Image analysis inventions 12/06

20060291690 - Digital fingerprints and watermarks for images: A method of dividing an image into grid regions for the application of a watermark or fingerprint uses a calculation of centroid of the image to centre the grid and uses centroids of portions of the image to set the size of the grid.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060291692 - Information processing apparatus having learning function for character dictionary: A search processing section searches information stored in an address database, using a first character series, e.g., a postal code input through an input device as a search key, for a second character series corresponding to an address. A character recognition processing section performs character recognition with respect to a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060291691 - System and method for image lift with enhanced image capture: A system and method for lifting an enhanced image of a delivery item using a first low-resolution color scanner to lift a first image of the delivery item, analyzing the first image with a processor to determine a color of the delivery item, using the color information to adjust the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060291694 - Detection of change in posture in video: Input video data is processed to detect a change in a posture of a person shown in the video data. The change of posture may be the result of an event, for example, the person falling or getting up. The input video data may include a plurality of frames. Objects... Agent: Venable LLP

20060291693 - Real-time multistage infrared image-based tracking system: A multi-stage infrared (IR) image-based tracking system is provided that accurately identifies and tracks targets across a variety of different situations and environmental conditions. The system includes primary and secondary trackers. The secondary tracker supports the primary tracker by identifying and tracking targets when the primary tracker loses or fails... Agent: Stephen W. Palan Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P.

20060291696 - Subspace projection based non-rigid object tracking with particle filters: A method tracks non-rigid objects in a video acquired of a cluttered scene by a camera. The method uses a particle filter. The tracking includes the following steps: motion transition estimation, contour deformation detection, and contour regulation. The method uses a dynamic affine transform model and employs the particle filter... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20060291695 - Target detection and tracking from overhead video streams: A technique for video processing includes: receiving video from an overhead view of a scene; detecting moving pixels in the video; detecting line segments in the video based on detected moving pixels; identifying targets in the video based on the detected line segments; tracking targets in the video based on... Agent: Venable LLP

20060291698 - Image generation device and method for vehicle: A device and method for easy correction of camera installation errors in a vehicle. A device comprises an input frame buffer receiving pixel data representing camera-generated images, a rearrangement table describing rules for rearrangement of the pixel data, an error-correction table describing rules for adjusting the pixel data to correct... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20060291697 - Method and apparatus for detecting the presence of an occupant within a vehicle: Systems and methods are provided for detecting an occupant within a vehicle. An image of a vehicle interior, containing depth information for a plurality of image pixels, is generated at an image sensor (110). The vehicle interior is divided into at least one blob of contiguous pixels (160). The at... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20060291699 - Identity and signature verification system: An identity authentication system which uses a user identification from a digital key together with a representation of evidence of identity of a user in determining if the proper party is providing the “signature”. The authentication of the “signing” individual is made by an authorizing computer which has a memory... Agent: Mark E. Ogram

20060291700 - Internet signature verification system: A signature authentication system which uses a digital key having a user identification stored therein. The digital key is read by a signatory computer; another computer has a document stored therein. The invention provides an authorizing computer having the capability to: receive the user identification from the signatory computer and... Agent: Mark E. Ogram

20060291701 - User discrimination system, user discrimination method and storage medium storing a program: A user discrimination system includes a database to store a correspondence between a pen device and feature information of a rightful user of the pen device, a database management part to acquire, when the pen device is used, the feature information corresponding to the pen device from the database, and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060291702 - Pupil detection device and iris authentication apparatus: A plurality of concentric circles are each set on an eye image respectively as integrating circle Ci, and an image data extraction unit that extracts the eye image data along integrating circle Ci, a contour integrating unit that integrates the image data extracted by the image data extraction unit along... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060291703 - Method and apparatus for aggressive compression, storage and verification of the dynamics of handwritten signature signals: The fields of biometrics and commerce can benefit from the aggressive compression techniques presented here. A novel approach to compressing the on-line handwriting signal without losing the dynamic information (i.e., velocity and order) is presented which provides the means to fit almost any signature sample within the 57-byte limit of... Agent: Dr. Homayoon Beigi

20060291704 - Apparatus and method for obtaining images using a prism: An improved apparatus and method for obtaining images through a prism are provided. In an embodiment, a thin fingerprint prism wedge, with a geometry designed to minimize foreshortening and maximize contrast, is provided in an optical path between an optical sensor and an object to be imaged. In some embodiments,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20060291708 - Digital medical image analysis: A medical image is analyzed using an algorithm requiring input parameters. Values of the input parameters are derived from metadata, indicating properties of the medical image. For example, the metadata may indicate the type of image acquisition device or settings used to create the medical image. In another example, the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20060291705 - Method and device for reconstructing two-dimensional sectional images: The invention relates to a method and device for reconstructing two-dimensional sectional images from a three- or four-dimensional image data set of an object, for example the left ventricle. The method comprises the steps of calculating an anatomical long axis through the object, such that the length and/or shape of... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. Eric D. Cohen

20060291709 - Method for creation of an overview of medical data sets: In a method for creation of an overview of medical data sets, a plurality of medical data sets exist regarding a patient and the data sets are associated with categories, and an overview image of at least one part of the patient is generated by means of an imaging modality.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20060291706 - Method of extracting intensity data from digitized image: A method for reducing optical crosstalk in an optical array detector is provided. In various embodiments, the method can include measuring optical emission within a first region of interest (ROI) using a first plurality of pixels of the optical array detector, wherein each of the first plurality of pixels provides... Agent: Mila Kasan, Patent Dept. Applied Biosystems

20060291707 - Phase based digital imaging: The present invention relates to systems and methods for medical imaging. Digital images are processed to provide phase images of a region of interest to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of various conditions. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides improved mammography screening for cancerous or precancerous conditions.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20060291710 - Drr generation and enhancement using a dedicated graphics device: DRR generation and enhancement using a dedicated graphics device are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a process for generating DRR (digitally reconstructed radiography) images includes, but is not limited to, loading a volume rendering program into a graphics device, the volume rendering program representing a predetermined algorithm... Agent: Accuray/blakely

20060291711 - Imaging chain for digital tomosynthesis on a flat panel detector: A method of creating and displaying images resulting from digital tomosynthesis performed on a subject using a flat panel detector is disclosed. The method includes the step of acquiring a series of x-ray images of the subject, where each x-ray image is acquired at different angles relative to the subject.... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20060291712 - System and method for hilbert phase imaging: Hilbert phase microscopy (HPM) as an optical technique for measuring high transverse resolution quantitative phase images associated with optically transparent objects. Due to its single-shot nature, HPM is suitable for investigating rapid phenomena that take place in transparent structures such as biological cells. A preferred embodiment is used for measuring... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20060291713 - Board inspecting apparatus, its parameter setting method and parameter setting apparatus: For each teaching image, a plurality of patterns of color pickup regions each include a first region for picking up a color of a first part and a second region for picking up a color of a second part are set, the color of each pixel in the first region... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20060291714 - Computer-implemented methods for detecting and/or sorting defects in a design pattern of a reticle: Various computer-implemented methods are provided. One method for sorting defects in a design pattern of a reticle includes searching for defects of interest in inspection data using priority information associated with individual defects in combination with one or more characteristics of a region proximate the individual defects. The priority information... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel, LLP

20060291715 - Machine vision system and method: Solder fillets are inspected post-reflow by illuminating firstly from one side only along a dimension through a row of components. Only pixels arising from light received normal to the joints on that side are analysed. There is then illumination from the opposite side and corresponding image analysis normal to the... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060291716 - Thermal imaging and laser scanning systems and methods for determining the location and angular orientation of a hole with an obstructed opening residing on a surface of an article: Provided are methods 100 and systems 10 for determining both the location and angular orientation of holes 12 with openings 14 on a surface 16 of an article 18 that are at least partially obstructed. In a method of the present invention, a thermal imaging and scanning system 10 that... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20060291719 - Image processing apparatus: Plural items of two-dimensional image processing and at least one item of a three-dimensional measurement process are registered in a processing item table. The items of two-dimensional image processing include at least one item of an on-first-image position specification process of specifying a position on a physical object in a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060291718 - Method for generating grid using computer: A base grid line running through each vertex of a component is generated by a computer. When the interval between the base grid lines is shorter than the shortest grid interval designated by a user, the relevant base grid line is automatically deleted. According to the number of grid lines... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060291717 - Method to define the 3d oblique cross-section of anatomy at a specific angle and be able to easily modify multiple angles of display simultaneously: The present invention provides a system and a method for simultaneously modifying one or more angles of cross-sections in one or more cross-sectional images or stacks of images of a 3D volume. A plurality of viewports is displayed to a user. Each viewport includes a 2D cross-sectional image or stack... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20060291720 - Optimized color image encoding and decoding using color space parameter data: Optimized color codecs and methods of compressing and decompressing color images using programmable color space parameters are provided. In accordance with one method of encoding a color image, input data comprising input image pixel data and color space parameters is provided. The input image pixel data is compressed based on... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060291721 - Efficiently labelling image pixels using graph cuts: A method of solving an energy minimization problem, the method comprising: a. constructing a graph representative comprising a set of nodes; two terminals; a set of N-links each connecting a pair of the nodes; and a set of T-links each connecting one of the terminals with one of the nodes;... Agent: Eric D. Cohen

20060291722 - Theater identification system utilizing identifiers projected through a screen: A method and a system for identifying a copy of an image sequence which is presented on a screen. At least one identifier distinct from the image sequence can be projected through the screen such that the identifier is displayed using visible light along with the image sequence. The identifier... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20060291723 - Material processing apparatus, material processing method and material processing program: An material processing apparatus: includes: an original information storage unit that stores an electronic data on a material having an answer column; an image input unit that obtain an image data from the material in which the answer column is filled with an answer and an accuracy judgment on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060291724 - Region extraction system, region extraction method and program: A region extraction system includes a temporary region extractor for temporarily extracting a to-be-extracted region from measured data with a region growing technique, an initial position determiner for determining an initial position of a standard model for the to-be-extracted region using the to-be-extracted region temporarily extracted, and a to-be-extracted region... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20060291725 - Method and system for data entry of handwritten symbols: A method and system for data entry of handwritten text into a computer program that is not designed to accept handwritten text is provided. In preferred embodiments, the computer program is designed to operate in a windowing environment. A data entry program receives handwritten data, recognizes the data, and sends... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert S. Michalik, PLLC

20060291726 - Object pattern detection method and its apparatus: A method to detect a given pattern in an image, as for obtaining, by a computer, transformation parameters that facilitate transformation of a template as to be overlapped with the object, comprising: inputting the template having contour points and region distinguishing information for each points; inputting contour candidate points and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291727 - Lifting ink annotations from paper: A computer-implemented system for obtaining ink annotations from paper comprises a comparator that compares an initial electronic version of a document with an electronic image of an annotated version of the document to identify a handwritten annotation. The system also includes an annotation lifter that extracts the handwritten annotation from... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060291728 - Dissipative functional microarrays for classification: The invention provides for a technique of extracting information from signals by allowing a user to select a classifier and a figure of merit for quantifying classification quality; select a transform to generate features from input data; use a recursive process of functional dissipation to generate dissipative features from features... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20060291729 - Methods and apparatus for transform coefficient filtering: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus for filtering transform coefficients are provided. Transform coefficients associated with an input bit sequence can be zeroed to provide modified transform coefficients associated with an output bit sequence. The transform coefficients may represent information in a portion of data such as a... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20060291730 - Method and apparatus for processing jpeg data in mobile communication terminal: Provided is a device for resizing a JPEG image having a nonstandard size at a predetermined ratio to output the resized image on a display unit without distortion in a mobile communication terminal. A method for processing a JPEG image in a mobile communication terminal comprises extracting image sizes (X,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060291731 - System, method and computer instructions for compression of four dimensional data: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer instructions for compression of four dimensional data. In an embodiment, a system for compression of four dimensional data includes: a compression module configured to compress four dimensional data, wherein the data includes a first three dimensional volume and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20060291732 - System and method for image file size control in scanning services: A system and method for controlling the work flow or processing of scanned images is disclosed. The system and method identify appropriate image processing techniques, particularly techniques well-suited to enable image compression yet maintain image quality so as to facilitate the storage and transmission of scanned image data.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20060291733 - Digital image context compression: A device (D) for compressing digital image data by wavelet transform, the device including a processor (PM) having i) a module (M1) for transforming image data into wavelet coefficients distributed in sub-bands, ii) a module (M2) for estimating for each coefficient, first and second sets of prediction parameters, associated respectively... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291735 - Extended haar transform: A shared lossless Haar transform and an appended Haar transform are combined to form a lossless extended Haar transform in a pipeline architecture for providing fast lossless compressed data that is reversible. The extended Haar transform also provide intrinsic decorrelation for decorrelating corrected randomly generated numbers.... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski, M1/040 The Aerospace Corporation

20060291734 - Shared haar wavelet transform: A front-end shared Haar transform is particularly adapted for cascade connection to an appended transform for providing lossless transform of an input data set, the appended transforms selected from the group consisting of an appended discrete cosine type-II (DCT-II) transform for forming a lossless DCT-II transform, an appended discrete cosine... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski The Aerospace Corporation

20060291736 - Haar wavelet transform embedded lossless type ii discrete cosine transform: A shared lossless Haar transform and an appended discrete cosine transform type-II are combined to form a discrete cosine type-II transform in a parallel pipelined architecture for providing lossless data transformation.... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski The Aerospace Corporation

20060291737 - Image signal processing device and image signal processing method: First adding circuit (101) sums an input image signal of a target pixel and a value that is derived by multiplying respective display errors of three pixels before the target pixel by one line by weighting factors. Gradation candidate converting means (102) converts the gradation of the summed image signal... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20060291739 - Apparatus, method and program for image processing: Graininess reduction processing is carried out with accuracy by finding a degree of graininess in an image. For this purpose, a parameter acquisition unit obtains a weighting parameter for a principal component representing the degree of graininess in a face region found in the image by a face detection unit,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291738 - Method of zooming image in wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same: A method and wireless terminal for zooming an image in a wireless terminal are provided, in which information of a selected image is analyzed, when a predetermined image is selected in an image edit mode; control is authorized to a second controller, if the selected image is a high resolution... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060291740 - Method of median filtering: A median filtering method makes a plurality of pixel data into a block of fixed unit area which includes a central pixel and a plurality of ambient pixels adjacent to the central pixel. Pixel data within the unit area is divided into sub unit areas which are smaller than the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060291741 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and recording medium therefor: An image processing apparatus for processing input-image data to output output-image data. The apparatus includes a plurality of image processing units operable to detect an edge-gradient direction having a largest gradient of a pixel value and an edge direction orthogonal to the edge-gradient direction for each pixel of the input-image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060291742 - Method and apparatus for enhancing image acquired by radiographic system: A method of image information enhancement in radiography relates to image information processing techniques in radiography. The method comprising steps of: normalizing an acquired image A(x,y) to form a normalized image B(x,y); filtering the normalized image B(x,y) by a low-pass filter to obtain an filtered image C(x,y); calculating a relative... Agent: Alan M. Koenck Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060291743 - Configurable motion compensation unit: According to some embodiments, a first filter receives input pixel information and provides a first output. A buffer stores the first output, and a second filter receives information from the buffer and provides output pixel information. Moreover, at least one of the first or second filters are configurable to support... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar LLC

20060291745 - Apparatus and method for compensating for defective pixel: An apparatus and a method for compensating for a defective pixel are provided. The apparatus includes a defective pixel information detecting unit and a halftoning unit. The defective pixel information detecting unit detects whether input continuous gray scale data forms a defective pixel caused by a defective image-forming element and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060291746 - Method of and apparatus for removing color noise based on correlation between color channels: A method of and apparatus for removing color noise are provided. The apparatus includes a first filtering unit, a subtracting unit, a second filtering unit, and an adding unit. The first filtering unit removes color noise from color data of a first channel among input interpolated color data and outputs... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291744 - System and method for two-dimensional keystone correction for aerial imaging: A digital keystone correction process locates image points in a corrected image from image points in a distorted image that was produced by misalignment of the axis of a sensor such as a camera. The correction process locates corrected image points by constructing intercept points that are the intersections of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20060291747 - Merging images to form a panoramic image: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for merging images of segments of a view. Methods include: receiving, from a network, a first image representing a first segment of the view and a second image representing a second segment of the view; determining the position of the second segment... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060291748 - Method and apparatus to generate a pattern image: A method of generating a pattern image includes inputting a pattern ID and a scaling ratio of a first unit pattern, reading a pattern attribute stored corresponding to the pattern ID, calculating and storing a scaling pattern attribute indicating a second unit pattern obtained by scaling the first unit pattern... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060291749 - Systems and methods for rendering symbols using non-linear scaling: Systems and methods are provided for rendering a symbol with non-linear scaling, the symbol comprising one or more elements. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for rendering a symbol and may comprise the steps of receiving a scaling instruction to scale the symbol, the scaling instruction including at... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060291750 - Dynamic reconstruction of high resolution video from low-resolution color-filtered video (video-to-video super-resolution): In one aspect, the present invention provides a dynamic super-resolution technique that is computationally efficient. A recursive computation takes as input a previously computed super-resolved image derived from a sequence of low-resolution input frames. Combining this super-resolved image with a later low-resolution input frame in the sequence, the technique produces... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20060291751 - Robust reconstruction of high resolution grayscale images from a sequence of low-resolution frames (robust gray super-resolution): A method for computing a high resolution gray-tone image from a sequence of low-resolution images uses an L1 norm minimization. In a preferred embodiment, the technique also uses a robust regularization based on a bilateral prior to deal with different data and noise models. This robust super-resolution technique uses the... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20060291752 - Apparatus and method for collection of handwritten data: A data capturing module combined with a portable data terminal of the hand-held type to record handwritten data. Using a digitized pad, the module can provide for direct input of handwritten data into the system, or a peripheral digital scanner can be employed to provide for data entry. Depending upon... Agent: Michael F. Williams Simmons, Perrine, Albright & Ellwood, P.L.C

20060285721 - Digital watermarking system according to background image pixel brightness value and digital watermarking method: A digital watermarking system and method is provided. The digital watermarking system mainly includes a storing unit, a background image obtaining module, a pixel determining module, an encrypting module, and a storing module. The storing unit is for storing text information, the text information including textual information and one or... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060285720 - Digital watermarking system according to matrix margin and digital watermarking method: A digital watermarking system and method is provided. The digital watermarking system mainly includes a storing unit (30), a text obtaining module (31), a dot matrix determining module (32), an encrypting module (33), and a storing module (34). The storing unit is for storing text information, the text information including... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060285719 - Digital watermarking system according to pixel display property and digital watermarking method: A digital watermarking system and method is provided. The digital watermarking system mainly includes a storing unit, a text obtaining module, a pixel determining module, an encrypting module, and a storing module. The storing unit is for storing text information, the text information including one or more dot matrix files.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060285722 - Optimization methods for the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digitized data: The implementations of digital watermarks can be optimally suited to particular transmission, distribution and storage mediums given the nature of digitally-sampled audio, video and other multimedia works. Watermark application parameters can be adapted to the individual characteristics of a given digital sample stream. Watermark information can be either carried in... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20060285723 - Object tracking system: A system for tracking objects across an area having a network of cameras with overlapping and non-overlapping fields of view. The system may use a combination of color, shape, texture and/or multi-resolution histograms for object representation or target modeling for the tacking of an object from one camera to another.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20060285724 - Salient motion detection system, method and program product therefor: An apparatus and method of identifying objects with salient motion in a scene and program product therefor. A region of change is identified within a scene. Optical flow is determined for the region of change. Pixels moving in a common direction are identified as seed pixels. Seed pixels are expanded... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. Yorktown

20060285725 - Authorized personnel biometric detection system preventing unauthorized use of aircraft and other potentially dangerous instruments: An authorized pilot detection system and method for controlling a variety of potentially dangerous instrumentalities such as aircraft, land vehicles, amphibious vehicles and other hand-controllable equipment, is disclosed. The system with respect to aircraft includes an interlock for enabling/disabling one of a control wheel and a joystick for controlling movement... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20060285726 - Individual authentication system, individual authentication method, and individual authentication program: The present invention has been made to provide a technique capable of easily preventing the third party from misusing the data related to an individual physical feature in the case where individual authentication is performed based on the physical feature. An individual authentication system that authenticates an individual based on... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060285727 - Infrared signature capture device: A method and system for capturing a written signature is presented. A tip of an infrared transmitting pen transmits an infrared signal to infrared sensors that are aligned along two sides of a rectangular writing surface. As a person's signature is written with the infrared transmitting pen, the sensors capture... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20060285728 - Fingerprint capture: A system and method of capturing a skin print from skin having ridges and valleys. A skin print sensor having a return/supply contact and a plurality of contact pads is provided. A finger is applied to the skin print sensor and data is stored representative of contact pads in contact... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20060285729 - Fingerprint recognition system and method: A fingerprint recognition method and system for recognizing a fingerprint by storing local fingerprint images inputted from a fingerprint sensor and compositing the stored local fingerprint images into an effective single fingerprint image. The method includes obtaining relative sliding speed and directional information between the local fingerprint images, correcting sliding... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20060285731 - Automated ultrasonic elasticity image formation with quality measure: Image data and E-mode images used in ultrasonic elasticity imaging may be automatically evaluated for quality to provide a single value used as operator feedback or for automatic selection of images for averaging or animation.... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20060285730 - Method a device and a computer program arranged to develop and execute an executable template of an image processing protocol: In a method for use in a medical environment, which is designed to develop an executable template of an image processing protocol (21), a user at step (22) selects and loads a reference image, on which at step (24) the user defines all necessary reference marks together with necessary image... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060285735 - Method and device for controlling image data acquisition and image reconstruction: In a method and a device for optimization of a combined system for the acquisition of magnetic resonance tomographic measurement data and an image reconstruction process, the image reconstruction process is already executed during the acquisition of the measurement data, by the calculation process being deconstructed into calculation packets, and... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20060285733 - Method and device for image reconstruction: In a method and processing device for image reconstruction from raw data acquired with a medical imaging examination apparatus, in particular from data of magnetic resonance tomography, an algorithm to be used for the image reconstruction is loaded into at least one reprogrammable FPGA, the reprogrammable FPGA, accesses via a... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20060285734 - Method for acquisition, analysis and representation of a medical image data set: In a method for acquisition, analysis and representation of at least one medical image data set created in a medical examination, an image data set of an examination region of an examination subject is acquired with a medical imaging apparatus, at least one display specification regarding an orientation to be... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20060285736 - Multi-user remote health monitoring system with biometrics support: A method for monitoring a condition of a user with a server in a communication network is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) storing identification information in a database within the server, the identification information being suitable for identifying at least one of (i) one or more... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20060285732 - System and method for displaying an in-vivo image stream: The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying an image stream captured by an in vivo imaging device and for displaying an image stream in a consolidated manner.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20060285737 - Image-based artifact reduction in pet/ct imaging: A method for reducing image-based artifacts in combined positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) scans. The method includes identifying pixels in a CT image having a large HU value, identifying a region surrounding the pixels, and modifying a value of each pixel within the region.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060285738 - Method and device for marking three-dimensional structures on two-dimensional projection images: The invention relates to a method and a device for marking three-dimensional structures on two-dimensional projection images of an object, with which a position marker is determined on two projection images of the object recorded from different projection directions, from which the position of the position marker in the three-dimensional... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060285739 - Evaluation pattern generating method and computer program product: An evaluation pattern generating method includes generating plural types of unit patterns based on a seed pattern group and a unit frame, the seed pattern group including plural types of seed patterns, each of the plural types of unit patterns including a pattern that corresponds to the seed pattern arranged... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060285740 - Evaluation system and evaluation method: First, an operator inputs various parameters required for a mark recognition operation including a designated position coordinate designated via a mouse and a keyboard (step 201). Then, an edge potential position closest to the designated position is selected (step 205), or an edge potential position within a predetermined range having... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060285741 - Direct vision sensor for 3d computer vision, digital imaging, and digital video: A method and apparatus for directly sensing both the focused image and the three-dimensional shape of a scene are disclosed. This invention is based on a novel mathematical transform named Rao Transform (RT) and its inverse (IRT). RT and IRT are used for accurately modeling the forward and reverse image... Agent: Muralidhara Subbarao

20060285742 - Production of color conversion profile for printing: A method and apparatus for producing a color conversion profile for use in a color inkjet printer, a color laser printer, or the like. In one embodiment, a spectral printing model converter is used to sample ink amount data to spectral reflectance Rsmp(λ). Using this spectral reflectance Rsmp(λ), colorimetric values... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20060285743 - Object based boundary refinement method: An object based boundary refinement method for object segmentation in digital images receives an image and a single initial object region of interest and performs refinement zone definition using the initial object regions of interest to generate refinement zones output. A directional edge enhancement is performed using the input image... Agent: Shih-jong J. Lee

20060285744 - Method for adjusting image display range of a document camera: A method is used with a document camera and an image display device for adjusting the image display range. The document camera includes an image synthesis controller and a graphics buffer. In the method, a first image frame and a second image frame are received by the image synthesis controller.... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20060285745 - Shape priors for level set representations: This invention relates to shape priors for level set representations. An embodiment of the invention comprises a first stage and a second stage. In the first stage, a shape model can be built directly on level set space using a collection of samples. The shape model can be constructed using... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060285746 - Computer assisted document analysis: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for computer assisted document analysis. One embodiment is a method for software execution. The method includes selecting, in response to user input, criteria in a character recognition engine to identify suspect errors in scanned documents; executing the engine on a subset of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060285747 - Image segmentation: Segmentation of foreground from background layers in an image may be provided by a segmentation process which may be based on one or more factors including motion, color, contrast, and the like. Color, motion, and optionally contrast information may be probabilistically fused to infer foreground and/or background layers accurately and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20060285748 - Document processing device: A document processing device comprises: an image capturing unit that captures an image and acquires image data; a region separating section that extracts from the image data, image data of a printed region and image data of a hand-drawn region; a printed text data acquiring section that acquires printed text... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060285749 - User-initiated reporting of handwriting recognition errors over the internet: A user may initiate or confirm a process for reporting errors in handwriting recognition errors in a computer system. A user dialog is provided in which a user may select handwriting recognition errors to report and report the selected handwriting recognition errors via a handwriting recognition error report. The report... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060285750 - Imaging apparatus, processing method of the apparatus and program making computer execute the method: An imaging apparatus includes face detection means for searching image data from at least one direction to detect a face portion in the image data; capture mode search direction instruction means for instructing a search direction of the image data to the face detection means in a capture mode, which... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060285751 - Method, apparatus and storage medium for detecting cardio, thoracic and diaphragm borders: The present invention provides a method of detecting borders in a chest image. The method comprises calculating the gray level difference between neighboring pixels of the chest image to get a differential image; filtering the differential image to reduce noise and enhance the target; binarizing the filtered image; picking out... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060285752 - Three-dimensional measuring method and three-dimensional measuring apparatus: After calibration for three-dimensional measurement has been completed, specification of a range of height to be measured is accepted, and using a homography matrix corresponding to the specified range on each of the images A0 and A1 from respective cameras, a range is extracted where a point included in the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060285753 - Medical image conversion apparatus, medical image output system and medical image output program: Disclosed is a medical image output system including: a medical image conversion apparatus to convert a file format of medical image data including received medical image information and patient character information and to transfer it; and a medical image formation apparatus to form an image of the transferred medical image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060285754 - Indoor/outdoor classification in digital images: An analysis and classification tool compares at least a portion of a captured image and a reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the captured and reference images is taken with flash and the other is taken without flash. The tool provides a measure of the difference in... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20060285755 - System and method for recognition in 2d images using 3d class models: A system and method for recognizing instances of classes in a 2D image using 3D class models and for recognizing instances of objects in a 2D image using 3D class models. The invention provides a system and method for constructing a database of 3D class models comprising a collection of... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20060285756 - Data compression apparatus and data compression program storage medium: There are provided a data compression apparatus and a data compression program capable of performing new and preferable compression processing applicable to compression of CT data. They are provided with: a thinning processing section which creates, by cyclically thinning out a numeric value from the sequence of numeric values constituting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060285758 - Form changing device, object action encoding device, and object action decoding device: A shape deformation encoding device includes: a calculation unit for calculating a difference data between a pre-deformation shape data which represents a shape of an object before shape change and a post-deformation shape data which represents a shape of the object after shape change; and a determination unit for determining... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20060285757 - Method for encoding moving image and method for decoding moving image: In the case where a deblocking filter applied to a luminance component is referred to and applied to a chrominance component, by converting a pixel position of the chrominance component so as to have a pixel position of a luminance component which belongs to a same field as the chrominance... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20060285759 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding subband decompositions of signals: An aspect of the present invention includes a method of encoding coefficients of a subband decomposition, to prepare the coefficients for compression. Another aspect of the present invention includes an inverse method of decoding coefficients of a subband decomposition, after they have been decompressed. Particular features and other aspects of... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20060285760 - System and method for progressively transforming and coding digital data: A system and method facilitating progressively transforming and coding digital pictures is provided. The present invention via employment of a multi-resolution lapped transform provides for progressive rendering as well as mitigation of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts as compared to many conventional compression systems. The invention includes a color space... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060285762 - Image completion with structure propagation: Image completion with structure propagation is described. In one aspect, synthesized patches for an unknown region in an input image are automatically generated. The synthesized patches are generated from a known region in the input image based on information from one or more curves. The one or more curves were... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060285763 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: Image data to be recovered having a loss part is input into an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus generates restoration data with the loss part corrected. The image processing apparatus includes a thinning processing unit, an end-point extraction unit, a pair-of-connection-end-point extraction unit and a connection unit. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060285761 - Processing raw and pre-processed digital images: A unified method for processing Raw and pre-processed digital images is provided. The method may include receiving digital image data and determining if the data is Raw or pre-processed. If the digital image data is Raw, the method may further include receiving modifications to the Raw image data, applying a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060285764 - Model-based line width control: Image object adjustment is achieved without lookup tables or templates. Cross sections of image objects are modeled. Parameters of the modeled cross-section are adjusted in accord with a desired effect. For example, a width of the modeled cross section is change. The changed cross section model is sampled to determine... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060285765 - Accelerative noise filtering method for image data: An accelerative noise filtering method for image data is provided. The present invention includes selecting four neighboring pixels around a target pixel in a pattern of a cross shape or X shape, and calculating the absolute value of a difference between the target pixel and each of the four neighboring... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060285766 - Selective local transient improvement and peaking for video sharpness enhancement: A method of selectively sharpening an image may include, for at least some pixels in the image, determining a frequency content associated with a pixel value in the image. The pixel may be linearly sharpened if the frequency content exceeds a threshold. The pixel may be non-linearly sharpened if the... Agent: Intel Corporation

20060285767 - Enhancing video sharpness and contrast by luminance and chrominance transient improvement: An apparatus, system, method, and article for enhancing video sharpness are described. The apparatus may include a media processing node to enhance sharpness of an input image. The media processing node may include a wavelet decomposition module to perform wavelet decomposition of the input image to detect and modify edge... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevates

20060285769 - Method, apparatus, and medium for removing shading of image: A method, apparatus, and medium for removing shading of an image are provided. The method of removing shading of an image includes: smoothing an input image; performing a gradient operation for the input image; performing normalization using the smoothed image and the images for which the gradient operation is performed;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060285768 - Video processing methods and systems: Methods and systems for adjusting color-saturation contrast of the video signal. Statistical information based on chrominance or luminance measures is analyzed to derive a gain function. The gain function is also determined according to the detection result of an exceptional situation during statistical analysis. The gain function is applied to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060285770 - Direct method for modeling non-rigid motion with thin plate spline transformation: A system and a method model the motion of a non-rigid object using a thin plate spline (TPS) transform. A first image of a video sequence is received, and a region of interest, referred to as a template, is chosen manually or automatically. A set of arbitrarily-chosen fixed reference points... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20060285771 - Method and apparatus for optimally matching data sets: A method for matching grayvalued first elements of a first data set with grayvalued second elements of a second data set so that a first distribution of the first elements optimally matches a second distribution of the second elements, said method being characterized by the following steps: mapping said first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060285772 - System and methods for creation and use of a mixed media environment: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular... Agent: Greg T. Sueoka Fenwick & West LLP

