Image analysis inventions 08/07

20070201721 - Apparatus and method for embedding searchable information into a file for transmission, storage and retrieval: Forensic communication apparatus and method. An apparatus is disclosed for recording image or other data in real time. The apparatus includes a capture device for capturing the image or other information. Once captured, a local verification device is operable to indelibly mark the captured image or other information with a... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070201720 - Authenticating signals and identification and security documents: The application discloses signals and identification and security documents and methods and systems for authenticating such. In one implementation, a financial instrument or identification document is provided with an organic light emitting diode (OLED) array. The OLED array displays information thereon. The information is preferably correlated to the information on... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070201723 - Document capturing device, document filing system, and electronic document certificating system: An image processing apparatus that has at least one of a scanning function, a printing function, a copying function, and a facsimile function, and is connected via a communication channel to a server storing image data includes: a memory storing image information printed on or scanned from a paper sheet;... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070201722 - Image processing methods using reversible watermarking: The ability to remove a watermark from an encoded image opens the possibility of various novel applications. Several such applications are detailed. One employs a reversible watermark in conjunction with a second (robust) watermark. In this arrangement, the payload of the reversible watermark conveys information about the robust watermark (e.g.,... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070201719 - Print medium quality adjustment system, inspection watermark medium output device for outputting watermark medium to undergo inspection, watermark quality inspection device, adjusted watermark medium output device, print medium quality adjustment method a: To provide a print medium quality adjustment system that enables comprehensive electronic watermark quality evaluation and adjustment without requiring significant labor. An inspection watermark medium output device 11 comprises an inspection watermark signal generation unit 101 that generates a single inspection watermark signal or a plurality of inspection watermark signals,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070201725 - Digital image acquisition control and correction method and apparatus: An unsatisfactory scene is disqualified as an image acquisition control for a camera. An image is acquired. One or more mouth regions are determined. The mouth regions are analyzed to determined whether they are frowning, and if so, then the scene is disqualified as a candidate for a processed, permanent... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070201724 - Method and apparatus for selective disqualification of digital images: An unsatisfactory scene is disqualified as an image acquisition control for a camera. An image is acquired. One or more eye regions are determined. The eye regions are analyzed to determine whether they are blinking, and if so, then the scene is disqualified as a candidate for a processed, permanent... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070201726 - Method and apparatus for selective rejection of digital images: An unsatisfactory scene is disqualified as an image acquisition control for a camera. An image is acquired. One or more regions of facial or other key features are determined in the image. These regions are analyzed to determine whether they are unsatisfactorily blocked or shadowed, and if so, then the... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070201727 - User identification for fitness equipment: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, an user identification system for a fitness trainer is provided. An operating system architecture for the fitness trainer includes a hardware circuit board, a processor in communication with the hardware circuit board, and memory in communication with the hardware circuit board... Agent: Precor Incorporated (c/o) Wilson Sporting Goods Co.)

20070201728 - Rotation compensated iris comparison: A method of comparing a test iris image with a candidate iris image comprises generating test and candidate lists representative of measured image values along respective curves around the pupils. Treating these list as periodic, a relative displacement is calculated at which one list best matches the other list. This... Agent: Schwartz Cooper CharteredIPDepartment

20070201729 - Face feature point detection device and method: A face feature point detecting device according to embodiments includes a unit inputting an image containing a face of a person, a unit detecting a feature point set candidate comprising plural kinds of feature points, and a unit calculating an error between each feature point of the projected feature point... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070201731 - Imaging method and system: Methods for determining affective information are provided as are imaging systems that determine affective information. In accordance with one method, affective signals are obtained containing facial characteristics and physiological characteristics of a person. The facial characteristics are analyzed and the physiological characteristics are analyzed. The emotional state of the person... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070201730 - Television set and authentication device: A television set allowing a small amount of information to be processed to authenticate at least a portion of a face with high precision, is configured as follows: The television set includes a memory, a camera and a CPU. The memory stores feature information in association with a position. The... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070201732 - Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for artificial resolution enhancement in optical systems: In a method for measuring lithographic features on a surface with an optical system, a laser beam is scanned over lithographic features on the surface and the laser beam is reflected or transmitted. An image of the lithographic features is formed by the reflected or transmitted laser beam. The image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070201733 - Fingerprint collation apparatus, fingerprint pattern area extracting apparatus and quality judging apparatus, and method and program of the same: To enable extraction of a specific area (pattern area) that includes a characteristic part of the inherent pattern of individual fingerprint from an inputted fingerprint image of a human being or other creature. The pattern area is extracted as the minimum area that is surrounded by a right pattern area... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070201734 - Automated multicolor fluorescent microscope with scanning and thermostatic ability: An automated multicolor fluorescent microscope of the invention includes thermostatic and thermal cycling capability with a wide temperature range, such as a range between −40 to 110 Celsius degrees, and precision of temperature setting and independency of ambient conditions, wide area of observation, high uniformity of illumination and includes capability... Agent: Joan Pennington

20070201735 - Method and apparatus for the improved automatic detection of salient features in medical image data: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for automatically detecting salient features in medical image data of a body area of a patient. In an embodiment of the method, a number of image data records of the body area that are to be examined for salient features are provided and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070201736 - System and method for vascular border detection: The present invention uses a radio frequency (RF) signal backscattered from vascular tissue to identify a border on a vascular image. Embodiments of the invention operate in accordance with a data gathering device connected to a computing device and a transducer via a catheter. The transducer is used to gather... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP

20070201737 - System and method for vascular visualization using planar reformation of vascular central axis surface with biconvex slab: A method for visualizing a vascular structure includes obtaining an image dataset (step 20), selecting a vascular central axis (VCA) and a vector of interest (VOI) (step 21), forming a plurality of cross sections perpendicular to the vascular central axis, forming a convex hull to enclose each cross section (step... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070201738 - Physical information acquisition method, physical information acquisition device, and semiconductor device: A physical information acquisition device uses a device including a detection unit for detecting electromagnetic waves, and a unit signal generating unit for generating and outputting the corresponding unit signal based on the amount of electromagnetic waves detected by the detection unit for detecting a physical quantity distribution in which... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070201739 - Method and apparatus for reviewing defects: In apparatuses for automatically acquiring and also for automatically classifying images of defects present on a sample such as a semiconductor wafer, a classifying system is provided which are capable of readily accepting even such a case that a large number of classification classes are produced based upon a request... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070201740 - Output image data generating device & method of generating output image data: A CPU 200 selects multiple objective image data GD to be pasted on ornamental image data FD, analyzes the selected multiple objective image data GD, and rates the image qualities of the respective image data GD. The CPU 200 specifies the number of plural layout locations included in the ornamental... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070201741 - System and method for decoding a color image: Described is a system and method for decoding a color image. The method comprises capturing a color image, obtaining a luminance component from the color image and decoding the luminance component.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070201742 - Camera with red-eye correction function: An electronic camera comprises an image generation unit that generates a plurality of images for red-eye detection based upon an image obtained by capturing an image of a subject with an image-capturing elements a setting unit that sets a specific mode among a plurality of modes related to electronic camera... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070201743 - Methods and systems for identifying characteristics in a digital image: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for identification of characteristics of an image.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070201744 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: This invention relates to an image processing method and image processing apparatus for improving the image quality of the boundary part of an image cutout or deletion area. According to this method, an area specified by a user as a cutout or deletion target area is slightly reduced or enlarged... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070201745 - Image-based captcha generation system: In a system and method for the generation of attack-resistant, user-friendly, image-based CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), controlled distortions are applied to randomly chosen images and presented to a user for annotation from a given list of words. An image is presented that contains... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070201746 - Scene change detector algorithm in image sequence: A scene change detector algorithm in image sequence is disclosed, in which a two-stage detecting process is applied to perceive a scene change in a precise and safe way. The algorithm includes classifying images into two different states, a transition state and a stationary state, after determining whether there is... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070201747 - Object detection apparatus: An object detection apparatus according to an aspect of the invention which detects a specific object in an input image includes specific object detection means for performing a specific object detecting process of setting the input image or a reduced image of the input image as a target image, and... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070201748 - Housing and gearbox for drill or driver: A power tool including a motor, an output member and a transmission disposed between the motor and the output member. The transmission includes a ring gear with opposite axial end faces. The power tool also includes a clutch for limiting an output of the transmission. The clutch includes an annular... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070201749 - Image processing device and image processing method: Image processing necessary to calculate the attractiveness of each position (pixel) in the image is performed on an original image inputted from an image input unit (102) by an image processing device for calculating the attractiveness (124), and the attractiveness of each position is calculated by the attractiveness calculating unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070201750 - Image processing method, apparatus, and computer readable recording medium including program therefor: A face portion of an input image, an example of a predetermined structure, is applied to a mathematical model by the image recovery/addition section to recover a missing element of the face portion in the input image. The mathematical model is generated by a predetermined statistical method, such as the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070201751 - Block-based fast image compression: Systems and methods for block-based fast image compression are described. In one aspect, a digital image is segmented into multiple blocks. A respective set of statistical characteristics is identified for each of the segmented blocks. Each of the blocks is encoded with a particular encoding algorithm of multiple encoding algorithms.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070201752 - Compressed data image object feature extraction, ordering, and delivery: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for processing document images. In one embodiment, the method comprises extracting one or more features corresponding to one or more objects from a JPM compressed file, including extracting at least one of the one or more features without decoding, ranking document objects based... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070201753 - Sample sizer for fibrous substances: A device for sizing a sample of a fibrous substance including a first compression chamber with a first longitudinal axis, a first ram disposed in the first compression chamber, a second compression chamber disposed adjacent the first compression chamber, including a second longitudinal axis that is transverse to the first... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070201755 - Interpolation techniques in wavelet transform multimedia coding: This disclosure describes frame interpolation techniques within a wavelet transform coding scheme. The frame interpolation may be used to generate one or more interpolated frames between two successive low frequency frames coded according to the wavelet transform coding scheme. Such interpolation may be useful to increase the frame rate of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201754 - System and method for performing wavelet-based texture feature extraction and classification: A system and method are disclosed for performing wavelet-based local texture feature extraction and classification procedures. Image data is initially provided to include a query image and a series of test images. A feature detector calculates image parameters corresponding to the image data. The image parameters include mean absolute values,... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20070201756 - Image processing apparatus, mobile terminal device and image processing computer readable program: An image processing apparatus includes a gradation quantization processing in a case of performing a region dividing processing in the animation of a moving picture and in an object extraction, in which frequency histograms are created for each frame, a judgment is performed whether a quantization reference value is re-calculated... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070201757 - System and method for optical character recognition in an image: Described is a system and method for optical character recognition in an image. The method comprising identifying a connected component in an image, computing at least one parameter for the connected component and selecting a portion of the image corresponding to the connected component for optical character recognition when the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070201758 - Data processing device that executes retinex processing: When a logarithmic spiral function curve exists at a position specified by variables, a filter coefficient corresponding to the position is obtained through calculation using Gaussian function stored in a Gaussian function memory, and the filter coefficient is stored in a filter coefficient memory in association with the position specified... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070201759 - Digital image processing apparatus and method for the same: A digital image processing method is disclosed, which comprises the steps of: (A) capturing a digital image; (B) selecting at least a target pixel within the digital image according to a predetermined rule; (C) performing a first filtering on a graphic region including the target pixel and its neighboring pixels... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070201760 - Flat-field, panel flattening, and panel connecting methods: A plurality of panels are assembled into a single image. Each of the panels may have different intensities throughout the panel, as well as non-uniformities between panels. The panels are modified using flat-field calibration, panel flattening, and panel connecting techniques. These techniques correct for non-uniformities and provide a cleaner, single... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070201763 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: A computer 21 which is the core of image processing calculates an edginess which is an image variation from a differential value of data for adjacent picture elements in a step SA110, and determines object picture elements by selecting only images with a large variation in steps SA120, SA130. As... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070201762 - Methods and apparatuses for pixel transformations: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and machine readable media for pixel transformations. One exemplary method includes: determining a state of a pixel format transformation, wherein a pixel format includes a predetermined number of pixel data components and a predetermined number of bits for each of the pixel data components and wherein the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070201761 - System and method for image processing: A computer implemented method of processing an image for display on a mobile communication device includes extracting a portion of an image based on an image map. The image map relates to the portion of the image. The method also includes generating a document that comprises the extracted portion of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070201764 - Apparatus and method for detecting key caption from moving picture to provide customized broadcast service: An apparatus for detecting a caption from a moving picture, including: a caption domain detector selecting a candidate frame based on input genre information from an input moving picture and determining expectation caption domains from the selected candidate frame set; a target caption detector selecting target caption candidate domains based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070201765 - Intelligent digital image cropping system: An image processing system allows a customer to upload a digital image in an initial frame size and indicate the desired finished print size. The system then searches for the presence and location of an area of interest in the digital image. Upon finding and determining the location of the... Agent: Dennis B. Danella, Esq. Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20070201766 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: This invention relates to an image processing method and image processing apparatus capable of accurately cutting out a desired target from a displayed image. A polygonal area including a cutout target is specified from a displayed image. It is determined whether or not each side of the specified polygon contacts... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070201767 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and server and control method of the same: An image processing apparatus includes a generating unit for generating a database related to image data acquired by image sensing, a transmitting unit for transmitting image data to a server, a receiving unit for receiving characteristic data of the image data from the server, the characteristic data being based on... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070201769 - Image processing apparatus and method, data recording medium, program recording medium, and program therefor: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value extractor configured to extract a feature value from an image; a setting unit configured to set setting information for applying a process to the image; and a recorder configured to record the setting information in association with the feature value of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201768 - Method and system for acquiring data from machine-readable documents: In a method for acquiring data from a machine-readable document for assignment to fields of a database, individual data are extracted substantially automatically from the document and entered into the corresponding database fields. If data cannot be extracted from the document with a desired degree of reliability for one or... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070195988 - Digital watermark detection method and apparatus: A digital watermark detection apparatus includes an extraction unit extracting a specific frequency component signal from an input image signal, a first transformation unit orthogonal-transforming the image signal, a second transformation unit orthogonal-transforming the specific frequency component signal, a combination unit combining first and second transformed image signals from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195990 - Vision-based seat belt detection system: The invention is a system and method that detects seat belt-related features using an image sensor. Reflective materials are optionally applied onto or embedded into the seat belt webbing, buckle, nest and handle to reflect patterns from infrared illumination to the image sensor. Software compounds these findings to result an... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20070195989 - Biometric information detecting apparatus: The invention relates to a biometric information detecting apparatus for monitoring a state of a living body based on information constituted by adding an auxiliary data capable of determining a measuring state when biometric information is measured to a biometric state value. A biometric information detecting apparatus of the invention... Agent: Bruce L Adams Adams & Wilks

20070195987 - Digital media methods: A consumer who encounters music of interest can operate a portable device to obtain a display of associated meta data (e.g., the title and artist, the artist's concert schedule, etc.) obtained from a remote computer system. The consumer can then initiate an electronic commerce transaction from the device, e.g., ordering... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070195992 - Imaging forming apparatus and copy management system: An additional data useful for the management of copies of a document for an image forming apparatus is embedded in a hard copy of the document. The additional data is embedded in an inherent image of a document as discrete dots arranged in a prescribed format. Preferably, the size of... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070195991 - Methods and systems for steganographic processing: Electronic content data (e.g., audio or visual) can be steganographically encoded for a variety of purposes. In one particular arrangement, content is manipulated by several different parties, each of which inserts different steganographic information. Different portions of the content may be reserved for each party's respective encoding. A great variety... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070195995 - Calculation of the number of images representing an object: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of reference feature data items corresponding to a plurality of objects, the reference feature data items respectively representing predetermined features of the objects, a feature data generating unit that, for each of images, generates a feature data item... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070195996 - Characteristic point detection method, apparatus, and program: A characteristic point detection method, including the steps of: detecting a candidate of each of a plurality of characteristic points of a predetermined object from a detection target image; obtaining an existence probability distribution for a target characteristic point with respect to each of the detected candidates of the other... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195993 - Method for video object segmentation: Disclosed is a method for video object segmentation, which includes the following steps:(a) detecting a changing state between a current frame and a previous frame; (b) categorizing the current frame as a moving region, a still region, a background region and an uncovered background region according to the detecting result... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070195994 - Remote baggage screening system, software and method: A method of advance baggage screening includes steps of transmitting a threat file corresponding to an item under inspection to a processing center, analyzing the threat file according to a detection algorithm at the processing center to determine a screening result for the item under inspection, and transmitting the screening... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070195997 - Tracking and gesture recognition system particularly suited to vehicular control applications: A system and method tracks the movements of a driver or passenger in a vehicle (ground, water, air, or other) and controls devices in accordance with position, motion, and/or body or hand gestures or movements. According to one embodiment, an operator or passenger uses the invention to control comfort or... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070195999 - Biometric remediation of datasets: A method for analyzing a dataset comprising biographic data and biometric data is disclosed. In one step, a biographic record is read that is normally meant for unique description of an individual. A biometric associated with the biographic record is also read. The biometric is correlated with a plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070195998 - Method, system, personal security device and computer program product for cryptographically secured biometric authentication: A system is used for authorizing access to a Personal Security Device. This system comprises a Personal Security Device 75 and another device 105 which is in functional communication with said Personal Security Device. Said Personal Security Device comprises identification information retrieval data and a biometric authentication application 200 which... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070196001 - Face identification device: A face feature value vector extracting section extracts a feature value from a registered image of a registrant to generate a face feature value vector. A virtual face feature value vector generating section converts the face feature value vector using a feature value converter which performs a conversion in a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070196000 - 2d face authentication system: A novel approach to 2D face authentication that is assisted by client specific 3D models is proposed. Each 3D model is acquired during the client enrolment together with the usual client template. Any 3D face model acquisition system may be used for the purpose. The future authentication of client's identity... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070196002 - Fingerprint recognizing display system and operating method thereof: An information device recognizing a fingerprint, the information device having a fingerprint data base storing registered fingerprint data; a fingerprint verifying unit comparing fingerprint data transmitted from an external device to the fingerprint verifying unit; and a kernel of an operating system of the information device permitting access to a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070196003 - Optical finger print input device: An optical fingerprint input device by where a mark identification is attached to one surface of a prism and reflected by light beams coming from an external light source to be incident on a lens such that erroneous recognition caused by a fingerprint afterimage of water, sweat or oil remaining... Agent: John W Wenner Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar

20070196005 - Feature tracing process for m-mode images: A process for tracing an operator selected feature in an M-mode ultrasonic image comprises selecting a pixel of the selected feature within the M-mode image. A reference region is generated about the selected feature pixel and image intensity values are extracted for the reference region. A time point is selected... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070196004 - Method and apparatus for transforming coordinate systems in a telemanipulation system: In a telemanipulation system for manipulating objects located in a workspace at a remote worksite by an operator from an operator's station, such as in a remote surgical system, the remote worksite having a manipulator with an end effector for manipulating an object at the workspace, such as a body... Agent: Patent Dept Intuitive Surgical, Inc

20070196007 - Device systems and methods for imaging: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise determining an image of a predetermined physiological structure of a patient. The image can be determined based upon a first set of image data of the predetermined physiological structure of the patient. The image can be based upon a second set... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070196008 - Method for noise reduction in tomographic image data records: A method is disclosed for noise reduction in 3D volume data records from tomographic recordings. In at least one embodiment, the method includes generating at least two statistically independent equally dimensioned 3D volume data records for the same location and situation. In at least one embodiment of the method, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070196009 - Method for operating an x-ray diagnostic device for the generation of high-resolution images: The invention relates to a method for operating an X-ray diagnostic device with an X-ray source and an X-ray image detector with a sequence of images of low resolution single pictures with systems of coordinates that are different from each other being created, a harmonization of systems of coordinates of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070196006 - Methods and systems for image reconstruction using low noise kernel: Methods and systems for a system for visualizing relatively small structures within an object are provided. The system includes an image acquisition sub-system for acquiring a dataset for a volume of interest and processor for generating image data from the acquired data wherein the processor is programmed to execute a... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20070196010 - Tape and reel inspection system: A tape and reel inspection system is provided with OCR testing of devices, network retrieval of device lot information, and automatic teaching of image patterns. Each device lot is typically accompanied by a travel sheet, which includes a history for the device lot. The travel sheet may include a bar... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070196011 - Integrated vacuum metrology for cluster tool: Aspects of the invention generally provide an apparatus and method for processing substrates using a multi-chamber processing system that is adapted to process substrates and analyze the results of the processes performed on the substrate. In one aspect of the invention, one or more analysis steps and/or pre-processing steps are... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070196012 - Translation engine of defect pattern recognition: The present disclosure provides a system and method for recognizing a defect image associated with a semiconductor substrate. In one example, the method includes collecting defect data of the defect image by testing and measuring the semiconductor substrate, extracting a pattern from the defect data, normalizing a location, orientation, and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070196013 - Automatic classification of photographs and graphics: A method and system for classifying an image as a photograph or a graphic based on a ranked prevalent color histogram feature or a ranked region size feature is provided. The prevalent color histogram feature contains counts of the colors that are most prevalent in the image sorted in descending... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070196014 - Image processing apparatus and method, computer program, and storage medium: In a method for detecting a background-color level in accordance with a selected region, if the selected region does not contain a large amount of background color, the background-color level cannot be detected accurately. Thus, an image signal of a region read by an image reader is input, a part... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070196015 - Table of contents extraction with improved robustness: In a method for identifying a table of contents in a document (10), text fragments are extracted (12) from the document. There are identified (20, 30, 34, 38): (i) a substantially contiguous group of text fragments as table of content entries and (ii) a different group of text fragments as... Agent: Patrick R. Roche, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070196016 - Calibration system for image capture apparatus and method thereof: A calibration system and a method to be used in an image capture apparatus are disclosed. The calibration system includes a calibration appliance, a feature extraction unit and a processor. The calibration appliance has a plurality of mark points. The plurality of mark points is on the same plane to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070196017 - Management information adding method and image forming apparatus: A management information adding method are provided that when one piece of specific image information is detected, can detect from the specific image information the position or direction in which other specific image information is arranged and can improve the detecting speed of the specific image information as a whole.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070196018 - Method of multi-path block matching computing: Disclosed is a multi-path method of block matching computing for image processing, which comprises: determining a searching pattern with a center pixel point and a plurality of surrounding pixel points to perform a block searching operation; computing a plurality of pixel value differences between the center pixel point and the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070196019 - Method, apparatus, and program for judging faces facing specific directions: A partial image is cut out from an input image. A first classifier judges whether the partial image includes a face facing a direction within a first angular range. Another classifier judges whether the partial image includes a face facing a direction within another angular range that partially overlaps with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070196020 - Registering objects: A computer-implemented method for registering objects of interest across a plurality of data acquisition types includes providing image data including the objects of interest corresponding to the plurality of data acquisition types, providing a plurality of constraints on groups which may be determined for the objects of interests determining a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070196021 - System and method for creating synthetic ligatures as quality prototypes for sparse multi-character clusters: A method identifying a ligature within a scanned document, the ligature including two or more touching characters. The two or more touching characters of the ligature are then compared to a plurality of prototypes to identify two or more matched prototypes. A synthetic ligature is then created based on the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070196022 - Device and method for processing at least two input values: For the reduction of the rounding error, a first and a second non-integer input value are provided and combined, for example by addition, in non-integer state to obtain a non-integer result value which is rounded and added to a third input value. Thus, the rounding error may be reduced at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070196023 - Image processing device: On the basis of luminance information extracted by a luminance extraction block 110, a compression conversion rule setting block 120 sets a compression conversion rule to a compression conversion table 130. In accordance with this compression conversion rule, an image compression block 140 compresses original image data and holds the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070196024 - Digital authentication with digital and analog documents: A watermark embedder transforms a media signal from its perceptual domain to frequency domain regions and embeds a hash of data from one frequency domain region into a watermark in another frequency domain region. Alternatively, it encodes instances of the same message into the frequency domain regions. To detect alteration... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070196025 - Fast multiplierless integer invertible transforms: This invention relates to the design and implementation of a large family of fast, efficient, hardware-friendly fixed-point multiplierless inverse discrete cosine transforms (IDCT) and the corresponding forward transform counterparts. All of the proposed structures comprises of butterflies and dyadic-rational lifting steps that can be implemented using only shift-and-add operations. The... Agent: Burns & Levinson LLP

20070196026 - Enhancing compression while transcoding jpeg images: Further compression of data allowing economical storage of data for extended periods of time in high-speed access memory is performed in reduced time by performing further compression during transcoding in the transform domain and without restoring image data to its original image data form. The reduction in processing time is... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070196028 - Multi-purpose digital image editing tools using background processing: A multi-purpose digital editing tool with background processing which permits different enhancements from a single tool, or multiple tools from a single enhancement. The user may exchange enhancements while preserving an applied tool, or exchange the tool while preserving an applied enhancement. The user may select a first area in... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20070196027 - Perceptual image preview: Systems and methods for perceptual image preview are described. In one aspect, a naive preview image is generated by downsampling a larger image. Perceptual features of the larger image are then detected. Information associated with the detected perceptual features is then incorporated into the naive preview image to create a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070196029 - Image processing device, method, and program: An image processing device, method, and program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world by taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing device may include a computer configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070196030 - Degrading 3d information: A method is provided for degrading 3D information such as a 3D image file from its original form so that that the subject matter of the 3D image is altered in a way which prevents one from reverse engineering or manufacturing the subject matter of the 3D image while the... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070196031 - Image noise reduction method based on local correlation: A method for reducing image noise includes calculating a first pixel amount of pixels that are similar to each other in a first number neighbor of a center pixel in a motion window, determining whether the first pixel amount of pixels that are similar to each other in the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070196032 - Compressible earth mover's distance: A Compressible Earth Mover's Distance (CEMD) better matches how humans perceive distance between distributions. Earth and holes are able to be compressed when moving from the earth to the holes thus minimizing the distance and improving the quality of image comparison. CEMD is utilized in a number of implementations, for... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070196033 - Searching and indexing of photos based on ink annotations: New ways to organize and search for digital photos are described. Electronic ink may be written on a photo and associated with the photo or only a portion of the photo. The written ink is recognized and stored as photo file metadata. Once photos and/or photo portions have been annotated... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070196034 - Sensing device: A sensing device for sensing region identity data and generating movement data when the sensing device is moved relative to a region of a surface, the region identity data being indicative of an identity of the region, the movement data being indicative of the movement of the sensing device relative... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070189578 - Computer-implemented method and system for perceptual cryptography in file-sharing environments: A computer-implemented method and system for perceptual cryptography in file-sharing environments are disclosed. The method and system include providing access to a quality-degraded version of a content bit-stream, and providing decryption keys for rendering the content bit-stream without quality degradation.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070189579 - Encoding and decoding data in an image: A graphically based encoded image, symbol or icon that can serve as a link from physical material or visual displays to electronic data to retrieve specific or general information. In one example, a graphic image is encoded with a value that is linked to a reference lookup table. For example,... Agent: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, PC

20070189580 - Systems and methods for guidewire tracking using phase congruency: A method of tracking a guidewire in video imagery includes: obtaining a first video image including pixels associated with features of a guidewire; selecting a set of parameters to define an open curve on the first video image; determining a feature map of the first video image using phase congruency;... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070189581 - Credit card and a secured data activation system: The present invention relates to a credit card comprising a card body, which comprises fingerprint reading means providing fingerprint signals representative of at least one fingerprint from a card user, when at least one finger of said user is pressed against said fingerprint reading means. Said card body further comprises... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070189582 - Approaches and apparatus for eye detection in a digital image: A system for finding and providing images of eyes acceptable for review, recordation, analysis, segmentation, mapping, normalization, feature extraction, encoding, storage, enrollment, indexing, matching, and/or the like. The system may acquire images of the candidates run them through a contrast filter. The images may be ranked and a number of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070189585 - Person identification device and person identification method: A person identification device obtains information including biometric information of a person, detects the biometric information of at least one person from the obtained information, collates each detected biometric information with the biometric information of at least one registrant associated with group information and stored in a storage unit to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070189584 - Specific expression face detection method, and imaging control method, apparatus and program: When detecting an image that includes a face with a specific expression, a face image of a predetermined person with a specific expression is registered in advance, and characteristic points that indicate the contours of face components forming the face in the registered image are extracted. Then, a face image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070189583 - Infrared face authenticating apparatus, and portable terminal and security apparatus including the same: Provided are an infrared (Ir) face authentication apparatus, and a portable terminal and a security apparatus including the Ir face authentication apparatus. The Ir face authentication apparatus includes: a light source irradiating Ir light having a wavelength of 760 nm or higher onto a face; an imaging unit detecting reflected... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070189586 - Finger/palm print image processing system and finger/palm print image processing method: A finger/palm print image processing system includes a frequency component analysis unit (11) and a frequency component judgment unit (12). The frequency component analysis unit (11) performs a frequency analysis for each of the small regions into which the finger/palm print image is divided and acquires frequency components representing the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070189587 - Method and apparatus corresponding to an asperity detection sensor surface: A plurality of contact sensor pixel elements (202) are provided (101) along with a plurality of electrically conductive balls (302, 403). By one approach these balls are each sized at least substantially similar to the contact sensor pixel elements. If desired, by one approach, these balls are provided in a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070189588 - Optical finger print input device for mobile apparatus: An optical fingerprint image input device for a mobile apparatus includes: a plate-shaped fingerprint contact member; a distortion correcting member for correcting distortions; light sources disposed at both sides of the fingerprint contact member, other than an inclined surface or a back light source in a liquid crystal display element;... Agent: John W Renner Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar

20070189594 - Method and apparatus for forming images and image furnishing service system: In a first image forming method, a medical image of an object is inputted, and a normal structure image, which corresponds to the inputted medical image and represents a normal structure of the object, is artificially formed. In a second image forming method, a normal image signal corresponding to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189592 - Method for determination of order numbers of spatial elements associated with spatial points: In order to calculate order numbers of voxels in which the sampling points of a slice are located, a method is proposed. The method, in at least one embodiment, includes calculating the order numbers of the relevant voxels in one pass, and storing these in a cohesive memory area. This... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070189591 - Method of placing constraints on a deformation map and system for implementing same: A system and method of placing constraints on a deformation map. The method includes the acts of generating a deformation map between two images, identifying a defined structure in one of the images, applying the deformation map to relate the defined structure from the one image onto the other image... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070189593 - Precision subtraction computed tomographic angiography: This invention relates to a novel technique for producing images of arteries that overcomes a significant limitation of conventional computed tomographic angiography (CTA). The technique is performed by the acquisition of pre-contrast computed tomography in addition to the conventional computed tomographic angiography and by the digital subtraction of the pre-contrast... Agent: University Of Medicine And Dentistry Of New Jersey Office Of Patents And Licensing

20070189590 - Systems, methods and apparatus of handling structures in three-dimensional images: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, a structure manager explicitly creates a container of graphical objects of anatomical regions by adding a structure, or the structure manager implicitly creates graphical objects of a group of anatomical regions through an organ segmentation process.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070189589 - Systems, methods and apparatus of handling structures in three-dimensional images having multiple modalities and multiple phases: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, a structure manager explicitly creates a container of graphical objects of anatomical regions by adding a structure, or the structure manager implicitly creates graphical objects of a group of anatomical regions through an organ segmentation process.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070189595 - Apparatus and method for checking documents of value: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for checking documents of value having luminescent feature substances. By carrying out the evaluation of the captured luminescence radiation on the basis of an integrated luminescence measuring, which is obtained by integrating the measured luminescence radiation of a track extending transversely... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070189596 - Wafer aligning apparatus and related method: Embodiments of the invention provide a wafer aligning apparatus and a wafer aligning method. In one embodiment, the wafer aligning apparatus comprises an imaging unit adapted to take an image of a wafer being transferred from a load lock chamber to a transfer chamber and adapted to convert the image... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070189597 - Machine vision counting system apparatus and method: A machine-vision-based counter includes an image acquisition component (imager), wherein light provides discrimination between a background field and imageable units located away from the imager. The imager outputs data representing the field and units; an image processor receiving imager data finds countable units therein. An operator interface accepts command inputs... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070189599 - Apparatus, method and medium displaying stereo image: An apparatus, method, and medium displaying a stereo image compensates for errors between a left image and a right image to reduce eye fatigue experienced by a user. The apparatus includes a feature-point extractor to extract feature points of graphics objects included in a left image and a right image,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070189598 - Method of generating positioning coefficients for strip-based satellite image: The present invention provides coefficient for a strip-based image taken by a satellite. By using the coefficient, the absolute error of the image can be made smaller than two pixels. Therefore, the accuracy of the image is high. The present invention can be applied to any pushbroom scaning satellite.... Agent: Troxell Law Offic PLLC

20070189601 - Associative vector storage system supporting fast similarity search based on self-similarity feature extractions across multiple transformed domains: An associative vector storage system has an encoding engine that takes input vectors, and generates transformed coefficients for a tunable number of iterations. Each iteration performs a complete transformation to obtain coefficients, thus performing a process of iterative transformations. The encoding engine selects a subset of coefficients from the coefficients... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070189600 - Method for identifying marked content: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method of identifying marked content is described.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070189602 - System and method for multiple instance learning for computer aided detection: A method of training a classifier for computer aided detection of digitized medical images, includes providing a plurality of bags, each bag containing a plurality of feature samples of a single region-of-interest in a medical image, wherein said features include texture, shape, intensity, and contrast of said region-of-interest, wherein each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070189603 - Raw image processing: A system, a method and computer-readable media for processing raw image data with a graphics processing unit (GPU). Raw image data generated by an imaging sensor is received. A set of instructions for demosaicing the raw image data is communicated to the GPU. The GPU is enabled to demosaic the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070189604 - Method and apparatus for camera shake compensation: The invention provides a method for providing an image, the method includes: exposing a first group of pixels located at a first location to light, during an intermediate exposure period, to provide analog signals representative of the light; and transferring the analog signals to a second group of pixels located... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070189605 - Image forming device, and density control method of the image forming device: An image forming device scans an original document and generates a bi-level image signal. The image forming device obtains a first counted value by counting black pixels included in the bi-level image signal. The image forming device obtains a first generation copy by forming an image on a printing medium... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20070189606 - Automatic detection and correction of non-red eye flash defects: A technique for detecting large and small non-red eye flash defects in an image is disclosed. The method comprises selecting pixels of the image which have a luminance above a threshold value and labeling neighboring selected pixels as luminous regions. A number of geometrical filters are applied to the luminous... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070189607 - System and method for efficient feature dimensionality and orientation estimation: A method of automatically detecting features in an image includes: designing a gradient detection filter and a line detection filter; applying the gradient detection filter and line detection filter to detect structures in an image; and estimating feature dimensionality and orientation of the detected structures in the image. The computation... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070189608 - Method for identifying marked images using statistical moments based at least in part on a jpeg array: Briefly, embodiments of a method of identifying marked images, in which higher order statistical moments based at least in part on a JPEG array are employed, is described... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070189609 - Method, apparatus, and program for discriminating faces: A face discriminating process judges whether a discrimination target image is an image of a face, based on characteristic amounts of the discrimination target image. Gradation conversion of pixel values is administered as a preliminary process, to suppress fluctuations in contrast within the discrimination target image. In the gradation conversion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189610 - Method for classifying a signal: The present invention relates to a method for classifying a signal (S). An intermediate signal (IS) is decimated in order to obtain a processed signal (PS) as a new intermediate signal (IS). A processed signal (PS) is compared with respect to the signal (S) to be classified to thereby generate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189611 - bayesian competitive model integrated with a generative classifier for unspecific person verification: A Bayesian competitive model integrated with a generative classifier for unspecific person verification is described. In one aspect, a competitive measure for verification of an unspecific person is calculated using a discriminative classifier. The discriminative classifier is based on a Bayesian competitive model that is adaptable to unknown new classes.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070189612 - Character recognition device, mobile communication system, mobile terminal device, fixed station device, character recognition method and character recognition program: Words possibly included in a scene image shot by a mobile camera can be efficiently extracted using a word dictionary or a map database. Positional information acquiring means 101 measures a current position of the device to acquire positional information. Directional information acquiring means 102 detects a direction of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189613 - Word search apparatus, word search method, and recording medium: There are provided a word search apparatus, a word search method, and a computer program product. A words dictionary, and a character recognition dictionary for storing coordinate data of a standard character pattern of a handwritten character and a character are used to thereby search for, from the words dictionary,... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070189614 - Method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator: A method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator is described. Aspects of a system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator may include circuitry that enables pipeline processing of video data within a single chip, wherein the pipeline processing... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070189615 - Systems and methods for generating background and foreground images for document compression: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to generate background and foreground images for a document, which enables high-quality and high-ratio document compression. In embodiments, high-accuracy layer processing enables text enhancement, paper color removal, and many other advanced image analysis and processing. Embodiments of the systems support several operation modes... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070189616 - Browsing jpeg images using mpeg hardware chips: Rapid throughput of still image compressed data (e.g. JPEG) is achieved for presentation of images in rapid succession for browsing or browsing by panning within large images by using a hardware decoder adapted for presentation of moving images to reduce the processing load which must be performed in accordance with... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C. (ibm)

20070189617 - Information processing apparatus enabling an efficient parallel processing: A method of processing information, includes: creating threads for respective input data streams, and switching them for processing, the threads each being for applying predetermined processing to an input data stream and storing the resulting intermediate data into a buffer; and reading multiple pieces of the intermediate data from the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070189618 - Method and apparatus for processing sub-blocks of multimedia data in parallel processing systems: An efficient method and device for the parallel processing of sub-blocks of data. A parallel processing array has computing elements configured to process blocks of data of an image in a parallel manner. Blocks of image data are generated, wherein each of the blocks of image data are divided into... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070189619 - Sata primitive prediction and correction: A method of correcting corrupted primitives transmitted between a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) host and a SATA device includes detecting the presence of a corrupted primitive; analyzing a current state, a previously transmitted primitive, or a previously received primitive; selecting at least one candidate primitive according to at least... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070189620 - Pixel data compression and decompression method and device thereof: The present invention discloses a method for compressing and decompressing pixel data and the device thereof. The method comprises receiving current pixel data from a preprocessor and comparing the current pixel data with predictor pixel data to obtain a section index from a quantization table. Output the section index to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070189621 - Image transmission system: The present image compression system of the present invention adopts a variety of compression criteria by dynamically adjusting the sampling modes and quantization formats based on a plurality of thresholds. The present image compression system uses an analyzer compares two image data stored in two buffers to determine one of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070189622 - Image data generation with reduced amount of processing: An image data generator for generating data on a size reduced image of an original image. In one embodiment, the image data generator includes: an inverse wavelet transform unit to perform on inverse wavelet transform on wavelet coefficients; and a coefficient selecting unit to select, of wavelet coefficients in a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070189623 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image based on region of interest: A method and apparatus are provided for encoding/decoding an image based on a region of interest (ROI). The method and apparatus provide error-resilience by duplicating ROI data in a variable manner according to image features or by reducing non-ROI data. The ROI based image encoding apparatus and method estimate a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189624 - Method of and apparatus for encoding signals, and method of and apparatus for decoding the encoded signals: A method of and an apparatus for encoding and decoding using transformation bases of a yet higher efficiency. In a method for encoding an object signal in compliance with a transformation rule, a signal correlating to the object signal is obtained, and a transformation base that forms the transformation rule... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189625 - Method of compressing digital images acquired in cfa format: A method of compressing digital images acquired in CFA format that utilizes optimized quantization matrices. The method, basing itself on the statistical characterization of the error introduced during the processing phase that precedes compression, appropriately modifies the coefficients of any initial quantization matrix, even of a standard type, obtaining a... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP Bryan A. Santarelli

20070189626 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method includes generating a quantization matrix using a function concerning generation of the quantization matrix and a parameter relative to the function, quantizing a transform coefficient concerning an input image signal using the quantization matrix to generate a quantized transform coefficient, and encoding the parameter and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189630 - Method for processing digital image data: The present invention relates to a method for processing digital image data (ID), wherein the process of multi rate, multi resolution and/or multi scale signal processing is involved in order to realize a respective multi rate, multi resolution and/or multi scale sharpness enhancement with respect to said image data (ID).... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189627 - Automated face enhancement: An automated face enhancement system and process which can automatically improve faces in videos or other images by applying cosmetic effects, given only a small amount of user interaction for initialization. For an input video, the system will first track the face and eye locations, and classify pixels in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070189629 - Correlation-based color mosaic interpolation adjustment using luminance gradients: Processing a digitized image signal includes selectively adjusting interpolated color values on the basis of correlations between pre-identified reference patterns of values and the patterns of values within the neighborhoods in which the interpolated color values reside. The reference patterns may be various possible combinations of a high reference value... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd. C/o Klaas, Law, O'meara & Malkin, P.C.

20070189628 - Method and apparatus for creating a high-fidelity glyph prototype from low-resolution glyph images: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates creating a high-fidelity glyph prototype from low-resolution glyph images. The system operates by receiving a plurality of glyph images, wherein a glyph image specifies a characteristic shape of a character in a font, and wherein each glyph image in... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.C. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20070189632 - Image processing device and method: An image processing device includes: a peaking filter for performing peaking processing on an input image signal to generate a peaking image signal; a selection circuit, coupled to the peaking filter, for selecting a plurality of pixels within the peaking image signal; and a median filter, coupled to the selection... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070189631 - Methods and apparatuses for enhancing image quality: A method for enhancing image quality includes: performing a peaking operation on an image signal to generate a peaking signal; selecting a plurality of pixels from the peaking signal and the image signal; and deciding a luminance value for a target pixel of the image signal according to luminance values... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070189633 - Method and device for processing an image signal: A method for processing an image signal includes evaluating an edge factor based on a characteristic of an original image signal. A gain-adjusted calibration signal is generated based on the edge factor. The original image signal and the gain-adjusted calibration signal are summed to generate a transient-improved image signal. Accordingly,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070189634 - Image processing device, method, and program: An image processing device, method, and program are capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing device includes a data continuity detector and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189635 - Method for noise reduction in imaging methods: A method for noise reduction in imaging methods is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, two statistically independent image data records in the same situation are generated, are subjected to wavelet transformation characterized by a low-pass filter and a high-pass filter, the correlation between the independent image data records is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070189636 - Signal processing method, signal processing apparatus, and image reading apparatus: Upon processing a visible light image signal and infrared image signal respectively obtained by illuminating a transparent document with light beams coming from a visible light lamp for mainly emitting visible light and an infrared lamp for mainly emitting infrared light, and photoelectrically converting optical images of the transparent document,... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070189637 - Combined forward and reverse correlation: Improved correlation techniques employ data from forward (template-to-reference) and reverse (reference-to-template) correlation to identify valid correlation peaks, enforce symmetry in correlation peaks, and/or combine forward and reverse correlation data. In embodiments, these techniques eliminate or reduce rms noise in a recovered signal peak location by enforcing correlation peak symmetry. The... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070189638 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image processing method: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including: a pattern-matching unit for judging whether a pixel array of a predetermined image region including a target pixel in a binary image data coincides with each pixel array of a plurality of previously prepared template data or not; and a resolution converter... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070183626 - Apparatus and method for embedding electronic watermark: An electronic watermark embedding apparatus for embedding watermark information as digital information into a document image includes a background eliminating unit that determines whether pixels on an input image are pixels composing a background image and eliminates the pixels determined as the pixels composing the background image from the input... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070183624 - Methods and tangible objects employing machine readable data: The present invention relates generally to steganography and data hiding. In one implementation we provide a method including: obtaining auxiliary data; providing a mask for a photo-reactive material, the mask corresponding at least in part to the auxiliary data; and exposing the material through the mask to steganographically impart the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070183622 - Perceptual modeling of media signals for data hiding: The present invention relates generally to steganography and data hiding. In one embodiment a method is provided including obtaining a media signal; determining characteristics of the media signal; based at least in part on the characteristics of the media signal, providing a map of the media signal; transforming at least... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070183625 - Statistical match for facial biometric to reduce false accept rate/false match rate (far/fmr): This invention encompasses a method to improve the facial recognition biometrics matching process by applying a statistical analysis to the matching of an individual with multiple probe images to an individual with multiple enrolled images. The method uses two compensation tables to provide an overall matching score based on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070183627 - Visual aid for use in solving complex problems: A visual aid to assist in identifying, analyzing, and solving a complex problem in which a first triadic set of parameters are visually represented in a triangular configuration and other successive sets of three parameters each are added to the same triangular representation in order to progressively define the problem.... Agent: Gene W. Arant

20070183623 - Watermark systems and methods: A number of novel watermarking applications, and improvements to watermarking methods, are disclosed. Included are techniques for encoding printed circuit boards and street signs with watermarks, deterring credit card fraud and controlling software licensing using watermarks, registering collectibles via watermarks, encoding the margins of printed pages with watermarks, and using... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070183629 - Method for tracking objects in videos using covariance matrices: A method is provided for tracking a non-rigid object in a sequence of frames of a video. Features of an object are extracted from the video. The features include locations of pixels and properties of the pixels. The features are used to construct a covariance matrix. The covariance matrix is... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070183628 - Tactical image parameter adjustment method for stereo pair correlation: A method for the timely processing of tactical images which allows a military pilot adequate time to track and engage a target. The method uses a correlation process and back propagated neural network to home in on a correct position parameters for the tactical image including the heading and the... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20070183630 - Tunable kernels for tracking: A tunable representation for tracking that simultaneously encodes appearance and geometry in a manner that enables the use of mean-shift iterations for tracking is provided. The solution to the tracking problem is articulated into a method that encodes the spatial configuration of features along with their density and yet retains... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070183631 - Methods and apparatus for measuring the flapping deformation of insect wings: The present invention relates to a high-performance computer vision system and method for measuring the wings deformation of insects with high flapping-frequency, large stroke-amplitude and excellent mobility during free-flight. A geometrical optic unit composed of a polyhedral reflector with four reflection-planes and four planar reflectors is used to image one... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20070183632 - Methods of identifier determination and of biometric verification and associated systems: The invention relates to a method of determining an identifier of determined discriminating power from biometric data. According to the method, biometric data is obtained relating to an individual. The biometric data is converted into a digital string. A word of an error-correcting code is associated with the individual. The... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070183633 - Identification, verification, and recognition method and system: The invention relates to the field of identification and verification of living beings with the aid of the form, shape, contour, silhouette, surface structure, color and characteristics especially of sets of teeth, individual teeth, tooth parts, and the relation thereof to the facial and body structures surrounding the same. Systems... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070183634 - Auto individualization process based on a facial biometric anonymous id assignment: This invention is a method by which facial images are automatically grouped into unique individual collections based on the results of the existing facial recognition algorithm. The invention is used for the active grouping of facial images gathered from a sequence of image frames over a specified period of time.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070183635 - Method for image-based driver identification in a motor vehicle: A method for image-based driver identification in a motor vehicle is provided. At least one two-dimensional driver facial image is recorded using a camera. Recorded driver facial images are temporarily stored. The temporarily stored driver facial images are compared to two-dimensional reference images of each possible driver from multiple possible... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070183636 - Method of encrypting digital data, a method of masking a biometric print, and application to making a security document secure: m

20070183638 - Image extracting apparatus and image extracting method: An object of the present invention is to obtain an image of a subject in a desired pose. To attain this object, an image extracting apparatus according to the present invention is provided with an image database in which a plurality of images is stored, detecting means (S104) for detecting... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070183637 - Method for generation of an x-ray image: In a method for generation of an x-ray image of a subject in a patient, a first x-ray image showing the subject in the patient is acquired. A subject image containing only image information in the imaging region of the subject is created from the first x-ray image by image... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070183644 - Image processing method and computer readable medium for image processing: An image processing method using volume data includes: extracting a region of the volume data; transforming voxel values in the extracted region into at least two different voxel values; and presenting information of the extracted region by using the transformed voxel values.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070183642 - Iterative reconstruction of multiple-peak isotope images: In an imaging method, estimated data is iteratively projected and backprojected. The iterative projecting and backprojecting includes projecting or backprojecting the estimated data along parallel paths each employing energy-dependent parameters appropriate for a different energy. During each iteration, the estimated data is adjusted based on comparison of the estimated data... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183641 - Method and apparatus for tomosynthesis projection imaging for detection of radiological signs: In a method and apparatus for image processing an algorithm is used to detect radiological signals in a series of 3D data. The algorithm indicates the position of a radiological signs in a digital volume by means of markers. The algorithm has the potential to distinguish automatically between malignant elements... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070183640 - Gated cone-beam computed tomography reconstruction with motion compensation: E.g. in cardiac cone-beam CT, the source path is interrupted due to the fact that the projection data is gated. According to the present invention, a method is provided to obtain projection data corresponding to an uninterrupted source trajectory from such a gated data set. For this purpose, a motion... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183639 - Motion compensation: Using only projection data in one temporal gating window around a certain target phase point may lead to motion artifacts such as blurred images. By using projection data corresponding to three temporal gating windows, which are slightly shifted with respect to each other but at least partially overlap, motion within... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183643 - System for swept source optical coherence tomography: A swept source Optical coherence tomography system (SSOCT) comprises a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser with an integrated MEMs tunable mirror movable by electro-static deflection. The MEMs tunable VCSEL offers scan rates greater than 100 khz and tuning ranges approaching 200 nm around 1300 nm and 150 nm around 850 nm.... Agent: Vijaysekhar Jayaraman Praevium Research Inc.

20070183645 - Method of manufacturing ball array devices using an inspection apparatus having one or more cameras and ball array devices produced according to the method: An apparatus for three dimensional inspection of an electronic part which has a camera and illuminator for imaging a first view of the electronic part. An optical element is positioned to reflect a different view of the electronic part into the camera, and the camera thus provides an image of... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070183646 - Method of manufacturing ball array devices using an inspection apparatus having two or more cameras and ball array devices produced according to the method: A calibration and part inspection method for the inspection of ball grid array, BGA, devices. Two cameras image a precision pattern mask with dot patterns deposited on a transparent reticle. The precision pattern mask is used for calibration of the system. A light source and overhead light reflective diffuser provide... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070183653 - 3d face reconstruction from 2d images: A 3D face reconstruction technique using 2D images, such as photographs of a face, is described. Prior face knowledge or a generic face is used to extract spars(e 3D information from the images and to identify image pairs. Bundle adjustment is carried out to determine more accurate 3D camera positions,... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070183648 - Creating a depth map: A method of generating a depth map (122) comprising depth values representing distances to a viewer, for respective pixels of an image (100), is disclosed. The method comprises: determining a contour (106) on basis of pixel values of the image (100), the contour comprising a collection of adjacent points; computing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183649 - Image visualization: Medical imaging modalities generate increasingly more and very large three-dimensional data sets. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a three-dimensional data set of an object of interest is interactively visualized with a varying sampling rate in an image. Advantageously, a focus area may be moved by a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183647 - Method and apparatus for producing an image containing depth information: Method and apparatus for producing an image containing depth information is provided. The method detects radiation emanating from a scene and forms at least two images of the scene at different planes. Each image contains a set of intensity data values. A variation of the data values is obtained so... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070183652 - Method for detecting a code with the aid of a mobile station: The invention relates to a method for detecting a code (40), and a mobile station adapted to the method. In the method, the mobile station (50) is used to capture an image of the subject (40) and the image is analysed and decoded into a numerical form in the mobile... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183650 - Stereoscopic format converter: A device and method for converting one stereoscopic format into another. A software-enabled matrix is used to set forth predefined relationships between one type of format as an input image and another type of format as an output image. The matrix can then be used as a look-up table that... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070183651 - System and method for detecting an occupant and head pose using stereo detectors: A system and method for detecting an occupant and head pose using stereo detectors is disclosed. In the training stage, pairs of images taken simultaneously from a pair of stereo cameras are received and components in each pair of images are identified. Features are associated with each component and a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070183654 - Method and apparatus for localizing an object part in digital image data: A method and an apparatus localize an object part location in a digital image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data containing an object part; obtains an initial position estimate for object part location of the object part; extracts a sub-image window around the initial position estimate... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183655 - Reducing human overhead in text categorization: A unique multi-stage classification system and method that facilitates reducing human resources or costs associated with text classification while still obtaining a desired level of accuracy is provided. The multi-stage classification system and method involve a pattern-based classifier and a machine learning classifier. The pattern-based classifier is trained on discriminative... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070183659 - Method of creating color chart for color evaluation, and information processing apparatus thereof: There is provided a method of creating a color chart for color evaluation used in color evaluation, including: an obtaining step of obtaining standard color chart data corresponding to a standard color chart including a plurality of patches; a display step of displaying an evaluation target image on a display... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070183657 - Color-image reproduction apparatus: A color-image reproduction apparatus reproduces a color image on the basis of digital image data which are obtained through detection of an image by visible light detection elements and an infrared detection element. Visible image data are extracted from the image data, and infrared-containing image data are extracted from the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070183656 - Image processing device, image processing system, image processing method, image processing program, and integrated circuit device: An object of the invention is to provide an image processing device with which color processing can be adjusted with ease. An image processing device (10) is provided with a processing degree setting portion (18), a profile creation portion (15), and a color processing execution portion (16). The processing degree... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070183658 - Method of printing and apparatus operable to execute the same, and method of processing image and apparatus operable to execute the same: Image data obtained by capturing an image including a human is received. The image data is analyzed and a part of the image including a human face is extracted. A prescribed part of the extracted human face is detected. Brightness of the image data is adjusted with reference to the... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070183660 - Apparatus and method for histogram analysis of image and luminance compensation apparatus using the same: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for analyzing a histogram of an image, the apparatus comprising an image input module for buffering an input image, a block calculator for performing a blocking operation for dividing the image, which has been input to the image input module, into pixel blocks of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070183662 - Inter-mode region-of-interest video object segmentation: The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic segmentation of a region-of-interest (ROI) video object from a video sequence. ROI object segmentation enables selected ROI or “foreground” objects of a video sequence that may be of interest to a viewer to be extracted from non-ROI or “background” areas of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183663 - Intra-mode region-of-interest video object segmentation: The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic segmentation of a region-of-interest (ROI) video object from a video sequence. ROI object segmentation enables selected ROI or “foreground” objects of a video sequence that may be of interest to a viewer to be extracted from non-ROI or “background” areas of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183661 - Multi-mode region-of-interest video object segmentation: The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic segmentation of a region-of-interest (ROI) video object from a video sequence. ROI object segmentation enables selected ROI or “foreground” objects of a video sequence that may be of interest to a viewer to be extracted from non-ROI or “background” areas of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183664 - Ink-parser-parameter optimization: Ink-parser-parameter optimization may be performed via parallel processing to accelerate searching for a set of optimal ink-parser parameters. Evaluators may parse pages of ink notes with different groups of parameters and may compute corresponding values for evaluation functions. Separate evaluation functions may be defined for the following types of ink-parker... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070183665 - Face feature point detecting device and method: A face feature point detecting device includes a unit for inputting an image containing a face of a person, a unit for detecting a feature point set candidate comprising plural kinds of feature points, a unit for calculating the corresponding error between the detected feature point set and the corresponding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070183666 - Method utilizing intensity interpolation for measuring edge locations in a high precision machine vision inspection system: A method for operating a video tool to perform precision edge detection in an image. The method includes determining estimated image intensity values corresponding to positions along a straight line aligned with a defined scan line orientation. The location of an edge point along the straight line is determined based... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070183667 - Image processing apparatus: An apparatus includes: a spatial differential value calculation unit that calculates a primary spatial differential value and a secondary spatial differential value of a brightness value with respect to each of a plurality of directions in each pixel of the image; a maximum and minimum direction estimation unit that estimates... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070183668 - Methods for finding and characterizing a deformed pattern in an image: A method is disclosed for finding a deformed pattern in an image using a plurality of sub-patterns. By advantageously restricting sub-pattern search ranges, search speed is improved, and the incidence of spurious matches is reduced. The method also quickly decides which sub-pattern result, of several potential candidates, is most likely... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070183670 - Graph-based cognitive swarms for object group recognition: An object recognition system is described that incorporates swarming classifiers. The swarming classifiers comprise a plurality of software agents configured to operate as a cooperative swarm to classify an object group in a domain. Each node N represents an object in the group having K object attributes. Each agent is... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20070183669 - Multi-view cognitive swarm for object recognition and 3d tracking: An object recognition system is described that incorporates swarming classifiers. The swarming classifiers comprise a plurality of software agents configured to operate as a cooperative swarm to classify an object in a domain as seen from multiple view points. Each agent is a complete classifier and is assigned an initial... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20070183672 - Image-pickup apparatus: Image-pickup sections and an image-communicating/processing section 138 are connected by a single bus. Following the output of the image data, an output-controlling section in one of the image-pickup sections outputs an image-data-ending pattern, which indicates the end of outputting the image data, to a bus. An ending-pattern-detecting section in another... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070183671 - Method for compressing data, method for decompressing compressed data, and devices for implementing these operations: A sequence of data (b) entered into a compression device is selectively either compressed or not compressed, then supplied by the compression device as compressed or uncompressed data (b°, s°). A status information item (S) in a sequence of supplied data (b° , s°) is overwritten by the compression device... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070183673 - Video processing method and corresponding encoding device: The invention relates to a video processing method provided for processing an input image sequence consisting of successive frames and comprising for each successive frame the steps of (a) preprocessing each successive current frame by means of a first sub-step of computing for each frame a so-called content change strength... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183674 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding key value data of coordinate interpolator: A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding key value data of a coordinate interpolator used in a three-dimensional graphic animation are provided. The apparatus for encoding key value data of a coordinate interpolator representing the position of each vertex of an object using coordinates of each of the vertices including... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070183675 - Image compression method, image compression device, image transmission system, data compression pre-processing apparatus, and computer program: [PROBLEMS] To provide an image compression method capable of performing compression with different image qualities within an image. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] In a mosiac processing unit (16), area division means (130) divides input image data into a plurality of filtering areas and at least some of the filtering areas... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183676 - Video coding and decoding: A video coding and decoding method, wherein a picture is first divided into sub-pictures corresponding to one or more subjectively important picture regions and to a background region sub-picture, which remains after the other sub-pictures are removed from the picture. The sub-pictures are formed to conform to predetermined allowable groups... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070183677 - Dynamic range compression of high dynamic range imagery: An improved apparatus and method adaptively compresses the dynamic range of an image from a sensor by rescaling the value of every pixel to fit within the dynamic range of a low dynamic range display while preserving local image contrast and global scene appearance.... Agent: Eugene S. Indyk

20070183678 - Distributed processing for video enhancement and display power management: In visual display devices such as LCD devices with backlight illumination, the backlight typically consumes most of device battery power. In the interest of displaying a given pixel pattern at a minimized backlight level, the pattern can be transformed while maintaining image quality, with a transform determined from pixel luminance... Agent: Peter A. Businger, Esq.

20070183680 - Multi-scale image fusion: A multi-scale filter pyramid is applied to one or more components of a multi-component input image to produce a fused and enhanced image that can be mapped to a display, such as a color display.... Agent: Eugene S. Indyk

20070183679 - Image processing method, image processing device and mobile communication terminal: A noted image information extraction section 31 specifies a region of a noted image in an original image, and noted image information containing information relating to position and size of the noted image WMM region within the original image is extracted. Continuing on, mask image formation means 31 forms a... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070183681 - Adaptive image filter for filtering image information: This disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques that filter each pixel as a function of a set of surrounding pixels. An adaptive image filter may compare image information associated with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183682 - Method and system for improved processing of image data: The present invention is a method and system for deriving histograms for neighborhoods of pixels in an image that uses subtractive image regions to increase the size of overlapping regions of regions of series of adjacent image pixels to a size equal to the size of a full neighborhood. Each... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20070183683 - Blurring an image using a graphic processing unit: A method is provided for applying a blur to an image using a graphic processing unit (“GPU”). The method includes instructing the GPU to scale an image down from an original size; instructing the GPU to blur the scaled down image; and instructing the GPU to return the blurred image... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070183684 - Systems and methods for contrast adjustment: Systems and methods are disclosed that obtain detail information of an input image by employing multiple filters that present multi-resolution views of the image data. In embodiments, systems and methods perform contrast adjustment by employing a plurality of edge-preserving adaptive filters (EPAF), which generate images at multiple levels of resolution.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070183685 - Image combining apparatus, image combining method and storage medium: The invention provides an image combining method of an image processing apparatus for processing a plurality of images photographed by a photographic device, the method includes generating a virtual three-dimensional space on a display on which an image is displayed, and displaying a spherical surface or a frame expressing a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070183686 - Method and apparatus for estimating object part location in digital image data using feature value analysis: A method and an apparatus estimate an object part location in a digital image using feature value analysis. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing a region including an object part of a digital image; accesses reference data including class data of classes relating to predetermined... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183687 - Image resolution conversion apparatus: In an image resolution conversion apparatus, a region-determining section establishes an initial value used for determining a region where a new pixel is to be generated based on the number of pixels in a non-line direction included in a pixel group used for converting the resolution attribute of fields, and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070183688 - Data management system and method: A method includes: acquiring at least one digital image; acquiring a first data identifier associated with each digital image; receiving a scan of a paper including at least one scan of handwritten information and a second data identifier associated with each handwritten information; and associating each digital image with a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070177763 - Apparatus and method for preventing illegal distribution of digital contents by using a fingerprinting technique: An apparatus and method for preventing illegitimate distribution of digital contents on Internet obtains a first wavelet image having a user information-embedding region by performing a wavelet transformation (WT). The user information embedding region of the first wavelet image is wavelet-transformed to obtain a second wavelet image composed of a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070177762 - Image processing apparatus capable of processing image embedded with digital watermark, method for controlling the image processing apparatus, and storage medium storing program to execute the method: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value generating unit configured to generate a feature value of an image of a first page; and an embedding unit configured to embed the feature value of the image of the first page generated by the feature value generating unit in an image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070177760 - Printing media and methods employing digital watermarking: Stationery, or other printable media, is encoded with a digital watermark. The watermark is not conspicuous to a human observer of the media, yet conveys plural bits of auxiliary information when optically scanned and digitally processed. The watermark can be formed by ink-jet printing, or otherwise. The encoded information can... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070177759 - System and method to automatically establish preferred area for image-wise watermark: A system and method are disclosed for determining preferred image locations for placing watermark information (both hidden and obvious). The disclosure includes at least three criteria (image similarity, contrast, and image value range) that may be used alone or in combination to determine a preferred area of the target image... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070177761 - Watermark embedding functions adapted for transmission channels: A method for controlling watermark embedding in a media object through the use of a watermark embedding command. The use of the embedding command enables watermark embedding to be adapted for the transmission channel at the time of transmission.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070177765 - Method for displaying an identified region together with an image, program executable in a computer apparatus, and imaging apparatus: When a main shooting subject is moving, the movement of the main shooting subject naturally viewed and recognized by a user is different from an actual frequent movement of the main shooting subject. If the display of an object identification mark accurately follows up a moving object, the visibility of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070177764 - Reprint function for mailpiece inserters: A method is provided for reprinting damaged mailpieces for use in a mailpiece inserter. The method comprising the steps of producing an object-oriented data file of the mailpiece content material including a scan code and storing the object-oriented data files in a reprint repository. The status of a mail run... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. Intellectual Property & Technology Law Department

20070177767 - Biometric information processing device and biometric information processing program: Provided is a small-sized, flat, vein authentication device of high authentication accuracy by photographing a living body several times and thus obtaining as registration data plural images that are picked up at different positions. A biometric information processing device of this invention comprising an image pickup device, which picks up... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070177771 - Biometrics system, biologic information storage, and portable device: In a biometrics system for a building entrance unlocking or a bank account authentication, reference information registered under administration by the system is transmitted to a room or mobile-phone for private storage, with the original reference information deleted from the system. Biologic information gotten upon authentication is transmitted through wireless... Agent: Masahide Tanaka

20070177766 - Biometric authentication apparatus and biometric authentication method: Disclosed is a biometric authentication apparatus including: 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 priority order table storage unit storing a priority order table in which a priority order of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070177769 - Information processing device and authentication method: The present invention provides an information processing device includes: a biometrics device, an interface control unit for controlling the biometrics device, a first storage unit for concealing a user identifier and user authentication information, a second storage unit for storing a program executed by the information processing device, and a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070177768 - Method and system for confirming personal identity: An authentication utility may be provided to entities, such as businesses, organizations or even individuals, that require the identification, verification and control of the identity of another entity, for example, an individual, such as a consumer, employee, etc. The authentication utility may also determine and provide the financial and non-financial... Agent: Venable LLP

20070177772 - Method for acquiring personal identification data, personal identification method, apparatus for acquiring personal identification data, and personal identification apparatus: The present invention provides a method for acquiring personal identification data by extracting a ridge-and-recess pattern corresponding to a fingerprint or a knuckle joint and lines on a palm by utilizing characteristics by which subcutaneous bloodstream distribution is spatially modulated by the ridge-and-recess pattern on the surface when measuring a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070177770 - System and method for identity confirmation using physiologic biometrics to determine a physiologic fingerprint: The invention provides a method for verifying a person's identity, which includes obtaining a password and/or random key from a person, and comparing the obtained password and/or random key to a plurality of known passwords and/or random keys to determine a likely identity of the person. The method further includes... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070177773 - Method and apparatus for rolling enrollment for signature verification: Improved techniques are disclosed for adapting signature verification systems to natural signature variations. For example, a technique for adapting a signature verification system to variations in a signature of a user includes the following steps/operations. One or more signature samples are obtained from the user. The one or more obtained... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070177774 - Fingerprint recognition system having detecting pore and method thereof: A fingerprint recognition system having detecting pore and a method are disclosed. The system comprises a fingerprint image capture apparatus, a pore detection apparatus, a fingerprint detection apparatus and a recognition apparatus. A fingerprint image is captured by the fingerprint image capture apparatus. A pore data of the fingerprint image... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20070177775 - Fire alarm manual station with digital fingerprint image processing: A fire alarm manual station includes an image capture device for capturing an image of a fingerprint and processing of the captured image. The image may be stored locally and be downloaded to a lap top computer or other storage device, or the image may be transmitted to a central... Agent: Averill & Varn

20070177777 - Removable storage device and authentication method: A removable storage device includes: an interface which is defined by a predetermined format and to which an external device is connectable; a data storage part in which data is stored and data is exchanged between the data storage part and the external device connected to the interface; a fingerprint... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070177784 - Automatic engine for 3d object generation from volumetric scan data and method: A method of generating a 3 dimensional object includes providing a volumetric scan of a study object as a series of image slices. An image segmentation algorithm is used to image segment each image slice into at least a first region and a second region, the first region of each... Agent: Robert A. Parsons

20070177780 - Enhanced navigational tools for comparing medical images: A navigation tool that provides a side-by-side display of two temporally related medical images of the same region of a patient. A plurality of lines extend between the images, at least a first line beginning at a feature at a first location in a first image and ending at a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070177783 - Information processing apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for displaying, on a medical image, template data corresponding to an implant. The apparatus and method include a storing the template data and a predetermined portion distance of a predetermined portion of a representation by the template data, a displaying the stored template data, measuring length... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070177781 - Method and apparatus for classifying detection inputs in medical images: Detection inputs are classified using two thresholds. In a preferred embodiment, a multiplicity of inputs are scored and the scored inputs are searched to locate an input that has a score greater than a first threshold. If such input is found, every input having a score in excess of a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070177782 - Method and apparatus for setting a detection threshold in processing medical images: An intuitive user interface is provided that allows for selection of an abnormality level in features in a medical image on the basis of graphical depictions of the abnormalities themselves. In one embodiment, the user interface displays realistic images of actual abnormalities in a series ranging from least severe to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070177778 - Sample processing apparatus with a vision system: A sample processing apparatus has an associated machine vision system. The vision system may acquire an image of at least one fluidic chamber, which can be analyzed by the machine vision system and/or stored. The image and/or analysis of the image may provide a record of the actions of the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070177779 - Window leveling system and method: A system and method for determining a predicted window level transformation for image data associated with a loading image based on user selections of window level transformations. A learning image associated with a set of learning context characteristics is displayed to the user in order to elicit selection of a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070177785 - Method for segmenting arteries and veins: In a preferred embodiment a radiologist traces the pulmonary artery and pulmonary veins visible in a set of CT images and identifies the arteries and veins. The radiologist's identification of the pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins is then received by an image analyzer and combined with the analyzer's identification of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070177786 - Diagnostic scanning microscope for information-enriched qualitative histopathology: A microscope array with staggered rows of magnifying imaging systems is used to scan a biological tissue sample in a single linear pass to produce an image and corresponding optical-density data. A conventional computerized algorithm is used to identify, isolate and produce segmented images of nuclei contained in the image.... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20070177787 - Fault inspection method: A fault inspection method and apparatus in which the scattergram is separated or objects of comparison are combined in such a manner as to reduce the difference between an inspection object image and a reference image. As a result, the difference between images caused by the thickness difference in the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070177788 - System and method for detecting wafer failure in wet bench applications: A system is disclosed for detecting the presence of a broken or mis-positioned wafer during bench processing of the wafers. In one embodiment, a charge-coupled device (CCD) is provided above a wet bench bath, and is positioned to record an image of the bath and its contents. The CCD is... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (tsmc)

