Image analysis inventions 10/06

20060239504 - Automated digital watermarking methods using neural networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide digital watermarking methods that embed a digital watermark in both the low and high frequencies of an image or other production, providing a digital watermark that is resistant to a variety of attacks. The digital watermarking methods of the present invention optimize the strength...

20060239500 - Method of and apparatus for reversibly adding watermarking data to compressed digital media files: A novel technique for embedding a reversible watermark into digital media files, and then removing this watermark, in whole or in part, at some later date, without access to the original media file, which may consist of such media types as audio, image, video, 3-D and the like; such watermarks...

20060239502 - Methods and apparatus for enhancing the robustness of watermark extraction from digital host content: Methods and apparatus for enhancing the robustness of watermark extraction from digital host content are provided. Embedded watermarks may be extracted from received digital host content in accordance with a stego key. A first watermark is extracted and a number of errors in the first extracted watermark is assessed. If...

20060239501 - Security enhancements of digital watermarks for multi-media content: Methods and apparatus for embedding digital watermarks into a digital host content are provided. A digital host content is received, e.g., at a receiver or other device incorporating a receiver. One or more watermark embedding technologies is selected. Multiple embedding opportunities are identified within the host content. A subset of...

20060239503 - System reactions to the detection of embedded watermarks in a digital host content: Methods for adapting the operation of a system in response to the detection of embedded watermarks from a digital host content are provided. A digital host content is received and examined for the presence of watermarks. In response to the detection of embedded watermarks and in accordance with the value,...

20060239506 - Line textured target detection and tracking with applications to \"basket-run\" detection: A method of video surveillance may include pre-processing video data to obtain foreground edge information for at least one frame of said video data. The method may perform line segment detection on said foreground edge information to obtain one or more line segments. The line segment detection may be performed...

20060239507 - Method for determining the lateral offset of an xyz stage: A method for determining the lateral offset of an XYZ stage includes, by shifting the XYZ stage in the Z direction, acquiring a series of images. In the last image acquired in the series of individual images, a feature of interest is searched for and is positioned at the center...

20060239505 - Methods, apparatus, computer program and storage medium for position decoding: A method, in an apparatus for position decoding, operates to extract a sequence of positions from a sequence of images of a position-coding pattern, as recorded by a sensor. The method, which may be embodied as a computer program on a computer-readable storage medium, involves the steps of retrieving at...

20060239509 - Road line recognition apparatus: A road line recognition apparatus, including: an imaging section imaging a progress path of a own vehicle including a road to output a couple of images; an image processing section calculating a distance in a real space in a set region of at least an image on one side based...

20060239508 - Vehicle body slip angle detecting apparatus, vehicle body slip angle detecting method, and vehicle motion control apparatus provided with the vehicle body slip angle detecting apparatus: This apparatus specifies, based upon the front image that is photographed by a front camera 65f before the present time by a predetermined time, the position (point A) of the “object” in the front image by utilizing the difference in brightness, and specifies, based upon the rear image photographed by...

20060239510 - Device for inspection of print products: A device for inspection of print products (36) produced by a printing machine (10) is provided with a first camera (48) being directed to an inspection field to be checked. At least one further camera (50) is provided being directed at least partially (58) to the same inspection field (54)...

20060239512 - Anti-identity theft system and method: A method of entering information for identity validation of an individual is provided, where an individual enters their personal information and biometric information that is compared to one or more databases to verify the identity of the individual. Once the identity is verified, the individual selects one or more random...

20060239514 - Biometric information processing apparatus and biometric information processing method: In order to acquire a suitable fingerprint image by correcting an elongated fingerprint image, a line sensor acquires fingerprint image as a plurality of line-shaped images. A computation unit computes a similarity value by use of an evaluation function for evaluating the degree of similarity between the line-shaped images. The...

20060239513 - Privacy protected cooperation network: A computerized method and apparatus are established to identify a subject of common interest among multiple parties without releasing the true identity of any subject. Furthermore, a computerized network provides different parties at different locations with a mechanism to conduct cooperative activities concerning such a subject of common interest without...

20060239511 - System and method for protecting the privacy and security of stored biometric data: A data storage system that protects privacy and ensures security includes a plurality of nodes in a networked architecture, the nodes being adapted to securely communicate and co-operate with one another to allow storage and retrieval of data. A single piece of biometric data is associated only with a blinded...

20060239515 - Efficient propagation for face annotation: Systems, engines, user interfaces, and methods allow a user to select a group of images, such as digital photographs, and assign to the group of images the name of a person who is represented in each of the images. The name is automatically propagated to the face of the person,...

20060239516 - Method and system for on-line certificate of authenticity for collectibles and on-line signature verification of collectibles: An on-line method for issuing a certificate of authenticity for a collectible to a collector who has personally witnessed the collectible being signed and a verification system for authenticating a suspected signature on an object by scanning the suspected signature and transmitting to a central computer where the suspected signature...

20060239517 - Integrated control for navigation, authentication, power on and rotation: A device includes a control configured to provide 5-way navigation. The control includes a fingerprint sensor with a platen that is coupled to an actuation sensor. A user can navigate by sliding a finger across the platen so as to provide direction input. In addition, the user can make a...

20060239518 - System and method for sending a packet with position address and line scan data over an interface cable: A system and method for sending a packet with a position address and line scan data from a first device over a 1394 interface to a second device. The present invention loads a camera, an illuminator, and a microprocessor with set-up instructions and a start pulse. The camera captures a...

20060239524 - Dedicated display for processing and analyzing multi-modality cardiac data: For diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease, images of the heart muscle and coronary vessels are captured using different medical imaging modalities; e.g., single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), electron-beam X-ray computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or ultrasound (US). For visualizing the multi-modal image...

20060239525 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A configuration for measuring the position and the orientation specific to a mixed reality is separated from an application 70 to operate independently, and a shared memory 60 or process-to-process communication is used for data communication between them. This allows to modify configuration associated with the measurement of the position...

20060239526 - Method and apparatus for acquiring and processing images of an article such as a tooth: A method of acquiring and processing images of an article, such as a tooth in the mouth, for example, the apparatus comprising an ultraviolet light source for illuminating the article, a matrix-type video camera for taking video images of the article illuminated in ambient light and in ultraviolet light, and...

20060239519 - Method and apparatus for extracting cerebral ventricular system from images: A method and apparatus for extracting a cerebral ventricular system from images of one or more cerebral ventricular regions comprises defining multiple regions of interest (ROI) in the images, defining seed points within each ROI, growing images of ventricular regions while correcting for leakages into extraventricular space and connecting the...

20060239522 - Method and system for processing computed tomography image data: Methods and systems for processing image data are described. One method includes identifying image data corresponding to an imaged trachea and identifying image data corresponding to imaged lungs. The method further includes separating the image data corresponding to the imaged trachea from the imaged data corresponding to the imaged lungs....

20060239528 - Operating method for a computer, operating method for a medical imaging system and items corresponding thereto: A data set describing a vascular system in three dimensions is pre-specified to a computer. A section of the vascular system is selected. With the aid of the data set describing the vascular system in three dimensions, the computer calculates a length of the selected section. A sequence of images...

20060239523 - Radiographic imaging display apparatus and method: The present invention is an anatomy display method for radiographically obtained data. The anatomy display method comprises obtaining an anatomy dataset comprised of pixels, each of the pixels having a luminance, and the pixels being arranged in slices. A portion of the anatomy dataset is selected. A representative slice of...

20060239520 - System and method for detecting fibre tracts: The invention relates to a system for displaying fibre tracts of a human or animal, comprising memory means holding diffusion images of a region of interest of said human or animal, processing means connected to the memory means for deriving fibre tract data from the diffusion images, and display means...

20060239521 - System and method of capturing images: A system and methods for capturing, displaying, and viewing representations of progressions of anatomical structures and associated digital images is disclosed. A processor-based system is used to generate and store digital images of anatomical structures such as teeth of a dental patient. Any one digital image is stored as an...

20060239527 - Three-dimensional cardiac border delineation in medical imaging: Three-dimensional cardiac border is delineated in medical imaging. A view is labeled, such as identifying a two-dimensional view as an apical four-chamber view. A three-dimensional border is detected as a function of the view label. For example, the view is associated from a plane through a volume and a known...

20060239530 - Computer-aided image diagnosis: The respiratory function of the examinee is determined to be abnormal when a first shift is calculated by carrying out first matching processing where the position of each of a plurality of local areas forming the first image is brought into alignment with the corresponding position in the second image,...

20060239529 - Diagnostic imaging system and method providing information regarding blood flow in an anatomical anomaly: An imaging diagnosis system for generation of a three-dimensional image data set of an examination subject has an image acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional raw data of the examination subject, an image reconstruction unit that generates a three-dimensional image data set from the three-dimensional raw data, an image processing unit...

20060239531 - Device for recording cross-sectional images: In order to improve the quality of cross-sectional images, which have been recorded along a longitudinal axis of a vessel of a body, it is proposed to add successive cross-sectional images to an overall cross-sectional image. Artifacts in the cross-sectional images are hereby weakened and pathological structures to be detected...

