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