Image analysis inventions 01/07

20070019836 - Covert and robust mark for media identification: Systems and methods are described for repeatedly embedding information in media that is recoverable by emphasizing subtle variations between the media. In many embodiments perceptual models are used to identify portions of the media in which the embedded information is unlikely to be apparent to a human observer. One embodiment... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070019837 - Image data processing: A digital image is processed to hide information, by generally inconspicuous adjustments thereof. These adjustments can define a pattern that extends across some or all of the image. Desirably, the pattern is adapted to the particular image being encoded, so as to better conceal the encoding.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070019838 - System and method for passive wire detection: Method and system for passively detecting wires from a mobile transport system is provided. The method includes, pre-processing a digital image taken from a digital camera of the transport system, wherein the pre-processing is performed by a pre-processing module to reduce non-wire like clutter from the digital image; identifying pixels... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070019839 - Acousto-mechanical vehicle characterization system and method: A system and method for detecting concealed cargo, such as explosives contained in a closed vehicle trunk, by characterizing the transfer function between sets of wheels of the vehicle and automatically detecting changes of transfer functions due to changes in mass loading. The system and method contacts a first tire... Agent: Robert H Frantz

20070019840 - Image processing apparatus, distant view image display method, and distant view image display program: An image processing apparatus is disclosed that displays a three-dimensional map including displays of a road and a three-dimensional building on a display unit. The image processing apparatus includes a managing unit that divides bearings into a predetermined number of bearing regions and manages identification information of a distant view... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070019841 - X-ray inspection apparatus, and method for creating an image processing procedure of the x-ray inspection apparatus: An X-ray inspection apparatus is provided with a shied box, a conveyor an X-ray irradiator, an X-ray line sensor, a monitor, and a control computer to enable the apparatus to inspect an article by automatically selecting an appropriate image processing procedure that is most appropriate for the article. The control... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070019842 - Method for identifying a person from a detected eye image: A method for identifying a person from the detected eye image has been developed, the steps of which are: (a) discriminating the image difference by comparing the detected personal eye image with the simple background scene, and compressing the corresponding discriminated eye image; (b) decoding the compressed image to the... Agent: Gwips Peter T. Kwon

20070019844 - Authentication device, authentication method, authentication program, and computer readable recording medium: An authentication device collates a first input image input to a sensor using a first method with a reference image, collates a second input image input to a sensor using a second method with the reference image, and outputs a result of authentication based on results of collations using the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070019843 - Wireless peripheral device having a sweep-type fingerprint sensing chip: A wireless peripheral device includes a receiving module, a peripheral device body and a sweep-type fingerprint sensing chip. The receiving module is coupled to a host system through a cable. The body communicates with the receiving module in a wireless manner. The sweep-type fingerprint sensing chip disposed on the body... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070019845 - Authentication apparatus and authentication method: An authentication apparatus is provided. The authentication apparatus acquires a plurality of pieces of registration authentication information each of which is unique to an authentication target. These pieces of registration authentication information are based on biological information obtained from different and the same kind of parts of a living body... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070019848 - Prospective abnormal shadow detecting system and method of and apparatus for judging whether prospective abnormal shadow is malignant or benignant: A prospective abnormal shadow detecting system detects a prospective abnormal shadow in an image on the basis of image data representing the image and outputs information on the prospective abnormal shadow detected by the prospective abnormal shadow detecting means. Whether the detected prospective abnormal shadow is malignant or benignant is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019847 - Radiation image processing apparatus, image processing system, radiation image processing method, storage medium, and program: The disclosure is made for an apparatus for processing a radiation image of an object obtained by radiography using a grid which is used to remove scattered radiation from the object. The apparatus includes generation means for generating image components due to the grid on the basis of data of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070019849 - Systems and graphical user interface for analyzing body images: Systems and graphical user interfaces for analyzing body images. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides a graphical user interface having a display coupled to a microprocessing device and a memory device. The graphical user interface has an electronic representation of a first body image and a second body... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070019846 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for analysis of vessel attributes for diagnosis, disease staging, and surfical planning: Systems, methods, and computer program products for analysis of vessel attributes for diagnosis, disease staging, and surgical planning are disclosed. A method for analyzing blood vessel attributes may include developing an atlas including statistical measures for at least one blood vessel attribute. The statistical measures can be developed from blood... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070019851 - Image processing apparatus and x-ray ct apparatus: The present invention is intended to improve the quality of a four-dimensional image that is a time-varying three-dimensional image. The four-dimensional image that is a time-varying three-dimensional image is spatially filtered in the direction of a time axis and the directions of spatial axes alike.... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070019850 - Method and system for display of structures or regions of interest: A system and a method for extracting regions of interest from a medical image in order to obtain an image useable by a user. The system includes a user interface comprising virtual buttons that the user can select using an input, the buttons enabling the user to control a selected... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070019853 - Method for indentifying markers in radiographic images: A method for automatically recognizing a marker in a radiographic image. The method includes the steps of: accessing the radiographic image in digital form; segmenting the digital image into a plurality of regions; detecting a marker region from the plurality of regions; and recognizing the marker disposed within the marker... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070019852 - Pulminary nodule detection in a chest radiograph: A method of generating a pulmonary nodule image from a chest radiograph. The method includes the steps of: producing a map of a clear lung field; removing low frequency variation from the clear lung field to generate a level image; and performing at least one grayscale morphological operation on the... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070019854 - Method and system for automated digital image analysis of prostrate neoplasms using morphologic patterns: A method and system method and system automated digital image analysis of prostrate neoplasms using morphologic patterns. The method and system provide automated screening of prostate needle biopsy specimens in a digital image and automated diagnosis of prostatectomy specimens.... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20070019855 - Check printing auditing systems and methods: Embodiments herein print documents comprising magnetic ink characters, capture overlapping partial images of the MICR line of magnetic ink characters, and stitch these partial images together to form a complete image of the MICR line. This allows the embodiments to accumulate the routing number, the account number, the check number,... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070019857 - Apparatus and method for specifying correlation, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: Disclosed is a method and apparatus which are arranged to detect magnitude of correlation between (i) an explanatory variable corresponding to operation data related to an operation made by an exposure apparatus for exposing a substrate, and (ii) a response variable corresponding to inspection data related to a result of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070019856 - System for detection of wafer defects: Fast on-line electro-optical detection of wafer defects by illuminating with a short light pulse from a repetitively pulsed laser, a section of the wafer while it is moved across the field of view of an imaging system, and imaging the moving wafer onto a focal plane assembly, optically forming a... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070019858 - Method and apparatus for visual inspection: In the case of die-to-die comparison, threshold processing units process the differential image between the image of a sample chip and the images of left and right adjacent chips using a second threshold value lower than a first threshold value thereby to determine a defect candidate for the sample chip.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070019859 - Method for measuring registration: 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 optical or scanning electron microscopy, are digitized and analyzed for the relative placement of pattern shapes of the corresponding layers.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070019860 - Image processing device that adjusts specific color of color image: An adjusting portion adjusts values of lightness, chroma, and hue. A change-amount setting portion sets an amount of change for each of lightness, chroma, and hue. A weighting-curve storing portion stores weighting curves for each of lightness, chroma, and hue. A weighting-factor determining portion determines, based on the weighting curves,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070019861 - Method for automatically generating a background mask for images with noisy background areas, applications to that end and a nuclear magnetic resonance tomography apparatus for carrying out the method: A method is disclosed for the generation of a background mask from an intensity-value-coded image with a noisy background area. The method includes generating an intensity value histogram of the image; fitting a model curve to a subarea of the intensity value histogram; calculating a threshold value in the intensity... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070019863 - Method, apparatus, and program for detecting faces: Processing time is reduced and detection is expedited in a face detecting process that detects faces of various sizes included in an image, by detecting faces within images while varying the size of faces to be detected. Faces are detected in order from larger faces to smaller faces. If a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019862 - Object identifying device, mobile phone, object identifying unit, object identifying method, program executable on computer for operating the object identifying device and computer-readable medium including the program: An object identifying device has a shooting unit for shooting an object to be shot to identify the object on the basis of elements of the face of the object shot by the shooting unit. The object identifying device includes a camouflage deciding unit for deciding whether or not the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070019864 - Image search system, image search method, and storage medium: An image search system includes a first calculation section that calculates a first similarity score of each registered image with respect to an input image on the basis of image features of the registered and the input image, a second calculation section that calculates a second similarity score of each... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070019865 - Object recognition using a congnitive swarm vision framework with attention mechanisms: An object recognition system is described that incorporates swarming classifiers with attention mechanisms. The object recognition system includes a cognitive map having a one-to-one relationship with an input image domain. The cognitive map records information that software agents utilize to focus a cooperative swarm's attention on regions likely to contain... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20070019867 - High-speed binary image compression method: A high-speed binary image compression method, the method including calculating an estimation value of a current pixel based on a context value derived from neighboring pixels of the current pixel, determining whether a pixel value of the current pixel, the context value of the current pixel, and the estimation value... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070019868 - Next process-determining method, inspecting method and inspecting apparatus: There are provided a next process-determining method capable of determining a next process to be carried out next objectively and at the same time in a short time period, as well as an inspecting method and apparatus which are capable of carrying out a predetermined inspection as to an object... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070019866 - Systems, methods, and media for transitioning compression levels in a streaming image system: Systems, methods and media for transitioning compression levels of a streaming image system are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for transitioning compression levels between image frames in a streaming image system. Embodiments may include receiving by a smoothing module a request for a new compression level associated with an... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070019870 - Image processing apparatus, printing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus including: a generating section, operable to analyze compressed image data stored in an external memory and generate an analytic table indicative of a storage manner of the compressed image data; an internal memory, adapted to store the compressed image data therein; a storage section, operable to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019869 - Multi-mode alpha image processing: An alpha image encoding and decoding scheme operable according two different modes is disclosed. In the encoding, an alpha image is decomposed into alpha image blocks (600) comprising image elements (610). The blocks (600) are compressed into block representations (700) according to one of the two compression modes. A block... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070019871 - System, medium, and method encoding and/or decoding image data: A system, medium, and method encoding and/or decoding image data. The image data encoding may include a transformer transforming pixel values of an image in the time domain to pixel values in the frequency domain, a quantization coefficient determiner determining a quantization coefficient corresponding to the number of bits per... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070019872 - System, medium, and method encoding/decoding a color image using inter-color-component prediction: A color image encoding and/or decoding system, medium, and method using inter-color-component prediction in a frequency domain. To encode an original image, including at least two or more image components, frequency domain transform may be performed with of each component of a color image, color component transform of the frequency... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070019873 - Image quality control techniques: A technique for controlling the quality of one or more compressed images. The technique allows, for example, the selection of a target quality metric(s) and the compression of the image(s) such the compressed image(s) meets the metric(s). Alternatively, a target quality metric can be specified, and the image(s) compressed using... Agent: Sheridan Ross P C

20070019874 - Method and apparatus for scalable signal processing: The invention relates to content signal processing and in particular to processing of a video content signal. An apparatus (100) for content signal processing comprises a scalable encoder (101) for encoding a content signal to generate scalable encoded data comprising data associated with a plurality of compression rates. A compression... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070019875 - Method of further compressing jpeg image: Recovered 8×8 DCT coefficient arrays of all block of a JPEG image is formed by reversely decompressing the JPEG image till the procedure of dequantization. A method of redundancy removal of inter-block same subband AC coefficient and intra-block adjacent subband DCT coefficients is applied by re-ordering the coefficients by magnitude... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20070019876 - Lossless image compression with tree coding of magnitude levels: Data values, such as residual values based on a predictive value, are compressed based on a number of significant digits used to represent the data value that is termed a magnitude level. Data values are grouped, and a highest magnitude level of the magnitude levels associated with each of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070019877 - Variable length coding for clustered transform coefficients in video compression: Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events in the clusters of non-zero-valued coefficients, and a coding method to code the position events, amplitude... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070019879 - Dequantization method and apparatus, and video decoding method and apparatus using the dequantization method: A dequantization method and an apparatus in which restored values for original values are obtained by dequantizing quantization level values generated when the original values are quantized. The dequantization method includes updating a histogram by accumulating histogram counts for the quantization level values, estimating a distribution function of the original... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019878 - Image processing circuit: The present invention provides an image processing circuit capable of properly determining whether or not image data is a static image or a moving image and performing overdrive processing thereon. The image processing circuit includes a quantization unit (quantization/threshold-value proximity determination circuit) for quantizing image data input to a liquid... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070019880 - Enhancing video sequence sharpness by adaptive peaking: A method of selectively sharpening video data may include, for at least some pixels in the video data, generating a sharpening value for a pixel value in an image. The sharpening value may be amplified in a non-linear manner to produce an amplified value. The pixel value and the amplified... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070019881 - Adaptive contrast control systems and methods: A method of operating on an image of a document includes, for an electronic file that includes a representation of the document, portioning the representation of the document into non-overlapping areas. Each area includes a matrix of pixels and each pixel has an initial grayscale value and a position in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070019882 - Makeup simulation program, makeup simulation device, and makeup simulation method: A makeup simulation enables a high-quality simulation image quickly and simply. A first image generator portion 20 generates n transparency layer images in which the transparency of each pixel is normalized on the basis of n layer images in a use-reference image. A second image generator portion 30 generates n... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070019883 - Method for creating a depth map for auto focus using an all-in-focus picture and two-dimensional scale space matching: An imaging acquisition system that generates a depth map for a picture of a three dimension spatial scene from the estimated blur radius of the picture is described. The system generates an all-in-focus reference picture of the three dimension spatial scene. The system uses the all-in-focus reference picture to generate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070019884 - Modeling reflections within an image sequence: A simplified general model and an associated estimation algorithm is provided for modeling visual data such as a video sequence. Specifically, images or frames in a video sequence are represented as collections of flat moving objects that change their appearance and shape over time, and can occlude each other over... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070019885 - Feature based caricaturing: The invention provides a method and system of generating a caricatured image which takes into account facial features, and applies caricaturing to each feature area independently. This is achieved by defining within a reference image predefined feature areas, and then finding corresponding areas in an input image to the reference... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070019886 - Adaptive image scaler for optimizing output image quality on the basis of input image signal and method thereof: An adaptive image scaler for optimizing output image quality on the basis of an input image signal and a method thereof are disclosed. The adaptive image scaler comprises an image signal analyzer for analyzing an input image signal and outputting size information of horizontal and/or vertical components of the input... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070019887 - Computing a higher resolution image from multiple lower resolution images using model-base, robust bayesian estimation: A result higher resolution (HR) image of a scene given multiple, observed lower resolution (LR) images of the scene is computed using a Bayesian estimation image reconstruction methodology. The methodology yields the result HR image based on a Likelihood probability function that implements a model for the formation of LR... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070019888 - System and method for user adaptation of interactive image data: A method for user adaptation of interactive image data, comprising the steps of providing a two-dimensional digital image as a view of a virtual three-dimensional digital image, such as a three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) drawing, defining at least one subsection in said two-dimensional digital image comprising at least two layers... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070019889 - Object selection using hit test tracks: A method for labeling the pixels within a selected visual area of at least one image frame containing that visual area from a sequence of image frames stored in memory and operative to be displayed on an interactive display so that a user may subsequently select the selected visual area... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070014430 - Apparatus and method for providing security in a base or mobile station by using detection of face information: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing security for an image signal in a base station or a terminal by detecting face information from the image signal. The apparatus includes a signal receiving unit receiving an image signal transmitted from a terminal, a location discriminating unit detecting a calling... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070014429 - Embedding and detecting watermarks: A watermark embedding method for embedding a secret message sequence in a document. The techniques include obtaining layout information of the document, extracting a digest of the document by using a Hash function, calculating embedded positions where the secret message sequence is embedded in the document, and dispersedly hiding the... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20070014428 - Method and system for digital watermarking of multimedia signals: Disclosed is a method and system for digital watermarking of multimedia signals. The input multimedia signal is represented using an inverse difference pyramid decomposition. Spectrum coefficients may be calculated for each level of the pyramid using a new kind of complex Hadamard transform, the matrix of which is distinguished from... Agent: J. Charles Dougherty

20070014433 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A luminance image which is formed by luminance components of an image is generated, and a plurality of reduced-scale images by recursively reducing the luminance image are generated. Positions of eye candidate regions from each of the reduced-scale images are detected, it is determined that whether or not a face... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070014432 - Moving-object tracking control apparatus, moving-object tracking system, moving-object tracking control method, and program: A moving-object region is specified on an image captured by an imaging apparatus, and a plurality of calculation points are arranged on the specified region. A group of local motion vectors is determined for the calculation points, and a moving-object motion vector is obtained based on the determined local motion... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070014431 - System and method for detecting an eye: A system and method are provided for detecting one or both eyes of the driver of a vehicle. The system includes a video imaging camera oriented to generate images of the driver's face. The system also includes a video processor for processing the images generated with the video imaging camera.... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070014434 - Method and system for vehicular guidance using a crop image: The method and system for vehicular guidance comprises an imaging device for collecting color image data. A definer defines a series of scan line segments generally perpendicular to a transverse axis of the vehicle or of the imaging device. An image parameter evaluator determines scan line image parameter data for... Agent: Deere & Company

20070014435 - Computer-based generation and validation of training images for multipoint geostatistical analysis: A computer-implemented method is provided that automatically characterizes and verifies stationarity of a training image for use in multipoint geostatistical analysis. The stationarity is preferably characterized by statistical measures of orientation stationarity, scale stationarity, and category distribution stationarity.... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research

20070014436 - Embroidery data processing device and computer program product: The disclosure presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of creating a single unit of tree structure vector data by coupling plural pieces of independent tree structure vector data. A coupling node N22 is added between nodes N2 and N5 of a tree structure vector... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070014437 - Information processing device: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that can improve immediacy. The information processing apparatus emits a plurality of lights whose wavelengths are different from each other to a living body, disperses the respective lights coming from the living body, separates a plurality of image components corresponding to the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070014438 - Method of iris recognition using cumulative-sum-based change point analysis and apparatus using the same: A method of iris recognition using a cumulative-sum-based change point analysis and an apparatus using the same are disclosed. The method includes: transforming an iris image to a polar coordinated image having n×m pixel size and dividing the polar coordinated image into at least one cell; grouping the divided iris... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070014439 - Monitoring system, monitoring device and method, recording medium, and program: A suspicious individual can be detected more accurately. A face detecting unit detects a face image of an approaching individual from a monitor image, and a characteristic amount detecting unit detects the characteristic amount of the approaching individual from the face image. A collating unit identifies an approaching individual by... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070014440 - Automatic fingerprint identification system and method: A system and method for automated print identification is described. In particular, the method includes providing an active search record, arranging the prints of the active search record according to print quality to generate a filtered active file database, providing the filtered active file database as the input to a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070014441 - Fingerprint identification assembly using total reflection to indentify pattern of the fingerprint: A fingerprint identification assembly includes a body having an objective lens mounted on top of the body for receiving thereon a fingertip and a first reflective lens mounted on a bottom of the body to receive reflected light from the objective lens, a light source emitting light to the first... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070014442 - Processing apparatus for controlling execution of processing based on user's fingerprint information and control method therefor: A processing apparatus capable of improving the degree of security protection without requiring a user to perform any additional operations, the processing apparatus determining whether or not a logged-in user is the same person as a user who pressed input confirmation button to confirm contents of input information by comparing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070014443 - System for and method of securing fingerprint biometric systems against fake-finger spoofing: A biometric secured system grants a user access to a host system by classifying a fingerprint used to verify or authorize the user to the system as real or fake. The classification is based on a probability that fingerprint image data corresponds to characteristics that reliably identify the finger as... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070014444 - Methods, computer program products and devices for check of identity: A method for creating a representation of a fingerprint is disclosed. The method comprises creating unique pairs of minutiae points identified in the fingerprint, each pair of minutiae points being represented by a distance between the minutiae points and by angles associated with the respective minutiae points included in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070014451 - Anatomical visualization and measurement system: A method for determining the degree of twist to be manually introduced into an implant which is to be positioned in the aorta and adjacent iliac branches so as to achieve an effective degree of twist when the implant is positioned in the anatomy, the method comprising: identifying the effective... Agent: Mark J. Pandiscio Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.C.

20070014462 - Constrained surface evolutions for prostate and bladder segmentation in ct images: A Bayesian formulation for coupled surface evolutions in level set methods and application to the segmentation of the prostate and the bladder in CT images are disclosed. A Bayesian framework imposing a shape constraint on the prostate is also disclosed, while coupling its shape extraction with that of the bladder.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070014454 - Dynamic tumor diagnostic and treatment system: A workstation imports medical images that depict a tumor and provides tools that enable a physician to see the results of prior therapies, plan future therapies, predict the outcome of future therapies and control future therapies. The workstation processes the imported images to produce isonumeric images of the tumor that... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070014463 - Factor analysis in medical imaging: A method for processing image data includes estimating initial factor images from image data, transforming the estimated initial factor images by a transformation variable to obtain transformed factor images, providing an objective function that is a function of the transformed factor images, and minimizing the objective function to obtain unique... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070014461 - Location of curved structure: In a method and apparatus for locating in a three dimensional data array an arcuate object having an axial extent, slices of data generally transverse to the axial extent of the object are selected. Rays generally radially of the arcuate object are selected within the slices. Crossing points where the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070014453 - Method and apparatus for atlas-assisted interpretation of magnetic resonance diffusion and perfusion images: The present invention discloses a method for registering a measured MRI volume image with appropriate anatomical and blood supply territory Atlases to enable Atlas information to be mapped onto the measured MRI volume image. The disclosed arrangements provide an efficient method for mapping brain Atlas information (including gross anatomy and... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070014460 - Method and apparatus for detecting various cell types of cells in a biological sample: In a method and an apparatus for detecting various cells types of cells in a biological sample, an image of the biological sample is provided. This image is normalized with regard to a distribution of the image values, and the normalized image is subsequently divided into a plurality of image... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070014445 - Method and apparatus for real-time motion correction for ultrasound spatial compound imaging: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for real-time motion correction in compound ultrasound imaging. Certain embodiments include receiving an image frame, estimating motion between the image frame and a previous image frame, updating a previous motion estimate with the estimated motion to form an updated... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070014452 - Method and system for image processing and assessment of a state of a heart: One embodiment discloses a computerized method of facilitating cardiac intervention. The method may include inputting patient data and creating a computerized interactive model of a heart based on the patient data. The model may include features. The model may simulate at least one proposed cardiac intervention by adding or deleting... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070014448 - Method and system for lateral comparative image analysis and diagnosis: A technique is provided for comparative image analysis and/or change detection using computer assisted detection and/or diagnosis (CAD) algorithms. The technique includes registering a first three-dimensional image of a first volume and a second three-dimensional image of a second volume. The first and the second volume are generally anatomically symmetric... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070014458 - Method for achieving \"virtual resolution enhancement\" of a diagnostic imaging modality by using coupled fea analyses: A method and computer-implemented system for enhancing the capability of an imaging modality by coupling it with physiological models constructed at length scales below the resolution of the imaging modality. The present invention involves the use of multiple, coupled FEA analyses operating at different length scales to increase the utility... Agent: Stephen J. Brown, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070014455 - Method for forming and distributing a composite file including a dental image and associated diagnosis: A method of providing dental-related imaging data of a patient to a dental practitioner is provided, the dental-related imaging data being obtained by a third party imaging provider at a third-party imaging provider site using a three-dimensional digital imaging device. Three-dimensional image data of the maxillofacial complex of the patient... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070014457 - Method for knowledge based image segmentation using shape models: A method for segmenting an object of interest from an image of a patient having such object. Each one of a plurality of training shapes is distorted to overlay a reference shape with a parameter Θi being a measure of the amount of distortion required to effect the overlay. A... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070014447 - Method for locating brain lesion: A surgeon utilizes a brain scan image to locate a brain lesion and to plan the operation to treat it. Distance measurements representing the location of the lesion are derived from various views of a brain scan image. In the operating room, he transfers these distance measurements onto the patient's... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070014450 - Method of analysing a representation of a separation pattern: The invention relates principally to the statistical analysis of protein separation patterns. The invention solves the problems associated with producing models which are predictive of classification using unreduced data. The invention provides a method of analysing a representation of a separation pattern, the representation including a neighborhood representing a region... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070014449 - Method of analysing separation patterns: The present invention relates principally to the statistical analysis of protein separation patterns. Specifically, the invention provides a method of performing operations on protein samples for the analysis of separation patterns, the method including separating a plurality of protein samples to produce a plurality of respective separation patterns; forming a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070014446 - Surface parameter adaptive ultrasound image processing: The depth buffer of a GPU is used to derive a surface normal or other surface parameter, avoiding or limiting computation of spatial gradients in 3D data sets and extra loading of data into the GPU. The surface parameter is used: to add shading with lighting to volume renderings of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070014456 - System and method for piecewise registration of timepoints: A system and method for piecewise registration of timepoints are provided. The method comprises: selecting an image dataset of a first or second timepoint to be registered; defining a sub-volume in the selected image dataset; and registering the sub-volume with a whole-volume of the unselected image dataset.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070014459 - Virtual resolution enhancement in diagnostic imaging using fea: A method is described for achieving resolutions beyond the resolution of a diagnostic imaging using multilevel computational analysis. This is accomplished by coupling the diagnostic image with images obtained at higher resolutions or with physiological models constructed at size scales beyond the resolution of the original diagnostic image. Using a... Agent: James E. Bartek

20070014465 - Data processing method and data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus comprising a display device for displaying the data; the first recording device for recording the large volume bit map data; the second recording device recording an index data formed as a two-dimensional image obtained by rendering the large volume bit map data; the first data processing... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070014464 - Optical coherence tomograph: A light emission section includes a plurality of light sources and emits near infrared low coherent light beams having different specific wavelengths to a light interference section. The light interference section allows the near infrared low coherent light beams to pass therethrough toward the eyeground and partially reflects the beams... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070014466 - Achieving convergent light rays emitted by planar array of light sources: Systems and methods are provided for achieving convergent light rays emitted by a planar array of light sources. In one embodiment, an imaging device is provided for inspecting semiconductors or other objects. The imaging device includes one or more imaging lens for imaging light reflected from an object. The imaging... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070014467 - System and method for fast template matching by adaptive template decomposition: A fast template matching method by adaptive template decomposition is provided. The template decomposition technique subdivides a template into a number of horizontal and/or vertical subdivisions and one-dimensional characterizations are determined for the subdivisions. The template decomposition may be adapted during learn mode operations of a general-purpose precision machine vision... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070014468 - System and method for confidence measures for mult-resolution auto-focused tomosynthesis: A method of analyzing image data to determine an appropriate resolution level for image to be generated from the image data. In the method image data can be analyzed to determine a high frequency noise quality and a low frequency noise quality in the image data. These different noise qualities... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070014469 - Monolithic image perception device and method: An apparatus which can acquire, readout and perceive a scene based on the insertion, or etching of photosensitive elements into or on a transparent or semi-transparent substrate such as glass. The substrate itself acts as the optical device which deflects the photons incident to the reflected image into the photosensitive... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070014470 - Tone mapping of high dynamic range images: Tone mapping a high dynamic range (HDR) image is performed by obtaining a log-norm luminance component based on a normalized logarithm of the HDR image. The log-norm luminance component is flattened (tone-compressed) using incrementally-spaced adaptation levels, which are increasingly blurrier representations of the log-norm luminance component, weighted by a diminishing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070014472 - Method of and system for classifying objects using local distributions of multi-energy computed tomography images: A method of and a system for identifying objects using local distribution features from multi-energy CT images are provided. The multi-energy CT images include a CT image, which approximates density measurements of scanned objects, and a Z image, which approximates effective atomic number measurements of scanned objects. The local distribution... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP Attn: Intellectual Property Deptartment

20070014471 - Method of and system for splitting compound objects in multi-energy computed tomography images: A method of and a system for splitting a compound object using multi-energy CT data including a density and an atomic number measurements are provided. The method comprises: compound object detection; computing a two-dimensional DZ distribution of a compound object; identifying clusters within the DZ distribution; assigning a component label... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP Attn: Intellectual Property Deptartment

20070014473 - System and method for graph cuts image segmentation using a shape prior: A system and method for graph cut image segmentation using a shape prior is provided. In this method, an initial shape is applied to a portion of an image to be segmented. A narrowband is formed around a border of the shape, and a minimized graph cut is calculated for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070014474 - Data-generating apparatus, method, and program for image forming: A data-generating apparatus comprising a bitmap data-generating unit to generate binarized bitmap data indicating an image-formed area and an image-excluding area based on the figure information in response to the figure-describing data being inputted, a judging unit to judge whether modifying information is comprised in the figure-describing data, a modifying... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070014475 - Presenting recognised handwritten symbols: A method for presenting recognised handwritten symbols comprises the steps of recognising the detected handwritten pattern. The step of recognising comprises comparing the handwritten pattern to templates representing ways of writing symbols and returning a best interpretation of the handwritten pattern, said best interpretation being based on the pattern of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070014476 - Digital intermediate (di) processing and distribution with scalable compression in the post-production of motion pictures: Scalable image compression is exploited to facilitate the creative process in the post-production of motion pictures. Specifically, digital intermediate (DI) processing of motion pictures is enabled by dynamically rendering proxies 126 (steps 122, 124, 128) in response to client requests (steps 116, 118). A DI application is designed to enhance... Agent: Dts, Inc.

20070014478 - Apparatus, method, and medium for encoding/decoding of color image and video using inter-color-component prediction according to coding modes: A color image and video encoding and/or decoding apparatus, method, and medium using inter-color-component prediction in accordance with an encoding mode are provided. The encoding apparatus for encoding an original image including at least two color image components, includes: a residue generation unit, if the encoding mode is inter mode,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070014477 - Method and system for motion compensation: Described herein is a method and system for motion compensation. This system and method use confidence for motion vector selection. Relative cost and an estimate of noise power may be used to characterize residual values and influence confidence determination.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070014479 - Method and apparatus of color system adaptive intensity compensation and video encoding/decoding method and apparatus thereof: A method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding image data. The encoding method includes: if the color space of an image is a single color space, correcting pixel values by applying identical correction pixel values to all color components of a previous image, and if the color space of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070014480 - Method and apparatus for creating a multi-resolution framework for improving medical imaging workflow: Method and apparatus for handling data comprises decomposing data into a plurality of resolution levels using an integer wavelet decomposition. A transform module may be used to perform forward and inverse transformations on multi-dimensional data using integer wavelet transforms. A data stream is compiled comprising the plurality of resolution levels... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070014481 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding image data: An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding image data. The image data encoding apparatus includes: a transformer transforming pixel values of an image in a time domain into pixel values in a frequency domain; a quantization coefficient determiner determining a quantization coefficient proportional to a number of bits per... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070014482 - Pixel data generating method: A method of generating pixel data of a missing block in an image frame is disclosed. Edge points are detected from neighboring image side adjacent to the missing block. A direction is calculated for each edge point. Edge lines are formed from edge points based on the direction thereof to... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20070014483 - Apparatus, method and program for image processing: For enabling a change in lighting pattern in an image, adjustment of a shadow pattern is aimed at in an image. For this purpose, a parameter acquisition unit obtains weighting parameters representing the shadow pattern in a face region in the image by fitting to the face region detected by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070014484 - Method and system for adaptive film grain noise processing: Described herein are a method and system for distinguishing various characteristics of an image and selectively removing them. In video processing applications, the available compression bandwidth may determine the amount of coding loss that will be required. For very low rate encoding, film grain noise may be removed in order... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070014485 - Facial feature-localized and global real-time video morphing: A method and apparatus for modifying, or morphing, a video image. A video feed is received which include an image of a person's face. A number of facial features are detected from the video feed. One or more of those facial features are selected and modified, with the modification being... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070014486 - High speed image reconstruction for k-space trajectory data using graphic processing unit (gpu): A method for reconstructing an image generated from radial trajectory data in frequency or k-space using a GPU. The method includes using a vertex shader of the GPU to transform coordinates of a window aligned with the radial trajectory data and using a pixel shader of the GPU to combine... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070014487 - Method and system of generating geometric characteristics of a digitally encoded image: m

20070014488 - Automatically and accurately conflating road vector data, street maps, and orthoimagery: Automatic conflation systems and techniques which provide vector-imagery conflation and map-imagery conflation. Vector-imagery conflation is an efficient approach that exploits knowledge from multiple data sources to identify a set of accurate control points. Vector-imagery conflation provides automatic and accurate alignment of various vector datasets and imagery, and is appropriate for... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20070014489 - Nonrigid registration of cardiac perfusion mr images using adaptive local template matching: Motion of the heart during contrast enhancement is modeled at two hierarchical levels: global translation and local deformation. Large-scale, i.e., global, translational motion is identified using global template matching, while the local deformation of a portion of the object (e.g., the left ventricle where the object is a heart) is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070014490 - Optical force sensor: A force sensor particularly suited for use in an electronic stylus that senses the contact force on its nib for recording pen strokes and handwriting recognition. The sensor has a housing for a load bearing member for receiving an input force to be sensed and associated circuitry for converting the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070009134 - Method and apparatus for fragile watermarking: A method of fragile watermarking is characterised by the step of generating at least a first ill-conditioned operator, said ill-conditioned operator being related to values extracted from an image or portion thereof A.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070009135 - Estimation system, estimation method, and estimation program for estimating object state: 3 A 3D model storage means (170) stores the 3D shape data of a target object and illumination base data in advance. A comparison image generation means (110) generates, as a comparison image, a reproduced image with the target object being arranged in the position/posture of the current estimation value... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070009136 - Digital imaging for vehicular and other security applications: Apparatus for inspecting a vehicle in order to determine whether portions of the vehicle have been altered to conceal contraband or explosives. The apparatus captures an image of an area of a vehicle that should not be altered from a known configuration and compares the image to a reference image... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070009137 - Image generation apparatus, image generation method and image generation program: Provided are an image generation apparatus, image generation method and image generation program which are capable of displaying the relationship between a vehicle, et cetera, and an imaged image of the subject of monitoring in a manner intuitively comprehensible when displaying the monitoring subject, such as a vehicle, shop, surrounding... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070009138 - Automatic digitization of garment patterns: The present invention relates to a system and method for digitizing shapes, especially for garment styles by using image scanning techniques. A method is disclosed to digitize garment patterns. First, a physical pattern is scanned into a raster image. Features such as intensity edges in the raster image are recognized... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070009140 - Code generating device using biometric information: A code generating device using biometric information, includes an input unit of biometric information, a storage unit stored with a plurality of biometric information patterns and with codes each uniquely assigned to each biometric information pattern, a code generating unit extracting one of the plurality of biometric information patterns, which... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070009139 - Facial recognition device for a handheld electronic device and a method of using the same: Introduced is a method for enhancing the security of a handheld electronic device, in particular a mobile communication device. In one embodiment, the method includes (1) providing biometric reference data of an authorized user of functions of a handheld electronic device; (2) capturing the biometric user data of a party... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Agere Systems Inc.

20070009141 - Image construction method, fingerprint image construction apparatus, and program: When slide operation of a finger on a sweep type fingerprint sensor is not constant, it is difficult to construct a general image of a fingerprint. An inspection region, which is used to find a difference between a latest partial image read by a sweep type fingerprint sensor and an... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070009142 - Method and apparatus for measuring structures in a fingerprint: A plurality of images of portions of a fingerprint surface is generated by measuring structural features the portions of the surface with a sensor array as the surface is moved relative to the array. A two-dimensional image of the fingerprint surface is constructed from a portion of the plurality of... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070009143 - Image processing: A method of processing an image containing at least one object boundary, the method comprising producing a contour map of the image in which contours divide the image into zones and merging zones if their statistical properties of their pixels sufficiently match those of the pixels expected of an object... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070009144 - Image processing method and computer-readable recording medium containing image processing program: An image processing method which corrects a 3-dimensional CT data value obtained from a 3-dimensional object is provided. The image processing method comprises: a threshold setting step of setting a threshold value used for generating a correction value from the 3-dimensional CT data value obtained from the 3-dimensional object; an... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070009145 - Balancing areas of varying density in a digital image: A method of producing a mask for digital unsharp masking or for digital equalization and a computer readable memory having recorded thereon statements and instructions for execution on a computer for carrying out the method both comprise: receiving an unprocessed digital radiograph; creating a first new image that is a... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070009146 - Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method utilizing a datapath having a balanced calculation load: A lithography apparatus with a data-path for converting a representation of a requested dose pattern to a sequence of control data suitable for controlling an array of individually controllable elements. The data path comprises a plurality of data manipulation devices and a calculation load controller for balancing a calculation load... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070009147 - Mask pattern inspecting method, inspection apparatus, inspecting data used therein and inspecting data generating method: A method of inspecting a photomask for a semiconductor integrated circuit formed based on drawing pattern data, includes the steps of classifying a drawing pattern of the semiconductor integrated circuit into a plurality of ranks in accordance with a predetermined reference and extracting the same, determining inspecting accuracy for each... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070009148 - Optical surface inspection: The present invention provides a method, an optical inspection apparatus as well as a computer program product for optical inspection of a surface. The optical inspection apparatus can be effectively applied for optical inspection of periodic structures on e.g. a semi-conductor wafer for the purpose of quality control. By effectively... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070009150 - Method and apparatus for generating projecting pattern: A pattern generating apparatus includes a sequence generating unit and an image data generating unit. The sequence generating unit generates a sequence formed by terms having M-value numeric values. The image data generating unit generates the image data by converting each numeric value of the sequence into a gray-level value... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070009149 - Method and device for the contactless optical determination of the 3d position of an object: A device for the contactless optical determination of the position of an object. In particular, the present invention provides a method and device for the contactless optical determination of the 3D position of an object wherein an image of the object is generated by means of a camera and the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070009151 - Handwriting recognition using neural networks: New neural networks for handwriting recognition may be build from existing neural networks. An existing neural network pre-trained for a starting language is chosen based on a desired target language. The neural network is modified so that it may be used to recognize characters of the target language, and the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070009152 - Learning-type classifying apparatus and learning-type classifying method: A learning-type classifying apparatus comprises defective region extracting unit for extracting defective regions of classification targets from an image in which the plurality of regions of the classification targets are present, characteristic value calculating unit for calculating characteristic values for the extracted regions of the classification targets, classifying unit for... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070009153 - Segmentation of digital images: A method and system for segmenting a digital image is presented allowing manipulation of an image, for example by extracting a foreground portion of the image and overlaying the extracted foreground onto a new background. The invention provides an automated process requiring only a single user selection of an area... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070009154 - Image forming apparatus: Recording of time information and function information of each image forming process for which processing has been completed in a recording portion 64 (S1), judgment (S6) of whether or not a switching time that has been set is 0 for processing in which the elapsed time from completion to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070009155 - Intelligent importation of information from foreign application user interface using artificial intelligence: A process for intelligent importation of information from a foreign application user interface includes extraction of raster data from a pre-designated region of a screen displayed in the foreign application, segmentation of the raster data into prospective sets of character raster data; application of the character raster data and a... Agent: Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, PC

20070009157 - Image processing apparatus, moving image encoding apparatus, information processing method and information processing program: The information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs moving image data of frames; a reference information acquisition unit which acquires reference information in accordance with the moving image data of one of the frames inputted to the input unit, the reference information forming a reference for identifying a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070009156 - Linear correspondence assessment: A system and method for feature extraction and evaluation include an extraction system configured to produce extracted features from input images, and an evaluation system configured to find a correspondence between reference features and the extracted features.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070009159 - Image recognition system and method using holistic harr-like feature matching: A method and system for holistic Harr-like feature matching for image recognition includes extracting features from a test image where the extracted features are Harr-like features extracted from key points in the test image, matching extracted features from the test image with features from a template image, transforming the test... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070009158 - Paper and electronic recognizable forms: A method for processing forms in a computer system includes receiving from a human operator a design of a unified from template including data fields and respective attributes. Paper forms and electronic forms (e-forms) are automatically produced based on the unified form template. Filled-in paper forms and filled-in e-forms are... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070009160 - Apparatus and method for removing non-discriminatory indices of an indexed dataset: The present invention provides a device and method for removing non-discriminatory indices of an indexed dataset using ensemble statistics analysis. The device may include a data removal module (320) for removing non-discriminatory indices. For example, the data removal module (320) may comprise a common characteristic removal module and/or a noise... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20070009161 - Data format conversion: Converting intermediate document data representing document text derived from data in an image data format into a semantically-meaningful tagged text data format may be provided. Intermediate document data derived from document image data may be imputed. The intermediate document data may comprise character data corresponding to characters in the document... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070009162 - Image-taking apparatus: A digital camera is provided with an emission section which emits independently controlled light to each of multiple emission areas and a light measurement/distance measurement CPU which calculates the amount of light to be emitted at actual emission based on the amount of reflected light of pre-emission and causes the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070009163 - Image transmitting apparatus and image receiving apparatus: An image transmission apparatus has a difference calculator configured to calculate a difference between actual image data and current predicted data based on previous data, a quantizer configured to generate quantized difference data obtained by quantizing the difference, a quantization characteristic determinator configured to determine a quantization characteristic corresponding to... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070009164 - Imaging device: An imaging device has an image pickup section, a compression processing section, a correlation data holding section, and first and second calculating sections. The image pickup section generates photographic image data. The compression processing section performs compression processing on photographic image data. The correlation data holding section holds plural correlation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070009165 - Modular, low cost, memory efficient, input resolution independent, frame-synchronous, video compression system using multi stage wavelet analysis and temporal signature analysis with a highly optimized hardware implementation: The present invention provides a method of and apparatus for operating upon a sequence of video frames by splitting each frame into components, and each component into a plurality of columns. The columns are operated upon in a manner that reduced edge artifacts and compresses the columns by reducing precision... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070009166 - Scalable system for discrete cosine transform and method thereof: A data processing system for transforming an input matrix into at least one specified column of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients in an output matrix via a DCT procedure is provided. The data processing system includes an input data control unit and a basic operation unit. The input data control... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070009167 - Contrast enhancement of images: A method and system for contrast enhancement of an input image that utilizes luminance values of pixels of the input image to derive transforms. The method down-samples and partitions an image into sub-images whereby transforms are generated for selected sub-images. The selected sub-image transforms are used to generate an output... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070009168 - Method for enhancing a digital image while suppressing undershoots and overshoots: A method is provided for enhancing the details of an image while suppressing or preventing shoots that would otherwise occur during a prior art enhancement process. The enhancing method is based on recognizing that Shoots are likely to occur at edges of an image to be enhanced, and therefore, if... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070009169 - Constrained image deblurring for imaging devices with motion sensing: Systems and methods are disclosed for deblurring a captured image using parametric deconvolution, instead of a blind, non-parametric deconvolution, by incorporating physical constraints derived from sensor inputs, such as a motion sensor, into the deconvolution process to constrain modifications to the point spread function. In an embodiment, a captured image... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070009170 - Image enhancing system: An image enhancing system uses a perfect reconstructing filter to process image signals within a specified resolution and enhance the image signals. The image enhancing system includes an image-signal-obtaining unit, a first-signal-group processing unit, a high-pass/low-pass-image obtaining unit, a brightness-adjusting unit, a threshold unit, an amplifying unit, an adder and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070009171 - Image processor, image processing method, program and recording medium: An image processor realizing noise removal and contour line emphasis simultaneously. A high-pass filter (1) outputs the high-pass components h(m,n) of input image data f(m,n). An emphasis control amount deriving section (2) determines an emphasis control amount e(m,n) by subjecting the input image data to discrete wavelet conversion. A multiplying... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070009173 - Apparatus and method for shading correction and recording medium therefore: A shading correction apparatus, method, and program capable of realizing high-speed and high-quality correction include: a work as an object to be captured; a capture unit for capturing the work; a background image data generation unit for generating background image data from original image data generated by the capture unit;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070009172 - Method and system for correcting defective pixels of a color image: A method and system for correcting defective pixels of a color image, which first performs an interpolation on a Bayer image captured by an image sensor to thus reconstruct red, green and blue (RGB) colors corresponding to each pixel and obtain an RGB image, then converts the RGB image from... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070009174 - Method for non-linear image processing, and a flat detector having a correction unit: To improve the image quality of X-ray images recorded by way of flat detectors, a method for non-linear image processing is provided. An X-ray raw image which is read from a pixel matrix is converted to an X-ray image, wherein the pixel matrix contains pixel elements of a bit depth... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070009175 - Image processing based on local noise statistics: Processing of a digital image includes applying a function to a plurality of pixels in the image, the function relating a noise statistic to pixel intensity values. By applying the noise statistic function, a noise statistic value is produced for each of the pixels. Each of the pixels is processed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070009177 - Method for reproducing an image frame: A method for reproducing an image frame in an electronic device to improve a shift of reference points in a distorted frame is provided. The first of the method is to generate a plurality of offsets by comparing a pre-stored matrix of reference points with a corresponding matrix of testing... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc. Suite 250

20070009176 - Multi-resolution processing of digital signals: Representations of an input signal at different lower resolutions are obtained, where n denotes a level of resolution, and where 0≦n≦N. Level n=N corresponds to the representation having the lowest resolution, and level n=0 corresponds to the input signal. The resolution increases as level n decreases. The nth level representation... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070009178 - Image-clustering method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for clustering images by inferring a unit of event recognized by a user through the reflection of a user's image-use pattern. The image-clustering apparatus includes an image-storage module for storing a plurality of images, an application module for accessing the stored images according to a user's... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070009179 - Imaging system providing dynamic viewport layering: A system including methodology for optimizing/customizing display or rendering of requested images is described. In one embodiment, the system provides on-demand creation of images that are customized for a particular device type. The system comprises a module serving as a repository for images, each image comprising image components arranged into... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070009180 - Real-time face synthesis systems: The present invention discloses techniques for producing a synthesized facial model synchronized with voice. According to one embodiment, synchronizing colorful human or human-like facial images with voice is carried out as follows: determining feature points in a plurality of image templates about a face, wherein the feature points are largely... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20070009181 - Efficient and high speed 2d data transpose engine for soc application: An apparatus comprising a buffer circuit, a rotation circuit and a memory. The buffer may be configured to store original image data in one or more sub-matrices. The rotation circuit may be configured to (i) produce rotated data and (ii) store the rotated data in a transposed matrix. The memory... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070009182 - Image processing apparatus and graphics memory unit: An image processing apparatus and graphics memory unit which reduces useless memory access to a graphics memory unit. When an image data read section reads image data from frame buffers or windows, a mask area inside/outside determination section determines by reference to mask information stored in a mask information storage... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070009183 - Electronic apparatus and control method thereof: An electronic apparatus includes a main output part to output an image signal, a sub output part to output the image signal to an external apparatus, a connecting sensor to sense whether the external apparatus is connected to the sub output part, and an image processor to output the image... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070009184 - Associating attributes to captured input within a digital pen: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for altering the captured input within a digital pen. One embodiment includes capturing the input by the digital pen, wherein the input comprises dots and measurements. Further, the method includes modifying, within the digital pen, the input based on an attribute selected for the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070003104 - Data embedding apparatus and printed material: An apparatus embeds data into an area of image data. The apparatus determines whether colors of the area are specific colors, modifies image data of the area based on a determination result, and embeds the data into the area.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070003102 - Electronic watermark-containing moving picture transmission system, electronic watermark-containing moving picture transmission method, information processing device, communication control device, electronic watermark-containing moving picture processing: A technique is disclosed involving embedding plural differing digital watermarks into one type of input moving image data, creating plural moving image data series, encoding the created moving image data series, generating a new moving image data series from the moving image data series based on addition ID information, and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070003103 - Method of allocating optimal payload space: There is provided a method of allocating optimal payload space in a watermarking system. The method includes steps of: (a) obtaining identification parameters relating to programme data content (PC), said identification parameters including at least one or more user identifiers (UID) and one or 5 more programme content identifiers (CID);... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070003106 - Illumination-invariant object tracking method and image editing system using the same: An illumination-invariant object tracking method and an image editing system using the same are provided. The illumination-invariant object tracking method involves: designating an initial position of an object of interest to be tracked in an image; constructing a probability map for object tracking in consideration of a color ratio of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070003105 - Monitoring system, monitoring method, and monitoring program: An object of the present invention is to reduce a data amount of a frame image to reduce a data amount of a captured image. A monitoring system according to the present invention includes: an image capturing section that takes a moving image including a plurality of frame images; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070003108 - Image processing device and method for parking support: An image processing device and method for parking support that allows the driver to perceive the state surrounding the vehicle correctly in a simple operation even if plural cameras are carried on the vehicle. Plural images are acquired using plural cameras for image pickup in different directions surrounding the vehicle.... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070003107 - Method and system for vehicular guidance using a crop image: The method and system for vehicular guidance comprises an imaging device for collecting color image data to facilitate distinguishing crop image data (e.g., crop rows) from background data. A definer defines a series of scan line segments generally perpendicular to a transverse axis of the vehicle or of the imaging... Agent: Deere & Company

20070003109 - Automated image quality diagnostics system: A system for activating automated image quality diagnostic systems via a direct communication from the image-based control system is disclosed. The system includes a printing engine configured to intake electronic image input and to output tangible image output based on the electronic image input, an image-based measurement system configured to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070003111 - Biometrics authentication method and biometrics authentication system: A biometrics authentication system uses biometrics authentication media to simplify the process of issuing biometrics authentication media, and reduce issuing costs. A biometrics authentication application is downloaded from a server to a mobile communication terminal, and an area for authenticated biometrics information is created. A user brings this mobile communication... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070003112 - Biometrics authentication method biometrics authentication device and blood vessel image reading device: A biometrics authentication device, which uses blood vessel images of a human body to perform individual authentication, performs verification processing according to a detected body temperature. A temperatur