Image analysis inventions 09/07

20070223782 - Digital watermark detection method and apparatus: A specific frequency component extraction unit extracts a specific frequency component signal from an input image signal. A phase controller controls the phase of the specific frequency component signal. A correlator computes the cross-correlation value of the phase-controlled specific frequency component signal and the input image signal. A watermark information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223783 - Digital watermark detection method and apparatus: A specific frequency component extraction unit extracts a specific frequency component signal from an input image signal. A phase controller controls the phase of the specific frequency component signal. A correlator computes the cross-correlation value of the phase-controlled specific frequency component signal and the input image signal. A watermark information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223784 - Digital watermark detection method and apparatus: A specific frequency component extraction unit extracts a specific frequency component signal from an input image signal. A phase controller controls the phase of the specific frequency component signal. A correlator computes the cross-correlation value of the phase-controlled specific frequency component signal and the input image signal. A watermark information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223780 - Image processing method and device: In an image processing device adapted to restore sub-information from composite image information produced by a composite image producing device which embeds invisible sub-information into visible main image information to produce the composite image information, the frequency components of the sub-information extracted for each of its color components are smoothed,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070223779 - Image watermarking systems and methods: A method of determining a location for a watermark on an image having an array of pixels, each pixel having image information associated therewith includes determining a size for the watermark. The size has a pixel height and a pixel width. The method also includes calculating a region brightness value... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070223778 - Method and apparatus for video/image communication with watermarking: A video communication unit (405) includes a video input (415) for receiving an un-watermarked video or image signal transmission having a number of video or image frames (110, 120, 130, 140), wherein each video or image frame includes a number of bit planes, the video input (415) being operably coupled... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070223781 - Method for determining a response of each probe zone on a test strip: A method for determining a response of each probe zone on a test strip is provided. The present invention selects an average pixel value of each section of reference white respectively adjacent to the image of a target line to serve as a reference for determining a color response of... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070223785 - Image processor and method: An apparatus for image processing. An image processor includes an image input device for capturing a pickup image and a controller. The controller is operable to select a target image corresponding to the pickup image by comparing the pickup image with a plurality of prepared target images. A type of... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070223786 - Digital watermark detection method and apparatus: A specific frequency component extraction unit extracts a specific frequency component signal from an input image signal. A phase controller controls the phase of the specific frequency component signal. A correlator computes the cross-correlation value of the phase-controlled specific frequency component signal and the input image signal. A watermark information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223787 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A computer readable storage medium storing instructions of a computer program which when executed by a computer results in performance of steps including inputting a first image and a second image from two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a transformed image, obtaining a degree of similarity D indicating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223788 - Local dominant wave-vector analysis of seismic data: The present invention relates to a method and system for processing multi-dimensional signal data to determine frequency dependent features therefrom. The multi-dimensional signal data are transformed into space-frequency or time-space-frequency domain, providing second signal data. At predetermined locations of at least a portion of the one of space and time-space... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070223789 - Method for evaluating the quality of a printed matter, provided by a printing machine: The quality of printed matter, which is one of several copies of the same printed matter produced by a printing machine, is evaluated. An amount of copies of the printed matter is selected from the total production of this printed matter. The selected amount of these copies are evaluated with... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070223790 - Joint boosting feature selection for robust face recognition: Methods and systems are provided for selecting features that will be used to recognize faces. Three-dimensional models are used to synthesize a database of virtual face images. The virtual face images cover wide appearance variations, different poses, different lighting conditions and expression changes. A joint boosting algorithm is used to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070223791 - Fingerprint authentication device and information processing device: A fingerprint authentication device includes a sweep fingerprint sensor that acquires images of a fingerprint on a finger at at least two different sensitivity levels in a single scan, and a counterfeit-finger determining unit that determines whether the finger is counterfeit based on the images acquired by the sweep fingerprint... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223792 - Portable telephone and electronic device: A portable telephone and electronic device are provided. The portable telephone includes a casing having a first surface: a finger guide section that is provided in the first surface and guides a finger of a user to allow the finger to be placed so that a side portion of the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070223797 - Image processing device: An image processing device according to the invention includes an image capturing element for outputting an image capture signal based on a captured image of a subject, a storage section for storing the image capture signal, a writing signal generation section for outputting to the storage section a writing signal... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070223796 - Method and system for automatic evaluation of an image data set of a subject: In a method and system for automated evaluation of an image data set of a subject, first features are extracted from the image data set that are associated with the subject. An interdependency between the image data set of the subject and a reference system that corresponds to the image... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070223794 - Image registration using locally-weighted fitting: A computer-implemented method for image registration includes accepting a three-dimensional (3-D) image of an organ. The image includes a first plurality of image points with respective image coordinates. A map defining a distribution of values of a physiological parameter over the organ is accepted. The map includes a second plurality... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070223795 - System and method for tracing rib posterior in chest ct volumes: A method for tracing, rib posteriors includes providing an incomplete rib tracing comprising a digitized 3-dimensional representation of a rib and a digital image from which said rib tracing was extracted, initializing, a tracing direction for a remainder of said rib, detecting a plurality of ridge points in a sub-volume... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070223793 - Systems and methods for providing diagnostic imaging studies to remote users: Systems and methods for the distribution of diagnostic imaging studies include a first translator electrically coupled to an imaging device, the first translator being arranged an configured to receive an diagnostic imaging study from the imaging device, compress and encrypt the diagnostic imaging study, and transfer the diagnostic imaging study... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070223798 - Luminescent sample imaging method, luminescent cell imaging method and objective lens: It is an object to provide a luminescent sample imaging method, a luminescent cell imaging method and an objective lens capable of capturing a clear image in short exposure time, or even in real time. The luminescent sample imaging method of the present invention captures a clear image in short... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070223799 - Automated neuroaxis (brain and spine) imaging with iterative scan prescriptions, analysis, reconstructions, labeling, surface localization and guided intervention: Automated spine localizing, numbering and autoprescription system enhances correct location of diseased or injured tissue, even allow multi-spectral diagnosis. Externally located this tissue is facilitated by an integrated self adhesive spatial reference and skin marking system that is designed for a variety of modalities to include MRI, CT, SPECT, PET,... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070223801 - Method and device for processing image data for automatic detection and/or segmentation of anatomical features from computed tomography pictures: A method and a device are disclosed for processing image data for automatic detection and/or segmentation of anatomical features from computed tomography pictures. In the case of an embodiment of the method, an image reconstruction procedure which exhibits a filter characteristic having an actual filter frequency response desired for a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070223800 - Method and system for virtual slice positioning in a 3d volume data set: In a method and system for virtual slice positioning in a 3D volume data set in which the image of a subject is represented, first features are extracted from the 3D volume data set that are associated with the subject. An interdependency is determined between the 3D volume data set... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070223802 - Inspection apparatus, lamination apparatus, and inspection method: An inspection apparatus includes an image capturing device for capturing an object's image, and an image data processing device for obtaining a foreign object determination reference value for each piece of partial image data indicating a portion of the object, and detecting a foreign object in the object in the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223803 - Pattern matching method and pattern matching program: It is an object of the invention to provide a suitable method for identifying depression/protrusion information in a design data; and a program and an apparatus for the same; for example, even in the case that similar portions are arranged, to provide a method for enabling a pattern matching with... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070223804 - Cam reference for inspection of contour images: This invention discloses an electrical circuit inspection system including an optical subsystem for optically inspecting an electrical circuit and providing an inspection output identifying more than two different types of regions and an analysis subsystem for analyzing the inspection output, the analyzing including comparing the inspection output with a computer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223805 - Apparatus for measuring three dimensional shape: An apparatus for measuring a 3-dimensional (3D) shape which can remove a shadow, which may occur when measuring the 3D shape, and also can measure a reflected light from an external surface of a test object, is provided. The apparatus for measuring a 3D shape includes a projection part 10... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070223806 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras of three or more cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223807 - Medical imaging visibility index system and method for cancer lesions: A visibility index for medical images. The method includes generating a visibility index from a training set of images; making a number of measurements of a set of features from an image of an abnormality that is not a member of the training set; and combining the number of measurements... Agent: George A Leone, Sr Citadel Patent Law

20070223808 - Motion characterisation: A method for configuring a machine learning model for use in a motion characterisation process. The method comprises, in a processing system, acquiring user characterisations for respective portions of at least one video sequence and configuring the model using the user characterisations and at least one property associated with the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223809 - Picture display apparatus and method: A picture display apparatus which has a control-data storage section which stores signal-processing control data generated by a control-data generating section, the stored data being related to an input terminal designated by an operating section, and which reads out signal-processing control data relating to another input terminal when the designated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223810 - Color processing method and apparatus: Principal component data of a plurality of dimensions representing colors are input. Principal component data of each of the plurality of dimensions is changed using a weight corresponding to the contribution of the principal component data of each dimension so as to map, in the color reproduction range of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223811 - Image retrieval method and image retrieval device: Each of an image retrieval method and an image retrieval device in accordance with the present invention is provided with a means for extracting a color layout feature quantity, a dominant color feature quantity, a region division feature quantity, and a shape feature quantity from a query image which is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223812 - Face detecting method and photography apparatus using the method: Processing speed is improved, by decreasing the amount of calculations required in face detecting processes. A human subject is photographed, and light is received by light receiving elements for each color component, to obtain pieces of pixel data. Next, a raw color image is generated from the pixel data, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223813 - Methods and systems for tone mapping messaging: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for signaling tone map data to an image recipient.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070223814 - Method of processing brightness of an image and related device: Brightness values of image frames are collected and counted to form a brightness distribution. The brightness distribution of the image frames is compared with predetermined brightness distributions. Brightness values of all pixels of successive image frames are adjusted according to a result of the comparison, so as to improve image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070223815 - Feature weighted medical object contouring using distance coordinates: A method for segmenting contours of objects in an image, comprising a first step of receiving an input image containing at least one object, said image comprising pixel data sets of at least two dimensions, a second step of selecting a reference point of said input image within the object,... Agent: Philips Medical Systems Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223816 - Device, system and method for determining compliance with a positioning instruction by a figure in an image: A device, system and method for calculating location coordinates for a figure in an image that is illuminated by visible light, comparing such location coordinates to location coordinates of a figure, and evaluating compliance by such figure to an instruction to assume a defined position.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070223817 - System and methods for automatic parameter determination in machine vision: The present invention provides a system and methods for automatic parameter determination in machine vision in general, and in object recognition in particular. Many machine vision systems use algorithms that demand the user to specify one or more parameters in order to adapt the behavior of the algorithm in dependence... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070223819 - Pattern matching system: A pattern matching system, comprising a receiver, a comparison block, a calculation block, an output block, a ratio reading block, and a controller, is provided. A likeness value indicates how much a first and second image accords to each other. The receiver receives first and second image signal corresponding to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070223820 - Image capturing apparatus and face area extraction method: When a comparison is made between each partial image in frame images output in a frame order from a solid-state image capturing element and plural types of face patterns 25, 26, which are prepared in advance, according to pattern matching to extract an area of a person face image existing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223818 - Method and apparatus for predicting the accuracy of virtual scene based on incomplete information in video: When modeling an object in a visual input image, a model likelihood function for generating a predicted model based on the input data is moderated as a function of the portion of the object so as to less penalize regions of the model that tend to be more noisy. For... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070223821 - Pattern recognition method: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a pattern recognition method of approximating distribution of a set of vectors and a class boundary in a vector space based on basis functions. The method includes defining directional basis functions between two basis vectors, and performing the approximation... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070223823 - Method, apparatus, system and computer program product for providing compression of image files: A method of providing compression of image files includes modifying an input image by eliminating a predetermined number of bits from lower bit planes of the input image, and encoding the modified image. Elimination of the predetermined number of bits of the input image may be performed by a bit... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070223822 - Data compression method used in downhole applications: A method for compressing borehole image data is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes acquiring image data downhole, selecting a block of the image data to compress, applying at least one filter to the block, selecting a subset of pixels from the block, and quantizing each of the... Agent: W-h Energy Services, Inc.

20070223824 - Image capturing apparatus, imaging circuit, and image capturing method: An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image with solid state imaging devices may include a compressing section, a memory, a decompressing section, and a signal processing section. The compressing section may compress digitalized data of an image captured with the solid state imaging devices. The memory may temporarily store... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070223825 - Methods and systems for significance coefficient coding in video compression: A method for decoding significance coefficients in an encoded video sequence is described. An encoded video bitstream is received. Codebook table information is retrieved from the bitstream. Significance symbols are decoded using the retrieved codebook table information. Significance coefficients are decoded using the significance symbols. A plurality of transform coefficients... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070223826 - Fine grained scalability ordering for scalable video coding: Methods, devices, and computer code products for encoding and decoding a video signal involving encoding blocks of the video signal by scan position within a coding cycle in decreasing order to increase the probability that the next symbol will be non-zero. Scalable video decoding techniques can include setting a state... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070223827 - Face image creation device and method: A face image creation device 100 for creating a first face image where face parts for creating the first face image are arranged at positions based on a position of a corresponding face part in a second face image, comprises: a position calculation unit for extracting face parts from the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070223828 - Method for reducting idct calculations in video decoding: Reduced complexity inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) masks and a method for reducing the number of IDCT calculations in video decoding are provided. The method comprises: accepting an n×m matrix of DCT coefficients; performing (n−y) horizontal IDCT operations, where y is greater than 0; performing y scaling operations; and, generating... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc. C/o Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20070223830 - Image processing method, apparatus, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is recorded: Contents of manual retouching performed on a portion of an input image are reflected to the entire portion of the image. Weighting parameters, each representing pre- and post-retouching state of a manually retouched area of a predetermined structure in a retouching target image, and pre-retouching state of the entire portion... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

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20070223832 - Diffusion weighted image processing apparatus and recording medium for recording image analysis program: It is an object to provide a diffusion weighted image processing apparatus or the like which can correct a distortion of a diffusion weighted image requiring smaller endurance on a patient in a diffusion weighted image processing method for correcting distortion of a diffusion weighted image. The diffusion weighted image... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070223833 - Filtering method for removing block artifacts and/or ringing noise and apparatus therefor: Provided are a filtering method and apparatus for removing blocking artifacts and ringing noise. The filtering method includes transforming video data on a block-by-block basis, and detecting the presence of an edge region in the video data by checking the distribution of values obtained by the transformation. Accordingly, it is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223831 - Image deblur based on two images: A method includes (a) performing image deblur at the original size of underexposed and normally exposed images when their original image size is small. Otherwise, the method includes (b) downsizing the images and performing image deblur on the downsized images. The image deblur on downsized images includes (c) applying a... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070223834 - Method for small detail restoration in digital images: A small detail restoration (SDR) system implements an SDR method for processing digital images, especially in DTV applications prior to image resampling process in a scaler unit. The SDR system performs three image processing functions: detail extraction, smoothness checking, and small detail detection on an input image. The results of... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070223835 - Block noise detecting method and apparatus, and block noise reducing method and apparatus: A pixel boundary difference detector detects a pixel boundary difference across a pixel boundary on the basis of a difference value between pixel values of adjacent pixels across the pixel boundary on a picture plane of an input image frame, and a predicted pixel value on the pixel boundary predicted... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223836 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: To reduce the time for searching a similar image area to the first image area to speed up image coding, an image processing apparatus 100 includes: a range block processing section 51 to calculate a contrast value of a range block constituting an image; a domain block processing section 52... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070223837 - Picture retrieving apparatus and method which converts orthogonal transform coefficients into color histogram data: The picture retrieving apparatus includes: an orthogonal conversion coefficient memory 13 of a retrieval target picture storing an orthogonal conversion coefficient of a picture targeted for a retrieval; a picture feature amount converter 2 converting an orthogonal conversion coefficient 21 read from the orthogonal conversion coefficient memory 13 of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070223838 - Detecting compositing in a previously compressed image: In a method and system for detecting digital image compositing, a first artifact is detected in an uncompressed digital image. The first artifact is characteristic of an earlier compression of the digital image with a predetermined compression algorithm. An interpolation marker in the image is evaluated to provide interpolation results.... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070223839 - Signal noise estimation: Provided are systems, methods and techniques that estimate the noise level in a signal, such as an image, by ordering windows in the signal based on calculated measures of the variability within each window (i.e., ordering from lowest to highest or, alternatively, from highest to lowest). That order information is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070223840 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a transformed image,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223841 - Methods of characterizing the probability of wind impact: At least one method for indicating a weather condition. The method includes providing a probability of one or more wind fields from a cyclone impacting one or more locations over a period of time. The probability may then be delivered to a recipient.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070217649 - Digital differential watermark and method: A digital differential steganographic system and method includes a master key that is generated from an unmarked media, a mark-point reservoir created from the unmarked media and containing a set of viable candidate mark points for the unmarked media, and a mark-point applicator to insert data into the unmarked media... Agent: Mesmer & Deleault, PLLC

20070217648 - Fingerprinting digital media content: A computer system and method that selects and records unique portions of media files (audio, video and graphical image, and other content) submitted for UMC cataloging. The unique fingerprint of the media is then stored in the associated UMC record for use by other computer systems to minimize duplicate claims... Agent: Thomas Muehlbauer Umc Technologies, Inc.

20070217651 - Information embedding apparatus, information embedding method, information extracting apparatus, information extracting method, computer program product: A first-information obtaining unit that obtains first information and a second-information obtaining unit obtains second information. The second information has a higher degree of importance than that of the first information. A generating unit generates watermark image data including a group of first dot patterns including the first information and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070217650 - Remote controller, remote control system, and method for displaying detailed information: The present invention relates to a technology which acquires information specific to a device by an image pickup element and remotely controls a desired device based on the acquired device-specific information. Particularly, the present invention relates to a technology which displays information for performing detailed remote control easily. In the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070217652 - Digital watermark detection method and apparatus: A specific frequency component extraction unit extracts a specific frequency component signal from an input image signal. A phase controller controls the phase of the specific frequency component signal. A correlator computes the cross-correlation value of the phase-controlled specific frequency component signal and the input image signal. A watermark information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217653 - Digital watermark detection method and apparatus: A specific frequency component extraction unit extracts a specific frequency component signal from an input image signal. A phase controller controls the phase of the specific frequency component signal. A correlator computes the cross-correlation value of the phase-controlled specific frequency component signal and the input image signal. A watermark information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217655 - Image detection device: A device for detecting an image area from an image data that is inputted in series for each pixel is provided. The device includes a lateral direction edge detection portion for comparing pixel data of neighboring pixels in the lateral direction on one line of the image, a vertical direction... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070217656 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a transformed image,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217654 - Video data tracker: A system tracks multiple moving objects in a stream of video data. In an embodiment, the system uses a combination of video motion detection data and color based data. In another embodiment, the system combines this data into a condensation framework. In yet another embodiment, the integration of the video... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070217657 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A computer readable storage medium storing instructions of a computer program which when executed by a computer results in performance of steps including inputting a first image and a second image from two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a transformed image, obtaining a degree of similarity D indicating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217658 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a transformed image,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217659 - System and method for personal identificatioin using biometrics data, and computer-readable recording medium in which personal identification program is stored: A personal identification system using biometrics data including a biometrics data inputting section, a characteristic data obtaining section for obtaining characteristic data of the collation object person, a biometrics data retaining section for retaining registration biometrics data of each registered object person, which data is previously registered and correlated with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070217660 - Biometric authentication method and biometric authentication apparatus: A biometric authentication device, which uses biometrics characteristic information to perform individual authentication, prevents declines in verification speed even when numerous biometrics information sets have been registered. A control unit registers broad characteristic quantities for blood vessel image data from an image capture device, together with characteristic data for verification.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070217661 - Authentication system and method: An exemplary embodiment providing one or more improvements includes an authentication system which allows an article to be authenticated using an article serial number connected with the article and a self-authenticating document having a serial number that is associated with the article serial number. Access to a database containing the... Agent: Pritzkau Patent Group, LLC

20070217662 - Electronic apparatus and program storage medium: There is provided an electronic apparatus that can scroll an image on a display screen with a simple operation and in various modes. A glide point is provided and a fingerprint sensor is provided adjacently to the glide point. Scroll mode is changed in response to a touch of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070217663 - Registration apparatus, collation apparatus, extraction method and extraction program: A registration apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts characteristics of a subject of biometric identification at every predetermined period as a characteristics image on the basis of the video signals output from an image pickup element as a result of picking up images of the subject of biometric identification... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070217664 - Detection of fiber pathways: A computer-implemented method for detection of fiber pathways includes determining initial data as a subset of voxels that have been selected from a diffusion tensor image by applying a threshold to fractional anisotropy values, determining a cluster of points with highly collinear diffusion directions, and performing region growth to find... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070217665 - System and method for image-based tree matching and registration: A method for matching tree-structures using original image data includes providing a first tree representative of an anatomical structure in a first digital medical image of a pair of digital medical images, said tree comprising a plurality of double linked, directed branches B=(S, P, C) of sites S, links to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070217666 - Enhanced planar single photon emission imaging: An apparatus and method for obtaining a planar image of a portion (4) of a body (5) and enhancing image quality of at least one specific organ or volume of interest located within the portion (4) of the body (5), administered with radiopharmaceutical substance radiating gamma rays, by using single... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20070217667 - Image processing device for processing x-ray images: The invention relates to an image processing device for processing X-ray images, in particular mammography X-ray images, and also to a corresponding X-ray device, to a method for this and to a computer program or computer program product. In the image processing device, display images are created from X-ray images... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070217668 - Method and apparatus of segmenting an object in a data set and of determination of the volume of segmented object: The invention relates to a method of segmenting an object in a data set, wherein the object is initially segmented resulting in a first set (N0) of voxels. An erosion operation is performed on the first set (N0) of voxels resulting in an eroded set (N−) of voxels. A dilation... Agent: Neil A. Steinberg

20070217669 - Apparatus and methods for processing misread or miskeyed magnetic indicia: The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for processing check data, such as data stored using magnetic indicia. In one embodiment, a check transaction processing system receives an indication that a first check transaction from a first payor failed to clear because at least a portion of first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070217670 - On-train rail track monitoring system: An automatic inspection system is provided for monitoring rail track for detecting and generating alerts for certain hazards to the operation of trains that may cause various safety concerns and even derailment. The monitoring is during normal railway service runs without interrupting the normal railway services. In one implementation, an... Agent: Michael Bar-am

20070217672 - Combined 2d and 3d nondestructive examination: An inspection apparatus (10) applying two dimensional nondestructive examination images onto a three dimensional solid model of a component (12) to display a virtual component (73) that may be manipulated to perform a nondestructive inspection. The two dimensional nondestructive examination images may be acquired from a plurality of views of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070217673 - Detection device and method: A device and method for detecting the presence or absence of an object which has repetitive motion are disclosed comprising, a receiver for receiving a signal from the object, and circuitry for determining the presence or absence of the object to be detected, wherein the circuitry records the signal from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070217671 - Method for the characterisation of surface structures and use thereof for the modification development and production of materials: A method of characterizing surface structures using a chemically curable impression material to take an impression of at least one site of the undamaged surface of an article and of a surface of an article damaged by mechanical and/or chemical exposure and/or by exposure to radiation and/or heat, and/or of... Agent: Basf Corporation Patent Department

20070217674 - Method for converting color space of image signal: Provided is a method for converting a first image signal expressed in a first color space into a second image signal expressed in a second color space on a subword parallelism basis. The method includes determining a first image parameter of a second image signal matrix as a function calculated... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070217676 - Pyramid match kernel and related techniques: A method for classifying or comparing objects includes detecting points of interest within two objects, computing feature descriptors at said points of interest, forming a multi-resolution histogram over feature descriptors for each object and computing a weighted intersection of multi-resolution histogram for each object. An alternative embodiment includes a method... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070217675 - Z-axis optical detection of mechanical feature height: Height attributes of features of an object having a plurality of physical features thereon is determined by illuminating the features of the object at a low angle and capturing the reflected light at a camera mounted along the z-axis perpendicular to the object. The reflected light from the features is... Agent: John E. Campbell IBM Corporation

20070217677 - Markup symbol document processing system: A system and method are provided for processing a document. The method comprises: marking an area of a document, using at least one predetermined markup symbol; identifying a markup symbol; using the identified markup symbol to locate the document area; determining characters in the document area; and, processing the determined... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc. C/o Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20070217678 - Metadata producing apparatus, image processing apparatus, metadata producing method and program: There is provided technology which, when producing metadata for correlation with image data to which predetermined processing is to be administered and for characterizing that image data, can produce metadata that is more appropriate to the predetermined processing and can contribute to alleviating the work burden. A metadata producing apparatus... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070217679 - Abnormal pattern detection program for function call in source program: e

20070217683 - Feature point detecting device, feature point detecting method, and feature point detecting program: A device and method for detecting feature points of an object from an image. A three-dimensional model is created in which a plurality of nodes corresponding to feature points in a learning image are defined. The model is projected onto an input image and a feature value is derived from... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070217682 - Method and apparatus for image conversion: An image feature analyzing section performs an image feature analysis with respect to an input image to output an image feature vector. A parameter output section stores a plurality of image feature vectors and a plurality of parameters corresponding to the respective image feature vectors and outputs an original parameter... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070217681 - Determining and using geometric feature data: The invention concerns a method for determining feature data that represents information about the shape of an object. A partitioning scheme (RP) is determined that defines a plurality of cells (p) in the space in which the object is located such that at least some of the cells (p) each... Agent: Ugs Corp.

20070217680 - Digital image pickup device, display device, rights information server, digital image management system and method using the same: A digital image pickup device is provided with an input unit that inputs a photographed digital image, a predetermined information detector that detects predetermined information, a predetermined information embedding unit that embeds the detected predetermined information in the digital image and a browse restriction applying unit that executes a process... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070217684 - Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method: A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or characteristic points of the region,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217685 - Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method: A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or characteristic points of the region,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217686 - Pattern matching system and targeted object pursuit system: A pattern matching system that outputs an likeness values, comprising a designation block, a comparison block, a calculation block and an output block, is provided. The likeness value shows how much a first and second image compares to each other. The designation block designates a first and second image data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070217687 - Display control method, and program, information processing apparatus and optical character recognizer: The display control method for allowing the user to verify the recognition result of a character on a verification screen form 300 is implemented as follows. First of all, the standard pattern of a specific character stored in a memory and a plurality of character images recognized as the specific... Agent: Leslie A Van Lecuwen International Business Machines Corporation

20070217688 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program: An information processing apparatus includes a higher node having a plurality of weak discriminators that have learned a learning sample of a first label and a learning sample of a second label that has a predetermined coordinate relationship with the learning sample of the first label, a first lower node... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070217689 - Visualization and processing of multidimensional data using prefiltered and sorting criteria: Complex multidimensional datasets generated by digital imaging spectroscopy can be organized and analyzed by applying software and computer-based methods comprising sorting algorithms. Combinations of these algorithms to images and graphical data, allow pixels or features to be rapidly and efficiently classified into meaningful groups according to defined criteria. Multiple rounds... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070217690 - Image processing system for skin detection and localization: An image processing system provides faster than real-time skin detection and localization. The system uses the highly optimized architecture of a graphics processing unit to quickly and efficiently detect and locate skin in an image. By performing skin detection and localization on the graphics processing unit, the image processing system... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070217693 - Automated evaluation systems & methods: This invention uses linguistic principles, which together can be called Collocational Cohesion (CC), to evaluate and sort documents automatically into one or more user-defined categories, with a specified level of precision and recall. Human readers are not required to review all of the documents in a collection, so this invention... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070217692 - Property record document data verification systems and methods: A data verification system is configured to verify machine-recognized data elements acquired during a machine-implemented data acquisition process. The system includes a data verification workstation, a image server, and a data entry server. The data verification workstation is configured to obtain document images from the image server, present portions of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070217691 - Property record document title determination systems and methods: A method of determining a title for a document includes recognizing at least a portion of an image of a document. The document includes text and recognizing at least a portion of the image of the document generates one or more character strings based on the text. The method also... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070217699 - Digital images: A rate control means for rate allocation in JPEG2000 processing apparatus is disclosed. The rate control means includes means to receive various parameters from the tier-1 coder and means to calculate R-D slope, means for composing a bucket element, means for comparing the RD slope of each bucket element with... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070217695 - Encoding device and method: The encoding device of the present invention comprises a type determination unit inputs each bit of the weblet co-efficient in a depth direction in parallel and determines type information indicating which the bit is, the first “1” bit when viewed from an MSB side, a bit located further on the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070217696 - Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, program, and storage medium: When an original image containing a code image is lossy-compressed, the image quality of the code image is deteriorated. Thus, due to the deterioration of the image quality of the code image, information contained in the code image cannot be acquired. Thus, a portion corresponding to the code image is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070217697 - Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, program, and storage medium: When an original image containing a code image is lossy-compressed, the image quality of the code image is deteriorated. Thus, due to the deterioration of the image quality of the code image, information contained in the code image cannot be acquired. Thus, a portion corresponding to the code image is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070217700 - Image transfer and motion picture clipping process using outline of image: An image transmission apparatus comprises an outline extraction processor, a selector, and a transmission module. The outline extraction processor extracts an outline of a specific-type image element in each of the image frames and to create outline data, based on image data representing the image frames. The selector selects the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070217698 - Image compressing apparatus, image compressing method and program: An image compressing apparatus carrying out code amount control upon JPEG2000 coding, in which the number of coding passes and a code amount for each code block generated by a MQ (arithmetic) coder are input, and the number of coding passes and the code amount are determined based on a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070217694 - Waveform compression and display: A waveform compression and display technique saves both a peak detected version (background version) and a decimated/lowpass filtered version (foreground version) of a sampled electrical signal. The two versions are displayed simultaneously overlaid together in a contrasting manner so as not to obscure information contained in either of them. The... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070217701 - Systems and methods to convert images into high-quality compressed documents: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to generate a composite image from an captured image, such as from a whiteboard, chalkboard, paper, card, poster, sign, or the like. Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a foreground image layer and mask layer, which enables high-quality and high-ratio document compression.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070217702 - Method and apparatus for decoding digital video stream: The present invention provides method and apparatus of digital video stream decoding by calculating the complexity of the B-type coded frame or macro-block and decoding whether the motion compensation can be skipped to save the time of accessing the referencing memory. The block with the decompressed accumulative pixel difference is... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20070217703 - Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus and control method therefor: The present invention is able to determine an encoding parameter using a simple method with little processing load or memory cost, and enables encoding of image data with excellent compression performance. To this end, a prediction error generating unit of an encoding apparatus according to the present invention calculates the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070217704 - Encoding method, encoding apparatus, decoding method, and decoding apparatus: An encoding method of losslessly encoding picture data is disclosed. The picture data are composed of pixel data. The pixel data whose number of quantizer bits is larger than eight bits are separated into a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is composed of eight bits on... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070217705 - Method for estimating quantization factor of compressed digital image: An estimation system provides quality measure of a given image for image/video applications to determine if the image needs to be enhanced or not. The system systemically measures the image quality by estimating quantization parameter of the compressed digital image. This allows estimating the image quantization parameter effectively in the... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070217706 - Image processing apparatus, method of same, and program for same: An image processing apparatus is configured to carry out image processing on image data including pixel values of a plurality of pixels disposed on a plane defined in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The apparatus includes horizontal-direction image-processing means for carrying out image processing in the horizontal direction... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070217707 - Test method for image sharpness: The present invention discloses a test method for image sharpness, which can instantly determine the sharpness of a captured image, wherein a captured image is firstly divided into multiple blocks with each block composed of multiple pixels; in each block of the captured image, the pixels having higher sharpnesses are... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070217708 - Method, system, and program product for transforming a biometric image: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for transforming a multi-dimensional biometric feature point set. More particularly, the invention provides a method for transforming a biometric image using surface folding of the image. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for transforming a multi-dimensional biometric feature point... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070217709 - System and method for detecting obstacle: A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image from the two cameras, respectively, transforming the first image to a transformed image,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217710 - Image processing apparatus, image direction determining method, and computer program product: A first direction determining unit determines, with respect to each of directions in image data corresponding to an image that contains text, a degree of certainty that the direction corresponds to a predetermined direction of the image to obtain a first direction with the highest degree of certainty and a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070217711 - Image scaling method and related apparatus: An apparatus for scaling an input image is disclosed. The apparatus includes a resolution determining circuit and a scaler. The determining circuit determines the resolution of the input image. The scaler includes a scaling filter with an adjustable number of filter taps and scales the input image to output scaled... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070217712 - Method and apparatus for scaling image data: An apparatus and a method for processing image data are disclosed. The apparatus detects whether the image data corresponds to one of a plurality of predetermined patterns to generate a detection result, selects one of a plurality of processing algorithms according to the detection result, and processes the image data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070217713 - Robust reconstruction of high resolution grayscale images from a sequence of low resolution frames: A computer method of creating a super-resolved grayscale image from lower-resolution images using an L1 norm data fidelity penalty term to enforce similarities between low and a high-resolution image estimates is provided. A spatial penalty term encourages sharp edges in the high-resolution image, the data fidelity penalty term is applied... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070217714 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus for interpolating a pixel value of an interpolation pixel which makes an object of an interpolation process, includes a production section configured to produce, based on the position of the interpolation pixel, a pixel value group including the pixel value of the interpolation pixel and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217716 - Image scaling arrangement: Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred automatically and/or selectively to another display device for example a TV,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20070217715 - Property record document data validation systems and methods: A method of extracting data from a document image includes selecting a document classification for the document image that includes text. The classification is selected from a plurality of predetermined document classifications based on recognized text. The method also includes selecting rules from a database of rules based on the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070211913 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable recording medium storing program: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, comprising: an screen processing unit which shifts a position of a screen cell applied to an input image in at least one direction of a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction of the input image by a first shift amount which changes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211912 - Method and apparatus for lens auto-focusing in camera module test: A lens auto-focusing method in camera module testing includes the following steps: providing testing equipment including a range finder, a signal processor and a driving member; providing an imaged object (20); providing an camera module including a lens module (10) and an image sensor, the view angle and the biggest... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070211915 - Gesture activated home appliance: Apparatus for operating home appliances using gesture recognition are disclosed. An image receiver receives a continuous stream of images of a gesture made within the image receiver's field of view. An image processor is connected to the image receiver for sampling the received stream of gesture images to form a... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070211914 - Method and apparatus for computerized image background analysis: A computerized method of video analysis including receiving image data for a plurality of video frames depicting a scene that includes at least one of a plurality of background features. Each video frame includes s a plurality of image regions and at least one video frame has an object within... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070211917 - Obstacle tracking apparatus and method: An obstacle tracking apparatus includes an image input unit which acquires image sequences; an obstacle detector which detects candidate areas of an obstacle at a current time from the image sequences; a state hypothesis storage which stores a state hypothesis group including at least one state hypothesis of the obstacle... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211918 - Target-image detecting apparatus and method of controlling same: In the detection of face images, features for the purpose of detecting face images can be added on to supplement existing features. A face detecting apparatus includes a ROM, which stores data representing features for detecting face images having inclination angles at increments of 90° in the image of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211916 - Method of detecting a target with a cfar thresholding function using clutter map entries: A method of detecting a target in a scene comprises the steps of (a) obtaining a first data set of data elements which correspond to returns from different parts of the scene; and (b) determining a detection threshold for a part of the scene by reference to data elements corresponding... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070211919 - Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus capable of distinguishing and determining an object type with high reliability, particularly a vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus capable of determining an object by distinguishing between a pedestrian and other objects among the objects with high reliability. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus detects an object existing... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070211920 - Methods and cards employing optical phenomena: Directional albedo of a particular article, such as an identity card, is measured and stored. When the article is later presented, it can be confirmed to be the same particular article by re-measuring the albedo function, and checking for correspondence against the earlier-stored data. The re-measuring can be performed through... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070211921 - Biometric measurement using interactive display systems: Biometric data are produced in response to user input to an interactive display. The user input occurs when the interactive display senses a user input proximate to an interactive display surface that is able to respond to simultaneous multiple inputs. A detection signal based on a user input is processed... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070211922 - Integrated verification and screening system: An inspection system includes a passenger identity verification system, a passenger screening system, and a computer coupled to the passenger verification system and the passenger screening system, the computer configured to receive information from the passenger verification system and operate the passenger screening system based on the information.... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070211923 - Method and apparatus for combining outputs of multiple systems: Automatic recognition systems (100) includes multiple automatic recognition subsystems (102, 104, 106) that are cable of producing estimates of the probability that a subject matches a particular identity and a probability estimate combiner (108) that receives estimates from the multiple automatic recognition subsystems (102, 104, 106). The probability estimate combiner... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070211924 - Invariant radial iris segmentation: A method and computer product are presented for identifying a subject by biometric analysis of an eye. First, an image of the iris of a subject to be identified is acquired. Texture enhancements may be done to the image as desired, but are not necessary. Next, the iris image is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070211925 - Face authentication apparatus and face authentication method: A face authentication apparatus uses a facial region detecting section to detect an image of a facial region of an authentication target person based on each of a plurality of images supplied from a camera that continuously shoots a predetermined target range, uses an authenticating section to authenticate the authentication... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070211926 - Fingerprint authenticating apparatus, live-finger determining apparatus, and live-finger determining method: A fingerprint sensor acquires fingerprint information of an object being in contact. A light source irradiates a light to the object from a lateral side of the fingerprint sensor. A measuring unit measures a diffusion pattern of the light passing through the object. A determining unit determines whether the object... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070211929 - Digital medical image processing: In a method of performing CAD analysis of a medical image, the medical image volume is processed in a pre-processing module to generate intermediate data, and the intermediate data is processed by a filtering module to generate CAD result data. The different modules may be executed by different processing nodes... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070211928 - Discover biological features using composite images: An image processing system extracts parts or characteristics of interest from prepared biological samples One suitable use of the image processing system is to find biomarkers. But many other suitable uses are possible. Some components of the system include image preprocessing (data interpolation, retention time alignment, image noise filtering, background... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070211927 - Methods and systems for registration of surgical navigation data and image data: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for correlating data including: receiving from a tracking subsystem a first data set including a tracked position of an object; receiving from an imaging subsystem a second data set including an image of the object; and comparing automatically at least a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070211930 - Attribute based image enhancement and display for medical imaging applications: A method and system for enhancing the display of computer-aided detection marks on a medical image without obscuring underlying details are disclosed. A medical image is obtained and processed by a computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm. The image is displayed or printed with its corresponding CAD-detected regions superimposed on the image.... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070211931 - System for high speed processing of gaming documents: A system is provided for automatically processing gaming documents. The system obtains the dollar value of the document directly by optically identifying each dollar value characters from a scanned image of the document, instead of forwarding the bar-coded validation number to a remote database to ascertain the dollar value. This... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20070211932 - Semiconductor wafer analysis system: A semiconductor wafer analysis system is provided. In an embodiment, the semiconductor wafer analysis system includes a tester to test semiconductor wafers manufactured by at least one manufacturing facility, a wafer map generation module to generate wafer maps on the basis of the test results from the tester, and a... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070211933 - System for search and analysis of systematic defects in integrated circuits: Disclosed is a method of locating systematic defects in integrated circuits. The invention first performs a preliminary extracting and index processing of the circuit design and then performs feature searching. When performing the preliminary extracting and index processing the invention establishes a window grid for the circuit design and merges... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070211934 - Optimized video stitching method: The invention discloses an optimized video stitching method, comprising: inputting predefined pattern images; proceeding with a transformation which combines planar and cylindrical transformation; proceeding with a merging calculation which combines linear difference merging and alpha blending calculation; and proceeding with a horizontal stitching processing by putting the processed images horizontally... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211935 - Method and apparatus for estimating noise determination criteria in an image sensor: A method and an apparatus are provided for estimating noise determination criteria in an image sensor. The method includes calculating a color characteristic value for each of a plurality blocks constituting an input image, comparing the color characteristic value of a first block among the blocks with a initial noise... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211936 - Colour specification: A color chart is constructed by defining a reference color and specifying a range of colors from the reference color, where each color in the range is spaced from any other color by integral multiples of a preselected color difference value, such as at least one CMC value. One or... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070211937 - Hybrid image compression method: According to the invention, a method is provided for the compression of image data, comprising: dividing an image which is to be compressed into a plurality of image sections; determining, for each image section, a compression method from a plurality of compression methods, by means of predetermined parameters; and compressing... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20070211938 - Method and system for performing image re-identification: A method for re-identifying an image is provided. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of images and generating a correspondence map between the plurality of images. The method further comprises defining a plurality of region signatures for one or more regions comprising the plurality of images and comparing the plurality... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070211940 - Method and system for interactive image segmentation: A method for segmentation of an image interactively with a user utilizes level set segmentation and includes selecting by user input respective areas of object and of background; initializing an embedding function implementing a segmentation boundary according to the selecting; computing intensity distributions and for the respective areas of object... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070211939 - Region-competitive deformable mesh adaptation: An image segmentation method segments a plurality of image features in an image. The plurality of image features are segmented non-simultaneously in succession. The segmenting of each image feature includes adapting an initial mesh to boundaries of the image feature. The segmenting of each image feature further includes preventing the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070211941 - Image forming process control apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming process control method and program: A technology for solving inconvenience such that when executing an image forming process on the basis of PDL data using a non-standard command, the image forming process cannot be executed due to a description error of the non-standard command of the PDL data even though a description of a standard... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070211942 - Multiple image input for optical character recognition processing systems and methods: A method of processing an image includes receiving a digital version of the image, processing the digital version of the image through at least two binarization processes to thereby create a first binarization and a second binarization, and processing the first binarization through a first optical character recognition process to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070211943 - Realistic machine-generated handwriting: There have thus been provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of particular individuals. The handwriting includes an appropriate degree of randomness so as to be realistic in appearance.... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070211944 - Apparatus for detecting feature point and method of detecting feature point: An apparatus for detecting a feature point includes an image input unit that inputs an image of the target object; a three-dimensional shape information holding unit that stores three-dimensional shape information including reference feature points of a model relating to the target object; a correspondence relation acquiring unit that acquires... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211945 - Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method: A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or characteristic points of the region,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070211946 - Image determination method, image processing apparatus, and image outputting apparatus: There is provided an image processing apparatus that captures an image including characters or graphics, determines whether or not the characters or graphics included in the captured image are prepared by handwriting, and applies processing to the image in accordance with a determination result, comprising: means that extracts the feature... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211948 - Method for providing real-time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet: A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070211947 - System for seeing using auditory feedback: The invention is a system whereby a video image can be converted into an audio signal. A portable apparatus is described which allows a visually blind person to hear the images and thus ‘see’. This does not require expensive equipment nor does it require surgery. It has applications for non-blind... Agent: Peter Tkacik

20070211949 - Two-dimensional adaptive image compression method: According to the invention, a method is provided for the compression of data which contain a plurality of information units, comprising: determining of one or more expected values for each of the information units; for each information unit, determining a coincidence of the value of the information unit with the... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20070211950 - Vlc technique for layered video coding using distinct element grouping: The layered coding technique is employed to achieve the image quality scalability for video coding standards. The desired image quality scalability can be achieved by refining the image coefficients in subsequent enhancement layers. In most cases, the refinement coefficient consists of some binary information such as whether this coefficient is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070211951 - Method of generating a sequence of matrix factors for a transformation matrix: A method of generating a sequence of matrix factors for a transformation matrix having a plurality of rows and columns using a computer, wherein the transformation matrix stores data values representing a wavelet transform. In a first aspect, at least one plurality of row reduction operations are applied to the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070211952 - Method of generating matrix factors for a finite-dimensional linear transform: A method of generating matrix factors for a finite-dimensional linear transform using a computer. The linear transform is represented by data values stored in a linear transformation matrix having a nonzero determinant. In one aspect, a first LU-decomposition is applied to the linear transformation matrix. Four matrices are generated from... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070211953 - Signal processor: A data compressing method comprises first step in which a data is orthogonally transformed so that an orthogonal transform data is generated. A processing step executed subsequent to the first step is divided into a processing step for an alternate-current component of the orthogonal transform data and a processing step... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070211954 - Image-processing control device, image-processing control method, and image-processing control program storage medium: There is provided an image-processing control device including: a coordinate acquisition unit that acquires coordinate information with respect to an original electronic document as a printing source of a hard copy from a scanned electronic document created by scanning the hard copy; a policy acquisition unit that acquires security policy... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070211955 - Perspective correction panning method for wide-angle image: The present invention provides a extracting and correcting method for a wide-angle image which can be a still image or a video stream. The method is able to display the extracted image without distortion. The correction method of the present invention is performed to map sections of the image to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211956 - Data processing device capable of executing retinex processing at high speed: An original image is converted into a reduced image, based on which a peripheral average luminance image is obtained through a filtering processing. A Retinex image having a smaller size than the original image is obtained from the peripheral average luminance image and the reduced image. The Retinex image is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070211957 - Image processing method and apparatus thereof: An image processing method is disclosed for processing a first and a second image area of a video frame or a video field. The image processing method includes performing a first operation on the first image area wherein the first operation corresponds to a first criterion, performing a first image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070211959 - Enhancement of image data: A technology is provided whereby correction may be carried out appropriately for both a person's face and other portions of an image, when performing color correction for image data of a photographic image in which a person appears. A process such as the following is carried out during color correction... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070211958 - Method and means for image processing: A method and means enabling identification in an NMR image, being one of a time-sequence