Image analysis inventions 01/08

20080025553 - Apparatus, method, and article of manufacture used to encode information into an image and to decode information from a captured image: This patent describes a system for encoding information such as identity into an image or series of images. It also describes a system for identifying, extracting, and decoding that information from the image or images. The encoding process is designed to minimize the damage to the perceived quality of the... Agent: Michael Laude

20080025562 - Data correction method, apparatus and program: Natural images which are similar to each other contained in a page represented by page description data are corrected so that they have natural appearance to the eye. To achieve this object, an image recognizing unit recognizes images in a page represented by page description data, and a natural image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080025563 - Data correction method, apparatus and program: For a natural image with an added background contained in a page represented by page description data, natural appearance of the natural image to the eye is provided regardless of lightness, hue and/or saturation of the background. An image recognizing unit recognizes images in a page represented by page description... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080025557 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and record medium: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, comprising: an image processing unit to generate multivalued data from an object included in print data in which a rendering command specifies filling of the object with a pattern, the object being subject to filling in a uniform density in the multivalued data, and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080025555 - Method and apparatus for comparing document features using pattern recognition: Systems and methods for assisting in the determination of the authenticity of security documents based on known characteristics of similar reference security documents. The system and methods use digital processing to capture a digital image of the document being examined and they use a feature localization or detection technique to... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080025559 - Method and apparatus for digital watermarking for the electronic literary macrame: An embodiment of digital watermarks which contains literary information of interest to a reader of an electronic literary macramé (ELM) or a knowledge transfer tool (KTT). The nature of the watermark changes by the deepening of its role in the ELM/KTT, since the watermark becomes what is termed in cryptographic... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080025556 - Method and system for document comparison using cross plane comparison: The invention relates to the field of document authentication and more specifically to an apparatus and method for validating an enhanced feature contained in a document under analysis. More specifically, a cross plane comparison is used within a document comparison system to validate the authenticity of a security document. Two... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080025554 - User discernible watermarking: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a server may parse content into one or more segments, and process the segments to identify where in the content one or more watermarks may be added. The segments may then be concatenated into processed content that includes watermarking instructions. The processed content may... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080025564 - Apparatus and method for watermarking using elemental images of integrated image having three-dimensional information: An apparatus and method for watermarking that uses elemental images of an integrated image having three-dimensional information as a watermark are disclosed. The watermarking apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes i) a computational pickup unit, which picks up an elemental image watermark computationally by placing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080025561 - Embedding location data in video: Digital watermarking or steganographic data hiding is used to convey location data in video. A digital watermark or steganographic signal may associate geovector or geolocation information with video, video objects or areas depicted in the video. Other implementations and combinations are provided as well.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080025558 - Image trimming apparatus: The present invention provides an image trimming apparatus, comprising: a reading device which reads out an original image to be trimmed from an original recording device in which the original image is recorded; a display device which displays an image based on the read out original image; a manual trimming... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080025560 - Photographic image processing apparatus: A photographic image processing apparatus, which detects a skin domain appropriately using a simple method, and distinguishes automatically whether it is a harmful image, is provided with a photographic image distinction unit (36) that includes a face information extraction unit (41) which detects a person's face domain from inputted color... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080025566 - Image layout constraint generation: In a method for generating a dimensionally tractable set of image layout constraints, a selected constraint is applied to limit a dimension of a highly dimensional solution space. Through random selection one or more unconstrained dimensions of the highly dimensional solution space are identified which, when constrained, will further limit... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080025565 - Vision-based method of determining cargo status by boundary detection: The empty vs. non-empty status of a cargo container is detected based on boundary analysis of a wide-angle image obtained by a monocular vision system. The wide-angle image is warped to remove distortion created by the vision system optics, and the resulting image is edge-processed to identify the boundaries of... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080025569 - Facs cleaning in motion capture: A method of cleaning facial marker data, the method comprising: decimating frames of survey facial marker data into representative frames of key facial poses; generating a facial pose matrix using the representative frames of key facial poses; and cleaning incoming frames of facial marker data using the facial pose matrix.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080025568 - System and method for detecting still objects in images: The present invention provides an improved system and method for object detection with histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) based support vector machine (SVM). Specifically, the system provides a computational framework to stably detect still or not moving objects over a wide range of viewpoints. The framework includes providing a sensor... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080025567 - Visual device, interlocking counter, and image sensor: A visual device including plurality of array operation units or plurality of virtual array operation units arranged in a shape of a two-dimensional lattice, wherein each of all of the array operation units and all of the virtual array operation units includes a processor, a set of memories and plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080025571 - Motion detection imaging device: A motion detection imaging device comprises an imaging element and an optical lens system for collecting light entering in a capture range to form images on the imaging element. The optical lens system comprises: an optical lens array having center lenses for collecting light in a front capture range and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080025570 - Dynamic motion contrast and transverse flow estimation using optical coherence tomography: The methods described herein are methods to ascertain motion contrast within optical coherence tomography data based upon phase variance. The phase variance contrast observes the nanometer scale motion of scatterers associated with Brownian motion and other non-flow motion. The inventive method of calculating motion contrast from the phase variance can... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP/los Angeles

20080025572 - Augmented biometric authorization system and method: Systems and methods of authorizing an activity, such as a financial transaction, are disclosed. Authorizing the activity may be accomplished by comparing a biometric sample to a biometric specimen. The sample is stored in a database and includes biometric information corresponding to two physiologically distinct portions of an individual. When... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080025573 - Photographic image processing apparatus: A photographic image processing apparatus (4), which generates photograph prints in a predetermined order based upon inputted print order information, and outputs the photograph prints, is provided with a photographic image distinction unit (36) which distinguishes whether or not any non-clothed portrait image is included in frame image data included... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080025574 - Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same: The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing different from that at which the image of the subject is captured. The recording timing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080025575 - Iris-based biometric identification: A method includes forming a feature vector associated with an iris of an individual using a transform operation including converting an iris image into a log-polar image, scaling one or more samples in the log-polar image according to a Fourier-Mellin transform, and performing a Fourier transform on the scaled samples.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080025578 - Automatic reproduction method and apparatus: The present invention provides an automatic reproduction method for automatically sequentially reproducing multiple original images, the method comprising the steps of: determining whether or not the original image to be automatically reproduced is an image including a face image of a person; if it is determined that the original image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080025576 - Method for detecting facial expressions of a portrait photo by an image capturing electronic device: In a method for detecting facial expressions of a portrait photo by an image capturing electronic device, a face captured in the portrait photo is detected. The position and range of the opened and closed facial features are detected, and the facial features within an identified range are magnified according... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080025577 - Photographic image distinction method and photographic image processing apparatus: A photographic image processing apparatus, which detects a skin domain appropriately by using a simple method, and automatically distinguishes whether or not it corresponds to a harmful image, is provided with a face information extraction unit (41) which detects a face domain of a person from inputted color image data... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080025581 - Apparatus for fingerprint identification: A structure for fingerpint includes a main body, a sliding path, a bulge portion, a slot and a sliding fingerprint sensor. The sliding path is formed on a surface of the main body. The bulge portion is disposed on the sliding path. The slot is disposed on a top of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080025580 - Biometrics with spatiospectral spoof detection: Methods and apparatus are described for performing a biometric function on a purported skin site. The site is illuminated under distinct optical conditions and light reflected from the site is received. A feature value for several features is derived from the received light, permitting a comparison to be performed with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080025579 - Spatial-spectral fingerprint spoof detection: Methods and apparatus are provided of deriving a discrimination feature set for use in identifying biometric spoofs. True skin sites are illuminated under distinct optical conditions and light reflected from each of the true skin sites is received. True-skin feature values are derived to characterize the true skin sites. Biometric... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080025582 - Three-dimensional circuit board and fingerprint sensor device: A fingerprint sensor device is mounted on a printed wiring board by bonding a conductive pattern formed on a leg portion of a three-dimensional circuit board and a conductive pattern on the printed wiring board accommodated in a housing of an electronic device with a solder. The detecting surface of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080025584 - Anatomic orientation in medical images: A method of constructing a navigation table relating a set of images representative of a region of interest in a subject to a reference system with reference positions indicating known anatomic landmarks of a reference subject comprising providing reference positions for two or more images identified with two or more... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080025586 - Histogram calculation for auto-windowing of collimated x-ray image: An X-ray diagnostic imaging system is disclosed that includes an X-ray source for controlling an X-ray beam radiated towards a patient under examination. The X-ray source includes an X-ray tube and X-ray collimator assembly. The system includes an-ray imaging device arranged for receiving the X-ray beam after is has passed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080025585 - Key image note matching by image hanging protocols: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an image display method including selecting an image hanging protocol and displaying an image set based at least in part on the image hanging protocol. The image hanging protocol includes a rule set for displaying the image set based at least in part... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080025583 - System and method for on-demand visual enhancement of clinical conitions in images: A system and method for enhancing visualization of clinical conditions comprising receiving imaging data on a subject from an imaging modality, receiving user input on at least one suspected clinical condition of the subject undergoing imaging on the imaging modality, and processing the imaging data in association with a knowledgebase... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080025587 - Method and apparatus for determining the spatial profile of a vessel axis in volume data records for medical imaging: At least one embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and/or an apparatus for determining the spatial profile of a vessel axis in volume data records for medical imaging, in particular for producing slice images of vessels which are obtained by curved planar reformation CPR and can be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080025588 - System and method for coronary digital subtraction angiography: A method and system for extracting motion-based layers from fluoroscopic image sequences are disclosed. Portions of multiple objects, such as anatomical structures, are detected in the fluoroscopic images. Motion of the objects is estimated between the images is the sequence of fluoroscopic images. The images in the fluoroscopic image sequence... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080025589 - Image measuring apparatus and method, and image measuring system for glomerular filtration rate: The present invention discloses an abdominal CT image measuring apparatus and method. The abdominal CT image measuring apparatus includes: an interface unit; a part recognizing unit and a characteristic data computing unit. The present invention can determine the specific region of the part under test with a little amount of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080025590 - Method for the tree-dimensional representation of a structure influenced by a periodic process, and medical imaging system: There is described a method for a periodic and three-dimensional representation of a periodically variable structure. A number of rotation images is generated for this purpose. The required rotations relating to the same event of the periodic process are started at intervals offset by a defined angle. From the rotation... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080025591 - Method and system for robust classification strategy for cancer detection from mass spectrometry data: A robust classification method for cancer detection from mass spectrometry data includes inputting the mass spectrometry data, preprocessing the spectrometry data, conducting robust feature selection, generating predictions for the test data sets using multiple data classifiers, the multiple data classifiers including artificial neural networks, support vector machines, weighted voting on... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080025592 - System and method for detection of breast masses and calcifications using the tomosynthesis projection and reconstructed images: A method of detecting breast masses and calcifications in digitized images, includes providing a plurality of 2-dimensional (2D) digital X-ray projectional breast images acquired from different viewing angles, extracting candidate lesions and 2D features from said 2D projectional images, computing spicularity characteristics of said candidate lesions, including location, periodicity, and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080025594 - Systems and methods for detecting and verifying taggant information of a tagged item or substance: Systems and methods are provided for tagging items using one or more taggant additives. Taggant additives may include microparticles or pigments. The taggant additives may be embedded in or affixed to an item. A tagged item may be interrogated using one of more types of radiation or other energy. That... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20080025593 - Visual device, interlocking counter, and image sensor: A visual device including plurality of array operation units arranged in a shape of a two-dimensional lattice, wherein each of the calculation data in each of the array operation units is transmitted counter-clockwisely between plurality of the array operation units arranged in a shape of a two-dimensional lattice.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080025595 - Method for automatically inspecting polar directions of polar element: A method for automatically inspecting positive and negative polar directions of a polar element on a substrate is provided. Firstly, an image of a standard substrate is retrieved to form a standard sample, and relevant data of the polar elements on a substrate to be inspected is obtained to form... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080025596 - System and method for machine learning using a similarity inverse matrix: A system and method of machine learning that uses an inverse matrix of a reference similarity matrix as a transformation matrix. The reference similarity matrix relates a reference set of objects to themselves using a distance metric such as an image edit distance. The transformation matrix is used to improve... Agent: Catalina & Associates A Professional Corporation

20080025597 - Image processing device: An image processing device of the present invention performs a task to execute an image processing This image processing device comprises a picture frame assigning unit that assigns an identification number to the image data to be collected by a picture collection device, an image capture requested picture of checking... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080025598 - Device and method for phase adjustment: A luminance level detecting unit calculates a luminance of a digital imaged signal in a plurality of pixels within a first pixel region of an imaging element. A variation calculating unit calculates a variation value indicating signal variation of the digital imaged signal in a plurality of pixels within a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080025599 - Apparatus and method for providing colorimetric information: An apparatus and method for providing calorimetric information are provided. A camera photographs an image including a desired calorimetric portion. A controller computes a mean color value of the desired colorimetric portion from the photographed image and retrieves a colorimetric value mapped to the computed mean color value from a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080025600 - Apparatus and method for modifying arrangement of colors: An apparatus and method for modifying an arrangement of colors of an input image to satisfy a user preference in consideration of color composition of the input image, the apparatus including: an extraction unit extracting one or more dominant colors from an input image; a center-of-gravity calculation unit calculating a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080025602 - Apparatus and method for performing color conversion using color cache in image processing system: An apparatus and method for performing color conversion using a color cache is disclosed. The apparatus includes a color converter for acquiring an after conversion color by performing a color conversion operation of a color of a predetermined pixel, a color cache for storing before conversion colors and after conversion... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080025603 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing system: An image processing method of performing a color balance correction on an image, includes: determining a first value representing color and saturation of a pixel in a skin color region of the image; generating correction amount based on the first value, a second value representing ideal color and saturation of... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080025601 - Image processing apparatus and method: When one viewing condition parameter is applied to all pixels, a visual effect between a single color and a background expressed on a rasterized image cannot be reflected on a color matching result. To prevent this, when color matching using a human color appearance model is to be performed, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080025604 - System for and method of taking image and computer program: When detecting an objective body from a taken image, a scene of the image is determined, and a parameter to be used in detecting the objective body is controlled according to result of determination.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080025605 - Image display apparatus, image display method, and image display program: An image display apparatus is disclosed that includes an image projecting unit that projects a projection image on a projection screen, a written image capturing unit that captures a written image of a writing screen that is arranged opposite the projection screen, a written image area extracting unit that extracts... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080025606 - Image processing apparatus, method of controlling same, and program: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which a marked image is extracted more accurately and classification based upon the type of mark is made possible. The apparatus includes an extraction unit adapted to extract information representing a region position of an object and information representing a region position of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080025607 - Image processing system, computer readable medium storing image processing program and computer data signal embedded with the image processing program: An image processing system includes an image input section, a first character-extracting section, a second character-extracting section and a synthesizing section. The image input section inputs images which are linked to each other in time series manner. The first character-extracting section extracts a character from a first image input by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080025609 - Apparatus and method for detecting specific subject in image: A plurality of collation patterns having different resolutions are generated from an original collation pattern which includes a plurality of local regions. Subject reliabilities for individual local regions are calculated based on local features of the local regions in the collation patterns having different resolutions. In accordance with the subject... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080025608 - Landmark-based form reading with declarative language: A form reader includes a landmarks extractor configured to select textboxes of a converted document as form landmarks based on textual characteristics. A set of positional constraints constrain the form entries relative to the identified form landmarks. A constraints solver selects textboxes of the converted document as form entries by... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080025610 - Two tiered text recognition: Systems and methods that exploit unique properties of a language script (e.g., condition joining rules for Arabic language) to enable a two tier text recognition. In such two tier system, one tier can recognize predetermined groups of linked letters that are connected based on joining rules of a language associated... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080025611 - System for recording and retrieving note taking on notebook form: A system for recording and retrieving note taking on a notebook form is provided. The system has a printer for printing information relating to note taking and a plurality of coded tags substantially simultaneously on a surface to generate the form, and a processor for receiving interaction data generated by... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080025612 - Strokes localization by m-array decoding and fast image matching: Systems and methods that determine a path of a pen tip as the pen tip is moved across a document are described. The document is watermarked with a maze pattern from which encoded position information is determined. A sequence of images is captured by a camera that is located in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20080025613 - Compact stylus-based input technique for indic scripts: A technique for stylus-based syllabic input that is fast and easy and does not require any additional hardware and can be deployed on a handheld device is described. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by writing a base syllabic character consisting of a vowels or consonant in a writing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080025614 - Syntactic signal recognizer and pattern recognizer: A pattern recognizer includes a sequential data extractor, a data pairer, and a recognition engine. The sequential data extractor extracts a region of measured data obtained from a measuring device. The measuring device is preferably capable of detecting changes in impedance. The measured data should contain position information of the... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080025615 - Image interpolation method, medium and system: An image interpolation method interpolating image information of a point in a space constructed by a plurality of planes. According to the method, a reliable interpolated value can be rapidly obtained by searching for the nearest plane to the point, obtaining information about a plane facing the nearest plane using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080025616 - Fast multiple template matching using a shared correlation map: A method is provided that increases throughput and decreases the memory requirements for matching multiple templates in image. The method includes determining a set of inter-template early elimination values that characterize the degree of matching between various templates and the image, at various locations in the image. A later-analyzed template... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080025617 - Methods and apparatuses for cross-ontologial analytics: Methods and apparatuses for quantifying the similarity between nodes in a plurality of electronic classification schemes are disclosed according to some aspects. In one embodiment, quantification of the similarity between a first node in a first electronic classification scheme and a second node in a second electronic classification scheme comprises... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080025618 - Form processing method, form processing device, and computer product: A form processing apparatus extracts layout information and character information from a form document. A candidate extracting unit extracts word candidates from the character information. A frequency digitizing unit calculates emission probability of a word candidate from each element. A relation digitizing unit calculates transition probability that relationship between word... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080025620 - Data compression apparatus and data compressing program storage medium: A data compression apparatus and a data compressing program storage medium attain a high compression rate and a high-speed compression speed in a binary image data compressing process. A data compression apparatus which performs a data compressing process on data to be compressed and formed by a sequence of values... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080025619 - System and method for reduction of speckle noise in an image: The present invention includes methods for the reduction of speckle noise in an image and methods for segmenting an image. Each of the methods disclosed herein includes steps for analyzing the uniformity of a pixel within a plurality of pixels forming a portion of the image and, based on the... Agent: Kennedy, Ltd.

20080025621 - System for high bandwidth imaging across pc chipsets and custom asic's: An image processing system includes at least one processor having a plurality of PCI Express channels and at least two application specific integrated circuits. The application specific integrated circuits are communicatively coupled to the at least one processor by a first of the plurality of PCI Express channels and a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080025622 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: This invention makes it possible to obtain an enlarged image while suppressing noise and maintaining the sharpness of an original image only by setting a simple enlargement ratio without no special knowledge. Original image data (Ia) is enlarged in accordance with a set enlargement ratio (E) to generate an enlarged... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080025623 - Coding and decoding method and apparatus using plural scanning patterns: Provided is a coding and decoding method and apparatus using a plurality of scanning patterns. The method for coding image data includes: (a) obtaining N×M data by firstly source-coding the image data; (b) scanning the N×M data using a predetermined scan pattern selected from a plurality of scan patterns in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080025624 - Coding for compressive imaging: Embodiments of the present invention can estimate an image using an encodement provided by an optical component, an encodement provided by a detector array, or both an encodement provided by an optical component and an encodement provided by a detector array. The original image can be encoded with a dispersed... Agent: Kasha Law PLLC 4th Floor

20080025625 - Image processing apparatus, computer readable medium storing program, image processing method, and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes: a table generation unit that generates a table in which a coefficient set including predetermined weighting coefficients and pixels contained in a resolution converted image are related to each other on the basis of a size of an input image and a size of a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080025626 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a processor for restoring a pre-change image, an image which should have been originally captured, or an image approximating the same from source image data having undergone a change, such as deterioration, wherein the processor performs at least once iterative processing including generation of comparative... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080025627 - Removing camera shake from a single photograph: A computer method and system for deblurring an image is provided. The invention method and system of deblurring employs statistics on distribution of intensity gradients of a known model. The known model is based on a natural image which may be unrelated to the subject image to be deblurred by... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080025628 - Enhancement of blurred image portions: This invention relates to a method for image enhancement, comprising a first step (41) of distinguishing blurred and non-blurred image portions of an input image, and a second step (42) of enhancing at least one of said blurred image portions of said input image to produce an output image. Said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080025629 - Image processing methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture: Image processing methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes accessing image data of a plurality of images, defining a plurality of regions in individual ones of the images, wherein the regions individually comprise a plurality of image forming... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080025630 - Adaptive noise filtering for reducing imager noise in digital image applications: A noise filtering engine and method that removes fixed and random pattern noise from a digital image source. The engine may be implemented, for example, as a subsystem of a hardware-based pipeline for digital image processing or in software or a combination of hardware and software. The noise reduction engine... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080025631 - Video window detector: The invention provides for automatically identifying the location of a displayed video window based upon a characterization of selected portions of the image for realness based upon a distribution of luminance values for the selected portions. The image is then searched mathematically for a large rectangle of realness, and if... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080025632 - Deblocking filter: The invention is related to decoding of block wise coded video pictures. The determination of using de-blocking filtering between coded blocks is based on alternative characteristics compared to the characteristics used in H.264/AVC.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080025633 - Locally adapted hierarchical basis preconditioning: A “Finite Element Preconditioner” provides locally adapted hierarchical basis functions for preconditioning large data optimization problems. For example, a few of the many typical graphics applications that make use of iterative optimization solutions include tone mapping, gradient domain blending, colorization, and scattered data interpolation. Preconditioning image data for such optimization... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080025634 - Producing an extended dynamic range digital image: A method of producing a digital image with extended dynamic range, includes capturing at least a first full resolution digital image of a scene; combining pixels of a first full resolution digital image to produce a lower resolution digital image identifying dark regions in a first full resolution digital image... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080025635 - Method, medium, and system compensating shadow areas: An image compensating system, medium, and method, including, a shadow area compensating system, medium, and method which may significantly increase the luminance of each pixel in a dark area with respect to pixels positioned in the vicinity of the corresponding pixel and slightly increase the luminance of each pixel in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080025636 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a modification processing unit which modifies input image data, a storage unit which stores a modification log with respect to the same image data modified by the modification processing unit, a selection unit which selects an arbitrary modification process in the modification log, a deletion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080025637 - Image processing apparatus, method of controlling image processing apparatus, program, and storage medium: Based on input image data, an area where dots are to be put on by an area ratio that is greater than a first area ratio and less than a second area ratio is searched for, and sheet fingerprint information is obtained from the area found by searching.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080025639 - Image dominant line determination and use: In a method of evaluating an image for a dominant line, warped mesh information regarding saliency of the image is received. Displacements of components of the warped mesh information are determined relative to corresponding components in un-warped mesh information. Statistical representations of the displacements are utilized to evaluate the image... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080025638 - Image fusion for radiation therapy:

20080025640 - Motion compensated image registration for overlaid/fused video: A system for compensating image misregistration between at least two image sensors includes a first image sensor and a second image sensor which are disposed on a platform and are configured to provide first and second output images, respectively. The system also includes a motion sensor and a processor. The... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080025641 - Apparatus and method to rotate a bitmap image: A bitmap image conversion apparatus and a method for rotating a bitmap image are. The apparatus includes an edge information calculator to calculate information on an edge of a rotated bitmap corresponding to a predetermined edge of a source bitmap using bitmap information, a line information calculator to calculate line... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080025642 - Image forming apparatus to resize image and method of resizing image: An image forming apparatus capable of resizing an image, and a method of resizing the image of the image forming apparatus. A scanning unit scans a document to generate an image. A storage unit stores a target file size to be applied during storing of the generated image before the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080025643 - Image processing system, method for processing image and computer readable medium: An image processing system includes a frequency conversion section, a frequency component generation section, an enlarged image area generation section and an enlarged image generation section. The frequency conversion section converts neighboring areas of each area in question into plural frequency components. The areas in question and the neighboring areas... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080025644 - Weight-adjusted module and method: A weight-adjusted method applied in adjusting a weighting coefficient in an image scaling process. First, an absolute difference is obtained by taking an absolute value of a difference between a first pixel value and a second pixel value of an image. Next, the absolute difference is compared with several threshold... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080025645 - Software-based method and apparatus for enhancing privacy by affecting the screen of a computing device: A method and apparatus for allowing the user of an electronic device to enhance privacy over a display with the use of software, are disclosed. A security window including a translucent graphical effects region may be displayed on the electronic device such that it overlays content the user may choose... Agent: Petnote LLC C/o Steven Rueben

20080025648 - Computer readable medium for image process, computer data signal for image process and image-processing apparatus: A computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute image process, wherein the image process includes accepting image information, accepting a searching condition, specifying colored regions in an image produced by the image information, searching the specified regions for a region satisfying the searching condition, and outputting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080025647 - Image management methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture: Image management methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image management method includes storing a plurality of images using storage circuitry, storing a plurality of representations for respective ones of the images, and the representations comprise data corresponding to a plurality of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080025646 - User interface for navigating through images: A system, method, and computer-readable media are presented for presenting similar images of a selected image in a user interface. One embodiment of the method can include identifying a selected first image and identifying a selected direction from the first image. Additionally, the method can include calculating a best neighbor... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080025649 - Transformation of exif images: A system, media, and method for transforming a main image of a digital image in accordance with a parameter are provided. The main image that is transformed based on the parameter may be one stored in the Exchangeable Image File (“EXIF”) format. In turn, the metadata, including the thumbnail image,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080025650 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: An image processing apparatus which corrects input image data on the basis of the image data and foreign substance information including information associated with a position and a size of a foreign substance adhering near an image sensor in an image capturing apparatus which has captured the image data includes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080019559 - Digital watermarking process: A method of embedding digital watermarks such as logos, letters or other types of user information into printed documents using different halftone textures. By alternating different halftone methods, such as different halftone screens or different error diffusion algorithms during the halftoning process, digital watermarks can be embedded into the input... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080019561 - Printing system, printer, printing method, reader, and reading method: Provided is a printing system, a printer, and a printing method with which decoding of digital watermarks is possible at a high ratio while ensuring visibility of human-readable information even when the human-readable information is superimposed on the digital watermarks before printing. In a URL server (2), a conversion unit... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080019560 - Securing media content with steganographic encoding: The present invention relates generally to steganographically encoded audio or image content (e.g., which may include video). In one implementation, a method is provided included: receiving audio or image content via a network, the audio or image content comprising auxiliary information steganographically encoded therein; decoding the auxiliary information from received... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080019562 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus acquires, after acquiring a user ID of a user, an input of a criteria button for instructing creation of electronic data of an image quality satisfying predetermined criteria. The apparatus acquires electronic data and checks whether an image quality of the electronic data acquired satisfies the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080019563 - Mail processing system with low resolution uv imaging subsystem: A mail processing system with a low resolution UV imaging subsystem. The subsystem comprises a detector array made with discrete phototransistors, each of which includes a lens. The phototransistors are mounted on a relatively wide pitch to provide a low resolution camera that can image an entire surface of a... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080019567 - Apparatus and method of pedestrian recognition: An apparatus having a laser radar is used to recognize a pedestrian by detecting a position of reflective objects, mapping the objects in a two-dimensional coordinate system, determining whether the objects are moving, and grouping moving objects closely located with each other. Based on a size of an object group,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080019566 - Image-processing device, surveillance system, method for establishing a scene reference image, and computer program:

20080019565 - Digital image adjustable compression and resolution using face detection information: A method of adjustable spatial and/or temporal compression of an image including a face includes identifying a group of pixels that correspond to a face within a digitally-acquired image. A first compression portion of the image including the group of pixels is determined. A second compression portion of the image... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080019564 - Information processing device and method, program, and information processing system: An information processing device and method, a program, and an information processing system, for location identification at small granularity with high accuracy are disclosed. A portable terminal has a camera in addition to a GPS module. In a location recognition model construction phase, a location recognition model is constructed from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080019568 - Object tracking apparatus and method: An image input device inputs image sequence data. A memory stores each image of the image sequence data. A tracking point indication unit initially indicates a plurality of tracking points on a first image stored in the memory. A pattern matching unit compares a pattern of each tracking point of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080019570 - Apparatus for measurement of floating body posture of person wearing life jacket: Taught herein is an apparatus for measurement of floating body posture of a person wearing a life jacket, comprising a backpack frame having a plurality of reference points, an image collecting system, and an image processing system; wherein the image collecting system collects image sequence information of the person wearing... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080019569 - Gestural use of wireless mobile phone devices to signal to remote systems: A user gestures with a wireless mobile phone device to control some aspect of its operation, or the operation of a remote system with which the device communicates. (The gestures may be sensed by tracking movement of a feature across a field of view of a mobile phone device camera.)... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080019571 - Geospatial modeling system providing non-linear in painting for voids in geospatial model frequency domain data and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. More particularly, the processor may cooperate with the geospatial model database for inpainting data into at least one void in geospatial model frequency domain data based upon propagating contour data from outside the at least one void... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080019572 - Legend including transparent zone: A legend overlaid on a composite image includes at least one zone, corresponding to a coded portion of the image, and at least one other zone, which is transparent, corresponding to an un-coded portion of the image.... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080019573 - User authentication method based on the utilization of biometric identification techniques and related architecture: A user authentication method based on the use of identification biometric techniques, including the steps of generating a reference biometric template from a first biometric image of a user to be authenticated; splitting the reference biometric template into a first and a second reference biometric template portion that can be... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080019575 - Digital image cropping using a blended map: In a method and system for mapping a digital image having a plurality of pixels, a skin color map of the digital image is computed. The skin color map has a plurality of skin color values. Each of the skin color values is associated with a respective set of one... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20080019574 - Machine-controlled image cropping with default: In a machine-controlled imaging method and system, an original digital image is displayed. During the displaying, a user input is accepted designating machine-controlled cropping of the original digital image. The machine-controlled cropping of the original digital image is performed without further user intervention. In that cropping, a subject portion and... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20080019576 - Personalizing a video: Processes and apparatus for personalizing video through partial image replacement are disclosed. Personalization may include partial or full replacement of the image of an actor, an object or both. Personalization may also include insertion or replacement of an object, and full or partial replacement of the background and/or sound track.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080019577 - Video fingerprinting apparatus in frequency domain and method using the same: A video fingerprint insertion apparatus is provided. A frequency domain selection unit selects a frequency domain into which a fingerprint is inserted, from frequency domains of a video; a fingerprint insertion position determination unit determines a position where the fingerprint is to be inserted, based on a fingerprint insertion determination... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080019578 - Secure biometric verification of identity: A high security identification card includes an on-board memory for stored biometric data and an on-board sensor for capturing live biometric data. An on-board processor on the card performs a matching operation to verify that the captured biometric data matches the locally stored biometric data. Only if there is a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080019579 - Method and system for automatic intra-oral sensor locating for image acquisition: A method and systems for capturing digital intra-oral images, while automatically determining a location of an intra-oral sensor placed within a mouth of a patient, is disclosed. A spatial frame-of-reference is established with respect to teeth within the mouth of the patient. An intra-oral digital imaging sensor is placed within... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20080019580 - Medical image-processing apparatus and a method for processing medical images: The extraction processor of the medical image-processing apparatus sets landmarks of each medical image based on volume data of two medical images. The positional relationship information-generating part generates positional relationship information that indicates positional relationship of the landmarks for each of the two medial images. The landmark-coordinating part eliminates one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080019581 - Image handling and display in x-ray mammography and tomosynthesis: A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080019582 - Autoradiography-based differential wear mapping: Methods and systems for the differential wear mapping of the surface of an object are described. The process involves establishing a radioactive wearing surface on the object through surface layer activation (SLA) and/or radioactive ion implantation (RII) and imaging the wearing surface with conformal photographic or x-ray film to produce... Agent: Kammer Browning PLLC

20080019583 - Image processing apparatus and method: Processing for improving the contrast of an image of interest is executed by an image processing circuit in an X-ray photography apparatus. The image is decomposed into coefficient values of a plurality of frequency bands by a frequency-component decomposition circuit to obtain coefficients of each and every frequency band. A... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080019584 - Measurement apparatus, method and computer program: A measurement apparatus for enumeration of particles or white blood cells in a sample comprises: a holder, which is arranged to receive a sample acquiring device that holds a sample, an imaging system, comprising a magnifying means and at least one digital image acquiring means, said imaging system being arranged... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080019585 - Removal of relatively unimportant shapes from a set of shapes: A method for reducing a number of shapes, and a computer readable program code adapted to perform said method. The method forms first and second shape patterns. The second shape pattern includes the first shape pattern and error shapes. The error shapes are extracted from the second shape pattern. At... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080019586 - Methods of determining quality of a light source: Methods for determining a quality of a light source applied to a photolithographic process are provided. An image sensor array is exposed to a light from a light source. Addresses and respective intensities corresponding to a plurality of locations on a pupil map representing intensity of the light from on... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (tsmc)

20080019587 - Live coherent image selection: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, featuring receiving user input defining a sample of pixels from an image, the image being defined by a raster of pixels. While receiving the user input, the following actions are performed one or more times: pixels are coherently classified in the raster... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080019588 - Special effects in image sensors: An image sensor may selectively produce an effect, such as simulating a night vision scope, by controlling existing hardware to vary anti-vignetting and gamma.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080019589 - Method and apparatus for recognizing gesture in image processing system: A method and apparatus for recognizing a gesture in an image processing system. In the apparatus, an input unit receives an image obtained by capturing a gesture of a user using a camera. A detector detects a face area in the input image, and detects a hand area in gesture... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080019590 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and information processing apparatus, and information processing method: According to the claimed invention, an image processing apparatus is provided, wherein the image processing apparatus comprises a color determiner, adapted to determine a color of image data; a color space determiner, adapted to determine a color space for compressing the image data based on the color determined by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080019591 - Freehand input method, freehand input device, and computer program product: Execution commands corresponding to the type of gesture are stored and by acquiring coordinate values of accepted handwriting input including gesture on a display screen, handwriting is displayed. When handwriting input is accepted, display data of handwriting is updated. When handwriting input is not completed, it is decided whether or... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080019592 - System and method for determining termination of data entry: Computer implemented methods of and systems for inputting data are described. A method for inputting data includes receiving information representing user-written data, the user-written data made with a writing instrument upon a surface. The method further includes defining an active region on the surface surrounding the user written data and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080019593 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: When a read resolution set for a reader unit (200) is different from the transmission resolution, the read resolution is increased, and then the reader unit (200) reads an image. When the image read by the reader unit (200) contains the first encoded image obtained by encoding input information, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080019594 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program: An image processing apparatus may include a feature value extraction unit adapted to extract a feature value from an image, a setting unit adapted to set setting-information defining a process to be performed on the image, an editing unit adapted to edit the setting-information set by the setting unit, and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080019595 - System and method for identifying patterns: The present invention relates to a system and method for identifying of a pattern by comparing the pattern with two or more identified patterns. The system comprises an input unit for capturing a pattern for identification, a processing unit for determining eigenfaces corresponding to the captured pattern and the two... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20080019596 - Imaging method and apparatus for analysing objects: The invention relates to an imaging system and a method for analysing an object. A first image of the object is created with an image recording unit and used to determine the further processing required and/or the characteristics of the analysed object. Further image processing in order to obtain information... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080019597 - Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus: Provided are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, in which one of a plurality of color component images is predicted from a different color component image reconstructed using a correlation between the plurality of color component images. Using a reconstructed image of a first color component image selected from among... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080019598 - Image processing apparatus and method, and image coding apparatus and method: An image processing circuit for driving a liquid crystal that encodes and decodes image data to reduce the size of the frame memory that, when it quantizes (45) each block of image data in the current frame and outputs encoded data, selects (44) a mean value on the basis of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080019599 - System and method for compressing and scaling images: A system and method for compressing digital images is provided. The method includes receiving an input image having a dimension d and a target dimension constraint dt, and determining a number of resolution levels R for generating an image having corresponding dimension dr. The difference between dr and dt is... Agent: George Likourezos, Esq. Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080019601 - Color noise reduction image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus obtains image data, and extracts a subject pixel (to be subjected to color noise reduction processing) and nearby pixels which are a predetermined distance away from the subject pixel and which are not adjacent to the subject pixel. The image processing apparatus multiplies values of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080019600 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The prevent invention can prevent roughness in an image and reduce contouring and coding distortion in the image. The image processing apparatus according to the present invention reduces distortion in an input image, and includes: a masking signal generating unit 101 that generates a masking signal for reducing the distortion;... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080019602 - Image correction using a microlens array as a unit: A system constructs a composite image using focus assessment information of image regions.... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20080019603 - Geospatial modeling system providing geospatial model data target point filtering based upon radial line segments and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor cooperating therewith for filtering geospatial model data. This may be done by selectively updating a target point based upon adjacent points lying along a plurality of radial line segments extending outwardly from the at least one target... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080019604 - Method for dynamic image processing and dynamic selection module for the same: The invention provides a method for dynamically processing an image. In an exemplary embodiment, the image comprises a plurality of pixels. First, a value of a target pixel of the pixels is subtracted from values of surrounding pixels of the target pixel to obtain a plurality of difference values. A... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080019605 - Filtering artifacts in images with 3d spatio-temporal fuzzy filters: A method filters pixels in a sequence of images. Each image in the sequence is partitioned into blocks of pixels, and the images are processed sequentially. The energy is determined for each block of pixels in each image. The energy of each block is based on variances of intensities of... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080019606 - System and method for edge sharpening: Presented herein are a system and method for sharpening edges in a region. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for sharpening edges. The method comprises measuring differences between at least a value associated with a first pixel and a value associated with a second pixel of a plurality... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080019607 - System and method for correcting for ring artifacts in an image: In one example of an embodiment of the invention, a method to correct for ring artifacts in an image is disclosed. A first Cartesian image is reconstructed based on data received from an imaging device, and the first Cartesian image is transformed into a first polar image. A first low-pass... Agent: Brandon N. Sklar. Esq. (patent Prosecution) Kaye Scholer, LLP

20080019608 - Image dynamic range control for visual display: Preferred embodiments of an image display system achieve mapping of high dynamic range image data to render on a lower dynamic range display device a corresponding image characterized by stable global intensity levels and visually perceptible local area detail. The high dynamic range image data include representations of relatively low... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20080019609 - Method of tracking speckle displacement between two images: In a first preferred embodiment, the invention includes a method of tracking displacements between ultrasound images by calculating a coarse displacement estimate, and calculating a fine displacement estimate using images and coarse displacement estimate. In a second preferred embodiment, the invention includes a method of calculating a coarse displacement estimate... Agent: Schox PLC

20080019610 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device that joins together multiple scenes extracted from a video image, wherein scene information that indicates characteristics of the multiple scenes is extracted from multiple frame images that comprise the video image, where, when two scenes are to be joined together multiple types of transition effects to... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080019611 - Imaging system performance measurement: A method (1000) of measuring performance parameters of an imaging device (120, 160) is disclosed. The method (1000) maintains a test pattern image (1005), the test pattern image (1005) comprising alignment features and image analysis features. A test chart (110, 170) containing a representation of the test pattern image is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080019612 - Image scaling device: A range obtained by adding virtual pixels for “k” clocks on an outer side of effective pixels of an original image is set as a processing range. A representative value is calculated for each pixel block including 2×2 pixels adjacent to one another in the processing range. Pixel values of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080019613 - Information processing apparatus, method of controlling same and computer program: A multivalued original image is converted to a high-resolution image by interpolation processing and the resultant high-resolution image is subjected to binarization processing to obtain a high-resolution binarized image. This is followed by extraction of a plurality of text regions for every text color, as well as position information and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080019614 - Image and information management system: A system and methods through which pictorial views of an object's configuration, arranged in a hierarchical fashion, are navigated by a person to establish a visual context within the configuration. The visual context is automatically translated by the system into a set of search parameters driving retrieval of structured data... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080019616 - Handwriting detection sheet and handwriting system: A handwriting detection sheet includes a handwriting layer, a code layer and an optical layer. The handwriting layer can display handwriting. The code layer is placed on a rear-face side of the handwriting layer. The code layer includes plural code images arranged in a matrix manner. In the code images,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080019615 - Digital image acquisition system capable of compensating for changes in relative object velocity: An imaging device comprising a plurality of linear imaging arrays and image formation optics that provide field of views corresponding to the plurality of linear image arrays. At least one illumination module produces planar light illumination that substantially overlaps the field of views corresponding to the plurality of linear imaging... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080013783 - Image forming apparatus and image processing method: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a scanner unit to read an original image to generate image data; and a control unit to judge whether there is a security watermark in the original image or not based on the image data, and to prohibit reducing the number of pixels... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080013784 - Method and apparatus for filtering, clustering, and region fitting by mean shift of images using kernel function values: A path connecting a target sample of an arbitrary N-dimensional vector to a plurality of candidate samples in a sample set in an N-dimensional space having γ-dimensional positions and an η-dimensional feature quantity is set. On the path, the feature quantity is integrated to obtain an integration value. Using the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013785 - Method and device for processing image: A watermark generating unit divides an image to be processed into a plurality of regions smaller than the image. The watermark generating unit generates an inner-region image by performing first image processing on an inner image in each region of the image. The watermark generating unit performs mask processing on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013787 - Imaging apparatus, image processor, image filing method, image processing method and image processing program: A digital camera produces RAW data of a captured image through A/D conversion of an analog image signal outputted from an image sensor, and also detects human faces from the captured image based on the RAW data, to produce face data on the detected human faces. The digital camera records... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080013786 - Method of tracking vocal target: A method of tracking a vocal target is disclosed. An image-capturing device is employed to capture an image including the participating targets. Next, an image tracking method is used to determine the image regions where the participating targets are respectively located. The found image regions are compared with the vocal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080013788 - Apparatus and method for recognizing and determining a position: The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for recognising and determining the position of at least one teat (11, 12) of a milking animal (14). The apparatus (10) includes a scanning head (16) comprising a light source (18) and a camera (22). The light source (18) emits light (20)... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080013790 - Moving-state determining device: A moving-state determining device acquires a first overhead image from a bird's-eye image obtained at first image pickup timing and acquires a second overhead image, which can be regarded as the same road surface area as that of the first overhead image, for each of moving directions assumed for the... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080013789 - Apparatus and system for recognizing environment surrounding vehicle: In conventional systems using an onboard camera disposed rearward of a vehicle for recognizing an object surrounding the vehicle, the object is recognized by the camera disposed rearward of the vehicle. In the image recognized by the camera, a road surface marking taken by the camera appears at a lower... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080013791 - Object velocity measuring apparatus and object velocity measuring method: An object velocity measuring apparatus of this invention for measuring an object velocity in a photographic field from a plurality of photographic frames made up of a plurality of pixels comprises an object area extracting unit configured to extract, as an object area, a set of pixels from which an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013792 - Workstation with a variable-scale display: The workstation (10) comprises: a unit (14) for displaying at least one map comprising a background and a set of symbols distributed over the background; an interface (16, 18, 19, 19A) for enabling the user to select the appearance of the map; and control means (20) for controlling the display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080013793 - Gesture recognition simulation system and method: A gesture recognition simulation system and method is provided. In one embodiment, a gesture recognition simulation system includes a three-dimensional display system that displays a three-dimensional image of at least one simulated object having at least one functional component. A gesture recognition interface system is configured to receive an input... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080013795 - Method and device for authenticating a person, and computer product: In a personal authentication device, a storing unit of each group stores therein biometric information of the persons belonging to that group. When a subject is to be authenticated, an acquiring unit acquires subject biometric information that is biometric information of the subject. A collating unit decides whether the subject... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080013794 - Feature extraction algorithm for automatic ear recognition: The present invention relates to a method and a system of recognizing an ear by locating an invariant point in a representation X of ear geometry. An idea of the present invention is the improve the well known Iannarelli algorithm in that the scheme of the present invention captures and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080013796 - System for biometric security using a smartcard: The present invention discloses a method for facilitating biometric security in a smartcard-reader transaction system by proffering a biometric. The biometric may be proffered to a biometric sensor communicating with the smartcard-reader system. Proffering the biometric initiates verification of the biometric sample and facilitates authorization of a transaction.... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080013797 - Image processing method using sensed eye position: A method for processing a captured image is provided. The method includes the steps of sensing the position of an eye and processing the captured image using the sensed eye position. In one embodiment, the step of processing involves detecting a face within the image, and applying a graphical object... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080013802 - Method for controlling function of application software and computer readable recording medium: A method for controlling the function of application software and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, an application software is provided. Afterwards, characteristics of a user are retrieved. Then, characteristics of the user are identified. Finally, according to the result of identification,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080013798 - Advances in extending the aam techniques from grayscale to color images: A face detection and/or detection method includes acquiring a digital color image. An active appearance model (AAM) is applied including an interchannel-decorrelated color space. One or more parameters of the model are matched to the image. Face detection results based on the matching and/or different results incorporating the face detection... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080013801 - Image, video or audio filtering before biometric recognition: The present invention relates generally to pre-processing images, audio and/or video to improve biometric analysis from such. In one implementation, a method is provided including: receiving a color digital image including a representation of a human subject; converting the color digital image into grayscale values; transforming at least one representation... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080013799 - Method of improving orientation and color balance of digital images using face detection information: A method of generating one or more new spatial and chromatic variation digital images uses an original digitally-acquired image which including a face or portions of a face. A group of pixels that correspond to a face within the original digitally-acquired image is identified. A portion of the original image... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080013800 - Method of improving orientation and color balance of digital images using face detection information: A method of generating one or more new spatial and chromatic variation digital images uses an original digitally-acquired image which including a face or portions of a face. A group of pixels that correspond to a face within the original digitally-acquired image is identified. A portion of the original image... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080013805 - Finger sensing device using indexing and associated methods: A finger sensing device includes a finger sensing area, and a processor cooperating therewith for reducing a number of possible match combinations between a sensed finger data set and each of a plurality of enrolled finger data sets. The processor may reduce the number of possible match combinations by generating... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080013803 - Method and apparatus for determining print image quality: A method, apparatus and computer-readable storage element for determining quality of a print image, with the method including the steps of: estimating a centroid point of the physical print; setting dimensions of a quality computation frame based at least on a characteristic of the print image; centering the quality computation... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080013806 - Biometric imaging device compensating for non-biometric parameters: Provided is a biometric imaging device for imaging a biological feature, which includes a sensor for detecting an environmental parameter other than relating to surface topology of the biological feature. The detected environmental parameters like temperature and humidity levels are utilized in image reconstruction to eliminate erroneous structures caused by... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080013804 - Method and apparatus for recognizing fingerprint by hiding minutiae: Provided is a method and apparatus for authenticating a fingerprint by hiding minutiae, securely storing information on the fingerprint, and authenticating the information on the fingerprint in order to prevent the information on the fingerprint from being reused by an attacker who accesses the information on the fingerprint that is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080013807 - Method and system for keystroke scan recognition biometrics on a smartcard: The present invention discloses a system and methods for biometric security using keystroke scan biometrics in a smartcard-reader system. The biometric security system also includes a keystroke scan sensor that detects biometric samples and a device for verifying biometric samples. In one embodiment, the biometric security system includes a smartcard... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080013808 - System for and method of assigning confidence values to fingerprint minutiae points: A method in accordance with the present invention is used to organize minutiae and other identifying characteristics of a patterned object to verify a user. In one embodiment, the method includes matching minutiae points of the patterned object in one more sets with minutiae points of the patterned object in... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080013810 - Image processing method, computer readable medium therefor, and image processing system: For a first client terminal to suspend image processing, the first client terminal transfers first creation condition parameters, independent parameters and first dependent parameters which are a task property to a data server for storing the parameters, and discards a first volume data, which is the task result. In the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080013809 - Methods and apparatuses for registration in image guided surgery: Methods and apparatuses for reuse registration data in image guided surgery. One embodiment includes: receiving input data to register image data with a patient; generating registration data based on the input data; and recording the registration data. Another embodiment includes: performing a search for registration data for registering image data... Agent: Volume Interactions Pte Ltd

20080013811 - Parallel imaging method and mri apparatus: An object of the present invention is to obtain a composite image by a small computation amount and short process time in parallel imaging using three or more reception coils. By performing a scan using three or more reception coils and with reduced phase encoding steps, data of the reception... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080013812 - Cytological imaging systems and methods: The present invention relates to the analysis of specimens. Specifically, the invention relates to methods and apparatus for reviewing specimen slides, including apparatus for holding the slides. The invention also relates to an automatic focusing method for an imaging system and methods for accommodating vibration in the imaging system. In... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080013813 - Methods and apparatus for bmd measuring: A method includes scanning a patient without a BMD reference present to obtain data, and performing a BMD analysis on the obtained data.... Agent: Fisher Patent Group, LLC

20080013815 - Arborization reconstruction: An arborization reconstructor comprising a slice image generator, a vectorizer, a segment typer, and an arborization grouper. The slice image generator constructs at least two slice images by carpeting digital images based upon a 2-D reference system. Each of the digital images is associated with a location in the 2-D... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080013814 - Pharmacokinetic image registration: Image registration very often used to be a tedious task which had to be performed manually. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a registration of image time series is performed on the basis of a pharmacokinetic model in which alternative translation sequences of a region of interest... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080013816 - Systems and methods for automated analysis of cells and tissues: Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080013817 - Code image processing method and code image processing apparatus: A code image processing method according to an embodiment of the present-invention includes: a block extracting step of extracting a rectangular block unit area from image data; a block feature value calculating step of calculating the feature value of a code included in the rectangular block unit area; a block... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080013818 - Method and apparatus for measuring the crepe of a moving sheet: An image-based measurement technique that directly measures the crepe pattern on a moving sheet employs a suitable arrangement of illumination, optical elements, and an imaging device to obtain digital images of the sheet surface. The image resolution is sufficient to represent tissue crepe folds at the scale of the crepe.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080013820 - Peripheral inspection system and method: A method of inspecting two or more sides of an object is provided. The method includes generating one set of image data of two or more sides of the object, such as by using spherical mirror segments that project all sides of the object onto a single image and generating... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20080013821 - Method for controlling the appearance of products and process performance by image analysis: A new application of machine vision for process industries is proposed. The invention consists of: (1) estimation of visual quality of products, (2) modeling causal relationship between estimated quality and process variables, and (3) optimization of visual quality using the causal model. This invention can handle the stochastic nature in... Agent: Gowling, Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080013819 - Reconstruction of x-ray images into basis function components using multiple-energy sources: An inspection system that forms material sensitive X-ray images of items under inspection. The images are decomposed into basis function images using basis functions representative of materials of interest. The decomposed images may be processed separately to detect concentrations of a material of interest corresponding to one or more of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080013823 - Overhead traveling camera inspection system: An overhead traveling camera inspection system for inspecting the condition of electronic semiconductor devices after being handled by a pick and place mechanism, and for automatically determining and calibrating the precise location of modules serviced by the pick and place mechanism for more accurate picking and placing of semiconductor devices.... Agent: Mark Shires International Product Tech.

20080013822 - Wafer edge inspection and metrology: Some aspects of the present invention relate to a wafer inspection method. A plurality of images is acquired about an edge portion of a wafer. Each of the images comprises a pixel array having a first dimension and a second dimension. A composite image of compressed pixel arrays is generated... Agent: Dicke Billig & Czaja, PLLC Attn: Christopher Mclaughlin

20080013824 - Defect inspection method, defect inspection apparatus, and semiconductor device manufacturing method: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a defect inspection method of inspecting a defect of a patterned inspection object, the method including extracting a feature pattern having an alignable shape from one of pattern data and an image of the inspection object, and aligning a local... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080013825 - Simulation device of robot system: A simulation device displays a three-dimensional model of a robot system on a display device and simulates a robot system including a robot and an image pickup camera. The simulation device includes a display device for displaying a three-dimensional virtual space on a screen, a camera position determination unit for... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080013826 - Gesture recognition interface system: A system and method is provided for a gesture recognition interface system. The interface system may comprise a first and second light source positioned to illuminate a background surface. The interface system may also comprise at least one camera operative to receive a first plurality of images based on a... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080013828 - Method for deriving consistent color measurements: A method for measuring a color value such as brightness or intensity of a sample which comprises: measuring color values for a plurality of color standards using a reference color measurement device to obtain a matrix Y that contains the measurements of the color standards as measured by the reference... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20080013827 - Method of electronic color image saturation processing: The novel method of electronic color image processing comprises: inputting an image; obtaining a color (A) based on colors present in at least a first part of the image; and changing a saturation correlate (S2) defined with respect to the color (A) for at least a second part of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080013829 - System and method for the identification of motional media in players and recorders without internet access: One or more embodiments of the present invention is directed to systems and methods that identify 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 and... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080013830 - Locality-based stream segmentation for data deduplication: Selecting a segment boundary is disclosed. A segmentation window is determined. A plurality of values associated with candidate boundaries within the segmentation window are computed. One of the candidate boundaries is selected based at least in part on a comparison between two or more of the computed values. And, a... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080013831 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image distributing apparatus, image processing method, computer program product, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a binarizing unit, a determining unit, a counting unit, and a correcting unit. The binarizing unit binarizes image data based on density of the image data. The determining unit determines a pixel with high density as a character pixel and a pixel with low density... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080013832 - System and method of generic symbol recognition and user authentication using a communication device with imaging capabilities: A system and method for recognizing symbols and identifying users or services, including the displaying of an image or video clip on a display device in which identification information is embedded in the image or video clip, the capturing the image or video clip on an imaging device, the transmitting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080013833 - Method and apparatus for identifying and/or removing combs from scanned images: Methods and apparatus for detecting the presence of combs, determining their shape and removing the combs from a scanned form in an automated manner are described. Horizontal and vertical line feature analysis is combined with knowledge of the usual size, shape, and spacing characteristics of lines which form a comb.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080013834 - Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method representing an object appearing in still or video image for use in searching, wherein the object appears in the image with a first two-dimensional outline, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a view descriptor of the first outline of the object and deriving at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080013835 - Image processing apparatus and method, program recording medium, and program: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A broad-range feature extraction unit extracts broad-range features from pixels located in a predetermined area in relation to a subject pixel of a first image. A broad-range degree-of-artificiality calculator calculates, in a multidimensional space represented by the broad-range features, the broad-range degree... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013836 - Information processing device, information processing method, and program: Disclosed herein an information processing device that compares an input image with a model image, the device including: a storage; an object feature point extractor; and a feature comparator.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080013837 - Image comparison: A method of comparing a test image with a set of reference images. The method: divides the test image into one or more test regions; for each test region, compares the test region with one or more reference regions in one or more reference images and identifies the reference region... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013838 - System and method for processing symbols embedded in digital video: Video images in, e.g., a multimedia stream are scanned prior to compression for transmission to recognize symbols, such as graphics symbols and alpha-numeric characters. The types, positions, sizes, etc. of the symbols are recorded to render symbol information, and then the images are compressed with or without compressing the symbols,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080013839 - Decoding apparatus, decoding method, computer readable medium storing program thereof, and computer data signal: This invention provides a decoding apparatus including an intensity setting unit that sets a modification intensity based on modified image information and a modification unit that modifies decoded image information with an intensity set by the intensity setting unit.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080013840 - Decoding apparatus, dequantization method, computer readable medium storing program thereof, and computer data signal: There is provided a decoding apparatus that decodes data encoded by transform coding in units of predefined image areas, including a coefficient setting unit that sets modification coefficients for each of the image areas; and a dequantized value generating unit that generates a dequantized value corresponding to a first quantized... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080013843 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding motion vectors: There is provided a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding motion vectors. Motion vectors are encoded through the steps of: (a) predicting motion vectors of a type identical to that of a present block and obtaining predictive motion vectors with respect to neighbor blocks having motion vectors of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080013841 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: An image decoder including: a memory to store a reference image which is a previously decoded image; and a synthesizer to receive an encoded bitstream including information of I and P frames, and execute motion compensation by synthesizing a predicted image of a current frame using motion vector information included... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080013842 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: An image decoding method including the steps of: receiving an encode bitstream including information of I and P frames; and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predicted image of a current frame using motion vector information included in the encoded bitstream and a reference image which is a previously decoded... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080013844 - Method of block coding of image: A method of block encoding of an image includes partitioning an image into a plurality of blocks each having a plurality of pixels corresponding to a first matrix, obtaining a first block from the plurality of blocks, rearranging pixels of the first block for generating a second block according to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080013845 - Wavelet transformation device and method, wavelet inverse transformation device and method, program, and recording medium: A wavelet transformation device for performing wavelet transformation at a plurality of levels as to image signals includes a horizontal filtering unit for subjecting the image signals to horizontal direction lowband analysis filtering and highband analysis filtering, and buffers which are independent for each of the levels, for holding frequency... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013846 - Wavelet transformation device and method, wavelet inverse transformation device and method, program, and recording medium: A wavelet transformation device for performing wavelet transformation at a plurality of levels as to image signals, comprises: a first buffer for storing, independently for each of the levels, a part of coefficients from the results of analysis filtering in the horizontal direction of the image signals; a second buffer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013847 - Method and apparatus for processing analytical-form compression noise in images with known statistics: Embodiments of the invention provide methods to calculate compression noise statistics of decompressed images in transform coding. They can be used in compressed image quality assessment, compression algorithm optimization, compression noise reduction, and other quantization and compression related applications.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080013848 - Banding and streak detection using customer documents: A method of detecting image quality defects includes providing an electronic image including electronic image data, rendering an image based on the electronic image data, capturing the rendered image, the captured image including captured image data, deriving one-dimensional profiles from the captured image data, each of the captured one-dimensional profiles... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080013849 - Video processor comprising a sharpness enhancer: A video processor processes an image that comprises block of pixels. The video processor comprises a sharpness enhancer (ENH). The sharpness enhancer establishes an output pixel (Yo) on the basis of various input pixels (Yi) within an adaptive filter window. The adaptive filter window exclusively comprises input pixels that form... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080013851 - Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, and computer program: An image pickup apparatus includes: a face detection section configured to detect a face area from an image obtained by the image pickup apparatus; and a control section configured to detect at least any one of the amount of change in size of the face area detected by the face... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080013850 - Image processing apparatus and image restoration method and program: An image processing apparatus is provided which performs image restoration as necessary while a computing processing burden based on an image restoration algorithm is reduced. RAW data of a blurred image is input to an RGB interpolation section. The RGB interpolation section generates an R component image, a G component... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080013852 - Systems and methods for optimized region growing algorithm for scale space analysis: The present invention provides a system, method and computer program product for improving quality of images. The pixels of the input image are used to generate two lists of pixels based on two different scale space values. Thereafter, the two pixels lists are processed to obtain an output image with... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080013853 - Method for processing a digital gray value image: A method for processing a digital gray value image includes the steps of: generating a binary edge image from the gray value image so that edges present in the gray value image are determined as line areas around the edges; applying a sharpness algorithm in the gray value image within... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080013854 - Image noise detection: An image comprises columns and rows of blocks of pixels. In each row and/or column, a series of pairs of blocks of pixels comprise first and second adjacent blocks of pixels, with the second block in a previous pair of blocks corresponding to the first block in a next pair... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080013855 - Image processing apparatus: According to the present invention, there is provided a image processing apparatus comprising: at least one memory which stores data of each of at least a first image and a second image having no dependence upon each other's data; a memory access unit which reads out the data from and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080013857 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing method includes determining one or more candidate pixels having variation of brightness in a first direction, among a plurality of pixels constituting an input image, the variation of brightness exceeding a first reference value, determining a certain region in which the total number of candidate pixels existing... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080013856 - Method for obtaining high snr image: A method for obtaining a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) image includes the following steps. Firstly, plural images of an object are continuously captured by an image capture device at a fixed object distance and a fixed focal position. Each of the plural images includes N pixels, where N is an... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080013858 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling image processing apparatus: A noise elimination method capable of handling even beat noise occurring in an oblique direction is proposed. In an image processing apparatus that is provided with a correcting unit that subtracts cyclic data of beat noise from effective pixel data included in inputted digital image data, the correcting unit comprises:... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080013859 - Implementation of media content alteration: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080013860 - Creation of three-dimensional user interface: A three-dimensional (3-D) user interface (UI) creation system maps a two-dimensional (2-D), interactive UI to an 3-D object template in a 3-D scene. Once mapped, the 2-D UI functions as a simple user interface while appearing as a skin to the 3-D object. A 3-D UI creation tool applies image... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080013861 - Hierarchical scheme for blur detection in a digital image: Methods and apparatuses are provided for detecting blur within digital images using Cepstrum analysis blur detection techniques that are able to detect motion blur and/or out-of-focus blur.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080013862 - Image processing apparatus, storage medium in which image processing program is stored, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a control unit, and a construction unit. A program of at least one module including a buffer module among modules of an image processing unit is stored in the first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080013863 - Apparatus, method, and medium for retrieving photo based on spatial information: An apparatus, a method, and a medium for retrieving a photo based on spatial information. The apparatus for retrieving a photo includes: a spatial information extractor to extract spatial information and a photo from photo data; a map range mapper to map the extracted spatial information and a map range... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080013864 - Thumbnail image browsing method in an embedded system: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method of viewing images accessible by an embedded system, the method comprises: generating a trimmed image from an original image accessible by an embedded system, wherein the trimmed image's dimension are relatively smaller or equal to the dimensions of the original... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080013865 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus and method which revises a certain region of a scanned image to meet a user demand. The image processing method includes displaying a scanned image by scanning an scanning object, selecting a plurality of regions of the displayed scanned image, setting an image process to be... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080008350 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: According to the present invention, authenticities of paper fingerprint information and of document information are collectively determined through formation of an original that is given an encoded image in which both paper fingerprint information and document information are encoded. By collectively guaranteeing identities of the paper form and of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080008349 - Analyzing pixel data using image, thematic and object layers of a computer-implemented network structure: An analysis system analyzes and measures patterns present in the pixel values of digital images using a computer-implemented network structure that includes a process hierarchy, a class network and a data network. The data network includes image layers, thematic layers and object networks. Various types of processing are performed depending... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20080008348 - Detecting online abuse in images: Tools for analyzing images are disclosed. In some cases, the images are analyzed in order to determine whether a particular web site and/or email message is part of an illegitimate online activity. In an aspect, an image analysis process comprises comparing a suspect image with one or more elements of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080008351 - Methods employing topical subject criteria in video processing: The picture information of video can be used in various ways to identify the video or its topical subject matter. This enables numerous novel arrangements in which particular video of interest to a particular consumer can be discerned. A variety of other embodiments and features are also detailed.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080008352 - Methods employing topical subject criteria in video processing: The picture information of video can be used in various ways to identify the video or its topical subject matter. This enables numerous novel arrangements in which particular video of interest to a particular consumer can be discerned. A variety of other embodiments and features are also detailed.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080008353 - System, method, and medium for detecting moving object using structured light, and mobile robot including system thereof: A system, a method, and medium for detecting a moving object using a structured light, and a mobile robot including the system are provided. The system includes an image obtaining unit to obtain a first image at a predetermined position and a second image at a position after a movement... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080008354 - Indicating positions of and directions to battlefield entities in a soldier's head-mounted display: A computer-implemented method for indicating positions of and directions to battlefield entities in a soldier's head-mounted display using annotated arrows which indicate units both in and out of the soldier's field of view. The method includes a Unit Identifier (100) for associating units in aerial imagery with soldiers on the... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080008355 - Image recognition apparatus, image recognition method, and vehicle control apparatus: An extracting unit extracts a determination subject area from an input image shot by a camera. A recognition unit recognizes a presence of a specific object by comparing an image of the determination subject area with a reference image. An interval control unit controls an interval of an extracting position... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080008356 - Image processing device, learning device, and coefficient generating device and method: A target-pixel-setting section (31) sets a target pixel in a target image to be predicted. A motion-direction-detecting section (32) detects a motion direction corresponding to the target pixel. A pixel-value-extracting section (36) extracts from peripheral images corresponding to the target image, in order to extract a main term that mainly... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080008357 - System and method to control the variation of an animal's mass: A system and method to control the variation of an animal's mass, such as for example a horse. The system comprises a data collection and identification terminal having a scale, at least one temperature sensing device and a camera; a microcomputer electronically connected to the terminal; and a radio-frequency identification... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080008358 - Personal identification device and method: The invention aims at providing personal identification in environments where non-contact is required, with high accuracy even though using a finger vein pattern images unclear and susceptible to positional deviations, wherein it has: a means for acquiring finger vein patterns without contact; a means for carrying out rotational correction using... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080008359 - System for biometric security using a fob: The present invention discloses a system and methods for biometric security using biometrics in a transponder-reader system. The biometric security system also includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric samples and a device for verifying biometric samples. In one embodiment, the biometric security system includes a transponder configured with a... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080008362 - Method, apparatus, and program for human figure region extraction: Upon extraction of a human figure region in an image, a face or facial part is detected in the image, and a candidate region that is deemed to include the human figure region is determined from position information of the detected face or facial part. Judgment is made as to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080008360 - System and method for counting people: A system for counting people in a specified area. The system includes a camera for capturing an image of the specified area and a computer for receiving the captured image. The computer analyzes the image to detect people by detecting head or face shapes in the image. The computer counts... Agent: Michael L. Diaz Michael L. Diaz, P.C.

20080008361 - Electronic camera and image processing apparatus: An electronic camera includes an image pickup device, a memory, a face detecting section, a face recognizing section, and an object specifying section. The image pickup device photo-electrically converts an image of an object into an electric signal and generates an image signal as the electric signal. The memory has... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080008363 - Method and system for keystroke scan recognition biometrics on a smartcard: The present invention discloses a system and methods for biometric security using keystroke scan biometrics in a smartcard-reader system. The biometric security system also includes a keystroke scan sensor that detects biometric samples and a device for verifying biometric samples. In one embodiment, the biometric security system includes a smartcard... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080008364 - Video monitoring device for vehicle: A video monitoring device for vehicles contains a plurality of cameras, a digital image processing unit, and a display device. The cameras are installed at the bottom rims of the sideview mirrors, and/or the front and back rims of the vehicle. The images captured by the camera are combined and... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080008365 - Personal identification device and electronic apparatus provided therewith: A personal identification device has: a light source portion that emits infrared light with a first wavelength at the time of reading a vein pattern, and emits infrared light with a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength at the time of reading a fingerprint pattern; a light receiving sensor... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080008367 - Hybrid segmentation of anatomical structure: An image of an anatomical structure can be analyzed to determine an enclosing three-dimensional boundary when the anatomical structure is filled with two substances, such as air and a fluid. Various techniques can be used to determine the enclosing boundary including: analyzing the virtual structure to segment the structure into... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080008366 - Simultaneous visualization, analysis and navigation of multi-modality medical imaging data: A method of combining data from multi-modality imaging to provide simultaneous processing, visualization and navigation of both functional and anatomical image information, such as, for example, in cardiac studies. Multi-modality imaging data such as SPECT, PET, CT, MRI and ultrasound are correlated and coregistered, and assembled for visualization in a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080008368 - Image processing method and computer readable medium for image processing: An intestine is cut by a cross section of a spherical surface or a combination of a plane and a spherical surface, and voxel values on the cross section are projected onto a projection plane in parallel, whereby a cross-sectional image of the intestine is created. Unlike a CPR image,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080008370 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing conditions using tissue color: A method for diagnosing a condition of a patient includes providing a color reference member that includes one reference color thereon. An electronic visual image is obtained of a patient tissue and the at least one reference color on the image. The electronic visual image is processed with the computer... Agent: Indiano Vaughan LLP

20080008369 - Methods and systems for segmentation using boundary reparameterization: Representations of a segmented, contoured organ or lesion are obtained from two-dimensional or three-dimensional images. A contour within the image of the lesion or organ of interest is used to identify a region around the initial contour and transform it into a boundary image comprising sampling lines that contain points... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080008372 - A method and system for reducing artifacts in a tomosynthesis imaging system: The present invention provides a method and system for reducing artifacts in tomosynthesis reconstructed images. The artifacts reduction method comprises back-projecting only a part of the projection image. The method includes acquiring plurality of projection images from different projection angles. It further includes identifying an area of interest of each... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080008371 - Considerations when colon segmentation differs between cad processing and visualization: A system and method for preserving CAD marks falling outside the three-dimensional rendering on a visualization display following segmentation of CT medical image slices for review by a user is disclosed. The CT medical images are processed by both a CAD algorithm and a visualization workstation. The CAD algorithm reports... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080008374 - Image processing device and image processing method: To provide image processing device and method capable of achieving a high-speed reconstruction process to a cone beam CT image, an area necessary for reconstruction in a projection image is determined from a slice position to be reconstructed, a convolution process is executed by using the determined area. Moreover, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080008373 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing corresponding landmarks among a plurality of images: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for synchronized viewing of a plurality of images of an object. Corresponding landmarks of an object are synchronized between a first image set and a second image set. In an embodiment, the landmarks are folds of a human colon... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080008378 - Arbitration system for determining the orientation of an envelope from a plurality of classifiers: Systems and methods are provided for determining the orientation of an envelope. A plurality of classification elements are each operative to analyze at least one image of the envelope and produce at least one output value indicative of the orientation of the envelope. An arbitrator determines an associated orientation for... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP

20080008376 - Detection and identification of postal indicia: A system is presented for recognizing and identifying postal indicia on an envelope. The system includes an image acquisition element that acquires at least one binarized image of an envelope and isolates at least one region of interest from the at least one image. A candidate locator attempts to locate... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP Suite 1700

20080008375 - Method for inspecting surface texture direction of workpieces: A method of detecting defects in a workpiece having a surface with directional surface texture, comprises taking a gray scale photo image of the surface and assigning a brightness value to the pixels of the image. The brightness values of neighboring groups of the pixels are compared to develop brightness... Agent: Robert L. Stearns Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080008377 - Postal indicia categorization system: A system is presented for recognizing and identifying postal indicia on an envelope. The system includes an image acquisition element that acquires a first image, representing a first side of the envelope, and a second image, representing a second side of the envelope, and generates first and second candidate images... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP

20080008379 - System and method for real-time determination of the orientation of an envelope: A system for recognizing and identifying postal indicia on an envelope. This includes an image acquisition element that acquires a first image, representing a first side of the envelope, and a second image, representing a second side of the envelope. A feature extractor, for each of the first and second... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080008380 - Systems and methods for determining inconsistency characteristics of a composite structure: Systems and methods for determining an inconsistency characteristic of a composite structure, such as inconsistency density-per-unit area. In one implementation, a method is disclosed for determining an inconsistency characteristic of a composite structure. The method involves determining a first distance from a first reference point of the composite structure to... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080008381 - Coordinate acquisition apparatus for test of printed board, and coordinate acquisition method and program for test thereof: A coordinate acquisition apparatus for test of a printed board comprises: a camera that photographs a printed board; a target object detection section that uses pattern matching to detect a predetermined target object formed in the printed board from image data photographed by the camera; and a coordinate position acquisition... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080008382 - Automatic contrast correction device and automatic contrast correction method: Provided are an automatic contrast correction device and an automatic contrast correction method for a pictorial image constituted by luminance values for two-dimensionally arranged pixels capable of performing automatic correction to obtain a suitable contrast to human eyes corresponding to perception in a human brain. In order to obtain an... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080008383 - Detection and identification of postal metermarks: A system is presented for metermark recognition. This includes a plurality of binarization elements, each being operative to produce a binarized image from a source image. A clustering element clusters pixels within a first binarized image, produced at a first of the plurality of binarization elements, to locate at least... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP

20080008384 - Method for rotational media printing: A method for printing to a rotational media having a surface to be printed to and being rotatable about an axis extending away from the surface is provided. The method includes dividing the image into a plurality of sectors; converting the pixel locations of at least one of the plurality... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080008385 - Bonded part peeling shape identification device: A bonded part peeling shape identification device includes: a processor for obtaining measurement value information indicating a spectrum from an output light of an optical fiber sensor arranged in a bonded part, the optical fiber sensor outputting a light in which the spectrum is changed according to a strain; for... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080008386 - method of text information recognition from a graphical file with use of dictionaries and other supplementary data: The present invention deals with text comprising image parsed to graphemes. A result of character recognition is creation of one or more versions of characters for each grapheme. All possible words versions are obtained using all characters versions, and all parsing versions are examined. A supplementary data of several types... Agent: Abbyy Software Ltd. Attn. Sergey Platonov

20080008387 - Method and apparatus for recognition of handwritten symbols: A method and apparatus for recognition of handwritten symbols. A plurality of strokes is received at a common input region of an electronic device, wherein the plurality of strokes in combination defines a plurality of symbols. Sequential combinations of the plurality of strokes are analyzed with a plurality of symbol... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080008388 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: A determining unit extracts similar-characteristic areas in image data and determines a type of the characteristics of image data of each of the similar-characteristic areas, a first correcting unit corrects a characteristic of image data in each of the similar-characteristic areas to a predetermined data characteristic according to the type... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080008390 - System, method and computer readable medium for encoding curves: A computer readable medium storing thereon a program for encoding the conformation of a given curve is provided. The encoding program includes: a point selection module for selecting representative points on a given curve; an arrangement module for putting an elemental structure block which consists of a trunk and branches;... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080008389 - Image processing device: An image processing device is structured such that an appropriate judgement of an image, at which blurring or disappearance or the like will occur, is possible. When pixels, which form a line image at which there is the possibility that blurring or disappearance will occur at the time of printing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080008391 - Method and system for document form recognition: A method and system for document form recognition are provided. A first instance of a document type (101) is processed to manually associate roles for each input data string with the format of the input data strings to provide predefined document types. When a subsequent instance of a document type... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080008392 - Providing multiple and native representations of an image: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to providing multiple and native representations of an image. According to an example embodiment, multiple realizations of an image may be generated and provided, rather than only a single realization, for example. Also, in another embodiment, the generation and output of multiple realizations may use... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080008393 - Parallel data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing elements arranged in a single instruction multiple data array. The apparatus includes at least one redundant processing element for processing data intended for a faulty processing element of the array.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080008394 - Methods and systems for maintenance and use of coded block pattern information: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080008395 - Image compression based on union of dct and wavelet transform: A union of DCT (discrete cosine transform) and wavelet transform can generate a much sparser representation of the digital image signal than either of them alone. After the block-based DCT, the coefficients are rearranged into a number of frequency groups such that the coefficients locating at the same coordinate in... Agent: Xiteng Liu

20080008396 - Context-aware image processing: In one respect, provided are systems, methods and techniques in which local regions within an image are processed to provide fuzzy classification scores, which are calculated by determining changes in pixel values along a number of different directions. The resulting fuzzy classification scores are then used to detect or identify... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080008397 - Feature-aware image defect removal: Provided are systems, methods and techniques which use local image properties to determine which potential defects in an image should be corrected. In one representative embodiment, potential defects in an image are identified based on edge sharpness, and measures of strength for the different potential defects are calculated. The measures... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080008398 - Image processing device and image processing method: A printer fetches a horizontal direction DCT coefficient group and a vertical direction DCT coefficient group for each block from the JPEG data. The printer selects edge patterns similar to the brightness changes expressed by these coefficient groups from a specified table, and records those pattern numbers in a RAM.... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080008399 - Three-dimensional shape estimation system and image generation: A 3D shape estimation system has a storage device, a relative shape analysis module, a feature point location search module and an absolute shape analysis module. The storage device stores first and second learning data which represent illumination bases and 3D shapes of objects, respectively. The relative shape analysis module... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080008400 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus, includes an image reading part configured to read an image of a document; and an image storage part configured to store image data read by the image reading part; wherein the image reading part includes a part configured to read a range of a part of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080008401 - Multi-modality medical image viewing: A medical imaging system (10) comprises one or more displays (66). A viewer device (86) generates an interactive user interface screen (80) on the display (66), which viewer device (86) enables a user to simultaneously inspect selected image data of multiple patients or multiple images.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080008402 - Method and apparatus of removing opaque area as rescaling an image: A method of resizing an image having a plurality of data unit blocks is disclosed. Each data unit block is a pixel matrix. The method includes the steps of generating column pseudo-pixel matrix corresponding to a data unit block, decimating/interpolating the data unit block in column direction to generate a... Agent: Madson & Austin