20060239532 - Osteoporosis diagnosis support device using panorama x-ray image: The present invention provides an osteoporosis diagnosis aiding apparatus that utilizes a panoramic radiograph. A digitalized image of the panoramic radiograph enters a personal computer (S210). The cortical bone at the lower edge of the mandibular molar in the panoramic radiograph is specified with a mouse to make that part...

20060239534 - Image creating apparatus and image creating method: An image creating apparatus capable of creating cell images allowing reliable determination of cell structures in a cell is provided. This image creating apparatus comprises an image pickup portion picking up a plurality of images of a cell on different focal positions and an image synthesizing portion classifying the plurality...

20060239533 - Method for detecting infectious agents using computer controlled automated image analysis: Computer controlled methods, systems and apparatus for detecting an infectious agent in a host cell, an animal cell, or plant cell, a body fluid or tissue sample to provide information useful to diagnose a disease or prognosticate disease susceptibility, extent or outcome are provided. In one illustrative embodiment, the infected...

20060239535 - Pattern defect inspection method and apparatus: A method and an apparatus for irradiating a measurement sample with an energy beam, a pattern being formed in the measurement sample, providing an optical system for detecting transmitted energy beam or reflected energy beam from the measurement sample, obtaining a pattern image, and comparing design data of the pattern...

20060239536 - Method for analyzing defect data and inspection apparatus and review system: The distribution states of defects are analyzed on the basis of the coordinates of defects detected by an inspection apparatus to classify them into a distribution feature category, or any one of repetitive defect, congestion defect, linear distribution defect, ring/lump distribution defect and random defect. In the manufacturing process for...

20060239537 - Automatic processing of aerial images: Change detection apparatus for detection of changes between first and second stereoscopic image pairs obtained at different times of a substantially similar view, comprises: a two-dimensional image filter for comparing first and second image pairs to obtain an initial list of change candidates from two-dimensional information in the image pairs,...

20060239542 - Method and device for determining the alignment of the wheels of a vehicle: Method for determining the angles and the characteristic parameters of the alignment of a vehicle situated at a measurement location comprising the following steps: equipping each of the wheels of the vehicle with a flat target carrying any design; determining the relationship between the position of the target and the...

20060239543 - Methods and apparatuses for generating and recovering 3d compression data: A method of generating and recovering three-dimensional (3D) compression data, and an apparatus to perform the methods, the method of generating the 3D compression data including generating configuration information of a 3D compression data sequence; generating a plurality of pieces of individual 3D compression data to be included in the...

20060239540 - Methods and systems for creating 4d images using multiple 2d images acquired in real-time (\"4d ultrasound\"): Methods and systems for rendering high quality 4D ultrasound images in real time, without the use of expensive graphics hardware, without resampling, but also without lowering the resolution of acquired image planes, are presented. In exemplary embodiments according to the present invention, 2D ultrasound image acquisitions with known three dimensional...

20060239539 - Model forming apparatus, model forming method, photographing apparatus and photographing method: The present invention provides a model forming apparatus that can simply and efficiently form a three-dimensional model of an object using previously obtained three-dimensional model data of the object as a starting point. The apparatus comprises a photographing section 110 for photographing an object 10, an image data storage section...

20060239541 - System and method for vascular segmentation by monte-carlo sampling: A method of segmenting tubular structures in digital images includes selecting a point in an image of a tubular object to be segmented, defining an initial state of the selected point, initializing measurement weights, a conditional probability distribution and a prior probability distribution of a feature space of the initial...

20060239538 - Three-dimensional shape-measuring device: A 3-D shape measurement apparatus for grasping the state of an object with ease and accuracy is provided. The 3-D shape measurement apparatus includes: a first 3-D sensor 10a having a projecting device 11 for projecting a light pattern on a target area, and a (first) image capturing apparatus 12a...

20060239544 - Method for expanding the domain of imaging software in a diagnostic work-up: A method for expanding the domain of imaging software in a diagnostic work-up includes the steps of: imaging a patient's body parts for a first condition using a first imaging technique directed to a first condition; acquiring known patient risk factors indicating a second condition; compensating for differences in accuracy...

20060239545 - System for image analysis in a network that is structured with multiple layers and differentially weighted neurons: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating the usage of an online workforce to remotely monitor security-sensitive sites and report potential security breaches. In some embodiments, cameras are configured to monitor critical civilian infrastructure, such as water supplies and nuclear reactors. The cameras are operatively connected to a central...

20060239546 - System for image analysis in a network that is structured with multiple layers and differentially weighted neurons: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating the usage of an online workforce to remotely monitor security-sensitive sites and report potential security breaches. In some embodiments, cameras are configured to monitor critical civilian infrastructure, such as water supplies and nuclear reactors. The cameras are operatively connected to a central...

20060239547 - Use of optical skin measurements to determine cosmetic skin properties: The present invention relates to the use of optical skin measurements to determine skin properties such as surface topography, hydration, elasticity, pigmentation intensity or uniformity, dermal thickness, dermal perfusion, presence or concentration or composition of oil on or near the surface, and apparent age of the skin. An apparatus according...

20060239548 - Segmentation of digital images: An apparatus and method for segmenting a digital image into image segments includes selecting one or more pixels in an image to define an initial pixel selection, determining a final pixel selection which includes those pixels in the image that are contiguous with the initial pixel selection and that have...

20060239549 - Method and apparatus for correcting a channel dependent color aberration in a digital image: A method, and digital capture apparatus for use therewith, is described for correcting a channel dependent color aberration in a digital image, where the digital image is composed of a plurality of color channels. The method includes capturing an image comprising the color channels, where one of the color channels...

20060239550 - Method and system for enhancing an image: A method for enhancing an image includes generating a luminance histogram for the image; generating a derivative histogram by taking a first derivative of the luminance histogram; searching for a plurality of black peaks and searching for a plurality of white peaks using the derivative histogram; and performing luminance scaling...

20060239551 - Method and apparatus for two dimensional image processing: In one embodiment, the present invention is a system for two dimensional digital image processing. The system includes a memory access module for accessing a memory containing image data to be processed, and a data flow organizer module for preparing a data stream from the input image data accessed by...

20060239554 - Automatic determination of the standard cardiac views from volumetric data acquisitions: A system and method for automatically determining the standard cardiac image views as defined by the American Heart Association from volumetric data of the chest including the heart. The system and method can be used by a health practitioner to quickly see the two dimensional views from which a diagnosis...

20060239553 - Ct/mri heart isolation using a graph cut algorithm: A method and related system for automatically and efficiently isolating the heart in Computer Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging cardiac scans is disclosed. The method involves segmenting a heart within a set of volumetric data. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the set of volumetric data...

20060239552 - System and method for using learned discriminative models to segment three dimensional colon image data: A system and method for using learned discriminative models to segment a border of an anatomical structure in a three dimensional (3D) image is disclosed. A discriminative probability model is computed for each voxel in the 3D image. Thresholding is performed on each discriminative probability model. One or more two...

20060239556 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program: An image processing method according to the present invention includes extracting from a document image an area to be determined, calculating the number of closed loops within the extracted area, and making a determination based on the calculated number of closed loops, whether the area is a character area. This...

20060239555 - System and method for differentiating pictures and texts: A system and method for differentiating pictures and texts includes, first, dividing an image corresponding to an image file to a plurality of unit areas of the same size each containing a plurality of pixels of the same number; generating a threshold by a threshold setting module based on the...

20060239557 - Image indexer for indexing a plurality of images: An image indexer for indexing a plurality of images that includes a first data structure for subsequent classification of the one or more images. The first data structure includes characteristics for at least one class. An image classifier classifies one or more individual images found in the plurality of images...

20060239558 - Method and system to segment depth images and to detect shapes in three-dimensionally acquired data: A method and system analyzes data acquired by image systems to more rapidly identify objects of interest in the data. In one embodiment, z-depth data are segmented such that neighboring image pixels having similar z-depths are given a common label. Blobs, or groups of pixels with a same label, may...

20060239559 - Method and apparatus for performing a sensor fusion to provide a position of a target-of-interest: A method and apparatus are disclosed for estimating a position of a target of interest using a plurality of position detection sensors wherein for at least one of the sensors, a corresponding time-variant detection probability profile is combined with the detection status received from the sensor and further wherein each...

20060239560 - Recognition graph: A method for determining at least one recognition candidate for a handwritten pattern comprises selecting possible segmentation points in the handwritten pattern for use in segmenting and recognizing the handwritten pattern. The method further may comprise comparing segments of the handwritten pattern to templates. The comparison may return segment candidates...

20060239561 - Write anywhere tool: A transparent graphical user interface that overlays the user interfaces of other applications. The transparent user interface receives handwriting input and displays handwriting objects represented by handwriting input received in the area of the transparent handwriting interface. The transparent user interface of the invention can be expanded to include most...

20060239562 - System and method for binary persistence format for a recognition result lattice: A system and method for storing document data in a serialized binary format recognition lattice structure so that the data is accessible to other applications. The lattice structure is generated that includes root node data. Child nodes correspond to columns of the recognition lattice. Each node includes a descriptor that...

20060239567 - Adaptive generation of q-table2 for improved image quality: Brightness correction and image enhancement are derived to compensate for changes in captured image data by hardware scanners and the like by statistically measuring the captured data and generating or selecting a compensation quantization table to be substituted in image data encoded for compression. Three techniques of compensation usable singly...

20060239565 - Apparatus and method for encoding an image for a mobile telecommunication handset: There are provided an apparatus and a method for encoding an image for a mobile telecommunication handset. The image is divided into the stripe blocks and the number of the phase of wavelet transform is determined depending on the size of the image. The divided image stripe block is wavelet-transformed...

20060239564 - Device and method for generating jpeg file including voice and audio data and medium for storing the same: A device and method for generating a Joint Picture Experts Group (JPEG) file is capable of effectively combining image data with voice/audio data using a JPEG file format, recording and storing the combined data, easily and reproducing the image data and the voice/audio data without separate synchronization information. The device...

20060239566 - Encoded data conversion method: The present invention intends to provide an encoded data conversion method for speeding up conversion processing by eliminating re-encoding processing when predetermined data is inserted into encoded data. The encoded data conversion method is a conversion method for converting encoded image data comprising: a step of decoding encoded image data;...

20060239563 - Method and device for compressed domain video editing: When a video stream is edited in compressed domain to achieve video editing effects, the edited bitstream may violate the receiver buffer fullness requirement. In order to comply with the buffer fullness requirement, buffer parameters in the bitstream and the file format are adjusted to ensure that the buffer will...

20060239568 - System and method for information handling system image network communication: A system for manufacture of information handling systems is disclosed. The system includes an image analyzer operable to accept an image and generate an image traits definition wherein the image traits definition has a manifest of the image's software characteristics and customization settings, a remote image rebuilder distal to and...

20060239572 - Encoding device and method, decoding device and method, and program: To provide an encoding device configured to encode video by performing intra-frame encoding using wavelet transformation. The encoding device includes a generation unit configured to generate a composite image for every n temporally consecutive frames, and an encoding unit configured to perform the encoding for the composite image....

20060239570 - Method of encoding and decoding image data by applying image capturing device: A method of encoding and decoding image data by applying an image capturing device includes generating a difference coding group, applying an modified Hadamard transform (MHT) on the difference coding group to generate a corresponding low-frequency parameter and a plurality of corresponding high-frequency parameters, adjusting the low-frequency parameter, adjusting the...

20060239571 - Method of volume-panorama imaging processing: The present invention discloses a method of volume-panorama imaging processing, which generates a volume-panorama image by subsequently splicing respective image frames from an image sequence obtained in a real-time way or stored in a medium based upon the fact that the immediately adjacent image frames have the largest correlation. The...

20060239569 - System to rapidly compress and decompress binary image and method thereof: A system and method of rapidly compressing and decompressing a binary image. The method of rapidly compressing the binary image includes initializing a 0 count value obtained by counting 0 blocks and also initializing a 0 output control value that is information on the number of continuous 0 blocks; estimating...

20060239573 - Method and system for rule-based comparison study matching to customize a hanging protocol: The present invention provides a method for presenting at least one medical imaging study in a Picture Archiving and Communication System (“PACS”). The method includes selecting at least one comparison imaging study from a plurality of historical imaging studies by comparing at least one image data attribute associated with a...

20060239574 - Method of transmitting selected regions of interest of digital video data at selected resolutions: A method of transmitting selected regions of interest of digital video data at selected resolutions, including: capturing digital video; compressing the digital video into a sequence of individual high resolution JPEG 2000 frames and simultaneously extracting from the compressed high resolution JPEG 2000 frames a lower resolution; storing the individual...

20060239575 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding...

20060239576 - System and method for compressing an image: In a method for compressing an image, a number of non-zero AC coefficients for a component transform and the locations of the non-zero AC coefficients in a transform block are determined. One of a plurality of coding modes is selected in response to the number of non-zero AC coefficients and...

20060239577 - Process of using computer modeling, reconstructive modeling and simulation modeling for image guided reconstructive surgery: The invention provides both a quantitative and qualitative real time assessment of the surgical procedures in a method of image guided reconstructive surgery using computer modeling and simulation modeling....

20060239578 - Method and device for the echo compensation of a reception signal: A method and a device are provided for the echo compensation of a reception signal, a transmission signal being composed of a plurality of transmission subsignals which are generated in a corresponding plurality of signal paths, and a transmission combination signal, which corresponds to a combination of the plurality of...

20060239582 - Composite image data generating apparatus, method of controlling the same, and program for controlling the same: Low-sensitivity image data and high-sensitivity image data are synthesized at a ratio determined by a dynamic range. A composite image is displayed on a display screen. A histogram of the composite image is generated, and is displayed on the display screen. A user presses a dynamic range change button when...

20060239580 - Defect pixel correction in an image sensor: A method and apparatus for defect pixel correction in an image sensor. The method may include calculating a median of extrapolated values of right neighboring and left neighboring pixel values of a potentially defective pixel....

20060239584 - Image conversion method, texture mapping method, image conversion device, server-client system, and image conversion program: A shadow portion is distinguished in a given image (S2 to S6). On the shadow portion, a conversion process based on the brightness value of a pixel is performed (S7), while on a portion other than the shadow portion, a conversion process based on the surface normal parameter which represents...

20060239583 - Method and apparatus for adjusting brightness of image: A method and apparatus for adjusting brightness of an image are provided, in which number distribution information of pixel brightness is detected, and the brightness of a specific area of the image is adjusted using characteristic values according to a distribution characteristic of the detected number distribution information. Accordingly, a...

20060239581 - Method and system for dynamic contrast stretch: Aspects of a system and method for processing an image are presented. The method may comprise stretching contrast of an input image based on a distribution of luma values for the input image and a distribution of luma values for a desired output image. The pixels below a specified level...

20060239579 - Non uniform blending of exposure and/or focus bracketed photographic images: The present invention provides a method for the non-uniform blending of digital representations of photographic images. The method of the present invention is a computer program. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a pair of exposure or focus bracketed photographic images are blended together to produce a...

20060239585 - System and method for reducing artifacts in motion corrected dynamic image sequences: A system and method for reducing artifacts in a motion corrected image sequence are provided. A method reducing an artifact in a motion corrected image sequence comprises: applying a deformation to a reference image of a plurality of post-contrast enhanced images to obtain an interpolated version of the reference image;...

20060239586 - System and method to simulate film or other imaging media: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a media simulation system that provides at least one lens operable to optically relay a single visual scene, and a first visual medium and a second visual medium. The first imaging medium and the second imaging medium are each operable to capture and...

20060239587 - Multiple image formation position shift detection device, image concentration detection device, and multiple image formation device: A photodetecting unit 5 comprises a photosensitive region 10, a first signal processing circuit 20, and a second signal processing circuit 30. In photosensitive region 10, pixels 11mn are arrayed two-dimensionally in M rows and N columns. One pixel is arranged by adjacently positioning in the same plane a photosensitive...

20060239588 - Edge smoothness with low resolution projected images for use in solid imaging: A solid imaging apparatus and method employing sub-pixel shifting in multiple exposures of the digitally light projected image of a cross-section of a three-dimensional object on a solidifiable liquid medium. The multiple exposures provide increased resolution, preserving image features in a three-dimensional object and smoothing out rough or uneven edges...

20060239589 - System and method for definition of dicom header values: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an improved system and method for image file header configuration. Certain embodiments of the method include retrieving one or more criterion for configuration of an image orientation parameter, configuring the image orientation parameter based on the one or more criterion, obtaining image data,...

20060239590 - Image frame abstraction model for image codecs: A method and architecture for obtaining a desired frame and identifying a selected frame in an image container. A request for a frame of an image is received. The request may include an identifier that identifies a type of frame. In response thereto, a frame is located corresponding to the...

20060239592 - Method and apparatus for processing image data: A method of processing image data representing a plurality of images, the method includes processing the image data for respective ones of the images in order to generate allocation data for each image, and on the basis of the allocation data, allocating an image a position in a template, the...

20060239591 - Method and system for albuming multimedia using albuming hints: A method and apparatus album multimedia using media albuming hints. The multimedia albuming method includes: extracting albuming hints from multimedia contents; describing the extracted albuming hint information in a predetermined description structure; generating a media descriptor by using the described albuming hint information; and albuming multimedia contents by using the...

20060233420 - Digital watermark and steganographic decoding: Steganographic signals or digital watermarks are detected from media signals. A media signal may represent audio, video or imagery. In one implementation, a method of detecting a digital watermark in a media signal is provided. The method includes receiving blocks of the media signal; buffering the blocks; screening the blocks...

20060233419 - Image display control method, image display control program, image data recording method and computer-readable medium: An image display control method of sequentially switching and displaying a plurality of images in a predetermined time, comprises: acquiring, from a recording media, image data for generating an image to be displayed after the switching in response to a switching instruction for switching the image in the predetermined time;...

20060233423 - Fast object detection for augmented reality systems: A detection method is based on a statistical analysis of the appearance of model patches from all possible viewpoints in the scene, and incorporates 3D geometry during both matching and pose estimation processes. By analyzing the computed probability distribution of the visibility of each patch from different viewpoints, a reliability...

20060233422 - Machine vision system and method for estimating and tracking facial pose: System and method for estimating and tracking an orientation of a user's face by combining head tracking and face detection techniques. The orientation of the face, or facial pose, can be expressed in terms of pitch, roll and yaw of the user's head. Facial pose information can be used, for...

20060233421 - Methods and apparatus for adaptive foreground background analysis: Apparatus and methods for target detection in hyperspectral images are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of detecting a target in a hyperspectral image includes spectrally unmixing the hyperspectral image into segments, each segment having at least one of similar spectral composition, similar textural composition, and similar variation, and spectrally...

20060233424 - Vehicle position recognizing device and vehicle position recognizing method: A vehicle position recognition apparatus includes an image information capturing unit for capturing image information for at least the surface of a road picked up by an imaging device mounted on the vehicle; a feature-of-road information acquiring unit for acquiring information identifying ground objects around the imaged position from stored...

20060233425 - Image processor for automotive vehicle: An image processor for an automotive vehicle includes: an imaging element for capturing an image of a road; a traffic lane line detection element for detecting a position of a traffic lane line by determining an edge of the traffic lane line; a distance distribution calculation element for calculating a...

20060233426 - Robust face registration via multiple face prototypes synthesis: A face recognition and/or verification system including the step of registering a persons actual face wherein an image of the actual face is captured and synthesized to create a plurality of face prototypes, and wherein the face prototypes are stored for later analysis and comparison with a captured image to...

20060233428 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an HDD, a fingerprint sensor, and a CPU or a BIOS-ROM which monitors a communication state between a program stored therein and the fingerprint sensor. If it is determined that the communication state is abnormal, power to the fingerprint sensor is...

20060233427 - Method and arrangement for optical recording of biometric finger data: A method for acquiring biometric data of a finger a surface to be imaged includes touchlessly and simultaneously imaging a finger surface to be imaged along at least three different directions into digital images, wherein each point of the surface to be imaged is imaged along at least two of...

20060233431 - Image signal processor and deficient pixel detection method: A deficiency candidate detection circuit detects a deficient pixel candidate by comparing the image signal of a target pixel with the image signals of peripheral pixels, and address information of the deficient pixel candidate is stored in a position memory circuit. A deficiency determining circuit repeats the determination of a...

20060233430 - Medical image processing apparatus: A diagnosis target image is input, and a template ROI which is set on an image to divide the area on the image into predetermined areas in anatomical terms, physiological terms, or other scientific terms is read out from a storage unit. A matching processing unit warps the template ROI...

20060233429 - System aid for digital radiographic image quality verification: A computerized method to aid in human visual reading of phantom image data for task-based image quality assessment. A digital image is registered to a phantom template to generate a plurality of individual targets. The individual targets are sequentially displayed to a user for visual assessment. A display control adjustment...

20060233432 - Sheet paper identification device and method: There are provided a sheet paper identification device and method capable of preventing use of the device in an abnormal state by preventing erroneous identification caused by dust attached to an interior of a pickup section, detecting the abnormal state in the pickup section due to the dust, and notifying...

20060233434 - Method and apparatus for inspection: This invention relating to an inspection apparatus capable of classifying defects at high accuracy makes it possible to accurately extract various characteristic quantities of each defect by using the images obtained by imaging a semiconductor wafer under dark-field illumination, and providing, with respect to a differential image signal between the...

20060233433 - Morphological inspection method based on skeletonization: A morphological inspection method based on a comparison of real images—a real reference image and a real inspected image of an inspected object is disclosed....

20060233435 - Systems and methods of identifying and manipulating objects: Systems and methods of identifying and manipulating objects are disclosed. One system disclosed comprises a light source adapted to emit a collimated light beam onto a contoured surface, a sensor adapted to view a profile of the contoured surface illuminated by the collimated light beam, a processor in communication with...

20060233436 - 3d dense range calculations using data fusion techniques: Systems and methods of establishing 3D coordinates from 2D image domain data acquired from an image sensor are disclosed. An illustrative method may include the steps of acquiring at least one image frame from the image sensor, selecting at least one polygon defining a region of interest within the image...

20060233437 - Method and system for the metrological detection of differences in the visually perceived color impression between a multicolored patterned surface of a reference and a multicolored patterned surface of a specimen: There is described a method and an arrangement for the metrological detection of the differences in the visually perceived color impression between a multi-color patterned surface (10) of a reference and a multi-color patterned surface (12) of a test item. Concomitantly changes in the color statistics and in other color...

20060233438 - Methods and systems for video processing using super dithering: A super dithering method of color video quantization maintains the perceived video quality on a display with less bit depth of color than the input video. Super dithering relies on both the spatial and temporal properties of human visual system, wherein spatial dithering is applied to account for human eye's...

20060233439 - Method and apparatus for processing a bayer-pattern color digital image signal: A method and apparatus for processing a Bayer-pattern color digital image signal are provided. The apparatus includes: a first defect detector generating first defect information of a first pixel to be processed from input image data; a second defect detector generating second defect information and horizontal and vertical gradients of...

20060233440 - Method for quantization of histogram bin value of image: A method for quantization of a color histogram bin value of an image or video, and more particularly, a method for non-uniform quantization of a color histogram bin value of an image (or video) according to the frequency of color occurrence is provided. The methods effectively represent the characteristics of...

20060233441 - System and method for editing handwritten data: A system and method are provided for editing handwritten data using a pen enabled computing device having a writing surface and a writing stylus selectively communicable with the writing surface. The method includes detecting the position and movement of the writing stylus with respect to the writing surface to form...

20060233442 - Method for generating a quality oriented significance map for assessing the quality of an image or video: A method for generating a quality oriented significance camp for assessing the quality of an image or video, comprising the steps of extracting features of the image or video, determining a perceptual quality requirement of at least one extracted feature and integrating the extracted features and the perceptual quality requirement...

20060233443 - Method of edge direction detection based on the correlation between pixels of a vector and an edge direction detection system: A method for edge direction detection at a selected pixel on a center-line between two lines of an image includes defining two vectors using certain pixels on the two lines. A vector norm is defined which gives an indication of the correlation of between pixels of one vector and pixels...

20060233445 - Image encoding method and image encoding apparatus: In order to implement image encoding appropriately, an image encoding method includes: a detection step of detecting that data having a predetermined value exists within a data group (an encoded image) configured of a series of data strings; a transformation step of transforming the predetermined value that exists within the...

20060233446 - Image signal processing apparatus, camera system and image signal processing method: An image signal processing apparatus, the method and a camera system are provided, by which highly efficient processing close to 1-path processing can be performed without deteriorating a picture quality or taking too much time for the processing, a capacity required for a compression rate, band and memory in the...

20060233444 - Jbig coding apparatus and method with low cost, high-performance ping-pong buffer arrangement: The present invention provides an image coding apparatus and method, which can achieve a low-cost, real time, and high-performance coding process by utilizing a line buffer and an auxiliary buffer to execute a typical prediction process in JBIG encoding, a ping-pong buffer and a window template, and an adaptive encoder/decoder....

20060233447 - Image data decoding apparatus and method: An image data decoding apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a variable length coder/decoder for decoding compressed image data to output a quantization coefficient; a non-zero coefficient detector for examining whether or not the quantization coefficient includes a non-zero coefficient for each examination unit; a quantization coefficient...

20060233448 - Apparatus and method for processing video data: An apparatus and methods for processing video data are described. The invention provides a representation of video data that can be used to assess agreement between the data and a fitting model for a particular parameterization of the data. This allows the comparison of different parameterization techniques and the selection...

20060233449 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding...

20060233450 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding...

20060233451 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding...

20060233452 - Text enhancement methodology in scanned images of gray-scale documents: The present invention is to provide a text enhancement methodology of gray-scale levels of a scanned image so as to enhance text legibility. The text enhancement methodology includes the following steps of: utilizing a window block pattern as a fumdamental processing unit to read the scanned image, wherein the window...

20060233453 - Method of suppressing a periodical pattern in an image: A short-time Goertzel transform is applied to the image signal to transform it into a representation of the spatial frequency component corresponding to the periodic pattern. This representation is processed. Next the inverse of the transformation is computed and the result of the inverse transformation is removed from the image...

20060233454 - Method for image intensity correction using extrapolation and adaptive smoothing: The subject invention pertains to a method of image intensity correction. The subject invention can utilize extrapolation for image intensity correction. The use of extrapolation can reduce the artifacts during intensity correction as compared to traditional methods of intensity correction. The extrapolation can be combined with, for example, homomorphic filtering...

20060233455 - Method for image intensity correction using extrapolation and adaptive smoothing: The subject invention pertains to a method of image intensity correction. The subject invention can utilize extrapolation for image intensity correction. The use of extrapolation can reduce the artifacts during intensity correction as compared to traditional methods of intensity correction. The extrapolation can be combined with, for example, homomorphic filtering...

20060233456 - Apparatus for removing false contour and method thereof: An apparatus and method for removing a false contour are provided. The apparatus includes a false contour region detector which detects a false contour region formed in a flat region of similar pixel values; an edge and detail region detector which detects an edge region and a detail region of...

20060233457 - Drawing apparatus with drawing data correction function: A data correcting apparatus is for correcting drawing data representing a drawing pattern included in a quadrangular drawing area of a drawing subject. The correction process is based on an ideal position and an actual position of the drawing area on the drawing subject. An actual outline is an outline...

20060233458 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: Various kinds of digital broadcast recording and playback are supported even when PSI (Program Specific Information) or SI (Service Information) is unknown. A management area of an information storage medium used in digital broadcast recording has management information for each broadcast station, and also management information of a type that...

20060233460 - Image processing device, method, and program: The present invention enables processing results which are more accurate and which have higher precision as to events of the real world to be obtained. (An inverse gamma correction unit 5001 applies inverse gamma correction to an input image wherein light signals of the actual world have been projected and...

20060233459 - Imaging method and device for the computer-assisted evaluation of computer-tomographic measurements by means of direct iterative reconstruction: Disclosed are an imaging method and an arrangement for the computer-assisted evaluation of projected object trajectories obtained from a computer-tomographic measurement. According to the inventive method, the trajectories are arranged in a previously known sequence into a projection matrix as traces of the respective voluminous elements, and the following steps...

20060233461 - Systems and methods for transforming 2d image domain data into a 3d dense range map: Systems and methods for transforming two-dimensional image data into a 3D dense range map are disclosed. An illustrative method may include the steps of acquiring at least one image frame from an image sensor, selecting at least one region of interest within the image frame, determining the geo-location of three...

20060233462 - Method for optically identifying coordinate information and system using the method: A method and system are provided to identify coordinate information of a selected position on a three-dimensional object or on a leaf among plural pages with pre-formed reference indications. While identifying the coordinated information on the leaf, identification of page number is accomplished based on the reference indications formed around...

20060233463 - Apparatus, method, and product for downscaling an image: An average filter or filters is used in line with the output of an interpolation filter to downscale an image. The interpolation filter upscales a source image or bitmap of pixels into an intermediate form and the average filter or filters downscales the intermediate form to a destination image or...

20060233464 - Method and system for displaying and linking ink objects with recognized text and objects: A user interface can display electronic ink in one section of a display device and corresponding recognized or converted text in another section of the display device that was generated from a electronic ink recognition system. Each page of electronic ink and each corresponding page of converted or recognized text...

20060227996 - Electronic watermark generating apparatus, method, and program for generating electronic watermark: An electronic watermark generating apparatus color-converts an RGB image, and divides the color-converted image into a plurality of blocks. Then, the apparatus embeds to-be-embedded information as an electronic watermark into blocks in which an irreversible compression image has been quantized, the image being produced by carrying out quantization on a...

20060227995 - Image acquisition and exploitation camera system and methods therefore: A system for extracting, processing, and sending metadata associated with audio data and/or video data is described. In one embodiment, a system includes a sensor configured to acquire image data. A first electronic board with a processor is configured to control the sensor. A second electronic board that is configured...

20060227993 - Method and apparatus for determining if an optical disk originated from a valid source: A method and apparatus for determining if an optical disk originated from a valid source, the method and apparatus scanning one major surface of the optical disk for mechanical surface imperfections, storing the locations of the surface imperfections relative to a datum, comparing a parameter of each of the locations...

20060227994 - Object perception method and a related perceiving device: The present invention relates to an object perception method, for use by a perceiving device that is adapted to perceive at least one object in an environment comprising a plurality of objects. Each object of the plurality of objects is adapted to provision meta-information characterising the corresponding object. The perceiving...

20060227992 - System and method for accessing electronic data via an image search engine: The present invention provides a system and method for accessing electronic data through entry of images as queries in search engine. The system uses various image capturing devices and communication devices to capture images and enter them into image database. Image recognition techniques encode images in a computer readable format....

20060227998 - Method for using networked programmable fiducials for motion tracking: A method and system for motion tracking for an object and obtaining high-resolution, fast, and low latency position and orientation information for that object that is globally registered in a large environment. Networked, programmable fiducials are distributed through the area within which high accuracy tracking is desired. A high-resolution local...

20060227997 - Methods for defining, detecting, analyzing, indexing and retrieving events using video image processing: Methods and systems for defining, detecting, analyzing, indexing, and retrieving events using video image processing techniques are described herein. An illustrative method of detecting and analyzing events occurring within a region of interest of a video monitoring system may include the steps of extracting information regarding one or more objects...

20060227999 - System and method for localizing imaging devices: A system and method for localizing imaging devices in a network using images taken by the imaging devices. The relative position and orientation of a network of camera-equipped communications devices are obtained by having each device examine images taken by its camera. The devices are also equipped with controllable light...

20060228000 - Image recognition apparatus and image recognition method: An image recognition apparatus is capable of recognizing an image of an object of interest with high recognition accuracy even when the object is difficult to recognize only from image information acquired by an image pickup apparatus. The image recognition apparatus includes image information acquisition means for capturing image information...

20060228001 - Rain sensor: A rain sensor provided in a vehicle includes a camera and a processor. The camera takes an image of a scene outside of the vehicle through a windshield of the vehicle with an infinite focal length. The processor detects rain based on a variation degree of intensities of pixels in...

20060228002 - Simultaneous optical flow estimation and image segmentation: A technique for estimating the optical flow between images of a scene and a segmentation of the images is presented. This involves first establishing an initial segmentation of the images and an initial optical flow estimate for each segment of each images and its neighboring image or images. A refined...

20060228004 - Collation device, registration device, image correcting method and program: There is provided an authentication device capable of improving an authentication accuracy, in which a finger tilt angle α made by a straight line between the positions at the fingertip abutting portion 6 and the image pickup camera 4 and the finger positioned in the imaging space is detected from...

20060228003 - Method and apparatus for detection of optical elements: A method and apparatus for detection of optical elements. The apparatus includes an illumination unit for projecting light into a target area to illuminate the target area, and an image capture unit for capturing images of the target area in an illuminated condition and a non-illuminated condition. An image comparison...

20060228005 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A plurality of kinds of feature amounts are collected from image information and voice information on a person existing in a space, valid values of the collected feature amounts are calculated, feature amounts to be used for personal recognition are determined in the collected feature amounts on the basis of...

20060228006 - Fingerprint image evaluation method and fingerprint verification device: The present invention determines whether fingerprint ridgeline information is contained within the fingerprint image using a simple method by considering the properties of the fingerprint ridgeline. In this fingerprint image evaluation method, a density is obtained of a reference point provided within the fingerprint image and a density is obtained...

20060228007 - Image processing: In image processing, parallel and synchronous pixel processing elements have a pixel value register, a neighbour value register, and a processor receiving adjacent pixel and neighbour values for four adjacent pixels. In a series of iterations, the neighbour value register is updated with—in one mode—the maximum and—in another mode—the minimum...

20060228008 - Method and apparatus for analyzing biological tissues: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing images of irregularly shaped objects, such as biological specimens, in particular of human or animal origin, or images thereof. The metric quantification of a biological body part or tissue or of a material spot or aggregate of any...

20060228011 - Method and apparatus for measuring motion of a subject using a series of partial images from an imaging system: A line scan imager is used to determine the motion of a subject. Each line of image data from the line scan imager is compared with a reference image. The location of a matching line in the reference image reveals the displacement of the subject. The current subject displacement can...

20060228009 - Method and system for automatically segmenting organs from three dimensional computed tomography images: A method for automatically segmenting image data of an object includes selecting a seed, creating an initial surface around the seed, preprocessing the image data, running a deformable surface algorithm on the image data and post processing the image data. Selecting the seed includes at least one of selecting one...

20060228010 - Scanning system and calibration method for capturing precise three-dimensional information of objects: A scanning system includes a hand-held scanning device that generates two-dimensional images of a pattern reflected off an object. The system also includes a memory and processing unit. The memory stores a calibration table for the scanner and received scanned bitmap images. The processing unit generates three-dimensional information as to...

20060228013 - Estimation of solitary pulmonary nodule diameters with a hybrid segmentation approach: A method for estimating a diameter of an object of interest, includes extracting a sub-volume of voxels around a marker identifying a location of the object of interest, and determining a segmentation result identifying an edge of the object of interest by a reactive-diffusion method. The method further includes performing...

20060228014 - Estimation of solitary pulmonary nodule diameters with reaction-diffusion segmentation: A reactive-diffusion method for estimating a diameter of an object of interest includes providing a volume of interest including a plurality of voxels, initializing at least two volumes of the volume of interest, wherein each of the voxels has at least two values corresponding to the at least two volumes...

20060228012 - Image display apparatus and image display method: An image display apparatus comprises a reference image display unit, a setting unit, an image generating unit and a tomographic image display unit. The reference image display unit displays a reference image on a display unit. The setting unit setups a display range of tomographic images in a first direction...

20060228015 - System and method for detection and display of diseases and abnormalities using confidence imaging: The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer instructions for improved detection and display of abnormal regions in mammals such as tumors, lesions, and other abnormalities (collectively referred to as abnormalities). In a preferred embodiment, a system and process is disclosed for classification of image points in the spatial...

20060228016 - Image analysis of the golgi complex: Methods, code and apparatus analyze cell images to automatically identify and characterize the Golgi complex in individual cells. This is accomplished by first locating the cells in the image and defining boundaries of those cells that subsume some or all of the Golgi complex of those cells. The Golgi complex...

20060228017 - Impurity measuring method and device: An impurity measuring device includes a table (T) on which a sample (S) is to be placed with its fracture surface (h) facing up, an illuminating means (7) for irradiating the fracture surface (h) with light (L) from a plurality of directions, an image sensing means for sensing an image...

20060228018 - Reconfigurable machine vision system: A machine vision inspection system. The system includes a plurality of cells adjustably interconnected, and a plurality of vision elements. Each vision element can be adjustably supported within one of the cells. The cells and the vision elements can be selectively configured to define a vision arrangement capable of high-resolution...

20060228019 - System and method for three dimensional change detection and measurement of a scene using change analysis: A method (100) comprises steps of: receiving a first digital model (102) of a first three-dimensional scene comprising at least one object; receiving a second digital model (112) of a second three-dimensional scene comprising at least one object; and performing a change analysis (102) on the first and second digital...

20060228020 - Image projection apparatus and image output apparatus: An image projection apparatus includes an item selection unit which selects one of items to be image-adjusted, a first image generation unit which generates a plurality of images acquired by subjecting a target to be projected to image adjustment, in different adjusting levels, the image adjustment corresponding to an item...

20060228021 - Method and system for producing fabrics with a large number of colors: A method for reproducing by means of weaving a maximum number M of loom colors, an image formed or deemed to be suitably representable by a number of colors greater than M, comprises the phases of defining zones in the image, each one of which is formed or deemed to...

20060228023 - Image processing apparatus using alpha plane and method thereof: In an image processing apparatus and method, image data includes both color and alpha components. During processing, only the color component of the image data is stored in a memory. Display image data are then generated in response to the color component data retrieved from the memory and the alpha...

20060228022 - Method and apparatus of false color suppression: A false-color suppression method for correcting a pixel value of a target position of an output frame corresponding to a target field is disclosed. The false-color suppression method includes determining whether the target position has motion; determining whether image corresponding to the target position meets a predetermined condition; and if...

20060228024 - Method for adjusting an image sensor: A method and a processing unit for adjusting the characteristic curve of the exposure sensitivity of at least one pixel of at least one image sensor in a motor vehicle are described. The optimal characteristic curve of the exposure sensitivity is determined from the histogram of the gray values of...

20060228027 - Dynamically reconfigurable signal processing circuit, pattern recognition apparatus, and image processing apparatus: A plurality of signal processing functions are achieved with the same arithmetic processing circuit by controlling wiring arrangements or signal modulation in accordance with a predetermined arrangement control signal that is output based on circuit arrangement information read from a circuit arrangement information storage unit. Hierarchical parallel processing is realized...

20060228026 - Method for detecting objects in an image using pair-wise pixel discriminative features: A method for detecting an object in an image includes calculating a log L likelihood of pairs of pixels at select positions in the image that are derived from training images. The calculated log L likelihood of the pairs of pixels is compared with a threshold value. The object is...

20060228025 - Portable electronic device having a pattern identification system: A portable electronic device having a pattern identification system includes a substrate, an illumination device, a video camera unit (containing a controllable camera lens), a controller, a programmable identification element and a display unit. The substrate is electrically connected to the illumination device, the video camera unit, the controller, the...

20060228031 - Fast adaptive lifting lossless wavelet transform: An adaptive lifting transform provides lossless image data compression on an improved edge prediction process. The adaptive predictor works on pixel-by-pixel basis that does not need bookkeeping overhead, especially for integer-to-integer wavelet transform for reducing the number of lifting steps for use in JPEG2000 image compression....

20060228028 - Image compression device and method: An image compression device is disclosed that is capable of quickly compressing image data to a target value by a simple configuration while maintaining quality of a reproduced image as much as possible. The image compression device includes an encoding part, a code reduction part, and a processing part. The...

20060228030 - Method and system for image compression for use with scanners: A method and system for compressing scan lines of image data in a first orientation as an image in a second orientation that includes receiving the one or more scan lines of image data in the first orientation, organizing the scan lines into blocks of image data and compressing one...

20060228029 - Method and system for video clip compression: In a method for compressing a video clip containing audio content and image content, an image and/or an audio portion of individual video frames of the video clip are analyzed. Next frame scores are calculated for the video frames. Each frame score is based on at least one image attribute...

20060228032 - Fast lifting lossless wavelet transform: The lifting transform reduces the number of lifting steps in lossless data compression while improving the overall rounding errors incurred in the real-to-integer conversion process at each of the lifting steps. The compression ratio increases when used for lossless image data compression. The lifting transform further saves memory space and...

20060228033 - Image transmission method, computer-readable image transmission program, recording medium, and image transmission apparatus: An image transmission method comprises the steps of: receiving a request including request information having size information concerning an image and/or area information concerning the image; reconstructing small image areas by taking out code words constituting the small image areas based on the request information, the code words being independent...

20060228034 - Digital diaphragm system: A digital diaphragm system is provided which is capable of realizing a focusing effect without using a diaphragm mechanism while greatly reducing the amount of data processing and shortening the processing time. With regions of interest set in an image a digital diaphragm effect is applied to the image by...

20060228035 - Image processing device and image processing method: The present invention provides an image processing method and device which can both quickly and easily execute a pseudo halftone process with a large number of output gray levels and which can always execute the pseudo halftone process in the same manner regardless of the number of output gray scales....

20060228040 - Method and system for enhancing portrait image that are processed in a batch mode: A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one or more original...

20060228037 - Method and system for enhancing portrait images that are processed in a batch mode: A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one or more original...

20060228038 - Method and system for enhancing portrait images that are processed in a batch mode: A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one or more original...

20060228039 - Method and system for enhancing portrait images that are processed in a batch mode: A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one or more original...

20060228036 - Volumetric image enhancement system and method: A technique is described for enhancing three dimensional or volumetric image data, such as thick slice or slab data, or data for slices stacked in a third dimension orthogonal to an imaging plane. The technique processes the image data by reference to data parameters both in two dimensions and in...

20060228041 - Optical lithography verification process: An apparatus and method for optical lithography verification includes filtering a lithography simulation of proposed sub-lightwave pattern formations during at least one design phase or manufacturing phase of an article of manufacture having sub-lightwave structures and then detecting design phase or manufacturing phase defects in response to the filtering of...

20060228043 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus receives an input image signal and performs an enhancement process on a high frequency component included in the input image signal based on a low frequency component of the input image signal. The apparatus extracts a low frequency component from the input image signal and combines...

20060228042 - Use of frequency transforms in the analysis of image sensors: A method for detecting and removing noise from an image, the method includes the steps of applying a frequency transform to the image for obtaining a magnitude image; applying a threshold value to values of the magnitude image for obtaining threshold values; setting one or more threshold values to a...

20060228044 - Method for automatically cropping image objects: A method for automatically cropping image objects, including: an object contour detecting step, an image dividing step, and an image merging step. The object contour detecting step detects object contours with Modified Laplacian Contour Detector to generate a binary image. The image dividing step divides the binary image into a...

20060228045 - Information processing apparatus, control method and control program for registration of information related to ground tint: In an information processing apparatus, an image pattern of a background and an image pattern of a latent image are selected from image patterns stored in a storage unit. Image data of a ground tint is generated based on the selected image patterns. Following display of the generated image data...

20060228047 - Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program: An image processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a plurality of images having different aspect ratios can be displayed with minimized distortion on the same display screen. An image processing apparatus records a thumbnail image with an aspect ratio of 4:3. When a thumbnail image whose aspect ratio is...

20060228046 - Method and apparatus for current-mode adc: A current-mode analog-to-digital (IADC) has subnA sensitivity. An IADC cell receives an input current signal and provides an output to a comparator for comparison with an adjustable input reference signal. A digital output signal is generated and an analog output is provided to the next cell....

20060228048 - Context aware video conversion method and playback system: A computer implemented method converts and displays a video. An input video acquired of a scene is segmented into shots. Similar shots are combined sequentially into corresponding chains. Each frame of the input video is then rendered into a composite image according to the chains and templates....

20060228049 - Method for capturing images comprising a measurement of local motions: A method for capturing a sequence of video images, by means of an imager including an estimation of the parameters of a model of global motion between successive images. In one embodiment, the method comprises a measurement of local motions on edges of the images, and the estimation of the...

20060228050 - Method for calibrating 3d image sensors: The invention relates to a method for calibrating 3D image sensors. Work tolerances, temperature variations and aging processes result in that the various pixels in a receiving array deviate from one another to different degrees. The aim of the invention is therefore to calibrate the entire receiving array with respect...

20060222203 - Versatile watermark transport system: Watermark data may be transported by preprocessing one or more elementary data streams. Preprocessing may be achieved by demultiplexing the elementary data stream or by including an extra elementary data stream among the elementary data stream. To insert a watermark in either the elementary data stream or extra elementary data...

20060222204 - Method and system for address result arbitration: A method to arbitrate between results obtained from observationally data derived by several procedures....

20060222206 - Intelligent video behavior recognition with multiple masks and configurable logic inference module: Methodology of implementing complex behavior recognition in an intelligent video system includes multiple event detection defining activity in different areas of the scene (“What”), multiple masks defining areas of a scene (“Where”), configurable time parameters (“When”), and a configurable logic inference engine to allow Boolean logic analysis based on any...

20060222205 - Tracking objects in low frame rate videos: A method tracks a moving object in a video acquired of a scene with a camera. A background model is maintained for each frame, and moving objects are detected according to changes in the background model. An object model is maintained for the moving object, and kernels are generated for...

20060222207 - Device for a motor vehicle used for the three-dimensional detection of a scene inside or outside said motor vehicle: An apparatus in a motor vehicle for spatial detection of a scene inside and/or outside the motor vehicle has a LIDAR sensor, which is coupled to an electronic detection device, and an image sensor, which is connected to an image processing device for recording and evaluation of images of the...

20060222208 - Method for the early detection of the arrival of a motor vehicle in a dark sector: The present invention relates in particular to a method for the early detection of the arrival of a motor vehicle in a dark sector. In general terms, the invention proposes to use a camera for early detection of the arrival of the vehicle in a dark area, for example a...

20060222209 - Wide-area site-based video surveillance system: A computer-readable medium contains software that, when read by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method for wide-area site-based surveillance. The method includes receiving surveillance data, including view targets, from a plurality of sensors at a site; synchronizing the surveillance data to a single time source; maintaining a...

20060222213 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system and recording medium for programs therefor: An image processing apparatus, for example, a multi-camera monitoring system is provided for processing images with the intention of protecting the individuals' privacies in accordance with the type of customers in a store which is equipped with the multi-camera monitoring system, and for deleting or modifying individuals' privacy information to...

20060222214 - Image sensing device and control method thereof: An image sensing device is provided that collects the speech and image of a person to be sensed and carries out recognition of collected speech. When the image sensing device determines as the recognition result that the speech represents a predetermined sentence, the image sensing device performs recognition on an...

20060222212 - One-dimensional iris signature generation system and method: An iris recognition system and method generates a one-dimensional iris signature that is translation, rotation, illumination and scale invariant. It allows users to enroll poor quality iris images that would be rejected by conventional methods. In addition, the system and method generates a list of possible matches instead of only...

20060222211 - System and method for collection, storage, and analysis of biometric data: The disclosed system and method utilizes a plurality of biometric sensing and recording apparati as a means of observing, tracking, and identifying people. In particular, biometric data is collected, stored, sorted, and/or analyzed, creating a composite profile of one or more individuals regardless of whether or not their identity is...

20060222210 - System, method and computer program product for determining whether to accept a subject for enrollment: Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product are described for determining whether to accept a subject for enrollment in a biometric system. In accordance with one embodiment, a template may be generated from feature vectors extracted from a first instance of a biometric input obtained from a subject....

20060222215 - Method and apparatus of detecting eye using symmetry and moment characteristics of object: Provided are a method and apparatus of detecting an eye using symmetrical and moment characteristics of an object. According to the method, an eye band is extracted from a facial image, and eye candidates each having symmetry are detected by extracting symmetrical component from the eye band. After that, a...

20060222216 - Electrical apparatus and method of communication between an apparatus and a user: An electric apparatus and a method of communication between an apparatus and a user are described. The apparatus comprises sensor means, for example, a camera (18) for detecting objects (34, 36) in its proximity. The position of objects (34, 36) is stored in a memory (M). A directional pointing unit...

20060222217 - Method, apparatus, and program for discriminating faces: A face discrimnating process judges whether a discrimination target image is an image of a face, based on characteristic amounts of the discrimination target image. A first and a second brightness gradation converting process are administered as preliminary processes. The first brightness gradation converting process is administered on regions in...

20060222218 - Detecting device and authentication device: A detecting device includes: multiple sensors composed with a plurality of sensor circuits arrayed on a plane, each of which generates at least one detected signal that corresponds to a distance from a surface of an object; a selector circuit which selects each of the sensor circuits and outputs the...

20060222226 - Analysis, secure access to, and transmission of array images: Systems and methods are provided the autocentering, autofocusing, acquiring, decoding, aligning, analyzing and exchanging among various parties, images, where the images are of arrays of signals associated with ligand-receptor interactions, and more particularly, ligand-receptor interactions where a multitude of receptors are associated with microparticles or microbeads. The beads are encoded...

20060222227 - Analysis, secure access to, and transmission of array images: Systems and methods are provided the autocentering, autofocusing, acquiring, decoding, aligning, analyzing and exchanging among various parties, images, where the images are of arrays of signals associated with ligand-receptor interactions, and more particularly, ligand-receptor interactions where a multitude of receptors are associated with microparticles or microbeads. The beads are encoded...

20060222224 - Biological information measuring apparatus and method for controlling the apparatus: A biological information measuring apparatus includes a plurality of light emission sections, a plurality of light detection sections, and a control section. Each light emission section injects, into a living organism, a spectrum-modulated light beam having a specific wavelength. The control section acquires a spread code sequence employed by each...

20060222225 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes: an image storing section to store images imaged by modalities; an image selecting section to allow a user to select an image to be displayed out of images stored in the image storing section; an image processing condition storing section to store a plurality of...

20060222222 - Medical image processing apparatus and program: A medical image processing apparatus includes: an abnormal shadow candidate detection section for performing an image analysis of a medical image and for carrying out a detection of a candidate region for an abnormal shadow from the medical image; and a judgment section for setting only a candidate region detected...

20060222220 - Method for detecting specified polymer crystal: In a specific macromolecule crystal detecting method according to the present invention, ultraviolet light is irradiated to sample solution, and a fluorescent image emitted from a sample in the sample solution is detected to detect specific macromolecules in the sample solution. Furthermore, by detecting the outline of the sample from...

20060222223 - Methods and systems for analyzing bone conditions using mammography device: Methods and systems for analyzing bone tissue using a mammography device is provided. Image data is obtained from the mammography device and used to generate a bone condition profile. The bone condition profile includes use of radiographic absorptiometry methods to construct a representative mammography profile of a particular sample tissue....

20060222221 - Systems and methods for image segmentation with a multi-stage classifier: The systems and methods described herein provide for fast and accurate image segmentation through the application of a multi-stage classifier to an image data set. An image processing system is provided having a processor configured to apply a multi-stage classifier to the image data set to identify a distinctive region....

20060222219 - Volume visualization using tissue mix: A method is presented to calculate the relative contribution of different tissues, or tissue mix, to at least one data element in a medical object data set, the medical object data set containing data elements, the data elements assigning data values to respective positions in a multi-dimensional geometrical space containing...

20060222228 - Bone density screening and mammography cad system: A method and system adapted to analyze a radiograph for bone mineral density screening and mammography computer aided detection. The method of analyzing a radiograph includes the steps of: providing a digital image based on the radiograph; determining whether a radiographic absorptiometry analysis or computer aided detection analysis is desired;...

20060222229 - Image processing apparatus and method, photographing system, controlling method for the system, and computer-readable memory: This invention has as its object to provide an image processing system and a control method for the system, a photographing system and a control method for the system, and a computer-readable memory, which can efficiently photograph without any increase in X-ray dose for a person to be examined. To...

20060222230 - Genuine note determination system and operation method thereof, value media processing device and operation method thereof, flow line control server and flow line control method, surveillance control server and surveillance control method, hall control se: In surveillance for the use of forged notes based on a genuine note determination program, and rapid updating of the genuine note determination programs, a dispensing machine receives a note inserted by a player, the characteristic information of the inserted note is extracted, and based on the characteristic information it...

20060222231 - Apparatus and method for inspecting golf balls using threshold analysis: A method for inspecting golf balls is disclosed. An imager such as a camera captures a digital image of the golf ball. The golf ball image is separated into regions, and a brightness level is determined for each region using a histogram tool. The brightness level of the region is...

20060222232 - Appearance inspection apparatus and appearance inspection method: The invention provides an appearance inspection apparatus and an appearance inspection method wherein, in addition to defect information, information indicating differences between images used for inspecting the appearance of samples is reported to the user, thereby making it possible to present the differences between the samples which the user has...

20060222233 - Pattern defect inspection method and apparatus using image correction technique: An image correction method employable in a pattern inspection method for emitting light falling onto a workpiece with a pattern formed thereon and for inspecting a pattern image resulting from the pickup of an optical image of the workpiece by comparing it to a corresponding fiducial pattern image is disclosed....

20060222235 - Defect inspection method: By irradiating a substrate to be inspected with an energy beam, the energy beam reflected from the substrate to be inspected is obtained as a digital image signal. When the intensity of the obtained digital image signal exceeds a threshold, the digital image signal is detected as a defect. The...

20060222234 - Inspection system for and method of inspecting deposits printed on workpieces: An inspection system for and method of inspecting deposits printed on workpieces through a printing screen, the system comprising: a camera unit movable relative to a printing screen, where comprising a body including a plurality of apertures, and a workpiece on which deposits are printed through the apertures of the...

20060222236 - Substrate positioning device, substrate positioning method and program: Noise reduction processing for detecting the circumferential edge of a wafer W placed on a rotary stage with a light-transmitting sensor, obtaining detection values provided by the light-transmitting sensor as substrate edge shape data, detecting sudden abnormal data in the substrate edge shape data, eliminating the detected sudden abnormal data...

20060222237 - Method and apparatus for inspecting an object after stamping: A method and apparatus for inspecting an object after stamping is described. The method and apparatus comprises determining a temperature distribution of an object after stamping; obtaining one or more thermal images of the object after stamping; and comparing the determined temperature distribution with the obtained thermal images so as...

20060222238 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A first image obtained by taking a moving object at a frame time point t by a first imaging device, a second image obtained by taking the moving object at a frame time point t+Δt by a second imaging device having a view point different from that of the first...

20060222239 - Systems and methods for detecting text: The subject invention relates to facilitating text detection. The invention employs a boosted classifier and a transductive classifier to provide accurate and efficient text detection systems and/or methods. The boosted classifier is trained through features generated from a set of training connected components and labels. The boosted classifier utilizes the...

20060222240 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and color image determination method thereof: The inventive image processing apparatus takes steps of 1) dividing an image to be processed into numerals of blocks; 2) determining whether a block is a color block or not; 3) determining whether the image is a color image or not based on the rate of color blocks to the...

20060222241 - Image transmitting apparatus, image receiving apparatus, and image transmission system: An image transmitter has a color difference differential calculating unit configured to calculate color difference differential data relating to a difference between a current predicting value predicted based on previous image data and current actual image data, a multi-valued generator configured to generate multi-valued data corresponding to the color difference...

20060222242 - Color balance correction based on color cast attribute: An image processing apparatus executes color balance correction of an image composed of multiple pixels. The image processing apparatus comprises a representative value calculation unit and a correction processor. The representative value calculation unit calculates, based on signal values of the pixels included in a skin tone area that includes...

20060222243 - Extraction and scaled display of objects in an image: A method, system and apparatus perform detection and scaled display of objects in an image. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an image that includes a face of a person. The method also includes extracting a part of the image that includes the face. The method includes scaling the...

20060222244 - Grouping items in video stream images into events: A technique is disclosed for determining a group in which to add a new image set. The new image set is captured by one or more cameras in a video surveillance system. Similarity scores are generated between the new image set and one or more image sets of a plurality...

20060222245 - Image encoding apparatus: An image encoding apparatus includes an extracting unit and a replacing unit. An image is subjected to quantized orthogonal transformation and quantization, and quantized orthogonal transform coefficients are grouped and encoded group-wise. The extracting unit extracts, from among a group of quantized orthogonal transform coefficients, those quantized orthogonal transform coefficients...

20060222246 - Screen data transmitting device: A screen data transmitting device for transmitting screen data to a screen display terminal through a network. A generation device generates a display image data. A storage device stores compression properties information associating a plurality of compression schemes with a plurality of classes of graphical user interface (GUI) components. A...

20060222248 - Computational graceful degradation method using priority information in multiple objects case: A computational graceful degradation method is disclosed using priority information in multiple objects case. The method degrades the amount of computation in different ratio every object using the priority information if computational power of a decoder does not come up to that necessary for processing encoded multimedia data as decoding...

20060222247 - Hardware implementation of inverse scan for a plurality of standards: Presented herein are hardware implementations for inverse scanning for a plurality of standards. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for decoding video data. The system comprises an inverse scanner for inverse scanning video data encoded in accordance with a first encoding standard and for inverse scanning video data...

20060222249 - Image-comparing apparatus, image-comparing method, image-retrieving apparatus and image-retrieving method: A compressed and encoded image is compared with a specific image to determine whether they are identical to the specific image, without completely decoding the compressed and encoded images. An image substantially identical to a specific image is retrieved from compressed and encoded video contents, without completely decoding the compressed...

20060222250 - Decoding of predicted dc coefficient without division: A technique for eliminating the division in decoding a predicted DC coefficient includes calculating and storing the values of 1//DC_scalar in a table. This allows one to convert a division into a multiplication....

20060222252 - Apparatus and method for encoding multi-view video using camera parameters, apparatus and method for generating multi-view video using camera parameters, and recording medium storing program for implementing the methods: A method of encoding multi-view video using camera parameters and a method of decoding multi-view video using the camera parameters are provided. The method of encoding multi-view video using the camera parameters includes detecting the camera parameters from each of a plurality of video data input from a multi-view camera...

20060222251 - Method and system for frame/field coding: Described herein is a system and method for encoding video data with motion estimation. The system and method can optimize memory usage and enhance the perceptual quality of an encoded picture by combining the processes in adaptive frame/field coding....

20060222256 - Device, method, and program for compressing image data: An image data compression device for rapidly compressing the file to a desired capacity is provided. The image data compression device comprising a compression target capacity value storage device for storing compression target capacity value defined in advance; a compression processing information storage device for storing information in the compression...

20060222255 - Image enhancement device: An image enhancement device is obtained which is capable of extracting, as regions of interest, still objects or objects with smaller motion vectors, or regions located out of the central area of an image. An image processing module (22) applies memorized-color correction to image data, and then stores, in an...

20060222253 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program and recording medium: An image processing apparatus which creates and delivers an image file whose layer can be managed comprises a first image data acquisition unit which acquires first image data, a second image data acquisition unit which acquires second image data, receiving unit for receiving a delivery destination of the created image...

20060222254 - Method and apparatus for compression using reversible wavelet transforms and an embedded codestream: A compression and decompression system in which a reversible wavelet filter are used to generates coefficients from input data, such as image data. The reversible wavelet filter is an efficient transform implemented with integer arithmetic that has exact reconstruction. The present invention uses the reversible wavelet filter in a lossless...

20060222258 - Image restoration with gain control and shoot suppression: A image restoration process using gain control and shoot suppression is provided. For each sample of the input observed image, a restored sample is determined by image restoration. Further, a shoot suppression coefficient is calculated by a shoot detector. A global gain is multiplied to a detail component, wherein the...

20060222257 - Trc smoothing algorithm to improve image contours in 1d color controls: Printing occurs when a marking engine deposits ink on a substrate to produce a pattern. The printed pattern can differ from the desired pattern when the marking engine is out of adjustment, the substrate and ink do not interact optimally, or for other reasons. A tone reproduction curve can be...

20060222259 - Information processing apparatus and image processing method: An information processing apparatus processes image data which is composed of a plurality of blocks. The information processing apparatus includes a determination unit which determines, for each of the blocks, whether a difference value between a maximum pixel value and a minimum pixel value, which belong to the block, is...

20060222260 - Image capture apparatus, image processing method for captured image, and recording medium: A digital camera (1) shoots a document plural times from different directions to obtain a plurality of images. An image processing device included in the digital camera (1) corrects the keystone distortion of each image to generate an image which seems as if the document were shot from in front...

20060222261 - Use of frequency transforms in the analysis of image sensors: A method for detecting and removing noise from an image, the method includes the steps of applying a frequency transform to the image for obtaining a magnitude image; applying a threshold value to values of the magnitude image for obtaining threshold values; setting one or more threshold values to a...

20060222262 - Method of evaluating quality of image and use thereof: A method of evaluating the quality of an image includes a step of determining at least a parameter concerning a zone or a parameter concerning a distribution pattern of sampling points within the zone. This step is performed based on the image. For each zone, Fourier analysis is performed using...

20060222263 - Linear measurement machine-readable medium, method and system: Linear measurements of items are made by selecting a field of view including the items. A reference marker of known length is placed in the field of view. A digital image of which is taken and stored. Digital image information is processed by a program, and with the reference marker...

20060222264 - Method for vertically orienting a face shown in a picture: What has become a widespread function in mobile or stationary communication terminals is taking pictures using cameras integrated in the mobile communication terminals. The pictures are taken sideways or upright depending on the specific situation, but other orientations also occur. Once taken, the pictures can be displayed directly on small...

20060222265 - Scale-space self-similarity image processing: Image processing includes computing image ft from image fs, where images ft and fs are representations of a self-similar image at scales t and s in a scale-space, where t<s. Such processing may adapted for image deblurring, denoising and upscaling....

20060222266 - Method of and apparatus for forming a final image sequence: A method of and apparatus for forming a final image sequence from an initial image sequence by adding new pixels to the original image sequence is disclosed. An energy of the final image sequence and its displacement field is defined in terms of one or more of (i) the local...

20060222269 - Image interpolation apparatus and image interpolation method: An image interpolation apparatus which generates a single frame of image data interpolated using pixel data in a plurality of fields input in time-series order while switching a line reading method periodically, comprises a direction decision section configured to detect a direction in which there is a strong correlation in...

20060222267 - Method and apparatus for pixel interpolation: A pixel interpolation method for interpolating pixel values of a plurality of target positions of a target picture is disclosed. The pixel interpolation method includes: dynamically setting a plurality of edge detection ranges corresponding to the plurality of target positions, respectively; and for each of the plurality of target positions,...

20060222268 - Pixel interpolation apparatus and pixel interpolation program product: To generate the pixel value of one interpolation point from the pixel values of the four original pixels in the surroundings of the interpolation point, when the pixel values of the four involve a predetermined density difference, a printer uses the corrected inverse distance value in place of the inverse...