20060280331 - Authentication of secure items by shape level lines: The disclosed method and system may be used for creating advanced protection means for various categories of documents (e.g. bank notes, identity documents, certificates, checks, diploma, travel documents, tickets) and valuable products (e.g optical disks, CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, prescription drugs, products with affixed labels, watches) hereinafter called “secure items”. Secure... Agent: Roger D. Hersch Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

20060280332 - Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, decoding method, and storage medium storing programs thereof: An encoding device includes a binary image generation unit that generates at least two binary images from a multivalued image by applying different methods, a check image generation unit that generates a check image based on the plural binary images generated by the binary image generation unit, and a code... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060280335 - Extraction and tracking of image regions arranged in time series: The invention provide methods and apparatus for effectively identifying the occlusion of objects, such as persons, having a high degree of freedom. In an example embodiment, after initialization, an image is input, and an image region is extracted from image data. The distance is employed that is obtained when the... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20060280334 - Fast and robust motion computations using direct methods: A respective intensity gradient of a first spatially aligned pixel in each frame of a sequence of images is multiplied by a respective intensity or function thereof of a second pixel in the new frame, this being done for all pixels in the set and the resulting products being summed.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20060280333 - Image analysis apparatus: An image analysis apparatus includes a unit that accepts plural dynamic image data obtained by imaging a subject to be recognized from positions different from each other, a unit that detects a part to be detected of the subject to be recognized from series of frame image data respectively included... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060280336 - System and method for discriminating passenger attitude in vehicle using stereo image junction: A system and method for discriminating a passenger attitude in a vehicle using a stereo image junction is provided. The system includes: a controller for generating an airbag control signal for enabling an airbag depending on the passenger attitude; an image obtaining unit having at least two cameras, and capturing... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20060280337 - Radiation image signal output control method and apparatus: A radiation image signal output control method in which distance information that indicates a distance between a radiation image detection cassette and a receiving unit is obtained by a distance information obtaining means, and wireless signals are controlled by an output control means to be outputted from the radiation image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060280338 - Systems and methods for the visually impared: Embodiments herein provide/acquire a document in electronic form (e.g., by receiving, copying, retrieving from storage, scanning combined with optical character recognition, etc.) and receive user input regarding visual impairment. In response to one or more levels of user visual impairment, embodiments herein automatically change (for example, immediately after scanning text)... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20060280339 - System and method for performing user authentication based on keystroke dynamics: There is provided a method and system for generating a timing vector for use in a user authentication system based on keystroke dynamics. The timing cues are presented to a user, who then types a password according to the timing cues. Then, a timing vector is generated based on the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20060280340 - Conjunctival scans for personal identification: Conjunctival vascular images are obtained from individual's eye for purposes of creating a multi-dimension, non-iris based biometric. The biometric can be used for identification or authentication purposes. Multi-dimensional correlation processing can be used to evaluate pairs of biometrics.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20060280343 - Bilinear illumination model for robust face recognition: A method recognizes a face in an image. A morphable model having shape and pose parameters is fitted to a face in an image to construct a three-dimensional model of the face. Texture is extracted from the face in the image using the three-dimensional model. The shape and texture are... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20060280344 - Illumination normalizing apparatus, method, and medium and face recognition apparatus, method, and medium using the illumination normalizing apparatus, method, and medium: An illumination normalizing apparatus, method, and medium and a face recognition apparatus, method, and medium using the illumination normalizing apparatus, method, and medium are provided. The illumination normalizing apparatus comprises a basis vector generation unit which generates a plurality of basis vectors to represent a plurality of illumination conditions of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060280342 - Method and system for generating bi-linear models for faces: A method generates a three-dimensional, bi-linear, illumination model for arbitrary faces. A large number of images are acquired of many different faces. For each face, multiple images are acquired with varying poses and varying illumination. A three-mode singular value decomposition is applied to the images to determine parameters of the... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20060280341 - System and method for face recognition: A production device and method which produce a multiple-system film having metal components such as TiAlN greatly different in melting point by a melting-evaporation type ion plating method that provides a high material utilization efficiency and a good film quality. Power needed to evaporate a material (4) is first supplied,... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20060280346 - Fingerprint verification device: A fingerprint verification device includes a fingerprint sensor including an imaging surface. The fingerprint sensor is configured to capture images of a user's finger when the finger is swiped against the imaging surface. A memory stores fingerprint data. A controller compares minutiae in the captured images with the stored fingerprint... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd. C/o Klaas, Law, O'meara & Malkin, P.C.

20060280345 - Large-area biometric specimen comparison with small-area biometric sample: Methods and systems according to the invention may compare a large-area biometric specimen and a small-area biometric sample. For example, a large-area plain surface fingerprint image may be stored in a fingerprint database as a specimen, and then a small-area plain surface fingerprint image may be acquired as a sample.... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP

20060280347 - Medical image diagnosis support device and method: A medical image diagnosis support device comprises an organ region setting means for setting an organ region on the medical image of the subject obtained by a medical imaging device, a deformation degree calculating means for calculating the deformation degree of the organ region set by the organ region setting... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20060280349 - Method and apparatus for the loading and postprocessing of digital three-dimensional data: A method and an apparatus are for the loading and postprocessing of three-dimensional digital volume data, in particular from the medical field. Layer images are usually acquired by CT or MR devices and combined to form a volume data record. These combined data are fed to one or more postprocessing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060280350 - Method of deriving a quantitative measure of a degree of calcification of an aorta: A method of deriving a quantitative measure of a degree of calcification of a blood vessel such as an aorta by processing an image such as an X-ray image of at least a part of the blood vessel containing said calcification comprises: taking a starting set of digital data representative... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060280348 - Method of screening cellular tissue: A method of screening cellular tissue is disclosed. Features from a set of images are reviewed using a multi-stage pattern recognition engine, which first identifies, then refines a set of suspect features within the images. A suspect feature identifier is generated for each feature within the set of suspect features.... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20060280351 - Systems and methods for automated measurements and visualization using knowledge structure mapping (\"knowledge structure mapping\"): Various methods for automatically generating a structured clinical report by using a pre-defined template structure and mapping it to the imaging data set of an organ (such as a CT or MR scan) are presented. A template or knowledge structure may describe the general structure of a tube-like organ, and... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20060280352 - Image analysis of biological objects: Systems and methods are described for performing image analysis. A computer-implemented method for analyzing images may include quantitatively analyzing image data to identify image objects relative to a background portion of the image according to predefined object criteria, the image data including a plurality of image objects that represent objects... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20060280353 - Apparatus and method for detecting secure document: An apparatus and method for detecting a secure document is provided. The apparatus includes an image input unit which receives the image of a document; an edge image detecting unit which detects an edge image of the document having a predetermined size; a similarity checking unit which checks the similarity... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060280354 - Surrogate document indicator and methods of using same: Surrogate document indicator and methods of using same. A surrogate document image encoded on a storage medium as part of a database or repository of images includes a surrogate document image indicator. In example embodiments, images within the system, including surrogate document images are stored in tagged image file format... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20060280356 - Display panel module, display unit, inspection device for display panel and inspection method for display panel: A display panel module, includes: a display panel having a light-transmitting section that can control a transmissive light amount; an illuminating device that can irradiate a light to the display panel; an illumination controller for controlling the drive of the illuminating device; a display panel controller for controlling the drive... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060280355 - Method of evaluating and designing sealing elements: A method of non-invasively evaluating how sealing elements will perform under compression between two adjacent structures which involves obtaining and manipulating three dimensional images of opposed surfaces of the adjacent structures so as to create an image that shows how a sealing element is compressed between the adjacent structures, which... Agent: Butzel Long