20070177789 - Solder paste inspection system and method: A solder paste inspection machine carries out the steps of automatically generating inspection data for solder paste deposits, automatically determining a squeegee direction of travel for said paste deposits. It associates the squeegee direction with the inspection data, and feeds the inspection data back to a solder paste printer with... Agent: Perman & Green

20070177790 - Workpiece picking device: A workpiece picking device capable of correctly detecting the size of a workpiece. The picking device has a robot capable of picking the same kind of workpieces contained in a work container, a robot controller for controlling the robot, a video camera positioned above the work container so as to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070177792 - Automated activity detection using supervised learning: In an embodiment, one or more sequences of learning video data is provided. The learning video sequences include an action. One or more features of the action are extracted from the one or more sequences of learning video data. Thereafter, a reception of a sequence of operational video data is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070177791 - Method for identifying marked images based at least in part on frequency domain coefficient differences: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method of identifying marked images based at least in part on frequency domain coefficient differences is disclosed.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070177793 - Method and apparatus for automatic eyeglasses detection and removal: A method and an apparatus automatically detect and remove eyeglasses from an image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including a face; detects eyeglasses in the image to produce a report about presence or absence of eyeglasses in the image; normalizes illumination of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070177794 - Method and apparatus for automatic eyeglasses detection using a nose ridge mask: A method and an apparatus automatically detect eyeglasses in an image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including a face; detects eyeglasses in the image by using nose ridge masking; and outputs a decision about presence or absence of eyeglasses in the image.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070177795 - Method of graphical generation of vectors with dark contours: The field of the invention is that of graphical libraries providing graphical functions used for the drawing of symbologic images. One of the fields of favored application is the generation of symbologic images for the piloting of aircraft. The object of the invention is to propose a method of graphical... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070177796 - Color form dropout using dynamic geometric solid thresholding: Dropping out of color form backgrounds from images of completed forms to obtain color form dropout images retaining only the respondent information. In one embodiment, a color form image processing method (100) includes retrieving (102) a template image, retrieving (104) a respondent image, registering (106) the images against one another... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070177797 - Method and system for identifying illumination fields in an image: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for determining an illumination field in an image. The method comprises the steps of identifying uniform and linear tokens in the image and utilizing the uniform and linear tokens to identify an illumination field.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070177798 - Image selection based on image content: An image capture system comprises an image input and processing unit. The image input obtains image information which is then passed to the processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the image input for determining image metrics on the image information. The processing unit initiates a capture sequence when... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070177799 - Image analysis: Images with closely spaced objects can be processed using a deblending procedure that includes the calculation of some moments and centroids of intensity data. Methods and apparatus for performing this processing are well-suited for use in DNA sequencing, where the locations of fluorescing nucleotides appearing in images must be compared... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070177800 - Method and apparatus for maintaining a background image model in a background subtraction system using accumulated motion: Methods and apparatus are provided for maintaining a background image model in a background subtraction system using accumulated motion. A background image model is maintained by obtaining a map of accumulated motion; and adjusting the background image model based on the map of accumulated motion. The map of accumulated motion... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070177802 - Constraint-based ordering for temporal coherence of stroke-based animation: A renderer allows for a flexible and temporally coherent ordering of strokes in the context of stroke-based animation. The relative order of the strokes is specified by the artist or inferred from geometric properties of the scene, such as occlusion, for each frame of a sequence, as a set of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070177801 - Game apparatus and storage medium storing a handwriting input program: A game apparatus displays a game screen of 9×9 grid, for example, of a Sudoku puzzle on one LCD and an empty cell (cell to be answered) is large-displayed on the other LCD. A touch panel is provided on the LCD to allow a player to handwrite a numeral to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070177803 - Multi-touch gesture dictionary: A multi-touch gesture dictionary is disclosed herein. The gesture dictionary can include a plurality of entries, each corresponding to a particular chord. The dictionary entries can include a variety of motions associated with the chord and the meanings of gestures formed from the chord and the motions. The gesture dictionary... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070177804 - Multi-touch gesture dictionary: A multi-touch gesture dictionary is disclosed herein. The gesture dictionary can include a plurality of entries, each corresponding to a particular chord. The dictionary entries can include a variety of motions associated with the chord and the meanings of gestures formed from the chord and the motions. The gesture dictionary... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070177805 - Finding images with multiple people or objects: A method of searching through a collection of images, includes providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals; detecting people in the collection images; determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070177806 - System, device, method and computer program product for using a mobile camera for controlling a computer: A system for controlling a computing apparatus includes a mobile camera and a processing device. One of the mobile camera and the processing device is capable of determining a first relationship between a coordinate space of a media surface and a coordinate space of a camera image field at a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070177807 - Method and device for collating biometric information: A feature amount obtained from an image group for registration is stored as dictionary data in a memory. When an input image group constituted of a plurality of images is supplied to be collated with the dictionary data, the images constituting the input image group are classified based on a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070177809 - Digital still camera: There is provided a digital still camera which is capable of performing fixed-length compression to image data at high speed while suppressing dispersion in size of compressed data by including; a first compression unit which compresses inputted image data using a predetermined first compression parameter, a second compression unit which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070177808 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a quantizing unit configured to quantize an input moving image signal using a set quantization scale; a coding unit configured to perform variable length coding on an output of the quantizing unit; an activity detecting unit configured to detect an activity of the input moving... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070177810 - Processing multiview video: Decoding a video signal comprises receiving a bitstream comprising the video signal encoded according to a first profile that represents a selection from a set of multiple profiles that includes at least one profile for a multiview video signal, and profile information that identifies the first profile. The profile information... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070177811 - Processing multiview video: Decoding a video signal comprises receiving a bitstream comprising the multiview video signal encoded according to dependency relationships between respective views, and view-dependency data representing the dependency relationships; extracting the view-dependency data and determining the dependency relationships from the extracted data; and decoding the multiview video signal according to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070177812 - Processing multiview video: Decoding a video signal comprises receiving a bitstream comprising the video signal encoded according to a first profile that represents a selection from a set of profiles that includes multiple profiles for single view video signals and at least one profile for a multiview video signal, and profile information that... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070177813 - Processing multiview video: Decoding a multiview video signal comprises receiving a bitstream comprising the multiview video signal encoded according to dependency relationships between respective views, and view-dependency information representing the dependency relationships in a two-dimensional data structure; extracting the two-dimensional data structure and determining the dependency relationships from the extracted data structure; and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070177814 - Method and recording format for image compression: A method is provided for processing data of a sub-picture of a picture. The method includes: providing an object of the sub-picture, forming a binary bit map of the object, and determining whether the number of bits having a first binary value is greater than the number of bits having... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070177815 - Method, video display system and automobile video display system: A method for displaying a video image includes: receiving the video image and performing a real-time detection upon the video image to detect at least a contour section in the video image; determining a compensation characteristic according to the contour section; adjusting pixel values of pixels corresponding to the contour... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070177816 - Apparatus and method for reducing noise of image sensor: An apparatus and method for reducing noise of an image sensor are provided. The apparatus includes a noise level setting module setting a noise level representing an image frame expressed as a component in a color space; a kernel generation module generating a kernel for filtering pixels that constitute the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070177817 - Region-based image denoising: An “Image Denoiser” provides a probabilistic process for denoising color images by segmenting an input image into regions, estimating statistics within each region, and then estimating a clean (or denoised) image using a probabilistic model of image formation. In one embodiment, estimated blur between each region is used to reduce... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070177818 - Image-capturing apparatus, image processing method and program product: An image-capturing apparatus includes an image-acquiring unit which acquires an image that is captured by photographing a photographic subject which is laid on an arbitrary place, a difference image producing unit which produces a difference image between the captured image that is acquired by the image-acquiring unit and an image... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070177819 - Multi-spectral fusion for video surveillance: A multi-spectral imaging surveillance system and method in which a plurality of imaging cameras is associated with a data-processing apparatus. A module can be provided, which resides in a memory of said data-processing apparatus. The module performs fusion of a plurality images respectively generated by varying imaging cameras among said... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Attorney, Intellectual Property

20070177820 - System and method for providing an optical section image by direct phase angle determination and use of more than three images: In a system and method for generating an image, a processor may calculate a grid pattern frequency of a plurality of images, particularly where the calculation is based on pixels transformed by a sinusoidal signal variation smoothing procedure, calculate for each of the plurality of images a phase angle of... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20070177821 - Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a controller for generating expanded image data; a local bus connected with the controller; a plurality of generic buses which are independent from each other; a plurality of image processing sections, each of which is respectively connected to each of the plurality of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070177822 - Removable medium device, medium for controlling removable medium device, and medium for controlling network device: A removable medium device, configured to transmit information stored in a removable medium via a network based on a predetermined communication protocol, includes a reduced image generating system that reduces each of a plurality of original images in the removable medium and generate a reduced screen image in which the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070177824 - Document management method using barcode to store access history information: A method is described in which metadata regarding a document is encoded as 2d barcode printed on the same recording medium as the document, where the metadata includes an access history of the document and other information. When a printed document including such barcode is copied, the copy includes new... Agent: Ying Chen

20070177823 - Method, systems, and media for identifying whether a machine readable mark may contain sensitive data: Embodiments of the present invention relate to attesting a document that contains encoded data, such as a barcode or DataGlyph. When a document contains encoded data that is not in human-readable form, the document is checked to determine whether content in the encoded data appears somewhere in the document in... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack LLP

20070177825 - Image processing method and image processor: An image processing method extracts line segment elements from grayscale captured images, so that line segments are extracted at high-speed without being influenced by contrast ratio, even if morphology processing is used. A selection processing select an area where continuous line segments possibly exist from the captured image and a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP