Image analysis inventions 06/07

20070147656 - Method and system to provide support for digital watermarks in a database: A method, computer program and database system are disclosed for protecting data using a relational database management system supporting digital watermarking. The support for digital watermarking in a database provides an additional means for protecting copyrighted data. Having the support built-in to a database simplifies the development of applications that... Agent: Harden E. Stevens, Iii Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20070147655 - Method for protecting content of vector graphics formats: A method for protecting content of vector graphics formats is provided. A first vector graphics is scrambled to generate a second vector graphics. Then a plurality of pixel samplings are performed by the first vector graphics which generating at least a recovery information object according to a predetermined graphics. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070147653 - Digital watermark detection using predetermined color projections: The present invention relates to digital watermarking. In one implementation, a system is provided to read a digital watermark from digital imagery which includes data representing a number of pixels. Each pixel of the number of pixels is defined by a set of values representing color components of the particular... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070147657 - Electronic watermarking method and apparatus for color image data: Multi-color image data received from a host device are divided into blocks. The brightness of at least a first color in each block is tested to determine whether the block is watermarkable. An electronic watermark is embedded into each watermarkable block by modifying the image data of at least a... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070147658 - Image search apparatus, image search method, image production apparatus, image production method and program: Image identifier information specific to image data to be input to an image search apparatus is embedded in the image data as a steganography in advance. Meanwhile, the side of an image search apparatus decodes the steganography contained in image data, detects the image identifier information, compares the detected image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147654 - System and method for translating text to images: A method comprises receiving input text; decomposing the input text into segments, e.g., single line segments; using a dictionary to identify at least one object in one of the segments for inclusion in a frame; and using cinematic conventions, e.g., proxemics, to arrange the at least one object in the... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070147659 - Method for verifying an intended address by ocr percentage address matching: An OCR percentage matching algorithm achieves a significant reduction in false mismatches accounting for combinations of unprocessed spaces, missing characters, extra characters and character substitution errors during the OCR scanning processing and allows for a specified percentage of the OCR character scan rather the entire OCR character scan to be... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070147661 - Estimation device: An estimation device estimates a hidden state of an estimation subject from an observable state in a manner of a time series. The observable state is observed from the hidden state of the estimation subject under a procedure that has a hierarchical structure, which includes the hidden state of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147660 - Image processing system for motor vehicles: An image processing system for a motor vehicle, includes a camera system, an image processing module having a data interface for receiving image data produced by the camera system, a memory unit for storing an image processing program, an image processor unit for processing the image data, a display unit... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070147662 - Vehicle-onboard driving lane recognizing apparatus: A vehicle-onboard driving lane recognizing apparatus of a small scale includes an image pick-up unit (1) mounted on a motor vehicle for picking up images of scenes making appearance in front of the motor vehicle, an image data selecting unit (2) for selecting image data only of a predetermined region... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147663 - Vehicle-onboard driving lane recognizing apparatus: A vehicle-onboard driving lane recognizing apparatus of a small scale includes an image pick-up unit (1) mounted on a motor vehicle for picking up images of scenes making appearance in front of the motor vehicle, an image data selecting unit (2) for selecting image data only of a predetermined region... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147664 - Driving assist method and driving assist apparatus: A driving assist apparatus obtains image data from a camera mounted on a vehicle and stores the image data in an image memory. The driving assist apparatus further obtains a relative distance between the vehicle and an obstacle on the basis of input from a sonar device mounted on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070147667 - Biometrics information processing device and method: A sensing device includes first sensor elements allocated on a two-dimensional plane, and a second sensor element allocated on the same plane as the first sensor element and operating according to a manner different from that of the first sensor element. A signal processing unit generates a fingerprint image based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070147666 - Continuous fingerprint image retrieval device: A continuous fingerprint image retrieval device includes an electronic product, a finger ball runway provided externally to the electronic product, and a continuous fingerprint sensor disposed in the finger ball runway; an initial protrusion being provided on the surface of the runway at one end of the sensor; multiple scraper... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070147670 - Image connection method, and program and apparatus therefor: Fingerprint section images of a finger are continuously input by relative movement with respect to a fingerprint sensor, and characteristic shapes such as ridge shapes, edge lines, and portions where changes of tangent directions are large are extracted from the fingerprint section images. Common areas in which character shapes match... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147668 - Image pickup apparatus and fingerprint recognition apparatus: An image pickup apparatus is provided which performs correction of shading without performing correction of an image signal with a complicated algorithm or a large-scale correction circuit. The image pickup apparatus includes light irradiation unit that irradiates light on an object of image pickup and an image pickup element that... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147665 - Method and apparatus for access point control using digital encoding of images of skin-covered body parts: Methods and apparatus operative to control a state of an access point. The apparatus includes a biometric module adapted to acquire an image of a skin-covered body part submitted thereto and a processing module adapted for producing, responsive to acquisition of an image by the biometric module, a candidate code... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070147669 - Method and device for preventing false acceptance of latent fingerprint 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

20070147671 - Analyzing radiological image using 3d stereo pairs: A system for analyzing radiological images using three-dimensional (3D) stereo pairs comprises capturing 3D image data; storing the 3D image data; segmenting the 3D image data; creating a model from the segmented 3D image data; creating a first 3D volumetric monocular-view image for the current model position; rotating the model... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070147672 - Medical image processing: In one aspect, the invention is a method of medical image processing. The method includes receiving data representing a medical image. The method also includes generating the medical image based on a model. The model characterizes the medical image as a composition of at least two components having processing constraints.... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070147673 - System and method for single optical axis multi-detector microscope slide scanner: Systems and methods for microscope slide scanning using multiple sensor arrays that receive imagery data from a single optical axis are provided. A single, high quality, easily obtained microscope objective lens is used to project an image onto two or more sensor arrays. The sensor arrays can be linear or... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070147674 - Method and system for computer aided detection of high contrast objects in tomographic pictures: At least one nonlinear filter is used, in at least one embodiment, on reconstructed tomographic display data of a patient. The display data thus filtered serves the purpose of computer aided detection of high contrast objects. Moreover, in at least one embodiment, a system is disclosed for computer aided detection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147675 - Image detection system, comprising an x-ray sensor and an image detecting unit, and method of operating same: The invention relates to an image detection system, comprising an X-ray sensor 1 and an image detecting unit 5 which is connected to said sensor 1 via a cable 6 and which reads out data produced in the sensor and also exhibits a computer interface 5.1 to a computer 7... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070147676 - Substrate inspection device: In the substrate inspection apparatus 2 for inspecting a formation state of the pattern area 20 formed on the printed circuit board 1, since the inside area data generation means 7 for generating inspection data of the inside area 21b of the pattern area 20 to be inspected, the outside... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070147677 - Determining intensity similarity in low-light conditions using the poisson-quantization noise model: A Poisson-quantization noise model for modeling noise in low-light conditions is described. In one aspect, image information is received. A Poisson-quantization noise model is then generated from a Poisson noise model and a quantization noise model. Poisson-quantization noise is then estimated in the image information using the Poisson-quantization noise model.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070147678 - Adaptive scene dependent filters in online learning environments: A method and a system for determining an object segment in an electronic image. Preferably the method or system is sufficiently fast to allow real-time processing. A method for determining an object segment in an electronic image may comprise the steps of unsupervised learning of a multi-feature segmentation and of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070147679 - Network display apparatus, computer, and method of controlling the computer: A network display apparatus, a computer and a method of controlling the computer, wherein text information inputted to the computer is delivered to the network display apparatus. The computer includes a transceiving unit to transmit and/or receive data to and/or from at least one external network display apparatus, a user... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070147680 - Automated docketing system: The present invention includes a method for docketing an action or event, such as an action or event defined in a form received from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The method includes scanning the form having written information thereon, the written information comprising a date and indicia defining... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070147683 - Method, medium, and system recognizing a face, and method, medium, and system extracting features from a facial image: Methods, mediums and systems recognizing a face by extracting features from a facial image. According to the method recognizing the face, multiple subimages of a query facial image and one or more target facial images are generated, Fourier transforms on the multiple subimages are performed, and Fourier features from the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147681 - System and method for extracting a face from a camera picture for representation in an electronic system: A system and method for representing a person in an electronic system. An image is obtained including an image of a target person. The image or a digital representation thereof, is processed to recognize a facial feature associated with the target person in the image. The target person's facial portion... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147682 - System and method for feature detection in image sequences: A method for processing image data includes inputting image data, determining a plurality of quadrature filter pairs based on filter parameter values to detect features of interest in the image data, applying the quadrature filter pairs to the image data to obtain a set of filter responses, and processing the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070147684 - Edge pixel identification: The teachings provided herein disclose a method for the identification of edge pixels within a digital image. The method operates by generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of neighboring vectors of pixels within a given observation window, and generating an edge-identification code from the plurality of edge-state codes... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070147685 - User interface for statistical data analysis: In general, the invention is directed to data exploration and visualization techniques that allow a user to more easily apply multivariate statistical analysis to a dataset. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising identifying a set of data clusters associated with two or more components of resolved data... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070147689 - Image processor, image processing method and storage medium: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention has a determining unit for determining a size of an image, a resolution-setting unit for setting a resolution based on the size of the image, and a recognizing unit for recognizing whether text is included in the image having the determined... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070147687 - Image data processing system and method: The image data processing system and method disclosed, processes intermediate compressed binary data representing images scanned for copy or exporting, thereby enabling storage of the copy or export file to a common memory storage device. According to an exemplary embodiment, the image data processing system comprises a binary lossless decompress... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070147688 - System and method for power reduction when decompressing video streams for interferometric modulator displays: A system and method for processing image data to be displayed on a display device, where the display device requires more power to be driven to display image data comprising particular spatial frequencies in one dimension than to be driven to display image data comprising the particular spatial frequencies in... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070147686 - System and method for rendering an oblique slice through volumetric data accessed via a client-server architecture: A system renders oblique slices through volumetric data accessed via a network using a client-server architecture. The system includes a server for processing and storing volumetric data comprising axial slices obtained from a diagnostic scanning system, a client for processing user requests related to specific views of the volumetric data,... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070147690 - Video coding device, video decoding device and video encoding method: A video coding device includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a foreground region, a background image and a shadow region reflected on the background image by the foreground region in an input picture; a shadow information compressing unit configured to perform a compression process to compress the information quantity... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147691 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, program of image processing method and recording medium recording program of image processing method: An image processing method for decoding input encoded image data, which has undergone encoding processing by a predetermined format, image processing the decoded image data, and encoding the image-processed data to create output encoded data includes repeating the process of decoding, image processing and encoding processing and outputting the image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070147692 - Match msb digital image compression: Methods, apparatus and computer readable medium are described that compress and/or decompress a digital image in a lossless or a lossy manner. In some embodiments, a display controller may compress a digital image by generating a symbol for each pel of the digital image. In particular, the symbol may represent... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070147693 - Image coding method and image coding device: In a first step, an input image constituted of a region of interest and a region of non-interest is transformed into plural frequency component images through plural wavelet transforms. In a second step, part of the plural frequency component image is selected as control target images and a region corresponding... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070147694 - Block decoding method and apparatus capable of decoding and outputting data in a longitudinal direction: A block decoding method and apparatus capable of decoding and outputting data in a longitudinal direction, which scans a compressed datastream and accordingly obtains a start address in the compressed datastream for each MCUR of a decompressed image, such that the apparatus can obtain blocks rotated with 90 degrees by... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070147696 - Medical image processing: In one aspect, the invention is a method to reduce a blooming effect of a bright object in a medical image generated from a low-dose imaging system. The method includes characterizing an ideal image as a composition of a first component and a second component. The first component is characterized... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070147695 - Interpolation of image correction parameters: Apparatus are provided, including a macrouniformity compensation mechanism to modify data exchanges between device-independent image data and a one-dimensional imaging device, to compensate for a lack of macrouniformity caused by the one-dimensional imaging device. The macrouniformity compensation mechanism includes an input-output value converter to convert an input intensity value for... Agent: Anthony L. Miele Miele Law Group

20070147697 - Method for removing noise in image and system thereof: Disclosed are a method for removing noise in an image, including the steps of: dividing image data contained in the image into predetermined unit areas; calculating each threshold corresponding to the unit area by using values of pixels contained in the unit area; detecting whether a first pixel containing impulsive... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070147698 - Image sharpening using diffusion: An improved sharpening technique sharpens an image using diffusion rather than a Gaussian blur in the smearing phase. After an appropriate radius or number of passes is determined for the pixels of an image, a diffusive process is applied to the image in the smearing phase to generate a blurred... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070147699 - Corner sharpening using look-up table edge pixel identification: The teachings provided herein disclose a method for corner sharpening in the display of a bitmapped digital image. The method includes the steps of selecting a target pixel location within the digital image; observing a set of pixels within a pixel observation window superimposed on the digital image relative to... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070147700 - Method and apparatus for editing images using contour-extracting algorithm: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for editing an image using an object contour extracted from an input image. The method of editing an image using a contour-extracting algorithm includes: inputting image data; extracting an object contour from the input image data; optimizing the extracted contour using the characteristics... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147701 - Digital camera with face detection function for facilitating exposure compensation: A camera is provided that includes a face detection means, an AE&AWB detection circuit, and a processor. The face detection means detects a face from an input image signal and extracts a facial region comprising the face and an upper body region. The AE&AWB detection circuit calculates a brightness appraisal... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070147702 - Method and apparatus for resolving individual signals in detector output data: A method and apparatus for resolving individual signals in detector output data, the method comprising determining a signal form of signals present in the data, making parameter estimates of one or more parameters of the signals, wherein the one or more parameters comprise at least signal temporal position, and determining... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070147703 - Blending a digital image cut from a source image into a target image: Method for blending a foreground object of a first image into a second image in which the transition boundary region between the foreground object and the background comprises a linear color transition based on the colors of the foreground object and the background, respectively.... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070147704 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method according to sheet scanning system: It is an object to provide image processing apparatus and method which can execute a drawing combining instruction and a trimming instruction of illustration/characters or the like on the basis of a disclosure on one sheet in a composite print of a sheet scanning system. When a trimming instruction command... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147705 - Methods and systems for correcting image misalignment: The invention provides methods of determining a correction for a misalignment between at least two images in a sequence of images due at least in part to sample movement. The methods are applied, for example, in the processing and analysis of a sequence of images of biological tissue in a... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070147706 - Image processor and camera system, image processing method, and motion picture displaying method: A similar-image detecting part detects similar image regions similar to one another in a plurality of frame images captured by rolling shutter type exposure. A displacement-vector detecting part detects a displacement vector of each of the similar image regions with respect to a reference position in each of the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147708 - Adaptive image size conversion apparatus and method thereof: An image size conversion apparatus and an image size conversion method are provided. The image size conversion apparatus includes an area detector which detects an interested area having a certain image distinguished over a general image from an input image, a scale ratio adjustor which adjusts a scale ratio for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147707 - Device and method for superimposing patterns on images in real-time, particularly for guiding by localisation: The invention relates to a device (DS), for superimposing known patterns, characteristic of a region, on (real) images of said region. The device (D) comprises, a memory (21) in which patterns are stored, which are representative of a selected region, of known position and orientation with relation to a common... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070147709 - Adaptive resolution conversion apparatus for input image signal and and a method thereof: A resolution conversion apparatus and method. The apparatus includes an image analysis unit analyzing frequency characteristics of an input image signal, a filter coefficient determination unit setting a filter coefficient according to the frequency characteristics, and a noise shaper unit performing noise shaping with respect to an error generated by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147710 - Medium processing apparatus, medium processing method, medium processing system and computer readable recording medium with medium processing program recorded thereon: The present invention comprises, in order to allow recognition of content of information indicated in a medium accurately, based on an image data obtained by reading a medium, an extraction unit for extracting each of plural information items from an image data obtained by reading a medium in which each... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070147711 - Power supply apparatus with image scanning function: A power supply apparatus with image scanning function is provided. The power supply apparatus is installed to a portable electronic device to supply power and scan documents, and it is also able to be handheld independently to scan documents. The power supply apparatus includes a battery pack and a scanning... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070140524 - Image watermarking based on sequency and wavelet transforms: This invention is a new approach for the image watermarking in the wavelet transform domain based on sequency of the host and watermark image. For each sub-band a first transform level of the host image is thresholded and binarized. Sequencies of thresholded and binarized data host image are compared with... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070140523 - Image-watermarking method and device: The invention concerns a method of inserting a watermark in an image comprising at least three components, the method comprises the steps of decomposing at least one component of the image into detail sub-bands in various directions and comprising coefficients, each coefficient being characterized by its position in the detail... Agent: Gerald E Helget

20070140526 - Image processing method: A method and apparatus for localizing an area in relative movement and for determining the speed and direction thereof in real time is disclosed. Each pixel of an image is smoothed using its own time constant. A binary value corresponding to the existence of a significant variation in the amplitude... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070140525 - System and method for improved media identification in a storage device: Systems and methods are provided for improved identification of removable storage media. A scanner may be used to read an identifier, such as a barcode, on a removable storage media. In the event that the scanner reads the identifier incorrectly due to a defect in the barcode, such as a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070140527 - On-board image-recognizing apparatus, on-board image-shooting apparatus, on-board image-shooting controller, warning apparatus, image recognizing method, image shooting method, and image-shooting controlling method: An image shooting unit is installed on a vehicle and shoots an image of an area around the vehicle at a set frame rate. A recognizing unit performs image recognition on the image to check whether an object is present in the image. A frame rate setting unit increases the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140528 - Image processing device and method: A technique is provided that can precisely measure the photographing position and posture of a photographing device and the coordinates of an object from moving images or photographed images that sequentially change gradually, even in the case with the need to process the sway of the photographing device and the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070140529 - Method and device for calculating motion vector between two images and program of calculating motion vector between two images: A reference image is cut out from a first image and a comparison image is cut out from a second image while shifting a cutting block by n pixels and correlation between each of the comparison images. The reference image is calculated to obtain a motion vector of the second... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070140530 - Method and apparatus for providing fingerprint authentication and actuation: A method and apparatus of providing combined secure access and command execution for an electronic device is disclosed. Fingerprint representation data from a user is received. The user is authenticated when the fingerprint representation data received from the user matches user fingerprint data. A determination is made as to whether... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070140531 - standoff iris recognition system: An iris recognition system having pupil and iris border conditioning prior to iris mapping and analysis. The system may obtain and filter an image of an eye. A pupil of the mage may be selected and segmented. Portions of the pupil border can be evaluated and pruned. A curve may... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070140532 - Method and apparatus for providing user profiling based on facial recognition: A method and system of providing user profiling for an electrical device is disclosed. Face representation data is captured with an imaging device. The imaging device focuses on the face of the user to capture the face representation data. A determination is made as to whether a facial feature database... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070140533 - Input device with a fingerprint recognizing mechanism: An input device with a fingerprint recognizing mechanism is provided. The input device has a storage unit, a fingerprint input interface, and a microcontroller. The storage unit is for storing information, typically private, sensitive files/documents. Furthermore, the information is not allowable for access when the storage unit is in a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070140538 - Method for processing unenhanced medical images: A method for distributing digital medical images between an capture device and a image display device remote from the capture device when a user desires to reprocess an enhanced digital medical image at the image display device. The user initiates a request from the image display device for the unenhanced... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070140540 - Automated detection of objects in a biological sample: A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automated light microscopic for detection of proteins associated with cell proliferative disorders.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070140539 - Image combining apparatus: The color of a measurement object, such as a vital tooth, and the color of a comparison object to be compared with the measurement object are displayed to a user in an easily comparable manner. The invention provides an image combining apparatus including an image extracting unit for extracting an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070140536 - Medical image processing method and apparatus: A method for processing digital x-ray images to maximize diagnostic information. The method includes accessing a raw digital image signal generated by imaging a patient with an imaging modality and transmitting the raw image to an acquisition workstation. The acquisition workstation classifies the image and assigns a plurality of image... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070140535 - Method and apparatus for reducing cone beam artifacts using spatially varying weighting functions: A method for combining images acquired using helical half-scan imaging comprises identifying an image plane within an overlap region comprising data from first and second view streams representative of first and second cycles of acquired image data. The image plane comprises the same anatomical structure. First and second weighting functions... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070140534 - Method for determining a three-dimensional structure from a two-dimensional image, in particular a bone structure: The object of the invention is a process for determining the mechanical resistance of a bone from a digitized two dimensional image, obtained by imaging, characterized in that there is carried out a correlation between the bone mineral density determined from this two dimensional image by any means suitable to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070140537 - Simultaneous generation of different data sets from a single acquisition run and dual rendering of images: In a method and system for dual rendering of images, a first volume image is reconstructed with a computer. A second volume image is reconstructed with the computer. The first reconstructed volume image is adjusted for a desired rendering. The second volume image is adjusted for desired rendering. A dual... Agent: Schiff Hardin LLP Patent Department

20070140541 - Method and apparatus for automated detection of target structures from medical images using a 3d morphological matching algorithm: A method for the detection of target structures shown in digital medical images, the method of comprising: (1) generating a three dimensional (3D) volumetric data set of a patient region within which the target structure resides from a plurality of segmented medical image slices; (2) grouping contiguous structures that are... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070140542 - Method and unit for refining digital x-ray images: Method for simplifying the adjustment of a digital x-ray device for the refinement of the x-ray images, and to an image refining unit for carrying out said method. According to the invention, a pre-determined modification is performed on the image data of the x-ray image by at least one image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070140543 - Systems and methods for enhanced cytological specimen review: A system for prescreening and reviewing cytological specimens includes an imager for obtaining and processing image data of a specimen slide, which identifies cellular objects of interest in the specimen, calculates object values for the identified objects based on one or more of their respective physical attributes, and selects fields... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070140544 - Detection level calibration method and apparatus for counterfeit detectors: A detection level calibration method and an apparatus thereof for counterfeit detectors includes a recognition module in a counterfeit detector to scan and detect a calibration object fed into the counterfeit detector to get an actual recognition characteristic value. Through the actual recognition characteristic value, an actuation setting value of... Agent: Frenkel & Associates

20070140545 - Computer-implemented method of processing a substitute check and an apparatus therefor: A computer-implemented method is provided of processing a substitute check which has been made from an original check. The computer-implemented method comprises (a) reading from the substitute check a printed magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) codeline, (b) reading from the substitute check an imaged MICR codeline, and (c) comparing the... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070140546 - Methods and apparatus for testing a component: A method for inspecting a component having a surface profile that includes a local minima and a local maxima. The method includes generating a raw image of a component under test utilizing an eddy current inspection system, decomposing the raw image into a plurality of images wherein each image includes... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070140547 - System and method for prediction of pitting corrosion growth: A system and method predicts pitting corrosion growth using imaging technology. In an embodiment, a first module preprocesses images to locate seed points, and a second module models a corrosion life cycle of the seed points. In another embodiment, the seed points are identified with defined confidence levels, and the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070140548 - System and method for determining reticle defect printability: A method and software program for determining printability of a defect on a reticle or photomask onto a substrate during processing. That is performed by creating a pixel grid image having a plurality of individual pixel images showing the defect. A gray scale value is assigned to each pixel image... Agent: Allston L. Jones Peters, Verny, Jones, Schmitt & Aston, L.L.P.

20070140549 - Three-dimensional image capture system: An image capturing system utilizes a plurality of image capturing apparatus to capture first image data for an object. A processor is utilized to combine the first images to produce first three-dimensional digital image data. The processor then utilizes a second algorithm to combine the intermediate digital image information to... Agent: Donald J. Lenkszus

20070140551 - Banknote validation: A method of creating a classifier for banknote validation is described. Information from all of a set of training images from genuine banknotes is used to form a segmentation template which is then used to segment each of the training set images. Features are extracted from the segments and used... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070140550 - Method and apparatus for performing object detection: An object detection algorithm that generates a two-layer Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) during a training session, and subsequent to the training session, uses the two-layer GMM to perform face detection. No labeling of local features is needed. The only input that is provided by a user is the setting of... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070140553 - Dental colorimetry apparatus: An object is to represent the difference of colors of a vital tooth and a tooth sample in a highly precise manner and to compare the colors in a relatively easy manner. The invention provides a dental colorimetry apparatus including a shade-guide-information storage unit configured to store acquired image data... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070140552 - Optimal test patch level selection for systems that are modeled using low rank eigen functions, with applications to feedback controls: A method and system for selecting an optimal set of S number of calibration patches for an image producing system. The method of selecting the S number of calibration patches includes acquiring a set of K number of basis eigen vectors and model parameters which represent the image producing system... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140554 - Image processing: In an image-encoding scheme, an input image is decomposed into several image blocks (600) comprising multiple image elements (610), e.g. pixels or texels. The image blocks (600) are then encoded into encoded block representations (700). Such a block representation (700) comprises a color codeword (710), an intensity codeword (720) and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070140557 - Data communication system, device, and method: A data communication device that communicates with a storage device via a network includes an input unit for inputting user identification information, a log-in processing unit configured to enable a user to log in to access a storage area of the storage device associated with the user identification information, an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070140558 - Enhanced color correction circuitry capable of employing negative rgb values: Disclosed is a system for adjusting a plurality of component color signals for expanded color gamut displays. The disclosed system comprises an input for receiving the component color signals, a detection circuit (502) connected to the input and configured to detect at least one characteristics of the received component color... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070140555 - Facial image processing system: A facial image processing system for conducting an image process onto a photographed facial image, including a changing means which is at least one of a facial expression changing means to change the expression of a photographed facial image, a skin color tone changing means to change the color tone... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire Sanders & Dempsey

20070140556 - Red eye detection and correction: A system suited to correction of red eyes in images includes a detection module which, for a plurality of pixels in a digital image, assigns a probability that a pixel is within a red eye. The probability has a value which may vary from a minimum value to maximum value.... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140559 - Compressing images in documents: Images that are contained within documents are compressed to reduce the file size of the document. The compression may occur such that compression steps occur to the image automatically. The compression steps performed are determined based on the information available about the images in a document. The information is used... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070140560 - Layout analysis program, layout analysis apparatus and layout analysis method: A layout analysis program, a layout analysis apparatus, layout analysis method and a medium can highly accurately extract a text block from an image if the image is a color image. The layout analysis program causes a computer to execute a divided region extracting step that extracts a region partitioned... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070140561 - Allograph based writer adaptation for handwritten character recognition: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates analyzing and/or recognizing a handwritten character. An interface component can receive at least one handwritten character. A personalization component can train a classifier based on an allograph related to a handwriting style to provide handwriting recognition for the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070140562 - Recordation of handwriting and hand movement using electromyography: Handwriting activity is recorded by use of electromyography (EMG) signals detected from muscles at several locations on the hand. The EMG signals are sensed and registered. The sensed signals are processed and stored, after which the signals are analyzed to reconstruct handwriting activity into a digital format. Machine edible text... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070140563 - Print inspecting apparatus: A print inspecting apparatus which can perform print inspection flexibly at high precision at high speed without requiring a character recognizing processing is provided. The print inspecting apparatus 1 has a main unit 10 which reads images on a continuous business form conveyed in one direction, and a processing unit... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070140564 - 2-dimensional code region extraction method, 2-dimensional code region extraction device, electronic device, 2-dimensional code region extraction program, and recording medium containing the program: A 2-dimensional code region extraction device (FIG. 2) includes: a scan unit 11 for scanning image data containing a 2-dimensional code vertically and horizontally; a blank space detection unit 12 for detecting a blank space portion by determining the white/black gradation of scanned pixels; a non-blank space information calculation unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070140566 - Framework for detecting a structured handwritten object: Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions and apparatuses detect a structured handwritten object is detected in a handwritten document. A primitive structure, which is associated with a set of component objects, is formed. A candidate handwritten object is identified by detecting a corresponding logical structure. A classifier for the candidate handwritten... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070140565 - Table detection in ink notes: Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions and apparatuses detect a table in a handwritten document. Line segments are derived from drawing strokes so that a bounding frame of a candidate table is obtained. An associated table structure is consequently recognized from the bounding frame, lines segments within the bounding frame, and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070140567 - Method, system and computer program for encoding and decoding a pixelized target graphic symbol: Method, system and computer program product for encoding a pixelized target graphic symbol by obtaining an encoded pixel cluster that is encoded with a code that is characteristic of the target graphic symbol and pixelizing the target graphic symbol using at least one encoded pixel cluster. A document having printed... Agent: Jonathan Topper

20070140568 - History control apparatus: A history management apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects a character or a word included in image data which is processed in an image processing apparatus; and a storage unit that stores information to specify a detection position of the detected character or word in the image data and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140570 - Compressed image data enhancement: An image background remover is disclosed that performs background removal of JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) compressed image data without first performing a complete decompression of the compressed image data.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070140569 - Image compression apparatus: [PROBLEMS] To improve the data compression ratio in the data compression/decompression method utilizing the down-sampling process. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Image data in a DS area division unit (130) is divided into a plenty of DS areas and DS areas which are not important are converted into contracted data of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070140571 - Method for image segmentation from proved detection of background and text image portions: A method is provided for segmenting scanned image data in accordance with mixed raster content processing, further including windowing for purposes of extracting particularly classifiable objects, i.e., text, graphics or pictures. Application of predetermined parameter sets selected for more precise identification of the extracted objects are applied to the data... Agent: Patrick R. Roche, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140574 - Decoding apparatus and decoding method: A decoding apparatus having a de-ringing filter to filter image data decoded from encoded image data by orthogonal transformation encoding. In the de-ringing filter, a subtracter generates an absolute value of difference between a value of a filter object pixel and a value of at least one pixel selected from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140572 - Decompression for printing and display systems: A method for decompressing a job in a document management system, such as a printer, scanner or display device, is provided. The method includes buffering the compressed image data, and decompressing the buffered compressed image data such that the decompressing varies as a function of a resolution level and either... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070140573 - Decompression for printing and display systems: A method for decompressing a job in a document management system, such as a printer, scanner or display device, is provided. The method includes buffering the compressed image data, and decompressing the buffered compressed image data such that the decompressing varies as a function of a resolution level and either... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070140575 - System and method for monochrome binary compression on legacy devices: Disclosed is a system and method for monochrome or binary compression, and more particularly compression of binary images segmented in a binary domain into at least two regions of different image types, where the regions are compressed using different compression techniques.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070140576 - Data processing apparatus, the method and coding apparatus: From an MPEG image data (S11), an MPEG2 encoder circuit (51) extracts a quantum scale (Qm) of each macro block (MB) which has been used for quantization of the MPEG2 in the encoding process. An activity calculation circuit (53) calculates an activity (Nact), based on the quantum scale (Qm), A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070140577 - Background intensity correction of a scan of a document: One exemplary method of the present invention is for background intensity correction of a scan of pixel values of a document, wherein the scan has at least one background pixel area and at least one non-background pixel area. The method includes segmenting the scan into the at least one background... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc.

20070140578 - Image adjustment apparatus, image adjustment method and computer readable medium: An image adjustment apparatus includes: a feature information acquisition part that acquires feature information concerning a target image to be adjusted with respect to an adjustment item; an item decision part that selects an item as the adjustment item from among a plurality of predetermined adjustment item candidates based on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140579 - Image signal processing apparatus, method of image signal processing, and image signal processing system: An image signal processing apparatus includes an image pickup unit operable to take image information; an image signal-processing unit operable to process the image information; a display unit operable to display the image information on a display; a recording unit operable to record the image information onto a recording medium;... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070140580 - Digital image reconstruction using inverse spatial filtering: A method for processing a source digital image wherein the source digital image is comprised of a plurality of pixels. A spatial filter is applied to the source digital image to produce an enhanced digital image. An inverse spatial filter is applied to the enhanced digital image to produce an... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070140581 - Image processing circuit and method: An image processing circuit for eliminating noise from an image without lowering the actual resolution. The image contains input pixels, which include a processing subject pixel and proximal pixels located proximal to the processing subject pixel. Each input pixel has a pixel value. The image processing circuit includes a spatial... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070140582 - Systems and methods for reducing noise in image sequences: A method for reducing noise in an image sequence includes: detecting structures in an image sequence; estimating lighting changes in the image sequence and compensating for the estimated lighting changes; detecting moving structures in the image sequence using the detected structures after compensating for the estimated lighting changes in the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070140583 - Method for improving image quality and image processor for same: In order to improve image quality of high compression ratio images, a de-blocking process is performed on decoded image data, and then an edge enhancement process is performed on the de-blocked image data. Performing the edge enhancement process after performing the de-blocking process can improve image quality of high compression... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070140584 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070140585 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070140586 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070140587 - Auto-regressive method and filter for denoising images and videos: A method and apparatus for denoising digital images or videos, which is an extension of the spatial varying filter (SVF) by using a past filtered pixel, instead of the current pixel itself as the input for producing an output for the current pixel. Based on this concept, a number of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070140588 - Film grain generation and addition: High-frequency noise is generated that approximates the appearance of traditional “film grain” for a digital video signal. By adding a relatively small amount of film grain noise, the video can be made to look more natural and more pleasing to the human viewer. The digital film grain generation can be... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070140590 - Image evaluation apparatus, image evaluation method, computer readable medium and computer data signal: An image evaluation apparatus includes a pixel extraction unit, an intra-pair difference calculation unit, an inter-pair difference calculation unit and an evaluation unit. The pixel extraction unit extracts, from an input image, a pixel region including a pair of block-boundary pixels in a boundary position of coding blocks and a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140589 - Image processing method and apparatus thereof: In case of an image region having a property of abrupt changes in luminance and tint, even when a region made up of pixels having luminance values and tint levels similar to those of one point designated by the user is extracted as a correction region with reference to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070140591 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus for identifying a motion vector by executing the steps of setting a plurality of reference blocks, searching a specific reference block, and detecting the motion vector is provided. The image processing apparatus includes correlation-value computation means, table generation means, and motion-vector computation means.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070140592 - Photographic device: A photographic device includes an image sensor in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed. A vertical scan circuit selects horizontal drive lines of the image sensor in order. And a horizontal scan circuit reads out in order voltages due to electric charges from the pixels in the horizontal row... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070140593 - Method and apparatus for scaling selected areas of a graphics display: A method (30) and apparatus (10) for scaling selected areas of a graphics display. The method (30) includes removing distortion-sensitive information from the graphics display, scaling or converting the format of the distortion-nonsensitive information, such as from one aspect ratio to another, and then compositing the removed distortion-sensitive information with... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070140594 - Digitized bank checks validated by digital signatures: A system for handling files containing digitized images, such as digitized bank checks. Four digitized image-files are obtained for each check: front and back at the beginning of a process, and front and back at the end of the process. Four digital signatures are generated, one for each image-file. The... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070140595 - Database assisted ocr for street scenes and other images: Optical character recognition (OCR) for images such as a street scene image is generally a difficult problem because of the variety of fonts, styles, colors, sizes, orientations, occlusions and partial occlusions that can be observed in the textual content of such scenes. However, a database query can provide useful information... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070140596 - Compatible laser modulation circuit for scanner in optical storage media recording/reproducing apparatus: The invention relates to a compatible optical scanner with an improved laser modulator for recording or reproduction apparatuses of optical recording media. Although the input characteristic curves of older and newer optical scanners fundamentally differ on account of different modulator circuits, a circuit arrangement for an optical scanner with an... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070133839 - Method to transmit a coded information and device therefore: A method for transmitting a coded information to a user via a graphical display. The method comprises the step of obtaining coded information by a scanner, which has to be positioned near the graphical display. The coded information is transmitted to a number of code points that are arranged in... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070133841 - Coded visual markers for tracking and camera calibration in mobile computing systems: A method for determining a pose of a user is provided including the steps of capturing a video image sequence of an environment including at least one coded marker; detecting if the coded marker is present in the video images; if the marker is present, extracting feature correspondences of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070133840 - Tracking using an elastic cluster of trackers: The invention is method for tracking moving objects from data by tracking a cluster of resilient features of the target. The features correspond to a set of trackers, to maintain tracking or allow rapid reacquisition and subsequent tracking although the objects' form and geometry may change. The method includes a... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070133842 - System and method for interactive document layout: A document layout is adjusted to alter the quality of the document by generating an initial document with a plurality of blocks. A user can manually adjust the parameters of the document. Thereafter, a base quantized quality score is generated for the document based upon the manually changed parameters of... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070133843 - Electronic apparatus operating system: When a user validation portion validates that a person is present adjacent to an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus generates an identification code, converts the identification code to a QR code, and displays the QR code on an identification code display portion. When the QR code that has been displayed... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070133844 - Security identification system: This is a security and identification system designed to obtain improved images for use by real-time facial recognition and identification systems for screening individuals passing through secure entry or checkpoints such as airport passenger terminals, government offices, and other secure locations. The system detects the presence of a subject at... Agent: Pelco

20070133845 - Three-dimensional segmentation using deformable surfaces: An image processing system comprising 3D image data processing means (10) of automatic mapping a 3-D Surface Model onto the surface of an object of interest in a 3-D image, for estimating a model-based 3-D segmentation surface, comprising visualizing means (60) and further comprising means of interactive adaptation (20) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133846 - Portable data carrier, external arrangement, system and methods for wireless data transfer: A portable data carrier (10) and a method (B1-B10), as well as a storage medium with instructions, for transferring data by means of a portable data carrier are provided. The portable data carrier comprises a carrier storage (12) for storing data containing a biometric template (13) and an application-specific function... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070133847 - Image input device: The present invention relates to an image input device including a substrate, a light sensor, a light emitter, and a light guide. The light sensor, the light emitter, and the light guide are provided on the substrate. The light emitted from the light emitter is guided to a position above... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070133848 - Manual tools for model based image segmentation: A scanner (18) acquires images of a subject. A 3D model (52) of an organ is selected from an organ model database (50) and dropped over an image of an actual organ. A best fitting means (62) globally scales, translates and/or rotates the model (52) to best fit the actual... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133851 - Method and apparatus for selecting computer-assisted algorithms based on protocol and/or parameters of an acquisistion system: A system and method for selecting a computer algorithm for processing a medical image for a clinical purpose is enclosed. The method includes accessing image data, accessing clinical data, and accessing a structured knowledgebase. An optimal computer algorithm is selected with associated optimal operating parameters from a plurality of computer... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070133849 - Method and apparatus for visualisation of a tubular structure: The present invention relates to a method and a corresponding apparatus for visualization of a tubular structure of an object by use of a 3D image data set of said object. In order to provide a more efficient and illustrative visualization a method is proposed comprising the steps of: —generating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133852 - Method and system of computer-aided quantitative and qualitative analysis of medical images: A system and method of computer aided analysis of medical images and detection of malignant lesions is described. Medical images obtained from multiple modalities are analyzed. Morphological features as well as temporal, i.e., kinetics features, are combined to compute a consolidated assessment of a possible lesion detected in the medical... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070133850 - System for making a medical device: A castless system and method for sizing a medical device for use with limbs, joints, appendages, and other body members of a human or animal subject. The system uses at least two digital images to create a body member profile and extract measurements for the selection of a model template.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070133853 - Method and apparatus for improving inner auditory canal images: Method and apparatus for locally enhancing image data represented as pixels having CT numbers is provided. The image data includes bony structures, and the method comprises segmenting pixels within the image data into areas based on the pixel's CT number. A first area represents a combination of soft tissue and... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070133854 - Method and device for measuring pulmonary nodule volume using dual-energy substraction image: A method and a device for measuring a pulmonary nodule volume using a dual-energy subtraction image are provided. The method includes: (a) obtaining a dual-energy subtraction image of a chest; (b) setting a specific region including a pulmonary nodule region in the obtained dual-energy subtraction image; (c) interpolating a gray... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133856 - Cross-frame object reconstruction for image-based cytology applications: Methods, computer software, and systems for analyzing a biological specimen (e.g., a cytological specimen) on a slide is provided. Magnified image data frames of the biological specimen are taken at different locations on the slide. An object that is not entirely contained within at least one of the image data... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070133857 - Joint classification and subtype discovery in tumor diagnosis by gene expression profiling: A program storage device is provided readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for classification of biological tissue by gene expression profiling. The method steps include providing a training set of gene expression profiles of known tissue samples, providing a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070133855 - Similar pattern searching apparatus, method of similar pattern searching, program for similar pattern searching, and fractionation apparatus: Respective components of a leukocyte particle size pattern that includes a plurality of cellular component fractions are separated by performing a mixture density approximation using an EM algorithm, and characteristic parameters of each fraction are clustered. A similarity search with attention paid to a distribution pattern of a cell group... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070133858 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a carrying unit that carries an irradiated object having a reflecting portion and a transmitting portion in a carrying direction, a first light source arranged on one face side of the irradiated object that irradiates light to an irradiated portion in a path of carrying... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133859 - Methods and systems for reading magnetic ink character recognition information: A system for recognizing magnetic ink characters includes at least one write head configured and arranged to scan over the magnetic ink characters while generating a modulated magnetic field to produce a magnetic response in the magnetic ink characters. The modulation of the magnetic field produces spatial modulation in the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070133861 - Apparatus and method for inspecting overlay patterns in semiconductor device: An apparatus for inspecting overlay patterns includes an optical module which projects a plurality of neighboring overlay patterns formed on a wafer. The apparatus also includes a pickup unit which obtains a plurality of image signals corresponding to the plurality of overlay patterns projected from the optical module. The apparatus... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070133862 - Detection of surface defects employing subsampled images: A method for determining a location of a border in a color image, the image including at least two color populations, between a first color region associated with a first one of the two color populations and a second color region associated with a second one of the two color... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070133860 - Methods and systems for binning defects detected on a specimen: Methods and systems for binning defects detected on a specimen are provided. One method includes comparing a test image to reference images. The test image includes an image of one or more patterned features formed on the specimen proximate to a defect detected on the specimen. The reference images include... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070133864 - Apparatus and method for measuring at least one of arrangement and shape of shots on substrate, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: An apparatus for measuring at least one of an arrangement and shape of shots formed on a substrate, comprises a scope configured to obtain an image of an alignment mark corresponding to a shot; and a calculating device configured to calculate a difference between a position of the alignment mark... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070133863 - Image alignment method, comparative inspection method, and comparative inspection device for comparative inspections: The present invention provides a high-precision alignment method, device and code for inspections that compare an inspection image with a reference image and detect defects from their differences. In one embodiment an inspection image and a reference image are divided into multiple regions. An offset is calculated for each pair... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070133865 - Method for reconstructing three-dimensional structure using silhouette information in two-dimensional image: A method for reconstructing a three-dimensional structure using silhouette information on a two-dimensional plane is provided. The method includes: obtaining silhouette images; creating a cube on a three-dimensional space using the silhouette images; calculating vertex coordinates on a two-dimensional image plane by projecting eight vertices of the three-dimensional cube on... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133866 - Method and apparatus for classifying geological materials using image processing techniques: Provided is a method and apparatus for classifying geological materials using image processing techniques. The method and apparatus classify geological materials including stones, rock samples, and rock surfaces according to type and state by sequentially applying image processing techniques, such as a color space analysis, a granulometry analysis, texture parameter... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133867 - Apparatus and method of adaptively converting image in image display system: Adaptive image conversion method and apparatus in an image display system are provided. The image conversion apparatus for adaptively converting an input image into an output image reflecting a user's preferred color comprises a color temperature estimation unit estimating a color temperature of the input image, a target color temperature... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070133871 - Apparatus and methods for processing images: In one embodiment, a system for processing an image receives color information including three variables representing a color of each of a plurality of pixels which constitute the image. The system derives a target characteristic value corresponding to a target pixel among the plurality of pixels based on the three... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070133868 - Method and apparatus providing automatic color balancing for digital imaging systems: Pixels from an image are sampled for gray world statistics. To avoid the effect of saturated regions, the pixels are pruned. If a predetermined percentage of the pixels are included in the gray world statistics, color channel gain is calculated and applied to the image. As a result, color balance... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070133870 - Method, apparatus, and system for improved color statistic pruning for automatic color balance: Pixels from an image are sampled for gray world statistics. To avoid the effect of saturated regions, the color pixels are pruned based on predetermined criteria for individual and combined color channel values. If a predetermined percentage of the pixels are included in the gray world statistics, color channel gain... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070133869 - Noise reduction for primary tones for image replication systems: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide noise reduction for primary tones. In an embodiment, the systems and methods involve adjusting an input color toward a primary tone at the expense of replicating the input color according to its proper hue. The adjusted input color, when displayed by a display... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070133872 - Statistical image processing system and method for image/noise feature detection: A statistical image processing system and method for detecting an original image feature and/or a noise feature in an input image using a statistical hypothesis test, thereby estimating the image or noise when an original image is contaminated with the noise, and a recording medium for recording the method, are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070133873 - Document management method and apparatus: A document management apparatus acquires block information of each page, which is obtained by executing block segmentation processing for each page of document data of a first version. A matched block and a mismatched block between the first version and a second version are discriminated on the basis of the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070133876 - Device, method, and computer program product for enhancing the use of electronic forms in mobile devices: A device, method, and computer program product enhance the use of electronic forms in mobile devices, such as by using a camera image for entering data into an input field of an electronic form. A portion of the camera image may be captured and displayed in the input field of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070133874 - Personal information retrieval using knowledge bases for optical character recognition correction: In a system for updating a contacts database (42, 46), a portable imager (12) acquires a digital business card image (10). An image segmenter (16) extracts text image segments from the digital business card image. An optical character recognizer (OCR) (26) generates one or more textual content candidates for each... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070133875 - Pictorial identification of a communication event: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for pictorial identification of a communication event using speech or text recognition in an electronic device. The communication can be (but is not limited to) a telephone call, an electronic mail message, MMS, SMS, an instant message, etc.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070133877 - Script recognition for ink notes: Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions distinguish the script type of at least one portion of a writing input. At least one sub-word of a writing line of a handwritten document is identified and is processed to determine the associated writing style that includes a cursive writing style and a hand-printed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070133879 - Ellipsoid detecting method, figure center detecting method, image recognizing device, and controller based on image: A method for detecting an ellipsoid includes: extracting an ellipsoid candidate; extracting an ellipsoid contour; calculating an ellipsoid parameter; calculating an adaptability ratio; and eliminating the ellipsoid candidate. Extracting the ellipsoid candidate includes: inputting an image with figures; selecting the ellipsoid candidate from the figures; and extracting a contour candidate... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070133878 - Method for constructing covariance matrices from data features: A method constructs descriptors for a set of data samples and determines a distance score between pairs of subsets selected from the set of data samples. A d-dimensional feature vector is extracted for each sample in each subset of samples. The feature vector includes indices to the corresponding sample and... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070133880 - Background removal in a live video: Exemplary systems and methods segment a foreground from a background image in a video sequence. In one implementation, a system refines a segmentation boundary between the foreground and the background image by attenuating background contrast while preserving contrast of the segmentation boundary itself, providing an accurate background cut of live... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070133881 - Apparatus and method for character recognition using acceleration sensor: Provided are an apparatus and method for character recognition that analyze three-dimensional motion of a user using an acceleration sensor and thereby perform character input and character recognition. The apparatus and method easily discern each stroke on the basis of a direction of motion at the beginning portion and end... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133882 - Scan solution system: A document data producing part produces document data in which first meta data is embedded based on a document template and a data source; a printing part prints the document data in a paper document; a scanning part obtains a scanned image from scanning the paper document after predetermined processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133883 - Logical structure and layout based offline character recognition: A method and system for implementing character recognition is described herein. An input character is received. The input character is composed of one or more logical structures in a particular layout. The layout of the one or more logical structures is identified. One or more of a plurality of classifiers... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070133884 - Method of locating a human eye in a video image: A human eye is detected in a video image by identifying potential eye candidates using horizontal and vertical projection filtering on a specified portion of the image, coupled with rudimentary appearance-based testing. The identified eye candidates are clustered and winning eye candidates are selected based on appearance, spatial-geometric and anthropomorphic... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070133885 - Apparatus and method of detecting person: An apparatus and method of detecting a person. The apparatus includes: a segmentation unit which analyzes plural pieces of color information of a plurality of pixels configuring a given image and generates at least one segment by grouping at least one of the pixels having a specified similarity among the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133889 - Image encoding method, image decoding method, moving-image compression method, moving-image expansion method, image encoding program, image decoding device, image encoding device, image encoding/decoding system, and extended image compression/expansion sy: The present image encoding method and the like represents a pixel block prior to performing spatial frequency transformation in processing such as JPEG or the like as a matrix, calculates sum data sc (i) of pixel values in a column i in the matrix and sum data sr (j) of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070133886 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an image: A digital image coding apparatus, generates a representation of spatially filtered images that are obtainable from a common source image by application of spatial filter operations with respective filter bandwidths. The dependence of image information in the filtered images on position in the filtered image and filter bandwidth is represented... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133887 - R/t display compression preserving intensity information: A realtime display compression for a waveform image uses a priority basis for combining groups of pixels when producing a compressed waveform image in order to preserve intensity information. As an example successive lines of data for the waveform image are demultiplexed into line buffers in a circulating manner, the... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070133888 - 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

20070133890 - Extension of two-dimensional variable length coding for image compression: A method and an apparatus to decode a bitstream that includes codewords formed by a method of encoding series of quantized coefficients of a transform of a block of image data. The encoding method includes forming events from the series of quantized transform coefficients, each event being a run of... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070133891 - Method and device for intra prediction coding and decoding of image: A method and a device for intra prediction coding and decoding of an image in which the intra prediction according to a selected intra prediction mode based on a direction of an input image is performed are provided. In the method and the device, an input block is frequency transformed,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133892 - Image coding device, method and computer program: Provided is an image coding device in which entropy coding is applied to binarized data, thereby processing image data at a high speed. The image coding device has: an image coding unit which codes image data; an entropy coding unit which binarizes the coded image data and applies entropy coding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070133893 - Method and apparatus for image noise reduction: A method and apparatus that allows for image denoising in an imaging device. The method and implementing apparatus selects a kernel, which includes neighboring pixel pairs for a identified pixel, determines average output signal values for pixel pairs in the correction kernel, determines the difference in the average values and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070133894 - Fissure detection methods for lung lobe segmentation: A fissure detection method for lung lobe segmentation in 3D image data is disclosed. In this method, 3D lung image data is filtered using one or more filters based on at least one of planar structures coupled with vessel suppression, curvature computations, and local gradient magnitude and direction comparisons. Fissures... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070133895 - Method for filtering image noise using pattern information: Disclosed is a method for removing image noise using pattern information, which filters noise caught by a sensor during preprocessing of a compression codec, so as to increase a compression efficiency, and noise caused by the codec during post-processing of the codec, so as to obtain high quality images. The... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070133897 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070133896 - Ringing artifact reduction for compressed video applications: A method of reducing ringing artifacts in a compressed digital video signal includes decoding the coded video signal; determining plurality of metric values in a region near at least one pixel, wherein the metric values are greater than a particular value; and applying a deringing method to substantially reduce ringing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133898 - Input distribution determination for denoising: A denoising process or system uses convex optimization to determine characteristics of a clean signal. In one embodiment, a noisy signal that represents a set of symbols can be scanned to determine an empirical vector with components respectively indicating respective empirical probabilities of symbols in the noisy signal that occur... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070133899 - Triggering an image processing function: The invention is directed to apparatus, methods, and systems for calculating parameters from particular pixel components of first and second frames, and triggering a function pertaining to the image processing of a later-created frame if a particular difference between the two parameters is detected. In one embodiment, the present invention... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070133900 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus automatically determining a composition of an image includes area dividing means for dividing an input image into areas; target area determining means for determining a target area having higher visibility from the divided image; unnecessary area determining means for determining an unnecessary area having lower visibility... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070133901 - Image processing device, image processing method, program thereof, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus of the invention generates one still image having a high pixel density from multiple images. The image processing apparatus includes: an image extraction module that extracts the multiple images used for generation of the one still image; a deviation computation module that computes a degree of... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070133902 - Method and circuit for integrated de-mosaicing and downscaling preferably with edge adaptive interpolation and color correlation to reduce aliasing artifacts: In a class of embodiments, a method and circuit for de-mosaicing and downscaling image data (e.g., image data in raw Bayer image format) in a single, integrated operation, rather than two separate and sequential de-mosaicing and downscaling operations. Some embodiments of the method include a step of displaying the de-mosaiced... Agent: Alfred A. Equitz Girard & Equitz LLP

20070133903 - System and method for providing multi-sensor super-resolution: A super-resolution enhanced image generating system is described for generating a super-resolution-enhanced image from an image of a scene, identified as image g0, comprising a base image and at least one other image gi, the-system comprising an initial super-resolution enhanced image generator, an image projector module and a super-resolution enhanced... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070133905 - Image interpolation method and device: The invention relates to an image resolution interpolation method utilizing two reference pixels, two equations and a compensation equation to determine an interpolation pixel. The two equations respectively determine two right weight values for the two reference pixels, and the invention more uses a product of the two right weight... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070133904 - Image processing method: There is provided an image processing method for performing image processing at a high speed with a high accuracy by using the CSRBF method. The image processing method for processing an object image includes a step (Step 12) for creating function data, i.e., the object image expressed with a function... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070133907 - Image processing apparatus: Image data is displayed on an image display unit. An information input unit specifies a characteristic extracting range corresponding to the image data. An image-characteristic extracting unit extracts a representative characteristic from the specified range within the image data. The extracted representative characteristic are associated with the image data and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133906 - Information processing apparatus, data analyzing method and information recording medium: The image displaying apparatus includes: an image feature quantity calculating section 26 for calculating image feature quantities of a plurality of types for each of the images acquired by an image acquiring section 24; a first image position coordinate calculating section 28 for calculating the position coordinate of each of... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070127771 - Image processing apparatus and method: It is required to protect the copyrights and the like of partial images which form respective parts of an image obtained by reading an image, exchanged using a print as a medium, by an image scanner or the like. Input image data is divided into a plurality of image regions... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127769 - Information embedding device, information reading device, and recording media with recorded computer-readable program thereof: Information embedding is performed by extracting vertices composing a polygon from vector data, and changing the number of points that exist on the sides of the polygon based on the embedment information. Information reading is performed by extracting points existing on the sides of the polygon from the embedment information... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070127772 - System and method for generating and verifying a self-authenticating document: Described are a system and method for verifying a self-authenticating document. First, upon a request for verification of the document, a characteristic digital data “CDD” is extracted from the document. An image of at least a predetermined portion of the document is obtained. The image is divided into a predetermined... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070127770 - System and method for optimizing data recovery for a partially destroyed document: A system and method are provided for optimizing data recovery for a partially destroyed document by exploiting the localized nature of typical partial document destruction. The system and method physically lay out encoded document recovery information in a way such that the likelihood is increased of recovering the encoded document... Agent: George Likourezos

20070127773 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a moving image file storage unit operable to store a moving image file; an area selection receiving unit operable to receive a selection of a predetermined area corresponding to one of a plurality of frames forming the moving image file; a template image generating unit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070127775 - Method and apparatus for color-based object tracking in video sequences: A method and apparatus for tracking a color-based object in video sequences are provided. According to the method, an initial object area in one frame of video sequences desired to be tracked is assigned, and an initial object effective window containing the initial object area is assigned. A frame following... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070127774 - Target detection and tracking from video streams: A technique for video processing includes: receiving video from a scene; detecting moving pixels in the video; detecting line segments or motion blocks in the video based on the detected moving pixels; identifying targets in the video based on the detected line segments or motion blocks; tracking targets in the... Agent: Venable LLP

20070127777 - Apparatus and method for detecting a road boundary: A roadway boundary detecting apparatus has an imaging device for taking picture images ahead of a vehicle, a picture image memory connected to the imaging device for storing the picture images, and a control unit connected to the picture image memory. The roadway boundary detecting apparatus further has a program... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070127776 - Information retrieval system for car navigation systems: Provided is an information retrieval system for car navigation systems that allows a vehicle occupant to designate a destination both easily and quickly. Each address is given as a combination of a plurality of strings of characters, each string corresponding to one of a plurality of search hierarchy levels, and... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070127778 - Object detecting system and object detecting method: An object detecting system includes an imaging device disposed on a vehicle and a controller that receives a two-dimensional image, which represents a scene ahead of the vehicle, from the imaging device. The controller includes a feature extraction unit, a motion-information calculator, a coordinate transformation unit, and an object-attribute determination... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070127779 - System and method for range measurement of a preceding vehicle: A system for determining range and lateral position of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a camera and a processor. The camera is configured to view a region of interest, including the vehicle, and generate an electrical image of the region. The processor is in electrical communication with the... Agent: Visteon

20070127780 - Digital video borescope for drilled shaft inspection: Visual inspection of an interior surface of a borehole. A housing adapted to be lowered in the borehole supports a portable camera for generating images of a portion of the interior surface of the borehole and a light source for illuminating an area adjacent the camera. A monitor receives signals... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070127781 - Animal eye biometrics: Methods, computer readable media, apparatus, and systems including program instructions are provided for animal biometrics. A method embodiment includes acquiring information about a physical characteristic of a pupil of an animal. The method also includes determining an identity of the animal, at least in part, by using the characteristic of... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC

20070127782 - Method and system to centrally monitor the quality of images of financial documents: Method and system to centrally monitor the quality of images of financial documents. Embodiments of the present invention can provide a way to monitor and evaluate the quality of images of financial documents stored for remote access by financial institutions. In some embodiments, a standard quality analysis of at least... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20070127783 - Image processing apparatus, method and program for controlling flesh color of image: Flesh color pixels that constitute flesh color areas of a captured image are determined with respect to the three attributes of color: lightness, chroma and hue, and lightness-chroma distribution of the flesh color pixels is determined in a coordinate plane whose vertical and horizontal axes represent lightness and chroma respectively,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070127784 - System and method for conducting online visual identification of a person: The present invention provides a method and system for preventing unsolicited bulk email (UBE). Spammers sending UBE typically capitalize on the weakness of SMTP. The present invention affixes a subscriber key value to the local part of an email address. The email and associated key value are sent to a... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20070127787 - Face recognition system and method: A facial recognition system that captures a plurality two-dimensional images of a target face, creates a three-dimensional facial model from the plurality of two-dimensional images of a target face, moves the three-dimensional facial model to a predetermined pose orientation to result in a normalized three-dimensional facial model, extracts measurements from... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070127786 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a first extraction section extracting first feature quantities from image data of an image of a subject captured in a first period; a first estimation section estimating a first average value of the first feature quantities on the basis of second feature quantities extracted from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127785 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a detecting unit for detecting a position of a facial feature in a face image, a principal component analysis performing unit for performing principal component analysis on the position of the facial feature in a registered image that is a pre-registered face image, a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127788 - Image processing device, method, and program: To prevent detection of facial images for whom detection is unnecessary, without reducing the detection ratio of registered players from facial images. An image acquisition unit acquires an image taken by a camera, and provides the image to a masking process unit. The masking process unit reads a masking pattern... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070127791 - Automated synchronization of 3-d medical images, related methods and computer products: Methods, systems and computer programs can electronically provide a visual comparison of rendered 3-D medical images. The methods include: (a) providing first and second 3-D medical digital images of a patient on at least one display; (b) electronically altering a visualization of the first 3-D image on the at least... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070127800 - Branch extension method for airway segmentation: A branch extension method and system for segmenting airways in 3D image data is disclosed. An initial airway segmentation is obtained from the 3D image data. Terminal branches of segmented airways of the initial airway segmentation are identified. The segmentation of the terminal branches is then extended. The segmentation of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070127799 - Method and system for vertebrae and intervertebral disc localization in magnetic resonance images: A system and method for vertebrae and intervertebral disc localization in magnetic resonance (MR) images is disclosed. In this method, a target spine MR image is segmented by generating a binary segmentation. A spinal cord line is then estimated on the segmented image. Neighboring vertebrae in a region of interest... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070127789 - Method for three dimensional multi-phase quantitative tissue evaluation: A method of evaluating tissue of an organ includes accessing image data and processing the image data to quantify at least one feature of interest in the tissue. The image data is derived from a computed tomography acquisition system and includes multiple phases of acquired whole organ data. Each phase... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070127797 - Methods and systems to facilitate reducing banding artifacts in images: Methods and systems for generating computed tomographic (CT) images from image data acquired during different biological cycles are provided. A computer is programmed to receive a plurality of scan data acquired during a gated acquisition window of each of a plurality of biological cycles, blend the scan data acquired during... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20070127793 - Real-time interactive data analysis management tool: Images and quantitative analytical data are displayed in an interactive manner to a user to facilitate efficient and effective diagnosis, treatment, and assessment of an abnormality or pathology. Images acquired over time, which may be acquired with scanners of various modalities, are registered, displayed in a single image, and comparatively... Agent: Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, Sc (gems)

20070127794 - Reproducible objective quantification method to segment white matter structures: The invention provides a reproducible, objective quantification technique that reliably segments white matter structures. The technique receives a seed voxel within the white matter structure from an individual, determines thresholds and selection criteria, creates a binary mask based on the at least one threshold and the at least one selection... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20070127792 - System and method for 3d graphical prescription of a medical imaging volume: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system for three-dimensional graphical prescription of an imaging volume including a user interface component, a reference image, and a three-dimensional representation of the imaging volume. The user interface component includes a display. The reference image is presented on the display. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070127790 - System and method for anatomy labeling on a pacs: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for image registration and display of relevant information. The method includes identifying one or more anatomical parts in an acquired image, mapping the acquired image to a reference image based on the one or more anatomical parts, storing anatomy... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070127796 - System and method for automatically assessing active lesions: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for improving workflow in assessing lesions including displaying a reference image and determining a lesion contour. The reference image is displayed with a user interface component. The lesion contour is determined with a contour processing component. The lesion contour is based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070127795 - System and method for linking current and previous images based on anatomy: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for correlating an acquired image with an historical image. Certain embodiments include registering an acquired image and at least one historical image according to a coordinate system, applying a metric to the acquired image and each of the historical image(s),... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070127798 - System and method for semantic indexing and navigation of volumetric images: A method for navigating digital medical images includes providing a digitized patient medical image of a structure of interest in a patient, using a pre-trained classifier to segment the structure of interest from the image, creating links from the structure of interest to a corresponding structure in an anatomical atlas,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070127803 - Adaptive density correction in computed tomographic images: An adaptive density correction (ADC) method and system automatically compensate for pseudo-enhancement (PEH) of voxels in computed tomography (CT) data, such as in fecal-tagged CT colonography (ftCTC), so air (or another low-contrast background) and soft tissues are represented by their usual CT attenuations. ADC estimates an amount of pseudo-enhancement energy... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070127804 - Adaptive density mapping in computed tomographic images: An adaptive density mapping (ADM) method and system automatically identify interface regions between air and material tagged with contrast agents in computed tomographic (CT) image data, then map CT attenuations of voxels outside the identified interface regions, such that voxels that represent tagged material are made to represent air or... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070127802 - Method and system for automatic lung segmentation: Disclosed is a systematic way of automatically segmenting lung regions. To increase the efficiency of a lung segmentation technique, a region-based technique, such as region growing, is performed by a computer on a middle slice of the CT volume. A contour-based technique is then used for a plurality of non-middle... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070127801 - Method for limited angle tomography: A tomographic reconstruction method or device for calculation of a 3-dimensional image data or 2-dimensional slice from a limited amount of 2-dimensional or 1-dimensional projection images using iterations to calculate 3D image elements, comprising transformation of measured data to transform domain.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070127805 - Method for processing checks prior to electronic deposit: A method of processing checks includes obtaining first information relating to the checks that is compiled by an operator using a calculator, such as by scanning a calculator tape, wherein the first information includes a first number of first dollar amounts, each of which corresponds to a respective one of... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070127806 - Pattern inspection apparatus: A pattern inspection apparatus uses a die-to-database comparison method which compares detected pattern data obtained from an optical image of a pattern of a plate to be inspected with first reference pattern data obtained from designed pattern data in combination with a die-to-die comparison method which compares the detected pattern... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127807 - Defect inspection method, defect inspection system, defect inspection program, and memory medium with that program memorized in it: The object of the invention is to provide a defect inspection method, a defect inspection system, and a defect inspection program, in which the inspection time for the object to be inspected and identifiable as a linear or band-like one is so very short that the operation time and tact... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127808 - Method and apparatus for identifying three dimensional coordinates on a tire: A method and apparatus for identifying 3-D coordinates of a target region on a tire includes: taking a digital image of a tire; finding an edge of a tire bead using pixel brightness values from the tire image; calculating tire bead circle center and radius using a plurality of image... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070127809 - Method and apparatus for image processing: There is disclosed a method apparatus for image processing of e.g. MRI images. A method and apparatus is disclosed enabling one to determine if an image contrast/intensity change of a chosen point within an imaged subject volume (e.g. a lesion) is an artefact of motion in the imaged subject. An... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20070127810 - System and method for modeling three dimensional objects from a single image: A system and method for automatically modeling a three dimensional object, such as a face, from a single image. The system and method according to the invention can construct one or more three dimensional (3D) face models using a single image. Although use of a frontal image simplifies the processing,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070127811 - Virtual reality scene generator for generating training images for a pattern recognition classifier: Systems and methods are provided for generating training samples for a classification system associated with a vehicle occupant protection system. A three-dimensional virtual reality scene is generated (138) from a cockpit model having a set of at least two user configurable parameters (132) and an occupant model having a set... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070127812 - Alpha image processing: An alpha image encoding and decoding scheme is disclosed. In the encoding an alpha image, is decomposed into image blocks (600) comprising multiple image element (610). The blocks (600) are compressed into block representations (700). A block representation (700) comprises at least a color codeword (710), an alpha codeword (720),... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070127813 - Approach for near duplicate image detection: A content-based approach is provided for detecting near duplicate images. The approach generally involves analyzing the content of images to be compared and generating color and texture histogram descriptor data for each image. The images may then be compared based upon the color and texture histogram descriptor data to determine... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070127814 - Method and system for histogram calculation using a graphics processing unit: A method for histogram calculation using a graphics processing unit (GPU), comprises storing image data in a two-dimensional (2D) texture domain; subdividing the domain into independent regions or tiles; calculating in parallel, in a GPU, a plurality of tile histograms, one for each tile; and summing up in parallel, in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070127815 - Methods and apparatus for text detection: A text detection technique comprises local ramp detection, identification of intensity troughs (candidate text strokes), determination of stroke width, preliminary detection of text based on contrast and stroke width, and a consistency check.... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070127817 - Change region detection device and change region detecting method: A device includes a first change detection unit which detects a change region distribution based on the texture information; a second change detection unit which detects a change region distribution based on a background differential method; a texture detection unit, a change-detection-unit weighting storage unit, and a change detection result... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070127816 - Computer-vision system for classification and spatial localization of bounded 3d-objects: The invention relates to a system and method for recognition, classification and spatial localization of bounded 3D-objects. In particular it relates to a computerized method for recognition, classification and localization of objects. The method comprises generation of a training database based on a large number of training views recorded by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070127818 - Systems and methods for adaptive handwriting recognition: The present invention utilizes generic and user-specific features of handwriting samples to provide adaptive handwriting recognition with a minimum level of user-specific enrollment data. By allowing generic and user-specific classifiers to facilitate in a recognition process, the features of a specific user's handwriting can be exploited to quickly ascertain characteristics... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070127819 - Method and apparatus for object detection in sequences: A method and apparatus for detecting and locating objects of interest in video sequences is provided. A frame is defined as an image belonging to video sequences. Each frame with the same or different size of original input sequences is searched by the same or different size window efficiently for... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070127820 - Method for finding representative vectors in a class of vector spaces: The present invention provides a technique for retrieving pictures from a large database that is less complex and uses significantly less memory and computational resources than current techniques. This is accomplished by determining representative data vectors based on a tolerance distance that represents data vectors in a given vector space... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070127821 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is made up of a processing target area specification section for specifying a processing target area; a circumferential direction specification section for specifying the circumferential direction of a contour circle in the processing target area; an edge detection region specification section for specifying three or more... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070127822 - Method and system for analyzing image differences: Method and system for comparing two images using a computing system is provided. The method comprises comparing a first image with a second image, the first image and the second image described by one or more image attributes. The images further comprise a plurality of components described by one or... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070127823 - System and method for compiling images from a database and comparing the compiled images with known images: A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object from the database is confusingly... Agent: King & Spalding, LLP Intellectual Property Dept. - Patents

20070127824 - Method and apparatus for classifying a vehicle occupant via a non-parametric learning algorithm: Systems and methods are provided for classifying an input feature vector, representing a vehicle occupant, into one of a plurality of occupant classes. A database (106) contains a plurality of feature vectors in a multidimensional feature space. Each feature vector has an associated class from the plurality of output classes.... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070127825 - Weighted ensemble boosting method for classifier combination and feature selection: A method constructs a strong classifier from weak classifiers by combining the weak classifiers to form a set of combinations of the weak classifiers. Each combination of weak classifiers is boosted to determine a weighted score for each combination of weak classifiers, and combinations of weak classifiers having a weighted... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070127826 - Image processing apparatus and control method therefor: This invention switches the number of bits per pixel between object types when converting code information into image data, thereby rendering one entire page at high speed while minimizing the influence on print quality. For this purpose, an apparatus analyzes received PDL data, and generates a DL (Display List) serving... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127827 - Image processing apparatus, method, storage medium, and program: A motion-vector detector determines the centroid of pixels on a reference frame that is identified with position information set in a database and associated with a feature address corresponding to a feature of a target pixel. The motion-vector detector detects, as a motion vector of the target pixel, a vector... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127828 - Image processing apparatus, method, storage medium, and program: A motion-vector detector determines the centroid of pixels on a reference frame that is identified with position information set in a database and associated with a feature address corresponding to a feature of a target pixel. The motion-vector detector detects, as a motion vector of the target pixel, a vector... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127829 - Motion detecting device and search region variable-shaped motion detector: An overall motion detecting device (1) includes a search region variable-shaped motion detector (2) and an overall motion information generator (3). The overall motion information generator (3) controls a surveillance camera (5) which is an external image capturing system and supplies control information of the surveillance camera (5) (such as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127830 - Motion detecting device and search region variable-shaped motion detector: An overall motion detecting device (1) includes a search region variable-shaped motion detector (2) and an overall motion information generator (3). The overall motion information generator (3) controls a surveillance camera (5) which is an external image capturing system and supplies control information of the surveillance camera (5) (such as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127831 - Compression system for integrated sensor devices: An imaging system incorporating adaptive compression which includes determining linear predictive differential residuals from an imager array pixel row. The differential residuals are classified into categories, each category having a range of differential residuals associated with it. The categories are analyzed to produce an ordered list having categories with most... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070127832 - Device for controlling the representation of information: A device for controlling the representation of information on a vehicle screen includes an actuator which can be rotated about a longitudinal axis and deflected transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis. The portion (2) of the information which is represented on the vehicle screen displaced by a deflection movement... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070127833 - Automatic generation of metadata for a digital image based on ambient conditions: A method and system is provided for automatically generating metadata for a digital image based on ambient conditions. Aspects of the preferred embodiment include determining a plurality of ambient conditions associated with a location of a subject of a digital image captured with a mobile image capture device, the ambient... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070127834 - Method of directed pattern enhancement for flexible recognition: A directed pattern enhancement method receives a learning image and pattern enhancement directive. Pattern enhancement learning is performed using the learning image and the pattern enhancement directive to generate pattern enhancement recipe. An application image is received and a pattern enhancement application is performed using the application image and the... Agent: Shih-jong J. Lee

20070127836 - Method and apparatus providing noise reduction while preserving edges for imagers: A method of reducing noise in an image including steps for obtaining a first value for a target pixel, obtaining a respective second value for each neighboring pixel surrounding the target pixel and having the same color as the target pixel, for each neighboring pixel, comparing a difference between said... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070127835 - Spacial-temporal processing of digital images: A digital image processing system (134) receives a signal S(x,y,t,c) where (x,y) are pixel coordinates, t is time, and c is a color component. The system generates the signal S*(x,y,t,c) as a function of a linear combination of the values S(x′,y′,t′,c) over a set A of points (x′,y′,t′) with plural... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070127837 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a threshold selecting unit that selects a threshold based on an input gray-scale value of the target pixel. When a degree of flexibility is defined as representing a degree of the number of pixels that can take different output values as a result of threshold... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070127838 - Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program: An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes a simple-type angle detecting unit simply detects the angle as continuity using correlation from an input image. The device includes an input configured to input image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by real... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127839 - Image creation device, image creation method, and image creation program: A captured image of an object is input twice using a white background and a black background, after which the opacity D and the color image X of the object are obtained to yield an object image. It is possible to easily create a high-quality real image.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070127841 - Image processing for correcting defects of read image: An image reading apparatus having a visible light source for emitting visible light, an invisible light source for emitting invisible light, an imaging optical system for irradiating a document by these light sources to form optical images of the document, and a CCD for photoelectrically converting the optical images of... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070127840 - Method for removing streaks from a scanned image: A method for removing streaks from a scanned image includes performing a scanner light source OFF scan to generate a dark image having M rows of pixels and N+W columns of pixels; generating a line noise profile for the N columns of pixels of the dark image; performing a scanner... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070127844 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and data configuration: An image processing apparatus includes a first eyes-and-mouth detecting unit to detect eye boundaries and a mouth boundary from a first face image; a second eyes-and-mouth detecting unit to detect eye boundaries and a mouth boundary from a second face image; a first skin model generating unit to generate a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070127843 - Method of detecting feature images: It is an object of the present invention to detect an image correction method from corrected images, in order to grasp a correction method of a correctly corrected images as a guideline for correction of a harmful image, and to present an image correction proposal to which a correction method... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070127842 - Sample picture data processing method and sample inspection system and method: A sample inspection system and method for displaying images of plural sample layers and a predetermined planar region within an image having a very large imaging region. Line sensors generate sample picture data for the plurality of sample layers, a computer stores the generated sample picture data, allows a planar... Agent: Adams & Wilks

20070127845 - Multi-phase registration of 2-d x-ray images to 3-d volume studies: A method for registering 2-D radiographic images to 3-D volume studies includes generating digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs) from a 3-D volume study. The DRR's are used as reference images to register a patient's position during image-guided radiosurgery. Stereoscopic X-rays of the patient are acquired during treatment, and multi-phase registration is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070127846 - Apparatus and method for sub-picture processing by performing at least scaling and pixel data encoding: A system for performing scaling on a sub-picture is disclosed. The system includes: a pixel data decoding module, for receiving encoded pixel data of the sub-picture and decoding the encoded pixel data to generate pixel data of the sub-picture; a scaling module, for receiving the pixel data of the sub-picture,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070127847 - Image processing apparatus: An image forming apparatus, which prevents the occurrence of displacement of the positions of pixels between image data items forming a synthetic image, and eliminates distortion of a character and color shift in character regions and non-character regions, the distorted character and color shift being caused when displaying and printing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127848 - Apparatus, system and method for mapping information: An apparatus, system and method for mapping information. The apparatus for mapping information includes an information input unit providing image information and position-view information in a specified area, a three-dimensional model database storing three-dimensional model data of a structure within the specified area and generating a two-dimensional image from the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP