Image analysis inventions 07/07

20070172095 - Apparatus, method, and program product for detecting digital watermark: A digital watermark detection apparatus detects a watermark value from a motion image in which a topological invariant is embedded as the watermark value. The digital watermark detection apparatus includes a watermark component extracting unit which extracts each watermark component from the motion image; an average value computing unit which... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070172096 - Watermarked image generation apparatus, watermarked image analysis apparatus, watermarked image generation method, medium and computer readable medium: A watermarked image generation apparatus embeds target data in an original image to generate a watermarked image. The watermarked image generation apparatus includes a target-data embedding unit and a marker-image embedding unit. The target-data embedding unit embeds the target data in respective plural embedding areas contained in the original image,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070172098 - Apparatus to process images, video and objects: The present invention relates generally to steganographic encoding and/or digital watermarking. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided including: an input to receive imagery or video; a processor to act on received imagery or video, said processor programmed to steganographically embed a first code and a second code in the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070172097 - Methods to evaluate images, video and documents: The present invention relates generally to steganographic encoding and/or digital watermarking. In one embodiment, a method is provided including: obtaining an image or video; encoding a first steganographic component in the image or video, wherein the first steganographic component comprises a first set of properties that are designed to be... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070172094 - Watermarking method and apparatus: The invention provides a method and apparatus for watermarking a document, the method comprising: associating the document with an identification number; generating (70) a first set of numbers using a seed for the number generation comprising or derived from the identification number; applying a transform (62) to at least a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070172099 - Scalable face recognition method and apparatus based on complementary features of face image: A scalable face recognition method and apparatus using complementary features. The scalable face recognition apparatus includes a multi-analysis unit which analyzes a plurality of features of an input face image using a plurality of feature analysis techniques separately, compares the features of the input face image with a plurality of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070172101 - Superposition for visualization of three-dimensional data acquisition: The systems and methods disclosed herein employ superposition of two-dimensional video and a rendered, three-dimensional image to provide visual feedback during acquisition and analysis of three-dimensional data. These systems and methods may be usefully employed in a context such as dentistry to assist in the acquisition of highly detailed and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070172100 - Automated system of processing biological specimens and method: An automated laboratory slide management and interpretation system and method in which slides are stained and then digitally imaged and the images are interpreted prior to referral to a diagnostician or placement in storage. The interpretation of the images involves the application of pattern recognition principles to compare the digitized... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook C/o Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20070172102 - Imaging apparatus and method for the operation thereof: An imaging apparatus has an examination space in which a region of an examination subject to be examined can be positioned as well as an optical image acquisition sensor, which is provided to acquire a surface of the examination subject in the examination space and which is linked with an... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070172104 - Image display apparatus and x-ray ct apparatus: The present invention aims to realize an improvement in image quality of a two-dimensional display extracted from a three-dimensional display image such as continuous tomographic images which tomographic images at a conventional scan or the like of an X-ray CT apparatus having a two-dimensional X-ray area detector of a matrix... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (20459) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070172103 - Image diagnosis supporting system and method: An image diagnosis supporting system comprising a means for reading in image data representative of the image of a subject acquired by a medical imaging apparatus, a means for detecting an abnormal shadow candidate satisfying at least one of a plurality of criteria for abnormal shadow criteria from the image... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070172105 - System and method for local pulmonary structure classification for computer-aided nodule detection: A method for classifying pulmonary structures in digitized images includes providing approximate target structure locations of one or more target structures in a digitized 3-dimensional (3D) image, fitting an anisotropic Gaussian model about said approximate target locations to generate more precise 3D target models and center locations of said one... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070172106 - System and method for intelligent currency validation: Currency is validated by comparing identifying information extracted from the currency, such as a serial number associated with the currency, to identifying information in a list corresponding to invalid currency, such as counterfeit currency. If the extracted identifying information matches identifying information on the list, the currency is deemed invalid.... Agent: Michael Bednarek Pillsbury Winthropshaw Pittman LLP

20070172107 - Automated check processing system with check imaging and accounting: A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the image scanner... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Jenkens & Gilchrist

20070172108 - Method and apparatus for identifying micr characters: A method and apparatus for reading MICR characters is disclosed, in which both magnetic and optical data are read and stored. Each type of data is analyzed to identify possible character values and a confidence level associated with each identified value. The result of the analysis for each type of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070172109 - Method and apparatus for identifying micr characters: A method and apparatus for reading MICR characters is disclosed, in which both magnetic and optical data are read and stored. The magnetic and optical data are then normalized and combined to form a combined data set which is compared to templates representing combined magnetic imaging and optical imaging of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070172110 - Method and apparatus for identifying micr characters: A method and apparatus for reading MICR characters is disclosed, in which both magnetic and optical data may be read and stored. Each type of data is analyzed to identify possible character values. In one disclosed analysis method, the data is first evaluated in a coarse analysis then analyzed using... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070172111 - Inspection apparatus of object to be inspected: It is to inspect an object to be inspected according to inspection image data of the object and previously obtained reference data, take in specified image data corresponding to at least one specified area on the object in parallel with the inspection of the object, and store the above data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070172112 - Visual feedback of 3d scan parameters: The systems and methods disclosed herein provide visual feedback concerning one or more scanning parameters to a user during acquisition of a three dimensional scan.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070172113 - Effective pigment identification method, identification system, identification program, and recording medium therefor: a fourth step of identifying the target effective pigment, based on the image characteristic parameters of the target effective pigment extracted in the third step, using a pre-prepared database that stores information on various kinds of effective pigments in such a manner as to correlate with the image characteristic parameters... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070172114 - Fusing multimodal biometrics with quality estimates via a bayesian belief network: A Bayesian belief network-based architecture for multimodal biometric fusion is disclosed. Bayesian networks are a theoretically sound, probabilistic framework for information fusion. The architecture incorporates prior knowledge of each modality's capabilities, quality estimates for each sample, and relationships or dependencies between these variables. A global quality estimate is introduced to... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20070172119 - Color enhancement technique using skin color detection: A method for enhancing the color of an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The image is filtered using a spatial filter in such a manner that the lower... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20070172117 - Method and apparatus for scaling down a bayer domain image: In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided. The method, comprises scaling down a Bayer domain image made up of a number of 2×2 basic units, each having a Red (R) pixel, a Blue (B) pixel, and two green (G) pixels arranged in a fixed configuration and replicated... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20070172118 - Method for reducing enhancement of artifacts and noise in image color enhancement: A method for enhancing the color of an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The image is filtered using a spatial filter in such a manner that the lower... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20070172116 - Painting process color analysis: A method and implementing computer system are provided for enabling a user to determine a starting glaze color for fired tiles in processes where there is a color change from a starting glaze color to a finished or fired tile color. In an exemplary embodiment, a tile painting application is... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20070172115 - Painting process color compensator: A method and implementing computer system are provided for enabling a user to paint a surface a desired final color while using a paint, the color of which appears in raw form different from the desired final color for the painted surface. In an exemplary embodiment, a tile painting application... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20070172120 - Compression of images for computer graphics: A method for encoding an image having color components of each image pixel represented by a value of a high dynamic range, the method comprising: decomposing the image into a plurality of image blocks; separating, from the high dynamic range value of each pixel, color information and intensity information of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070172121 - Image processing method, recording medium with recorded image processing program and image processing apparatus: An image processing method for carrying out predetermined correction processing with respect to one or more items regarding the quality of color images and the image processing method comprises a judgment step for judging the necessity/nonnecessity of correction with respect to each of the above-mentioned items and a correction processing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070172123 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus captures a target image containing marker images and a recognition target range identified by a marker-image set including at least parts of the marker images. The image processing apparatus includes an image capturing section, a first detection section, a position estimation section and a second detection... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070172122 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes an image capturing section, a marker-image defecting section, a judging section and an output section. The image capturing section captures at least a part of a target image, which includes a plurality of marker images and a recognition target range defined by the plurality of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070172124 - Modified levenshtein distance algorithm for coding: Methods and systems of mapping of an optical character recognition (OCR) text string to a code included in a coding dictionary by supplementing the Levenshtein Distance Algorithm (LDA) with additional information in the form of adjustments based on particular character substitutions, insertions and deletions together with weighting based on multiple... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070172125 - Methods and apparatuses for extending dynamic handwriting recognition to recognize static handwritten and machine generated text: A method for recognizing a character string on a static document is disclosed. The character string is extracted from the static document. The character string is converted into a representative character string graph. The common embedded isomorphic graphs are extracted from the representative character string graph. Each of the common... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070172126 - Face detection method, device and program: To detect faces contained in an image with changing position, inclination and orientation of a face to be detected, an indicator value for each position, inclination and orientation is calculated, which indicates probability of a partial image at the position being a face image having the inclination and the orientation.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070172127 - Pose estimation method and apparatus: A three-dimensional image data is formulated and saved in a memory for indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object and reflectivity or color at every point of the object. For each of multiple pose candidates, an image space is created for representing brightness values of a set of two-dimensional images... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070172128 - Line segment detector and line segment detecting method: A line segment detector comprises a vertical line detecting part, a horizontal line detecting part, a left-to-right downward slanting line detecting part, a left-to-right upward slanting line detecting part, and a line-segment detecting/synthesizing section that calculates OR operation of output values from the vertical line detecting part, the horizontal line... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070172129 - Method of registration in a contraband detection system: A multi-level contraband detection system. At a first level, the system obtains volumetric information about an item under inspection. The volumetric information provides a basis for identifying suspect objects in the item under inspection and their locations. The location information is expressed in a first coordinate system relative to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070172130 - Structural description of a document, a method of describing the structure of graphical objects and methods of object recognition.: The invention deals with the processing of machine-readable forms of non-fixed format. It comprises the structural description of characteristics of a document elements, a method of describing the logical structure of a document, methods of searching for elements of a document with the use of the structural description. A structural... Agent: Attn. Sergey Platonov Abbyy Software Ltd.

20070172131 - Content selecting method and content selecting apparatus: A content selecting method allows a target content to be selected as desired from a plurality of contents. The method includes transforming a three-dimensional image into a content selection image made up of a two-dimensional image viewed from a predetermined point of view, the three-dimensional image including content indicators each... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070172132 - Pictographic recognition technology applied to distinctive characteristics of handwritten arabic text: A method for recognizing handwritten Arabic character strings is disclosed. The handwritten Arabic character string is extracted. The handwritten Arabic character string is converted into a representative character string graph. Common embedded isomorphic graphs of the representative character string graph are extracted. A character string match is identified from each... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070172134 - Device for controlling data storage and/or data reconstruction and method thereof: A data storage controlling device including: a data dividing section for dividing target data made by a set of elements, each element being expressed in multiple values, into groups of partial data made by a set of elements, each element being expressed in two values, or dividing target data made... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070172133 - System and method for encoding and decoding an image using bitstream map and recording medium thereof: Disclosed are a system and method for encoding and decoding an image. The image compression system includes an image segmentation unit (110) for segmenting a first image into a plurality of sub-images; a first encoding unit (120) for encoding the sub-images to output sub-image bitstreams; a BMAP construction unit (130)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070172135 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for image processing, sensor processing, and other signal processing using general parametric families of distributions: Methods and systems are disclosed for signal processing. A method includes receiving a plurality of digitized coefficients determining a best-fit distribution of a general family of distributions for the plurality of digitized coefficients, and providing a characterization of the digitized coefficients based upon the determined best-fit distribution. The system includes... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070172136 - Moving image decoder: When a quantized DCT coefficient and a quantization parameter are input from an entropy decoder, a controller outputs them to a switch and gives a load detector an instruction to detect system load. The load detector requests system load information from OS. If the system load is light, the load... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070172137 - Image processing apparatus capable of accurately and quickly determining character part included in image: An image processing apparatus separates in a scanned image a text area from a graphic area primarily including a graphic form or a graph. For the text area, neighboring black pixels are connected to perform character determination in a unit of a rectangle obtained by connecting the black pixels. For... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070172138 - Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding apparatus and image decoding method: A coded bit stream generated on a coding side consists of a VO header, a VOL header, a GOV header, a VOP header and VOP data, and the VOL header multiplexes an object intra-coded indicator signal indicating whether all the VOP data contained in a VOL or GOV are intra... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070172139 - Method and apparatus for image processing with color constancy: Fractal decompression and the Retinex algorithm are combined to produce a color constancy method. By using this approach, color constancy and image compression can be achieved simultaneously.... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20070172141 - Image conversion device, image conversion method, and recording medium: An image conversion device according to an example of the invention comprises a blur estimating unit which estimates a blur state of input image data, a blur changing unit which changes the blur state estimated by the blur estimating unit into an arbitrary blur state, and an image constructing unit... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070172140 - Selective enhancement of digital images: A method for image processing of a digital image is described comprising applying an image processing filter (17) as a function of the correspondence between each pixel in the image and a first target image characteristic (12) and a second target image characteristic (13). In a further embodiment, a method... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20070172142 - Image processing circuit and method thereof: An image processing circuit for processing at least one jagged edge in an image represented by an input video signal. The image processing circuit includes: a detection module for detecting an edge by labeling a specific portion within input data carried by the input video signal to indicate whether the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070172143 - Security system and method for operating it: The invention relates to a security system 100, having a camera 3 for taking pictures of objects. From chronologically successive pictures taken by the camera 3, a gray variance [variant term] of the pixels is derived, which is compared with a threshold value that is dependent on the gray value.... Agent: Striker Striker & Stenby

20070172145 - Method and apparatus for adjusting the contrast of an image: A method and apparatus for adjusting the contrast of an image, in which each pixel in the image has an initial brightness level that is within a range of brightness levels between a minimum brightness level and a maximum brightness level. For each brightness level within the range, the number... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070172144 - Video noise reduction: A video clip is processed by selecting a plurality of video frames of the video clip. A plurality of the pixels of the selected video frames are modified to form modified video frames. The modification to each of the plurality of the pixels is based on the intensity of the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070172146 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image-information acquiring unit acquires image information. A component separating unit separates the image information acquired into luminance information and color information. A luminance-component-noise removing unit removes noise from the luminance information using a first noise removing method. A color-component-noise removing unit removes noise from the color information using a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070172147 - Image processing apparatus, road image plotting method, and computer-readable recording medium for plotting a road image: An image processing apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional map on a display is disclosed that includes an extracting part for extracting data corresponding to a part of a road covered behind a three-dimensional building by referring to depth information of a target plotting road and a target plotting building, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070172148 - Method of image analysis using sparse hough transform: A digital image includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array. In a method of analyzing the image, some of the pixels are purposefully not processed. In particular, only those pixels in a particular subgroup are processed according to a Hough or similar transform. The number of pixels in... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070172149 - System and method for boundary artifact elimination in parallel processing of large format images: The disclosed systems and methods pertain to the processing of large format images in a manner to avoid introducing imaging defects, and more particularly to dividing the large image into bands, processing these bands in parallel and then putting them back together in to create the final processed image. The... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070172150 - Hand jitter reduction compensating for rotational motion: The registration of images comprising segmenting an image in a frame into a set of sectors which forms a circle. Generating a plurality of sets of projections in a base frame, wherein each set of projections is generated from any sector amongst the set of sectors from the base frame.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070172151 - Method and apparatus for composing a panoramic photograph: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for guiding a camera user to take an appropriate set of component photographs to be stitched into a stitched panoramic photograph of a scene. In one example embodiment, the camera constructs and displays a video mosaic while the user sweeps the field of view of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070172153 - Directional interpolation method and video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using the directional interpolation method: A directional interpolation method and a video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using the directional interpolation method. The directional interpolation method includes selecting one of a plurality of directional interpolation modes for a predetermined-size block based on the characteristics of input image data, performing directional interpolation on the predetermined-size block based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070172152 - Method and apparatus for adjusting the resolution of a digital image: A method and apparatus is disclosed for obtaining interpolation filters for use in a method or apparatus for enhancing the spatial resolution of a digital image. In the method or apparatus for enhancing the spatial resolution, input pixels from a low resolution image are classified and interpolated using the interpolation... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070172154 - Data medium discrimination information database creating apparatus, data medium discrimination information database managing apparatus, computer readable recording medium recorded thereon data medium discrimination information database creating program, a: An apparatus has a temporary registration unit which extracts candidate information, which can be data medium discrimination information, about a data medium from image data, relates it to the data medium, and register them in a registration candidate database when the data medium discrimination information about the data medium is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070172155 - Photo automatic linking system and method for accessing, linking, and visualizing \"key-face\" and/or multiple similar facial images along with associated electronic data via a facial image recognition search engine: The present invention provides a system and method for input of images containing faces for accessing, linking, and or visualizing multiple similar facial images and associated electronic data for innovative new on-line commercialization, medical and training uses. The system uses various image capturing devices and communication devices to capture images... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20070172156 - Optical information detecting method and optical information detector: There is provided an optical information detecting method comprising: detecting an image of a source data page containing a frame mask by the use of an optical detection region within respective 1:N (where N is greater than 1) excessive detection pixels; monitoring a light intensity of the detected image and... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070165903 - Bragg diffracting security markers: A method of marking an article with a watermark that diffracts radiation according to Bragg's law is disclosed. The watermark includes a periodic array of particles fixed in a matrix. The watermark may change colors with viewing angle, disappear and reappear with viewing angle or may diffract non-visible radiation that... Agent: Ppg Industries, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070165905 - File system for a stage lighting array system: A file system for a stage lighting system that maintains the different files associated with the stage lighting system. Each of the files that can represent an effect are maintained within the system within a configuration file. The configuration file can be updated on each start of the system so... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070165904 - System and method for using individualized mixed document: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070165907 - Accelerometer utilizing image-based movement tracking: An accelerometer captures multiple frames of image information and uses the image information to generate acceleration data related to an object. In particular, multiple image frames are used to determine relative movement between a target and an image collection system. The relative movement between the target and the image collection... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070165906 - Fast fourier transform correlation tracking algorithm with background correction: This is done by first transforming the first and third terms into the frequency domain, where the first term, the background correction term, can be computed much more efficiently in real-time by using the 2-dimension sinc function. Multiplications and additions necessary to carry out the computations in the frequency domain... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070165910 - Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, method, and program: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, method, and program capable of reducing a possibility of overlap between a detection object and a background object in a standard image when detecting objects around the vehicle from images obtained by a plurality of image sensors so as to detect the objects accurately. The... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070165908 - Method and device for video-based observation and measurement of the lateral environment of a vehicle: The first commercially-available driver assist systems required a compromise between the resolution of the scanning and the extent of the scanned region, according to application. Conventional video-based systems have a good compromise between resolution and recording range, however do not generally provide direct distance information. According to the new arrangement... Agent: Stephan A. Pendorf, P.A.

20070165909 - Method for adjusting the orientation of a camera installed in a vehicle and system for carrying out this method: A method for adjusting an orientation of a camera installed on a vehicle, comprising the following operations: installing the vehicle at a location provided with markings on the ground, detecting these markings, estimating a vanishing point based on these markings, and matching the vanishing point with a positioning point by... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070165911 - Method and system for biometric authentication: A method for authentication by biometric data, including receiving a biometric data set; evaluating if the received biometric data set is within a reference region, wherein the reference region represents a region associated with a reference biometric data set; evaluating if the received biometric data set is within a blackout... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070165912 - Method for transmitting data between different computers: Transmitting data between different computers includes selecting data stores in a first computer with a stylus, generating a transmission identification code corresponding to the data selected, transmitting the transmission identification code generated from the first computer to the stylus, transmitting the transmission identification code from the stylus to a second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165913 - Fingerprint detecting method: The claimed invention discloses a fingerprint detecting method. Firstly, providing an object, sliding the object on the image capturing area, and making the image capturing area sequentially producing a plurality of first images to the image processor in a measure period. The image processor sequentially compares overlaps of each first... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070165914 - Systems and methods relating to afis recognition, extraction, and 3-d analysis strategies: Systems, methods, etc., that that assist a print examiner to thoroughly search and compare a print or substantial portion thereof against a known print database contained within an AFIS system. In certain embodiments, the prints can be definitively matched to a corresponding same print in the database. A result of... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070165924 - Computer aided disease detection system for multiple organ systems: A computer aided disease detection system and method for multiple organ systems. The method performs computer aided examination of digital medical images. A patient exam type of a digital medical image is determined. Based on the patient exam type, one or more of a plurality of knowledge based anatomical segmentation... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070165929 - Medical image modification to simulate characteristics: A system of compensating a medical image to make it look like it came from either a different camera or from using a different dye or stain. The medical image is obtained and then processed using characteristics of the non-image related parts of the image. These non-image related parts can... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070165927 - Automated methods for pre-selection of voxels and implementation of pharmacokinetic and parametric analysis for dynamic contrast enhanced mri and ct: A method, system and computer-readable medium of filtering noise pixels and other extraneous data, including saturated fat tissue and air data in image data is provided. Examples of image data may include but are not limited to magnetic resonance imaging data and computed tomography data. The method includes receiving pixel... Agent: Peter I. Bernstein Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070165916 - Automatic multi-dimensional intravascular ultrasound image segmentation method: The present invention generally relates to intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image segmentation methods, and is more specifically concerned with an intravascular ultrasound image segmentation method for characterizing blood vessel vascular layers. The proposed image segmentation method for estimating boundaries of layers in a multi-layered vessel provides image data which represent a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070165920 - Computer-aided detection system utilizing temporal analysis as a precursor to spatial analysis: A computer-aided detection system for evaluating tissue based on a series of timed images acquired both before and after a contrast agent is administered performs a temporal analysis of the tissue and then a spatial analysis in which the tissue is categorized. After the temporal and spatial analysis is performed,... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070165926 - Data processing system for compartmental analysis: The invention relates to a data processing system (1) for the evaluation of image data, particularly of PET-images (I), that represent the time varying concentration of a tracer substance like F-MISO in an object (20). The data processing system (1) comprises a library module (48) with analytical solutions (Cj(t)) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165917 - Fully automatic vessel tree segmentation: A system including a memory to store image data corresponding to a three dimensional (3D) reconstructed image, and a processor that includes an automatic vessel tree extraction module. The automatic vessel tree extraction module includes a load data module to access the stored image data, a component identification module to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070165931 - Human being detection apparatus, method of detecting human being, and human being detecting program: A human being detection apparatus includes a moving object detecting part for detecting a target region from the picture image as a region of the moving object and a target distance as a distance to the moving object, a head region setting part for setting the head region corresponding to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070165932 - Image processing device and image processing method in image processing device: A plurality of images inputted in an image signal input portion are divided into a plurality of regions by an image dividing portion, and a feature value in each of the plurality of regions is calculated by a feature value calculation portion and divided into a plurality of subsets by... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070165925 - Image processing system and method of enhancing the quality of an ultrasound image: The present invention relates to an image processing system for enhancing the image quality of an ultrasound image. The image processing system may include: an image data forming unit for forming image data based on image signals acquired from a target object; a log-compression unit for log-compressing the image data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165928 - Lumen tracking in computed tomographic images: A lumen tracking method and system automatically extracts a colon from CT image data by locating landmarks in the image data, based on known anatomic features or other predictable features. If the colon is segmented, the method and system may use the landmarks to evaluate candidate segments for inclusion in... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070165930 - Method and medical imaging apparatus for adjusting operating and evaluation parameters of the apparatus: In a method and medical imaging apparatus for adjustment of operating and evaluation parameters of the imaging apparatus, a scan protocol to be used for operation of the imaging apparatus is selected, the scan protocol being adapted to a volume to be examined, and, (dependent on the selection of the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070165922 - Method and system for creating three-dimensional images using tomosynthetic computed tomography: A system for constructing image slices through a selected object, the system comprising an identifiable fiducial reference in a fixed position relative to the selected object, wherein the fiducial reference comprises at least two identifiable reference markers. A source of radiation is provided for irradiating the selected object and the... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20070165915 - Method and system for displaying confidence intervals for source reconstruction: The present invention involves the creation of an appropriate model and the use of that model to generate a best fit dipole represented by a vector (x, y, z). Once the best fit dipole is generated, a best fit field distribution and a field distribution of a modified dipole is... Agent: John F Klos Fulbright & Jaworski

20070165921 - Method for enhancing diagnostic images using vessel reconstruction: A method for improving a thoracic diagnostic image for the detection of nodules. Non-lung regions are removed from the diagnostic image to provide a lung image. Vessels and vessel junctions of the lung(s) in the lung image are enhanced according to a first-order partial derivative of each of a plurality... Agent: Mark D. Swanson Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070165933 - Method for pre-fetching digital image data: A method is disclosed for pre-fetching one or more images associated with a patient study for review by an operator of a diagnostic work station. The method includes the steps of the operator selecting a work list, the work list including a plurality of patient studies pending review by the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165918 - Methods and systems for ultrasound inspection: Methods and systems for measuring indications in an image are provided. The method includes acquiring image data that includes a potential indication, processing the data such that features of the indication are enhanced, thresholding the data such that the indication is separated from the remaining data, determining a size of... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070165919 - Multi-planar reformating using a three-point tool: In a method and system for displaying a medical image, a user defines three points in an anatomy of interest at different locations. A plane is then automatically generated from the three points.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070165923 - System and method for the joint evaluation of multi phase mr marrow images: A method for jointly evaluating multi-phase magnetic resonance bone marrow images includes receiving a plurality of magnetic resonance (MR) image sequences of bones acquired using different protocols, each sequence comprising a plurality of images, each image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 2-dimensional... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070165934 - Device and method for correcting defects in x-ray images: The invention relates to a method for correcting defects in X-ray images in which potentially defective picture elements (p) are identified in X-ray images (I), which are created during normal operation, by comparing the value (W(p)) of said picture elements with corresponding values in a neighborhood (n(p)). If a picture... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165935 - Methods and systems for transmitting digital images: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for communicating a recipient-selected customization of a digital image using an index file. The index file associates a customization characteristic with the segments of the digital image required to construct a customized image that exhibits the customization characteristic.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070165936 - Image checking device, image checking method, and image checking program: A correlation value image is generated from an input image and a template image, and separated into a positive correlation value image and a negative correlation value image. The template image is separated into a positive template image and a negative template image. A plurality of positive-negative-separated correlation images are... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070165937 - System and method for dynamic vm settings: A deployable template structure is described. In an embodiment, the deployable template structure includes sections for virtual machines deployable, filters, and component configuration settings. Parameters for the virtual machine section are broken down into three groups: memory, system, and additional.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070165938 - Pattern inspection apparatus and method and workpiece tested thereby: A pattern inspection apparatus capable of finding temporary emphatic portions in the process of transfer-and-development simulation of the image of a workpiece being tested is disclosed. This apparatus includes a first storage unit for retaining therein the pattern of an image captured from a workpiece under testing, a simulator for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165940 - Semiconductor surface inspection apparatus, surface inspection method, and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus: A semiconductor surface inspection apparatus 20, for detecting a defect existing on a surface of a sample, based on an image captured of the surface of the sample to which prescribed processing is applied in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus 1, comprises: a defect detection unit 28 which detects a defect... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070165939 - Reduction of false alarms in pcb inspection: A method for automatically optically inspecting an electrical circuit, comprising: acquiring at least one optical image of an electrical circuit; generating at least one first inspection image from the at least one image and determining regions of candidate defects therefrom; generating at least one additional inspection image for regions surrounding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165941 - Surface defect inspector and method of inspecting surface defect: Wrinkles on polymer film as surface defect are inspected. The film is transported on an inspecting surface having a color for absorbing light. A dot pattern having dots on a transparent test chart sheet, facing the film, is photographed by image pickup upon reflection of the dot pattern on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165942 - Method for rectifying stereoscopic display systems: A method for rectifying misalignment in a stereoscopic display system (140) comprises: providing a pair of input images to an image processor (120); creating an image source displacement map for the pair of input images; obtaining a display displacement map (150); and applying the image source displacement map and the... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070165943 - System and method for image registration using nonparametric priors and statistical learning techniques: A method for image registration includes receiving first and second image information. A library of joint intensity distributions, spanning a space of non-parametric statistical priors, derived from earlier perfect matching results is received. From among this library, a preferred learned joint intensity distribution is automatically selected during the registration process.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070165944 - Figure reading apparatus, method and program: A figure reading apparatus capable of increasing the processing rate while maintaining the recognition precision, includes an image input apparatus for inputting a color image and a data processing apparatus for conducting processing on the input color image. The figure reading apparatus has a main color extraction function of extracting... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070165946 - Method and apparatus for improving quality of images using complementary hues: A method and apparatus for enhancing the quality of images using complementary color contrast are provided. The method includes (a) extracting color information of each of a plurality of pixels of an input image, (b) determining whether the input image includes both a first pixel belonging to a first group... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165945 - Method and apparatus for white balancing digital images: At least one illuminant white point estimate is determined in a color space having radially defined saturation based on a reference image. A chromatic adaptation correction vector (CACV) is determined based on the at least one illuminant white point estimate. Corrected pixels are obtained by applying the CACV (preferably in... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070165947 - Image processing method and system using gain controllable clipped histogram equalization: An image processing method and system using gain-controllable clipped histogram equalization, in which the image processing method includes the steps of as obtaining a brightness histogram, computing a mean brightness of an image signal, determining a clipping rate based on the mean brightness, determining a clipping threshold based on the... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070165949 - Banded graph cut segmentation algorithms with laplacian pyramids: A process for segmenting an object of interest from background, comprising: obtaining a master, high-resolution image of an object disposed within a background; applying a first band graph cut process to the master image generating a second image with the object being segmented from the background to a first approximation;... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070165948 - Mesh models with internal discrete elements: An image processing system having image data processing means of segmentation of an object of interest using an unstructured deformable mesh model composed of surface (TJ) and internal (THJ) discrete elements, and further means of refining said mesh model by automatically dynamically adapting the size of the internal discrete elements... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165950 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: Image data is classified to identify the type of the image data using a feature amount of the image data calculated based on the layout (rough spatial arrangement and distribution of texts and photographs or pictures). Based on the result, a region extraction method that is associated with the type... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070165951 - Face detection method, device and program: To detect a face image in an inputted image, predetermined-size partial images are cut out at different positions in the inputted image. An indicator value indicating a probability of each partial image being the face image is calculated. The partial images having the indicator values not less than a first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165953 - Edge area determining apparatus and edge area determining method: An edge area determining apparatus for a still image includes a pixel edge determining part for determining a pixel edge area of a current frame and a pixel edge area of a previous frame in the unit of pixel, a block edge determining part for dividing each of the current... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165952 - Region extraction method and device: A region-extraction method for extracting a contour of a desired region is provided. The method includes: a step (a) for displaying an image; a step (b) for selecting a desired region in the image; a step (c) for selecting an element graphic corresponding at least a partial contour in a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070165954 - Hybrid image and movie imaging system and method: The present application relates to a method and system for storing higher resolution images during capture and storage of a movie comprising lower resolution images.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070165955 - Processing of images in imaging systems: The imaging system converts raw data for an image to formatted data concurrently with compressing the formatted data for the image. The exemplary imaging system includes an image processor for generating blocks of formatted data from raw image data. The exemplary imaging system also includes an image compressor for compressing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165956 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for compression, digital watermarking, and other digital signal processing for audio and/or video applications: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for performing digital signal processing. According to one embodiment, the digital signal processing may include obtaining a first set of digitized coefficients from source data and determining a best-fit distribution of a generalized Gaussian distribution for the set of digitized coefficients. The... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070165957 - Motion estimation with video mode detection: The invention relates to a method for providing a motion parameter set and/or a picture repetition pattern from an input video signal, in particular for de-interlacing a video signal with using a candidate motion parameter set weighted with a picture repetition pattern value for calculating a motion compensated pixel from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165958 - Method for compressing/decompressing video information: The invention relates to a method for compressing video information in a video sequence (It, It+1). According to the invention, this method comprises the steps of: . segmenting a first video frame (Bt) into segments (St,i); . for each segment (S t,i) of the video frame (Bt): —searching, in a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165959 - 2-dimensional signal encoding/decoding method and device: An image is divided into subbands by wavelet transform using the Haar function as the base, and the lowest-frequency LL subband is entirely encoded. LH, HL, and HH subband coefficients which belong to the wavelet decomposition level of each hierarchy are then encoded such that coefficients at the same spatial... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070165961 - Method and apparatus for reducing motion blur in an image: A method of reducing motion blur in a motion blurred image comprises blurring a guess image based on the motion blurred image as a function of blur parameters of the motion blurred image. The blurred guess image is compared with the motion blurred image and an error image is generated.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070165960 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and computer program: To efficiently execute correction of pixel values of a motion-presence area of captured image data. In correction processing for pixel values of a particular area such as a motion-presence area, initial values of the differences or ratios between white balance adjusted image data and flash image data are set, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070165962 - Method and apparatus for bilateral high pass filter: A target pixel and surrounding pixels corresponding to the target pixel are obtained from a digitally represented image. A bilateral high pass filtering kernel is determined based at least in part upon the target pixel and the surrounding pixels. A high pass spatial filtering kernel is provided and multiplied with... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070165963 - Shading noise filter: A shading correction is employed for a scanner to correct shading distortion. However, an image corrected with the shading corrective curve has shading noise lines due to the effects of various factors in the producing process of the shading corrective curve. The characteristic of the shading noise is that the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070165964 - De-emphasis of user-selected portions in a video display: A machine (e.g., a computer) is used to generate a video display for a display device. A user interactively causes the machine to apply a de-emphasis effect to user-selected portions of the video display. The de-emphasis effect may be used to reduce visual distraction caused by those portions.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070165965 - Image processing method and portable commucation device: An image processing method suitable for an electronic device to receive a first image is provided. A controlling signal is received to generate a mask image. According to the controlling signal, the first image and the mask image are combined to generate a second image, wherein a portion of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070165966 - Closed form method and system for matting a foreground object in an image having a background: In a method and system for matting a foreground object F having an opacity α constrained by associating a characteristic with selected pixels in an image having a background B, weights are determined for all edges of neighboring pixels for the image and used to build a Laplacian matrix L.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070165967 - Object detector: An object detector detects an object with a camera and calculates position data showing its direction and distance. A laser radar obtains an front image and recognizes an identified image in the front image. Coordinates of this identified image are calculated and converted to data indicating direction to the object.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070165968 - Image editing system and image editing program: An image editor is provided with a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, an LCD panel, an operating section, a memory card reader and an HDD. The HDD stores a landmark database and a contents database. Before writing data of an image in a memory card, position data indicating a camera... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070165969 - Image processing device and image processing control method: An image processing device for curbing memory expansion and reducing costs while securing programming freedom by a small programmable data processing unit. A plurality of process programs and process parameters thereof, to be sequentially executed in a data processing unit, are stored beforehand in a data memory. In the data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160262 - Score fusion method and apparatus: A score fusion method and apparatus. The score fusion method includes receiving a plurality of scores respectively obtained by a plurality of classifiers, and fusing the received scores using a likelihood ratio. The score fusion apparatus includes a fusion unit which receives a plurality of scores respectively obtained by a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160260 - Method of scale factor retrieval: There is provided a method of scale factor retrieval in a system (10) for processing image or video programme content. The method includes steps of: (a) receiving the programme content including watermark information embedded therein; (b) subjecting the programme content to spatial correlation processes to determine a plurality of correlation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160259 - Pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program: A pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program capable of increasing the accuracy in computing the false acceptance probability and capable of ensuring a stable security strength are provided. Pattern recognition systems 10 and 10a comprise a first probability computation unit 32, and a second probability computation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070160261 - Watermark detection by correlation shape analysis: A watermark detector (100) detects a watermark in an information signal. The information signal is correlated with an expected watermark (Wi) for each of a plurality of relative positions of the information signal with respect to the watermark to derive a set of correlation results (64). The correlation results (64)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160264 - Biometric authentication apparatus, biometric authentication system and biometric data management method: Disclosed is an information processing device including a biometric authentication apparatus, including: an operation unit receiving an instruction from a user; a biometric reading unit reading biometric data; a verification data storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of verification data for verifying against the biometric data; a control unit... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070160263 - Biometric information input apparatus: The biometric information input apparatus comprises a fingerprint sensor which detects biometric information, and moisture absorbing units and which are arranged adjacent to the fingerprint sensor and absorb moisture. The moisture absorbing units and have a groove structure which generates a capillary phenomenon. The fingerprint sensor is of the sweep... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160265 - Iris image pickup camera and iris authentication system: An imaging optical system 110 of an iris image pickup camera 100 has a common light axis in a region where an iris as an object is situated, and has first and second branch light axes branched from the common light axes. The imaging optical system 110 further has focusing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070160266 - Method for extracting features of irises in images using difference of sum filters: A method for extracting features of an iris in an image is described. An unwrapped iris image is converted to an integral image by summations of pixel intensities. A novel bank of difference of sum filters is used to filter the integral image. The filtered output is binarized to produce... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070160267 - Method for localizing irises in images using gradients and textures: A method for extracting an iris from an image is presented. Edges of an iris are detected in an image. Texture from the image is acquired. The edges and texture are combined to generate an inner boundary and an outer boundary of the iris. Also, to improve the accuracy of... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070160268 - Image evaluation device, method and program: More accurate image evaluation is achieved by using information about faces contained in images. An information acquiring unit acquires, from an image containing at least one face, information about the size and the position of the at least one face. An evaluation value calculating unit calculates an evaluation value representing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070160269 - Electrical switch device with feature identification and method: An electrical switch device with feature identification and a method are applied for an electronic apparatus having a first power supply module. The electrical switch device comprises a switch, a feature identification module and a second power supply module. The second power supply module supplies power to the feature identification... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20070160270 - Analysing biological entities: A method of analysing a plurality of biological entities using an imaging apparatus. The method comprises: providing a marker for said plurality of biological entities, said marker being capable of identifying objects within said plurality of biological entities when detected using the imaging apparatus, the method of provision being arranged... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20070160276 - Cross-time inspection method for medical image diagnosis: A cross-time inspection method for medical image diagnosis. A first set of medical images of a subject is accessed wherein the first set is captured at a first time period. A second set of medical images of the subject is accessed, wherein the second set is captured at a second... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070160273 - Device, system and method for modifying two dimensional data of a body part: A method, system and set of instructions for acquiring a three dimensional image of a first part of a blood vessel that is free of contrast material; acquiring a two dimensional image of a part of the blood vessel, that is highlighted by contrast material; producing from the three dimensional... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070160278 - Edge ringing artifact suppression methods and apparatuses: In some embodiments, the present invention relates to methods or suppressing edge ringing in images. For example, in some embodiments a method of processing an image to suppress ringing and broadened edges induced by image correction processing, includes high-pass filtering a first image to obtain a second image, processing said... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070160271 - Facilitating comparison of medical images: Facilitating viewer comparison of a plurality of medical images of at least one body part on a softcopy review workstation is described. First and second medical images are displayed such that the second medical image appears as a spatially registered underlay to the first medical image exposed through an aperture... Agent: Brian J. Daiuto

20070160275 - Medical image retrieval: Methods and systems for medical imaging are described. One implementation of the system includes an image acquisition subsystem configured to acquire medical images, an image analysis subsystem configured to analyze each acquired medical image and associate one or more descriptors with each acquired medical image based on the analysis, a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070160277 - System and method for segmentation of anatomical structures in mri volumes using graph cuts: A system and method for segmentation of anatomical structures in MRI volumes using graph cuts is disclosed. In this method, a template is registered to an MRI brain volume. The template identifies seed points of anatomical brain structures, such as the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem, in the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070160274 - System and method for segmenting structures in a series of images: A method and system of defining a boundary of a part of a blood vessel in an image captured by an ex vivo imager, where such part of the blood vessel is free from contrast material.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070160272 - Tumor region setting method and system: A tumor region setting method and system capable of simply and accurately setting a tumor region. A processor extracts contour data of a tumor region from a PET image read out of a medical image server and converts the extracted contour data to vector line data. A monitor displays the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070160279 - Hyperspectral microscope for in vivo imaging of microstructures and cells in tissues: An optical hyperspectral/multimodal imaging method and apparatus is utilized to provide high signal sensitivity for implementation of various optical imaging approaches. Such a system utilizes long working distance microscope objectives so as to enable off-axis illumination of predetermined tissue thereby allowing for excitation at any optical wavelength, simplifies design, reduces... Agent: Michael C. Staggs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

20070160280 - Method for processing a material by means of a laser irradiation and control system: The present invention relates to a method for processing a material, as well as to a control system which is suitable for controlling a corresponding device in such a way that it carries out the method essentially automatically. The material lies on a carrier (3) and is cut by irradiation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070160281 - Method and apparatus for detection of failures in a wafer using transforms and cluster signature analysis: Detecting spatial failures in a wafer can be performed quickly and accurately by using transformations and cluster signature analysis. For this technique, a system can receive failure coordinates for the wafer, wherein each failure coordinate indicates a spatial failure. A failure array can be generated based on a resolution of... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070160283 - System and method for inspecting workpieces having microscopic features: Apparatus for high resolution processing of a generally planar workpiece having microscopic features to be imaged, comprising a video camera acquiring at least two candidate images of a microscopic portion on generally planar workpiece; a motion controller operative to effect motion, relative to the workpiece, of at least an optical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160282 - Method and apparatus for finding anomalies in finished parts and/or assemblies: A method for non-destructive examination of parts includes producing a 3-D image of a sample of a part, extracting a point cloud of the image of the sample of the part, and registering the point cloud to a CAD coordinate system. The method further includes determining points in the point... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070160284 - Method for creating single 3d surface model from a point cloud: A single surface representation is created from a cloud of points. Each point in the cloud of points is assigned three-dimensional spatial coordinates. The cloud of points is stored in a memory of a computer. Machine-executable instructions are provided for the computer that operate on the cloud of points. The... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Alder, Cohen & Grigsby

20070160285 - Method and apparatus for associating image enhancement with color: Provided is a method and apparatus of processing an image using filters. The method and apparatus receives an input pixel and a pixel array associated with the image, identifies a color of the pixel array to facilitate processing the input pixel and the pixel array associated with the image and... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070160286 - Dynamically adjusting and predicting image segmentation threshold: A method of dynamically adjusting and predicting a segmentation threshold is provided. The method comprises calculating a threshold factor, calculating an actual average image pixel intensity for an entire image frame, and predicting a future average image pixel intensity for future time t, wherein the predicted future average image pixel... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070160287 - Data compression apparatus and data compression program storage medium: A data compression apparatus has: first difference creating section that creates first difference data including a succession of numerical values representing differences between adjacent numerical values on numerical values constituting the color data; second difference creating section that creates second difference data including a succession of numerical values representing a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160288 - Randomly sub-sampled partition voting (rsvp) algorithm for scene change detection: A system and method for scene change detection in a video sequence employing a randomly sub-sampled partition voting (RSPV) algorithm is provided. In the video sequence, a current frame is divided into a number of partitions. Each partition is randomly sub-sampled and a histogram of the pixel intensity values is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070160289 - Video segmentation using statistical pixel modeling: A method for segmenting video data into foreground and background portions utilizes statistical modeling of the pixels. A statistical model of the background is built for each pixel, and each pixel in an incoming video frame is compared with the background statistical model for that pixel. Pixels are determined to... Agent: Venable LLP

20070160290 - Text flow in and around irregular containers: Providing text flow in or around an irregular container, such as a non-rectangular graphic, is disclosed. In the case of flow around a container, the intersection, if any, between a proposed text rectangle and the irregular container is determined. A valid rectangle, if any, that is not within the bounds... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070160293 - Head detecting apparatus, head detecting method, and head detecting program: A head detecting apparatus, including a foreground extraction section for extracting a foreground region in which a person is captured from an input image; a first main axis computing section which includes a first moment computing section for computing a moment around a center of gravity of the foreground region... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070160292 - Method of inputting chinese characters: A Chinese character input method includes defining corners of a character, wherein the corners and sequence of input includes an upper left corner; an upper right corner, a lower left corner and a lower right corner, determining shapes of each of the corners of the character based on extension of... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20070160291 - Video image type determination system, video image processing system, video image processing method and video image processing program: A video image processing system, which determines a type of a video image scene and processes the video image based on a processing method corresponding to the type of the video image scene, is provided. A landmark feature variable obtaining section calculates the landmark feature variable on the basis of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070160294 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, including extraction means, parameter retaining means, context retaining means, and decision means. The extraction means is configured to extract a characteristic amount of a region in which a recognition object may possibly be included from within an image of a processing object.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070160295 - Method and apparatus of extracting text from document image with complex background, computer program and storage medium thereof: The present invention discloses an apparatus of extracting text from document image with complex background, a method of extracting text from document image with complex background, computer program and storage medium thereof. The preferred method of extracting text from document image with complex background according to the present invention comprising... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070160296 - Face recognition method and apparatus: A face recognition method and apparatus. The face recognition apparatus includes a Gabor filter unit which obtains a plurality of response values by applying a plurality of Gabor filters having different properties to a plurality of fiducial points extracted from an input face image, a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160297 - Modifying data: Embodiments of modifying data are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070160298 - Image encoder, image decoder, image encoding method, and image decoding method: The present invention provides a technique capable performing encoding with a high image quality and a low bit rate. An image encoder according to the present inventions includes: an image separation unit for separating a skeleton image and a texture image from an inputted image; a skeleton image encoding unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070160302 - Method of encoding flag, method of decoding flag, and apparatus thereof: A method of encoding flags, a method of decoding flags and an apparatus thereof, in which flag encoding and decoding can be efficiently performed by using spatial correlation between various flags included a plurality of blocks are provided. The method includes collecting flag values respectively allocated to groups of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160304 - Enhancement of compressed images: A method and apparatus for enhancing compressed images is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises characterizing quantization noise in reconstructed low pass coefficients generated in response to application of an inverse wavelet transform and removing the quantization noise from the reconstructed low pass coefficients constructed during decoding.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070160303 - Geometrical image representation and compression: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for geometrical image representation and/or compression. In one embodiment, the method comprises creating a representation for image data that includes determining a geometric flow for image data and performing an image processing operation on data in the representation using the geometric flow.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070160301 - Method and apparatus for spatial compression scheme: The present invention provides a method for compressing the video stream with the spatial stratification, firstly, encoding said video stream after drop-sampling to obtain a base stream; then, decoding and rise-sampling said base stream to obtain a reconstructed stream; subtracting the reconstructed stream from said video stream to obtain a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160299 - Moving image coding apparatus, moving image decoding apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: This invention provides a technique of preventing errors from being gradually accumulated on the decoding side, while maintaining high scalability, even when a technique for transformation to subbands as a plurality of frequency components, like discrete wavelet transformation, is used for moving image coding. The image data of one input... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070160300 - Spatial scalable compression scheme with a dead zone: An apparatus is disclosed for performing spatial scalable compression of video information captured in a plurality of frames including an encoder for encoding and outputting the captured video frames into a compressed data stream, comprising a base layer comprising an encoded bitstream having a relatively low resolution, a high resolution... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160305 - Efficient bit-exact lossless image coding residual system: A system and method for bit-exact lossless compression coding of still and moving images. An original image is encoded to produce a lossy compressed image, and is also used to construct a sorted list of bin values to which the lossy image is compared to generate output from which the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070160306 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding graphic data: A graphic data encoding method and apparatus generating a bitstream by encoding a header having at least one piece of first information determined in consideration of a predetermined graphic profile from among multiple pieces of encodable first information; and encoding a payload having at least one piece of second information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160307 - Modification of viewing parameters for digital images using face detection information: A method of modifying the viewing parameters of digital images using face detection for achieving a desired spatial parameters based on one or more sub-groups of pixels that correspond to one or more facial features of the face. Such methods may be used for animating still images, automating and streamlining... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070160308 - Difference of sum filters for texture classification: A method for filtering pixels is described. Filters including adjacent regions of pixels are defined and operators are associated with the regions. The operators are summation and subtraction operators. The filters have even and odd symmetry about a central axis. A total intensity value according to the application of the... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070160309 - Method for inpainting of images: Methods for filling in of missing or damaged regions of images using information from surrounding areas are disclosed. A model for binary inpainting based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation is used, which allows for fast, efficient inpainting of degraded text, as well as super-resolution of high contrast images.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070160310 - Apparatus and method for image configuring: Using image data on a plurality of reduced object images to calculate a shift amount in regard to the gap of relative positions between the reduced object images by a correlation calculation between the reduced object images. A conversion equation is obtained from the shift amount for geometric projection process... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070160311 - System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode: A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software program may then produce a cohesive combined panorama image from the... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20070160312 - Apparatus and method for registering images of a structured object: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for registering a first image (A1) with a second stored image (A2) of an object such as the chest (2) of a patient. The images (A1, A2) may, for instance, have been produced by an X-ray CT system (1) and be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070154065 - Apparatus and method for generating a transmit frame: An apparatus for generating a transmit frame from an information signal, the information signal comprising a first information frame and a second information frame, comprises a provider for providing a first reconstruction distortion value indicating a reconstruction distortion when replacing the first information frame by a replacement frame, and for... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070154062 - Apparatus and method for optically surveying and/or examining a welding componentry: Apparatus for optically surveying and/or examining a welding componentry, in particular a vehicle axle or instrument panel, includes a measuring space for accommodating a plurality of cameras for taking images of the welding componentry. The images are combined and evaluated in an evaluation unit. Disposed in the measuring space is... Agent: Henry M. Feiereisen Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20070154061 - Curve fitting for synchronizing readers of hidden auxiliary data: A curve fitting method is used to synchronize a reader of embedded data in a media signal. A circular reference signal is embedded in the media signal. After geometric distortion of the media signal, the reference signal is distorted, yet still detectable. The amount of distortion is derived by detecting... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070154060 - Digital imaging device having watermarking capability: A digital imaging device includes an image sensor for sensing an image of an object; an image data processor for encoding image data contained in a digital signal of the object sensed by the image sensor, into a digital image of the object; and a watermark generating unit for generating... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (tsmc)

20070154063 - Image processing using rear view mirror-mounted imaging device: Vehicle including a system for obtaining information about objects exterior of the vehicle includes a rear view mirror arranged proximate a windshield of the vehicle, an imaging device arranged on the mirror and having a field of view extending forward through the windshield, and a processor coupled to the imaging... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20070154064 - Watermarking compressed data: A method of embedding auxiliary data in coefficients generated for a compressed data stream applies embedding rules to selected coefficients in different blocks to embed the data. The method receives coefficients in a data stream in which the coefficients are divided into blocks. It changes the value of selected coefficients... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070154067 - Method and apparatus for identifying objects depicted in a videostream: The present invention relates to an apparatus for rapidly analyzing frame(s) of digitized video data which may include objects of interest randomly distributed throughout the video data and wherein said objects are susceptible to detection, classification, and ultimately identification by filtering said video data for certain differentiable characteristics of said... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070154066 - Object tracking systems and methods: An object tracking method may include: receiving frames of data containing image information of an object; performing an object segmentation to obtain an object motion result; and using the object motion result to conduct an object tracking. In particular, the object segmentation may include: extracting motion vectors from the frames... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070154068 - Estimating distance to an object using a sequence of images recorded by a monocular camera: In a computerized system including a camera mounted in a moving vehicle. The camera acquires consecutively in real time image frames including images of an object within the field of view of the camera. Range to the object from the moving vehicle is determined in real time. A dimension, e.g.... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070154069 - Displacement estimation device and method for the same: A displacement estimation device includes a vector calculator and a displacement calculator, for use in estimating a displacement vector from a pattern in a first original image to a pattern in a second original image. The vector calculator calculates a parameter for each pixel in the first original image and... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070154070 - Image processing apparatus, image signal generation method, information recording medium, and image processing program: By using input image signals of a plurality of frames, the motions of prescribed areas within an image based on the input image signals are detected, and then a layering is performed. An image signal of a peripheral image which occurs at the same time as an objective frame in... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070154071 - Signature verification: Methods and systems for training a computer to recognize and verify an individual's signature are provided. One illustrative method extracts a plurality of both global and local features from a relatively small sample of handwriting samples. In one such embodiment, only 5 samples are needed from an individual without requiring... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070154072 - Image normalization for computed image construction: Image normalization examines the pixels of two frames, most commonly sequentially obtained sub-images, and mathematically determines the displacement of those pixels from the first frame to the second based on pixel data. The pixel data is obtained from a scanning device, and may be for example grayscale value. The image... Agent: Jonathan A. Small JasIPConsulting

20070154073 - Swipe imager with multiple sensing arrays: A biometric sensing device includes sensing arrays for sensing a biological surface swiped across the sensing arrays in an arbitrary direction. This device allows for simultaneously sensing different features of a biological surface, said features having smallest distinguishable features of different size. Using the technique of interleaving partial images, the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070154074 - Mobile fingerprint scanner and docking station: A system including a mobile or portable fingerprint scanner and one or more docking stations adapted to operatively receive the scanner. The scanner can be hand carried to various locations for obtaining fingerprint images and other information such as images from bar code scanning. The scanner is battery operated and... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070154076 - Data processing method and data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus comprising a display device for displaying the data; the first recording device for recording the large volume bit map data; the second recording device recording an index data formed as a two-dimensional image obtained by rendering the large volume bit map data; the first data processing... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070154075 - Image processing method and computer readable medium for image processing: A preview image is operated and an original image is opened based on the operation result of the preview image. For example, a heart is rotated from side to side on a preview screen, and the heart is displayed at a certain rotation angle and a certain magnifying scale power... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070154077 - Method of measuring a biomagnetic field, method of analyzing a measured biomagnetic field, method of displaying biomagnetic field data, and an apparatus therefor: A display method for a magnetic field measuring apparatus which includes detecting a magnetic field generated from a biotest sample by a plurality of magnetic sensors and displaying measurement data obtained on the basis of the detected magnetic field in any display mode, which further comprises displaying an operating information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070154079 - Media validation: A banknote validator which classes media items into three or more classes is described. Information from all of a set of training images from genuine media items is used to form one or more segmentation maps which are then used to segment each of the training set images. Features are... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070154078 - Processing images of media items before validation: Automatic media item validation is typically problematic in the case of media items that are damaged or marked. A method of processing images of media items before automatic validation which addresses this problem is described. Aberrant image elements are identified, for example, using a bandpass filter. The aberrant image elements... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070154080 - Determing capability of an on-line sensor: Devices, systems and methods for determining capabilities of an on-line sensor are disclosed. The exemplary method may comprise the following acts. The method may generate an image of a sample texture with known characteristics. The method may transfer the image to an on-line sensor. The method may also analyze data... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070154081 - Automatic optical inspection system & method: A system comprising automatic apparatus for automatic optical inspection (AOI), verification and correction of defects in an article, and a processor operative to select between AOI, verification and correction for performing on the article.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070154082 - Use of ray tracing for generating images for auto-stereo displays: Methods and apparatus for generating composite images for displays are provided. For some embodiments, ray tracing algorithms may be utilized to efficiently generate a composite image corresponding to multiple views. Because ray tracing is done on a per pixel basis, it is possible to generate pixel values for only those... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070154084 - Apparatus and method for editing optimized color preference: An apparatus and method for editing an optimized color preference are provided. The apparatus includes a color information controlling unit which extracts data about a preference by comparing color information of a transformed image generated by transforming color information of an original image and the original image according to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070154083 - Editing of digital images, including (but not limited to) highlighting and shadowing of image areas: In a digital image having pixels pi (i=1,2, . . . ) and a brightness B(pi) at each pixel pi, the global dynamic range of an image is changed by replacing the brightness B(pi) with the brightness B*(pi)=B(pi)×(B0/Bavg(pi))ε, where B0 and ε are predefined constants, and Bavg(pi) is some average... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070154085 - Image forming apparatus having function of adjusting color of image and printing method thereof: An image forming apparatus comprising a function for adjusting a color of an image and a printing method thereof are provided, in which an information reading unit extracts information corresponding to a lens of an imaging device from additional information corresponding to an image captured by the imaging device, an... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070154086 - Method and device for adjusting image color in image projector: Disclosed are methods and devices for adjusting an image color in an image projector. In one aspect, the method for adjusting an image color in an image projector, includes the steps of obtaining information on an external image projection environment to determine color conversion information for adjusting the color of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070154087 - Image encoding and/or decoding system, medium, and method: An image encoding/decoding system, medium, and method. The image encoding system includes a residue production unit arranged to produce first residues corresponding to differences between color components of a current image and color components of a predicted image, a unit arranged to perform spatial transform and quantization with respect to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070154088 - Robust perceptual color identification: Systems and methods of robust perceptual color identification are disclosed. The methods include a multilevel analysis for determining the robust perceptual color of an object based on observed colors. This multilevel analysis can include a pixel level, a frame level, and/or a sequence level. The determination may make use of... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070154089 - Method and apparatus for calculating image histogram with configurable granularity: An apparatus and method for calculating histograms with configurable granularity. Histogram values of a histogram for an M-bit image with different requirements are calculated using a histogram calculation circuit including N cumulative calculation devices with boundary values configurable in one or more iterations, where N is smaller than 2M. In... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070154090 - System and method for using pattern vectors for video and image coding and decoding: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method of using pattern vectors for image coding and decoding. The method comprises converting a block of image data into a set of transform coefficients, quantizing the transform coefficients such that a number of the coefficients become zero, constructing a single... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070154091 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program and storage medium therefor: In an image processing apparatus, a histogram calculation unit calculates a histogram that is consonant with an input image, a binary threshold value calculation unit calculates a binary threshold value, based on the histogram, with which a predetermined area in the input image is blurred, and a binarizing unit binarizes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070154092 - Code reader performing coded image decoding using non-dedicated decode processor: A coded image capture and decoding system includes an image capture unit and a host unit which operate to capture image data, generate a plurality of coded images, and, thereafter, to decode the plurality of coded images with a non-dedicated host processing circuitry. The system comprises an image capture unit... Agent: John H. Sherman, Legal Dept. Intermec Technologies Corporation

20070154093 - Techniques for generating information using a remote control: Techniques to generate information using a remote control are described. An apparatus may comprise a user interface module to receive movement information representing handwriting from a remote control, and to perform handwriting recognition operations using the movement information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070154094 - Handwriting recognition training and synthesis: Methods and systems for converting text into natural personal handwriting are provided. One aspect relates to the training of a computer to recognize a user's handwriting style. In one embodiment, the computer receives handwriting samples of at least one character written by the user, such as the character being provided... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070154095 - Face detection on mobile devices: A method for detecting a facial area on a color image includes (a) placing a search window on the color image, (b) determining if a center pixel of the search window is a skin color pixel, indicating that the search window is a possible facial area candidate, (c) applying a... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070154096 - Facial feature detection on mobile devices: Locating an eye includes generating an intensity response map by applying a 3-rectangle filter and applying K-mean clustering to the map to determine the eye. Locating an eye corner includes applying logarithm transform and grayscale stretching to generate a grayscale eye patch, generating a binary map of the patch by... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070154097 - Method and apparatus for image edge detection: An image edge detection method includes: classifying a plurality of candidate directions of an image region into a first direction set and at least one second direction set; computing a gradient for each candidate direction of the first direction set to obtain a first gradient set; determining if the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070154098 - Automated processing of paper forms using remotely-stored templates: A computer-implemented method for processing paper forms includes accepting a filled-in paper form conforming to a template at a computer system having a local memory, wherein the template is not stored in the local memory. Identification information is extracted from the filled-in paper form using the computer system. The identification... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070154099 - Detecting improved quality counterfeit media: A method of creating a classifier for media validation is described. Information from all of a set of training images from genuine media items is used to form a segmentation map which is then used to segment each of the training set images. Features are extracted from the segments and... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070154100 - Object classification in video images: A combination of inter-frame and intra-frame and sequential classification methods provide for robust and flexible object classification. Intra-frame classification determines the object type based on features extracted from a single image. Inter-frame classification determines object types based on the features extracted from several sequential frames. A sequential classification combines the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070154102 - Image decompression system, method and program: Encoded data obtained by high-efficiency sequential encoding after an orthogonal transformation of image blocks each having a specified number of pixels are used. Preceding image decompression processing is performed on DC encoded data among the encoded data in a DC decompression processing section constituted by a DC decoding section 11A,... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070154101 - Method and device for processing video data by using specific border coding: Response fidelity problems appear for some specific video levels at PDP borders. The reason is that some cells at the border of the PDP panel are not completely closed and pollute when switched ON neighbouring cells being OFF. Therefore, it is suggested to encode the video levels in the border... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070154103 - Enhanced block-based motion estimation algorithms for video compression: Method, systems and software are proposed for obtaining for blocks of a first image similar blocks of a second image (the “reference image”). The blocks of the first image are processed sequentially, for each block trying out a number of candidate locations in the second image and evaluating a cost... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070154104 - Methods and apparatus for video decoding: Techniques for performing the processing of blocks of video in multiple stages. Each stage is executed for blocks of data in the frame that need to go through that stage, based on the coding type, before moving to the next stage. This order of execution allows blocks of data to... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20070154105 - Image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding program, and image decoding program: Image encoding apparatus 10 according to the present invention is an image encoding apparatus 10 for dividing image signals into blocks, performing an orthogonal transform of each block, reading resultant orthogonal transform coefficients to obtain a coefficient string, and performing entropy coding, which has block selector 14 for selecting a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070154106 - Efficient halftone image compression: An image compression algorithm (10) and complementary decompression algorithm (20) are disclosed. The compression algorithm (10) maintains a set of reference points (610, 611, 612 and 613), each reference point having a predetermined spatial relationship with a current pixel (600). An adjustment along scanlines of the reference points is determined.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070154107 - Adaptive video enhancement gain control: An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to determine frequency of occurrence information for a range of gray levels from luminance data of an input signal. The second circuit may be configured to selectively adjust enhancement for at least one portion... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070154108 - System and method for filtering and binarization of images in the presence of specular noise: In order to render information contained in images more detectable in the presence of noise, the present invention discloses a system and method to binarize the images in the presence of noise. The method of this invention comprises the steps of applying a dynamic range reducing filter to the digitized... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20070154109 - Method and apparatus for flare cancellation for image contrast restoration: A system and method for flare cancellation and image contrast restoration. The method includes generating a histogram of pixel response values of pixels of an image and generating an adjustment signal having a luminance adjustment value responsive to said histogram; and adjusting the pixel response values of pixels of said... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070154110 - Non-photorealistic sketching: A non-photorealistic technique is described for transforming an original image into a sketch image. The technique includes: segmenting the original image into plural regions to produce a segmented image, wherein the regions are demarcated by respective boundaries; shrinking a boundary of at least one of the plural regions in the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070154111 - Image display system, image registration terminal device and image reading terminal device used in the image display system: An image display system which improves the ease of use provided to an operator when an alteration is detected in image data that is to be displayed. An electronic watermark detecting section and forwarding request section are appended to a personal computer connected to a disk cache storing image data.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070154112 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus generates binary image data by performing binarization processing on input image data and generates edge image data by performing edge extraction processing to the input image data. The image processing apparatus acquires a first area identification result by performing area identification processing on the generated binary... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070154113 - System and method for image measuring: A method for image measuring is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a workpiece on an image measuring instrument (20) connected to a computer (10); receiving a coordinate position of a zoom lens (220) on the image measuring instrument; compensating errors of the coordinate position; adjust the focal... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070154114 - Mixing 2-d gradient-difference and interpolation/decimation method and device for scaling a digital image: A method of image processing for transforming an input image with a first resolution into an output image with a second resolution is provided. The input image is defined with a plurality of input pixels, and the output image is defined with a plurality of output pixels. The method includes... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070154115 - Apparatus and method for managing images of mobile terminal: An apparatus for managing images of a mobile terminal includes: a storage unit for storing a plurality of images; and a control unit for creating a script for a particular image according to a user instruction, and linking a second image stored in the storage unit or in an external... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070154116 - Video-based handwriting input method and apparatus: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus, as well as a computer recording medium for handwriting input. The invention is implemented by capturing images including raw strokes with a digital camera and receiving writing sounds with a microphone, when a user writes on a writing surface with a stylus having... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law