifying filter weights associated with the pixels. The filter weights are based on edge contents of at least a portion of the at...

20060110063 - Method and apparatus for processing image data: The invention is a method and apparatus for improving image-processing applications. Embodiments of the invention provide methods for preserving computation results and offer intermediary computation steps to allow the processing of images at any location to take advantage of previously processed image areas. The preferred embodiment offers a method for...

20060110064 - Enhanced image processing method for the presentation of digitally-combined medical images: The present invention provides a method and associated system for processing a digital medical image. The method includes defining a plurality regions of an initial digital medical image, wherein the initial digital medical image is a combined initial digital medical image formed from the digital pasting of a plurality of...

20060110065 - Block filtering system for reducing artifacts and method: A method includes identifying a pair of image data blocks separated by a boundary. The image data blocks include image information defining multiple pixels in at least one image. The method also includes identifying at least one filter length based on edge contents of at least some of the pixels...

20060110066 - Data processing system and method for 2-dimensional data: A data processing system includes a block setting module setting a to-be-processed block shape including subject data, which is one of 2-dimentional data in a matrix stored in a virtual storage area, and influenced data influenced by results of processing subject data, a division module dividing 2-dimentional data into a...

20060110067 - Digital video media duplication or transmission quality measurement: A system and method for measuring video quality of a video image, wherein the system comprises a source device comprising an original video image; a receiver comprising a received video image; a storage device adapted to store video images from the source device and the receiver; a decoder connected to...

20060110068 - Detection and correction method for radiograph orientation: A method for detecting and correcting the orientation of a radiograph. The method generally includes the steps of accessing the radiograph; locating a region of interest in the radiograph; and using the located region of interest and a classifier to detect the orientation of the radiograph. In a preferred embodiment,...

20060110071 - Method and system of entropy-based image registration: A method of entropy-based image registration comprising estimating conditional probability distribution functions (PDFs) between two images as multivariate Gaussian distributions; mathematically relating an entropy of the multivariate Gaussian distributions to a sum of square differences (SSD) between the images; and optimising the registration between the images utilising a cost function...

20060110070 - Multiple layer alignment sensing: Using an imaging system in relation to a plurality of material layers is described, the material layers being separated by a distance greater than a depth of field of the imaging system. A focal plane of the imaging system and a first of the plurality of material layers are brought...

20060110069 - Sensing alignment of multiple layers: Using an imaging system in relation to a plurality of material layers in an initial alignment state is provided, a first of the plurality of material layers at least partially obscuring a second of the plurality of material layers in the initial alignment state. The first material layer is moved...

20060110072 - Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames: A method of displaying an image with a display device is provided. The method includes generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to image data for the image including calculating a first sub-frame pixel value in the first sub-frame using a first sharpening factor associated with a first...

20060110073 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium: This invention has as its object to allow high-precision and high-speed retrieval in consideration of position information of image feature amounts upon retrieving similar images based on image feature amounts, even when the position information includes some differences. To achieve such object, an image processing apparatus according to this invention...

20060104477 - Digital watermark detection apparatus and digital watermark detection method: A digital watermark detecting apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of base values for computation of a watermark value, which are contained, respectively, in all or some of a plurality of divided regions obtained by dividing digital contents, a computation unit configured to compute variance of...

20060104476 - Method for authenticating the compressed image data: Compressing image data includes partitioning original image data into non-overlapping blocks, transforming the non-overlapping blocks into Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficient blocks, and quantizing the DCT coefficient blocks to generate the quantized DCT blocks. A block-classification strategy is used to classify DCT-blocks into the flat-block and the normal-block. The quantized...

20060104474 - Method, apparatus and system for authenticating images by digitally signing hidden messages near the time of image capture: Apparatus, systems and methods for authenticating images by digitally signing hidden messages near to the time of image capture are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes an image data source and processing logic responsive to the image data source. The processing logic being capable of quantizing transformed image data...

20060104478 - Service system for selecting personal goods to wear or carry, and program product therefor: A service system for selecting personal goods to wear or carry, comprising a memory unit configured to memorize information on personal goods associated with types of each of decomposed body components with respect to a number of customers; an extracting unit configured to extract a given body component from a...

20060104475 - System and method for selectively encoding a symbol code in a color space: A system and related techniques generate and encode identification or transactional media such as passports, driver's licenses or others with a symbol set defined in a color space such as 8-bit color or grayscale, 24, 32, 48 or other bit depths or resolutions. Because blocks, lines or other symbol shapes...

20060104480 - Active subject imaging with body identification: A method of surveilling a subject including a person's body may include or an imaging system may provide interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation, and generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image of at least a portion of the person's body. In some examples,...

20060104479 - Methods of unattended detection of operator's deliberate or unintentional breaches of the operating procedure and devices therefore.: Method and device is proposed herein for unattended detection of deliberate or unintentional breaches caused by an operator of a routinely executed procedure comprising transference of objects and their mandatory presenting to the item-sensing device for registration or testing or classification. The invention can be used for detecting fraud of...

20060104481 - Vehicle safety control system by image processing: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is an image processing system adapted to image an area around a vehicle, comprising an image processor adapted to receive information indicative of an image of an area proximate to the vehicle automatically captured by an image capturing device, wherein the...

20060104482 - Flatted hexagon search method for fast block motion estimation: A flatted hexagon search method selects seven initial check points over three adjacent rows with six of the initial check points positioned at vertices of a hexagon and one of the initial check points positioned at a center of the hexagon. Then the seven initial check points are searched to...

20060104484 - Fingerprint biometric machine representations based on triangles: There is provided an apparatus, method, and program storage device for representing biometrics. The apparatus includes a biometric feature extractor and a transformer. The biometric feature extractor is for extracting features corresponding to a biometric depicted in an image, and for defining one or more sets of one or more...

20060104486 - Method for improving false acceptance rate discriminating for biometric authentication systems: A method, system and computer program product for improving error discrimination in biometric authentication systems. The error discrimination is set to a predetermined security policy. A plurality of biometric samples are provided and authenticated by a computer system in conjunction with a security token. An alternate embodiment allows inputting of...

20060104485 - Multimodal biometric platform: A multimodal biometric identification or authentication system includes a plurality of biometric clients. Each of the biometric clients may include devices for capturing biometric images of a plurality of types. The system includes a router in communication with the biometric clients. The router receives biometric images from, and returns biometric...

20060104483 - Wireless digital image capture device with biometric readers: A digital image capture device and method for operating the same are provided. The digital image capture device has a digital image capture device comprising: a housing (20); a digital image capture system (22); a biometric reader (70) adapted to sense biometric data of a user; a wireless communication circuit...

20060104487 - Face detection and tracking: A face detection apparatus for tracking a detected face between images in a video sequence comprises: a first face detector for detecting the presence of face(s) in the images; a second face detector for detecting the presence of face(s) in the images; the first face detector having a higher detection...

20060104488 - Infrared face detection and recognition system: A face detection and recognition system having several arrays imaging a scene at different bands of the infrared spectrum. The system may use weighted subtracting and thresholding to distinguish human skin in a sensed image. A feature selector may locate a face in the image. The face may be framed...

20060104489 - Minutia detection from measurement of a human skull and identifying and profiling individuals from the human skull detection: Individual information about a person's body part is obtained. The body part is defined to have reference points. A geometrical part is extended between those reference points, and characteristics of the geometrical part as so extended are determined. These characteristics are used as minutae to compare against other body parts....

20060104490 - Rapid computer modeling of faces for animation: Described herein is a technique for creating a 3D face model using images obtained from an inexpensive camera associated with a general-purpose computer. Two still images of the user are captured, and two video sequences. The user is asked to identify five facial features, which are used to calculate a...

20060104491 - Rapid computer modeling of faces for animation: Described herein is a technique for creating a 3D face model using images obtained from an inexpensive camera associated with a general-purpose computer. Two still images of the user are captured, and two video sequences. The user is asked to identify five facial features, which are used to calculate a...

20060104492 - High performance fingerprint imaging system: A system for optically imaging an object includes an optical platen having an object receiving surface. The object receiving surface is illuminated by a multi-color light source, and a color imaging system forms an image of the object on the object receiving surface....

20060104493 - System and method for fast biometric pattern matching: A method and system for matching two biometric images including receiving an input biometric image; generating an index table for the input biometric image, wherein the index table includes a quality quantity for each minutia of the input biometric image; receiving a second biometric image; generating a number of patterns...

20060104495 - Method and system for local visualization for tubular structures: A method of visualizing an object in an image includes presenting an image, selecting a point in an object of interest in said image, estimating a gradient of the image in a region about the selected point, calculating a structure tensor from the image gradient, analyzing said structure tensor to...

20060104494 - Systems and methods of classification utilizing intensity and spatial data: A method of classifying a test subject comprises collecting imaging data for a plurality of training subjects, control subjects and a test subject. An intensity volume of interest (VOI) and a spatial VOI are selected from said imaging data. Training intensity data and spatial data are calculated for the intensity...

20060104496 - Method and system for controlling an x-ray imaging system: Methods and systems for controlling an X-ray imaging system. The method for controlling an X-ray imaging system includes acquiring a plurality of subviews of patient attenuation data wherein a first set of subviews of patient attenuation data is acquired at a first radiation flux level and a second set of...

20060104497 - Sensing arrangement: A sensing arrangement (12) is described. The arrangement comprises: a moveable object (80) including a plurality of marker portions (112) disposed in a calibrated configuration, each marker portion (112) being capable of emitting light in response to stimulation. The arrangement also includes a light source (42) directed towards the marker...

20060104498 - Apparatus, system, and method for fraud detection using multiple scan technologies: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for detecting fraud. A first optical character recognition module optically recognizes a character imprinted with a magnetic ink on a medium using a first optical character recognition algorithm. A second optical character recognition module also optically recognizes the character using a second optical...

20060104499 - Apparatus and methods for verifying the location of areas of interest within a sample in an imaging system: An apparatus and method for verifying the location of an area of interest within a sample are disclosed. An imaging system includes an optical system and a stage movable relative to the optical system. A computer server is in communication with the imaging system and with a review station. The...

20060104500 - Method and apparatus for reviewing defect of subject to be inspected: Absolute coordinates designate position coordinates of a defect of a calibrating substrate, and inspection coordinates designate position coordinates of the defect of the calibrating substrate detected by an inspection apparatus. A deviation of the inspection coordinates with respect to the absolute coordinates is an error included in the inspection coordinates....

20060104501 - System and method for calculating a composite position of holes in a workpiece: The present invention relates to a system for calculating a composite position of holes in a workpiece. The system includes a plurality of user computers (10), an application server (12), a database (14), and a plurality of measure machines (15). Each user computer provides an interactive interface for dynamically displaying...

20060104502 - Autonomous mobile equipment and position-of-object and own position detecting system: Autonomous mobile equipment includes a position-of-object and own position detecting system and a moving unit, and autonomously moves. The position-of-object and own position detecting system includes a database in which pieces of information on the superficial shape and position of an object are recorded. The superficial shape of the object...

20060104503 - Apparatus and method for rapidly measuring 3-dimensional foot sizes from multi-images: An apparatus and method that uses at least six digital cameras to capture images of the foot, can reconstruct the 3D model of the foot rapidly. Users can only wear elastic socks, which have specially coded multicolored stripes or spots, and stands on the transparent plate of a platform. First...

20060104504 - Face recognition method and apparatus: A face recognition that is robust to external illumination variations is provided. The face recognition apparatus includes a face localizer extracting a predetermined number of feature points from a facial region extracted from an input image, a Gabor filter unit applying a set of Gabor filters with a plurality of...

20060104506 - Apparatus for processing an image and for character recognition in a mobile communication terminal, and method thereof: An apparatus for processing inversion of image and method thereof are disclosed by which character information can be acquired through an image inversion processing. The present invention includes a video processing unit calculating a critical value according to luminosity data of the image, an inversion decision unit dividing the luminosity...

20060104505 - Demosaicking method and apparatus for color filter array interpolation in digital image acquisition systems: A demosaicking method and apparatus for color filter array interpolation in digital image acquisition systems is provided. The method includes a data-training phase and a data-practice phase. In the data-training phase of this invention, a huge volume of image samples are received for statistical analysis and compared with their corresponding...

20060104509 - Apparatus for compensating for gray component of image signal: Provided is an apparatus for compensating for a gray component of an input image signal. The apparatus detects a pattern of the input image signal and compensates for the gray component by substituting each channel value of the input image signal by a median value if it is determined that...

20060104507 - Correction of image color levels: Provided is a computer system and method for processing images. A method for applying a color bias correction for an image includes but is not limited to, separating high frequency data from low frequency data of the image; using the high frequency data to determine one or more local minima;...

20060104508 - High dynamic range images from low dynamic range images: A method for displaying an image includes receiving an image having a first luminance dynamic range and modifying the image to a second luminance dynamic range free from being based upon other images, where the second dynamic range is greater than the first dynamic range. The modified image is displayed...

20060104510 - Gpu accelerated isoperimetric algorithm for image segmentation, digital photo and video editing: A system and method for segmenting an object in an image using an isoperimetric ratio in a graphics processing unit is disclosed. The object is identified by one or more selected pixels located within the object. The system includes a graphics processing unit and software loadable on the graphics processing...

20060104512 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program: An image processing apparatus has an extracting unit, a dividing unit and a text searching unit. The extracting unit extracts a text part from an image. The dividing unit classifies text in the text part based on color information of the text. The text searching unit searches the text based...

20060104511 - Method, system and apparatus for generating structured document files: A method, system, apparatus, and graphical user interface (GUI) for generating structured document files from a document image is disclosed. Structured document files are generated by segmenting the document image into one or more zones containing respective text images, converting the respective text images to digital text, automatically identifying layout...

20060104513 - Gpu accelerated multi-label digital photo and video editing: A method and system for segmenting an object in a digital image are disclosed. A user selects at least one foreground pixel or node located within the object and at least one background pixel or node located outside of the object. A random walk algorithm is performed to determine the...

20060104515 - Automatic modification of web pages: A system for interactive paper is described. Data fragments are captured at locations in a rendered document. A digital version of the document is optionally located. Markup data applied to the capture creates a rich set of interactions for the user. New models for publishing documents and new document-related services...

20060104514 - Image system: According to an image description system, a feature extracting unit extracts a layout feature from each of frames of an image sequence. A representative feature calculating unit calculates a layout feature representative of the image sequence from a group of the layout features extracted by the feature extracting unit....

20060104516 - Region-guided boundary refinement method: A region-guided boundary refinement method for object segmentation in digital images receives an initial object regions of interest and performs directional boundary decomposition using the initial object regions of interest to generate a plurality of directional object boundaries output. A directional border search is performed using the plurality of directional...

20060104517 - Template-based face detection method: A template-based face detection method includes: producing an average face image from a face database, wavelet-converting the produced face image, and removing a low frequency component of high and low frequency components of the converted image, the low frequency component being sensitive to illumination; producing a face template with only...

20060104519 - System and method for a contiguous support vector machine: A method of classifying features in digitized images includes providing a plurality of feature points in an n-dimensional space, wherein said feature points have been extracted from a digitized medical image, formulating a support vector machine to classify said feature point into one of two sets, wherein each said feature...

20060104518 - System and method of string matching for uniform data classification: A system and method comprising providing a plurality of signature strings, inputting a plurality of strings, separating the signature strings into a plurality of signature groups, respectively detecting common features for the signature strings for each of the signature groups and the input strings, comparing the detected common features for...

20060104520 - Multi-tiered image clustering by event: In a method for classifying a sequence of records into events based upon feature values, such as time and/or location, associated with each of the records, feature differences between consecutive records are determined. The feature differences are ranked. A sequence of three or more clusters of feature differences is computed....

20060104523 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an image capturing section, a guide section, a display section, and an image compressing section. More specifically, the image capturing section captures a subject and generates image data. The display section combines, for display, image data for monitoring captured by the image capturing section and an...

20060104521 - Image processing devices and methods: Image processing devices. A motion estimation processor generates an image block according to video data. A forward discrete cosine transform module transforms the image block to a discrete cosine transformed data block segmented into a plurality of first transformed data segments, and outputs the first transformed data segments in sequence....

20060104522 - Methods and apparatus for performing mq-decoding operations: Methods and apparatus for providing JPEG decoder functions are described. In particular, features and methods of the present invention are directed to an efficient way of implementing a non-common decoding path function used in an MQ-coder, such as the type used to decode JPEG-2000 images. The methods of the present...

20060104528 - Image encoding apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: According to this invention, encoded data of a target data amount can be generated by one image input operation while both lossless encoding and lossy encoding are adopted. For this purpose, a first encoding unit which generates lossy encoded data, a second encoding unit which generates lossless encoded data, and...

20060104524 - Image encoding with dynamic buffer-capacity-level-based compression adjustment: Methods, systems, and computer programs for encoding images are described. In one aspect, quantized frequency domain vectors are sequentially generated from a sequence of blocks of the image. Each quantized frequency domain vector includes a set of quantized forward transform coefficients that are derived from a respective image block. For...

20060104526 - System and method for lossless compression of already compressed files: A system and method for losslessly compressing already compressed files, such as JPEG files. The inventive method involves full or partial decompression of the original file, and re-compression using various advanced data compression techniques. Decompression involves decompression using the advanced techniques and re-compression using the original techniques. This method and...

20060104525 - System and method for lossless compression of digital images: A method for improving lossless image compression by using multiple lossless image compression techniques and adapting the best one to each image. An RGB compressor receives an image file and splits the image into rectangular block types. Different digital image and/or sub-image (block) types are optimally compressed using a compression...

20060104527 - Video image encoding method, video image encoder, and video image encoding program: A method for encoding a video image includes: generating a prediction image for each of a plurality of pixel blocks that are divided from an input image into a predetermined size, and generating a prediction residual signal that indicates prediction residual between the prediction image and each of the pixel...

20060104529 - Raster to vector conversion of a digital image: A raster to vector conversion method of an initial digital image including a pixel matrix, includes generating a digital image divided into polygons by dividing the initial digital image into a plurality of base triangles and defining similarity criteria depending on at least one parameter. The conversion method also includes...

20060104530 - Adaptive entropy encoding/decoding for screen capture content: Adaptive entropy encoding and decoding techniques are described. For example, a screen capture encoder and decoder perform adaptive entropy encoding and decoding of palettized screen capture content in screen capture video. The encoder selects between different entropy encoding modes (such as an arithmetic coding mode and a combined run length/Huffman...

20060104531 - Method for image compression, related system and computer product therefor: A method for image compression of a set of image data includes performing a quantization operation on the image data. The quantization operation may include controlling a compression factor by applying a scaled quantization level obtained by multiplying a first quantization level by a gain factor. The gain factor may...

20060104532 - Digital image processing method: A method for transforming a matrix representation of pixels of an image into a vector representation of the image involves partition of the image into contiguous homogeneous regions by applying a watershed type morphologic algorithm to the matrix representation of pixels and identifying the contours of the contiguous homogeneous regions...

20060104533 - High dynamic range images from low dynamic range images: A method for displaying an image includes receiving an image having a first luminance dynamic range and modifying the image to a second luminance dynamic range free from being based upon other images, where the second dynamic range is greater than the first dynamic range. The modified image is displayed...

20060104534 - Apparatuses and methods for incorporating a border region within an image region: A hardware implemented method for incorporating a border region within an image region is provided. In this hardware implemented method, a position of a pixel along a line within the image region is first computed. The position of the pixel is then compared with an offset value, whereby the offset...

20060104535 - Method and apparatus for removing false edges from a segmented image: In a method for processing one or more images, an image is segmented into a segmentation map including a plurality of pixel groups separated by edges, including at least some false edges. The segmentation map is filtered to remove the false edges. The segmentation step is repeated to generate an...

20060104536 - Methods, apparatus, and software to compensate for failed or degraded components: A method for improving images of an imaging system including a plurality of detector cells includes assigning a quality factor for each detector cell....

20060104538 - Method for reducing noise in images: There is provided a method of reducing block noise, mosquito noise and other image noises in an image by a filtering process using a smoothing filter, which block noise, mosquito noise and other image noises being caused at the time of decoding encoded, compressed image data on a block-by-block basis....

20060104537 - System and method for image enhancement: Provided is a system and method for processing images. A method is provided for separating the image into two or more spatial phase data components, determining a luminance value multiplier to enable the two or more spatial phase data components to match in luminance, using the luminance value multiplier to...

20060104540 - Computing a higher resoultion image from multiple lower resolution images using model-based, robust bayesian estimation: A result higher resolution (HR) image of a scene given multiple, observed lower resolution (LR) images of the scene is computed using a Bayesian estimation image reconstruction methodology. The methodology yields the result HR image based on a Likelihood probability function that implements a model for the formation of LR...

20060104539 - System for representing image of real object by using photographic images and method thereof: A system for image representation of a real object by using photographic images and a method thereof are disclosed. The system includes: a characterization unit of an image sensing device for extracting characteristics of an image sensing device to be used to obtain photographs of a target object; a characterization...

20060104542 - Image tapestry: An output image formed from at least a portion of one or more input images may be automatically synthesized as a tapestry image. To determine which portion or region of each input image will be used in the image tapestry, the regions of each image may be labeled by one...

20060104541 - Methods and systems for producing seamless composite images without requiring overlap of source images: A method for producing seamless composite images without requiring overlap of source images is disclosed. A plurality of source images are acquired and combined to produce a seamless composite image. The combining of the plurality of source images to produce a seamless composite image is performed without requiring overlap of...

20060104543 - Size optimized pixel line to pixel block conversion algorithm: A method to convert line-based pixel data from an imager, e.g. a video camera into block-based pixel data with a minimum of buffer memory size has been achieved. Key of the invention is that as soon pixel data are read-out of a buffer memory, pixel data of the next image...

20060104544 - Automatic image feature embedding: The invention features a method, system, and computer program product. A source bitmap image, a destination bitmap image, a source image feature outline surrounding a source region of the source bitmap image, and a destination image feature outline surrounding a destination region of the destination bitmap image are received. A...

20060104545 - Computer readable medium for image processing and image processing method: When processing is started, first, ROI (region of interest) is determined by user's specification. A small calculation amount image is generated in response to pointing device operation of the user, and the generated small calculation amount image is displayed. Next, a large calculation amount image in the ROI is generated,...

20060098840 - Inspecting system for security supports: An inspecting system for security supports is disclosed, wherein a rotating cylinder provided with transparent sectors is apt to transport the support past an image acquiring device, and in which a transparency inspecting device is placed partially inside and partially outside the cylinder so that the electromagnetic inspecting beam is...

20060098841 - Method and system for enabling remote message composition: A method of and server (100) for enabling composition of a message at a remote terminal (101). The method comprises generating an image comprising a plurality of symbols representing input means, the symbols having an associated particular visual characteristic which is mutually different for at least two of the symbols,...

20060098842 - Security screening system and method: A method and system of security screening of packages before packages are shipped by a commercial shipper. The method and system compares the configuration of the contents of the package when it is packed to the configuration of the contents of the package just prior to placement of the package...

20060098843 - Method and system for rail track scanning and foreign object detection: A method and system for detecting an object or abnormality on or near a rail track. The system comprises scanning means for scanning on and near a portion of the rail track; and detection means for determining the presence and location of the object or abnormality on or near the...

20060098844 - Object detection utilizing a rotated version of an image: A method for detecting a predetermined object in an image includes detecting a potential predetermined object in the image. In the method, at least one portion of the image is rotated and it is determined as to whether the potential predetermined object is detected in the rotated at least one...

20060098845 - Digital signal processing methods, systems and computer program products that identify threshold positions and values: A signal is sampled and the samples are divided into windows. One of at least three values is associated with a respective window based on whether the samples in the window are relatively constant, incremental or decremental, to thereby generate an approximation vector. Locations of thresholds in the approximation vector...

20060098846 - Movement analysis apparatus: A movement analysis apparatus includes: a data acquiring unit that acquires moving image data including a series of image data obtained by photographing a human body; a storing unit that stores target range designating information that designates, within the image data, a moving range of a predetermined part of the...

20060098847 - Collation device and collation method for authenticating users: A reading unit supplies card information that has been read from a card to a management unit by way of a read-out unit. The management unit assigns a high order of priority to card information that has been newly read and stores the card information to which this order of...

20060098848 - Finger identification method and apparatus: An image pickup scheme capable of always providing an optimum quality of a blood vessel pattern, in image pickup of a blood vessel pattern of a finger using transmitted light, without being affected by a difference, if any, in an external environment. A personal identification apparatus includes light sources for...

20060098850 - Method of hash string extraction: A method of hash string extraction from biometric information is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a biometric information sample in the form of a fingerprint for example, extracting features from the biometric information sample and encoding the features based on their location within the biometric information sample;...

20060098849 - System and method for reducing healthcare fraud using biometric technology: An integrated intelligent finger scanner is used for reducing fraud in a healthcare program intended to exclusively benefit eligible individuals. The scanner has a finger scanner for acquiring the image of a finger, and data processing means for encoding the acquired image into biometric candidate data and for comparing the...

20060098854 - Abnormal pattern candidate detecting method and apparatus: At least part of abnormal pattern candidate detection processing is performed on an inputted image signal representing an adjustment image, which has been selected from a plurality of medical images. A predetermined processing parameter for the abnormal pattern candidate detection processing is set in accordance with the results of the...

20060098852 - Blood flow dynamic analyzer and its method, and image diagnostic apparatus: According to the present invention, a Fourier transformation is executed on a time-concentration curve for an inflow artery and a time-concentration curve for each tissue on the basis of a dynamically acquired tomogram. An inverse filter is then calculated from the Fourier-transformed time-concentration curve for the inflow artery. The Fourier-transformed...

20060098855 - Image handling and display in x-ray mammography and tomosynthesis: A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images...

20060098851 - Robot for use with orthopaedic inserts: A robot-guided system to assist orthopaedic surgeons in performing orthopaedic surgical procedures on pre-positioned inserts, including for the fixation of bone fractures, and especially for use in long bone distal intramedullary locking procedures. The system provides a mechanical guide for drilling the holes for distal screws in intramedullary nailing surgery....

20060098853 - Segmentation tool for identifying flow regions in an image system: An ultrasound system and method that identify flow regions within a volume. The system comprises: a survey system for collecting motion data from a target image; a segmentation system for mapping a region of flow within the image based on the motion data; and a flow acquisition system that automatically...

20060098857 - Method for faster iterative reconstruction for converging collimation spect with depth dependent collimator response modeling: A method of iteratively reconstructing images from data acquired by converging collimation SPECT, comprising the steps of dividing a reconstruction space into multiple iso-resolution zones that are oriented non-parallel to the detector, and correcting for attenuation by applying a same attenuation value to all voxels in the same iso-resolution zone....

20060098856 - Reconstruction of local patient doses in computed tomography: In order to reduce an x-ray dose applied to a patient, it is necessary to know the dose absorbed by the patient. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of determining a local patient dose applied to a patient where after the reconstruction of the scan data...

20060098858 - Measurement of mitotic activity: A method of measurement of mitotic activity from histopathological specimen images initially identifies image pixels with luminances corresponding to mitotic figures and selects from them a reference pixel to provide a reference colour. Pixels similar to the reference colour are located; image regions are grown on located pixels by adding...

20060098859 - Method and apparatus for processing signals in testing currency items: A method of testing a document comprises deriving a plurality of measurements from the document at a resolution R and processing the measurements to derive values at a different resolution....

20060098860 - Method and system for emulating a check sorter: A method for communicating between a check processing system and a non-compatible check sorter is provided that includes accessing a MICR buffer for the check sorter. The MICR buffer comprises MICR data retrieved from a check. A process buffer is generated based on the MICR buffer. The process buffer is...

20060098861 - Image analysis method, apparatus and software: An image analysis apparatus comprises a microscope (102) arranged to capture an image of a sample (122), a processor unit (114) arranged to process the image and a drive mechanism (108). The drive mechanism (108) is arranged to effect relative motion between the sample (122) and the microscope (102) typically...

20060098862 - Nanoscale defect image detection for semiconductors: Fail sites in a semiconductor are isolated through a difference image of a fail area and a healthy area. The fail area comprises an image of a semiconductor with a fail. The healthy area comprises an image of a semiconductor absent the fail or, in other words, an image of...

20060098863 - Image defect inspection method, image defect inspection apparatus, and appearance inspection apparatus: In an image defect inspection method and apparatus, which detects a gray level difference between the corresponding portions of two images, automatically sets a threshold value based on the distribution of the detected gray level difference, compares the detected gray level difference with the threshold value, and judges one or...

20060098864 - Method and apparatus to display 3d rendered ultrasound data on an ultrasound cart in stereovision: An ultrasound apparatus and method including an emitter to emit ultrasound signals, a receiver to receive reflected ultrasound signals, and a display unit to display a stereovision ultrasound image in real time from the reflected ultrasound signals. The apparatus also includes a generator to generate 3D ultrasound data volumes from...

20060098865 - Human pose estimation with data driven belief propagation: A statistical formulation estimates two-dimensional human pose from single images. This is based on a Markov network and on inferring pose parameters from cues such as appearance, shape, edge, and color. A data-driven belief propagation Monte Carlo algorithm performs efficient Bayesian inferencing within a rigorous statistical framework. Experimental results demonstrate...

20060098866 - User interface for inspection system with isoluminant regions: An inspection system having a user friendly operator display. Characteristics of items under inspection are represented in the display by color and brightness. Each pixel on the display is assigned an intensity representation of a first characteristic of a region of an item, such as density. Color is assigned to...

20060098867 - Detecting irises and pupils in images of humans: In an eye detection method, a plurality of candidate eyes are located within a digital image. Pixels of interest having a predetermined characteristic and a predetermined association to respective eyes are found. Pixels of interest associated with each eye are grouped. Parametric boundaries are fit on each of the groups...

20060098869 - Signal correcting method: A signal correcting method includes: obtaining multiple types of signals at each of a plurality of points; extracting a point with signal values corresponding to the multiple types of signals, which have a predetermined relationship to signal values of the multiple types of signals at a target point; and correcting...

20060098868 - Systems and methods for correcting green disparity in imager sensors: Embodiments of the present invention relate in general to systems and methods for dynamically correcting color cross-talk and related color distortion in an image sensor. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, certain embodiments of the present invention relate to correcting pixel outputs from a pixel array in an...

20060098871 - Digital ink labeling: Digital ink strokes may be fragmented to form a training data set. A neighborhood graph may be formed as a plurality of connected nodes. Relevant features of the training data may be determined in each fragment such as local site features, interaction features, and/or part-label interaction features. Using a conditional...

20060098870 - Region competition via local watershed operators: An exemplary method of segmenting an object from a structure of interest is provided. A user-selected point in an image is received. A watershed transformation is performed on the user-selected point to determine a primary object. A neighboring watershed region is added to the primary object based on region competition...

20060098873 - Multiple camera control system: A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program running on a computer is provided. The tracking system includes two or more video cameras arranged to provide different viewpoints of a region of interest, and are operable to produce a series of video images. A processor is operable...

20060098872 - Three-dimensional imaging system for pattern recognition: The present invention provides a real-time three-dimensional pattern recognition imaging system having a variable focal length, a wide depth of field, a high depth resolution, a fast acquisition time, a variable magnification, a variable optical axis for tracking, and capability of compensating various optical distortions and aberrations, which enables pattern...

20060098874 - System and method of enabling a cellular/wireless device with imaging capabilities to decode printed alphanumeric characters: A system and method for decoding printed alphanumeric characters from images or video sequences captured by a wireless device, including the pre-processing of the image or video sequence to optimize processing in all subsequent steps, the searching of one or more grayscale images for key alphanumeric characters on a range...

20060098875 - Image search apparatus for images to be detected, and method of controlling same: If a target-image portion to be detected is detected anew, an evaluation value of this target-image portion is calculated. If the target-image portion is detected anew, it is determined whether the number of target-image portions has exceeded n owing to such detection. If, in a case where n has been...

20060098876 - Method for encoding image pixels a method for processing images and a method for processing images aimed at qualitative recognition of the object reproduced by one or more image pixels: A method for encoding pixels of digital or digitized images, i.e., images consisting of a set of image dots, named pixels in two-dimensional images and voxels in three-dimensional images, each of said pixels or voxels being represented by a set of values which correspond to a visual aspect of the...

20060098877 - Detecting shapes in image data: This invention concerns a method for detecting shapes in image data. In particular but not exclusively the method concerns the detection of regular polygons in scanline data. The method includes identifying intensity gradient vectors in the image. Then each point at an identified intensity gradient is considered to be on...

20060098878 - System and method to facilitate pattern recognition by deformable matching: A system and method to facilitate pattern recognition or matching between patterns are disclosed that is substantially invariant to small transformations. A substantially smooth deformation field is applied to a derivative of a first pattern and a resulting deformation component is added to the first pattern to derive a first...

20060098879 - Apparatus and method for performing dynamic capacitance compensation (dcc) in liquid crystal display (lcd): There are provided an apparatus and method for performing dynamic capacitance compensation (DCC) in a liquid crystal display (LCD). The DCC apparatus includes: a first line buffer reading and temporarily storing pixel values of an image for each line; an encoder transforming and quantizing the pixel values stored for each...

20060098880 - Method and apparatus for storing digital video content provided from a plurality of cameras: The present invention provides a distributed surveillance system that allows for the digital storage of data, as well as the recognition of external patterns obtained in parallel operations. Further, digital data can be stored at different levels of compression, and pattern recognition achieved while the digital data is still in...

20060098881 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image data: A method of encoding and decoding image data, and an apparatus to perform the method, are provided. The image data encoding method includes: converting and quantizing pixel values of a block of image data to form a conversion block of image data; determining a classification mode used to classify the...

20060098883 - Image compression/decompression system employing pixel thinning-out and interpolation scheme: An improved image thinning-out processing scheme includes processes of performing pixel thinning-out operation and compressing image data; and determining a position of pixel to be thinned out along a first direction depending on the position thereof along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction....

20060098882 - Multi-point predictive foveation for bandwidth reduction of moving images: A scene of an image sequence is compressed using a number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the first scene. Another scene of the image sequence is compressed using a different number of foveation zones,...

20060098884 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image data: A method of encoding image data, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including repeating a process of dividing a block into sub-blocks based on an average value of pixels of the sub-blocks; creating map information of the sub-blocks; determining a mode for generating bit streams according to...

20060098885 - Luminance preserving color quantization in rgb color space: A color quantization method in RGB color space which preserves high precision of luminance information in an original high precision RGB image signal which is quantized to a lower precision (lower bit depth) RGB signal. The method can be used to convert the original RGB signal to arbitrary quantization levels...

20060098886 - Efficient predictive image parameter estimation: The invention relates to a method for recursively estimating local vectors from at least one picture taken from an image sequence. To reduce the computational complexity of the estimation method without deteriorating its accuracy, it is proposed that the method comprises the steps of generating a first set of candidate...

20060098889 - Digital image processing system and method for emphasizing a main subject of an image: A system and method for automatically altering an image having pixels is disclosed. An image is segmented into regions and various features of the regions are extracted and used to calculate a confidence factor, or belief value, that a particular region is a main subject of the image. The belief...

20060098888 - Imaging device and image processing program for estimating fixed pattern noise from partial noise output of available pixel area: An imaging device of the present invention includes an image capturing unit, a noise obtaining unit, a fixed noise calculating unit, and a noise eliminating unit. The image capturing unit generates image data by photoelectrically converting, pixel by pixel, a subject image formed on an available pixel area of a...

20060098887 - Mehthod for image conversion: A method is proposed for image conversion of image data with a first contrast range to image data with a second contrast range. Fourier coefficients of a Fourier transform of the image data are entered in a neural network by calculating parameters for carrying out windowing....

20060098890 - Method of determining psf using multiple instances of a nominally similar scene: A digital image acquisition system includes a portable apparatus for capturing digital images and a digital processing component for detecting, analyzing and informing the photographer regarding motion blur, and for reducing camera motion blur in an image captured by the apparatus. The digital processing component operates by comparing the image...

20060098891 - Method of notifying users regarding motion artifacts based on image analysis: A digital image acquisition system includes a portable apparatus for capturing digital images and a digital processing component for detecting, analyzing and informing the photographer regarding motion blur, and for reducing camera motion blur in an image captured by the apparatus. The digital processing component operates by comparing the image...

20060098892 - Image processing device: An edge preservation type of recursive filter 12 outputs an unsharpened image (i.e., low-frequency components) which is smoothed while preserving an edge of an input image in at least one direction (e.g., a vertical direction of the image). The low-frequency components are compressed into a suitable amount by a LUT...

20060098893 - Signal processing device, method, and program: The present invention takes into consideration the real world where data was acquired, and enables obtaining of processing results which are more accurate and more precise as to phenomena in the real world. A data continuity detecting unit 101 detects the continuity of data of second signals, having second dimensions...

20060098895 - Method and arrangement for suppressing stray light: A method images an object (4) by means of a wide field optic onto a position resolving detector (6) for optical radiation with suppression of stray light. In this method, the object (4) is illuminated in at least one object plane (3) with at least two illumination patterns (26, 27)...

20060098894 - Method and system for correcting the effect of non-uniform illumination: A system and a method are provided for correcting the effect of non-uniform illumination on a reproduced image of a 2-D object. An image of a reference card in an illuminated setting is captured by an image capturing device. A 2-D object is placed in the same illuminated setting and...

20060098896 - 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...

20060098897 - Method of superimposing images: A structure in a first image is mapped onto its corresponding structure in a second image by applying a geometric transformation to the first image so that both images are expressed in a common coordinate system. Starting from initial values the parameters of the geometric transformation are updated taking into...

20060098898 - Image processing apparatus capable of carrying out magnification change process of image: When a first DMA unit and a second DMA unit transfer image data in a memory to be divided into units composed of a plurality of lines, a transfer number of lines for an enlargement section is controlled for each unit on the basis of a magnification of an image...

20060098899 - Handheld device for capturing text from both a document printed on paper and a document displayed on a dynamic display device: A device for capturing rendered text is described. The device incorporates one or more visual sensors that receive visual information as a part of capturing rendered text. The visual sensors are collectively capable of capturing both text that is permanently printed on a page, and text that is displayed transitorily...

20060098900 - Secure data gathering from rendered documents: A facility for securing text captured from a rendered document is described. The facility receives data including an encryption of text captured from a rendered document. The facility decrypts the captured text included in the received data....

20060098901 - Image reading system: An image reading system is disclosed that has an image information reading unit for reading optical information on a manuscript, and an image outputting unit for outputting the optical information read by the image information reading unit to a recording medium. The system includes an IC tag information reading unit...

20060093186 - Adaptive tracking for gesture interfaces: A system and a method are disclosed for identifying pixels belonging to moving objects in a series of images by using a signed difference operation. A first signed difference is determined between a first image and a second image. A second signed difference is determined between a second image and...

20060093184 - Image processing apparatus: The invention is an image processing apparatus for identifying a target area used as a target of processing among image data and performing predetermined processing, and is the image processing apparatus in which the image data is divided into plural partial areas based on a predetermined division rule and each...

20060093185 - Moving object recognition apparatus: A moving object recognition apparatus includes: a feature image extraction unit that extracts feature image portions for enabling the moving object to be determined from the moving image; a position detection unit that detects position information of the moving object in time series from the moving image, the position information...

20060093188 - Probabilistic exemplar-based pattern tracking: The present invention involves a new system and method for probabilistic exemplar-based tracking of patterns or objects. Tracking is accomplished by first extracting a set of exemplars from training data. The exemplars are then clustered using conventional statistical techniques. Such clustering techniques include k-medoids clustering which is based on a...

20060093183 - Unauthorized person detection device and unauthorized person detection method: In masquerading determination processing, a masquerading determination unit reads image data representing an image of an identification target on which a striped pattern is projected from an image storage unit to extract the striped pattern appearing in a face region of the image represented by the read image data. Subsequently,...

20060093187 - Video-based encroachment detection: A method and system for video-based encroachment detection are provided, the method including receiving first and second images, modeling a background from the first image, subtracting the background from the second image to provide a detection map, calibrating the size of an object from the pixel level, integrating a projection...

20060093189 - Movement identification apparatus: A movement identification apparatus, which identifies a movement of a moving body based on a moving picture obtained by a camera, includes a model holding unit that holds a movement model representing a feature of a movement of a movable portion of a reference moving body linked to a type...

20060093190 - Adaptive multi-modal integrated biometric identification detection and surveillance systems: A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera of the plurality has a view...

20060093191 - Finger sensor with data throttling and associated methods: A finger sensing device may include a finger sensing area to receive a user's finger moved in a sliding motion, a sensor controller cooperating with the finger sensing area for collecting image data therefrom, an image processor, and a communications path for sending image data from the sensor controller to...

20060093192 - Finger guide device: A finger guide device that positions a finger (or minutiae containing digit) of a human subject on a fingerprint sensor in a manner optimal for the data capture operation of authentication or identification of said subject wherein a relevant portion of the finger is in alignment with a sensor or...

20060093193 - Image-based medical device localization: A method of identifying an elongate medical device in a two-dimensional image of an operating region includes filtering pixels meeting a predetermined intensity requirement for linear scaling, dividing the filtered pixels into groups of contiguous pixels, and selecting from the groups a group corresponding to the medical device....

20060093195 - Method for analysing images: The invention relates to computer-based methods for lung morphometric analysis, employing Linear Mean Intercept (LMI), Surface Area to Volume (S/V) ratios, and mean branch length parameters to define lung emphysema....

20060093197 - Semi-local active contour for a faint region detection in knee ct images: An exemplary method of detecting a structure in a three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (“CT”) knee image is provided. An intensity prior mask is created based on a two-dimensional (2D) slice of the CT image. A seed point in the 2D slice is received or estimated. The seed point is in...

20060093196 - System and method for automatic detection and localization of 3d bumps in medical images: A method of detecting irregularities in a digitized image includes selecting a volume of interest in an image, growing a surface from a point in said volume of interest, determining the local gradient of each point on said surface, and applying a local filter to said gradient, determining a histogram...

20060093194 - System and method for filtering noise from a medical image: A system and method for filtering noise from a medical image are provided. A method for filtering noise from an image comprises: generating a weighted graph representing the image; selecting a plurality of nodes from the image to retain grayscale values of the plurality of nodes; and determining filtered grayscale...

20060093198 - Systems and methods for interleaving series of medical images: After selecting two or more image series for comparison, images of the image series are interleaved so that they are alternatively displayed in a comparison pane on a display device. In one embodiment, after one or more image series are selected for comparison, an interleaved image series is created containing...

20060093199 - Systems and methods for viewing medical 3d imaging volumes: A method of automatically tracking the portions of a 3D medical imaging volume, such as the voxels, that have already been displayed according to use-defined display parameters, notating those portions, and providing the user with information indicating what portions of the imaging volume have been displayed at full resolution....

20060093200 - Optical projection tomography: Apparatus for obtaining an image of a specimen (6) by optical projection tomography comprises a confocal microscope (1, 2, 3) which produces a light beam which scans the specimen (6) whilst the latter is supported in a rotary stage (7). Light passing through the specimen is passed through a convex...

20060093202 - Image discrimination apparatus and image discrimination method: An apparatus and method are provided for determining whether diaphragmatic radiation has been employed to obtain an autoradiograph of an object using a radiographic device having a diaphragmatic radiation function. An autoradiographic signal is entered and a first characteristic value is calculated using an autoradiograph designated by the autoradiographic signal,...

20060093201 - Image display apparatus, image display method, and image display program: Positive recognition of whether a displayed diagnostic image is a non-CAD processed image or a CAD processed image, in which abnormal patterns were not detected, is enabled. An image display apparatus judges whether CAD result data accompanies data obtained for display. If it is judged that CAD result data accompanies...

20060093203 - Attribute threshold evaluation scheme: A system and methodology to evaluate an image of an object based upon multiple attribute threshold values is provided. In accordance with the invention, if an attribute reading from a sensor is between pre-defined threshold values, the sensor reading can be deemed acceptable. High and low thresholds can be provided...

20060093204 - Method and apparatus for producing datasets for making dental protheses: A method and apparatus for producing data for making dental prostheses, wherein the data can be produced on the basis of a model (2) which comprises individual segments (3a, 3b, 3c, . . . ), such as representing a tooth, a preparation, a gingival area, a tooth gap or a...

20060093205 - System and method for automatically recovering video tools in a vision system: Methods and systems for automatically recovering a failed video inspection tool in a precision machine vision inspection system are described. A set of recovery instructions may be associated or merged with a video tool to allow the tool to automatically recover and proceed to provide an inspection result after an...

20060093206 - System and method for mapping a surface: In accordance with a specific embodiment of the present invention, an image is projected upon a surface. The image can include a pattern having a plurality of individual shapes used to measure and map the surface. The plurality of individual shapes include features that are detectable in a direction parallel...

20060093207 - Systems and methods for viewing medical images: For certain medical images, it is important and/or required that a user view all of a medical image at full resolution so that minute, but important, indicia in the medical image are not missed. A computing systems monitor the portions of the medical image that are displayed on the display...

20060093209 - Non-rigid multi-modal registration using statistical learning methods: A computer-implemented method for non-rigid multi-modal registration, includes providing trained data corresponding to previously registered images captured by different modalities, receiving two or more images captured by the different modalities, and registering the two or more images according to context information determined based on the trained data....

20060093208 - Open set recognition using transduction: Disclosed is an open set recognition system that utilizes transductive inference. One embodiment of this open set recognition system includes capture device(s), a basis, quality checker(s), feature extractor(s), a gallery, a rejection threshold, a storage mechanism, and a recognition stage. The basis is configured to encode the sample(s) and is...

20060093210 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus includes a lower body, an upper body openable from and closable to the lower body, the upper body including a device for forming an image and a support member for supporting the upper body when the upper body is opened, wherein a fastening portion for fastening...

20060093211 - Image processing method and apparatus: An image obtained by being imaged by an imaging device and converted to color data using a color processing parameter is input and target color data corresponding to converted color data is input. Next, the color processing parameter is optimized based upon the color difference between the converted color data...

20060093212 - Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image: A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analyzing the first acquired image to provide characteristics indicative of image quality. The process then determines if one or more corrective processes can be beneficially applied to the first acquired image according to the...

20060093213 - Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image based on image quality pre and post filtering: A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analyzing the first acquired image to provide characteristics indicative of image quality. The process then determines if one or more corrective processes can be beneficially applied to the first acquired image according to the...

20060093214 - Image sensing system with histogram modification: A histogram is modified by using an adaptive system. Two different thresholds are set: a threshold of a number of pixels which can be changed, and another threshold indicative of a total number of pixels which can be combined together. The thresholds can be adaptively based on results of frame...

20060093215 - Methods of representing and analysing images: A method of representing at least one image comprises deriving at least one descriptor based on colour information and colour interrelation information for at least one region of the image, the descriptor having at least one descriptor element, derived using values of pixels in said region, wherein at least one...

20060093216 - System and method for detection of ground glass objects and nodules: A method for detecting ground glass objects in a digitized image comprises the steps of determining intensity statistics from a plurality of ground glass objects, determining an intensity map of the distance of each point in an image from a mean intensity of said ground glass objects wherein one or...

20060093217 - Object detection using cross-section analysis: In a method of 3-D object detection, an image is pre-processed. Using cross-section analysis, a confidence array is built. A plurality of peaks in the confidence array are detected, wherein the peaks signify a likelihood of a 3-D object of interest....

20060093218 - Interfacing with ink: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other...

20060093219 - Interfacing with ink: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other...

20060093220 - Data verification using text messaging: A method for computerized processing of paper forms includes receiving an electronic image of a paper form containing text information from a client having a telephone. The text information is extracted from the form using an optical character recognition (OCR) process. A field of the extracted text information that is...

20060093221 - Image retrieval device, image retrieval method and storage medium storing similar-image retrieval program: An image retrieval device and an image retrieval method are provided which are capable of improving performance of image retrieval, of retrieving images at higher speed with simplified configurations and of retrieving images by simplified calculating processes. The image retrieval device is composed of a first coefficient transforming section to...

20060093222 - Data processing, analysis, and visualization system for use with disparate data types: A system or method consistent with an embodiment of the present invention is useful in analyzing large volumes of different types of data, such as textual data, numeric data, categorical data, or sequential string data, for use in identifying relationships among the data types or different operations that have been...

20060093224 - Image capturing apparatus and image distributing system: A network camera (image capturing apparatus) extracts an image of a monitoring area and an image of a watch area from a captured image that is output from an image capturing device, and changes the size of each of the images by a scaler, thereby generating a whole image and...

20060093223 - Spectral geographic information system: A system for the conversion, analysis and display of geographic imaging data is provided which allows for the efficient location of various targets based on user selectable search criteria. The system provides a means to convert large image database information to a more compact and efficient structure employing the use...

20060093225 - System, method, and apparatus for providing massively scaled down video using iconification: Presented herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for simultaneously providing full size video and massively scaled down video using inconification. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for providing a video output. The method comprises decoding an encoded picture, thereby resulting in a decoded picture; reducing the decoded picture,...

20060093226 - Method and apparatus for assigning codeblocks to coders operating in parallel: A method and apparatus for assigning codeblocks to coders operating in parallel is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises decomposing input data into a plurality of code-blocks, and assigning the plurality of code-blocks, on a code-block basis, to a plurality of MQ coders to code the plurality of code-blocks...

20060093228 - De-interlacing using decoder parameters: Locations of reference blocks of pixels of decoded interlaced video reference fields decoded from a compressed stream of video data are computed using motion vectors decoded from the same stream of video data. The reference block computed locations are de-interlaced with current blocks from current video fields decoded from the...

20060093227 - Method of measruing blocking artefacts: The invention relates to a method of measuring blocking artefacts on the basis of video data encoded in accordance with a block encoding technique. This method comprises a step of computing a monodimensional inverse discrete transform (31) of a first row of a first block of encoded video data, suitable...

20060093229 - Picture-data compression system: A picture-data compression system for compressing inputted multiple picture data includes a storage device that stores the multiple picture data; a selection controller that writes the multiple picture data into the storage device and reads the multiple picture data from the storage device; a pixel-number converter that converts the number...

20060093230 - Compression of image regions according to graphics command type: A method according to the invention conserves host system resources by compressing an image region according to the type of graphics command used to generate or modify the region. As an image is being rendered, a list of modified image regions is maintained. For each modified image region, metadata are...

20060093231 - Method and apparatus for encoding image data, and method an apparatus for recording video using the same: An encoding apparatus includes a pre-encoding unit that performs learning based on input image data from before starting a video recording; and an encoding unit that encodes image data using an encoding parameter. The pre-encoding unit includes an image input unit; a motion searching unit that obtains a motion vector...

20060093233 - Ringing reduction apparatus and computer-readable recording medium having ringing reduction program recorded therein: A ringing reduction apparatus includes image restoration means for restoring an input image with image degradation to the image with less degradation using an image restoration filter; and weighted average means for performing weighted average of the input image and the restoration image obtained by the image restoration means. In...

20060093232 - Unified metric for digital video processing (umdvp): The present application develops a unified metric for digital video processing (UMDVP) to control video processing algorithms. The UMDVP metric is defined based on coding information of MPEG encoded video for each pixel in a frame. The definition of the UMDVP metric includes local spatial features. The UMDVP metric can...

20060093234 - Reduction of blur in multi-channel images: A color digital image is processed to reduce blur. First and second color channels of a high frequency feature (e.g., an edge) in the image are compared to derive information that is missing from the second channel due to the blur. The information is used to adjust the feature in...

20060093235 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: Low-pass filtering is applied only to the borders of an original mage to reduce the noise in the borders of image, thereby preventing errors in extrapolation. Then, an extended region is provided around the image by extrapolation, thereby eliminating the need for border processing in the borders of the image...

20060093236 - Video preprocessing temporal and spatial filter: The invention refers to an apparatus and a method for reducing random noise in a sequence of digital video frames comprising the following steps: 1. for each of the pixels (center pixel) in a frame a set of adjacent pixels is defined; 2. for each of the adjacent pixels the...

20060093239 - Image processing method and image processing device: An image processing method processes a captured image, which is captured by a capturing means includes an image processing method for generating a corrected captured image by correcting a distortion appearing within the captured image by use of a MMF model....

20060093238 - Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image using face recognition: A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analysing the first acquired image to provide a plurality of characteristics indicative of image quality. The analysing step may also include recognizing one or more faces or types of face in the first acquired...

20060093237 - Systems and methods for correcting image perspective: Systems and methods for correcting perspective in an image are invented and disclosed. One embodiment comprises capturing image data responsive to light incident upon an image-capture device, wherein the image data includes a first perspective of a subject-of-interest, providing an image-processing algorithm executable by the image-capture device, the image-processing algorithm...

20060093240 - Image registration using minimum entropic graphs: In a method of aligning images, a first image and a second image are sampled to a plurality of joint feature pairs. A minimum entropic graph is computed using the joint feature pairs. Using a distance measure, the total length of the minimum entropic graph is measured to obtain a...

20060093241 - Document management apparatus and document management method, and storage medium storing program: A document management apparatus includes a hash processor and a microfilm writer. The hash processor generates a hash value based on digital document data stored in a database. The microfilm writer records image data converted from the digital document data on a microfilm, and records a document ID as identification...