20060280357 - Use of overlay diagnostics for enhanced automatic process control: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for obtaining and analyzing various unique metrics or “target diagnostics” from one or more semiconductor overlay targets. In one embodiment, an overlay target is measured to obtain one or both of two specific types of target diagnostic information, systematic error metrics and/or random noise metrics.... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20060280358 - Pattern comparison inspection method and pattern comparison inspection device: A pattern comparison inspection apparatus comprises: a reference position selecting portion (41) which selects from among positions on an inspection target pattern a reference position which is judged whether it should be contained in an inspection region; an image comparing portion (42) which compares an image signal at the reference... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20060280359 - System and method for recalculating analysis report of 3d scan data: Disclosed is a system and method for allowing analysis results of scan data to have supplemental geometry and various measurements generated from the supplemental geometry or mutual common relations between geometric tolerances, and when the scan data changes, the analysis results according to the related data are recalculated in real... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060280360 - Color calibration of color image rendering devices: Color calibration of color image rendering devices, such as large color displays, which operate by either projection or emission of images, utilize internal color measurement instrument or external color measurement modules locatable on a wall or speaker. A dual use camera is provided for a portable or laptop computer, or... Agent: Kenneth J. Lukacher South Winton Court

20060280363 - Image processing apparatus and method, computer program, and storage medium: An embedded system of a digital camera or printer has limited available memory resources. Under such environment, devices are required to detect a red-eye region from a high-resolution image. To solve this problem, an input image is divided into band images each including a predetermined number of lines, so that... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060280362 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes a calculating unit configured to calculate an evaluation amount of poor color tone for every pixel in an image and an extracting unit configured to extract a candidate pixel having the poor color tone on the basis of the evaluation amount. The evaluation amount is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060280361 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method,computer program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus configured to detect an image region indicating a poor color tone of eyes from candidate regions includes: a first determination unit configured to perform a determination relating to an evaluation amount with respect to the poor color tone based on a predetermined color component in a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060280364 - Automatic image cropping system and method for use with portable devices equipped with digital cameras: An automatic image cropping system is for use with a portable device having an image capture mechanism and a limited resource for storing or transmitting captured information. The system includes a region of interest suggestion engine defining plural image region candidates by performing image segmentation (20) on an image stored... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20060280365 - Method and system for segmentation, classification, and summarization of video images: In a technique for video segmentation, classification and summarization based on the singular value decomposition, frames of the input video sequence are represented by vectors composed of concatenated histograms descriptive of the spatial distributions of colors within the video frames. The singular value decomposition maps these vectors into a refined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060280366 - Systems and methods for content-based document image enhancement: A system can include a system processor that is programmed or adapted to classify pixels in a document image, and in some instances, to enhance the document image based upon such classification. Image data including pixels is received. For each pixel in some subset of the image data, a feature... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060280367 - Action analysis apparatus: An action analysis apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires moving image data including a series of frame image data obtained by imaging a human body, a unit that detects at least one image area in which a predetermined portion of the imaged human body is imaged in the frame... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060280368 - System and method for discovering and categorizing attributes of a digital image: With respect to photography, the present invention includes a physical target device used in conjunction with computer software to ascertain and record such attributes as lighting conditions, perspective, and scale with regard to the assembly of two-dimensional photographic imagery, consisting of background and subject images, into realistic photo composites.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20060280369 - Method and system for the detection of shadows in noisy images: A method for the extraction of shadows in noisy images includes capture of an image, subdivision of the image into a plurality of pixels, definition of a square odd matrix for every pixel having said pixel in the center, application of an algorithm to the matrixes of every pixel, and... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20060280370 - Application of grammatical parsing to visual recognition tasks: Image recognition is utilized to facilitate in scoring parse trees for two-dimensional recognition tasks. Trees and subtrees are rendered as images and then utilized to determine parsing scores. Other instances of the subject invention can incorporate additional features such as stroke curvature and/or nearby white space as rendered images as... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060280371 - Video encoding device: The present invention provides a video encoding device in which a capacity of a binary data storing unit is small, a size of the video encoding device is small, a video signal can be processed in real time, and reduction in quality of images generated from the eventually obtained data... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20060280372 - Multilayer-based video encoding method, decoding method, video encoder, and video decoder using smoothing prediction: A method and apparatus for decreasing block artifacts in multilayer-based video coding are provided. A multilayer-based video encoding method includes calculating a difference between an inter prediction block for the block of a lower layer picture, which corresponds to an arbitrary block of a current picture, and the block of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060280373 - Information processing apparatus and method: An information processing apparatus for processing a structured document describing a vector image includes a determining unit configured to determine whether an object in a vector image obtained by analyzing a structured document is included in a specified area. The information processing apparatus also includes a creating unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060280374 - Inverse discrete cosine transform supporting multiple decoding processes: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing a programmable inverse discrete cosine transform, wherein the transform coefficients are loaded into a memory area of a core transform device and a variety of coding standards can thereby be handled by the same programmable core device. The core device... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20060280377 - Defective pixel specifying method, defective pixel specifying system, image correcting method, and image correcting system: A defective pixel specifying method and a defective pixel specifying system for a semiconductor device having a defective pixel are provided. Also provided are an image correcting method and an image correcting system for making a defective pixel inconspicuous on the screen when a read image is displayed. The present... Agent: Eric Robinson

20060280376 - Method for geometry distortion correction: A method for pre-processing image data is proposed, wherein a image (PI) is pre-distorted in order to compensate a distortion created by a display process. According to the inventive method an additional memory is used wherein said image (PI), a pre-distorted image (PPI), parts thereof, in particular extra pixels thereof,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060280375 - Red-eye correction method and apparatus with user-adjustable threshold: An electronic device that performs automatic red-eye correction on digital images includes a user-adjustable threshold, enabling the user to adjust the sensitivity of the automatic red-eye-correction algorithm dynamically while viewing marked candidate red-eye locations in a digital image. Such dynamic adjustment of the threshold facilitates the rejection of false positives... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060280378 - Deterministic wavelet thresholding for general-error metrics: Novel, computationally efficient schemes for deterministic wavelet thresholding with the objective of optimizing maximum-error metrics are provided. An optimal low polynomial-time algorithm for one-dimensional wavelet thresholding based on a new dynamic-programming (DP) formulation is provided that can be employed to minimize the maximum relative or absolute error in the data... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20060280379 - Method for preservation of motion picture film: A method for archiving a motion picture film can include capturing in a digital format at least one reference image set corresponding to at least one image from the motion picture film. At least one reference image set can be created which includes an unprocessed image captured, in the digital... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20060280380 - Apparatus, method, and program for image processing: Resolution of an input image is converted more easily by using a method of AAM. For this purpose, a resolution conversion unit converts resolution of the image having been subjected to correction, and a face detection unit detects a face region in the resolution-converted image. A reconstruction unit fits to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060280381 - Image information detecting apparatus: An image information detecting apparatus with an image information detecting unit that receives recording light representing image information, and records the image information by storing electric charges generated in the unit by the recording light. The apparatus further includes a wireless communication means operable for transmission to an external device;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060280382 - Methods and apparatus for a wireless terminal with third party advertising: advertising-enabled wireless terminal: A sponsor compensates an entity, such as a wireless service provider or an intermediary, in exchange for allowing the sponsor to advertise on a card, such as a phone card. The card, which is available for purchase by consumers, is used to purchase a wireless service. In some embodiments, the... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20060280383 - Method and device for drawing and formatting image: Whenever a user prepares to use an application, or a file, to treat the scanned image of an object, the user only needs to place the object on a scanner and to select the icon of the application, or the file, and compile it with the icon of the scanner.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060274916 - Remote data access: The application discloses a system and methods for remote access and analysis of data collected about items under inspection. The system includes a data collection station, that may include an X-ray scanner, that scans the items under inspection to obtain data about the items. The data is transmitted to one... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20060274915 - Routing networks for use with content linking systems: A method of linking a content object with a network resource presents a content object to a reader, discerns an identifier associated with the content object, transfers the identifier to an indexing system, and in response receives an internet address corresponding to the content object. To enhance the response of... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20060274917 - Image processing techniques for a video based traffic monitoring system and methods therefor: The present disclosure relates to a number of inventions directed, generally, to the application of image processing techniques to traffic data acquisition using video images. The inventions reside in a traffic monitoring system, the basic function of which is for traffic data acquisition and incident detection. More specifically, the application... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060274918 - Method and apparatus for designing iris biometric systems for use in minimally constrained settings: A method and apparatus for designing an iris biometrics system that operates in minimally constrained settings. The image acquisition system has fewer constraints on subjects than traditional methods by extending standoff distance and capture volume. The method receives design parameters and provides derived quantities that are useful in designing an... Agent: Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20060274919 - Method and apparatus for obtaining iris biometric information from a moving subject: A method and apparatus for obtaining iris biometric information that provides increased standoff distance and capture volume is provided herein. In one embodiment, a system for obtaining iris biometric information includes an array of cameras defining an image capture volume for capturing an image of an iris; and an image... Agent: Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20060274920 - Personal identification device and system having personal identification device: A personal identification device 1 comprises a fingerprint sensor 1a that detects a fingerprint; and a scanner 1b that calls a storage medium 2 mounted on a portable device 3 worn on a finger, a wrist, or an ankle of a user for reading recording information stored on the storage... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060274921 - Texture-biometrics sensor: Methods and systems are provided for performing a biometric function. A purported skin site of an individual is illuminated with illumination light. The purported skin site is in contact with a surface. Light scattered from the purported skin site is received in a plane that includes the surface. An image... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274922 - Imaging method and apparatus: A method is provided for measuring a response to a stimulus of a plurality of samples spots of a sample using a measuring system having a measurement range to generate an image of the sample in digital space. The method includes, for each sample, while measuring the response, varying the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274923 - Monitoring image inspection: A method of monitoring the inspection of a two dimensional digital image by a viewer using a digital image viewing device. The method comprises recording data defining versions of the digital image inspected by the viewer such that each recorded version can be reproduced.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060274925 - Generating a volume of interest using a dose isocontour: An apparatus and method of automatically optimizing a dose isocontour using a volume of interest.... Agent: Accuray/blakely

20060274924 - Inverse planning using optimization constraints derived from image intensity: A method of automatically identifying a region of differing intensity in a functional image is described.... Agent: Accuray/blakely

20060274926 - Location of elongated object: A method and apparatus for locating an elongated object in a three dimensional data array are disclosed. A slice of data generally lengthways of the elongated object is selected. Points on the object in the selected slice are identified. Data including the points are transposed parallel to the slice and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20060274927 - Method of deriving a quantitative measure of a degree of calcification of an aorta: A method of deriving a quantitative measure of a degree of calcification of a blood vessel such as an aorta by processing an image such as an X-ray image of at least a part of the blood vessel containing said calcification comprises: taking a starting set of digital data representative... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060274928 - System and method of computer-aided detection: The invention provides a system and method for computer-aided detection (“CAD”). The invention relates to computer-aided automatic detection of abnormalities in and analysis of medical images. Medical images are analyzed, to extract and identify a set of features in the image relevant to a diagnosis. The system computes an initial... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Commerce Court West

20060274929 - Automated document processing system using full image scanning: A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the image scanner... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Jenkens & Gilchrist

20060274930 - Vision system and a method for scanning a traveling surface to detect surface defects thereof: There is provided a vision system and a method for scanning a traveling surface such a road to detect surface defects thereof such as cracks. The vision system, which is mountable on a vehicle, is provided with a linear imaging system for imaging successive adjacent transversal linear portions of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20060274932 - Inspecting method, inspecting system, and method for manufacturing electronic devices: A method for classifying defects, including: calculating feature quantifies of defect image which is obtained by imaging a defect on a sample; classifying the defect image into a classified category by using information on the calculated feature quantities; displaying the classified defect image in a region on a display screen... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060274931 - System and method for performing post-plating morphological cu grain boundary analysis: Grain size variations within a copper film are quantified by analyzing an SEM image of a portion of the copper film, determining an approximate total length of grain boundaries within the SEM image, and calculating a grain boundary density based on the approximate total length of the grain boundaries and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20060274933 - Defect image classifying method and apparatus and a semiconductor device manufacturing process based on the method and apparatus: According to the present invention, techniques including a method and apparatus for classifying and displaying images are provided. In an embodiment of the present invention a defect image classification method using inspected objects is provided. The method includes defect images obtained from at least one inspected object. Next a set... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274934 - Apparatus and method for improving measuring accuracy in the determination of structural data: A method and an apparatus are disclosed, whereby an improvement of the measuring accuracy in the determination of structural data is facilitated. A first detector unit (15a) is provided for receiving the light reflected or transmitted by structures applied on the microscopic component (2). A second detector (15b) is provided... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20060274935 - Method for measuring registration of overlapping material layers of an integrated circuit: A method and apparatus for measuring registration between two or more integrated circuit layers is disclosed. Images of actual operative circuitry of different layers of a semiconductor wafer, obtained by an optical technique or a scanning electron microscope, are digitized and analyzed for the relative placement of pattern shapes of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20060274936 - Method, apparatus, and program for image correction: An image correction method comprising the steps of: specifying a region including the face of one person in an image of people displayed in a screen of image display means in response to an input from an operator; extracting a correction target region including at least the face of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060274937 - Apparatus and method for adjusting colors of a digital image: A graphics controller for adjusting contrast of a digital image is provided. The graphics controller includes a graphics controller memory configured for storing a histogram table and a contrast adjustment module in communication with the graphics controller memory. The contrast adjustment module is configured to read frequency values from the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20060274938 - Automated document processing system: An automated document processing system is configured to normalize zones obtained from a document, ant to extract articles from the normalized zones. In one configuration, the system receives at least one zone from the document, and applies at least one zone-breaking factor, thereby creating normalized sub-zones within which text lines... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060274939 - Printer and printing method: A copy-forgery-inhibited (CFI) pattern image is effectively printed irrespective of difference in information of (CFI) pattern setting between a host unit and a printing apparatus in relation to printing of a (CFI) pattern image. A (CFI) pattern image, for example, “COPY INHIBIT” is set on the printer side while a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060274940 - Image processing apparatus and method of image processing capable of effective labeling: A method of labeling of image data includes reading the image data sequentially with units of two successive pixels and providing one label to a target unit of two successive pixels in the image data when a preliminary label is to be assigned to at least one of the two... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20060274941 - Method of pre-analysis of a machine-readable form image: The present invention relates generally to an optical character recognition of machine-readable forms, and in particular to a verification of a direction of spatial orientation and a definition of a form type of the document electronic image. The goals of the invention are achieved by preliminarily assigning one or more... Agent: Abbyy Software Ltd.

20060274942 - Two-dimensional code recognition processing method, two-dimensional code recognition processing apparatus, and storage medium: A two-dimensional code recognition processing method for recognizing a two-dimensional code made of a plurality of square cells arranged in accordance with predetermined layout rules. The method comprises the steps of: generating binary data from image information acquired externally in accordance with a predetermined threshold value; detecting a reference cell... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274944 - Handwritten information input apparatus: A handwritten information input apparatus enabling the input of handwriting even at a place where a menu is displayed on a screen and enabling the operation of the menu as required is provided. The handwritten information input apparatus includes: a display unit; a coordinate input unit; a menu display unit;... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20060274943 - Personalized implicit and explicit character shape adaptation and recognition: Handwriting recognition techniques employing a personalized handwriting recognition engine. The recognition techniques use examples of an individual's previous writing style to help recognize new pen input from that individual. The techniques also employ a shape trainer to select samples of an individual's handwriting that accurately represent the individual's writing style,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060274945 - System and method for automatically extracting a picture of a person from a government issued identification piece for use on a badge: A photo ID badge issuing system includes a scanning unit operable to capture an electronic copy of a government issued picture ID or passport of a person. The photo ID badge issuing system then extracts an electronic image of the person from the electronic copy of the government issued picture... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20060274946 - Method and arrangement for determining an object contour: A method is disclosed for determining a sought object contour in a digital microscope image, which includes a plurality of image elements and reproduces a biological material. The method includes assigning edge values to at least a first subset of the image elements in the image; assigning values of a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060274947 - Pose estimation based on critical point analysis: Methods and systems for estimating a pose of a subject. The subject can be a human, an animal, a robot, or the like. A camera receives depth information associated with a subject, a pose estimation module to determine a pose or action of the subject from images, and an interaction... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20060274948 - Stroke localization and binding to electronic document: A method and apparatus for capturing information and associating the information with a document is described. The captured information may be obtained by a camera associated with a pointing or writing device having a camera.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060274950 - Red-eye detection and correction: A method suited to the detection and correction of red-eyes includes assigning a probability to pixels of a digital image of the pixel being in a red-eye, the probability being a function of a color of the pixel. Optionally, generally circular regions in the image of contiguous pixels which satisfy... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060274949 - Using photographer identity to classify images: A method of identifying at least one particular person of interest in a collection of digital images taken over time, includes providing the collection of digital images with each digital image containing one or more persons; storing in a digital database an appearance model having a set of features associated... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20060274951 - Method for the compressed transmission of image data for three-dimensional representation of scenes and objects: The invention relates to a method for the compressed transmission of image data for a three-dimensional representation of scenes and objects. A known method for transmitting video data between an emitter and a receiver according to the method for prioritised pixel transmission, can be advantageously used for transmitting and processing... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20060274952 - Multicolored two-dimensional barcode, image display apparatus thereof, information terminal apparatus, display method, decoding method, information communication system, and information communication method: A means of referring to a reference signal embedded in multi-color two-dimensional bar code (302) received from the Internet and optimizing the adjustment of colors of an output picture image. Furthermore, when the recognition fails, the tint is readjusted by a feedback means and the recognition rate in portable terminal... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060274953 - Signal processing method, signal processing apparatus, computer-readable medium and a data recording medium: A signal processing method comprises: generating thinned data by thinning, in a checkerboard like manner, image data comprising a plurality of pixels that are arranged, as a square, in a row direction and in a column direction perpendicular to the row direction; generating a first square array by extracting odd-numbered... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20060274954 - Image processing apparatus: By using a data combining portion, the predetermined data is combined with the original image data on a pixel position with an upper limit gray scale value in a direction of increase of the gray scale value and a combined image data is generated. Since the predetermined data is combined... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274955 - Image data compression or expansion method and apparatus, and image transmission system and monitoring system using the method and device: An image data compression apparatus, including: compression processing unit for conducting compression-processing on input image data and outputting compressed image data; image change detection unit for detecting a change in an image of the input image data; frame rate control unit for controlling a frame rate of the compressed image... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060274956 - Intraprediction method and apparatus using video symmetry and video encoding and decoding method and apparatus: An intraprediction method which improves compression efficiency using the symmetry of a video in the intraprediction of the video and a video encoding and decoding method and apparatus using the intraprediction method. The intraprediction method includes performing intraprediction by predicting a first region to be encoded in a video based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060274957 - Information transmitting method for a remote operating system: A data processing method is changed in accordance with the number pf colors in a bit map and the communication speed to thereby solve the problem in the background art. The number of colors used in the bit map is calculated. Image compression is performed by an appropriate compression method... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20060274958 - Method and device for coding and decoding a sequence of images: The invention relates to a method for coding N+1 images comprising a step of temporal analysis of these images generating a low-frequency image and N high-frequency images. It furthermore comprises the following steps: dividing each of the N+1 low-frequency and high-frequency images into N+1 parts; interleaving the N+1 low-frequency and... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20060274959 - Image processing to reduce blocking artifacts: Processing to reduce blocking artifacts in an image comprising a first image block and a second image block separated by a block boundary, includes, generating a main gradient value which is a function of a first pixel difference between a first pixel located in the first image block a second... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C. Suite 912

20060274960 - Face image recording apparatus, image sensing apparatus and methods of controlling same: The image of a face is cut from an image obtained by image sensing. Original image data is read from a memory card and the portion of the original image that is the image of the face is extracted by trimming. The image of the face is subjected to correction... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20060274961 - Method for adjusting image data: The present invention provides a determination method to obtain the optimum image output quality. The method comprising the standard white plate is scanned prior to the scanning document sheet to obtain a first image data. Then, the first image data is calculated to generate the shading curve, noise level, and... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060274963 - Image recording apparatus, image recording method and program therefor: The invention is to correct a red-eye portion without requiring a coordinate input apparatus, also to properly correct a red-eye portion present in a position designated by a user, and to detect a red-eye portion, without utilizing a fluorescent ink. The invention provides an image recording apparatus which detects a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274962 - Systems and methods for improved gaussian noise filtering: According to some embodiments, systems and methods for improved Gaussian noise filtering may be provided. In some embodiments, a system, method, and/or article of manufacture may be operable to receive, at a Gaussian noise filter, video input comprising data associated with a plurality of video pixels, identify a pixel from... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar LLC

20060274964 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing device has an image processing section. The image processing section has one or more image processing modules and one or more buffer modules. Each image processing module has an image processing engine and a control section. The image processing engine carries out an image processing on image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274965 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing device has one or more image processing modules and one or more buffer modules. The image processing module reads image data from a preceding module in units of a reading data amount, performs a image processing on the image data, and outputs the image data to a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274966 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing device including an image processing section having: one or more image processing modules, each image processing module having an image processing engine and a control section; and one or more buffer modules having a buffer for storing image data. The image processing module is realized by a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274967 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing device including an image processing section and a memory managing section. The image processing section having: (A) one or more image processing modules, each having: an image processing engine and a control section; and (B) one or more buffer modules. The memory managing section (a) can execute,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274968 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing section of an image processing device is constructed by plural image processing modules being connected in a pipeline form, such that a buffer module is connected at at least one of preceding and following stages of each module. A buffer control section of the buffer module: when... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274969 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing device including an image processing section having one or more image processing modules and buffer modules having a buffer is provided. The buffer module, recognizes a number of image processing modules which are connected at the following stage of its own module; stores, for each of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274970 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing device has an image processing section and a processing managing section. The image processing section has one or more image processing modules and one or more buffer modules. Each image processing module has an image processing engine and a control section. The image processing engine carries out... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274971 - Image processing device, method, and storage medium which stores a program: An image processing device has an image processing module and a buffer module. The image processing module has an image processing engine that carries out an image processing on image data. The buffer module has a buffer that stores the image data and a buffer control section that controls the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274972 - Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composition image: Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composite image derived from a plurality of images including a first image as a center of projection, and a modified version of a second image that is corrected for perspective distortion relative to the first image. A user input specifies a change... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060274973 - Method and system for parallel processing of hough transform computations: In a parallel computation of a Hough transform of an array of input data values, the transform space of the Hough transform is partitioned dynamically or statically into a number of sub-spaces. Each sub-space of the transform is stored in a sub-space of memory locations. Data values from the array... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20060274974 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: There is provided an image processing method for, when performing color space transformation from a first color space to a second color space for an object such as characters and graphics, performing synthesis color processing for objects in different colors, in which matching processing is performed for the objects in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274975 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, noise-amount estimate apparatus, noise-amount estimate method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus processes input pixel data and outputs the processed pixel data as output pixel data. The image processing apparatus includes an input reliability calculation section for calculating an input reliability indicating the reliability of the input pixel data, an output reliability calculation section for calculating an output... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20060274977 - Device and method for image scaling interpolation: A sub-system and method to receive input image pixel amplitude data at an input pixel resolution and to output image pixel amplitude data in one or two dimensions at a higher pixel resolution includes a computer system-executable algorithm with user-programmable coefficients. The programmable coefficients are user-selectable according to the nature... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20060274976 - Image scaling: A method of converting a first image (102) with a first resolution into a second image (106) with a second resolution, comprises pixel value insertion and convolution based on a non-separable multi-dimensional kernel which comprises a plurality of coefficients being equal to zero, a first portion of the plurality of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060274978 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes detecting means for detecting the number of face image elements, which are one or more image elements of faces, included in an image, and associating means for associating the image with the detected number of face image elements.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP