Image analysis inventions 02/07

20070041609 - Method of classifying defects: A method of classifying defects of an object includes irradiating multi-wavelength light onto the object, splitting light reflected from the object into light beams, each of the light beams having different wavelengths, obtaining image information of the object based on each of the light beams, forming a characteristic matrix that... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070041610 - Processing device, processing method and computer readable medium: A processing device has plural processing modules executing a processing; and plural connectors each having a linking section, an associating section, and a controller. The linking section is able to link with at least one other connector at an input side or an output side. The associating section associates the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041611 - Synthesis of superposition images for watches, valuable articles and publicity: The present invention aims at synthesizing superposition images formed either by band moire shapes or by shape level lines for making the information forwarded by valuable articles or by time pieces such as watches and clocks more dynamic, as well as for improving their attractiveness and aesthetics. A further application... Agent: Roger D. Hersch

20070041608 - Watermark information embedding apparatus, image processing device, watermark information embedding method and image processing method: A watermark information embedding apparatus capable of embedding a plurality of different types of information together in a document is provided. In a pattern table 19, (1) a permanent dot pattern which is to remain after a document is copied and (2) a temporary dot pattern which is to be... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070041612 - Apparatus, method and system for screening receptacles and persons, having image distortion correction functionality: An apparatus suitable for screening a receptacle. The apparatus comprises an input for receiving an image signal, the image signal conveying an input image related to contents of the receptacle, the image signal having been produced by a device that is characterized by introducing distortion into the input image. The... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070041613 - Database of target objects suitable for use in screening receptacles or people and method and apparatus for generating same: A database of target objects suitable for use in detecting the presence of one or more target objects in a receptacle is provided. The database of target objects comprises a plurality of entries, each entry being associated to a respective target object whose presence in a receptacle it is desirable... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070041614 - Road marking recognition apparatus and method: An object of this invention is to provide a technique to correctly recognize road markings by a simple processing. This road marking recognition method: obtaining image data of a road, and storing the image data into an image data storage; detecting a first road marking in the image data stored... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070041616 - Displacement and tilt detection method for a portable autonomous device having an integrated image sensor and a device therefor: A displacement detection method for a portable autonomous device having an integrated image sensor. The method comprises several steps. In the first step a current digital image is received from the image sensor; the current digital image depicting a background scene. Then, the position of a first area within the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070041615 - System for recognizing events: A system recognizes events. The system includes a sequence of continuous vectors and a sequence of binarized vectors. The sequence of continuous vectors represents spatial-dynamic relationships of objects in a predetermined recognition area. The sequence of binarized vectors is derived from the sequence of continuous vectors by utilizing thresholds for... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070041619 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070041618 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070041617 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070041620 - Information access method using biometrics authentication and information processing system using biometrics authentication: An information processing system using biometrics authentication employ biometrics characteristics for individual authentication to enable accessing of individual information, with which the convenience of input for users is improved. A biometrics database which links and stores group numbers, individual identification numbers, and biometrics data is provided, and a group number... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070041621 - Image password lock system by tracing position information of the organism or article feature: An image password lock system by tracing the position information of the organism or article feature is provided. In this embodiment, a photographic device photographs a movable target object to read a dynamic image data. Moreover, the dynamic image data has a predetermined shooting range set to be a whole-region... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070041622 - Person identification procedure by converting fingerprints and genetic codes into barcodes, and the device used in this procedure: A procedure to identify people starting with known methods of fingerprint recognition, which classifies the prints according to the Vucetich method, subclassifies them according to the previous classification, converts them into alphanumeric codes, and then converts these into barcodes. To do this, there is a grid or plotting device where... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070041624 - Method for detecting the presence of a target analyte in a test spot: An apparatus and method for imaging metallic nanoparticles is provided. Preferably, the invention provides for an apparatus and method for detection of gold colloid particles and for accurate reporting to the operator. The apparatus includes a substrate holder for holding the substrate, a processor and memory device, an imaging module,... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070041623 - Patient worklist management in digital radiography review workstations: Managing a patient worklist in a radiology environment is described, the patient worklist identifying a plurality of medical imaging cases to be reviewed at a radiology review workstation. For each case, a set of CAD-computed metrics is received, the CAD-computed metrics being derived from an operation of a CAD processing... Agent: Brian J. Daiuto

20070041625 - Image evaluation method for two-dimensional projection images and items corresponding thereto: 2-D projection images show the temporal course of the distribution of a contrast medium in an examination object containing a vascular system and the surroundings thereof. Each projection image has pixels with pixel values defined by the same areas of the examination object a computer determines a 2-D evaluation image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070041626 - Healthcare administration communication systems and methods: Medical communication systems and related methods are provided for facilitating the sending of medical treatment related communications to users of various user communication devices, such as wireless devices, over one or more networks. Medical devices providing patient care may be in communication with the system, and transmit operational data thereto.... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070041627 - Color space transformations for use in identifying objects of interest in biological specimens: Two color transformations, as described herein, facilitate identification of the objects of interest in the biological specimen. One of the color transformations, a Minus Clear Plus One (MC+1) transformation, can be conceptualized as either translating and rotating axes of a three-dimensional coordinate space that defines an image of the biological... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070041628 - Detection of document security marks using run profiles: A method and apparatus for preventing or inhibiting effective reproduction of documents such as currency, checks, stock certificates, and any other printed document including a pre-defined security mark printed therein. The method and apparatus operate to effect a multi-step review of all digital image data acquired from a printed document... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070041629 - Gray scale image cleaning system and method: A gray scale image cleaning algorithm for improved check code line OCR. An image processing system for processing a gray scale image is provided that includes: a system for generating a first thresholded black white image from the gray scale image; a system for generating a second thresholded black white... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070041630 - Imaging module and data receiving apparatus: An imaging module is provided and includes: an imaging portion for capturing an image of an object and outputting an image signal, AFE for subjecting the image signal from the imaging portion to an analog signal processing to be converted into digital; and a digital signal processing portion for generating... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070041631 - Inspecting method, inspecting apparatus, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device: An inspecting method increases the accuracy of a DSA for thereby increasing the yield of semiconductor devices which are manufactured. For performing a DSA using the data of a defect inspecting process obtained when wiring patterns are formed on a wafer and the dada of a VC inspecting process performed... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070041632 - Bonding program: With an assumption that the three data of the position (X1, Y1) of the first positioning pattern 202 and position (X2, Y2) of the second positioning pattern 212 of the reference chip 200, and the position (X3, Y3) of the first positioning pattern 232 of the bonding object chip 230,... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070041634 - Image capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing method: A digital camera which performs digital processing on an image obtained by image capturing has a three-dimensional lattice point data table for image data conversion processing. The digital camera holds a matrix coefficient set for performing the conversion processing by matrix operation. In the respective lattice points of the three-dimensional... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070041633 - Mosaic image data processing: A method having a corresponding apparatus and computer program comprises receiving a mosaic image comprising a plurality of pixels; separating the mosaic image into a plurality of color channels each comprising only the pixels having a corresponding one of a plurality of colors; and processing each color channel of the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070041635 - Method and apparatus for graphical data compression: A system comprising a first computer and a second computer remotely located from the first computer and in communication with the first computer via a network. The second computer comprises an encoder module which encodes and transmits a pixel color datum to the first computer. The encoder module encodes the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070041636 - Apparatus and method for image contrast enhancement using rgb value: An apparatus and method for image contrast enhancement using an RGB value. The method includes the steps of: determining a 1st and a 2nd mapping function for contrast enhancement in consideration of a mean luminance value per frame; calculating a first mapping function value by sustituting an input RGB value... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041637 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes a determination part, an information obtaining part, a dynamic range setting part and a processing part. The determination part determines whether or not an image includes an area where destruction of gradation due to contrast correction tends to be conspicuous. The information obtaining part obtains... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041638 - Systems and methods for real-time object recognition: Systems and methods are provided for the real-time object recognition of target objects, which includes the identification of target objects within images. In particular, images are received from an imaging device and analyzed by a workstation. The workstation applies one or more filters to the received images to generate one... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070041641 - Image processing apparatus: A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames viewed from the future side and a rear accumulated image obtained by... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070041640 - Image processing device: An area to be subjected to the image correction process such as an area of a human image in an image containing the human image is automatically specified, and an image correction process such as the gradation process is executed only for the specified area.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070041639 - Image segmentation by assigning classes to adaptive mesh primitives: Quantification of metric or functional parameters often requires image segmentation. A crucial part of such method is the model of the surface characteristics of the object of interest (features), which drives the deformable surface towards the object boundary in the image. According to the present invention, sections of the mesh... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041642 - Post-ocr image segmentation into spatially separated text zones: This invention describes a post-recognition procedure to group text recognized by an Optical Character Reader (OCR) from a document image into zones. Once the recognized text and the corresponding word bounding boxes for each word of the text are received, the procedure described dilates (expands) these word bounding boxes by... Agent: Rudoler & Derosa LLC Attn: Docket Clerk

20070041643 - Character recognition apparatus and character recognition method: A character recognition apparatus generates each character candidate from a character string written in a plurality of character entry boxes written on a sheet of paper such as a business form, and performs character recognition. A row image separating unit acquires an image containing a plurality of character entry boxes... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070041644 - Apparatus and method for estimating a facial pose and a face recognition system using the method: An apparatus for estimating a facial pose. The apparatus includes a pre-processing module that provides feature points of a subject's face of a received image, and a pose-estimation module that computes sizes of a left half plane and a right half plane of the face from the provided feature points,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070041645 - Characteristic based classification system: Characteristics can be stored in a computer databank for various plants, animals, and items. When a user wants to identify a particular plant, animal, or item, the user supplies the characteristics that are readily ascertained. After the user has entered the characteristics, the standardized reverse logic databank of the invention... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20070041646 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: An image coding method and an image decoding method is provided by which an image can be restored correctly even if part of memory management information is lost by a transmission channel error, a candidate of a reference image that can be referred to is selected more appropriately, and coding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070041647 - Method for increasing the flexibility of dicom tags management in application-specific integration: A method of importing an image from an image file, including the steps of reading an image data portion and a header portion from the image file, retrieving essential tag names from a table, and upon verifying that the header portion includes all of the essential tag names, retrieving the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070041648 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: An image coding method and an image decoding method is provided by which an image can be restored correctly even if part of memory management information is lost by a transmission channel error, a candidate of a reference image that can be referred to is selected more appropriately, and coding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070041651 - Image processing apparatus: A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames viewed from the future side and a rear accumulated image obtained by... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070041650 - Image processing apparatus: A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames viewed from the future side and a rear accumulated image obtained by... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070041649 - Image processing apparatus: A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames viewed from the future side and a rear accumulated image obtained by... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070041652 - Method for imaging coding by rate-distortion adaptive zero-tree-based residual vector quantization and system for effecting same: Methods and systems for encoding, transmitting and decoding digital images by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization are disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving a digital image, transforming the digital image into the wavelet domain generating a pyramid hierarchy, losslessly encoding a top LL subband from the pyramid... Agent: Trask Britt

20070041653 - System and method of quantization: Systems and methods for quantization are provided. Some embodiments provide a system and method for quantization comprising preprocessing the transform coefficients to predict one or more non-zero coefficients and one or more zero coefficients as well as predict the non-existence of non-zero and zero coefficients, storing indices representing the predicted... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070041654 - Embedded interaction code enabled surface type identification: At least one image captured from a printed document and at least one image captured from a display surface other than a printed document are processed. A surface-type-identification module accepts as input both types of images and identifies, for a particular image, the type of surface from which the image... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070041655 - Edge enhancement processing unit, endoscope processor, and computer program product: An edge enhancement processing unit comprising a determination block and a signal processing block is provided. The determination block determines whether the luminance of a surrounding pixel is greater than at zero level. The surrounding pixel is located around a focused pixel. The signal processing block carries out an edge... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070041657 - Image processing device to determine image quality and method thereof: An image processing device that determines the image quality includes a division unit dividing image data into a plurality of divided images, a calculation unit calculating luminance histograms of the respective divided images, and a judgment unit judging qualities of the respective divided images using the luminance histograms of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070041656 - Method and apparatus for reducing brightness variations in a panorama: In one embodiment, a method of reducing brightness variations in a panorama comprises calculating a gamma plane based on the panorama, blurring and normalizing the gamma plane and then applying the blurred and normalized gamma plane to the panorama thereby to reduce brightness variations therein.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070041658 - Image matching apparatus, method of matching images, and computer program product: An image matching apparatus for obtaining a correspondence relationship between a source image and a destination image, includes an potential force calculator that calculates potential energy based on a correlating relationship of images between each first lattice point on the source image and each second lattice point corresponding one-to-one to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070041659 - Surroundings monitoring apparatus and surroundings monitoring method: The present invention provides a surroundings monitoring apparatus and a surroundings monitoring method which can reduce, in a displayed image, distortions caused by camera position displacement in the case where the camera position displacement is present. The surroundings monitoring apparatus includes: a position displacement information obtainment unit which obtains a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070041660 - Real-time integration and recording of surgical image data: Certain embodiments of the present application provide a method for imaging in a healthcare environment including receiving in an application a first feed, the first feed including historical patient image data; receiving in the application a second feed, the second feed including substantially live patient image data; and integrating in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070041661 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for table construction and use in image processing: A method of processing an image includes selecting, for each of a plurality of picture element values in at least a portion of the image, one among a plurality of offset values. For each of the plurality of picture element values, an index value is obtained based on (A) the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070041662 - Efficient scaling of image data: One preferred embodiment is directed to a scaling unit for scaling an image. The scaling unit comprises a fetching unit, a vertical scaler, and a horizontal scaler. The fetching unit is for receiving a first group of pixels. The group includes at least one first pixel of a first line... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070041663 - Apparatus and method for super-resolution enhancement processing: Provided is an apparatus and method for super-resolution enhancement processing. The apparatus includes a low-resolution image capturing unit, a patch pair generating unit, a patch pair database, and a high-resolution image reconstructing unit. The low-resolution image capturing unit captures a low-resolution image. The patch pair generating unit divides each of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070041664 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, program and recording medium: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus converts moving image data including plural first image data of a first resolution into moving image data including plural second image data of a second resolution. The apparatus generates position alignment data between the target first image data and another... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070041665 - Information processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of signal processes. The data processing apparatus switches processes of a pre-processing portion, a data processing portion, and a post-processing portion with a control signal supplied from a function controlling portion corresponding to a command supplied from the outside. Thus,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070041666 - Information processing system and information processing method: An information processing system includes a memory portion that stores image information of a space in association with a document, the image information being captured by an image capturing portion, the document being used while the space being captured, a receiving portion that receives information that specifies the document as... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070041667 - Using features extracted from an audio and/or video work to obtain information about the work: Information about an audio or video file played on a device is provided by (a) extracting features from the audio or video file, (b) communicating the features to a database, and (c) receiving the information about the audio or video file from the database. The information might include a song... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070041668 - Search apparatus and search method: An object of this invention is to allow a user to easily and simply designate or input an image serving as a document search key. That is, a search apparatus reads a document image (S7001) to obtain image data, extracts an image region in the image data (S7004), and displays,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070036389 - Object tracking using optical correlation and feedback: A motion-sensing device is used to track motion of an object. The motion-sensing device includes an optical correlator, a motor system and a controller. The optical correlator has an imager. The optical correlator provides a feedback signal that indicates motion of the object in at least one dimension based on... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070036390 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070036391 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070036392 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070036393 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070036394 - Method for measuring and quantizing document quality: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070036395 - Reverse identity profiling system with alert function: The present invention is a universal biometric monitoring system designed to locate and track terrorists, criminals, and missing or displaced persons. Via various checkpoints and a plurality of identity verification or observation ports, defining identity characteristics or biometric data is transmitted to a system that cumulatively creates a database and... Agent: Sheri L. Okun

20070036397 - A distance iris recognition: A system for one dimensional segmentation of an iris of an eye into a map of the iris and classification of the map into unaffected areas and affected areas. Also, the system may provide for regular shape fitting of the areas for normalization and identifying the unaffected areas as symmetric... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070036396 - Pupil detection device and iris authentication apparatus: A pupil candidate detection unit for detecting positions of pupil candidates which may be candidates of a pupil in an eye image; a pupil candidate retention unit for retaining a plurality of detected positions of the pupil candidates; and a pupil selection unit for selecting a pupil candidate, out of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070036398 - Apparatus and method for partial component facial recognition: A method and system for identifying a human being or verifying two human beings by partial component(s) of their face which may include one or multiple of left eye(s), right eye(s), nose(s), mouth(s), left ear(s), or right ear(s). A gallery database for face recognition is constructed from a plurality of... Agent: 24ip Law Group Usa, PLLC

20070036399 - Personal identification device: In a personal identification device using blood vessel patterns, means capable of downsizing the device is especially provided. The personal identification device comprises an infrared ray source and a light receiving element row containing a plurality of light receiving elements. In personal identification, a finger is passed over the light... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070036400 - User authentication using biometric information: An input unit accepts a fingerprint image of a user. A pre-extraction and categorization unit generates pre-extracted data from the fingerprint image and uses the data to categorize the input fingerprint image into one of multiple groups. A feature extraction unit extracts fingerprint feature data from the fingerprint image by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070036401 - System for recognizing fingerprint image, method and program for the same: A fingerprint recognition system for extracting minutiae from a fingerprint image. The fingerprint recognition system generates a corrected image from the input fingerprint image by: eliminating incipient ridges/pores from the fingerprint image by using the density pattern of the pixels of ridge lines/valley lines in the direction orthogonal to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036415 - Abnormal pattern detection processing method and system: The result of detection processing by abnormal pattern detection processor means 30 is stored in a server 40. In addition, the output image on an image output device 440 is read for pattern, and the supporting contents, such as the result of judgment by a doctor (which, when differing from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036402 - Abnormality detection in medical images: A system for the detection of abnormalities in a medical image of a subject. The system includes an examination bundle, a learning engine, and a detecting engine. The examination bundle includes at least one medical image of the subject from a first modality and at least one medical image of... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070036410 - Aligning apparatus, aligning method, and the program: An aligning method and apparatus for aligning images having different imaged regions with improved alignment accuracy. Aligning the imaged region of each of a plurality of partial images with an overall reference image. Then, two images having an overlapping area are aligned with each other based on the amount of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036408 - Hierarchical motion estimation method and ultrasound imaging system using the same: The present invention relates to a hierarchical motion estimation method and an ultrasound imaging system using the same. The hierarchical motion estimation method includes decomposing a first input image and a second input image into at least two hierarchical, multi-resolution images; selecting one of the multi-resolution images decomposed from the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036416 - Image analysis method for vertebral compression curvature: An image analysis method for vertebral compression curvature is disclosed for providing diagnosis analysis of the compression curvature. It makes use of the transverse sectional image with a concave feature of a vertebral body. After B-spline curves are approximated as ellipse-like surfaces, the method further evaluates the compression curvature of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070036404 - Medical image analysis: A system and method of analysis for a medical image are described. A medical image is received and analyzed, and an initial border of a region within the medical image is determined based on the analysis of the medical image. A user input is received indicating one or more control... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070036405 - Method and apparatus for correction of an image: A method and apparatus for automatically estimating a correction to be made to an image deformed with respect to a sequence of images. The method includes detecting of information pixels in the images; calculation of a region of interest located in a binary mapping image made from the images; for... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070036414 - Method for database guided simultaneous multi slice object detection in three dimensional volumetric data: The present invention is directed to a method for automatic detection and segmentation of a target anatomical structure in received three dimensional (3D) volumetric medical images using a database of a set of volumetric images with expertly delineated anatomical structures. A 3D anatomical structure detection and segmentation module is trained... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070036413 - Method for planning an examination in a magnetic resonance system: In a method for planning an examination of an examination subject in a magnetic resonance system, the planning of the examination ensues based on a composite overview image that is composed of at least two individual images. A first part of the overview image is acquired and the first part... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070036403 - Object association in a computer generated drawing environment: Methods and systems for associating two objects in a drawing application with one another are provided. Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a method in a computing environment that includes receiving a command to designate a target and designating the target. The method can further include identifying a subject... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070036407 - Printing system for endoscope: An image printing system for an endoscope includes a printer, a print commander, a printer-information memory, a timer, and an image data memory. The printer prints an image, and the print commander commands the printer to print the image. The printer-information memory stores printer-information, including time-information that represents a required-time-period... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070036409 - System and method for automatic segmentation of vessels in breast mr sequences: A method for segmenting digitized images includes providing a digitized image, selecting a point with a median enhancement greater than a predefined threshold, wherein a contrast enhancing agent was applied to the subject matter of said digitized image prior to acquisition of said image, defining a shape matrix for the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070036411 - System and method for body extraction in medical image volumes: A method for identifying non-body structures in digitized medical images including the steps of providing a digitized image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on an N-dimensional grid, wherein said image includes a representation of a body and of non-body structures separate from said body,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070036412 - System and method for quality assurance for distributed computer aided diagnosis solutions: A method for associating a computer aided detection/diagnosis result with an image including the steps of providing one or more digitized images, each image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on an N-dimensional grid, performing a computer-aided detection/diagnosis of intensity data of a first image,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070036406 - System and method for toboggan-based object detection in cutting planes: A system and method for toboggan-based object detection in cutting planes are provided. A method for detecting an object in an image includes: determining a region of interest (ROI) in the image; determining a toboggan potential for each image element in the ROI; extracting a plurality of cutting planes from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070036417 - Image data based retrospective temporal selection of medical images: Systems and methods for deriving a cardiac cycle signal by selecting images of a portion of a cardiovascular system include receiving a plurality of images from a scanner that have been recorded over a period of time. The images represent one or more locations along the extent of the cardiovascular... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070036418 - Imaging system: A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a region of interest for an object is provided. The reconstruction of the object may be based on chords which may fill a part, all, or more than all of the region of interest. Using chords for reconstruction may allow for reducing data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070036419 - System and method for interactive definition of image field of view in digital radiography: Certain embodiments provide a system and method for improved adjustment of a field of view for an image. The system includes an image processor configured to process raw image data to generate a processed image and a user interface configured to allow a user to adjust the field of view... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070036420 - Methods for analyzing defect artifacts to precisely locate corresponding defects: Described are methods and systems for providing improved defect detection and analysis using infrared thermography. Test vectors heat features of a device under test to produce thermal characteristics useful in identifying defects. The test vectors are timed to enhance the thermal contrast between defects and the surrounding features, enabling IR... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070036422 - Image alignment method, comparative inspection method, and comparative inspection device for comparative inspections: The present invention provides a high-precision alignment method, device and code for inspections that compare an inspection image with a reference image and detect defects from their differences. In one embodiment an inspection image and a reference image are divided into multiple regions. An offset is calculated for each pair... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070036421 - Method and apparatus for inspecting defects of semiconductor device: When an inspection apparatus of a semiconductor device repeatedly executes computation of prescribed area data, such as image processing for detecting defects, procedures for commanding, data load, computation, and data store need to be repeated the number of times of the computation. This may impose a limitation on the speeding... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070036425 - Bonding apparatus: With an assumption that the three data of the position (X1, Y1) of the first positioning pattern 202 and position (X2, Y2) of the second positioning pattern 212 of the reference chip 200, and the position (X3, Y3) of the first positioning pattern 232 of the bonding object chip 230,... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070036424 - Bonding pattern discrimination device: Determination of inclination of positioning patterns used in bonding being made by: imaging a positioning pattern of reference chip and taking such image as reference-image; specifying a polar coordinate conversion origin for the reference-image; imaging an object (chip) of bonding to use it as an object-image, thus obtaining a relative... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070036423 - Bonding pattern discrimination program: Determination of inclination of positioning patterns used in bonding being made by: imaging a positioning pattern of reference chip and taking such image as reference-image; specifying a polar coordinate conversion origin for the reference-image; imaging an object (chip) of bonding to use it as an object-image, thus obtaining a relative... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070036426 - Method for measuring misalignment of continuance mill and apparatus for measuring the same: While a reference means having a positional relationship to the pass-line of a continuance mill determined in advance and caliber profile (area enclosed by the groove profile of a rolling roll) formed by a rolling roll at each stand are imaged within the same visual field and a position corresponding... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070036427 - Depth information for auto focus using two pictures and two-dimensional gaussian scale space theory: An imaging acquisition system that generates a depth map from two pictures of a three dimensional spatial scene is described. According to one aspect of the invention, the system generates the depth map based on the relative blur between the two pictures and the absolute blur contributed by the system.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070036428 - Method for evaluation and stabilization over time of classification results: Classification methods are described that proceed in computer-assisted fashion, and in particular a method for evaluation and stabilization over time of classification results is described in which objects to be classified are sensed using sensors over a period of time, and are repeatedly classified with the inclusion of specific quality... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070036429 - Method, apparatus, and program for object detection in digital image: In a method of detection of a predetermined object in an input image, one or more sample image groups representing the object of which a predetermined part or parts is/are occluded is/are prepared in addition to a sample image group representing the entirety of the object, by shifting a position... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036430 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: The invention provides an image processing apparatus including a region specifying unit for specifying a measurement-object region from an image; a measurement-region defining unit for defining at least one measurement region in the specified measurement-object region; and a characteristic-sample selecting unit for respectively selecting, from a plurality of characteristic samples... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070036431 - Method, apparatus, and program for detecting objects in digital image: In a method of detection of different objects in an input image by application, to partial images cut at different positions in the input image, of a plurality of weak classifiers that evaluate whether a detection target image is an image of a predetermined object based on a histogram of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036432 - Object detection in images: The invention applies a segmentation operation to an input image to identify foreground objects of interest, and then applies a shadow removal operation to remove any detected shadows from the foreground segmentation. The shadow removal algorithms can leave holes and bisections in the segmentation map, however, which will then subsequently... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070036433 - Recognizing data conforming to a rule: Systems and/or methods (“tools”) are described that enable a recognition system to recognize user-entered data conforming to a data rule. The tools may do so by providing data regions for a document. With these data regions, the recognition system may better determine what information on the document is user-entered and... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070036434 - Topology-based method of partition, analysis, and simplification of dynamical images and its applications: A dynamical image of is an array of black-and-white images, or frames, of arbitrary dimension. Dynamical images are constructed from gray scale and color images, video sequences etc. A method of topological analysis and decomposition of dynamical images through computation of homology groups of the frames is provided. Each frame... Agent: Bruce E. Hayden, P.C.

20070036435 - Label aided copy enhancement: Regions within a scanned document are labeled according to content. These labeled regions allow for particular enhancement and sharpening methods to be applied. The labeled regions may be further leveraged in subsequent rendering of the scanned document on a printer or other output device and/or in storing the scanned document.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070036436 - Method for improved image segmentation: An improved image segmentation algorithm is provided that identifies each object in an image. Pixels of the image are sorted based on a range of attribute values of the image. These pixels are then added to a labeling image one by one starting with an extreme point in the range... Agent: David T. Burse VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070036437 - Comparative and analytic apparatus method for converting two-dimentional bit map data into three-dimensional data: A method is provided for converting a two-dimensional image or bitmap of a handwritten manuscript into three-dimensional data The three-dimensional data can be used to automatically recognize features of the manuscript, such as characters or words. The method includes the steps of: converting the two-dimensional image into three-dimensional volumetric data;... Agent: Tiffany & Bosco Camelback Esplanade Ii, Third Floor

20070036438 - Methods and systems for identifying red eye pairs: Identifying pairs of red eye candidates in a digital image includes determining at least one attribute associated with a first eye candidate, and at least one attribute associated with a second eye candidate. The at least one attribute associated with the first eye candidate is compared to the at least... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070036439 - Unresolved target detection improvement by use of multiple matched filters approach at different spatial phases: A method and system for detecting a point source target using multiple matched filters are disclosed. A sensor, which is preferably an infrared focal plane array, includes a plurality of pixels for providing image data. A processor processes the image data from a selected pixel corresponding to a potential point... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036440 - Generating applications that analyze image data using a semantic cognition network: A method is disclosed for generating an application that analyzes image data, such as from satellite and microscope pictures. The method uses a graphical user interface to add a new processing object to a processing object network. The processing object network includes a parent processing object and a child processing... Agent: Silicon Edge Law Group LLP

20070036441 - Monotonic classifier: A method and system for generating a monotonic classifier are disclosed. A plurality of feature vectors may be mapped to a plurality of ordered classes. Each feature vector may map to a corresponding class. For each class other than the lowest-ordered class, a binary classifier may be trained to distinguish... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP Firm 21269

20070036443 - Adaptive coding and decoding of wide-range coefficients: A block transform-based digital media codec more efficiently encodes wide dynamic range transform coefficients in two parts: a normalized coefficient and bin address. The normalized coefficient relates to a grouping of coefficient values of the wide dynamic range into bins, whereas the bin address is an index of the coefficient... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070036442 - Adaptive subtraction image compression: The present invention provides methods and systems for compressing digital images by arranging the images in a series, subtracting the pixel of each of the images from its corresponding pixel in its adjacent image, adjusting the pixel value to zero for pixels having an absolute value less than a predetermined... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070036444 - Image processing apparatus, image processing and editing apparatus, image file reproducing apparatus, image processing method, image processing and editing method and image file reproducing method: In generating stereo image data based on a plurality of monocular images of the same subject with a predetermined parallax, a metadata generating section generates collateral data, related to stereo image data, and an image file generating section generates information related to a date and time at which collateral data... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070036445 - Method and apparatus of efficient lossless data stream coding: The present invention provides method of lossless data stream coding with high coding efficiency. The differential value of adjacent samples are calculated firstly and is coded by a VLC coding, the variable length coding. The VLC coding includes codes representing the quotient and remainder with a marker bit inserted in... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung Rm. 308

20070036446 - Apparatus and method of optimizing scan speed: An apparatus and method to optimize a scan speed, wherein a presence/absence of compression of a correspondent document is automatically determined and then scanned depending on a system performance such that documents can rapidly be scanned.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070036447 - Content distribution/reception device, content transmission/reception system, content distribution/reception method, and content distribution/reception program: [Means for Solving Problems] A content distribution device (101) includes data output means (104) for outputting encoded data and transmission means (106 to 109) for transmitting encoded data which is outputted from the data output means (104) The data output means outputs encoded data obtained by hierarchical encoding as the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036448 - H.264 decoding method for fast cavlc: There is provided a H.264 decoding method for fast CAVLC, which searches multiple tables effectively and fast to obtain coefficients for CAVLC blocks within the shortest period of time such that a decoder with excellent efficiency can be designed for low frequency. The H.264 decoding method for fast CAVLC includes:... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070036449 - Data processing apparatus and method and recording medium: JPEG encoded data are entropy-decoded to quantized DCT coefficients which are sent to a prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and to a class tap extraction circuit (42). The prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and the class tap extraction circuit (42) extract what is needed from the quantized DCT coefficients to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070036450 - Data processing apparatus and method and recording medium: JPEG encoded data are entropy-decoded to quantized DCT coefficients which are sent to a prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and to a class tap extraction circuit (42). The prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and the class tap extraction circuit (42) extract what is needed from the quantized DCT coefficients to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070036451 - Jpeg-compressed file creating method: Image feature values Va and Vh are derived from image data, coefficients C and D are determined based on the image feature values Va and Vb, and an approximate expression expressed with the file size Sfj of the JPEG compression file and the quantization data coefficient value Aqt is derived.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036455 - Image processing content determining apparatus, computer readable medium storing thereon image processing content determining program and image processing content determining method: An image processing content determining apparatus 100, a computer readable medium storing thereon an image processing content determining program and an image processing determining method being capable of determining the content of an image processing with simple operation is provided. The image processing content determining apparatus includes: a basic figure... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070036453 - Image quality control in an imaging system: A method of and system for controlling image quality in a digital image printing system, such as a medical image printing system, is provided a digital medical image including a set of pixels, each of which has a pixel value, is acquired from a medical image source. A medical image... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070036454 - System and method for sensor device manufacturer oriented calibration: A system and method for providing image calibration data for calibrating a digital medical image are disclosed. The system comprises a computer-based platform hosting a medical imaging software application. The computer-based platform is used for accessing a digital medical image, using at least the medical imaging software application. The computer-based... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070036452 - Technique for simulating film grain using frequency filtering: Simulation of film grain in an image can occur by compressing a video image, then transmitting compressed video together with a message containing at least one parameter indicative of the original film grain, to a decoder, and restoring the original grainy appearance of images by having the decoder simulating film... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070036457 - Digital image exposure correction: Techniques are disclosed for correcting the exposure of a digital image. An exposure predictor may be generated based on a set of images for which ground truth data are known. After identifying an optimal set of features, the exposure of the digital image may be corrected by extracting values of... Agent: Polaroid Corporation Patent Department

20070036456 - Image contrast enhancement: A method for contrast enhancement for digital images, including filtering an original image having original color values, to generate a filtered image, receiving parameters for a response curve, the response curve being a function of color value that is user-adjustable, deriving local multipliers by applying the response curve to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070036459 - Digital signal processing apparatus: A digital signal processing apparatus comprises a wavelet transforming device that divides an input digital signal into a first low-frequency sub band and a first high-frequency sub band by wavelet transformation and further divides the first low-frequency sub band into a second low-frequency sub band and a second high-frequency sub... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070036458 - Digital signal processing apparatus and digital signal processing program: A digital signal processing apparatus, comprises: a wavelet transforming device comprising an interleave transformer that divides and rearranges an input digital image signal by dividing the input digital image signal into a plurality of regions by down-sampling and a wavelet transformer that decomposes the rearranged digital Image signal Into a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070036460 - Method for the rotation compensation of spherical images: Method for producing a rotation-compensated image sequence allowing simplified reconstruction of the translation of a camera by real time rotation compensation of images recorded sequentially by an electronic camera randomly displaced in a scene and provided with a rotation sensor resulting from an association of color and/or brightness values of... Agent: Larson And Larson

20070036461 - Deconvolution of a digital image: The invention provides for a method and related computer program for deconvolving a digital image captured by way of a lens arrangement of an image capture device including, in combination with an expression representative of the optical transfer function of the lens arrangement, the step of retrieving metadata associated with... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20070036463 - Platform-independent preference setting method: A platform-independent preference-setting method is used between a first electronic device, a second electronic device and a portable storage medium. The second electronic device includes a built-in memory. In the platform-independent preference-setting method, the portable storage medium is inserted into the first electronic device, which has been installed therein a... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070036462 - System and method for data management in a linear-array-based microscope slide scanner: A data management system and method for processing, storing, and viewing the extremely large imagery data that is rapidly produced by a linear-array-based microscope slide scanner is provided. The system receives, processes, and stores imagery data produced by the linear-array-based microscope slide scanner at approximately 3 GB per minute. The... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070036465 - Image measuring apparatus and image measuring method: An image measuring apparatus comprises an imaging portion with pixels, each pixel being allocated with one color, four pixels constituting one set, one set being allocated with a plurality of colors to express a color, and said sets being arranged in matrix, configured to image a measuring object and output... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070036464 - Method to determine the optical quality of a glazing: A method of determining the optical quality of a glazing which includes at least one area having a reduced light transmission, involves producing a shadowgraph image of the glazing and measuring the illumination of the glazing at a plurality of measurement points arranged in an array extending over the glazing.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070036466 - Estimating an edge orientation: A method of estimating an edge orientation located in a neighborhood of a particular pixel (100) of an image is disclosed. The method comprises creating a set of candidate edge orientations; evaluating the candidate edge orientations by means of computing for each of the candidate edge orientations a match error... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070036467 - System and method for creating a high resolution material image: For example, the system may include or execute software for material classification of an image. The software typically comprises computer-readable instructions and is operable to identify a first image of a first type with a first resolution, the first type comprising a visible image. The software is further operable to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070036468 - Image processing apparatus for image retrieval and control method therefor: Even if a margin area, which did not exist in an original image, is present around a document area in a document acquired by printing the original image, an accurate layout comparison between the scanned image of the printed document and the original image can be performed as follows. An... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070036469 - Method and system for providing image-related information to user, and mobile terminal therefor: Disclosed is a mobile terminal (MT) for acquiring information related to an image photographed through the MT's camera module. The MT captures a desired image in the photographed image, and either internally searches for information related to the captured image or transmits an information request to an information server via... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070036470 - Techniques for generating and using a fingerprint for an article: Techniques for generating fingerprints for articles and using the fingerprints for various applications. Scan-related parameter values, including the area of an article scanned, may be specified and varied from one scan to another for collecting data points used for generating fingerprints for articles. A paper shredder is provided that is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070030998 - Change analyst: A method of determining change in a state of an object using images of the object, the method including providing a first image and a second image of the object, the first image and the second image being spaced apart in time, performing a plurality of pixel-based change detection algorithms... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070031000 - Digital watermarks: The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking and steganographic data hiding. In one embodiment a method of rendering content to a user is provided. The rendered content includes a digital watermark embedded therein. In another embodiment, digital watermarking is utilized to facilitate purchase or lease of audio or video... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070030997 - Imput complexity adaptive quantization watermarking: Systems and methods are described that apply a watermark to data, such as data representing an image. In one implementation, the complexity of the image is measured. A quantization step size is calculated, based in part on the measured complexity of the image. A watermark or message is embedded into... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070030996 - Method and/or apparatus for video watermarking and steganography using simulated film grain: An apparatus comprising a first circuit, a second circuit, and a watermark detection circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a bitstream, wherein the bitstream comprises a watermark message which represents hidden information. The second circuit may be configured to (i) simulate film grain in response to one... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030999 - System, computer program product and method for managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes a document manager that is configured to search for application services providers (ASPS) over a network and based on a user input. The document manager can search documents within the ASPs, retrieve documents and URLs, store documents,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070031004 - Apparatus and method for aligning images by detecting features: An image processing apparatus for detecting feature points in inputted images comprising an optical flow detection section. The optical flow detection section serves as: a full feature point detection section for detecting as a full feature point a point whose pixel value changes significantly when in whatever direction the pixel... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070031001 - Image collation system and image collation method: There are provided a three-dimensional data input means (10) for input the three-dimensional data of an object, a reference image storing unit (30) for storing a reference image of at least one object, a pose candidate deciding means (20) for generating a pose candidate that is a candidate for the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070031002 - Method and system for reducing artifacts in image detection: Multiple images of an object are captured by one or more imagers. Each image is captured with one or more differing image capture parameters. Image capture parameters include the status (i.e., on or off), wavelength and position of each light source and the status and position of each imager. Two... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070031003 - Method for detection and tracking of deformable objects: A method for detecting and tracking a deformable object having a sequentially changing behavior, comprising: developing a temporal statistical shape model of the oscillatory behavior of the embedding function representing the object from prior motion; and then applying the model against future, sequential motion of the object in the presence... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070031005 - Real-time crowd density estimation from video: A system and method for automated and/or semi-automated analysis of video for discerning patterns of interest in video streams. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is directed to identifying patterns of interest in indoor settings. In one aspect, the present invention deals with the change detection problem using a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070031006 - Method for detecting nocturnal fog and system for implementing the method: The invention concerns a system and method for detecting, at night, the presence of an element such as fog interfering with the visibility of a road scene situated in front of a vehicle, comprising the following operations: acquiring an image of the road scene, extracting, from the image of the... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070031007 - Distance-estimation method for a travelling object subjected to dynamic path constraints: This method allows the calculation, using a terrain elevation database, of a map of the distances of the points accessible to a mobile object subjected to dynamic constraints evolving with its time of travel, for example an aircraft having an imposed vertical flight profile, the distances being measured solely according... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070031008 - System and method for range measurement of a preceding vehicle: A system for determining range and lateral position of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a camera and a processor. The camera is configured to view a region of interest including the vehicle and generate an electrical image of the region. The processor is in electrical communication with the... Agent: Visteon

20070031009 - Method and system for string-based biometric authentication: Techniques for string-based biometric authentication are described that includes a method for string-based biometric authentication provided that comprises the steps of receiving a username and password combination associated within a person, acquiring a biometric data from the person, generating a random string of biometric information based on the biometric data... Agent: Bay Area Intellectual Property Group, LLC

20070031010 - Person recognition apparatus: When authentication data of a person O to be authenticated is registered as dictionary data, this authentication data of the person to be authenticated is acquired and collated with the registered dictionary data. In accordance with the collation result, the dictionary data is updated.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070031011 - Electronic fingerprint sensor with differential noise cancellation: Image sensing apparatus includes an image pickup plate disposed generally orthogonally with respect to an expected direction of movement of an object, such as a finger, multiple image drive plates in spaced relation to the image pickup plate to define sensor gaps between respective image drive plates and the image... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070031012 - Fingerprint acquisition apparatus and method therefor: A fingerprint acquisition apparatus including a plurality of sensing units is provided. The fingerprint acquisition apparatus is used for sensing the ridge portion and the valley portion of a fingerprint. Each sensing unit includes a built-in capacitor. There is an inducing capacitance generated between each of the sensing units and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070031013 - Method and apparatus for searching biometric image data: A method for matching biometric data is disclosed. A biometric information source is sensed to provide an image thereof. The image is then analysed to extract features thereform. A feature is selected as a first feature and a plurality of polygons are generated with a location of the first feature... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070031014 - Method and device for aligning of a fingerprint: The present invention relates to methods for aligning an input fingerprint with a reference fingerprint, methods for comparing an input fingerprint with a reference fingerprint, computer program products for aligning an input fingerprint with a reference fingerprint, computer program products for comparing an input fingerprint with a reference fingerprint, devices... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070031016 - Apparatus for automatically detecting salient features in medical image data: salient An apparatus is disclosed for automatically detecting salient features in medical image data. The apparatus includes a memory device for storing the image data, at least one determination module for determining one or more anatomical regions which are acquired by the image data, a number of different examination modules... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070031015 - Automatic determination of joint space width from hand radiographs: A computer-implemented method for determining a joint space width includes providing image data for a skeleton, thresholding the image data, and performing a connected component analysis on thresholded image data. The method further includes extracting contours of the thresholded image data according to the connected component analysis, performing a skeletonization... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070031017 - Method and arrangement for displaying time variable processes in medical imaging: A method and an arrangement are disclosed for displaying time variable processes in medical imaging. In the case of the method, 2D or 3D image data obtained from an imaging modality are processed in order to produce a temporal sequence of images. Intermediate images that are displayed in temporal sequence... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070031018 - Operating method for an image-generating medical engineering assembly and articles associated herewith: A controller of an image-generating medical engineering assembly receives a selection of an image valuation method from a user. It subsequently automatically adjusts selection-specific, positioning-independent operating parameters of the recording arrangement and or provides the user with instructions for adjusting the positioning-independent operating parameters. In response to a user's start... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070031020 - Method and apparatus for intracerebral hemorrhage lesion segmentation: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for appropriately performing the intra-cerebral hemorrhage lesion segmentation by determining a higher scale level image by means of a scale space filtering on an X-ray CT image of a head with the onset of intra-cerebral hemorrhage, determining the region of interest which... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070031019 - System and method for coronary artery segmentation of cardiac ct volumes: A method for segmenting coronary vessels in digitized cardiac images includes providing a digitized cardiac image, providing a seed point in the image, selecting a volume-of-interest about the seed point, performing a local segmentation in the volume-of-interest, including initializing a connected component with the seed point and a threshold intensity... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070031021 - Sheet identifying apparatus and sheet identifying method: The class of a sheet is efficiently estimated and a pattern identification process which is robust to a variation in the medium can be performed by dividing an image pattern of the sheet into a plurality of areas (pixels or sets of pixels), weighting and selecting the areas, attaining the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070031022 - Image processing system: An image processing system requires that both a data file and an image file are received before the item is sent to a posting system. When a data file including an image is received, the system determines if the image was properly and timely received. If the file was properly... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20070031023 - Machine vision equipmet: A method of setting-up machine vision equipment is disclosed. The equipment includes a camera defining a field of view, processing means for determining physical properties of a test object, and first supporting means for supporting a test object at a predetermined distance from the camera within the field of view.... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070031024 - System and method for monitoring and visualizing the output of a production process: A system for monitoring and visualizing the output of a production process, whose output materials or items are inspected by one or more inspection units, may include a communication module to receive data from the one or more inspection units. The received data may be associated with a measured or... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070031025 - Method and apparatus for inspecting a substrate: In an embodiment of a method of inspecting a substrate, the substrate on which minute structures are formed is divided into a plurality of inspection regions. A main inspection region among the inspection regions is selected. A main image of the main inspection region and sub-images of sub-inspection regions adjacent... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070031026 - Method and apparatus for reviewing defects of semiconductor device: A method and apparatus for reviewing defects of a semiconductor device is provided which involves detecting a defect on a SEM image taken at low magnification, and reviewing the defect on a SEM image taken at high magnification, and which can review a lot of defects in a short period... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070031027 - Method and system for vertically aligning tile images of an area of interest of an integrated circuit: A system and method for aligning tile images of an area of interest of an integrated circuit having N metal layers M, where N>1, includes a parametric representation algorithm for extracting parametric representations of edges from an image showing metal layer (MN) and at least a proportion of metal layer... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070031029 - Apparatus, method and program for three-dimensional-shape detection: The present invention relates to three-dimensional shape detection. In the present invention, a plurality of types of pattern lights formed of a series of alternate light and dark patterns are projected onto an object in a time series, an image of the object onto which each pattern light is projected... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070031028 - Estimating 3d shape and texture of a 3d object based on a 2d image of the 3d object: Disclosed is an improved algorithm for estimating the 3D shape of a 3-dimensional object, such as a human face, based on information retrieved from a single photograph by recovering parameters of a 3-dimensional model and methods and systems using the same. Beside the pixel intensity, the invention uses various image... Agent: Joyce Von Natzmer Hall, Vande Sande & Pequigot, LLP

20070031030 - Method and apparatus for analyzing image data: A method for the automatic detection of fields or frames in film or video content having similar or substantially the same luminance or color component values, for example to detect black frames. Image sample values are assigned to a sample value range having a signed weight associated therewith, and a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070031031 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device is provided for processing image data in order to display an image at an image display medium which is capable of displaying white, black, and colors at individual pixels, which are structured by pluralities of sub-pixels. The judgment component acquires the image data and judges whether... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070031033 - Method and apparatus for converting skin color of image: An image-processing method that converts a skin color of an image is provided, the method including detecting a face region of an image, when a face region is detected in the image, verifying whether the face region is a face by analyzing the characteristics of the face region, and when... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070031032 - Method and apparatus for performing conversion of skin color into preference color by applying face detection and skin area detection: A method and apparatus for performing a conversion of a skin color of an input image into a preference color by applying face detection and skin color detection is disclosed. The method includes: detecting a face area from the input image; detecting a skin area from the input image; judging... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070031036 - Method of and system for classifying objects using histogram segment features of multi-energy computed tomography images: A method of and a system for identifying objects using histogram segment features from multi-energy CT images are provided. The multi-energy CT images include a CT image, which appro