Image analysis inventions 04/07

20070092108 - Computing distortion of media signals using embedded data with repetitive structure and log-polar mapping: A digital watermark detection method uses a matched filtering technique on a log polar re-mapping of a watermarked signal to detect peaks associated with a repetitive structure of a watermark.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070092104 - Content authentication system and method: A content capture device with watermarking features provides the ability to encode a captured content item with identification information to identify an owner or other interested party. The content capture device can be implemented as a digital camera or other device suitable for capturing digital content, whether it be audio,... Agent: Shinhaeng Lee

20070092106 - Electronic watermark editor for compressed video: The present invention provides an electronic watermark editor for a compressed video that can efficiently carry out editing such as deletion or rewriting of electronic watermark data. DCT coefficient values are extracted while applying all templates to video contents, and a template where a total sum of relative absolute value... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070092105 - Encoding device, decoding device, and printed matter: In an encoding device that creates an image in which data is embedded, an embedding unit divides an image into a plurality of blocks, and embeds data in the image based on a difference in value of characteristics of adjacent blocks; and a restriction information recording unit records use restriction... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070092107 - Multi-technology information capture system and method: A mobile system having a portable fingerprint collecting system for generating a digitized image of a fingerprint collected from a subject, a database system configured to store a database containing a plurality of fingerprint templates cross-referenced with identification information, the database system configured to compare the digitized fingerprint images generated... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. (c/o Intermec)

20070092102 - Software and method for embedding data in two color images: A method of embedding watermark data into a two-color (binary) image includes assessing the suitability of each of several candidate pixels to embed a bit of watermark data. This is done by identifying candidate pixels for which one pixel directly above the candidate pixel and one pixel directly below the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070092103 - Video fingerprinting using watermarks: Video fingerprinting using watermarks is described herein. A watermark encoder embeds a watermark into an input video to produce a watermarked video. The watermark encoder can choose particular regions of the video that are sufficiently complex for watermarking. Spatial and temporal complexity analyses can be performed on a per-pixel basis... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070092109 - Method of tracking a moving object by an emissivity of the moving object: A method of tracking a moving object by an emissivity of the moving object including receiving first frame data containing emissivity image data of an emissivity from the moving object within a scene, extracting characterization image data from the first frame data that represents edges and gradients of the emissivity,... Agent: Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P.

20070092110 - Object tracking within video images: This invention provides an object tracking method and system for tracking objects in video frames which takes into account the scaling and variance of each matching feature. This provides for some latitude in the choice of matching feature, whilst ensuring that as many matching features as possible can be used... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070092111 - Motion vector field re-timing: A method of estimating a particular motion vector (DR(x, n+α)) for a particular pixel, having a particular spatial position and being located at a temporal position (n+α) intermediate a first image and a second image of a sequence of video images, on basis of a first motion vector field (D3(x,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070092112 - Biometrics authentication method and biometrics authentication system: A biometrics authentication system using biometrics media simplifies the process, and reduces the costs, of issuing a portable communication terminal having biometrics functions. A biometrics application program is downloaded from a server to a portable communication terminal, an area for authenticated biometrics information is caused to be created, and biometrics... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070092113 - Method and apparatus for obtaining facial images: To prevent switching of users when obtaining facial images and biometric data of the hands of users, and to prevent obtainment of falsified biometric data from the hands of users. A facial image obtaining means obtains a facial image of a user. A biometric data obtaining means obtains biometric data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070092114 - Method, communication system and remote server for comparing biometric data recorded with biometric sensors with reference data: A method, a communication system and a remote server (6, 7) are disclosed for comparing biometric data recorded with different biometric sensors (1.3, 8) with reference data. In the inventive method, biometric data are recorded by the biometric sensor (1.3, 8). Simultaneously, the type of sensor is determined and sensor-dependent... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070092115 - Method and system for detecting biometric liveness: A method and system captures a sequence of images of a biometric wherein the images include a common reference. The system aligns the images represented by the image data with respect to the common reference. Thereafter, the system analyzes an attribute of the biometric represented in the sequence of images... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070092116 - Method of object identification: The invention belongs to the field of remote object identification by its passive and/or active radiation, namely, the systems allowing to identify objects including the concealed ones. The goal of the invention under consideration is to develop a mobile and yet highly-efficient object detection and identification system by gamma, X-ray... Agent: Francis C. Hand, Esq. C/o Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi,

20070092117 - Fingerprint sensing device using pulse processing: A fingerprint sensing device that measures the capacitance between an array of electrode plates and finger skin using pulse processing, in which pulse width rather than voltage level, is used for capacitance measurement and digital signal conversion. A pulse, the width of which is compared and adjusted with that of... Agent: Baohua Qi

20070092118 - Input device: An input device comprises a touch panel, a memory and a CPU. The touch panel reads one or more fingerprints. The memory stores a plurality of fingerprints which are previously read by touch panel. The stored fingerprints are related to one or more processes. The CPU compares the one or... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070092120 - Fast geometric flows based white matter fiber tract segmentation in dt-mri: Segmentation of White Matter Fiber Tract in DT-MRI images is achieved by using level sets methods including a method which will increase the speed and quality of the surface evolvement. A method system representing a measure of coincidence of the tensor field with the normal of the surface front to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070092125 - Imaging method and apparatus: A method is provided for measuring a response to a stimulus of a plurality of samples spots of a sample using a measuring system having a measurement range to generate an image of the sample in digital space. The method includes, for each sample, while measuring the response, varying the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070092123 - Method and device for movement correction when imaging the heart: A method and a device are disclosed for movement correction when imaging the heart. In an embodiment of the method, a number of pictures of at least one region of the heart, that are subsequently combined with one another to generate a combined image data record, are recorded with the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070092119 - Method and functional unit for quality monitoring of image acquisitions and simultaneous implementation of an image pre-processing and generation of image processing objects (presentation states) using progressive image compression and transfer methods: A method is provided for simultaneously implementing an image preprocessing and storing of presentation states during a running image transfer by sending acquired image data, which may be in a low resolution format, to an image processing station where processing descriptions associated with the acquired image are assigned to the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070092122 - Method and system for segment-based optical flow estimation: The methods and systems of the present invention enable the estimation of optical flow by performing color segmentation and adaptive bilateral filtering to regularize the flow field to achieve a more accurate flow field estimation. After creating pyramid models for two input image frames, color segmentation is performed. Next, starting... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070092121 - System and method for automatic extraction of spinal cord from 3d volumetric images: A method of extracting a spinal cord from a digitized medical image includes providing a digitized medical image, selecting a set of points from said image as candidates for belonging to the spine, initializing a probability for each candidate point to belong to said spine, minimizing a weighted sum of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070092124 - System for and method of displaying subtraction image and computer program for the system: In a subtraction image displaying system, object areas extracted from the two medical images obtained by taking a part including an object area to be diagnosed of a subject are located, and a subtraction image of the object area generated on the basis of the difference between the object areas... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070092126 - Method of quantifying asymmetry of an object: The method is performed in a computer and comprises acts of importing medical image data sets of an object, selecting regions of interest of the object in each medical image data set, processing the medical image data and constructing an optimal symmetry plane. The act of selecting the regions of... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070092127 - Method and device for segmenting at least one substance in an x-ray image: A method is disclosed for generating CT displays in x-ray computed tomography with contrast medium support, the blooming effect being reduced by decomposing an object into three material components when scanning the object with two different energy spectra, and determining a first component and determining the material thickness thereof by... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070092128 - Automatic repair of electric circuits: An apparatus and method for automatically inspecting and repairing printed circuit boards includes an inspection functionality automatically inspecting printed circuit boards and providing a machine readable indication of regions thereon requiring repair. An automatic repair functionality employs the machine readable indication to repair the printed circuit boards at some of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070092129 - System and method of image processing, and scanning electron microscope: A scanning electron microscope comprises an image processing system for carrying out a pattern matching between a first image and a second image. The image processing system comprises: a paint-divided image generator for generating a paint divided image based on the first image; a gravity point distribution image generator for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070092130 - Method and apparatus for measuring dimension using electron microscope: Disclosed is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) for realizing high-precision dimension measurement of a sample, such as an ArF exposure photoresist, that requires the measurement of a dimension by a low S/N signal waveform. To this end, partial waveforms (or partial images) of sample signal waveforms (or an images) acquired... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070092132 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing program: An image region dividing section (105) partitions each of input images into a small regions, and a small region synthesized image generation section (106) generates a base image of each small region, which is an image including only diffuse reflection, from each input image. An image interpolation section (107) generates... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070092131 - Method for determining midpoint coordinates of an image of a point-symmetrical structure: The invention relates to a method for determining midpoint coordinates of an image of a point-symmetrical structure stored in a volume data record, comprising: extracting a partial volume data record from the volume data record which contains the image of the point-symmetrical structure, selecting a set of points whose coordinates... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070092133 - Pre-normalization data classification: Provided are systems, apparatuses, methods and techniques for recognizing a pattern within input data, such as a specific object within an image frame. Prior to normalizing the input data, normalization-independent classification is performed, thereby rejecting a number of potential windows early on and resulting in a corresponding reduction in required... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070092134 - Image analyzer: An image analyzer for detecting a target object from image data, includes a reference detection unit, a primary detection unit, a secondary detection unit and an output unit. The reference detection unit detects a reference object included in the image data. The primary detection unit detects candidates for the target... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070092135 - Method and device for colour calibrating a camera and/or a display device and for correcting colour defects from digital images: The present invention relates to a method for colour calibrating a camera and/or a display device and for correcting colour defects from digital images, in which method a digital image formed with a camera and/or a display device is adjusted by correcting colour defects of the digital image of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070092138 - Image correction method: An image correction method is provided. First, scan an all-white document and form a scanned image including a plurality of image pixels with each of them having a gray level value. Next, gather these gray level values statistically such that each of them has an image pixel quantity. Then the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070092136 - Methods and systems for automatic digital image enhancement: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for digital image contrast enhancement.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070092137 - Methods and systems for automatic digital image enhancement with local adjustment: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for digital image contrast enhancement.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070092139 - Methods and systems for image tonescale adjustment to compensate for a reduced source light power level: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for increasing the perceived brightness of an image. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light-source illumination.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070092140 - Document analysis systems and methods: A method embodiment herein begins by capturing a source image. The source image is segmented into first planes. The first planes can each comprise a mask plane and foreground plane combination. The binary images in the first planes are structurally analyzed to identify different regions of text, tables, handwriting, line... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070092141 - Focus state display apparatus and focus state display method: A focus state display apparatus comprising focus area extraction means for extracting the image signals of a predetermined area from photographed image signals, edge enhancement processing means for enhancing the edge of the extracted image signals, time integration value calculation means for calculating an integration value of the edge-enhanced image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070092142 - Automatic significant image generation based on image characteristics: The present invention provides for the automatic generation of a series of significant images. One or more representative significant images are used to generate a pattern description. The pattern description can include any information useful to identify an object of interest, or pattern. The pattern description can include a mathematical... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070092143 - System, method and computer program product for adaptive video processing: A method for adaptive video processing includes identifying an object in a frame of video data, determining an object confidence value associated with the identified object, and determining if the object confidence value meets a predefined threshold object confidence value. If not, the method can further include repeatedly processing the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070092144 - Random data resampling for medical imaging: Medical imaging information is randomly resampled into the new resampled form. The random resampling can maintain the random nature of the information, and can avoid count loss.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070092145 - Image processing device and program: Disclosed is an imaging device provided with a moving image decoding section to decode encoded moving image data encoded by MPEG technique into moving image data, blur total motion vector estimating section to obtain motion vector of macroblock selected by macroblock selecting section that is suitable for estimating a total... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070092146 - System and method for transform coding randomization: A method and system are provided where image data is encoded in the spatial domain, and transformed in a two dimensional transform process to thereby recover a frequency domain representation of the image data. The frequency domain representation is then quantized to obtain an integer representation. The integer representation is... Agent: Christopher P. Maiorana, P.C.

20070092147 - Multiple-reference motion estimation method and device, coding method and device, computer program products and corresponding storage means: A multiple-reference motion-compensated predictive coding method is provided, which includes a multiple-reference motion estimation step, of the type making it possible to estimate the motion for each current frame included in a video sequence, from at least one initial list of reference frames for said current frame, each initial list... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070092148 - Method and apparatus for digital image rudundancy removal by selective quantization: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable code for identifying a set of foreground pixels in an image and a set of background pixels from pixels in the image. The set of foreground pixels is quantized using a first level of quantization to form a set of quantized foreground... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070092149 - Method and apparatus of high quality video compression: A video compression method compresses the capture video raw data into the 1st compression format and records the image patter complexity of each frame of a predetermined amount of video frames. The information of the image pattern complexity is used to determine the bit rate of each frame for the... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung Rm. 308, Bld. 52, No. 195

20070092150 - Coding apparatus and decoding apparatus: The coding apparatus according to the present invention is a coding apparatus which codes data regarding a moving picture, and includes: a DCT coefficient advanced-coding unit which performs advanced-coding on multivalued data representing a quantized DCT coefficient or a motion vector, so as to reduce the bit length of binary... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070092151 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and recording medium: An image processing method of quantizing multi-tone image data by an error diffusion method, includes the steps of a) detecting change of the image data; and b) oscillating cyclically in image space a threshold for the quantization in an oscillation range controlled according to the detection result of the step... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092152 - Clear image using pixel voting: A user provides a plurality of digital images of a single subject all taken from a single location and with common camera settings. This set of digital images is parsed one pixel location at a time. For each pixel location, a set of pixel colors is extracted from each of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070092154 - Digital camera provided with gradation correction function: A histogram is generated from image data, and two distribution areas are detected. A gamma curve used for gamma correction of the image data is changed into a gamma curve corresponding to the luminance ranges of the two distribution areas. The luminance values of each pixel in the two distribution... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070092153 - Person image correcting apparatus and method: A person image correcting apparatus and a person image correcting method that reproduce face colors of persons in an image group consisting of a plurality of images shot under identical shooting conditions, with an appropriate color and/or density, prevent variations in the background colors, and effectively perform correcting process, even... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070092155 - Gated image intensifier: A gated optical image intensifier 10 is provided with multiple intensifying channels 20, 22, 24, 26 each supplied with radiation via a respective optical channel of an optical splitter. The separate intensifying channels are subject to gating by a sequence of time spaced gating signals generated by an electronic gating... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070092157 - Image acquiring apparatus and image processing method thereof: An image acquiring apparatus and an image processing method thereof. First, the apparatus acquires an image including at least one pixel corresponding to image data. A location of the at least one pixel of the image is represented by an actual coordinate. Next, the apparatus proceeds the stray processing according... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070092156 - Mean preserving interpolation calculation circuit, pixel interpolation circuit, mean preserving interpolation method, and pixel interpolation method: Missing-pixel interpolation data are obtained such that the mean value of a plurality of pixels constituting a group of pixels including a missing pixel is equal to the mean value of a plurality of pixels constituting a group of pixels not including the missing pixel. For example, missing-pixel interpolation data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070092158 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: The present invention is an image processing technology for eliminating a second line-shaped image object, which overlaps with a first image object in one image comprising effective or ineffective pixels, from the first image object. The technology includes the respective steps of a line segment extraction step for extracting a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070092159 - Method of estimating an affine relation between images: A method (400) is disclosed for estimating an affine relation between a first image and a second image. The first and second images each have at least 4 non-parallel lines therein. The method (400) starts by identifying (406) sets of intersection points of the lines appearing in each of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070092161 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus: An information processing method for obtaining placement information of a first position and orientation sensor attached to an object with respect to the object includes an image input step of inputting an image of the object captured by an image capturing device, and a sensor measurement value input step of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070092160 - Skin evaluation method and image simulation method: A skin beauty evaluation method for imaging an object such as human face to obtain digital image data, extracting data on a mirror reflection light component of each pixel from the digital image data and evaluating the skin sheen and skin beauty by using this. A simulation image obtaining method... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092162 - Methods and systems for image scaling: Methods and systems for scaling an input image.... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070092163 - Method for using customer images in a promotional product: A method of offering a customized promotional product to a user. The method comprises the steps of: accessing a user-supplied digital image at a digital imaging device; providing a digital image representative of a promotional product, the promotional product digital image having a predetermined image location adapted to receive at... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070086619 - Hiding codes in input data: The present invention relates to hiding codes in input data. In one embodiment, a method is provided including: obtaining input data associated with image or visual information; selecting portions of the input data to hide a plural-bit code based at least in part on predetermined data; and modifying selected portions... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070086620 - Probe observing device and surface texture measuring device: Provided is a probe observing device, including: a camera (230) for taking an image of a probe (210 ); an image processing unit (330) for processing data on the image taken by the camera (230); a monitor (400) for displaying the image data processed by the image processing unit (330);... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070086622 - Bi-directional tracking using trajectory segment analysis: The present video tracking technique outputs a Maximum A Posterior (MAP) solution for a target object based on two object templates obtained from a start and an end keyframe of a whole state sequence. The technique first minimizes the whole state space of the sequence by generating a sparse set... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070086621 - Flexible layer tracking with weak online appearance model: Method for tracking an object recorded within a selected frame of a sequence of frames of video data, using a plurality of layers, where at least one object layer of the plurality of layers represents the object includes initializing layer ownership probabilities for pixels of the selected frame using a... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070086623 - Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image: Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image are disclosed. One disclosed method reduces objects appearing in a series of images to one or more blobs; for each individual image in a set of the images of the series of images, represents the one or more blobs in... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070086624 - Image processing for vehicular applications: Method for obtaining information about an occupying item in a compartment in a vehicle includes obtaining a series of images of the compartment, each image being taken at a different time and at least one of which includes the occupying item, comparing a later obtained image from the series of... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20070086625 - Drug authentication: A method is disclosed to verify and identify pharmaceutical products through their product signatures in order to combat counterfeiting and reduce dispensing errors, using methods such as near infrared spectroscopy. Furthermore, in order actively evade pharmaceutical product counterfeiting, a method is disclosed where an amount of one or more of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070086626 - Individual identity authentication systems: A single image from a camera (14) is captured of an individual (40) seeking entry through a door held by a door latch (24). An image processor (16) looks for and locates a tag (42) worn by the individual (40) in the image and reads an identification (ID) code from... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070086627 - Face identification apparatus, medium, and method: A face identification apparatus, medium, and method. The face identification apparatus may include a plurality of face identification units, which are independent from each other, each of the face identification units calculating a confidence based on a similarity between a rotated face image and a frontal face image, and a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070086628 - System for automatically maintaining reference signatures: A system to capture and to automate the maintenance of reference signatures for automatic signature verification systems. Generally, signatures as well as the identity of a person are captured from customer opening forms or recorded when subscribing for a service, which requires automatic signature verification. The identity (example customer name)... Agent: David I. Roche Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070086630 - Finger sensor including flexible circuit and associated methods: A finger sensor may include a finger sensing integrated circuit (IC) having a finger sensing area and at least one bond pad adjacent thereto, and a flexible circuit coupled to the IC finger sensor. The flexible circuit may include a flexible layer covering both the finger sensing area and the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070086629 - Fingerprint detection using sweep-type imager with optoelectronic speed sensor: In a method and an arrangement for detecting skinprints, in particular fingerprints, it is provided that at least one strip sensor comprising at least one elongate narrow sensor line detects the structure of the fingertip when the fingertip passes over the strip sensor, that at least one optoelectronic speed sensor... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070086631 - Method for capturing and mapping fingerprint images and the apparatus for the same: The present invention relates to a fingerprint image capture process control method and the apparatus thereof particularly to a method for capturing and mapping fingerprint images and the apparatus for the same. The present invention determines the proper direction of mosaicing the slices to get correct fingerprint image by comparing... Agent: Richard L. Wood

20070086634 - Finger sensor including enhanced esd protection and associated methods: A finger sensor may include a finger sensing integrated circuit (IC) having a finger sensing area and at least one bond pad adjacent thereto, and a flexible circuit coupled to the IC finger sensor. More particularly, the flexible circuit may include a flexible layer, and at least one conductive trace... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070086632 - Medical data storage or review with interactive features of a video format: Storage and/or review of medical data are provided with interactive features of a video format. One or more examinations are stored in a DVD format. Using a standard format, standard equipment may be used to view the stored examinations. Interactive features of the video format allow navigation. Chapter selection allows... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070086633 - Method for supporting an interventional medical operation: With a method for supporting an interventional medical operation, a 3-dimensional image data set is recorded before the method. A positioning system is coupled with the coordinates system of the 3-dimensional image data set. The instrument is positioned and the position of the instrument in the 3-dimensional image data set... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070086635 - Method of identifying pattern in a series of data: A method of identifying pattern in a series of data, or curve, includes: first converting a curve to a permutation by relabelling the data points with their rank; second, segregating the set of all permutations into clusters of different sizes with respect to some map: permutations mapped to the same... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070086637 - Distance transform based vessel detection for nodule segmentation and analysis: A method and system for differentiating a vessel and a nodule within an image. The method and system first identifies a complex object in the image and then identifies portions of the complex object as a vessel or a nodule using a distance transform based method. A simplex object is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070086636 - Method and system for using computed tomography to test pulmonary function: Computed axial tomography images of different respiratory phases of lungs are obtained, where the intensity of the image measures lung density. One image is deformed to the coordinate space of the other image, and the differences between the intensity values of the other image as compared to the mapped image... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070086639 - Apparatus, method, and program for image processing: A rib image is inferred accurately from a chest image. Rib images are generated by extraction of pixel value components contributing to ribs from values of pixels comprising respective chest images, and rib overlaps at which ribs appear to overlap are detected in the respective rib images. The rib images... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086640 - Method for automated analysis of digital chest radiographs: A method for automatically segmenting lung regions in a chest radiographic image comprising; providing an input digital chest radiograph image; preprocessing the input digital radiographic image; extracting the chest body midline and lung centerlines from the preprocessed image. Locating one-by-one, the chest body model, the spine model and the two... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070086641 - Method, apparatus, and program for judging medical images: Notice is given when a medical image does not include an appropriate region imaged therein. At least one anatomical structure is extracted from a medical image obtained by an imaging apparatus. Whether a diagnostic region imaged within the medical image is appropriate for conducting diagnosis is judged, employing the at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086638 - Systems and methods for obtaining information associated with an image: A method is provided for decoding an image of a pattern associated with an object to determine a digital identifier and to obtain data. The method comprises receiving a image of a pattern associated with the object. The pattern comprises a sub-image and a data tag. The image comprising a... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Finnegan, Henderson, LLP

20070086642 - Method for remote check capture: A method of enabling remote deposit of checks includes receiving at a second site a plurality of check images and a plurality of entered dollar amounts, wherein the check images were generated at the depositor site by scanning the checks and the entered dollar amounts were manually entered at the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070086643 - Secure financial report and method of processing and displaying the same: A financial report and method for processing and displaying relevant financial information in connection therewith include at least one transaction and abbreviated record relating to the transaction which contains only nonpersonally identifying information. The abbreviated electronic record can be one of a partial view image or an assemblage of textual... Agent: Metz Lewis, LLC

20070086644 - Non-lot based method for assembling integrated circuit devices: An inventive method tracks IC devices through the assembly steps in a manufacturing process. Prior to die attach, a laser scribe marks the lead frame of each of the devices with a coded hole matrix that gives each device a unique ID code. During die attach, an optical hole reader... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20070086645 - Method for synthesizing intermediate image using mesh based on multi-view square camera structure and device using the same and computer-readable medium having thereon program performing function embodying the same: The present invention relates to an intermediate image synthesizing method using a mesh based on a multi-view square camera structure. In accordance with the present invention, an accurate disparity vector may be obtained since a shared area is searched for a predetermined time interval using a distance matching and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086646 - Occlusion handling in stero imaging: The handling of occlusions in stereo imaging is disclosed. In one implementation, an association between a discontinuity in one stereo image and an occlusion in a second stereo image is utilized. In such an implementation, the first and second stereo images are segmented. A mapping of a discontinuity within the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070086647 - System and method for 3d volume segmentation using exact minimal surfaces given a boundary: A method for 3D volume segmentation in digitized medical images includes providing a digitized medical image defined on an N-dimensional lattice, obtaining an oriented closed 2-dimensional contour on one or more 2-dimensional slices from said image, defining face weights w from said image intensities by forming a dual lattice of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070086648 - Target-image search apparatus, digital camera and methods of controlling same: The time required to execute processing for detecting the image of a face is shortened. A number of frames of the image of a subject are obtained sequentially by sensing the image of the subject successively. Face detection processing is applied to a first subject image, which is one frame... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086649 - Modeling micro-structure for feature extraction: Exemplary systems and methods use micro-structure modeling of an image for extracting image features. The micro-structure in an image is modeled as a Markov Random Field, and the model parameters are learned from training images. Micro-patterns adaptively designed from the modeled micro-structure capture spatial contexts of the image. In one... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070086651 - Method and apparatus for characterizing the imperfections of skin and method of assessing the anti-aging effect of a cosmetic product: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for characterizing the imperfections of the skin. The apparatus comprises: a) a digital camera allowing the taking of at least one digital image of at least one determined skin zone, the said image being defined by a multiplicity of pixels, that is... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070086650 - Method and device for color saturation and sharpness enhancement: The present invention comprises of a digital image processing method which simultaneously enhances color saturation and sharpness on a pixel-by-pixel basis directly in RGB color space, the most popular color space used to represent digital color images, and does not cause color hue shifts. The method comprises the steps of:... Agent: Bayshore Patent Group, LLC

20070086652 - Apparatus, medium, and method with facial-image-compensation: A facial-image-compensating device, medium, and method. The facial-image-compensating device may include a detection unit to detect an eye region in a facial image, an extraction unit to extract feature information of the detected eye region, and a compensation unit compensating the detected eye region according to the extracted feature information.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070086653 - Optical data storage device and method: A device disclosed herein relates to a rotation invariant data storage device comprising, a data storage device with an optically sensible image, encoded data stored within the sensible image, and a plurality of radial vectors stores the encoded data. The encoded data comprises an image that has been encrypted to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070086654 - Method of and apparatus for capturing, recording, displaying and correcting information entered on a printed form: An information system for capturing, processing, and transmitting recorded information via writing devices is described. The system comprises computing devices, an application stored on a stand-alone computer or on an application server, and client devices, which execute the application as well as collect and store data. The computing device for... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070086655 - Unfolded convolution for fast feature extraction: Systems and methods are described that facilitate performing feature extraction across multiple received input features to reduce computational overhead associated with feature processing related to, for instance, optical character recognition. Input feature information can be unfolded and concatenated to generate an aggregated input matrix, which can be convolved with a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070086656 - Contour extraction apparatus, contour extraction method, and contour extraction program: To provide a contour extraction apparatus which can perform much more quickly the contour division when required while reducing the cost for computing. In contour extraction unit 32: a plurality of nodes are located on a periphery of the target object by the node locator 32A; the contour, which is... Agent: Albert C Simth Fenwick & West

20070086658 - Image processing apparatus and method of image processing: An image processing apparatus for extracting edge points in an input image acquired by an image acquisition device is presented. The image processing apparatus includes an edge magnitude threshold value specifying device for specifying an edge magnitude as an edge magnitude threshold value from the data of the edge magnitude... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20070086657 - Method for supporting low-level flights: A method for supporting low-level aircraft flights in which a warning is provided for the pilot upon a reliable recognition of wire-like obstacles, even during extreme environmental influences, such as clutter, or even when such obstacles are seen against the sky. The method is performed upon the collection of information... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070086659 - Method for groupwise point set matching: A method for registering a collection of m input point sets or images {P1, P2, . . . , Pm}, where m is an integer. The method identifies a set of m rigid (or affine) transformations {T1, T2, . . . , Tm} aligning such images comprising determining a mean... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070086660 - Apparatus and method for detecting a particular subject: An apparatus and a method for detecting from an image a particular subject corresponding to multiple views of the subject by dividing a particular subject space into a plurality of subject subspaces and further dividing a subject subspace into subject subspaces representing multiple views; configuring a tree-structured detector wherein the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070086661 - Image processing apparatus, image recording apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, camera system, computer program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes an image compression device which performs a discrete wavelet transform of pixel values for each rectangular portion to produce wavelet coefficients, and performs a hierarchical compression coding of the wavelet coefficients for each rectangular portion so that a codestream is produced. A codestream transform device... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086662 - Apparatus and method for processing image data using error diffusion: An apparatus and method are provided for processing image data using error diffusion. The apparatus and method decode image data compressed in a joint photographic experts group (JPEG) format, convert the image data into color coordinates without storing the image data in a memory, and perform a binarization by calculating... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070086663 - Video predictive coding apparatus and method: A predictive coding in a video coding system, which can enhance the coding efficiency by predictively coding DC coefficients of a block to be coded using DC gradients of a plurality of previously coded neighboring blocks. The predictive coefficient is selected according to the difference between the quantized DC gradients... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070086664 - Method and apparatus for encoding multimedia contents and method and system for applying encoded multimedia contents: A method and an apparatus for encoding multimedia contents, and a method and a system for applying multimedia contents are provided. The method for applying multimedia contents includes: storing an MAF file in a database, the MAF file including a header with location information that provides the location of media... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070086665 - Method and apparatus for encoding multimedia contents and method and system for applying encoded multimedia contents: A method and an apparatus for encoding multimedia contents, and a method and a system for applying multimedia contents are provided. The method for applying multimedia contents includes: storing an MAF file in a database, the MAF file including a header with location information that provides the location of media... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070086666 - Compatible interlaced sdtv and progressive hdtv: A method and an apparatus for efficiently performing spatial scalable compression of video information captured in a plurality of frames including an encoder for encoding and outputting the captured video frames into a compressed data stream is disclosed. A base encoder for encoding an interlaced bitstream having a relatively lower... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070086667 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program which enable generation of vector data capable of replicating a clipart region of a raw image as faithfully as possible are provided. To accomplish this, a raw image is segmented into region images according to attributes. From the segmented region images,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070086669 - Regions of interest in video frames: A first representation of a video stream is received that includes video frames, the representation expressing the video frames at a relatively high pixel resolution. At least one of the video frames is detected to include a region of interest. A second representation of the video stream that expresses the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070086668 - Systems and methods for information content delivery relating to an object: A method is provided for delivering information content relating to an object. A first image of a pattern on the object is received. An outer border of the first image is detected, and a second image framed by the outer border is located. The second image is decoded to determine... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Finnegan, Henderson, LLP

20070086671 - Image processing apparatus: The invention concerns an image-processing apparatus, in which a high-frequency component signal of an original image-signal, representing a plurality of pixels, is added to either the original image-signal or a lowest frequency image-signal of the original image-signal, in order to generate a processed image-signal. The image-processing apparatus includes: a conversion-processing... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070086670 - Signal processing in barcode reading with a wavelet transformation: A method for processing a digital signal obtained in a barcode reading operation comprises a step of applying a wavelet transformation to the digital signal. The noise threshold at each level of the wavelet transformation is determined from a total transfer function in the analogue processing stage, and the coefficients... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070086672 - System and method for partitioned-image filtering: A system and method are provided for processing visual imagery. The method may include the operations of collecting an image of medical radiology performed on a patient. An intensity gap analysis can be applied to the reconstructed image to determine partitioning values for the image. A further operation is dividing... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070086673 - Reducing video flicker by adaptive filtering: A method of reducing video flicker by adaptive filtering may include receiving a group of lines of video data and detecting one or more edges within the group of lines of video data. Pixels that are associated with the one or more edges may be filtered using a first set... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070086674 - Method and apparatus for image processing capable of effectively reducing an image noise: A noise eliminating device may include a noise eliminating mechanism that eliminates an isolated noise in an image being photographed. The noise eliminating mechanism may include a noise pixel detection mechanism and a pixel correction mechanism. The noise pixel detection mechanism may detect a noise pixel by scanning the image.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070086675 - Segmenting images and simulating motion blur using an image sequence: A sequence of images depicts a foreground object in motion. A base image is selected, and the other images in the sequence are co-registered with the base image in order to align the images to a common coordinate system. A background image and a binary foreground mask are generated from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086676 - Apparatus and method for labeling rows and columns in an irregular array: The apparatus and method of the invention provide for assigning coordinates to samples in an array. The method is based on a hierarchical pattern matching to a local lattice structure that is used as a template. Starting from the best local match, the pattern is expanded hierarchically to encompass the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070086679 - Image forming apparatus including position detector: An image forming apparatus includes a movable member that moves cyclically in synchronization with an image forming process and a position detector. The position detector includes a scale, an image sensor, a signal processor, and a position computing unit. The scale is attached to the movable member and includes a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070086677 - Incorporating prior information from pre aligned image pairs into emst based image registration: A computer-implemented method for automatic image registration includes providing a previously aligned image pair, extracting a first number of samples of features from the previously aligned image pair, and extracting a second number of samples of features from an observed image pair. The method further includes determining a Euclidean minimum... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070086678 - System and method for fast multimodal registration by least squares: A method for multimodal image registration includes providing a pair of images acquired from differing imaging modalities, defining an intensity correction function that corrects the intensities of a first image in terms of the intensities of the second image, defining a registration transformation function that registers the second image with... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070086680 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus and method are provided in which a reduced image is generated by removing some of a plurality of pixels of an original image. A pixel value of a pixel to be removed is reflected into a pixel value of an adjacent pixel and a reduced image... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070081694 - Method for detecting fraud in a printed image: A method is provided for authenticating an image printed at a predefined print resolution or in accordance with a predetermined print grid. The method includes the steps of scanning the image to produce digital data and segmenting the data into first and second groups corresponding, respectively, to first and second... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070081695 - Tracking objects with markers: The spatial location and azimuth of an object are computed from the locations, in a single camera image, of exactly two points on the object and information about an orientation of the object. One or more groups of four or more collinear markers are located in an image, and for... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070081696 - Biometric control for kitchen appliance: A kitchen appliance including a biometric detector for capturing biometric characteristic. A database contains user profile information including at least a biometric identity data corresponding to a biometric characteristic. A computer is operatively coupled to the biometric input device and database for controlling the operation of the kitchen appliance in... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070081697 - Digital multifunction peripheral that has fingerprint reader capability: In a digital multifunction peripheral that has a fingerprint reader capability, a display panel displays the duration of time from when the user places his finger immovably at the fingerprint read position until a carriage of the scanner actually starts reading the fingerprint. Consequently, the user becomes careful not to... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070081698 - Method and device for preventing false acceptance of latent finger print images: Disclosed is a method for detecting a latent fingerprint image provided to a biometric input device of a fingerprint based security system. First and second images of the fingerprint are captured during a time period interval Δt. At least one of the first and second images are analyzed to identify... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070081713 - Automatic bone detection in mri images: A method for detecting bone and bone disease using MRI images includes: detecting and segmenting bone borders using dark bone border intensity information from an MRI image; and detecting bone disease within a segmented image region.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081709 - Method and apparatus for standardizing ultrasonography training using image to physical space registration of tomographic volumes from tracked ultrasound: A clinical and training apparatus that collects and processes physical space data while performing an image-guided procedure on an anatomical area of interest includes a calibration probe, a tracked ultrasonic probe, a wireless tracking device that tracks the ultrasonic probe in space and an image data processor. The physical space... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070081707 - Method and system for automatically generating a disease severity index: Methods and systems for automatically generating a severity index for images of anatomical features of a patient are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an image of an anatomical feature of a patient is compared with a normal, standardized image of the same anatomical feature. Based on this comparison, a deviation... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070081702 - Method and system for processing an image of body tissues: A method and system for detecting a boundary between a first tissue and a second tissue in a two-dimensional image. A cost is assigned to each pixel in a detection region indicative of the likelihood that the pixel is not located on the boundary between the first tissue and the... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070081708 - Method for projecting radiological image data into a neuroanatomical coordinate system: A method is described for projecting radiological image data of at least a part of a brain into a neuroanatomical coordinate system. To this end, anatomical reference marks in the initial radiological image data are determined in an automated fashion and a rotation and/or displacement of the initial radiological image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070081711 - Method of processing an ultrasound image: The present invention is directed to a method of processing an ultrasound image, comprising the steps of: a) successively acquiring ultrasound images from an object; b) sampling ultrasound images in a predetermined time interval; c) determining an image difference between a currently sampled ultrasound image and a previously sampled ultrasound... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081703 - Methods, devices and systems for multi-modality integrated imaging: Multi Media Integrated Imaging (MMII) includes methods, devices and systems that are effective in overcoming the shortcomings of conventional medical imaging techniques. Instead of generating a series of unrelated images taken at different times and obtained by several technologies, embodiments of the present invention generate a deeply detailed, coherent image... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070081705 - System and method for fetal biometric measurements from ultrasound data and fusion of same for estimation of fetal gestational age: A method for segmenting and measuring anatomical structures in fetal ultrasound images includes the steps of providing a digitized ultrasound image of a fetus comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 3-dimensional grid, providing a plurality of classifiers trained to detect anatomical structures in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081712 - System and method for whole body landmark detection, segmentation and change quantification in digital images: A method for segmenting digitized images includes providing a training set comprising a plurality of digitized whole-body images, providing labels on anatomical landmarks in each image of said training set, aligning each said training set image, generating positive and negative training examples for each landmark by cropping the aligned training... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081704 - System, program product, and methods for attenuation correction of emission data on pet/ct and spect/ct: Embodiments of the present invention provide the use of average CT (ACT) to match the temporal resolution of CT and PET to enhance PET imaging and evaluated tumor quantification with HCT and ACT. For example, an embodiment of a method of enhanced PET imaging on a PET/CT scanner includes generating... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070081706 - Systems and methods for computer aided diagnosis and decision support in whole-body imaging: A system for providing automatic diagnosis and decision support includes: a medical image database; generative learning and modeling modules that build distributional appearance models and spatial relational models of organs or structures using images from the medical image database; a statistical whole-body atlas that includes one or more distributional appearance... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081710 - Systems and methods for segmenting object of interest from medical image: A system for segmenting a target organ tumor from an image includes a background model builder, a foreground model builder and a tumor region locator. The background model builder uses an intensity distribution estimate of voxels in an organ region in an image to build a background model. The foreground... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081700 - Systems, methods and apparatus for creation of a database of images from categorical indices: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, and database of images have categorized levels of severity of a disease or medical condition is generated from human designation of the severity. In some embodiments, the severity of a disease or medical condition is diagnosed by comparison of... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070081699 - Systems, methods and apparatus for diagnosis of disease from categorical indices: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, and database of images have categorized levels of severity of a disease or medical condition is generated from human designation of the severity. In some embodiments, the severity of a disease or medical condition is diagnosed by comparison of... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070081701 - Systems, methods and apparatus for tracking progression and tracking treatment of disease from categorical indices: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, and database of images have categorized levels of severity of a disease or medical condition is generated from human designation of the severity. In some embodiments, the severity of a disease or medical condition is diagnosed by comparison of... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070081714 - Methods and apparatus for practical 3d vision system: The invention provides inter alia methods and apparatus for determining the pose, e.g., position along x-, y- and z-axes, pitch, roll and yaw (or one or more characteristics of that pose) of an object in three dimensions by triangulation of data gleaned from multiple images of the object. Thus, for... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081715 - Quality control system and method for moving web material: A method for inspecting moving web material on a label application unit is provided. The web material includes repeated, pre-printed sections wherein each section corresponds to an individual package unit. The method includes detecting a position indicator located on the web material using a sensor where multiple sections of the... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P.

20070081716 - 3d image processing apparatus and method: Provided are an image processing apparatus and method which can adjust the disparity of an input three-dimensional (3D) image and stably display the 3D image. The image processing apparatus includes: an image dividing unit receiving a 3D image and dividing the 3D image into a left-eye image and a right-eye... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081717 - Automatic selection of cranial remodeling device trim lines: A method and system for producing cranial remodeling devices to correct for head deformities in infants as described. The system operates on three dimensional digital captured data of a head to automatically provide trim line information for each cranial remodeling device.... Agent: Donald J Lenkszus

20070081718 - Methods for registration of three-dimensional frames to create three-dimensional virtual models of objects: A method and system are provided for constructing a virtual three-dimensional model of an object using a data processing system, and at least one machine-readable memory accessible to said data processing system. A set of at least two digital three-dimensional frames of portions of the object are obtained from a... Agent: Orametrix, Inc.

20070081719 - Color conversion apparatus, method, and program, image processing apparatus, and image display apparatus: A color conversion apparatus performs color conversion of input image data in which the number of a plurality of colors used in the input image data is changed to the number of a plurality of colors used in a display device for displaying an image. The apparatus includes a predetermined-point... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070081720 - Color temperature conversion method and apparatus having luminance correction conversion function: A color temperature conversion method and apparatus having a luminance correction conversion function are provided. The color temperature conversion method controls a color temperature of an image display device. In the color temperature conversion method, a user-set color temperature is compared with a pre-stored basic color temperature for each sample... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081721 - Apparatus, method, and program for taking an image, and apparatus, method, and program for processing an image: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to take an image of a subject; a histogram producing unit configured to produce a histogram of image data of the image; a tone correction unit configured to make a tone correction on the image data; a feature histogram table including a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070081722 - Method for determining a p-quantile for the pixel levels, in particular the grayscale levels, of a digital image: Frequency distributions are particularly difficult to analyze by means of image processing systems if the digital images to be processed are divided into disjoint image areas and signal processors associated with each image area perform pre-processing of the pixel data. To determine a total frequency distribution, a large number of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081723 - Process for the indentification of objects: The invention is a process for identifying an unknown object. In detail, the process includes the steps of: 1) compiling data on selected features on a plurality of segments of a plurality of known objects; 2) illuminating the unknown object with a laser radar system; 3) dividing the unknown object... Agent: Louis L. Dachs

20070081725 - System and method for shape regulation of segmented target objects: A method for regulating an object segmentation result to conform a shape of the object segmentation result to a pseudo-round type of shape includes: calculating a set of shape-constraint measures at each point on a boundary of an object segmentation result; searching for one or more matched point pairs on... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081724 - System and method for validating an image segmentation algorithm: A system and method for validating an image segmentation algorithm are provided. The method for validating an image segmentation algorithm comprises: determining a region of interest in an image; segmenting the image from a first point in the region of interest by using a computer-based segmentation algorithm to obtain a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070081726 - Multi-touch contact tracking algorithm: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070081728 - Data input apparatus, medium, and method detecting selective data input: A data input apparatus, medium, and method detecting a selected data key input. The data input apparatus may include an image output module, an image input module, and a control module, with the image output module generating an input image having a predetermined number of input keys for the input... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070081727 - Method of precision measurements of sizes and line width roughness of small objects in accordance with their images obtained in scanning electron microscope: A novel method of precision measurements of sizes and line width roughness of small objects in accordance with their images obtained in scanning electron microscope, which is improvement of the existing methods and which realizes the new strategy of the measurements. This method has a higher stability with respect to... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070081729 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a target image storage unit operable to store a plurality of target images as objects to be searched; an area selection receiving unit operable to receive a selection of a predetermined area corresponding to one of the plurality of target images; a template image generating... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070081730 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: An image encoding apparatus according to the present invention comprises a conversion table for recording therein a rearrangement rule for the encoded data where the encoded data is divided into a plurality of data and a restart marker is intervened between the adjacent divided data, an encoder for generating the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070081731 - Method of compressing moving pictures for mobile devices: Disclosed are technologies for compressing moving pictures. In particular, the present invention relates to a high efficient and simple method of compressing moving pictures for mobile devices. According to the method, it is possible to efficiently compress moving pictures because the method determines whether motion happened or not through a... Agent: Armstrong Kratz Quintos Hanson & Brooks

20070081732 - Decoding apparatus using tool information for constructing a decoding algorithm: A coding and decoding apparatus is constructed so that the coding side transmits coded data together with identifying information for identifying the device of decoding the coded data, and the decoding side is capable of storing a number of decoding schemes so as to perform decoding based on one of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070081733 - Method of processing and outputting image, and apparatus using the same: In order to process image data including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of pixel groups, each of which includes a plurality of pixels, are extracted from the image data sequentially. Next, it is judged whether each of the pixel groups includes only at least one of a white pixel... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070081734 - Multimedia signal processing using fixed-point approximations of linear transforms: Close approximations of ideal linear transforms, such as the forward and inverse discrete cosine transformation (DCT), are formed with minimum complexity using fixed-point arithmetic. The transformation is decomposed into a smaller set of transformations (e.g., the LLM decomposition of the DCT). The multiplication factors of the decomposition are then approximated... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070081735 - Device, method, and program for image coding: There is provided with an image coding method including: splitting an image into a plurality of block images each having plural pixels; performing a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) processing on the block image to calculate DCT coefficients from the block image; determining whether the block image is in a flat... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081737 - Anti-clipping method for image sharpness enhancement: An image processing system provides image enhancement and anti-clipping units. The anti-clipping unit for image sharpness enhancement, operates such that any shoot artifacts in the enhanced image that go beyond pixel value lower/upper bounds are properly adjusted back within the lower and upper bounds, without causing prominent edge jaggedness artifacts... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070081736 - Tracking of a subimage in a sequence of images: The method provides the identification, in a succession of acquired images each formed from a matrix of pixels, of a following sub-image extracted from a following acquired image corresponding to a prior sub-image extracted from a prior acquired image. The method comprises the steps of: —calculating, for the prior sub-image,... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070081738 - Countdown stamp error diffusion: Methods and systems for performing threshold stamping are disclosed. A pixel intensity value for a first pixel may be determined. A pixel value for the first pixel may be retrieved from a memory location corresponding to the first pixel. A threshold delta value may then be determined based on the... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070081739 - Modifying text or images when defect pixels are found on a display: A method of modifying text or images on a display having defective pixels, in order to make the text or images more legible. The image or text is shifted away from nonfunctioning pixels, moving the picture to a suite of pixels that are functioning. Second, the image or text is... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20070081740 - Image capture and manipulation: Systems and techniques to provide image capture and manipulation. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes receiving an input stream including image data from a source, displaying the input stream in real-time including displaying a plurality of instantiations of the stream at a same time, each stream different, the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070081741 - Method of and apparatus for image analysis: A method of and apparatus for image analysis for picture loss detection in fields or frames in video or film content makes use of different correlation characteristics of picture images and non-picture images to detect picture loss. A measure of self correlation of a plurality of image data samples, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070081742 - Method of measuring an area of micro-objects of arbitrary shape in scanning electron microscope: A method of measuring an area of an micro object has the steps of introducing in a scanning electron microscope an object to be measured, so as to obtain an image of the object; on a print or in a memory; separating a first line from the image; localizing a... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070081743 - Image interpolation apparatus and method thereof: An image interpolation apparatus includes: a frequency component detecting part detecting a frequency component in the unit of pixel data included in an input image signal; a coefficient storing part storing a plurality of interpolation coefficients corresponding to a plurality of frequency component sections; a coefficient controlling part selecting a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081744 - System and method for use of images with recognition analysis: An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its location on a network, and at least one of (i) a second information item identifying a signature... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070076916 - Digital watermarking, steganographic data hiding and indexing content: The present invention relates generally to steganography and digital watermarking. In one embodiment, a method is provided including: receiving a media signal representing imagery or audio; receiving auxiliary data to be steganographically hidden in the media signal; receiving an indication of whether compression of the media signal can be adjusted;... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070076917 - Target detection improvements using temporal integrations and spatial fusion: A method for identifying potential targets as far away as possible is disclosed. In a simple background scene such as a blue sky, a target may be recognized from a relatively long distance, but for some high clutter situations such as mountains and cities, the detection range is severely reduced.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076918 - Method and apparatus to monitor vehicular traffic: A vehicle traffic monitoring apparatus includes an imaging device; an image processing device; a global positioning device; and, a wireless communications system. The image processing device includes a computer program to process a data stream from the imaging device, to recognize individual vehicles substantially in view of the vehicle; and,... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070076919 - Method and system for determining displacement of a pixel, and recording medium therefor: This method determines the displacement of a pixel between a first and a second image, the first image representing, moreover, an object in a first scene taken from given viewpoint, and the second image representing the same object in a second scene, this second scene being obtained from the first... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070076920 - Street side maps and paths: The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can generate a map. The map can be a hybrid between an orthographic projection map and street-side images, thus including useful aspects from both types of representations. For example, an orthographic projection map is very effective at presenting global relationships... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070076921 - Image processing: A method of processing successive images of a video signal to generate a representative color value indicative of a representative color of an image sub-area, the method comprises the steps of: (i) detecting a color property of the image sub-area in a current image; (ii) generating a filtered color property... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076922 - Object detection: A method of object detection in video images comprises the steps of: detecting the size and image position of a first object part in two or more images; detecting attributes of a second object part, the second object part being defined by a predetermined orientation and size defined with respect... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076925 - Authentication system by fingerprint: A fingerprint identification system comprising: an IC card having a tamper-resistance; and a reader/writer having a tamper-resistance for reading/writing information from/into the IC card. In the reader/writer, a fingerprint image, as read by a fingerprint input unit, is preprocessed in a preprocessing unit, and extracted intermediate information is transmitted to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070076924 - Fingerprint matching apparatus and fingerprint sensor: A fingerprint matching apparatus includes a fingerprint distortion detection unit for detecting whether or not a correlation object intentionally distorts the finger put on the fingerprint reading face by, for example, applying excessively large force to the finger, or dragging or rolling the finger. With this configuration, it is possible... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070076923 - Press-trigger fingerprint sensor module: A press-trigger fingerprint sensor module is disclosed, comprising two embedded switches, a sensor panel and a fingerprint recognition processor. When the user puts the finger in predetermined position over the sensor panel, the first switch is activated. The first switch sends out a high signal to have power connected to... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070076926 - Use of papilla mapping to determine a friction-ridge surface: A method of creating a friction-ridge image is disclosed. An energy transducer is aimed at a body part having skin. The transducer is used to obtain information about the papillae beneath an outer surface of the skin. The information about the papillae is used to obtain information about valleys between... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP

20070076934 - Automatic cad algorithm selection: A computer system for automatic selection of a computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm including a database storing image data, a browser for navigating the data and selecting image data, an application receiving image data selected by the browser, and a selector selecting a CAD algorithm for processing the image data according... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070076927 - Automatic identification of the anterior and posterior commissure landmarks: The AC and/or PC landmarks are identified in a midsagittal MRI image by firstly identifying structures in the brain (specifically the fornix and/or brainstem) as groups of pixels in a radiological image which have an intensity in ranges defined by one or more thresholds and which obey predefined geometrical criteria.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070076933 - Estimating the 0th and 1st moments in c-arm ct data for extrapolating truncated projections: A method and system for implementing the method for extending the effective field of view of a CT scanner, comprising the steps of forming a preliminary estimate of the projection mass for each image projection, forming a preliminary estimate of the center of mass for each image projection, estimating the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070076935 - Method and system for monitoring breathing activity of a subject: A method and system for monitoring breathing movement of a subject is disclosed. A method and system for detecting and predictably estimating regular cycles of breathing movements is disclosed. Another disclosed aspect of the invention is directed to detect and report irregularity of breathing activity of an infant, such as... Agent: Bingham, Mccutchen LLP

20070076931 - Method for display of at least one medical finding: In a method for display of at least one medical finding, at least one part of a body of a patient is shown on a display medium in a body view. A localization in the body of the patient is associated with each finding, and the localizations are marked at... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070076932 - Segmenting medical image data sets: A method for segmenting a body structure image data set produced from a medical imaging method includes: using a reference data set to define delineated body structures in the body structure image data set; and ascertaining an overall mapping function that substantially maps a reference data set onto the body... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brainlab)

20070076928 - System and method for anatomy based reconstruction: A technique is provided for performing diagnosis and/or analysis of a volumetric image generated via anatomy based reconstruction. The technique includes generating a three-dimensional image by reconstructing a plurality of residual projection images from which a contribution of one or more structures of interest has been removed. The technique also... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070076929 - System and method for automatic post processing image generation: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for automatic image post processing in a healthcare environment. In an embodiment, an automatic post processing image generation system includes at least one user interface, which is adapted to display at least one image on an image viewer and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070076930 - System and method for detecting content in-vivo: A system and method for detecting in-vivo content, may include an in-vivo imaging device for capturing a stream of image frames in a GI tract, a content detector for detecting and/or identifying one or more image frames from the stream of image streams that may show content, and a graphical... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070076936 - Fast alignment of large-scale sequences using linear space techniques: Large scale sequences and other types of patterns may be matched or aligned quickly using a linear space technique. In one embodiment, the invention includes, calculating a similarity matrix of a first sequence against a second sequence, determining a lowest cost path through the matrix, where cost is a function... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070076937 - Image processing method for windowing and/or dose control for medical diagnostic devices: Image processing method for determining and setting an optimized windowing and/or dose control of a medical diagnostic device based on x-ray radiation. The digitized image consisting of a number of picture elements of an picture data matrix B originally created by an x-ray detector is processed. The object area is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070076938 - Method and system for automatic identification and orientation of medical images: A method and system for computer-aided detection of abnormal lesions in digital mammograms is described, wherein digital films are processed using an automated and computerized method of detecting the order and orientation of a set of films. In one embodiment, anatomic features are used to detect the order, orientation and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070076939 - Automated document processing system using full image scanning: A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the full... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Jenkens & Gilchrist

20070076940 - Method of creating a substitute check using check image data from a remote check image capture device and an apparatus therefor: A method is provided of an institution creating a substitute check using check image data from a remote check image capture device. The method comprises receiving from the remote check image capture device binary image data which is representative of a binary image of a check, receiving from the remote... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070076941 - Method of operating a remote check image capture device and an apparatus therefor: A method is provided of operating a remote check image capture device. The method comprises capturing a color image of a check provided by a user at the remote check image capture device, storing the color image of the check, deriving from the color image a non-color image of the... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070076942 - Semiconductor device manufacturing system: The present invention provides a system capable of automatically making a diagnosis of a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, based on a result of particle detection on a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. In one preferred embodiment, the surface of the wafer is divided into square-shaped minute areas of 0.1... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070076943 - Method and apparatus for inspecting a wafer: The present invention provides a method for inspecting the surface of a wafer, wherein an image of a wafer recorded by a camera is evaluated with respect to the imaging quality and is taken again, if necessary, before the wafer is evaluated by evaluating the image.... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20070076944 - Magnified machine vision user interface: Improved user interface methods facilitate navigation and programming operations for a magnified machine vision inspection system. Large composite images are determined and stored. The composite images include workpiece features that are distributed beyond the limits of a single magnified field of view of the machine vision system. Despite their size,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070076945 - Method of accurately determining similarity between target image and reference image: Provided is a method of determining a similarity between a target image and a reference image. The method includes (a) obtaining related approximation pixel-values of the reference image pt having overall relationship between coordinates (x, y) and original pixel-values ft of pixels of the reference image; (b) obtaining related approximation... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070076946 - Object search apparatus, robot system equipped with object search apparatus, and object search method: Disclosed is an object search apparatus, including: an imaging unit to acquire image data of a point group; a radiation unit to scan the imaging area; a three-dimensional analysis unit to calculate three-dimensional data indicating position coordinates of the point group, from the image data; a master data storage unit... Agent: Venable LLP

20070076947 - Video sensor-based automatic region-of-interest detection: The disclosure is directed to techniques for region-of-interest (ROI) video processing based on low-complexity automatic ROI detection within video frames of video sequences. The low-complexity automatic ROI detection may be based on characteristics of video sensors within video communication devices. In other cases, the low-complexity automatic ROI detection may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070076948 - Method and system for optimizing print-scan simulations: Systems and methods for utilizing a known histogram of a particular category of images to constrain a probabilistic print-scan model in order to provide a more accurate print-scan model are described. A probability function is defined that given a two-dimensional grayscale bitmap input image provides the probability that a particular... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070076949 - Data processing method, image processing method, image display unit and television apparatus: A data processing method of executing nonlinear conversion for pixel data, comprising: a first step of obtaining an amount of statistics corresponding to the number of pixel data have a gradation value in a predetermined range from a plurality of pixel data for displaying a predetermined image; a second step... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070076950 - Method and mechanism for processing image data: A method and apparatus for processing image data is provided. Color image data is processed to generate gray scale image data, which may comprise a set of data values. Each data value, of the set of data values, may identify a gray scale value. A frequency distribution that indicates a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070076951 - Image recognition device: In order to reduce the computational burden required for scanning and to enhance the recognition accuracy, an image recognition device is configured so that a scanning pattern recording unit that records a plurality of scanning patterns for directing how to scan recognition areas of predetermined size in the image data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076952 - Incremental system for real time digital ink analysis: Flexible and efficient systems and methods for organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink incrementally analyze input data (e.g., representing ink strokes) as the user continues to add to, edit, or modify the data. In this manner, processing is performed promptly as the ink is entered, and the processing system and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070076953 - Data-encoding pattern, system and method: A data encoding pattern comprising a plurality of markings respectively composed from at least two sub-markings, wherein the colour of respective ones of the sub-markings and their arrangement for a marking is reserved.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070076954 - Face orientation identifying method, face determining method, and system and program for the methods: An index representing the probability that an input image is a face image including a face oriented in a predetermined orientation is calculated for each of different predetermined orientations on the basis of a feature value of the input image including a face and the orientation of the face included... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076955 - Hyperspectral remote sensing systems and methods using covariance equalization: A method and apparatus for detecting a target or targets in a surrounding background locale based on target signatures obtained by a hyperspectral imaging sensor used the hyperspectral imaging sensor to collect raw target signature data and background locale data during a first data collection mission. The data is processed... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070076956 - Automatic counting apparatus, method, and recording medium on which the program is recorded: An automatic counting device for measuring the number of target objects included in an image, which includes a discrimination section, a counting section, and a correction section. The discrimination section discriminates the target objects included in the image based on face information extracted from the image. The counting section measures... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076957 - Video frame motion-based automatic region-of-interest detection: The disclosure is directed to techniques for region-of-interest (ROI) video processing based on low-complexity automatic ROI detection within video frames of video sequences. The low-complexity automatic ROI detection may be based on characteristics of video sensors within video communication devices. In other cases, the low-complexity automatic ROI detection may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070076958 - Method and system for determining gaze direction in a pupil detection system: A detector captures one or more images of the face, eyes, or pupils of a person using light propagating at two or more angles of incidence with respect to the optical axis of the detector. A difference image is then generated by subtracting one image from another image. A computed... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070076960 - Image display apparatus and method, computer-readable recording medium on which the program is recorded, and photograph print order accepting apparatus: An image display apparatus capable of displaying images in similar image groups to allow the user to determine the difference between the images in each of the similar image groups, and to select an image to be deleted or saved in easier and more efficient way. An evaluation value obtaining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076959 - Jpeg detectors and jpeg image history estimators: An image is classified respective to JPEG compression history. An image signature is derived from the image. The image signature is indicative of spatial frequencies content of chrominance components of the image including spatial frequencies content associated with JPEG compression. The image is classified respective to whether the image has... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070076961 - Image compression data processing method, and image compression data processing apparatus: There is provided an image compression data processing method, including: dividing compressed image data into plurality of compressed partial image data and describing the plurality of compressed partial image data in an arbitrary order; and describing, in any of the compressed image data and additional data associated with the compressed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070076962 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A disclosed image processing apparatus for compressing image data through multiple operations includes multiple processing units corresponding to the operations. Each of two or more of the processing units includes a regular processing subunit perform regular processing and a simplified processing subunit to perform simplified version of the regular processing;... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070076963 - Image transmission mechanism and method for implementing the same: The instant invention discloses an image transmission mechanism and a method applied on a remote control system for decreasing the data volume of video signals of at least one far computerized system transmitted to a console terminal over a network. The image transmission unit for analyzing motioned block includes a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070076964 - Method of and an apparatus for predicting dc coefficient in transform domain: A method of and apparatus for predicting a direct current (DC) coefficient in a transform domain are provided. The method of predicting a DC coefficient of a transform block in video encoding includes calculating a first representative value of pixel values of pixels in the bottom-most row of a neighboring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076967 - Image encoding and decoding apparatus, method and medium, and display driving circuit and method and medium using the same: Provided are an image encoding apparatus, method, and medium; an image decoding apparatus, method, and medium; and a display driving circuit and method and apparatus using the same. The image encoding apparatus includes an encoding mode determiner that determines a first encoding mode and a second encoding mode to be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070076965 - Image encoding apparatus: An image encoding apparatus includes a detection unit detecting edge block candidates as blocks including an edge in an image composed of plural blocks, and a determination unit excluding an edge block candidate that is recognized as no necessity of image quality improving processing executed in image encoding processing from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070076966 - Image forming system and method: An image forming system and method including: a host device which divides data to be printed based on color or attribute and compresses the data using separate compression methods according to the division result; and an image forming apparatus which decompresses the compressed data in accordance to the compression method... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070076968 - Method, system and computer program product for entropy constrained color splitting for palette images with pixel-wise splitting: A method, system and computer program product are provided for progressively encoding a digitized color image with M distinct colors allocated to a set of pixels using a data processing system, the digitized color image being provided by assigning each of the M distinct colors to at least one pixel... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070076969 - Statistical representation and coding of light field data: A method of representing light field data by capturing a set of images of at least one object in a passive manner at a virtual surface where a center of projection of an acquisition device that captures the set of images lies and generating a representation of the captured set... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070076970 - Statistical representation and coding of light field data: A method of representing light field data by capturing a set of images of at least one object in a passive manner at a virtual surface where a center of projection of an acquisition device that captures the set of images lies and generating a representation of the captured set... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070076971 - Compression of images for computer graphics: A method for encoding an image having color components of each image pixel represented by a value of a high dynamic range (HDR), the method comprising: decomposing the image into image blocks; determining a scaling factor for each image block, said scaling factor, when applied to a corresponding image block,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070076972 - System and method of spatio-temporal edge-preserved filtering techniques to reduce ringing and mosquito noise of digital pictures: A method can include selecting a block of pixels. It may be determined whether the block of pixels contains an edge pixel. If the block of pixels contains an edge pixel, a first pixel may be selected among the block of pixels. If it is determined that the first pixel... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar LLC

20070076973 - Method and apparatus for detecting and deblocking variable-size grid artifacts in coded video: A method may include receiving image information. Blockiness artifacts are detected in the image information, wherein the detected blockiness artifacts are associated with different grid sizes.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070076975 - Electronic endoscopic apparatus: A brightness image is produced from a frame image input from a scope and a high brightness pixel group including pixels next to one another, of which the brightness values exceed a predetermined value, and of which the number exceeds a predetermined value, is detected. Only when the pixel group... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076974 - Picture signal processing apparatus and picture signal processing method: According to one embodiment, a picture signal processing apparatus comprises an acquisition unit which acquires histogram data on each luminance level from luminance signals for one frame, a frequency converter unit which eliminates histogram data that corresponds to a no-image portion displayed so as to occupy a predetermined region in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070076976 - Methods for eliminating artifacts in two-dimensional optical metrology: Methods for eliminating artifacts in two-dimensional optical metrology utilizing the interline CCD detectors are based on a dark-subtraction principle. The self-dark subtraction method takes advantage of strong correlation between the noise patterns in illuminated and dark regions within the same image. Image artifacts are removed and the S/N ratio is... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070076977 - Method for calibrating camera parameters: A method for calibrating camera parameters is disclosed, which is carried out on the basis of a moving calibration object subject to the influence of gravity. The method is carried out by causing the calibration object to move along a parabolic trajectory under the influence of gravity, taking pictures of... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070076978 - Moving image generating apparatus, moving image generating method and program therefor: There is provided a moving image generating apparatus for efficiently generating a moving image that expresses a shift of still images. The moving image generating apparatus for generating a plurality of moving image composing images from the still images to generate the moving image that represents a shift of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076979 - Automatically cropping an image: A method and system for cropping an image is provided. The cropping system automatically crops an image by selecting an image template whose condition is best satisfied by the image and then by selecting a cropping of the image that best attains the goal of the selected image template. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070076980 - Image combining apparatus and control method for the same: An image combining apparatus and a control method for an image combining apparatus that allows a user to write a handwritten image on a writing sheet while confirming the positional relationship between the handwritten image and a photograph to be combined. When a writing sheet having a handwriting area in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070076981 - Scalable test target and method for measurement of camera image quality: An improved test target pattern that can be used in the testing of image quality for digital images taken with a camera module, the camera module either being a stand-alone product or being incorporated into a device such as a mobile telephone. With the present invention, several different image quality... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070076982 - System and method for video stabilization: Disclosed is a method and circuit for stabilizing unintentional motion within an image sequence generated by an image capturing device (102). The image sequence is formed from a temporal sequence of frames, each frame (202) having an area and an outer boundary. The images are two dimensional arrays of pixels.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070076983 - System and method for re-locating an object in a sample on a slide with a microscope imaging device: A method of re-locating an object in a sample is provided for a previously-scanned slide having determined objects each with corresponding stored coordinates and a stored image, the objects being mapped relative to each other. The slide is positioned on a microscope stage, stored images of the objects are visually... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070076984 - Electronic document creating apparatus: An electronic document creating apparatus includes a document information obtaining device that obtains and inputs document identification information put on a sheet document. The document identification information specifies an electronic document stored in a folder. The electronic document serves as an output source of the sheet document. An electronic document... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070076985 - Labeling system and methodology: A digitization process and system which involves the use of a novel label, labeling system and labeling methodology. According to the teachings of the present invention, the label is comprised of two parts one of which is transparent and the other of which is opaque. Bates numbers or other identifiers... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes