Image analysis inventions 10/07

20070248241 - Digital content reproduction, data acquisition, metadata management, and digital watermark embedding: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems to embed pointer information for metadata in content using a method that will not delete the information, so that metadata correlated with content can be correctly obtained, even after the contents have been edited. In an example embodiment, a user terminal for... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070248242 - Mehtod and system for achieving access to an object or a service: A method is disclosed for gaining access to an object and/or to a service of an object or service provider. A biometric reference parameter of at least one user is recorded in a personal mobile station (1). The user orders an object or service from a remote server (6, 7)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070248239 - Method for the non-destructive testing of an element for a nuclear reactor: A method for the non-destructive testing of an element for a nuclear reactor having the steps of: a) acquiring a radiographic digital image of at least one area in element, b) creating a reference image through the digital processing of the image obtained, and c) comparing the image obtained, processed... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070248240 - Selective video blanking: Subsets of a video image (101) are analyzed to determine whether unauthorized playback-protected image is contained within the subsets. Regions of subsequent video images are prevented (210) from being displayed based upon whether the unauthorized playback-protected image is contained within the subsets. When a watermark is detected (220) within a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070248243 - Device and method of detecting gradual shot transition in moving picture: An apparatus for and a method of detecting a gradual shot transition in a moving picture The method includes: setting at least one feature point of a frame included in the moving picture, tracking the set at least one feature point, and setting a feature point of a subsequent frame,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070248244 - Image surveillance/retrieval system: An object processing unit divides each image frame of received image data into block areas, extracts an object from each image frame, and extracts, as metadata, the features of this object for each block area. A real-time detection processing unit compares the metadata extracted for each block area with a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070248245 - Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, vehicle, vehicle surroundings monitoring method, and vehicle surroundings monitoring program: An object such as a person is extracted from images captured by cameras (2R, 2L) to determine the degree of vertical symmetry of the object (step 33). In the case where the degree of vertical symmetry is determined to be high, the object is determined to be other than a... Agent: Carrier, Blackman & Associates, P.C.

20070248246 - Electro-optical method and apparatus for evaluating protrusions of fibers from a fabric surface: An electro-optical method and apparatus for evaluating the dimensions of any protrusion from the threshold of the fabric surface is achieved by bending any length of fabric over a rotating roller so that the contoured area of the protrusion body above the surface can be visualized. The image of the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070248248 - Integrated vote by mail processing system: A modular integrated software and hardware suite can accept data exported from a voter registration database corresponding to requests for mail ballots, sort the data as necessary for ballot preparation, create a road map for ballot mailing preparation, provide for mail presorting, scan returned ballot envelopes using a ballot envelope... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070248247 - Method for authenticating an electronic signature: A method for determining whether a disputed electronic signature is that of a purported signator includes the steps of (a) creating in a single step an ink on paper signature and an identical electronic signature of the purported signator; (b) verifying that the ink on paper signature is consistent with... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20070248249 - Fingerprint identification system for access control: A one-to-many identification system for access control allows a search rate of up to ˜1:30,000 in a real time. The system uses a very fast pattern based screening algorithm followed by a fast minutiae based screening algorithm. A fused score of both algorithms is used as a decision metric to... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070248251 - System and method for learning-based 2d/3d rigid registration for image-guided surgery: A method of registering 3-dimensional digitized images to 2-dimensional digitized images during a medical procedure includes providing a pair of correctly-registered training images L={lr, lf} and their joint intensity distribution pl(ir, if), wherein ir and if are reference and floating images, respectively, providing a pair of observed images O={or, of}... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070248250 - Three-dimensional (3d) modeling of coronary arteries: A method for producing three-dimensional images of a blood vessel. A first set of seed points is placed along a first estimate of a centerline of the vessel. A cyclic graph is constructed around a first one of the seed points in a plane passing through the seed points. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070248252 - Method for monitoring during an image-based clinical study: A method is disclosed for monitoring during an image-based clinical study. In at least one embodiment, in the method medical image data are produced from a patient to present a medical diagnosis and verification data correlated with the diagnosis are collected from the patient to verify the diagnosis. Further, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070248255 - System and method for estimating data missing from ct imaging projections: A system and method for generating an image of an object that is substantially free of artifacts induced by missing data is disclosed. The method includes performing a computed tomography (CT) imaging process using a cone-beam traversed over an actual scan path to acquire actual CT data having missing data.... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070248253 - Artifact reduction: Minimizing the temporal width of the gating window during calculation of the gating function in cardiac CT may not result in best image quality with a maximum of signal-to-noise ratio and minimal artifacts. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the widths of the gating windows in cardiac... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070248254 - System and method for automatic detection of internal structures in medical images: A medical imaging system is used to recognize an internal structure from a three-dimensional image. The image includes image sub-volumes. An image sub-volume is selected using a non-linear search pattern. The selected image sub-volume is analyzed for the presence of the internal structure. The steps of selecting an image sub-volume... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070248256 - System and method for producing a digital radiographic image with a notation to indicate the exposure side of the image: A device is provided which will electronically impart upon a latent image, a notation which will permanently identify its exposure side, such identification forming an integral part of the resultant digitized image. In one particular embodiment of the present invention, the notation is chirally asymmetric, so as to provide a... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20070248257 - Mask defect analysis system: An automated system for analyzing mask defects in a semiconductor manufacturing process is presented. This system combines results from an inspection tool and design layout data from a design data repository corresponding to each mask layer being inspected with a computer program and a predetermined rule set to determine when... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070248258 - Pattern misalignment measurement method, program, and semiconductor device manufacturing method: A pattern misalignment measurement method includes acquiring an inspection image of a composite pattern formed by superposing a plurality of kinds of element patterns on each other, acquiring reference images of at least two kinds of element patterns from reference images which are images of reference patterns of the plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070248259 - Apparatus for reconstructing multi-dimensional image data and a method thereof: An apparatus for reconstructing multi-dimensional image data is used for generating a three-dimensional image of an object. An image block-rearranging unit is used for reconstructing the sub-blocks according to a plurality of two-dimensional images. A storage unit is used for storing the sub-blocks and the two-dimensional images. Next, an image-reconstructing... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070248262 - Device and method for synchronizing an image capture device with a pre-operative image data set: The present invention relates to a device and a method for synchronizing an image capture device with a first image data set. The image capture device is used for recording a second image data set of a periodically moving area or object. Each first image data set contains information as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070248260 - Supporting a 3d presentation: For supporting a three-dimensional presentation on a display, which presentation combines at least a first available image and a second available image, differences between a first calibration image and a second calibration image are detected. At least one of a first available image and a second available image are then... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070248261 - Systems and methods for collaborative interactive visualization of 3d data sets over a network (\"dextronet\"): Exemplary systems and methods are provided by which multiple persons in remote physical locations can collaboratively interactively visualize a 3D data set substantially simultaneously. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, there can be, for example, a main workstation and one or more remote workstations connected via a data network.... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20070248263 - Image processing device: Color-difference signals that become unnecessary after rotation are deleted from a second pixel while saving color-difference signals that become necessary after rotation in the second pixel, to thereby form image data conforming to YUV422 format. The image data is then rotated, and subsequently the color-difference signals saved in the second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070248264 - Method and apparatus for color correction: A graphical user interface for performing color correction and methods for implementing the color correction are disclosed. The graphical user interface allows a user to adjust the colorspace of the pixels in the image. In one embodiment, a color adjustment pad allows the user to push the pixels from a... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070248265 - Automated histogram characterization of data sets for image visualization using alpha-histograms: Methods and apparatus are configured to provide data to generate and/or render (medical) images using medical volumetric data sets by electronically analyzing a medical volume data set associated with a patient that is automatically electronically divided into a plurality of local histograms having intensity value ranges associated therewith and programmatically... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070248266 - Method of generating a labeled image and image processing system: To identify pixels constituting image elements for generating a labeled image in which pixels are labeled with identification information, a pixel block including four pixels adjacent to one another in two dimensions is inputted as a unit from data including pixels that form an image. All of the on-pixels that... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070248267 - Quantifying graphic features of handwriting for analysis: A method and apparatus for quantifying graphic features of handwriting, and a system for organizing and reporting analysis results, thereby enabling objective research and evaluation of handwriting. The system includes a standardized list of quantifiable handwriting Features wherein each Feature has a unique alphanumeric reference code; and a standardized list... Agent: Howard M Cohn Patent Attorney LLC

20070248268 - Moment based method for feature indentification in digital images: A method for identifying features in digital images. The method includes, providing a digital image of a plurality of pixels having one or more features to be identified; providing a feature model having one or more parameters characteristic of a feature to be identified, wherein the feature model has a... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070248269 - Method and apparatus for image processing: Methods and apparatuses for image processing are provided. The methods and apparatuses determine contour points from image data and carried out a segmentation process on the basis of the contour points, during which associated contour points are combined to form objects for further processing.... Agent: Charles N. J. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070248270 - System and method for compression of mixed graphic and video sources: A system and method for compressing a mixed graphic and video signal. A system is provided that comprises: an encoder (14) for compressing mixed graphic and video pixel blocks (56), including: a classification system (22) for classifying each inputted pixel block as one of a plurality of unique types of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070248271 - Image compression apparatus, image compression program and image compression method: An image compression apparatus comprises: an image dividing section that divides the 3D image into a plurality of compression units each of which is a 3D area having a predetermined size; a pixel selection section that sequentially selects pixels in the compression unit as a target pixel in a predetermined... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070248273 - Multi-point predictive foveation for bandwidth reduction of moving images: A scene of an image sequence is transmitted that has been compressed using a number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the first scene.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070248272 - Vision-based compression: Systems and methods provide vision-based image compression. In one implementation, inpainting is the vision-based technique selected to augment a conventional signal-processing-based technique. For some regions of a source image, an exemplary system efficiently extracts and organizes structural edge information instead of compressing the regions. In one implementation, the system applies... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070248274 - Systems and methods using parameter selection in data compression and decompression: Apparatus, systems and methods for using the selection of an appropriate parameter at decompression are disclosed. In particular, when adaptive block size discrete cosine transform compression is used to compress data, different combinations of sub-blocks can be generated. To decompress the different combinations of sub-blocks, the appropriate parameter is selected... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070248275 - Method and system for image compression using image symmetry: An image compression system and method is described, which makes use of the symmetry found in faces and heads to perform the compression. The image is divided along the line of symmetry, and pairs of corresponding pixels on the two divided sides are determined. A weighted average and a weighted... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070248276 - Quantization table producing device, quantization table producing method, quantization table producing program, image compression device, image compression method and image compression program: An image compression device includes a quantization table storing portion storing a first quantization table and a second quantization table prepared by adjusting the first quantization table with a spatial filter, a frequency converter performing frequency conversion on input image data, a quantizer quantizing the data subjected to the frequency... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070248277 - Method and system for processing image data: Processing image data includes receiving image data corresponding to an image, where the image data describes a number of pixels. A blurring filter is applied to the image data, where the blurring filter reduces contrast between at least some of the pixels. A stretching filter is applied to the image... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20070248278 - Image processing device: An image processing device wherein processing is simplified. The image processing device 1 performs an image quality adjustment to adjust the quality of an image constituted of pixels arranged along scanning lines. The image processing device 1 comprises three line memories 320 and the like to which brightness data corresponding... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070248279 - Image processing apparatus for print process of photographed image: An image processing method of performing various image correction processes to a photographed image and printing the photographed image comprises the steps of: inputting image information to which photographing condition information is added; analyzing the characteristic of the input image information; performing an imago correction process of improving image quality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070248281 - Prespective improvement for image and video applications: A system and method for reducing distance-based distortion in a camera image of an object, where the distanced-based distortion is due to differences in distance from the camera to different parts of the object. In one approach, the distortion is reduced by estimating distances to different parts of the object... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070248280 - Sign coring for contour reduction: A method for contour reduction in a digital picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) buffering a plurality of luma samples in a current line of the digital picture, each of the luma samples having a respective input value, (B) calculating a plurality of horizontal sum-of-signs... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20070248282 - Image correction processing system and image correction processing method: An image processing system includes a local area selecting section configured to select a local area as at least one correction target from an input image, the local area including at least one pixel; a correction amount calculating section configured to calculate a gradation correction amount for the local area... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070248283 - Method and apparatus for a wide area virtual scene preview system: The present invention provides a cost effective, reliable system for producing a virtual scene combining live video enhanced by other imagery, including computer generated imagery. In one embodiment it includes a scene camera with an attached tracking camera, the tracking camera viewing a tracking marker pattern, which has a plurality... Agent: David D. Lowry, Esq. Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20070248284 - Device and method of downscaling and blending two high resolution images: The present invention relates to the field of downscaling and blending of two high resolution images, and particularly to a device and a method allowing for downscaling and blending of a HD JPEG background image and a HD bitmap image, which is overlaid on the JPEG background image. The device... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070248285 - Scaling images for display: A graphic image that has pixels arranged in rows and columns is scaled by processing a succession of segments. Each segment comprises contiguous pixels. The row and column dimensions of each segment do not correspond to an intended degree of scaling in both dimensions. The processing of each segment produces... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070248286 - Image scaling method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for down scaling image data is disclosed. One method controls a phase for an M/N filter, where N represents a number of input samples, and M represents a number of output samples. N is greater than M. Another method may switch between an M/N filter and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070248287 - Pattern detecting method and related image processing apparatus: The present invention discloses an image processing apparatus for processing an image. The image processing apparatus includes a line-pattern detecting module and an image processing module. The line-pattern detecting module examines how a first plurality of pixels of a first pixel line change and how a second plurality of pixels... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070248288 - Image processing device, and recording medium: The present invention provides an image processing device. The image processing device includes an image processing section constructed by individual modules being connected in a pipeline form or a directed acyclic graph form, such that a buffer module is connected at least one of a preceding stage and a following... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070248289 - Method and apparatus for rfid mapping to a digital camera and digital picture delivery system: This disclosure is a method and system for the linking of digital images to RFID devices. The method includes providing at least one radio frequency identification device, each radio frequency identification device having a electronic product code; linking one or more of the electronic product codes to a digital image... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070242854 - Method of and apparatus for detecting degradation of visual performance: An apparatus for characterising a subject's visual response, comprising a data processor, a display and an input device, wherein the data processor is arranged to present evaluation images at different positions on the display such that they occur at different positions within the subject's field of view, and wherein each... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070242853 - Digital watermarking methods, systems and apparatus: This disclosure describes, e.g., methods, sensors and apparatus that provide steganographic indicia or digital watermarking in image or video data. One implementation provides a method including: determining one or more operating characteristics of a device; based at least on the one or more operating characteristics, adjusting a steganographic embedding process... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070242852 - Method and apparatus for watermarking sensed data: A method and apparatus for watermarking sensed data in a sensing device which senses a subject to obtain sensed data includes the sensing device temporarily storing the sensed data. The sensing device collects metadata associated with a user of the sensing device and temporarily stores the metadata. The sensing device... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070242855 - Target searching device and its image display method: A target searching device has an image capture unit that captures and outputs a captured image having I×J pixels, an image display unit that displays a displayed image having M×N pixels, and an image process unit that is coupled with the image capture unit and the image display unit. The... Agent: Raymond Sun

20070242856 - Object recognition method and apparatus therefor: A feature extraction unit (23) extracts features of an object of interest included in an image. A local region setting unit (24) sets a local region that includes a feature group required to obtain the shape of the object and a local region that includes a feature group required to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242857 - True/false determining apparatus, image forming apparatus, true/false determining method, and image forming method: A true/false determining apparatus that can determine the genuineness of a material with high accuracy. Coherent light is radiated onto a surface of an object. Reflected light of the coherent light reflected by the object detecting unit is detected. A part to be used as a pattern sample from intensity... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070242859 - Brain shape as a biometric: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for identifying an individual using biometric data based on the individual's brain. In one embodiment, the invention includes constructing a biometric signature based on at least one of: features within a two-dimensional scan of the individual's brain and a difference in... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070242858 - Method and apparatus for person identification: A method and apparatus are provided for person identification. In one embodiment, a method for identifying an individual includes obtaining at least one image of the individual, where the image depicts at least a portion of the individual's hair, comparing the visual characteristics of the individual's hair to the visual... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070242860 - Face image read apparatus and method, and entrance/exit management system: A face image read apparatus which reads the face image of a moving person by the time he or she arrives at a particular position, comprises first and second image capture units configured to capture an area where the moving person enters from first and second directions, respectively, a first... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070242861 - Image display apparatus, image-taking apparatus and image display method: The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242862 - Watermarking and fingerprinting digital content using alternative blocks to embed information: A method of embedding information in digital content representing media streams. The method includes (1) selecting a set of locations within that digital content representing the media stream to embed information, (2) selecting a set of possible alterations to make at those locations, and (3) making a subset of the... Agent: Swernofsky Law Group PC

20070242863 - Methods and apparatus for contouring at least one vessel: A method includes accessing image data regarding at least one vessel, and contouring the at least one vessel by defining a plurality of components of a histogram.... Agent: Fisher Patent Group, LLC

20070242864 - System and method for feature detection in ultrasound images: A system and method for feature detection in ultrasound images is disclosed. The method estimates speckle distributions in windows on opposing sides of a pixel of an ultrasound image. The divergence is calculated for the pixel between the estimated speckle distributions in the windows. These steps are performed for each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070242865 - Method for controlling the acquisition and/or evaluation operation of image data in medical examinations: In a method for controlling the acquisition and/or evaluation operation of image data in medical examinations, using a statistical model of the target volume based on data about real anatomy, spatial information (in particular position, orientation and shape) of the target volume are automatically determined in a previously-acquired planning image... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070242866 - Method and mr system for generating mr images: In a method and apparatus for generation of magnetic resonance images, a number of three-dimensional volume data sets of a subject are acquired in k-space, with each three-dimensional volume data set being acquired with a non-constant density. Filtered three-dimensional volume data sets are generated in k-space, which are assembled from... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070242867 - Image reconstruction method for structuring two-dimensional planar imaging into three-dimension imaging: An image reconstruction method for structuring planar images into three-dimension images is disclosed in the present invention. Conventional planar imaging of nuclear medicine can only obtain two-dimensional planar images. The image reconstruction method, being adopted to perform an image reconstruction operation upon a measured value of at least a line... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20070242868 - Methods and apparatus for displaying images: In one aspect, a method of displaying data is provided. The method comprises obtaining projection data of an object by exposing an object to radiation at a plurality of view angles and detecting at least some of the radiation exiting the object to form the projection data, operating a computer... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070242869 - Processing and measuring the spine in radiographs: An image processing method for automatically analyzing the spine in a radiograph. The methods includes the steps of acquiring the radiographic image in digital form; detecting the spine midline in the radiograph, locating vertebra and pedicle along the spine midline, and calculating geometrical data of the spine in the radiograph.... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Pamela R. Crocker

20070242871 - Method of computing spray parameters from optical patternation: The present invention provides a method of computing fuel nozzle spray parameters comprising steps of using a virtual or physical information collector which is divided into a plurality of regions to collect information relating to a spray of a fuel nozzle and analyzing the information collected in the individual regions... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20070242870 - System and method for automatically counting bundled items: A system and method for automatically counting a bundled group of metal rods, bars, angles or other items having discernible configuration portions includes a imaging device, such as digital camera, a computer and a computer algorithm that processes images form the imaging device and counts the number of discernible configurations... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070242872 - System and method for three-dimensional estimation based on image data: A method and apparatus to extract a dense three-dimensional model of an observed scene or object from one or more sequences of images acquired with an imaging device such as a camera or camcorder, or clusters of cameras and/or camcorders. In some embodiments the method includes capturing an image sequence... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070242873 - Classification of composite actions involving interaction with objects: The present invention provides a method for using stored data associated with simple actions to identify and classify an observed composite action which comprises a combination of simple actions. Image data comprising the composite action is received and used to generate a feature vector, such as a combination of a... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070242875 - Image processing device and method: The image processing device according to an aspect of the invention comprises an image input device for inputting image data representing a color image, a distance calculation device for calculating a distance on a color space between a noticed pixel of the inputted color image and each of peripheral pixels... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070242874 - Method and computer-readable medium for detecting flesh-tone pixels: This invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for detecting flesh-tone regions in pictures, images, and videos. The method includes (a) defining a flesh-tone axis in a color space coordinate system, wherein the flesh-tone axis passes through both the center of a flesh-tone region and the origin of the color... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070242876 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus to recognize a predetermined model whose surface has a plurality of colors from an input color image that is obtained by capturing an image of a color object whose surface has a plurality of colors. The image processing apparatus includes a detecting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070242877 - Method for electronic color matching: Disclosed is a method to define automatically, in a pre-selected color space, at least one user-provided sample color. The method includes defining at least one target color within the color space to yield a standard color data set and providing a physical color swatch corresponding to the defined target color.... Agent: Dewitt Ross & Stevens S.c.

20070242879 - Apparatus and method for adjusting image: An image adjusting apparatus is provided, by which detailed and highly precise adjustments is performed on the basis of not only an image being displayed but also characteristics of the image being displayed when adjusting image quality of the image being displayed on a television or the like. The image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242878 - Method and system for separating illumination and reflectance using a log color space: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for generating an illumination invariant, chromaticity representation of an image is provided. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of providing an image comprising an array of pixels, each pixel having N band color values,... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070242880 - System and method for the identification of motional media of widely varying picture content: One or more embodiments of the present invention is directed to a system and method that identifies motional media content from the actual initially unknown program under review. Embodiments of the present invention identifies the content by searching a database to derive the relevant information about the owner, copyright holder... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070242881 - Segmentation of digital images of an observation area in real time: For segmenting in real time a first digital image of an observation area captured by an image capture device and transmitted to a data processing device, a second digital image each pixel of which is associated with a magnitude such as a distance relative to a point of the observation... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070242882 - Image processing apparatus for identifying the position of a process target within an image: When image data of a partial image of a document that includes a plurality of process targets and a plurality of codes are input, a code included in the partial image is recognized, and relative position information that represents the relative position of a process target region to the code... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070242883 - System and method for recovering image detail from multiple image frames in real-time: This invention describes an efficient super-resolution method for image enhancement that leverages prior knowledge about the specific task for which detail information is recovered. The particular case of barcode scanning is considered. The barcode localization and decoding algorithm of the present invention employs a subpixel-accurate search algorithm which allows for... Agent: Scanbuy, Inc.

20070242884 - Method for measuring water depths using visible images of shoaling ocean waves: To estimate water depth, photos of shoaling ocean waves are analyzed in view of primary wave frequency and length, mean water level, and known error sources. Primary wave frequency and mean water level are found from independent surface-wave and tide-level hindcasting systems for the time and place of the photos.... Agent: Peter I. Lippman

20070242885 - High-accuracy pattern shape evaluating method and apparatus: A quantity (or dispersion value) of a distribution of edge position due to random noise is expected to be reduced statistically to 1/N when N edge position data items are averaged. Using this property, the single page image is averaged in a vertical direction with various values of parameter S,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070242886 - Method for determining the position of a marker in an augmented reality system: The invention relates to a method for determining a position of a marker in an Augmented Reality System. After detection of the marking points of a marker in a captured image, marker vectors are determined using the marking points of the marker, and the distance of the marker from a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070242887 - Portable terminal, image information matching method for portable terminal, image information matching program, and recording medium: A portable terminal that can execute the image matching without any special operation is provided. The portable terminal has an imaging means, and comprises a state detecting means that detects a state of the portable terminal, a matching information storing means that stores image information for matching, and a matching... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242889 - Code processing apparatus and code processing method: A code processing apparatus for generating a file including a JPEG 2000 codestream or a JPEG 2000 family format including the JPEG 2000 codestream is disclosed that includes a packet arranging part for arranging the order of a plurality of packets included in the JPEG 2000 codestream according to an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070242888 - Compression of bi-level images with explicit representation of ink clusters: A system and method facilitating compression of bi-level images with explicit representation of ink clusters is provided. The present invention includes a cluster shape estimator that analyzes connected component information, extracts clusters and stores the cluster in a global dictionary, a page dictionary or a store of unclustered shapes. A... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070242891 - Decompression with reduced ringing artifacts: A process for improving the reconstruction of images compressed by the wavelet-based JPEG2000 specification. The basic reconstruction is followed by an edge-preserving filter (such as a sigma filter), another transform to the wavelet domain, an adjustment in the wavelet domain to yield the same quantized values as the compressed input... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070242890 - Systems and methods for decoding large images: An embodiment of a method for decoding large images performed by a processing unit, comprises the following steps. A compressed bit stream of a minimum code unit (MCU) of an image is acquired. The acquired bit stream is decoded by performing a first stage of a image decoding procedure to... Agent: Daniel R. Mcclure Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070242892 - Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding program, and image decoding program: Variable-length encoder 16 feeds a CBP as an input symbol H1 to variable-length code output part 30. Coded symbol memory 31 supplies CBPs in neighboring blocks as coding map table reference information H2 to coding map table provider 32. Coding map table provider 32 determines a coding map table used... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242893 - Method, device, mobile terminal and computer program product for providing variable compression of data files: A device for providing variable compression of data files includes a weighting module, a summing module, and a processing element. The weighting module is capable of assigning a weighting value to each coefficient of an array of j number of coefficients. Each weighting value defines a characteristic associated with each... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070242894 - Coding scheme for a data stream representing a temporally varying graphics model: Introducing a further prediction stage, namely a prediction of the motion vectors or the prediction error of the first prediction stage, does indeed at first increase the encoding or compression effort and, correspondingly, also the decoding or decompression effort, but the prediction proposed here leads to a significant improvement of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070242895 - Scalable encoding method and apparatus, scalable decoding method and apparatus, programs therefor ,and storage media for storing the programs: A scalable encoding method for decomposing an image signal into signals assigned to layers so as to encode the image signal includes encoding an image signal of at least one target layer among the layers based on an amount of codes allocated to the target layer; outputting a residual signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070242896 - Block noise removal device: A block noise removal device classifies, into separate pixel groups, interpixel differential values by using a block size N (where N is an integer) of the decoded video signal or by using M which is an integer multiple of the block size N. The block noise removal device accumulates the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242898 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: Quality of an image inputted from a video input terminal is adjusted at an image processing unit using a parameter set fitted for the image selected from a plurality of parameter sets received in a parameter set receiving unit. The using parameter set is stored in a parameter memory. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242897 - Method and system for automatic correction of chromatic aberration: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for an automatic chromatic aberration correction. The method comprises the steps of setting a range of test correction factors, applying the test correction factors of the range, incrementally, to a test block of the image,... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070242899 - Position and orientation measurement method and position and orientation measurement apparatus: The first values of position and orientation of an image sensing device are obtained by using positions of all indices in a frame image. Indices having the same inherent information between a first index group (FIG) in the frame image and a second index group (SIG) in a preceding frame... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242900 - Combining multiple exposure images to increase dynamic range: Methods, machines, and machine-readable media for processing multiple exposure source images, including a reference image and one or more non-reference images, are described. In one aspect, respective sets of motion vectors that establish correspondences between respective pairs of the source images are calculated. Ones of the source images are warped... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070242901 - Robust click-point linking with geometric configuration context: interactive localized registration approach: A framework is disclosed for robust click-point linking, defined as estimating a single point-wise correspondence between a pair of data domains given a user-specified point in one domain. It can also be interpreted as robust and efficient interactive localized registration of a monomodal data pair. To link visually dissimilar local... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070242902 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device is disclosed that classifies images in an image database and displays the classified images for searching, and is able to easily narrow a range of candidate images and improve operability. The image processing device includes a first classification unit, a display image controller that generates a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070242903 - Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program: A feature extracting unit obtains sensor data from a plurality of sensors to calculate each feature. When an event determining unit determines the occurrence of an event based on each feature, a display data constructor generates remote-controller display data for displaying the event, and controls a remote-controller display device to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237354 - Digital watermarking of picture identity documents using facial features: An improved method of watermarking picture identification documents (IDs) such as passports, driver's licenses, identification cards and the like which combines biometric information with digital watermarking to provide an improved secure picture ID document and authentication of same. A facial image—that is part of the identification document—is processed such that... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC - (boeing)

20070237355 - Method and apparatus for adaptive context-aided human classification: A method and an apparatus process digital images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital data representing a plurality of digital images including a plurality of persons; performs face recognition to determine first scores relating to similarity between faces of the plurality of persons; performs clothes recognition to determine... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070237356 - Parcel imaging system and method: A parcel imaging system includes means for transporting parcels and image sensors oriented to image the parcels. An image construction subsystem is configured to stitch together outputs of the image sensors to produce at least one two-dimensional images of a parcel, and to construct, using the at least one two-dimensional... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070237359 - Method and apparatus for adaptive mean shift tracking: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adaptive mean shift tracking. In one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method that allows the tracking of an object, with an associated target model, through successive frames of a sequence using a mean shift kernel that has... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070237360 - Moving image editing apparatus: Apparatus and method for extracting from a moving image a scene in which an intended person appears by simple operations are provided. A moving image editing apparatus identifies a person as an extraction target based on an instruction of a user, tracks a face of the extraction target to thereby... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070237358 - Surveillance system with dynamic recording resolution and object tracking: A surveillance system includes a plurality of microphones for generating audio signals in response to detecting sound, a video camera for generating a stream of video signals, and a driving unit for controlling the direction in which the video camera points. The surveillance system also includes a decision unit for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070237357 - Visual sensing for large-scale tracking: One embodiment of a method of tracking a plurality of targets can be broadly summarized by the following steps: capturing a plurality of images of a plurality of targets with a plurality of image capture devices; generating a target observation for each target, said target observation including at least a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070237361 - System and method for automated facility mapping and management: A system and a method for automatic facility management, including automatic analysis of at least one facility system according to at least one facility plan.... Agent: Docketing Specialist Sullivan & Worcester LLP

20070237362 - 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.

20070237363 - Image processing device: An image processing device for generating both of a distance image and a gray image from an electrical output of a light receiving element on the precondition that a light intensity-modulated at a modulation frequency is irradiated into a target space. This device has an image generator for generating the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070237366 - Secure biometric processing system and method of use: A secure biometric processing system is disclosed. The system comprises a processing system for providing image acquisition and biometric comparison. The processing unit utilizes public key cryptography for handling templates securely and authenticating operations using the template. The system includes a complete biometric engine which implements image reconstruction, template extraction... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070237365 - Biometric identification: Embodiments related to biometric identification are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070237364 - Method and apparatus for context-aided human identification: A method and an apparatus process digital images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital data representing a plurality of digital images including a plurality of persons; performs face recognition to generate face recognition scores relating to similarity between faces of the plurality of persons; performs clothes recognition to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070237367 - Person verification apparatus and person verification method: By retaining the history of past verification judgment as verification information, and, based on this verification information, at the time of every verification judgment, by determining the threshold value that becomes the reference for judgment, and by updating the verification information, a judgment threshold value suitable for the respective biometric... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070237368 - Fingerprint recognition system: A method and apparatus for fingerprint recognition is provided. A fingerprint is detected on a sensor. The fingerprint is digitized. A digitized background is subtracted from the fingerprint, resulting in a difference print. The difference print is matched with a database of fingerprint templates.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070237375 - Apparatus and method of displaying image scanning report: An extraction unit extracts observation information and site information of a sample associated with the observation information from at least information on an image scanning report including an image scanning result of a medical image of the sample obtained by inspection. A display control unit controls a display unit to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237376 - Image interpretation report preparing apparatus and image interpretation report preparing system: An image interpretation report preparing apparatus that accesses an image storage device storing a medical image and prepares an image interpretation report including at least link information for referring to the stored medical image includes a display unit that displays the image interpretation report. A mark displaying unit displays a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237371 - Medical image report data processing system: A system uses a flexible mapping capability in adaptively exchanging image related data between a structured report data format and data formats employed by different types of image processing device. A system provides medical image associated measurement data from different types of imaging device in a particular report format data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070237377 - Report creation support apparatus, report creation support method, and program therefor: Case images and report text models, each of which is a text model derived from a report text of each of the corresponding case images by making at least certain words/phrases within the report text changeable, are stored in association with each other in a case report storage unit. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070237372 - Cross-time and cross-modality inspection for medical image diagnosis: A cross-time and cross-modality inspection method for medical image diagnosis. A first set of medical images of a subject is accessed wherein the first set is captured at a first time period by a first modality. A second set of medical images of the subject is accessed, wherein the second... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070237374 - Method for demonstrating pre-emergent pimples: A method for demonstrating pre-emergent pimples is disclosed. The method includes providing a camera having a 25 mm macro lens and a linear polarizing filter including from 10 to 50 narrow band filters in the spectral range of 400-970 nm, and a light source having a linear polarizer oriented vertical... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070237369 - Method for displaying a number of images as well as an imaging system for executing the method: The invention relates to a method for presenting a number of two- or three-dimensional images from different modalities registered with each other, with points of interest being able to be assigned to an individual image of the modalities and in all images selectable graphics primitives being overlaid on the assigned... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070237378 - Multi-input reporting and editing tool: The present invention relates to a multi-input reporting and editing tool, which performs as a dynamic instrument to allow multiple users' input into creating a report, such that end-users may accumulate, process, and analyze information, in a timely, efficient, and accurate fashion. The multi-input reporting and editing tool allows tracking... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070237373 - System and method for labeling and identifying lymph nodes in medical images: A method for assigning a lymph node in a medical image with an anatomical name, the method including: identifying landmarks in a medical image; computing features relative to the landmarks given a location of a lymph node in the medical image; and assigning an anatomical name to the location of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070237370 - System and method for using a similarity function to perform appearance matching in image pairs: The present invention is directed to a method for populating a database with a set of images of an anatomical structure. The database is used to perform appearance matching in image pairs of the anatomical structure. A set of image pairs of anatomical structures is received, where each image pair... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070237379 - Maximum intensity projection performing method and apparatus: In order to visualize a narrow blood vessel overlapping a thick blood vessel, at the time of performing a maximum intensity projection on three-dimensional image data, three-dimensional image data is weighted with a plurality of weighting functions of different attenuation characteristics along a projection line. Maximum intensity projections are performed... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070237380 - Three-dimensional medical image display device equipped with pre-processing system implementing clinical protocol: A three-dimensional medical image display system comprises a pre-processing device that includes data analysis device and a data processing device. The pre-processing device inputs a set of medical image data created by a scan performed by a medical imaging device. The data analysis device determines a set of analytic protocols... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070237381 - Automated document processing system using full image scanning: A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the full... Agent: Paul R. Kitch Nixon Peabody LLP

20070237382 - Method and apparatus for optically monitoring moving objects: An object is optically evaluated by moving it in a transport direction through the detection zone of an analyzing unit. A first sensor optically determines at least one of a position of the object, a shape of the object, and a brightness or a contrast value of light remitted by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070237383 - Dynamic metrology sampling with wafer uniformity control: A method of processing a wafer is presented that includes creating a pre-processing measurement map using measured metrology data for the wafer including metrology data for at least one isolated structure on the wafer, metrology data for at least one nested structure on the wafer, or mask data. At least... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070237384 - Mask defect analysis system: An automated system for analyzing mask defects in a semiconductor manufacturing process is presented. This system combines results from an inspection tool and design layout data from a design data repository corresponding to each mask layer being inspected with a computer program and a predetermined rule set to determine when... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070237385 - Defect inspection apparatus: A defect inspection apparatus has a camera that acquires a surface image of an inspection object by scanning in an uniaxial direction, with the output of the camera being passed to an image capture circuit of a control portion. The image capture circuit acquires the image data captured from the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070237386 - Method and apparatus for storing 3d information with raster imagery: The present invention meets the above-stated needs by providing a method and apparatus that allows for X parallax information to be stored within an image pixel information. Consequently, only one image need be stored, whether it's a mosaic of a number of images, a single image or a partial image... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070237388 - Classification system: A classification system or classifying images of solder joints has a two-sided classifier to which query cases are presented. It can operate in an environment without task-specific counter-concept cases (“bad examples”) because it filters a library of general counter-concept cases to provide a refined set of counter-concept cases. The filtering... Agent: Perman & Green

20070237387 - Method for detecting humans in images: A method and system is presented for detecting humans in images of a scene acquired by a camera. Gradients of pixels in the image are determined and sorted into bins of a histogram. An integral image is stored for each bin of the histogram. Features are extracted fom the integral... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070237389 - Inversion of color device models: A method and apparatus for inverting a color device model. A systematic color device model inversion process restarts a local iterative root finding process with new seeds that are adaptive to the last found solution. Because of the relative simplicity of the logic used, it is more robust and makes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070237390 - User interface to image keying: A system for processing the creation of an image matte, includes a set of multi-dimensional control functions, each having a single control unit for adjustment of more than one Keying parameter, thereby enabling a person to adjust more than one parameter when moving the single control unit.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070237391 - Device and method for image compression and decompression: An image compression device includes a floating-point texture-loading unit, a shader, a RGB to YCrCb compressor, and a parameter adjusting unit. The floating-point texture-loading unit receives raw image data that includes N number of RGB pixels. The shader receives the raw image data and shades the N number of RGB... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070237392 - Backlight image determining apparatus, backlight image determining method, backlight image correction apparatus, and backlight image correction method: A backlight image determining apparatus includes: (A) a histogram data generation section that, based on data of pixels constituting an image to be determined, generates data of histograms for respective colors, the histograms representing a distribution of the number of pixels in respect to density values of the respective colors... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070237393 - Image segmentation using spatial-color gaussian mixture models: A spatial-color Gaussian mixture model (SCGMM) image segmentation technique for segmenting images. The SCGMM image segmentation technique specifies foreground objects in the first frame of an image sequence, either manually or automatically. From the initial segmentation, the SCGMM segmentation system learns two spatial-color Gaussian mixture models (SCGMM) for the foreground... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070237394 - Image processor for character recognition: In image processing of a document having image data of a document including an image with character images on a background image, the character images and the background image thereof are separated. First, areas in correspondence to the character images from the image data are extracted, and character code data... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070237395 - Cad virtual area locator: An automated system for generating an analysis of a CAD drawing and annotating the drawing. In one embodiment, the invention is an application for a computer comprising a virtual area locater for a computer drawing. In another aspect, the invention is a method for marking a computer aided design drawing... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070237397 - Methods, functional data, and systems for image feature translation: Methods, functional data, and systems are provided for image feature translation. An image is decomposed into sub images, each sub image having its features identified by feature attributes. The feature attributes are used to identify a particular feature within each sub image. The orientation of the particular feature within the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070237396 - Pattern matching method selection: A system and method for performing pattern matching to locate zero or more instances of a template image in a target image. An image is received by a computer from an image source, e.g., a camera. First pattern matching is performed on the image using a first pattern matching technique... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Conley, Rose & Tayon, P.C.

20070237398 - Method and apparatus for classifying an object: A method and apparatus for classifying an object in an image is disclosed. A plurality of sub-classifiers is provided. An object is classified using input from each of the plurality of sub-classifiers.... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070237399 - Failure analysis system, failure analysis method, and program product for failure analysis: A failure analysis system includes an obtaining portion that obtains read-in image information that is image information obtained by reading an output image, a memory that stores fundamental image reduction information that is information in which an information amount of fundamental image information is reduced, the fundamental image information serving... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070237400 - Apparatus and method for categorizing image and related apparatus and method for de-interlacing: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for de-interlacing. The apparatus includes an edge detection module, a statistics module, and an interpolation circuit. The edge detection module performs an edge detection operation on a plurality of pixels of an image so as to generate edge information corresponding to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070237406 - Image data compression method and image data compression device: An image data compression method includes the steps of dividing image data into predetermined regions, generating modeled data by extracting a feature of the image data for each of the regions, performing trial calculation of data quantity of compressed data that is generated by a thinning-out process in which data... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070237405 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method: A storage area where compressed data is stored is divided into a plurality of divided areas having a data length of Ls. Each divided area is divided into two areas, a first area having a data length of Ld and a second area having a data length of La. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070237402 - Adaptive selection of image streaming mode: A Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) transmits medical image information from a server to a viewing workstation. The mode of transmission that the system uses depends on a performance metric of the network. If the network is fast and stable, the entire DICOM image file is transmitted. If the... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070237401 - Converting digital images containing text to token-based files for rendering: A computer-implemented method is provided for converting a scanned-in electronic image into a token-based file. The method includes generally five steps. First, various tokens (i.e., graphical units) are identified in the electronic image. Second, the identified tokens having similar shapes are classified together to form a token group, to thereby... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070237403 - Enhanced image compression using scene prediction: A method of communicating an image file is provided. The method comprises generating at least one scene map based on knowledge of the composition of a targeted area, and reordering data in an image file using the at least one generated scene map such that data corresponding to image segments... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070237404 - High quality image processing: In a high quality image-encoding scheme an input image is decomposed into several image blocks comprising multiple image elements. The image blocks are encoded into encoded block representations. Such a block representation comprises two color codewords, a color modifying codeword and optionally a sequence of color indices and color modifier... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070237407 - Decoding circuit and display apparatus: In each of sub-decoding circuits at a first stage provided for a plurality of output candidates arranged adjacently, for selecting corresponding output candidates in accordance with a bit of multibit data for transmission to subsequent stage sub-decoding circuits, unit decoders are arranged in parallel in a direction perpendicular to an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237408 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus according to the invention is characterized by comprising: a character area separating unit for separating a character area image and a background area image of bit map image data by means of layout analysis; a character kind discriminating unit for comparing the number of character colors... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070237409 - Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing images: A method and apparatus for encoding (622) digital image data wherein a region of interest (606) can be specified either before the encoding process has begun or during the encoding process, such that the priority (616) of the encoder outputs are modified so as to place more emphasis on the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070237412 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: A conversion control unit divides a transform coefficient into code blocks. A storing device has a storage capacity corresponding to data size of the code blocks. To the conversion control unit, rotation/inversion control information including information of the rotation angle and the inverting direction is input. The conversion control unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237411 - Image signal processing apparatus: Reference grid information is supplied from a tiling unit to an order control unit. The order control unit generates three control signals on the basis of the reference grid information and outputs them. The first control signal is a signal for controlling the execution order of a vertical low-pass filter... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237410 - Fast approximate wavelet tracking on streams: The first fast solution to the problem of tracking wavelet representations of one-dimensional and multi-dimensional data streams based on a stream synopsis, the Group-Count Sketch (GCS) is provided. By imposing a hierarchical structure of groups over the data and applying the GCS, our algorithms can quickly recover the most important... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070237413 - System for sensing an absolute position in two dimensions using a target pattern: A system for sensing an absolute two-dimensional position of an object having a two-dimensional target pattern thereon comprises a sensor and a controller. The sensor is for capturing an image of a subset of the target pattern. The controller is for generating a first image vector representing summations of rows... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070237414 - Method and apparatus for resizing images using discrete cosine transform: A method for resizing an image using a resizing ratio may include receiving DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficients of an input image; calculating a transformation matrix for transforming the input image to an integer aspect ratio closest to the resizing ratio; performing a coarse resizing on the input image in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070237416 - Resolution enhancing method and apparatus of video: A resolution enhancing method of a video includes reducing a training video, extracting a high-frequency component from the training video, calculating a first feature vector including a feature amount of a first spatio-temporal box in the reduced video, storing pairs of the first feature vectors and second spatio-temporal boxes in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237415 - Local processing (lp) of regions of arbitrary shape in images including lp based image capture: Various embodiments of methods, apparatuses, articles of manufacture, and systems for determining one or more regions of one or more images for modification to remove information, through application of one or more criteria to the one or more images, selecting one or more modifications to be made to the one... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070237417 - Method and apparatus for determining camera focal length: A method and apparatus are provided for determining or estimating the focal length of a camera based on a series of images captured by the camera. In one embodiment, a method for determining focal length includes obtaining a plurality of images of a three-dimensional scene from the camera, matching feature... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070237418 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: An image processing apparatus includes a surrounding-pixels selecting unit that selects surrounding pixels that surround a correction pixel in an input image based on a low-pass filter, a reference-pixels selecting unit that selects pixels from the surrounding pixels based on pixel values of the correction pixel and the surrounding pixels,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070237419 - Space-time behavior based correlation: A method includes measuring the likelihood that two different space-time video segments could have resulted from a similar underlying motion field without computing the field. The method may be employed to identify locations in a video sequence where at least one behavioral phenomenon similar to that demonstrated in the video... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070237423 - Constructing image panorama using frame selection: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for constructing by an electronic device an image panorama from a plurality of images based on their visual quality. The same portion of a panoramic image scene is typically captured on multiple neighborhood video frames from which... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070237422 - Method and apparatus for generating a panorama background from a set of images: A method of generating a panorama background from a set of images comprises dividing each of the images into blocks and comparing color-space features of corresponding blocks of the images to select background blocks. The selected background blocks are merged to generate the panorama background. An apparatus and computer readable... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070237420 - Oblique image stitching: An “Oblique Image Stitcher” provides a technique for constructing a photorealistic oblique view from a set of input images representing a series of partially overlapping views of a scene. The Oblique Image Stitcher first projects each input image onto a geometric proxy of the scene and renders the images from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070237421 - Recomposing photographs from multiple frames: A method for replacing a face in a first digital image with a face from a second digital image including automatically detecting one or more faces in the first digital image; identifying at least one target face from the detected faces that needs to be replaced; automatically detecting one or... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070237424 - Method and apparatus instrumenting a camera to: measure, model and insert target objects at their right size into pictures: Apparatus and methods are provided for measuring a size of an object in a field of view of a captured image. A distance is measured from a focal point of the image to the object. A cursor is fit to the object and the size of the object is estimated... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070237425 - Image resolution increasing method and apparatus for the same: An image resolution increasing method includes reducing an input image, calculating a first feature vector having a feature quantity of a first block of a reduced image, extracting a high-frequency component image from the input image, storing pairs each having the first feature vector and a second block of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070237427 - Method and system for simplified recordkeeping including transcription and voting based verification: A simplified method of recordkeeping is provided. The method includes capturing a document image of a transaction document; identifying a document type of the transaction document; associating the document image with a data capture template based on the document type; transmitting the document image and the data capture template to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070237426 - Generating search results based on duplicate image detection: A method and system for searching for content relating to a target or query image by identifying duplicate images with associated content is provided. An image search system identifies visual parts of objects within the target image based on analysis of two or more versions of the target image. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070237428 - Efficient processing of non-reflow content in a digital image: A computer system and method for efficiently processing a digital image into reflow content is presented. The method comprises each of the following as executed on a computer. A digital image is obtained for processing. The digital image includes at least some content suitable for conversion into reflow content. The... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070237429 - Image device, camera and image processing method: An imaging device includes an image sensor equipped with imaging pixels disposed in a two-dimensional array and focus detection pixels disposed along a specific direction over part of the array of the imaging pixels. The imaging device categorizes an image pattern indicating a pixel output change along a direction perpendicular... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070237430 - Sheet conveying device and sheet feeding device comprising the same, and image processing apparatus: A sheet conveying device includes a conveying path along which a sheet is conveyed. First and second conveying roller pairs are arranged on the conveying path at a predetermined distance from each other. Overlapping conveyance sensing devices are located between the first and second conveying roller pairs and include opposing... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP